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The end of Obamania
Los Angeles Times ^ | July 12, 2009 | Doyle McManus

Posted on 07/12/2009 6:35:29 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776

Barack Obama has fallen back to Earth.

When he ran for president, Obama said his election would be "the moment the rise of the oceans began to slow." And when he made his first big foreign trip in April, he was hailed by adoring crowds -- and almost-as-adoring politicians -- in Britain, Germany, France and the Czech Republic.

But last week, in Russia and Italy, Obamania was little more than a pleasant memory. Yes, his international polling numbers are still high, but the president encountered hardly any adulation in the streets of Moscow or anywhere else. Instead, Russian strongman Vladimir Putin reportedly gave him a tongue-lashing over a two-hour breakfast, and the tent-bound refugees from Italy's April earthquake mostly wanted to know whether he could rebuild their homes. ("Yes, we camp," their banner said, pointedly.)

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; obamamessiah; obamania; second100days
And.. what has "Yes, we can" Obama done in finding Osama....???????
1 posted on 07/12/2009 6:35:29 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776
This from the L.A. Times? There may be light at the end of the tunnel after all.
2 posted on 07/12/2009 6:37:38 AM PDT by library user
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To: AmericanMade1776

Doesn’t point out the samething happening here in the US!!!


3 posted on 07/12/2009 6:40:22 AM PDT by wbones8765 ("Give me liberty or give me death")
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To: AmericanMade1776
...and the tent-bound refugees from Italy's April earthquake mostly wanted to know whether he could rebuild their homes.

They also asked him to raise their dead, cure their leprosy, and turn their water into wine, but Michelle told the peasants to f*** off when they got too close.

4 posted on 07/12/2009 6:42:41 AM PDT by rickmichaels
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oldeconmybuyer, I think I beat you by about one minute on that... This pic of Obama could chill even the Hottest summer day.

5 posted on 07/12/2009 6:43:55 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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To: library user
library user wrote: This from the L.A. Times? There may be light at the end of the tunnel after all.

I know, It certainly sounds like the L.A. Times has lost the Thrill concerning Obama.... wonder what was the tipping point for them?

6 posted on 07/12/2009 6:45:17 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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To: AmericanMade1776
Until Barry's boys figure things out, they'll initiate a whispering campaign against the former VP and a particular fireman.
7 posted on 07/12/2009 6:46:28 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: AmericanMade1776
The guy has been a fraud and a sham from the beginning. He is an abject marxist ideologue from the backalleys of Chicago politics. The end of the "hero" and "rock star" image surrounding him is more than well deserved.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IN HIS OWN WORDS

NOW WE KNOW WHAT A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER DOES

OBAMA, THE STOCK MARKET, AND ENERGY

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S UPBRINGING

A JULY 4TH TEA PARTY SPEECH IN AMERICA


OBAMA & DISHONOR AT NOTRE DAME

IOW, just listen to the teleprompter and ignore what the man actually does

8 posted on 07/12/2009 6:46:56 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: AmericanMade1776
“Obama avoided the rookie mistake that John F. Kennedy committed at his first summit meeting in 1961, when the new president left the Russians thinking he was young, untested and uncertain.”
Yes, Obama removed all doubt that he was anything but a left-wing ideologue with zero experience and zero clues as to how the real world works. The Russians know they can roll him anytime they want, so he'll have to tuck his tail and come back to Washington and concentrate harder on destroying the U.S. from within. After all, the unemployment rate is only 12%. There are still jobs to destroy.
9 posted on 07/12/2009 6:47:39 AM PDT by bitterohiogunclinger (America held hostage - day 163)
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To: library user
The hard reality of international affairs is that, just as the United States has interests, so do other countries. And when those interests conflict, all the charm and charisma in the world can't resolve the differences.

This is something that should have been said BEFORE the election as it is undoubtedly true. But that would be asking too much of the editorial writers at the LATimes.

10 posted on 07/12/2009 6:48:46 AM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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To: AmericanMade1776

“The One” is a bust. ...


11 posted on 07/12/2009 6:53:11 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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To: AmericanMade1776
wonder what was the tipping point for them?

Polls. As soon as his popularity starts to drop, they begin to see more people (readers) interested in reading about his failure than his worship. It's all about selling papers.

12 posted on 07/12/2009 6:53:39 AM PDT by erkyl (We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office --Aesop (~550 BC))
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To: AmericanMade1776
Obama drones are starting to exhibit hangovers.
13 posted on 07/12/2009 6:54:25 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: AmericanMade1776

Obamania - The irrational exuberance of the voluntarily duped masses by a master of manipulation.


14 posted on 07/12/2009 6:58:23 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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To: AmericanMade1776
"We sincerely hope that Iran will seize this opportunity to give diplomacy a chance."

LOL! All the Viagra in the world will not strengthen these little eunuchs.

"The end of Obamania"

Don't count on it. Millions of morons still think John Kennedy was A GREEEEAAAAT MANNNNN.

15 posted on 07/12/2009 6:58:25 AM PDT by Savage Beast ("Liberalism" is a psychosis. Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat.)
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To: erkyl
If there's anything people like seeing more than a hero rise, it's seeing a hero fall. ;-)

Obama had the makings of a star, and a star he became. Celebrity power sells, and the media was happy to sell it with him. Now his administration has the stink of failure escaping from the seems. Disrespect abroad, economic woes at home, arrogance from the White House, and sinking poll numbers. You can already feel the winds shifting.

Broken celebrities are worth far more to newspapers than intact ones.

