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Feinstein Blasts Obama On Afghanistan, Blames Troop Deaths on His Dithering
Sunday, October 11, 2009 | Kristinn

Posted on 10/11/2009 10:09:18 AM PDT by kristinn

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To: kristinn
Three words to the senior Senator from California:

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

41 posted on 10/11/2009 11:25:28 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
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To: truthkeeper

Feinstein rips him a new one. You don’t want to p!$$ off a woman!


42 posted on 10/11/2009 11:31:16 AM PDT by mefistofelerevised
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To: kristinn
Please. This woman is a complete phony. Remember when she "strongly criticized" Bill Clinton?

Did she vote for impeachment?

43 posted on 10/11/2009 11:36:18 AM PDT by truthkeeper ("Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill?")
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To: kristinn

If she keeps this up the Obama is going to need another date night with his wife or a vacation.
Maybe he’ll discover he left his umbrella in Copenhagen and needs to return there to pick it up.
He may need to take a pre-survey trip to Stockholm before he receives his joke prize.
Putin smiles.
Chaves grins.
Obama dithers again and again and again . . . .


44 posted on 10/11/2009 11:36:43 AM PDT by em2vn
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To: nascarnation
Here is the reason:

Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
Friday, 09 October 2009

snip....

The conversations at the Cosmos Club this week were very subdued. As it has been for generations, this is where the true power elite of Washington gathers. Whether it was in the East Garden Bar, the Old Club Room, or the Members Dining Room, the savviest veterans of Capitol Hill and K Street - Democrat and Republican - had a tone of fear and seriousness you didn't hear the week before.

Something had scared them. Scared them like an earthquake had fractured their political foundations. The one whispered word you could overhear more than any other was "Copenhagen."

For them, President and Mrs. Zero flying off to Copenhagen to beg the International Olympics Committee for Chicago and being rejected was not a matter of humiliation. It was scales falling off their eyes, and in an eye-blink realizing the enormity of the mistake America made last November.

And at breakfast in the Garden Dining Room this morning (10/09), there were hardly conversations at all, just shocked silence. The consequences of giving a president afflicted with pathological egomania combined with pathological amateurishness the Nobel Peace Prize were so grave they were speechless.

These grizzled hard-nosed guys can handle egomaniacs and ideologues, for DC is overrun with such folk. What they can't handle, what actually scares them, is off-the-wall bozo sophomoric amateurs in positions of real power. And if the amateur in question is at the apex of real power and is so nutso narcissistic that he can't be educated to be less amateurish, now they start to freak out.

One basic rule that all presidents adhere to, Dem or Pub makes no difference, is they never risk the prestige of the presidency on a negotiation that could result in public humiliation. It's always negotiated by White House Sherpas in advance so it's a done deal, and the POTUS just shows up for the applause and photo-ops.

The Copenhagen Fiasco has scared every pro in Washington because it was Total Absolute Amateur City by a presidential ego run amok.

So Cosmos is quiet this morning, as everyone realizes this pathological ego is now on steroids with this farce of a peace prize.

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You won't, however, hear any conspiracy talk at Cosmos. For that you have to go to the GOP's favorite watering hole, the Capitol Hill Club. Not a few Pub Congressistas were speculating there over a quick cup of morning coffee that George Soros must have paid off the Norwegian Nobel Committee to counter Zero's humiliation in Copenhagen and being ridiculed on Saturday Night Live.

Maybe. Becoming an object of ridicule is often irrecoverably deadly to a politician. For a long time, comedians just couldn't tell jokes about The One. Then Bill Maher on HBO had this zinger:

45 posted on 10/11/2009 11:47:11 AM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: kristinn
Perhaps DiFi got a call from Hill and there is some scheme underway.
46 posted on 10/11/2009 11:52:58 AM PDT by Miss Didi ( "After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Galtoid

Yep, I’ll guarantee you this support of hers is a trade off for something...she wouldn’t buck Dumbama if getting her way on something else wasn’t much worth it to her.

