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Panetta Book Bombshell: Challenges to Obama's Legitimacy Affected His Presidency
The American Thinker ^ | 10-13-14 | Jack Cashill

Posted on 10/13/2014 10:08:59 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

Largely lost in the hubbub over former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s new book Worthy Fights is one intriguing revelation. As reported in the New York Times, the accusations that Barack Obama was not what he appeared to be, perhaps not even a natural-born citizen, caused him to become tentative on the national stage. “Those challenges have encouraged the president’s caution and defensiveness, which in turn has emboldened further challenges,” Mr. Panetta wrote.

As the originator of one of those challenges, namely that terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers helped Obama with his 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father, I can confirm the validity of Panetta’s accusation. When challenged, Obama has become not only defensive but also downright dishonest.

Obama’s insecurity has caused him to violate the promise he made to his assembled staff on his first full day in office. “I will also hold myself as President to a new standard of openness,” said the newly minted president. “Information will not be withheld just because I say so. It will be withheld because a separate authority believes my request is well grounded in the Constitution.” As I document in my new book, You Lie, Obama has dishonored this promise in a hundred different ways.

In the last six years, the White House has withheld information large and small, public and private, petty and grand. A perfectly instructive and heretofore unsung incident took place at a CNN studio on September 23, 2009. The guest was bestselling celebrity journalist, Christopher Andersen. The show was CNN’s "American Morning", and the host was a young woman named Kiran Chetry.

An establishment journalist with credentials of the first order, Andersen was there to plug his...book...Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage. Despite Andersen’s credentials and his apolitical background, the interview almost did not take place.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ayers; billayers; birthcertificate; birthers; certifigate; deamsofmyfather; leonpanetta; naturalborncitizen; obama; panetta
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1 posted on 10/13/2014 10:08:59 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Obama being tentative?

No modern day president can even hold a candle to what Obama has accomplished in just 6 years.

I’ll name two;

War on coal, he promised to destroy the coal industry. His EPA has just announced they are closing a lot of coal plants; enough plants will close that the equivalent of all of the homes west of the Mississippi will be left without electricity. Can you name one president who comes close to doing that? You can’t.

Our health insurance and care system, I don’t even have to outline that. Even the Clintons couldn’t begin to do what he has already done in that sector.


2 posted on 10/13/2014 10:12:23 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
caused him to become tentative on the national stage.

OMG!!! What would he have done had he not been so tentative?

3 posted on 10/13/2014 10:14:06 AM PDT by Know et al (Keep on Freepin'!!!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

So, it’s the Birthers’ fault?...................


4 posted on 10/13/2014 10:17:28 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Balding_Eagle

This is what hahppened in Madison last week when a bunch of “greenies” showed up with an ugly, inflatable “coal” plant that they could rail against in their demonstration:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3214050/posts

Everybody s still laughing about it. Idjits!


5 posted on 10/13/2014 10:18:49 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Why would those accusations make him tentative unless there was some truth to them ? Was he afraid he might slip up ?


6 posted on 10/13/2014 10:27:36 AM PDT by TheCipher (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
the host was a young woman named Kiran Chetry.

She was the one on Fox News who kept saying our troops in Iraq were being blown-up with IUD's.


7 posted on 10/13/2014 10:30:46 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TheCipher

He wasn’t sure the forgeries would pass muster. Iow, he wondered if the ‘that’s racist’ meme would be sufficient to keep at least one honest journalist from asking obvious questions. He didn’t yet realize how in the satchel the entire MSM was.


8 posted on 10/13/2014 10:30:52 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
“I will also hold myself as President to a new standard of openness,” said the newly minted president.
“Information will not be withheld just because I say so.
It will be withheld because a separate authority believes my request is well grounded in the Constitution.”

What a load of crap.

9 posted on 10/13/2014 10:31:46 AM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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"Why would those accusations make him tentative unless there was some truth to them ? Was he afraid he might slip up ?"

"My Muslim Faith..."

10 posted on 10/13/2014 10:34:35 AM PDT by free-in-nyc (Freeping from the heart of the occupation)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Do you mean they weren’t? She left suddenly, didn’t she.


11 posted on 10/13/2014 10:35:00 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Great and engaging article. Thanks for posting.


12 posted on 10/13/2014 10:37:07 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Leon’s a few years late to the party. He should have been shouting this from the rooftops 8-9 years ago.


13 posted on 10/13/2014 10:48:24 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Balding_Eagle

Some timidity, eh ?


14 posted on 10/13/2014 10:49:23 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Panetta is going to run. And if he doesn’t get the nomination, he’ll be on the ticket.


15 posted on 10/13/2014 10:51:45 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue (I have no home. I'm the wind.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
the accusations that Barack Obama was not what he appeared to be [...] caused him to become tentative on the national stage.

There is not but one reason for that, Mr. Panetta.

For ten points, can you guess what it is?

16 posted on 10/13/2014 11:02:15 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
"Those challenges have encouraged the president’s caution and defensiveness..."

No Leon..he's an affirmative action created and supported imbecile. THAT'S why.

17 posted on 10/13/2014 12:35:27 PM PDT by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
"The right stole Obama's mojo." Leo Panninni Leave Britney alone! photo: Christ Crocker default.jpg
18 posted on 10/13/2014 1:33:02 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

obumpa


19 posted on 10/13/2014 9:22:59 PM PDT by Dajjal (Justice Robert Jackson was wrong -- the Constitution IS a suicide pact.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Obama has always been afake. His books were fake.


20 posted on 10/13/2014 9:29:28 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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