Obama Fails Again: Are We Surprised?

Posted on | July 9, 2014 | 54 Comments

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail)

The escalating mess at Murietta and the general bankruptcy of President Obama’s “immigration policy” — the scare-quotes necessitated by its haphazard and improvised nature, so that it isn’t actually a policy at all — isn’t something I’ve said a lot about, because the disaster is so obvious that everyone sees it without me feeling any need to point it out. Whatever there may be left to say about this catastrophic situation, Adriana Cohen says it pretty well:

The massive crisis of tens of thousands of illegal children and hundreds of thousands of illegal adults flooding over our borders is, no surprise, not President Obama’s fault. It may have been entirely preventable, and certainly was highly predictable. But as usual, six years after he took office, the blame belongs elsewhere.
It’s the Republicans, blocking immigration reform, the Obama administration wants you to believe. They’re even trying to hang it on Obama’s favorite blame target, George W. Bush . . .
The crisis is in fact wholly owned by the Democrats.
Democrats . . . have been pushing for years to let people without Social Security numbers have driver’s licenses and welfare benefits. They’ve pushed for in-state university tuition for people who don’t belong here. Obama himself acted to dramatically reduce deportations — specifically of children — and has broadly signaled he wants to legalize the estimated 12 million illegals.
Who can blame the hundreds of thousands flooding across our borders for thinking they are welcome? The Democrats told them so. Never mind that 92 million Americans are unemployed or no longer looking for jobs. . . .

Read the whole thing.

Category: Immigration

Comments

54 Responses to “Obama Fails Again: Are We Surprised?”

Art Deco
July 9th, 2014 @ 2:34 pm

As far as the Tutsis are concerned, the illegal aliens are useful cannon fodder to use against us Hutus. The only ‘disaster’ they see is bad optics as it might cause weakly aligned Tutsi clients to switch sides. You need to remember that for the Regime, what lies abroad is not properly alien and certainly not an enemy. The enemy is non-exotic Americans of the working class and the common-and-garden bourgeois.
Dana
July 9th, 2014 @ 4:00 pm

No, we’d only be surprised if he actually succeeded in doing something good.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
July 9th, 2014 @ 5:25 pm

Obama would get an “A” in Failure!

I wonder what grades he got in undergraduate school…or what courses he even took? Hmmm.
kilo6
July 9th, 2014 @ 5:27 pm

President 0bama Jarrett fails again.

Still waiting for a Valerie Jarrett documentary akin to the “Bush’s Brain” / Karl Rove sensationalism from the past decade. Who will be willing to do a documentary on the ridiculous rodentine ruler of the White House ?

Possible titles:

0bama’s Olympic marmot ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmota_olympus)

The Capitol Capybara ?

0bama’s Opossum ( meh -1 for bad alliteration and opossum aren’t rodents)

How about previously unreleased pictures of a young ValJar reading Max Horkheimer back in college…

http://cdn.acidcow.com/pics/20091015/capybara_35.jpg
Adjoran
July 9th, 2014 @ 5:56 pm

I am aggravated that even Fox news hosts and guest continue to speak of the “2008 law signed by Bush” that protects children from non-adjacent countries from immediate repatriation. That was passed unanimously by a Democratic-majority Congress, but the real point is it was just a minor change to a 2000 law signed by Clinton.

Bush had NOTHING to do with the original law, he was still in Texas, and EVERYONE agreed the 2008 update was a needed improvement.

Screw the left. Every single word out of Obama’s mouth is a lie.
Obama White House and Child Illegal Immigration: Never let a crisis go to waste… | Batshit Crazy News
July 9th, 2014 @ 5:57 pm

[…] TOM: Obama fails again… […]
K-Bob
July 9th, 2014 @ 6:38 pm

Bush never vetoed anything, did he?
K-Bob
July 9th, 2014 @ 6:47 pm

Your reference to Klavan (who is exactly right) reminds me that this is a thing I’m growing more irritated about.

I’m starting to get really bored with people jumping in to a “barack sucks” thread to say that barack is some sort of evil, sooper genius because, “Hey, look how effective he’s been at destroying America,” or however they phrase it.

