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Humility or Cynicism? Whatever is Driving Obama is Better Than Nothing
National Journal, by Ron Fournier
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Posted By:Drive, 3/12/2013 9:16:49 AM
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| He is dining with Republicans after advisers openly mocked suggestions that he do so. He is visiting Capitol Hill after telling aides that such a gesture was beneath him and the dignity of his office. And, as an ultimate indignity, he is talking to reporters. What’s gotten into President Obama? A better question might be what has left the president – and the answer would be: Much of his political capital. Obama’s sudden burst of public outreach coincides with a drop in his approval ratings, noted first by Democratic pollsters advising the White House
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Holeymoses, 3/12/2013 9:32:04 AM (No. 9220753)
He´s just putting a pretty bed cover over a flea ridden mattress. The purpose is to show his minions how reasonable he is, how inclusive.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Pros7767, 3/12/2013 9:37:57 AM (No. 9220759)
Since he´s reversing course (at least publicly), he may want to reverse course on the white house tours before he does more damage. Many, on both sides of the aisle, will never forget this pettiness.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
LAW428, 3/12/2013 9:51:58 AM (No. 9220784)
"...beneath him and the dignity of his office?"
Just who does this halfrican product of a loose hippie and a Communist think he is? Based on his narcissism and his disdain for all things non-Arab, there is nothing that isn´t beneath him!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Davids918, 3/12/2013 9:54:04 AM (No. 9220788)
It´s not genuine.
The liberal/progressive wing of the Democrat party aren´t a majority of Americans. They are Ivy-league, elite and mostly white. They believe they know better and use "experts" to fool the masses into believing some topic.
The liberal ideas are failing, again.
Time to point out all those liberals, and the moderate/conservative Dems who are running for election but will be forced to vote with the liberal Democat leaders.
The liberals want higher gasoline prices, electricty prices, water, food, and many other items.
Remember, we also pay for those items in many gov´t programs too. Gov´t vehicles need gasoline, gov´t buildings & schools need electricity, phones, paper, water, supplies and school lunch programs food.
Democrats are increasing the costs on all these things.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LouD, 3/12/2013 10:24:14 AM (No. 9220867)
Humility? Him? Hey, there are 10,000 comedians out of work, so stick to your day job.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JAN, 3/12/2013 10:25:59 AM (No. 9220870)
Devious comes to my mind when considering this president.
His visit to the Church of the Nativity a perfect example.
That holy site was invaded and desecrated by the Palestinians in 2002. They were shooting at jews from the windows and balconies.
They defecated from one end of the Church to the other to show their disrespect for the Church.
No wonder O chose that particular site to visit.
Are we to believe anything he says or does is honorable?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
M2, 3/12/2013 10:26:48 AM (No. 9220872)
The headline itself is subject to question: "Nothing" from Obama is preferable to anything, including humility (a laughable suggestion) or cynicism (close, but no cigar.
Where this POTUS is concerned, "nothing" is exactly what I want him doing.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Aunt Agnes, 3/12/2013 10:47:59 AM (No. 9220915)
Or possibly, since he is SO smart & god-like & has such a long attention span - he might be boning up on his favorite dictators & he´s read the end of the book.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Teleologicus, 3/12/2013 10:55:56 AM (No. 9220934)
Neither humility nor cynicism nor anything normally expected of an American president. Obama does not understand the rules, does not value the rules, and does not play by the rules. He rejects American values, including the division of power and checks and balances of the United States Constitution which, if he has actually ever studied, he also rejects. This man is not an American and does not have American interests at heart. It would be best to regard him at present as a temporarily cornered animal seeking to survive in order to continue its depredations. He can learn nothing. He forgets nothing. He should not be trusted for one instant in any matter great or small. He is not a friend of America. He is an enemy of America.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
civilservant, 3/12/2013 11:05:37 AM (No. 9220955)
Satan´s greatest trick was convincing people he did not exist.
This is his second greatest trick.
Believe NOTHING from this Adminisatration.
Nothing.
Not. A. Thing.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Philipsonh, 3/12/2013 11:26:30 AM (No. 9220986)
Never trust a wolf in sheep´s clothing. Cut Government spending. Period
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
WhatMediaBias, 3/12/2013 12:36:57 PM (No. 9221111)
I´m sure Obama considers himself the humblest person in America.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
marthaville, 3/12/2013 1:24:46 PM (No. 9221181)
Beneath him? It´s not like he was "somebody" before he came to the game. It makes you wonder what else is in that demented mind of his.
