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Aimless Obama walks alone
NY POST ^ | Oct. 9, 2011 | Michael Goodwin

Posted on 10/09/2011 5:39:39 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

The reports are not good, disturbing even. I have heard basically the same story four times in the last 10 days, and the people doing the talking are in New York and Washington and are spread across the political spectrum.

The gist is this: President Obama has become a lone wolf, a stranger to his own government. He talks mostly, and sometimes only, to friend and adviser Valerie Jarrett and to David Axelrod, his political strategist.

Everybody else, including members of his Cabinet, have little face time with him except for brief meetings that serve as photo ops. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner both have complained, according to people who have talked to them, that they are shut out of important decisions.

The president’s workdays are said to end early, often at 4 p.m. He usually has dinner in the family residence with his wife and daughters, then retreats to a private office. One person said he takes a stack of briefing books. Others aren’t sure what he does.

If the reports are accurate, and I believe they are, they paint a picture of an isolated man trapped in a collapsing presidency.

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


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1 posted on 10/09/2011 5:39:43 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

Presidenting is hard!


2 posted on 10/09/2011 5:43:02 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (welcome dies irae)
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To: COUNTrecount

SCHADENFREUDE!


3 posted on 10/09/2011 5:43:11 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (/)
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To: COUNTrecount

Oh PLEASE!!! He thinks he’s GOD.


4 posted on 10/09/2011 5:43:34 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving person!


5 posted on 10/09/2011 5:43:50 AM PDT by WesternPacific (Deafness has its Advantages)
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To: COUNTrecount

Boohoo. For a real man cornered like this, he might be a danger to others.

This coward won’t even be a danger to himself.


6 posted on 10/09/2011 5:43:54 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: COUNTrecount

The democrats better get someone warming up in the bullpen.


7 posted on 10/09/2011 5:46:37 AM PDT by wolfpat (Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. -- Cicero)
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To: COUNTrecount

Iss lonely in za bunker no?
What happened to those clouds of glory?


8 posted on 10/09/2011 5:46:55 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: COUNTrecount

“Many of us have suspected that economic illiterates were setting the economic policy of this administration,” Golub wrote, adding that the bill “reveals a depth of cluelessness that boggles the mind.”

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/aimless_obama_walks_alone_OUgoMTkORRJioLl7B6ZYmN#ixzz1aHugIUqX


9 posted on 10/09/2011 5:47:20 AM PDT by expat1000
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To: COUNTrecount

And I don’t hear anyone expressing any worry that this basket-case has access to the nuclear football . . .


10 posted on 10/09/2011 5:47:31 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: COUNTrecount

“Others aren’t sure what he does.”

He’s looking for his mojo.


11 posted on 10/09/2011 5:48:09 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: COUNTrecount

“the fool on the hill”


12 posted on 10/09/2011 5:48:52 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: Stosh

There are checks in the authentication process that prevent one man from starting Armageddon.


13 posted on 10/09/2011 5:49:35 AM PDT by GAB-1955 (I write books, serve my country, love my wife and daughter, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Thought process of the liberal:

“The system is not fair. It is not just. We need to fix it so that it is fair and so that everyone is better off. Which far-left liberal Democrat should we elect to fix this problem? Ok. Let’s vote for that liberal Democrat.”

Two years later, the situation is worse, so the acorn-sized brain of the liberal begins thinking again.

“OK. That didn’t work. Which OTHER far-left liberal Democrat should we elect to fix this problem?”

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.


14 posted on 10/09/2011 5:49:46 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Especially when you aren’t qualified.


15 posted on 10/09/2011 5:50:27 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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To: COUNTrecount
If the reports are accurate, and I believe they are, they paint a picture of an isolated man trapped in a collapsing presidency.

I'm waiting to read this type of story in the NYTimes and WashPost.

16 posted on 10/09/2011 5:51:59 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: FlyingEagle

Others ARE sure of what he does, you’ll just never see it reported by the MSM.


17 posted on 10/09/2011 5:52:11 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Obamas personal jihad against the west is noted by righteous and devout muslims everywhere. He is not alone. He is a martyr to the cause of Islam.


18 posted on 10/09/2011 5:53:24 AM PDT by x_plus_one (Obama: Brainwashing the masses to believe that racism is a greater danger than radical Islam)
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To: COUNTrecount
Obama walks alone

Hopefully, including a long walk off a short pier.

19 posted on 10/09/2011 5:53:43 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER ( Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

Circle the “twelfth of never” on your calendar.


20 posted on 10/09/2011 5:53:45 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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