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Shark-Jumping In America
American Sentinel ^ | November 22, 2008 | jay1949

Posted on 11/23/2008 7:21:04 PM PST by jay1949

I have no personal dislike for Barack Obama; I don’t wish him ill fortune. I simply have no faith that the policies he enunciated during his Presidential campaign will produce good things and a great deal of trepidation that they will lead to bad results. In fact, Obama is well-positioned to jump the shark in record time.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho2008; crisis; economy; obama; obamatransitionfile; sharkjumping
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1 posted on 11/23/2008 7:21:04 PM PST by jay1949
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To: jay1949

Personally, I’m rooting for the shark on this one. And I REALLY don’t like sharks.


2 posted on 11/23/2008 7:26:04 PM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: Emmett McCarthy

I’m rooting for Obama to have a change of heart and suddenly become a conservative.


3 posted on 11/23/2008 7:29:13 PM PST by mhx
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To: mhx
I’m rooting for Obama to have a change of heart and suddenly become a conservative.

I don't think there is even a slight chance for that.
4 posted on 11/23/2008 7:31:18 PM PST by randomhero97 ("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
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To: mhx; calcowgirl

Talk about “Hope” for “Change!” A Shark-Jumping, spot changing leopard is a bit much!!! (snark!)


5 posted on 11/23/2008 7:32:22 PM PST by SierraWasp (Welcome to the USSA on it's way to join the third whirled in mutual misery with Barak Odrama!!!)
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To: mhx

I’ll let you know as soon as I see pigs flying south for the winter, OK?


6 posted on 11/23/2008 7:33:23 PM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: jay1949

The author makes interesting points, but is mistaken on a couple of points.

The Bush Administration really jumped the shark in its response to Hurricane Katrina. He was far from alone in the blame- the City of New Orleans and the state government failed even more than the Federal governemnt did. But Bush never recovered from that fiasco.


7 posted on 11/23/2008 7:34:35 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (If Islam conquers the world, the Earth will be at peace because the human race will be killed off.)
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To: jay1949

He jumped the shark on election day. What the majority of voters wanted was to absolve their sins by voting for a black candidate. This has been accomplished. The next four years is like waking up and realising you got married to a girl you just met during a drunken leave from your ship.


8 posted on 11/23/2008 7:35:01 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: randomhero97
There certainly no one in Obama’s life including his wife, minister, grandfather, mentors, professors, and associates to suggest such a possibility. In fact all of the above were hard left.

If Obama became a conservative we are talking about a conversion of Biblical proportions-Saul become Paul on the road to Damascus.

9 posted on 11/23/2008 7:36:22 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: jay1949

“Clearly the Chosen One was not ready. He should have listened to that one boob chick.”

-Narrator, “Kung Pow: Enter the Fist”


10 posted on 11/23/2008 7:38:57 PM PST by Tzimisce (http://groups.myspace.com/nailthemessiah)
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To: Clintonfatigued

I won’t argue a lot with that; he came back a little between Katrina and early ‘06, but probably not enough to brag about.


11 posted on 11/23/2008 7:39:57 PM PST by jay1949 (Work is the curse of the blogging class)
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To: jay1949

Obama is already backing away from his campaign promises. It won’t matter to his faithful; remember, the Obama hysteria is all about feelings and has nothing to do with actually doing anything. I getting hopeful that he’ll just vote ‘present’ when the fanatics in Congress want to dismantle the first two amendments in the Bill of Rights.


12 posted on 11/23/2008 7:40:17 PM PST by Spok (Poverty destroys monarchies; prosperity destroys republics.)
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To: jay1949

since I’m watching the Colts/Chargers, here’s my Sharks cheer:

`A pussycat purrs
and a big dog barks
Eat him up! Eat him up!
Sharks sharks sharks!’

;^)


13 posted on 11/23/2008 7:57:46 PM PST by tumblindice (In this school of war called life...)
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To: Spok

I just don’t think the peeps will be that patient. His very first speech after getting elected was spent on lowering expectations, and the pie won’t be available until perhaps his SECOND term.

“Ahhhhh HELL nahhhh!

Where my PIE?”

Sometime about March or so, we’ll hear the grumblings and I for one will publically bring up pie at every chance I get.

And I will extend the zero the exact same support W enjoyed from the left these past 8 years.

And then some.

Turnabout is fair play and payback is a you know what!


14 posted on 11/23/2008 7:58:04 PM PST by tpanther (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke)
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To: mhx

I’m hoping I’ll wake up tomorrow and suddenly start pooping 24K gold logs.


15 posted on 11/23/2008 8:01:23 PM PST by tpanther (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke)
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To: jay1949

A Freeper posted something on this subject just after the election. She said that she believed BO had already jumped the shark, and I think she’s right. Modern people have an extremely short attention span, so they get bored quickly and are always looking for something new that catches their fancy. Sad, but true.


16 posted on 11/23/2008 8:29:42 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: mhx

I’m praying for Obama to have a change of heart and suddenly become a conservative.

With God, all things are possible.


17 posted on 11/23/2008 8:50:14 PM PST by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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I’m praying for Obama to have a change of heart and suddenly become a conservative. With God, all things are possible.

Yeah, OK I'm with you on that. With God, all things are possible. It's that the odds in Obama's case are greater than one in a million (in my estimation). That's still possible though.
18 posted on 11/23/2008 9:01:20 PM PST by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough!)
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To: Clintonfatigued
The Bush Administration really jumped the shark in its response to Hurricane Katrina. He was far from alone in the blame- the City of New Orleans and the state government failed even more than the Federal governemnt did. But Bush never recovered from that fiasco.

IMO, he failed in his response to the furor. Bush had a GOLDEN opportunity to teach America how ineptly Democrats handle disaster. Clearly FEMA was in place to help. Armed forces, too, could have been deployed if the BOOB of a governor (as you said) had requested help.

Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution clearly says the federal government may only protect a state from internal problems if requested by the Executive of that state. The President should have used the aftermath to publicly flog all griping Democrats for not pushing Blanco to request help earlier.

Bush, interested in merely showing a "new tone", instead went on a pickup truck ride with the idiots in charge of that state...and let the national Democrat leaders and the LameStream Media continue the myth that he watched with delight while Louisiana crumbled.

The last great Republican President would never, ever have taken the unjustified attacks laying down. Bush did, and you're right--we've paid the price in subsequent years.

I mean, come to think of it: Louisiana--in the election JUST AFTER Katrina--overwhelmingly voted for Republican Bobby Jindal. Hell, it wasn't even CLOSE. Bush could've seized the moment then.

I watched a clip of "refugees" in Houston, a poor black woman who fled New Orleans...I think it was on ABC's "Nightline", and it was a live interview. The hack/reporter asked her if she blamed Bush...and on live TV, this woman said, no--she blamed the local officials who didn't help them enough. The reporter's beeber was STUNED. Bush's team could've used THAT as an opportunity to teach America--but they didn't. They capitulated.

19 posted on 11/24/2008 2:02:13 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Pining_4_TX

Well, that would be an all-time record - - jumping the shark on election day. I doubt that this is the case, at least as measured by approval ratings, which have gone up a bit. One the other hand, one can hope, mais non?


20 posted on 11/24/2008 10:31:04 AM PST by jay1949 (Work is the curse of the blogging class)
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