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Evan Thomas: ´Cocky,´ ´self-involved´
Obama should golf with Congress
Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 2/19/2013 12:29:08 PM
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| President Obama´s super-secret practice of golfing just with donors, friends and underlings is coming under fire from an unsual source: Former Newsweek Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas. The Daily Beast contributor who once called Obama a "sort of God" is blasting the president for being "cocky," "peevish," "crotchety," and "self-involved," when it comes to dealing with Congress and he recommends an about-face to being more like laid-back former President Dwight Eisenhower. Writing in Washingtonian, Thomas, the author of a new Ike biography, advised Obama to kiss up to lawmakers, maybe even golf with a few,
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Isn´t this rich. Where was he years ago? 0bama has always been cocky and uninvolved with congress.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
tedinmich, 2/19/2013 12:37:51 PM (No. 9185000)
The article says Jugears is becomming "cocky". That should be "uppity"!
Ted in Michigan
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
krause, 2/19/2013 12:38:19 PM (No. 9185003)
Some of these lefty ´journalists´ are starting to act half-way normal, maybe in hopes of getting a gig on Fox.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Susannah, 2/19/2013 1:12:45 PM (No. 9185066)
OP, years ago Thomas was referring to Obama as "Godlike."
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
NorthernDog, 2/19/2013 1:29:16 PM (No. 9185102)
He probably spends most of the time on the golf course smoking and drinking. And not cigars and Perrier.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
udanja99, 2/19/2013 1:40:02 PM (No. 9185122)
Wow, Evan, what took you so long? Those left wing rose colored glasses?
BTW,#1, be careful with that word - the taste police nailed me once for using it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
phx4546, 2/19/2013 1:57:21 PM (No. 9185156)
cocky," "peevish," "crotchety," and "self-involved," you left out a-hole
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Talk2, 2/19/2013 3:41:02 PM (No. 9185331)
Narcissist and that´s all you have to say when speaking of the bozo in the WH.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Pearson365, 2/19/2013 4:14:39 PM (No. 9185387)
By "cocky", are we referring to the secret time that Obama spent with his lover, Reggie Love? This is what the press was barred from, and why the WH press corps wrote so much about Tiger Woods. There was a tiger in Obama´s tank this weekend, and it was due to Reggie, his former and current body man.
It´s time to start referring to Obama as either bisexual or homosexual in order to protect the country from his being blackmailed (can I say that) by an enemy of our country. If his sexual preferences are transparent, the opportunity to threaten to expose him declines.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
RIsailor, 2/19/2013 4:31:23 PM (No. 9185410)
It´s worth it to "read the whole thing" in Washingtonian. Ike was a very good president, who kept us out of war...e.g. Suez. He worked well with Congress, unlike the current WH occupant.
O´s untreated narcisism prevents him from any empathy toward Boehner, McConnell or other republicans. Over time, watch for dems to become more distant from Obama, as they fend for themselves.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Charactercounts, 2/19/2013 5:27:46 PM (No. 9185510)
Wasn´t the story that Obama golfed with several young men from the White House staff?
And Reggie Love?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
mercedesops, 2/19/2013 10:22:48 PM (No. 9185889)
If he does I hope it is at Congressional Golf Course and not on the military course at Andrews AFB where our troops pay his greens fees with their recreation and morale funds.
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IRS official who oversaw unit
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Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) told the large group of reporters gathered for a press conference on Thursday that the Department of Justice seizure of phone records from the Associated Press is what happens when a “tyrannical despot” is running the government. “If the AP story has taught anything it should be to the media that when there is a tyrannical despot, the media will be one of the early victims,” Gohmert said. “You will be used as helpful savants for awhile, and then when you are no longer needed, you’ll be pressured and put out of business as well.”
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Daily Mail [UK], by Helen Pow
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Obama Picks White House Budget
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PJ Media, by Bridget Johnson
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Second IRS official to
leave amid tea party scandal
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Benghazi emails show State
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WASHINGTON – State Department officials repeatedly objected to -- and tried to water down -- references to Al Qaeda and prior security warnings in Libya in the Obama administration´s initial internal story-line on the Benghazi terror attack, according to dozens of emails and notes released by the White House late Wednesday. The documents were released under pressure after whistle-blowers testified on the Hill and some email excerpts leaked to the media last week. The 100-page file showed that State Department officials were even more heavily involved in editing the "talking points" than was previously known.
