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Obama’s Increasingly Weak And Frivolous Presidency
http://leomcneil.net/2014/03/21/obamas-increasingly-weak-and-frivolous-presidency/ ^ | March 21, 2014 | Leo McNeil

Posted on 03/21/2014 5:53:34 AM PDT by LeoMcNeil

No one should begrudge the President a little rest and frivolity. There is a time and a place for it. The issue for a President is picking the time and place for such things. George W. Bush refused to golf once the wars started, deciding that the appearance of the President golfing sent the wrong message. Bush was forever attacked for spending a month at his ranch every summer, despite the fact that he had the same access to the government and the world that he had in the White House. Bill Clinton took less vacation time than Bush, spending most of it in Martha’s Vineyard.


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To: LeoMcNeil
Weak? Hardly.

He has beefed up the NSA, the IRS and Homeland Security, militarized police across America, consolidated the once mainstream media into his own fawning one stream media, signed numerous Executive Orders giving his GuvCo supreme power, is actively federalizing healthcare and medicine and other similar actions to strengthen his hand against we, the people.

Weak and frivolous? Not even close.

21 posted on 03/21/2014 6:42:21 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: dfwgator
And the Goebbels' media will tell us that he is.

And about half of the country believes it. "for the true believer no proof is necessary." (and no disproof possible)

22 posted on 03/21/2014 6:45:57 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Twinkie
I still don’t like to listen to Obama’s speechifying.

Listern to him? I can't stand to even look at him. It's like the whole country has been taken over by a walking talking turd.

23 posted on 03/21/2014 6:47:32 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: LeoMcNeil

The bottom line here is that liberals have different criteria for judging presidential down time, depending on whether they approve of the president.

In the case of Bush, he was roundly criticized for time at the ranch.

Some extreme liberals even blame Bush being on vacation for inviting September 11th. Because he spent the month of August 2001 at his ranch, the liberals decided that he was not on the job, and was not able to connect dots and all of that, in order to prevent the planning of Sept. 11th.

But in the case of Obama, we are told that the president is always in contact with his people, that he travels with a large White House staff, etc. and that he’s always on the job, even when out of the White House. The same criteria are not used to judge a Republican president taking a vacation.


24 posted on 03/21/2014 7:36:26 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (as)
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To: Starboard

My ouija board says Obama will not be around long—he will be set aside-—Be ready for President Biden—who will pick Hillary as his VP—then he will step down “for reasons of health” after giving a pardon to Obama and Michele and the whole cabal. Hillary will name John Kerry as her VP—and put Bill Clinton in as Sec. of State. More and more scandals will leak about Obama—as many of the problems we have will be seen as coming from the Oval Office. He will become Toxic like Stalin. For all we know—he may have had more murders racked up than Putin! lets hope I’m wrong!


25 posted on 03/21/2014 7:47:34 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Pollster1
...weakness and frivolous nature of his efforts....

He demonstrates misdemeanor. It is past time to remove him from office. Impeach, convict and remove.

26 posted on 03/21/2014 7:51:19 AM PDT by stboz
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To: GBA
Weak? Hardly.

He has beefed up the NSA, the IRS and Homeland Security, militarized police across America, consolidated the once mainstream media into his own fawning one stream media, signed numerous Executive Orders giving his GuvCo supreme power, is actively federalizing healthcare and medicine and other similar actions to strengthen his hand against we, the people.

Weak and frivolous? Not even close.

Great post! I had to quote it all.

27 posted on 03/21/2014 8:12:37 AM PDT by Paradox (Unexpected things coming for the next few years.)
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To: Paradox
Thanks. I got so angry and depressed I had to stop writing things down and left quite a few off the list.

I no longer wonder about how my easy going German relatives of old could have allowed the rise of Hitler and his world wide aftermath.

Too bad the evil that animated him didn't die with him.

28 posted on 03/21/2014 9:21:44 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: stboz

Sadly, the Senate lacks the integrity to convict the druggie and remove him from our White House. We have to tolerate his destructive evil until January 20, 2017, and then do our best to repair the damage when Americans regain control of our government.


29 posted on 03/21/2014 9:55:51 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Vendome

Could be.


30 posted on 03/21/2014 12:23:07 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

How you doing?


31 posted on 03/21/2014 12:49:11 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Vendome
How you doing?

Not in any immediate danger.

You?

32 posted on 03/21/2014 1:05:11 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: LeoMcNeil

Hey, Leo..
How is it that you only post your own material?

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:leomcneil/index?tab=articles

Are you just marketing your material here?


33 posted on 03/21/2014 3:26:06 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

Same.

Redneck attitude.

It’s a great life if you don’t weaken....

And then some song by Hank Williams Jr.

Beechnut, spit, eye, ole .45....


34 posted on 03/21/2014 4:12:34 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: humblegunner

Marketing? I don’t make a penny off of my blog.


35 posted on 03/24/2014 5:01:29 AM PDT by LeoMcNeil
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To: LeoMcNeil

Then why excerpt?


36 posted on 03/24/2014 5:11:13 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Vendome

This Hum guy is an idiot.

He is OCD on excerpts.

Has serious issues


37 posted on 03/24/2014 9:40:18 AM PDT by Jayster
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To: Jayster

“Has serious issues”

Oddly, none of which seem to be being “taken down” or “crushed”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3136138/posts?page=89#89
“I will make it a point to take him down. I am not one to be taken lightly.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3136138/posts?page=87#87
“This troll on here has no idea who he is dealing with. I will crush him.”

What seems to be the hold up?


38 posted on 03/24/2014 10:46:19 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

Time will tell. Still early.


39 posted on 03/24/2014 11:27:11 AM PDT by Jayster
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To: Jayster
Time will tell. Still early.

Maybe you should call in your brother to help.

40 posted on 03/24/2014 11:28:58 AM PDT by humblegunner
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