Some of you may be old enough to have studied, or at least have read, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In it an albatross is around the neck of the Mariner as punishment for killing the albatross and thus the trade winds to take them home, or at least that is how his shipmates see it. Well, this whole blog idea was started By Clarice Feldman at American Thinker and she titled hers the Rime of the Ancient Democrat. It’s a good article so you should read it. And after I read it I saw all these other posts about the Democrats being down and out due to Obama.
First up we have an article in Pittsburg Live Opinion. I really like it but most of all I like what it implies:
Barack Obama: He’s come undone
The wheels are off the Obama bus. It’s up on the cinder blocks on some rental property in Martha’s Vineyard this weekend. It is the end of the summer of discontent for a president who’s clearly in over his head and whose wallowing is most unbecoming.
Mr. Obama’s economic policy prescriptions, textbook Keynesian mumbo jumbo, have failed. History would have been instructive had only he been learned in the discipline. Obviously, he’s not. Next month, he’ll return with yet another chapter of the novella best titled “Hocus Pocus.”
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Next we have Maureen Callahan at the New York Post with this:
Obama loses his cool
The President used to have the best ‘brand’ in America — then it all went wrong
There’s a great scene in the 19th episode of “The West Wing” when Martin Sheen, as Democratic President Jed Bartlet, bemoans his crashing approval numbers, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans and the timidity of his own administration. He’s only in the second year of his first term, and his paralysis about not getting re-elected has warped into a feedback loop of paralysis on policy. Sound familiar?
Be sure to read all of that one, too.
Peter Wehner in Commentary writes about:
Obama’s Dissociative Disorder Ploy
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal contains these two priceless paragraphs:
President Barack Obama pitched himself onto the political scene as a man who could rise above partisan politics, and despite presiding over a bitterly divided government, he is starting the 2012 campaign still casting himself as that guy.
On a three-day midwestern bus trip, Mr. Obama tried to portray himself as an outsider. “The only thing that’s holding us back right now is our politics,” he said three times at a town-hall-style meeting here on Wednesday. “That’s the message we need to send to Washington,” he said, as if he wasn’t part of Washington.
The mind reels at the brazenness of this strategy.
Mr. Obama appears to be running as if this is 2008, not 2012 — and as if the enormous damage of his presidency will be stuffed down a memory hole. Now as much as some of us would like to forget the last two-and-a-half years, the memories are indelible. And what’s actually holding us back right now isn’t our politics; it is, in large measure, the president’s failed policies.
As for sending a message to Washington, earth to Obama: You are Washington. Indeed, you can’t get any more Washington than working at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, in the West Wing, in the Oval Office.
The president is the personification of the city he seeks to run against.
There is a term in psychiatry for what Mr. Obama is attempting to pull off: dissociative disorder. It’s considered to be a coping mechanism, when the person literally dissociates himself from a situation or experience too traumatic to integrate with his conscious self.Now while the Obama presidency is certainly being traumatized these days — a 26 percent approval rating on the economy will do that to a fellow — I don’t for a moment think that the president actually suffers from this disorder. But what is revealing is that he’s acting as if he does — and he’s pursuing a strategy that assumes the public will let him get away with it.
They won’t.
I hope it isn’t considered plagiarism that I copied that one in it’s entirety, it didn’t make sense otherwise. These are just three of a number of opinion pieces running today and earlier in the month about the disquiet in the Democratic party over their man Obama. They chose him, now they have to claim him and all his little and big problems.
