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Obama Says He’s Not Worried About Style Points. He Should Be.
http://www.nationaljournal.com ^ | September 17, 2013 | By Jill Lawrence

Posted on 09/17/2013 4:11:51 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45

When President Obama told ABC News he was "less concerned about style points" than "getting the policy right," he was trying to hasten into oblivion a foreign-policy week from hell. But it's a risky business to disregard style.

From his Syria gyrations to Monday's ill-timed economic speech attacking Republicans as a mass shooting was in progress at the nearby Washington Navy Yard, Obama's apparently willful dismissal of style could do more than just hurt his poll numbers. It could yield midterm election losses and create perhaps insurmountable obstacles to achieving his policy goals.

The Syria moves were head-spinning, from beginning (Obama's stunning decision to ask Congress to authorize a military strike) to end (Russia convening negotiations on Syria's chemical weapons). What with Congress poised to reject Obama's request and Vladimir Putin's twin tours de force – coming up with a viable diplomatic path and landing an annoying op-ed in The New York Times – the commander in chief has appeared to be in a less than commanding position.

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1 posted on 09/17/2013 4:11:51 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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2 posted on 09/17/2013 4:19:35 PM PDT by alecqss
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I don’t even like the style of his sharkskin Italian suits.


3 posted on 09/17/2013 4:21:23 PM PDT by forgotten man
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Style was all the Current Occupant now squatting in the White Hut EVER had, and even that minimal grasp of such skills is slipping away from him.

Increasingly, he is found to be in FAR over his head, with the Russian Federation and Vlad Putin playing him like a second-hand fiddle. Even Kim Jong Un is disrespecting The Won, and that is a dangerous precedent.


4 posted on 09/17/2013 4:24:14 PM PDT by alloysteel (Those who deny natural climate change are forever doomed to stupidity. AGW is a LIE.)
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5 posted on 09/17/2013 4:31:06 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45 ( Americans, happy in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own dictators.)
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NOT WORRIED ABOUT STYLE POINTS

It other words telling a damn lie is not important.

6 posted on 09/17/2013 4:46:08 PM PDT by True Grit
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If “rabid bull in a China shop” is a style, obama has plenty.
7 posted on 09/17/2013 4:46:43 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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Going ahead with his anti-Republican economic speech today while knowing the nearby Navy Yard shooting incident was still out of control was unbelievable. This tool really doesn’t get it. He had no real concern at all for the people shot today or the people who were killed in Benghazi. He’s starting to show signs of being a sociopath.


8 posted on 09/17/2013 4:51:32 PM PDT by Avid Coug
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Narcicistic sociopath. Been saying it on various forums for years. Surprised I haven’t been “disappeared.” /only have joking


9 posted on 09/17/2013 4:58:25 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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Half*


10 posted on 09/17/2013 4:58:52 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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He only has one concern and that’s stealing Americans blind!


11 posted on 09/17/2013 6:14:48 PM PDT by lu shissler (ecause)
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Obama Says He’s Not Worried About Style Points. He Should Be...for sure - it's all he has going for him - he certainly has no substance.....
12 posted on 09/17/2013 9:18:29 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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As “Putin’s Monkey”, there are no style points.


13 posted on 09/17/2013 9:19:24 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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