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Dashed Hopes: How Obama Disappointed the World
Der Spiegel ^ | August 9, 2011 | Mark Hujer

Posted on 08/09/2011 12:25:07 PM PDT by AZLiberty

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Interesting excerpt:

He was the son of a black Kenyan who had left the family when Obama was two. He was raised by his white mother and, at times, his white grandparents, in Indonesia and Hawaii, and he was raised as a white person. In fact, Obama was a white man with black skin, someone who had to teach himself how to speak the way black people did, and who started playing basketball, the most popular sport in black America, to become more comfortable in his role as a black man.

1 posted on 08/09/2011 12:25:12 PM PDT by AZLiberty
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You mean...the Euros are finally figuring out the guy is a phoney?

What took them so long?


2 posted on 08/09/2011 12:29:12 PM PDT by kjo
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Statement: "Dashed Hopes: How Obama Disappointed the World

Response: Only the deluded were disappointed.

3 posted on 08/09/2011 12:29:45 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: AZLiberty

I thought was raised mostly in the midwest.


4 posted on 08/09/2011 12:30:11 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (To paraphrase Sarah Palin: "I love when the liberals get all wee-wee'd up.")
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He electrified the sheep and the blacks. I call it the Michael Jackson syndrome.


5 posted on 08/09/2011 12:30:58 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: AZLiberty

The whole world is wondering, how did we elect this guy. Well “we” didn’t elect him. The codependent sector of our society did.


6 posted on 08/09/2011 12:31:48 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
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So it took basketball for him to discover he was black? So, he could not do this on his own? It took a stupid basketball? By the way, what is basketball? I quit watching that puking sport 30 years ago. It got to be nothing too me. And I grew up playing high school basketball and baseball. I stunk in football. Wasn't big enough to be the water boy on my HS football team. They were giants back then to me. But, I gave up that game. I got sick of the strutting around of the LeBron types of the day. As far as I am concerned, basketball fits down between tag team and badminton.
7 posted on 08/09/2011 12:31:55 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (EVERY knee shall bow and EVERY mouth shall say: Jesus Christ IS LORD!!!!)
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To: AZLiberty

That excerpt has been said on free republic many times. Nothing earth shattering in that revealation. Perhaps the only thing that is earth shattering is that the left is finally realizing it.


8 posted on 08/09/2011 12:33:30 PM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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Der Speigelfail.


9 posted on 08/09/2011 12:33:45 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: proud American in Canada
I thought was raised mostly in the midwest.

He never laid eyes on the Midwest until 1991.

10 posted on 08/09/2011 12:37:59 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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-"He seems unable to connect with the people."

-"He wanted to change America and restore its reputation in the world."

He's a SOCIALIST! That's why he CAN'T connect with the people!

You say..."restore its reputation"...??? "RESTORE"? Restore to what?

A country that literally "bows" to foreigners?

A country that believes "American exceptionalism, just as I imagine that Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism"

A country that WASTES its future for immediate cronyism-political gratification?

11 posted on 08/09/2011 12:38:08 PM PDT by The Bronze Titan
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If anyone thinks Der Spiegel is putting down Obambi, read it again.

It’s not ‘his’ fault. It’s just that everyone else ‘doesn’t understand him’.

Just a lot of fluff and bull.


12 posted on 08/09/2011 12:38:08 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: AZLiberty

I’ve always maintained that Obama set himself up for failure by establishing grand expectations with the masses.

The unrealistic expectations are dangerous in that many will feel let down and will look for someone to blame especially if he becomes a one-termer.

For example, Peggy Joseph is highly disappointed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI


13 posted on 08/09/2011 12:38:42 PM PDT by TSgt (When in the Course of human events...)
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This is an apologist, excuse making article for Hussein disguised as criticism..


14 posted on 08/09/2011 12:38:42 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Sauron/Saruman 2012; it couldn't be any worse..)
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“...and who started playing basketball, the most popular sport in black America, to become more comfortable in his role as a black man.”
Does anyone else notice how condescending that is? If that was true, think of what else Zippy must assume about black men.


15 posted on 08/09/2011 12:42:38 PM PDT by Kanzan
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To: AZLiberty

So a marxist community organizer, who never ran anything in his life is a lousy president? Who could have seen that one coming?


16 posted on 08/09/2011 12:45:40 PM PDT by Hugin ("A man'll usually tell you his bad intentions if you listen and let yourself hear it"--- Open Range)
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To: AZLiberty

I wonder if he was confused about his sexual identity as well.

We put a confused and lost little boy in charge of our economy. God bless his little heart, he must be angry with us by now.


17 posted on 08/09/2011 12:45:40 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: Bigh4u2

Thanks.

FWIW, I remember Der Spiegel as having the tingles for Obama way back when.

But overall, I love it when the leftists see the light and realize how useless the Kenyan really is.


18 posted on 08/09/2011 12:48:24 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (The views and opinions expressed in this post are true and correct. Deal with it)
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To: AZLiberty

Don’t these people watch places like Philly, Wash DC, Detroit and NYC under David Denkins? Detroit should be a perfect example of a black liberal’s example of utopia. America is headed straight there, only I don’t think middle America will allow us to fall that far. Inner city ghetto’s don’t know any different, but the rest of America still remembers real America. The rest of America won’t vote for a guy on the amount of bling he has.


19 posted on 08/09/2011 12:58:23 PM PDT by chuckles
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..As America's first black president, Barack Obama electrified an entire nation.

Yeah, skin pigmentation is just so *very* important. /sarc

Besides, maybe it's Obama's white half that has screwed everything up so royally(?)

20 posted on 08/09/2011 1:01:32 PM PDT by The Duke
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