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Bloodless President Barack Obama makes Americans wistful for George W Bush
telegraph uk ^ | 11/8/2009 | Toby Harnden

Posted on 11/08/2009 7:51:47 AM PST by milwguy

During the election campaign, Barack Obama's cool detachment was a winning quality, the "No Drama Obama" a welcome contrast with the "Mr Angry" John McCain, never mind the hot-headed "I'm the decider" President George W Bush.

A year into his presidency, however, Mr Obama seems a curiously bloodless president. If he experiences passion, he seldom shows it. It is often anyone's guess as to whether an event or issue truly moves him.

More serious perhaps was Mr Obama's strange disconnectedness over the Fort Hood massacre of 13 soldiers by an Army major and devout Muslim who opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, had praised suicide bombing and shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he opened fire.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bush; bush43; fourth100days; nostalgia; obama
Best quote I have read yet on the Messiah!........... "Completely missing was the eloquence that Mr Obama employs when talking about himself. Absent too was any sense that the President empathised with the families and comrades of those murdered."

That one statement encapsulates perfectly the current POTUS. He cares about one thing, himself. That is all. The massacre at FT. Hood was a distraction to his important ass kissing to the native americans at the conference he spoke at. Anyone watching his bizzare behavior in that speech could see he did not give a damn about the soldiers. It is all about him, all the time.

1 posted on 11/08/2009 7:51:47 AM PST by milwguy
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To: milwguy

Does Van Jones come to mind here?


2 posted on 11/08/2009 7:54:50 AM PST by RC2
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To: milwguy
Obama bllodless? Maybe now. He will be far too bloody against his political opponents at home when the time comes, IMHO.

He is a fascist, genuinely. People are just starting to get it. The pieces of the jig saw that many of us saw 2 years ago, are coming together.

3 posted on 11/08/2009 7:54:56 AM PST by Candor7 (The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (.Member NRA)
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To: milwguy

He is a Muslim so why be concerned about what happened at Ft. Hood. Check out the American Thinker. They have a video of him telling that he is a Muslim.


4 posted on 11/08/2009 7:56:22 AM PST by Piquaboy (Military veteran of 22 years in Navy, Air Force, and Army.)
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To: milwguy

“Completely missing was the eloquence that Mr Obama employs when talking about himself.”

....he waxes eloquent about himself because he likes to play “the big negro”

(I cleaned up the quoted expression to comply with FR’s rules)


5 posted on 11/08/2009 8:00:17 AM PST by STONEWALLS
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To: milwguy

It's hard to be empathetic when, in your mind, you are the only thing that matters.

6 posted on 11/08/2009 8:03:16 AM PST by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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To: Candor7; milwguy

Hi - it means ‘emotionless’ over here. I think it was that emotional diconnect he had when talking about those of his soldiers (sorry about that, he is not worthy of them) who had just been murdered. There was no visceral reaction.


7 posted on 11/08/2009 8:06:22 AM PST by vimto (To do the right thing you don't have to be intelligent - you have to be brave (Sasz))
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To: milwguy

That quote absolutely cracked me up, too. It is the PERFECT description of the narcissist in chief, isn’t it?


8 posted on 11/08/2009 8:10:53 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: milwguy

Not totally true. He did claim to be ‘shocked and outraged’ a while back about a killing in KS.


9 posted on 11/08/2009 8:12:58 AM PST by posterchild (Endowed by my Creator with certain unalienable rights.)
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To: milwguy
Hey I guess it's my turn:


10 posted on 11/08/2009 8:29:45 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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No!


11 posted on 11/08/2009 8:57:10 AM PST by whatisthetruth
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To: raybbr

That pictures says it all. It is Obama in a nutshell!

12 posted on 11/08/2009 9:17:48 AM PST by meyer (Government health care = national strike.)
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13 posted on 11/08/2009 9:42:46 AM PST by traumer
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Think his golf scores are close to reality?


14 posted on 11/08/2009 9:53:28 AM PST by mcshot (It's WE THE PEOPLE!. Don't like our Constitution then get OUT on the 0 boat.)
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To: traumer

reptilian


15 posted on 11/08/2009 9:55:42 AM PST by dennisw (Obama -- our very own loopy, leftist god-thing.)
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To: milwguy

Obama is just reading the lines written for him. Spontaneity is rare and strictly for personal aggrandizement. He has no feelings for his audience, period.


16 posted on 11/08/2009 10:05:11 AM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
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He was extremely able to talk about his basketball brackets off-the-cuff in March. He actually knew what he was talking about. Which makes his reliance on the teleprompter an inference that he has absolutely NO idea what to say as POtuS, nor the ability to remember a few key lines for a few minutes. Even athletes learn early that they should only say a few scripted lines and they do tend to be able to follow those....even the athletes who are pretty thick-headed understand and are able to this. What does it say about Barry that he cannot????????
17 posted on 11/08/2009 10:51:38 AM PST by madinmadtown
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... What does it say about Barry that he cannot????????

That he and Slick Willie have a lot in common, narcissism being the most prominent. Neither could imagine they were lucky enough to be the center of the world and riding around on Airforce One. They love it.

Slick had been an Attorney General and Governor of Arkansas so he at least had some familiarity with being a politician in office and with policies and governing. Obama only knew Shuck and Jive as an ACORN community organizer.

The media laid the groundwork for the 2008 election by hammering Bush and the Republicans 24/7 for eight years. Then they elected Obama by constantly praising him and steadfastly ignoring any negatives, like his not being eligible to run.

He and the media rode the crest of white guilt on the wave of "The First Black President", ignoring that they had already bestowed that title on Slick. As a result, we now have a President completely unqualified, unprepared and totally incapable of governing.

18 posted on 11/08/2009 11:21:12 AM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
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To: milwguy; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ..

The list, ping


19 posted on 11/08/2009 11:57:26 AM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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