Well of course. Any idiot can destroy things they don’t understand. All you have to have is the brazenness to break it while looking directly at the people you screwed over and tell them, “Hey, I’m the one trying to fix it.”

He’s a duplicitous, fumbling idiot, and so are the folks who fall for his, “I’m trying to fix it,” BS.
I mean, hey, addicts learn to lie convincingly to their families. That doesn’t make them geniuses, either.
K-Bob
July 9th, 2014 @ 6:49 pm

I think that was dog-whistle speak for the long simmering debate over crossbows versus longbows.

In that case, well done, but I denounce you.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
July 9th, 2014 @ 6:54 pm

He is good at reading from a teleprompter. And sound bites.

Does anyone have anything else?
Quartermaster
July 9th, 2014 @ 7:26 pm

That denunciation is pretty week. I may have to send you to Dana’s re-education camp so you learn to do it properly.
Quartermaster
July 9th, 2014 @ 7:26 pm

I think half the country would be in cardiac units if that happened.
Quartermaster
July 9th, 2014 @ 7:27 pm

I seriously doubt he’s any good at Golf.
Quartermaster
July 9th, 2014 @ 7:28 pm

Groundhogs country wide denounce you.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
July 9th, 2014 @ 7:54 pm

#TheBearIsLoose: Why are the Democrats hiding the children?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lgchDEuA9VM/U73Oo_CUxaI/AAAAAAAAjmw/cBX3GQvOktg/s1600/Screen+Shot+2014-06-27+at+10.15.17+PM.png
Mike G.
July 9th, 2014 @ 7:58 pm

That’s a damn big Groundhog. Looks like it could feed a squad of libtards.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
July 9th, 2014 @ 8:06 pm

He had gotten enough fucking practice! He should be scratch at this point.
DeadMessenger
July 9th, 2014 @ 8:12 pm

Barry took a BA in Gender Studies, m’kay? Good solid C- student, if you count extra credit body shaving.
DeadMessenger
July 9th, 2014 @ 8:21 pm

And he throws like a girl. That’s reason enough to condemn him, right there.
TC_LeatherPenguin
July 9th, 2014 @ 8:22 pm

Emil Jones made him a US Senator just for the shits&giggles. We’ve been dealing with fallout ever since.
JeffS
July 9th, 2014 @ 8:33 pm

I prefer Mama Grizzly, thankyouverymuch.
Matt_SE
July 9th, 2014 @ 8:53 pm

+1 for pedobear.
RS
July 9th, 2014 @ 9:49 pm

OT: Time uncritically publishes Miriam Weeks’s apologia/whinge-fest about the economic reasons she was forced, forced I say to do porn in order to attend college.

God help us.
M. Thompson
July 9th, 2014 @ 9:54 pm

Yeah, but some are vegetarians…

They can starve.
John Bradley
July 9th, 2014 @ 11:28 pm

If, according to the wise-beyond-their-years (just ask them!) folks at ThinkProgress, the Obamas are in fact ‘all of our parents now’, does that mean Barack is our Tutsi Pop?
ObamaMarxist
July 10th, 2014 @ 12:42 am

59% blame omarxist. The jig is up
Adjoran
July 10th, 2014 @ 12:58 am

Interestingly, Obama described himself in his first book as a “lackluster student” at Occidental, which immediately raises the question of how he was able to transfer. Then as now, Columbia required even better transcripts for 3rd year transfers than for freshmen, since they would be coming into a major program cold turkey. So how did he get in?

Even more curious, not a single member of his graduating class remembers him, and only one professor – who came forward long after the questions were raised. Isn’t that odd for people who went to school with or taught a future President?

While he blocks us from his records, we know he didn’t graduate with honors because those lists are published, and none of his aliases is on it. But even honors grads from Columbia don’t all gt into Harvard Law, so how did a non-honors grad do it?
Adjoran
July 10th, 2014 @ 1:02 am

He let us see him go 2-23 shots at basketball. He threw out the first pitch like a girl. He bikes with a gay helmet and mom jeans on.

But not a single photo of a live links shot. Just imagine how bad he must be at golf.
Adjoran
July 10th, 2014 @ 1:05 am

Not many, it’s true and one of his weaknesses. Nothing passed unanimously, for sure. But the intent was not what we are seeing, and everyone including the Central Americans understood that, else the waves would have started then.

