The Obama Watch
Anno Ad Homini
Will Our President show more class in his Year Two?
He gets, the peckish Obama assures the puckish Stephanopoulos, the message. Namely, the voters of Massachusetts elected Brown in protest over the last eight years. Huh?
This morsel of insight was part of a smorgasbord offered for our consumption to mark the first anniversary of the inauguration. It is a tradition in reportage to commemorate the passage of each year of a President’s term with a wide-ranging examination of its events and achievements. When this can be rolled into an actual interview the network or magazine scores a huge scoop.
For the President this represents a unique opportunity. On the eve of the State of the Union, he can fashion a new beginning, a new direction. He can fold the disappointments of the past into the fresh face of the year, the years, ahead. With a frank admission of shortcoming, forgiveness can be attained almost instantly, the viewing populace easily encouraged to pour new hope into an existing investment. Come clean and you can clean up.
Instead Mister Obama has taken the route of the 1970s confession. This is a technique ubiquitous in that decade but since discredited. The idea is to seem like you are admitting fault humbly while actually ambushing your enemy. Every time you turned on a talk show like Johnny Carson or Merv Griffin in those days you would hear celebrities and politicians saying something like the following. “Oh, the divorce was definitely my fault for not realizing she was much too immature to be married.” “I made the mistake of being too trusting of a man incapable of honesty.” “This was all caused by my naïveté in thinking a person like that could change.”
This was once thought to be an artful win-win, faux humility and a sneak attack, but became recognized as too weasely. Our President has revived it by suggesting his only flaw lies in not immediately realizing the extent of the mess bequeathed him by his predecessor.
True, a few weeks ago he channeled Truman in saying the buck stops here concerning homeland security. But he set it up in future tense, implying the breach allowing into Detroit the Breeches Bomber was based on old breaches; from here on out we could hold him accountable. So he got to look responsible without owning up to existing failure.
Just one year ago Obama was portrayed to be a figure of Biblical proportions. Now it seems his only path to wisdom is through burning Bush. If he cannot lay claim he must lay blame. Instead of rising on stepping-stones of his dead self to higher things, as Tennyson recommends, he stones and steps on his dead opponent for lowering things. He tellingly chided Republicans in a recent fundraiser: “I’m in here with a broom cleaning up your mess. Don’t come to complain I’m not sweeping fast enough.” (Unfortunately, he no longer has Anita Dunn, so he cannot say “Anita Dunn and Anita Dunn right now.”)
All this fills me with nostalgia for leaders of yore. Men of dignity who, having once made the grade, ceased to degrade their predecessors. Indeed it was just eight years ago that President George W. Bush welcomed the Clintons to the White House for the dedication of the Clinton portrait. There he spoke glowingly of the man inside the frame, applauding him for having mined high achievement from humble beginnings. This is how people of class operate. A good leader wears a white hat and stands tall; he does not wear a yellow hat and blame everything curious on George.
If Barack Obama is to resurrect his Presidency he must engage in reflection rather than deflection. After all, had this year been one of plenty for the nation, with jobs and optimism burgeoning galore, the credit would not have accrued to the custodians of the previous eight years. Assuredly the accolades would have flowed his way, and they would have met with a warm reception. When instead the indicators face downward, a man of character must face up.
In any case, Year Two is officially underway. MMX has no vowels of its own but Obama has plenty to spare. If his agenda pays off for the country in economics, education and employment, folks like myself will be unmasked as myopic pessimists. If the opposite occurs, all this wiggling and wriggling will be over. We will know exactly on whose door to knock in 2012, demanding he come out in the name of the law.
About the Author
Jay D. Homnick, commentator and humorist, is a frequent contributor to The American Spectator. He also writes for Human Events. Here he speaks at the Rally for Religious Freedom in Miami on June 8, 2012.
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Appleby| 1.22.10 @ 6:47AM
I am tired of his flouncing and pouting, and especially I am tired of his TALKING. And whenever I see Mrs. Obama making her little speech for Haiti, I hear her sneering that a $600 cheque was worthless -- that all you could buy with that was a pair of earrings. (My parents bought their cemetery plots, where Daddy is now buried, with that money.) I fully expect to hear that she has spent another $1200 on sneakers. I bet Laura Bush is volunteering, without requesting a single camera crew.
