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One and Done?
New York Times ^ | September 3, 2011 | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 09/04/2011 12:10:34 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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You know you’re in trouble when Harry Reid says you should be more aggressive.

If the languid Obama had not done his usual irritating fourth-quarter play, if he had presented a jobs plan a year ago and fought for it, he wouldn’t have needed to elevate the setting. How will he up the ante next time? A speech from the space station?

Republicans who are worried about being political props have a point. The president is using the power of the incumbency and a sacred occasion for a political speech.

Obama is still suffering from the Speech Illusion, the idea that he can come down from the mountain, read from a Teleprompter, cast a magic spell with his words and climb back up the mountain, while we scurry around and do what he proclaimed.

The days of spinning illusions in a Greek temple in a football stadium are done. The One is dancing on the edge of one term.

The White House team is flailing — reacting, regrouping, retrenching. It’s repugnant.

After pushing and shoving and caving to get on TV, the president’s advisers immediately began warning that the long-yearned-for jobs speech wasn’t going to be that awe-inspiring.

“The issue isn’t the size or the newness of the ideas,” one said. “It’s less the substance than how he says it, whether he seizes the moment.”

The arc of justice is stuck at the top of a mountain. Maybe Obama was not even the person he was waiting for.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elitist; failed; obama; oneterm
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To: Snickering Hound

I don’t get it. How could Douglas pick her over Maureen the screech owl?


21 posted on 09/04/2011 1:22:54 PM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: Rocky

How about: “...to the land of bilk ‘em, honey.” /

LOL

There is also the land of “Gimme all your money honey”.


22 posted on 09/04/2011 1:53:01 PM PDT by mardi59 (Time to turn off the tv so I don't break it..)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
The arc of justice is stuck at the top of a mountain.

Hmmm, that doesn't make any sense. Did she mean "ark"?

23 posted on 09/04/2011 2:08:04 PM PDT by Moltke (Always retaliate first.)
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To: ReignOfError
In the Year 2011, however, the significance of the JQA paragraph quoted above is that it clearly takes a position that is in direct opposition to the message of the Democrats and the MSM today. That message is that the current Republican-controlled House's opposition and "effectual control" of the President's redistributionist agenda is a "bad" thing for the nation. That message is that the millions of citizens who make up the Tea Party movement whose opposition to Obama's policies dominated the 2010 elections are "bad" for the nation.

From the Founders' standpoint, as evidenced by JQA's statement, such House action and such citizen action are appropriate constitutional methods for controlling an overreaching President in a free society.

Democrats and the MSM cannot win the battle of ideas with their love for coercive government control and planning; therefore, they must attempt to denigrate those who exercise their constitutional duty in opposition to presidential policies. Adams' words are a strong rebuttal to such ignorance and distortion of constitutionally-provided protections for liberty.

24 posted on 09/04/2011 2:26:49 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: Moltke

Ark. Okay, that makes sense, thank you. I fear the copy editors at the Old Gray Commie are being selected from Generation Text.


25 posted on 09/04/2011 2:46:46 PM PDT by bootless (Never Forget. Never Again. (PursuingLiberty.com))
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Wow. If Obama has lost Maureen Dowd, then he is in serious danger of losing the entire confused leftist imbecile pundit vote.

(Well, not really. Despite the grumbling, Obama continues to be the embodiment of their anti-American dreams and fantasies, and they will continue to be his obediant servants, parroting his telepromptered talking points, cheering his destructive actions and worshiping his stench.)


26 posted on 09/04/2011 3:54:16 PM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: bootless

They probably had to let the copy editors go by now.

The funny thing is that there is a novel titled Arc of Justice which deals with racial/civil rights issues in Detroit ca. 1920, but of course a book title would have been capitalized and it makes no sense that it would be stuck at the top of a mountain...no, it seems no one at the NYT knows the difference between the segment of a curve in geometry and a large, wooden flotation device.


27 posted on 09/04/2011 4:27:07 PM PDT by Moltke (Always retaliate first.)
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To: Moltke

“The arc of justice is stuck at the top of a mountain.
Hmmm, that doesn’t make any sense. Did she mean “ark”?”

Yes, but she means ‘arc” also. She is making a play on words, and making fun of Obama. “Arc of justice” is an Obama phrase alluding to justice for the ‘workers’ (commie soundbite). Sticking his ‘arc’ on the mountain is a nod to the Ark on coming to rest on a high mountain. Justice hasn’t come down.

It’s just a little jab, but not bad for a lib.


28 posted on 09/04/2011 4:51:40 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (.....A man eventually wears the face he earns.....)
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To: Snickering Hound
Lets no forget that Douglas deserted his wife of many years to marry her.
29 posted on 09/04/2011 5:34:17 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn (Pr.29:2))
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Ma’a salama Baraq !


30 posted on 09/04/2011 5:38:36 PM PDT by nascarnation
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I made this last week based on a suggestion made by my wife's boss after he found out I make designs to sell on CafePress.

I liked his idea enough to lay it out and put it up.

31 posted on 09/04/2011 9:15:55 PM PDT by Fixit (Not invented here, but built here.)
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To: USNBandit

Michael would now be praying for death...


32 posted on 09/04/2011 10:39:29 PM PDT by steve8714 (I got the moves like Jagger. Dean Jagger.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

More and more, the demons are turning on Satan.


33 posted on 09/05/2011 12:38:42 AM PDT by no dems (No matter who it might be, when I find out a person is a Democrat, I lose respect for them.)
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To: Zeppo
Wow. If Obama has lost Maureen Dowd, then he is in serious danger of losing the entire confused leftist imbecile pundit vote.
You ain't seen nothing. Read this scathing article against Obama in the liberal rag "Salon".

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2773629/posts
34 posted on 09/05/2011 12:47:05 AM PDT by no dems (No matter who it might be, when I find out a person is a Democrat, I lose respect for them.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Thanks, didn’t know Obama used that phrase. I hardly ever listen/read beyond “let me be clear” or “make no mistake”...;-)


35 posted on 09/05/2011 2:19:31 AM PDT by Moltke (Always retaliate first.)
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To: sunmars

But she still writes crap like the following, “Polls show that most Americans still like and trust the president; but they may no longer have faith that he’s a smarty-pants who can fix the economy.”
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Most Americans still like and trust him? Not in my book.


36 posted on 09/05/2011 10:52:29 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a liberal is like teaching algebra to a tomcat.)
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