He's Just Not That Into It

For two and a half years, I've been saying that as far as the presidency goes, Barack Obama could take it or leave it. Sure, he loves the perks of the job: the private plane, the red phone, the valet, the chefs willing to make him a grilled cheese on sourdough at 3am. But in terms of doing the actual job, he's just not that into it.

Obama truly considers himself a transcendent character: the first bi-racial person to be elected to the American presidency, and therefore a historic, almost celestial figure. In fact, on election night 2008, he strode on stage and delivered a victory speech that might as well have been a farewell speech. Obama looked at his winning electoral votes and thought, "My work here is done."

That's why he's avoided the heavy lifting usually required of presidential leadership. He gave the "stimulus" to Congress to write, which is why it ended up being a lard-filled political document rather than a truly stimulative economic one. He let Congress write the massive ObamaCare bill, which is why that turned out to be a 2000+ page hot mess that even the then-Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, had to admit that they needed to pass to find out what was in it. He let Congress also write the equally indecipherable Dodd-Frank financial regulatory bill, which is so job- and economy-killing that even the Dems who voted for it (again, without having read it), are fleeing the bill like Anthony Weiner from modesty. He is letting Congress (and the country) twist in the wind on all budgetary matters, from the actual annual budgets, to proposing spending cuts, to other ideas for deficit reduction, to what to do about the debt ceiling. He's AWOL all over the place.

Obama doesn't dig the job. Never has. He enjoys the big house and the pick-up basketball games with LeBron, and he's savored the fact that he's been able to findamentally change America toward a European socialist model. But as far as doing any real work, the dude would rather not.

This morning, he told NBC's Today show: "Michelle and the kids are wonderful in that if I said, 'You know, guys, I want to do something different,' they'd be fine. They're not invested in daddy being president or my husband being president."

Now that it's clear that his policies have wrecked the economy, with its most important indicators---unemployment, housing prices, consumer confidence, gas prices---all sliding in the wrong direction, he might want to take a powder. Go and do something "less stressful," as he said this morning. Write his memoir. Give speeches. Create a foundation to rival Bubba's. You know, cash in and check out.

Perhaps he raised the curtain on that possibility this morning.

And perhaps I've been right all along about something else: that Hillary Clinton is starting her engines.

Comments

[LongRifle]

I definitely do not agree with Monica's assessment of Obama. He is transforming America; jist like he said he would. He is re-distributing wealth; just like he said he would. He is forcing a green economy on us; just like he said he would. He is succeeding at his REAL agenda; not the one he sold to fool his "useful idiot" voters.

[Ummahgummah]

I apologize for my harsh comments yesterday, but I get the distinct impression that no one running for President at this moment understands what is happening on the world's stage, much less how to deal with it.

Posted by: LongRifle | June 14, 2011 at 11:41 AM

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Why apologize for telling the truth? THEY need to apologize to US for dragging us all down with them into the abyss they all know is imminent.

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[Ummahgummah]

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There's a lot of things Monica's been saying recently that any thinking Conservative should not agree with. I know Longrifle rejects that label for himself but I don't know what label is better at this time to describe opponents of this oppressive regime intent on transforming the country into something like Venezuela.

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[Ummahgummah]

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Here's a perfect example of why THEY hate FOXNEWS:

Peace Activist Ran Phony Blog

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/06/13/gay-girl-in-damascus-blog-hoax/

'A Gay Girl in Damascus' Blog a Hoax

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/06/13/gay-girl-in-damascus-blog-hoax/#ixzz1PGov8j76

They do the job the rest of the American media won't do, namely REPORT!

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[thebuckstopshere]

personally, I think Monica thinks of herself as quite the clever wordsmith...........ah yes the sentences flow, but frankly the points blow.........

Our pres is doing exactly what he stated he would do PERIOD.........I have always thought that those in POWER that would sell this great country down the TOILET, have been PROMISED, a safe haven elsewhere............

with all this yap about greying hair, lines on face, toll on baby boy, MAYBE we will get lucky & the man will only serve 4? He said that before too, only going to take me 4 years...........& that being said if true, what this here country needs is a Patriot, a lover of freedoms & a REAL desire to make US once again the envy of the world.......

as well, I truly wish that political pundits, talking heads, could stop with the clever turn & TRUTHFULLY S P E L L I T O U T..............

NO UBERDOUCHE RINOS 2012

[thebuckstopshere]

http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/dspielman/god-bless-texas?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

as well, the Texas legislature meets but two x's a yr., as in PART TIME, not FULL TIME TROUGH SUCKERS...........