R Martin| 1.22.10 @ 9:23AM
In general, people of class have classy spouses and vice versa. Exhibit A--Laura Bush; exhibits B and C--Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama. I suspect classy people, when able, surround themselves with similar types. Obama's choices for political appointments and personal aides speak volumes about where he stands in the echelon of gentlemen. The words "classy" and "Rahm Emauel" are seldom seen in the same sentence.
hank| 1.22.10 @ 12:23PM
I'm afraid that R Martin's choice for Exhibit C does not stand the test. Observe Mrs. Obama's facial expressions of disapproval, her choice of gowns for state dinners, her vacation wardrobe, why she can not be honest about her garden on the cooking shows! I am afraid that the final analysis finds her not of the class of Mrs. Bush or Mrs. Reagan. We hope she will improve, the citizens of this great country want a First Lady with class and dignity, we hope that she can change!
R Martin| 1.22.10 @ 1:46PM
Apparently I wasn't very clear. Exhibits B and C represent the vice versa side of the first sentence. I consider Mrs. Obama much worse, in many ways, than her husband.
EM| 1.23.10 @ 12:51AM
Hank, I think you misread R. Martin--what you said didn't contradict his point as you seem to be thinking, but agreed with it. Either way, you're both right! ;)
<rJimm| 1.23.10 @ 11:18AM
Exhibit D: Elizabeth Edwards.
'Nuff said.
Alan Brooks| 1.22.10 @ 12:12PM
"[...](My parents bought their cemetery plots, where Daddy is now buried, with that money.) I fully expect to hear that she has spent another $1200 on sneakers [...]"
Please, no class warfare at AS.
And now you'll write 'What I Am Really Saying... my word is my bond, blah blah blah...'
Alan Brooks| 1.22.10 @ 12:17PM
... I've heard from rightwingnuts so many times, Appleboy, it isn't funny:
"my handshake is my contract and I would never mislead you, don't get smart with me or I will cut you off at the ankles, my attorney...''
on and on and on.
Grzmlyk| 1.22.10 @ 1:41PM
If you're hearing from the right too much, perhaps you should limit the time you spend on conservative web sites.
Just a thought.
Wasn't it you who said Obama would never blame Bush for Coakley's defeat?
It's getting hard to parody the loser's perfidy.
Like all on the left, the delusion and the mendacity of this administration know no bounds - and they are obviously unacquainted with shame. Class? He don' need no stinkin' class.
As for Michelle, she is patently petty and downright tacky, a parvenu parfait. Did ya catch that makeup on her Haiti commercial? Not sure "surprised lizard" was the look she should have been going for.
No doubt the makeup person now sleeps with the fishes in the Chicago river. That's "class" the Chicago way.
Alan Brooks| 1.22.10 @ 5:11PM
"Wasn't it you who said Obama would never blame Bush for Coakley's defeat?"
No, you are quite mistaken. Before you wrote that you could have checked the yesterday's blog.
Or the day before.
Alan Brooks| 1.22.10 @ 5:14PM
"If you're hearing from the right too much"
No, I wrote it wasn't funny anymore. Read more carefully.
You aren't amused much by Obama, but you pay attention to what he says.
jeff| 1.22.10 @ 10:31PM
Not exactly, when the same words come out of his mouth all the time,there's no need.
Alan Brooks| 1.23.10 @ 12:44PM
Then why are we discussing him? You DO in fact pay attention to what Obama says even though he presidency is a figurehead position.
A foil.
Appleby| 1.25.10 @ 9:24AM
Mr. Brooks, you are very slow on the uptake, kind of like your hero, the Zero. Class warfare?
P.S. If you want an amusing clue that won't do you a bit of good, you might try googling "Appleby Mennym."
Bill Hussien O'Stalin| 1.22.10 @ 7:26AM
While Obama continues to use Bush as his favorite whipping boy, he also likes to ask Bush to jump in and help on Haiti. For Obama to divorce Bush and help the country move on, Obama needs to stop mentioning Bush while discussing what Obama can do to move the economy forward. Very little progress in this area is coming out of the White House.
Each and every day, Americans are treated to a shell game where either Obama's pimples in the media or Robert Gibbs, who is actually a robotic pimple, or Obama himself , give us another version of "it's too big to handle" or "it's Bush's fault." It's beyond childish.
If any of his plans were to bear fruit surely we would have heard about it by now. All we know is that the White House ginned up stimulus employment figures and continues to apologize for America while the economy is drowning.
In essence, all you have in the Obama administration is a group of ideologues who can accomplish nothing. Their concepts are not founded on well grounded principles and therefore haven't got a chance of working.
In the meantime the only thing that counts is being ignored. The only thing that counts is results. And there haven't been any.
