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Obama Cowardly Confronts Critics
TalkingSides.com ^ | 04/03/10 | CaroleL

Posted on 04/03/2010 10:36:20 AM PDT by CaroleL

In a recent combination basketball practice/softball interview with CBS's Harry Smith, President Barack Obama sought to blame certain media personalities for the low opinion many Americans have of him and his policies. "Well, I think that when you listen to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, it's pretty apparent, and it's troublesome, but keep in mind that there have been periods in American history where this kind of vitriol comes out."

This moment from the otherwise snoozer of an interview shows not only this president's knee-jerk reaction to blame someone else for any bad news, but also the cowardly way he confronts his few media critics. When I think of US President vs. US Media, I do not think of the leader of the free world sniping from behind the skirts of an adoring sycophant like Harry Smith. I think of moments like these:

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: critics; donaldson; media; reagan

1 posted on 04/03/2010 10:36:21 AM PDT by CaroleL
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To: CaroleL
When I think of US President vs. US Media, I do not think of the leader of the free world sniping from behind the skirts of an adoring sycophant like Harry Smith.

Now that is a great line.

2 posted on 04/03/2010 10:38:30 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: CaroleL

If Barry can’t take the heat, he needs to get the hell out of the kitchen. I never heard George W. Bush complain and whine like this about his critics. Dubya was pounded day in and day out by the ‘RAT toadies in the MSM. They haven’t laid a glove on their “messiah”. Barry is in over his head with this job and should probably give it up and go back to the streets of Chicago where he belongs.


3 posted on 04/03/2010 10:40:28 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Help! I've been Alinskyed by the Obamanoids and I can't get up!)
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To: CaroleL
Yeah, Obama is a sniveling coward who runs like a passive aggressive spoiled brat from facing any critics of the horrors he commits.

He bows like a servant to the world's thug rulers. He governs like Lenin, stealing our freedom and our future, utterly destroying the nation.

All in all he is the most mentally ill and destructive pathetic excuse for a human aver to be President: the worst in history.


4 posted on 04/03/2010 10:42:46 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H. L. Menken.)
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To: CaroleL

“keep in mind that there have been periods in American history where this kind of vitriol comes out.”

Dissent is patriotic, remember, Obammie the Commie?

And criticism is neither vitriol nor violence.

Now, the 8 years of Pres. Bush’s term in office actually saw a vitriol like nothing we have experienced before.

And, by the way, Obammie the Commie, how do you explain all those people around the world, who do not listen to Rush or Beck, yet still hate your guts?


5 posted on 04/03/2010 10:45:53 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Gee...whatever happened to dissent being “patriotic”?


6 posted on 04/03/2010 10:46:15 AM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: CaroleL

The man is contemptable of the office of President. NO sitting President has ever called out individual citizens like this poor excuse for a leader has.

He is “The Bring It ON President.” What a disgrace.


7 posted on 04/03/2010 10:47:40 AM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

go back to the streets of Chicago where he belongs
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Geez, that is like a ‘death sentence’.
How long do you think this girly-man would last on the streets of any large city without SSA’s and Bodyguards?

This lad is NOT a survivor.....


8 posted on 04/03/2010 10:52:54 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98 ) FIRE ALL INCUMBENTS)
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To: CaroleL

you mean constant bashing by the media will affect how people view the POTUS?

hmmm... I wonder if GWBush ever whined about it? nah... he took it like a man and kept doing the job (without a vacation every 8 weeks)


9 posted on 04/03/2010 10:57:17 AM PDT by sten
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To: CaroleL

That’s TROUBLESOME....


10 posted on 04/03/2010 12:03:38 PM PDT by traumer
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
re: “keep in mind that there have been periods in American history where this kind of vitriol comes out.”)))

Like 20 years in Jeremiah Wright's church?

11 posted on 04/03/2010 12:17:18 PM PDT by Mamzelle (Employers--lay off Obama voters first)
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To: CaroleL
0bama the "Uniter" ...

Obama To Supporters: "Argue With Friend and Neighbors Get In Their Face!"

Obama Mocks Fox, "Teabaggers"

Obama Mocks Republican 'Armageddon' Rhetoric (Again)

Obama: Police Acted 'stupidly' in Scholar Arrest

NRA: Barack Obama - "bitter gun owners"

A President who mocks and taunts Americans, who incites his followers to be confrontational, is troublesome.

0bama the agitator.


12 posted on 04/03/2010 12:31:03 PM PDT by TigersEye (Duncan Hunter, Jim DeMint, Michelle Bachman, ...)
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To: CaroleL
"...it's troublesome...

What's troublesome is that we have a know-nothing, loafer of a communist-muslim running the central socialist government of America!

13 posted on 04/03/2010 2:52:34 PM PDT by IbJensen ((Ps 109.8): "Let his days be few; and let another take his position.")
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