NO TROUGHSUCKING RINOS 2012

[mjfell]

Monica's 100% correct in her accessment of the current White House occupant. He's voted "present" since his inaugurated. The legislation that he's signed into law was prepared and preloaded before he announced his candidacy. He's a puppet who was groomed to be the Manchurian candidate since the day he emerged from whatever excretory system expelled him.

[Ummahgummah]

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Term Limits must be implemented at all levels. The last thing we need are "professional politicians" who like Weiner, couldn't get a job flipping burgers if they needed one.

They also don't need those fat pensions either.

Someone who truly desires to serve the country and represent their fellow citizens in Congress doesn't need excessively obscene amounts of loot in compensation for their activities.

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[thebuckstopshere]

no exceptions to the rule!

http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/varney-co/index.html#/v/993002726001/gene-simmons-and-the-judge-tackle-big-government/?playlist_id=87060

NO RINOS 2012

[satan]

Monica (darling) it sounds like (from youtube comment ) that ya miss my KHA uck in yur mao uph, virtually and actually...not ny fault ya don't bother me more

[Ummahgummah]

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Lots of looney libs around.

DON'T FEED THE TROLLS.

We are on the path to TAKING BACK AMERICA!

WAR ON ERROR 2012

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[LongRifle]

Term Limits must be implemented at all levels. The last thing we need are "professional politicians" who like Weiner, couldn't get a job flipping burgers if they needed one.

They also don't need those fat pensions either.

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Posted by: Ummahgummah | June 14, 2011 at 01:51 PM

I certainly agree with that. I would add the repeal of the 17th Amendment as well.

[thebuckstopshere]

UG, take it back at every LEVEL.....school broads on UP.......COMMON SENSE CANDIDATES, whose objective is bettering the COUNTRY not THEMSELVES.........no entitled self serving scumbags........

NO SELF SERVING SCUMBAGS 2012

[Ummahgummah]

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Here's how the UN's $ORO$-sponsored "Agenda 21" wants to deal with housing:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/is-the-soros-sponsored-agenda-21-a-hidden-plan-for-world-government-yes-only-it-is-not-hidden/

Yup, they want to ELIMINATE PRIVATE HOME OWNERSHIP.

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[Ummahgummah]

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HANNITY YOU ARE THEE SUPER GOOPER!!!

The Field of Queens SUCKS!!!

My grandmother could beat Obama!!!!

What kind of a criteria is that?!

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[Ummahgummah]

IMPEACHBHO
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 8:39am
BAD News: Austin has gone the way of the libs. It is full of California twits that moved there.

GOOD New: Austin is surrounded by Texas.

[Ummahgummah]

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The debate only goes to show that the Republicans still haven't gotten it.

They should have rebuked the CNN twit when he asked condescending idiotic questions.

And why did they do this whole thing on CNN to begin with?

Let the Bama and his RATS agree to do a similar event on FOX and THEN we can consider doing this on CNN!

But NOOOOO they step right into the next trap!

Now they are on the path to competing on hostile ground.

THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO STRATEGIZE AND FIGHT!

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[Ummahgummah]

JOHN 3:16
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 10:20am
The first property to be seized is the UN building.The occupants should be expelled from America immediately.The building should be turned into a museum that displays the failures of communism, Islamism, Obamaism, liberalism,socialism and facism. They should use the remaining space to exibit all the successes of our Constitution, our founding fathers, America and our free maket system and our military.

[DJ]

"... Obama looked at his winning electoral votes and thought, "My work here is done."

That's why he's avoided the heavy lifting usually required of presidential leadership ..." (-Monica)

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Yes, Monica, one might expect that Barry -- being the first "black" president and all -- would work diligently towards trying to break the stereotypes which labels black men as having the propensity to avoid hard work and responsibility. But instead, he legitimizes those stereotypes.

[thebuckstopshere]

agenda 21, see how quickly the "peoples" representatives
disregarded Mr Bush pts & voted 7-0

yep a good place to start to take it back imo, is your local school broads & local gvn't boards.....

NO LYING SELF SERVING SCUMS, NO LEVEL, NO MORE

[Ummahgummah]

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All I hear on Hannity today is how "great" the "emerging field of Republican candidates" is when all I see is RINOS and Goopers.

They're trying to set us up for a lesser evil of President Anyone But.

Why not a Third Party guy or gal then, Sean?!

If Trump/Palin ran against Gingrich/insert RINO #2 here we all know whom Hannity would support!

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[Ummahgummah]

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Gringoman, DJ: If Trump/Palin ran against Gingrich/insert RINO #2 here who would Rush support?

Savage seems to hate Trump so I guess he will put his emotions ahead of what is good for the country and go with the Goopers.

