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Panic sets in at the White House
Boston Globe ^ | 6-18-2012 | John E. Sununu

Posted on 06/17/2012 7:23:39 PM PDT by smoothsailing

EXCLUSIVE MONDAY PREVIEW | OPINION

Panic sets in at the White House

By John E. Sununu | JUNE 18, 2012

KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS

President Obama said, “the private sector is doing fine.”

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................

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


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho22; bho44; miserablefailure; presflustercluck
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To: jazusamo
"It’s going to be very interesting to see just how much more he comes unhinged, I believe we haven’t seen anything yet."

That's what I'm afraid of. Cornered animals are highly dangerous.

41 posted on 06/17/2012 8:38:16 PM PDT by Flotsam_Jetsome (If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: Paladin2
Sununu is so old old and he gave us Souter.

No, the old old John H Sununu gave us Souter. His son, John E Sununu, a former senator from New Hampshire, wrote this Boston Globe piece.

42 posted on 06/17/2012 8:59:28 PM PDT by rustbucket
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To: Flotsam_Jetsome
That's what I'm afraid of. Cornered animals are highly dangerous.

Cornered MARXISTS are even more dangerous,

43 posted on 06/17/2012 9:05:08 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Patton@Bastogne

It’s amazing how quickly you can turn an anti-Obama post into an anti-Romeny one.

Do you really like Obama that much?

PS, Newt endorses Romney
Palin endorses Romney
Santorum endorses Romney
Tim Paw endorses Romney
Bauchmann endorses Romney
Cain endorses Romney

........ but you know better ,,,, ?


44 posted on 06/17/2012 9:10:07 PM PDT by MindBender26 (America can survive 4 years of Romney. She cannot survive another 4 years of an unfettered Obama!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Dittos Bump


45 posted on 06/17/2012 9:10:49 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Radical islam is islam. Moderate islam is the Trojan Horse.)
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To: ctdonath2

That’s exactly what about 20 people are trying to do.


46 posted on 06/17/2012 9:11:26 PM PDT by MindBender26 (America can survive 4 years of Romney. She cannot survive another 4 years of an unfettered Obama!)
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To: cricket

i think anything is possible- but the comments on the video states that all ann dunham records has her listed as a MALE gender.. you think she could be a transvestite is what im saying? i asked snopes about this and they scrubbed about the vids. stange huh? that would be really messed up if she were a man—lol- nodody accually seen any pregnant photos of her - and those two peeps in the vid looks like trannys—lol..


47 posted on 06/17/2012 9:14:25 PM PDT by chicken head
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To: MindBender26

JOHN SUNUNU(THE SON) VOTED AGAINST DRILLING IN ANWAR. HE LOST THE NEXT ELECTION. TO HELL WITH HIM.


48 posted on 06/17/2012 9:29:08 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: cricket

do you know how to open these?

http://boardreader.com/thread/Ann_Dunham_Soetoro_nude_NSFW_mj37Xxen.html?o=0


49 posted on 06/17/2012 9:40:43 PM PDT by chicken head
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To: ncfool
A good slogan for the Obama administratin would be "Leading Tweeting from behind!"
50 posted on 06/17/2012 10:23:28 PM PDT by WMarshal (Bitter Clinger)
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To: chicken head

If there is any listings of her being ‘male’ it is likely due to confusion because of her name being ‘Stanley’ Ann Dunham; and ‘records’ can often be confusing because of assumptions that ‘male’ names belong to ‘males’. Nothing more than that.
And do not think she was anything but an indoctrinated, young woman; who was both energetic and rebellious in her choices of friends; including men; and determined to do things differently. (Just not, ‘that’ differently.)


51 posted on 06/17/2012 10:37:43 PM PDT by cricket (Narcissism IS the 'heart' of Liberalism . . .)
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To: chicken head
do you know how to open these?

By 'clicking' on link?

52 posted on 06/17/2012 10:39:22 PM PDT by cricket (Narcissism IS the 'heart' of Liberalism . . .)
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To: Patton@Bastogne

Must you??? Can’t we even enjoy a tiny bit of Obama schadenfreude without kvetching about how much people dislike Romney? Look, I don’t like the guy either, but by now everyone who is on Free Republic has made up their minds about him already. In case it hasn’t penetrated your gray matter yet, he’s got the delegate numbers, the delegates are committed to the first round of voting, so there’s not a G-D Blessed thing we can do about it NOW except 1) hope something happens at the convention that puts Newt or Sarah in the driver’s seat or 2) vote for him if it doesn’t because THE ONE THING THAT IS SURE IS THAT WE CAN’T AFFORD FOUR MORE YEARS OF OBAMA!!!

Just what do you expect to accomplish by pushing that graphic in everyone’s faces now? How is that helping Conservatives? Please enlighten me.


53 posted on 06/17/2012 10:49:34 PM PDT by Ronin (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
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To: spokeshave

Look, he’s putting the congressional medal of freedom on that soldier./sarc


54 posted on 06/18/2012 12:16:38 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: cricket; chicken head
"They do make sense; in Ann Dunham's world, where she shared her company with Frank Marshall Davis."

There is an interesting thread on the topic currently ongoing.

It just struck me as I was reading your comment, that this, if it were proven true, is actually just about as explosive as verification of constitutional ineligibility. Almost. It certainly could result in just about as much civil strife.

I can think of at least one person however, who would probably be mighty pleased not to be the #1 political sexual joke byline anymore:

"Hey, at least I'm not the byblow of a pedophilic, Marixist pornographer on an underage floozy."

55 posted on 06/18/2012 1:16:42 AM PDT by Flotsam_Jetsome (If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: Patton@Bastogne
Patton -- Romney's a flip-flopper. But Obama is worse. Unfortunately, unless Palin comes in suddenly we have a choice between two evils - Romney is the lesser evil.

If Obama is re-elected, then the US will be a third-world country by 2020

56 posted on 06/18/2012 1:35:14 AM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: RitaOK

I like your idea of Newt/Walker or anyone except Romney (well, perhaps not Paul), but is it possible?


57 posted on 06/18/2012 1:36:11 AM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: Cronos

It’s already a third-world country in many areas...check any city.


58 posted on 06/18/2012 1:38:50 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Patton@Bastogne
Standing and applauding..."yeah...so he's a lying, flip-flopping son of a b*tch from New England, but he's OUR lying, flip-flopping son of a b*tch from New England..."

Go, Milt!

59 posted on 06/18/2012 1:41:16 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Theodore R.
One of the biggest things going for Obama is the lack of knowledge of the American people.

The American people are flat-out stupid...there's very little we can do... :-(

60 posted on 06/18/2012 1:48:49 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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