Ed Morrissey asks if today is military dictatorship day, noting that there are articles out by both the Left and Right positing the idea that President Barack Obama's presidency may fall to a military coup:
In case anyone thinks that one side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on paranoid ranters, we present today's offering from Gore Vidal (Left) and John Perry (Right) on the coming American military dictatorship. Both men agree that it's a likelihood, and both men blame Barack Obama.
More at Memeorandum.
I find it unimaginable that the United States military would do such a thing. As Morrissey notes, there's a thing called elections that pose a much greater risk to Barack Obama than dreams of Seven Days in May. However, it is quite apparent that the Presidency of Barack Obama is in deep decline and the rate of descent is accelerating. In a span of just a few months this president demonstrated that he never had a grasp of the complicated dynamics of the healthcare debate, he never understood or acknowledged the anger and frustration of the electorate beginning last Spring and, in fact, exacerbated the political debate in the country by unnecessarily introducing the polarizing issue of race into multiple policy issues.
The President's irresolute behavior on issues such as the European missile shield and Iran's so far successful efforts to acquire nuclear weapons, the unctuous lecturing of Israel (while noticeably ignoring Hamas), the constant speechifying on anything and everything and the growing disregard with which our allies view his behavior is creating a political figure the resembles a caricature, not a leader. But Barack Hussein Obama seems oblivious to it all. Case in point: the early call on September unemployment shows that another 250,000 Americans lost their jobs, yet the President has yet to offer up a specific private sector pro growth policy that will create jobs. People are paying attention to this president's inattention to the single most important voter issue today; where can folks get a job?
The disconnect between the President and the people is reaching Nixonian levels.



Comments (17)
But Barack Hussein Obama... (Below threshold)1. Posted by jim m | September 30, 2009 11:18 AM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
But Barack Hussein Obama seems oblivious to it all.
Face it America, he's just not that into you.
1. Posted by jim m | September 30, 2009 11:18 AM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on September 30, 2009 11:18
2. Posted by JLawson | September 30, 2009 11:19 AM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
You'd think he'd at least kiss us and leave cab fare on the nightstand...
2. Posted by JLawson | September 30, 2009 11:19 AM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on September 30, 2009 11:19
3. Posted by Hank | September 30, 2009 11:26 AM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Re: "Case in point: the early call on September unemployment shows that another 250,000 Americans lost their jobs, yet the President has yet to offer up a specific private sector pro growth policy that will create jobs."
Offer a policy.
Hell, Obama, at the G-20 summit stated:
"(B)ecause of the bold and coordinated action that we took, millions of jobs have been saved or created; the decline in output has been stopped; financial markets have come back to life".
3. Posted by Hank | September 30, 2009 11:26 AM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on September 30, 2009 11:26
4. Posted by Justrand
| September 30, 2009 11:26 AM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
JLawson: "You'd think he'd at least kiss us and leave cab fare on the nightstand..."
that would assume this was a fee for services transaction between consenting adults...he prefers to drug us, roll us over, and Roman Polanski us!
4. Posted by Justrand
| September 30, 2009 11:26 AM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on September 30, 2009 11:26
5. Posted by JLawson | September 30, 2009 11:30 AM | Score: 4 (6 votes cast)
Now - regarding the military coup possibility...
No. Ain't gonna happen unless he REALLY goes off the deep end, and I'm talking broken flowerpot crown and Oval Office window curtain coronation robes as he declares himself King. Even then, it'll just be until a successor can be determined - which will likely be seen as Biden.
Damn. Who'd have thought Biden would seriously be a better alternative?
I THINK (Oh, I hope I hope I hope) that Congress is pretty soon going to realize that the Obama/Pelosi/Reid triumvirate has got them in a financial death spiral, and the country's going to leave a pretty big smokin' crater in the world economic landscape if they don't pull out. You cannot tax a country into prosperity, neither can you slap additional regulatory requirements on struggling businesses and somehow make things easier for them to operate. The concept that somehow 'profit' is an obscene motive for actually being in business MUST be changed inside the Beltway - and they've GOT to start living well within the income provided by the IRS.
5. Posted by JLawson | September 30, 2009 11:30 AM |
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Posted on September 30, 2009 11:30
6. Posted by Adrian Browne | September 30, 2009 11:32 AM | Score: -7 (9 votes cast)
The Left strongly SUPPORTS the President's foreign policy stance so far.
It's the Rightwing/Neocons whose moldy Cold War missile shields and Domino Theories are more than a little disconnected from today's mainstream -- they're anachronistic and downright weird.
