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Poor Baby Obama: I Have To Make The ‘Really Hard’ Decisions
FinkelBlog ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 03/08/2009 6:30:37 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Two big stories emerged from Pres. Obama’s interview with New York Times reporters aboard Air Force One yesterday:

1. we have a whining, self-pitying president. 2. The Times scrubbed from its article the worst of the president’s comments, the ones that revealed him in that self-pitying light.

Fortunately, the Today show had the tapes, and played them this morning. According to Today, when President Obama met with reporters from the New York Times yesterday aboard Air Force One, his goal was “trying to sound hopeful and reassuring.” Mission not accomplished. As ambivalent as were the president’s putatively reassuring words on the economy, the delivery was even worse–halting and anything but assured. Be sure to view the video.

But much worse was his whining when it came to the burdens of his office:

PRES. OBAMA: I wish I had the luxury of just dealing with a modest recession or just dealing with health care or just dealing with energy or just dealing with Iraq or just dealing with Afghanistan. I don’t have that luxury, and I don’t think the American people do, either.

A bit later came this stunning statement, edited out of the Times story but broadcast by Today

View video here.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abovemypaygrade; america2point0; barackobama; bho2009; bho44; cantvotepresent; carter; crybaby; fatigue; first100days; incompetent; joebiden; newyorktimes; overwhelmed; selfpity; whiner; worst100days
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To: HangnJudge; LucyT

10. Actually believes he knows more than anyone else in the universe.


221 posted on 03/08/2009 10:40:54 AM PDT by Lady Jag (America, Land of the Free; Home of the Brave. Everyone else get out.)
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To: LucyT

I am only surprised that isn’t his middle finger...


222 posted on 03/08/2009 10:42:00 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe; LucyT
I am only surprised that isn’t his middle finger...

That was one of only a few where he doesn't flip it.


223 posted on 03/08/2009 10:45:09 AM PDT by Lady Jag (America, Land of the Free; Home of the Brave. Everyone else get out.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Good God almighty—we are done for.

Our Founding Fathers have to be spinning in their graves.

Every time I hear about this moron, I think to myself “He was elected by a majority of my countrymen”

And there’s no excuse—Anyone who voted for him was either doing it for misplaced guilt, PC, and ignorance—or else with malicious intent. There’s no third option.

I wish to God that only those people would bear the brunt of their decision, but that’s not the case.


224 posted on 03/08/2009 10:50:09 AM PDT by Mac from Cleveland (Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again---and J. Edgar, too)
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To: Lady Jag

Hmmm. How presidential..... NOT!


225 posted on 03/08/2009 10:54:18 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Darkwolf377
Would a President Plugs be an improvment?

Well, whatever the other shortcomings Plugs may have, at least we know he's Constitutionally eligible for the office.

226 posted on 03/08/2009 10:57:43 AM PDT by Marathoner (The dream: 1-20-2013, hearing "I, Sarah Heath Palin, do solemnly swear...")
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To: Smokin' Joe

If we call that stiff digit presidential, then he’s repeatedly presidential. And so is his equally classless wife.


227 posted on 03/08/2009 11:00:12 AM PDT by Lady Jag (America, Land of the Free; Home of the Brave. Everyone else get out.)
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To: behzinlea; ziravan
Political campaigns are tiring, but hardly challenging in the way the presidency is.

Especially when your audience is literally groveling at your feet at the thrill of just seeing you and you have an army of worker bees to handle all the organization, execution (except for speaking), and composition of the speeches AND (most of all) an army of knee pad press covering up every gaffe and trumpeting every reasonably good combination of words.

228 posted on 03/08/2009 11:03:20 AM PDT by Sal (The Mr. Cool mask has slipped and exposed the naked face of the Chicago Street Thug.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; Pride in the USA; Stillwaters
The Times scrubbed from its article the worst of the president’s comments, the ones that revealed him in that self-pitying light

The truth is leaking out in dribs and drabs, even with The New York times and most of the mainstream media covering for him. It's inevitable that the cracks and leaks will eventually, sooner rather than later, cause the dam to burst.

229 posted on 03/08/2009 11:05:58 AM PDT by lonevoice (Ich bin ein plumber)
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To: The Great RJ
Actually it's not so much how Obozo will react in a crisis it's what will his handlers have him do!
230 posted on 03/08/2009 11:23:37 AM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
It should be apparent to anyone that the burdens of the Presidency are great. The American people have elected a person so ill-prepared to handle those burdens that he is - after only six weeks - beginning to crack under the pressure.

The mainstream media must be terrified to see this.

231 posted on 03/08/2009 11:29:55 AM PDT by SaveTheChief (Obama lied, America died.)
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To: Matchett-PI

Thanks, I’ve never heard Carter described more accurately.


232 posted on 03/08/2009 11:46:38 AM PDT by yazoo
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To: Allegra

Ain’t it the truth.
Be well and safe ..... ;)
(Maybe you’re away from
the sandbox now ?)


233 posted on 03/08/2009 12:23:34 PM PDT by STARWISE ( They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I truly believe that Barack H. Obama is insane. Anyone who heard him say that a light would shine down on people in the voting booth and they would have an epiphany and would then vote for him, is nuttier than a fruit cake. The way he tilts his head up as if he is lord of the universe is also telling. This guy has many, many, mental problems and he will crack while in office. This isn't the run of the mill evil wannabee dictator, he is truly out of his mind.

That is why the strain of making decisions is telling on him, he simply can't make decisions, it is beyond him.

I fully expect him to be the first President we have ever had who gets sent off to a loony bin before his term is finished.

234 posted on 03/08/2009 12:27:51 PM PDT by calex59
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To: rodguy911
Actually it's not so much how Obozo will react in a crisis it's what will his handlers have him do!

While I believe that Bozo has handlers and people trying to pull strings behind the scenes(that was their plan all along), I believe his mental state is such that he will not pay attention to them. That is why he has pushed his socialist agenda so fast, and I would guess against the string pullers wishes, because he believes his own hype. He thinks he is the savior and to he** with anyone else. I think they have lost control of the One.

235 posted on 03/08/2009 12:31:34 PM PDT by calex59
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; All

Related piece.

http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NjQ0YWMyZmJkNDM0N2IyNGI0NDM5NDM3YWQwNDFlYzY=

Sunday, March 08, 2009

BARACK OBAMA

‘Obama is overwhelmed.’

snip


236 posted on 03/08/2009 12:47:15 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: Allegra
"He also talked about Thelma and Louise driving off of a "clift" the other day. He said it twice in the same stupid speech.

I've heard excessive pot smokin affects short term memory..maybe he forgot he said it the first time??

237 posted on 03/08/2009 12:58:26 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (A democrat will break your leg, then hand you a crutch and take credit for your being able to walk.)
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To: Rebelbase
This guy is gonna make Jimmy Carter appear somewhat competent and Dubya look like a genius!
238 posted on 03/08/2009 1:12:58 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (What happened to my IRAs)
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To: pepsionice

Did I miss anything?
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Larry Sinclair and a previous coke habit...


239 posted on 03/08/2009 1:14:14 PM PDT by little jeremiah (THa)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I've seen the video, and Obama not only whines about the hard decisions he has to make, but he also undermines the military. Even though he ordered 17,000 additional troops to Afghanistan last month, he says that the US is NOT wining the war there, and further says that the US should reach out to moderate elements of the Taliban.

If he believes that we are losing the war in Afghanistan, what is the purpose of sending 17,000 additional troops there?  And if he really believes that to win the war means that the military should reach out to terrorists, why even bother fighting a war?

240 posted on 03/08/2009 1:16:08 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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