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Why Did ‘Hope and Change’ Fail?

Posted on | February 3, 2010 | 14 Comments

JSF of Valley of the Shadow explains how Barack Obama’s political experience left him unprepared to cope with conservative opposition:

When you study President Obama’s background, he never had to deal with Conservatives or Republicans. . . In Illinois, he never had any hard fought campaigns in his general election. And come 2008, it was going to be a Democratic party year so the only real opposition he had was from Hillary! . . .
President Obama has a Huffington Post understanding of the Right, or the Right as seen from the Left. Not once has he ever spoken to a Conservative to understand his or her views. I say President Obama should invite Rush Limbaugh to the White House for a week to learn about Republicans and Conservatives. . . .

Read the whole thing.

Category: Barack Obama, Valley of the Shadow

Comments

14 Responses to “Why Did ‘Hope and Change’ Fail?”

  1. Red
    February 3rd, 2010 @ 10:38 pm

    Invite Rush to the WH? Yeah that’ll happen. Obama and wife were too busy laughing along with Wanda Sykes over the many ways Rush should die (Long may he live!).

  2. Red
    February 3rd, 2010 @ 5:38 pm

    Invite Rush to the WH? Yeah that’ll happen. Obama and wife were too busy laughing along with Wanda Sykes over the many ways Rush should die (Long may he live!).

  3. Mark Harvey
    February 3rd, 2010 @ 11:57 pm

    Why Did ‘Hope and Change’ Fail?

    Because Obama is an idiot. Libtards are idiots. Terrorists are idiots and they all speak the same language: Dumb, dumber and dumbest.

    http://bit.ly/9WaMNm

  4. Mark Harvey
    February 3rd, 2010 @ 6:57 pm

    Why Did ‘Hope and Change’ Fail?

    Because Obama is an idiot. Libtards are idiots. Terrorists are idiots and they all speak the same language: Dumb, dumber and dumbest.

    http://bit.ly/9WaMNm

  5. AC Chickadee
    February 4th, 2010 @ 12:42 am

    Obama has an agenda, and it has nothing to do with Republicans or Conservatives. He knows what they think. He disagrees with them wholeheartedly. He’s a socialist. People who voted for him knowing his background are fools.

  6. AC Chickadee
    February 3rd, 2010 @ 7:42 pm

    Obama has an agenda, and it has nothing to do with Republicans or Conservatives. He knows what they think. He disagrees with them wholeheartedly. He’s a socialist. People who voted for him knowing his background are fools.

  7. SDN
    February 4th, 2010 @ 1:50 am

    Sorry, guys, but O! is the textbook poster boy for Affirmative Action: every position he’s ever held has been no competition, no standards. Now he can’t escape it and can’t deal with it.

  8. SDN
    February 3rd, 2010 @ 8:50 pm

    Sorry, guys, but O! is the textbook poster boy for Affirmative Action: every position he’s ever held has been no competition, no standards. Now he can’t escape it and can’t deal with it.

  9. Live Free Or Die
    February 4th, 2010 @ 2:49 pm

    Besides being schooled as a Revolutionary of the Left, O-bah-muhh is not willing to put in the time, and hard work, and skin, that even a Leftist Revolution takes. Ted Kennedy was in it for life, literally. O-bah-muhh is a spoiled brat that wants what he wants, NOW!He’s definitely schooled in Dr. King’s ‘urgency of the now’.
    Barack the Magic Negro he ain’t.

  10. Live Free Or Die
    February 4th, 2010 @ 9:49 am

    Besides being schooled as a Revolutionary of the Left, O-bah-muhh is not willing to put in the time, and hard work, and skin, that even a Leftist Revolution takes. Ted Kennedy was in it for life, literally. O-bah-muhh is a spoiled brat that wants what he wants, NOW!He’s definitely schooled in Dr. King’s ‘urgency of the now’.
    Barack the Magic Negro he ain’t.

  11. Roxeanne de Luca
    February 4th, 2010 @ 7:16 pm

    Very well put. Obama’s blindness to the Right is about more than Chicago, however; it’s about his entire history.

    Start with Hawaii (usually about 60-70% Democrat) and his overseas travels to countries that hate the American right.

    Continue with Occidental College in California.

    Move on to Columbia University in New York.

    Continue onto being a “community organiser” in Chicago (whatever the heck that is… three years after this joker came onto the scene, no one has explained what a “community organiser” does).

    Move on to Harvard and Cambridge. Just for numbers, Cambridge went over 75% for Coakley in the election a few weeks ago.

    At least Bill Clinton spent time in Arkansas. Reagan was a Democrat in his youth. Not surprising that those two men were effective leaders of this country – a country that does not cease to have an opposition at the termination of a Presidential election.

  12. Roxeanne de Luca
    February 4th, 2010 @ 2:16 pm

    Very well put. Obama’s blindness to the Right is about more than Chicago, however; it’s about his entire history.

    Start with Hawaii (usually about 60-70% Democrat) and his overseas travels to countries that hate the American right.

    Continue with Occidental College in California.

    Move on to Columbia University in New York.

    Continue onto being a “community organiser” in Chicago (whatever the heck that is… three years after this joker came onto the scene, no one has explained what a “community organiser” does).

    Move on to Harvard and Cambridge. Just for numbers, Cambridge went over 75% for Coakley in the election a few weeks ago.

    At least Bill Clinton spent time in Arkansas. Reagan was a Democrat in his youth. Not surprising that those two men were effective leaders of this country – a country that does not cease to have an opposition at the termination of a Presidential election.

  13. Jim
    March 4th, 2010 @ 3:42 am

    How come we always try to better ourselves through our writings, but people just don’t get it?

  14. Jim
    March 3rd, 2010 @ 10:42 pm

    How come we always try to better ourselves through our writings, but people just don’t get it?