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Krauthammer: The selective modesty of Barack Obama
The Washington Post ^ | 07/08/10 | Charles Krauthammer

Posted on 07/09/2010 5:39:36 AM PDT by The Big Boo

The selective modesty of Barack Obama

By Charles Krauthammer Friday, July 9, 2010

Remember NASA? It once represented to the world the apogee of American scientific and technological achievement. Here is President Obama's vision of NASA's mission, as explained by administrator Charles Bolden: "One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and math and engineering."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: failure; modesty; obama
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To: Darkwolf377

yes, the audience matters, and in the Washington Post no less, but by ignoring the fact that this is not the country that Obama “belongs” too, he hides the ultimate motive...It is not a matter of modesty, it is a matter of destruction and recreation in a new order.

Here is another “wonder” for you -—Tancredo calling Obama America’s greatest threat yesterday. This from a guy who voted to seat him as President....

If you concede his legitimacy, and thus show your complete and utter ignorance of the Constitution, do you think latter you have should be respected for your whining?

It all rolls together...once you become complicit the guilt follows.

The Big Boo


41 posted on 07/09/2010 6:17:33 AM PDT by The Big Boo (Lone Wolf M/C)
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To: BornToBeAmerican

The title has just been changed to what it should be. It read “just another Conservative idiot” or some such...


42 posted on 07/09/2010 6:17:40 AM PDT by bcsco (First there was Slick Willie. Now there's "Oil Slick" Barry...)
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To: bcsco

Liberal spy from moveon.org probably.


43 posted on 07/09/2010 6:17:50 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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To: BornToBeAmerican
I did find this here

July 9, 2010
Barack Obama's Selective Modesty
Charles Krauthammer, National Review

Is this the issue?

44 posted on 07/09/2010 6:18:51 AM PDT by BornToBeAmerican (Give me a hand up, not a hand out)
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To: Sudetenland

“and like it or not, this is “Obama’s country”

Really?

Prove it......

you can’t

so you’re done.

The Big Boo


45 posted on 07/09/2010 6:19:53 AM PDT by The Big Boo (Lone Wolf M/C)
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To: Dudoight
This can’t be REAL! And it is.

Long before Orwells's "1984", there was another book that laid out the blueprint for everything we are seeing today.

It was a book that predicted the downfall of this country, the 3rd worlding of America and the absolute corrution of our political system and cultural ideals. The book is by Ayn Rand and is called Atlas Shrugged. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend it. If you have read it, read it again. I have read this book ~6 times and am getting ready to read it again because each time I read it, I gain more understanding of what she was writing about. IMO, Atlas Shrugged should be the conservative's Bible.

46 posted on 07/09/2010 6:19:54 AM PDT by DustyMoment
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To: bcsco

Oh, thanks


47 posted on 07/09/2010 6:20:03 AM PDT by BornToBeAmerican (Give me a hand up, not a hand out)
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To: BornToBeAmerican; La Lydia; avacado
I thought THIS was the original title (in IBD):

Obama Vanity Runs Out Fast If Focus Is U.S.

48 posted on 07/09/2010 6:20:25 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: The Big Boo
Obama's modesty about America would be more understandable if he treated himself with the same reserve. What is odd is to have a president so convinced of his own magnificence -- yet not of his own country's.

I've been amazed by Obama's arrogance. The crowning blow for me was his autobiography, which it appears he didn't write. Still, to write an autobiography when you have done absolutely nothing tells me a lot about the narcissism of the man.

49 posted on 07/09/2010 6:21:46 AM PDT by econjack (Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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To: MrB

Thanks...

But I honestly didn’t mean to change anything or violate any rule....I musta screwed up in my posting this...

mea culpa

Am I going to be fined?

The Big Boo


50 posted on 07/09/2010 6:21:51 AM PDT by The Big Boo (Lone Wolf M/C)
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To: MrB

Thanks...

But I honestly didn’t mean to change anything or violate any rule....I musta screwed up in my posting this...

mea culpa

Am I going to be fined?

The Big Boo


51 posted on 07/09/2010 6:21:51 AM PDT by The Big Boo (Lone Wolf M/C)
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To: BornToBeAmerican

No, the link to the Washington Post is legitimate. Krauthammer’s article apparently ran in both issues. But the articles headline was changed for this thread.


52 posted on 07/09/2010 6:22:00 AM PDT by bcsco (First there was Slick Willie. Now there's "Oil Slick" Barry...)
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To: detective

The problem with Obama is the same problem Communists have had forever.

They are the proverbial dog chasing after the car. “I caught the car, now what?” That sums up Obama’s Presidency.


53 posted on 07/09/2010 6:23:09 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Conservatives are producers. Liberals are parasites)
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To: bcsco

keep reading

The Big Boo


54 posted on 07/09/2010 6:24:16 AM PDT by The Big Boo (Lone Wolf M/C)
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To: Frenchtown Dan

Nah, I don’t think so. Just a single issue person...


55 posted on 07/09/2010 6:25:47 AM PDT by bcsco (First there was Slick Willie. Now there's "Oil Slick" Barry...)
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To: BornToBeAmerican

I did something very very bad...not sure either what it was, in my haste perhaps....

you know alot of these freeper types - form over function (or content for that matter)....

live and learn....

The Big Boo


56 posted on 07/09/2010 6:26:45 AM PDT by The Big Boo (Lone Wolf M/C)
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To: The Big Boo
keep reading

I did.

57 posted on 07/09/2010 6:26:45 AM PDT by bcsco (First there was Slick Willie. Now there's "Oil Slick" Barry...)
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To: SumProVita
Anyone who considers Charles Krauthhammer to be an idiot reveals his own cerebral lack. ;-OM

He is an idiot on one or two issues but overall he is nowhere near an idiot.

58 posted on 07/09/2010 6:27:01 AM PDT by frogjerk (I believe in unicorns, fairies and pro-life Democrats.)
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To: Calm_Cool_and_Elected

ping


59 posted on 07/09/2010 6:28:16 AM PDT by Calm_Cool_and_Elected (I'm a Republican and I own a cat.)
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To: Frenchtown Dan

no...the quote was “his own country’s”, meaning “his own country’s modesty”. The “own” means Obama’s country meaining the county that Obama claims or is from.

FCS we don’t even know if he is a U.S. Citizen...and here you are passing on that.

Practice reading English, it’s a skill that will serve you well.

The Big Boo


60 posted on 07/09/2010 6:31:30 AM PDT by The Big Boo (Lone Wolf M/C)
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