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Obama’s Perpetual Campaign:
When Will The Nation Tire
Of Not Having An Executive
In The White House?

Mediaite, by Noah Rothman

Original Article

Posted By:KarenJ1, 11/28/2012 9:03:54 PM

With a dire fiscal crisis bearing down on the nation and the need for closed-door negotiations and face-saving compromises for squeezed members of Congress never more apparent, President Barack Obama has embarked on yet another political campaign. This time, he is agitating for public support for increased tax rates on the nation’s high-income earners as part of a comprehensive resolution to the fiscal cliff. But higher tax rates is the only policy prescription the president campaigned on in 2012 – if he has any mandate whatsoever from his victory, it is for higher taxes.

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The morons who voted for him have no idea what he´s doing. 0bama sure doesn´t care, that´s very obvious. To him being president consists of one big party and always campaigning. Leadership is completely foreign to that incompetent Marxist.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: JAN, 11/28/2012 9:08:05 PM     (No. 9038506)

Frankly, I stopped caring what he says or does during his first campaign.

Our family has created a ´work around´ the problem. We ignore him and his ilk.


Reply 2 - Posted by: ColonialAmerican1623, 11/28/2012 9:55:27 PM     (No. 9038582)

Define ´executive´


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: nonsense, 11/28/2012 9:59:51 PM     (No. 9038588)

ValJar must want him out of the house so that she can continue to run (ruin) the country.


Reply 4 - Posted by: rpool, 11/28/2012 11:15:11 PM     (No. 9038653)

Name one CEO of a Fortune 500 company that employs Obama´s tactics for leadership. You cannot. They have nothing to do with leadership, only with sabotage.


Reply 5 - Posted by: toodles3956, 11/29/2012 6:43:20 AM     (No. 9038865)

He has to be on the road. Staying in the oval office would mean he may have to make a decision and he is incapable of that. He enjoys traveling and Valerie is there to handle everything.


Reply 6 - Posted by: pineledger, 11/29/2012 6:57:55 AM     (No. 9038885)

Did you notice the supernumeraries behind Big Brother when he gave his "I have a pen" speech yesterday?? Two African Americans, possibly one Asian and one Hispanic, the rest Caucasians.

Translation: It´s not just the 47% who are for me.


Reply 7 - Posted by: LZK, 11/29/2012 7:57:21 AM     (No. 9038953)

I´m with poster #1 -- I´ve detached from Washington DC and all the corruption. I´m working locally and thinking about surviving the next miserable years....

LZK


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: beveyscool1, 11/29/2012 8:03:56 AM     (No. 9038964)

According to all of Zip´s minions, the election showed that a "majority of Americans agree with this President´s policies"...here comes Santa Claus...


Reply 9 - Posted by: rmagnus, 11/29/2012 8:23:37 AM     (No. 9038997)

Obama has never wanted the real job of President. He is only driven by his desire not to lose.


Reply 10 - Posted by: Bad Dog, 11/29/2012 8:31:41 AM     (No. 9039009)

Key question to keep in mind at all times, where Obama and his Choom Gang-style ´direction´ are concerned:

If you wanted to intentionally destroy the United States of America......

What would you do DIFFERENT?


Reply 11 - Posted by: Eheu Fugaces, 11/29/2012 8:59:44 AM     (No. 9039056)

Unfortunately, we are dealing with an electorate that has been conditioned by 60 years of television and movies to value style over substance. So long as Obama "looks" presidential, and swans around "acting" presidential, they will still look upon him with adolescent ecstasy. Obama doesn´t have to DO anything, except act in his own cheesy ripoff of "The West Wing."

Even if we were invaded tomorrow by debt collectors in the form of the modern successors to the old Chinese Ninth Route Army, the nation would shed a sentimental tear as they saw Obama with his hands up in surrender, and they would call him a "Great President." Oh, and the nation would blame the whole debacle on the REPUBLICANS.


