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Obama's One-sided "No victor/No vanquished" Maximalist Philosophy
American Thinker ^ | 8/11/2014 | Jeannie DeAngelis

Posted on 08/11/2014 3:39:43 AM PDT by markomalley

The definition of a maximalist is a “person who holds extreme views and is not prepared to compromise.” Although he accuses others of being maximalist saboteurs, there is no one who holds more “extreme views,” or is less “prepared to compromise” than Barack Obama.

In an interview with a supporter and defender of progressive-style overreaching government Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, in a piece entitled “Obama on the World,” self-proclaimed moderate Barack Obama talked of Iraq, Putin, and Israel.

The president used the unrest in the Middle East to describe the state of American politics in the following way:

We have so many things going for us right now as a country -- from new energy resources to innovation to a growing economy -- but we will never realize our full potential unless our two parties adopt the same outlook that we’re asking of Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds or Israelis and Palestinians: No victor, no vanquished and work together.

Obama did not elaborate on whom, in America’s political system, he likens to ISIS, al Qaeda, Hezbollah or Hamas, so one can only guess. 

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


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obamainterview; obamaontheworld; thomasfriedman

1 posted on 08/11/2014 3:39:43 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

The term “maRximalist” might be a better fit.


2 posted on 08/11/2014 3:45:51 AM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: markomalley
No victor, no vanquished and work together.

Obama to GOP: 'I won'

3 posted on 08/11/2014 3:49:23 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: markomalley

Awesome piece!


4 posted on 08/11/2014 4:19:51 AM PDT by 4Liberty (Obama is O'Bryan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUoPNpa9Rrw)
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To: markomalley

This is what happens when one elects a man whose entire life is predicated upon never taking responsibility for anything.


5 posted on 08/11/2014 4:36:08 AM PDT by OpusatFR (P)
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To: Timber Rattler

BINGO!!!! Obama has rubbed his win into Republican faces for YEARS!! Especially to McCain!


6 posted on 08/11/2014 4:53:54 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: markomalley

I’m sitting in an airport this morning with time on my hands, so I picked up the IHT and tried to make it through Friedman’s article.

First of all, Friedman interviewing Obama is a version of Dumb and Dumber. I could not make it through the whole thing. It is gibberish.


7 posted on 08/11/2014 4:57:22 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: markomalley
We have so many things going for us right now as a country -- from new energy resources to innovation to a growing economy ....

Despite my best efforts to kill both those activities....

8 posted on 08/11/2014 4:59:30 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: OpusatFR

Thank you for posting my article.

God bless!

Jeannie


9 posted on 08/11/2014 5:02:15 AM PDT by jeannieology
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To: markomalley
Since he was elected, Barack Obama has adhered to the “I won” mentality. Now after six years of shocking ineptitude that has left everything from the economy to the healthcare system to the future of America hanging precariously in the balance the person responsible for the mess has the bald-faced audacity to label those attempting to stop that downward spiral extremists
10 posted on 08/11/2014 5:04:00 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: markomalley

meanwhile, Obama fears for his life playing golf.

the threats have produced the level of panic among the secret service such that armed troops are required to cordon him off when out of extremely controlled indoor situations.

Brutus and Cassius are not allowed in the White House any more.


11 posted on 08/11/2014 5:06:13 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: markomalley

No victor, no vanquished,..no unity of command.


12 posted on 08/11/2014 5:06:47 AM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: OpusatFR

He takes responsibility for everything. He just refuses to be held accountable.


13 posted on 08/11/2014 5:08:10 AM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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14 posted on 08/11/2014 5:09:07 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: markomalley

The American people are the vanquished in Obama’s world.


15 posted on 08/11/2014 5:11:08 AM PDT by Impy (Think for yourself)
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To: markomalley

Honestly I found the article a weak counter to Obama’s pabulum. Friedman should be ashamed of himself. The majority of comments in the NYT version were nauseating but they laid out the need for a much stronger counter argument. The comments suggest that Obama’s supporters see his position as being subtle and nuanced and built on a solid intellectual foundation. They are as wrong as were Neville Chamberlin’s supporters in 1938. I think Obama is completely overwhelmed and his comments in the interview are so much hand-waving. His position is more “feel good” sloganeering than analysis. I think Egypt is the perfect illustration of his total failure to grasp the dynamics of the Middle East. He has in fact opposed one of the few governments in the Middle East that has actively fought to stem the tide of Medievalism.
It is also a mistake to confound Obama’s approach to domestic policies and his approach - if you can call it that - to foreign matters. He has a kind of domestic agenda, but no coherent foreign policy agenda beyond withdrawal.


16 posted on 08/11/2014 5:39:17 AM PDT by bjc (Show me the data!)
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To: markomalley


17 posted on 08/11/2014 5:55:53 AM PDT by Iron Munro (It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government --- Thomas Paine)
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To: Cvengr

In the far future, historians will look into his record in the US Senate and examine his cynical political tactic of never casting vote other than “present.”

I hope the media reaps their just rewards for backing this miserable wrecker.


18 posted on 08/11/2014 6:34:15 AM PDT by OpusatFR (I did make that. No one else did the work.)
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To: markomalley

per artfuldgr:
the maximalists are what the bolshiviks were referred to in the soviet revolution... you should do more research beyond the dictionary...

Maximalist
Etymology dictionary

maximalist “extreme radical in the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party,” early 20c

n. a person who rejects compromise and expects a full response to (esp. political) demands.

Etymology: French maximaliste, from maximal- (probably from English
maximal) + -iste -ist; intended as translation of Russian bol’shevik
Bolshevik


19 posted on 08/11/2014 9:12:28 AM PDT by griswold3 (I was born here in America. I will die here in a third world country. Obama succeeded.)
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