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More than a bad day: Worries Grow that Obama & Co. have a Competence Problem
New York Daily News ^ | 3/16/09 | Michael Goodwin

Posted on 03/16/2009 5:00:17 PM PDT by Nachum

Not long ago, after a string of especially bad days for the Obama administration, a veteran Democratic pol approached me with a pained look on his face and asked, "Do you think they know what they're doing?"

The question caught me off guard because the man is a well-known Obama supporter. As we talked, I quickly realized his asking suggested his own considerable doubts.

Yes, it's early, but an eerily familiar feeling is spreading across party lines and seeping into the national conversation. It's a nagging doubt about the competency of the White House.

It was during George W. Bush's second term that the I-word - incompetence - became a routine broadside against him. The Democratic frenzy of Bush-bashing had not spent itself when a larger critique emerged, one not confined by partisan boundaries.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; competence; grow; impeachzero; obama; scrawnyo; worries
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1 posted on 03/16/2009 5:00:17 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Do You Think!?!


2 posted on 03/16/2009 5:01:25 PM PDT by sionnsar (Iran Azadi | 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | "Tax the rich" fails if the rich won't play)
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To: SumProVita; HardStarboard; BradyLS; Ernest_at_the_Beach; dervish; Twotone; Free ThinkerNY; ...
The List ping

Items posted since this afternoon. Links at the website:

Nagging doubts about competency of the White House

The leader of the nation's largest veterans organization, The American Legion, says he is "deeply disappointed and concerned" after a meeting with President Obama today

US industrial output fell to its lowest level in seven years, foreigners sell off US securities

Obama drops 'war on drugs' rhetoric for needle exchanges

US freezes engine supply, GE telle Indian authorities that the state department asked it to freeze all work on turbines it supplies till Obama administration reviews its military ties with different countries.

White House wants new US-Mexico trucking program

Entire list at www.nachumlist.com

3 posted on 03/16/2009 5:02:11 PM PDT by Nachum (the complete list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

This is the new mainstream media meme. O’s not a Marxist intent on destroying the country, he’s just incompetent.

I guess that’s supposed to be reassuring.


4 posted on 03/16/2009 5:02:31 PM PDT by Argus (We've gone downtown to Clown Town, and that's where we'll be living from now on..)
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To: Nachum

So, what you’re saying is that a person doesn’t go from being a community organizer to President of the United States, huh?

Well, at least we elected a black person president.


5 posted on 03/16/2009 5:04:31 PM PDT by Obadiah (Party - my house - on December 22, 2012!)
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To: Argus

Well

When the Soviet Union failed, the liberals told us it was not a “failure of Communism” -— that the Soviets just didn’t do it the right way!


6 posted on 03/16/2009 5:04:41 PM PDT by Kansas58
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To: Nachum

The question answers itself.


7 posted on 03/16/2009 5:04:55 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Nachum

He is a moron guided by commies.


8 posted on 03/16/2009 5:05:35 PM PDT by boomop1
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To: Nachum

This definitely requires a “Well DUH!”


9 posted on 03/16/2009 5:05:40 PM PDT by sneakers (FUBO)
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To: windcliff

Captain Obvious ping


10 posted on 03/16/2009 5:06:17 PM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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To: Nachum
Here's what I think for what it's worth:

I think zer0 is weak. His wife carries his balls in her purse. Her past speeches are far more militant. SHE is the one that insists these social programs get passed NOW no matter what. She doesn't care if the the economy goes bankrupt. They were never big investors in the market. They probably have their pay to play money stashed off shore somewhere so they figure they are set. I'm telling you all, get ready, it's coming. People are seething with anger everywhere I go. 2 people that I had lunch with today, that voted for him called him a Communist. I said to them “Gee, it took you this long to figure it out”.

11 posted on 03/16/2009 5:06:58 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: Argus
I guess that’s supposed to be reassuring.

In a lot of ways it would be if we only knew it to be true. Jury is still out for me on whether he's incompetent or a Marxist. Probably a combination of the two.

12 posted on 03/16/2009 5:07:45 PM PDT by riri
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To: Nachum

As prophesied by many, nObama’s tenure (Lord, may it be short) is a screwup after a mistake after a stumble after a f*ckup after, etc.

My personal fav is giving the DVDs to PM Brown, a man who is legally blind. That’s much better than Bidden’s, “Stand up Chuck.”


13 posted on 03/16/2009 5:08:21 PM PDT by upchuck (I'm glad I'm old. Thus I can remember when America was a decent, moral, God fearing country.)
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To: Nachum

“worries grow” that Bambi has a competence problem!

Yeah, right. Like “people wonder” if Madonna has an STD problem.


14 posted on 03/16/2009 5:09:00 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Party? I don't have one anymore.)
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To: I Drive Too Fast

15 posted on 03/16/2009 5:09:24 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 56 of our national holiday from reality.)
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To: Argus

Maybe someone will think to ask the MSM why the f&^$ they didn’t bother vetting the incompetent POS BEFORE the election?


16 posted on 03/16/2009 5:09:33 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Nachum

President X is incompetent and it will become more evident as time goes by.


17 posted on 03/16/2009 5:09:57 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Nachum
Obama is a nationalist socialist ideologue. He has packed his executive winng and cabinet appoinntees with ideologues and campaign workers. To them they think that expressing ideology and creating an appropriate image is everything.

If our nation is attacked by Islamofascists of Iranian missiles, they will counterattack, with videos of missiles and air attacks. Those will defeat the enemy by gum!

LOL.

Watch the purges soon begin, Heads will roll, and Obama will appoint real politik a$$ hats. The REAL bad guys.

And then the battle for America will begin.

18 posted on 03/16/2009 5:12:59 PM PDT by Candor7 (The weapons of choice against fascism are ridicule, and derision. (member NRA)
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To: Nachum
Now, now... you should know that any mention of incompetence, warranted or not, will be considered racist.

That's the way it always is with affirmative-action hires.

19 posted on 03/16/2009 5:14:41 PM PDT by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: Nachum

The entire farce is unraveling at breakneck speed


20 posted on 03/16/2009 5:14:58 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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