oped: Wake the hell up people Barry Barack checked out as soon as he forced his LGBTQA /Marijuana agenda down 'We the Peoples' proverbial throats...his whole being in life as noted during HS, Obama wants to be King of the LGBTQA community...after he accomplished this he checked out...he doesn't give a damn about America or the world for that matter...he is a shallow,immature King of perversion...PERIOD He is now doing what he does best...hit the campaign trail talk smack and BS his way through life!
by: By Darrell Delamaide
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) – Has President Barack Obama “checked out”?
It’s one thing if hardened critics like Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly asks whether the Obama presidency is “imploding,” as she did last month
, citing a string of foreign policy debacles and domestic scandals.
Or if Republican lobbyist Ed Rogers says Obama “seems to have taken something like an early retirement,” as he did in his Washington Post blog
earlier this month, finding that the president’s recent speeches reveal “a state of mind that suggests he has checked out.”
It is another, however, if the chief U.S. commentator for the Financial
Times, Edward Luce, takes Obama to task, as he did this week, in an
op-ed titled “Farewell to trust: Obama’s Germany syndrome.”
Luce takes the flap over the CIA spying on an ally like Germany as
symptomatic of an administration that has lost the trust of the public
both at home and abroad.
The British journalist notes that Obama dismisses such charges as
cynical, but Luce rejects that label for himself and other critics in
the press.
“Most reporters are better described as skeptical,” Luce says. “A cynic
believes there is nothing new under the sun. A skeptic resists
gullibility. On the basis of the latter, Mr. Obama does not appear to
relish being chief executive.”
Kelly dismissively refers to Obama’s response to crisis as “smiling,
golfing and at this very moment partying,” but Luce, too, notes that
Obama has played golf 179 times while in office, much more than avowed
golf lover George W. Bush, and headlined 393 fundraisers, more than
double his predecessor’s total.
“If Mr. Obama put half as much effort into co-opting or wrong-footing
his opponents as he does raising cash from the wealthy, people might be
less skeptical,” Luce writes.
Veteran journalist Patrick Smith, who has written for liberal
publications like The Nation and the New Yorker, also takes Obama to
task for the German spy scandal and the insufficient response by
American officials.
“I can think of two names for this,” Smith wrote this week in Fiscal Times.
“One is ‘outmoded arrogance.’ The other is ‘asleep at the wheel.’
Whatever the moniker, some measure of incompetence lies behind it.”
When MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski interviewed Obama last month on the
subject of Iraq, network commentator Donny Deutsch, an avowed Democrat,
said, “I’ve never seen a less-engaged look in his eyes.”
Deutsch added: “He almost seemed — I don’t want to say checked-out
because that is not the right thing — but watching him, his cadence was
different. He feels like he almost wants to go home at this point.”
Another commentator on that program, Mark Halperin, said that Obama’s
answers on the Syrian situation were nuanced and accurate, but people
expect more from a president than great analysis of problems.
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