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Has Obama become bored with being president?
Washington Examiner ^ | 1/29/10 | Byron York

Posted on 01/28/2010 10:26:20 PM PST by SirJohnBarleycorn

This is about the time Barack Obama becomes bored with his job.

He's in his second year as president, and he's discovered that even with all the powers of office, he can't do everything he wants to do, like remake America. Doing stuff is hard. In the past, prosaic work has held little appeal for Obama, and it's prompted him to think about moving on.

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According to the book, the majority leader invited Obama to his office for a talk. "You're not going to go anyplace here," Reid told Obama. "I know that you don't like it, doing what you're doing." Reid suggested Obama run for president. Obama had been a senator for all of 18 months at the time.

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As he became frustrated in each job, Obama concluded that the problem was not having the power to do the things he wanted to do. So he sought a more powerful position.

Today he is in the most powerful position in the world. Yet he has spent a year struggling, and failing, to enact far-reaching makeovers of the American economy. So now, even in the Oval Office, there are signs that the old dissatisfaction is creeping back in.

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But throughout his life, his reaction to frustration has been to look for a bigger job. What does he do now?

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoanniversary; byronyork; fourth100days; obama
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In every position The One has had, from community organizer to state senator to US senator, he never accomplished anything of significance and concluded in each case because he didn't have enough power to make the changes he wants.

Do we need to call the Honduras Congress and Supreme Court and get their notes on how they kept Zelaya from becoming dictator-for-life?

1 posted on 01/28/2010 10:26:23 PM PST by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

...of a Democracy maybe.


2 posted on 01/28/2010 10:28:26 PM PST by historyrepeatz
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

...of a Democracy maybe.


3 posted on 01/28/2010 10:29:00 PM PST by historyrepeatz
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn
According to the book, the majority leader invited Obama to his office for a talk. "You're not going to go anyplace here," Reid told Obama. "I know that you don't like it, doing what you're doing." Reid suggested Obama run for president. Obama had been a senator for all of 18 months at the time.

Sounds like time for a return visit, while Dingy Harry is still a senator. "You'reWe're not going anyplace ..."

4 posted on 01/28/2010 10:31:31 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

Reality places a hard discipline on all of us, even messiahs.


5 posted on 01/28/2010 10:33:04 PM PST by eclecticEel (The Most High rules in the kingdom of men ... and sets over it the basest of men.)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

Its pretty hard to get anything done when you have Joe Klein, Howard Fineman, Chissy Matthews, Katy Couric, Brian Williams, Keith Olberman, Rachel Maddow et al.....stuck up your arse along with your own head.


6 posted on 01/28/2010 10:33:48 PM PST by HerrBlucher (Jail Al Gore and the Climate Frauds!)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

What does he do now?

King of the World????

7 posted on 01/28/2010 10:35:42 PM PST by norge (The amiable dunce is back, wearing a skirt and high heels.)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn
Doing stuff is hard.

Yes. Yes it is.

8 posted on 01/28/2010 10:35:44 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (:: The government will do for health care what it did for real estate. ::)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

Why, he’s the perfect post-modern president! Short attention span, giving up when things are difficult, afraid of responsibility, inflated ego, believing the world owes him something just because he exists, expecting to be entertained all the time, whining, petulance, cannot endure criticism, can’t grow up and face being an adult.... yep, that’s our prez!


9 posted on 01/28/2010 10:37:01 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn
...throughout his life, his reaction to frustration has been to look for a bigger job. What does he do now?

Why, become a god, of course! Ruler of the Universe!



10 posted on 01/28/2010 10:37:24 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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Democratic circles have a whispering campaign going on how can we get rid of this guy before he ruins all of us.


11 posted on 01/28/2010 10:37:51 PM PST 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: Pining_4_TX

Oops... I left out lazy, sloppy, and poorly educated.

Did I miss anything else?


12 posted on 01/28/2010 10:38:07 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

I don’t think he is bored with being President. He is just frustrated that he’s not treated like an Emperor yet.


13 posted on 01/28/2010 10:39:52 PM PST by TigersEye (It's the Marxism, stupid!)
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To: shield
Democratic circles have a whispering campaign going on how can we get rid of this guy before he ruins all of us.

Love the thought of that being so, but then, why did the Dems give him all of those standing ovations at the SOTU address, if they're all plotting and scheming to depose him?

Were they driven by a pathological level of political correctness to do that, or what?

14 posted on 01/28/2010 10:42:43 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

Given his position combined with his apparent lack of patience when he can’t assert his will, he could become irrational and dangerous. Thank God our founders put such a system in place where even with one party rule and a charismatic president, an agenda is extremely difficult to implement.

Perhaps he would be happier moving to another country where he could be a dictator and ‘president for life’?


15 posted on 01/28/2010 10:43:11 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: eclecticEel
When a person puts a plan of action into effect in order to see whether it will work or not, he is said to be engaging in reality testing. If the test does not work, that is, if the desired object is not discovered or produced, a new plan of action is thought out and tested. This continues until the correct solution (reality) is found and the tension is discharged by a suitable action. In the case of hunger, the suitable action would consist of eating food.

Calvin S. Hall, A Primer of Freudian Psychology

16 posted on 01/28/2010 10:45:15 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn
There is a perfect word for people like this:

Dilettante.

17 posted on 01/28/2010 10:45:36 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

"Doing stuff is hard..."

18 posted on 01/28/2010 10:48:10 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn
"You're not going to go anyplace here," Reid told Obama.

Talk about projection . . .

19 posted on 01/28/2010 10:48:54 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: who

Obama: “once I was a president, the redeemer”
But, January too soon turned to December
My subjects’ revolt
I can’t even gloat
People, remember remember remember...…


20 posted on 01/28/2010 10:49:24 PM PST by Cyber Ninja (His legacy is a stain OnTheDress)
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