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Barack Obama, Bewildered Bystander
Washington Post ^ | October 23, 2014 | Charles Krauthhammer

Posted on 10/23/2014 7:06:16 PM PDT by lbryce

The president is upset. Very upset. Frustrated and angry. Seething about the government’s handling of Ebola, said the front-page headline in the New York Times last Saturday.

There’s only one problem with this pose, so obligingly transcribed for him by the Times. It’s his government. He’s president. Has been for six years. Yet Barack Obama reflexively insists on playing the shocked outsider when something goes wrong within his own administration.

Charles Krauthammer writes a weekly political column that runs on Fridays. View Archive RSS The IRS? “It’s inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it,” he thundered in May 2013 when the story broke of the agency targeting conservative groups. “I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but especially in the IRS.”

Except that within nine months, Obama had grown far more tolerant, retroactively declaring this to be a phony scandal without “a smidgen of corruption.”

Obamacare rollout? “Nobody is more frustrated by that than I am,” said an aggrieved Obama about the botching of the central element of his signature legislative achievement. “Nobody is madder than me.”

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: beingthere; chauncy; krauthammer; obama
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Poor, poor pitiful me.
I had the world by the cojones. What happened?
Ya think I can sneak on out of here like nice and quiet and lay low in Kenya where they'll never find me?

1 posted on 10/23/2014 7:06:16 PM PDT by lbryce
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To: lbryce

What ?


2 posted on 10/23/2014 7:06:44 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: lbryce
Even Krauthammer has embraced The Limbaugh Theorem.

Without attribution, of course.

3 posted on 10/23/2014 7:08:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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4 posted on 10/23/2014 7:08:57 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: a fool in paradise

Obies now...blaming mental illness?

. “Nobody is madder than me.””


5 posted on 10/23/2014 7:11:53 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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To: lbryce

Poor Obama.

ALWAYS the victim of someone else”s incompetency.

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6 posted on 10/23/2014 7:12:04 PM PDT by Mears
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To: lbryce

Obama has destroyed America and condemned pretty much everyone to grinding poverty. GO TO HELL CHOLOBAMA!


7 posted on 10/23/2014 7:13:38 PM PDT by Viennacon (Obola is a muslim terrorist & his viral illegals need to be deported NOW!)
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To: Mears

No kidding.


8 posted on 10/23/2014 7:13:49 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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To: lbryce

and I hear his wife has also started babbling ,getting names wrong etc


9 posted on 10/23/2014 7:21:27 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: lbryce
It's an arc we've seen before: from "We're in charge now so we're going to do great things not like those other guys," to "We're in charge now, not like those other guys," to "We're in charge now." That isn't an improvement.

What appears to astonish both 0bama and his staff is that declaring, and having their media friends declare, that their principles are sound, the decisions made off them are sound, and the results sound doesn't work when people start to work the thing back from the lousy results. After six years, "Bush's fault" isn't even working anymore. And our enemies have all seen the emperor in his birthday suit and think it's funny as hell.

The rest of us aren't laughing. We've seen the Change and are left only with the Hope that the damage isn't permanent.

10 posted on 10/23/2014 7:23:53 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Obama is a bystander for sure, but he is not bewildered.

I think he deliberately leaves the US undefended, in word and deed, then stands by and watches it unfold.

Do Rush and Kraut believe this too? Maybe, but would never say it without hard evidence.

11 posted on 10/23/2014 7:25:05 PM PDT by roses of sharon ("Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43)
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Obama is the absolute dumbest president ever to have held the office.

Don’t even try to give him credit for planning all of this. He’s a freaking rock that can’t think of what to plan for the next hour of his day let alone map out nefarious plans to doom the Republic.


12 posted on 10/23/2014 7:26:25 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici
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Perplexed, confounded, shocked, confused, numbed, unbelieving, bewildered? Sounds like words describing the American people for the last 6 years about the detached occupier of the Oval Office.


13 posted on 10/23/2014 7:28:12 PM PDT by Sasparilla
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BREAKING: Team of Doctors Tells America Exactly What Obama Wanted to Hide About Ebola
http://conservativetribune.com/obama-hiding-ebola-information/


14 posted on 10/23/2014 7:28:30 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: VeniVidiVici

Obama is the absolute dumbest president ever to have held the office.

Iranians said that today , LOL


15 posted on 10/23/2014 7:28:52 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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“Obama is the absolute dumbest president ever to have held the office.

Iranians said that today , LOL”
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Dumbest ever, but he speaks well. And reads well what the Teleprompter tells him to say. If only that Teleprompter had wisdom and judgement! But it, and its “feeders” have neither.

Eight critical years in the life of the Republic -— what a terrible thing to waste.


16 posted on 10/23/2014 7:34:36 PM PDT by House Atreides (ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN FOR CHILDERS 2014 .... Don't reward bad GOPe behavior.)
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To: Mears

What do you say?

OMG “OBAMA MUST GO”

NO CONFIDENCE


17 posted on 10/23/2014 7:35:26 PM PDT by hapnHal (hapnHal)
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To: Viennacon
Obama has destroyed America and condemned pretty much everyone to grinding poverty.

Not all by himself, he didn't.

Conservatives cannot forget that.

18 posted on 10/23/2014 7:38:16 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
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To: lbryce

19 posted on 10/23/2014 7:38:58 PM PDT by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read all of Deuteronomy 28)
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To: hapnHal

“OMG “OBAMA MUST GO”

NO CONFIDENCE”

We’ve been saying it here for several years but I’m afraid it will never happen. He’s Teflon.

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20 posted on 10/23/2014 7:41:20 PM PDT by Mears
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