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Streetcar Line
The Coming Obama Crack-Up
It may already be occurring.
Many conservatives, myself included, find themselves in despair about the combination of Barack Obama’s reign of narcissism and the Republican opposition’s incapacities. We might take heart, however, in considering the possibility that the sandworm has begun to turn against The One. At least a few small signs indicate that Obama might have pushed his hyperactive self-regard too far.
Obama’s job approval, as per Gallup, has dropped from +13 to dead even — 46-46 — in just about a week. Even the rabidly liberal Bill Keller of the New York Times is slamming Obama’s handling of the sequester. Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler is giving Obama so many Pinocchios that Geppetto may need to work overtime to keep up with the demand. Joe Scarborough has taken time out from bashing conservatives to aim some serious blows at Obama as well. Bob Woodward is famously calling out Obama’s prevarications and his staff’s bully-boy tactics.
And Saturday Night Live is poking great fun at the Ego-in-Chief for “really hav[ing] no idea about how money works or budgets work.” It is when the comedians (Stewart, Leno) turn heavily on a politician that the politician really should start to worry.
It’s not only the sequester that is getting Obama into trouble. Even the foot-licking establishment media is getting tired of Obama’s disdain, as indicated not just by the Woodward flap but also by the relative conniption fit about lack of access to Obama’s golf round with Tiger Woods. And the ubiquity of the Obamas (Super Bowl interviews and Oscar announcements), combined with increasing public recognition of their extravagant lifestyles, may have finally begun to wear on the public’s patience. Even a celebrity-drenched culture eventually wants relief when individual celebrities intrude into too many areas of life.
Additionally, as the perspicacious Fred Barnes notes this week, even the New York Times, among others, also is looking askance at the half-million-dollar pay-to-play tactics of the new Obamite permanent campaign, Organizing for Action. As the liberal Fred Wertheimer of Democracy 21 put it on Monday, “Organizing for Action is a national scandal waiting to happen.”
Most substantively, our perpetually campaigning president is likely to start suffering again, as he did in 2010, from a public backlash against ObamaCare. When even uber-Democrat Donna Brazile starts complaining about her health-insurance premiums going up even if she can’t figure out that this is a failure of ObamaCare — it’s a sign that Americans are going to be increasingly unhappy with the prices, the options, or both, that result from the president’s health-care regime. Combine that with all of Obamacare’s taxes, including the fiercely uncompassionate medical device tax, and the new system’s eponymous creator is likely to bear the brunt of growing frustration, dissatisfaction, and anger.
Not that Obama seems to recognize this. His vast hubris, his insufferable imperiousness, and his ideological imperviousness to empirical evidence all combine to make him increasingly immune to constructive criticism. His second-term appointments — what an only intermittently political friend of mine described as Obama’s “Team of Lackeys” (as opposed to Lincoln’s famed Team of Rivals) — are horribly unlikely to challenge, even internally, the biases or edicts of their Oval Office overlord.
One gets the impression that Obama is only a small step or two removed from seeing himself as a real-life Kwisatz Haderach, the Dune messiah also known as Paul Muad’Dib, with intelligence and insight so far above ordinary mortals as to command obeisance. (“I think I could probably do every job on the campaign better than the people I’ll hire to do it.”) There’s something almost otherworldly, and not in a good way, about this man’s self-absorption and his assumption that his own wisdom is infallible and infinite. The American body politic to him is just a giant sandworm to be ridden and controlled to effect his own exalted sense of cosmic fairness.
Fortunately, James Madison, Roger Sherman, and company created for us a constitutional system that does not easily lend itself to political messianism. As ambition counteracts ambition, and as a multiplicity of interests continues to frustrate efforts at empire building, even the Obamessiah is now relegated to variations on a consistent, whiny refrain: “I’m not a dictator”; “I’m not a king”; “I’m not the emperor of the United States.” At some point, his frustration may well boil over in a way so unattractive as to finally make people wise us to the reality that, as Mark Levin puts it, Obama “is not a nice guy.”
Just the other day at lunch, a friend of mine, a businessman with good connections across the country, recounted a conversation he had with a Democratic insider while Obama was in the midst of his first presidential race. “It’ll take the American people five years,” said the insider, “to realize what Obama’s really about and what he’s really like.” Then, presumably, the public would catch on to his manifold defects.
That bit of insight from the insider came nearly five years ago. As my friend said, we may now be seeing the first cracks in Obama’s façade. The first signs of ultimate backlash may now be appearing. Obama is no Kwisatz Haderach. The sandworm may indeed turn against him.
That, by the way, is almost surely what Frank Herbert, the author of the Dune books, would want. As Herbert himself put it, his dream for a healthy society would be “to make a world where human kind can make its own future from moment to moment, free of one man’s vision.” And: “The bottom line of the Dune trilogy is: beware of heroes. Much better [to] rely on your own judgment, and your own mistakes.” In Obama’s world, of course, it is his judgment, via the apparatus of the state, that should always predominate. The American public, accustomed to more freedom than Obama would allow, may be starting to realize that Obama himself is the mistake.
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Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom. Follow him on Twitter @QuinHillyer.
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Appleby| 3.6.13 @ 6:25AM
Well, Occupiers, now you know what the world would be like if y'all were in charge. Perhaps even the hippie scum will wise up and realize that when you let the babies run the kindergarten, everyone ends up hungry, wet and messy because there's nobody to feed, burp and change diapers...
Aristocat| 3.6.13 @ 7:27AM
Well, Obama voters, you made your bed, now lie in it...We conservatives will survive, that's what we do, but what are you ignorami going to do when the welfare state collapses under its own weight?
chuck| 3.6.13 @ 7:50AM
They will try to steal from us directly, rather than indirectly through the government.
Be prepared.
CrackerHound| 3.6.13 @ 10:02AM
That's right Chuck...just look at Venezuela. Obama has more in common with late Hugo Chavez than any other despot of late.
In Venezuela, the poor, weak and moochers (all created by the government) loved Hugo. They felt entitled to not only government handouts, but the possesions of the evil rich, who were by the way merely working people. It got to a point in Venezuela that anyone who owned anything outside of standard government issued crumbs, is subject to being "relieved" of their possesions in a violent manner.
