Maureen Dowd's Frustrated Too: 'Maybe Obama Was Not Even The Person He Was Waiting For'
On Wednesday, the President of the United States actually sent an email message to his followers complaining that he's frustrated by his inability to get everything he wants through a Congress with a different vision of the world.
On Sunday, New York Times columnist said she too is frustrated - "Maybe Obama was not even the person he was waiting for":
Obama is still suffering from the Speech Illusion, the idea that he can come down from the mountain, read from a Teleprompter, cast a magic spell with his words and climb back up the mountain, while we scurry around and do what he proclaimed.
The days of spinning illusions in a Greek temple in a football stadium are done. The One is dancing on the edge of one term.
The White House team is flailing -- reacting, regrouping, retrenching. It's repugnant.
After pushing and shoving and caving to get on TV, the president's advisers immediately began warning that the long-yearned-for jobs speech wasn't going to be that awe-inspiring.
''The issue isn't the size or the newness of the ideas,'' one said. ''It's less the substance than how he says it, whether he seizes the moment.''
The arc of justice is stuck at the top of a mountain. Maybe Obama was not even the person he was waiting for.
For those that have forgotten, presidential candidate Obama told supporters in February 2008:
You see, the challenges we face will not be solved with one meeting in one night. It will not be resolved on even a Super Duper Tuesday. Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. We are the hope of those boys who have so little, who've been told that they cannot have what they dream, that they cannot be what they imagine. Yes, they can.
It appears the past grand speeches of Obama's are now to be ridiculed.
Dowd also went after his nomination acceptance address in Denver - "spinning illusions in a Greek temple in a football stadium" - as well as his teleprompter.
Oh how the mighty have fallen.
It of course would be marvelous if such scorn was lasting, but this time next year, as the campaign enters the homestretch, Dowd's rapier wit will solely target whoever the GOP presidential nominee is.
With her ilk, it's a metaphysical certitude Obama will by the messiah again, and they'll be the ones he's been waiting for.
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All talk and fluff with no substance...
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 10:59am.
like you didn't know that already Maureen! It's funny how people turn on you once you start going south. Shoot, Obama started going south when he first ran for office but the liberals were too mind numbed to realize this and voted for his sorry butt regardless. Don't complain now as you most definitely reap what you sow.
Oh no, Boy BlahBlah WAS the
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 11:11am.
Oh no, Boy BlahBlah WAS the one he was waiting for, and he still is..............this guy won't change - he can't!!! It's just that the 'one' he was talking about isn't the 'one' that all these saps who believed him thought he was.
For anybody who paid attention from Day 'One'...........Barack the Destroyer 'is who we thought he is', and even though he's a complete dud, a total fool, an incompetant moron, a pathetic piece of Kenyan Kow Krap, and as phony as a billiion-dollar bill.........he's still the most dangerous President we've ever had. And for that, I don't just blame him - the stupid lib/Dems, the purposefully ignorant voters, and the MSM (yes, Ms. Dowdy - that includes YOU!!!) were all in on the biggest scam ever perpetrated on this country in history - so quit bitching and moaning about it, because you're part of the problem.
Question is - what are you going to do about it??? Try and destroy any opposition candidate, and vote for Boy Barry again????
What?
Submitted by packman on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 11:21am.
"...he's frustrated by his inability to get everything he wants through a Congress with a different vision of the world..." Actually he's frustrated because the numbers of people fawning over him and bowing at his feet and kissing his ring have....well, diminished somewhat. This pathetic loser has always had a different vision of the world, one where everyone just gives in to whatever he wants. Well, welcome to reality Bub! The One has had nearly three years of the prezidency to show us what he's got. And we're finally seeing it - he's got....BUPKES! And even the likes of a raging liberal dipwit like Maureen Down is finally disgusted with him. This ole boy's ship is going down, and going down fast. Let's all anticipate some real "hope & change" in 2012....anybody but BHO.
"...Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread..." ~Thomas Jefferson
Good Morning, Maureen!
Submitted by northone on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 11:32am.
Nice to see Maureen has finally woken up. Guess she's been sleeping since 2008 when the Left & the MSM were warned about all of this, but they chose to ignore all the warning signs about this inept-boob of a president.
I respectfully disagree with
Submitted by Van Halen on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 12:34am.
