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Running for Daylight (Obama, Not Brady)
The New York Times ^ | January 24, 2015 | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 01/25/2015 12:45:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

THE talk up in Boston is all about deflation while the talk down here is all about inflation.

Our sleek, techie president, whose battery dies faster than an iPhone’s, was fully charged Tuesday night for the State of the Union.

He was so puffed up, with such a bristling sense of self, that it was hard to believe this was the same guy who spent the last year clenched like a fist, beset by ISIS, beheadings and Ebola, shunned by his own party and slammed by the other party in the fall election.

The murmur went up from grateful Democrats gathered at the Capitol: “Wow, he’s got a pulse.”

Proving once again that he is a different kind of cat, Barack Obama is oddly pumped by his party’s defeat. Even in the House chamber, surrounded by hundreds of people and watched by millions, he seemed to delight in his detachment as he laid down his own markers to drive up his own numbers.

He doesn’t mind splendid isolation. He really thinks it’s splendid. He’s free to revert to being the consummate outsider who doesn’t see himself in the context of a system.

He likes the game better when he’s up against an opposing team. To him, Harry Reid was as big a problem as Mitch McConnell.

Now it’s easier for him to see who he is and where he stands vis-à-vis the Republicans because he doesn’t have to make intellectual compromises or negotiate the jagged shoals of the old-school Democratic Party. Now he can define himself against modern conservatives such as Rand Paul and Scott Walker....

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: harryreid; obama; randpaul; sotu
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1 posted on 01/25/2015 12:45:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maureen the queen of moon battery


2 posted on 01/25/2015 12:49:34 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: WashingtonSource

Is this supposed to make sense? To anyone?


3 posted on 01/25/2015 12:50:47 PM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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To: NewHampshireDuo

Makes sense to me. Summary - Obama does not care, he won, and can now be free.


4 posted on 01/25/2015 12:59:43 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Strange article. Oh,,, and rules!!


5 posted on 01/25/2015 1:00:08 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: DesertRhino

She’s no longer married to Michael Douglas, is she?


6 posted on 01/25/2015 1:01:56 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Dowdies are suffering a Kool-Aid hangover.


7 posted on 01/25/2015 1:06:52 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another liberal desperately trying to justify their agenda through mental contortions.


8 posted on 01/25/2015 1:09:49 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Our sleek, techie president, whose battery dies faster than an iPhone’s, was fully charged Tuesday night for the State of the Union.

Moreen, it is time ti up the meds.

9 posted on 01/25/2015 1:11:20 PM PST by mylife
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slammed by the other party in the fall election

There's the Dem playbook on display, slurring Republicans as if they're responsible for some dirty election trick. Hey, Dowdy, maybe, just maybe millions of free-minded VOTING CITIZENS were simply expressing themselves in the face of neglect from the Left!

HF

10 posted on 01/25/2015 1:14:21 PM PST by holden
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I can’t tell if Maureen is being facitious or what.


11 posted on 01/25/2015 1:17:41 PM PST by FLCowboy, (Can the GOP save this country in the next two years?)
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To: khenrich

Sounds like she is mocking the ahole.


12 posted on 01/25/2015 1:20:36 PM PST by mylife
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To: PghBaldy

Agree.

I think Dowd is mostly crazy but here she’s on the mark.

The Dark Prince has always been all about what he wants, nothing else.

What he wants is to destroy the institutions and damage the soul of America as completely as he can.

He now feels free to do exactly that, and Dowd is just pointing it out.


13 posted on 01/25/2015 1:24:55 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Now it's easier for him to see who he is and where he stands vis-a-vis the Republicans because he doesn't have to make intellectual compromises or negotiate the jagged shoals of the old-school Democratic Party.
Yes, that's correct, she is nuts. Not once has the Kenyan-born muzzie compromised, and ramming his agenda down all our throats was accomplished with the lemming-like assistance of Pelosi, Reid, and the rest of the Demagogic Party jackanapes in both houses of Congress.
14 posted on 01/25/2015 1:39:22 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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He hates the RATS, too. Notice he hasn’t been grooming or mentoring a successor over the years.


15 posted on 01/25/2015 1:43:21 PM PST by txhurl (They claim conservatives aren't electable yet they disguise themselves as conservatives to win.)
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I think Dowd is mostly crazy but here she’s on the mark.

....More bat shit crazy....


16 posted on 01/25/2015 1:46:02 PM PST by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: txhurl

He’s a muzzie and a racist, and most of his fellow Demwits are not muzzies.


17 posted on 01/25/2015 1:52:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ouch...when you’ve lost Maureen Dowd, you’re in bad shape.


18 posted on 01/25/2015 2:09:23 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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19 posted on 01/25/2015 2:13:22 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cocaine’s a hell of a drug


20 posted on 01/25/2015 2:44:35 PM PST by onona (Obama's entire term reads like a John Semmens post.)
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