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Who's Pulling Obama's Strings?
FoxNews ^ | October 30, 2009 | Liz Peek

Posted on 10/30/2009 8:28:20 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

Obama fans are in a tight spot. As the White House turns ever harsher and more divisive, supporters are scrambling to explain why President Obama sounds so very different from Campaigner Obama. There are two possible explanations, neither of which is flattering. The first is that Obama was insincere on the campaign trail. The second is that his advisors – David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel -- are in control. The latter view is bound to take hold and it will not boost the president’s flagging popularity ratings.

Many who voted for President Obama feel deceived. When he said in Florida last year “we cannot afford the same political games and tactics that are being used to pit us against one another,” people believed him. When he extolled “rejecting fear and division for unity of purpose,” people believed him. When he said on election night “I will listen to you, especially when we disagree,” people believed him.

Why has the president left those admirable promises behind? Why is his administration going after Fox News, the Chamber of Commerce, insurance executives, AIG management, the drug industry, the Chrysler bondholders and any and all who oppose his policies?

Many believe that Obama is being manipulated by his political adviser David Axelrod and his Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. The aura of Chicago politics drifts over the capital like a smog.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: axelrod; davidaxelrod; democrats; emanuel; impeachobama; obama; rahmemanuel
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1 posted on 10/30/2009 8:28:20 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Buffalo Bob


2 posted on 10/30/2009 8:29:04 AM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State business, Red State heart. . . . .Palin 2012----can't come soon enough!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

check my tagline


3 posted on 10/30/2009 8:31:06 AM PDT by silverleaf (Ours is the only country on earth with a ventriloquist dummy for President)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

SOROS! AXELROD! EMMANUEL! MARX! MAO!


4 posted on 10/30/2009 8:31:23 AM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

and mine


5 posted on 10/30/2009 8:31:45 AM PDT by Edgar3 (America is suffering from "Sorosis" of the Presidency)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

This is a consistent anti-president meme, no matter who is in office. The only thing that changes is who makes the accusations. Someone other than the President is always in charge.

FDR, communist party.

Reagan, Nancy.

Clinton, Hillary.

Bush, Halliburton.

Obama, Soros. Or King Saud.


6 posted on 10/30/2009 8:32:42 AM PDT by DBrow (Thank You Al Gore You Saved Earth!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Axelrod and Rahm are part of it, but look no farther than Valerie Jarrett and wife Michelle to complete the “Chicago Team”.


7 posted on 10/30/2009 8:33:39 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

More and more people that voted for him are turning against him. I believe he, and those that control him, knew this would happen. This is the main reason for trying to push so much through Congress so fast. Democrats in general are leaving their party. They see what’s happening and they don’t like it. Democrats and Republicans can and should come together (not that they will agree on everything) to stop the take over of our country by these socialists.


8 posted on 10/30/2009 8:33:53 AM PDT by RC2
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Soros and all his ONE WORLD connections.


9 posted on 10/30/2009 8:34:59 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

10 posted on 10/30/2009 8:35:28 AM PDT by bmwcyle (We need more Joe Wilson's. OBAMA is ACORN ACORN is OBAMA)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

11 posted on 10/30/2009 8:37:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin (Brave amateurs....they do their part.)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

Thanks for adding Jarrett — her mother and Tom Ayers were friends. We also need Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadette Dohrn who are good friends with Jarrett.


12 posted on 10/30/2009 8:38:04 AM PDT by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin - OK Gov/Coburn - Senate 2010 ! Take Back the House/Senate! Stop ZERO!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

What makes him so dangerous and hard to figure out is there is no “there” there.

He is an empty vessel. While he might have some ideas of his own, he is devoid of principles. It’s the reason his associates MATTER; they are the ones that fill up the empty vessel.Unelected people control his every thought and move.

It’s like those who decide how many Milky Ways, smarties, and Tootsie Roll Pops are in the pinata.


13 posted on 10/30/2009 8:39:14 AM PDT by Daisyjane69 (Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
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To: PhiKapMom

Jarrett and Michelle are joined at the hip.


14 posted on 10/30/2009 8:39:34 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
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To: originalbuckeye

“SOROS! AXELROD! EMMANUEL! MARX! MAO!”

I do believe we have a winner.


15 posted on 10/30/2009 8:39:56 AM PDT by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
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To: RC2
Democrats and Republicans can and should come together (not that they will agree on everything) to stop the take over of our country by these socialists.

