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Obama is going out in a blaze of self-interest
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Posted on 01/03/2017 1:30:59 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Of all Barack Obama’s costumes, the most ill-fitting is that of the hawk. The guise doesn’t work for all sorts of ideological and historical reasons. Plus there’s the fact that he’s rushing to put on the outfit as he’s heading out the door.

The new sanctions against Russia are fine with me on the merits, even if they are remarkably tardy and being sold in no small part for domestic, political reasons.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been undermining American interests for a long time now. From the annexation of Crimea and a shadow war in Ukraine to his unabashed support for the butcher Bashar Assad in Syria, Putin has given the Obama administration every excuse to punch back. But until last week, Obama’s response had been to offer various and sundry diplomatic “off-ramps” and a little bit of tongue-lashing.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: jonahgoldberg; loser; obama; obamafarewell; selfinterest

1 posted on 01/03/2017 1:30:59 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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A blaze of petulance.


2 posted on 01/03/2017 1:31:52 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Self-aggrandizment is different than self-interest !


3 posted on 01/03/2017 1:32:31 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt (Muslim & Spanish migrants are like Kudzu-> designed to overload the system= Cloward-Piven)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Psycho jealous lover?


4 posted on 01/03/2017 1:32:59 PM PST by Leep (Stronger without her!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I stopped reading here:

Despite a remarkable lack of evidence that the Russians “hacked” the election (as opposed to their more obvious complicity in the WikiLeaks shenanigans),


5 posted on 01/03/2017 1:36:07 PM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Cry baby. The sooner we can expunge all evidence of his nasty reign the better.


6 posted on 01/03/2017 1:36:31 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“...Putin has given the Obama administration every excuse to punch back....”

Of all the gaging things the author said, this one was ridiculous. Can anybody imagine a fist fight between bare-chested, alligator wrestling Putin and the metrosexual pajama boy in the White House? Oh, puhleeeeze!


7 posted on 01/03/2017 1:37:05 PM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Gen.Blather
“...Putin has given the Obama administration every excuse to punch back....”

The only thing Obama could punch is a cream puff, which would hardly be dented.

8 posted on 01/03/2017 1:42:18 PM PST by American Quilter (Trump wins Electoral College--Dems haven't been this mad since the Republicans freed the slaves!)
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To: Gene Eric

A blaze of blue, flaming, flatulence. Fixed it.


9 posted on 01/03/2017 1:51:29 PM PST by epluribus_2 (he had the best mom - ever.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

An astute observation, but hey... You can apparently annex the Crimea, invade the Ukraine, draw lines in the sand and then forget where you put them, but if you screw with the Democrat Party (who by the way, is not a government entity), well then... You’re really making Barry angry.

Real historians (not plagiarizer’s like Doris Kearns Goodwin) will hold Obama to account for his failure as a President and the harshest critic is always history.


10 posted on 01/03/2017 1:57:24 PM PST by jerod (Socialism=Governance by Government - The National Socialist German Workers' Party is a good example.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Is Bashar Assad worse than ISIS?

Are the Ukrainian thugs that John McCain stood in solidarity with on NYE better than Putin?


11 posted on 01/03/2017 2:14:59 PM PST by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Tick Tock!

T-Minus 16 days until...


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#TSTR-MAGA


12 posted on 01/03/2017 2:28:53 PM PST by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.

— Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 23-28)


13 posted on 01/03/2017 2:33:17 PM PST by gasport (One citizen - One vote)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This overlooks the fact that he secretly created Isis who have slaughtered the people in the Middle East. He’s no dove.

He also put the Muslim Brotherhood into power in Egypt after the “Arab Spring” which he organized, creating chaos all over the middle east. The Muslim Brotherhood proceeded to burn churches, slaughter Christians and even crucified Christians on Morsey’s (sp!) presidential lawn.

He’s a Islamic radical terrorist which is why he won’t say those words.


14 posted on 01/03/2017 2:36:35 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And it’s going to get worse, until he is in an orgy of progressive madness.

I envision him sitting behind Trump, shaking and drooling. He will look like he is getting a random shock every few seconds.

He will go out in a Progressive Lives Matter shit-show of glory.


15 posted on 01/03/2017 2:42:08 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Brace. Brace. Brace. Heads down. Do not look up.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Obama never was presidential material from day one. He still isn’t, he’s just affirmative action writ large.


16 posted on 01/03/2017 2:47:15 PM PST by Bullish
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To: gasport

Fits Obozo to a “T”.


17 posted on 01/03/2017 2:50:02 PM PST by GoldenPup
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To: ChicagoConservative27
At the end of the inauguration I want to see Dick Chaney boot 0bama's skinny butt to the curb.

Of course Chaney has to be wearing the same hat he was 8 years ago.

18 posted on 01/03/2017 5:00:24 PM PST by TYVets
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To: Bullish

I would say, writ skinny and prissy, but whatever...


19 posted on 01/03/2017 6:41:57 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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