During Monday night’s debate, nearly 60 million of us got a good look at why Barack Obama has not been able to accomplish anything in four years.
It’s his patronizing, me-me personality.
Did you see how condescending he was toward Mitt Romney, not to mention downright rude at times?
Obama’s more-presidential-than-thou attitude, which he did little to hide or dial back at the debate, should have reminded us of what happened in the first two weeks of his administration.
Remember when he met with congressional leaders and said he wanted to come up with a bipartisan solution for the country’s economic mess?
It began with a spirit of compromise and mutual respect. But at one point, when Obama became displeased at the Republicans’ ideas for a recovery plan, he turned to House Minority Whip Eric Cantor and arrogantly said, “Elections have consequences and Eric, I won.”
The president spoke condescendingly to Cantor, and guess what? Nothing got accomplished in Washington. For nearly four years.
But Obama’s arrogant, condescending attitude to those mere mortals who are not rock-star politicians (or “eye-candy” for the women who watch “The View”) didn’t start with his presidency. It’s how he acted when he was a community organizer, and it’s how he’s acted at every stage of his political life since then.
He doesn’t look at people and speak with people. He speaks down to people. And when you do that, you rarely succeed in getting anything done in politics or anywhere else.
Even Obama’s friends in Congress won’t cooperate with him. They’re tired of being talked down to, too. Democrats have not given him one positive vote for any budget he has put forward.
Compare Barack Obama to Mitt Romney’s way of working with people. Mitt’s been successful at everything he’s tried. It’s because he speaks with people. He embraces people. He works with people. He doesn’t patronize or speak down to them.
Ronald Reagan, in order to get all the things done in Washington that he did, also knew how to treat people. He embraced people — both his friends and his enemies. He never talked down to anyone in his life.
My father also knew something about sharing credit that our Me-Me President clearly doesn’t understand.
My father had a plaque on his desk that read, “There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.”
Ronald Reagan knew that when you’re in Washington, everyone wants to take credit for anything and everything that gets done. Not being willing to share the credit is another reason you won’t be able to accomplish anything.
But this president has a real problem with giving credit. If he had a plaque on his desk, it’d read, “The credit begins and stops here — with me.”
Did you hear how many times the president said “I” or “me” during the last debate? Did anyone hear a single “we”?
I don’t know if anyone counted on Monday; but during a 25-minute stump speech in Ohio in July, Obama said the “I” word 98 times and the “me” word 19 times. (A few weeks later, first lady Michelle’s total was 83 times in 25 minutes, so maybe it runs in the family.)
As long as the president is going to use the words “I” and “me,” “we” are never going to accomplish anything in Washington if he’s in charge.
All I can say, America, is that “I” can’t vote Obama out of office on Nov. 6. But “we” sure can.
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His “me-me” and “I” personality shows up in his 20-page pamphlet on his 2nd term plans. It reads like the first term, and misses all the times he spends money.
With a Republican House he can count on “no money” and a “frozen debt limit” like in the past 2 years since 2010 when Republicans took over. However in 2012, he’s been stepping outside Congress and the Constitution and just spending like a Wild Turkey awaiting a shotgun shell and oven.
Since when does a President sidestep the Constitution on Rules of Naturalization that are specifically the responsibility of Congress in Article I, Section 8..?
Not only did he violate the Constitution, he called it his “Dream Act” and levied a Tax to submit an Application. All taxes must originate in the House.
If a Dark Day occurs, it will be his Reelection. That will lead to one criminal act after another sidestepping and ignoring the U.S. Constitution.
His High Crime is not releasing a valid certified and verifiable Certificate of Live Birth in Hawaii or anywhere. The U.S. Constitution in Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 specifically sets eligibility of a President to be a “natural born citizen” of the USA.
Obama is not a “natural born citizen” of any country.
Obama, Sr. was a British subject in the British Protectorate of Kenya when Obama II was born to this bigamist. That matters not the father was a liar and fraud himself. What matters is Obama is not eligible to hold the Office of President, and never was. It does not justify allowing him to be sworn in a 2nd time. He should be prosecuted for Fraud and Treason. If we wait until Mitt Romney is sworn in as President, it should be an issue for his US Attorney General alone first, then consultations with Congress and the US Supreme Court.
A charge of Treason invokes the Death Penalty.
Clearly Donald Trump knows something is wrong here, and offers $5 Million to a charity of Obama’s choice if Obama will release his real Certificate of Birth and all those records that were sealed at a cost of $3 Million or more.
So, what has happened to our very valuable impeachment option? O needs to go….and not gracefully.
Michael Reagan is right. “We” can defeat Obama. We need to unite and defeat Obama on Nov. 6, 2012. If we don’t unite we will lose. “United we stand, divided we fall.”
Yes, I pray that o will be voted out on Nov.6…and I pray that the elections will be conducted honestly…I would not put anything past o and his minions to make sure he goes back in…In any case we’ll know soon enough if our future the next 4 years will be as bad and WORSE than the last 4 have been for this country! Yes christian I agree..We must stand united and get this so-called ‘LEADER’ out of the WH!
Nicely stated Michael. I’ve been saying very similar things for the past almost four years. He’s a narcissist and likely has some type of personality disorder. He would never had been elected had he not been black. Hopefully he will not be elected to second term because of anything.
Rasmussen is indicating the electoral college will keep this mutant in office despite Romney getting the popular vote. Our country cannot survive four more illegal years of selling us off to our enemies.