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Would Obama be better if he had lost an election?
SFGate: Token Conservative ^ | 10/16/12 | Debra J. Saunders

Posted on 10/16/2012 9:51:18 AM PDT by SmithL

I find myself wondering what kind of a president Barack Obama might have been if he had waited to run for office and not decided to run for the White House almost immediately after winning his U.S. Senate seat in 2004. If he had waited, say eight years, would Obama have a better understanding of how things get done in Washington? Or would he be oversmitten with his ability to win over others and win in the arena?

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2012; obama
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To: SmithL

Well, think of it this way. If Obama loses, he can emerge from the closet, move to San Francisco with Reggie Love and the two can live crappily ever after in their cozy Victorian rowhouse in the Castro.


21 posted on 10/16/2012 10:16:35 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Record high turnout is our hope for sending 0bama home. Pray hard!!!)
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To: Migraine

“....Durbin, not to mention Jackson, Jr., Luis Gonzalez, Richard Daley, Rahm E, Valerie J, David Axelprick, and Saul Alinsky — those are some real scum.”
Or.... the scum behind the scum. Just as well add the Clinton’s to the bunch.


22 posted on 10/16/2012 10:24:05 AM PDT by malia
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To: ScottinVA

” Well, think of it this way. If Obama loses, he can emerge from the closet, move to San Francisco with Reggie Love “

Obama has his pals buying him a 40 million dollar house in Hawaii. He will have privacy just like Mikey Jackson.


23 posted on 10/16/2012 10:26:33 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: The Sons of Liberty
Every time I see a vehicle with an Illinois tag on the road, I think of what they foisted on America - and I'm not happy!

Yeah, that damned Durbin, not to mention Jackson, Jr., Luis Gonzalez, Louis Farrakkan, Richard Daley, Rahm E, Valerie J, David Axelprick, Jan Schakowsky, Bobby Rush, Dan Rostenkowski and Saul Alinsky -- those are some real scum.

24 posted on 10/16/2012 10:37:22 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great; until it happens to YOU.)
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To: Migraine

I meant Luis Gutierrez, not Gonzalez. Sorry, Gonzo.


25 posted on 10/16/2012 10:39:20 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great; until it happens to YOU.)
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To: SmithL

Obama’s cluelessness is of the type that time and experience won’t cure. His basic socialist convictions are incureable.


26 posted on 10/16/2012 10:42:03 AM PDT by Forty-Niner (The barely bare berry bear formerly known as Ursus Arctos Horribilis.)
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To: malia

Oh yeah — that’s right; I forgot the hildebeeste!


27 posted on 10/16/2012 10:42:10 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great; until it happens to YOU.)
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To: SmithL

Had he ever done anything useful in his entire life, he would be a different man. He would not be the man we know. This is a guy who never ran a convenience store, never built anything, never accomplished anything... at all.

He presented himself as a blank slate for people to project their visions. They thought he was what they wanted to think he was, and he was happy to let them think it

What he really is and was is a blank slate for his handlers. Elect a blank slate, you get what you get.


28 posted on 10/16/2012 11:05:08 AM PDT by marron
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To: SmithL

Screw him. The world would have been better off if he had not run.


29 posted on 10/16/2012 11:08:10 AM PDT by Wordkraft (Remember who the Collaborators are.)
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To: newzjunkey

Just the facts. Obama has lost an election. There were no qualifiers in the original statement.


30 posted on 10/16/2012 11:10:06 AM PDT by kabar
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To: DBrow

Coulter pointed out that he always had the table cleared for him so that he ran essentially unopposed in every election.

I count 2008 as unopposed as well.


31 posted on 10/16/2012 11:12:34 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: The Sons of Liberty
Every time I see a vehicle with an Illinois tag on the road, I think of what they foisted on America - and I'm not happy!

Once you get out of Crook County, we're not all bad.

32 posted on 10/16/2012 11:15:09 AM PDT by Marathoner (If the bastard were to win reelection, let America burn. IDGAF anymore.)
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To: SmithL

[ Would Obama be better if he had lost an election? ]

Better.. Better than what?..
What does she mean by “better”..
A “better” question is what does she mean by better..?


33 posted on 10/16/2012 11:20:13 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: SmithL

Little Debbie can go pound sand.


34 posted on 10/16/2012 11:20:35 AM PDT by bgill (Evil doers are in every corner of our government. Have we passed the time of no return?)
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To: SmithL

Wrong doesn’t improve with time, Deb.


35 posted on 10/16/2012 12:42:23 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: SmithL

The problem for Obama is his ego - one defeat will destroy the won, IMO?


36 posted on 10/16/2012 1:10:32 PM PDT by MortMan (Laughter is the best medicine, especially when ridiculing your enemies.)
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