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Let Obama Golf. No President Can Be Mr. Fix-It (and We Shouldn't Let Him Try).
Reason ^ | August 20, 2014 | J.D. Tuccille

Posted on 08/20/2014 6:49:21 PM PDT by EveningStar

"President Obama went back to his vacation on Martha's Vineyard Tuesday evening after spending less than 48 hours in Washington, leaving people puzzled over why he came back in the first place," Justin Sink wrote yesterday at The Hill. Actually, Obama probably dropped into Washington, D.C., in August--not the most pleasant time of year to visit the swamp that neither Virginia nor Maryland wanted--because he was getting his balls busted from every ideological point on the compass over his absence. Why won't he do something about the unrest in Ferguson and ISIL beheading James Foley?

Ummm...What? Exactly? ...

The United States started with a federal system so that policy could be experimented with locally, and so could policy mistakes. The country also started with a limited government out of recognition that even saints wielding unlimited power will do much more harm than good by trying to perfect an imperfect world...

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: libertarians; obama; presidentialpower; reason

1 posted on 08/20/2014 6:49:22 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

5 years ago the media was telling us he was going to bridge the racial divide.

Today he’s only human....


2 posted on 08/20/2014 6:59:21 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: Tzimisce

For the good of the country and humanity, he should be on the golf course 24/7.


3 posted on 08/20/2014 7:01:18 PM PDT by huckfillary
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To: EveningStar

I know this guy’s point. My point in leveling criticism of the Clown is that too often Obama DOES insert himself.

He cannot do ANYTHING right, but he and his party are virulent against the desires and actions of individuals trying too exercise THEIR liberty. Obama attempts to nullify that, but cannot do a thing to stop his angry urban base from looting and pillaging? BS.

THE LEAST he could have done was angrily call out the mobs and tell them to cease. Why didn’t he? He likes seeing society unravel.


4 posted on 08/20/2014 7:02:49 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: EveningStar

Author obviously doesn’t get what Rush was eluding to on the show on 8-19. He is MIA on purpose but is in full control.


5 posted on 08/20/2014 7:03:15 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (In Times of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth Becomes a Revolutionary Act.)
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To: EveningStar

We’re better off with him golfing.


6 posted on 08/20/2014 7:03:28 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: EveningStar

Worrying more about racial political gains than the death of an American by a DANGEROUS INTERNATIONAL ENEMY.

Thank You Congress for letting this travesty continue.


7 posted on 08/20/2014 7:03:33 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Tzimisce

Reason.com is a libertarian site.


8 posted on 08/20/2014 7:03:40 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Obviously.


9 posted on 08/20/2014 7:05:14 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: CincyRichieRich

No modern president is ever completely on vacation.


10 posted on 08/20/2014 7:06:18 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

He may not be “Mr. Fix-It,” but he sure is “Mr. F***-It-Up.”


11 posted on 08/20/2014 7:22:59 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: EveningStar

So standards must be lowered for Obamalamadingdong because he’s stupid?


12 posted on 08/20/2014 7:28:44 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: MaxMax

Is that really what you got out of the article?


13 posted on 08/20/2014 7:31:20 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
He is not doing the job he was hired to do.

We have paid him 2 million dollars so far.

14 posted on 08/20/2014 7:56:11 PM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: EveningStar

Reagan might not solve anything during these weeks, but whatever words or activities he shared with us, would much better fit the duties and responsibilities of the presidency, than Obama is, Reason is going to far to make their point.

The president is not to lie dormant in between concrete things that he can do, he is also a figurehead, and a symbol, a leader who helps set the national mood and spirit, and self image, and our global image.


15 posted on 08/20/2014 8:09:14 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: EveningStar

Obama is a Nero and his fiddle is a putter.


16 posted on 08/20/2014 8:39:44 PM PDT by Slambat
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To: EveningStar

Obama’s golfing is not itself an issue. Valerie Jarrett and the other Communist Muslims in the White House are running everything.

Obama golfs, feasts, and dances the night away in order signal that he CELEBRATES, REJOICES at the rapes, beheadings, and crucifixions of the kafir.


17 posted on 08/20/2014 8:58:07 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Tzimisce; GeronL

Libertarians are now advocating an isolationist policy within the homeland as well.

Surrender the border.

Surrender the cities.


18 posted on 08/20/2014 9:42:48 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Surrender is not a winning strategy


19 posted on 08/20/2014 11:02:23 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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