Lately the speeches by Obama remind me of the vuvuzela horns at the World Cup Soccer matches. Like the horns, his speeches are really annoying, difficult to ignore and impossible to understand. It wasn’t that this last speech was so bad; the problem is that it is no longer possible, even for die-hard liberals, to pretend that Obama is competent. Obama already has strong disapproval from 42% of Americans. Up until now that was primarily Republicans and Independents. But this speech was so bad that the entire media turned on him over night. We are now going to see a full-fledged media feeding frenzy. Bush, on his worst day, never got hammered this badly by MSNBC:
The cork is off the bottle. Up until now the main stream media has tried very hard to avoid criticizing Obama. All it took was one network to flip. Don’t be surprised if the rest of the networks quickly jump on the band wagon. How ironic that it would be that MSNBC, the network that did the most to put Obama in office, is now leading the charge to destroy him. Poetic justice.
The LA Times, which typically fawned over Obama, literally considered his speech to be a joke.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/06/obama-speech-react.html
The deal he allegedly cut with BP is going to result in outrage when people understand what it means. I guarantee you that BP is not going to put any money into this escrow account without a provision that somehow caps their liability. If they did do that, they are beyond stupid. In addition, this is going to be funded over time:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/us/politics/17obama.html?ref=global-home
Actually, this is a good deal and is the right way to handle this, but the problem is that Obama has been preaching execution by the harshest possible method and he just gave BP house arrest followed by probation. If he had done this 45 days ago, it might have worked. Now, it is too little, too late and no one is impressed. In the meantime, the oil leak goes on and on and on. At this point the only thing certain is that Obama has no clue about how to handle this. He has destroyed what little credibility he had left.
I think we are going to see immediate and wholesale abandonment of Obama by Democratic politicians. Notice how Congressman Bob Etheridge, from South Carolina, lost his cool and assaulted a student because he dared ask him if he supported Obama’s policies. That is not exactly a strong endorsement. Even his strongest supporters have resorted to once again blaming everything on Bush. They don’t even try to argue that Obama is doing a good job. But, no one is listening to that any more. The bash Bush days are gone forever:
http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2010/06/fallout-from-spill.html
Watch for the White House go into full panic mode. The last U.S. President to have this kind of opposition from his own party was LBJ. Don’t be surprised to see Obama end up like Herbert Hoover. Holed up in the White House, afraid to move, and literally booed out of office. It’s really easy: if you’re a left-wing radical, liberal President and you’ve lost Keith Olbermann, what’s left?
Our real fear should be that in an act of desperation he will pull a “wag the dog” type of stunt to try and salvage his Presidency. In the meantime, they recently came up with a filter for the vuvuzela horns. How about an Obama filter?
TDM