Bill Coulter| 1.22.10 @ 7:40AM
Hard to believe Obama said the result in Massachusettss was the reult of 8 years of the Bush administrations fault. A comment like that does get me all "wee weed up" about his lack of a clue, though. Yesterday his banking comments got my retirement portfolio all wee weed down and I'm getting tired of getting wee weed on by this guy and his group of wee weers. I think the American people are seeing an emperor with no clothes.
Saint Colt-er| 2.5.10 @ 1:22PM
Obama an Emperor with no clothes? Does that portend more press articles about Obama's pecs glistening in the sun?
Victory67| 2.14.10 @ 8:24PM
Laughed so hard I coughed. Funny.
J.Kelley| 1.22.10 @ 8:08AM
The people in Massachusetts were mad at a Republican, so they elected a Republican to the Senate. Also the American people don't understand what Obama and the Democrats are doing for them. Must admit to being somewhat confused after hearing this.
Indiana Alex| 1.22.10 @ 8:10AM
What are the chances he mentions anything about the auto industry, which will probably never pay back any of the TARP money?
Richard Baker| 1.22.10 @ 8:16AM
Class? This guy wouldn't know the meaning of the word if it hit him in the face. It's all about the Great I Am. He will learn NOTHING.
Thunderbottom| 1.22.10 @ 12:57PM
While "Seinfeld", "a show about nothing", was a hit during the '90's, this "administration about nothing" has been a hit - to overall employment ("kissing the canvas"), my retirement account (hit below the waterline and listing heavily) and the deficit (rapidly rising into the stratosphere). This president has the fecklessness of Cosmo Kramer, the forthrightness of George Costanza and the haughty flightiness of Elaine Benes. He's also on TV almost as often as "Seinfield" reruns - fewer and fewer people are watching and listening.
GregA| 1.22.10 @ 4:39PM
George said, "Jerry, just remember, it's not a lie if you believe it." This must be Rule #1 at the White House. Because B.O. is on TV so much, I got rid of it. I watch Seinfeld on DVD.
P.S. I should have written B.B.O. The smell won't go away.
Mattled| 1.22.10 @ 8:24AM
I believe we can finally put a nail in the proverbial casket that this man-woman-child is some genius to behold and will save mankind from itself.
He is loathsome and if he showed up at my barbecue this weekend, I would show him the door.
Boor, snore -----no more.
The people have seen his schtick over and over and over and they are not buying. The only person (other than the Kool-Aid drinking Libtards) who hasn't gotten the memo is Feckless Leader hisself.
I predicted last January when he was compared to Capt Sullenberger, Joseph (of Mary and Joseph), Jesus, Moses, FDR, Reagan (LOL), and Superman that the MORE we saw of him, the MORE the DNC TV anchors gushed and tingled over him, the FASTER he would fail.
He is not used to failing-----so much so he doesn't realize he is.
It's us stupid racist hicks who just don't get how good he is for the country (thanks Andrea Mitchell, EJ Dionne and David Brooks).
He's in the 30's folks. Don't believe those 40%+ polls. He's in the tank with ZERO hope of coming back.
So go after the banks----that will work great. Go after the folks who helped us start a business, get a student loan (I hope the R's overturn this one in 2011), buy our first house, help our money work for us.
The only people dumber than him are his advisers.
Can't wait for the Rezko's Blago's, Vera's to come out Tiger Woods style to claim some cashola before he is so toxic, their story won't be worth as much. It's just a matter of days.
Karibou Kid| 1.22.10 @ 8:48AM
obamao is a lazy, spoiled, petulant little boy who has never had to work for anything in his life thanks to AA (affirmative action) and growing up w/o a father figure. Now that he is in a position where he is expected to behave as a grown-up he hasn't got a clue.
He needs a spanking, not a political advisor.
Mattled| 1.22.10 @ 8:57AM
Anno Ad Homini
Jay D. Homnick | 1.22.10 @ 6:08AM
Will Our President show more "class" in his Year Two?
Jay,
You mistakenly put in a "c" and an "l" in your headline in front of one of the words.
Archon | 1.22.10 @ 12:27PM
@Mattled: Had to clean the coffee off my monitor and keyboard after reading your comment. Good one! : )
xcon| 1.24.10 @ 11:01AM
Well Said!!!
davelnaf| 1.22.10 @ 9:03AM
Even an apparent slow learner, like Obama, gets it eventually. By the time he does, though, the Democratic Party will be in shambles. This will be his legacy.
Grzmlyk| 1.22.10 @ 2:17PM
I'm of the opinion that Obama doesn't get it. I think he's absolutely clueless about America, about life, about problem-solving, about interrelationships, about humanity, about compassion, about empathy, about logic, about history, about economics, about pop culture, about what makes people tick.
