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'Amateur' hour inside Obama's Oval Office
The Lowell Sun ^ | 6/1/2012 | Peter Lucas

Posted on 06/01/2012 5:55:52 AM PDT by pietraynor

The book will make you shudder.

It is Edward Klein's The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House, a devastating picture of a president so far in over his head as to make your own head spin.

And, if you have not already heard, Klein, former editor-in-chief of The New York Times Magazine, takes his title from remarks he attributes to former President Bill Clinton, remarks Clinton made at a private gathering at the Clinton home in Chappaqua, N.Y., in August.

The Clintons were arguing in front of guests over Bill Clinton urging a very reluctant Hillary to challenge the sitting president in 2012 primaries, to unseat the man who defeated her four years earlier, but who had appointed her secretary of state.

Chelsea Clinton sided with her father. "You deserve to be president," Chelsea said to her mother

Read more: http://www.lowellsun.com/columnists/ci_20758864/amateur-hour-inside-obamas-oval-office#ixzz1wXuIcFPB

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; obama
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To: Westbrook

I agree with you. We are so fortunate that Obama turned out to be this incompetent. If he actually knew what he was doing we’d all be living in a full-blown Communist dictatorship by now.


21 posted on 06/01/2012 6:34:05 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: brivette

third paties never win

It is worth a shot. I am so disgusted by Romney and the sudden support for the creep. I can’t believe how many people lose their principles overnight. Such a sad scene especially on Free Republic. If you want to vote for the idiot, why not but to write anything positive about the liberal is a complete SIN.


22 posted on 06/01/2012 6:37:29 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: beebuster2000
"blow out prediction, Mitt in a landslide."

Except for the presence one person - Mitt! Classic case of the GOP not wanting to win. Sort of like shooting self in foot before starting the race.

23 posted on 06/01/2012 6:40:51 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: pietraynor

White house is run like a royal court?

Exactly. Obama was raised in a foreign country. The guy is un-american and anti-american. In his mind we are screwed up, not him.


24 posted on 06/01/2012 6:45:06 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: Gaffer

Agree!! For the uninformed, we need to make the difference between what Klein means and who Obama is. A rank amateur at being president but no amateur at ruining the country. He and his leaders came into DC with a purpose and they’ve done a dam good job.


25 posted on 06/01/2012 6:48:29 AM PDT by peridot
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To: napscoordinator

If Obama can be beaten so easily then why not FINALLY get a third party....................................... 3 way elections only result in the loser winning. A 3 way with a run off second election would work. It won’t happen here. Remember 60% of the voters did not want Bill Clinton, and he won with 39% of the vote.


26 posted on 06/01/2012 6:57:00 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft ( WHO WE ELECT AS PRESIDENT IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS WHO THEY APPOINT.)
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To: pietraynor
Notice she DIDN'T say I like him personally but.....

Caroline Kennedy is now quoted as saying about Obama: "I can't stand to hear his voice anymore. He is a liar and worse."

27 posted on 06/01/2012 6:57:50 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Gaffer

I know that is is wrong to underestimate your opponants.
However, I think you give him WAY too much credit.
I do not think he is that clever or smart.
He is the ultimate example of Afirmative Action. IF he was really intelligent we would have seen his SAT scores, etc.
I think he is someone that Soros could manipulate to do his bidding. He has very smart and evil people behind him that do not necessarily have the best interests of the US as a priority. In that way HE IS THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE.

Bill Clinton, on the other hand, is EXTREMELY intelligent. He was a Rhodes Scholar. He was the ultimate salesman(I feel your pain). He would probably be a fun guy to hang out with, play golf, etc. However, I would not trust him around my women. Also, if you crossed him , you could end up dead.
He is ceratinly not stupid.


28 posted on 06/01/2012 7:00:32 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: pietraynor

Bump


29 posted on 06/01/2012 7:14:32 AM PDT by AmericaUnite (Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger. John Ch 8)
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To: pietraynor
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30 posted on 06/01/2012 7:18:17 AM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: pietraynor

The dimrat party and their media knew who baraq and his wife were and ran him as their candidate anyway.


31 posted on 06/01/2012 7:21:03 AM PDT by Texas resident (November 6 - Vote Against obama)
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To: circlecity
Then she can ride in on a white horse in 2016 as the Deus Ex Machina.

Hillary Clinton will be 71 in 2016. This is her today:


Draw your own conclusion.

32 posted on 06/01/2012 7:21:50 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: peridot; Gaffer; All

This is the crux of the matter:

OB had not an iota of knowledge,experience or desire to LEAD this country forward, other than down the path towards total destruction of the very fabric of the nation via “fundamental change”.

So, as an American President, a TOTAL amateur and FAILURE.

As a destroyer and “fundamental change” meister and implementer of the Alinsky/Cloward-Piven program absolutely brilliant.

Although, I’m not entirely convinced that, while utilizing the marxist plans extremely effectively, the last laugh may actually be on the marxists, since there is a definite chance that OB’s end goal is, in truth, islamization of the US, not socialism or communism as we know them.


33 posted on 06/01/2012 7:23:26 AM PDT by CanuckYank
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To: Gaffer
I agree. What may appear to be amateurish and bumbling is quite deliberate. Obama has been condition ed his entire life to hate America and is exacting his revenge. His concern is how to destroy this country and make it look like something else; misjudgments, amateurism, racism or GOP resistance. Anything will do to provide the cover but he overplayed his hand. If he would have gone a little slower, he could have secured a second term and let loose with everything he has. That is the only mistake he his made to inflict his punishment on America.
34 posted on 06/01/2012 7:27:48 AM PDT by trubolotta
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To: Gaffer
I agree. What may appear to be amateurish and bumbling is quite deliberate. Obama has been conditioned his entire life to hate America and is exacting his revenge. His concern is how to destroy this country and make it look like something else; misjudgments, amateurism, racism or GOP resistance. Anything will do to provide cover but he overplayed his hand. If he would have gone a little slower, he may have secured a second term and let loose with everything he has. That is the only mistake he his made to inflict his punishment on America.
35 posted on 06/01/2012 7:30:00 AM PDT by trubolotta
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To: HamiltonJay

The fact Obama is a guy who’s talent and ability levels are those not even at College Intramural level, and is now tryring to play in the majors has been blindingly evident from day one to anyone who bothered to look.

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Great analogy.

This should be a PAC / RNC type ad run around sports events, especially with the World Series coming up during the election season.

Put Barrys pitch from the mound on during the World Series as an October surprise.

That will make the point


36 posted on 06/01/2012 7:32:07 AM PDT by patriotspride
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To: Westbrook

So True and the fact she is the most admired politician in the USA tells you how dumbed down the American voter has gotten


37 posted on 06/01/2012 7:38:11 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: RexBeach
My word, if this is the Peter Lucas who used to write for The Boston Globe, Mr. Obama is in more trouble than I thought. This piece is damning. Wow. Just wow.

He is.

Peter Lucas is a veteran Boston political reporter and columnist who has worked for the Boston Herald, the Boston Globe and the Lowell Sun.

Amazon

38 posted on 06/01/2012 7:46:43 AM PDT by Focault's Pendulum (If Obama was any more thin skinned, he'd have a receptacle end: Dennis Miller)
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To: pietraynor

Just yesterday I saw this book on the shelf and briefly leafed through it. I read that Benjamin Netanyahu and top Israel officials were completely shocked at Obama’s incompetence.


39 posted on 06/01/2012 7:48:52 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
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To: Windflier

Apparently, Burma did not have any BoTox clinics.


40 posted on 06/01/2012 7:54:37 AM PDT by rod1 (CTLY)
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