Obama’s ‘Gird Your Loins’ Moment has Arrived
23 June 2009 10:21 am by Taylor Marsh
“Remember I said it standing here, if you don’t remember anything else I said,” Biden continued. “Watch, we’re going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it’s going happen. I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate.” – Joe Biden
What will Obama say next about Iran?
Facing Obama is exactly the type of “international crisis” to which Biden referred, the prescient aspect here:
Telling the crowd to “gird their loins” for a bumpy beginning to the next presidential term, Biden said it wouldn’t be initially apparent that the correct decisions are being made because “they’re not likely to be as popular as they are sound. Because if they’re popular, they’re probably not sound.”
So, today at noon D.C. time, Pres. Obama will have his first rose garden presser. He’s set to make a statement at the top. Then the questions will fly.
There are so many issues encircling the White House right now, that the message has gotten diluted, especially when you have elite Dems like DiFi pontificating that the President doesn’t have enough support for health care, an idea whose time was overdue when he arrived, but that has massive public support. That’s because people are freaked out about their own solvency so they want a safety net. Health care is on everyone’s mind.
Obama has lost some mojo in recent days on this month’s pressing issues, especially Iran’s ongoing protests and healthcare reform. Obama’s printed Saturday statement about Iran on his way out the White House door for ice cream with his daughters was insufficient media competition for the appallingly graphic video of the young woman Neda dying on a Tehran street. Some called the presidential statement ineffective and “mealy-mouthed.”
On Father’s Day, while the president played golf out of camera-sight, others were on TV declaring the U.S. must say more to support the unarmed protesters in Iran.
Here’s the scary thing for the new White House: the terrifying words “Jimmy Carter” have started appearing in print and on the air, recalling the ex-Georgia governor’s ineptness and….
…apparent powerlessness in handling his Iranian (hostage) issues in the late 1970s. That impression lead to 12 years of Reagan-Bush Republican White Houses.
Over the weekend Democratic stalwart Sen. Dianne Feinstein was also suggesting on TV that even with 60 seats in the Senate, the president might not have enough support to pass his beloved massive healthcare reforms.
As for the Jimmy Carter tag, that’s absolutely absurd, but Americans do have a habit of building people up so they can tear them down. Obama shouldn’t think he’s immune. The public is a fickle lot.
