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Our President is a Political Coward
blogger ^ | 8-13-09 | Muny Dews

Posted on 08/13/2009 7:44:55 AM PDT by Brookhaven

Watching the recent town hall debates on health care, one thing is clear: they are not easy for members of congress. The crowds are passionate, loud, angry, frustrated, and worst of all informed. They are asking tough, specific questions. The types of questions that make politicians look foolish, because they don't know the answer.

YouTube is overrun with videos of politicians taking it on the chin in these meetings. From Arlan Spector being told a giant has awakened, to John Dingell being chastised by a man standing next to his son who has cerebral palsy. But to those politicians’ credit they are facing their constituents, and fielding those hard, pointed questions. I wouldn't go so far as to call them brave, but we can at least say they aren't cowards.

Then there was President Obama's health care town hall meeting. It was scheduled so the President could clear up misunderstandings about health care reform. I was looking forward to it. The President had been a community organizer. He had gotten people fired up to protest. He had made politicians uncomfortable. He had dished it out, now we would see if he could take it as well as he had dished it out in the past.

I never found out.

The questioners included an 11 year old child (whose mother actually has a picture of herself and President Obama on her facebook page) and such tough questions as: "President Obama, if the Republicans actively refuse to debate in a reasonable way with reasonable proposals isn’t time to pass the reform without them?" At one point someone in the crowd shouted "I love you" and President Obama replied "I love you back."

These weren't just a few planted questioners to ensure the President could make a few points. The entire room was stacked with Obama supporters. There were no voices representing opposing viewpoints in the room. That doesn't happen by chance, it has to be carefully planned and staged.

Can President Obama stand before a crowd of passionate citizens and field the tough questions they way he forced so many elected officials to do in the past? Can he take it as well as he dished it out years ago? We may never know, because when his time came he hid behind a stacked crowd that asked softball questions and shouted "I love you."

The only thing we learned from the Presidents town hall meeting is that President Obama is a political coward.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: hall; health; obama; town

1 posted on 08/13/2009 7:44:56 AM PDT by Brookhaven
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To: Brookhaven

No, he’s worse than that.

He has his head up his butt and he enjoys it there. Probably something to do with his life around the time he met Larry Sinclair.


2 posted on 08/13/2009 7:46:39 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (The UN has never won a war, nor a conflict, but liberals want it to rule all militaries.)
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To: Brookhaven
These weren't just a few planted questioners to ensure the President could make a few points. The entire room was stacked with Obama supporters. There were no voices representing opposing viewpoints in the room. That doesn't happen by chance, it has to be carefully planned and staged.

And he still screwed up (for his side) with the Post Office - UPS & Fedex comparison. Someone needs to invite this chump to a real townhall.

3 posted on 08/13/2009 7:49:00 AM PDT by frogjerk (tagline pulled for verification)
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To: Brookhaven

And he’s a compensatory narcissist and a pathological liar.


4 posted on 08/13/2009 7:49:08 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (CITIZENS OF LIBERTY! RISE UP AND DEFEAT THE EVIL BEAST, OBAMUNISM!)
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To: Brookhaven

He’s a street thug who made it big with the help of bleeding heart liberals. They are going to destroy our country.


5 posted on 08/13/2009 7:49:45 AM PDT by MissEdie (America went to the polls on 11-4-08 and all we got was a socialist and a dottering old fool.)
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To: Brookhaven
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6 posted on 08/13/2009 7:49:46 AM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: Brookhaven
Just look at the ‘czars’ the ‘President’ has placed around himself, all the layers and layers of insulation from America.

So many individuals and organizations who run interference for the ‘President’. You could populate a small town with them.

“Small dogs run in large packs”

7 posted on 08/13/2009 7:50:17 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else" Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: Brookhaven

Our President The Usurper is a Political Coward

Fixed it for you.

8 posted on 08/13/2009 7:55:18 AM PDT by markomalley (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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To: Brookhaven

We must infiltrate. We must get into these organizations and agree to ask the questions handed to us by his organizers and then once the camera and mic is on us, ask what we really want to know and put him on the spot.

