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Obama talks to governors about the need to work together
Associated Press ^ | Feb. 21, 2016 8:10 PM EST

Posted on 02/21/2016 7:02:57 PM PST by Olog-hai

At a dinner with the nation's governors, President Barack Obama says he's not naive in believing politics can be a noble endeavor. [...]

Obama recounted how President Lyndon B. Johnson told a gathering of governors three days after John F. Kennedy's death that a government of checks and balances will only work when people are willing to work together for the common good. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: checksandbalances; jfk; lbj; liberalagenda; obama; obamagovernors; stategovernors; totalitarianism; worktogether
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So he quotes a racist president who said that checks and balances work only by eliminating checks and balances.
1 posted on 02/21/2016 7:02:57 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

FUBO.

And the horse you rode in on.

Rinse.

Repeat.


2 posted on 02/21/2016 7:05:14 PM PST by Da Coyote
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I'd love to know if Governor Abbott was there......and if so, what he was thinking as Obama gave his speech. LOL
3 posted on 02/21/2016 7:05:36 PM PST by TXSearcher (If it walks like a liberal, talks like a liberal........it IS a LIBERAL.)
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To: Olog-hai
Straight out of the Alinsky playbook. Create a false middle ground and accuse your opponents of being extremists when they don't support your radical leftist agenda.

Obama's been pulling this crap since he was immaculated.

4 posted on 02/21/2016 7:05:40 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Yuge 2016)
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To: Olog-hai

...Work together to PASS THE LIBERTY AMENDMENTS...


5 posted on 02/21/2016 7:06:53 PM PST by Captainpaintball (Immigration without assimilation is the death of a nation -- FUJB!!!)
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To: Olog-hai

I laughed at the headline. The “My way, or the highway” guy instructing governors about the need to work together.


6 posted on 02/21/2016 7:07:10 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Olog-hai

Whatever happened to “We won?”


7 posted on 02/21/2016 7:07:56 PM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: Olog-hai

So the dictatorial prick seven years in is whining for cooperation. Repeal Obamascam and we’ll talk.


8 posted on 02/21/2016 7:09:02 PM PST by getitright (If you call this HOPE, can we give despair a shot?)
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To: Olog-hai

The govs should have all gotten up and walked out on him.


9 posted on 02/21/2016 7:09:57 PM PST by Mercat
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To: TXSearcher

And who in the Sam hill decides what policies or process is for the common good?, Liberals?? Obama???? Is working towards the common good defined as working towards liberalism????


10 posted on 02/21/2016 7:10:08 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Olog-hai
Obama talks to governors about the need to work together.

Translation:
Obama talks to governors about the need to obey him.

11 posted on 02/21/2016 7:10:09 PM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“Progessives”. When you’re heading straight to hell in a hurry, what good is ‘progress?”


12 posted on 02/21/2016 7:12:49 PM PST by getitright (If you call this HOPE, can we give despair a shot?)
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To: Olog-hai

Says the guy who has overseen 11 governorships yanked from the Democrats because of HIS policies.


13 posted on 02/21/2016 7:13:25 PM PST by digger48
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To: Olog-hai

Pretty soon he’ll be flat-out begging people to work with him so he can try to carve out some thread of a positive legacy somewhere.


14 posted on 02/21/2016 7:15:17 PM PST by KyCats
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To: Olog-hai

obama has burned every bridge in Washington, and now he’s bitching because he can’t get anywhere.


15 posted on 02/21/2016 7:15:34 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: Olog-hai

Obama talks to governors about the need to work together to do what Obama wants.

Go back to Indonesia.


16 posted on 02/21/2016 7:15:35 PM PST by Ray76 (Judge Roy Moore for Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)
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Whatever happened to “We won?”

The 11 Republican Governors who schlonged their Democrat incumbents since Obutthole became pResident should have responded with that..

17 posted on 02/21/2016 7:15:39 PM PST by digger48
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To: KyCats

People who are into Marxism aren’t worried about positive legacies. Just their dreams of “stroll(ing) through the wreckage a creator”, to quote Marx.


18 posted on 02/21/2016 7:19:10 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: rockinqsranch
The “My way, or the highway” guy instructing governors about the need to work together.

This is simply Alinskyism in action. What Alinkyites such as Obama and Hillary do is present a false middle ground where opposing parties are supposed to come to the table and break bread at. This middle ground, however, is portrayed to the public as everyone working together, but it's really where the Alinskyites can falsely bargain from a position of strength, and when the opposing party disagrees, then they're portrayed as the extremists, or out of touch.

Obama has been doing this since he was President.

19 posted on 02/21/2016 7:19:59 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Yuge 2016)
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To: Olog-hai

Obola,for one,has always believed that politics is a noble endeavor.

20 posted on 02/21/2016 7:23:21 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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