I agree with Karibou Kid - When a child puts on his father's suit jacket and emulates his dadj by pretending he's at work, he has no idea what his dad actually does; the child's brain only understands the trappings of adulthood, but his mind isn't formed enough to grasp the reality of his father's job or the challenges that face him.
That's Obama. He long ago decided to retreat into the world of his delusions, and he ain't coming out - ever. The reality would kill him. That's why he's so impressed by the trappings of the presidency and continually reminds people that "I'm the president." He doesn't begin to grasp the nature of his job.
I always thought he was overrated and callow, angry, resentful and had daddy issues, but I don't think I realized until the last couple of months that he is an out-and-out whack job.
Rmm| 1.22.10 @ 9:09AM
Isn't it about time that the adults in the room stand up and take charge ? To let O make another lame excuse and blame his plight on Bush tells me that O is clueless and doesn't have any solutions to the real problems facing us. Ideology is no way to solve anything , but this administration is stuck up to its eyeballs in it.
GeorgieGirl| 1.22.10 @ 9:12AM
I have NEVER voted Democrat and never will, but I have admired a few Dems. However, BO is NOT one of them. I could say differently if he had said in the beginning of his Presidency, "you know what, I'm not quite sure how to handle this mess Bush handed me, so I'm going to take my time and sift thru it and come up with a plan everyone can work with". I don't recall reading or hearing that a gun was pointed at this head to sign the stimulus bill. And while we at it, I never heard of a candidate running on giving the American people health care and then turning it over to Speaker of the House to come up with something....albeit anything.... REAL FAST!!!
When he took credit for Scott Browns' win....Well, I must say, he'll never make my "admired Dems" list. Talk about audacity!!!
Matt| 1.22.10 @ 9:27AM
Check out what's on today at Walton's Wall @
http://waltonswall.com/2010/01.....president/
Anthony| 1.22.10 @ 9:29AM
Classic Obama, arrogant and tone deaf. Of course this vote in MA, that gave the senate seat Ted Kennedy held for amost 50 years to a R was a rebuke of George Bush; hell, if you all went to Columbia & Harvard, you'd know that!!
Obama is a classless, nasty, cold blooded, elitist, leftist piece of work. Don't count on him or his goons, Emmanuel and Axelrod to get the message. Obama will dig his heels in deeper, he is incapable of reflection; he's an ideologue on a mission.
Obama will go down with the ship and take America with him, well, he can try. The only ship Obama will sink will be the good ship Democrat.
pugsley| 1.22.10 @ 9:35AM
It has never been explained how this spawn of a disoriented flower child raised in another country before being pawned off on grandparents has risen to these heights. The thought that a bank teller and a failed furniture salesman could afford elite private school for this child is a bit of a stretch. All along the road of life somehow this person (I will not call him a man) has had the way smoothed over with no appearant turbulence?! Class and character are qualities he will never show because he does not have them. Look at where he came from, community organizer and look who he worked with. It is not too hard to stand out in the crowd he associated with, sprinkle a few crumbs along the path and they will follow you anywhere. Now he runs into trouble and claims if people will just wise up and get on board all will be well, not happening. All is spinning out of control for the Dems and they are all now in full self protection mode. The occupant of the white house will be gone soon enough and the real work will begin. The thought does occur to me, how much would it be worth for someone to come forward with the real birth certificate? At that point hold on to your seat because life would become a bumpy ride. Time will tell.
Anthony| 1.22.10 @ 11:29AM
pugsley, You raise good points here. Someday, when the leftist machine can no longer cover for Obama, the American people will learn the truth about this enigma who became president.
I predict the anger will be raw and palpable. Obama will be exposed as the greatest con ever perpetuated on America, with Algore a close second.
This sequel of Obama's "Manchurian Candidate" will leave America speechless. Members of the legacy MSM, who aided and abetted this con, better hope they all have gone to "Woodstock in the Sky" when the dodo hits the fan.
Ceel Abby| 1.22.10 @ 9:55AM
Great article Jay. Unfortunately this guy will never get it. One of 'class' epitomizes the elements of honesty, respect, manners, humility, and wisdom. Characteristics that Barrack has yet to display. He was never qualified to be a senator much less a president. He has failed.
robert_fl| 1.22.10 @ 10:12AM
In answer to your title's question: NO.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 1.22.10 @ 10:15AM
The Democrats appear to be forlorn after election, but that isn't surprising, "it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to global warming or the religion of secularism or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-American sentiment or anti-capitalism sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new.....z0dM1SnxB7
Bob Miller| 1.22.10 @ 10:19AM
As long as Obama has simple majorities in both houses of Congress, he can still do a lot of mischief through his Executive Branch, including its czars/commissars/radical-60's-leftovers.