Reply 12 - Posted by: Illinois Resident, 11/29/2012 9:02:15 AM     (No. 9039060)

Obama doesn´t just plain doesn´t care because he has been given what he wants. He gets to fly around in a jet and occasionally make a speech that is written for him.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: mitzi, 11/29/2012 9:04:56 AM     (No. 9039067)

Answer: almost four years ago.


Reply 14 - Posted by: Flyball dogs, 11/29/2012 9:15:37 AM     (No. 9039087)

What JAN said. And furthermore, he doesn ´t have to be IN the White House to reek his damage.


Reply 15 - Posted by: Holeymoses, 11/29/2012 9:28:45 AM     (No. 9039111)

Interesting to me the comments about "ignoring" Obama. I found that that is what I have to do to get on with things. i click off any image, ignore any quote of his and refuse to listen to any so call ´fair and balanced´ arguments between the two parties concerning his latest moves..
The last two French magazines I received in the mail had Obama on the cover, and articles within. I immediately threw them in the trash. He does not exist for me.


Reply 16 - Posted by: EnsignO´Toole, 11/29/2012 9:33:45 AM     (No. 9039124)

Bingo #3 and #5 - when is ValJar going to come out and tell us she is really the president and it´s too bad if we don´t like it - her "boy" won. ValJar is a combination of Rasputin and Svengali.


Reply 17 - Posted by: Bumblebee, 11/29/2012 9:46:50 AM     (No. 9039149)

We simply are ignorant about the president´s motives. Krauthammer and Thune think the president will be concerned about his legacy and will therefore give in on tax policy. I don´t think he is concerned about anything except the downfall of capitalism and going over the cliff will allow him to make more excutive rules to combat those evil Republicans that caused it.?? He is on TV now urging the citizens to call their congress-people. The people will back his executive orders when the next severe recession occurs. This is how Hitler got elected in Germany.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: owl, 11/29/2012 10:00:41 AM     (No. 9039172)

Sadly , #11 is right . The Americans who fought for our liberty are gone and cannot be replaced with the current lot of computer gamers and fast food junkies . D***weed simply has to ´ act ´ and his plan moves along effortlessly . It´s stunning to wake up , open Drudge , and find yourself in another Groundhog day .


Reply 19 - Posted by: carolina blue, 11/29/2012 10:07:20 AM     (No. 9039186)

I dont watch jug ears. if he comes on I change the channel how he got voted back in
is a mystery to me. but my faith is in God
and he has his plan and it will be played out so just keep looking up and listening
because something is amiss and keep your
eye´s on that little piece of land in the
middle east that is the key to everything.


Reply 20 - Posted by: Udanja99, 11/29/2012 10:09:24 AM     (No. 9039192)

This latest phase of zippy´s campaign is nothing more than a set-up to blame all of the failures of the next four years on the Republicans fighting with him over the "fiscal cliff". I´m with Ann Coulter - we should let him have his tax increase and let him own the coming disaster.


Reply 21 - Posted by: RancherJack, 11/29/2012 10:57:45 AM     (No. 9039315)

You can lead a whore to culture but you can´t make him think


Reply 22 - Posted by: OregonBoomerGirl, 11/29/2012 11:34:05 AM     (No. 9039386)

Oh, I so agree with #9. He doesn´t want the real job, he just likes all the perks and prestige and wants to fly around acting all important and give speeches. He leaves the rest to Valerie. It´s so sad to read the comments because we´re all so disheartened, but I feel the same - it´s not the America I´ve always known and loved to my core. The Dems are destroying it day by day. I can´t watch Obie either, and especially the useful idiots clapping like trained seals who go to his speeches. Sickening.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: bighambone, 11/29/2012 12:07:33 PM     (No. 9039463)

The morons who voted him in, who have been recently referred to by the Russians as being the illiterate population group in the USA, would use the excuse that because of the racism that Obama faces in the USA, that he is doing "the best that he can" and that is good enough for them.

As that voter group continues to grow by way of runaway mass uncontrolled illegal immigration, and a lot of other factors, we can probably say that we have not seen anything yet in that respect!


Reply 24 - Posted by: badrad, 11/29/2012 12:18:13 PM     (No. 9039488)

Who is the nation? The 47% takers plus the 47% taken and the middle 6 taken in?

