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Barack Obama and the Exhausted Presidency
Big Government ^ | December 31, 2009 | Paul A. Rahe

Posted on 01/01/2010 3:30:32 AM PST by Scanian

In a recent puff piece, The New York Times reports that our President is tired. This is not the first such report. Back in May, when he treated England’s Gordon Brown so shabbily, the excuse given — according to The Daily Telegraph – was that wrestling with the economic crisis had left Barack Obama too exhausted to be able to focus on foreign affairs.

We should perhaps discount what was said in May. For, as I have attempted to document in detail here, here, here, here, here, and here, President Obama is a gentleman, and, as such, he is never unintentionally rude. He is, in fact, a master of the insulting gesture, which he seems to reserve for political opponents, such as Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Sarah Palin, and for political leaders in countries, such as England, France, Germany, Israel, and Poland, which were closely associated with the United States prior to the Age of Obama.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: campaigning; congress; foreignaffairs; rudeness
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1 posted on 01/01/2010 3:30:34 AM PST by Scanian
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To: Scanian

Its a no-brainer that Obama is always tired, it takes more muscle effort to frown and scowl, and not to mention his infamous Mussolini/Stalin clenched jaw.


2 posted on 01/01/2010 3:38:39 AM PST by Eye of Unk (Phobos, kerdos, and doxa, said the Time Traveler. “Fear, self-interest, and honor.”)
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To: Scanian

Got it. George W was an idiot, but Barry is just tired. Nice to have things cleared up.


3 posted on 01/01/2010 3:45:17 AM PST by Moose Burger
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To: Scanian
our President is tired.

The feeling is mutual.

He and the dems are going to crush this nation to the point where people will be so afraid that they will call for socialized everything, because it'll be paid for by, ya know, The Rich.

4 posted on 01/01/2010 3:49:11 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Bostonian conservative, atheist prolifer)
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To: Scanian

All that surfing, golfing, hiking, gym will make you tired, indeed.


5 posted on 01/01/2010 3:49:21 AM PST by max americana
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To: Scanian

Hey Mr Rahe, you gotta mark “/sarc” when BIG sarcasm comes out anywhere near the lead paragraph. Until I went on to read your entire excellent article, I sat muttering, “gentleman(?!)”.

Another pundit recently labeled Hussein our first Affirmative Action POTUS, and Charles Krauthammer drew a superb character portrait of the poor schnook soon after his coronat — oops, inauguration. Someone else just said that he will destroy our economy, and maybe our nation, in less than four years (if he hasn’t already) — so what should we do now? All suggestions welcome.


6 posted on 01/01/2010 3:52:54 AM PST by JohnQ1 ("(BHO) can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - A Lincoln)
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To: max americana

Obama works harder to achieve nothing, really that is all he does, I’ve seen new employees hired that are completely incompetents and every day they work three times or more trying to convince everyone they know what they are doing.

Experience DOES make a difference.


7 posted on 01/01/2010 3:53:38 AM PST by Eye of Unk (Phobos, kerdos, and doxa, said the Time Traveler. “Fear, self-interest, and honor.”)
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To: Scanian
2010: Or as the Obama Administration labels it... Blame Bush -1.
8 posted on 01/01/2010 3:57:24 AM PST by Shqipo (Palin/Thompson 2012)
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To: Scanian
It is possible he will be the second president to resign, this time for "health" reasons.

Look at his past "record". From not even being published in the Harvard Law Review he then went on to "edit" the man has never had to break a sweat. Yet Americans thought he was "one of us" because, ironically, of the racist idea that because he's black OF COURSE he's had to work hard to get anywhere--look at all the examples of hard-working blacks we've seen in our culture. To get to the point where you've written two books! (Forget what they contain, or who actually wrote them.) Harvard! (I'd bet money that 99% of the people who drop that name have no idea what Obama even did there.) Senator! (Forget that he started running for president as soon as he got the job.)

