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Obama’s Amateur Hour On 60 Minutes
Pajamas Media ^ | March 23 | John Hawkins

Posted on 03/23/2009 10:29:19 AM PDT by AJKauf

Many of us, at certain times during our lives, have believed we could do a better job than the president of the United States, just as we thought we’d do a better job than the coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers or the network executive who greenlighted Real Chance of Love.

The problem tends to be that what looks so crystal clear from the outside, usually in hindsight, appears confusing, muddled, and difficult to fathom when you’re actually going through it.

That’s why experience matters, particularly executive experience, and it’s a big part of the reason why Barack Obama has done such a mediocre job so far.

Obama is a silver-tongued political novice who has managed to be in the right place at the right time.

Now, if you’re a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. And if you’re a politician like Barack Obama, who has gotten everything he has in life by being slick and sounding confident, every problem looks like something that can just be talked away.

That tendency was on display in his 60 Minutes interview, a “grilling” which would be considered a softball interview for a Republican...

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


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 60minutes; bho44; bhointerview; miserablefailure; obama; totus

1 posted on 03/23/2009 10:29:19 AM PDT by AJKauf
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To: AJKauf

How do I love thee, let me count the ways...Obummer is a moron. Obummer is incompetent. Obummer is a lightweight. Obummer is an idiot. Obummer is a retard. Obummer is an empty suit. Obummer is an airhead.


2 posted on 03/23/2009 10:33:43 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: AJKauf

He really is an empty suit. He’s just a cardboard cutout that can read a teleprompter, and somehow he got elected President. McCain is a boob, and I don’t like him any better than I did before, but Obama is just literally nothing.


3 posted on 03/23/2009 10:39:26 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: AJKauf
Now, if you’re a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. And if you’re a politician like Barack Obama, who has gotten everything he has in life by being slick and sounding confident, every problem looks like something that can just be talked away.

That tendency was on display in his 60 Minutes interview, a “grilling” which would be considered a softball interview for a Republican...

Great writing and right on.

4 posted on 03/23/2009 10:40:03 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: AJKauf

The reason that O is laughing because he knows that he is NOT financially broke and just laughing at the American people who hurting and out of job!!! Idiot!!! He does not care about the “little people”.

(NoCoGop’s wife message)


5 posted on 03/23/2009 10:47:53 AM PDT by NorCoGOP (Recession: friend loses his job. Depression: You lose your job. Recovery: Obama loses his job.)
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To: AJKauf
If you ask me he was on some kind of mind altering drug..Only someone that has a few loose screws up there or someone on drugs laugh at this country while it is in such crises..This moron is dangerous..
6 posted on 03/23/2009 10:48:59 AM PDT by PLD
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To: AJKauf
After soaking in that interview, it's tempting to say he's our first affirmative action Pres...ent. But he doesn't do the affirmative action label justice.

I tend to agree with those who think he's extremely narcissistic, perhaps dangerously so and I don't believe he could pass a drug test. He's on something or maybe several somethings.

I can't believe I'd ever say this, but after only a couple of months I'm ready for President Biden.

7 posted on 03/23/2009 10:49:22 AM PDT by GBA
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To: PLD

Manchurian Candidate


8 posted on 03/23/2009 10:51:16 AM PDT by Polyxene (America held hostage for the next 4 years by a RAT thug from Chicago - www.obamaclock.org)
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To: GBA

‘I’m ready for President Biden.’

I,too, can’t believe you said that!!


9 posted on 03/23/2009 10:54:24 AM PDT by griswold3 (a good story is more compelling than the search for truth)
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To: GBA

“after only a couple of months I’m ready for President Biden”

Never thought I’d say that either, but at least Biden the Slow, bumbling as he is, isn’t evil. I believe 0bama is.


10 posted on 03/23/2009 11:00:57 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Christian and armed)
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To: AJKauf

Is there a video of this somewhere?


11 posted on 03/23/2009 11:01:43 AM PDT by murron (Proud Marine Mom)
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To: PLD
How long before some of the more enlightened dems. are looking for a way to ditch this guy?
12 posted on 03/23/2009 11:03:20 AM PDT by Churchillspirit
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To: Churchillspirit

I’m starting to think that the powers that be (Reid, Pelosi, Frank et. al) like things just the way they are - as what you have is essentially the RAT legislature assuming the power vaccuum.


13 posted on 03/23/2009 11:06:23 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Churchillspirit
I am sure they will continue to keep him around..I wondered the same about the Clintons..nasty Bill was just praised for his acts of filth so this moron will be the new poster child for them..The whole lot are ignorant fools..
14 posted on 03/23/2009 11:15:03 AM PDT by PLD
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To: Polyxene

I gave that title to McCain a while back..I think Obama would be pleased to be know as the Manchurian Candidate..I don’t think Obama is an unwilling assassin I think he is willing.. He would do anything to further the cause of Communist Party.


15 posted on 03/23/2009 11:22:22 AM PDT by PLD
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To: murron

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecan94uhyx8

1:40 - 2:20


16 posted on 03/23/2009 12:06:51 PM PDT by Quackattack
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To: AJKauf

Maybe there was something funny out of camera view, that caused that totally out-of-place giggling.

On the other hand, maybe he just could not help the giggles after all the ??? he smoked/injested.

It looked like the people in some of those “LSD” vids on YouTube, sudden giggles from nowhere.

You could see him visibly trying to overcome the fit and slowly he got the grin to fade.


17 posted on 03/23/2009 12:14:59 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: AJKauf

Amateur hour? It is open mike time at the local karaoke dive on $2 beer night.


18 posted on 03/23/2009 1:31:07 PM PDT by Hoffer Rand (There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
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To: ScottinVA
I've always believed Plugs was picked more for the unpalatable “insurance policy” aspect of his being next in line than for any potential contribution to zero's agenda.
19 posted on 03/23/2009 2:39:15 PM PDT by VRWCtaz (Things change. Change changes change. Spare change?)
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To: AJKauf

Anybody see Barack Obama on “60 Minutes”?

Notice he couldn’t stop grinning and laughing, even when questioned about it by the host, mentioning they were talking about serious matters involving national security, etc.? Obama even thought it was funny when he was asked if he was “punch-drunk.”

Big O is an admitted drug user. Maybe that is why he is such a gifted speaker — he gets a little help from his friends.

Watch Cheech and Chong’s “Up in Smoke” for a similar effect. Party on, dudes.


20 posted on 03/25/2009 7:08:57 AM PDT by IbJensen ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money."Thatcher)
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