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The end of the road for Barack Obama?
The Telegraph ^ | 08 Mar 2010 | Simon Heffer

Posted on 03/08/2010 3:58:36 AM PST by HospiceNurse

It is a universal political truth that administrations do not begin to fragment when things are going well: it only happens when they go badly, and those who think they know better begin to attack those who manifestly do not. The descent of Barack Obama's regime, characterised now by factionalism in the Democratic Party and talk of his being set to emulate Jimmy Carter as a one-term president, has been swift and precipitate. It was just 16 months ago that weeping men and women celebrated his victory over John McCain in the American presidential election. If they weep now, a year and six weeks into his rule, it is for different reasons.

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To: backhoe
One senior black politician – a Democrat and a supporter of the President – told me of the wrath in his community that a black president appeared to be unable to solve the economic problem among his own people.

I think you misunderstand how deeply ingrained the concept of "entitlement" is, in the black community

The reason they are so poor and disadvantaged is because the "white man" has held them down because "white politicians" are more concerned helping out the white man than the "black man" because in their evil hearts they are racist.

Obama so supposed to level the field being black and has failed to do so. Thus, the disappointment and coming wrath, which I think is code word for race riots

41 posted on 03/08/2010 4:22:00 PM PST by Popman (Balsa wood: Obama Presidential timber)
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To: pabianice
it is manifestly stirring up political activism against Mr Obama, and also against those in the Republican Party who are not deemed conservatives

The truth is poison to these people.....

....Wah, Wah, Wah crybabies.

42 posted on 03/08/2010 4:24:01 PM PST by SteamShovel (When hope trumps reality, there is no hope at all.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"The Globalist can see that their prince ....OBAMA is not going to deliver for them..... "
Hopefully not, if the Senate and House tell him they will not support the EPA schemes to put the final stake into the heart of American industry. Left to his own and his administrations devises, they will scalp us blind.
43 posted on 03/08/2010 6:09:40 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....)
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To: HospiceNurse
I see an anonymous Democrat wants to blame Obama's troubles on Fox News. BWAHAHAHA!

Mr Obama benefited in his campaign from an idiotic level of idolatry, in which most of the media participated with an astonishing suspension of cynicism. The sound of the squealing of brakes is now audible all over the American press; but the attack is being directed not at the leader himself, but at those around him

The recent Axelrod/Emanuel side-taking seems to bear this out.

A thrashing of the Democrats in the mid-terms would not necessarily be the beginning of the end for Mr Obama: Bill Clinton was re-elected two years after the Republicans swept the House and the Senate in November 1994. But Mr Clinton was an operator in a way Mr Obama patently is not. His lack of experience, his dependence on rhetoric rather than action, his disconnection from the lives of many millions of Americans all handicap him heavily. It is not about whose advice he is taking: it is about him grasping what is wrong with America, and finding the will to put it right. That wasted first year, however, is another boulder hanging from his neck: what is wrong needs time to put right. The country's multi-trillion dollar debt is barely being addressed; and a country engaged in costly foreign wars has a President who seems obsessed with anything but foreign policy – as a disregarded Britain is beginning to realise.

I would have assummed a shellacking in November would mean an Obama re-election, but -- saints be praised -- maybe not!

44 posted on 03/08/2010 6:32:39 PM PST by GVnana ("Obama is incredibly naive and grossly egotistical." Sarkozy)
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To: Tymesup
I saw my first "Obama Sucks" bumper sticker today.

In California.

45 posted on 03/08/2010 6:35:15 PM PST by GVnana ("Obama is incredibly naive and grossly egotistical." Sarkozy)
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To: HospiceNurse
"'s big problem," a senior Democrat told me, "is that four times as many people watch Fox News as watch CNN."

LOL!!! I don't see this as a problem but the SOLUTION to the problem of the progressives and the (p)Resident...

46 posted on 03/08/2010 7:19:09 PM PST by Nat Turner (Escaped from NY in 1983 and not ever going back....)
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To: paudio
This has to be the weirdest analysis about 0bama's problems.

"Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?"

47 posted on 03/08/2010 7:31:46 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: agere_contra

What I immediately thought also was if our media was impartial would there even have been a market for a Fox News? Not likely.


48 posted on 03/08/2010 7:34:22 PM PST by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discover" Sarah Palin)
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To: backhoe
Is he supposed to jump in a phone booth, peel off his suit, and fly over the city dispensing majik?


49 posted on 03/08/2010 7:36:20 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: HospiceNurse
"The end of the road for Barack Obama?"

Nope. Not as long as they allow traitors, fools, idiots, and parasites to vote obama has nothing to worry about. And this he knows.

50 posted on 03/08/2010 7:40:17 PM PST by sport
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To: HospiceNurse
It was just 16 months ago that weeping men and women celebrated his victory over John McCain...

Weeping men, that sounds like the liberals I know.
51 posted on 03/08/2010 7:45:30 PM PST by weef
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To: backhoe
Obama-money. From his stash. Didn't you hear? He was going to pay peeps's rent and buy gas for them.
52 posted on 03/09/2010 12:28:22 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: HospiceNurse

“The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media.”

Total BS.

The BBC is hardly impartial.

Leftest propaganda for years.


53 posted on 03/09/2010 12:50:04 AM PST by DB
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To: Elsie

Thanks- I’ll borrow that graphic.


54 posted on 03/09/2010 2:23:54 AM PST by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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To: DB
a technical rule of impartiality is applied

You missed the "technically" caveat. The BBC is like PBS on steroids. It is government funded through "licensing fees" (taxes). It is allegedly neutral politically. In reality, it is an anti-semitic leftist cabal.

55 posted on 03/09/2010 2:34:54 AM PST by HospiceNurse
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To: sport
Not as long as they allow traitors, fools, idiots, and parasites to vote obama has nothing to worry about.

And WE are the THEY!

WE (they) have SUBSIDIZED the very ones who sap our strength and eat our sustenance.

We (they) have made LAWS that allow the leechs of life to ride merrily along, increasing their numbers and influence.

Will WE (they) ever change the law BACK to something sensibile, or will this once Great Nation descend even further into a Mad Max future?

56 posted on 03/09/2010 4:18:38 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: hinckley buzzard
He was going to pay peeps's rent and buy gas for them.

Was?

IS!!!

And there is a LOT of that money (OURS!) still waiting to be used to buy even MORE votes.

57 posted on 03/09/2010 4:19:52 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: HospiceNurse
The descent of Barack Lord Obama's regime


58 posted on 03/09/2010 4:20:14 AM PST by syriacus (Obama says we shouldn't infer that a HUMONGOUS gov't health bill will lead to any gov't takeover.)
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To: syriacus
The Lord Obama giveth and the Lord Obama taketh away.

Under a king like Obama, people live on the hope that he will deign to give them some of the goodies.

59 posted on 03/09/2010 4:23:40 AM PST by syriacus (Obama says we shouldn't infer that a HUMONGOUS gov't health bill will lead to any gov't takeover.)
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To: Elsie
 
"For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you will find every disorder and evil practice."
 James 3:16

 


When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

 

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.

He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.

He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.

He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:

For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing taxes on us without our consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:

For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:

For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies:

For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:

For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of the head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levey war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.


60 posted on 03/09/2010 4:24:48 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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