The first 30 months of the Obama era have been less than successful in the same way that being hit by a high-speed train is less than healthful.
Supposedly this was because our previous leader, one George W. Bush, left Mr. Obama with far too many holes to dig his way out of. But recently media telescreens have started droning a new current truth.
The LA Times channels Big Bother (sic) for us:
In the first two years of Obama’s presidency, his top aides had grown accustomed to a process in which Obama drew out and explored the views of his full team and searched for a consensus — decision by ballot, some called it.
Increasingly, however, that process has changed, according to a wide group of Obama’s personal friends, informal advisors and top aides interviewed during the spring. In recent months, they say, the president has been relying more heavily on his own instincts and feeling less impelled to seek accord among advisors.
The old adage says “A camel is a horse designed by a committee.” Apparently, Mr. Obama’s advisory committee consists of camels and horses.
The president, a man of “great judgment” who picked the gaffe-tastic Joe Biden for a running mate, also picked these advisors.
We’re now supposed to believe that things will improve because Obama will be relying more on said great judgment and not on them. His remarkable intellect, which collapses into an endless streams of “uhhhs” and “ummms” when his teleprompter loses power, will now be called upon to make the decisions.
We hope the camels and horses don’t wander off too far.
– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities
Source: Los Angeles Times
This post was last modified on July 6, 2011
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Reading that headline, you'd almost think he's about to get lucky with Moochelle.
Define lucky.
You have a point. If I was a man I wouldn't want her. If I was a lesbian I wouldn't want her either. At some point in life people got to have standards.
"relying more heavily on his own instincts and feeling less impelled to seek accord among advisors."
Sounds like the last days in the bunker, back in '45.
Hear! Hear!
I am sure that his "In" stinks but it isn't telling me "nothin".
Didn't he ignore his entire cabinet (or some important group) for a year or two? He only needs yes people around him, it seems though that the yes people are diminishing or resigning or retiring. He probably just wants to rely less on the yes people he still has and rely more on the voices in his head telling him that he is the best thing that ever happened to the world. Obama is an embarrassing bizarro man that has no purpose other than to make us look bad and seek ways to enrich himself and his friends. I am sick of him. I want him gone from the Oval Office.
His entire cabinet, Congress, and the US population.
Instincts, my eye... a Manchurian Candidate does as he's told.
Ruben... I am sorry this thing jumped on me when I clicked it. That thumbs down is an up. Sorry about that.
"...In recent months, they say, the president has been relying more heavily on his own instincts and feeling less impelled to seek accord among advisors..."
Translation: The training wheels are coming off.
Prediction: We're more screwed than we could ever have imagined.
I was under the iompression that he'd been using his own judgement since the beginning of his junta...I just see this a more of the same.
I feel safer the more Obama goes golfing. At least when He is golfing He is not signing bills making things worse.
Yeah, but 5 will get you 10 that he's cutting deals. There's more to this golf gag than meets the eye.
A Progressive is a horse designed by an ass.
...and a Trojan horse, at that!
His advisory committee is made up of morons and asses.