Nancy in NC| 3.6.13 @ 10:04AM
That would be a very bad idea. Many of us are big believers in the 2nd Amendment and but our beliefs into practice.
Drunken Sailor| 3.6.13 @ 11:48AM
Exactly. Those closed windows on my house are there for my protection as well as theirs. Once they come through them, welcome to my world. Be forewarned I will defend it!
gene| 3.6.13 @ 12:01PM
In WalMarts down south? .22 Ammo is flying off the shelves. They get in products, put it on the shelves and in 2 days it is all gone. All this year, when people see something like this in stock, they do not buy 1 box, but 5, 10, 20 or empty the whole shelf. This is an unpleasant indicator but one people should remember.
And yes, we will exercise the 2nd Ammendment
Alan's Girl| 3.6.13 @ 1:47PM
In East Texas, the WalMarts cannot get the ammo from the loading dock to the shelves. It is gone in 15 minutes, even with the "1 per customer" limit. I've been ordering online & having delivered to the office. My UPS guy calls me "Ms. Ruger".
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 2:09PM
We haven't had the pleasure of Alan's Girl at The Contest, for some time now.
What's up with that?
Alan's Girl| 3.6.13 @ 3:54PM
Had to take a break from tax returns & stopped in at TAS. I'll try to get back more often after 4/15.
Taxguy| 3.6.13 @ 10:22AM
We will have to make them our slaves, not blacks, liberals. They have no ambition and we have the guns so they won't fight back. They need someone to care for them 24/7 and government can't afford to do it as we are currently seeing. We will not have to pay them, just keep them fed and supplied with marijuana. The good life can be ours again.
vtwin| 3.6.13 @ 10:56AM
From what I’ve seen of conservatives, over weight middle age white guys too lazy to mow their own lawns, you’ll some need help. Hey, maybe you can to hire some illegal aliens.
Anthony| 3.6.13 @ 11:13AM
It that how you boys at the Bath house picture us vtwin?
Why I bet you boys can't wait to have some illegals join the fun and frolic in the steamroom.
Makes it a bit more steamy, eh vtwin?
Occam's Tool| 3.6.13 @ 12:29PM
Hillary is a Lesbian. Pass it on.
Anthony| 3.6.13 @ 12:46PM
I'll pass on Hillary OT, no problemo!!!
But I do love fat thighs, southern fried.
Drunken Sailor| 3.6.13 @ 12:50PM
Give her some corduroy pants, tell her to run, and you're in business then.
loulou| 3.6.13 @ 1:58PM
The friction will start a fire.
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 2:11PM
Hook up some wires to those pants, and you've got yourself a Renewable Energy Source.
Bandido| 3.6.13 @ 1:34PM
She is also a gorgon.
Alan's Girl| 3.6.13 @ 1:49PM
Explain me, then- blonde, tall, thin pistol-packin' grandma. Buddy, you haven't a clue as to who WE are.
KennesawJack| 3.6.13 @ 5:05PM
Why am I suddenly jealous of Alan?
Riff Raff| 3.6.13 @ 6:02PM
What about overweight poor people too lazy to get jobs? They are GETTING help, from the taxpayers, using money confiscated by government under threat of violence. (Try NOT paying your taxes and see what violence ensues.) Since when did obesity become a symbol of POVERTY?! Since Democrats created a National Welfare State. Liberals and Democrats are inherently corrupt and venal, selfish, self-centered, and greedy. All our economic ills can de directly traced to Democrat legislation and regulation. vtwin, you have NO leg to stand on. YOU are on the side of the evil and corrupt.
Controse| 3.6.13 @ 1:51PM
Liberals as slaves. That's creative. No wait. They already are slaves to Democrat Party liberalism. So it should be easier than starting from scratch. We just need to finagle a change of masters from the abysmally corrupt be they politicians , union bosses or celebrities to upholders of conservative virtues. Being slaves the switch of masters isn't up to them.
Stkman| 3.6.13 @ 3:45PM
Actually they are slaves to the ultimate in ignorance. A people who take the Devils word that there can be utopia on Earth but to have it they must get rid of the children of God and take their posessions to have it.
vtwin| 3.6.13 @ 10:36AM
Aristocat, this Obama voter slept very well last night, have for last four years and expect too for the next four.
gene| 3.6.13 @ 12:04PM
When the USD is no longer the Reserve Currency and we default in the near future? The almighty USD will lose 50% almost overnight causing gas prices to go to $10/gal and ripping through the economy. You may sleep well now, Bubala, but that is going to change very soon. No, do not expect to sleep well for the next 4.
Tish| 3.8.13 @ 1:40AM
Well why wouldn't they sleep well, they have no responsibilities. Everything's paid for including their cell phones' food stamps' section 8 housing etc.etc.etc. Lazy' fat & ignorant ! What a combo your rooting for. Bathhouse Barry doesn't give a shit about you, only your vote to keep him in his lavish lifestyle. If history tells us anything, it's that things don't tend to go to well for those that abuse there power & live lavishly off the hard work of others. Nope I don't see this ending well for the narcissistic fraud . Just as this article state's "the facade is cracking & what's underneath is not pretty"
SUBVET| 3.6.13 @ 10:09AM
What's with the picture yellow curtains.....it looks like a whore house....or a mosk.
WRTolkas| 3.6.13 @ 7:12AM
So what? Like loaded flatulence, you're stuck with it until you get home as we're stuck with he who will not be named in the White House.
Once I believed that this nation could survive a really awful Head of State. Now, I'm not certain.
CrackerHound| 3.6.13 @ 10:36AM
As is commonly stated by hard working American conservatives lately....we can survive Obama, we cannot survive a nation full of his supporters.
Obama is straight up marxist, no question. Today's marxist never leads with an actual admission that they are marxist but they usually leave no doubt with their policies and platforms.
Just as the Republican Party has been taken over by big government statists, the Democrats have been replaced with neo-marxists and socialists.
This is why America is truly toast. Neither of these ideologies are consistent with our Constitutional Republic.