16 posted on 07/12/2009 6:59:54 AM PDT by Steel Wolf (Obama can't fix the economy for the same reason people who win the lottery die broke.)
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To: Savage Beast
Savage Beast wrote: Don't count on it. Millions of morons still think John Kennedy was A GREEEEAAAAT MANNNNN.

I read that Jackie Kennedy Onassis, thought Bobby Kennedy was a Greaaaaaaaaaaaaatttttttttter Mannnnnnnnnnnnnn.

17 posted on 07/12/2009 7:01:02 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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18 posted on 07/12/2009 7:05:41 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: AmericanMade1776

I’m still enchanted with Barry’s pistol-grip ears.


19 posted on 07/12/2009 7:09:42 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona.....)
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To: library user

“There may be light at the end of the tunnel after all. “

Who knows? But, interestingly the little box poll shows 83% saying Now Obama needs to show results. Of course, if he manages to show the results he’s promised and desires that won’t be good at all.


20 posted on 07/12/2009 7:10:30 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: AmericanMade1776
LOL!

When I was in Greece back in the 1970s, I saw in a shop window a photograph of the Athens Acropolis with a greedy looking Jackie-O surveying it from the skies. The caption (in English) was: "Some day all this will be MINE."

When you think about how many utter morons there are out there, you marvel that the world's not in worse shape than it is.

This is overwhelming evidence of the intervention in the world by a benevolent Deity. I just wish He would wump up the intelligence level of the nitwits.

21 posted on 07/12/2009 7:25:48 AM PDT by Savage Beast ("Liberalism" is a psychosis. Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat.)
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To: jocon307

Now is the time where he wags the dog and starts witch hunts to move the public attention from his open destruction of America. Pelosi Threats, Bush Trials, Algore on Global Governance. Yep it’s all window dressing for his Hugo Chavez style take over move.
Saul Alynski would be so proud.


22 posted on 07/12/2009 7:28:34 AM PDT by Steamburg ( Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Very, very subtle imagery there in that picture. If you look closely at the eyes only you will get a sense of another time - circa 1865.....Sunken eyes, sallow face jaw and skin loose neck.... hmmmmmm...wonder who the artist was looking at when sketching this out?


23 posted on 07/12/2009 7:39:56 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: AmericanMade1776

Buy the rumor..sell the fact!


24 posted on 07/12/2009 7:40:15 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Savage Beast
Savage Beast wrote: When you think about how many utter morons there are out there, you marvel that the world's not in worse shape than it is.

It is hard when 10 percent of the World has to carry the other 90 percent..

25 posted on 07/12/2009 7:45:52 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( Obama Happens! Not my Fault!)
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To: Steel Wolf
If there's anything people like seeing more than a hero rise, it's seeing a hero fall...

Heh. I'd be interested in hearing how those companies are doing that stocked up on all that 'historic' commemorative Inauguration crap.

26 posted on 07/12/2009 8:00:44 AM PDT by kromike
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To: AmericanMade1776
He should have took his shoe shine box with him to Russia! Clue; the Old Commies do not like him.
27 posted on 07/12/2009 8:31:01 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: pabianice

Putz.

A term used very appropriately several years ago with the word “Senator” to very accurately describe Upchucky Schmucky Schumer. Schumer fits the description in every sense of the word!

And so does Zerobama!


28 posted on 07/12/2009 8:45:16 AM PDT by VRWCRick
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To: AmericanMade1776
...Obama said his election would be "the moment the rise of the oceans began to slow."

LOL - the oceans never rose - all Al Gore warm-mongering...

29 posted on 07/12/2009 8:52:03 AM PDT by GOPJ ( Obama Administration: Soft & Sweet with Enemies. / Tough & Unfair with Friends.)
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To: kromike

I saw an ad for Big Lots featuring his commemorative plates for a couple of bucks.


30 posted on 07/12/2009 10:56:51 AM PDT by Marmolade
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To: Marmolade

I wait for the day they come out with commemorating prison suit, handcuffs or exile papers to Kenya!


31 posted on 07/12/2009 12:02:51 PM PDT by freebird5850 (O-Bomba is not the Messia. Jesus was a carpenter and could build a cabinet!)
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To: freebird5850

Yes, BO needs to be deported...he is an illegal.


32 posted on 07/12/2009 12:22:54 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Ocrap '09


33 posted on 07/12/2009 12:27:11 PM PDT by vamoose
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To: shield

I guess then people will be hocking those Barry coins they were selling on TV!


34 posted on 07/12/2009 1:18:20 PM PDT by freebird5850 (O-Bomba is not the Messia. Jesus was a carpenter and could build a cabinet!)
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To: Savage Beast; AmericanMade1776

The JFK plate: A staple at yard sales in these parts, particularly when an older person has died and the house is getting cleaned out.

I’ve seen a few that have JFK, RFK and Fat Ted together, like some Holy Trinity - makes you altogether lose your appetite.

Wouldn’t take any of them, even if they were free.


35 posted on 07/12/2009 2:58:39 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (You can't blame Bush anymore...)
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To: Savage Beast

“This is overwhelming evidence of the intervention in the world by a benevolent Deity.”

Amen! Thank you for writing it.


36 posted on 07/12/2009 3:02:49 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (You can't blame Bush anymore...)
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To: wbones8765

About time. The wingnuts still believe, though.


37 posted on 07/12/2009 7:56:42 PM PDT by Jack Black
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To: Jack Black

If anyone hears anything about today please ping me.


38 posted on 07/13/2009 11:51:13 AM PDT by freebird5850 (O-Bomba is not the Messia. Jesus was a carpenter and could build a cabinet!)
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