Posted on 12/22/2014 8:10:55 AM PST by PROCON
When politics becomes personal it can lose perspective.
In an interview that was broadcast last night on 60 Minutes, retiring Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn proclaimed, “I’m proud of our country for electing Barack Obama.”
Senator Coburn is to be admired for his years as a watchdog on the spending habits of Congress and bureaucrats in the federal government. While I was certainly well aware of Coburn’s friendship with Obama, which developed when they were in the Senate, I am nevertheless disappointed to hear that he is proud this country elected Barack Obama to the White House.
Senator Coburn might very well love Barack Obama as a man and with it the content of his character. Alas, I do not love Barack Obama much less admire his character. I’m not proud that we elected Barack Obama to be President of the United States.
I’m not proud of President Obama when he says we’ve entered a new era of responsibility and then spends his entire presidency blaming President Bush, ATMs, the Arab Spring and tsunamis and a myriad of other excuses for his woes.
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I thought this one might be the deal breaker with the Low Info crowd, but Obama still has a 40+% approval rating.<sigh>
Only a blithering idiot cannot see the damage Obama has done to America. He has permanently destroyed the best country ever known.
A Muslim masquerading as a black man. It’s all downhill after that.
This is of which Jon Gruber spoke.
I swear Tom Coburn is a blithering idiot. He also said Nancy Pelosi is a nice lady and to stop watching Fox News. Good riddance to this Air Head.
Some here would say: Well, at least we did not get Romney.
On the other hand, his legacy has changed from being our first black President, to probably our LAST black President.
Yeah Doug, but they say they "stuck to their principles" < spit>
“Might as well say you are proud the country elected a man only because of the color of his skin.”
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You can say that about 39 more times!!! It is EXACTLY what we did, so many people think he was elected IN SPITE of the color of his skin but in truth it was because of it and even the skin color appears to be faked, there are photos of him coming out of the surf in Hawaii in which he seems to have a dark “farmer’s tan” on his face, neck, hands and arms while his torso appears to be nearly as pale as any Caucasian.
If everything else about Obama had been the same except that he had been a blue eyed, blond, white male we would never have heard his name in politics. Anyone who doubts that is living in a fantasy. It is all about image now, the reality counts for little and that is why I don’t think Hitlery has a real chance, the surface appearance looks as bad as the reality. She has no charm about her whatsoever, anyone who imagines that she does is simply imagining.
Fling, thanks for your scientific description of approximately one half of the voting citizenry. "Approximately," being the key thought. Could be 49.99%. Could be 50.01%. The former, you got Mitt. The latter, you got Barry.
There is however, another species even stranger than the blithering idiot American voter worthy of your study. That unknown %-age of the citizenry that is not voting. The ἰδιώτης That's a guy in ancient Athens who was too stupid to register to vote or "didn't care about" politics. Could there be enough of these creatures to put our camp up over 50%? Although we could use'em, do we want'em? How do we go get'em? How do we round'em up and make'em vote right?
“I’m proud of our country for electing Barack Obama.”
Yeah. It’s just the part ‘after’ the election that turned out to suck.
Some here would say: Well, at least we did not get Romney.
Touché.
Given the GOP's failure to stand against funding the federal behemoth after the near-landslide victory handed them by voters saying I do not want this
can you really claim that the GOP would hold his feet to the fire
? `Cause I sure don't.
That and the plan that the Romney-cheerleaders had for defeating
ObamaCare, issuing waivers to all the states, would have accrued a massive amount of power to the Presidency: Say, that's a nice waiver there… it'd be a pity if something were to happen to it.
I’m proud that Obama’s race didn’t prevent him from being elected. I’m not proud that we elected Obama. There is a difference, Senator.
And he may be very nice personally, though he seems cold to me, but he’d wreaking a lot of destruction on our beloved country.
Calling Diogenesis. He never misses an opportunity to bash Romney even when Romney isn’t the topic.
Hope and Change was a clue to who this rotten black ars was. And most America fell for it. And the hatred for Romney in 2012. American stupidity.
Ummm, I was being sarcastic. As bad as Romney would have been, he is not Obama. He would not be writing law with a stroke of the pen. He would have been standing up to enemies rather than apologizing for America’s “sins.” He would not have a racist attorney general. Many in Romney’s own party would have been fighting him and I would have been in the streets if he did something particularly egregious.
How could they have become friends when Obama was only there five minutes?
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