Has The Democrat Party Given Up On Obama?
Over the weekend I noted that, for some reason, Governor Palin is expected to have solutions to problems that President Obama himself doesn’t have. This begs the question: has the Democrat Party and their surrogates, the mainstream media, given up on Obama?
After the Governor’s interview on The O'Reilly Factor, O’Reilly interviewed liberal radio talk show host Leslie Marshall to grade the governor’s interview:
Marshall: I wouldn’t give her high points because I felt in true politician form, she dodged almost every question, that you answered her, ah, asked her when she was answering you she wasn’t being specific with her answers and she wasn’t giving alternatives to what our current president was doing.
O’Reilly: Give me an example, because I didn’t get the feeling, I didn’t get the feeling she was dodging, I think, I thought she engaged in questions, you may not like the answer, but, give me, give me one question you think she dodged.
Marshall: I think she dodged Iran for example, first of all it frightened me that she didn’t seem to know that France and Great Britain were on board with sanctions against Iran I was glad that she knew that Russia was the problem...I have to say Bill I agree with you on Putin and Afghanistan, I didn’t hear an alternative, I didn’t hear a plan from someone that perhaps might be running for and looking to me and others in America to be elected leader of the free world to lead this nation.
O’Reilly: You thought she was too general, Ok I think that’s a valid criticism, but nobody else has any ideas, I’m not making any excuses for the governor, but I haven’t heard, look, Obama doesn’t have any solution in Afghanistan, he doesn’t have any solution to Iran, so, you know, to be fair if you’re going to say Governor Palin didn’t have any solution, our President of the United states doesn’t have any solution, so I don’t know what the beef is other than maybe Sarah Palin should have one, but, you know. What say you? Obama doesn’t have one.
Marshall: we... we.. well.. well.. I think for me at least and I think a lot of Americans agree with me, certainly many will disagree with me too. We have to have something more concrete (crosstalk..) but there are people who say pay off the Taliban in Afghanistan...
O’Reilly: We should have absolutely the most specific possible to win in Afghanistan and to prevent a nuclear Iran, but we don’t, so, it’s not just, and again, I sound like I am making excuses for Governor Palin, I’m not, but I felt she was conversant with the issues, a lot of people didn’t feel that she was conversant, I felt that she was conversant with them, that she knew what the problems were.
Governor Palin, of course, did know that France and Great Britain were on board:
Palin: We need to work CLOSELY with France and Great Britain our other allies who we can count on, on this.
O’Reilly: But, they are already on board, but.. but.. the primary..
Palin: They are on board with what, though? We’re not discussing some of these sanctions.
This conversation echoes much of what we’ve been hearing and reading about Governor Palin and the issues from the liberal pundits. In Ms. Marshall’s defense, at least she didn’t say that the Governor didn’t have a handle on the issues. But what is surprising is that while the Governor is ridiculed for not giving “specifics”, none of these pundits can claim, with a straight face, to know what Obama’s solutions are.
It took the president 6 month to decide on a dog and with all the resources the president has at hand it’s taking him 12 weeks (and counting) to come up with a solution on Afghanistan. But, oddly, Governor Palin is expected to have quick fixes to all the world’s problems in 30 second sound bites.
Have I missed something? Has Governor Palin announced her candidacy for president while I was asleep? Is she now holding some elected office we don’t know about? Does the Governor receive any secret undisclosed briefings we aren’t aware of? Of course if Governor Palin eventually runs for president she will, fairly, be expected to have some solutions and ideas. However, with no inside information at hand, and 3 years from the next election, exactly what solutions should she be expected to have when Obama has none himself.
Even if we assume, as many on the left apparently have, that Governor Palin is running for president, I haven’t heard other potential contenders being badgered for not having answers to all of the world’s problems. Has anyone asked Huckabee, Romney, or Pawlenty for alternative solutions?
