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Topic: President Obama´s not-quite Camelot |
President Obama´s not-quite Camelot
Politico, by Jennifer Epstein & Glenn Thrush
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Posted By:StormCnter, 1/21/2013 5:43:49 AM
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| President Barack Obama’s new license plates may read “District of Columbia” but his head, heart and body language shout “I’m not from around here.” Local leaders believed that Obama, the first African-American president and an avowed urbanist, would fulfill his promise to embrace a many-hued metropolis overshadowed by white marbled official Washington. A few even believed he would expend political capital, as Jimmy Carter did, to back voting rights or statehood on behalf of district residents. The city’s fraying, graying Georgetown townhouse aristocracy — the ones who had dismissed Bill Clinton as a hick two decades earlier —
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
mws50, 1/21/2013 5:54:59 AM (No. 9129350)
Washington DC is not a state and does not have the constitutional authority for Senators, nor House members. The people living in that 10 square miles knew this before they moved there.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Spidey, 1/21/2013 6:05:33 AM (No. 9129356)
I assume if DC got statehood,they would also get two more liberal senators.If I´m not mistaken DC was set up as a neutral area to house government offices.
Ireally don´t get all these libals rags being down on Obama all of a sudden. Maybe it´s a collective to downplay expectations for Obama´s next for years. But to wallow in idiotic sentiments like a 2nd coming of camelot,shows these morons don´t really get the devastation going on across this country.
Maybe Obama/Lincoln thing isn´t sticking the way they hoped.Their biggest problem is convincing people failure means success only because Obama´s too brilliant to make a mistake.
the left wing central planners behind Obama have to realize he doesn´t have the time or money to finish the country off.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Patchy Groundfog, 1/21/2013 6:11:41 AM (No. 9129360)
Urbanist...is that where someone tries to turn the entire nation into the South Side if Chicago?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
BirdsNest, 1/21/2013 6:25:49 AM (No. 9129367)
Maybe it´s just me but I think a photo of the poseur in our White House does not belong on this website. If there has to be one, maybe the face can be airbrushed or pixelated so we do not have to see that "Joker"like grin. Never. For me it ruins my day and makes me want to vomit.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Charactercounts, 1/21/2013 6:46:04 AM (No. 9129380)
This baloney about him always having dinner with Michelle and the girls...
Considering his background, I´d call it Camel-lot.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Judith, 1/21/2013 7:40:16 AM (No. 9129461)
People voted for him on the promise they would be elevated and stuff would be taken away from other people and given to them. Plain and simple.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
LouD, 1/21/2013 8:08:27 AM (No. 9129500)
I agree with #4, but I would classify his look as arrogant. It really spoils my breakfast to have to see him early in the morning. Or afternoon. Or evening. In don´t ever remember seeing George Bush´s picture confronting me every day. Although he never had that smug/arrogant look on his face that Obummer has all the time.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bpl40, 1/21/2013 8:24:25 AM (No. 9129530)
The very purpose of setting up DC was to house the Federal Government on territory that was "neutral" between all States. Otherwise New York City would have been fine the way London or Paris were for the UK and France. As the poster above said everyone should know this. But then Chuck Shumer should also know that writing a budget means doing so without raising further taxes.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
JoniTx, 1/21/2013 8:30:16 AM (No. 9129538)
~~He waited until after his reelection to put the “Taxation without Representation” tags on his limo, in part, because embracing the ethics-challenged D.C. political elite means hugging somebody on Monday who might be slapped in cuffs on Friday, according to Democrats in his circle.~~
Great city, D.C., isn´t it?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
krause, 1/21/2013 11:24:16 AM (No. 9129927)
Obama is like shiny oak veneer, with rotten plywood underneath. The lofo´s still see the shiny veneer, conservatives see the rotten plywood, democrats and the old media see the rotten plywood...and don´t have a problem with it.
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