I'm not sure there are as many Democrats against it as there are Republicans for it.

16 posted on 10/30/2009 8:40:46 AM PDT by Prokopton
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To: DBrow

The difference is, none of the other Presidents ran away from the responsibilities of the office at every opportunity.


17 posted on 10/30/2009 8:40:53 AM PDT by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

18 posted on 10/30/2009 8:42:23 AM PDT by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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To: DBrow
DBrow wrote: This is a consistent anti-president meme, no matter who is in office. The only thing that changes is who makes the accusations. Someone other than the President is always in charge.

Exactly right. And the president has far less room to maneuver and impose his political ideas -- crackpot or otherwise -- than we imagine. I once heard a Catholic clergyman say priests want to be bishops, bishops want to be cardinals, cardinals want to be pope, and the pope wants to be a humble parish priest.
19 posted on 10/30/2009 8:43:20 AM PDT by HelenChicago
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I am sick of hearing Obama is being controlled by Rahm, Soro’s and Axie. He is but he agrees with their radical views.


20 posted on 10/30/2009 8:44:27 AM PDT by NoObamaFightForConservatives
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Separated at birth?


21 posted on 10/30/2009 8:45:15 AM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Jack in the Box
22 posted on 10/30/2009 8:48:01 AM PDT by Tawiskaro
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

I agree.
Obama is not an empty suit.

He is an ardent leftist. Everything in his history that can be pried out of the “lockbox” confirms this.

He’s not a genius but he’s smart enough to represent a huge threat to the Republic.


23 posted on 10/30/2009 8:50:03 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Being seen as a follower in his own White House will surely magnify an unhealthy aura of inconsequence.

And this is what true history shall view Mister Obama. A spokesman for his “advisors”…

David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel and could it also include (from a distance) this advisor?

as a shadow Political Officer (and of course, Bombing Czar)?

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24 posted on 10/30/2009 8:51:40 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: BlueStateBlues

Good one - man, that takes me back.


25 posted on 10/30/2009 8:52:18 AM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: bmwcyle; rightwingintelligentsia

Correct.

If I have to choose one name, it has to be Soros. The far-left enemies of this country would never survive without Soros money. Soros supports most of the Marxist operatives, finances election fraud and knocks out the economy by shorting the dollar.

If the American people revolt, look for Soros to flee abroad.


26 posted on 10/30/2009 8:52:55 AM PDT by melancholy (Hey Marxists, don't Crap & Tread on me. Zer0's defeat is now in progress.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Many believe that Obama is being manipulated by his political adviser David Axelrod and his Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

No, this is simply who he is. Anyone that has paid close attention would have realized this. You can't sit in the pews of Rev. Wright's church for 20 years and not soak up some of the hatred coming from the pulpit.

27 posted on 10/30/2009 8:53:12 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (The DemocRat Party is no longer an American political party.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Why does anyone think others are pulling his strings? He's a Communist liar and his conduct as President is exactly in line with his past behavior.

As Dr. Thomas Sowell noted this week in an excellent column:

"Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to "change the United States of America," the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles and the people of this country...

"Those who say that the Obama administration should have investigated those people [Czars] more thoroughly before appointing them are missing the point completely. Why should we assume that Barack Obama didn't know what such people were like, when he has been associating with precisely these kinds of people for decades before he reached the White House?"

28 posted on 10/30/2009 8:53:20 AM PDT by Bernard Marx ("Civilizations die by suicide, not from murder" Toynbee)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

We knew this long before the election last year. Oboomba is not capable of original thought, only what he is spoonfed from his handlers. And then, only with TOTUS.


29 posted on 10/30/2009 8:59:00 AM PDT by SueRae
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To: nascarnation

The Marxist Roots of Black Liberation Theology

http://www.acton.org/commentary/443_marxist_roots_of_black_liberation_theology.php


30 posted on 10/30/2009 8:59:06 AM PDT by NoObamaFightForConservatives
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To: nascarnation

He is an empty suit where America is concerned. His ideals are considered unwanted.


31 posted on 10/30/2009 9:01:34 AM PDT by NoObamaFightForConservatives
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
"It was Rove who shaped the agenda, message and strategy that got Bush – the least experienced presidential nominee of modern times – into the White House.” They might want to reprise that story; Obama’s credentials set new records"

The community organizer did a snow job on those who were convinced that he was 'The One'.

