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Obama's turning point has arrived
Fox News ^ | June 25, 2013 | K.T. McFarland

Posted on 06/25/2013 2:17:29 PM PDT by libstripper

There is a turning point in every presidency that people point back to and say, you know, nothing was ever the same after that. Sometimes it is the point where presidents go on to greatness. Sometimes, it is when a presidency unravels.

For Jimmy Carter, it was when a group of students seized the American Embassy and took more than 100 American diplomats hostage in November 1979. Carter could do nothing right after that. His attempt to rescue the hostages was a pathetic, feeble failure. During the oil crisis Carter went around the White House in a cardigan sweater turning down the thermostat and turning out the lights, while the American people endured gas rationing and long lines at the pumps because some third-rate petro powers decided to punish us.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: blackmail; nsaleak; obama; obamaputin; putin; snowden
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To: combat_boots
“Carter went around the White House in a cardigan sweater turning down the thermostat”

0bama keeps it at 78.

I heard that he keeps it at 66.6

41 posted on 06/25/2013 4:00:42 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: kjam22

I agree. It’s amazing that anyone believes they’re actually voting for him instead of the puppet masters.


42 posted on 06/25/2013 4:14:38 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: libstripper

The turning point for President Reagan was March 30, 1981. I just watched “Saving Ronald Reagan” on the Military Channel. President Reagan thought that his near-run survival from the assassin’s bullet was God’s will. It supercharged his administration early on, and it was all uphill to greatness from there.


43 posted on 06/25/2013 4:14:42 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: libstripper

Zero thought he was doubling down with climate policy, but instead he just jumped the whale.


44 posted on 06/25/2013 4:15:09 PM PDT by cicero2k
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To: Flotsam_Jetsome

Ah for the good old days when we thought Clinton could be blackmailed for getting a BJ in the oval office.


45 posted on 06/25/2013 4:20:05 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: libstripper
I am sick of these "Obama is incompetent and an amateur" articles. FR has been screaming this since this usurper first appeared.

Just more proof that the fringe is on the left side of the spectra.

46 posted on 06/25/2013 4:27:21 PM PDT by catfish1957 (Face it!!!! The government in DC is full of treasonous bastards)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Obama fall? Are you kidding? If you add minorities, moonbatshit liberals, entitlement junkies, and low info-low IQ voter numbers together it adds up to near 40% of the voting population. Add a complicit MSM, and this imcompetent fool is set until January 20, 2017.


47 posted on 06/25/2013 4:33:39 PM PDT by catfish1957 (Face it!!!! The government in DC is full of treasonous bastards)
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To: libstripper

You mean he’s going to turn his ass back around and head back to Kenya?


48 posted on 06/25/2013 4:35:46 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: stephenjohnbanker; libstripper
Obama is hiding, talking climate change...

Anything but Benghazi or the other failures/scandals that he presided over.

obama benghazi sleeping lazy dereliction of duty Obama las vegas benghazi lazy useless idiot

Obama: Benghazi bumps in the road




49 posted on 06/25/2013 4:49:27 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Truth2012

He’s in way over his head. Can’t believe we have the bball playing, boy king dealing with Putin. Putin just laughs at him while he waves his background info in poor BO’s face.


50 posted on 06/25/2013 4:51:03 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: lurk

I think that is why Michael Hastings is not here anymore. He wrote for publications that the low info voters and libs read
can’t have any of that so bye bye.


51 posted on 06/25/2013 4:59:52 PM PDT by funfan
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To: catfish1957

Which is why I said it’ll happen on the twelfth of Never.


52 posted on 06/25/2013 5:04:25 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Sorry, I was meaning to respond to post #23.


53 posted on 06/25/2013 5:08:45 PM PDT by catfish1957 (Face it!!!! The government in DC is full of treasonous bastards)
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To: libstripper
Well, I guess the only thing left to do now is get rid of 13 combat brigades, take half of our air force off combat ready status, and give our nuclear weapons up for nothing in return.

That should show our enemies we mean business!

54 posted on 06/25/2013 5:19:14 PM PDT by Gritty (Our Government is erecting a panopticon state that sees everything, regulates everything-Mark Steyn)
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To: henkster

Agreed. Vlad is just being Vlad. Its also payback for Syria.


55 posted on 06/25/2013 5:24:03 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: libstripper

In this relationship, Putin is Daddy and Obama is a lowly punk.


56 posted on 06/25/2013 6:44:52 PM PDT by CASchack
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To: bigbob

That sense of “absolute control and untouchability” has to be based on some powerful knowledge, devastating knowledge about the Illegal ‘s background.


57 posted on 06/25/2013 6:47:09 PM PDT by libstripper (A)
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To: Student0165

LOL


58 posted on 06/26/2013 9:22:38 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The RINO/amnesty argument goes like this: 1) If we pander to Hispanics, we will save the GOP, at le)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Yes it would.


59 posted on 06/26/2013 9:23:10 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The RINO/amnesty argument goes like this: 1) If we pander to Hispanics, we will save the GOP, at le)
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To: Bon mots

CORRECT.


60 posted on 06/26/2013 9:25:48 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The RINO/amnesty argument goes like this: 1) If we pander to Hispanics, we will save the GOP, at le)
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