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The Impending Obama Meltdown
National Review Online ^ | February 4, 2009 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 02/04/2009 5:20:52 AM PST by libstripper

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To: brownsfan

I have to disagree completely, he is way too arrogant, as is his wife, to ever be a puppet.

He is an empty suit who will fall back to his core thinking when things get tough and respond “on instinct” when he is lost, especially in a crisis.

It will be shown he is not a leader that men or women will rely on when the going gets tough, an armchair Monday morning quarterback is what was elected, now we have to lie in our beds we made.


21 posted on 02/04/2009 5:39:12 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: libstripper

bump for later


22 posted on 02/04/2009 5:39:22 AM PST by Ditter
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To: EQAndyBuzz

“We are so screwed.”

That’s been my tagline since 11/8/08.


23 posted on 02/04/2009 5:39:29 AM PST by brownsfan (We are sooooo screwed.)
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To: east1234

I have been really sad since the election. I had become convinced that the majority of the voters, legal and illegal (I live in CA), really must be Socialists. I was relieved to hear that Rush doesn’t believe that the majority of Americans are Socialists. The Leftists wackos had their day on November 4th. I think the sheeple are now waking to the fact that Zero IS a Socialist and they want to put on the brakes. The more control Government takes the less control we have over our own lives. Sadly most people here don’t have a passing acquaintance with Socialism. Americans are naive. Once Socialist policies are enacted it is really tough to get rid of them. I lived in Britain in the 80’s. Baroness Thatcher was trying to undo much of the Socialism at the time. She did a great job but Britain is still shackled by too many Socialist programs. Pray that it doesn’t get a strong foothold here. Socialism is a really unhappy place to be.


24 posted on 02/04/2009 5:39:33 AM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: originalbuckeye

The Media may have facilitated, but Obama himself is to blame for blowing himself up so high. He is “the world” doncha know?


25 posted on 02/04/2009 5:39:49 AM PST by w4women
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To: libstripper
The Impending Obama Meltdown

Barack Hussein Obama is an untested man. Throughout his life, doors have opened for him because of his biraciality and his voice (not too high, not too low, jussssssst right). He made it through several good colleges (with grades at which we can only guess, since he has refused to release them). Then he apprenticed as a community organizer (in an earlier time, rabble rouser), spent some vacation months in the Illionois Senate and then the U.S. Senate, and now he's dwelling in the White House (courtesy of Oprah and the MSM). Not a test in sight.

I hope Obama's coming on-the-job testing doesn't do us in.

26 posted on 02/04/2009 5:40:11 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: libstripper

I could see him giving a fireside chat. Wearing a red sweater
and roaring fire in the back ground. Kind of like hells version of things....


27 posted on 02/04/2009 5:40:24 AM PST by TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa
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To: libstripper; All

Has anyone checked to see how DU and the Kos Kids are reacting to Obama making a fool of himself? If Dowd is having doubts, it may be just a matter of time..


28 posted on 02/04/2009 5:42:24 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: visualops

He is already cracking under the preasure. and it has only been two weeks. he will age alot in the next 4 years.


29 posted on 02/04/2009 5:42:30 AM PST by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: w4women

Yes. And have you noticed that the seas have begun to recede and the planet has begun to heal? No? Me, neither. What a pathological liar we have in our beloved White House. He is not the Messiah! Stupid voters.....


30 posted on 02/04/2009 5:42:50 AM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: libstripper

The Impending Obama Meltdown

Things to Come:

1) power and fuel shortages which in turn cause food shortages nationwide all because of the ‘green’ agenda..
2) an even worse terrorist attack than 9/11
3) Mexico implodes and the number of illegals triples overnight
4) stag-flation makes a return
5) India and Pakistan exchange nukes—Obama backs Pakistan


31 posted on 02/04/2009 5:45:24 AM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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To: snarks_when_bored
(with grades at which we can only guess, since he has refused to release them)

That's because all his teachers marked his grade as PRESENT.

32 posted on 02/04/2009 5:46:09 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: libstripper

Caricatured Hillary? How about gave the fetid harridan a pass on everything.


33 posted on 02/04/2009 5:47:17 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: RSmithOpt
How do explain FDR never getting thrown out of office during an even worse financial time?
34 posted on 02/04/2009 5:49:43 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Chevron 7 will not engage!)
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To: libstripper

the liberals aren’t happy, the conservatives aren’t happy, the Democrats off all stripes aren’t happy, the Republicans of all stripes aren’t happy.

And the average American voter is growing more angry over the porkulis package as the details emerge, and are asking how it is they get creamed by the IRS for a $300 mistake on THEIR TAXES, but tiny tommy daschle doesn’t get a fine, let alone a criminal prosecution for deliberately overstating his charitable contributions.

I knew all along what Obama was. But I never would have guessed he would get off to this bad of a start.


35 posted on 02/04/2009 5:50:47 AM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: Dr. Ursus

“Bummer-when your first real job is POTUS!”

LOL!
I nominate this for post of the day.

In fact, if I were you I’d start printing up the bumper stickers and t-shirts.


36 posted on 02/04/2009 5:51:39 AM PST by Scotswife (GO ISRAEL!!!)
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To: Dr. Ursus
Bummer-when your first real job is POTUS!

Your comment made me laugh. It really is tragic, isn't it.

37 posted on 02/04/2009 5:51:58 AM PST by stayathomemom (Cat herder and empty nester)
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To: libstripper

No wonder Hopenchange gets a chill and turns up the thermostat in the White House. It’s drafty in that empty suit.


38 posted on 02/04/2009 5:52:36 AM PST by TADSLOS (McCain always has a job as Obama's Butt Boy when he loses his seat in 2010)
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To: mad_as_he$$
How do explain FDR never getting thrown out of office during an even worse financial time?

Because, to paraphrase Joe "My IQ is higher than yours" Biden, FDR sounded soooo good when he went on TV in 1929 and assured everybody that Dems would put a chicken in every pot.

39 posted on 02/04/2009 5:53:02 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat. But they know what's best.)
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To: All

Great short commentary about first two weeks of an Imploding Obama Administration.

I think the press will of course come to his rescue for as long as they can conceivably do it though.


40 posted on 02/04/2009 5:53:54 AM PST by rbmillerjr (Colin Powell types begged for McCain moderates and then voted Democrat.)
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