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Two Obamas: Which One Will Show Up Tonight?
Fox News ^ | February 24, 2009 | Andrea Tantaros

Posted on 02/24/2009 1:38:29 PM PST by Zakeet

When Barack Obama was a senator, he was much more upbeat. In fact, he was ultra-positive and almost too cheery and idealistic to be credible. — We heard him on the campaign trail speaking incessantly about a gauzy vision of hope and change while his supporters snorted his every amorphous and vague word in the quest for the euphoric Obama-high.

President Obama is a much different orator. He’s replaced the flowery can-do language with a daily diatribe of doomsday. Like any drug , this one has given way to the harsh reality that coming down from his apex of hope isn’t as fun as inhaling it was. “Yes we can!” has been replaced with “We can — but only if we can make sacrifices NOW.”

So which Obama will show up for tonight’s address?

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After advice from the always helpful Bill Clinton and a market plunge, Obama likely knows he needs to stop accentuating the negative. But how else will he get his grand plans passed if he doesn’t sound the alarm?

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No matter which Obama shows up to speak to before Congress and the nations, one thing is certain: he must explain why things haven’t gotten better. He will make excuses for why we’ve yet to see the rainbow-colored bunting, gold-encrusted streets and sugar-coated dreams he promised us from the stump. He can’t blame all our ills on George Bush, but he’ll try.

Here’s my advice: If anyone is planning a drinking game tonight don’t take a sip each time he says “the last eight years” unless you’re looking to get sauced.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho2009; bho44; bhobudget; bhoeconomy; bhospeech; economy; eporkibusunum; obama; porkulus; speech
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To: Zakeet
I guess it'll be a good time to plug in my iPod. Maybe I'll listen to Band of Gypsys since I haven't in a long time and just added it to my playlist...
21 posted on 02/24/2009 1:57:36 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Repeal the 16th!)
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To: Zakeet

Things are worse than I thought ... we may not be able to cut taxes for as many as we had hoped ... some drastic measures may have to be taken ... don’t worry about the guys in uniforms on every street corner ... I hope to get some good advice from Hugo Chavez ... excuse me I have to take this call from Tehran.


22 posted on 02/24/2009 1:59:09 PM PST by Peter ODonnell
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To: JennysCool

Isn’t he interrupting American Idol? If so, his voters will be po’d.


23 posted on 02/24/2009 1:59:14 PM PST by dandiegirl
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To: JennysCool

Thank goodness for the Food Network!


24 posted on 02/24/2009 1:59:23 PM PST by varina davis (Life is not a dress rehearsal)
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To: Zakeet

Zero - “The Bucks are spent HERE”


25 posted on 02/24/2009 1:59:37 PM PST by Zathras
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To: Zakeet

I think it is unwise to even watch the show. We do not want to get brainwashed by his speech method.


26 posted on 02/24/2009 1:59:43 PM PST by truthingod
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To: Peter ODonnell

Heck , with the money he is spending, he doesn’t need guys on the street! He is betting on the cameras on every corner to watch us.


27 posted on 02/24/2009 2:01:07 PM PST by truthingod
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To: Zakeet

Maybe Henrietta the real estate grifter will show up, and he can heal her of her sins


28 posted on 02/24/2009 2:01:23 PM PST by 1000 silverlings (Everything that deceives also enchants: Plato)
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To: Oratam

I’d love to watch him tonight but I have important business to attend to. I need to clean my toenails.


29 posted on 02/24/2009 2:02:56 PM PST by Republic (Jedem das Seine)
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To: Zakeet
I know he will have his favorite twins on each side of him, teleprompter #1 & #2.


30 posted on 02/24/2009 2:07:18 PM PST by New Perspective (Proud father of a 5 year old son with Down Syndrome. He's a wonderful gift.)
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To: Zakeet

>>>We heard him on the campaign trail speaking incessantly about a gauzy vision of hope and change while his supporters snorted his every amorphous and vague word in the quest for the euphoric Obama-high.

No...his message on the campaign trail was a downer, too. “Hope” and “Change” insinuated that the status quo social order was corrupt and in need of being replaced.


