KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS Posted on 06/17/2012 7:23:39 PM PDT by smoothsailing
EXCLUSIVE MONDAY PREVIEW | OPINION
By John E. Sununu | JUNE 18, 2012
KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS
It’s been a tough couple of weeks for President Obama, one of those stretches where everything seems to go south at once. The economy is soft, his poll numbers are down, and Europe has the markets on edge; Romney is even beating him in the money race. What was once hailed as personal confidence — or condemned as arrogance — is long gone. Panic has set in, and it’s making Team Obama do strange and disturbing things.
In Wisconsin, the result was merely a bit of comic relief. Fearful of making a personal appearance in a losing cause, Obama couldn’t even bring himself to phone it in. Instead, he packed the power of the presidency into a 95-character tweet endorsing Tom Barrett’s challenge to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Barrett, a plainspoken former congressman, is far too nice to speak the truth: Thanks for nothing.
Next came a more pronounced gaffe: Obama’s statement at a press conference that “the private sector is doing fine.” Panic can make anyone say crazy things, but blurting out irrational statements isn’t exactly ideal for a president of the United States.
Aides tried desperately to walk things back, but the damage was done precisely because it revealed an element of truth about Obama................
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I’m all for this, but only combined with pro-American trade policy.
Build and buy American.
Ouch!
LOL!
You betcha, genius. Thanks be to God for the Ron Paul contingency. They are still standing. You are not. Your guy cut out.
LOL!
LOL!
Y’all are so cute!
Is the sun shining on your planet?
LOL! That’s it?
Just, LOL?
ok, lol and draw pictures? I think I get it. You’re on mom’s computer again.
Nighty night.
However, everyone but you know that you will always be at the kid's table because you don't fit in with the grownups due to the self-inflicted mental retardation and refusal to grow up better known as liberalism.
Here wee n00bie troll is a quote from Jim Robinson himself, "Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!" -- Jim Robinson, 09/30/07
And let’s not forget that he just passed an important milestone - he recently played his 100th round of golf since taking office.
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