Evidently he now wants to go after the same banks and businesses he was supposed to have saved, to ignite some class warfare. Class itself is one thing he absolutely lacks.
John II| 1.22.10 @ 10:24AM
Nice piece, but . . . I've been teaching Latin for more than 40 years. What the hell is "Anno Ad Homini" supposed to mean? The grammar is so far off that it HAS to be deliberate. So I tried pronouncing it at medium, fast, and slow tempos to see if I'm missing some word play. I still don't get it.
Is it just an editorial slip?
Mattled| 1.22.10 @ 10:37AM
John II,
I think that it is a play on the authors name---Hominick?
Mattled| 1.22.10 @ 10:38AM
Sorry---Homnick.
David Williams| 1.22.10 @ 11:00AM
And it was a hint of what followed. While amusing himself with wordplay, Mr. Homnick highlighted yet another of the president's shortcommings. Well written.
madhaxus| 1.22.10 @ 4:16PM
Took it as an attempted word play combination of "anno domini" (year of our lord) and "ad hominem" (argument against a man), thus "year of our lord arguing against a man."
Mattled| 1.22.10 @ 10:36AM
Hands Off Our Banks!
Without them no college, no house and no business for me.
I don't have a Saudi that paid for my school, a shady Middle Easterner (Rezko) bartering a house for me and no political hacks giving me a 300k/year job that I don't even have to show up for.
No it is BANKS!! that helped me Mister Obama.
So HANDS OFF OUR BANKS.
This is right out of Alinsky/Marxist/Fascist playbook.
Some one make a video and post on Youtube.
Pingback| 1.22.10 @ 10:37AM
Twitter Trackbacks for The American Spectator : Anno Ad Homini [spectator.org] on To links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Dave M.| 1.22.10 @ 10:46AM
Obama could very well be the beneficiary of the complete failure of any of his leftist policies to be implemented. Without such wealth destroying ideas being implemented, the economy might just recover and Obama will get the credit. Thus, failure may just breed electoral success.
Ken (Old Texican)| 1.22.10 @ 11:07AM
Dave M,
Interesting point...but on balance we ARE in an election year, and many more Americans are paying attention. We hope for the best, and work for the best.
Great thoughts above, guys. Thanks.
Douglas Driscoll| 1.22.10 @ 11:13AM
What does it say about the Democratic Party that there seems to be not one adult around who can smack down this pompous little twit of a president and save, if not the country, at least their party before he drives both off a cliff? Not that both the Democratic Party and the country aren't getting exactly what they asked for, but it seems to me that somebody needs a good talking to, and it's being left to the voting public (who now must wait another nine or ten months) to give it to him.
Oldefarte| 1.22.10 @ 11:15AM
First of all, this man is the opposite of CLASS, so let's just forget that. He/they are LIBERAL radicals, and these people are selfish and narcissistic. It's always THEIR WAY OR THE HIGHWAY! Will he/they change----of course not. They are going to force [by means of using the power of government] their policies, ideas,etc upon Americans and don't care whether it's agreeable or accepted. Change-----no way [that was only a campaign slogan used to trojun-horse him into the White House]!!!!
Claudia Monteverdi| 1.22.10 @ 11:41AM
Oh Jay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Burning Bush???????? (images of the best McCain Commercial\Charleton Heston)
I adore it.....as to the substance/ You said it all and BRAVO!
Claudia
Jay D. Homnick| 1.22.10 @ 12:13PM
Ah, I am being asked to explain the title.
Anno Domini means the Year of our Lord. Ad hominem means attacking the other personally. Obama's supposed divinity has devolved into personal attacks on Bush. Say AD-HOMINI fast and it sounds like domini. (Ad-homini is a coined variation.) See?
And thanks oodles, Claudia.
John II| 1.22.10 @ 1:43PM
Oh. That's what I get for knowing Latin. A tin ear. I mean, "domini" is a second-declension genitive singular and "homini" a third-declension dative singular. The sort of confusion my students would exhibit.
Still, the word play is a mite thick. No matter how fast you say "ad-homini," you're still stuck with a residual initial vowel horning in on "domini." I think something like"Ad hominem dominum" might have served the same purpose without so much stretching--and without reminding me of how inadvertently clueless one may be rendered by one's occupation.
thank god hes that stupid| 1.22.10 @ 1:08PM
i feared we had let the democrats off the hook by stopping them in massachusetts...but the arrogance of this dumass knows no bounds...