The takers will notice when their free "gifts" end and the taken in when obamacare tax hits them personally.

It is still the economy, stupid, but we are living on borrowed money that the takers and taken in have no clue that they personally will ever have to pay anything on.

So i read about the majority of Americans think the government shouldn´t be in the health care business. Where were they on election day? LOL, ya just gotta laugh and go about your own private lives.


Reply 25 - Posted by: wtm, 11/29/2012 12:25:31 PM     (No. 9039511)

But, why should he be there, he is only the "Face" of the administration !

He is NOT the one making the decisions, Valerie Jarrett is !

Valerie already came out last month and told everyone that Obie will continue to fly around the country and campaign the next 4 years, that is ALL he knows how to do.

But NO WORRY, Valerie is making ALL the decisions !!!!!!


Reply 26 - Posted by: brianod1, 11/29/2012 2:06:46 PM     (No. 9039696)

The DC Rs really are idiots. Obama talks about taxing the super wealthy, and the Rs talk about spending cuts. Who will win that PR war? The Rs had better quickly frame the debate in such a manner that their position, the right one, is seen to benefit the middle class. Is there no one there bright enough to figure this out?


Reply 27 - Posted by: Lawsy0, 11/29/2012 2:08:40 PM     (No. 9039699)

President Sukarno, you mean?


Reply 28 - Posted by: Bumblebee, 11/29/2012 2:34:13 PM     (No. 9039768)

The R´s in DC are just concerned about the money stream to win the next election. The Tea Party is just as dumb as they threaten the congressmen.
People seldom vote on logic. Yes, Obama needs to be out smarted, but won´t be by the Congress or the Tea party or the hard liners on the right. They may be right but they will be "dead´ right. Romney and Ryan lost, folks! Learn something! Think ahead!


Reply 29 - Posted by: Me?Opinionated?Nah!, 11/29/2012 7:25:28 PM     (No. 9040230)

Why does his life seem so unproblematic and effortless? It’s almost as if his corrupt, complicit members of the media are his brothel and he’s its madam.

“Hi, Sailor! New in town?”


Reply 30 - Posted by: gracepmc, 11/29/2012 7:49:49 PM     (No. 9040259)

Obama is basking in the glow of his ever approving propaganda press. Valerie is running the WH -- albeit more obviously now than before. For some bizarre reason Hillary Clinton remains SOS when common decency and professional incompetence demanded her resignation on 9/11/2012. Every single person, legal or illegal, Dem or Independent, who voted once or more for this is responsible.


Reply 31 - Posted by: noddy, 11/29/2012 8:02:10 PM     (No. 9040279)

Obama has something just like Slick Clinton has; they both have a need to be adored. So long as Obama campaigns in the right places he gets his needs met. That´s what the uneducated ill-informed masses voted for. They can´t see beyond their front doors. They can´t see what will happen to the United States and how it will eventually impact them. They want their phones and they want them now.

Meanwhile the ´´slaves´´, those who create this nirvana for the masses, keep on working longer hours, pay more for their necessities and angrily watch the masses spend food stamps and welfare checks on luxuries that the workers can no longer afford. Same goes for those of us who are retired trying to make ends meet. Obama knows he will never be in this situation and has no sympathy, certainly no empathy, for us. He just wants to make sure that ´´his kind´´ gets what he believes is their right, and it delights him to take it from us.


Reply 32 - Posted by: jetsman, 11/29/2012 8:13:52 PM     (No. 9040298)

The stupid americans got their lord and savior in office,lord messiah o´bama.
The state controlled media will spoon feed the stupid american public more propaganda
and be told that l.m.o.is doing a masterful
job in office and what ever goes wrong is the republicans fault!! FREE PHONES!!
No animals were harmed in the making of these comments!!
CHUCK U.FARLEY!


Reply 33 - Posted by: jetsman, 11/29/2012 8:25:19 PM     (No. 9040315)

I too agree with #1 I too don´t care about o´bama being in office.
My life goes on and I will go on I will merely work around o´bama!!



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