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POSTED ON JANUARY 13, 2017 BY JOHN HINDERAKER IN BARACK OBAMA POWERLINE
HOW CAN I MISS YOU, BARRY, WHEN YOU WON’T GO AWAY?
Barack Obama said farewell to our nation in a speech that, as Byron York noted, was really a campaign rally:
[T]his was his last chance to give a rally for himself, the last rally for a president that’s always excelled at campaigning instead of governing.
Or is it his last rally?
It was clear Tuesday night that Obama isn’t ready to leave office. It says a lot that he recently said he would have won if he had run again (questionable). Even his Farewell Address was the longest in presidential history.
Obama said goodbye, but he didn’t mean it. He isn’t going anywhere, if only because he has nowhere to go. He grew up in Hawaii, but that hasn’t been his home since his dope-smoking, Choom Gang days. He passed through Chicago, mostly voting “present.” One of the most telling moments in Obama’s history was when he attended a Chicago White Sox game and gave a between-innings interview. Obama said that he had been a diehard ChiSox fan for many years. The sports writer who was doing the interview foolishly believed him. “So, who are some of your all-time favorite White Sox players?” he asked. Heh. Obama couldn’t name anyone who had ever played for the team.
Obama is a man from nowhere, a citizen of the world. So where will he live, post-presidency? Washington, D.C., of course–his only real home. He isn’t going anywhere.
Scott summed it up brilliantly with his reference to an obscure song by the little-known Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks: How can I miss you when you won’t go away? The line is perfect. Which is why it was stolen by Howie Carr–no offense, Howie, theft is the highest form of flattery, and there is an outside chance that you (unlike me) might have heard of Dan Hicks–and then Matt Drudge, who headlined the Hicks/Johnson question: How can I miss you when you won’t go away?
Is Barack Obama the worst president in the history of the United States? A strong case can be made that the answer is yes, but in any event, he is undoubtedly our most delusional. You have to take your hat off to the man: going eight long years without ever acknowledging reality is no mean feat.
Michael Ramirez sums up Obama’s “farewell” address–would that that were true!–with his usual brilliance:
Unfortunately, in this case the captain isn’t going down with his ship. He will annoy us from his D.C. perch for years to come.
HOW CAN I MISS YOU, BARRY, WHEN YOU WON’T GO AWAY?
Barack Obama said farewell to our nation in a speech that, as Byron York noted, was really a campaign rally:
[T]his was his last chance to give a rally for himself, the last rally for a president that’s always excelled at campaigning instead of governing.
Or is it his last rally?
It was clear Tuesday night that Obama isn’t ready to leave office. It says a lot that he recently said he would have won if he had run again (questionable). Even his Farewell Address was the longest in presidential history.
Obama said goodbye, but he didn’t mean it. He isn’t going anywhere, if only because he has nowhere to go. He grew up in Hawaii, but that hasn’t been his home since his dope-smoking, Choom Gang days. He passed through Chicago, mostly voting “present.” One of the most telling moments in Obama’s history was when he attended a Chicago White Sox game and gave a between-innings interview. Obama said that he had been a diehard ChiSox fan for many years. The sports writer who was doing the interview foolishly believed him. “So, who are some of your all-time favorite White Sox players?” he asked. Heh. Obama couldn’t name anyone who had ever played for the team.
Obama is a man from nowhere, a citizen of the world. So where will he live, post-presidency? Washington, D.C., of course–his only real home. He isn’t going anywhere.
Scott summed it up brilliantly with his reference to an obscure song by the little-known Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks: How can I miss you when you won’t go away? The line is perfect. Which is why it was stolen by Howie Carr–no offense, Howie, theft is the highest form of flattery, and there is an outside chance that you (unlike me) might have heard of Dan Hicks–and then Matt Drudge, who headlined the Hicks/Johnson question: How can I miss you when you won’t go away?
Is Barack Obama the worst president in the history of the United States? A strong case can be made that the answer is yes, but in any event, he is undoubtedly our most delusional. You have to take your hat off to the man: going eight long years without ever acknowledging reality is no mean feat.
Michael Ramirez sums up Obama’s “farewell” address–would that that were true!–with his usual brilliance:
Unfortunately, in this case the captain isn’t going down with his ship. He will annoy us from his D.C. perch for years to come.
JANUARY 12, 2017 BY SCOTT JOHNSON at POWERLINE
OBAMA LOOKS BACK (2)
Barack Obama believes in the audacity of hype, especially when it comes to himself. He wrote his memoir when he was in his early 30’s. Despite the droning orthodoxy of his every thought and utterance, he possesses infinite belief in his capacities.
Around the time of the 2008 election a friend quoted Obama providing this self-evaluation: “I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.” He would have been well served by a wider circle of friends, including one to teach him how to pretend to a modicum of modesty.
Obama’s enormous vanity comes packaged with vast ignorance. He has not hesitated to put his glaring ignorance of basic history on display before the public. I wrote about this at length in May 2009 following his first press conference in the long post “Obama veers into the Daily Ditch.” read more
OBAMA LOOKS BACK (2)
Barack Obama believes in the audacity of hype, especially when it comes to himself. He wrote his memoir when he was in his early 30’s. Despite the droning orthodoxy of his every thought and utterance, he possesses infinite belief in his capacities.
Around the time of the 2008 election a friend quoted Obama providing this self-evaluation: “I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.” He would have been well served by a wider circle of friends, including one to teach him how to pretend to a modicum of modesty.
Obama’s enormous vanity comes packaged with vast ignorance. He has not hesitated to put his glaring ignorance of basic history on display before the public. I wrote about this at length in May 2009 following his first press conference in the long post “Obama veers into the Daily Ditch.” read more
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Obama delivers the most boring speech of his presidency
By John Podhoretz January 13, 2016 | 3:39am NEW YORK POST
Look, if Barack Obama didn’t consider Barack Obama’s presidency a success, who would? Of course his last State of the Union was filled with happy talk about the current condition of the United States and its limitless future. He has a year left to convince America and his posterity that his tenure has not been a failure.
He’s got his work cut out for him. According to Gallup, a mere 23 percent of the American people are satisfied with the direction of the United States. But since it’s unlikely the president is going to get any part of his domestic agenda through Congress — and since he really doesn’t want to do much of anything abroad — he might as well take a shot at it.
But not that shot.
In what was arguably the most boring major speech of his presidency, Obama didn’t even attempt to make a consistent argument or prove the case he was making for his presidency and the glorious moment to which he has brought this country. read more
By John Podhoretz January 13, 2016 | 3:39am NEW YORK POST
Look, if Barack Obama didn’t consider Barack Obama’s presidency a success, who would? Of course his last State of the Union was filled with happy talk about the current condition of the United States and its limitless future. He has a year left to convince America and his posterity that his tenure has not been a failure.
He’s got his work cut out for him. According to Gallup, a mere 23 percent of the American people are satisfied with the direction of the United States. But since it’s unlikely the president is going to get any part of his domestic agenda through Congress — and since he really doesn’t want to do much of anything abroad — he might as well take a shot at it.
But not that shot.
In what was arguably the most boring major speech of his presidency, Obama didn’t even attempt to make a consistent argument or prove the case he was making for his presidency and the glorious moment to which he has brought this country. read more