The light bulb just flipped on. When speaking with longtime friend (and editor at Thoughtfulwomen.org) Judy Lloyd of California, she said something that for Floyd was an “a-ha” moment. The topic was Barack Obama’s failure to work with Congress. Here is what she said: “I don’t think he can hear the arguments of opponents. He doesn’t understand their views or their thinking. He isn’t wired like that.”
Barack Obama came to office promising a new kind of politics. He promised to solve problems and work with opponents. He was going to bring hope for a new day. Instead, Obama only heightens tension, unmercifully attacks and demonizes his opponents, and throws temper fits when not getting his own way.
This trait is typified by the current tactics Obama is employing in his campaign. Politico called it throwing “the kitchen sink.” Any attack against Mitt Romney is ok. Just throw mud, throw more mud, and hope nobody turns and asks about your own record.
Listen to these quotes from chief campaign attack dog Joe Biden on June 26th in Waterloo, Iowa:
Here’s the bottom line: Bain and their companies made a lot of money facilitating the outsourcing and offshoring of American jobs…Yeah, they made a lot of money, but in the process, they devastated American communities…So give Mitt Romney credit: He is a job creator. In Singapore. And China. And India.
The uninformed might buy these dishonest lines, but critics in the media, business, and even some Democrats have called Obama’s attacks unfair. For starters, Mitt Romney was named CEO of Bain Capital in 1991 when the firm was in big trouble. He took a symbolic one dollar salary his first year. He turned Bain around as he has turned countless other enterprises around. He left in 1999 to take over the scandal-marred Utah 2002 Winter Olympics.
The years he worked for Bain were great years for America, nothing like the devastation and lack of job creation we have seen during the Obama recession. We all yearn for a return to the good times of the 1990’s.
But the attacks don’t stop there. Biden continues his rant:
As governor, his administration signed a $160,000 a month contract that paid people abroad to help poor people in Massachusetts get food stamps. And when the Massachusetts Legislature passed a bill saying you couldn’t outsource state contracts overseas … he vetoed it.
This attack is just lunacy because everyone knows that the Democrats could overturn any veto made by Mitt Romney, if they voted together. The Democrats have had a lock on the Massachusetts state legislature for decades. When Romney was governor, he never had a moment when he could successfully veto any Democrat legislation. From 2002-2004, the Massachusetts House was 82.5% Democrat, and the Massachusetts Senate was 85.6% Democrat. From 2004-2006, the Massachusetts House was 85% Democrat, and the Massachusetts Senate was 86.8% Democrat.
Obama has demonstrated great difficulty working with the opposing party. In contrast, Romney, because he was governor of such a Democratic stronghold as Massachusetts, demonstrated an ability to work successfully with his opponents to get things done. This is a trait Obama lacks and hasn’t demonstrated but only trumpeted in a successful 2008 campaign against Hillary Clinton, and then John McCain.
Finally, the absurdities of the Obama attacks are visible in these Biden words during the same speech:
His whole career, Mitt Romney has looked at the American worker as part of the problem…The president and I see you — the American worker — as part of the solution. So to all those skeptics — and to our Republican opponents especially: Don’t tell me that America can’t make things anymore…can’t compete on the world market again…can’t lead the world again.
It was Barack Obama who told us just weeks ago, “The private sector is doing fine. Where we’re seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government.” We have never known employees of state and local government to “make things.” Since day one, if you look at the emphasis of the Obama administration, the goal has been to increase the size and scope of government.
From our vantage point, surveying reality, we believe that if you want a president who is concerned with the private sector and jobs for people who “make things” (or create wealth), a president who can work with opponents, and finally a president who won’t blame everyone else for his problems, you will be more satisfied with anyone but Barack Obama.