We have learned the hard way about Dr. King´s statement concerning the color of one´s skin vs. the content of the person´s character. Color of skin trumps everything else when it comes to politics. Our nation has settled for a man as president who has no character and knows it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mickturn, 3/12/2013 3:16:04 PM (No. 9221381)
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer...is more like it!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Arby, 3/13/2013 7:01:12 AM (No. 9222172)
What is ´driving´ him? I didn´t know that he was actually going anywhere. What drives him is Moochelle´s demands for more vacations.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Timber Queen, 3/13/2013 7:16:59 AM (No. 9222200)
What difference, at this point, does it make?
(I can´t sleep, 4 am here, and I´m getting cranky.)
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Lawsy0, 3/13/2013 7:53:43 AM (No. 9222252)
Nothing from nothing leaves Nothing.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Jebediah, 3/13/2013 8:02:01 AM (No. 9222263)
ALL Obama cares about is getting back Congress, and if he has to make nice, or appear to, briefly on OUR dime (what about the Chef at the W.H. as opposed to an expensive meal at a hotel?) so that he can prove himself reasonable as opposed to those nasty, uncompromising Republicans, so be it. With Nancy Pelosi back in power we will again have to pass the bills to see what is in them, and then it will be too d------ late! The Press could give a good d----. I don´t know if they are simply fellow travelers or just too lazy to look behind the curtain, but they certainly have lost the right to be called journalists. Even a squeak or two from the Wash. Post is a drop in the bucket re: water carrying for this President.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
nonsense, 3/13/2013 8:17:46 AM (No. 9222284)
The man works for the American people, not George Soros. If only ValJar knew this, she could inform her boss how a Representative Republic functions.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Rinktum, 3/13/2013 8:33:33 AM (No. 9222317)
Can you say set up? Obama will use this out reach to his advantage. I don´t believe he is looking for common ground. This is all for show. Videos and photo ops of him making nice will lead the news cycles. The only compromise this evil man will accept is complete compitulation by the Republicans.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
govlawyer, 3/13/2013 8:38:32 AM (No. 9222329)
Who´s trying to put lipstick on a pig now, Zippy?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
peterfleming, 3/13/2013 9:12:53 AM (No. 9222404)
#2 LAW 428 brilliantly labels our fuehrer.. "halfrican product of a loose hippie and a Communist" Talk about a messed up childhood and worse, he never worked out any of these ruinous problems, only studied totalitarian Marx and Muslim dogma, none of which actually work.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
LZK, 3/13/2013 9:25:41 AM (No. 9222431)
The man is an idiot!! He was "selected" by the puppet/masters to put a "black" face in the White House -- so THEY -- could run the country from behind closed doors...
Well -- the America public is not stupid -- and the "won" is coming apart at the seams....
LZK
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
EnsignO´Toole, 3/13/2013 9:37:24 AM (No. 9222468)
FTA: Is this schmooze-a-thon a legitimate act of humility and leadership or a cynical public display?
I was unaware that a malignant narcissist ever had a humble thought - cynical thoughts, yes, but humility - no.
Barry Obama has given us four plus years of "showing contempt for accepted standards of honesty or morality by one´s actions, especially by actions that exploit the scruples of others."*
*The quoted part above is the 2nd definition of "cynical". It really fits with his middle finger displays and ridiculing his opponents.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals, 3/13/2013 9:37:37 AM (No. 9222469)
Now that Americans have elected the first mixed race president twice in a row, the shine is wearing off, and the substance (if he has any) of the man is showing. He has no gravitas. He hasn´t a clue about anything other than fomenting policies and regulations that continue to divide Americans. His economic ideas are an extreme version of the old Populist inflationary scam that they have been working for more than a century. And his abdication of world leadership to the so-called Arab Spring fiasco may lead us down the path of a war so terrible, it will make WW II look like a cake walk.
Humility? Cynicism? How about the least qualified person to hold the reigns of leadership since Nero.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Illinois Resident, 3/13/2013 9:49:25 AM (No. 9222493)
I guess 0 X 5 = 0.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
coldoc, 3/13/2013 10:15:56 AM (No. 9222528)
Sorry, #5. McCain and Graham will forget. Probably already have.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
bigfatslob, 3/13/2013 10:20:29 AM (No. 9222533)
#9 thank you now I won´t have to type that. To add to it, Obama is not wizard of smarts. I think he is of low IQ and an ignoramous. Obama is immature and childlike and I don´t need to get in his brain and waste my time figuring him out any more than I care about what Charles Manson thinks.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Zumkopf, 3/13/2013 10:44:26 AM (No. 9222591)
#23, the American public *IS* stupid -- at least 51% of it is -- or else we would not be having this conversation.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
pineledger, 3/13/2013 10:45:05 AM (No. 9222593)
Note that The Won could not bring himself personally to take responsibility for the tour cancellations.
It´s his Waterloo!!
He thought he would do something high-profile to make people "feel" the squester. He did, all right. And people are really teed-off.