D. Thompson| 3.6.13 @ 12:57PM
Barack Obama is Our Messiah
Barack had worked tirelessly on behalf of the American people, especially those who elected him in 2008. His followers needed to re-elect him to a second term, so that he could continue to accomplish the promises he made, thus, realizing his vision of America as a more perfect political union or “heaven here on earth.” Then, as I began to contemplate ways to assist Barack in his 2012 re-election bid something miraculous happened. I felt God’s (His) Spirit beckoning me in my dreams at night. Listening, cautiously, I learned that Jesus walked the earth to create a more civilized society, Martin (Luther King) walked the earth to create a more justified society, but, Apostle Barack, the name he was called in my dreams, would walk the earth to create a more equalized society, for the middle class and working poor. Apostle Barack, the next young leader with a new cause, had been taken to the mountaintop and allowed to see over the other side.
D. Thompson| 3.6.13 @ 12:57PM
Continued:
He had the answers to unlock the kingdom of “heaven here on earth” for his followers. The answers were repeated – over and over – in speeches Barack had made from his presidential announcement to his inaugural address. Those speeches or his teachings contained the answers to the middle class and working poor people living in a “heaven here on earth.” For when the answers were unlocked and enacted, Apostle Barack’s vision of America would be realized.
D. Thompson| 3.6.13 @ 12:59PM
And I continue to have dreams about Barack's vision of America, and I am convinced that he is being guided by God.
God bless our president! Amen and Amen
Drunken Sailor| 3.6.13 @ 1:49PM
Do your rice crispies also talk to you and do your dog tell you who to kill?
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 2:13PM
You're thinking of: Son of D. Thompson.
Butch| 3.6.13 @ 2:46PM
And he sittith at the right hand of Apostle Willy Sutton, Apostle John Dillinger, Apostle Machine Gun Kelly, and Apostles Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker.
John Navratil| 3.6.13 @ 4:14PM
D. Thompson.
That is the most perfect example of immanentizing the eschaton I have ever seen in these pages. Brilliant!
N8tivTxn| 3.6.13 @ 7:20AM
I'm surprised that the Despot-in-Waiting hasn't had the podium gold leafed.
Isn't it amazing how the "press" began to awaken at the beginning of the second term, when it's too late to avoid our downfall? IMO they're merely rehabbing their reputations, getting ready for the final push to full statism in the midterms.
Sadly, the majority of voters still don't grasp where we're headed.
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 8:49AM
First of all, Quinn: You're not a Conservative. You just like to Play One on the Computer.
Just like a Broken Clock is right twice a day. There are other things in Time and Space that share the Broken Clock's inevitable pension for getting things right, after time.
We've all heard of the Unquestioned Love of the Dog for his Master. But, even the Family Dog will turn on his Master, if he's Abused long enough.
Children Kill their Parents, every day of the Week. Wives Kill their Husbands. Husbands Kill their Wives. Video Killed the Radio Star. I saw a Story, not that long ago, on Drudge, where a 90 something Guy Divorced his 90 something Wife, after 70 something Years of Marriage. His reason? "I couldn't take it anymore."
Even the Star Struck Lover has their Eyes Opened, sometimes.
The Media has been turning a Blind Eye to their Naked Emperor, for going on 5 Years now. And, in that time, Pharaoh's Arrogance has grown, exponentially. The Family Dog has noticed.
They have Friends and Family that have Lost Everything, under his Reign. Their Homes, their Businesses, their Jobs and their Life Savings. The Star Struck Lover has noticed.
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 9:13AM
For everything there is a Season.
The Germans Loved Hitler, until he brought the Horrors of his Dark Soul into their lives.
The Russian People Loved Lenin and Stalin, until they realized that their Worker's Paradise had become a Prison, and they would all be serving Life Sentences.
The Italians Loved Mussolini, until he brought War and Destruction and the Nazis to their World.
The Chinese Loved Mao, until they noticed that 300 Million of their Neighbors had disappeared.
The Cambodian People danced in the streets at the thought of Pol Pot, and the New Ways he would bring to their lives. They got The Killing Fields, instead.
They danced in the Streets when the Son of a Marxist Muslim from Kenya, took the 2008 Election. They always Dance in the Streets in the beginning.
They looked forward to Hope and Change. They always promise Hope and Change.
They ignored his Communist/Marxist/Anarchist Biography, back then. Just as they ignore his Lavish Lifestyle, with his Queen, even as he Commanded the Common Men to "SHARE THE SACRIFICE". They always do that, too.
It's called an EPIPHANY, and it never seems to come soon enough.
Joellen| 3.6.13 @ 10:32AM
Tim, when talking to Russian immigrants recently, they still claim their LOVE for Stalin. Now, they are young (20-25); however, when reiterated to them the horrors that Stalin imposed on their people, they literally just shrugged their sholders, and still proclaimed their devotion to him.
Can you spell S C A R Y, cause I am sure no matter what obama does to his peeps, they will still profess that same devotion.
markenoff| 3.6.13 @ 11:14AM
One death is a tragedy. 100,000,000 are a statistic.
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 2:16PM
And 1,000,000 Deaths is a Historical Rounding Error.
Guestaphonic| 3.6.13 @ 10:35AM
Such a way with words, Mr. T!
The lowly but uppity TLP thinks he should take Quin Hilyer's place as political pundit.
We readers are getting a bit tired of Mr. T's blather, hogwash, and twaddle.
And yes, Mr. Hilyer is a conservative, but he's not a right-wing redneck--the kind of conservative Mr. T. admires.
Al Adab| 3.6.13 @ 11:20AM
TLP:
You missed it. Quin entered the contest with his reference to the Kwisatz Haderach.
Bandido| 3.6.13 @ 12:06PM
Death to House Harkonnen!!!
Kwan| 3.6.13 @ 11:44AM
I do believe the word "twaddle" is only used by homosexuals. So is Guestaphonic really Awnie, Purp, Adam, Nightwinger, or a brand new homo? Who knows.
n 7 n = d| 3.6.13 @ 12:02PM
The level of intelligence of the responders on this site is so low it takes your breath away.
How anyone can stomach the sour tone is beyond me.
I check by here occasionally to see how loony things are, and the posters are getting crazier.
Anyway, the liberals are in power for a long, long time. Well, for twelve more years at least. After Obama comes Hillary and Bill's reign.
Since we traditional Republicans let the tea party take over, our reputation has plummeted into the redneck swamps of "ideas." The Republicans of yore are spinning in their graves.
n 7 n = d| 3.6.13 @ 12:06PM
The majority of posters on here are too coarse to ever associate with the Republicans I know personally. We used to be known for our dignified demeanor; not any more. Angry whithe men from TheLower Classes--the littering classes--have taken over our beloved party and killed it.
