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The convenient fantasies of President Obama
Washington Examiner ^ | 9-9-09 | Michael Barone

Posted on 09/08/2009 9:49:21 PM PDT by smoothsailing

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1 posted on 09/08/2009 9:49:21 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

Can’t guess. Dude’s sick.


2 posted on 09/08/2009 9:50:45 PM PDT by allmost
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To: smoothsailing

Which of the other Obama “czars” are promoting Communist policies or agendas in the Obama White House?


3 posted on 09/08/2009 9:55:26 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: smoothsailing
And now the UN wants a GLOBAL CURRENCY. Switzerland has surpassed us as the most competitive economy......how much destruction will the American people accept before a full on revolt? This Admin is destroying our country.
4 posted on 09/08/2009 9:56:16 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: allmost

I agree with everything except calling the New York Times “Mainstream”.


5 posted on 09/08/2009 9:58:27 PM PDT by 12chachacha
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To: smoothsailing

I never though I would be calling a US President a communist. Obama is not 100% communist but when he thinks he can get away with a communist type program....like Obama care


6 posted on 09/08/2009 9:59:57 PM PDT by dennisw (Free Republic is an island in a sea of zombies)
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To: 12chachacha

The NYT tells us little folk what to think. We would be lost without them.


7 posted on 09/08/2009 10:00:21 PM PDT by allmost
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
Which of the other Obama “czars” are promoting Communist policies or agendas in the Obama White House?

How about these:

Czar 19 - Information Czar

Vivek Kundra, Criminal record, Theft, Obama technology Czar, Maryland state records, Kundra Consulting, Chief Information Officer, FBI arrested subordinate Yusuf Acar, Corruption widespread, Acar birth certificates

Owen Thomas at The Gawker reports that Vivek Kundra “pleaded guilty to a theft charge in 1997.” •   • Yusuf Acar, the D.C. computer security official accused of masterminding a multimillion-dollar embezzlement scam, told his co-conspirators that corruption was widespread in the city’s computer office, The Examiner has learned. Acar and former D.C. employee Sushil Bansal are accused of faking invoices and timesheets from contractors in order to skim money from the city. The pair was arrested last week.Several alleged co-conspirators were identified by initials in court papers but have not been charged with wrongdoing.”

• Yusuf Acar, the D.C. computer security official accused of masterminding a multimillion-dollar embezzlement scam, told his co-conspirators that corruption was widespread in the city’s computer office, The Examiner has learned. Acar and former D.C. employee Sushil Bansal are accused of faking invoices and timesheets from contractors in order to skim money from the city. The pair was arrested last week.

• ““What concerns us and the White House Counsel’s office is that Kundra and Bansal seem to have a very tight relationship that was not discussed during the vetting process,” says the White House source.

Czar 4 - Border Czar

A grassroots report card for Alan Bersin

• • Snippet: • 2. Teacher’s Union Votes 93% No-confidence in Bersin. June 2001. 94% also voted no confidence in the school board majority of Sue Braun, Ed Lopez and Ron Ottinger. Earned Grade: F

• 9. Big Bucks For Bersin Brass: March 2002. Mr. Bersin and his three-vote board majority spent between $1.5 and $2 million for his inner circle of executives, despite news of a $33 million SDCS budget deficit...

Czar 18 - Health Czar

Obama health czar directed firms in trouble

Nancy-Ann DeParle, President Barack Obama’s health policy czar, served as a director of corporations that faced scores of federal investigations, whistleblower lawsuits and other regulatory actions, according to government records reviewed by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University.

Several of the companies were investigated for alleged kickbacks or engaging in other illegal billing schemes, while others were accused of serious violations of federal quality standards, including one company that failed to warn patients of deadly problems with an implanted heart defibrillator. Several of the cases ended with substantial fines paid to the federal government, even though the companies admitted no wrongdoing.

8 posted on 09/08/2009 10:28:14 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: 12chachacha

From what I hear, the NY TIMES didn’t mention Van Jones until Monday, below the fold.

Definitely NOT mainstream


9 posted on 09/08/2009 10:38:18 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com ............. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: smoothsailing
....."birthers," believers in the absurd charge that President Obama was not born in Hawaii and thus is not a natural-born U.S. citizen.

Absurd?? Why is 0bama spending over $1 million to hide all of his personal documents from us? The NYT would not allow a Republican president to do that.

10 posted on 09/08/2009 10:43:03 PM PDT by Mogollon (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -- Thomas Jefferson)
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I noticed that too.

I had to read it several times to figure out whether Barone was saying birthers were absurd, or he was reporting that liberal columnists were saying birthers were absurd.

I finally decided he was referring to liberal columnists.


11 posted on 09/08/2009 10:57:11 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity

All 57 of them?


12 posted on 09/08/2009 11:23:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $1 million for Sarah Palin if she runs; What will you do?)
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity

Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s consigliere, was a fan and was excieted about recruiting Van Jones. Her dad was in Chicago politics and was very hard left.


13 posted on 09/08/2009 11:46:13 PM PDT by Semperfiwife (Stupid is as stupid does, especially in Washington)
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His mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, was a member of the Communist Party. He speaks about him in his book, Dreams of My Father. He sought out the leftist on his campus (also in his book).


14 posted on 09/08/2009 11:50:00 PM PDT by Semperfiwife (Stupid is as stupid does, especially in Washington)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
All these czars need to go, there is no provision any where for their existence. May take some tar, feathers and pitch forks to get this done.
15 posted on 09/08/2009 11:58:06 PM PDT by tiger63
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To: GeronL

They are mainstream by definition, because that is how the sheeple see them and treat them. If and when the sheeple wake and realize how extreme and out of touch the communist-infiltrated print and TV media are, then by definition they will not be mainstream. But as long as 7 in 10 Americans refuse to do their own homework, as long as some jackass can spout off on the 6 o’clock news and have the 70% sheeple parrot their socialist spoonfeeding, then by definition, they will be “mainstream”.

I hate to say, they are mainstream until outed, all things being relative. In absolute terms, then you guys are right — they are NOT mainstream because they are far, far to the left of center. FAR to the left of center.


16 posted on 09/09/2009 1:01:38 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Depression Countdown: 50... 49... 48...)
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To: smoothsailing

good column


18 posted on 09/09/2009 6:18:53 AM PDT by Roberts
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To: proudbirther

And he sat in the pews of a racist for 20 years.


19 posted on 09/09/2009 7:18:12 AM PDT by safetysign
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To: smoothsailing

Wow, Michael Barone kicks some serious ass in this column!
Bravo!


20 posted on 09/09/2009 8:52:06 AM PDT by steven33442
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