The Campaign Is Over Mr. President...

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Fantastic column...

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September 29, 2009
The Campaign is Over, Mr. President
By Richard Cohen

Sooner or later it is going to occur to Barack Obama that he is the president of the United States. As of yet, though, he does not act that way, appearing promiscuously on television and granting interviews like the presidential candidate he no longer is. The election has been held, but the campaign goes on and on. The candidate has yet to become commander in chief.

Take last week's G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh. There, the candidate-in-full commandeered the television networks and the leaders of Britain and France to give the Iranians a dramatic warning. Yet another of their secret nuclear facilities had been revealed and Obama, as anyone could see, was determined to do something about it -- just don't ask what.

For a crisis such as this, the immense prestige of the American presidency ought to be held in reserve. Let the secretary of state issue grave warnings. When Obama said in Pittsburgh that Iran is "going to have to come clean and they are going to have to make a choice," it had the sound of an ultimatum. But what if the Iranians don't? What then? A president has to be careful with such language. He better mean what he says.

The trouble with Obama is that he gets into the moment and means what he says for that moment only. He meant what he said when he called Afghanistan a "war of necessity" -- and now is not necessarily so sure. He meant what he said about the public option in his health care plan -- and then again maybe not. He would not prosecute CIA agents for getting rough with detainees -- and then again maybe he would.

Most tellingly, he gave Congress an August deadline for passage of health care legislation -- "Now, if there are no deadlines, nothing gets done in this town ..." -- and then let it pass. It seemed not to occur to Obama that a deadline comes with a consequence -- meet it or else.

Obama lost credibility with his deadline-that-never-was and now he threatens to lose some more with his posturing toward Iran. He has gotten into a demeaning dialogue with Ahmadinejad, an accomplished liar. (The next day, the Iranian used a news conference to counter Obama and, days later, Iran tested some intermediate-range missiles.) Obama is our version of a Supreme Leader, not given to making idle threats, setting idle deadlines, reversing course on momentous issues, creating a TV crisis where none existed or, unbelievably, pitching Chicago for the 2016 Olympics. Obama's the president. Time he understood that.


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People miss what Obama is doing, the campaign is not over, only one step in the campaign, becoming president.

Obama's campaign is to completely "CHANGE" the USA. You know how many steps this will take, many, many.

Look how Obama is telling the world we are the problem in the world, everything is wrong with the USA according to Obama and first and foremost is Capitalism. What is the alternative to Capitalism in Obama's mind?

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The opinion piece highlights the #1 problem with Barry, he campaigns, not leads.

Its always 'did I look good' or 'was that a good speech' and little or no thought into actions.

He is a frivilous man who treats his office casually, jetting off to Europe on a whim or to NY for a show, and the peasants who elected him, why, they can eat cake (if they can afford it with no jobs and little hope for them.)
 
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People miss what Obama is doing, the campaign is not over, only one step in the campaign, becoming president.

Obama's campaign is to completely "CHANGE" the USA. You know how many steps this will take, many, many.

Look how Obama is telling the world we are the problem in the world, everything is wrong with the USA according to Obama and first and foremost is Capitalism. What is the alternative to Capitalism in Obama's mind?

Bill%20Ayers%20Home.jpg


obama-ayers-review.jpg

Obama has eight years. Just look at how bad Dubya and DICK screwed up in eight years. Obama can change a lot of those mistakes in eight years just as easily.
 
Apparently Richard Cohen thinks that Obama should be not seen and not heard. Richard Cohen is America's worst writer.
 
Not to mention that he is already campaigning for 2012. He can't accomplish his takeover in 4 years.
His 2012 campaign will probaly be about how Chimp left the country in a lurch, and he will not even discuss how he made things worse.

Ol Barry ain't done milking the blamebush cow just yet.
 
Not to mention that he is already campaigning for 2012. He can't accomplish his takeover in 4 years.
His 2012 campaign will probaly be about how Chimp left the country in a lurch, and he will not even discuss how he made things worse.

Ol Barry ain't done milking the blamebush cow just yet.

Dubya and DICK left so much to clean up.....can you blame him?
 
People miss what Obama is doing, the campaign is not over, only one step in the campaign, becoming president.

Obama's campaign is to completely "CHANGE" the USA. You know how many steps this will take, many, many.

Look how Obama is telling the world we are the problem in the world, everything is wrong with the USA according to Obama and first and foremost is Capitalism. What is the alternative to Capitalism in Obama's mind?

Bill%20Ayers%20Home.jpg


obama-ayers-review.jpg

Obama has eight years. Just look at how bad Dubya and DICK screwed up in eight years. Obama can change a lot of those mistakes in eight years just as easily.

