Obama Displays a Mean Streak as he goes into Campaign Mode

We are seeing more articles about the mean streak of Obama but we only have to look back to his verbally attacking the Supreme Court Justices at his State of the Union speech on January 27, 2010, to understand that Obama is not Mr. Nice Guy. If a President will attack the Justices of the Supreme Court sitting in the front row, it is not shocking that Obama attacked Paul Ryan sitting in the front row of his speech on Wednesday night about the budget followed by his attack at a fundraiser later in the week.  What other President has been so nasty to someone he invited to hear his speech? 

Unfortunately, we agree with Mark Tapscott's last paragraph of his column which appeared at the Washington Examiner this morning, Mean streak: Obama is not as nice as he looks:

Odds are we will see more of this meaner side of the Obama persona in the months ahead because, as columnist and former GOP presidential aide Pete Wehner notes, "now that he finds himself intellectually outmatched by Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, and in a precarious situation when it comes to his re-election, Obama is dropping his past civility sermons down the memory hole. Decency and respect for others has suddenly become passe. Talking about our disagreements without being disagreeable has been overtaken by events. Not impugning the character of the opposition is fine as long as it's convenient, but it's to be ignored whenever necessary." In other words, we're now seeing the real Obama in what promises to be an ugly campaign.

We can see Obama along with the Obama media turning this into one nasty Presidential campaign. We remember how Obama treated Dr. Coburn and Senate McCain after he was elected when they extended their friendship to him with his words "I Won" which spoke volumes about the low class of this man who had been sworn in as President. Dr. Coburn went out of his way to help Obama learn the ropes of the Senate after he was elected, but obviously that didn't make any difference to Obama.

We didn't understand the 'nice guy' tag to Obama to begin with because what 'nice guy' could sit in Rev Wright's anti-white church for years and be a 'nice guy?' Rev Wright's sermons were used to inflame blacks against whites in sermon after sermon that Obama said he didn't hear but he went to Church all the time. That should have been a clue in the general election campaign that Obama and the truth are not friends. How many people did Obama end throwing under the bus during the election? Every time you turned around he was disavowing someone else. The man has 'zero' core values except he knows he wants to be king or a dictator not a President who answers to the American people.

Now his latest target is Cong Paul Ryan who took a machete to the Obama budget while Obama in his do-over speech on the budget Wednesday night brought first grader scissors to the budget but he brought a mean streak he used to attack Ryan in his bitter speech that most of the media is having trouble spinning.  With the true mean-spirited Obama coming out this week, is the Obama media going to continue to spin or are they finally going to tell the truth that deep down Obama is not a nice guy?  The Obama media has seen it up close and personal but only a few like Jake Tapper and Chip Reid have been willing to report up until now. They media has not done a good job spinning the Paul Ryan attacks so what are they going to do when he keeps attacking Republican candidates running for President with lies and untruths during the campaign? We don't think Obama when backed in a corner knows any other way except to attack. In his mind, he cannot to be shown up by anyone including his wife from all accounts.,

The review of Obama speech he delivered on the April 13th, is blistering in an editorial from The Wall Street Journal, The Presidential Divider Obama's toxic speech and even worse plan for deficits and debt starting out with the first paragraph:

Did someone move the 2012 election to June 1? We ask because President Obama's extraordinary response to Paul Ryan's budget yesterday—with its blistering partisanship and multiple distortions—was the kind Presidents usually outsource to some junior lieutenant. Mr. Obama's fundamentally political document would have been unusual even for a Vice President in the fervor of a campaign.

This morning when you read Mark Tapscott's column you are left with the thought that this President doesn't act Presidential but is now acting like a spoiled brat who wants to be a king or dictator where no one dares to question what he says or what he submits to Congress:

Mean streak: Obama is not as nice as he looksBy: Mark Tapscott, Examiner Editorial
04/16/11 8:05 PM

Liberal Democrats were often befuddled by President Reagan's "Teflon presidency."

By their lights, Reagan could commit the most heinous acts, but their criticisms were usually shrugged off by the American people, who judged him a "nice guy" who deserved the benefit of the doubt. President Obama has enjoyed something similar during his first 2 1/2 years in office. Even as public opposition mounted to his policies -- Obamacare, the failed economic stimulus program, cap and trade, skyrocketing government deficits -- Obama retained a reserve of public good will reflected in consistently strong personal favorability ratings. People who didn't like his policies generally still saw Obama as a likeable guy, somebody they would enjoy having over for dinner with the family.

But that may be changing. Recall that Obama invited House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin to George Washington University to hear his Wednesday address on the federal government's dire fiscal situation. The speech was advertised by the White House as a major address in which the president would join the serious conversation initiated two weeks ago by Ryan in his detailed proposal for cutting spending. What Obama instead delivered, with Ryan sitting in the front row, was, in the Wall Street Journal's unsparing description, a "poison pen" speech dripping with mean-spirited partisanship, gross misrepresentations of fact, and sophistry of the lowest sort concerning Republicans' alleged desire to hurt old people, the poor and mentally challenged children. It was the sort of harangue one would expect from a rabidly devoted partisan hack, with no relation whatever to the thoughtful appeals to reason and common values that historically have characterized presidential leadership in this country.

Obama then spent Thursday evening regaling an audience of Democratic donors with what he thought were off-the-record insider jabs about his recent budget negotiations with House Republicans, including this cheap shot at Ryan: "When Paul Ryan says his priority is to make sure he's just being America's accountant, that he's being responsible, I mean this is the same guy that voted for two wars that were unpaid for, voted for the Bush tax cuts that were unpaid for, voted for the prescription drug bill that cost as much as my health care bill -- but wasn't paid for. So it's not on the level." The reality is that the Iraq and Afghanistan wars under President Bush were regularly funded by Congress, claiming tax cuts must be "paid for" is a hoary piece of Democratic class-warfare demagoguery, and the prescription drug plan Ryan supported cost half as much as the Democratic alternative then on the table. Such fact-free commentary is to be expected from blind partisans, but not the president of the United States.

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Read more from Mark Tapscott at the Washington Examiner

The spin from the White House after Obama was caught on an open microphone attacking Paul Ryan for not being sincere is mind boggling as we learn from the Washington Examiner's, Byron York:

White House: When Obama said Paul Ryan is 'not on the level,' he meant Ryan is 'absolutely sincere'

In his caught-by-an-open-microphone remarks to a private fundraiser in Chicago Thursday night, President Obama questioned the sincerity of House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan's effort to reduce the federal deficit. Ryan's approach, Obama told Democratic donors, is "not on the level."

"When Paul Ryan says his priority is to make sure, you know, he's just being America's accountant…," Obama said, "this is the same guy that voted for two wars that were unpaid for, voted for the Bush tax cuts that were unpaid for, voted for the prescription drug bill that cost as much as my health care bill -- but wasn't paid for. So it's not on the level. And we've got to keep on, you know, keep on shining a light on that."

Read more at the Washington Examiner

Would someone like to explain how the new White House press secretary, Jay Carney, could spin those remarks into Ryan is "absolutely sincere" when questioned by a reporter on Air Force One about Obama's remarks. We have heard spin but Jay Carney's spin is one of the biggest whoppers yet. When Obama picked Carney was he looking for someone who wasn't afraid to look foolish while spinning for Obama? If he was, he picked the right person.