It was when Obama unilaterally announced he would not deport minors that the floodgates opened.
Adjoran
July 10th, 2014 @ 1:06 am

Well, sure, accepting a full scholarship to Vandy would have been being oppressed by the patriarchy.
K-Bob
July 10th, 2014 @ 4:06 am

Yep.
K-Bob
July 10th, 2014 @ 4:09 am

Maybe he’s “transitioning.”
K-Bob
July 10th, 2014 @ 4:11 am

I was sort of trying to sneak up on a full denunciation.

I could use some pointers.
K-Bob
July 10th, 2014 @ 4:14 am

It means I get all my liquor from his cabinet, and some of his girlfriends keep telling me they think I could use some “special education.”

Then when I ask Mom what that means, she slaps me clear across the trailer.
K-Bob
July 10th, 2014 @ 4:30 am

Heck, he’s great at skeet!

Next time he might aim a tad more above level, but still.
K-Bob
July 10th, 2014 @ 4:45 am

http://assets.diylol.com/hfs/6b7/a17/f71/resized/obama-skeet-meme-generator-so-i-pulled-out-my-skeet-shooter-thing-and-went-pew-pew-pew-1caeb7.jpg?1359407399.jpg
K-Bob
July 10th, 2014 @ 4:51 am

http://sadhillnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/obama-skeet-shooting-baseball-pitch-throw-obama-pitch-obama-gun-control-sad-hill-news1.jpg
K-Bob
July 10th, 2014 @ 4:51 am

http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/3/5/5/3/6/1/7/obama-shoot-skeet-photo-99632354796.png
K-Bob
July 10th, 2014 @ 4:55 am

http://www.mynameisfoxtrot.com/storage/Obama_Skeet_16.jpg
K-Bob
July 10th, 2014 @ 5:00 am

Shhhhh! no “jig” references.

Geez!
K-Bob
July 10th, 2014 @ 5:43 am

Whoa! Looks like whoever ‘shopped that one had the phrase, “a little head,” stuck in their mind for some reason.
Quartermaster
July 10th, 2014 @ 10:48 am

Sign up for Dana’s course. He’ll have you energetically denouncing by the end of the first week.
Quartermaster
July 10th, 2014 @ 10:51 am

You don’t “aim” a shotgun.
Quartermaster
July 10th, 2014 @ 10:53 am

Denounce him! You won’t get good at without practice.
Art Deco
July 10th, 2014 @ 12:44 pm

Albert Gore, John Kerry, George W. Bush all had the experience of seeing their transcripts released whether they sought that or not. Wagers that a dean superordinate to the registrar at Columbia signed out the microfiche on which his transcripts are recorded and threw them in an office safe so that no one not on board with the program would leak them.

The stubborn insistence on the part of college administrators in building patron-client relationships with blacks by doing them favors (or what they fancy are favors) is one of the curios of our age. (Do not expect an academic sociologist to study and discover what the sources of this insistence are).

One of the ironies here is that previous performance in Obama’s case actually did under-predict future performance (in academic settings, not any other settings). I’d wager his academics improved after 1981 because he wasn’t so baked anymore.
Obama #NotInterestedInPhotoOps | Regular Right Guy
July 10th, 2014 @ 3:33 pm

[…] Obama Fails Again: Are We Surprised? […]
Bill O’Reilly Calls Sheila Jackson Lee a Moron | Regular Right Guy
July 10th, 2014 @ 5:44 pm

[…] Obama Fails Again: Are We Surprised? […]
Obama Fails Again: Are We Surprised? | That Mr. G Guy's Blog
July 10th, 2014 @ 11:36 pm

[…] Obama Fails Again: Are We Surprised?. […]
DeadMessenger
July 11th, 2014 @ 12:21 am

Sure, why not hold it like that K-Bob; not like there’s any chance of blowing his nuts off or anything…
DeadMessenger
July 11th, 2014 @ 12:24 am

Daisy air guns *kind of* go pew, pew, pew, so he’s partially correct. Maybe. On Tatooine they do, anyway.