MTB| 1.22.10 @ 1:31PM
I honestly believe he (Obama) just doesn't get it. He was raised to be and is a radical; he knows nothing else. He just cannot understand why the country wouldn't and won't accept his values, knowledge, wisdom and understanding. This is what he was born for, to "change" the United States of America by shredding the Constitution and starting over. By nationalizing everything and "punishing" the rich. He will never be classy, he can't be, he doesn't kn0w how. He cannot bring himself to believe that his radical views are wrong, because if he does, then what does he have left to believe in? It's all he knows and has. How could his mentors have been so wrong? He spent his whole life believing these lies. No, I believe that he will be even more determined to radicalize this country than ever before.
Ken (Old Texican)| 1.22.10 @ 2:02PM
MTB,
Thank you.
You remind us that if this communist, (pardon the shorthand), gets to feel cornered...we had just better be prepared for some SERIOUS radical moves on his part.
So far, he and his handlers have been "playing" the system more or less. They just might wake up one fine morning all frustrated........
.............And my most inventive paranoid fantasies begin cranking up in my mind.
See,
They think they know how to play "crises" scenarios to their advantage.
So,
The question that I cannot shake is: "What and how bad a crisis are they willing to precipitate or accept to get their way?"
We gotta' keep that in the backs of our minds, folks. It could get very rough very quickly.
As one of my loved brothers here says:
"Stand strong till freedom dawns"
pugsley| 1.22.10 @ 2:54PM
Ken-if you want to see how bad it could get, locate a book written in the early sixties by the title 'The Unseen Hand', it will make your hair stand on end! I read that thing in the eighties and laughed about it, came back and read it again in the late ninties and kind of went clammy. It is the progressive road map and unfortunately for us they are about 97 % finished with their plan. 2nd amendment looks better all the time but their plan for that is simple, break the middle class financially. When everyone is starving they can very easily be told what to do. Sound familiar? I sometimes finish a post with stay alert, kind of like birds of a feather I guess.
BREDNG10| 1.23.10 @ 2:34PM
The muslim in chief doesn`t need a crisis.He was brung up in cook county politics.In 2003 mayor daley wanted a park where Meigs field airport was. He brung in the bulldozers at 1:30 in the morning and bulldozed the runway,leaving 16 planes stranded.Like Daley,Obama does what he wants.He don`t need no stinkin constitution.Maybe he`ll just bulldoze Gitmo,anything is possible when he figures the house of cards start falling.
Jim O'Brien| 1.22.10 @ 2:36PM
Perhaps a majority in Congress will realize at some point that the only way they are going to get re-elected is to get the economy moving again. And the only way to do that is to cut taxes. Better yet, enact the Fair Tax, which would eliminate all federal income taxes and the IRS, replacing them with a simple national sales tax (collected at the state level) on new products, and services. The Fair Tax would result in an unprecedented economic boom. President Reagan's son Michael is now working on the Fair Tax campaign. (www.fairtax.org)
Ken (Old Texican)| 1.22.10 @ 2:49PM
Jim, God bless...but!
Fair tax? flat tax? sales tax?
It aint gonna' happen short of a shooting war. Too many wealthy accountants getting rich doing tax returns.
The accountants are always the forgotten leeches.
Jim O'Brien| 1.22.10 @ 8:44PM
Legislation has already been introduced in the House and the Senate. Some congressmen already support the Fair Tax. Tax accountants would easily find other work in the booming economy which would result from getting rid of the federal income tax system. It is a huge drag on growth.
Margie| 1.22.10 @ 2:49PM
"If Obama is to resurrect his Presidency.." Please God, don't let it be so."
May he stay in the grave that he's dug for himself never to rise again!
Dustoff| 1.22.10 @ 3:10PM
I've seen few with large Ego's. But Obama you just beat them all.
Everything you have touched has turned to dust.
Look at the stock market. It's in a free fall. How many more will lose their jobs because of your foolishness.
DaveS| 1.22.10 @ 4:34PM
It distills to this: buyers' remorse for voting the way they did in '08.
PCC| 1.22.10 @ 6:09PM
Dear Mr. Homnick,
Did you really write, "Anita Dunn and Anita Dunn right now"?
Too funny!
ds80| 1.24.10 @ 10:49AM
A phrase that was much too "cute". As was "... figure of Biblical proportions ... burning Bush."