I have an instinctive reluctance to use the various permutations of "racism" ("reverse racism," for example), but how can one explain this guy's winning last year, and then, after people look at him doing EXACTLY what he promised he'd do, seeing how his popularity dropped, and not realize people voted for his skin color, and the stereotypes they attached to it?

9 posted on 01/01/2010 3:59:56 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Bostonian conservative, atheist prolifer)
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To: Eye of Unk

The Affirmative Action President is tired......sombody get him some milk and cookies


10 posted on 01/01/2010 4:00:53 AM PST by Fred911 (YOU GET WHAT YOU ACCEPT)
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To: Scanian
Obama always went through life as a duck. He thought he could do or say anything he wanted and it would never stick to him and he could always flutter away. As his administration has developed I think he is finding a buzzard is a more fitting description of him.
11 posted on 01/01/2010 4:07:38 AM PST by 1776 Reborn
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To: Scanian
He is, in fact, a master of the insulting gesture


12 posted on 01/01/2010 4:11:41 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Scanian
In a recent puff piece, The New York Times reports that our President is tired.

...But not too tired golf twice a week.


13 posted on 01/01/2010 4:15:34 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Scanian
I found this statement somewhat curious.

It seems not even to have crossed his mind when he ran for the office and assumed it that with the office would come responsibilities of a sort that had never previously encountered and that he had no particular desire to shoulder.

Could it be that he expected others in his regime to handle such tasks?

Maybe his job is to simply be the "point man" for a pack of 60's Marxist who have been planning this takeover for years. And, because they have been so incompetent in suppressing political opposition, a lot of flack is coming his way.

Just a thought, but this whole operation seems to be something other than a President and his administration.

14 posted on 01/01/2010 4:16:46 AM PST by Texas Jack
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To: Scanian

15 posted on 01/01/2010 4:18:03 AM PST by paulycy (AMERICA: Less safe. Less free. More broke.)
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To: Darkwolf377
I see this as a much more dangerous symptom of American complacency.

Most Americans today, have the attention span of a gnat. They only care about the hottest new texting medium, what team is going to the Super Bowl, who is Dancing With the Stars, what Oprah thinks and how to look, dress and dance like a hooker. So that they can somehow score fantasy sex with a complete stranger.

No wonder they would vote for and elect a completely incompetent Marxist with about as much experience as a High School Freshman. It was the vogue, politically Correct thing to do. Forget about actually studying his background or understanding who or what Obamao is. What only matters these days, is instant gratification. Pick who's name they hear the most often in the media.

And like the recent brainwashing/subliminal propaganda piece from Hollywood (AVATAR) points out; Capitalism, a strong Military and human economic prosperity is evil and immoral, while Hedonistic environmentalism is altruistic and morally pure. And it is a righteous cause to kill the evil, in the name of their Earth God Mother and banish those who survive to another planet.

And the Liberals, children and young flock to this garbage like Lemmings. Truth or reality has nothing to do with the new religion that has been created from this. They actually believe that they can and will create a Utopian heaven on Earth and they will become their own gods, worshiping their Earth God Mother in their make believe world of video games and 3-D digital imagery that replicates fantasy into reality.

17 posted on 01/01/2010 4:32:56 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP
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To: arbooz

What a hoot!


18 posted on 01/01/2010 4:53:55 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: Darkwolf377

Coincidence (of course), but Saudi Arabia gave Harvard a new building around the time Zero applied to law school. You have to wonder what Saudi Arabia demanded in return.


19 posted on 01/01/2010 5:00:03 AM PST by hershey
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
Great post. I posted a long examination of the ideas behind Avatar a week or two ago, in response to some "It's only a movie, geeez!" poster. No, I haven't seen it--I don't have to to know it's more anti-military, infantile crap pushing feeeeeling over thought and fantasy about "people who live close to the earth" as the panacea for all ills of this eeeeevil corrupt culture of ours.

People are programmed by the culture. That they can claim this stuff has NO impact on the minds of the young, in particular, and the clueless in general, is our first obstacle to a well-informed, thinking electorate.

20 posted on 01/01/2010 5:12:01 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Bostonian conservative, atheist prolifer)
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