Posted on 06/29/2015 10:30:22 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Barack Obama has reached the stage of his presidency where if he wants to break out in song publicly, as he did with “Amazing Grace” in a eulogy on Friday, then he’s going to do it.
With a year-and-a-half left in office, Obama is shedding some of his trademark “no drama” style for a looser approach, admitting that he feels more fearless and liberated.
It may also be in recognition that he has few big-ticket policy achievements left to enjoy in polarized Washington as the end of his two-term presidency approaches.
In a remarkable week for the president, a victory on Pacific Rim trade was snatched from the jaws of defeat on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. The Supreme Court on Thursday validated his signature healthcare law, guaranteeing he would accomplish a central second-term goal, to protect the 2010 Affordable Care Act from being dismantled by Republicans.
The icing on the cake came on Friday with the high court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage, a move Obama said was a "big step" toward equality for Americans.
After the court decision was announced, Obama took a Rose Garden victory lap.
“Progress on this journey often comes in small increments, sometimes two steps forward, one step back," he said.
"And then sometimes, there are days like this when that slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.”
Some Obama confidants described a more liberated, even feistier president, willing to mix it up with a heckler inside the White House, as he did on Wednesday. Or willing to use a racial epithet, long abandoned by civil society, to describe black people in urging more racial unity.
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Victories by judicial fiat and feckless GOP support.
It’s like rigging a ballgame and then celebrating as if you went out an earned the victory.
Somewhere in Hell, Stalin and Hitler are reading this and countless other Reuters, “let’s see how passionately we can kiss Obama’s ass” articles with jealous amazement.
If I have said it once I have said it a thousand times.....FUBO
I was at a friends house when this came on. I told her to turn the station, and she wouldn’t. I walked out. I don’t think even the majority of people in this country, certainly no one under 40, realize what a despicable last week we had, and how this country has been fundamentally changed because of this man.
Demolition derbies don’t have laps.
'fearless' - Is the kenyan/indonesian bastard commie retiring his teleprompter???
A big step forward??? What the hell else is left?
What cool style? If you mean staying behind the scenes and letting the minions take responsibility for the decisions of Bill Ayers and Al Sharpton, I guess that’s “cool.”
But for some reason, after Charleston, he feels he has nothing to lose by flaunting his leftist, pro-Muslim, black racist anti-Americanism. And he’s going to go for it, even if it means using the bodies of 9 Christian victims of a psychotic killer to do so.
“...admitting that he feels more fearless and liberated.”
He has been liberated by his Republican allies. That amounts to the same kind of fearlessness assigned to a person walking up to a securely caged lion.
He’s just increasing his amount of Drugs
I'm so sick of all these people...all their lies and capitulations and cynical disregard for the will of the people that I could explode!
“Fearless”????? I believe he meant feckless”.
Who are they kidding.
Baraq has always been a drama queen — from the jump.
He is indicative of American politics, viz. a low class buffoon appealing to ghetto and Walmart demographics. We’re getting exactly what we deserve.
” Obama is shedding some of his trademark “no drama” style for a looser approach,”
They misspelled “loser” there.
or, as Mark Levin so aptly put it, the Full Mussolini
I get sick of explaining the nuances of the English to people like you.
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