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Where did Obama go wrong?
washingtonpost.com ^ | November 3, 2014 | Juliet Eilperin and David Nakamura

Posted on 11/04/2014 2:33:06 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper

Edited on 11/04/2014 2:34:23 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

The week after his reelection, President Obama was a man full of promise and promises: His job-approval rating stood at 54 percent, the 2010 tea party wave that had knocked his first term off balance appeared to have receded, and he seemed as sober about the future as he was hopeful.

“With respect to the issue of mandate, I’ve got one mandate . . . to help middle-class families and families that are working hard to try to get into the middle class,” he said at a news conference in the East Room of the White House in November 2012. Obama acknowledged the dangers of “presidential overreach in second terms,” but he put forward an expansive, legacy-building agenda: a major fiscal deal, immigration reform and action on climate change.


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To: Berlin_Freeper

At conception.


21 posted on 11/04/2014 3:32:20 AM PST by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

It is NOT Obama calling the shots. Arrrggghhh!!! When are people going to realize it is mega-donors behind the scenes calling the shots? All of this anger and invective is being directed at a man who is NOT in control. Turn the rage against whom it belongs, big donors who are pushing this agenda. They do NOT have Secret Service protection to stop massive protests at their doorsteps. You guys are wasting your time.


22 posted on 11/04/2014 3:34:54 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Best one yet!


23 posted on 11/04/2014 3:37:56 AM PST by Jarhead9297
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Washington compost ...

obola never went wrong.

The question is asked by a traditional/American/Republican/WASP which has nothing to do with the red diaper, doper baby that he is

obola has been right his entire life according to the rearing he's had.

In OUR fertile years, we watched Memortol Day parades and waved little flags sitting on Dad's shoulder ...

In his fertile years he was lap dancing Frank


Those of us who've been saying it over and over, are never given credit for knowing the truth ... obola is absolutely right and very good at what he does.

24 posted on 11/04/2014 3:40:49 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: BinaryBoy

Post #12 answers the question correctly. Obama did not “go wrong”. He has accomplished many of his objectives. In accomplishing them, his popularity has suffered. That was certainly taken into account from the beginning. And so what? He just won’t run for reelection in 2016.


25 posted on 11/04/2014 3:41:49 AM PST by samtheman
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Not being willing to work across the aisle. Not having a plan. Being arrogant. Leaving everything in the hands of idiots like Reid and Pelosi. Surrounding himself by incompetents. Enjoying running but being disinterested in actually being president. And on and on and on.


26 posted on 11/04/2014 3:43:39 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Berlin_Freeper; GeronL

The emperor wore no clothes. Sucks to have taken this long to realize it.


27 posted on 11/04/2014 3:46:06 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: ronnie raygun
Narcissistic Twit who
Surrounded himself with Self-Serving Yes Men

An Empty Suit in a Hall of Mirrors

28 posted on 11/04/2014 4:09:57 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: Berlin_Freeper

When he left Indonesia.


29 posted on 11/04/2014 4:12:16 AM PST by gasport (Will you children please close the damn door?)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Obama did not go wrong, the American electorate went wrong.
Obama was simply a bright opportunist, sophist, more sophisticated than a Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton but empty of content in the same way.

Any citizen idiot with a full corpus collusum joining his /her brain hemispheres together could have seen this coming in 2008 but people have a habit of behaving like a herd, without truly THINKING and LIOSTENING to what candidate Obama had to say, which was absolutely nothing.

Obama proved to be what he ALWAYS was, an absolute amatuer trying to PRETEND to be Presidential material which eh never was. It was all smoke & mirrors and a flash in the pan. Do not blame this great, so-called Healer - blame the people he were foolish enough to vote for him...

30 posted on 11/04/2014 4:12:33 AM PST by Netz
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Where did Obama go wrong?

Including or excluding golfing?

Put it this way, he is about to have his 8 yrs in office to fulfill a personal ambition - that's all.

31 posted on 11/04/2014 4:12:56 AM PST by odds
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To: Netz

...LISTENING...sorry for the error...


32 posted on 11/04/2014 4:13:44 AM PST by Netz
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To: Beagle8U

Add the fact his first “nanny” was a homo tranny and his teen mentor was a homosexual pedophile & communist.


33 posted on 11/04/2014 4:15:15 AM PST by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

He was born.


34 posted on 11/04/2014 4:17:16 AM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: equaviator
He went wrong when he decided to identify with left-wing radicals of the `60s and by following their "rules".

That and instead of growing out of it, he is more deep in it than ever.

35 posted on 11/04/2014 4:18:26 AM PST by palmer (Ind. Health Dept. monitoring 6 for Ebola like symptoms)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

He went wrong when he burned out half his brain cells in the choom gang.


36 posted on 11/04/2014 4:20:26 AM PST by palmer (Ind. Health Dept. monitoring 6 for Ebola like symptoms)
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To: DJ Frisat

“It’s sad that supposedly-intelligent people even have to ask this question...”

These are the same people who wonder why the French cranes on the new highrises all over the metro haven’t migrated yet.


37 posted on 11/04/2014 4:22:33 AM PST by OpusatFR (I did make that. No one else did the work.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

In the womb.


38 posted on 11/04/2014 4:22:37 AM PST by ZULU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qLDFiQcjlY Impeach Obama in 2015 !!!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Anti Semitic America hater with a series of affirmative action degrees? Who could have guessed it.


39 posted on 11/04/2014 4:26:07 AM PST by anton
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The real question is where did Americans stupid enough to elect him not once, but twice, go wrong? No wonder the country is going to the dogs.


40 posted on 11/04/2014 4:28:05 AM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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