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Two Left Feet: Obama’s Week Of ‘Bad Optics’ Really Just Bad Leadership
New York Post ^ | March 27, 2016 | Kyle Smith

Posted on 03/28/2016 9:57:46 AM PDT by MarvinStinson

To be a president means regularly to find oneself caught off balance. Sometimes you want to chill at the same moment your enemies move to kill. You may find yourself doing an innocent photo op reading a book to little kids when terrorists launch a coordinated attack on the country.

So let’s have a little sympathy for President Obama this week. It has to be frustrating when you set out to make nice with the leaders of a mass-murdering fanatical regime and at the exact same time a mass murder is carried out by a completely different group of fanatics — the ones you keep saying are no big deal.

It has to get under your skin when you bring a planeload of fanboy hacks with you to a tropical paradise on the understanding that they’ll write nice stories about your kicking back with one half of a pair of homicidal brothers when instead people get all distracted about the tiny detail of 31 people getting killed by a different pair of homicidal brothers.

The president whose acolytes call him No Drama Obama aren’t quite right, but they are on to something. The president does get angry, but not at terrorists, dictators or mass murderers. Every time rage sneaks into his face, he’s talking about his domestic political opponents. He’s talking about budgetary disputes, federal appointments, Constitutional interpretation.

Blood literally running in the streets of Belgium? Heads being cut off by sabers? A movement that wants to kill every Jew and Christian? Shrug. Obama spoke about the ISIS mass murder briefly.

Then he did “the wave” with Raul Castro.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: belgium; bho44; brussels; miserablefailure; obama; obamalegacy; tonedeaf

1 posted on 03/28/2016 9:57:47 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

DO NOT post the rest of article in comments to get around excerpt requirements. This is the 2nd time in less than a month you have done that, next time will result in time off.


3 posted on 03/28/2016 10:03:39 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: MarvinStinson

The media sure was one sided, as usual.

They hailed Obama as courageous, breaking down cold war barriers and all that, seeking to make nice with old enemies who are now wanting to be part of the world economy, etc. etc.

The media coverage was just propaganda.


4 posted on 03/28/2016 10:04:06 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: MarvinStinson

Another article basically excusing and apologizing for Obama. How about, he loves sticking it in our eyes and proving that he can do virtually anything to the infidel West with impunity.


5 posted on 03/28/2016 10:04:27 AM PDT by Truth29
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" No Drama Obama " is another lie
as is "the most transparent administration ever ",
as is ,"If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor"
as is , "you should get back $1200.oo check"
One lie , ..after another, after another ..etc., ad infinitum !
6 posted on 03/28/2016 10:05:57 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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To: MarvinStinson

BHO would have to have, at least a modicum of leadership in order to have a measurement. Since BHO has no leadership ability, what he does cannot be labeled as “bad” leadership.


7 posted on 03/28/2016 10:10:09 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: MarvinStinson

It isn’t just a week of bad “optics”.


8 posted on 03/28/2016 10:15:29 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: MarvinStinson; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The elder Bush got sick in Japan -- constant coverage; Gerald Ford's trick knee led to pratfall -- constant coverage...

9 posted on 03/28/2016 10:20:30 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Ted Cruz wishes he had such bad optics...


10 posted on 03/28/2016 10:34:12 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: MarvinStinson

At this point, nobody. cares.


11 posted on 03/28/2016 10:39:42 AM PDT by Chaguito
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To: Truth29
Another article basically excusing and apologizing for Obama.

You might want to read the entire article. Rather than excusing and apologizing for Obama, it ridicules him.

12 posted on 03/28/2016 11:25:16 AM PDT by DanMiller (Dan Miller)
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It ridicules him under the assumption that he is clueless and bumbling; consider the alternative that he loves what he is doing and is mocking the West at every turn and doing all that he can to damage the West and make us the laughing stock.


13 posted on 03/28/2016 11:37:02 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: MarvinStinson

The mooselimb is an asshat!


14 posted on 03/28/2016 11:39:28 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (FUBO)
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