Obama: Insane?

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For a long time, I was under the impression that the total failure that is Obama was resulting from the more well-known reasons: arrogance, ignorance, lack of experience, socialism... all of the weaknesses that have helped Obama turn this country into an international punchline.

The Clinton incident has caused me to reassess.

I believe Barack Obama may be insane.

When, for example, the NorKs, the Chinese and the Russians watch the idiocy of the Obama-Clinton press conference, and the "leader" of the most powerful country on the face of the planet proceeds to walk off the stage where the world's eyes are riveted, giving control over to a guy who has been out of office for a decade because he's kept the Klingon Princess waiting for a half hour... In the midst of this horrific financial crisis....

What is America supposed to think when this clown does something like that?

What is the WORLD supposed to think of that visual abrogation of authority and power?

Because he had to go to a CHRISTMAS PARTY????

Are you SHITTING me?

Obama abdicates to Bill Clinton, lunacy

Last Updated: 5:08 AM, December 12, 2010

Posted: 12:28 AM, December 12, 2010

Comments: 30

John Podhoretz

The surreal week in Washington was brought to a fitting climax on Friday when Barack Obama handed the presidency over to Bill Clinton for 20 minutes. “I’m going to take off,” he said.

“You’re in good hands,” the president informed the press corps, patting his predecessor on the back. And take off the president did.

It wasn’t an official, unofficial or illicit transfer of power in any way, of course. But it somehow felt like it.

What happened here has, to my knowledge, never happened. When the president finishes speaking, whenever the president finishes speaking, the event ends. Period.

Not any longer.

President Obama can change the rules of etiquette governing his White House if he wants. The problem for him is that those rules of etiquette exist for a reason. They are intended to enforce the standing of the presidency itself. By breaching them, Obama did harm to his own standing, and at a time when he can ill afford to lose any more of his authority.

What’s more, by doing so, he overshadowed the purpose of his joint appearance with Bill Clinton by letting Bubba hold court. And hold court Clinton did, in a revelatory monologue masquerading as a press availability.

Like many retirees trying to stay active, he’s apparently taking classes. He says he spends “an hour a day trying to study this economy. And I’m not running for anything, and I don’t have a political agenda. I just — I try to figure out what to do.”

You see, “I’m out of politics now,” he said, only moments after declaring he had done “133 events” for Democratic candidates in 2010. And asked if he preferred kibitzing inside the White House to running things, Clinton said, “Oh, I had quite a good time governing.”

He even seemed to suggest that, had he defended the Democratic position in 2010 more effectively, his party would have done better at the polls.

“I don’t think I did a good enough job in this election season, obviously,” he said, a statement that initially sounds self-critical but which, at second glance, indicates that the depths of Clinton’s narcissism simply cannot be fathomed.

He even turned a question about whether he had been contacting Democrats to support the tax deal into a “there aren’t enough hours in the day” moment.

“As soon as the election was over, I took my foundation trip to Asia,” Clinton related. “I just got back from the West Coast, doing my annual trip out there . . . I flew overnight to get here today. And I have to leave again tonight . . . He asked me to come down today, because he knew I was going to — Hillary and I were appearing before the Brookings Saban Forum on the Middle East tonight.”

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To this point, I've just been disgusted by this moron. Now I'm actually getting frightened.
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