Posted on 05/02/2014 1:18:54 PM PDT by don-o
I’ve been at the White House when it has been taking a pounding from all sides. The inner circle gets smaller, and the rest of the staff tries to either put on a brave face or acknowledge the problems and quietly point fingers. Democratic insiders tell me the Obama inner circle now only consists of the president, Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett and Chief of Staff Denis McDonough — and not everyone agrees on McDonough. Whether or not the president takes any criticism to heart and tries to change course seems unlikely based on what we have observed so far.
Every president experiences periods when he is unpopular or facing difficult decisions. But I don’t remember another president in my lifetime who has reached such a diminished state with so much time left in his term. We have more than two and a half years left under President Obama. We have to realize we will pay a price for this president’s lack of leadership. No one knows what the headlines will be next week, next month or next year, but nothing this president does seems to be shaping the world in a way that makes America stronger.
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Going yo Bunker Mode.
Going to
I have to say, this article makes me smile.
Krauthammer’s Take: New Benghazi E-mail Akin to Discovery of Nixon Tapes
NRO May 1, 2014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxtr9_8yoqI&feature=player_embedded
Krauthammer’s Take: New Benghazi E-mail Akin to Discovery of Nixon Tapes
NRO May 1, 2014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=bxtr9_8yoqI&feature=player_embedded
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It is appalling that President Obama never was in the Situation Room the night of September 11, 2012, as our ambassador to Libya and three other men were being attacked, captured, and eventually killed after being dragged through the streets of Benghazi and tortured in hideous fashion.
According to the White House calendar, there is no public record of President Barack Obama attending his daily intelligence briefing in the week leading up to the attacks on the U.S. embassy in Cairo and the murder of U.S. Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens and three American members of his staff. In a recent study by the Government Accountability Institute, Mr. Obama has only attended 43.8 percent of his Presidential Daily Briefs in the first 1,225 days of his Administration.
Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, said that he: ‘Could not put forces at risk’ in order to rescue our men who were under Muslim terrorist attack in Benghazi.
When President Bush took charge all the MSM were deriding him as lacking “gravité” to occupy the Oval Office; but MSM never put in question the record or exposed the dubious past of Barack Obama. Commenting on the scandal of Benghazi and Obama’s regime cover-up, Ambassador Bolton said, “I love children, I just don’t think they should be in charge of foreign policy”
Obama bragged in his auto-biography that he consumed all kinds of drugs enthusiastically. How is it possible that the American people voted twice for somebody whose only qualifications in life was to be a community (communist) agitator? Will MSM give the seal of approval for Al Sharpton, or Rev Wright be the next U.S. president?
An article in the Prague newspaper, Prager Zeitungon hit the bulls-eye:
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their President.”
If Trey Gowdy Chairs the Congress Select Committee to investigate Benghazi, this scandal will prove to be much worse than Watergate.
Bunker mode or more rounds of golf & vacations?
I’m predicting the latter....32 months left to party!
Obama is psychologically and cognitively rigid to the point of mental illness. He hasn’t considered a new concept since sometime during his tutelage under Frank Marshall Davis.
No one has ever really advised Obama other than Valerie Jarrett. He has always been her puppet.
enemy islamists all.
Mobile bunker is an option.
“We have to realize we will pay a price for this president’s lack of leadership.”
All that is happening today (now that Obama has been safely re-elected) is that the media is paying A LITTLE BIT of attention to the complaints that have been circulating on the street for 5 years...
While it makes me smile, too, I also knew this would happen back in 2008. Any thinking person would have known 0bama was not qualified to be president.
Great! Let’s pound some more ! Maybe obummer will go away.
Truer words were never spoken.
...”tutelage” seems a very charitable word. ‘Commendations.
If he loses congress in 2014, look for EO’s in between bi-monthly month-long vacations.
“nothing this president does seems to be shaping the world in a way that makes America stronger.”
That is because Obama is out to WEAKEN the US. One big ass mistake, America.
He can still stir up racial hatred, and lie about his accomplishments.
This can only mean two things. More golf, and more million dollar+ per day junkets for the little missus, Shelly, the kids, and the mother-in-law. Hmmm... where to next, where to?
“The White House is taking a pounding from all sides”
Even from Reggie Love?
The really amazing thing is, Barry was unqualified in 2008.
And after six years of OJT, he remains inexperienced: he hasn’t really seemed to learn anything .
You can cure ignorance with education, but the only thing worse than stupid is stupid combined with arrogance,
so we’ve got a worst case scenario here with Hussein.
And waiting in the wings, Slow Joe ... and JEB.
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