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Obama Gets Schooled
New York Daily News ^ | 05/23/2009 | Michael Goodwin

Posted on 05/24/2009 5:55:57 AM PDT by fiscon1

was a tale of two speeches. One was clear, direct and powerful. Barack Obama gave the other speech.

It would have been heresy to write those words any other time, so commanding has President Obama been with the spoken word. But the real Mission Impossible was to imagine that wheezy old Dick Cheney would be the speaker to best Obama.

Yet that happened last week, and I predict it won't be a fluke. From here on out, results will increasingly trump the sensation of Obama's high-toned lectures every time.

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


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; dickcheney; gitmo; obama

1 posted on 05/24/2009 5:55:57 AM PDT by fiscon1
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To: fiscon1
Obama's high-toned lectures

That's the problem with Obama's speeches...they are all platitudes with no specifics. Even his most ardent fans will get tired of his puffery eventually.

His lack of specificity has already weakened congressional democrats support for him...hence the stripping of $80 mil for Gitmo because of his failure to produce a concrete plan.

Obama is all talk! We are seeing the cracks in his dam IMO.

2 posted on 05/24/2009 6:03:43 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies (Obama: "Enough about me, let's talk about you...what do you think of me?")
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To: fiscon1

It’s good to see a journalist telling the truth about obama’s rhetoric. I wonder if the tide is beginning to turn.


3 posted on 05/24/2009 6:06:36 AM PDT by ElayneJ
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

There are 2 kinds of people:

1. Those who Do Things. (Cheney)

2. And Those who Talk About Doing Things (Obozo)

(there is a subset of the Talkers who try to tell others how they should do things, that they themselves could not do- many of those are politicians)


4 posted on 05/24/2009 6:15:10 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: fiscon1

Cheney/Cheney 2012!


5 posted on 05/24/2009 6:16:02 AM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (Michelle Obama, The Early Years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBYGxBlFOSU)
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To: Byron_the_Aussie

So much gravitas he will be his own Vice President. I like it.


6 posted on 05/24/2009 6:19:36 AM PDT by kenth
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To: Texas Fossil

“2. And Those who Talk About Doing Things (Obozo)”
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Plus, Obozo has NEVER done anything either!


7 posted on 05/24/2009 6:20:41 AM PDT by TMA62 (TMA62)
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To: fiscon1

Is the Honeymoon over??? God!! I hope so.

Fox made the decision to not give Obama air time. Great move on their part.


8 posted on 05/24/2009 6:21:48 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: TMA62

“Plus, Obozo has NEVER done anything either!”

You are absolutely correct. But what do you expect from a Red Diaper Baby.

He is a born and bred Commie.


9 posted on 05/24/2009 6:22:30 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: kenth
...so much gravitas he will be his own Vice President. I like it...

I was thinking of a father/daughter ticket. Your idea just as worthwhile.

10 posted on 05/24/2009 6:26:58 AM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (Michelle Obama, The Early Years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBYGxBlFOSU)
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To: Texas Fossil

A Red Diaper Doper Baby as Michael Savage says! ;-)


11 posted on 05/24/2009 6:27:35 AM PDT by TMA62 (TMA62)
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To: fiscon1

From POTUS to FLATUS.


12 posted on 05/24/2009 6:29:46 AM PDT by tsomer
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To: Byron_the_Aussie

Cheney/Santelli 2012!

Or maybe Palin.


13 posted on 05/24/2009 6:33:20 AM PDT by I Hate Obama (Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made- Otto Von Bismarck)
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To: fiscon1
With Democrats holding all Washington power, the ex-veep's willingness to challenge Obama's narrative of the war on terror is a poor substitute for an institutional check-and-balance, but it's all we have.

Memo to GOP: Wake up.

14 posted on 05/24/2009 6:34:38 AM PDT by Popman
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To: TMA62
In their book Red Diapers: Growing Up in the Communist Left, Judy Kaplan and Linn Shapiro define red diaper babies as "children of CPUSA members, children of former CPUSA members, and children whose parents never became members of the CPUSA but were involved in political, cultural, or educational activities led or supported by the Party"
15 posted on 05/24/2009 6:36:08 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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