I respectfully disagree with you that Maureen has woken up. None of the Liberals who are complaining about Obama have woken up. Not one of them is following up their complaint with statements demanding less spending, deficit sanity, pulling our troops out of six foreign conflicts, closing the border, lowering taxes, eliminating oppressive regulations or reducing the size of government. This is exciting though, because we watch as the Left flounder about trying to figure out what is going wrong with election day rapidly closing in. I guarantee you their solution will be... more Liberalism.
"get everything through"...hardly
Submitted by spepper on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 11:36am.
That part about he couldn't "...get everything through Congress he wanted to...." WHAT a joke. Guess he didn't notice that his side OWNED both houses of Congress for 2 years-- and that what they were able to "get through", was the DIRECT cause of them losing the HR, and slipping control in the Senate. Not that they would admit to failure-- no, it was just a bunch of us knuckle-draggers out here in flyover country, throwing a HUGE "hissy fit" on election day 2010 because we "knuckle-draggers" refuse to accept his "deification". By they way, ever notice that the word "deification" is VERY close to the spelling of another word that has to do with a certain bodily function? They are also very similar in meaning.......
There is a Long History
Submitted by Comrade Jim on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 11:37am.
Of stupid, gullible liberals, progressives, socialists, fascists, communists,... taken in by some sleazy snake oil salesman promising his way to power so he can change society into some totalitarian utopia where there is unity of purpose and everybody lives in lockstep with the central state planners. The Media puffed up Obama into something he was not and now some followers are beginning to see the emperor has no cloths, no brain, and no substance. He is just another snake oil salesman with his charisma fading.
Is Maureen Dowd waking up? I doubt it; she thinks too highly of herself.
how can Dowd write what she wrote...
Submitted by PJRyan on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 11:38am.
...and not be calling for a Democrat primary? He's not who he claimed to be, his handler's are a joke and "repugnant". Then your party needs a new candidate!! Unless, for some 'reason'
you're afraid to suggest it. Mmm...what could that 'reason' be??
All liberals are seissup. Afraid to tell people they're not good enough. Afraid to tell them that they need to work harder. Afraid to tell them that their failure was their own fault. Afraid to tell them that, in spite of a lifetime of coddling and being told how brilliant they are, and despite the fact their election was historic, their presidency is an abject failure and they need to, for the first time in their life, do what's in the best interest of somebody other than themself, and get the hell out of the way.
I wonder if Dowd will apologize
Submitted by Hoosier Conservative on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 12:05pm.
for mocking those of us who saw it coming 3 years ago.
Amazing how conservatives predicted Obama's fate to a tee, almost like we knew what we were talking about. MSM writers called us racist, partisan, extreme, and uneducated. Lo and behold, we're the ones who were right and they're now backpedaling like crazy.
wow
Submitted by botg on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 12:15pm.
we must pray for Maureen she must be devastated to be writing truth
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -- Chief Justice John Roberts
She was WWI
Submitted by dr-go on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 3:42pm.
and knew not of what she wrote but somehow correctly put it on paper.
For the record
Submitted by Hoosier Conservative on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 12:22pm.
This is what Dowd thought of Obama in 2007:
In mythic tales from “Superman” to “Star Wars” to “Spider-Man,” there comes a moment when the young superhero has to learn to harness his powers.
That’s the challenge Barack Obama faces now. Clearly, the 45-year-old senator is blessed with many gifts. He can write and talk, think and walk, with exceptional grace and agility.
and now he finds that that
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 1:09pm.
and now he finds that that isn't enough.
Obama is still suffering from the Speech Illusion, the idea that he can come down from the mountain, read from a Teleprompter, cast a magic spell with his words and climb back up the mountain, while we scurry around and do what he proclaimed.-Dowd
Tha'ts it in a nutshell.
George Will says that Obama seems to think he can "speak things into existence."
I always think of the Pharaoh Ramses in "The Ten Commandments".....So let it be written; so let it be done.
Did Obama really think it was that simple?
It would have to be "Yes, he did"
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 1:51pm.
When you consider the personality that he has, especially when described by DocSam, oh yeah, you know he did, because he's been doing it for three years. After all, he did try to "speak into existence" the JSOC without going through proper channels. And he used huge video prompters outdoors to make his 3-minute speech announcing the new professor. He hasn't changed his ways at all.