With Obama being described as an intelligent, great, and decisive leader, you would think that his devoted followers in the media would believe that he has solved most, or at the very least some, of the world’s problems. So why should Governor Palin even need solutions to current problems? Shouldn’t Obama have everything covered? He did, after all, win the Nobel Peace Prize! We should all be sleeping easy. Three more years of an Obama Presidency should certainly result in a perfect world, right?
One must therefore conclude that the liberals and democrats have already given up on this president and are already under the assumption that we will still be dealing with the current mess in three years, and that the only one who might be able to take us out of this mess is no other than Governor Palin. If that’s the case, well, yes Governor Palin, we need solutions and fast.
(H/T Doug for editing assistance)
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I believe the progressive wing (far Left) of the democratic party has given up on Obama. I would not be surprise if they field their own candidate to challenge Obama in 2012. A lot of these people did not Obama to send more troops in Afghanistan and thought he would wind down the war and hand it over to the Afghan people to solve their own problem. And just have the America tropps there for support and helping with social programs.
Gov. Dean may very well run again in 2012. The progressives are tired of Obama lack of leadership and governance.
Sheya,
I remember after the BOR interview, thinking and saying exactly the same thing that you are saying here.
There is no one fix answwer to the Middle East fiasco.
Some of the questions BOR asked Sarah really have no answers. I think Bor knew that but just wanted to find out if Sarah was knowledgeable on the subjects.....And now we all know that she is.
Neither Obama, all the so-called experts or Sarah have any answers. boy if any of them did, we wouldn't even be talking about this right now.
Sarah Palin doesn't have the solutions but she has the right principles to address these difficult issues. Energy independence would help us deleverage the advantage these petrol states like Russia, Iran and Venezuela think their gaining in global politics. A strong military like the one Reagan built. What a change a decade can make, the first Gulf War we were able to easily field a force of 500,000 to evict Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait and we did so in short and impressive order. Credit for the size and might of that force is due to Reagan's military buildup, which of course sent the Soviet Union reeling to its collaspe. A decade with Clinton "peace dividend" defense cuts and Bush's inattention to defense manning needs, we are hard pressed to even send an additional 30,000 to 40,000 troops to Afghanistan. Our combined forces in the Iraq and Afghanistan theatres don't even approach the size of the original Gulf War force. And lastly, Palin will never apologize for this country nor keep her eyes off of securing this country from terrorist. She will make sure terrorist are not read their rights, she will gather intelligence with enhanced interrogations, and she will try those terrorist captured on the battlefield in military tribunals. So she has the right principles to address foriegn policy questions and that really is what we are lacking from the White House today.
Why would the Dems even be questioning Governor Palin's intellect and knowledge of every day pressing issues if they honestly believed in Obama's leadership abilities?
It comes down to TRUST. He has even lost them.
He is no leader, everyone can see that. Russia can see that from THEIR house!
whether Sarah has specific solutions to these problems (no one does or perhaps no one ever will) is of no consequence now. Sarah has a good general grasp of the issues (and those issues could be quite different by 2013). Was Obama giving speeches in 2005 outlining specific soutions to the problems the world faces today? Hardly. Why is Sarah held to a higher standard? The issue is whether, when presented with the specific and classified insider infomation on any given sitaution, Sarah has the wisdom and the right principles to make the best decision. The answer, in my mind, is an unqualifired "YES."
Like most people in this country right now, the media included, are looking for a leader and for someone with answers. Sarah IS America. She embodies the American dream. Every sentence in her book is a policy statement. Her life experiences and upbringing are what will guide her decision making when she is POTUS. She loves America and believes in the U.S. Constitution. OZero believes in neither. His very thought processes run counter to everything that is America. People are desparately looking for a leader. Although Sarah is not currently a politician, her instincts are crystal clear and down deep the politicians, media, and especially the people of America are beginning to figure this out.
Obama=Just words
Tonight when he pledges to send less troops than General McCrystal asked for, he is just sending empty words. He doesn't think of Afghanistan in terms of victory and winning, so he sends less than what is needed to win.
