Libertarian Nick Gillespie Wrote an Entertainingly Scathing Indictment of President Obama’s Record — as Seen from Young People’s Perspective — Recommended Reading for Anyone Interested in the Demographics of Politics and How to Write in a Captivating Way

20 November 2013

Citation

Nick Gillespie, Why Youth Is Revolting Against Obama (Hint: It’s Not Just Obamacare), Daily Beast (20 November 2013)

Every once in a while, someone sums up our disgust for lie-defended incompetence in an engaging way

Mr. Gillespie’s article begins like this:

It’s like totally official, now, bro:

Even the young Americans who were central to Barack Obama’s election in 2008 and 2012 are sick of the president, with a large and growing majority disapproving of the job he’s doing. In this, they’re just like their elders.

A new Quinnipiac Poll finds that only 36 percent of voters between the ages of 18 and 29 approve of the job the president is doing while fully 54 percent of the kids give him the thumbs down (10 percent didn’t know or care enough to respond to the topic). Back in March 2009, 62 percent of 18 to 29 years approved, compared to just 20 percent disapproving.

“Sick of the president”

Having voted for President Obama twice, I now don’t pay any attention to anything coming out of perennially dishonest lips. His sonorous blather has gone from hope-titillating to profoundly irritating. Like a foghorn creating fog, rather than piercing it.

The President is irrelevant to America’s future, except as an example of the kind of leadership thinking that needs a ride down the toilet bowl.

Every time he turns around, his malevolently controlling cowardice is sticking another knife into the American Dream.

Gillespie concisely goes down the list of Obama’s list soiled laundry

For example:

The revelations of widespread, Obama-approved drone strikes, the compilation of a presidential kill list, and the data collection of phone logs and internet traffic don’t exactly inspire warm and fuzzy feelings from a generation that lives online.

His response to the Gulf oil spill was dithering to non-existent and his alt-energy plans have come to naught even as fracking has put the country on a path to something like energy independence. And clandestine attempts to expand onerous copyright laws and outlaw cellphone unlocking via the Trans-Pacific Partnership Treaty aren’t helping either.

[With the result that — ]

Like Bush before him – and in many wars, even worse than Bush before him - Obama has personified the failure of leaders to speak plainly, honestly and directly and to enact simple, effective, financially responsible policies that speak to Americans’ hopes and dreams.

The great political continuity in the 21st century is one of transpartisan failure and the continuing flight from party affiliation by more and more Americans.

Along the way, he transmogrified from a hipster dad into a near-total drag whose control is as absolute as his inability to get anything right.

The moral? — When you crush young people’s gene-derived optimism, you’re a big time loser

Both as leader and, arguably, human being.

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Libertarian Nick Gillespie Wrote an Entertainingly Scathing Indictment of President Obama’s Record — as Seen from Young People’s Perspective — Recommended Reading for Anyone Interested in the Demographics of Politics and How to Write in a Captivating Way