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Benghazi Emails Directly
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The White House on Wednesday released 94 pages of emails between top administration and intelligence officials who helped shape the talking points about the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that the CIA would provide to policymakers in both the legislative and executive branches. The documents, first reported by THE WEEKLY STANDARD in articles here and here, directly contradict claims by White House press secretary Jay Carney and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the revisions of those talking points were driven by the intelligence community and show heavy input from top Obama administration officials, particularly those at the State Department.
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On Thursday´s NBC Today, in a desperate attempt to deflect from the scandals engulfing the Obama administration, co-host Savannah Guthrie wondered: "I read a headline yesterday that said Republicans see blood in the water. That they see a president who´s very vulnerable politically. Is there a danger that they will overreach?" Chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd agreed with the slanted premise: "There is. I mean, that´s what happened to Republicans in 1998 with Bill Clinton.
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STANDING BEFORE reporters Thursday, President Obama declined an invitation to compare the recent scandals weighing down his administration with those that forced President Nixon to resign in 1974. So allow us to do the work for him: There is no comparison. Nixon, in a series of crimes that collectively came to be known as Watergate, directed from the White House and Justice Department a concerted campaign against those he perceived as political enemies, in the process subverting the FBI, the IRS, other government agencies and the electoral process to his nefarious purposes. Mr. Obama has done nothing of the kind.
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BELCHERTOWN – Shortly after midnight Tuesday, seven people were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir. State Police say the five men and two women are from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore, and “cited their education and career interests” for being in the area. The men told police they were chemical engineers and recent college graduates. The Quabbin, in Belchertown, is one of the country’s largest man-made public water supplies.
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Weiner to seek erection,
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New York Post, by David Seifman
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Posted By: Drive- 5/15/2013 8:55:10 AM
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Anthony Weiner’s bid to rise from the political dead is ready to begin in earnest — the disgraced former congressman will announce he is running for mayor as early as next week, according to sources. “He’s definitely running,” one Weiner ally told The Post. After weeks of hinting at a run, Weiner has taken a major step toward firing up his campaign by hiring a manager to guide his mayoral bid, according to a report. Weiner has tapped political adviser Danny Kedem, who recently worked on a Staten Island congressional race, to run his impending mayoral campaign, according to a report on Politico.com.
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Obama 47 minutes late for his press
conference; leaves reporters in the rain
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Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/16/2013 1:20:06 PM
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“I look forward to taking some questions at tomorrow’s press conference,” President Obama said last night, after announcing the resignation of the acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller. The president scheduled a noon press conference today with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in honor of his visit. Reporters, however, found themselves waiting outside in the rain for Obama, who was 47 minutes late. Only New York Times reporter Mark Landler had an umbrella.
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Source: Two ´rogue´ workers principally
behind IRS targeting of conservatives
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CNN, by Dana Bash*
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/15/2013 4:50:18 PM
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Washington -- The Internal Revenue Service has identified two "rogue" employees in the agency´s Cincinnati office as being principally responsible for "overly aggressive" handling of requests by conservative groups for tax-exempt status, a congressional source told CNN. In a meeting on Capitol Hill, acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller described the employees as being "off the reservation," according to the source. It was not clear precisely what the alleged behavior involved. Miller said the staffers have already been disciplined, according to another source familiar with Miller´s discussions with congressional investigators.
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Now Venezuela is running out
of toilet paper
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Associated Press, by Fabiola Sanchez and Karl Ritter
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Posted By: PageTurner- 5/16/2013 1:22:12 PM
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CARACAS, Venezuela — First milk, butter, coffee and cornmeal ran short. Now Venezuela is running out of the most basic of necessities — toilet paper. Blaming political opponents for the shortfall, as it does for other shortages, the embattled socialist government says it will import 50 million rolls to boost supplies. That was little comfort to consumers struggling to find toilet paper on Wednesday. "This is the last straw," said Manuel Fagundes, a shopper hunting for tissue in downtown Caracas. "I´m 71 years old and this is the first time I´ve seen this." One supermarket visited by The Associated Press
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