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Obama Is Unlikely To Become One Of The Great Presidents
Tampa Bay Times ^ | January 21, 2013 | Robert J. Samuelson

Posted on 01/21/2013 5:48:44 AM PST by Iron Munro

Edited on 01/21/2013 7:51:52 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: mmichaels1970

“There should be no early voting OR absentee voting unless absolutely necessary.”

You have to start somewhere. That is a good place to start.


21 posted on 01/21/2013 6:04:54 AM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Iron Munro

A dog turd will never become a diamond.


22 posted on 01/21/2013 6:05:29 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: Iron Munro

Obama’s time in office will be recorded by history as one of the worst results of having a very ignorant electorate. Obama himself will be characterized as causing the most harm to this country in its history to date.

History will also have a great deal to say about the state of journalism in this time period.


23 posted on 01/21/2013 6:05:36 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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To: Iron Munro
Great? Worst?

Judgmental terms -- different folks will feel differently, and the academics and the historians are likely to define him as they wish, not how he was.

I think we can say this: Obama is a pivotal president. He changed things. The spending, the racial policies, the cult of personality, Obamacare, possibly gun control -- there will be America before Obama, and there will be America after Obama: but Obama will be the dividing line that makes a difference.

On the one hand, America might conclude: What a disaster! We must never pursue progressive politics again!!
On the other hand, America migth conclude: We cannot manage freedom. We need government to control all aspects of our lives because only Washington has enough wisdom.

Whichever way it goes, history will look to Obama and say: This Was When It Changed.

24 posted on 01/21/2013 6:07:09 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Nothing will change until after the war.)
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To: Iron Munro
He will secure his place in history for dismantling America.
25 posted on 01/21/2013 6:10:03 AM PST by CAluvdubya (Molon Labe)
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To: Iron Munro

Obama’s mentality is no different that a “gangsta rapper” from MTV. With him it’s all about bling, mo money mo money mo money, fancy belongings, high dollar ride etc. (sarcasm off)


26 posted on 01/21/2013 6:11:52 AM PST by albie
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To: Iron Munro

My prediction: Obama will go down in history as either Americas:

1) Hitler(white conservatives = Jews)
2) Stalin(repeat of Holodomor)
3) Mao( GREEN Leap Forward)
4) Mugumbe(More white persecution)
5) Mussolini(Cult of personality + Fascism)—MY PREDICTION
6) Pol Pot(extreme environmentalism communism)
7) Castro( Communism)
8) Chavez(Marxism)
9) Ayatollah Khomeini( Muslim Brotherhood coup)
10) Last President before split up of USA


27 posted on 01/21/2013 6:12:11 AM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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To: Iron Munro

The author is correct on several points.

-He’s not all that bright.
-He does not have the backbone to make the sorts of decisions that render one a historically significant POTUS.
-He appears to enjoy the trappings of the office (the adulation, vacations, endless rounds of golf and chilling with celebrities) far more than the job itself.
-Continuing indications are that someone else is actually pulling his strings (Moochelle, Valerie Jarrett, George Soros, perhaps all of the above)
-Benghazi reveals very clearly that his administration is a rollicking fustercluck that would be enjoying Nixonian levels of approval were the media not in full-time 24/7 cover-up mode.


28 posted on 01/21/2013 6:13:41 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Iron Munro

He personifies incompetence!


29 posted on 01/21/2013 6:14:05 AM PST by Marathoner 244
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To: Iron Munro

He appears to wanna be the Garbageoff of American Presidents.


30 posted on 01/21/2013 6:14:47 AM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Iron Munro

Ummm, “Duh!”


31 posted on 01/21/2013 6:21:17 AM PST by Little Ray (Waiting for the return of the Gods of the Copybook Headings.)
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To: Little Ray

I keep up my hopes that nopbama will be the first president imprisoned in a Federal Supermax.


32 posted on 01/21/2013 6:23:27 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Iron Munro

What is more scary is the possibility that the feckless Republicans could lose the House in 2014, thus giving Obama another chance at ramming through his agenda by the Dems holding the House, the Senate and the White House.


33 posted on 01/21/2013 6:23:54 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: Little Ray

I keep up my hopes that nobama will be the first president imprisoned in a Federal Supermax.


34 posted on 01/21/2013 6:24:03 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Iron Munro
He will be known as the anti-capitalism President. There have been others, but his socialist bent has been more overt.

Fiscal liberalism will most certainly suffer a setback, as the coming inflation will be attributed to Obama, IMHO.

35 posted on 01/21/2013 6:24:18 AM PST by wayoverontheright
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To: Iron Munro
0bama has a lot of "greats," to his presidency...

Great divider, great government grower, great spender, great gun grabber, great power grabber,...

5.56mm

36 posted on 01/21/2013 6:24:18 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Biggirl
Zippo is going for absolute power because he won't make it for 4 more years.

He's doing exactly what Clinton did prior to the OKC bombing.

There's a terrorist attack coming down the pike, and they are trying to make it appear as if the “right wing extremist” have teamed up with the terrorist to wage war against the US govt.

They have already tried this once in his first term with the fertilizer car bomb in NYC. They knew then Zippo wasn't going to get a second term.

Had that bomb gone off and not fizzled he would have done it then.

You are right, the only way he was reelected is voter fraud and they didn't even come up with that until after the terrorist attack in Libya.

That attack was supposed to set Hillary up to run against Romney in 2016.

The plan was to make it appear as if Romney and the repubs had collaborated with the terrorist to make Zippo look like Carter.

Just like when Hillary started the left wing rumor mill blaming 9-11 on Bush when she held up a paper saying BUSH KNEW, she tried to start the same left wing rumor mill with her statement after the attack.

37 posted on 01/21/2013 6:32:57 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: Sacajaweau

Worsted.


38 posted on 01/21/2013 6:34:47 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (In the game of life, there are no betting limits)
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To: Iron Munro

wrote CBS News political director John Dickerson at Slate Friday evening in a piece astonishingly titled “Go for the Throat! Why if he wants to transform American politics, Obama must declare war on the Republican Party.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2979970/posts

And in an unrelated story..... sarc

Former Secretary of State Rice joins CBS News

Published January 20, 2013

| Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Just in time for inauguration coverage, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has joined CBS News as a contributor.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/20/former-secretary-state-rice-joins-cbs-news/print#ixzz2IcW0p9yC


39 posted on 01/21/2013 6:36:46 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Le Chien Rouge

Obama Legacy:

1. - America’s first black skinned president
2. - America’s last black skinned president


40 posted on 01/21/2013 6:38:01 AM PST by Iron Munro (I Miss America, don't you?)
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