Al Adab| 3.6.13 @ 12:30PM
If only the Tea party and the Conservative Movement had indeed taken over. How many times do you think we will follow you to defeat? It is only when Conservatives preponderate that the GOP has enjoyed success.
Drunken Sailor| 3.6.13 @ 12:53PM
So switch sides already and join your fellow liberals.
Blue Blood Troll
Drunken Sailor| 3.6.13 @ 12:53PM
That is for our dear enlightened friend N7N=D.
Kwan| 3.6.13 @ 3:30PM
This NancyBoy sounds like a Log Cabin Republican.
John Navratil| 3.6.13 @ 4:16PM
Is that you Babs?
John Navratil| 3.6.13 @ 4:17PM
It that you Babs?
KennesawJack| 3.6.13 @ 5:14PM
Tell me, please, exactly how does one kiss the Democrats collective a**es in a "dignified demeanor"? As to the "Lower Classes", I suspect I could buy your sorry a** from my petty cash account. Littering class, huh? The only "littering" being done in the Republican Party is by those, like you, who litter our lives with bits of our liberty you so willingly through away. I will say this, though. Vtwin, Purp, and the rest of the Obamarx sycophants don't cause rage to rise in me. You, on the other hand, are someone I would dearly love to meet in a dark alley.You
KennesawJack| 3.6.13 @ 5:14PM
Tell me, please, exactly how does one kiss the Democrats collective a**es in a "dignified demeanor"? As to the "Lower Classes", I suspect I could buy your sorry a** from my petty cash account. Littering class, huh? The only "littering" being done in the Republican Party is by those, like you, who litter our lives with bits of our liberty you so willingly through away. I will say this, though. Vtwin, Purp, and the rest of the Obamarx sycophants don't cause rage to rise in me. You, on the other hand, are someone I would dearly love to meet in a dark alley.You
Occam's Tool| 3.6.13 @ 6:29PM
Hey, dude, I had a 33 ACT as a kid. Screw off.
Ronnie wanted BRIGHT, STRONG COLORS. The country club GOP gave/ give us nothing but defeat and demoralization. Ford led to Carter, for cryin' out loud. Bush led to Obama.
Goodbye, traditional GOPer, and take your Cheesehead Jacks with you.
TNcracker | 3.6.13 @ 6:57PM
I hope you're right. That the repubes "of yore" are spinning in their graves.
Connection Not Compromise| 3.7.13 @ 2:07AM
"The majority of posters on here are too coarse to ever associate with the Republicans I know personally."
Really? Funny you should mention it. I seem to recall that the British Redcoats held a similar view of the Ragtag Ruffians who stood against them at Lexington, Concord, and eventually Yorktown.
Liberty is not always dressed in Country Club finery.
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 2:19PM
They're all Anna K.
She, of No Life.
anna k from emory u| 3.6.13 @ 2:45PM
The thread today is full of phony posters using many names. I find that so HATEFUL. Guestaphonic, D. Thompson, n7n=d, you should be ashamed of yourself, or yourselves, if you prefer. I used to bring “Ed” or “Edward White” to this site to say the same kinds of things with me, but I came to realize what a transparent fraud I had become.
Mea culpa, mea culpa.
Also, Mr. Kwan, in addition to those whom you note, “twaddle” is also used by leftist college instructors, usually female, in an attempt to infantilize those with whom we disagree, before we try to demonize them. It is a warning shot, usually fired by those who fear and despise real firearms.
It’s cold and overcast in Atlanta today. I pray that those on the eastern seaboard will weather the storm there.
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 5:36PM
Is it as cold as your bed, tonight?
How awful it must be, to be so alone.
No-one to love. No-one to love you back.
I wonder how many times you lie alone, wishing you had taken a different road.
When I go to bed at night, I give my children Hugs and Kisses, and then get in bed with my lovely Wife, for hugs and kisses and a good night's sleep.
I get up and make my kids their breakfast, make their school Lunches, and get them off to school.
What do you do, I wonder?
I imagine that you look in the mirror, each day, and wonder what life will be like as you get Older, Uglier, and more alone.
Knowing that you'll die, alone, in some Government Old Age Facility, with no-one to mourn you.
It'll be like YOU WERE NEVER HERE.
Have a nice night.
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 5:43PM
I just told my little one that I Love Him.
He told me that he Loves me, too.
What does your Cat say, when you tell it that you love it?
CAT| 3.6.13 @ 6:44PM
She probably does not have a a cat.
But you will have a cat. And your CAT scan will eventually tell you that you have terminal cancer.
How much better AmSpec will be without you. Bye-bye.
Dave 99| 3.6.13 @ 6:46PM
Amen to that CAT. A. S. should have blocked his IP address years ago.
reeVOLvur| 3.6.13 @ 6:50PM
Ha. You are cracking me up CAT.
Nurse: Mr. TLP would you like something from the cafeteria?
TLP: Yes, honey, I'd like a slice of cancer. Make that two slices if you will.
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 7:09PM
Obviously, you're confusing me with Anna's Ovarian Cancer.
reeVOLvur| 3.6.13 @ 7:38PM
Man, are you confined to a wheelchair. is this your only outlet for amusement. You are on this site day and night seven days per week. And how for god's sake is this person called Anna? She , if she exists must be controlling your diseased mind.
anna k from emory u| 3.6.13 @ 7:53PM
reeVOLvur, CAT, and Dave 99;
Your phony appearances here again reveal what a diseased and carcinogenic force you are in the world. Highly unbalanced people like Hugo Chavez think the US can give people cancer; equally unbalanced ones wish it on others.
Like TLP says, you are destined to a lonely life and lonelier death, marinating in your HATE.
Fred the Cockatoo| 3.6.13 @ 8:01PM
reeVOLvur;
When one lacks opposable thumbs, minor mistakes in capitalizing or misspelling words can be overlooked.
When one sets out to get it wrong, it is evidence that one is a jackass.
That one is you.
Tom Kyba| 3.6.13 @ 11:19AM
Speak for yourself dude. That "we readers" crap is the sign of a loser. This reader thinks you're a dink.
