Nevada's Largest Daily Newspaper: Obama "Narcissistic Amateur"
By Katie Pavlich
11/2/2012
The Las Vegas Review-Journal,
Nevada's largest daily newspaper, has some extremely harsh words for President
Obama in a new editorial. The words come in response to President Obama's
leadership in the past four years, but specifically in response to his handling
of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi known to
the Review-Journal as
Obama's "blunder."
This administration is an embarrassment on foreign policy and
incompetent at best on the economy - though a more careful analysis shows what
can only be a perverse and willful attempt to destroy our prosperity. Back in
January 2008, Barack Obama told the editorial board of the San Francisco
Chronicle that under his cap-and-trade plan, "If somebody wants to build a
coal-fired power plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them."
He added, "Under my plan ... electricity rates would necessarily
skyrocket." It was also in 2008 that Mr. Obama's future Energy Secretary,
Steven Chu, famously said it would be necessary to "figure out how to
boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe" - $9 a gallon.
Yet the president now claims he's in favor of oil development and pipelines, taking credit for increased oil production on private lands where he's powerless to block it, after he halted the Keystone XL Pipeline and oversaw a 50 percent reduction in oil leases on public lands.
These behaviors go far beyond "spin." They amount to a pack of lies. To return to office a narcissistic amateur who seeks to ride this nation's economy and international esteem to oblivion, like Slim Pickens riding the nuclear bomb to its target at the end of the movie "Dr. Strangelove," would be disastrous.
Candidate Obama said if he couldn't fix the economy in four years, his would be a one-term presidency.
Mitt Romney is moral, capable and responsible man. Just this once, it's time to hold Barack Obama to his word. Maybe we can all do something about that, come Tuesday.
Yet the president now claims he's in favor of oil development and pipelines, taking credit for increased oil production on private lands where he's powerless to block it, after he halted the Keystone XL Pipeline and oversaw a 50 percent reduction in oil leases on public lands.
These behaviors go far beyond "spin." They amount to a pack of lies. To return to office a narcissistic amateur who seeks to ride this nation's economy and international esteem to oblivion, like Slim Pickens riding the nuclear bomb to its target at the end of the movie "Dr. Strangelove," would be disastrous.
Candidate Obama said if he couldn't fix the economy in four years, his would be a one-term presidency.
Mitt Romney is moral, capable and responsible man. Just this once, it's time to hold Barack Obama to his word. Maybe we can all do something about that, come Tuesday.
Ouch. Harsh
words, but oh so true.
Although the Journal used the most
jabbing words against Obama, at least
21 other major paperswho endorsed the President in 2008 have switched to
Romney this time around with the five biggest being The Houston Chronicle, The Forth Worth Star-Telegram, The Orlando Sentinel, The Tennessean and The Des Moines Register.
Two things here. 1) Mitt Romney is a much better candidate in 2012 than John
McCain was in 2008 b) Obama's record has caught up to him and editorial boards
across the country have finally admitted he hasn't earned a second term.
Four days.
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