This Proves My Point

I can understand liberals placing hope in Candidate/President Obama.  I can even understand moderates entertaining the idea of "working with him."  I, however, am afraid of him and it started during the presidential campaign.  There was so much we did not know about him and the little we did know was nothing short of alarming, to say the least.  I thought, there's no way Americans are going to elect this man.  But they did.

Now, having fears confirmed, I cannot understand how it is that only NOW, the New York Times token Republican-ish moderate, David Brooks, can write an article about how disappointed he finally is over President Obama.  Welcome to the party, David.  It boggles my mind to have him finding himself utterly crushed over the fact that Obama has not delivered the moon as promised in Grant Park on election night.  Mr. Brooks is back at the starting line and the race is almost over.  Why, pray tell, is anyone giving any credence to the concept of Obama making a concerted effort to negotiate or advocate for the good of the nation?  Brooks' entire article is based on the premise Obama genuinely wants to work for the good of our country.  OK, that idea, IF it ever was given consideration by conservatives, has been dead in the water for months and months and months.  Brooks says, regarding a recent speech by the president that "the president didn't even try to win Republicans" and "the White House has moved away from the Reasonable Man approach."  WHAT?  What planet is this man living on?  Neither of those items he laments were ever under consideration by the president.  David! THREE days after Obama was sworn in as president, he told Cong. Eric Cantor, "I won" in response to ideas Mr. Cantor was presenting.  Where on earth did you get the idea Pres. Obama is interested in winning Republicans??  Or was that just wishful thinking on your part and not based on evidence of any kind?

The most striking comment Brooks makes in his article is at the end when he says, "To be an Obama admirer is to toggle from being uplifted to feeling used."  According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders by the American Psychiatric Association, people with narcissistic personalities, "tend to form friendships only if the other person seems likely to advance their purposes or otherwise enhance their self-esteem."  Newsflash, Mr. Brooks: Barack Obama needed you and a whole lot of other people to get elected to the presidency.  Now that that's been accomplished, you're expendable.  In other words, you were used.