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The Obama Enigma
WaPo ^ | today | E.J. Dionne

Posted on 04/02/2009 1:28:25 PM PDT by StAntKnee

That's the Obama enigma: boldness wrapped in caution rooted in an ambivalent relationship to the status quo. This is why Obama will, by turns, challenge not only his entrenched adversaries but also his natural allies.

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Enigma? Are you allowed to call him that? In this age?
1 posted on 04/02/2009 1:28:26 PM PDT by StAntKnee
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To: StAntKnee

Is “enigma” double speak for “evil” these days?


2 posted on 04/02/2009 1:30:16 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.......)
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To: StAntKnee

He’s not an enigma - he’s an anathema.


3 posted on 04/02/2009 1:30:32 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: StAntKnee

0bama is a Useful Idiot and Stooge and they will throw him

away when he’s served his purpose. Count on it.


4 posted on 04/02/2009 1:30:52 PM PDT by unkus
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To: StAntKnee

Dionne should be told that April Fool’s Day was yesterday.


5 posted on 04/02/2009 1:32:11 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by governments. You've been warned.)
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To: StAntKnee
Dionne is straining himself to come up with excuses for the erratic and incompetent behavior of the Boy King.
6 posted on 04/02/2009 1:32:31 PM PDT by Carling ("We've lost two people in my family because you dickheads won't cut trees down," - Warwick Spooner)
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To: StAntKnee

As I recall, Sir Winston Churchill once described the Communist Russians as something of an enigma. You’re judged by the company you keep....except in dhimmicrat circles..


7 posted on 04/02/2009 1:33:30 PM PDT by Crapgame (Palin/Coulter 2012)
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To: StAntKnee

“That’s the Obama enigma: boldness wrapped in caution rooted in an ambivalent relationship to the status quo.”

Mommy, please make him stop writing this tripe.

Ack!


8 posted on 04/02/2009 1:34:23 PM PDT by texmexis best (uency)
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To: StAntKnee

TOTUS will be very upset. It has chosen its words and is, no doubt upset that it hasn’t resulted in the outcome ayers and soros wanted.


9 posted on 04/02/2009 1:34:26 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
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To: StAntKnee

Dionne is way over-thinking this thing


10 posted on 04/02/2009 1:34:38 PM PDT by slumber1 (Native Texan)
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"the Obama enema: boldness wrapped in fraud rooted in an antagonistic relationship to that which is just."

What Dionne would have said if he weren't a deranged nitwit.

11 posted on 04/02/2009 1:37:51 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: StAntKnee

Move over Ms. Lewinsky, EJ is now earning his Presidential kneepads.


12 posted on 04/02/2009 1:41:59 PM PDT by fatez ("If you're going through Hell, keep going." Winston Churchill)
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The Obama Enigma enema

There. . .fixed it.

13 posted on 04/02/2009 1:52:41 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: StAntKnee

E.J.’s sphincter is not much of a riddle, wrapped around a gerbil.


14 posted on 04/02/2009 2:15:56 PM PDT by neocon1984
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To: StAntKnee

No enigma. Hate is synonymous with weakness, incompetence, stupidity and lack of character.

Good food is bonded with, excrement is debonded from. Obama is an analo-scato homosexual who “bonds” with excrement.

All he does is actualy prepping to debond/excrement with the folkes he claims to be in relations with. Be prepared for a serious case of the runs America, because this stuff is going to be bad digestion.


15 posted on 04/02/2009 2:21:15 PM PDT by JudgemAll (control freaks, their world & their problem with my gun and my protecting my private party)
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the Obama enigma: boldness wrapped in caution rooted in an ambivalent relationship to the status quo...

...covered in confusion, layered with incompetence, encrusted with hypocrisy...blah, blah,blah

16 posted on 04/02/2009 2:54:42 PM PDT by Poison Pill (Help, I've voted Republican and I can't get up!)
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Enigma? No. Bismarckian? Perhaps. Bismarck hit upon the idea that in politics one can sometimes disguise what one is up to by simply not hiding anything. Be who you are, and say what you want to do.

Then watch all the other politicians, diplomats and observers tie themselves in knots as they ponder the question, "We know that is what he says he wants to do, but of course, no one in politics says what he means, so he must really be up to something else. I wonder what it is. Hmmm." These oh-so-worldly sophisticates (would Messers David Brooks and Christopher Buckley please pick up the white courtesy phone) go on to paralyze themselves with ever more elaborate analysis and speculation about the nature of the secret, behind the scenes, plan, without ever twigging on that there isn't one.

Barrack Hussein Obama was the most leftist member of the United States Senate, a distinction he won while clearly contemplating a run for President. Most politicians would have trimmed their sails, and tried to appear moderate, for political reasons. He did not, because he was a committed lefty as Senator. He is a committed lefty as President.

BO ran for President because he wanted to change the Country. Just as Reagan was perfectly willing to lose in 1984, if he changed the Country in the meantime, BO is willing to lose in 2012, if he changes us wildly to the left in the interim. It may be the only thing the two men have in common.

17 posted on 04/02/2009 3:18:20 PM PDT by Pilsner
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To: Pilsner

Great analysis. Thanks for the insights.


18 posted on 04/02/2009 4:27:24 PM PDT by StAntKnee (StAntKnee, if you would intercede on behalf of . . .)
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To: StAntKnee
You used the "en" word.
19 posted on 04/02/2009 7:58:49 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ( As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. - D)
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To: StAntKnee

I read the first sentence, wondering: Could any sentient being generate such twaddle? Then I saw it was E.J. Dionne. So the answer is still No.


20 posted on 04/02/2009 8:45:06 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (If Bishop D'Arcy finds out a priest is molesting kids, he will boycott the parish's Fall Supper!!!)
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