President George W. Bush once boasted, “I’m not a textbook player, I’m a gut player.” The new tenant of the Oval Office takes a strikingly different approach. President Obama is almost defiantly deliberative, methodical and measured, even when critics accuse him of dithering. When describing his executive style, he goes into Spock mode, saying, “You’ve got to make decisions based on information and not emotions.”

People were weary of George W. Bush thinking with his “gut” and they are becoming weary of Barack Obama (over)thinking with his “head.”

In 2012, it’s time for an American president who thinks with his fists–

Bush warns of threats to freedom, economic growth – Washington Times

As President Bush said: “the role of government is not to create wealth, but to create the conditions that allow entrepreneurs and innovators to thrive.” This is true. Yet, more fundamentally, the government cannot create wealth; this is because it has the legal use of physical force over its citizens, which it should use only on those who initiate force, whether domestic or foreign.

However, no government can force a person to be productive or creative; governments can only stifle creativity and production.

No private citizen has the legal use of physical force over anyone. Private citizens deal with each other by voluntary consent through contractual relationships.

Private citizens need government to protect their individual rights so that they *can* be creative and productive.

Unfortunately, President Bush did not apply his own beliefs properly (witness Medicare D), and President Obama is acting like a dipsomaniac at an AA meeting by taking over the means of production and trade in the USA while having no intention of protecting the individual rights of the producers and traders.

What is he counting on? How long does President Obama think he can continue on this course before the USA collapses into a fascist dictatorship? It’s sooner than you might think.

Don’t let it go. It’s time to rediscover individual rights, liberty, and capitalism.

Mark A. Hurt, MD
Physician, Patriot

On Obama’s bizarre, perfunctory response to the massacre at Ft. Hood:

Completely missing was the eloquence that Mr Obama employs when talking about himself. Absent too was any sense that the President empathised with the families and comrades of those murdered.

It was a reminder that for the past 16 years Americans have had two Presidents who would often extemporise and express emotion. President Bill Clinton could certainly “feel your pain” while Mr Bush sometimes struggled to hold back tears. Mr Obama is more like President George Bush Snr, who famously communicated his concern for people by blurting out: “Message – I care.”

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It could do him good to show he has a bit of fire in his belly. Perhaps he might make a decision or two based on gut instinct and deep conviction. In other words, maybe he should try being a bit more like Mr Bush.

An illustration of the purported orientation of the GOOD/EVIL switch from 2000 to early 2009.

With two wars raging in the Middle East and a protracted economic downturn at home, Americans today finally have reason to celebrate. President Barack Obama has discovered– and in a triumphant ceremony, flipped– the GOOD/EVIL switch in the White House.

With one flick of the President’s sublimely graceful index finger, eight years of evil, embarrassingly indecorous Bushiness has been scrubbed from our nation’s highest office. With a glimmer of hope in his eyes, the President remarked,

We knew that restoring peace and prosperity to the world was as simple as literally flipping a switch, but we didn’t expect that it would take almost 9 months to find the switch.

Some Democratic strategists have suggested that the successful flip of the GOOD/EVIL switch could restore the Obama administration’s reputation for pushing ideologically simplistic and vacuously symbolic buttons in the wake of the “reset button” debacle during Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Russia earlier this year.

It is rumored that the GOOD/EVIL switch was installed during the presidency of Richard Nixon, but not used until Ronald Reagan took office in 1981. However, liberals and conservatives are divided on whether the 40th president flipped the switch to GOOD or EVIL.

UPDATE: MikeM reports from Russia that immediately upon flipping the switch, a light went off in a forgotten basement of the Kremlin: “Launch Nuclear Strike.”