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Who is Obama? Now we know. (VERY DEEP -- watch your step)
Washington Post ^ | May 4, 2011 | E. J. Dionne, Jr.

Posted on 05/05/2011 2:52:43 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

Barack Obama is not the man many Americans thought he was. This sudden realization has transformed American politics.

The sheer audacity of the successful operation against Osama bin Laden has forced Obama’s friends and foes alike to reassess what they make of a chief executive who defies easy categorization and reveals less about himself than politicians are typically drawn to do.

Obama is hard to understand because he is many things and not just one thing. He has now proved that he can be bold at an operational level, even as he remains cautious at a philosophical level. His proclivity to gather facts and weigh alternatives does not lead automatically, in the venerable phrase, to the paralysis of analysis. It can also end in daring action tempered by prudence — for example, making sure that additional helicopters were available to our Navy SEALs.

The president’s rhetoric has often emphasized caring, compassion and community, the language one expects from a moderately liberal politician. Yet as one of his close aides told me long ago, there is inside a very cool, tough, even hard man. Obama is not reluctant to use American military power.....

...Obama’s conceptual complexity means that he rejects the idea that there are just two alternatives: the United States as the world’s sole superpower or an America slinking off into weakness and irrelevance. Binary choices are not for him....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: binladen; gay4obama; kneepadalert; mancrush4obama; obama; seals; thrilluphisleg; wot
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1 posted on 05/05/2011 2:52:50 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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Another point of view:

http://grendelreport.posterous.com/obama-overruled


2 posted on 05/05/2011 2:53:40 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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I’ve always known who Obama is. A lying sack of crap that is destroying America


3 posted on 05/05/2011 2:55:39 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA
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WOW EJ is gong to needs the jaws of life to pry his nose out of obamas ass!


4 posted on 05/05/2011 2:57:19 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA
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5 posted on 05/05/2011 2:58:19 AM PDT by shibumi (Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
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It’s embarrassing to read other peoples’ love letters. At least, it should be.


6 posted on 05/05/2011 2:58:39 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory; and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever.)
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7 posted on 05/05/2011 3:01:33 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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E.J. is sharing knee pads with Maureen Dowd. Both are verbally servicing Obama with unrestrained gusto. Just like he owns the economy, Obama now owns the WOT. Let's see if he can stop the blowback... (no pun intended)
8 posted on 05/05/2011 3:02:51 AM PDT by RedEyeJack
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Are you kidding me? Another Valarie Jarret wanna be. Its amazing how the town idiot can be revealed as Einstein to some
9 posted on 05/05/2011 3:04:46 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (V)
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Does EJ spit and then rinse afterwards?


10 posted on 05/05/2011 3:05:25 AM PDT by linn37
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAlrSRVdKZY

“We going to spread happiness, we’re going to spread freedom, Obama’s goin change em, Obama’s goin lead em, we’re going to change it, we’re going to rearrange it....we’re going to change the world. Obama’s going to lead us...... sing with all your heart....sing for joy and sing abundantly....lifing our hearts to sing.....yes we can, can, can, yes we can, can, can, yes we can!!!....” (w/ flute, drum and piano)


11 posted on 05/05/2011 3:10:34 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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1) The WAPO is a sorry resource for valid news, but it’s worthwhile (I guess) to see what the far left is peddling.

2) This Dionne Jr. guy has never written a piece that includes honesty and factual information. What an ass.

Obama didn’t have the forethought to send in extra choppers. He didn’t plan the mission and nothing reported thus far has stated there were extra helicopters.


12 posted on 05/05/2011 3:11:45 AM PDT by octex
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The sheer audacity of the successful operation against Osama bin Laden has forced Obama’s friends and foes alike to reassess what they make of a chief executive who defies easy categorization and reveals less about himself than politicians are typically drawn to do.

For a few fleeting moments, people thought that Obama got it right! Certainly, with Obama's order, our special forces have taken out Osama.

But as more and more information and contradictions are brought forth, we can see that this administration continues to lack competence at the top. A 16 hour wait for permission to proceed is not evidence of a decisive President. Voting "present" in his previous senatorial role is not evidence of decisiveness. We have a junior college professor on "training wheels" as our President, IMO.

13 posted on 05/05/2011 3:13:51 AM PDT by olezip
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LOL! Being There/Chauncey Gardiner syndrome


14 posted on 05/05/2011 3:15:45 AM PDT by Bluebird Singing
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His congitive dissonance comes from the fact that Obama, the great black hope for white liberals, is just another war mongering, blood lusting Caesar in a long line (FDR, JFK, Clinton). There is nothing wrong, of course, with killing our enemies. What is wrong is cynically saying one thing while doing another. All of Obama's peacenik phraseology is lies, all of it. But Obama will also lie about making war, like supporting our enemies in Libya.

E.J. Dionne is a liberal idiot, but now well past the point of insanity.

15 posted on 05/05/2011 3:16:36 AM PDT by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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There's NO "ENIGMA" ... to Barack Hussein Obama II.

You want to know WHO Obama IS?

The DemocratsNational Socialists, and FASCIST Obama are DOING IT ON PURPOSE!!!!




Here's the mind of Fascist Obama, from another poster LomanBill.


So you see, FASCIST Obama is currently on stage III of their plan "bring the country to the verge of crisis".

Don't you see it?

Wasn't it Thomas Jefferson who wrote

And then again when he wrote


16 posted on 05/05/2011 3:19:14 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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He’s just so GUTSY!

Or that’s the word I heard 20 times in the MSM . But, no, there’s no collusion.


17 posted on 05/05/2011 3:19:14 AM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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Whoah, E. J. Dionne, Jr. licks more than mere boots. Absolutely amazing that this sicko-faint hasn't autoerotically asphyxiated himself on his own tongue!
18 posted on 05/05/2011 3:24:19 AM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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In the words of Kurtz..”The horror, the horror..”

A gruesome photo of UBL dead.. oh wait that’s BHO, my bad.


19 posted on 05/05/2011 3:26:13 AM PDT by maddog55 (OBAMA: Why stupid people shouldn't vote.)
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There are still people who will eat this tripe up with a fork and spoon, but not nearly as many as there used to be.


20 posted on 05/05/2011 3:26:29 AM PDT by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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