Crimes Against Liberty & Politics 101
23rd August 2010
For the past two years polls have shown that people liked Barack Obama personally, but they hated his policies. There was a great disconnect. But over the past seven or eight months, the tide has been turning. More and more people are deciding they don’t like Barack Obama personally.
This is, if you will recall, the opposite of what happened with Bill Clinton. In Clinton’s case, people thought he was a scumbag, but they loved his Presidency and policies. They just didn’t want their wives or daughters around him.
There are a lot of books out and coming out that will examine Barack Obama and his Presidency, but none so far have actually examined Obama’s character and conduct as President. In essence, no one has examined how well Obama is handling the Politics 101 of his job — being liked by those who elected him.
Only David Limbaugh has done this. His new book, Crimes Against Liberty, is just out and I’ve read through it. (Full disclosure: our sister company, Regnery Publishing, which is also publishing my book, published David’s) David Limbaugh really gets into the play of personality and conduct of Obama — the bully behind the bully pulpit.
August 23rd, 2010 at 12:00
I don’t agree with this one. Slick Willie seemed to be the kind of guy that would be pretty cool at a party (except for trying to hustle your girl when you weren’t looking.) His policies sucked and, for the most part, were huge failures. (Remember Hillary-care?) Of course, nobody wanted to invite Hillary to a party, least of all Bill!
Obama is another personality all together. While a large group of people worship him (and those people really, really scare me!), the rest of us see him for the empty hat that he really is. Michelle has Hillary’s disposition without her talent.
Which one would YOU invite to a Superbowl Party?