Photo credit: Rich Terrell and Lucy Gill (terrellaftermath.com)
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Barack Obama can’t work with sane, honest, clean, decent human beings. He can’t run a clean, honest election, either. He STOLE the 2008 elections and he’s working to steal the 2012 elections. He and his ‘demon-friends out of hell,’ the DemonRats, are subversives, great destroyers of the Ameican dream/American way. Of course he can’t work with others. He’s too self-centered and puffed up with too much false pride. Before every FALL comes PRIDE!! See website: http://www.haasstrep68.com
Floyd,
I woke this morning with the fear that we have our first Dictator to grace the Oval Office, with a Congress that is paralyzed and cannot bring itself to challenge Obama on anything and it spells doom to the Republic. All the Republicans do is preen and make pretty speeches, however a “Bill of Impeachment” would speak volumes that our Republic is still viable and is capable of speaking for the ‘Will of the People” and that the Rule of Law is still alive. It will be up to the people, with the consent of the governed to right our Ship of State, let us hope it is not by force, as our Congress and the Courts allows Obama to literally get away with Murder.
Tell; me what the democrats are doing? Absolutely nothing. No reason for the House to pass bills if Reid is only going to table them and the democratic controlled senate sits and does nothing. due to Reid’s immature and childish behavior.
It NEVER ceases to amaze me that anyone should wonder if Obama can work across party lines, or perhaps shift toward the center of politics to gain approval, or anything equally as absurd. His concept of “leadership” as well as compromise is “do it my way or I will destroy you”. He was born a Communist, raised a Communist, schooled a Communist, trained as a Communist, financed through school as a Communist – what do you expect him to be. He’s a Communist and that’s ALL he can be. He knows NOTHING else. He sees himself as a well loved tyrant. At least he has the last part right. Incidentally “do it my way or I will destroy you” is a tactic / practice which was virtually invented and certainly followed by Karl Marx. He had no compunctions whatsoever about “destroying” close followers if they dared to disagree with him politically.
Folks we have been horribly DUPED ! Anyone give any thought to why he sneakily gave himself the “right” to declare MARTIAL LAW ? His followers, those who can read and write, seem to think that Socialism is the panacea ! If it was – I wonder why we have so many impoverished countries with unsmiling starving people ?
Isiah1:17 “Learn to do Good, Seek Justice, Rebuke the Oppressor; Defend the fatherless and Plead for the Widow”. America needs to be purged of these misfits in charge.
I think Bain capital speaks for itself. Just ask Staples and Sports Authority or whichever sports company it was. Of course there were some failures. They also failed to mention that some of the companies stayed open years longer than they would have. At least with Bain, when they found out they were not getting anywhere with what they were trying to do, they bailed. More than I can say for O. He has stayed on the same course his whole presidency and where exactly has that gotten us. About his saving the car companies, well they might have turned around on their own, just like Ford did, which did not take any bailout money. A private investment company is out to make money for their stockholders, whereas O has taken our tax dollars and done it. They keep bringing up Solyndra, but what about all those other companies that the liberal media won’t talk about. And now I hear he is sending money overseas in Africa, I think, to help with their green energy work. What I want to know is why are we so concerned about green energy if we are all broke and possibly starving. I would rather have some poor air quality than no money. And if something is ever conceived to make something that really works, it will be some private company doing it, not the government. They have already proven that they can’t manage anything. Look at how much we have improved the environment but still seem to have a lot of people with breathing problems.
“O” is a disciple of the Alinsky’s brand of social warfare where the END JUSTIFIES any means, winning at any COST is all that matters. Alinsky also said that organizers must be entirely unpredictable and unmistakably WILLING to watch society descend into utter CHAOS and ANARCHY.
“Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
Go to David Horowitz site below for details on Alinsky and check the Cloward Piven plan to OVERWHELM the U.S. Economy to create systemic FAILURE economic CRISIS and social CHAOS thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2314
The fact remains that there are many Americans who want socialism instead of capitalism. Granted, they aren’t the brightest bunch but they do scream and yell a lot (thus getting a lot of media air time).
so part of the solution is to remove the king from his throne
Politicians seek power. Many have no conscience. Lie easily and often.
Sociopaths seek power. Have no conscience. Lie consistently, all the time.
A Dictator Mind set does not want to work with or for anyone but themselves……
Communist are like shariah law, they do not work well with others…the idea is to subvert, crowd out and overwhelm the opposition and this Fraud in the WH is a card carrying communist willing to plant his flag in your back yard and then procede to relieve you of all earthly holdings and posessions to sytematically bleed you of any resistance and then feed you to the hogs……..are we now clear on the concept?