Posted on 06/15/2016 11:16:05 AM PDT by pabianice
If it is true that the best defense is a good offense, President Obama should be celebrating in the end zone now. Obviously furious over criticism that his anti-terror policies are weak and that the Orlando slaughter proves it, he went on a televised tirade to let America know he’s mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.
He laid waste to a field of straw men, cable-TV pundits and the always-evil “partisan rhetoric,” by which he means anyone who disagrees with him. It was a striking display of personal anger and pent-up grievances — and a total failure of leadership during a national crisis.
It also, inadvertently, captured why Donald Trump was able to brawl his way to the GOP nomination. All his nice Republican rivals couldn’t stir voters because they never knew how to rattle Obama the way Trump is doing. The president didn’t mention Trump yesterday, but the whole speech was nothing but a desperate and incoherent reaction to Trumpism.
As such, it was a huge moment in the general-election campaign, even though it comes before the nominees are formally crowned. For one thing, it showed that Obama’s plan to campaign against Trump as if he is running for his own third term won’t be a cakewalk for the president or his legacy.
Obama’s demeanor and tone were far from presidential — tantrums rarely are. Nor was he effective in rallying the nation to his cause. No surprise there. His cause is himself, always and only, and his greatly diminished historic presidency looks especially insignificant next to the bloodshed in Orlando. The iconic redeemer who promised hope and change never seemed so small and hopeless.
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"I'll take 'What Do The GOPe and the 'Rats Have In Common?' for $500, Alex."
Foot stompin’, whiney ass, petulant, thin skinned, snarling adolescent.
Exactly what I witnessed.
Sounds like he went full retard. You should never go full retard.
Barky having his usual ‘girly hissy fit’ ROFL....what a sissy!!!
That is who he really is .
He must use the teleprompter so the real 0 doesn’t slip out.
I never imagined that I could have such total hate and utter contempt for anyone but this sorry excuse of the lowest form of filth proved me wrong.
I didn’t hear the speech. I would rather listen to pigs defecate.
Me? I love it! Trump has managed to draw the hated lame duck traitor into the fray. If that dumb monkey had any brains whatsoever, he’d stay out of it. But he took the bait, hook, line and sinker and now Trump gets to run against both Obama and Hillary, a two-fer, lol!
And while Trump is running against the Kenyan, he is eating up media time that would be normally given to Hillary.
Hildabeast will have to do something outrageous just to get some attention.
What time today do you think he will speak again to correct the failure to communicate he has suffered daily for the last three days?
It really is funny to watch the two smartest people in the world get their ass handed to them every day by a real estate agent. LOL.
“Rattled” ;-)
rather the same thing, no?
"“I don’t think of Trump as a traditional conservative but I think what Trump is, is an anti-left, anti-political correctness, anti-stupidity American nationalist. I think he may do more to break up the left than any conservative in our lifetime except maybe Reagan.” - -Newt Gingrich on whether Trump is a conservative.The reason for Trump's ability to attract voters and to arouse such a reaction as yesterday's? Trump expresses, as do the millions of citizens who react positively to his politically "incorrect" statements, a visceral reaction to the consequences of:
- decades of coercive "progressive" control and pretended "elitism";
- years of declining wages and economic freedom for their families; lack of freedom to choose the best schools for their children;
- lack of a perception of safety in a land which, for over 200 years relied on "freedom through strength," now perceived as weak and apologetic for its former reputation as a refuge for the oppressed;
- increasing censorship of speech imposed by phony "political correctness rules";
- increasing emphasis on coercively eliminating population increases by killing the unborn, but encouraging population increases through illegal immigration;
- and on and on and on . . . .
Sounds like someone’s gettin’ all wee wee’d up.
The boy king didn’t get his way. Maybe he is starting to realize his only “legacy” is going to be giving President Trump a few things to dismantle and set right his first few months of his first term. bammy, if he is remembered at all, will only be a footnote, a setup, a jug eared jester to the real men, real leaders that follow.
Has there ever been a less attractive spectacle than our sour-faced leader, eyes blazing with hatred, spewing demonic anger at Republicans? Honestly, he appears unhinged and may be on psychotropic drugs at this point. The Secret Service better have some plans in the bag as the days of his miserable reign dwindle.
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