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The incredible shrinking Obama
Politico ^ | September 7, 2011 | By: Glenn Thrush and Carrie Budoff Brown

Posted on 09/07/2011 3:31:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Senator_Blutarski
Obama has followed the trajectory of many affirmative action managers. He could only hide his incompetence so long...

Precisely! He isn't just a socialist, he is an incompetent socialist. He is incapable of actually understanding, let alone doing the job, and he compensates by lashing out at others, and falling back on the race card.

He is now played out.

The question is, what will the DNC do? If they push him out for 2012, they have lost the black vote (possibly for many cycles). If they don't push him out, he drags the entire ticket down, as his base won't vote against him, they'll just not vote.

21 posted on 09/07/2011 5:04:19 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Then there is the incredibly shrinking Obama....physically.

His tailor and shirtmaker do an incredible job of hiding the fact that the president is now virtually skin and bones. His head is looking way out of proportion to his body and would look worse if it wasn't for all the padding in his suits.

No wonder we don't see the formerly plentiful pics of him in basketball and swimming togs. No wonder he munches on ice cream cones at every opportunity.

Leni

22 posted on 09/07/2011 5:04:39 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Too Bad Those of Us who Work for a Living Have to Support Those who Vote for a Living)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“There’s also a sense that people aren’t scared of him. That’s very dangerous.”

Stern apparently intended that to mean that Republican legislators are not scared of him, which, contrary to Stern's thinking in fact is "a good thing".

Unfortunately, the truth is that the Russians and the Chinese and the Iranians and the North Koreans and their ilk are not scared of him. That's where the actual danger lies.

23 posted on 09/07/2011 5:09:23 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: agere_contra

Oh God I hope not. Then I’d have to hear his name every day for the rest of my life. I’d much prefer to just let him fade away and eventually end up as a mere footnote in history.


24 posted on 09/07/2011 5:34:15 AM PDT by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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To: MinuteGal

his secret gay lifestyle is catching up with him. He will die of AIDS, bet money on it.


25 posted on 09/07/2011 5:35:12 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

” – to the point where even Obama die-hards are starting to question his ability to right the economy or win reelection.”

In all seriousness is there even ONE freeper who DID NOT predict exactly this before this zero took the oath?


26 posted on 09/07/2011 5:39:08 AM PDT by TalBlack ( Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: ken5050

Quite frankly after this Labor Day’s rhetoric fiasco...we need to be aware they are turning this election cycle into a third world election. Talk of things like being at war with fellow Americans and taking them out etc. is dangerous speech.

If members of the TEA Party spoke like that at any of our rally’s...we’d be in jail for incitement or worse.

Seriously consider if Hoffa had said those words at a TEA event in regards to the democrats, liberals, or the regime. He would have been arrested on the spot.

WE need to keep marginalizing 0bama at every turn. Make 0bama and the regime change, not the American people.

Marginalize him and cause him to shrink from the landscape of American during an election year. Effective move.


27 posted on 09/07/2011 5:49:14 AM PDT by EBH (God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"sources tell POLITICO he is considering some new approaches, including the possibility of drafting his proposals as an actual bill"

WHAT!! Obambi might write an Actual Bill???

What a unique idea, the President proposes an actual bill! Maybe it's time to take the training wheels off, and let him ride his bike, without even wearing a diaper.

28 posted on 09/07/2011 5:55:46 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Look for a major scandal to break in the press...the left are eating their own and Obama’s gotta go!


29 posted on 09/07/2011 6:00:20 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: EBH
It's actually to be expected...they know they are going to lose the election..and that the GOP will control everything after 2012...the left will be out of power, and lose access to govt funding...the real source of their power and influence..

So this is the beginning of a year long temper tantrum byu the left..it's gonna get worse....enjoy it..because it means we are winning...

30 posted on 09/07/2011 6:03:14 AM PDT by ken5050 (Save the EARTH...it's the ONLY planet with CHOCOLATE!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

All the disasters that have befallen the country due to Obama were predicted even before he was elected. We, all conservatives, knew what a catastrophe this man would be. Many also predicted he would not seriously change the Bush foreign policy. He didn’t. So if we can just get the Obama who aped the Bush foreign policy to ape the part of the Bush domestic policy, cutting taxes and removing restrictions on business, he might get re-elected. Especially if he cut spending one thing Bush failed to do. But the doing those things would destroy his reputation with his radical base. He simply cannot do them. It’s not in his dna to diminish government power. Even though it might get him re-elected.


31 posted on 09/07/2011 7:35:06 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: EBH

George: “Oh, yeah, that’s right. That’s what’s it’s all about, all right. But talkin’ about it and bein’ it, that’s two different things.

I mean, it’s real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace.

Of course, don’t ever tell anybody that they’re not free, ‘cause then they’re gonna get real busy killin’ and maimin’ to prove to you that they are.

Oh, yeah, they’re gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it’s gonna scare ‘em.”

Billy: “Well it don’t make them running scared”.

George: “No, it makes them dangerous”.


32 posted on 09/07/2011 7:37:14 AM PDT by GaryVB
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To: Liz
and, embarrassingly, to Speaker Boehner WRT scheduling his speech to Congress.

The only thing that should have been embarrassing about the speech deal was the fact that Bozo is supposed to ask permission to address a joint session of congress. He has no right at all to TEll congress he is going to address them on any given day. The President is supposed to request a date and then only for national emergencies. So his whole stick on telling congress he was going to address a joint session and telling them the day and for something as trivial as a campaign speech(which we all know it is)was just so much blustering and trying to throw his weight around. Bonehead would have been within his rights to tell Bozo that no days were open for something as mundane as a jobs speech.

33 posted on 09/07/2011 10:13:27 AM PDT by calex59
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"For some, Obama’s slide has brought to mind the infamous 1992 Time cover on “The Incredible Shrinking President” that described the political death spiral of President George H. W. Bush, who went from a 80-plus approval rating in the aftermath of the first Gulf War to the private sector a year later."

Odd that they didn't mention that Time also did a similar cover for Clinton in 1994....

34 posted on 09/07/2011 12:16:31 PM PDT by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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