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Taunts come back to haunt mocker in chief
lowell sun ^ | 9/17/14 | peter lucas

Posted on 09/16/2014 5:52:32 AM PDT by luke1825

Mockery has long been a favorite -- and effective -- weapon of President Barack Obama.

His usage of mockery to demean and belittle his opponents comes straight from one of the men he most admired, the leftist Chicago radical Saul Alinsky, whose Rules for Radicals is the bible of the far left.

"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon," Alinsky wrote in his primer for revolutionaries. "It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage."

Obama over the years has developed the use of mockery almost to an art form -- as in his "So sue me" taunt to U.S. House Republicans objecting to his questionable actions bypassing Congress and the U.S. Constitution -- to get what he wants


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama

1 posted on 09/16/2014 5:52:33 AM PDT by luke1825
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To: luke1825

Mocking Traitorobama is far more difficult than mocking a mockery. With what obscenity, perversion, or wickedness could he be labeled that would not be more of an insult to the label itself?


2 posted on 09/16/2014 6:03:15 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: luke1825
Obama is prone to ghetto trash talk which is not immediately apparent because it is slightly upgraded by his exposure to the Ivy League. The problem with trash-talking about potential adversaries in international relations is that trash talk can get us all killed.

These are not a bunch of teenage punk kids at a street basketball court shouting meaningless insults each other, this is the big leagues. But human nature is still human nature and just as trash talk can erupt in a flash in violence on a ghetto street corner, so it can lead to misunderstanding and war.

Obama is a profoundly dangerous man to have his finger only inches away from the nuclear button and this trash talk character flaw is the least of our problems. We can start with his utter lack of discernible policy which prompts adversaries to miscalculate and leads to a nuclear exchange. We can continue with an indiscernible policy known only to Obama the ultimate purpose of which is to undermine America. The more he succeeds the more our adversaries perceive our weakness and the closer we come to war. The more he succeeds, the more Americans perceive what he is doing and the more he must trash talk or bluster about red lines to compensate. The dangerous cycle spirals on.


3 posted on 09/16/2014 6:07:14 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: Carl Vehse
I love mocking lil Obie!

its something of an art form....




4 posted on 09/16/2014 6:07:17 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do_RETIRE THE REGIME!)
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To: luke1825
what it is, bro
5 posted on 09/16/2014 6:10:42 AM PDT by JPG ("So sue me". OK, we will.)
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To: MeshugeMikey
what's funny is that the left mocked Bush for 8 years (and still does) and yet, when Obama is mocked, they cry racism.

They are too blind to see the hypocrisy

6 posted on 09/16/2014 6:12:00 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Does that mean it is “wrong” to mock Clown Prince nobama and his family of grifters?


7 posted on 09/16/2014 6:15:47 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or reeducation Camp?)
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To: luke1825

Øbozo can dish it out but he can’t take it. Not just the thinnest-skinned president, he is the thinnest-skinned man I’ve ever seen.


8 posted on 09/16/2014 6:17:24 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: nathanbedford

“Obama is a profoundly dangerous man to have his finger only inches away from the nuclear button”
Or inches away from the speed dial to the head of the IRS. “So sue me”, takes on a very real meaning when this guy feels threatened.


9 posted on 09/16/2014 6:20:51 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: luke1825

It’s actually very easy to defuse ridicule - you simply have to call it out and deride it for what it is.

I remember one Piers Morgan show where Suze Orzman or whatever her name is called a pro-traditional marriage advocate “uneducated” along with some other epithets. He then asked her why she was being so rude when he was simply arguing logically and had not said anything offensive to her whatsoever.

A silence went through the crowd as they all realized he was right.


11 posted on 09/16/2014 6:27:53 AM PDT by struggle
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12 posted on 09/16/2014 6:30:31 AM PDT by Liz
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To: nathanbedford

100% agree!


13 posted on 09/16/2014 6:36:55 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
all they have......is the "race" buffer....

would be better for them to remain SILENT...than to carry on as FOOLS

barry was chosen for his melanin content. Had he been "white" he'd never have been picked...as hed have lacked the most important facet of this presidency....Immunity by "virtue" of race.


14 posted on 09/16/2014 6:45:00 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do_RETIRE THE REGIME!)
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To: luke1825

Answer mockery for mockery and insult for insult. If the Republicrats ever get a set, they would do well to remember that. For every cry of racism, a response of child molester would be appropriate. Mocking the Congress to “so sue me” should be answered with “you’ll get bills through the House when you obey the law”.


15 posted on 09/16/2014 7:07:47 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: luke1825
Poor Widdle Obama...The Russians ridiculed widdle Obama



16 posted on 09/16/2014 7:09:43 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: MeshugeMikey

Bookmark


17 posted on 09/16/2014 7:14:55 AM PDT by southland ( I have faith in the creator Republicans freed the slaves. psalms 37:4)
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To: Organic Panic

Book


18 posted on 09/16/2014 7:16:00 AM PDT by southland ( I have faith in the creator Republicans freed the slaves. psalms 37:4)
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To: rockrr
Not just the thinnest-skinned president, he is the thinnest-skinned man I’ve ever seen.

"If Obama were any more thin skinned, he'd need a reservoir tip."
--Dennis Miller
19 posted on 09/16/2014 8:30:01 AM PDT by Colinsky
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To: struggle

“It’s actually very easy to defuse ridicule”

Agreed, and here is why -
Their (so-called) ridicule/mockery consists of nothing but distortions of truth. Lies in fact.
It’s like the difference between sarcasm (not funny, corrosive, mean-spirited) and irony (funny)...
Ever notice how decidedly un-funny & humorless libs are?
It’s because all they do is lie! (Most of us grew beyond sarcasm by the end of 7th grade or so)...

When ridicule and mockery are based on truth, most commonly by exposing their hypocrisy, it IS funny (though it’s hard to take such dangerous, power-hungry clowns lightly, kwim?)...

The thing these narcissists FEAR the most is ignoring them. Shunning them.
What they HATE the most (& it makes them rage so deliciously!) is ridicule.


20 posted on 09/16/2014 8:50:38 AM PDT by spankalib ("I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.")
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