Obama Just Does Not Like People Very Much

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Obama Just Does Not Like People Very Much

Many Americans find repellent a president who condescends to them, patronizes them, scolds and berates them. Such a president does not show that he cares about them. Despite hagiographic media coverage in the 2008 campaign and beyond, Barack Obama is being perceived as such a man by a large number of Americans.

When candidate Barack Obama spoke about "the bitter clingers" (or dismissed farmers' concerns about their livelihood by suggesting that they grow arugula -- a modern-day "let them eat cake"), these were not mere gaffes.

Even when he tried to pantomime empathy, he fell flat.

Neera Tanden, former aide to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama: "Obama doesn't call anyone, and he's not close to almost anyone. It's stunning that he's in politics, because he really doesn't like people."

Journalist John Heilemann: "I don't think he doesn't like people. I know he doesn't like people."

Washington Post political reporter Scott Wilson in "Obama, the loner president": "Obama is, in short, a political loner who prefers policy over the people who make politics in this country work."

Liberal New York Times columnist Roger Cohen on the disappointing Cabinet Obama assembled: "Nixon, like Obama, was a loner, but he had Kissinger generating ideas[,]" but, for Obama, "there is only one star in the galaxy at this White House and his name is Barack Obama."

Barack Obama in his autobiography Dreams from My Father: people are an "unnecessary distraction."

Why should it matter to Americans casting votes that Obama does not like people?

Americans want to feel that the leader of the country cares about them. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was peerless in reaching out and touching Americans' hearts. He was a patrician, true -- the type of person that Barack Obama might castigate today. But FDR, perhaps because he was crippled by polio, spoke genuinely and movingly about the struggles of his fellow Americans. His Fireside Chats brought his reassuring voice and warm words into people's homes. He spoke from on high but did not speak down to them. People felt he cared and gave him their votes -- over and over.

Sam Youngman of The Hill wrote about Obama's attempt to connect with struggling Americans -- back in 2008:

President Obama told a small crowd in Fairfax, Va., on Monday that he would stand in the hot sun with them and "feel their pain."

He was meeting with a Fairfax family for a backyard discussion on the economy in an effort to improve voter perceptions about his empathy with ordinary people.

"The problem is he doesn't seem like he's always trying to be empathetic," said one Democratic strategist.

"They have been missing the need for the emotional connection people need in times like this - but they've needed

He started clinging to his teleprompter and sought crowds to speak down to -- not individuals or small groups to socialize among.

Then he became president.

Emboldened and unleashed, time after time, he expressed how little he thought of us and how much he thought of himself.

Away from his handlers, triumphant in his victory, the true Obama emerged. And he is just not that into us.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/obama_just_does_not_like_people_very_much.html

Edited November 2, 2012 by The Patriot

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Oh boy.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Obamas favorite song.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Finally, a YouTube video.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

eh, sheeple will vote for the jerk off like there's no tomorrow. When I say SHEEPle, I mean it.

No one with half of a damn brain would vote for Obama (or Romney for that matter, but he's slightly 'better' i suppose) in this election.

The beast that is the banking bureaucracy has won the battle and the war at this point and until the next revolution in this nation, nothing will change from what it is today.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

People who don't agree with me are sheep. It's a fact.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Think he's mad?

Oh, yeah! He's mad.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Think he's mad?

Oh, yeah! He's mad.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

eh, sheeple will vote for the jerk off like there's no tomorrow. When I say SHEEPle, I mean it.

No one with half of a damn brain would vote for Obama (or Romney for that matter, but he's slightly 'better' i suppose) in this election.

The beast that is the banking bureaucracy has won the battle and the war at this point and until the next revolution in this nation, nothing will change from what it is today.

I cant wait to see the Libs at Fred Meyer holdin their card board signs askin fo money!I think its funny as he!!. God BLESS AMERICA! Dont throw em no dimes makem WORK!

Edited November 2, 2012 by Pinocchio Liberal

[Penny Lane 8,159]

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

The American Stinker.

[aaydrian 479]

Oooh, a post anything random thread. NICE!

One thing Romney doesn't flip flop on and that's his trusty hip Mom jeans.

[JohnR! 5,495]

The irony is that the American Thinker is neither!

Edited November 2, 2012 by Gegel