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Time in Yerevan: 11:07,   29 March 2024

When the policy is the punch line: The Washington Times

When the policy is the punch line: The Washington Times

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 16, ARMENPRESS: Former governor and 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney tells a Barack Obama joke that is drawing roars of laughter from GOP audiences, Armenpress reports citing The Washington Times.

Mr. Romney’s story, which nails the president’s weakness, involves golf champion Phil Mickelson and the Grand Slam tennis great Andre Agassi. As he tells it, Mr. Obama goes to a bank to cash a check, but without any ID on him.

The teller says he can’t cash it without identification, pointing out that Mr. Mickelson proved who he was by tapping a golf ball into a cup, and Mr. Agassi did it by belting a tennis ball into a tiny target. “Is there anything you can do to prove to us who you are?” the bank clerk asked the president. Mr. Obama replies, “I don’t have a clue.”

That certainly sums up Mr. Obama and his job-challenged, trouble-filled presidency: A long-suffering economy, a slew of scandal-ridden programs, agencies and departments, and a series of bungled foreign policies that have resulted in a more powerful and far more lethal terrorist threat that is now on the brink of toppling regimes in the Middle East.

In his first term, Mr. Obama was able to con a lot of people, including the gullible liberal news media who adored him. That no longer appears to be the case, though, as his troubles have mounted and his job-approval polls have plummeted.

Gone are the worshipful stories about hope and change. Now he is being sharply criticized for his many failures, by the media and by former administration officials in tell-all books that give him failing grades as commander in chief.

The latest example came Sunday in a blistering review of his presidency in The Washington Post, one of Mr. Obama’s earliest supporters and defenders. The story was no doubt read by the administration’s top echelon and very likely by the president himself and his West Wing staff.

It was written by Aaron David Miller, a distinguished presidential analyst at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. It ran under the pull-no-punches headline “Disappointer in chief,” followed by this secondary headline: “Why Obama hasn’t become the change we were waiting for.”

“Whatever your judgment of Obama’s policies, there is a vast gap between the expectations he set for himself and his supporters and the realities of his presidency. Obama reached for greatness, but has disappointed many of those who voted for him once or even twice,” Mr. Miller writes.

Mr. Obama ran on a promise to change the way Washington works, but by and large has been hopelessly outmatched in the rough and tumble of governing, a victim not only of his complete lack of hands-on executive experience, but also of failed policies drawn from the New Deal that didn’t work then and wouldn’t work now.

“From pledging an Earth-moving transformation, Mr. Obama has been reduced to hitting singles. After drawing early comparisons to Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy all rolled into one, Obama has fallen so low that journalists wonder whether Jimmy Carter is not a more appropriate parallel,” Mr. Miller says.

“Obama cannot claim the persona of Kennedy, who captured the nation’s imagination; nor the mantle of Ronald Reagan, who as Obama himself has admitted, changed the trajectory of the country,” he adds.

Mr. Obama came from a failed urban political environment that is addicted to higher taxes, big government and other far-left, job-killing policies that have ruled his presidency. He admired JFK and Reagan for their success in office, but didn’t understand or acknowledge the economic policies that brought this about.

He has demagogued for higher tax rates, conveniently ignoring Kennedy’s across-the-board tax cuts that got the economy moving again and resulted in a budget surplus.








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