Today's Reason to Love the Wall Street Journal
Peter Robinson ·
October 17, 2012 at 6:27pm
Online at this hour, in the Opinion section, this headline and subhead:
A President Without a Plan
A more spirited Obama, but he still has no agenda for the next four years.
Which, I think we can all agree, very neatly says it all.
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May '11
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I listened to the editor who wrote that being interviewd by Gordon Deal on the WSJ Morning Report and although he said the same things he sort of sheepishly pointed out the lack of Obama's plan. I think that is because Deal works overly hard to be non-political on his show and Curney wanted to maintain that balance. At any rate it was sweet to read a stronger formulation of that very obvious reality.
Mar '11
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From the article:
Again with that money? Never has a supply of cash been spent as often as that one has, and there's a reason for that.
Aug '12
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What, hope and change is not an agenda? Or was that the agenda from 4 years ago (that needs changing they hope)?
The only plan I hear him running on is "We've made some headway, lets keep going forward". Oh yeah, also, "Gov. Romney will put you back in chains!" (or was that just Biden off the cuff?)
Mar '12
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Actually I believe that Obama has an agenda, as evidenced by his efforts or failures, enacted through his administration and the agencies that they direct. That agenda is so unpopular that Obama cannot admit it in public. The result of the success of that agenda is that more and more people are driven to look for government support merely to get by. What O takes with one hand, he gives back in a different method by the other hand.
For those of us who don't like his agenda, the only relief will be to replace him, unless he declares martial law and stops the process before the next president is sworn in. He is ignoring the law in other areas, so any attempt to thwart this won't come as a surprise.
Aug '10
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Oh, he's got a plan alright - he just can't admit what it is because it would drive away voters in droves!
Jun '12
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Absolutely, and everyone ( who has not drunk the O Kool-aid) and their grandparents can see that. If we mute Romney and just listen to Obama, it is all big talk, lies and attacking Romney. Obama did not just show up, he brought his Chicagoan attitude as well. Not wise.
Edited on October 17, 2012 at 8:28pmNov '11
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In a recent podcast, Prof. Epstein described Obama as "a one ply thinker."
What an apt analogy.
And what a flimsy ply it is! Beneath the thin veneer, there's . . . not much.
Switching metaphors: Our president is a man who never had to do his own homework because somebody else always would do it for him or he would be excused for showing up unprepared.
As someone infamously suggested, appearing clean and articulate was all that was ever required of him.
In the first debate, Obama appeared inarticulate and was.
In the second, he appeared articulate and was not.
Obama has enough raw mental horsepower. But he lost the capacity for thoughtful discourse, as opposed to rote repetition, years ago, when--intellectually--he settled into a comfortable wellworn leftwing niche that was open, easy and wide, to him.
From there to the presidency Obama's ascent was a series of "inevitable coincidences," meaning simply: if not him specifically, then someone very much like him was inevitable at every safely placed steppingstone of his career. Nowadays there are so many clean, articulate Barrack Obamas getting their homework done for them that it was coincidentally inevitable one of them would become president.
Oct '10
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Again with the residual MSM love. Please, now we have to respect the WSJ because a tiny corner of its website is almost as pithy as a tweet? Every insight from a conservative voice on the opinion page of the Journal - rather than, say, Ricochet - just enables its newsroom to keep spreading its Keynesian, state-worshipping message. Enough, already.
Jul '12
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Here's a direct link to the article, for when it inevitably falls off the front page of the WSJ.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443675404578061320659607206.html?mod=WSJ_hps_sections_opinion
October 17, 2012, 12:38 a.m. ET
A President Without a Plan
A more spirited Obama, but he still has no agenda for the next four years.
Jul '12
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What was the editor's full name?
I didn't see a byline on the article.
Mar '11
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Oh Peter, Peter, Peter - Donald Todd, Frozen Chosen, and Joan Greathouse are absolutely right: Obama has a plan for the next four years - he just can't let the American people know about it or he'd be voted out in a landslide!
May '11
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Astonishing: In a recent podcast, Prof. Epstein described Obama as "a one ply thinker."
What an apt analogy.
And what a flimsy ply it is! Beneath the thin veneer, there's . . . not much.
Switching metaphors: Our president is a man who never had to do his own homework because somebody else always would do it for him or he would be excused for showing up unprepared.
As someone infamously suggested,appearingclean....
Obama has enough raw mental horsepower. But he lost the capacity for thoughtful discourse, as opposed to rote repetition, years ago, when--intellectually--he settled into a comfortable wellworn leftwing niche that was open, easy and wide, to him.
From there to the presidency Obama's ascent was a series of "inevitable coincidences," meaning simply: if not him specifically, then someone very much like him was inevitable at every safely placed steppingstone of his career. Nowadays there are so many clean, articulate Barrack Obamas getting their homework done for them that it was coincidentally inevitableone of them would become president. · 3 hours ago
I am glad you switched metaphors before you discussed Obama's debate performance. Can you expand your last sentence?
May '11
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Astonishing, what I meant to ask was what do you base your supposition of inevitable coincidences on? It is an interesting concept but I am not sure I understand it.
Dec '10
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When people think you're screwing up, they aren't going to be won over by your promise to screw up even harder. And that's all Obama's got.
Apr '12
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Great line about Candy using her thumb to hold down the scale for Obama.
May '11
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captainpower
What was the editor's full name?
I didn't see a byline on the article. · 3 hours ago
I think Bryan Curney. May have misspelled both the first and last name though.