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Newsweek’s Evan Thomas rips Obama speech: ‘He was being a God [expletive] Democrat!’
Daily Caller ^ | 7/3/11

Posted on 07/03/2011 9:55:04 AM PDT by markomalley

A Mark Halperin misstep this is not, but Newsweek magazine columnist Evan Thomas had some pretty strong words for President Barack Obama Friday.

On “Inside Washington,” host Gordon Peterson asked his panel to suggest a way to overcome the current impasse and get Congress and the White House moving on a budget deal. Thomas offered up a solution, but also expressed his frustration with Obama.

“Yeah, because it’s happened before – Obama has got to be President of the United States,” Thomas said. “He has to be two things. He has to make a public case of how bad is this, because he is not doing that. He’s not being honest about just how bad this is going to be — no, he was partisan. He was God [bleep] Democrat! He was just, you know – being a party guy. I applaud the energy but it wasn’t getting me anywhere. He has got to rise above that and then in private, in private – he’s got to make a deal.”

Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer’s sentiments fell in line with Thomas’s.

“Instead of saying, as a president ought to say, is that we have a problem — it is a serious problem, it’s a growing problem, it’s a structural problem and we have to do something, he says, as in the sound bite you showed, it is a choice between helping the elderly on Medicare and corporate jets and oil tax breaks,” Krauthammer added. “That is pure demagoguery and that is not leadership.”

Earlier in the program, Krauthammer pointed out that if you were to collect the tax on corporate jets for the next 7,000 years, it would not cover one year of an Obama administration deficit.


TOPICS: Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: charleskrauthammer; evanthomas; gordonpeterson; insidewashington; markhalperin; newsleak; newspeak; newsweak; newsweek; washingtonpost
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1 posted on 07/03/2011 9:55:06 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Ladies and gentlemen I give you: Dick Hussein Obama!


2 posted on 07/03/2011 9:57:55 AM PDT by Batman11 (Obama's poll numbers are so low the Kenyans are claiming he was born in the USA!)
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To: markomalley

Someone needs to memo Evan Thomas and remind him/her that it was they that made Obama out to be ‘the anointed one’, a god, the next best thing since JFK and Roosevelt, etc. Bunch of frakin’ idiots now having to cope with what they themselves created. =.=


3 posted on 07/03/2011 9:59:30 AM PDT by cranked
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To: markomalley
Houston Kenya, we have a problem."
4 posted on 07/03/2011 10:00:56 AM PDT by library user (Just because you're homeless doesn't mean you're lazy.)
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To: markomalley
Hmmmmm....I'm detecting a great disturbance in The Force.

It's as if millions of Media Libturds are suddenly coming to the realization that their foot-licking advocacy of The RAT Party and the general public's revulsion of it is resulting in massive layoffs in their industry.

5 posted on 07/03/2011 10:01:25 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: markomalley

The MSM stretches, and possibly opens one eye??


6 posted on 07/03/2011 10:03:52 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: markomalley

Obama is not a leader. Obama is a puppet.


7 posted on 07/03/2011 10:04:16 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Texas Eagle
I'm detecting a great disturbance in The Force.
It's the Farce, Eagle. It's the Farce.
8 posted on 07/03/2011 10:08:23 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Texas Eagle
Did you see the article yesterday..I can't remember the source..out of the blue..it's that Hillary Clinton's popularity is very high...

] Hmmm?

10 posted on 07/03/2011 10:10:54 AM PDT by ken5050 (Save the Earth..It's the only planet with chocolate!!!)
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To: Texas Eagle

Not a chance. It’s more like... do what you have to to get this deal done so we can quit talking about it and go back to the Commie/Marxist agenda of destroying the country under the radar.


11 posted on 07/03/2011 10:12:41 AM PDT by ponygirl
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To: Texas Eagle

as if millions of Media Libturds are suddenly coming to the realization ...

Yea, as if ... Not likely gonna happen, not until the band stops playing (Keep arranging the deck chairs ...)


13 posted on 07/03/2011 10:13:13 AM PDT by simi_ed (As if ...)
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To: cranked
Evan Thomas was the one who declared Obama to be "sort of God" not too long ago. How bitter the pill when your god fails, especially for creepy liberal types.
14 posted on 07/03/2011 10:15:20 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: cranked

The grandfather of Evan Thomas was, IIRC, the Socialist candidate for President of the USA.


15 posted on 07/03/2011 10:15:38 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (And, therefore, isn't Jim (Robinson) the original Blog Father? - FReeper Aevery_Freeman)
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To: markomalley
The Obama Illusion has Collapsed
16 posted on 07/03/2011 10:21:10 AM PDT by Oceander (The phrase "good enough for government work" is not meant as a compliment)
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To: markomalley

What??? Liberal journalists criticising their messiah? This is heresy!!!! Pravda on the Potomac experiencing shifting foundations!


17 posted on 07/03/2011 10:24:29 AM PDT by tflabo
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To: Yaelle

the libhole MSM pukes can bash Obie all they want now, but they’ll still do all they can to get him reelected.


18 posted on 07/03/2011 10:28:37 AM PDT by wny
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To: ken5050
Did you see the article yesterday..I can't remember the source..out of the blue..it's that Hillary Clinton's popularity is very high...

There have been news clips of her as well lately, "speaking to foreign leaders." Yup, if the Pubbies run against Zero, if he steps down. they will have given us Hillary! They should be beating up "Democrat policies" instead.

19 posted on 07/03/2011 10:30:56 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (GunWalker: Arming "a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as well funded")
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To: Texas Eagle
"Media Libturds are suddenly coming to the realization.."

No forgiveness ever.


20 posted on 07/03/2011 10:34:21 AM PDT by I see my hands (Embrace misanthropy)
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