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Obama loses the Left: suddenly, it's cool to bash Barack
Telegraph.co.uk ^ | Jun 5, 2010 | Toby Harnden

Posted on 06/05/2010 8:25:42 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Edited on 06/05/2010 11:04:29 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Europe still worships him and Washington's Obamatrons remain smitten, but former supporters are turning on the President, writes Toby Harnden.

Well, at least he's still got Sir Paul McCartney. At the White House last week, the 67-year-old crooner was gushing in much the same manner as his own groupies did at Shea Stadium in 1965. "I'm a big fan, he's a great guy," McCartney told American critics of President Barack Obama. "So lay off him, he's doing great."


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To: Colonel_Flagg

It’s also not racist to bash obama. If you’re black, you bash his black half. If you’re white, you bash is white half.


21 posted on 06/05/2010 9:02:27 AM PDT by GBA (Resistance is Constitutional!)
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To: dfc1
Paul McCartney was always my favorite Beatle...until I heard what he said about President Bush.

Does McCartney's political leaning really surprise you? I mean, really!?

22 posted on 06/05/2010 9:07:01 AM PDT by fwdude (It is not the liberals who will destroy this country, but the "moderates.")
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To: maine-iac7

I don’t get this cool persona spin.

In my neighborhood we call this “deer in the headlights”.


23 posted on 06/05/2010 9:13:27 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Need work. MBA, CPA, Black Belt. Diverse industry and cross border experience.)
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To: manic4organic
Please refer to her as the First Wookie.

Whatcha got against wookies?

24 posted on 06/05/2010 9:14:25 AM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: maine-iac7
The Bamster has done exactly what many of his supporters wanted. They're mad because the plans can't work and will never work.
25 posted on 06/05/2010 9:15:51 AM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: bergmeid

Bought a bumper sticker months ago that said pretty much that same phrase — figured it would be useful in the near future and now it is!


26 posted on 06/05/2010 9:17:44 AM PDT by Moonmad27 (That government is best which governs least. - Henry Thoreau)
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To: dfc1

I always liked Paul best too. In fact I took my family to see him in Atlanta last year and It was a great experience! At the time, I had a discussion with my son who is a musician, about how McCartney could be so successful without any foul language or political comments during his show. Very Disappointing this outburst!


27 posted on 06/05/2010 9:19:47 AM PDT by Desparado
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To: Sub-Driver

When Paul McCartney says he thinks you’re a great guy that’s pretty much the official un-official announcement that you’re a major dork.


28 posted on 06/05/2010 9:21:33 AM PDT by TigersEye ("Flotilla" means "pirate ships running supplies to terrorists.")
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To: Mac from Cleveland
the First Clydesdale,

Coffee *everywhere*.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

29 posted on 06/05/2010 9:25:03 AM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: longfellow

LETTERMAN(!) actually said that??
That’s hard to believe.I would have to see a link or the transcript.
That would be a bearded Spock universe moment if he really said that.


30 posted on 06/05/2010 9:31:09 AM PDT by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
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To: Sub-Driver

No link to the article!

Here’s what you want:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/7805775/Obama-loses-the-Left-suddenly-its-cool-to-bash-Barack.html

“Even the liberal chattering classes are deserting Obama. Maureen Dowd of the New York Times jeered that his “Yes we can” slogan had been downgraded to “Will we ever?”, while fellow columnist Frank Rich blasted his “recurrent tardiness in defining exactly what he wants done”.”


31 posted on 06/05/2010 9:38:29 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: Sub-Driver

He allowed the fragile ecosystem be destroyed while playing and letting BP run the show. Those young people really do believe the green crap.


32 posted on 06/05/2010 9:39:07 AM PDT by CajunConservative (Shut Up Mary!)
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To: Sub-Driver

I rather think it’s because of the economy. If the economy were at least stable, then I am sure that he would be getting a free pass, if booming, there would be churches erected in his name for his groupies. But with the economy in pieces, people literally losing their homes, and jobs, bank accounts, children losing everything their parents gave them, stuff like that.

Again, as has been said, “It’s the economy, stupid!”


33 posted on 06/05/2010 10:35:26 AM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Does this surprise anyone? The left put the Obamessiah so high on that pedestal, he had no where to go but down. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA


34 posted on 06/05/2010 10:44:52 AM PDT by redneck with hot sauce
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To: Sub-Driver; All
We tried to tell 'em...
( Click the picture )


35 posted on 06/05/2010 11:38:57 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
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To: Richard Kimball
“The Bamster has done exactly what many of his supporters wanted. They're mad because the plans can't work and will never work.”

Yes. The left, since at least the ‘30s, has been furious with reality.

36 posted on 06/05/2010 11:49:12 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: Colonel_Flagg

I have an anti-Obama bumper sticker on my car and live in Maryland, just a little bit liberal. I’ve had many positive comments from people on the road and zero negatives.


37 posted on 06/05/2010 1:54:48 PM PDT by cyclotic (Boy Scouts-Developing Leaders in a World of Followers.)
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To: maine-iac7

It’s the Gulf (not golf), Stupid.

Barry’s Problem (BP)...Day 47...and counting...


38 posted on 06/05/2010 2:38:17 PM PDT by bigoil
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To: bigoil
It’s the Gulf (not golf), Stupid.

LOL

Whew - for a minute I thought you were calling ME 'stupid'! ;o)

I may be, but you don't know me well enough to know for sure

39 posted on 06/05/2010 5:26:48 PM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: dfc1

McCartney’s just another air head. I’ll try to compartmentalize and enjoy his music, but if anyone is influenced by his political opinion, such a loser is just an air head too.

I like Laura Bush, but she’s an air head. She’s a wonderful lady, but not a clue about Kagan or immigration.

I like Donald Sutherland, Danny Glover, and Jack Nichols — air heads all. Who expects a clown or a drugged up singer to make any sense anyway?


40 posted on 06/06/2010 6:53:57 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Kagan ENDED Constitutional Law in Harvard: freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2523089/posts)
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