Levin.. that might be interesting.. he likes Palin but hates Trump.

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[DJ]

"Gringoman, DJ: If Trump/Palin ran against Gingrich/insert RINO #2 here who would Rush support?"

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UG,

Given that particular choice, I think Rush would fade into a neutral corner. Either that or his head would explode.

Change the characters to Trump/______ vs Romney/Huntsman with Palin out of the race... then Rush, I beleive, would be foursquare in support of the Goopers.

[Ummahgummah]

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DJ, How about Bachmann/Trump in OVERDRIVE?

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[DJ]

Trump/Bachmann works for me!

[Ummahgummah]

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BTO!

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[Ummahgummah]

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Though I am still waiting to hear from Bachmann about her campaign manager and what's up with the attacks on Sarah Palin.

So TBO it is!

Trump/Bachmann Overdrive

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[DJ]

"Though I am still waiting to hear from Bachmann about her campaign manager and what's up with the attacks on Sarah Palin."

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I think we can let that one slide for now. Hopefully it was a one time breach of etiquette solely on the part of Rollins.

[Ummahgummah]

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And lo and behold:

Yet the Republicans dutifully trudge over to CNN to be subtly mocked at a "debate", just like they'll agree to general election debates moderated by the likes of Bob Shieffer and Brian Williams, while the dems boycott Fox.

Posted by: Beef at June 14, 2011 12:32 PM

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Yup, I am NOT the only one who has noticed!!!

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[thebuckstopshere]

DJ, I gotta disagree, Bachmann's choice was not politically savvy or imo smart........personally I think she should keep her seat.

two pts I would like to make:
1.) pundits are stating the teaparty co-opting the republican party, I believe it is the EXACT OPPOSITE

2.) I believe it was Newt would pointed out last night, that this election cycle is NOT just about the ofc of Pres & that seats need to be won as well.....

Bachmann, imo would better serve from her seat....& personally if I heard one more time last night her 23 foster kids I think I would have puked..........I'm sure it will be a recurring theme.....I think the strategist has yet to declare, so I will not get all in a lather about the "strong field of candidates"......nor will I fall prey to anybody is better than the one.........not good enough imo

GIVE US REAL CHOICE 2012

[thebuckstopshere]

UG, I think alot of people noticed......I mean to tell ya the forum was lousy, King's ah ah ah ah in the background was more than annoying..........they wasted more time fielding ?'s from the audience & from satellite cites......for me, it raised more questions than answers..........

REAL CHOICE 2012

[Ummahgummah]

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Judging by some of the callers on Hannity today I'd say we have a new definition for "angry clingers": Black people screaming insults at anyone who advocates the removal of their cargo cult icon B HUSSEIN O.

They are textbook: Angrily Clinging to BHO. Regardless of the FAILURE he is.

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[thebuckstopshere]

UG, LOL

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/hows_that_hope_and_change_working_out_for_obama_supporters.html

REAL CHOICE 2012

[Ummahgummah]

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Well, Savage seems to have noticed what Hannity ignored. That CNN forum was an absolute disgrace.

The fact that all these candidatelets allowed this libcreep to talk down to them the way he did is not exactly confidence-inspiring.

Savage is right: If they can't even stand up to a little CNN gadfly disrespecting them with his condescending questions, how can they possibly stand up to our enemies, both foreign and domestic?

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[Ummahgummah]

Another con-job from the Marxist-in-Chief;

"President Barack Obama will visit the North Carolina-based Cree LED Light Company Monday to tour the plant and meet with his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness to discuss job creation and policies to spur economic growth.

But Cree, "a major recipient of Recovery Act funds, may be sending all that money straight to China". At the very least, its CEO, Chuck Swoboda, has a very China-centered strategy that involves building a new plant overseas, two facts that the Republican National Committee plans to highlight Monday morning prior to the president's visit.

Cree received a $39 million as an Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit from the Recovery Act.

The company began developing clean energy technology, hired a few more hundred workers, and the administration touted it as a "true American success story" on the White House Web site.

Then in late 2010, the company opened its first plant in Huizhou City,China. That made Cree the first global LED company to locate a manufacturing plant in China..."

From the patriots at PIG...

Posted by: Spider at June 14, 2011 9:19 AM

[xbjllb]

Synchronicity.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20110614/ts_yblog_theticket/obama-my-family-approves-of-a-one-term-presidency

This is NOT an executive. This man would have made a brilliant diplomat, and after eight years of that, he MIGHT have made a decent President.