Sorry Yank...nobody HAS eight years. You have to earn it. You can throw that bullshit about Bush stealing the election in the trash. Because if the people of this nation didn't want Bush for a second term, it wouldn't have been close enough to be a question. And if you do claim it was stolen, then there will be a firestorm of people claiming ACORN did the same for BO. Personally, I think BO would have won without ACORN, but I could be wrong.

The thing is, ACORN won't be around in 2012. At least not like they are now.

And finally, Dubya and DICK, as you so lovingly call them, had a democratic congress to help them screw things up, so you can trash that arguement too.
 
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People miss what Obama is doing, the campaign is not over, only one step in the campaign, becoming president.

Obama's campaign is to completely "CHANGE" the USA. You know how many steps this will take, many, many.

Look how Obama is telling the world we are the problem in the world, everything is wrong with the USA according to Obama and first and foremost is Capitalism. What is the alternative to Capitalism in Obama's mind?

Bill%20Ayers%20Home.jpg


obama-ayers-review.jpg

Obama has eight years. Just look at how bad Dubya and DICK screwed up in eight years. Obama can change a lot of those mistakes in eight years just as easily.

He can (change some real and perceived mistakes), if he would only take leadership and, yes, stop campaigning. Let his cabinet members do their jobs instead of micro managing and start doing everything in his power to keep his office above the fray. But so far I haven't seen him do it, completely. Personally I think it's his lack of experience and (IMHO) piss poor management style, he has to much on his plate that he is trying to personally handle, so it's time to reassess, take on that which is truly most important and delegate the rest.
 
The opinion piece highlights the #1 problem with Barry, he campaigns, not leads.

Its always 'did I look good' or 'was that a good speech' and little or no thought into actions.

He is a frivilous man who treats his office casually, jetting off to Europe on a whim or to NY for a show, and the peasants who elected him, why, they can eat cake (if they can afford it with no jobs and little hope for them.)
"What you see in FDR that I hope my team can emulate is, not always getting it right, but projecting a sense of confidence." -- Barack Obama.

Projecting a sense of confidence.... That's what all con men do. But notice how that's more important than getting it right?
 
Not to mention that he is already campaigning for 2012. He can't accomplish his takeover in 4 years.

Not to mention Obama and the democrats have structered 90% of all stimulus money to be dumped into the economy right before the 2010 elections. Literally a 1,000,000,000,000 democrat election campiagn stimulus


Yes indeed...
 
I am enjoying all the whinning from the right.

Meanwhile Obama is doing all the correct things.

Keep it up boys. You have eight years to go.
 
I am enjoying all the whinning from the right.

Meanwhile Obama is doing all the correct things.

Keep it up boys. You have eight years to go.
That's what they kept saying about Carter too.

But, you were in diapers for the right reason then. Now you should be old enough to be out of them but you're not.
 
Fantastic column...

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September 29, 2009
The Campaign is Over, Mr. President
By Richard Cohen

Sooner or later it is going to occur to Barack Obama that he is the president of the United States. As of yet, though, he does not act that way, appearing promiscuously on television and granting interviews like the presidential candidate he no longer is. The election has been held, but the campaign goes on and on. The candidate has yet to become commander in chief.

Take last week's G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh. There, the candidate-in-full commandeered the television networks and the leaders of Britain and France to give the Iranians a dramatic warning. Yet another of their secret nuclear facilities had been revealed and Obama, as anyone could see, was determined to do something about it -- just don't ask what.

For a crisis such as this, the immense prestige of the American presidency ought to be held in reserve. Let the secretary of state issue grave warnings. When Obama said in Pittsburgh that Iran is "going to have to come clean and they are going to have to make a choice," it had the sound of an ultimatum. But what if the Iranians don't? What then? A president has to be careful with such language. He better mean what he says.

The trouble with Obama is that he gets into the moment and means what he says for that moment only. He meant what he said when he called Afghanistan a "war of necessity" -- and now is not necessarily so sure. He meant what he said about the public option in his health care plan -- and then again maybe not. He would not prosecute CIA agents for getting rough with detainees -- and then again maybe he would.

Most tellingly, he gave Congress an August deadline for passage of health care legislation -- "Now, if there are no deadlines, nothing gets done in this town ..." -- and then let it pass. It seemed not to occur to Obama that a deadline comes with a consequence -- meet it or else.

