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The Obama Jolt: Is Barack a secret centrist?
Weekly Standard ^ | Nov 28,2008 | Fred Barnes

Posted on 11/29/2008 9:55:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 11/29/2008 9:55:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

No Fred, Obama is a Marxist and wants to get re-elected.

But in his second term, all hell will break lose. He will set the seeds of Marxism and repression in his first term (Fairness Doctrine, grass roots harrasment of enemies, push for gun bans, creation of free health care, confiscation of private property ... but all in small doses).

Then in the second term, he will close the deal and set us up as a combination of the USSR/Germany/France/Cuba.


2 posted on 11/29/2008 9:59:11 AM PST by whitedog57
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To: SeekAndFind

No, he’s not a centrist. He just doesn’t have his hands on the reins of power, yet. As soon as he does, we’ll see the real Obama. He’s not going to tip his hand prematurely.


3 posted on 11/29/2008 10:01:01 AM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is Fred Barnes insane?


4 posted on 11/29/2008 10:01:34 AM PST by BlessedBeGod
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To: SeekAndFind

The more you hear what the guy says, the more you realize he has not a clue what to do. You can tell the hundreds of “experts” are heavily collectively advising him and after it goes through the the obama political intestines, well, you know what comes out the end.


5 posted on 11/29/2008 10:02:54 AM PST by Names Ash Housewares (Refusing to kneel before the socialist messiah. 1-20-13 Freedom Day.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Obama needs to surround himself with people who understand and appreciate economics because, from what I've seen, Obama is economically clueless.
6 posted on 11/29/2008 10:03:11 AM PST by econjack (Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Needs a BARF alert.


7 posted on 11/29/2008 10:03:26 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: BlessedBeGod
Is Fred Barnes insane?

He's a Beltway Boyeee!

8 posted on 11/29/2008 10:03:35 AM PST by unspun (PRAY & WORK FOR FREEDOM - investigatingobama.blogspot.com)
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To: Names Ash Housewares
Shop smart...shop S Mart... :)
9 posted on 11/29/2008 10:05:34 AM PST by gundog (When the SHTF, it will not be evenly distributed.)
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To: whitedog57

Barnes is merely following the practice of his neocon friends at the Weekly Standard. Policing the world was always their first priority and they are willing to even return to the party of their roots, the Democrats, if it will achieve that priority.


10 posted on 11/29/2008 10:07:54 AM PST by Captain Kirk
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To: SeekAndFind

“THE OBAMA JOLT”
-——Damn! you’ve given me an idea for a new soft
drink, like Red Bull!
Why not?
but knowing him, I’d probably get sued.....


11 posted on 11/29/2008 10:10:07 AM PST by supremedoctrine ('Time is the school in which we learn that time is the fire in which we burn"--Delmore Schwartz)
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To: SeekAndFind

Fred Barnes is dreaming. The market isn’t reacting to the future, because the future isn’t here yet.

In other words, the market reacts to what’s certain today.
If the market was reacting to some unknown, inside information that Joe public investor isn’t aware of at the same time as any other trader, that would be illegal. It’s called insider trading.


12 posted on 11/29/2008 10:13:24 AM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: SeekAndFind
Obama will be forced toward the center because secretly Dems know that conservative fiscal principles work.

Hussein will encounter too much flak if the markets continue to drop. This is not '29. We now have a huge middle class; the country is now more right-leaning than it was in the sixties.

I believe Hussein's MO has always been to say what he needs to say to grab power. It will be a hard pill to swallow for conservatives if they see him stealing their ideas but hopefully the majority of the country will clearly see his hypocrisy.

13 posted on 11/29/2008 10:14:33 AM PST by what's up
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To: BlessedBeGod
Is Fred Barnes insane?

Everyone at FOX seems to be going insane these days. Most be something in the water. Just looking at 0bama's voting record will show you he isn't a centrist.

14 posted on 11/29/2008 10:15:08 AM PST by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: BlessedBeGod
Is Fred Barnes insane?

Yes , not a secret anymore .

15 posted on 11/29/2008 10:15:27 AM PST by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it freedom has a flavor the protected will never know F/8 Cav)
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To: SeekAndFind
Barnes hasn't been demonstrating the I.Q. of a bag of hammers for quite some time now. Conservative ? My lilly white ass! And that blithering idiot partner of his, Mort Kondrake, hasn't had a coherent thought in years. They have both veered super left from their relative positions years ago.

Nam Vet

16 posted on 11/29/2008 10:15:41 AM PST by Nam Vet (This space for rent............Hard currency only)
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To: supremedoctrine

Well it taste great going down but give you a awful after taste latter on? ;)


17 posted on 11/29/2008 10:18:12 AM PST by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: Names Ash Housewares

“The more you hear what the guy says, the more you realize he has not a clue what to do.”

That’s my feeling too. We ought to be able to roll Obama like a drunk bum in the alley. I’m not saying Obama isn’t clever, just now he will be confronted with hard reality at every turn instead of that Harvard fuzzy crap. I guarantee he found out that pulling out from Iraq meant a holocaust on his hands. I guarantee they are telling him all those WPA projects won’t do squat to save the economy. Ruh Roh! What do you do now when you’ve just been a gasbag all your life?

Obama has no philosophical foundation to fall back on that isn’t made of sand. He’s never been required to perform, just blah blah bleech.


18 posted on 11/29/2008 10:18:19 AM PST by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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To: gundog
Indeed!


19 posted on 11/29/2008 10:19:32 AM PST by Names Ash Housewares (Refusing to kneel before the socialist messiah. 1-20-13 Freedom Day.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Drivil like this Barnes article is the reason why I don’t read the Weekly Standard. Cristol farts and Barnes sniffs it.


20 posted on 11/29/2008 10:20:11 AM PST by blake6900 (YOUR AD HERE)
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