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Topic: A bad moment to be
partisan, Mr President |
A bad moment to be
partisan, Mr President
Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 1/1/2013 7:23:10 PM
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| Barack Obama did something bizarre on New Year’s Eve. While Republican and Democratic Senate leaders were locked in delicate negotiations to prevent America going over the fiscal cliff, the President held a press conference at the White House.[Snip] It was a performance aimed not at healing his country’s wounds but whipping up his party’s base. In a moment of shameless irony from the Satirist-in-Chief, Obama concluded by saying that America’s rulers “need us all to stay focused on [the people]. Not on politics.” A cynic might retort, “Politician, heal thyself.” The root cause of America’s brush
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
veritas, 1/1/2013 7:42:14 PM (No. 9093687)
Only the rankest fool takes anything of Obama´s at face value. Fools are likewise the only ones who treat Obama as "a political opponent."
He´s here for one, two-sided purpose -- power, used to destroy the United States. Put another way, the destruction of the country, via power gained politically.
FTA: A cynic might retort, "Politician, heal thyself."
A wholly-fair retort, not a cynic´s.
FTA: The root cause of America’s brush with the fiscal cliff is its $16 trillion debt.
Which exists thanks solely to rank, partisan spending for the purpose of greater power.
FTA: But the reason why it has teetered so close to the edge is politics. The cliff itself was partly the product of [politics]....
Obama is all partisan, all the time. But that may be too timid. Partisanship means opponents. Obama doesn´t see "opponents." He sees enemies. And he has an innate, curled-lip response always ready, if not always revealed.
FTA: Given how high the stakes were, the level of political leadership was disappointing.
Yeah, well, "disappointing" is hardly the right characterization, is it?
Stanley just can´t bring himself to call the kettle black. And dangerous.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
hamrman, 1/1/2013 7:44:14 PM (No. 9093690)
Every community needs a villiage idiot!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
lylacat, 1/1/2013 7:49:12 PM (No. 9093694)
0bama is smug and arrogant; I am sure we have not seen how much damage this man can do ... yet.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
nocuol, 1/1/2013 8:10:31 PM (No. 9093721)
Way to go, Tim Stanley! Once again we get more straight-forward, honest reporting from the foreign press than we do from our own left-wing propaganda machines.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Subal, 1/1/2013 8:32:30 PM (No. 9093747)
I can only hope the Republicans take a Senate majority in 2014, so this clown spends his last two years totally paralyzed in office!
He is a pox on America!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
WIBadger, 1/1/2013 9:19:10 PM (No. 9093816)
Doesn´t matter how bad he gets. He´s the black Messiah and always will be. He´ll never face any consquences.
Its been that way from the beginning.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
nonsense, 1/1/2013 9:59:05 PM (No. 9093879)
I believe he knows that "governing" is not something he is able to do. ValJar clearly explained that to him.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
civilservant, 1/2/2013 8:48:25 AM (No. 9094363)
The pursed lip ´smiles´ of the two ´womyn´ over his shoulder was chilling......you could see the hatred of white men just oozing from thier pores......
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