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Topic: With an eye on legacy, Obama
developing second-term strategy |
With an eye on legacy, Obama
developing second-term strategy
Washington Post, by Scott Wilson
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 1/20/2013 11:25:39 PM
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| Amid his fiscal negotiations with Congress and the shootings in Newtown, Conn., President Obama has managed to hold several “think-big” meetings recently with senior advisers in the Roosevelt Room, and this month he dined with historians in the White House, searching for a rough road map for second-term leadership. As one senior administration official described the brainstorming sessions, Obama has made a request that challenges the instinctive pragmatism he has shown in office. “Let’s not focus on what’s possible or doable,” Obama has advised
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird, 1/20/2013 11:40:48 PM (No. 9129109)
How about the country? Isn´t that what you´re supposed to be leading, taking care of...not your legacy.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
pat26.2, 1/20/2013 11:43:04 PM (No. 9129114)
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
pat26.2, 1/20/2013 11:43:32 PM (No. 9129116)
Barf.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals, 1/20/2013 11:46:15 PM (No. 9129122)
It´s the only thing he has planned, other than vacations, for the past four years. This will be terrible for our nation as whatever his legacy is, it will leave us a legacy of obscene stupidity.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 1/20/2013 11:50:14 PM (No. 9129127)
His legacy is on display in Chicago.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
horstschmidt, 1/21/2013 12:06:17 AM (No. 9129145)
Super-mega-legacy-media-in-the-tank-barf-alert. The scary thing is, these reporters, so called, have no idea how absurd they are.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Dante, 1/21/2013 12:06:43 AM (No. 9129146)
Crushing the private sector, destroying the value of the currency and spending the federal government into insolvency. That´s his legacy and his fellow travelers in the media can´t cover for him forever.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
noddy, 1/21/2013 1:05:40 AM (No. 9129182)
Got it. First term is to assure a second term. Second term is to write a faux-history. Un-f´n-cary-believable.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DaBigGuy, 1/21/2013 1:12:57 AM (No. 9129187)
Second-term leadership? There wasn´t any first-term leadership.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
tappin52, 1/21/2013 2:13:15 AM (No. 9129236)
As we speak, his legacy is sweeping across northern Africa.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Spidey, 1/21/2013 2:32:21 AM (No. 9129246)
You can´t fabricate a leader or a legacy,although the media will try in both cases with Obama.If Obama fails,then the big media fails also for backing him.
Articles like this though,make you wonder what planet these writers live on. How can you possibly see any good in what Obama´s done the past 4 years. Passing,bullying,ramrodding an unaffordable care act isn´t a legacy,it´s part of his national suicide.
It´s arguable to me that all those people in Algeria would still be alive if Obama hadn´t killed Gadaffi.Obama´s outreach to these animals has backfired big time but he´ll keep on appeasing.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
pineledger, 1/21/2013 4:22:31 AM (No. 9129293)
He´s pushing his luck.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Gorzabozo, 1/21/2013 8:02:35 AM (No. 9129491)
Leadership by Committee never works. Having a meeting to come up with a method to ´achieve greatness´ is ridiculous to the point of incredulity. This sounds like an old Monty Python script, and a poorly written one at that. Does the MSM even realize they just admitted that our ´Dear Leader´ has to meet with ´experts´ to get a clue or an idea? Never give big responsibility to a small man.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 1/21/2013 8:24:55 AM (No. 9129531)
FTA:"Emanuel subscribed to the theory that in Washington, “if you aren’t pitching, you are catching,” as one former senior official said. And Emanuel did not want Obama, with his popularity high and his party controlling Congress, to wait for the ball."
This statement triggered the plagiaristic impulses of Doris Kearns Goodwin-causing her to suggest that Obama hire an intern, carry on an affair for a few months and then ,with his nose held high while stabbing the air with a bony finger, swear that he never had sex with that young man.
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