Your excellent column about Michael Gerson’s surprise at how Obama is acting and his dismay at Obama’s approach to certain issues makes me want to go back to the material I posted at RedState.com last month. I am beginning to feel I need to recycle this post periodically as a “primer” to the folks who are experiencing “buyer’s remorse” for supporting Obama in the Presidential election. Here are the comments, which are becoming even more relevant as the days and weeks go by:

LACK OF PRINCIPLED LEADERSHIP

The President’s despicable behavior during his rush to get the “porkulus” bill passed was a true indicator of his LACK OF PRINCIPLED LEADERSHIP. If he really believed what he continually reminded us during the campaign, then he would have reined in the House and Senate Democrats — on behalf of the American people — because this was not the time for them to act as drunken-sailor partisans. It brings to mind once again his eight-year track record in the Illinois Senate.

Below is a blog I posted in February that reminds readers of what Obama was like while serving in Springfield, Illinois. His actions as President, though terribly disappointing, are not a bit surprising when you look at his record, which continues to be ignored by the mainstream media. Obama knows neither “fiscal responsibility” nor “principled leadership”:

IF ONLY THE NEWS MEDIA HAD COME TO ILLINOIS……….

“Barack Obama’s early ineptitude and arrogant attitude — otherwise known as ‘Amateur Hour at 1600 Pennyslvania Avenue’ — were so predictable if only the mainstream media had taken the initiative to dig just a little and to ask questions like a high school journalism student could have done.

“Two of my Republican friends, highly respected by colleagues of both parties, have served in the Illinois Senate for well more than 10 and 20 years, respectively. Obviously, they were there for Obama’s eight years — 1997 to 2004 — in the Senate. I asked them, ‘What was he like for those eight years?’

“Here is how they described Obama: 1) intelligent, 2) knack for giving speeches with flowery, even soaring, rhetoric but little real substance, 3) DIDN’T REALLY DO ANYTHING except make it clear that he had a desire to run for higher office beyond Illinois, 4) arrogant, 5) aloof, 6) was NOT a leader in the Senate, 7) was not even a leader in his OWN party in the Senate, 8)protected at every turn by Chicago Democratic Senate boss Emil Jones, 9) rarely worked across the aisle except when he actually had to during the time the Republicans controlled the Senate, 10) projected the image that he thought he was just a little smarter or a little better than the others, 11) very smooth, so much so that he could skate around and in-between the Chicago corruption to which he had many close ties, but nothing critical ever stuck.

“When asked, ‘What do you fear about him?’, the Senators’ answers consisted of two main concerns: 1) underneath the camouflage of the ultra-liberal voting record that he compiled in Illinois and in the U.S. Senate is the heartbeat of a ‘Socialist,’ especially with respect to our country’s domestic policies, and 2) his disdain for the U.S. military, which will be reflected in how he approaches the ‘war on terror,’ along with his attitude that he can negotiate with rogue leaders and convince the enemy to back off because of his ’superior’ intelligence and ‘powers of persuasion.’

“The Senators were asked these questions in the summer of 2008, prior to the Presidential campaign heating up. From what we now see in the White House, wouldn’t you agree that Obama’s current behavior was ‘predictable’? If only the news media had come to Illinois………..

“Remember, a leopard never changes its spots, not even one from Kenya.”

fools like Gerson.

The more important point is that we have YA RedState front page diary once again wasting time on YA phony “Republican”.

Rather than arguing about whether Steele being a good choice or not for the GOP, it is *these* kinds of diaries that are wasting our time.

We are once again playing the Dems game of shadowboxing phantom media “Republicans”, rather than focusing all of our fire on Obama, Pelosi & Reid’s outrageously radical and destructive agenda(s) and holding GOP office holders accountable.

We seriously need a moratorium on diaries like this going after these phony media “Republicans”. It is a waste of both time and effort.

Is this the beginning or end of the Obama regime or the USA?

When New York City hired David Dinkens through affrimative action principles it soon learned he was not up for the job. Having no credentials except one, his policies and appointments created a cancer (or some would say made a tumor brought on by Ed Koch malignant) that eroded the city’s fabric. As New York was ready to hit bottom, the braindead people of New York City somehow figured out that radical surgery and chemo was appropriate and then hired Rudy Guilianni before it was too late. The recovery and rejuvenation of the city is a fact that our media friends will ignore but cannot deny.

The Dinkens II administration got into power in Washington the same way Dinkens I did and is repeating the New York City failures of governance of the original thereby ensuring the cancer spreads across our formerly great nation. At this juncture it appears the majority of Americans are more braindead than New Yorkers and there is no Rudy oncologist to look to for treatment.