Joellen| 3.6.13 @ 11:41AM
Guestaphonic - RACIST against the redneck!
Job| 3.6.13 @ 1:05PM
justaphony... hmm you got me, just a wonderin... and it's really intriguing but what's a Left wing redneck look like...
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 2:21PM
They look just like Hillary.
Job| 3.6.13 @ 5:50PM
oh yeah, wife of Bill, Getting us Coffee, Clinton.
TNcracker | 3.6.13 @ 6:49PM
Speak for yourself, Guestaphonic. I'm not tired of TLP. And calling people rednecks tells me I'm already tired of you.
Stephie| 3.6.13 @ 10:42AM
How well will vtwin sleep after his epiphany?
irish19| 3.6.13 @ 10:47AM
People like vtwin and the other trolls will never have an epiphany. They are too emotionally invested in their current worldviews to take off the blinkers.
markenoff| 3.6.13 @ 11:16AM
Many of the humans were entertained until the very end. - Anonymous cylon
Kwan| 3.6.13 @ 10:57AM
That's right if we replace our Constitution and the rule of law with the dictates of a leftist psychopath then our freedoms, prosperity, and way of life will quickly become a distant memory.
Job| 3.6.13 @ 2:02PM
oh crap T it's not even second Friday , In the Conan the Barbarian, that Swarzenegger was in, Thulsa Doom played by James Earl Jones calls a sycophant and she jumps off a pyramid, and he goes, "now thats power". here is the exerpt:
Thulsa Doom: I wish to speak to you now. And what grieves me the most! You killed my snake.
Conan: You killed my mother! You killed my father, you killed my people! You took my father's sword... ah
Thulsa Doom: Ah. It must have been when I was younger. Steel isn't strong, boy, flesh is stronger! Look around you. There, on the rocks; a beautiful girl. Come to me, my child...
Thulsa Doom: [coaxes the girl to jump to her death]
Thulsa Doom: That is strength, boy! That is power! What is steel compared to the hand that wields it? Look at the strength in your body, the desire in your heart, I gave you this! (YOU DIDNT BUILD THAT)Such a waste. Contemplate this on the tree of woe. Crucify him!
Now is this a caracature of the One?????
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 2:23PM
You shoulda saved that.
I used that same analogy, to explain what we're up against, a long time ago.
The girl that fell to her Death?
That's Jay Carney.
Bandido| 3.6.13 @ 2:43PM
Beautiful. But what Jones actually said was, "Crucify him on the tree of wooooooe."
CrackerHound| 3.6.13 @ 10:51AM
I keep hearing, and also written in this column, that the press is waking up. Even Obama supporters are starting to see the truth.....I still see the press completely carrying water for this administration and I still see Obama escaping blame for all manner of things that he is directly responsible for. The few exceptions are not the rule.
When it came to Obamacare, the media and more than half of voters totally ignored what the doctor's and medical experts in the country thought and took Obama's plan as gospel. What's wrong with this picture? Do we just blindly follow the cult of celebrity in ALL things now, even those of critical importance? That is all that Obama is....a celebrity first and NEVER a leader. Those that do try to lead in this country are villified, mocked and marginalized. You cannot go against the politically correct ideology or you risk being ruined.
SCMike| 3.6.13 @ 7:38AM
Major flows in Obamacare are becoming evident, but any cure will require that both chambers of Congress agree on the details, and then get the One's John Hancock. He's so full of himself, and so insulated from society, that the O's X on the dotted line may not be possible... At least in this dimension on this planet.
The key question then becomes, "Where's my spice?"
SCMike| 3.6.13 @ 7:41AM
Should be "Major flaws."
These durn tablets are hard to type with...
Al Adab| 3.6.13 @ 12:31PM
Flaws, flows, it all runs downhill.
7-08| 3.6.13 @ 8:09AM
Just substitute "Republican Establishment" for "Obama" in the syntax and you won't be far off. In the battle for the control of the Republic the citizenry will not be the benefactors they are simply the spoils.
83champ| 3.6.13 @ 9:43AM
Codevilla said it best: the difference is of degree, not of kind.
Maxwell| 3.6.13 @ 8:16AM
Mr. Hillyer, with all due respect, I wish your article were true but I hold no such optimism. There are just to many people who are getting their free stuff from the Barry stash. Secondly, the economy has not crashed sufficiently enough in the Blue states to cause even the 'paper of record' to put the news above the fold on the front page.
When a real crisis or two blows up either here at home, in the Mid East, with North Korea, with China, or Europe, then let me know. Until then Barry will call a beer summit with all of those on the left and smooth over their feathers & jerk them around like the useful idiots that they are.
Lastly, the Republicans are not the brightest of light bulbs. Please tell me just who on our side has any stones? The last one I saw was from the great state of Texas, Ted Cruz.
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 2:27PM
Unfortunately, things WILL get so bad, that even his Family Dog - Black America - will have no choice but to rise up against him.
It's not even debatable.
Roscoe| 3.6.13 @ 8:30AM
"Fortunately, James Madison, Roger Sherman, and company created for us a constitutional system that does not easily lend itself to political messianism." However, UNfortunately, Madison and company could never have foreseen how ignorant the average citizen would become, yet still have the vote; how endemic election fraud would become; nor the 17th Amendment. I'm one conservative who doesn't share your optimism, Quin.
LarryK| 3.6.13 @ 8:38AM
"Kwisatz Haderach,"
"Paul Muad’Dib,"
Long live the Fighters of Boma!
God help us!
Bob Grant| 3.6.13 @ 8:55AM
To AmSpec, may we please remove the pop-up for donations?
Each time I nagivate to another page, I'm hit up to donate. Very annoying.
If I toss ya 40 bucks can I go back to the way it used to be?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.6.13 @ 9:09AM
Confucius say the persistent panhandler gets the most change.
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 9:16AM
And, he'll give ya $100 more if you throw in an Edit App as well.
Did I say $100? I meant $200.
Bob Grant| 3.6.13 @ 9:43AM
T,
You might want to think through this Edit App thing.
Your comments might loose their effect with a properly-used EA.
Scratch that, I meant "lose".
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 11:19AM
So, you're saying that it's actually the Spelling Errors and the Misplaced Words, that are what make my ditherings worth dithering over?
