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The Increasingly Self-Pitying Obama White House
Commentary Magazine ^ | August 9, 2010 | Peter Wehner

Posted on 08/11/2010 10:33:35 PM PDT by SloopJohnB

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To: JennysCool
If he does that, you can be pretty darned sure that about 90% of the Liberal MSM will be a) in tear jerk mode; b) will be angry a those *damned rightwing pr*cks* who "drove Mr. Obama from office."

Then they will play a big, guilt trip on us, 24/7, for months on end, on how the nation is so cruel and overdemanding.

NEVER ONCE WILL THEY SAY IT IS DUE TO B.H.O.'s EXECUTIVE IMCOMPETENCE, LACK OF INNER "STUFF" AND GENERAL WUSSINESS

21 posted on 08/11/2010 11:42:07 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Donating to FREE REPUBLIC will allow you to "freep" with a clear conscience...)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Oh yeah. The MSM guilt trip is a given. Beats admitting they backed a lemon.


22 posted on 08/11/2010 11:48:33 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

You’re absolutely correct, this guy won’t serve out his 4 years. Frankly, I think he’ll just quit...with Michelle’s encouragement. The whole crew is in over their heads.


23 posted on 08/11/2010 11:50:44 PM PDT by bayareablues
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To: Noob1999

We have a rea perfumed prince and Louis Quatorze wannabe.


24 posted on 08/11/2010 11:54:47 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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To: Noob1999

We have a real perfumed prince and Louis Quatorze wannabe.


25 posted on 08/11/2010 11:55:07 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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To: AmericanInTokyo
He'll leave when he's absconded with enough cash and perks to set him up for perpetuity. At the rate things are going, it may well be sooner than we think.

President Biden has a Village Idiot ring to it, though.
26 posted on 08/11/2010 11:58:39 PM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress!)
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To: JennysCool
Good post, AIT! I’ve thought for a long time that Obama will be the first Prez to resign simply because he’s overwhelmed and tired of the job (corporate CEOs do it all the time; why should Presidents be any different?). Of course, the spin will be some touchy-feely liberal sob story. I’m betting on the Obamas wanting their children to live a “normal life.”

There are rumors floating around the Internet that Obama has Parkinson's disease. Lately I have been thinking that Barry is going to resign because of health problems.

That would be a win-win scenario for Obama. He gets sympathy because he's sick and he gets away from the Presidency.
27 posted on 08/12/2010 12:10:38 AM PDT by Ticonderoga34 (Free Obama's Birth Certificate!)
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To: Ticonderoga34

Obama is set for life with retirement and doing speeches. He’ll like pick up some ‘green’ cause (putting cash in his pocket) after he’s out of office. He’s content to go down as a martyr.

The narcissistic personality type is also content to bring down others when the house tumbles. Study Hitler during his last days. Obama is going into the bunker mentality because reality is proving his theories false. The economy, Iran, etc. etc. Rather than accept his own errors and reposition himself his narcissism (brought on by abandonment by his father and mother — again, study Hitler’s psycho-biography) will lead him to be a one-term president bringing down his party with him.


28 posted on 08/12/2010 12:35:54 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: AmericanInTokyo; SloopJohnB
I still hold to it that it will be outgoing President Joe Biden we see up on the dais of the West Capitol in January 2013 as a new Republican president takes the oath of office. Obama will be watching either from a mental ward, or some village in Kenya. I don't wish that on anyone, of course. But that is just the way it is going to shake out, and, well, may the chips fall where they may and may God save our Republic.

I pray that we will have a Constitutionally-eligible President in the Oval Office.

Regarding BO and his future..."[he] will be watching either from a mental ward, or some village in Kenya." Someone had posted that the newly-adopted Kenyan Constitution contained language stating that the President didn't have to be a citizen of the country. I went looking for that language. I found this on a blog regarding their new Constitution:

http://www.mzalendo.com/category/kenya-constitution/

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Citizenship

- Dual citizenship allowed: a born Kenyan does not lose citizenship by becoming one of another country, and anyone who has lost it is entitled to re-acquire it (14) and (16)

- Citizenship can be acquired by marriage to a citizen for 7 years, or lived in Kenya for 7 years (15) or is an orphan under 8 years can be citizens (14)

[...]

President

- Is (131) head of state, government, and armed forces

- Restricted powers of acting president defined (134) as well as procedure when a president is incapacitated (144) or impeached (145)

- Will be sworn in public (141) (swipe at you know who) two weeks after election results or one week after an election petition verdict by Supreme Court

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Note the "swipe at you know who" regarding the public oath.