BTW, the Newmax article has been pulled from it's website.
6. Posted by Adrian Browne | September 30, 2009 11:32 AM |
Score: -7 (9 votes cast)
Posted on September 30, 2009 11:32
7. Posted by jim m | September 30, 2009 11:37 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
There was no bold coordinated action. Some countries passed stimulus plans others didn't. The ones who passed smaller plans or none at all have done better economically.
This whole "saved jobs" line is BS and everyone knows it. It is completely unmeasurable and unverifiable.
7. Posted by jim m | September 30, 2009 11:37 AM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on September 30, 2009 11:37
8. Posted by Mac Lorry | September 30, 2009 11:38 AM | Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
Another clueless lefty demonstrates their profound ignorance, again.
8. Posted by Mac Lorry | September 30, 2009 11:38 AM |
Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
Posted on September 30, 2009 11:38
9. Posted by 914 | September 30, 2009 11:49 AM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Adrianna Huffington
"The Left strongly SUPPORTS the President's foreign policy stance so far. "
Are'nt you tired of being on your knees before Barry Hoo'spayin Obama?
9. Posted by 914 | September 30, 2009 11:49 AM |
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Posted on September 30, 2009 11:49
10. Posted by Picric | September 30, 2009 11:53 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I would look for Obama to step down before any Coup would come to be. His ego will not let him fail and by resigning he preserves this. Joe Biden would at least (hopefully) have the common sense to work with congress, and work with senators and house reps.
10. Posted by Picric | September 30, 2009 11:53 AM |
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Posted on September 30, 2009 11:53
11. Posted by Hank | September 30, 2009 11:54 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
re: "The Left strongly SUPPORTS the President's foreign policy stance so far."
No doubt. The left is big on apologies.
11. Posted by Hank | September 30, 2009 11:54 AM |
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Posted on September 30, 2009 11:54
12. Posted by 80%er | September 30, 2009 12:17 PM | Score: -2 (2 votes cast)
The Vidal article, which you conveniently don't link to, is pretty good.
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article6854221.ece
The Perry article has been removed by Newsmax. No more revolution porn today, wingnuts.
O.D.S.
12. Posted by 80%er | September 30, 2009 12:17 PM |
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Posted on September 30, 2009 12:17
13. Posted by arcman
| September 30, 2009 12:23 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
It seems to me that the Left is jonesing for something to happen to Obama so they can save face. Right now, we on the Conservative and Libertarian front see Obama as one of the best things that has happened in years, because it has opened the eyes of many to how dangerous the Left is and galvanized opposition to his socialist/Marxist agenda. There might be nutcases on the right that want to do in Obama, but my suspicion is that if anything happens to him, it will come from the Left. The military will only do something if he goes off the deepend and tries to proclaim himself "President for Life".
13. Posted by arcman
| September 30, 2009 12:23 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on September 30, 2009 12:23
14. Posted by HughS | September 30, 2009 12:27 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
80%er
"The Vidal article, which you conveniently don't link to, is pretty good."
I linked to Memeorandum, which along with the Vidal article, has a plenty of left and right links. Show some initiative.
14. Posted by HughS | September 30, 2009 12:27 PM |
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Posted on September 30, 2009 12:27
15. Posted by Geoffrey Britain | September 30, 2009 12:31 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Well, it's ALL Bush's fault!
It will ALWAYS be Bush's fault... (sarcasm off)
Gore Vidal is a bitter, pretentious, arrogant old man in the beginning stages of dementia.
15. Posted by Geoffrey Britain | September 30, 2009 12:31 PM |
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Posted on September 30, 2009 12:31
16. Posted by Bob Owens | September 30, 2009 12:35 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
While he blogs unpaid at Newsmax, John Perry worked for the LBJ and Carter Administrations, plus Democratic Florida Governor LeRoy Collins. And of course you've probably seen Gore Vidal's comments as well
But what we have here isn't left and right between Perry and Vidal. It's left and further left pushing fears of a coup in order to stigmatize the right.
16. Posted by Bob Owens | September 30, 2009 12:35 PM |
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Posted on September 30, 2009 12:35
17. Posted by cirby | September 30, 2009 12:36 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Wasn't it about this time last year that some of the more vehement lefties were telling us that Bush would never voluntarily leave office and that we'd have to have violent revolution to fight against the military, which would obviously support him?
17. Posted by cirby | September 30, 2009 12:36 PM |
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Posted on September 30, 2009 12:36