Hmmmmmmm?
I'm gonna take that as a Backhanded Compliment.
Al Adab| 3.6.13 @ 11:23AM
Bob:
Since we who post are the ones that take up the bandwidth maybe we should all throw in a few bucks for the privilege. I agree the pop-up and the template for contributions are getting old.
Amspec, how much longer?
Bob Grant| 3.6.13 @ 12:12PM
Al,
Quit complaining you annoying whiner.
And no, I didn't mispell "winner".
Drunken Sailor| 3.6.13 @ 12:55PM
You misspelled weiner.
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 2:28PM
I was just gonna write that!
Al Adab| 3.6.13 @ 2:29PM
DS:
Weiners have pork unless of course they are Hebrew National. Imagine the irony.
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 5:46PM
That's funny, Al.
Nancy in NC| 3.6.13 @ 10:08AM
There ain't nothing free in this world. Live with it or find another website.
Thank God we still have the freedom of the internet. I'll put up with the few inconveniences to be able to enjoy the American Spectator and sharing my morning with like minded people, even if some of you occasionally annoy me with your whining. None of us are perfect, me included.
Stephie| 3.6.13 @ 10:47AM
Ditto Nancy in NC ~
gene| 3.6.13 @ 12:08PM
Amen and Double Amen, Nancy
Von Mises Jr| 3.6.13 @ 9:10AM
Quin, regardless of the tenor of the comments, I think that you are spot on. It is not just Obama that is an arrogant and narcissistic mental case, but his liberal ideology followers. Evidence of this is apparent every day at TAS as the slightest criticism of Dear Leader sends the trolls into vapors.
Everything about Obama is built on a mirage and a cult. I met a lawyer that went to Haavad with barry soetoro, frank marshall davis II or whoever this clown is and he said that criticism was the one thing a narcissist such as barry could not handle. So you are in league with someone else who said the same a couple years ago.
Political correctness gives liberal morons one defense for their ideas: ridicule. If their ridicule is laughed at or you ridicule them, they $hit themselves for lack of what to do. Their reality is shaken. So give em hell, Quin.
Russel| 3.6.13 @ 9:46AM
I liked the column as well . So, perhaps all of it might not materialize . Who cares if nothing more than it gives us some hope and makes us feel better . It's not just trolls on this site , it's others who seem to dwell in perpetual pessimism ; downright ugly at times . Constant whining is not my baliwick . Great article Quin , I agree . King Notme is headed for a fall .
squalis| 3.6.13 @ 10:01AM
I used to go to HuffPo, just to see the contortions of logic used there to justify evrything in liberalism. It was comical and frustrating stuff to read. I used to frequently comment, but after a short while the censors got wise to my opposition. I can't post without having the most innocuous of remarks reviewed. I stopped going there.
Communism does not appreciate dissenting opinions.
Nancy in NC| 3.6.13 @ 10:13AM
Thanks Von and Russel for a moment of reason in a voyage of discontent. The pessimism by so many commentators is contagious and a real downer.
I, too, liked the article as I search for something to help me have the strength to continue the fight against those who would destroy this country.
Bob Grant| 3.6.13 @ 9:12AM
The light criticism of obama is nothing more than a few members of the media taking advantage of the 6 month window following the general election where they can appear like actual unbiased journalists, but rest assurred, when the window closes they'll be back in the lap of The One, hoping for a few strokes from their master.
A Kulak| 3.6.13 @ 9:17AM
My fear is that without clear and consistent instruction on why socialism fails (every time) and why conservatism works (when allowed to stay in place) that the majority of voters will be led to believe that this was all Obama's failing, not his ideology's, and some other socialist should be given a shot at running things.
Bob Grant| 3.6.13 @ 9:47AM
Not a chance. To the mainstream media and sycophantic supporters, their belief will be that the ideology failed obama :-)
squalis| 3.6.13 @ 9:52AM
"As the liberal Fred Wertheimer of Democracy 21 put it on Monday, “Organizing for Action is a national scandal waiting to happen.”"
Like the tree in the forest, if a scandal occurs and no one reports it, did the scandal really happen? I think not.
I don't buy the premise of this article. Yes, all that said about Obama is of course true. I firmly believe, however, the populace at large will ever see these fauslts and happily ride the train to extinction.
Denver Todd| 3.6.13 @ 9:54AM
I just want to point out that SNL has made jokes about Obama in the past, and he still got re-elected anyway. At the time, I thought that it was a turning point against Obama, but the bottom line is that the popular media still loves him.
Nancy in NC| 3.6.13 @ 10:16AM
Did anyone see Bill O'Reilly have a major meltdown last night with Colmes?
Bill is late coming to the party, but he's there. He sees obama as he is and he's mad.
I don't always agree with Bill O, but he has a voice and it sure won't hurt that he finally sees obama as the chief destructor he is.
Bandido| 3.6.13 @ 12:11PM
But OReilly plants huge kisses on the Obama butt during interviews, then snipes at him on the program. The Big O is a hypocrite, a bully, and gutless.
SUBVET| 3.6.13 @ 10:18AM
Have no fear......Daniel 2:21
loulou| 3.6.13 @ 10:21AM
But the damage has been done.
The congressional eunuchs will continue to fund Obamacare. Our military will continue to be degraded. Muslims will continue their infiltration of the CIA, FBI and State Dept. The Dept. of Homeland Security (thanks a lot, Bush) will continue to grow. Illegal aliens will be released from jail and given drivers licences. And on and on. The damage has been done.
Stephie| 3.6.13 @ 10:53AM
And it can always get worse.
RCV| 3.6.13 @ 10:50AM
Quinn, you were certain of the coming Santorum victory, confident of a Romney presidency, and now you're predicting an Obama "crack-up".
I think your record will remain unbroken. Wishing just ain't going to make it happen.
And by the way, you must be the only soul in the country who believes that Bob Woodward exposed the Obama staff's "bully-boy tactics." When the facts came out, Woodward's whining looked pretty silly to everyone else.
There is no buyer's remorse anywhere I've seen.
CrackerHound| 3.6.13 @ 11:18AM
You need to open your eyes sir...there is a lot of buyers remorse!
What happened to one of Obama's biggest talking points when defending the need for the rich (translated to mean citizens not subsidized by the government) to give "their fair share"?