29 posted on 08/12/2010 12:48:17 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: AngieGal

Ping to 11


30 posted on 08/12/2010 12:52:37 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: SloopJohnB

So Zero fantasizes about selling one size and color t-shirts on a beach in Hawaii. Sounds like a nice gig. Too bad for him that he’s under qualified.


31 posted on 08/12/2010 12:57:52 AM PDT by Brouhaha
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Good to see you. So how is Asia doing?


32 posted on 08/12/2010 12:59:58 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ('“Our own government has become our enemy' - Sheriff Paul Babeu)
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To: SloopJohnB

Waah, waah. Val Jarrett whines because Americans are not gullible enough to swallow the news/propaganda as spoon-fed to them by Walter Cronkite anymore.

They all need to chug on over to Namby-Pamby Land, the jack-wagons!


33 posted on 08/12/2010 1:06:45 AM PDT by GnuHere
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To: GnuHere

“They all need to chug on over to Namby-Pamby Land, the jack-wagons!”

Throw a box of tissues past those namby-pamby, jack wagon cry babies.


34 posted on 08/12/2010 1:32:04 AM PDT by PoloSec (Note to Princess B H Obama: May PISS be Upon Mohammads Head...You Pervert)
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To: PoloSec

Hee hee. I must admit I’m a sucker for brilliant TV ads. And that’s why yellow makes me sad, I think...


35 posted on 08/12/2010 1:40:37 AM PDT by GnuHere
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To: SoldierDad

“I don’t see Obozo as being overmatched and/or overwhelmed. Instead I believe he is working hard to achieve exactly what he’s achieved thus far, and has plans to further weaken this nation to the point where we will be easy prey for those who wish to destroy this nation. Once the U.S. is taken out, the rest of the world will be easy pickings for Islam.”

Mt take on the obozo thing also. He’s sly—like a fox—and MUCH more dangerous.


36 posted on 08/12/2010 2:14:07 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: rbosque
...I remember the throngs of idiots cheering on as the “community-organizer”-in chief was sworn in. Maybe it would have been better if they elected someone who had some experience in economics instead of a Marxist wannabe...

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Obama doesn't even try to fake it that he gives a damn, he could try to pretend that he's listening to the people...

He doesn't care. Doesn't give a rats behind.

Bill Clinton used to take a poll on where he and Hillary should vacation....This guy flips the bird.

Obama has spoken some form of 'I' or 'me' more than 16,000 official times since he took office.

Just for that alone, he should be in impeached and thrown in jail.

People voted for this. Our military is being used in Iraq and Afghanistan but the Secretary of Defense is a coward. The judiciary is 'progressive'. TV controls the idiots and Zer0 the foreign occupier is in charge. Bloomberg sold out to the Saudis with Rupert Murdoch, et al.

Liar; Obama.

Cheater; Feds.

Thief; Congress.

Con artist; Piss-Stream Media.

Throw 'em all out.

WAKE UP AMERICA

Obama - Jive Talkin'
Obama - Jive Talkin'
37 posted on 08/12/2010 2:56:18 AM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: SloopJohnB

I think your analysis is perceptive. It is difficult to see through the fog of media adulation and WH staff cover-ups of anything that goes awry. (Think Robert Gibbs never answering a serious question seriously). But after 18 months, with no positive results, it is difficult for anyone to make the case for Obama’s success and it seems like he’s the only one trying.

Beside the points you made about his blame Bush for everything mode and his whining about how everyone isn’t supporting him ... his other big claim to fame is the greatest use of the phony “straw-man” argument for everything he tries to do. It’s easy to spot it in his speeches. It always comes after phrases similar to “Let me be clear”, or more to point, “There are those who say we should ________ , but I say .....”

After you analyze his speech, you realize he’s bamboozoled you. No one is advocating what he says they are, he’s arguing against the “straw man”. The classic is “tax cuts for the rich”. Another is racial profiling (”you’ll take your kids out for ice cream and the cops will pull you over”). Anyway, you get the idea ... set up multiple straw men so my administration can shoot them down and save America!


38 posted on 08/12/2010 3:18:23 AM PDT by JohnEBoy
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Barack will never quit because George won’t let him.


39 posted on 08/12/2010 3:20:25 AM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Obama will be watching either from a mental ward, or some village in Kenya. I don't wish that on anyone, of course.

I do.

It's a very light and merciful sentence for treason.

40 posted on 08/12/2010 3:29:51 AM PDT by Gorzaloon (CNN:AP:etc:Today, President Obama's stool was firm and well-formed. One end was slightly pointed. ")
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