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Robinson: Obama has good reason to smile
The Washington Post via The Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 09/07/2015 | Eugene Robinson

Posted on 09/07/2015 5:53:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

WASHINGTON • Attention has been focused on who becomes our next president, but meanwhile the incumbent is on quite a roll.

Throughout his tour of Alaska, President Obama looked full of his old swagger. He took photos of Denali — the former Mt. McKinley — through the windows of Air Force One and shared them via Instagram. He used melting glaciers as a backdrop to talk about climate change, posed with small children and large fish, and became the first sitting president to venture north of the Arctic Circle.

He seemed to smile throughout the trip, and why not? The nuclear agreement that Secretary of State John Kerry negotiated with Iran is now safe from congressional meddling. U.S. economic growth for the second quarter was a healthy 3.7 percent. Unemployment has fallen to 5.1 percent, according to figures released Friday. Saudi King Salman — portrayed by Obama's critics as peeved with the president — dropped by the White House on Friday for a chat, reportedly renting an entire luxury hotel for his entourage. And later this month, Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to arrive for what promises to be the most important state visit of the year.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dearleader; dnctalkingpoints; kneepadbrigade; lapdogmedia; obama; pravdamedia
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President Trump is going to wipe that smile off his face when he repeals every last one of Obola's Executive Orders/Memos on Day One.
1 posted on 09/07/2015 5:53:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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President Trump is going to wipe that smile off his face when he repeals every last one of Obola's Executive Orders/Memos on Day One.

That would thrill me to no end.

2 posted on 09/07/2015 5:57:22 PM PDT by windsorknot
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Will he smile in prison...and, then, in exile? One can only hope that Justice finds him.


3 posted on 09/07/2015 5:57:59 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Eugene got a little something he needs to wipe off his chin...


4 posted on 09/07/2015 5:58:07 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
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He seemed to smile throughout the trip

The cocaine was excellent and plentiful on board AF1.

5 posted on 09/07/2015 5:58:38 PM PDT by 50mm (Trust nobody and you'll never be disappointed.)
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and became the first sitting president to venture north of the Arctic Circle

Mr. Robinson is putting his profound ignorance of geography on display. For that matter, Mr. Robinson is putting his profound ignorance on display.

6 posted on 09/07/2015 5:59:22 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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Obama has good reason to smile




7 posted on 09/07/2015 5:59:34 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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President Obama has been a disaster. But you would not know it from what a fawning media writes about him.


8 posted on 09/07/2015 5:59:46 PM PDT by marktwain
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Kotzebue, Alaska is a pretty cool place. The Polar Bear Hunting Capitol of the World. It used to have the northernmost Dairy Queen in the World when I was last there.


9 posted on 09/07/2015 6:00:52 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Cecil the Lion says, Stop the Slaughter of the Baby Humans!!!)
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Yep! And to think that people who call themselves Christians voted for him.


10 posted on 09/07/2015 6:02:33 PM PDT by sport
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Keep smiling 0bama

How that liberal idiot, Eugene Robinson ever won a Pulitzer prize is beyond me.

11 posted on 09/07/2015 6:04:43 PM PDT by PROCON (GOD will NOT be mocked!)
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Obama has gotten to where he is through bluff, made possible by the most pathetic, gutless, disgusting group of Republicans ever assembled in Congress. They could shut him down tomorrow — if they wanted to.


12 posted on 09/07/2015 6:06:13 PM PDT by odawg
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Eugene is a moron.


13 posted on 09/07/2015 6:06:13 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Beware the Wisconsin Weasel - GOPe Plan B)
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To: PROCON

It is now awarded on a political basis, not talent.


14 posted on 09/07/2015 6:06:37 PM PDT by sport
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But..but..0bama won his Nobel prize fair and square </MEGABARF>
15 posted on 09/07/2015 6:11:44 PM PDT by PROCON (GOD will NOT be mocked!)
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How that liberal idiot, Eugene Robinson ever won a Pulitzer prize is beyond me.

Same way Obola got his Nobel Peace Prize.

16 posted on 09/07/2015 6:15:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Is the Pope Catholic?)
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What’s sad about most of the MSM is not only do they defend the whacked out policies the left spews out, but they also believe in it too.


17 posted on 09/07/2015 6:18:04 PM PDT by dowcaet
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I totally concur....BTW Eugene is a D-bag and Obama has a ticket to Hell.


18 posted on 09/07/2015 6:22:25 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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Note that the Supreme Court clarified in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer that executive orders don’t have the force of law unless they are legislatively supported by Congress and based on Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.

Also note that the Founding States gave Congress the specific power to impeach and remove lawless presidents like Obama for making executive orders excuses which are not supported by either Congress or the Constitution.

The reason that Obama has a history of making unconstitutional executive orders is because the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Senate is not willing to work with the House to impeach and remove lawless presidents like Obama from office.

The bottom line is that the ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators and lawless presidents as well.

19 posted on 09/07/2015 6:24:40 PM PDT by Amendment10
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President Obama has been a disaster. But you would not know it from what a fawning media writes about him.

It’s ok. We would probably lose the election if Obama was doing a great job. We are going to win this argument when our republican wins the Presidency which I believe will happen. Individuals are pissed off big time and they blame Obama....doesn’t matter what the media says. Individuals knows the truth for sure. The other thing we have going for us is that Democrats have not won a third consecutive Presidential Election in over 50 years. This is our election to lose for real.


20 posted on 09/07/2015 6:28:19 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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