The country is broke and the chavez clone wants to squeeze more out of the few who still have anything left to pay for "fixing our broken infrastructure, high speed rail, shovel ready projects, more police, fire, raises for teachers", etc.
These were ALL LIES just to transfer the nations wealth to his cronies, the unions, and the Democratic Socialist Party USA.
Did you know Chavez died with about two billion in personal wealth? Now THAT is marxism/communism/socialism for you. One big con job aimed at robbing a country's wealth and leaving the citizens without ANY freedom or property to speak of....including his strongest supporters. Soros and Buffet prosper from the crashes and tumult, but Mr. and Mrs. Smith regardless of their political leanings must agree to "shared sacrifice". We are doing it for you Mr. President! Now WHEN will we see the promised results of this radical transformation that caused Michelle to be proud of her country for the first time in her adult life? Just look to Venezuela and Greece to get your answer.
CrackerHound| 3.6.13 @ 11:29AM
It's been 5-years RCV....what exactly has Obama accomplished besides the complete and total division of the country, credit downgrades, holding back the energy sector, reducing our GDP, increasing what our grandchildren will have to pay for, and serving as "eye candy" on talk shows?
Seriously...what has he done that is good? that is how you judge a man, by his fruits and he's produced NOTHING?
Bill O'Reily's question from last night also still stands. In this nation burdened in a mountain of debt, what is Obama prepared to cut...besides jobs?
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 2:32PM
He'll get back to you, just as soon as he gets his Marching Orders.
Buck Ofama| 3.6.13 @ 11:32PM
I think the Great Actor, Sean Penn, is going to donate his fortune to save the USSA.
cicero| 3.6.13 @ 11:10AM
Oh, yeah. NOW they see who and what Obama is. How quainte. The country gets fleecedd for another 4 years as a direct result of the press and the media not doing their job, and now they find that there may be a problem with this guy.
In the next 4 years, we will see a major war, the recession will double dip, regardless of what Wall Street does, there will be major upheavals in the derelict central cities, and more scandals having to do with public monies will emerge. However, there will be nothing the people can do about it, and nothing our fearless leaders will do about it.
Come the 2016 general election, the press will be back with their noses up the backsides of the swells, because otherwise they will have to pay for their own drinks. Hopefully, I will be proven wrong. We may see in the 2014 bi-election. But don't bet the farm on it.
Citizen Jerry| 3.6.13 @ 11:12AM
Sure we have a constitutional system that doesn’t easily lend itself to political messiahs. But what’s the answer when this one regularly ignores the Constitution? We sure can’t impeach him, not with the toady media and a Senate that covers for our Ego-in-Chief.
I’d like to think it will take five years for Americans to realize what he’s really like. I’m just not so sure after the low-information dullard voters sent him back for another four years. Buckle up, buttercup – because it’s going to be a horrific ride.
markenoff| 3.6.13 @ 11:23AM
Obama/Biden 2016!
Bandido| 3.6.13 @ 12:14PM
McCain/Romney 2016! Let's try to set a record and lose all 57 states.
Buck Ofama| 3.6.13 @ 11:30PM
@markenoff:
You misspelled your name again. It should be "jackenoff", which is what you should return to doing, as you gaze with awe at your collection of faded Ovomit posters, you slimey c0cksucker.
Who Knows?| 3.6.13 @ 11:50AM
Maybe, pace Churchill, it’s the end of the beginning of the Obama con.
Or, after 5 years of lousy teeth brushing, enough toothpaste is out of the tube.
Better, IMHO, would be a play on the cat’s out of the bag.
Ever since BHO attained widespread fame, he’s been riding one essential VISUAL aspect---he’s a cool black cat.
Well, the cool is turning into---COLD. How much longer can the critical people, such as the ruling MSM, try to put the cold black cat back in the bag?
Woodward’s treatment may well be the tipping point. Indeed, to stretch this metaphor, one might say that the MSM and all the Obama spin-meisters ARE the bag. So, besides the black cat, BHO himself, coming out the bag’s opening, perhaps the bag, itself, is ripping to shreds.
The key truth may be that most people, especially those in the vital margin, are NOT serious---by definition? =Hence, it’s the jokers who can get through to them.
Besides, any open-eyed person has to be laughing, ultimately, at the state of the American political scene in DC. A black hole that sucks in clowns!
Laughter IS the best medicine.
Nothing beats NOT taking seriously, via laughter that says “You’re a fool!”, someone who takes himself seriously.
Seriously.
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 2:39PM
Can I buy some Pot from you?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 3.6.13 @ 2:50PM
Why Pinto?
Bandido| 3.6.13 @ 12:01PM
This piece is wishful thinking. The Obamedia has the good citizens right where it wants them. They are trained to believe Obama can do no wrong, that he is the sun. The people believe this and it is apparent that Congress does too. So, there will be no crack-up. A crack-up could only occur via a relentless media assault a la Watergate or the invasion of Iraq. Which will never come. But if it did, Obama would fold like an ironing board. He has no belly for a fight against real, determined opposition. Like most bullies, he is essentially hollow and weak.
Moe Blotz| 3.6.13 @ 1:31PM
Perhaps Moochelle should take stunt flying lessons. A brilliant man once said that a woman flying an airplane upside down would have a crack up.
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 2:40PM
You spelled "Penis" wrong.
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 2:41PM
Again!
Frekki| 3.6.13 @ 3:48PM
Stop it! You're giving me a stitch!
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 5:48PM
You spelled "Snatch" wrong.
Buck Ofama| 3.6.13 @ 11:29PM
"Penis" is correctly spelled thusly: Obama.
Bob K| 3.6.13 @ 12:13PM
It's long past time that the Republican leadership started laughing at Obama but don't look for it to happen because, like small images of him in a kaleidoscope, they take themselves "oh so seriously!"
Louis Jenkins| 3.6.13 @ 12:16PM
So the Half-Breed King of the world is cracking? I rather doubt it. He is like the soul train of yesteryear, keeps chugging along running over everyone, every car, every start up job, over the economy. And then it's time for another vacation which is held in seculsion, no reporters, no gawkers, no civilians allowed. If the WH reporters get a bit dis-satisfied? Off with their heads. Though I doubt there is a better cheering squad than those White House reporters.
