Roger Simon (of Politico, not Pajamas Media) has a devastating column out. He speculates that the won may have to resign before his full first term is complete:
Honest to goodness, the man just does not get it. He might be forced to pull a Palin and resign before his first term is over. He could go off and write his memoirs and build his presidential library. (Both would be half-size, of course.)
I am not saying Obama is not smart; he is as smart as a whip. I am just saying he does not understand what savvy first-term presidents need to understand:
You have to stay on message, follow the polls, listen to your advisers (who are writing the message and taking the polls) and realize that when it comes to doing what is right versus doing what is expedient, you do what is expedient so that you can get reelected and do what is right in the second term. If at all possible. And it will help your legacy. And not endanger the election of others in your party. And not hurt the brand. Or upset people too much.
He actually slams Obama very hard in this one. This from a man who’s media outlet publicly admitted being in the tank for Obama prior to the 2008 election.
The fact is that there is outright despair in the air from Democrats over the won’s incredibly stupid dive into the “Ground Zero Mosque” controversy. New York Democrats are scrambling away from Obama on the issue in droves. People are publicly calling Obama’s messaging is incoherent.The people in question worked for Obama during the 2008 campaign.
“The danger here is an incoherent presidency,” said David Morey, vice chairman of the Core Strategy Group, who provided communications advice to Obama’s 2008 campaign. “Simpler is better, and rising above these issues and leading by controlling the dialogue is what the presidency is all about. So I think that’s the job they have to do more effectively as they have in the past [in the campaign].”
Hell, Harry Reid turned his back on Obama over this one.The rank and file is finally beginning to understand that the won doesn’t care about them in any way whatsoever – except that they follow him down into the valley.
Could Obama actually be forced to resign before a full term? Actually, it is quite possible. If the Democrats really take enough of a pounding in November and even lose a bunch of “safe” seats, the survivors might want this man gone just as much as Republicans do. It could become very, very unpleasant for Obama.
So let’s do our best to help make that happen, shall we? Get to work. Help get out the vote.
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Obozo will never resign, no matter what the pressure the Dems put on him. The far-left libs won’t allow it, and he loves the attention far too much (as well as all the paid vacations)…
Possibly, old friend. But the party may make him an offer he can’t refuse over this. If they want him removed, they can do so constitutionally. That might be enough to reach the great ego.
What if we offer to pay his greens fees wherever he wants to golf for the rest of his life if only he’d resign? We’d have to figure out how to get rid of all the other incompetents in the succession chain, though, or we’d be no better off….
He will never resign. His ego would not allow it.
How does Simon know he is smart as a whip? He speaks from a teleprompter, we have never seen his grades and his policies have failed miserably.
Given what we’ve seen of him, smart, he’s not. Educated, yes. Intelligent, possibly. Brother Dave Gardner, the late Southern comedian, once said that a liberal is a person educated beyond his ability to understand. I’m thinking, for Teh Won, WAAAAAY beyond.
And then there’s that polling thing. Remember reading that Clinton was poll-driven? Teh Won doesn’t care about polls, except to spit in the faces of those of us on the high side of the polls against him and his policies.
I don’t believe it’s possible to talk Obama into resigning, not for a second, not now and not in 2 years. I don’t even think Obama could be forced into stepping down, not even with incontrovertible proof of 50 impeachable crimes, maybe not even with a gun to his head.
There are still far too many people for whom the image of success for a black man as president outweighs the reality of our nation in ruins, for them Obama can’t be allowed to fail, or more correctly, be acknowledged to have failed.
For them, and I talking here about the professional pundit class and all the other Democrat dependent special interests, such a reality can not be countenanced, it must be denied and forcibly compelled to take a back seat to their fantasy perception.
The monolithic Left would regard the prospect of failure for Barack Obama’s presidency as equal to the collapse of representative democracy itself.
Resign? No.
Look at the facts: Obama has a job where he is well paid, has plenty of time off and doesn’t have to get too worried by major decisions. He merely votes ‘present’ and carries on.
Issues are neatly sidestepped by ignoring them, other than his immediate ambitions and while maybe he’s done that, what can he do after this? This is as good as it gets.
Maybe in that way he is smart, but there are no doubts that whatever happens the left will demand tribute is paid to him. The Won will not be allowed to fail, or rather not be seen to fail. There are too many people swinging along on his coat tails.
Which brings me always to the thought that Obama is actually just a ‘useful idiot’ that others can manipulate. Perhaps has the necessary charm and the street credibility along with the face of liberal-love and the manner of a lackey (note how well he bows!) but leader he is not.
Were he a leader, he might ask questions of the ones who push him along.
Gaius, the ‘Crats will not go along with any resignation, being largely in His Own image. The leadership either bought into Obamism early on or have gotten their present positions since then by Him or because of Him.
That sort of thing takes more than mere facts and logic to overcome.
Well, I think my readers are fairly sure I have this wrong. But I want to see how bad it is in November. If its bad enough, I think there is at least an outside chance that this could be possible. Not so much that he’d resign, I agree that his ego would get in the way. But it could be bad enough that enough Dems go along with removing Obama.
Alternatively, they could begin openly supporting a primary challenger to him. And make sure the challenger wins.
Pray – and work – for a really horrendous debacle in November for the Dems.
This is why I brought up the citizenship issue in the comments some months ago.
If the dems could produce credible evidence he is not a citizen and have it annointed by the MSM, 0bama could be removed for being ineligible to be POTUS.
Competence would not come into play.
Removing Zero from office would antagonize the black vote. Removing him for not being an American might mitigate the damage. Having a Republican majority remove him might well erase the damage entirely.
Do we really want the GOP responsible for removing 0bama?
Obama’s Primary challenger has already entered the lists. She’s doing everything she can to undermine Obama without an open public break. Check out the Park Avenue Imam’s fund raising trip at State Department expense, that’s not an accidental outrage.