During the presidential primaries and campaign, we were always amazed at how some voters reacted to candidate BO.
It was not logical.
It made no sense.
It was like watching 14 year old girls reacting to Paul McCartney and The Beatles singing "All my loving" back in the heights of Beatlemania.
What were these people expecting from BO anyway?
How could they expect so much from a man who had never run anything? never a mayor? never a governor? never an executive? never managed an agency or department?
How can you see so much in a man who had never done anything, except write two books about himself?
We remember reading this word of caution during the campaign: Obama and the Politics of Crowds By FOUAD AJAMI
"The morning after the election, the disappointment will begin to settle upon the Obama crowd.
Defeat -- by now unthinkable to the devotees -- will bring heartbreak.
Victory will steadily deliver the sobering verdict that our troubles won't be solved by a leader's magic."
We recall reading Jack Tapper's March 2008 story about Dems concerned with the Obama pesonality cult:
"Obama supporter Kathleen Geier writes that she's "getting increasingly weirded out by some of Obama's supporters.....
Joe Klein, writing at Time, notes "something just a wee bit creepy about the mass messianism" he sees in Obama's Super Tuesday speech.....
The always interesting James Wolcott writes that "(p)erhaps it's my atheism at work but I found myself increasingly wary of and resistant to the salvational fervor of the Obama campaign, the idealistic zeal divorced from any particular policy or cause and chariot-driven by pure euphoria.....
The Holy Season of Lent is upon us.
Can Obama worshippers try to give up their Helter-Skelter cult-ish qualities for a few weeks?"
Where are we? Where are we 6 months into Obama-mania?
According to last week's polls, Pres BO is sinking and sinking very fast!
Let's check a few opinions from overseas.
The Economist added something today: The Obama cult
"All presidential candidates promise more than they can possibly deliver.
This sets them up for failure.
But because the Obama cult has stoked expectations among its devotees to such unprecedented heights, he is especially likely to disappoint.
Mr Healy predicts that he will end up as a failed president, and “possibly the least popular of the modern era”."
Let's check Niles Gardiner. He was one of those few voices overseas who never bought into Obamamania. He wrote this today:
"As recent Gallup surveys have shown, the United States remains a largely conservative nation, and Obama’s brand of high spending, high taxing neo-socialism is increasingly rejected by the American public.
While much of Europe, including Britain, is moving rightwards, America is the only major country in the Western world whose leadership is dramatically moving to the left.
Although he ran for the presidency largely as a centrist, Obama’s government is without doubt the most left-wing administration in American history."
"BARACK Obama is discovering the downside to being portrayed as a miracle worker.......
But the bubble had to burst some time and Obama must wish it hadn't been so soon as he is yet to tackle the big policy challenges of his first term.
Opinion polls have started to slide as American voters wonder whether their saviour after George W.Bush is all he was cracked up to be."
We did warn the "yes we can screamers" that their guy was only human and could not do miracles.
It's going to be a very lonely and frustrating term for Pres BO, specially when Fed Chairman Bearnake has to find $2 trillion to close our federal budget deficit on October 1st!
He is slowly coming to terms with the reality that he can't do much. Even the teleprompter collapsed the other day! Let's see:
1) He can't close GITMO because the Dems don't want the inmates over here. It will be Bush III on GTIMO;
2) He implemented the Bush policy in Iraq. It will be Bush III over in Iraq;
3) He can't persuade anybody to send troops to Afghanistan.
At the same time, he is going to have to increase our presence in Afghanistan.
Get ready for a huge Dem fight over Afghanistan. The anti-war wing will soon start calling for a withdrawal from Afghanistan;
4) North Korea is firing a missile a day. I guess that no one heard about "hope and change" over there;
5) Iran is killing its people and blaming the US;
6) The Dems are in total disarray now that they have to govern rather than just blame everything on Bush! (Awesomely awesome: War breaking out among Democrats over ObamaCare); and,
7) Israel is growing weary about a president who is more vocal about a Boston policeman than the Iranian leaders planning a nuclear program.
It wasn't supposed to be this way!
I guess that this what happens when you want change for the sake of change!
Didn't someone say "read the label" before taking the pill?
P.S. We expect Jose (pronounced like Josey) to sing songs like "I will follow him".
We like "teen love songs". We all sang them! I love these "madly in love with you" songs. They are a big part of the pop repertoire.
We did not expect grown ups to jump recklessly on the "I will follow BO" bandwagon:
"I love him I love him
I love him, I love him, I love him
And where he goes I'll follow, I'll follow, I'll follow
He'll always be my true love, my true love, my true love
From now until forever, forever, forever...."
