House of Eratosthenes

President Obama did not come down from on high. He is not a miracle worker. He can not wave a magic wand and make things miraculously happen. He is a mortal. A human being. Nothing more and nothing less.

President Obama and his Administration hit the ground running on day one and have kept up a whirlwind pace ever since. Few Presidents have accomplished so much in such a short span of time. But not all of his campaign promises can be enacted in his first hundred days. The unprecedented number of high priority and competing issues facing the new President means that some changes will simply have to bide their time.

The changes will come, not as quickly as some would like, but they will come. Everyone needs to be realistic in judging President Obama’s performance so early in his Administration.

My goodness, democrats can get bossy when telling strangers what opinions they should have of things. Well, Don Surber seems to be abiding by the “needs to be realistic” part, in passing judgment on this “whirlwind pace” (hat tip: Gerard).

Barack Obama is too busy posing for magazine covers to actually do the job to which he was elected.

There is a price to be paid when a president throws a party every other night, weekends in Chicago or Camp David and poses for magazine cover after magazine cover.

After 51 days in office, Barack Obama has appointed only 73 people to 1,200 jobs that require Senate confirmation.

If they require Senate approval, they are important jobs.

But Obama is too busy to properly vet the people and appoint them to fill the jobs to get the work done.

That is his job.

And he shirks it.

And now we pay the price.

The London Independent reported: “Last week, it was all smiles and handshakes as Gordon Brown and President Barack Obama put on a show of unity in Washington.

“But yesterday, Sir Gus O’Donnell, Britain’s most senior civil servant, exposed transatlantic tension when he protested that Downing Street was finding it ‘unbelievably difficult’ to plan for next month’s G20 summit in London because of problems tracking down senior figures in the US administration. ‘There is nobody there. You cannot believe how difficult it is,’ the Cabinet Secretary told a civil service conference in Gateshead.”

The Times of London and other newspapers had similar accounts.

If our allies cannot reach us because Barack Obama has failed to appoint someone to answer the phone, how are we to have any friends in the world?

And yet this naïf little twit who barely qualifies to be a back bencher in the Illinois legislature had the nerve to tell reporters last week: “President Obama has accomplished more in 30 days than any president in modern history.”

He really said that.

He really thinks that.

He really thinks that because he could get legislation passed through a Congress that is overwhelmingly Democratic that he is God’s gift to the nation.

I think where the Barackapologists are going a little bit off-base here, is with this perception of theirs that they have been sold a whole sumptuous buffet of presidential/personal assets in exchange for their votes, when really what they got was only a single, solitary positive attribute: This ability that PBO has, to make a good impression on people. That was the only goody in the package.

And it just got recalled; there’s nothing left.

If I could travel back in a time machine to early November and tell people “Barack Obama is going to be defended by only a slim minority among his most ardent followers, for his underperformance in His first 50 days in office,” it would be perceived back there as extreme, fringe, kooky, agitprop right-wing propaganda.

And yet. Here we are.

Cross-posted at Right Wing News.

Unfortunately I have no faith in an electorate that could vote for Obama in the first place.
- JohnJ | 03/13/2009 @ 13:28
I identify with you a hundred percent there.

But they DO get tired of things. Liberal things, especially. I mean, geez, if this stuff was all mob-appeal and had nothing to do with fatigue or long-term memory or let’s-see-if-it-works, at all whatsoever, we would’ve had democrats running this place every stinkin’ minute since March 1933. And that is certainly not what’s been happening. I wish, in a way, that we had term limits repealed by 2000. You know Clinton would’ve run for a third term, and I firmly believe he would’ve gotten creamed. The narcissism, the hedonism, the piddling on your shoe and telling you it’s raining…people begin to hunger for something different. Feeling like they’ve been cheated, or even suspecting they’ve been cheated, makes them indescribably angry. They say they’re saving the best and hottest of their anger for conservatives. It just isn’t true.
- mkfreeberg | 03/13/2009 @ 14:04
I think we need to pass a Constitutional amendment that says only those who are actually paying taxes get to vote. Course, the Democrats would be against that.

Then again, if we could just get a voting system in place for most states that will reduce voter fraud I bet that would help too. I know – one big pipe dream over here.
- Instinct | 03/13/2009 @ 14:14
Few Presidents have accomplished so much in such a short span of time.

Well… that’s sorta true. It takes real talent and diligence to knock 2,000 points off the Dow in only 50 days. Ya really gotta work at it.

And his efforts have left him exhausted. Jeez. Cut the guy some slack, would ya?
- bpenni | 03/13/2009 @ 15:25
Just realized something about these folks. You’d think, as much attention as I’m forced to pay to them, and as much attention as I continue to pay to them when I’m no longer forced to, there would eventually be a point of complete saturation. But it would seem if I am indeed bright enough to reach that point, it’s taking me awhile to get there.

They don’t give a rat’s ass what policies are implemented. The One could invade Iran tomorrow at noon, and Planet Obamafan would be erupting into a standing ovation.

They don’t care about what consequences, good or bad, result from the policies. Dow is tumbling, as Buck points out — is it alright with them if the rest of us notice it? NO! We should look the other way.

So they don’t care about the goals, they don’t care about the methods implemented to reach the goals…it logically follows, any one point between those two ends, likewise, they don’t care about it.

They care about who’s running things. Obama won, they say, and He won by something decisive. Therefore, let’s all get behind him…the important thing is to be unified.

If it was a valid claim that The One was victorious to some extent that equates to virtual unanimity, it would be a silly, useless and redundant exercise to dish out instructions to show some sense of unity that is already there. But the real point here, is, these people do not want the economy fixed. They just want everyone to be on the same page — that is how they do their thinking, through a process of sanitization. They’re exercising a gut-instinct…seek out whoever might be from a rival village, and “fix” the situation until there are no rival villages. How they really intend to do that fixing, perhaps if they thought that through a little bit more, made some commitments to what they are & are not willing to do, they’d be a little bit less frightening.
- mkfreeberg | 03/13/2009 @ 15:41
You’re exactly right – they really don’t care one damn bit. These Obama people live under the delusion that all encompassing government is a good thing, they relish a future when every aspect of life is regulated by bureaucrats. They can’t imagine that their lives might adversely impacted by the utopian fantasies dancing in their pointy, jack booted heads.

I’ll be damned if I’ll ever understand how the liberal mind works – the cognitive dissonance between their actions and beliefs are ironically stunning.
- Daphne | 03/13/2009 @ 17:10
I think the only way to understand the 0 voters is to see it as an endless tantrum by two-year-olds who have mysteriously gotten taller.

GWB successfully ignored them for eight years; now we’re watching the kicking and screaming unleashed. There is no point. There are no beliefs.

Changing their diapers won’t help, because it just feels so good to holler “ME! ME! ME!” with no regard to the fact that it makes it hurt even worse.
- rob | 03/13/2009 @ 19:30
You’ve made the point before, and made it well, that all liberals care about is that everyone acknowledge how well-intentioned they are. That’s why they’ve turned elections from policy decisions into popularity contests. We’re not voting for the policies we support; according to liberals, we’re voting for prom king and queen. I guess that’s why they detest any discussion of issues as a distraction from who is the better prom king.

It’s American Idol: Presidential edition.

And the idiocracy wins.
- JohnJ | 03/16/2009 @ 16:48

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