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Rocky Seas for Team Obama
Pajamas Media ^ | January 11 | Jennifer Rubin

Posted on 01/11/2009 10:43:12 AM PST by AJKauf

Reality is setting in: governing is much harder than campaigning, and President-elect Obama is not the infallible figure the media has made him out to be. In Washington there are dozens of ways to get knocked off course, especially when the captain of the ship lacks prior executive experience but has no shortage of bravado.

How the president-elect navigates through the next couple of weeks will help determine the course for his first year. For now, it seems that it won’t be all smooth sailing.

Even more than a rocky confirmation hearing, President-elect Obama’s fortunes may flounder on the shores of a stimulus package, so vast and so packed with mines that virtually everyone has reason to dislike some aspect of it....

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


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; agenda; barackthekenyan; bho2008; muslim
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To: Colonial Warrior

Will we need one of these Men In Black II Neuralyzers?

21 posted on 01/11/2009 12:01:35 PM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: AJKauf

The election of Obama will go down in history as the most blatant case of affirmative action in American history.

Overnight, an inexperienced corporal was promoted to 5-Star General. Sure it was historic, but why is it considered progress? Would the average voter feel safer if someone with minimal flight experience was piloting their plane, or someone with minimal medical experience was operating on them??

And now someone with more drug experience than leadership experience is in charge of the most powerful country in the world - no wonder the stock markets are tanking and people are scared for the future.

Let’s just hope the World makes it safely thru the next 4 years, so this idiot can be turfed before he causes any lasting damage.


22 posted on 01/11/2009 12:03:21 PM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: DainBramage
WaPo headline Jan 2011:

The Failed Obama Administration,

What happened and why?


23 posted on 01/11/2009 12:07:43 PM PST by databoss
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To: AJKauf
But the media is still slobbering and drooling over Obama. I wonder how long they're going to give him a pass for every blunder he makes?

They certainly don't show any sign of letting up in the foreseeable future.

24 posted on 01/11/2009 12:09:29 PM PST by Allegra
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To: maggief

Maybe we should start another repository for Made-Off.....


25 posted on 01/11/2009 12:17:52 PM PST by hoosiermama (Berg is a liberal democrat. Keyes is a conservative. Obama is bringing us together already!)
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To: maggief
Back in 2001, fugitive financier Marc Rich had every reason to be thankful for the wealthy connections he'd made attending Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Synagogue. It was those connections who helped Rich convince Bill Clinton he deserved a presidential pardon. (Rich later invested $15 million with Madoff).

Tee he he

26 posted on 01/11/2009 12:21:25 PM PST by hoosiermama (Berg is a liberal democrat. Keyes is a conservative. Obama is bringing us together already!)
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To: databoss

Oh yeah that’l be the day.


27 posted on 01/11/2009 12:23:39 PM PST by DainBramage
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To: princess leah

“republicans don’t need to wish this guy any success”

I hope he plumbs the abysmal depths of utter failure....daily.


28 posted on 01/11/2009 12:48:16 PM PST by Salamander ( Cursed with Second Sight.)
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To: SusaninOhio

“‘the election is over, now we can all work together”

Reminds of the bumperstickers of the old Confederate soldier saying “Hell no, I won’t forget!”.


29 posted on 01/11/2009 12:50:25 PM PST by Salamander ( Cursed with Second Sight.)
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To: SusaninOhio

Liberals are so clueless. They just don’t get how everyone doesn’t love their guy. They protest and go ape@#$$ for 4 years and expect everyone to now ‘go get em’ together. What a bunch of IDIOTS!


30 posted on 01/11/2009 12:53:47 PM PST by MartinStyles
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To: hoosiermama
Maybe a thread for Madoff, Rich, Ezra Merkin, Eric Holder, etc.


31 posted on 01/11/2009 1:23:44 PM PST by maggief
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To: AJKauf
Check out this video and then spread it around.
32 posted on 01/11/2009 2:17:03 PM PST by HighlyOpinionated (YOU can get your own Bail Out . . .Dec 18 post at http://auntiecoosa.blogspot.com)
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To: Allegra
But the media is still slobbering and drooling over Obama

The media saw no evil, heard no evil, and spoke no evil of their chosen new Maeterlink/Honest Abe candidate.

They can't fail to support him now.

In the process, I think the Fourth Estate has performed in a despicable traitorous fashion.

33 posted on 01/11/2009 6:33:13 PM PST by Ole Okie
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To: SierraWasp

A local whining Bush hating liberal was whining about our treatment of his beloved Mesiah, the Zer0.

I told him and his even worse of whining liberal wife, that we would give Zer0 the same respect that they had given President Bush and Sarah Palin.


34 posted on 01/12/2009 6:21:11 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Does Zer0 have any friends, who are not criminals or foriegn or domestic terrorists or both?)
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