Only I think now he's starting to see that he can't get his way all the time anymore. Boehner's response to him was basically a backhand to the face.
I wonder how long it'll be before he starts throwing more tantrums and making more demands, but even more so, how long before the answer to him becomes "no" more often than before. How would he react then?
-Jon
Dowd and out
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 2:21pm.
DOWD, 2007: "That’s the challenge Barack Obama faces now. Clearly, the 45-year-old senator is blessed with many gifts. He can write and talk, think and walk, with exceptional grace and agility."
In a nutshell, Dowd sums up why the MSM was so enamored with Obama.
The MSM editors, correspondents, and pundits see themselves as an elite class because they write, think, talk, and walk with more grace and agility than the rest of us, and make a damn good living at it. Merely matching paychecks convinces them that they are more important than most of us. For the most part, they have never had experience in any other field of work, nor executive experience, so they dismiss such experience as unnecessary for those who think and write.
Self-anointed intelligencia assume that 'thinking' has an inherent leadership quality that solves big problems (In other words, thinking IS leadership), so it is no surprise that the MSM interpreted Obama's charm and charisma as leadership. Add to that the undeniable race factor, and the MSM convinced itself that Obama was a messianic American character who would fundamentally transform American society into a progressive utopia ruled by thinkers and writers. "Change we can believe in."
And that belief became a faith.
Now some like Dowd are openly doubting their faith in him.
~Noel
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 12:36pm.
You've been overusing 'metaphysical certitude', unless you're deliberately using that as your signature phrase.
Hey Bru
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 2:02pm.
...."metaphysical certitude" IS one of NS's delicious catch phrases.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
I tried a complicated signature phrase back in '96.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 2:18pm.
Soporific sophistry.
Went over about as well as my attempt in '82.
Dialectic dualism.
But my signature phrase in 2004 went over wildly so who knows...
Shut up or I will fire you and replace you with a trained monkey and then hire you back at a quarter of your current wages because, hey, someone's gotta change the danged monkey's diapers.
Holy cow
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 2:29pm.
Thanks, I needed that. I am getting cabin fever, thanks to Lee.
Ah. So the monkey feeder gets uppity.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 2:52pm.
He thinks his job is secure.
Well, guess what mister. You can be replaced by a peanut vending machine. And I will simply pay the monkey diaper changers a quarter more an hour to sweep up the peanut shells off the floor and vacuum them out of the keyboards. Danged messy trained monkeys.
All right. I will hire you back at half the pay.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 2:58pm.
Danged trained monkey trainers promised the monkeys were trained to cover their face when they sneeze. I will give you a job wiping down the computer monitors. Half pay mister! Danged trained monkeys don't come cheap.
Are you talking to yourself now?
Submitted by mandrake on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 3:15pm.
Just wondering?
Do you think you are funny?
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 3:26pm.
Yeah. Thought so. None of us find you funny either.
Kindly stop wasting bandwith and disk space. Snowbilly.
I'll try
Submitted by mandrake on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 3:33pm.
I'll try stop wasting bandwith ( which I have paid for ) when you admit you love me :)
All right.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 3:43pm.
I love you the same way I love the squirrels. They are nice to observe and occasionally feed but the rascals are annoying when they won't stay out of the bird food and don't even think about going near my roof you dang tree rat.
Oh and they are quite stupid. How does an animal that lives so closely with humans not learn to stay out of the street? Or at least avoid staying out of the street when vehicle approaches?
So. To sum up. Tree rats... Snowbillies... Pigeons... I forgot where I was going with this. Ah, who cares. It is just a response to a snowbilly.
squirrels and birdseed
Submitted by MikeB on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 9:26pm.
If you are really having a problem with fuzzy-tailed rats in your bird feeders, mix some cayenne pepper in with the birdseed. The birds do not have the receptors to sense heat from the peppers, while squirrels do and will leave the birdseed alone after one taste. Unfortunately, cayenne pepper does not work on damnyankees or libs.
Really?
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 9:41pm.
Interesting. I bet there are as many Squirrel "proof" devices as there are mouse traps.
mandrake? sounds familiar...
Submitted by Rackie on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 4:02pm.
I do remember that moniker from a creepy, leftwing cult blog. Be gone, lizard. Back into the swamp with you.
I see mandrake around here -
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 4:11pm.