It’s going to take this guys. We have spies in the CIA, we need spies in the political forum as well it seems.


9 posted on 08/13/2009 7:55:28 AM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: Brookhaven
Correction: 0bama is NOT the President, he is an illegal usurper of the Office is he occupying and has no legal or moral authority whatsoever, ditto for his thugs who represent the source of his political power.

Correction: The Democratic Party no longer exists, it has been coopted and seized by Communist subversives and used as a mechanism to install the above illegal usurper into the Oval Office. The Party of Truman, Humphrey & Zell Miller is no more.

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10 posted on 08/13/2009 7:58:37 AM PDT by mkjessup ("Just Say No" to the illegal 0bamunist Regime of Occupation. The 'Dear Comrade' can Kiss My Ass.)
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To: frogjerk
And he still screwed up (for his side) with the Post Office - UPS & Fedex comparison

Exactly. If he were really a great public speaker he would have let in some of the protesters. Sure stack the audience, but let in say 10% real humans. Then when the anti-socialists speak he could lay the smack down on them in a classy and intelligent way. Think about Reagen's "I paid for this microphone" moment.

But Obama isn't a good speaker, just a good teleprompter reader. And he isn't even that good at that. He knows he can't face a hostile crowd without being shown to be the thug he actually is. Had he been less controlled by his own ego could have stayed out of it. Let Pelosi take the heat for this disaster and then come back with something that could be sold to the majority of Americans. Lincoln once said that it is better to be silent and thought a fool than speak and remove all doubt. Obama chose to open his mouth.
11 posted on 08/13/2009 7:59:24 AM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world, and they are all out to get me.)
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To: SMARTY
I think we should quit calling them czars and call them what they are. They are COMMISSARS.

COMMISSARS

12 posted on 08/13/2009 7:59:49 AM PDT by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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To: Brookhaven

He is not legally the president. He just plays president on tv.

Hey Barry, whatcha hidin?


13 posted on 08/13/2009 8:00:27 AM PDT by Texas resident ( Boys and Girls, it's us against them.)
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To: SMARTY

Doesn’t he remind you-all of Nixon?

Sorta like Nixon mentality and worse-than-Carter policies.

Sheesh. Lord have mercy on us.


14 posted on 08/13/2009 8:04:26 AM PDT by Cloverfarm (Where are we going, and why are we in a hand-basket?)
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To: Brookhaven
Watch, Obambi will now scatter fake members of the “NEW MOB” throughout his two remaining fake Town Hall meetings to get in his face on his ObambiCare. They will ask absurd fake questions so the rest of the crowd can boooo and Obambi can intervene and rescue the MOB member and answer the absurd question!

All to make himself look good!

15 posted on 08/13/2009 8:07:28 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: mkjessup

J. Edgar Hoover warned about communist subversion way back in 1957. He wrote a book titled “Masters of Deceit” that exposed the cpusa and what tactics they were preparing to employ to subvert the country. I re read the book recently and other than planting bombs, the dimrat party is following this book page by page. That and rules for radicals are their playbooks.


16 posted on 08/13/2009 8:11:45 AM PDT by Texas resident ( Boys and Girls, it's us against them.)
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To: GonzoGOP

Ego is the operative word here.

Those with huge egos can’t stand being critisized. Even the MSM noticed the room was stacked.

I think calling Obama a political coward is not only accurate, but it will get under his skin, unnerve him, and cause him to do something stupid (like actually answer a tough question) in a effort to prove he isn’t a political coward.


17 posted on 08/13/2009 8:11:57 AM PDT by Brookhaven (And in their desperation, they turned to a man they fully did not understand--Rise of the Joker)
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To: Brookhaven

“Present” is the political cowards vote.

Presidents need to be leaders, not ‘fly below the radar and vote ‘present’’ empty suits.


18 posted on 08/13/2009 8:12:06 AM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?)
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To: mkjessup

Great post and so true. The Democrats are Communists. It is shame what has happened to our nation.


