President Has-Been
Even though Barack Obama is much the younger candidate, Rob Long has been observing for months now, he's much, much more intellectually old-fashioned.
In a particularly brilliant and stinging Wall Street Journal column today, Bret Stephens agrees:
When the history of this administration is written, maybe someone will note the dissonance between the president's hip persona and his retro ideology. Here was a man who promised a "transformative" presidency. Yet when transformation came, it amounted to a two-pronged attempt to impose, from one side, a version of European social democracy by way of ObamaCare, and from the other side a version of Chinese state-directed "capitalism" by way of the stimulus....
In a different age, Mr. Obama would have been the guy who went out and bought an Edsel. In this age, Mr. Obama is the guy demanding that you buy an Edsel, too. That car is today called the Volt.
Barack Obama, yesterday's man.
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Sep '12
Re: President Has-Been
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/331990/cooling-out-voters-thomas-sowell
We have been conned! Hopefully those who are new to this realization will vote him off the island along with the rest of us who knew immediately he was an empty suit, empty chair, con man...
Re: President Has-Been
During the 1992 campaign, James Carville was reported to have looked at a piece of video from a Bush event and said, mostly to himself, "That guy stinks of yesterday."
He was harsh, but essentially correct.
Obama stinks of yesterday. I've said it for years, but we just lived through the Walter Mondale administration -- a collection of ideas and policies and prejudices that have been unchanged by progress or re-evaluation since 1983.
Sep '12
Re: President Has-Been
Or, perhaps 1933.
Re: President Has-Been
johnak
Or, perhaps 1933. · 5 minutes ago
Touché. Better choice, I think.
Feb '11
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President Never-Was
May '10
Re: President Has-Been
This is a great song sort of on point. Actually, Obama was a never-been, but still: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPBt4IuQEbw
Sep '10
Re: President Has-Been
Israel! You beat me to it!
Grrrrrr.
Aug '10
Re: President Has-Been
This song is just what I thought of also! However, my favorite song from that collaboration is this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nENdJmzdMl0
I always thought of William Shatner singing as a novelty act, a kind of arch joke, but this song actually moves me a lot.
Hope and Change: it hasn't happened yet.
Jul '11
Re: President Has-Been
I have to give Barry credit for at least carrying more than one state. How hard is it to outdistance a Mondale?
Rob Long
johnak
Or, perhaps 1933. · 5 minutes ago
Touché. Better choice, I think. · 7 hours ago
Jul '10
Re: President Has-Been
Chris Campion: I have to give Barry credit for at least carrying more than one state. How hard is it to outdistance a Mondale?
Rob Long
johnak
Or, perhaps 1933. · 5 minutes ago
Touché. Better choice, I think. · 7 hours ago
1 hour ago
If it can be done in a Volt it can't be difficult.