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Dana Milbank: Obama Vacations As The World Burns
Washington Post ^ | August11, 2014 | Dana Milbank

Posted on 08/11/2014 9:27:33 PM PDT by Steelfish

Dana Milbank: Obama Vacations As The World Burns

President Barack Obama follows through on a swing while golfing at Farm Neck Golf Club as golfing partner former NFL player Ahmad Rashad, right, sits in a cart, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014, in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on the island of Martha's Vineyard. President Obama on Saturday left Washington for his familiar spot on Martha's Vineyard for a two-week summer vacation. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) (Steven Senne/AP)

By Dana Milbank August 11

President Obama must really be teed off.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, his once-loyal secretary of state and his likeliest successor, has gone rogue, criticizing his foreign policy as too timid.

Obama responded with not one but two rounds of golf.

Clinton, in an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg published by the Atlantic over the weekend, offered a withering comment on the Obama doctrine, described in shorthand by White House officials as “don’t do stupid s---.” Said Clinton: “Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle.”

As the criticism became public, Obama was doggedly sticking with his plans to go on vacation — a decision that, if not in the category of stupid stuff, could fit under the heading of “tone deafness.”

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1 posted on 08/11/2014 9:27:33 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Gee, wasn’t Dana the guy who was so orgasmic that Obama was an “assassin” with his ‘disposition matrix’?


2 posted on 08/11/2014 9:31:00 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: Steelfish

“If I’ve lost Milbank, I’ve lost liberal America...”


3 posted on 08/11/2014 9:36:50 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: Steelfish

Better he does nothing...


4 posted on 08/11/2014 9:37:31 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Steelfish

The train has left the station, Millbank. You’ll always be known as a guy from Sycophantsville.


5 posted on 08/11/2014 9:40:17 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: Steelfish

Millbank disappointed??? The apocalypse must be coming!!


6 posted on 08/11/2014 9:42:28 PM PDT by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: kevao

Gee, wasn’t Dana the guy who was so orgasmic that Obama was an “assassin” with his ‘disposition matrix’?


Dana was the most reliable Clinton lackey in the 90’s.

The Democrats are splitting tint Obama and Clinton factions and Dana is Team Clinton from the gitgo


7 posted on 08/11/2014 9:47:56 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: rdcbn

Bingo.


8 posted on 08/11/2014 10:19:43 PM PDT by Williams
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To: Steelfish

Ahmad Rashad. Why am I not surprised? So Ahmad escorted president valerie on vacation, and Barack tagged along?


9 posted on 08/11/2014 10:27:49 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: Steelfish

A little late to the bonfire aren’t you Dana?


10 posted on 08/11/2014 10:28:39 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: Steelfish
Dana, darling, you didn't really expect Barry “Duffer” Obonzo to actually DO anything useful did you? Community organizers like him create problems and cause them to fester into gaping wounds in society. These same organizers are incapable of solving anything.
11 posted on 08/11/2014 11:10:30 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: Steelfish

Yeah, now we have a president with an official foreign policy of: “Don’t do stupid shit.” Too cold, says his former SOS who advocates doing “lukewarm shit”. Really? These morons are or have been actually in charge.


12 posted on 08/11/2014 11:34:47 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: ConservativeStatement

He is on vacation after starting a war, ignoring another one, and while three others are being fought, but has time to immediately get off a press release about Robin Williams to his adoring fans in the ABCNNBCBS news media.


13 posted on 08/12/2014 12:20:42 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Steelfish
Dana Milbank wrote this? Dana Milbank?!
14 posted on 08/12/2014 1:38:16 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Steelfish

“Tell Vlad I will have more flexibility after the election.”

There is no moral or legal authority left in our country, the press is a joke, congress is corrupt, and our judicial system is compromised by the hacks at the NSA.

No man is an island where every man is an island.

Self reliance.


15 posted on 08/12/2014 2:30:12 AM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: kevao

I think it is hilarious Dana has turned, if only for a moment, on this worst occupant of the Oval Office in history.


16 posted on 08/12/2014 2:33:18 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: ConservativeStatement

——If I’ve lost Milbank, I’ve lost liberal America...”——

Milbank just took off his golden kneepads for the moment...to wipe off his chin...

These libtards don’t change their stripes, just their level of adoration...


17 posted on 08/12/2014 2:41:13 AM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Steelfish

Um...Dana, does it really matter where he reads the teleprompter? Since it is only thing he does?


18 posted on 08/12/2014 2:44:50 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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OMG.......I hope no pictures surface of M/M O dancing on the beach, faking connnubial bliss (gag).


19 posted on 08/12/2014 2:48:29 AM PDT by Liz
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To: GOPJ; stephenjohnbanker; Tennessee Nana; sickoflibs; TADSLOS; ken5050; Grampa Dave; ...
When Hillary Clinton, his once-loyal secretary of state, criticized his foreign policy as too timid. Obama vehemently responded...... with two rounds of golf.

Ummmmm....that's the Democrat version of "playing rough" (cackle).

Dummycrats dare not utter a "discouraging word"....and being even a tad "judgemental" is a definite no-no.

Obama later blamed Bush for having to go back to wage a war Obama bragged he, himself, had ended....using "smart power."

20 posted on 08/12/2014 2:58:52 AM PDT by Liz
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