31 posted on 02/24/2009 2:11:12 PM PST by oblomov (Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. - Mencken)
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To: Zakeet

Let’s guess twhat the media will say?

Hmmm, the president will be magnificent, confident, poised, serious, intelligent, thoughtful, inspiring, reassuring, compelling (and that’s just from Peggy Noonan)

and his electrifying jive will cause more thrills to run down Chrissy Matthews’ pantleg.

Chrissie is probably off today having a bikini wax in preparation


32 posted on 02/24/2009 2:11:55 PM PST by silverleaf (Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose")
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To: New Perspective

oh, that’s bad. that’s just wrong


33 posted on 02/24/2009 2:13:17 PM PST by silverleaf (Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose")
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To: 1000 silverlings

Darn, my preparation for a colonoscopy tomorrow will keep me from watching. However there are a few things in common


34 posted on 02/24/2009 2:15:19 PM PST by cork
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To: silverleaf
This one:

Captain Shuck and Jive

35 posted on 02/24/2009 2:18:42 PM PST by IrishPennant ("We're surrounded...That simplifies our problem.")
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To: Republic

“I’d love to watch him tonight but I have important business to attend to. I need to clean my toenails.”
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I need to trim mine, I might be able to put that off but dang it, I also need to scratch my rump. Maybe next year.


36 posted on 02/24/2009 2:23:52 PM PST by RipSawyer (I have scant HOPE for the PRESENT absent a major CHANGE.)
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To: Zakeet

Dr. Vaknin has written extensively about narcissism.

