So Called Good Guy, Excellent Orator, a Brilliant Campaigner
Obama has joined the ranks of exposed False Messiahs
Jewish history has identified several such Messiahs
And now it’s time for America to have its Own
But he is not America’s redeemer or Savior
And has yet to be a successful President
February 3, 2010
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Proverbs 14:23 – In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
Great leaders arise from honest labor and it profits the nation: but the unprofitable leaders, who only talk of doing great things through their lips, lead the nation into poverty.
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America’s false messiah
Obama a good guy and excellent orator, but not humanity’s savior
Hagai Segal
January 31, 2010
A year into Barack Obama’s term in office, he has joined a long list of false messiahs.
Jewish history features several such messiahs, and now it’s America’s turn to have one.
Americans are already showing a growing tendency to be ashamed of the praise they lavished at him in January of last year. Obama is a good guy, an excellent orator, and a brilliant campaigner; however, he is not America’s redeemer or humanity’s savior. In fact, he is not even a successful president.
If we ignore for a moment some cosmetic improvements that occurred during his term in office here and there, we can see that the United States at this time is facing an almost identical situation to the one left by President George W. Bush.
The economy is facing a very grim state of affairs, thousands of soldiers are being dispatched to battlefield overseas, America has failed to bring peace to the Middle East, Iran blatantly ignores it, and Osama bin Laden still maintains a recording studio somewhere in the heart of Asia.
In short, all the things that used to be there are still there, and things are possibly even worse.
In a recent television interview, the president candidly spoke about the possibility that he will not be elected to another term in office. Sarah Palin, imagine that, is suddenly emerging as a candidate that could replace him three years from now; and it’s not because of her as much as it is because of him.
In retrospect, it is already clear that what we saw here during the presidential campaign was deceptive. The Bush-hating community created the Obama legend out of nothing. It took a young and articulate senator with zero experience and presented him as a quick fix to all the nation’s problems.
W hen
he took his place at the starting line to the White House race, he could not boast of even one proven leadership achievement, yet nonetheless he was presented to the public as a surefire success story.
America’s citizens fell too easily into the trap laid by his public relations staff.
Americans jumped at the rare opportunity to elect a black president, but forgot that they are facing a few more urgent problems aside from the racial issue.
At this time we need to pray that the price of this adventure will not be too high. We also need to learn the lesson: Presidential elections are not a beauty contest. People who look great and can speak wonderfully well do not necessarily also know how to manage.
Hence, the next time an articulate candidate declares “yes, we can,” we need to find out whether he is talking about his ability to get elected or about his ability to lead a government. The Obama case proves that these two talents are largely unconnected.
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Obama a stranger in a strange land
Swing and miss in N.H.
By Michael Graham
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
http://www.bostonherald. com
Op-Ed
Mr.
President, welcome to Brown country!
No, Nashua isn’t technically in Massachusetts. But since your doppelganger Deval Patrick tried to extend our sales tax across the border – and thousands of Bay Staters buy their sales-tax-free booze there already – we’ve come to think of New Hampshire as a colder, more libertarian extension of our state.
Kind of like Alaska, but without the hot governor.
New Hampshire is full of Scott Brown voters, even though they couldn’t cast a ballot. Three weeks ago, Brown offices were packed with New Hampshire folks who came south to make calls, wave signs and knock on doors. They drove to Massachusetts in order to send Washington a message, and now they’re wondering if you’ve gotten it.
We’ll find out in Nashua.
The pundits say your staff put New Hampshire on your schedule because they wanted you to make your case on the economy before a swing state audience.
Have you checked the polls lately
? Massachusetts is a swing state now.
According to Public Policy Polling, just 44 percent of Bay State voters approve of the job you’re doing as president. That’s in a one-party, Democratic duchy where you got 62 percent of the vote just 15 months ago.
There aren’t any PPP numbers for New Hampshire, but around here liberals are like the temperatures. The far ther north you go,
the lower the numbers get.
New Hampshire practically invented the “fiscal conservative, socially moderate” brand of American politics that Brown embodies. They’re not much on government-enforced morality, but boy can they do math!
They’re the kind of folks who, reading about your $3.8 trillion budget, aren’t going to ask “Oh, boy! How much of that do I get?” No, they’ll want to know who’s going to get stuck paying for it.
And when they see that 40 percent of your record spending spree is borrowed money – another $1.6 trillion on top of the $1.3 trillion deficit last year – they’re going to worry about how their kids will ever be able to pay it all back.
Your economic plan – taking money from one working taxpayer and giving it to the government to create a job for another – leaves Granite Staters skeptical.
It doesn’t help that just a few weeks ago, your Recovery.gov showed millions of dollars going to “save or create” jobs in New Hampshire’s 4th, 6th and 27th districts. Neat trick for a state with only two congressmen.
In fact, the more you talk about spending, the more grumpy Granite State voters are likely to get.
For all your spin about a $250 billion “spending freeze” over 10 years (out of $40 trillion in projected spending), they’re unimpressed. Sen. Judd Gregg said yesterday that your administration “is not working to end its drunken sailor ways” and New Hampshire knows it.
In Nashua, you’re going to be greeted by people facing 8 percent unemployment. That’s lower than the national average, but high for the hard working people of New Hampshire.
They want to hear how you’re going to help turn that around.
Massive spending, looming tax hikes and bigger government? Brown ran against all three and you see how that turned out.
Mr. President, your short trip to Nashua could be a very long day.
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