I’m betting her reason is one of two...a run for the governorship, or an exchange vote possibly on health care or cap ‘n trade.


47 posted on 10/11/2009 12:00:53 PM PDT by RowdyFFC (Nancy Pelosi...please deny her any health care....)
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To: kristinn

Wow, rare kudos to a Democrat. See, DiFi, I didn’t even capitalize the last three letters as I do 99.5% of the time. Thank you for seeing this clearly.


48 posted on 10/11/2009 12:05:15 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The President has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. " Steyn)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
"His entire life has been one gigantic EEOP."

EEOP???

49 posted on 10/11/2009 12:05:50 PM PDT by jackibutterfly
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To: shield

Do you have a link for that, please? Signed, too lazy to search. :)


50 posted on 10/11/2009 12:10:35 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The President has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. " Steyn)
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To: jackibutterfly

Extraordinary Equal Opportunity Program?


51 posted on 10/11/2009 12:11:45 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The President has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. " Steyn)
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To: jackibutterfly; NonValueAdded; All
EEOP
52 posted on 10/11/2009 12:18:08 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: spikeytx86

I don’t know much about DiFi, but hard to imagine a high seniority Senator in a safe seat trying for state gov slot.

Gov is a way tougher job, and Calif looks pretty much unmanageable financially.


53 posted on 10/11/2009 12:21:42 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: MNlurker

I’m certainly no fan of Feinstein, but she will surprise you once in a while. She’s not the same empty airhead the other California Senator is. Babwa Boxer has about as much sense than a box of rocks.

That being said, this criticism is very strident. Good for her.


54 posted on 10/11/2009 12:22:00 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Deficit spending, trade deficits, unsecure mortages, worthless paper... ... not a problem. Oh yeah?)
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To: kristinn

unlike Boxer........I happily call this woman Senator Feinstein today....despite her democrat roots.


55 posted on 10/11/2009 12:26:54 PM PDT by tioga (Drip, Drip, Drip.........the ACORNS are falling.)
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To: NonValueAdded
HERE is the link.
56 posted on 10/11/2009 12:30:33 PM PDT by tioga (Drip, Drip, Drip.........the ACORNS are falling.)
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To: kristinn

Feinstein is NOT an “old fashioned Democrat” as some might reflexively suggest. Think Zell Miller when you think of THAT kind of Democrat. She is a radical Leftist.

So what’s her angle, you ask? Simple. The Clinton machine is lining up for the kill. Hillary is ramping up her “public support” for Israel, her allies in Congress are criticizing Obama on foreign and military policy...It’s just starting. It’s likely this is an attempt to allow many Congressional Democrats to separate themselves from Obama for the 2010 elections, hoping to preserve the Democrat majority in both houses. I think it will work. And if it does, they’ll be solid with “The One” as soon as the election is over, and work hard and unanimously for his re-election/re-coronation for the 2012 election...

It’s all politics people. Don’t give any credit to Feinstein she doesn’t deserve. DON’T trust her — but DO exploit her words, regardless of her motives.


57 posted on 10/11/2009 1:02:22 PM PDT by patriot preacher (To be a good American Citizen and a Christian IS NOT a contradiction. (www.mygration.blogspot.com))
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To: Windflier

who would ever has guessed that Feinstein was a racist?


58 posted on 10/11/2009 1:05:13 PM PDT by Vehmgericht
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To: patriot preacher
The Clinton machine is lining up for the kill.

We can only hope.

59 posted on 10/11/2009 1:06:45 PM PDT by riri (http://rationaljingo.blogspot.com/)
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To: kristinn

I just watched her comments on ABC’s web site. She specifically mentioned the fate of women under the Taliban and Sharia law. I think that plays a big part in her thinking.


60 posted on 10/11/2009 1:17:31 PM PDT by PAR
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