Obama: It's All Your Fault
The days when President Obama was just blaming President Bush for everything seem nice by comparison. Now he's going after all of us.
Jonah Goldberg runs down the latest accusations against us from our president (we're lazy, we're soft, he's disappointed in both our productivity and our sales) and writes:
So, Obama thinks Americans lack ambition and are soft, but don’t you dare suggest that he also thinks they’re lazy.
The point of all this is pretty obvious. Obama has a long-standing habit of seeing failure to support his agenda as a failure of character. The Democratic voters of western Pennsylvania refused to vote for him, he explained, because they were “bitter.” He told black Democrats lacking sufficient enthusiasm for his reelection to “Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complainin’. Stop grumblin’. Stop cryin’.”
Of course, one of the bigger problems we have with Obama is a failure of leadership. Republican candidates keep pointing it out but it's interesting how silent the media are. Every time Obama has a problem, he blames someone else. The pattern is well-established. This lack of leadership and the annoying blame game have got to weigh on voters' minds, right?
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Jul '10
Re: Obama: It's All Your Fault
Well, Obama has a few trillions bucks to pass..... stimulating faults everywhere.... else.
Feb '11
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I see where he's coming from, but..... isn't that human nature? We on the right are frustrated that the culture isn't producing Ronald Reagans at a dime a dozen to lead us uncontested into the obvious paradise of limited-government-federalist-republicanism. We're frustrated that our ideas aren't universally esteemed and accepted. We blame a rotting culture; we blame a lying and stupid opposition; we regularly blame failure to support our agenda on failure of character - the other guy's failure of character.
Apr '11
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Mollie, your post brings me back to something Thomas Sowell said in an interview which our own Peter Robinson conducted at UncKnowledge back in 08 I believe. He stated that Obama being a community organizer had nothing to do with bringing people together, or as he said "organizing bake sales" or the like, but is fundamentally stirring up one group against another to further your agenda or receive monetary compensation in one form or another.
I'm amazed at his over inflated ego and lack of even a smidgen of humility. Throughout history we see example after example of individuals who were filled with this same arrogance who suffered eventual collapse. My hope is that his collapse is imminent and timely and not after this great nation has suffered it's own.
Apr '11
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Of course it's within our nature to skew things and to give ourselves much more slack, if you will, then we our willing to give others but the office of president demands statesmanship, humility and most of all maturity.
Our current president is certainly, as us all, cursed with the frailties of human nature, but he, from the beginning, has thought himself to large for such a small office and in my eyes he shrinks further in stature as he reveals his true nature, which is that of a petulant child.
Aug '10
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From Jonah's article:
Well, we could start by bringing business taxes down to levels comparable with the rest of the world.
But somehow, I don't think that's what Obama wants.
Aug '10
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The notion that "it is all our fault" is something I kind of agree with.
I think that we will have a better America when we have better Americans. The founders gave us a Republic "if we can keep it", and it is a form of government suitable only for a people that are for the most part self-governing.
If most Americans want to slip into the soft-despotism of cradle-to-grave government care, that is what is going to happen, and the current `leadership' is a symptom, not a cause.
What will it take the slowly-cooking frog to realize that the progressive promise is an illusion, and jump out of the pot? I don't know.
Freedom. It was a wonderful thing before we threw it away for shiny toys.
Feb '11
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There was an old saying in Cold War days: In America, when the people don't like the politicians, they change out the politicians. In the Soviet Union, when the politicians don't like the people, they change out the people.
Aug '10
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Mark Woodworth: The notion that "it is all our fault" is something I kind of agree with.
I think that we will have a better America when we have better Americans.
That's a sort of chicken-and-egg problem right there. People don't decide out of the blue to become lazier, or to trade freedom for shiny toys. Individuals don't live in a vacuum, and what's expected of them has a large influence on what they become.
As for assigning blame, I'll take my stand with the squishy social workers for once: It's only helpful to assign blame if figuring out where the blame lies helps you fix the problem. If it doesn't, forget blame and move on to something more productive.
Less important than blaming ourselves is rebuilding a culture where the dignity of hard work, however humble, is more honored, and people feel social pressure to honor freedom over shiny toys. A giant task. But getting rid of the government-imposed perverse incentives that undermine the norms of independence is as good a place to start as any.
Sep '10
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Good point, Ed G. Is it possible, though, that one side is actually correct (or, rather, more correct)?
Mar '11
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“We’ve been a little bit lazy over the last couple of decades. We’ve kind of taken for granted — ‘Well, people would want to come here’ — and we aren’t out there hungry, selling America and trying to attract new businesses into America.”
I recall Mark Steyn reporting on a British couple who had been in the states trying very hard to make a go of a business for more than a dozen years but when the Obama administration took power, their visas were ended, and they were deported; their business cast into the winds. Obama is just as picky about foreigners as he is about industries and the British, apparently, are very low on his list of approved foreigner groups.
Apr '11
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Some thing I heard Dennis Prager say recently was about the lower parts of our human nature which made me think of EdG's comment about human nature. Obama panders to the baser or lower parts of our natures while men like Ronald Reagan, Churchill and even FDR appealed to our higher natures.
May '10
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The good news is, even my Obama-loving friends have accepted the idea that Obama is lousy at leadership. Some truths are so obvious, they can be seen even without an MSM drumbeat.
Jun '11
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Didn't Hitler balme the German People as he entered the bunker?
Feb '11
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Absolutely! My side is right! But there's no referee or panel of judges available to issue a final ruling, and I just don't see the value in criticizing Obama or the left for agreeing with my assessment of the state of things even if we're opposites on everything else.
Leslie Watkins: Good point, Ed G. Is it possible, though, that one side is actually correct (or, rather, more correct)? · Nov 18 at 8:56am
Oct '11
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This reminds me of the great Michigan hockey cheer (other schools do it too). Whenever we score on someone, usually Michigan State or Notre Dame obvi, we all point at their goalie and shout "Sieve! Sieve! Sieve! Sieve! Sieve! Sieve! Sieve! It's all your fault! It's all your fault!" There's another penalty-box-related Michigan hockey cheer that Obama essentially says to the citizenry, but I don't want to violate the CoC.