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Where's the Obama I Voted For?
CBS News ^ | 1-21-2010 | Jonathan Cohn

Posted on 01/21/2010 8:05:27 AM PST by Paul46360

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To: Paul46360
Jonathon, start with "Posers and Frauds". "Marxists" might be a good cross-reference.


41 posted on 01/21/2010 8:42:31 AM PST by workerbee (Yes, I hate Obama because of his color: RED!)
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To: Paul46360
Second-guessing political decisions is not something I like to do--at least not in print. Ask me whether a political figure made the smart call by confronting an opponent, and I’ll probably demur.

LOL! What a great trait in a political writer!

Even for me, somebody who generally resisted the Obama kool-aid

You should hide the pup tent in your pants if you want to make that ridiculous claim. You write about Obama like a groupie whose handmade fan photo album wasn't sufficiently appreciated by the guitarist of your dreams.

Stop voting dork. You're not up to the challenge.

42 posted on 01/21/2010 8:44:45 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Overtaxed Patriot
Maybe now these hacks will start actually reporting the truth about Barry.

I hope these guys will decide they would like to see the long form, too.

43 posted on 01/21/2010 8:44:56 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is fading.)
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To: Texas resident


"This is not the Change you are looking for."
44 posted on 01/21/2010 8:48:47 AM PST by Deo volente (January 19, 2010...the Second American Revolution begins, right where it all started!)
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To: dashing doofus
"You Obamatrons HAVE the Obama you voted for"

Very well said, Obama articulated no vision for the country, made vague and general conflicting rhetorical promises and rode to victory blaming Bush for all the nations woes. And while Bush certainly deserved a lot of the blame Obama had no answers. So you Obama voters you got what you paid for. An all style no substance weak, dim, narcissistic teleprompter reader with a huge ego. I only hope he does not get us all killed before being evicted from office in 2012.

45 posted on 01/21/2010 8:52:04 AM PST by jpsb
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To: Paul46360
We should push forward with health care reform, he said, concentrating on areas of core agreement. But what did he mean by that? House-Senate negotiations had already reduced the bill, mostly, to areas of core agreement. Did he want to winnow further--and, if so, how? To include Republicans?

"Mostly" isn't "sufficiently" or we wouldn't be having this conversation. In point of fact, the differences were major enough to prevent the House from passing the Senate version even before the shelling the Dems got on Tuesday. Yes, Jonathan, they needed to include Republicans. And they can't because the bill is a bloated, pork-laden dinosaur whose first priority is serving the Democratic party and only then the country if there's anything left over. It was a catastrophically stupid thing to hang the fortunes of the 0bama administration on, and HillaryCare should have warned them.

Now the Dems have, prudently, backed off. Pelosi admits she doesn't have the votes in the House to avoid a filibuster in the Senate and there is a dawning appreciation that the jobs situation is something a little more concrete than a Democrat talking point. There is no real sign that the 0bama administration is going to follow its year of posturing with three of governance, which is, after all, what our author is bleating about. He voted for the Wizard of Oz and he got the man behind the curtain. Anyone who is surprised at this is still wet behind the ears politically.

46 posted on 01/21/2010 8:54:47 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Texas resident

I applied for partial social security(I continue to work) in July last year. I was told it would be in force from the following month but payments wouldn’t start until January. Now they tell me that because I continue to earn more than the maximum allowable for full benefits (I should get about 45% of the full benefit) that I won’t actually receive anything at all and if I quit working altogether I may still not receive any actual payments because I continued to work past the date of my award. So I have been “awarded” benefits but won’t actually receive any. Is this part of the new Obama improvements? I understand it will require the services of an attorney to get this changed and it will probably take a couple of years.


47 posted on 01/21/2010 8:55:22 AM PST by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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To: jessduntno
OK...but only after I sell him a rare autographed copy of the first edition of "Confederacy of Dunces" signed by the author.

That's a pretty valuable commodity, I'll admit, but I happen to have in my possession a truly rare item: Helen Keller's eyeglasses, still in the original case.

48 posted on 01/21/2010 8:55:28 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Paul46360
The really amazing thing about this article is that Cohn goes from the election (of presumably, The Obama He Knew) directly to the current HCR standstill and acts as if "Mystery Obama" is something new. There's no acknowledgement of the dismal year in between being the cause of the HCR debacle as well as teaching us all that there never really was anything but Mystery Obama.
49 posted on 01/21/2010 8:55:39 AM PST by workerbee (Yes, I hate Obama because of his color: RED!)
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To: dtrpscout

lol, I am going to remember that one! Great analogy, thanks for sharing.


50 posted on 01/21/2010 8:56:14 AM PST by jpsb
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To: Southack

Kind of reminds of the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark when the Nazi’s opened the ARK.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3KV4fLSNoU


51 posted on 01/21/2010 9:00:40 AM PST by HerrBlucher (Jail Al Gore and the Climate Frauds!)
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To: andy58-in-nh

“That’s a pretty valuable commodity, I’ll admit, but I happen to have in my possession a truly rare item: Helen Keller’s eyeglasses, still in the original case.”

Geez, I’d like to see those...of course, I’ll bet she would have too...maybe he could use them to look at the Sasquatch I have in the backyard? I am teaching him to ride the Unicorn...


52 posted on 01/21/2010 9:19:33 AM PST by jessduntno (I will not use the term "Masshole" for the foreseeable future. Way to go Massachusetts.)
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To: Deo volente

OH GOD!!! You owe me a new monitor! I was thinking the same thing when that picture showed up!

Okay, who can put Obamba in Darth Vaders outfit? Or better yet, Governor Tarkin or Emperor Palpatine?


53 posted on 01/21/2010 9:44:02 AM PST by shredderman (Living in a Blue State, with a Blue Wife, But I'm Red to the bone.....)
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