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Barbour: Obama one of "greatest politicians" ever
The Politico ^ | February 27, 2011 | Kasie Hunt

Posted on 02/27/2011 9:12:14 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

President Barack Obama is one of America's best politicians ever, according to one of his potential rivals for re-election in 2012.

"The president is one of the greatest politicians in the history of the United States," Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Barbour's comments came during a discussion of Wisconsin's budget battle - a fight that's sparked widespread protests as Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has tried to curtail collective bargaining rights for public employees.

Obama is "quiet [on the issue] because most Americans know this has to be done,"

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Mississippi; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: barbour; mississippi; obama; rino; rinos; wisconsin; wisconsinshowdown
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To: Aria

Reference Cream’s “The Politician”.

Or this one from Motorhead:

I twist the truth, I rule the world, my crown is called deceit
I am the emperor of lies, you grovel at my feet
I rob you and I slaughter you, your downfall is my gain
And still you play the sycophant and revel in my pain
And all my promises are lies, all my love is hate
I am the politician and I decide your fate


61 posted on 02/27/2011 10:30:07 AM PST by Fred Hayek (All Hail the No Talent Pop Star pResident.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s called “damning with faint praise.”
I think it’s spot on.


62 posted on 02/27/2011 10:32:15 AM PST by Excellence (Buy Progresso, take off the label, write "not halal," mail to Campbell's soup company.)
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To: All
He is a complete moron without his teleprompter and soros. People are stupid enough to have elected him and still like him now. Big difference! the era or American Idol..no brain anymore.
63 posted on 02/27/2011 10:32:34 AM PST by American Dream 246 (Open your eyes. Freedom is not a one day fight. Enemies of Freedom are legion.)
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To: mc5cents

And, its a lie about both. Neither ever got anyone elected except themselves. The 2010 election was Obama’s first real test as a “politician”. He failed.


64 posted on 02/27/2011 10:36:34 AM PST by John W (Natural-born US citizen since 1955)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reason Number 1 why I will never consider voting for Haley Barbour for President.


65 posted on 02/27/2011 10:37:47 AM PST by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You know, I really used to like Barbour and Huckabee for that matter, but their suck-up butt kissing really turns my stomach.


66 posted on 02/27/2011 10:40:27 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"The president is one of the greatest politicians in the history of the United States," Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Did he add 'Bless his heart' ?

The MSM make or break politicians these days.
They support Zer0 just like they supported Clinton. Refusing to call them on their lies and misspeaks or as they like to call it, fact check.

67 posted on 02/27/2011 10:47:51 AM PST by Vinnie
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To: MasterGunner01

I saw the show. It was not a compliment at all. I would have preferred him to call obamadoff a communist sleeper cell traitor, but it wasn’t a compliment.


68 posted on 02/27/2011 10:49:18 AM PST by GlockThe Vote (Who needs Al Queda to worry about when we have Obama?)
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To: mewzilla

“Okay, who put the pod in his cellar?!”

LOL! I have to use that one.


69 posted on 02/27/2011 10:50:15 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

YMMV.


70 posted on 02/27/2011 10:52:00 AM PST by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Haley Barbour you got to stop making that stop on US 49 between jackson and Yazoo City and getting the Kudzu for smoking. remember Kudzu was introduced from Japan after WWII in Mississippi to control something or other but after it was introduced it became quite invasive and now only politicians use as a medicine when they need to lie through teeth. Come now Haley stop sending the supply to the white House the lies are getting thicker and thicker each and every day.

Haley barbour please do not run for president. What you are doing for Yazoo City, Mississippi for your stupd remarks is making it a laughing stock. next we will hear they want to change Grand Avenue to Haley barbour Boulevard. Yazoo City will say they have two boulevard named after comedians Jerry Clower, and Haley Barbour.


71 posted on 02/27/2011 11:09:15 AM PST by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Scratch barbour from the posibles list.


72 posted on 02/27/2011 11:15:36 AM PST by devistate one four ( AARP: Anti America Retired People Kimber CDP II .45 OORAH! TET68)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Perhaps, by "politician," Barbour meant "campaigner." How else did someone with Obama's c.v. get to the White House?

