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Raindrops wash away reeling O’s fake veneer
NY ^ | May 17, 2013 | Michael Goodwin

Posted on 05/17/2013 6:05:39 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

Watching President Obama trying to dodge raindrops and responsibility yesterday reminded me of the moment when Dorothy pulls back the curtain and discovers that the Wizard of Oz is “just a man.” Stripped of his spell of mystery and power, the wizard is worse than mortal. He’s a fake.

So it was with Obama in the Rose Garden. His performance was tired and trite, ordinary to the point of dull. His veneer of passion was so transparent that you could see him trying to summon his old-time magic by pushing the buttons and pulling the levers that got him out of tight spots before. “Folks” and “I” and “me” and “my” — stop!

The magic is gone, his act thin enough to say, as he recently did about Benghazi, that “there’s no there there.”

Standing under an umbrella held by a Marine, Obama looked simultaneously imperious and small, no match for the rising tide of scandals swamping his presidency. At a moment that demanded genuine resolve, his answers were evasive, especially about whether he knew the IRS was politically profiling conservative groups. His response, that “I can assure you that I certainly did not know anything about the [inspector general] report,” wasn’t even an artful dodge.

Serious trouble could be ahead if the president can’t give a straight answer to “What did you know and when did you know it?”

Similarly, his attempt to duck the Benghazi fallout by suggesting that Congress didn’t commit enough money for security, was, like his earlier bids to escape responsibility for the attack, preposterous and misleading.

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To: COUNTrecount
Obama looked simultaneously imperious and small


21 posted on 05/17/2013 6:58:30 AM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Wow. What a ridiculous looking scene!


22 posted on 05/17/2013 7:01:12 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Roccus

Zing!


23 posted on 05/17/2013 7:02:20 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I don’t know what kind of “optics” the president’s people were intending to project but this photo looks as assinine as John Kerry’s “bunny hole” photo at NASA.


24 posted on 05/17/2013 7:04:04 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: baddog 219

LOL, thank you for that.


25 posted on 05/17/2013 7:05:01 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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Someone call the Marines!!


26 posted on 05/17/2013 7:07:06 AM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: COUNTrecount; Theo

27 posted on 05/17/2013 7:18:59 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (3 guns when you only have one arm? "I just don't want to get killed for lack of shooting back")
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To: COUNTrecount

Mary Poppins he ain’t.


28 posted on 05/17/2013 7:35:54 AM PDT by kiltie65
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To: jsanders2001

Do you or anyone else remember when Pres. George W. Bush pulled one of his Secret Service people out of a crowd of people in a South American nation event several years ago? I do; and boy what a contrast! A president doing something for one of his S.Service guards; helping him out of a potentially dangerous situation? I wonder if this president would bother to do that?


29 posted on 05/17/2013 7:37:23 AM PDT by dsutah
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To: dsutah

http://youtu.be/PX3aaWlUmpc


30 posted on 05/17/2013 7:43:20 AM PDT by BigDaddyTX (Don't Mex with Texas)
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To: COUNTrecount

31 posted on 05/17/2013 7:59:44 AM PDT by Liberty Ship ("Lord, make me fast and accurate.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Now I’ve truly seen PRINCES holding umbrellas for at least one BEGGAR. As is so often the case, BEGGARS ride horses, while PRINCES walk.


32 posted on 05/17/2013 8:05:31 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: NonValueAdded; onyx
Here's another one I created for Doug this morning:

Thanks to Onyx for the idea!

33 posted on 05/17/2013 8:10:56 AM PDT by Theo (May Christ be exalted above all.)
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To: pgkdan

“That image absolutely infuriates me!”

Me too.


34 posted on 05/17/2013 8:12:34 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Liberty Ship

The Emperor's New Clothes

35 posted on 05/17/2013 8:17:08 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (Clear eyes. Full hearts. Can't fail .But We Did.)
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To: mylife

Great, just great. We have a President too stupid to use an umbrella.


36 posted on 05/17/2013 8:28:13 AM PDT by MEGoody (You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: COUNTrecount
Watching President Obama trying to dodge raindrops and responsibility yesterday reminded me of the moment when Dorothy pulls back the curtain and discovers that the Wizard of Oz is “just a man.”

That would be a huge step up - if Obama even occasionally acted like a man.

37 posted on 05/17/2013 8:43:45 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: novascotianative

Well Mr.Goodwin,how do you feel about your vote for this fake now?


38 posted on 05/17/2013 9:01:09 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: Theo

39 posted on 05/17/2013 9:10:25 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: novascotianative

Obama the ASSHAT PRESIDENT.


40 posted on 05/17/2013 9:16:45 AM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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