Posted on 03/10/2009 7:39:55 PM PDT by GOPGuide
Surfer that he is, President Obama should know a riptide when he's in one. The center usually is the safest, most productive place in politics, but perhaps not now, not in a once-in-a-century economic crisis.
Swimming in the middle, he's denounced as a socialist by conservatives, criticized as a polite accommodationist by government-is-the-answer liberals, and increasingly, dismissed as being in over his head by technocrats.
Luckily for Obama, the public still likes and trusts him, at least judging by the latest polls, including NEWSWEEK's.But, in ways both large and small, what's left of the American establishment is taking his measure and, with surprising swiftness, they are finding him lacking.
They have some reasons to be concerned. I trace them to a central trait of the president's character: he's not really an in-your-face guy.
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Thanks for the ping!
I thought the most ridiculous thing that the Messiah has ever said is that George Bush made me a socialist. That’s like saying that I became bad hitter in baseball because the pitcher threw me a curve ball I could not hit.
No, he is a coward who gets others (including the MSM) to do the dirty work for him!
4 days in a row with a 43% disapproval number (Rasmussen)
Like hell he's not!
That’s like saying that Alex Rodriguez didn’t do steroids.
The Establishment is a term used to refer to the traditional ruling class elite and the structures of society that they control.
Hes extremely in-your-face. He ridicules and attacks private citizens, he reacts like a lunatic to any criticism, people are scared to criticize him...how much more in your face do they want?
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Yes, when he has no face to face opposition. He’s a pussy.
he rubs his nose with his middle finger at debates... on camera.
yes, he is in-your-face
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Malcom X did that too. I saw it in a picture. zer0 is weak, and he is an as*hole.
Thanks....I thought that....but, it’s also a very generic term.....
Obama is a street thug.
He tried to intimidate/threaten/harass Joe Lieberman on the Senate floor last year, and he has great Americans like Rush, Sean and Mark in his gun sights as well.
Obama is as filthy as raw sewage, and he is as evil as hell.
Obama is no socialist
Like hell he’s not!
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He’s NOT a socialist. He’s a full blown COMMUNIST!
Well...he HAS a point....He's a MARXIST!!!
later
LOLOL!
I wonder what the heck they are putting in the coffee at Newsweak?
...No job is too big for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself”...Mr. 0’s SOP
Unlike Cramer, Santelli, Limbaugh, who say it like it is — he wrote this piece in a very COWARDLY, wimpy (girlie man) way.
Poor Howard — looking for approval in all the wrong places.
Him and all his henchmen.
In the past few days I’ve seen video of him telling a heckler to “go f*ck yourself”, video of Rangel telling a taxpayer to “mind your g*ddamned business”, a story of Nazi Pelosi pissed because the entire fracking Air Force wasn’t at her beck and call.
These people need a dose of reality.
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