And coincidentally, he has shown that he is a fundamentally petty and mean (in every sense of the word) child.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
KanCreeper, 3/13/2013 10:53:35 AM (No. 9222607)
Zippy is a political schizophrenic, his royal seal should be a whirling Dervish. He has got so many psychological issues, one of these days they´ll find him in a closet, wearing tinfoil on his teeth, and just babbling. He won´t if he has come or went, his mind will be having a out of body experience. He´ll be a modern day Caligula.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Razorgirl, 3/13/2013 11:10:27 AM (No. 9222646)
Let´s face it. The Santa Clause voters elected a jerk and a coward who never worked a day in his life and to this point still hasn´t. Now, due to his lack of any kind of work ethic, his popularity is down. At night he is sitting in the corner of a closet in the family residence sucking on his thumb, clutching his blanky and asking Michelle over and over "Why don´t they like me?".
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
steelbreeze, 3/13/2013 11:27:15 AM (No. 9222683)
Whats driving him?Hell he is a skinny-armed commie loving little girl trying to destroy America.Hows that for drive?
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Butch59, 3/13/2013 12:09:34 PM (No. 9222809)
A hearty thank you to #9 for expressing that wich we all here believe.
A for Obozo´s current actions, all this is is show time. Got to show all of those plebes how hard he is trying to do the work of the country and how those republicans are doing everything they can to prevent him from doing so. That´s all it is. A show cooked up by his handlers and put on before the American citizenry.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
GreatPlains, 3/13/2013 12:31:56 PM (No. 9222851)
Humility is not a characteristic that one usually develops at age 50. It´s a personality trait developed early on. Obama´s first autobiography is riddled with anti social and aberrant personality traits. It could be used as a primer in a psychology course. Fournier and the rest of the media have to know this. At some point in time, the media and historians will have to come clean and truthfully admit that Obama was the most psychologically disturbed individual to occupy the Oval Office. We should all worry that our global enemies , unlike the media , recognize this reality and have been and will exploit it for their purposes. Fournier quotes an anonymous WH adviser who said the only reason Obama was deigning to meet with one of the branches of government was to put on a show for the media. FTA-“This is a joke. We’re wasting the president’s time and ours,” “I hope you all (in the media) are happy because we’re doing it for you.”
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Mother of AL, 3/13/2013 4:24:09 PM (No. 9223411)
What # 9 said
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
donnaclaire, 3/13/2013 6:44:18 PM (No. 9223646)
Our dearly beloved, I-didn´t-do-it/Don´t-blame-me/It´s- not-my-fault president is really a doozie. I try to laugh about him whenever possible - helps to keep me from crying.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
strike3, 3/13/2013 8:59:58 PM (No. 9223807)
There is nothing driving obama. He is like a runaway train, or a dog going aimlessly from hydrant to hydrant and lifting his leg whenever the urge arises. There is nobody within a hundred miles of him with the courage to stop him. That part I don´t understand because he´s just a skinny, cowardly, stupid adolescent who is afraid to even stand behind his own bad ideas.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 3/13/2013 9:09:10 PM (No. 9223818)
We are tired of dealing with a teenage choomer.
Even Eddie Haskell grew up and moved on.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy, 3/13/2013 11:33:59 PM (No. 9223962)
Like I keep saying, once Obie, always Obie. The "My way or the highway president".
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The Obama White House is scrambling to blame Friday’s abysmal March jobs numbers on the sequester’s trimming of the rate of growth in federal budgets that have yet to fully commence. After the Labor Department announced that a mass exodus of 663,000 workers left the U.S. workforce last month and that job creation fell 112,000 jobs short of projections, Obama’s top economic adviser Alan B. Krueger, took to the White House blog to blame the sequester: It is important to bear in mind that the March household and payroll surveys are the first monthly surveys to look
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Mother Of Slain Benghazi Officer To Sean Hannity: ‘They Want Me To Shut Up’
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Mediaite, by A.J. Delgado
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/7/2013 5:00:16 AM
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On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,
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Trayvon Martin´s parents settle wrongful death claim
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Orlando Sentinel, by Rene Stutzman
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 3:15:25 PM
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SANFORD - Trayvon Martin´s parents have settled a wrongful death claim for an amount believed to be more than $1 million against the homeowners association of the Sanford subdivision where their teenage son was killed. Their attorney, Benjamin Crump, filed that paperwork at the Seminole County Courthouse, a portion of which was made public today. In the five pages of the settlement that were available for public review, the settlement amount had been marked out. Lower in the agreement, the parties specified that they would keep that amount confidential. When asked during an earlier interview whether the amount was
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Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th anniversary in Havana, Cuba
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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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Obama Budget to Cap Retirement Accounts at $3 Million
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 9:40:39 PM
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The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts. According to a White House statement, the Obama administration believes the current rules allow some wealthy individuals "to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." "The budget would limit an individual’s total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per
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