Why I Want Barack Obama To Fail As President
-By Warner Todd Huston
An extremely liberal co-worker of mine — he’s in the past said that the “rich” should be killed, for instance — asked me a serious question by which he felt he could gauge whether or not I was a “real” American in his eyes during the rise of the age of Obama. He wondered whether I wish success for Barack Obama as our president. After a few seconds of reflection I had to honestly give a qualified “no” in answer to his query. Naturally this fellow went off about how it was unAmerican to wish the president to fail and how it would damage the country. But, after he briefly calmed down, and brief calm is usually all we can expect from him, I gave him a fuller explanation.
I reminded him that it was a qualified no I gave him. Of course every American wants his president to be successful on every count that will benefit the country. No true American wants to see a monumental, destructive, Carteresque failure in the White House. My liberal co-worker is correct on that count. No one wants the next Buchanan, who, Nero-like, fiddled while Washington D.C. and the country burned. We want them all to be Reagans, Washingtons and Lincolns.
But, that is just it, isn’t it? We want them to do what is best for the country. That is what we mean by “success.” And, when you get right down to it, opinions vary of what “best” means. I do want Obama to be successful on what would be best for this country, absolutely. Unfortunately, there is little that he campaigned on that would be good for this country.
Now, let’s look at the very phrase this is all predicated upon. “I want Barack Obama to succeed.” Or, similarly, “I don’t want Obama to fail.” Both being the same premise. But, let’s face it, the devil is always in the details, isn’t it? What does “fail” or “succeed” even mean? Do I want Barack Obama to succeed in turning this country into a weaker, more communist copy of France? Hardly. But if he did succeed at that, it would be a success of a sort — especially should that have been his goal.
But I don’t want that sort of success.
Conversely, when I asked my liberal friend if he wanted Obama to “succeed” in a way that made him an even more conservative copy of Ronald Reagan, he nearly chocked to death trying to get a decided and vociferous “no” out of his own mouth.
He wouldn’t want that sort of success.
So, the game-saying of wanting Obama to “succeed” is a meaningless exercise. On one hand every American wants the new president to succeed. But at what? That is the key question. We, each of us, want Obama to succeed at what we think is good for the country. So, right off the top the question itself is trope or even tripe.
Now we arrive at where I stand on Obama’s relative “success.” I did not vote for the man. I do not support his socialist ideas. I stand four-square against his votes for infanticide, his votes to gut the Constitutional right to self-protection, his vague ideas of nationalizing various industries, his intention to enlarge government to unheard of proportions and his softening on terror producing countries. And since these are the things his entire life’s career point to as probable goals to “succeed” upon during his presidency… well, I want him to fail. And I want him to do so spectacularly. If Barack Obama is but a Trojan Horse for communism to push its nose under and into the tent, I want him to fail in the attempt.
Simply put I want these ideas to fail miserably because success for them would mean the destruction of this country. So, wishing Obama to succeed would be hoping for the destruction of my country if success means the accomplishments of goals like I mention above.
Needless to say, if he should accomplish the opposite of my laundry list of evils above, well, that sort of success I would heartily welcome.
The upshot is, we as conservatives and Republicans should want Barack Obama to fail if he is to strive for the wrong things. It’s not unAmerican, or even relatively impolite to say so, either.
This is all not to say that Republicans and conservatives should treat Barack Obama in like manner as the ignorati of the lunatic left have treated George W. Bush. We should give Obama a fair hearing, agree when it’s appropriate, disagree when it isn’t and fight tooth and nail when we know we are right. We should eschew the sort of DailyKos, Huffington Post or DemocraticUnderground style of hate so prevalent with the left. But we should not go wobbly. Principled and firm opposition is called for, as always, cooler heads should prevail.
But, we should not wish Obama “success” just for the sake of success. Nor should we let our guard down in some foolish bid to force the left to appreciate us for our civility. Civility is a reward in and of itself. It isn’t a gift to the enemy.