Simon Templar| 1.22.10 @ 6:57PM
What will the next year be like? Well..a lot like the last three days where the Dow fell 200 points a day and I lost more of my 401K because too many people out ther STILL DO NOT GET IT! We live in an age where most of us bury our heads in the sand and go about our usual illinformed, confused, and busy lives of distraction...half listening..rarely using our thinking apparatus that God gave us..missing the OBVIOUS. The current person in the white house has no interest or inclination to move to the center, get class or whatever you call it, or govern with accountability and rationality. Please no more of these silly articles where we can all sit around and blog about..gee, how much do you think he will come to the center..will he stop blaming Bush...do you think he will change course? Maybe we do this because the reality is too frightening and we all want to feel that life is still in the normal range and it will all work out like it always has. Unfortunately, the reality is America is in serious trouble. They unwittingly elected a very dangerous man who has a very definitive agenda..a very definitive radical view of life and the world. He intends hell or high water..one term or two to inflict as much damage that he can possibly muster in the defense and propagation of his vision. This is not just a case of incompetence or misguidance..he is not acting alone but in step with many others that surround him and helped him get there. Much damage has already been done in one year..and as far as he is concerned he considers himself successful..remember the B+ grade he gave himself? He believes this. By objective standards, he HAS done quite a lot..a lot of potentially irreversible damage. So, lets not be glib nor cute about any of this. Thank God for this past Tuesday because there is a glimmer of hope that this country may be just waking up and might have a chance to turn this around.
TomB| 1.22.10 @ 7:35PM
Show some class this year? That would be a change for the better. We can always hope.
Kenny Bunk| 1.22.10 @ 10:56PM
All of you members of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy lack fundamental knowledge and are unable to apply basic logic to current events.
Can you people not see that just as Global Warming has led to extreme cold around the world, the election of Brown expresses the anger Massachusetts voters still harbor about Bush?
It is merely their subtle way of giving the GOP enough rope to hang itself, before getting on with the establishment of the Socialist Utopia .
In fact, in 2010 voters all over the country may well seek to punish the Republicans they hate by burdening them with elected office.
They will walk to the polls and deliver this harsh measure because by then , no one will have gasoline.
2010 Vision| 2.5.10 @ 1:34PM
Sarcasm becomes you, my dear! No wonder they named a port in Maine after you! Off to Kenny Bunk Port I go!
Yosemeti Sam| 1.23.10 @ 12:34AM
" ... When instead the indicators face downward, a man of character must face up...."
Man of character?
BHO?
A concept far removed from this erstwhile/still
guardian of infanticide when abortions went - wrong.
Rod E.| 1.23.10 @ 12:42AM
I've never been a "birther" but I'm wondering if the Dem leadership might soon be deciding to join that pack in an attempt to free their floundering ship from the anchor that our President has become. It would seem to be the fastest way to cast him loose.
Basement Birther| 2.5.10 @ 1:43PM
Gee, from these two posts, I'm starting to doubt that Aborters are normal, Birthers crazy...
Rod E.| 1.23.10 @ 12:56AM
Another thought: Maybe there's now a majority of the Supreme Court who realize that our President has to be seriously reined in soon before he destroys our country? This year's decisions will be interesting to watch.
martin j smith| 1.23.10 @ 9:20AM
Lets see Obama in the state of the union will say something like: I am truly sorry,I messed up--I will play nice for now on bla,bla,bla,bla,bla--not likely
Given that Obama has shown his true nature--it will be hard--not impossible-to make a shift. A remarkable move would be-now do not laugh--would be a beer with a guy whose initials are RL( yeah that one ) or a senator like JdM (more realistic ) or some other personality clearly defined by being in the opposition ( NOT JMcC or
GwB). The possibility of this is low but if he were clever it would be a brilliant move. Still--even so do not run his to him even then.
Gerald Stephens| 1.23.10 @ 9:37PM
REMEMBER KENT STATE…
Only for the purpose of demonstrating that some citizens acting under orders of perceived legitimate authority will kill fellow citizens on command. Perhaps even you by your police officer neighbor.
Denying the existence of a pathologic ideological cadre ensconced in positions of the presidency and Justice Department would be a fatal error. Believing that the present occupants of those offices are merely classless, naive, ineffectual political jerks compounds the fatal error.
The Founders planned for all foreseeable contingencies when inscribing the Second Amendment. Incorporating the means by which a defence of the nation by force of arms against all domestic and foreign enemies was not an act of paranoia.
Stalin’s annihilation of a reported 50,000,000 Russians in his program of ‘change’, as well as, Hitler’s quest for the establishment of a genetically superior people leaves little space for speculation about what the warped will perpetrate.
The Massachusetts’ citizen uprising provides substantive evidence that We the People can by less violent constitutional means regain control.
