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After Saying “I Should’ve Anticipated the Optics” of Golfing After Foley Beheading Speech… Obama
Gateway Pundit ^ | Kristinn Taylor

Posted on 09/07/2014 5:02:48 PM PDT by Nachum

Daniel Halper at the Weekly Standard points out that contrary to media reports Obama was not contrite in his Meet the Press remarks about going golfing immediately after making a statement while on vacation last month about the videotaped beheading of American journalist James Foley by the Islamist terrorist group ISIS. Obama seemed to blame press coverage—saying he’s looking forward to a vacation from the press–rather than his conduct for the optics of being seen laughing it up on the golf course mere minutes after making a somber statement on what many consider to be an act of war on America.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foley; golfing; jamesfoley; meetthepress; obama; obamagolfing; obamainterview; optics
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To: Chode

^^

That is great, that gif is like a digital Obama bobble head :D


21 posted on 09/07/2014 5:39:46 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: WyCoKsRepublican

Your average small town mayor would know better than to go play golf after speaking to his constituents about a tragedy. Obama lacks the American gene.


22 posted on 09/07/2014 5:41:30 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Nachum

I remember when he was elected the press was discussing how to handle such high expectations right off the bat.

They have been working hard at it ever since.


23 posted on 09/07/2014 5:45:06 PM PDT by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: Nachum
Didn't he say he was smarter than his political advisors?

I wonder who spins him around every morning since he doesn't have a clue which way he is going.
24 posted on 09/07/2014 5:45:33 PM PDT by jy8z (When push comes disguised as nudge, I do not budge.)
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To: chris37
100%... the 0bobble Head
25 posted on 09/07/2014 5:53:21 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Nachum

Foley was beheaded but Obama is the victim.


26 posted on 09/07/2014 6:03:40 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: TADSLOS

criteria for 301.81 Narcissistic Personality Disorder
(DSM IV - TR)
(cautionary statement)

A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

(1) has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)

(2) is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love

(3) believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)

(4) requires excessive admiration

(5) has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations

(6) is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends

(7) lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others

(8) is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her

(9) shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes


27 posted on 09/07/2014 6:14:24 PM PDT by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: Nachum

No different than a murderer being contrite about being caught, instead of the murder itself.


28 posted on 09/07/2014 6:26:17 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: Nachum
It's all about the optics.


29 posted on 09/07/2014 6:47:32 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

I’m stealing that one.


30 posted on 09/07/2014 6:49:37 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Chode

Now THAT ....is Truly Disturbing

Thank you.


31 posted on 09/07/2014 6:56:03 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do)
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To: Shimmer1

That’s way too fine a distinction for a guy who thinks an insurance premium can drop by 2700 percent and that is just one of his braindead remarks.


32 posted on 09/07/2014 6:57:38 PM PDT by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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To: Shimmer1

Optics being that which one looks through or shoots through...in the case of a camera lens..they GENIUSES have just about everything....BACKWARDS.... dont they


33 posted on 09/07/2014 6:58:02 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do)
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To: MeshugeMikey
yes, it is... on a couple levels
34 posted on 09/07/2014 7:29:49 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Travis McGee

Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!


35 posted on 09/07/2014 8:08:31 PM PDT by GOPJ ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: Nachum

He is upset that the press caught it, not that he should not have done it.

OPTICS, my foot!!!


36 posted on 09/07/2014 8:11:24 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“..And this guy was elected twice.”

More frightening is that the majority of people voted for him twice, and will vote again, and again. Will they EVER wake up?


37 posted on 09/07/2014 8:27:32 PM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: Nachum

If they’re black, he pretends to care and talks about his daughters. White people being slaughtered, like the Ft. Hood shooting and televised beheadings, he can’t even feign concern. The truth is he doesn’t care about anyone but himself.


38 posted on 09/07/2014 8:31:59 PM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: Nachum

Time to retire the over-used buzz word “optics.”


39 posted on 09/07/2014 9:42:53 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: Nachum
“I Should’ve Anticipated the Optics”

Yeah, B.O.
That's what comes of being:


40 posted on 09/08/2014 3:49:49 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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