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Obama Regrets Polarized Rancor. He Should.
Townhall.com ^ | January 25, 2016 | Jeff Jacoby

Posted on 01/25/2016 7:00:07 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: relictele

Well it’s kind of good news that he wasn’t very efficient at it, isn’t it?

It’s marvelous that Obamacare needs more band-aids than a Walgreens has. Once sanity has returned to Washington, nobody will want to keep it. It’ll be laughed out as the hunk of junk it is.


21 posted on 01/25/2016 7:22:44 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Gaffer

When be speaks of the gifts of Lincoln that he does not have,
he is talking about his lack of leadership and his hatred of the USA.


22 posted on 01/25/2016 7:25:46 AM PST by Sasparilla
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To: Kaslin

Who said “Argue With Neighbors, Get In Their Face”


23 posted on 01/25/2016 7:25:50 AM PST by skeeter
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To: Sasparilla

His historical legacy and any comparison with former Presidents is limited to Jimmy Carter. There are no other valid comparisons.


24 posted on 01/25/2016 7:27:21 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: skeeter

Now the neighbors are arguing back and getting back in their faces.


25 posted on 01/25/2016 7:27:51 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Kaslin
Obama is not a well man. He cannot act the way he has for 7 years and then regret the situation he's passionately inflamed during his presidency. Hell, they're saying they'll setup DOJ to keep doing their bidding after his term. What a lunatic.
26 posted on 01/25/2016 7:28:02 AM PST by Vision (Obama is not a well man.)
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To: Kaslin
"It can always get worse, as Donald Trump demonstrates daily."

What does that mean?

27 posted on 01/25/2016 7:29:43 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Hunga Tonga-Hunga.)
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To: HarleyLady27

You’re right; both Obamas squandered an opportunity to provide some real inspiration for blacks, and instead drove them further into victimhood. Ferguson/Baltimore are stains on Obama’s legacy; it should forever be remembered that they occurred several years into our first mulatto president’s tenure. He failed them.


28 posted on 01/25/2016 7:36:01 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Kaslin

1/24/09 First meeting the new President had with the loyal opposition to discuss how to work together, he said, “I won”. And it’s been downhill from there.

http://www.politico.com/story/2009/01/obama-to-gop-i-won-017862


29 posted on 01/25/2016 7:37:39 AM PST by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: subterfuge
Let’s not forget that Obam weaponized every government agency in his control against millions of Americans.

Yes he did... and Hillary would be worse...

30 posted on 01/25/2016 7:44:37 AM PST by GOPJ (It's more important to have a gun in your hand than a cop on the phone- Florida Sheriff Grady Judd)
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To: Kaslin

He “acted stupidly”.


31 posted on 01/25/2016 8:03:03 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: Kaslin

The polarized rancor is ALL the result of he and his 1960’s era Weather Underground/Black Panthers/Chicago Seven/Get-in-their-faces/Saul Alinsky embracing radicals.


32 posted on 01/25/2016 8:14:24 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Kaslin
Lincoln is a model for avoiding rancor?

Lincoln was in office for 49 months. For 48 of the 49 months, Americans were shooting at each other. To be sure, Lincoln did not try to make things worse by his rhetoric, as Obama does.

33 posted on 01/25/2016 8:31:15 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Kaslin

Obama race baited his own grandma to become president.


34 posted on 01/25/2016 8:35:41 AM PST by sunrise_sunset
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To: subterfuge

I read the whole thing, but I wondered whether thos guy was dishonest or just a bozo, to put forth the idea that Hussein didn’t actively want it this way, after all his racial grandstanding. I can say this much, unintentionally, he has given more whites than he may ever realise, a wake-up call. I only hope that it wasn’t a late alarm.


35 posted on 01/25/2016 8:39:39 AM PST by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I tend to agree with you BUT I have watched UK politics keenly for years.

The problem when politics take over medicine is that medicine will eventually take over politics.

Parliamentary debates there regularly involve funding tugs-of-war with vital operations, drugs, treatments, staffing, etc. held hostage by MPs. And then there is the inconvenient fact that there is no money to pay for it all and that the sick and aged must become ‘health tourists’ or simply ‘go private’ at great expense. Elite athletes who could pay for their own care must travel - often to the US - for expert surgery because the NHS is a lowest-common-denominator provider.

This sort of life-and-death power vested in government was much more appealing to Obama and like-minded people than so-called cost savings.

I want the Obamacare monstrosity to fail as badly as you but instances of politicians giving up the reins of power over any person, place or thing are as rare as lunar eclipses.


36 posted on 01/25/2016 8:43:08 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: Kaslin

I’m not sure Lincoln would be my example of “bridging the partisan divide”.


37 posted on 01/25/2016 9:34:05 AM PST by vmivol00 (I won't be reconstructed.)
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