[Jesse Jackson was nowhere close to becoming President.]

73 posted on 02/27/2011 11:24:47 AM PST by danielmryan
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To: bvw

You hit it perfectly: the valueless measure by which Barbour judges a politician.


74 posted on 02/27/2011 11:29:28 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Fred Hayek

Wow! That is a dang good description of the A-hole in the WH these days..not to mention all the other countries where these people run the world around them.

These days I trust people like Palin and West, DeMint and a few others...and that’s it.


75 posted on 02/27/2011 11:46:10 AM PST by Aria ( "If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What is wrong with these people?

Let's see - "The Ploitico" wrote the story.

Looks like they feel they have something to fear from Barbour and are doing the same "let's marginalize this person with the conservatives" that they have been doing with Palin.

If we keep falling for this crap, all the common-sense conservatives, that might try for the ballot, will be relegated to the dust bin before we get near the primaries...Might as well be listening to Chrissy Mathews and his ilk for advice on how to pick a Republican candidate.

76 posted on 02/27/2011 11:58:42 AM PST by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: 9YearLurker
I wanted to use the word "amoral", but went for the more conclusive conclusion because Barbour's statement did not have to be made, making such a statement of support to a man in the process of destroying this nation, of making the immoral moral, is not only amoral, it is contemptible.

An Obama can be more easily excused for his evils, than a Barbour for his amoral support of same. Obama doesn't know any better, theoretically, given his background.

It is contemptible to give support of any sort to the vicious and the seditious.

But it is also, helpful. That Barbour showed what his weakness is, that is being star-struck. A beta, or a gamma. Not an Alpha. Not a serious man of kind we need in these times. A player in the power game. A man that will be dominated, can be dominated, seeks to be dominated -- by the dominant.

It's interesting. Barbour's at his peak. But at that peak, in all the power he has he gets trapped. Confuses the assumption of massive political power by a charlatan in a susceptible nation to such a fraud as Obama as played with being a great politician. Yet it is just a construct of a idea propagandized into Obama that is like a loose jetsam caught at the top of a great cultural wave. That's not being a great politician.

Barbour might have said that Obama is great in exploiting the politics of our time. That would allow for a caution as to how long Obama will be able to do so.

Obama's rise is not accounted to Obama, but to those who have supported the vacant and immoral delusions he represents. That also is what Barbour misses. And also is why Barbour's statement is unwise praise, highly unwise praise. To support such a destructive man in the very week he has pushed the perverted immorality of homosexual marriage upon a nation that rejects it, is not only unwise, it is contemptible.

77 posted on 02/27/2011 12:14:17 PM PST by bvw
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To: bvw
To support such a destructive man in the very week he has pushed the perverted immorality of homosexual marriage upon a nation that rejects it, is not only unwise, it is contemptible.

Certainly highlights the stupidity of Barbour's Truce on Social Issues position.

It's not a truce.

It's a surrender.

78 posted on 02/27/2011 12:32:21 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

Truce on immorality means a cultural suicide.

There’s no hope of honest books, honest accounting, honest business in a culture where immorality is wide-spread. Corruption grows like a fast-spreading cancer.

And — as the rise of Islam showed, rampant immorality can get overthrown by a over-zealous hyper-morality that locks a culture into a repressive stone age. The culture of the Saudi peninsula when Mohammed arose was immoral, full of gambling, kidnapping, sexual perversion. With his teachings Mohammed attempted to make it moral. Instead see what is had today! A zealous religion that is a false cover for the same immoralities.

That could be where WE end up, with “leaders” willing to go along with the immoral as long as it enters step by step.

Our Founders were men committed to a moral culture. They were not perfect, they rejected zealotry, but they would not have stood by approvingly while some charlatan of a leader declared the immoral moral.


79 posted on 02/27/2011 1:01:26 PM PST by bvw
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If as Barbour says is really the case in this piece then why would he want to run on the RINO ticket to replace Obama? Why not run as his running mate?


80 posted on 02/27/2011 1:01:56 PM PST by Ron H. (America cannot afford the socialist Impostor!!!)
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