Obama phones, stimulus packages, taxing the rich, and the middle class, a staggering health insurance deal, no, Obama is alive and well. 43% doesn't mean that he's down for the count. Don't be suprised to see him run for re-election in 2016. Laugh as you will!
Occam's Tool| 3.6.13 @ 12:28PM
Quin:
What the Chosen One is forgetting is that "The Spice Must Flow."
Bandido| 3.6.13 @ 1:39PM
We must all learn to play the baliset along with Gurney.
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 2:38PM
DUNE.
You should bring that to The Contest, next Friday.
John Navratil| 3.6.13 @ 4:25PM
TLP,
Don't do that! The only thing worse than having to relate to films I have not seen is to relate to books I read almost half a century ago in college - I'm told that if you remember college, you weren't there - or was that something else I don't remember? It's hard enough for me to remember the sand worm quote in the Star Wars trilogy.
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 5:50PM
Go get Dune, the Movie.
The original Stars STING.
You won't regret it.
Tits.
TLP| 3.6.13 @ 5:53PM
DEEP THROAT.
Occam's Tool| 3.6.13 @ 6:36PM
John: you know, though, I do think of the knife fighting quote in that book often---"the point can also slash, the blade can also stab, the handguard can also be used to trap your opponent's blade."
VERY applicable to psychopharmacology and the use of single meds to perform multiple functions. In my work I try to be a bit of an artist.
Oldefarte| 3.6.13 @ 1:04PM
These descriptive articles of truth are helpful in additing to the existing body of information concerning this POTUS, but unfortionately same cannot at this point offer any possible remedy to the disaster that his presidency represents. Americans simply had two opportunities to rectify what this man represents, and both times they failed miserbly. The 11/6/12 election of Romney offered a potential immense chance at righting the wrongs of the previous four years, and I share his recent interviewed lament at having to watch the lost political opportunities which is typical of this bafoon masquerading as president. This country presently is faced with either four more years of his misery and/or impeachment; either of which will not benefit this nation. We brought it upon ourselves by the insane desire to prop up an African American as POTUS, due to our shame over historical slavery. Ignored was his ineptitude, inexperience and incompetitence. Hopefully there will be a country left to rescue at the end of his reign in 2016!!!!!!
Kingofthenet| 3.6.13 @ 1:36PM
Well John Q Public might not love President Obama as much as they have, but they positively HATE you Republicans.
Drunken Sailor| 3.6.13 @ 1:53PM
Newsflash for your dumbass. We aren't to damn fond of Republicans right now either. I know the distinction is over your head, but challenge yourself and give it some thought.
Buck Ofama| 3.6.13 @ 11:27PM
@Queenofthenet:
Queen, you ignorant slut, go back to frigging yourself to your collection of faded Ovomit posters.
Bandido| 3.6.13 @ 1:42PM
Duncan Idaho is flying his ornithopter over DC and is prepared to evacuate the POTUS to Caladon.
Bandido| 3.6.13 @ 1:53PM
Obama should be subjected to the gom jabbar. And is Michelle a Bene Gesserit witch?
Americanpatriot| 3.6.13 @ 5:50PM
One would think that the electorate would already discern that the man in the oval office isn't fit to be president of this great nation. Huge number of character flaws, corruption to the heavens and complete disregard for the pain and suffering of others. While Rome burns Obama and Michelle spend millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on vacations, luxury meals and huge staff to treat them like a king and queen and american citizens are eating hamburger meat. No, Obama did not win in this last election and perhaps the vote fraud will come up in the next few months But any one of a number of things, fast and furious, Benghazi, fighting wars without congressional approvel, false social security number will come to the light in a way the public can no longer disregard it. There has got to be some sensible democrats out there that love our country one would hope.
Third Army| 3.6.13 @ 7:34PM
This man will never crack up. He's not like the rest of us. He has no empathy for anyone and his wife is the same. They have no shame and no feelings for other people, except perhaps envy. They just keep stepping on everyone on their way to the top and never look back. You may be hopeful that he's cracking up, but he's really not. Although Woodward is on to him, 98 percent of the press is still kissing his backside. We're doomed.
Purp| 3.6.13 @ 9:11PM
You seem to forget that the House Republicans just caved on the Government Shutdown and are proposing yet another Continuing Resolution to fund the government. Where's the budget, Budget Chairman Ryan?
Momentary polls are just that - momentary ... you'll see.
You must really love having President Obama in charge and no one on your side with any balls to do anything but cave over and over again. Enjoy! I am.
Marvin E. Fox | 3.8.13 @ 6:19PM
Good article Quin Hillyer! I have never read such a complete description of what I think of Obama. I was amazed the American people hadn't gotten it before the end of his first term. He seems to be letting himself become more expressive of his true self with no more elections to win.
Marvin Fox
Ralph Novy| 3.9.13 @ 10:15PM
Please join Hillyer in his apocalyptic bunker, Fox.
Congratulations! You'll be ignored in history like the self-righteous Manicheans.
Bye, bye!
Ralph Novy| 3.9.13 @ 8:25PM
Bye, bye, Hillyer.
You've abandoned rationality and decency for overt racism and fascism.
Good luck with that.
Dig your bunker deep.
And PLEASE let us never hear from you again.
BTW ... you will NOT be missed. History will not note you.
That's the price you pay for lacking empathy, pal.
Duh.
Bye!
Marc Jeric| 3.11.13 @ 3:34PM
Here one can read the last resort of a communist - namecalling.
Marc Jeric| 3.11.13 @ 3:31PM
The 55 Democrat Senators led in goose-step by our own Dirty Harry will be joined by at least 5 RINO’s to confirm comrade Brennan as our new CIA Chief. The basis for Brennan’s confirmation is founded on his three singular accomplishments while serving as the White House terror expert (aka czar or commissar); 1) he invented that new name for our War on Terror as “overseas contingency operations”; 2) he renamed the Fort Hood murder of 13 US soldiers by the jihadist Major Hasan as “workplace violence”; and 3) he invented You-Tube film trailer protest as the cause of the Benghazi jihadist murder of 4 Americans. Unconfirmed reports that Brennan converted to Islam, “religion of piece”, while serving as attaché in the Saudi Arabia embassy, are acquiring new credibility.