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Who is Barack Obama?
Washington Post ^ | July 20, 2010 | Richard Cohen

Posted on 07/20/2010 4:23:24 AM PDT by Second Amendment First

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What has come to be called the Obama Paradox is not a paradox at all. Voters lack faith in him making the right economic decisions because, as far as they're concerned, he hasn't. He went for health-care reform, not jobs. He supported the public option, then he didn't. He's been cold to Israel's Binyamin Netanyahu and then all over him like a cheap suit. Americans know Obama is smart. But we still don't know him. Before Americans can give him credit for what he's done, they have to know who he is. We're waiting.
1 posted on 07/20/2010 4:23:26 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
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I thought the Washington Post was supposed to tell us who he was before the election. Too preoccupied with bashing republicans to be intellectually curious about the one their cheerleaders for, it comes back to bite them.
2 posted on 07/20/2010 4:26:35 AM PDT by Second Amendment First ("Stripping motivated people of their dignity and rubbing their noses in it is a very bad idea.")
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As far as I am concerned, BHO is not fit to even mention Ronald Reagan’s name.


3 posted on 07/20/2010 4:28:08 AM PDT by Daisyjane69 (Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
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Nothing charming about obama. He is one angry, nasty SOB.


4 posted on 07/20/2010 4:28:33 AM PDT by jersey117
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lol the plastic president...not quite human


5 posted on 07/20/2010 4:29:24 AM PDT by dalebert
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Obama: a criminal who managed to fool the American people into electing him president even though he was an enemy of the country


6 posted on 07/20/2010 4:31:08 AM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
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...too bad the Post didn’t bother to do some PUBLISHING before the primaries.....the ignorance angle won’t work because the average FReeper could tell you more about hopey changie two years ago......


7 posted on 07/20/2010 4:37:00 AM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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Inquiring minds would like to know


8 posted on 07/20/2010 4:37:11 AM PDT by Former MSM Viewer
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bump for later.


9 posted on 07/20/2010 4:38:14 AM PDT by rambo316
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"No one is accusing Obama of being likable. He is not unlikable, but he lacks Reagan's (or Bill Clinton's) warmth."
This conjures up Obama's snotty response to Hillary Clinton about likability.
10 posted on 07/20/2010 4:38:28 AM PDT by chickadee
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He wanted to be in the history books as the first ‘black’ president. He could care less if he wrecks the country, it’s all about him.


11 posted on 07/20/2010 4:39:28 AM PDT by mothball
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A socialist / communist wannabe that is trying very hard to destroy America from within. Any other questions?


12 posted on 07/20/2010 4:44:54 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA
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Obuma is the anti-Lincoln, as he tries to reimpose slavery.

He’s the anti-Reagan, as he’s jacking up tax after tax on the American people.

And he’s the anti-American, as he tries to destroy everything that made America great.

The bad karma he’s building will create a backlash against him and his followers that won’t be pretty.


13 posted on 07/20/2010 4:45:21 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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"they can be mischaracterized by Republicans and other evil-doers

Is this an example of "nuanced" left-wing thinking?
14 posted on 07/20/2010 4:46:32 AM PDT by Nepeta
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Thanks for posting, but even though this piece ‘kind of’ criticizes Obama, it is overall very irritating to me.

First, the opening comments: “On Sunday, both The Post and the New York Times assembled more than 20 savants and asked them, as the Times put it, “How Can Obama Rebound?”” Donna Brazile and the others are hardly ‘savants’, and why isn't the question ‘How can the nation rebound’?

There is plenty more in there that is irritating, including the closing comments: “Americans know Obama is smart. But we still don't know him.” No, we don't ‘know’ he is smart. We just know that he can read off a teleprompter and stumbles when having to speak off the cuff.

We know that he is an ideologue with a sophomoric world view who has surrounded himself with many radicals. We know that he attended a church headed by a racist pastor, and launched his political career in the home of a domestic radical/terrorist, and appointed an attorney general who runs a justice department that won't pursue voter intimidation cases against blacks. We know plenty. What we don't know is who he was in all the years before he launched his political career.

15 posted on 07/20/2010 4:51:25 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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Not this corksucker again.

LLS


16 posted on 07/20/2010 4:52:19 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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17 posted on 07/20/2010 4:59:17 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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By ‘savants’ the MSM means those individuals
who corruptly practice dirty tricks, felonies,
and other RICO actions (obviously ignored by
the ultraracist DOJ because it is BOW).


18 posted on 07/20/2010 5:01:16 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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For the average voter, he casts no shadow.

I'm willing to bet his image can't be seen in a mirror.

19 posted on 07/20/2010 5:06:40 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Can a number cause illness? 'Cause I sure am sick of Zero.)
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"..too bad the Post didn’t bother to do some PUBLISHING before the primaries.....the ignorance angle won’t work because the average FReeper could tell you more about hopey changie two years ago......"

The average FReeper also made up some of the 5% of people who strongly disapproved of this POS from the very beginning.

It's a shame everybody doesn't pay even half as much attention to political situations as we do.. if they did we would never have to worry about someone like the Kenyan in the first place.

20 posted on 07/20/2010 5:23:17 AM PDT by libs_kma (DEMOCRATS, HOT TAR AND FEATHERS. SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED.)
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