Our Whiny President

Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: President Obama recently sat down to share his heart with a New York Times reporter. Did he talk about the growing ranks of the unemployed? No. Was he crying for families losing their homes? Not really. He was, however, really passionate about – HIMSELF.

He whined about how tough his White House gig has been. He complained about the “mythology” of the 2008 campaign, saying, “The mythology has emerged somehow that we ran this flawless campaign, I never made a mistake, that we were master communicators… And somehow now, as president, things are messy and they don’t always work as planned and people are mad at us.”

Obama laments that his policies have framed him as “the same old tax-and-spend Democrat.” He confesses that the stimulus bill was oversold, admitting, “There’s no such thing as shovel-ready projects.” Wow! Now he tells us! Obama even seems to put some of the blame on Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, admitting that he probably should have “let the Republicans insist” on adding more tax cuts to the stimulus bill.

Sorry, but I’m not shedding tears for Obama. Barack Hussein Obama was the most obscure, inexperienced and left-wing candidate for president in decades. To gloss over all of that, his campaign and the media presented Obama as America’s “savior.” This was a carefully crafted image that worked to his great benefit. He encouraged it with mass rallies of adoring fans, some of whom fainted in his presence.

Listening to Obama now, you’re left with the impression that even he knew that all the talk about hope and change – all the soaring rhetoric about “We are ones we have been waiting for” and “this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal” – was just hype to get himself elected. He has wrecked our economy, undermined our values, belittled his own country, put us on the edge of bankruptcy and made us less safe. And we are supposed to feel sorry for him?
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Gary Bauer is is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families. This article also appeared in Human Events Bauer was a former Republican presidential candidate and served as President Ronald Reagan’s domestic policy adviser

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