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To: rdb3; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; rabscuttle385; mkjessup; ...

Passion?? It’s called reality.

Making believe you have the all answers is MUCH easier than actually coming up with them(as with Trump too.) In 2008 Obama was pretty darn good at pointing out all the things that were ‘wrong’, and all the easy answers...but now it’s not so easy for him.

Still, he gets too much of a break.


15 posted on 08/06/2011 9:11:54 PM PDT by sickoflibs (If you pay zero Federal income taxes, don't say you are paying your 'fair share')
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To: sickoflibs

Obama is without a doubt, the luckiest pol that ever lived....HANDS DOWN!!!!


20 posted on 08/06/2011 9:16:33 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: sickoflibs

Break?” He is the luckiest man who ever lived in Americaq.

I still think he is really Damian : )


32 posted on 08/06/2011 9:28:27 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: sickoflibs
You got it.

He thought it would be cool to play President, and he has milked it for all its worth.

Reality has a funny way of eventually smacking people upside the head though.

33 posted on 08/06/2011 9:34:42 PM PDT by comebacknewt ((on second thought, never mind, go away again Newt))
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To: sickoflibs; rdb3; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; rabscuttle385; mkjessup; Liz
The truly decisive move that broke the arc of history was his handling of the stimulus. The public was desperate for a leader who would speak with confidence, and they were ready to follow wherever the president led. Yet instead of indicting the economic policies and principles that had just eliminated eight million jobs,

Oh please! He never stopped repeating that mantra.

in the most damaging of the tic-like gestures of compromise that have become the hallmark of his presidency — and against the advice of multiple Nobel-Prize-winning economists — he backed away from his advisers who proposed a big stimulus, and then diluted it with tax cuts that had already been shown to be inert. The result, as predicted in advance, was a half-stimulus that half-stimulated the economy.

Maybe 5% stimulated, not half. And a bigger percent of union boondoggles would have been even less effective.

That, in turn, led the White House to feel rightly unappreciated for having saved the country from another Great Depression but in the unenviable position of having to argue a counterfactual — that something terrible might have happened had it not half-acted.


40 posted on 08/06/2011 10:48:17 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Budget sins can be fixed. Amnesty is irreversible.)
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To: sickoflibs
RE: "Still, he gets too much of a break."
Whadya a racists or something.../sarc
63 posted on 08/07/2011 11:14:53 AM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....Duncan Hunter Sr. for POTUS.)
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