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Smart Aleck-in-Chief?
The Wall Street Journal ^ | 04-29-10 | DANIEL HENNINGER

Posted on 04/28/2010 5:45:35 PM PDT by GOP_Lady

There may be good reasons for Obama to go negative, but doing so could wreck his presidency.

Here's a quiz: For which of the following reasons is the 44th president of the United States bad-mouthing Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, bankers, mine operators, insurers, Glenn Beck, the tea party, the Supreme Court and whoever he hammers as we go to press:

a) He's rallying his base.

b) He's rallying the Democrats' base (one overlaps but does not equal the other).

c) He's changing the subject from 9% unemployment.

d) To reverse his sinking approval ratings.

e) It's what Saul Alinsky would do.

f) It's what Barack Obama likes to do.

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2 posted on 04/28/2010 5:46:43 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: GOP_Lady

I just hope that he keeps on talking...


3 posted on 04/28/2010 5:47:05 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
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To: GOP_Lady

e


4 posted on 04/28/2010 5:52:30 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Build a man a fire; he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire; he'll be warm the rest of his life)
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To: Beaten Valve

5 posted on 04/28/2010 5:54:35 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: GOP_Lady

President Bart Obama and his “I didn’t do it!” crew...


6 posted on 04/28/2010 5:59:45 PM PDT by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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To: zot; Interesting Times

Henninger is always a good read


7 posted on 04/28/2010 6:01:08 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: GOP_Lady

g) Because class warfare is what Communists do...


8 posted on 04/28/2010 6:05:13 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (To those who believe the world was safer with Saddam, get treatment for that!)
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To: GOP_Lady

“Smart-Alec-in-Chief?”

Nah. Just a reflection of all those smart-alec, brilliant, intellectual independents out there who think they’re brilliant and intellectual.

IMHO


9 posted on 04/28/2010 6:16:25 PM PDT by ripley
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To: ripley

I was always taught there was a difference between a smart alec and smart ass. Obama falls into the smart ass column.


10 posted on 04/28/2010 6:25:20 PM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: GOP_Lady

obama breathing

11 posted on 04/28/2010 6:29:06 PM PDT by FrankR (Standing up against tyranny must start somewhere, or the future will belong to the tyrants.)
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To: Freddd

Everybody likes a little . . . Nobody likes a smart___?


12 posted on 04/28/2010 6:34:12 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Papa of two new Army Brats! Congrats to my Soldier son and his wife.)
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To: GreyFriar
Henninger is always a good read

I agree with you, but my answer is e.

13 posted on 04/28/2010 6:36:25 PM PDT by zot
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To: GOP_Lady
He's essentially an only child, raised as such by his doting grandparents, who gave him every privilege. A white child of privilege.

That oughta pi$$ him off. "I am NOT white! I am black. And therefore I am a victim of white society." Even though he is a product of his privileged upbringing by white grandparents.

14 posted on 04/28/2010 6:50:39 PM PDT by onemiddleamerican (FUBO - and all your terrorist buddies, too!)
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To: zot
Actually, I think it's what Henninger said it was in his articl":

The answer is (f): It's what Barack Obama likes to do.

The guy is a nutcase, and he's an empowered nutcase. I think even some Dems are scared of the monster they have created.

15 posted on 04/28/2010 6:51:11 PM PDT by livius
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To: livius

I don’t believe he is a nutcase, just doing what he likes to do. The pattern of his attacks is too consistent for that. He is a monster because he is doing precisely what he was trained to do — isolate, marginalize and destroy any opposition in order to obtain and hold absolute power.


16 posted on 04/28/2010 7:18:20 PM PDT by zot
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To: GOP_Lady

Anyone who’s matured and been observed people for years should have easily recognized this guy as an insecure,immature ,shallow ,woefully unprepared person with serious and dangerous character flaws.
Our’ American Idol’ culture gravitated toward this bogus ,packaged ,superficial image of a cool, smart guy .
Many are still being fooled with his continued protection and promotion by the media.


17 posted on 04/28/2010 7:24:45 PM PDT by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
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To: GOP_Lady
I prefer Jacka$$-in-Chief. He is a DemocRat, after all.
18 posted on 04/28/2010 7:28:48 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (ClimateScandal.org)
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(7) All contributions from the DNC will be returned unopened.

19 posted on 04/29/2010 12:55:01 AM PDT by Liz (If teens can procreate in a Volkswagen, why does a spotted owl need 2000 acres? JD Hayworth)
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