Dr. Vaknin States “I must confess I was impressed by Sen.Barack Obama from the first time I saw him. At first I was excited to see a black candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident - a wholesome presidential package. I was put off soon, not just because of his shallowness but also because there was an air of haughtiness in his demeanor that was unsettling. His posture and his body language were louder than his empty words.
Obama’s speeches are unlike any political speech we have heard in American history. Never a politician in this land had such quasi “religious” impact on so many people. The fact that Obama is a total incognito with zero accomplishment, makes this inexplicable infatuation alarming. Obama is not an ordinary man. He is not a genius. In fact he is quite ignorant on most important subjects.”
Barack Obama is a narcissist.
Dr. Sam Vaknin, the author of the Malignant Self Love believes “Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist.” Vaknin is a world authority on narcissism. He understands narcissism and describes the inner mind of a narcissist like no other person. When he talks about narcissism everyone listens. Vaknin says that Obama’s language, posture and demeanor, and the testimonies of his closest, dearest and nearest suggest that the Senator is either a narcissist or he may have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD).
Narcissists project a grandiose but false image of themselves. Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of People’s Temple, the man who led over 900 of his followers to cheerfully commit mass suicide and even murder their own children was also a narcissist. David Koresh, Charles Manson, Joseph Koni, Shoko Asahara, Stalin, Saddam, Mao,Kim Jong Ill and Adolph Hitler are a few examples of narcissists of our time. All these men had a tremendous influence over their fanciers. They created a personality cult around themselves and with their blazing speeches elevated their admirers, filled their hearts with enthusiasm and instilled in their minds a new zest for life. They gave them hope! They promised them the moon, but alas, invariably they brought them to their doom. When you are a victim of a cult of personality, you don’t know it until it is too late. One determining factor in the development of NPD is childhood abuse.
“Obama’s early life was decidedly chaotic and replete with traumatic and mentally bruising dislocations,” says Vaknin. “Mixed-race marriages were even less common then. His parents went through a divorce when he was an infant (two years old). Obama saw his father only once again, before he died in a car accident. Then his mother re-married and Obama had to relocate to Indonesia , a foreign land with a radically foreign culture, to be raised by a step-father. At the age of ten, he was whisked off to live with his maternal (white)grandparents. He saw his mother only intermittently in the following few years and then she vanished from his life in 1979. She died of cancer in 1995”.
One must never underestimate the manipulative genius of pathological narcissists. They project such an imposing personality that it overwhelms those around them. Charmed by the charisma of the narcissist, people become like clay in his hands. They cheerfully do his bidding and delight to be at his service. The narcissist shapes the world around himself and reduces others in his own inverted image. He creates a cult of personality. His admirers become his co-dependents. Narcissists have no interest in things that do not help them to reach their personal objective. They are focused on one thing alone and that is power. All other issues are meaningless to them and they do not want to waste their precious time on trivialities. Anything that does not help them is beneath them and do not deserve their attention.
If an issue raised in the Senate does not help Obama in one way or another, he has no interest in it. The “present” vote is a safe vote. No one can criticize him if things go wrong. Those issues are unworthy by their very nature because they are not about him. Obama’s election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review led to a contract and advance to write a book about race relations.
The University of Chicago Law School provided him a lot longer than expected and at the end it evolved into, guess what? His own autobiography! Instead of writing a scholarly paper focusing on race relations, for which he had been paid, Obama could not resist writing about his most sublime self. He entitled the book Dreams from My Father.
Not surprisingly, Adolph Hitler also wrote his own autobiography when he was still nobody. So did Stalin. For a narcissist no subject is as important as his own self. Why would he waste his precious time and genius writing about insignificant things when he can write about such an august being as himself? Narcissists are often callous and even ruthless. As the norm, they lack conscience. This is evident from Obama’s lack of interest in his own brother who lives on only one dollar per month.
A man who lives in luxury, who takes a private jet to vacation in Hawaii, and who has raised nearly half a billion dollars for his campaign (something unprecedented in history) has no interest in the plight of his own brother. Why? Because, his brother cannot be used for his ascent to power.
A narcissist cares for no one but himself. This election is like no other in the history of America . The issues are insignificant compared to what is at stake. What can be more dangerous than having a man bereft of conscience, a serial liar, and one who cannot distinguish his fantasies from reality as the leader of the free world? I hate to sound alarmist, but one is a fool if one is not alarmed. Many politicians are narcissists. They pose no threat to others...They are simply self serving and selfish.
Obama evidences symptoms of pathological narcissism, which is different from the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard Nixon or a Bill Clinton for example. To him reality and fantasy are intertwined. This is a mental health issue, not just a character flaw. Pathological narcissists are dangerous because they look normal and even intelligent. It is this disguise that makes them treacherous.
Today the Democrats have placed all their hopes in Obama. But this man could put an end to their party. The great majority of blacks have also decided to vote for Obama. Only a fool does not know that their support for him is racially driven. This is racism, pure and simple. The downside of this is that if Obama turns out to be the disaster I predict, he will cause widespread resentment among the whites.
The blacks are unlikely to give up their support of their man. Cultic mentality is pernicious and unrelenting. They will dig their heads deeper in the sand and blame Obama’s detractors of racism. This will cause a backlash among the whites.
The white supremacists will take advantage of the discontent and they will receive widespread support. I predict that in less than four years, racial tensions will increase to levels never seen since the turbulent 1960’s.
Obama will set the clock back decades... America is the bastion of freedom. The peace of the world depends on the strength of America , and its weakness translates into the triumph of terrorism and victory of rogue nations.
It is no wonder that Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, the Castrists, the Hezbollah, the Hamas, the lawyers of the Guantanamo terrorists and virtually all sworn enemies of America are so thrilled by the prospect of their man in the White House. America is on the verge of destruction. There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as president.


37 posted on 02/24/2009 2:34:09 PM PST by haole (John 10 30)
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To: Zakeet

Don’t know...don’t care. Won’t be watching.


38 posted on 02/24/2009 2:35:38 PM PST by cubreporter
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To: JennysCool; beaversmom
Just heard this speech is scheduled for half an hour.

Interesting. They have one and a half hours blocked off in our TV schedule for it. Some one will have to let me know which one shows up because we won't be watching.

39 posted on 02/24/2009 2:47:22 PM PST by TXBubba ( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
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To: Zakeet

Either the phony one or the fake one.

Either the Marxist or the Communist.

Either the black guy or the white guy.

Either the blue tie or the red tie.

Either the Kenyan or the Indonesian.

Either the racist or the bigot.


40 posted on 02/24/2009 2:50:04 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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