Sunday, June 13, 2010

Obama should step down

I don't mean right this minute; that would put Slow Joe in the driver's seat. But it is now indisputably in the best interest of this country that Democrats should seek another standard bearer for 2012. So, Democrats, if there is even the last shred of common sense, patriotism and - to put it in terms that you can appreciate - the will to rescue your own careers remaining somewhere in the depths of your partisan hearts, I urge you to summon up your better selves and refuse to renominate Barack Obama at your next national convention. The man is a walking, talking natural disaster, a narcissistic incompetent who views the presidency as just another rung on the ladder of his political career, instead of the most important job in the world; a job, furthermore, that requires of even the most brilliant and popular of leaders a strong sense of humility - which is one quality (among many) that is notoriously lacking in the current occupant of the White House.

Begin the process of repudiation now. Let him know that he has been weighed and found wanting. If he will not step down in 2012, take him down by the power of your ballots in the primaries, caucuses and the convention. Unload this hollow man before he destroys the country and you along with it.

8 comments:

smitty1e said...

Your addiction to rational thought is telling.

Paco said...

Never let it be said that Paco Enterprises didn't warn them!

RebeccaH said...

As much logic in this as even dyed-in-the-wool Democrats can see, it won't happen for the simple reason that they would lose the black and hard-core liberal vote, spelling the end for them. Identity politics is the chicken that came home to roost and is pecking their collective ass now.

Anonymous said...

I second that motion! Obama continues to amaze. Now he proclaims that he's going on the three day tour of the Gulf to get a look first hand and...are you all ready..."enjoy their hospitality". They can be down to their last shrimp and Obama would barge in to get it.

This morning Obama was equating the Gulf with September 11. Words fail my outrage.

Deborah Leigh

cac said...

As a matter of interest Paco, do you literally mean he sees the presidency as a stepping stone or are you indulging in a little hyperbole (either seems a plausible reading)? If literal, what do you think his aspiration might be? It's difficult to think of where hemight go next - Pope, UN Secretary General, head of the IOCI or FIFA? It's always seemed to me to a particular problem with combining head of state with head of government in that there is nowhere to go but down so it's quite difficult to find a useful slot whereas former PMs can more easily adjust. JHo (John Howard) for example is trying to takeover the International Cricket Council.

Paco said...

CAC: It may represent the pinnacle of elective political office, but I imagine it's just a way for him to "keep score", as it were. On the other hand, it may well be more than just an ego trip; he really does seem to be a leftist ideologue, so perhaps he'd like to see his socialist vision enacted for its own sake (though I'm sure he'd want the whole nanny-state edifice to carry a commemorative plaque in his honor).

Michael Lonie said...

"It's always seemed to me to a particular problem with combining head of state with head of government in that there is nowhere to go but down"

John Quincy Adams became a member of the House of Representatives after losing the Presidency after one term. Maybe if we did not consider the President like a monarch nowadays, we might get a better class of candidate than the preening narcissist we have in office now.

Paco said...

Michael: Excellent point.