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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (145173)	10/7/2012 9:23:42 PM
From: Justin C	4 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 224708

The president has no clothes By JOHN PODHORETZ October 7, 2012 Forgive me for comparing Barack Obama to Daffy Duck, but let me spin out an analogy. There’s a Looney Tunes cartoon in which Daffy is desperate for applause from an audience in a theater. Everything Daffy does is met with silence until he swallows dynamite and gasoline and blows himself up. The crowd goes wild. As Daffy’s ghost ascends to the heavens, Bugs Bunny tells him the audience is screaming for more. Says Daffy: “I can only do it once.” It’s beginning to occur to liberals that Barack Obama also could only do it once — and that, like the unfortunate Daffy, the way he won the presidency the first time may have made it impossible for him to do it a second time. He garbed the presidency in the clothing of hope and change, but after Mitt Romney stripped him bare in last Wednesday’s debate, he stands as naked before his own supporters as he has been to those who never bought into him. All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth. “Generations from now,” he said on the night he put Hillary Clinton away during the Democratic primary season in 2008, “we will be able to tell our children that this was the moment. . . that the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” And there was some sense on the part of Obama and his speechwriters that he was committing an almost comic act of hubris in making this claim, since he began the section in which he spoke it with the words, “I accept this challenge with humility and knowledge of my limitations.” If that had been a sworn statement, Obama would be in jail for perjury now, because he is a stranger to humility and does not believe he has limitations. He demonstrated that in his first two years in office, when he acted and spoke as though his victory meant he could and should do anything he wished. The problem for him is that he has acted the same way in his third and fourth year in office — when he has had every reason to conduct himself with the humility and sense of limitations he falsely claimed his victory had instilled in him. If he loses in November, this will be the reason why. He believed in his own hype about hope and didn’t change when change could have transformed his presidency into an undoubted two-term proposition. There’s an argument abroad since the debate that Obama was so awful he revealed the truth about himself — a truth papered over by the extraordinary circumstances in 2008 that helped him win the presidency. He is not nearly as eloquent, masterly, and smart as he and his sycophants think he is, and now everybody is onto him. So the argument goes. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_president_has_no_clothes_B64lVEr3QTTgN2TaHRMlfN