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R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.: Our incompetent president
The Washington Times ^ | August 18, 2010 | R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

Posted on 08/18/2010 4:57:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

It is becoming apparent for all to see that a man who made his name as a community organizer does not have the skills to be president of these United States. Maybe he could develop the requisite skills as a governor. Possibly he could develop such skills were he to sit in the Senate for a couple of terms. Yet there are delicate sensitivities, the ability to listen, to stick by your guns, occasionally to remain reticent. These are the fundamentals of a leader, and President Obama has demonstrated that he lacks all of them, most notably reticence. I think it is clear even to official Washington that Mr. Obama is the worst president of modern times. President Jimmy Carter is redeemed.

The other night at a White House dinner solemnizing the opening of Ramadan, he leapt right in to endorse building a mosque at ground zero. He - a man who has shown no religious fervor during his time in the White House - let out a ringing defense of religious liberty and tolerance. Of a sudden, he was at the center of a national controversy that was growing. It put me in mind of his inability to defuse the controversy over health care. Any sensible president would have relented as opposition to health care grew to the majority position. He would have settled for some sort of compromise, but not the community-organizer-turned-president. He wanted it all. He lunged on and created among the electorate a row over national health care that divided the nation and put some of us in mind of a civil war that continues to rage. What is more, he imperiled his party's margins in both houses...(continued)

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 911; cluelessindc; democrat; democrats; groundzeromosque; impeachobama; newyork; obama; obamagroundzero; zerogroundzero
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1 posted on 08/18/2010 4:57:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Preaching to the choir.


2 posted on 08/18/2010 4:59:49 PM PDT by comebacknewt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
He's got about thirty percent of the country who will stick with him no matter what. Based on what I hear on the Metro and the commuter trains, Black Americans are standing by him, though they're worried sick about a potential Republican backlash. I think their fears are unfounded, but Obama has guaranteed that there will not be a black Democratic Party nominee for another 25 years.
3 posted on 08/18/2010 5:01:21 PM PDT by GAB-1955 (I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
President Jimmy Carter is redeemed.

The best part.

4 posted on 08/18/2010 5:04:18 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

bflr


5 posted on 08/18/2010 5:04:25 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, Call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: GAB-1955

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6 posted on 08/18/2010 5:04:39 PM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The caricature accompanying the piece depicts Barry as Jerry Lewis in the Nutty Professor.
The big teeth and the facial countenance of an idiot -it’s perfect.


7 posted on 08/18/2010 5:06:36 PM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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8 posted on 08/18/2010 5:08:29 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don’t you just love affirmative action! We have to give the blacks a leg up, just a little help. So lets not expect any work ever from a black person. No homework, no class work and we will lower the requirements for black students because they are too stupid to do anything without a liberal democrats help.

And so you get BHO, a lazy, uneducated, fool that has had everything handed to him on a platter just because he is black. This little homo putz has never had a job in his whole life, not even a lemonade stand yet he is given the Presidency because he is black.

He is truly the product of the left.


9 posted on 08/18/2010 5:12:30 PM PDT by fuzzybutt (Democrat Lawyers are the root of all evil.)
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To: GAB-1955

We were discussing the math on another thread a few days ago..Blacks are 12% of the country, and polls show that he still has a 95% approval rate among them...so the 0ther 20%..unions, fed, state, and local govt, and academe..


10 posted on 08/18/2010 5:12:47 PM PDT by ken5050 (Save the Earth..It's the only planet with chocolate!!!)
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To: GAB-1955

Hopefully the Republican party is also listening and will nominate someone we don’t have to hold our breath and noses to vote in 2012. Please let this be so!!


11 posted on 08/18/2010 5:16:26 PM PDT by YouGoTexasGirl
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My feelings: In his article R. Emmett Tyrrell is pulling his punches and is too kind to our Alien president Obama.


12 posted on 08/18/2010 5:23:12 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: ken5050
I'm not sure you can categorize it that way. I think of it more as low-income, pro-union workers; and unionized government workers. (Not all the government forces are unionized, but the unions dominate the appearances). Academia is really very small and not as influential as they think. Many people have learned to tune them out when they're not talking about their areas of expertise.

We need to go beyond speculation and find the facts. Who is supporting Obama? Why? What would it take to shake that support?

13 posted on 08/18/2010 5:23:45 PM PDT by GAB-1955 (I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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To: Freddd

I’m sorry, but your answer is not clear at all.


14 posted on 08/18/2010 5:24:16 PM PDT by GAB-1955 (I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“he other night at a White House dinner solemnizing the opening of Ramadan, he leapt right in to endorse building a mosque at ground zero. He - a man who has shown no religious fervor during his time in the White House - let out a ringing defense of religious liberty and tolerance.”

Emmett gets it right pretty much all the time.

What we have with the idiot obuma, and nobody mentions it, is a good taste of 1865-1873 Reconstruction where a stupid, clueless black guy fresh off the plantation is placed in charge of ruling a southern state, in this case America - at the point of a yankee gun.

And for all you left-wing yankee idiots in the Northeast who cheered on 1865 reconstruction, I hope to hell you stupid liberal bastards go broke and you end up living in a cardboard box under a bridge. You have lots of karma to set straight.

And to set the record straight, I’m a Yankee Michigan resident.


15 posted on 08/18/2010 5:35:14 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: GAB-1955
He's got about thirty percent of the country who will stick with him no matter what. Based on what I hear on the Metro and the commuter trains, Black Americans are standing by him, though they're worried sick about a potential Republican backlash. I think their fears are unfounded, but Obama has guaranteed that there will not be a black Democratic Party nominee for another 25 years.

Actually, it's black WOMEN who are staunchly pro-Obama. Black guys say they "support" him, but only to keep the peace with their wives/girlfriends. Most black guys think he's a pansy-tailed sissy, who's probably on the downlow.

16 posted on 08/18/2010 5:35:29 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

bump


17 posted on 08/18/2010 5:44:35 PM PDT by Christian4Bush (Mike/Chris Wallace: Did you give in? Palin: "HELL NO!" 76 days til the midterms, if they're held..)
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To: GreenLanternCorps

Is that another nail in the coffin?


18 posted on 08/18/2010 5:46:46 PM PDT by Silentgypsy (Employing freedom of speech/expression in order to condemn freedom of speech/expression—go figure..)
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To: sergeantdave

Reconstruction governments were the best governments some Southern states had for masny decades.


19 posted on 08/18/2010 5:47:59 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I still think Carter holds the prize as the most incompetent, but President Obama is proving a worthy contender with championship potential.


20 posted on 08/18/2010 5:51:22 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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