[Chief Joe]

The way things stand, candidates for office are eligible because their parties say so. This means all sorts of possible conditions might exist, including other people born outside the US running for the office of president. Let's stop this with Obama. All people who file for candidacy ought to be cleared by a judge (or supreme court possibly, and perhaps also by the public) who will check to see if the candidate meets the legal requirements.

I like the requirement that one's parents are legal US citizens, and the candidate born in the US, except for military people who had their child on a foreign base, or a child born in a US embassy. Reasonable requirements have changed - today almost everyone being born in a hospital, and established with birth records.
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As an aside, Obama possibly should not be issued a US passport since he has no legitimate birth affidavit. He would be the first president to not be eligible for a passport. Perhaps we should keep him from leaving the country in the future!

[xbjllb]

"This morning, [out of the complete blue] he told NBC's Today show: "Michelle and the kids are wonderful in that if I said, 'You know, guys, I want to do something different,' they'd be fine. They're not invested in daddy being president or my husband being president." - Monica Crowley

"Tightrope walking can be very damaging to children... RESIGN" - xbjllb

So much for Denizen's claims of power NOT reading the Memo. BOTH interviewer and interviewee in this case.

That recognizing laugh after the "resign" question was priceless.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20110614/ts_yblog_theticket/obama-my-family-approves-of-a-one-term-presidency

Mr. President, I think we've come to a place were MOST Americans would feel very comfortable as well with a one-term Presidency.

Except for Chrissie Matthews, who can go hump his tingly leg on someone else.

Male. After Hillary's eight years of peacetime prosperity and Matthew's (by then eternal) misogynist scowl. Who knows, it might be finally just enough to make the old boy come out of the closet as a Republican and cross the river Styx over to FOX as a "liberal" commentator.

[gringoman]

CNN John to the assembled G.O.P. "serious" candidates, "lightening" it up for the audience assumed to be Americano boobtube bubbleheads:

"Do you prefer spicy wings or bacon, Elvis or Johnny Cash, Beatles or Stones, cheese curls or potato chips yadablaba yadablaba...."

If any one of them came back at the Jerkmaster with their best smile and just said something like, "No comment, John. Can we move on?"....that candidate would have walked away with the "debate," towering over the others who were too intimidated to be themselves.

But not a single one did, proving once again that the G.O.P.is, in fact, the Lamestream's bittches.

ps. The only one I'm fairly sure would have stood up to this Hackstream humiliation is Donald Trump. And Sarah Palin? Maybe, but only maybe. Her gut would have told her what to do, BUT, even she now has "advisors" who are telling her that she's too "aggressive" to suit the Independents, especially the insecure women. "Sarah, got to lower your negatives in the Lamestream polls."

[xbjllb]

I apologize. That was unfair. Chris Matthews is not misogynist.

Only against women who should have been President and wouldn't have done EVERYTHING as*s-backwards.

[xbjllb]

Gringoman, Donald Trump is the greatest political genius who ever lived, if for nothing else, keeping out of this circus until the last possible minute.

As I'm sure the man will prove. Unless he has to run against Hillary.

Also keeping out of this circus until the last possible minute, I am sure.

[gringoman]

Gringoman, DJ: If Trump/Palin ran against Gingrich/insert RINO #2 here who would Rush support?"

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Trump/Palin.

And I'd put money where my keyboard is.

[xbjllb]

Yes, Virginia, the Editor gets EXTREMELY angry when he sees the lesser evil not living up to their billing. Like taking the concept of party FIDELITY (something the GOP implicitly understand) and throwing it under the lawn mower.

What goes around comes around, COWARDS. Bend down and find your balls. You're fighting absolute evil here, remember?

This is not 1st grade dodgeball. These are life and death matters.

Lesser evil my as*s. Why is it only the Clintons' seem to get this?

Ah. Of course. That ON CAMERA DOUBLE murder attempt by some pol op working as a grip for CBS.

Too bad it doesn't happen to EVERY Democratic politician. Maybe they too would figure out the stakes involved.

To paraphrase Franklin, the GOP will either hang you all together, or hang you separately.

It's harder to hang a bunch. STICK TOGETHER YOU REPELLENT WEASELS.

[xbjllb]

And when it comes to sex WHICH ISN'T EVEN FRIGGIN' SEX?

GROW. UP.

Try LAUGHING at the right's co-opting of morality. After all, it is the BIGGEST JOKE IN THE UNIVERSE.

Whenever ANYONE mentions Weiner start HOWLING like it's the biggest inside joke. It IS.

What if you don't? What if you continue down this road?

Every politicians' sex life will be fodder for the tabloids. ON LIMITS.

You REALLY want to set that precedent?

YOU have to put it ALL OFF LIMITS. Again.

