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October 14, 2010
DICTATOR Obama: Republicans Will Have to Learn to Get Along With Me
Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010. (AP)
Obama: Republicans Will Have to Learn to Get Along With Me
Obama reveals in a magazine article that he is weighing what to do if Republicans win the House majority next month, and has come up with a novel approach: Make the GOP work with him.
In a seeming twist on the post-1994 midterm calculation made by President Bill Clinton -- when Republicans pummeled Democrats in the congressional election -- Obama said he thinks Republicans will have to move in his direction no matter the outcome of the Nov. 2 vote.
"It may be that regardless of what happens after this election, they feel more responsible," he is quoted saying in the Sunday edition of The New York Times Magazine, "either because they didn't do as well as they anticipated, and so the strategy of just saying no to everything and sitting on the sidelines and throwing bombs didn't work for them, or they did reasonably well, in which case the American people are going to be looking to them to offer serious proposals and work with me in a serious way."
Accusing the public of mistaking his abilities, the president also told the magazine that he's a little taken aback that voters are disappointed with the current turn of events in his administration.
"The mythology has emerged somehow that we ran this flawless campaign, I never made a mistake, that we were master communicators, everything worked in lockstep," Obama is quoted saying. "That's not how I look at stuff, because I remember what the campaign was like. And it was just as messy and just as difficult. And there were all sorts of moments when our supporters lost hope, and it looked like we weren't going to win. And we're going through that same period here."
The inside-the-White-House account of trouble and turmoil in the administration comes 20 days before the midterm election and is sure to deflate Democrats reluctant to hear the president detailing mistakes from his first 20 months in office.
"It's pretty clear to me based on this interview that the president is saying, 'I've given up, You're on your own,'" said Democratic strategist Doug Schoen.
Among the regrets the president said he felt during the 111th Congress is letting Republicans make him out to be "the same old tax-and-spend liberal Democrat."
Obama said he also realized too late that "there is no such thing as shovel-ready projects," a familiar refrain made by the president when he was trying to sell the stimulus package.
"There are almost 100 shovel-ready transportation projects already approved," he said in August 2009. As recently as July of this year, he said, "Shovels will soon be moving earth and trucks will soon be pouring concrete."
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, who was present during the interview, said Wednesday that he does not think the president was making predictions about the coming election.
"There's no postmortems that are going on here ... People are focused on what we have to do each day," he said.
But Schoen said Democrats fighting for their political lives know they have to keep a distance.
"Right now what I'm hearing from Democrats is the president is only useful for fundraising," he said.
In an interview with Bloomberg News, Vice President Biden is quoted saying Democrats are not running on health care, financial regulatory reform or the stimulus because "it's just too hard to explain" to voters.
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Krauthammer: “It’s Not Surprising Obama Doesn’t Know What a Shovel Ready Project Is. He’s Never Worked in the Private Sector”
Obama admitted yesterday that there is no such thing as a shovel ready job. Krauthammer let him have it last night on Special Report.
Obama said he also realized too late that "there is no such thing as shovel-ready projects," a familiar refrain made by the president when he was trying to sell the stimulus package.
"There are almost 100 shovel-ready transportation projects already approved," he said in August 2009. As recently as July of this year, he said, "Shovels will soon be moving earth and trucks will soon be pouring concrete."
“Well that is quite an admission. You know, a year and a half and half a trillion dollars later he says these things that I talked about endlessly don’t exist. It’s not actually surprising that he doesn’t know what a shovel ready project is. Having never worked in the private sector he wouldn’t be sure what a project is and there isn’t a lot of shoveling at Harvard Law School.” So I can understand that this was one of the greatest “Oops” in American history. And it’s going to be hard for a democrat when you show one tape against another. They’re goint to say, “So you supported a trillion dollars offered by a president who didn’t even know that this stuff that this stuff is not going to happen?”
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Wild Thing's comment........
What an ego!!! Just when I think his pronouncements can’t be any more detached from realty, he comes up with this gem. What a colossal jerk. We have an utter moron Marxist living in the WH!
Obama is an unbalanced and dangerous person. I think the truth is: he doesn't care a whit about anyone else's memories or expectations. Obama dwells in his own universe; only his needs, rights and desires exist, while those of others annoy and distract him from his purpose, which is to satisfy himself.
The man loves crowds and their amorphous adulation because they validate his self-image; he dislikes and removes himself from individual people because unlike the undifferentiated masses, they will challenge him.
The mythology has emerged somehow that we ran this flawless campaign, I never made a mistake, that we were master communicators, everything worked in lockstep,” Obama is quoted saying.
It's funny he brings this up.
Remember it was the Obama himself who used the example of his “flawless campaign” to tell us what a great manager he was - this was his “business experience” He must think we have short memories
Posted by Wild Thing at October 14, 2010 01:50 AM
Comments
Here is the perfect music for Obama and his worship of himself.
Posted by: BobF at October 14, 2010 07:36 AM
The picture at the head of this piece says it all. "It's all about me", has been this man's mantra from the get go. When left on his own, without a teleprompter, this becomes abundantly clear. Even with the teleprompter, the image comes through.
I have always felt that he is nothing more than a figurehead, a spokesman, if you will, for the Soros-Ayres crowd. These folks have been trying to take over the country for years and in the "Charismatic Obama", they have the perfect vehicle, to succeed.
The American Public, however, is beginning to realize, what many of us have seen all along. Hopefully they will turn this realization into action, by voting in candidates who can forestall this onslaught on Our Freedoms, and get us headed in the right directions.
Lastly, you've got to love how Krauthammer always cuts to the quick, with his remarks. Definitely 'no beating around the bush', with this man.
Posted by: Sean at October 14, 2010 10:11 AM
Most politicians are egotists to some extent. But obama makes even Nixon and Clinton seem humble. obama is a narcissist on the order of Hitler or Stalin. Now, with his fantasy world collapsing around him, obama is showing typical dictator mentality by blaming it on the people now being astute enough to understand his great programs. obama may be removed from office in a strai jacket while screaming and ranting.
Posted by: TomR, armed in Texas at October 14, 2010 10:13 AM
Who does this piss ant think he is. The republicans have to get along with him. Got a news flash for hime. It don't work that way, little Barry, you play ball with us or we'll jam the bat up your ass.
Come January, its the start of the 3rd quarter and we have made the proper adjustments, your ass is grass.
Posted by: Mark at October 14, 2010 12:49 PM
