{"id":3225,"date":"2010-01-19T01:48:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T06:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2010-01-19T10:33:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T15:33:54","slug":"its-official-barack-obama-is-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3225\/its-official-barack-obama-is-insane\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Official … Barack Obama is Insane"},"content":{"rendered":"

I try to resist the temptation to overstate my opposition to President Obama’s agenda. I don’t think the president’s a bad man, a crypto-communist, or a self-hating American. I think he’s an extraordinarily conventional (and mostly doctrinaire) liberal who got a lot further than most people who share his worldview could have because he has some rather pronounced political <\/em>gifts. What he clearly lacks, however, is any real skill at governing in a sustainable way.<\/p>\n

Thus, do we get the President, on the eve of what will either be a devastating defeat or a too-narrow win in the Massachusetts senate race waxing defiant. According to a story from tonight’s edition of Politico<\/a>:<\/p>\n

An upset by Republican Scott Brown would be covered in many quarters as a repudiation of Obama, especially after Obama\u2019s last-ditch campaign appearance with Coakley 36 hours before the polls opened.<\/p>\n

But the president\u2019s advisers plan to spin it as a validation of the underdog arguments that fueled Obama\u2019s insurgent candidacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe painstaking campaign for change over two years in 2007 and 2008 has become a painstaking effort in the White House, too,\u201d the official said. \u201cThe old habits of Washington aren\u2019t going away easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House rallying cry, according to one Obama confidant, will be, \u201cBuckle up \u2014 let\u2019s get some stuff done.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s always been a hint of wishful thinking in the Obama as Jimmy Carter meme on the right … until now. If the White House’s response to the loss of what should be one of their safest seats in the entire nation is to go gung-ho, then Democrats will learn by November that the president’s forward march is a kamikaze mission. Read the whole piece on Politico for a disturbing look into how deeply the administration is embracing court sycophancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I try to resist the temptation to overstate my opposition to President Obama’s agenda. I don’t think the president’s a bad man, a crypto-communist, or a self-hating American. I think he’s an extraordinarily conventional (and mostly doctrinaire) liberal who got a lot further than most people who share his worldview could have because he has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,754,753,752,725],"class_list":["post-3225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-liberalism","tag-martha-coakley","tag-massachusetts-senate-race","tag-scott-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3229,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions\/3229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}