Well, let's see all of the things the Lefties wanted to happen: health care reform, cap and tax, out of Iraq/Afghanistan, closing Gitmo etc. None of those have happened yet. Plus, President Obama is going to have to make a decision on Afghanistan. We will see tonight if it is a political decision or a pragmatic decision. We will see if he is going to implement a victory strategy or an exit strategy. He called Afghanistan the "necessary war" or something to that effect, yet he has hesitated on making a "necessary" decision. President Obama said that jobs was the most important thing. He passed the stimulus which wasn't supposed to let unemployment go above 8%, yet it is at 10.2 % (11% in his home state). At the same time, x number of jobs have been saved or created. How does that math work? Although the jobs summit is merely a PR move, he had a beer summit, an attempt to cover up a teleprompterless moment, months before he had a job summit. The American people are giving up on him, as are the Democrats.
I was even one who a year ago was even a tiny bit optimistic about President Obama that he would govern from the center, and oh, actually make some tough decisions.
There is hope....
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
Not only that Nancy, the ROE or Rules of Engagement (polictically correct) will be such that more soldiers will get killed because they will not be able to take the battle to the enemy. This will be a disaster, just like Carter with Desert One during the hostage crisis and Johnson with Vietnam. My heart and thoughts are with the soldiers and their families.
Sheya, I thought I was reading a Rush Limbaugh transcript! I could just hear Rush asking those same questions about "why isn't anyone asking the Huckster or Mittens what they'd do?" kind of questions. Kudos to you for thinking outside the box and not engaging the empty argument of the dems.
Exactly. Af-Pak is the no-win scenario, the Kobyashi Maru. Bush didn't have a solution, Obama doesn't have a solution, and Sarah doesn't have a solution. There may not be any solution.
But that won't stop them from trying to push through his fascist agenda.
It's strangely quiet right now. Beck isn't talking about anything, nor is Rush. Wasn't the Senate going to debate health care reform this week? Yet there is no call to arms.
BellaSiena,
Thank you for your great comment! I think this halfway commitment is disasterous for our military!
I pray to the Lord, that President Obama will seek God's wisdom as he makes decisions. I pray that he will humble himself, and follow what his general on the ground, is telling him. I pray this, even as he goes before the country with his policy decision tonight.
I was thinking the other night if Sarah were president then we would be drilling for our own oil. If we were drilling for our own, then we wouldn't be so hyper about the Middle East. For decades that has been our problem. The US has always been afraid that the Russians would be the receivers of the spoils of the oil rich Middle Eastern countries. Our policy has always been driven by that fear.
Now we have our own oil that back in the day no one knew about. Now we know that we are stitting on much more than we ever thought. They have even discovered that maybe oil doesn't take as long to "make" as previously thought. So much has happened in oil techonology that has trounced our oil mythology. Being energy independent would solve so many of our problems.
Terrorism is still the big deal on our radar screens. I still don't know how to solve that one and neither does anyone else at this point. But I have a feeling that being energy independent will make that better, too.
"IMG" said earlier <span>the Afghanistan situation "is the no-win scenario, the Kobyashi Maru." But remember that only solution to that scenario was to change the rules. First we must demonstrate at all levels that it a "no-win" scenario is unacceptable with a show of force. That in itself might be enough of a rule changer to make the difference. unfortunately our C-in-C does not have that resolve.</span>
I'm not looking for a leader. The POTUS doesn't need to lead. The POTUS needs to make decisions that serve the interests of our citizenry, not our gov't. The POTUS needs to deal with heads of states in a manner that serves our citizenry, not some whacked out notion of global feel goodness. We are the USA. Formed by people who came here 'cause they didn't need them. By people who came here to be left the hell alone by gov't. By people who didn't want no stinkin' leaders.
It's not a no-win scenario for our enemies. They win if we leave. They win if we're pussyfootin around. They lose if we kick their asses.
Have Democrats given up on Obama?
When you have SNL Turn on you like they did Obama, it may be rank and file democrats that turn not just the moonbats.
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