So, here’s hoping great failure for Obama on all the things he should fail on and success with those things that are right and good for the United States of America.
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Posted by Warner Todd Huston on January 22, 2009 8:04 am
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Isn’t it grand how for the last 8 yeas the left has done nothing but try to tear down President Bush at the expense of the country? NOW, however, if you don’t support or don’t like Obama you are “Un-American”.
They hypocrisy of it all is just stunning. It’s just too bad that the left is too stupid to see it.
I blogged many times regarding the precedent set by those who would, for mere emotions, be disrespectful to the Office of the President of the United States, and how it was setting the stage for the future. Well, the future is now, and guess what? They don’t like it.
However, being the unhinged that they are, they will apply the same rules to that discussion that they have to say…comparing the halal meals, free from the US taxpayer Korans and pray rugs in GTMO as torture, but those who behead/shred/dip in acid their political (not even criminal) adversaries as justified.
They lack a sense of proportion and also are missing the essential skill of logic, having had that replaced with the skill of “emotions” by a school system/society that makes it clear that it’s how you feel about anything that matters. The reality is just an “inconvenient truth” to them, which is then connected to the Al Gore model of hypocrisy.
Well the NC Cop thinks that Bush must have done something great for this country? I am not sure what beyond his own agenda and certainly not the agenda of the people by the people and for the people. Disrespect for the office does not apply only disrespect for the man in the office that lied on numerous occasions to the American people and the world. The same applies to Clinton, so my comment is not one sided. A lie is a lie. Well, with that said I guess you can’t get any worse then the last eight years and the fact Bush has the lowest ratings in the history of the office of president. Now that the business model has changed you should look at being part of the solution and not worry about the left or the right but do the right thing.
“Carteresque” is your standard of failure. Where have you been these last 8 years? “Bushesque:” two terms of ten times the failure. Need I say more?
>Do I want Barack Obama to succeed in turning >this country into a weaker, more communist >copy of France?
Sorry dude, that’s plain stupid. Don’t use the word communist if you don’t know what it means.
greetings from germany
>Sorry dude, that’s plain stupid. Don’t use
>the word communist if you don’t know what it
>means.
>greetings from germany
A) Communism is a great government IN THEORY, but seeing as we’re not ants, it’s an inherently flawed.
B) From Germany? Even better. I had a friend studying abroad in Germany. He worked hard for a meager salary and paid for his tuition (since he wasn’t a national). His roommate, meanwhile paid no tuition and had no desire to find a job because he lived off a very cozy unemployment. Engineers and janitors have salaries that are fare closer to each other than in other countries. But your right, people who struggle hard to go the extra mile are of the same value as everyone else. That makes perfect sense.
I for one hope Obama fails at all costs!
Well, Mr. Germany, if you don’t know what sarcasm is, I can’t help you.
@Ha: Yes. Live with it. Its called Human-Rights. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights And it says that are people equal and of same value. However this has nothing do to with the amount of money they get for their jobs. And you won’t believe it, even in germany people get paid better if they work better
@warnertoddhuston: Oh ho. Calling it Sarcasm doesn’t make it better at all. Than I would call this bad sarcasm. It’s just, france, germany, the eu, they are all far away from communism. You can call it socialism, but even that’s wrong. Social means here you still can go to doctor if you lost your job.
Well these countries here are as far away as the united states from communism. Just face it…
This article and some of these comments are just pathetic.George Bush is a failure.Not because I wished it,but because of his actions and his actions alone.Everyone knows it,but the neo-nazis and the white-wing-radio set are in denial.Do not think for a minute that anyone takes these people seriously.They will say anything just to appear outrageous.It’s shtick plain and simple.Get a grip.Palin lost.Get over it.
I find it very amusing how all of a sudden the conservatives are all in love with
Reagan.I do not recall all of this love taking place when was running against the senior idiot Bush.Oh,I guess thats all forgotten now huh?Get outta here.Unlearn.