Obama has always struck me as an immature teen. He whines. Whenever he criticizes someone, he does so indirectly. He mocks. He wants to entertain his followers. Ever notice that when he makes a joke, he laughs nervously at himself….sort of to say: that was a joke, get it? I think he REALLY needs to feel loved. (which, considering his backround — i.e. during his youth, when his mother moved him to a new “world” when she married a new man, then sent him “away” (usually how a child interprets it) to go back and live with his grandparents….j makes some real sense. That’s my amateur take).

Now, tho, most of the adulation is conditional: his actions will have consequences, and people turn on a dime when their lives are effected negatively. Ten yrs. or so from now, maybe longer, should be interesting to see how he will be viewed in retrospect; especially the phenomenon of his campaign and his wild appeal to so many people.

And I agree w/ Douglas: I’ve been fairly foaming at the mouth at his doom and gloom pronouncements of late — which neo noted in a post. He began that during campaign, and after September he really ramped it up — which I think absolutely had an effect (negative) on the economy. Scaring people is exactly the wrong thing to do in a recession as it exacerbates conditions and causes people to do things that make conditions worse. But this “you will be in a recession or Depression forever if you don’t do what I want — i.e. the “stimulus” is maddening. Not to mention obnoxious and absolutely non-leader-ish!

Got her soccer referee license and then discovered that to make money she had to work..like maybe 3 games in a row, and then she was exhausted.

How could BHO not be exhausted? That’s what happens when one has never held a job. Wonder what he will be like when there’s 1000′s of American causualties after the next terror attack.

After listening to Specter on Hannity today, and catching some of what was said on Gretta’s show on Fox last Friday, neither house or senate knows what to do, except duck direct questions. They feel compelled to do something, so they are doing the usual. Throw money at it, hope for the best. And pork it ti the hilt during the process.

And the deficit is not precisely the problem. It’s how this Porkulus Bill sets up spending for the future. The overwhelming amount of this money is spend after 2010, and the overwhelming majority of the money is pork and not economic stimulus to create jobs. And government does not create jobs. The private sector does. Government sector jobs are WORK programs, and actually take money out of the real economy.

As a professional investor I see that we are now back in the 1970′s. Pre-Reagan. And that this is by design. Some very powerful people inside and outside this country have decided that the United States is now to be remade in the image of a Euro-socialist economy. Most American voters, particularly young ones, believe that we should transition to socialism. They have their day now, and so they and their elected leaders and representative will be held to account for the results.

Obama, the Democrats, and their voters now own it all. They will live or die by it. No one is going to believe their cock and bull story that the Republicans are to blame if it all goes to shit. I know they want credit for it, if it goes well. But if it all goes to shit they should own up to THAT result too.

But these are kids who were raised to believe the fiction that they can evade the consequences of their choices and actions.

Sorry, life doesn’t work that way. It’s time to grow up and face the world as adults.

Sullenburger kept his cool. The One? not so much. I won isn’t a reason for anyone to support any given bill.

Does anyone think Sarah Palin would be exhausted after 2 1/2 weeks? Heck no!

She’s been an achiever all her life – at an achievement level few humans attain or operate at. In terms of energy and stamina: POTUS would be just another thing for her. She would relish the fun challenge of it. And she’d still be changing Trig’s diapers and having non neurotic sex with Todd.

Does anyone thing Sarah Palin’s staff would be exhausted after 2 1/2 weeks? Heck no!

She’s managed people before. She wouldn’t say or believe this stupidity: “We’ll keep up the pace of our campaign.” Anyone who lives in the real world understands campaign pace is designed to dump 1000 exhausted campaign workers into their bedrooms for weeks after the election.

The White House is not a lesser pace, but it’s a different pace, b/c you don’t want to work people for 6 months and then dump them off for 2 weeks of sleep. Palin has self discipline. She would work consistent hours – partially for herself and partially b/c she would not be a fool about the needs of her staff.

Palin is just one example. There are many persons with records of achievement who understand how to manage themselves and their staff. You could substitute any of them for Palin (i.e. Mitt Romney, Bobby Jindal), and they would run an excellent White House. Barack Obama is not a person whom we can count on to run an excellent White House. He might pull it off if he’s adaptable and willing to learn from his mistakes. But that is not the way to bet.

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