One's sex life has NOTHING TO DO with how one governs. PERIOD.

One could even make a valid argument that the whackier a person's sex life, the BETTER THEY GOVERNED!!

And you do it by ignoring the situation, laughing at it, anything but DOING WHAT THE GOP WANTS.

Geniuses. QUIT ACTING LIKE THE GOP'S HOUSE SLAVES.

Quit doing their filthy destructive work FOR THEM.

[M/M]

Gringoman, DJ: If Trump/Palin ran against Gingrich/insert RINO #2 here who would Rush support?"

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Trump/Palin.

And I'd put money where my keyboard is.

Posted by: gringoman | June 14, 2011 at 07:50 PM
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Trump/Palin... Rush doesn't like the Grinch.

[xbjllb]

""Sarah, got to lower your negatives in the Lamestream polls." - Gringoman

What Sarah has to do is find the best private tutor of CHILDREN in the world, take a year off and get her G.E.D. For real. Passing basic history, geography, civics, and English tests. With A's, not D's. And discover a real passion for reading.

After that, she needs to get in at least two years of community college level tutoring on law and college level history and political science. And not from some phony "Bible" college either where they churn out brainless militant Christianist zombies like Bachmann and Christine O'Donnell with pseudo-science. Or any so-called "university" or "college" where the Kochheads have hand picked their whore "professors".

Then, and only then, will she be ready for prime time. And God help her opposition then.

Of course, the end result of all that education will have been for her to drop all of her opposition to choice. And support of Israel.

As any simple understanding of history of the 20th century pre Roe Vs. Wade always does.

Do I think she can do it? Yes. WIll she? Highly unlikely. Once someone reaches a certain level of monetary success they rarely grow as human beings.

[Ummahgummah]

As an aside, Obama possibly should not be issued a US passport since he has no legitimate birth affidavit. He would be the first president to not be eligible for a passport. Perhaps we should keep him from leaving the country in the future!

POSTED BY: CHIEF JOE | JUNE 14, 2011 AT 07:25 PM

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LOL!!!

I have an even better idea. Why not keep him from re-entering next time he comes back from outside the country?

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[xbjllb]

FIDELITY IS NOT HYPOCRISY.

CENSURE WEINER AND MOVE ON.

[xbjllb]

What the CIA wants you to know:

The Voice of the White House

Washington, D.C., June 14, 2011: “Obama was elected by a popular mandate and mainly because the mass of the public was fed up with rampant official corruption, law-breaking, endless political wars, a ruined economy and many other present and growing disasters to the national fabric. It is now becoming painfully obvious that Obama is a total sell-out to both the intelligence community and the powerful monies power elite that has been running this country for decades. He promised to end the war in Afghanistan. He didn’t and expanded it. He promised to close Guantanamo torture center. He did not. He promised more governmental openness and instead, has tried his best (and failed) to punish whistle-blowers who expose the rampant and criminal corruption in all branches of government. He is, in short, a total failure. But do we want to replace him with a Repubican lunatic like the Jesus Freak Bachmann or Saotorum? Or the idiot Palin? The hilarious fraud known as the Great bin Laden Removal is typical. No sane person believes the constantly changing stories and while Obama’s popularity ratings soared, they launched that cartoon show far to early for a positive reaction in the next Presidential election. Timing is everything, something the Obama people do not understand. And now we are informed that Obama and the crazy Cass Sunstein want to shut down the Internet because it is making fools out of him and his crime partners. Look for a bogus “cyber-attack” followed by “emergency decrees” designed to shut down anyone daring to expose the fraudsters and criminals. Julian Assange did a wonderful job, especially in toppling the petty tyrants we support throughout the oil-producing Arab world but notice how a sudden silence has fallen on the subject? Not a word about Julian or his work anywhere in the mainline American media. Why is this? Orders from the Oval Office to the corporations who own the major (and rapidly vanishing) print media and television comedy hours. Obama and his bedraggled crew has as much chance of shutting down the Internet and controlling any revival of it than they do of getting the Nobel Prize.”

More at:

http://tbrnews.org/wordpress/

[M/M]

Bachmann, imo would better serve from her seat....& personally if I heard one more time last night her 23 foster kids I think I would have puked..........I'm sure it will be a recurring theme.....I think the strategist has yet to declare, so I will not get all in a lather about the "strong field of candidates"......nor will I fall prey to anybody is better than the one.........not good enough imo

GIVE US REAL CHOICE 2012

Posted by: thebuckstopshere | June 14, 2011 at 05:24 PM

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Really good point! I just can't get into Bachmann and I think that is it. I can relate to Sarah Palin but I can't relate to someone who had anything to do with that many kids.