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Eleanor Clift: Obama Lacks 'Feel' for Politics
NewsBusters ^ | November 22, 2010 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 11/22/2010 9:19:53 AM PST by PJ-Comix

Eleanor Clint doesn't exactly say that President Barack Obama is completely clueless about politics but she comes pretty close to it in her latest Newsweek column. The lack of a basic ability to control the political agenda in Washington is a prospect that makes a committed liberal like Clift somewhat less than happy:

Obama’s storied political career took him from the relative obscurity of the Illinois State Legislature to the presidency in such a short time that he didn’t get much of a feel for the nitty-gritty politicking that consumes so much of today’s partisan bickering. He didn’t have the benefit of getting beaten badly at the state level, like Clinton was in Arkansas, and having to learn how to reinvent himself.

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KEYWORDS: barackobama; eleanorclift
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To: PJ-Comix

Sorry Eleanor, but politics, dirty, low-down, scorched-earth, Chicago-style leftist ‘politics’ is the only thing Obama DOES have a ‘feel’ for.


21 posted on 11/22/2010 9:47:28 AM PST by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: PJ-Comix

What does Eleanut expect from an organizer of community illiterates. The average American is BO’s intellectual superior in so many ways.


22 posted on 11/22/2010 9:48:34 AM PST by Neoliberalnot ((Read "The Grey Book" for an alternative to corruption in DC))
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To: PJ-Comix

Eleanor’s just laying the groundwork for a Hillary run.


23 posted on 11/22/2010 9:50:10 AM PST by dawn53
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To: MichaelP

The Clintonites are like sharks....and right now they smell blood.


24 posted on 11/22/2010 9:55:03 AM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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To: PJ-Comix

Is this the same as unqualified to lead and unable to learn?


25 posted on 11/22/2010 9:59:17 AM PST by Strategic Air Command Vet (Paraphrasing W ChurchillÂ…running away from threats doubles danger; facing threats halves the danger)
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To: PJ-Comix
...from relative obscurity... ...to the presidency in such a short time...
...didn’t get much of a feel for the nitty-gritty politicking...
...didn’t have the benefit of getting beaten badly...
...having to learn how to reinvent himself...
too much hero worship around him...
...reluctance to fault him for anything...
...an undefined figure to much of the country...
...it’s not clear what he’ll fight for...
... deliberately vague...
...needs to settle on a strategy..., ...whatever it is...
...seems to weigh the political considerations... ...that rather than leading...

But Palin is the one who is not qualified to be President. What planet am I on?

26 posted on 11/22/2010 10:04:40 AM PST by Migraine (Diversity is great... ...until it happens to YOU.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Actually, if the truth be called, Obama the Malignant Narcissist lacks feel, or feeling, for anything but himself.

Bill Clinton once said. “I feel your pain.” He was lying, but not entirely. Because even the sociopathic clinton has SOME feeling for others. Not a lot. He always comes first. But a little.

Obama has NONE. ZERO. Zilch. He wouldn’t even think of lying about feeling your pain, because he doesn’t feel anything at all for anybody. Not even his own wife, kids, or dog.


27 posted on 11/22/2010 10:07:37 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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To: dawn53

“Eleanor’s just laying the groundwork for a Hillary run.”

So they know Sarah will be our candidate and they need to counter. Hillary will try and run on her complete experience of being a State/Foreign Policy guru and in the White House and Governors Mansion with Bill. blah blah blah....Soros and the Clintons used Pelosi and Hussein Obama the best they could.
Watch the birth certificate issue come up as the election drws near. Watch Obama site parental needs and health issues as to why he won’t run again...the Clintons know he is not eligible.
It will be the Mama Grizzly against the ugly hag. JMHO...


28 posted on 11/22/2010 10:10:08 AM PST by oust the louse (When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.)
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To: dawn53
Eleanor’s just laying the groundwork for a Hillary run.

Rush doesn't call her "Eleanor Rodham Clift" for nothing...

29 posted on 11/22/2010 10:10:29 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Once I watched The McLaughlin Group and thought the ditzy blond was a plant from SNL, but no one on the show laughed when she dropped a punchline, which was apparently only a punchline to me. Her breathtaking ignorance was surpassed only by her blissful lack of insight into how ridiculous she sounded. Then it hit me; Oh my gosh, she’s on the level. Note to self: avoid Mclaughlin Group, it’s a parallel universe.


30 posted on 11/22/2010 10:13:42 AM PST by Spok ( "Woe to them who call the day, night and the night, day." -Isaiah)
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To: PJ-Comix

Obama is not exactly politically clueless. He just doesn’t really care about the politics of the people and only cares about the politics of government, making it larger and more powerful, redistributing not only wealth but power from the private sector to the unions and he is in a hurry to get it done in four years.


31 posted on 11/22/2010 10:17:17 AM PST by Eva
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To: oust the louse

That’s why the “Palin would beat Obama”, and “Palin has as much experience as Obama” will mean nothing next go, IMO. Because Hillary will run on the exact platform you just laid out, experience.


32 posted on 11/22/2010 10:24:06 AM PST by dawn53
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To: PJ-Comix

“he didn’t get much of a feel for the nitty-gritty politicking”

Most dictators don’t need to - they simply eliminate the opposition. Fortunately that has not happened here.


33 posted on 11/22/2010 10:27:08 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: PJ-Comix

The MSM didn’t even bother to vet this guy. Now they say he doesn’t have the talent to be President?

Excuse me while I sit here and laugh my ass off!


34 posted on 11/22/2010 10:32:53 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: PJ-Comix

Well, making politics is a lot like making sausage, Eleanor, and we all know muslims don’t eat pork..................


35 posted on 11/22/2010 10:33:12 AM PST by Red Badger (The House finally fell on Nancy Pelosi..........)
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To: PJ-Comix
Hillary has given her media sycophants the all-clear to let loose on 0.


Hillary, why are you calling me at 3am?

36 posted on 11/22/2010 10:48:52 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (NPR: Air America with government funding to keep them alive)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Does he always talk into the phone backwards, no wonder he is oblivious to what is going on.


37 posted on 11/22/2010 10:52:11 AM PST by commonguymd (Freedom is a myth anymore it seems)
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To: jessduntno
Give us an authentic human being.

The left is on an endless quest to learn how to fake sincerity.

38 posted on 11/22/2010 10:57:02 AM PST by thulldud (Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
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To: PJ-Comix

39 posted on 11/22/2010 11:03:49 AM PST by Iron Munro (Save The USA. Stamp out Affirmative Action: Get the Obamas out of the White House.)
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To: Paine in the Neck

Great photoshop. So who would you rather see run: The ZERO formerly known as the “ONE”, or HITLERY? I think I’d rather see 0bama run again.


40 posted on 11/22/2010 11:11:43 AM PST by SC_Pete (The)
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