Posted on 08/10/2014 5:37:00 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
(snip) “What you’ve seen with our politics, partly because of gerrymandering, partly because of the Balkanization of media so people just watch what reinforces their deepest biases, partly because of big money in politics, is increasingly politicians are rewarded for taking the most extreme, maximalist positions,” Obama told the liberal Times columnist. “Sooner or later, that catches up with you. You end up not being able to move forward on things we need to move forward on. We need to reform our immigration system. That would be good not just for our domestic economy but for our position in the world. You travel around Latin America—nothing would more reinforce an admiration for the United States than us doing that. We need to rebuild our infrastructure. You go to the Singapore airport and then you come back to one of our airports and you say, huh? We’re not acting like a superpower.”
“It’s like going from the Jetsons to the Flintstones,” Friedman agreed.
“Exactly,” Obama concurred. ......
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
WHO has been enjoying 99% mass media fawning ever since he's on the national stage. He CAN NOT operate without 100% syncophant on all levels.
Anything to avoid admitting that maybe 50% of the country had him figured out all by ourselves.
"..... I have to say here, I’ve been speaking in generalities, and trying not to be too political, but that ideological extremism and maximalist position is much more prominent right now in the Republican Party than the Democrats. ....."
Mr. Obama, anybody diagrees with you is an extremist, is that it?
YOU OBAMA ARE THE PROBLEM! YOU and all your liberal moronic buddies in congress!
Yet the Balkanization of American one part of his true adgenda continues and in fact picks up its pace.
Nonsense. This feckless fool never rests from diverting attention from where it belongs: squarely on the back of the feckless fool on the hill.
I wish Breitbart would stop putting all the feeds and streams on their pages.
It takes too long to load.
“..Mr. Obama, anybody diagrees with you is an extremist, is that it?”
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And a terrorist. Yes, anyone who supports freedom, liberty, our laws, our Constitution, our military, our capitalist success, and our American way of life is truly a MAJOR THREAT and must be suppressed. /s
Someday this man may actually say something intelligent.
Nah just kidding.............
He can’t get his agenda passed because of talk radio and the internet. Mmmhmmm.
He BARELY got Obamacare passed by know-nothings who didn’t even read it (all Democrats) and who were resistant against the critics of it WITH a House and Senate Democrat Majority.
He still had to buy off some Senators with kickbacks (just as one Republican had to be “turned” and some contested seats taken by judicial decree and governor appointment - SELECTED NOT ELECTED).
good heavens. the vast majority of the MSM has been on its knees in front of this guy giving him a decade long Monica, and it’s not good enough. Too harsh. Not properly adoring.
this guy is psychologically damaged, plain and simple. He has abandonment issues caused first by his father’s complete rejection of him so he could knock up other American coeds, and then by his mother repeatedly dumping him on her mother’s doorstep so she could chase exotic men.
Yes,
Since Hammurabi on Babylon, that pesky first amendment has been stymying our progress.
You can always count on Friedman to agree. Good lap dog.
-——but that ideological extremism and maximalist position is much more prominent right now in the Republican Party than the Democrats. Democrats have problems, but overall if you look at the Democratic consensus, it’s a pretty commonsense, mainstream consensus. It’s not a lot of wacky ideological nonsense, the way it is generally fact-based and reason-based. We’re not denying science, we’re not denying climate change, we’re not pretending that somehow having a whole bunch of uninsured people is the American way. We’re doing things that are pretty sensible.-——
Straight out of Alinsky book....
The guy is slick....
Huh?
Maximalist positions? Like talking to terrorists, adversaries and competitors but, refusing to engage and obtain some sort of consensus from the opposition party in your own country?
Well, I get what you are saying...
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