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Topic: 1,471 days in, Obama declares
immigration reform is now urgent |
1,471 days in, Obama declares
immigration reform is now urgent
Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm
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Posted By:SurferLad, 1/30/2013 9:16:43 AM
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| President Obama spent about nine hours aboard Air Force One Tuesday to give a perfunctory presentation of a standard 25-minute campaign speech. Aides described it as a new package of immigration reforms. But it wasn´t. It was a recitation of reform goals he has outlined often before. Worse, Obama´s ideas are pretty much the same as those seeping out of bipartisan Senate consultations. But he´s got a louder bully pulpit, so the Democrat is trying to look as if he´s driving the discussion.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Blackeagle, 1/30/2013 9:34:58 AM (No. 9148181)
Barry´s latest out-of-sync proposal shows that he has no understanding of the political process - or that he´s playing some sort of mind game - or that, given his known Narcissist disorder, he is becoming unraveled.
I now think that he is unraveling. Strap yourselves in, the next four years should be a bumpy ride.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Hotrod, 1/30/2013 9:58:06 AM (No. 9148239)
Another ´´crisis´´ that requires everyone to do his bidding, to avoid the immigration ´´cliff.´´
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Tusker, 1/30/2013 10:01:19 AM (No. 9148248)
Yet another contrived Bow-Boy crisis.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Objectivity, 1/30/2013 10:17:11 AM (No. 9148289)
in my very humble opinion ..... IBD and especially their relatively still new hire Andrew Malcolm, keep this seeker for credible information sane.
Andrew Malcolm is one of the unsung heroes at this juncture .... and so too IBD
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
wilko, 1/30/2013 10:17:38 AM (No. 9148292)
The Crisis du Jour. We must act. Straw men and women demand it. There´s Lupe down in Texas who has three little kids who are starving. There´s Jose in Barstow whose fast-food job won´t support his two wives and 15 kids.......gag me with a cuchara.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
King of all trolls, 1/30/2013 10:24:59 AM (No. 9148310)
Tell him and Rubio to stick their crisis where the sun don´t shine. Where are the jobs, Dear Leader?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
navybrat, 1/30/2013 10:26:49 AM (No. 9148317)
Obama constantly steam rolls and pushes from all sides with his emergencies. Obamacare was an emergency that had to be passed immediately. It was imperative that tax increases happen now and they have already been spent. He wants this half-baked immigration law with no input or debate to be passed now. This constant ploy is to keep everyone in a state of turmoil and agitation. The propoganda media and news readers aid and abet.
Too bad he does not see the passing of a budget as urgent.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
dman, 1/30/2013 10:30:21 AM (No. 9148329)
Urgent to distract us from our fiscal problems, that is.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Safari Man, 1/30/2013 10:48:53 AM (No. 9148378)
He´s got more "flexibility" now that the election is over.
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