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Fouad Ajami: When the Obama Magic Died
Wall Street Journal ^ | Nov 14, 2013 | Fouad Ajami

Posted on 11/15/2013 1:48:36 AM PST by Innovative

The current troubles of the Obama presidency can be read back into its beginnings. Rule by personal charisma has met its proper fate. The spell has been broken, and the magician stands exposed. We need no pollsters to tell us of the loss of faith in Mr. Obama's policies—and, more significantly, in the man himself.

If Barack Obama seems like a man alone, with nervous Democrats up for re-election next year running for cover, and away from him, this was the world he made. No advisers of stature can question his policies; the price of access in the Obama court is quiescence before the leader's will. The imperial presidency is in full bloom.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dearleaderobama; downwardspiral; fearlessleader; fencepostturtle; fouadajami; grammyawardwinner; jumpedtheshark; lyingliar; nakedemperor; obama; obamacare; obamalegacy; obamalied; waterloo
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To: Innovative
The magic never reached beyond the 47%.

He was always a liar, fraud and con man to me.

61 posted on 11/15/2013 7:00:07 AM PST by Jabba the Nutt (You can have a free country or government schools. Choose one.)
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To: Innovative

Inexperience, ignorance and pathological commitment to ideology is destroying this president and the economy. He can no more manipulate the insurance market than run a successful website. Don’t even think about how he’ll manage our heralthcare. Two elections, a gave him a blank check to doing anything he wanted. Couple that with staggering incompetence and chaos results. The only question is how long will rebuilding of the industry take, if it can still be saved at all.


62 posted on 11/15/2013 7:12:02 AM PST by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: Forward the Light Brigade; Conspiracy Guy

Obama was a good snake oil salesman. He sounded all positive and Hope and Change—but it was all smoke and mirrors and old ward healer junk —the worst of Unionism and corruption.


Yes, you got the right imagery there.

But a Good Snake oil Salesman could always sense when the time for moving on was at hand. A great one could sense it a day or two before hand.

Obama has proven himself to be a Snake oil salesman of the highest caliber, he just doesn’t have the knack yet at knowing when to get out of Dodge.


63 posted on 11/15/2013 7:40:46 AM PST by The Working Man
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To: nikos1121

Love and agree with everything you say here. I feel better than I have in a very long time!


64 posted on 11/15/2013 8:19:52 AM PST by lawgirl21
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To: Conspiracy Guy
“When the Obama Magic Died.” For me that was about the second time I saw him and heard him speak. Around 2004?

You got that right. BTW this was a good read but for me a waist of time Knowing when elected he would carry thru. Nothing surprises me about Big Ears. What does, however, is how we continue with QE's.

65 posted on 11/15/2013 8:33:14 AM PST by Digger
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To: Innovative
"The current troubles of the Obama presidency can be read back into its beginnings."

Yep. His commie mommy and daddy. He's a red diaper doper baby.

66 posted on 11/15/2013 8:42:50 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: The Working Man

If the teleprompter doesn’t tell him what to say and when to leave he hasn’t a clue. Obama is a sock puppet on Valerie Jarrett’s left hand.


67 posted on 11/15/2013 8:49:46 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (On the evening of 10/16/13, the ailing republican party breathed its last breath.)
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To: Digger

It’s only paper.


68 posted on 11/15/2013 8:52:37 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (On the evening of 10/16/13, the ailing republican party breathed its last breath.)
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To: Innovative

“Many black people think so too — even though the economic situation of black people has gotten significantly worse under Obama.”

I work with blacks that are furious with him; they probably voted for him twice because of his color, but they remember the middle class lifestyle they had just achieved under Bush before the bottom fell out. These are middle-aged blacks whose children have grown so they’re paying higher income taxes than they ever had before; they went from going on cruises annually to looking for second jobs in a short period of time.


72 posted on 11/15/2013 3:49:53 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: beaversmom

And our magic believing people will blame us for getting screwed by their own again.

Be black and get to rape other blacks, kinda cool, you are not an uncle Tom.

But black or white, cock sucking is cock sucking, close ypur eyes and rot has no color.


73 posted on 11/17/2013 12:17:05 PM PST by lavaroise
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To: F15Eagle

Predispose them to waste, pollute and have fun instead of work and birth, then make them blame those who dont pay up the government tax ransom for the mess.... let them try communism, dont stop the trains to the work camps...


74 posted on 11/17/2013 12:20:32 PM PST by lavaroise
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To: Innovative; a fool in paradise

I think that any fairly good looking mulatto speaking the usual political platitudes in standard English could have been presented to America in 2007-8 and elected POTUS by an electorate intimidated over the past few decades into jello fearful of being labeled “rassiss”. And then re-elected for the same rassissm stigma reasons in 2012.


75 posted on 11/17/2013 12:23:54 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Revolting cat!

“I think that any fairly good looking mulatto speaking the usual political platitudes in standard English could have been presented to America in 2007-8 and elected POTUS’...

And would have been happier with almost ANY, why did it have to be this one?!


76 posted on 11/17/2013 1:12:15 PM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Revolting cat!; GeronL

The media is doing the two-step shuffle just as Hillary did before them.

Just a jump to the Left, then a step to the ri-i-i-yi-yi-yight!!!

They are distancing themselves from Obamastank NOW so that they can claim to have credibility when they tell you how AWESOME Hillary (and the Return of Bill Clinton!!!) will be in 2016.


77 posted on 11/17/2013 4:54:42 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Innovative; Revolting cat!; GeronL; Slings and Arrows
"The Day The Milli Vanilli Magic Died..."



78 posted on 11/17/2013 4:57:13 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: a fool in paradise

Yep, Hillary can’t run on MORE HOPE & CHANGE and FORWARDER!, so she’l run as if she were representing another party than that of Obama.


79 posted on 11/17/2013 4:57:58 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Revolting cat!
"Haven't you had enough CHANGE? Let's return to the glory days of the 1990s!!!"


80 posted on 11/17/2013 5:03:45 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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