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´Part of this job is also the theater of it... it doesn´t come naturally to me´: Obama admits
Daily Mail ^ | 9/7/14 | Staff

Posted on 09/07/2014 12:43:59 PM PDT by Nachum

US President Barack Obama admitted he should have expected to be criticized for hitting the links on the same day that he addressed the beheading of American journalist James Foley and spoke with his family. ´Part of this job is also the theater of it,´ he told NBC News´ Chuck Todd. ´Well, it´s not something that always comes naturally to me. But it matters. And I´m mindful of that.´ He added: ´I should have anticipated the optics´ of playing golf. Obama, who was on vacation at the time of Foley´s murder, was heavily criticized for heading to the golf course

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Full title: ´Part of this job is also the theater of it... it doesn´t come naturally to me´: Obama admits playing a round of golf right after address on ISIS*

It just gets better and better don't it?

1 posted on 09/07/2014 12:43:59 PM PDT by Nachum
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2 posted on 09/07/2014 12:45:03 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum

Behaving like a mature human being is above his pay grade.


3 posted on 09/07/2014 12:45:23 PM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: Nachum

His whole public life has been “theater”. It’s just that doing it on the scale of President of the United States really was above his pay grade, it’s a full-time job.


4 posted on 09/07/2014 12:46:33 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Nachum

Spoken like a true sociopath. He has no idea what the real issue was; he thinks it’s all optics & theater.


5 posted on 09/07/2014 12:48:04 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Nachum

So he’s acting. Knew it all along.


6 posted on 09/07/2014 12:48:49 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: Nachum

Utter Balony! This fop has been acting his entire life.

Every word he utters is another scripted platitude and nonsensical cant in the best tradition of Louis Carroll. It is unfortunate that people did not listen when he first appeared on stage, they only heard his voice.


7 posted on 09/07/2014 12:49:48 PM PDT by OpusatFR (I did make that. No one else did the work.)
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To: Nachum

Put another way: “Hey, I’m the greatest president in the history of the United States, it’s just unfortunate appearances that prevent me from getting the credit.”

He’s a legend in his own mind.


8 posted on 09/07/2014 12:51:40 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Nachum

The saddest part is that so many people, including most of the media, will believe him.

Crazy


9 posted on 09/07/2014 12:52:28 PM PDT by Peter W. Kessler
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To: Nachum

10 posted on 09/07/2014 12:54:13 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Nachum; GeronL

His mama brought up wrong, that’s what the problem is.


11 posted on 09/07/2014 12:54:42 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: Nachum

President Obama: Oh, please. You are almost entirely theatre. Your special talent is not to do this, or do that, it is to say entirely unreasonable or false things and make them sound reasonable. Even The Great Prevaricator had to rely on technicalities, and would at least attempt to dance around the falsehoods.


12 posted on 09/07/2014 12:54:50 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Nachum

His entire life has been a theater Class B enterprise,or better yet a porn film!


13 posted on 09/07/2014 12:55:01 PM PDT by ballplayer
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To: Nachum

It wasn’t the “optics” of playing golf. It was “playing” golf. It’s all a game to him.


15 posted on 09/07/2014 12:57:22 PM PDT by kdot
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To: Nachum

This -rick is so messed up in so many ways.


16 posted on 09/07/2014 12:57:39 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: Nachum

Ok, taking him at his word, for the sake of argument, theatrics doesn’t come naturally to him, even after sitting in Rev. Wright’s church for 20 years, where theatrics (and resentment, hatred of the US and leftwing progressivism appear to be all he learned. But whatever.

Here is what we now know doesn’t come naturally to him:

1) Theatrics (I know, I know)
2) Putting in a full work day
3) Reading intelligence reports
4) Having and attending cabinet meetings
5) Understanding basic economics
6) Geography and foreign affairs
7) Respecting and following the Constitution
8) Speaking extemporaneously without a teleprompter
9) Punctuality
10)Diplomacy
11)Avoiding gaffes in virtually every time he’s on foreign soil
12)Governing

The one thing I don’t understand is how it is possible that Progressive Leftists managed to elect such an utter dangerously incompetent, ignorant boob, and yet they still have the temerity to retain their sanctimonious arrogance as they look down their noses at those of us who reject Progressivism after its 100 years of demonstrable failure, war and economic disaster.


17 posted on 09/07/2014 12:58:17 PM PDT by Maceman
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To: Nachum
Part of this job is also the theater of it... it doesn´t come naturally to me.

Two things come naturally to the feckless fool on the hill. As Powerline once said: being hardwired to make the wrong decision every time. Number two: lying.

18 posted on 09/07/2014 12:58:47 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Peter W. Kessler

Expressing sincere sadness for the gruesome murder of an American for being an American and then being resolute in taking leadership to show the cowards who did it the cost of such actions instead of playing golf is “theater”?
What a jerk!


19 posted on 09/07/2014 12:59:28 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: a fool in paradise

The theater of it is all that comes naturally to Oba-Won


20 posted on 09/07/2014 12:59:52 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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