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World events test 'No Drama Obama'
Politico.com ^ | Glenn Thrush

Posted on 03/16/2011 1:35:03 PM PDT by Justaham

A dizzying succession of major world events is bombarding a president who insists on controlling his own time, emotions and political message.

With Japan’s nuclear crisis teetering on the verge of catastrophe, with Libya and Bahrain in violent turmoil, and with financial markets crashing in response, President Barack Obama has been adamantly sticking to his own political and policy playbook.

That has meant muscling past the red-siren headlines to hammer away at the jobs-and-education message that will be the centerpiece of his 2012 campaign, the kind of discipline that is a hallmark of his new senior adviser, David Plouffe.

And it also meant refusing to scrap a five-day trip to Latin America on Friday that will take him to sun-dappled Rio de Janeiro, among other places, rather than staying home to focus on the increasingly disastrous international news confronting his crisis-weary White House.

“The president is taking this trip because he is committed to growing the economy [and] rebalancing our national security posture,” White House press secretary Jay Carney shot back on Tuesday when an incredulous reporter asked if he would consider delaying the five-day swing through Brazil, Chile and El Salvador.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: letthemeatcake; obamaawol; partyboy; partypartyparty
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1 posted on 03/16/2011 1:35:05 PM PDT by Justaham
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To: Justaham

Oh so now dithering and the inability to make decisions is called
‘controlling his own time, emotions and political message.’


2 posted on 03/16/2011 1:38:01 PM PDT by Freddd
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To: Justaham

Love it, this journalist calls Obama’s complete disconnect regarding the world on fire events, “discipline”


3 posted on 03/16/2011 1:38:37 PM PDT by cycle of discernment
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To: Justaham

Don’t they mean “Hussein the Drama Queen”?


4 posted on 03/16/2011 1:38:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: Justaham

Get a room!


5 posted on 03/16/2011 1:39:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet ("You cannot invade the US There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." Yamamoto)
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To: Freddd

If this is not the Chauncey Gardener presidency I don’t know what is


6 posted on 03/16/2011 1:40:04 PM PDT by cycle of discernment
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To: Justaham

I hope all the stress from all the international crises doesn’t adversely affect Hussein’s golf game or NCAA Tournament picks.


7 posted on 03/16/2011 1:40:11 PM PDT by Above My Pay Grade
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To: Justaham
And it also meant refusing to scrap a five-day trip to Latin America on Friday that will take him to sun-dappled Rio de Janeiro, among other places, rather than staying home to focus on the increasingly disastrous international news confronting his crisis-weary White House.

The press is having a very hard time covering for Obozo's dislike of governing.

It might be best if he stayed in Rio.

9 posted on 03/16/2011 1:41:58 PM PDT by kidd
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To: Justaham
A dizzying succession of major world events is bombarding a president who insists on controlling his own time, emotions and political message.

Today's message:

March 16, 2011, ... WASHINGTON -- March Madness is back at the White House, and President Barack Obama picked each of the four No. 1 seeds to advance to the Final Four.

10 posted on 03/16/2011 1:43:09 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: F15Eagle

Looks like HIStorians have decided on a presidential nickname for Hussein and his failed presidency, Goebbels-style.


11 posted on 03/16/2011 1:43:52 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Above My Pay Grade

He picked Pitt. Oh no! Pitt is my school - bound to lose now.


12 posted on 03/16/2011 1:44:36 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (2012 - End of an error)
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To: Justaham

The Ostrich Presidency


13 posted on 03/16/2011 1:45:33 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: Justaham

Is the pResident really going to Rio?

I hope all the Krap happening around the world stops his and Moosechelles next vacation!

Then again I hope he goes and stays!


14 posted on 03/16/2011 1:46:51 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Justaham

He flunked!


15 posted on 03/16/2011 1:52:43 PM PDT by Cincinna ( *** NOBAMA 2012 ***)
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To: Justaham
The Politico team must have a great volumn discount when purchasing their Knee-pads.

Obamah, the Donovan McNabb of American Presidents.

16 posted on 03/16/2011 1:53:00 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Justaham

Glenn Thrush was reporter at Newsday

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, he logged stories for places like the New York Times Magazine, New York, the New York Observer, Spin, the Village Voice, Metropolis and Guitar World, where his work appeared under the byline “Glenn Thrash.”

a former adjunct professor at the Columbia Journalism School and NYU’s Science and Environmental Reporting Program

17 posted on 03/16/2011 1:54:32 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: cycle of discernment

Not discipline. Just downright lazy & self indulgent.

Fiddling while Rome burns....or partying, vacationing,golfing or BBall bracket picking ...anything to avoid the hard work of leadership.


18 posted on 03/16/2011 1:58:42 PM PDT by Cincinna ( *** NOBAMA 2012 ***)
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To: Justaham

Ohhhh. So the chocolate ration has been RAISED
to 16 grams...


19 posted on 03/16/2011 2:05:25 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: kcvl

Glenn Thrush looks like V.I. Lenin trying to be Matt Drudge...


20 posted on 03/16/2011 2:06:27 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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