19 posted on 08/13/2009 8:16:44 AM PDT by Commander X (Hey Barry, what are you hiding?)
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To: Red_Devil 232

Watch, Obambi will now scatter fake members of the “NEW MOB” throughout his two remaining fake Town Hall meetings to get in his face on his ObambiCare. They will ask absurd fake questions so the rest of the crowd can boooo and Obambi can intervene and rescue the MOB member and answer the absurd question!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I wrote on another thread that YouTube is turning out to be the librals Waterloo. Sure they can plant fake protesters, and the next day there will be a video of their question along with a screen shot of their facebook page showing they are a union member and Obama supporter on YouTube.


20 posted on 08/13/2009 8:16:56 AM PDT by Brookhaven (And in their desperation, they turned to a man they fully did not understand--Rise of the Joker)
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To: Brookhaven

Obama is the manufactured teflon man from the whack left. On the surface he’s Mr. smiley face while underneath he’s a junkyard dog socialist!


21 posted on 08/13/2009 8:21:59 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: ConservativeMind
He is NOT MY president. He's GEORGE SORO'S and SAUL ALINSKY'S president. And if you think those leftist jerks have YOUR interests at heart, you, too, suffer from CARVILLE SYNDROME.

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22 posted on 08/13/2009 8:27:20 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (ELECTION 2010 IS THE MOST IMPORTANT OF OUR LIFETIME! If you have to ask why, UR part of the problem!)
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To: Brookhaven

“Our President is a Political Coward”

Correction. He is not our president.

He is a cheeky Kenyan bastard.


23 posted on 08/13/2009 8:45:30 AM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Texas resident

I read that book when it first came out in 1957. I was in high school then. It made my blood run cold then, and they haven’t changed their game plan a bit. They are the ENEMY!!


24 posted on 08/13/2009 11:36:37 AM PDT by Ax
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To: Ax

Maybe that’s why the media still trashes Mr. Hoover to this day.


25 posted on 08/13/2009 11:44:31 AM PDT by Texas resident ( Boys and Girls, it's us against them.)
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To: Dick Bachert

bump cuz this thread needs bumping.


26 posted on 08/13/2009 1:15:09 PM PDT by Brookhaven (And in their desperation, they turned to a man they fully did not understand--Rise of the Joker)
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To: Texas resident
J. Edgar Hoover warned about communist subversion way back in 1957. He wrote a book titled “Masters of Deceit” that exposed the CPUSA and what tactics they were preparing to employ to subvert the country. I re-read the book recently and other than planting bombs, the dimrat party is following this book page by page. That and rules for radicals are their playbooks.

*BUMP* and bravo FRiend, 'Masters of Deceit' ought to be required reading by ANY person calling themselves a patriotic American because Hoover exposed their tactics as only a federal lawman could do. I read that book when I was in 7th grade, not because it was in my curriculum at school but because my family was and has always been virulently anti-Communist and I wanted to know more, and I checked out Masters of Deceit at the local library. I devoured it, not once but several times. An excellent read!

As for our latter day Democrats Communists, they'll graduate to the bomb section when they figure out how not to blow themselves up and when they fear they are losing their political power.

Just you wait and see.
27 posted on 08/13/2009 1:18:30 PM PDT by mkjessup ("Just Say No" to the illegal 0bamunist Regime of Occupation. The 'Dear Comrade' can Kiss My Ass.)
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To: Commander X
The Democrats are Communists. It is a shame what has happened to our nation.

2 Chronicles 7:14 (KJV)
"If My people, which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My Face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

Communists are Godless, if God should choose to show mercy once more to America, who can stand against us?

One word: PRAY
28 posted on 08/13/2009 1:22:08 PM PDT by mkjessup ("Just Say No" to the illegal 0bamunist Regime of Occupation. The 'Dear Comrade' can Kiss My Ass.)
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To: Brookhaven

SORO’S should be SOROS’.

Apostrophe misplaced.

Duhhhhh.


29 posted on 08/13/2009 1:34:58 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: Texas resident

True. Guess they don’t like it when someone stumbles on to their game.


30 posted on 08/13/2009 2:16:56 PM PDT by Ax
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