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2010-05-02 Home Front: Politix

Obama Blasts Right, Chides Left, Schmoozes Media

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Posted by Bobby 2010-05-02 12:33|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 "He criticized both ends of the political spectrum for using words such as "socialist," "fascist" and "Soviet-style takeover""

He forgot "racist", "bigot", "Nazi"...etc.

Posted by Javins3089 2010-05-02 12:53|| 2010-05-02 12:53|| Front Page Top

#2 How typical. He's supposed to give a commencement address and he turns it into a whinefest about how everyone else is nasty....but him.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2010-05-02 13:49|| 2010-05-02 13:49|| Front Page Top

#3 I sense fear.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-05-02 14:46|| 2010-05-02 14:46|| Front Page Top

#4 I smell fear. November can't come quick enough

Posted by Frank G 2010-05-02 14:48|| 2010-05-02 14:48|| Front Page Top

#5 November can't come quick enough So very much can happen between now and then, both for good and for ill.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-05-02 15:12|| 2010-05-02 15:12|| Front Page Top

#6 The sudden appearance of bombs, but crude devices that fail to go off, on MayDay, reminds me of an adage an old analyst once told me.....there are no coincidences in intelligence or politics. The September 1939 Poland gambit anyone? Beuhler.....Buehler...?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2010-05-02 15:15|| 2010-05-02 15:15|| Front Page Top

#7 What a great insight he has on ending polarization and creating a national discourse where the government is not reviled, the elected leaders are not being rancorous towards the other side or to the president. Wow... what an incredibly important insight.

However, like most of the Teh Chosen One's grand responses to anything, this one is woefully late. In this case, it's about nine and a half years too late. Was he not listening to the "poisonous political climate" when his predecessor was in office?

Oh, no... wait... he wasn't listening. He was too busy campaigning and voting "present".

Posted by Dash Riprocket 2010-05-02 15:42|| 2010-05-02 15:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Is there a serious argument that Obama's major initiatives thusfar are NOT socialist (or socialistic- tending towards socialism?)

"Too much government," he said, "can stifle competition and deprive us of choice and burden us with debt."

But not when he does it, I guess.

Posted by Free Radical 2010-05-02 17:18|| 2010-05-02 17:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Ya got a source for that?

Pretty amusing, he's quoting last week's Glen Beck.

Come to think of it, let's look at the free speech our Founders intended.

Here's an example from our Founders, a pro-John Adams federalist paper, during the presidential campaign of 1796 between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, calling Jefferson "a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father raised wholly on hoe-cake made of coarse-ground Southern corn, bacon and hominy with an occasional change of fricasseed bullfrog."

Going after his parentage is one thing, but accusing him of being raised on "Southern corn made hoe-cake"? Now that's hitting below the belt.

It didn't end there. In the 1800 campaign, Adams' allies wrote about what to expect if Jefferson were elected: "Murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood and the nation black with crimes."

The prestigious Jeffersonian Murder, Rape and Robbery Schools were tough to get into, but if you could get a scholarship to one, you were set for life.

Now, no one is advocating for these kinds of smear campaigns, but the point is maybe Bill Clinton should at least know the history of the country before opening his mouth about free speech as our Founders knew it.

Posted by KBK 2010-05-02 17:58|| 2010-05-02 17:58|| Front Page Top

#10 Obama listens to Glen Beck? My world is all askew.

Posted by Mitch H. 2010-05-02 19:25|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2010-05-02 19:25|| Front Page Top

#11 "Mark you this, Bassanio, the devil can cite Scripture for his purpose." - Merchant of Venice

Posted by Pappy 2010-05-02 23:49|| 2010-05-02 23:49|| Front Page Top

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