Posted on 08/19/2011 10:35:26 AM PDT by Justaham
A liberal lawmaker from Oregon lashed out at President Obama on Wednesday, saying he is doing "not so good" and may lose re-election in part because he lacks the will to fight.
Rep. Peter DeFazio said Mr. Obama's unwillingness to go toe-to-toe with Republicans over campaign promises to allow tax cuts for the wealthy to expire shows he is not tough.
"Fight? I don't think it's a word in his vocabulary, I mean, come on," DeFazio said in an interview with Portland television station KGW.
"The Republicans telegraphed to him they were going to use a fake crisis over the debt limit in order to muscle some major spending reductions or other things on to him. And that was in December. So then what happens? Suddenly he flip flops and concedes everything to the Republicans," DeFazio said, "he doesn't seem to have an ounce of fight in him."
DeFazio suggested Mr. Obama may not even carry Oregon next year and could have a very tough time getting re-elected if the Republican nominee is middle-of-the-road.
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yes, and my wife says obama will come to Christ.
Q-U-I-T!
Oh, I dunno...any time someone suggests that he’s lazy, a Kenyan, wasn’t born here, inexperienced, in over his head, anti-American, a Marxist, a muslim, or clueless - - he comes up fighting.
Heaven help anyone who calls him a lousy golfer.
Not in this life, but maybe when they meet.
it's all election year theater.
Clearly, Mr. DeFazio is a racist for making these comments.
Obama cannot lead. He never takes charge, he never gets out front and he never helps the team cross the finish line.
This is a mantra I have preached for months now. Depress the liberal vote by attacking Obama’s leadership.
He had a fillibuster-proof majority and did not get his own party into line behind any legislation. He just wasted time until their majority was wasted away.
Liberal activists worked hard to put Obama in the White House and they worked hard to win all those House and Senate seats. What did Obama do? Nothing.
Eggsactly!
It’s kabuki theater. Axelrod is having the flying monkeys purport to criticize him from the Left in order to make him seem moderate.
Before long, we’ll hear Zero tell some black teens to pull their pants up and stop showing the crack of their ass. Clinton patented the move with his “Sistah Souljah” moment. The MSM will fawn all over him.
This is all pure baloney. De Fakio is just trying to muddy the waters.
I hope no body gives this twisted line of garbage, (because he’s not the only one spewing this bit of agit-prop), an ounce air. Its a waste of time trying to dispute this nonsense. It just gets us everyone off topic. B.O. is doing plenty of fighting. Its just that the content of what he’s saying is not conducive to having a sane civil society.
He has never had to fight for what he wants. Everything was handed to him. He doesn’t know how to fight. The only thing he can do is give speeches and nobody is believing him now. He’s useless to the Democrats as are his czars.
Fighting is work. Fighting is a job. Obama’s never had a job, and he doesn’t know how to work.
He knows how to run his mouth and act like a king. He knows how to ride Air Force One to his next vacation spot. He knows how to go to parties and make speeches for campaign contribution, as long as he can read the text of the speech from a teleprompter. That’s about it.
I look at the people who typically attend Portland Timbers soccer matches and think “well, unless Dennis Kucinich jumps into this race, who else they gonna vote for?”
These Liberals are complaining because their guy isn’t Liberal ENOUGH for them.
We are complaining because as Liberal as he IS it is TOO MUCH!
My wife made an astute point, she thinks the fight is out of Obama. He is resigned to being a one termer and is going to soak up all the wagu beef and parties he can and then retire to a life of million dollar speeches and multiple homes. His wife is a ghetto rat at heart and Livin Large is what she does best. He is throwing the fight and the Dems can’t resign themselves to that. Sure there are plenty of dedicated Satanists around him trying to spit in G*d’s face and take down a country which has had his providence for over 200 years. In some measure they are succeeding but not the level they thought back in 2008, they underestimated the pushback. One thing liberals don’t do well is hand to hand combat, they like to snipe from the tall grass but when really pushed they are weak, feeble, minded drones. Folks there is no grand plan, we are dealing with morons, Occam’s razor here.
ping!
He might just crack up. Maybe he will go on a binge or walk off the stage one day. That’s why we really have to keep the pressure and rattle him. His supporters should be constantly mocked and shamed. Use Alinsky against the Alinskyites.
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