Now that reality has set in - there is buyer's remorse.

He & his Chicago thug machine are all in it together. He's lazy & escapes the White House & responsibility every chance he gets. He really doesn't give a damn who pulls the strings as long as they let him party on.

He's happy to let them write the Teleprompter script. It doesn't take that much effort to read it, which fits his laziness just fine.

32 posted on 10/30/2009 9:03:05 AM PDT by LADY J (Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale)
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33 posted on 10/30/2009 9:07:00 AM PDT by SparkyBass
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Why is his administration going after Fox News, the Chamber of Commerce, insurance executives, AIG management, the drug industry, the Chrysler bondholders

Add Edmunds.com to that list.

34 posted on 10/30/2009 9:07:11 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (A trade: Conservative Anglicans for Liberal Catholics and a heretic to be named later.)
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To: silverleaf

Spot on.


35 posted on 10/30/2009 9:11:25 AM PDT by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: BlueStateBlues

Howdy Doody was not as dense.


36 posted on 10/30/2009 9:22:14 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (ZerOcare: Bureaucratic best practices equals death panels.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Many believe that Obama is being manipulated by his political adviser David Axelrod and his Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

LOL. Obama is a radical Marxist. He is in charge. This is like saying that Goebbels and Himmler were manipulating Hitler.

37 posted on 10/30/2009 9:26:21 AM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar

David Horowitz is discussing this on G. Gordon Liddy’s radio program right now!


38 posted on 10/30/2009 9:27:23 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

That is VERY simple... it’s SATAN!!

You are either for God or against Him. There is NO middle ground.

Remember: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Eph 6:12

Obama mocks God daily with his policies. He is NO Christian. Satan is his ruler whether he realizes it or not.


39 posted on 10/30/2009 9:28:47 AM PDT by Anti-Hillary (Yo Barry, IF FOR 20 YEARS YOU STAY IN THE PEW, IT'S BECAUSE YOU SHARE THE VIEW!!!!!)
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To: originalbuckeye

You forgot SATAN in that list.


40 posted on 10/30/2009 9:34:12 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Who's Pulling Obama's Strings?

Satan.

41 posted on 10/30/2009 9:53:35 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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Pinocchio. Good one.

He’s a puppet and he lies.


42 posted on 10/30/2009 10:00:13 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is fading.)
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Who's Pulling Obama's Strings?

Obama bows to the Saudi King.

43 posted on 10/30/2009 10:01:33 AM PDT by RJL
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To: ViLaLuz

Oops. My bad.


44 posted on 10/30/2009 10:06:06 AM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: LADY J
He & his Chicago thug machine are all in it together. He's lazy & escapes the White House & responsibility every chance he gets. He really doesn't give a damn who pulls the strings as long as they let him party on.

I agree. He's a sociopath who just wants power and the perks of power; as long as they let him have the illusion of power (actually, their power, but he's the one who signs the orders), they can continue to carry out their programs. It's not as if Obama has any objection to their program, after all. The more Marxist the better.

45 posted on 10/30/2009 10:21:26 AM PDT by livius
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

He channels Alinksy. He’s a mystic.


46 posted on 10/30/2009 11:44:50 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
There are two possible explanations, neither of which is flattering. The first is that Obama was insincere on the campaign trail. The second is that his advisors – David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel -- are in control. The latter view is bound to take hold and it will not boost the president’s flagging popularity ratings.

Ask yourself "Who benefits from the destruction of American free enterprise? Who benefits from the devaluing of the American dollar? Would someone be willing (and able) to compensate/reward anyone who could produce such results?"

Then start looking for a trail of receipts.

47 posted on 10/30/2009 12:01:59 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him" - Job 13:15)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Influence also comes from:
Rev Wright
Bill Ayers
George Soros
Hitler
Bernadette Dorn
Idi Amin
Cousin Odinga in Kenya
Putin
Taliban
Osama Bin Laden
..............


48 posted on 10/30/2009 12:59:00 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

That’s for sure!


49 posted on 10/30/2009 2:12:19 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin - OK Gov/Coburn - Senate 2010 ! Take Back the House/Senate! Stop ZERO!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Boys, we're in a tight spot.

50 posted on 10/30/2009 4:43:09 PM PDT by oyez ( damnant quod non intelligunt)
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