Nonetheless, a failure to recognize the potential danger inherent in Mr. Obama’s political theology buttressed by his network of czars, anti American and anti Constitutional actions, and corrupt elected disciples, would encompass a folly of the greatest magnitude.
Ramming things down ones throat appears to be the acceptable mechanism for ‘change’ presently employed. Implementation of the sovereign Constitutional authority of We the People within the Second Amendment, if ever required, will prevail.
Our colonial history provides full particulars for the organization and operation of the Militias of the Several States. Edwin Vieira, Ph.D., J.D., constitutional scholar, has detailed the historical and present legality of the militias. His published writing may be obtained online from: committeesofsafety.org
Gerald Stephens
Hartford, CT
Ellie Light| 1.24.10 @ 12:21PM
No one ever claimed Pres. Barack Obama was perfect in every way. He's a human like the rest of us, who happens to have other-worldly intelligence, wisdom, and understanding. Compassion, unbridled love and his driving ambition to save us from ourselves informs all his decision making. That's not to say that he's not hindered at times through his innocent naivety over the evil dark forces that surround him. Obama expects the best-o-intentions from others, except from the right wingest neanderthals, big health care, big oil, & Sarah Palin. Obama is taken aback at times over the refusal of these selfish interests to sign on to his words, but Obama being Obama means nothing will deter him from enlightening the rest of us ignoramuses.
Margie| 1.24.10 @ 12:42PM
Poor Ellie. She's floating on cloud 9 and can't see the pit that lies beneath.
Surely you jest?
Buckeye| 1.24.10 @ 4:00PM
Are you the same Ellie Light who has written to dozens of newspapers across the country defending the President and claim to be a resident of all the regions those newpapers are in?
Ellie Light| 1.24.10 @ 5:53PM
I am the 'spirit' of Ellie Light which lives within us all, waiting to receive salvation from the HE who sees us as we are...as we need. HE is THAT one 'HE IS'...you know, that one guy who has all the answers if we simply receive, whatever.
Polish Rifle| 1.24.10 @ 7:16PM
Ellie,
Yes, you are truly pathetic. Fell free to crawl back into the dark recesses of your parent's basement, lest they find you've escaped.
Your false prophet and idolatry are well noted Philistine.
Margie| 1.24.10 @ 8:22PM
Ellie Light.. must be one them thar soda pops or somethin'.
Susan Grant| 1.24.10 @ 2:30PM
I don't think you can write a story with Mr. & Mrs. Obama, Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, Nancy Piglosi, Harry Reid, Gibbs and any of the other liberal democratzi's in the same paragraph with the words, character, credibility, honesty, integrity, intelligence, and good ole common sense.BUT you could if your subject line was: LIARS IN OUR MIDST
Kris Lepine| 1.24.10 @ 3:35PM
Wow! Ellie Light left a comment. I read about her/him/it at Fox Nation. She writes editorials & posts them in newspapers all over the US with fake addresses. She's an Obama stooge of some kind so don't waste your time with a response.
Re: this article: I don't believe anything is going to change Obama's modus operandi as our President. He is in way over his head and as I watch him, it's obvious he says whatever comes to mind (that's not written down for him) as so much of what he is saying now is totally false. I believe he is a compulsive liar. And I believe he is arrogant enough to believe we won't notice. What a disaster.
Tassie| 1.25.10 @ 12:17AM
Obama is like an androide-no feelings and no emotions are ever visible on his face. How can such a person be a great leader ? And always sombody else is to blame-tipically communist.
(I have lived for 40 years in a communist country.)
work bag | 1.25.10 @ 12:42AM
Very well-written article. Obama has not carried out most of his promises.
james| 1.25.10 @ 1:54AM
There will be no revival. People keep talking about Clinton in 1994. Well, he was suddenly faced with hostile majorities. Obama is not. And besides, the big difference is that Bill was a simple degenerate (his wife is the dangerous ideologue.) Obama is a radical communist who could no more change his direction than his skin color.
There will be no saving. It's over, except it's not.
abh3tico| 1.26.10 @ 11:43PM
You are all mistaking idealog and demagogues for what Obama really is , which is a Mystagogue . Read G.K. Chestertons , Demagogues And Msytagogues , you will learn much from Mr. Chesterton , in his books , essay's { etc .}
Nicholas Urfe| 2.26.10 @ 2:48PM
I am amazed at how idiotic you people are!
Cheap printing | 12.26.10 @ 6:54AM
You're not the only one, Obama just doesn't do his self any favours witht the kind of people he employs.
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