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Where Obama went wrong: How failing to “seize the radical moment” explains his terrible week
Salon ^ | November 8, 2014 | Elias Isquith

Posted on 11/08/2014 1:09:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

IF ONLY Democrats had added that much needed clause to the healthcare law:

“All opposition to the president are to be immediately interned in labor camps.”

Sissy Obozo just didn’t seize the moment


21 posted on 11/08/2014 1:23:07 PM PST by Viennacon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Salon is saying the rats lost because their agenda wasn’t radical enough. Amazingly it appears that Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are going to take this advice and double down on leftist schemes. This could get interesting if played right by the pubs.


22 posted on 11/08/2014 1:26:28 PM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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For reasons largely beyond his control, Barack Obama has experienced more adversity and upheaval during his five-plus years as president than most of his predecessors.

Gag me with a pitch-fork.

This president hasn't had it so bad. It is judgment that has been so bad.

23 posted on 11/08/2014 1:27:46 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The mid-term elections were perfect for him. Now Obama can really lead from behind.)
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his judgement...


24 posted on 11/08/2014 1:28:28 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The mid-term elections were perfect for him. Now Obama can really lead from behind.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama “woke up” the global economy? Somehow I missed that.


25 posted on 11/08/2014 1:28:39 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Actually, I think this attitude works to the advantage of the Right.

If the Left/Obama makes conciliatory moves to work with the GOP, citizen’s anger will subside, and the Left can ease their way back into the country’s good graces...which we do not want to happen. I mean, face it, the Sheeple have short memories.

If the Left continues to demand the crap we’ve had to put up with over the last 6 years, the general population will (hopefully) continue the revolt and kick even more democrats out in 2016.


26 posted on 11/08/2014 1:31:15 PM PST by moovova
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.He grants that Obama isn’t always the best at messaging and pure politics, but insists that there is no “substantive reason why Obama has lost altitude.”

There is a difference between a "flat spin" and a "stall"

Flat spin:

stall:

Both are fatal to the novice operator....such as a "community organizer.

27 posted on 11/08/2014 1:31:46 PM PST by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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Even Obama is a victim of this wicked, racist nation. Who would elect America’s first black President only to set him up for failure?

Whitey, that’s who!


28 posted on 11/08/2014 1:35:57 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: SpaceBar; All

LOL! Great post/pic in a thread of great posts/pics.

FUBO…POSOTUS


29 posted on 11/08/2014 1:40:51 PM PST by PGalt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes, he failed to declare that he is the “christ” and set up his temple and demand everyone worship him under pain of death. Other than that, he did everything right.


30 posted on 11/08/2014 1:41:57 PM PST by Lake Living
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>>In fact, when it comes to governing during crisis, you could argue that only a few others, like Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, had it worse.)<<

Reagan had is a LOT worse than obozo. So did W. And what a lovely and easy situation Truman “inherited.”

2007-2008 was a cyclical economic downturn resulting from democrat policies. All ANY president had to do was remove those policies, stand back, and allow the Market to right itself.


31 posted on 11/08/2014 1:42:21 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Zimmerman, Brown, Fast & Furious, IRS harassment, Philly ignorance: holdering in 1st degree)
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To: SpaceBar

Yeah:)


32 posted on 11/08/2014 1:44:21 PM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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33 posted on 11/08/2014 1:45:21 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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The rats pushed an empty suit


34 posted on 11/08/2014 1:49:57 PM PST by ronnie raygun (Empty head empty suit what could go wrong?)
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To: lurk

It was the perception that the radical moment was being seized that led to the week’s election results.

Not expecting the libs to understand this.”

A lot of folks apparently came to the realization that they no longer wanted transformation into a third-world hell hole. They became disillusioned about the prospect of giving up so-called American exceptionalism and instead living in a squalid hut with dirty water and disease-ridden fellow inhabitants.


35 posted on 11/08/2014 1:52:48 PM PST by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why post this nonsense from Salon??


36 posted on 11/08/2014 1:55:08 PM PST by stubernx98 (cranky, but reasonable)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obuma is a fake who is propped by the 50 IQ apes in the propaganda press. Obuma has no mandate nor do normal people like him because the majority of people never voted for Buckwheat. He won election via massive voter fraud carried out by the Nazis on Soros’ payroll.

End of story.


37 posted on 11/08/2014 1:55:22 PM PST by sergeantdave
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That’s funny! After reading the comments, it seems they fired the shotgun at the blame map and hit every possible explanation, then made up some extras. When I saw someone call 0 ‘a white-skinned Bush’ I just SMPL. Then had a healthy laugh at all the liberal tears and flusterated convolutions, never seen anything like it! If we’d had today’s internet in 1994, would it have read like this week’s, I wonder?


38 posted on 11/08/2014 1:57:14 PM PST by W. (We won. Get over it! Or not. I don't care...because we won!)
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Ultimately, Sullivan’s piece doesn’t answer the question, opting instead to explain why various decisions the president made were the “least worst” possible. He cites globalization, Islamic extremism, ideological polarization and the increasingly extreme GOP as structural forces keeping Obama from doing much more than he has already.

This is called a failure to lead. It is NOT bad luck!


39 posted on 11/08/2014 2:00:43 PM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: W.

Forgot—they’re blaming everything but the true problem.


40 posted on 11/08/2014 2:15:16 PM PST by W. (We won. Get over it! Or not. I don't care--because we won! Guilt-free Schadenfreude! Es Ist sehrgut!)
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