The Potemkin President

18DEC2009

The Potemkin Villages, rumor and fable has it, were fake settlements built in the new conquests in the Crimea by Grigory Potyomkin along the Dnieper River to impress Catherine II during her visit in 1787.

The Potemkin President was constructed in 2008 by the main stream media and the Progressive movement both here and abroad to impress themselves and punch their ‘oh so enlightened club’ cards. The media in the America was legs all a tingle and breathless and swooning at the candidate they made. The press in EU land fawned over the Post-Racial Post-American-Hegemony Man. They had a collective orgasm over his Berlin speech and his polished delivery, but deep down, i think at least the Berliners knew this was no JFK. 63 million people in the US bought the illusion on election day. They were weary of Bush, weary of war, and facing a bad economy, and uninspired by McCain. They fell for the fake structures and high, handsome rhetoric.

So now, not even a year into his Presidency Barak Hussein Obama and ALL of his policies have nose-dived in the polls to lows never seen in this phase of any presidency. Many of those 63 million took a walk in the village and saw that the buildings are only facades, the words are hollow and only telepromted. Now, this same electorate wants to leave the village and start building something real.

The people are against his health care plan by a large majority. Card check never saw the light of day.  Cap and Trade will fail if it ever makes it to Congress.  Sure, he had his EPA administrator designate CO2 as a pollutant to be controlled, but that can easily be reversed.  The last time he was in Copenhagen, he failed to get the Olympics and this trip to Copenhagen for the climate summit is another failure for him and his fellow travelers.  Sure, he won a Nobel…for 2 days of actual work as President but this only adds to the suspicion of a false construct and manufactured ability.

The Progressive controlled Congress and Senate are also at record lows in the polling. They bought into the Potemkin President’s rhetoric because they knew that this was their only chance in this generation to force through the Progressive dream, despite the polling numbers, tea parties, and frantic phone calls against these ideas from each of their districts.

The press, members of Congress, and members of the Senate by ignoring their audiences and the wishes of their constituents, have thrown in with the Potemkin President that they created. Their creation will be the end of them, and then perhaps patriotic democrats can take that party back. As for the liberal press, they are loosing prestige and viewers to the internet and more balanced sources. The people aren’t listening to the Potemkin narrative.

The election in 2010 and 2012 can’t come soon enough.