Obama lost credibility with his deadline-that-never-was and now he threatens to lose some more with his posturing toward Iran. He has gotten into a demeaning dialogue with Ahmadinejad, an accomplished liar. (The next day, the Iranian used a news conference to counter Obama and, days later, Iran tested some intermediate-range missiles.) Obama is our version of a Supreme Leader, not given to making idle threats, setting idle deadlines, reversing course on momentous issues, creating a TV crisis where none existed or, unbelievably, pitching Chicago for the 2016 Olympics. Obama's the president. Time he understood that.


RealClearPolitics - The Campaign is Over, Mr. President

Great article and soooooooo true, he is no leader and never should have been given the job of commander in chief. He is all talk and NO action. Our enemies now know that and they are playing him for the fool. He is arrogant, egotistical and dangerously naive. Now off to copenhagen with Oprah and the gang from Chicago, ignoring the double digit unemployment rate, not talking to the general on the ground in Afghanistan, going to have a sit down with a maniac who denies the halocaust and a regieme that refuses to even discuss getting rid of their nuclear programs.
Does this remind you of anyone??? Remember Jimmy Carter- the scary thing here is that we live in a much more dangerous world than we did when Jimmy was in. We survived Jimmy I am not so confident about this one.:cuckoo:
 
I don't how you judge the the president bilan after 7 months in WH, what's about Guatanamo and other promises?

it seems work slowly :cool:
 
Fantastic column...

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September 29, 2009
The Campaign is Over, Mr. President
By Richard Cohen

Sooner or later it is going to occur to Barack Obama that he is the president of the United States. As of yet, though, he does not act that way, appearing promiscuously on television and granting interviews like the presidential candidate he no longer is. The election has been held, but the campaign goes on and on. The candidate has yet to become commander in chief.

Take last week's G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh. There, the candidate-in-full commandeered the television networks and the leaders of Britain and France to give the Iranians a dramatic warning. Yet another of their secret nuclear facilities had been revealed and Obama, as anyone could see, was determined to do something about it -- just don't ask what.

For a crisis such as this, the immense prestige of the American presidency ought to be held in reserve. Let the secretary of state issue grave warnings. When Obama said in Pittsburgh that Iran is "going to have to come clean and they are going to have to make a choice," it had the sound of an ultimatum. But what if the Iranians don't? What then? A president has to be careful with such language. He better mean what he says.

The trouble with Obama is that he gets into the moment and means what he says for that moment only. He meant what he said when he called Afghanistan a "war of necessity" -- and now is not necessarily so sure. He meant what he said about the public option in his health care plan -- and then again maybe not. He would not prosecute CIA agents for getting rough with detainees -- and then again maybe he would.

Most tellingly, he gave Congress an August deadline for passage of health care legislation -- "Now, if there are no deadlines, nothing gets done in this town ..." -- and then let it pass. It seemed not to occur to Obama that a deadline comes with a consequence -- meet it or else.

Obama lost credibility with his deadline-that-never-was and now he threatens to lose some more with his posturing toward Iran. He has gotten into a demeaning dialogue with Ahmadinejad, an accomplished liar. (The next day, the Iranian used a news conference to counter Obama and, days later, Iran tested some intermediate-range missiles.) Obama is our version of a Supreme Leader, not given to making idle threats, setting idle deadlines, reversing course on momentous issues, creating a TV crisis where none existed or, unbelievably, pitching Chicago for the 2016 Olympics. Obama's the president. Time he understood that.


RealClearPolitics - The Campaign is Over, Mr. President

Great article and soooooooo true, he is no leader and never should have been given the job of commander in chief. He is all talk and NO action. Our enemies now know that and they are playing him for the fool. He is arrogant, egotistical and dangerously naive. Now off to copenhagen with Oprah and the gang from Chicago, ignoring the double digit unemployment rate, not talking to the general on the ground in Afghanistan, going to have a sit down with a maniac who denies the halocaust and a regieme that refuses to even discuss getting rid of their nuclear programs.
Does this remind you of anyone??? Remember Jimmy Carter- the scary thing here is that we live in a much more dangerous world than we did when Jimmy was in. We survived Jimmy I am not so confident about this one.:cuckoo:

Hey dumbass....Obama wasn't GIVEN anything. Per our Democracy, the people of America ELECTED him. Now please get ytour shit straight, or simply STFU.
 
Vayanck5150, We are a REPUBLIC not a democracy.


This is the problem with so many idiots, they do not even know the basics about what they say. You think someone who does not understand we are a Republic would vote for Obama the marxist and not know Obama is a marxist.
 
Vayanck5150, We are a REPUBLIC not a democracy.


This is the problem with so many idiots, they do not even know the basics about what they say. You think someone who does not understand we are a Republic would vote for Obama the marxist and not know Obama is a marxist.

You dispatched him easily -well done...
 

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