I see mandrake around here - he seems harmless, usually...........and he does have a self-depreciating sense of humor, from what I can remember. He's not like some of the dopes who show up here from time to time.
et tu Brute?
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 12:56pm.
If it becomes apparent that obama will lose there will be lot's of piling on by Liberals. In order to save Liberalism the story line must be that it was obama's fault not the fault of their ideology.
that's their explanation for everything
Submitted by Hoosier Conservative on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 1:01pm.
-The Soviet Union went bankrupt because the Russians did it wrong.
-Cuba is poor because of American trade embargos.
-Barney Frank is a victim in Freddie Mac's collapse because Bush wouldn't let him do anything.
-Clinton had so many disasters because he was right-winger.
True story from something a liberal actually told me recently: Greece is going bankrupt because the American credit crisis destroyed the entire global economy.
True..It is never the fault
Submitted by DWoSD on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 1:05pm.
True..It is never the fault of the philosophy, it's just that it never got implemented correctly. Or given a fair chance...Or allowed to exist in the authoritarian atmosphere required so that the population can be made to see it's benefits.
Obama, to paraphrase LBJ
Submitted by ex buff e-dub on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 1:02pm.
"If I've lost Dowd, I've lost the left.."
or
"If I've lost Dowd, I've lost the office..."
The One is suffering from a
Submitted by DWoSD on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 1:00pm.
The One is suffering from a syndrome known as "Would Be Dictator Frustration". He has let it slip many times that his biggest regret is that he does not have absolute authority to do whatever he wants, similar to what Stalin enjoyed.
He does try to dictate through executive order and through his leftist filled agencies, like EPA and Homeland Security. Also he picks and chooses what laws he will uphold and which ones he will not (DOMA and immigration law, for instance). He has, with the help of his Crime Boss Holder essentially passed the Dream Act.
Every leftist government is ruled through authoritarian dictate.
NEVER COMPROMISE WITH COMMUNISM
Another man disappoints MauDo.
Submitted by kch50428 on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 1:06pm.
Add Barry 0bummer to the list...
LOL...ain't that the story of
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 1:12pm.
LOL...ain't that the story of her life!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 1:10pm.
Oh, I think we all pretty much know why Mo is frustrated...
Seinfeld episode
Submitted by Model850 on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 2:11pm.
"Maybe Obama was not even the person he was waiting for"
Reminds me of the "Seinfeld" episode ("The Big Salad") where Jerry was talking to Elaine and was amazed that Newman had dumped the woman that Jerry was now dating. He couldn't understand how Newman could have rejected the woman. Elaine tries to rationalize things and suggest that Newman is more complicated than he appears.
Elaine: Perhaps there's more to him than meets the eye.
Jerry: No, there's less.
Has Ms. Dowd (and others) had a similar revelation about Obama?
Perfect!
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 2:28pm.
That Seinfeld dialogue fits the Left's disenchantment with Obama to a tee.
He is not the one I was waiting for
Submitted by ohio granny on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 2:25pm.
But he is the one I can't wait to be gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know some folks in the unemployment office
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 2:32pm.
That are waiting for him
He ain't no FDR
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 2:37pm.
Dowd quoted an Obama adviser describing the upcoming address to the joint session of the Congress ths way . . .
''The issue isn't the size or the newness of the ideas,'' one said. ''It's less the substance than how he says it, whether he seizes the moment.''
Is it any wonder that Americans are getting exasperated with Obama when this over-hyped, long-anticipated 'jobs' speech from The One will offer no new or substantial ideas but merely try to inspire us?
The environment for Presidential inspiration ended sometime back in the summer of 2009, if not sooner.
merely try to inspire us?
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 2:42pm.
He could inspire lots of jobs by simply resigning
What does this Dictator in Chief need with congress, anyway?
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 09/04/2011 - 2:55pm.
He will simply continue to bypass them with apparent impunity.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Admitted delusionals
Submitted by H_Tuttle on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 1:05am.
So now Liberals are actually seeing the reality that they created a fantasy Obama inside their own heads and have been 'waiting for' that Obama to appear, and are now frustrated that he hasn't magically done so?
How stupid must you find yourself to be to allow yourself to be so swindled? Some ignorant, inexperienced twenty somethings I can see, by how gullible did all those adults have to be to fall for such an obvious ( to the rest of us) con?