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2010-10-28 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2010-10-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Just in case you weren't familiar with it, the "Executive Intelligence Review" is a creature of Lyndon LaRouche.

Posted by Eric Jablow 2010-10-28 00:18|| 2010-10-28 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 If he finishes one term and then leaves, will be as irritating as Jimmy Carter in his senile years? or as vulgar as Bill Clinton in his pedophile years?

Posted by whatadeal 2010-10-28 00:29|| 2010-10-28 00:29|| Front Page Top

#3 "Once he got into the White House he is very unhappy having to govern ... he is very frustrated, he is very depressed, some reports say he is on medications and he cannot concentrate or focus, which is a mental problem."

Got run over by the Reality Bus.

Posted by Bulldog 2010-10-28 03:40|| 2010-10-28 03:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Whatadeal, he'll investigate more golf courses than O.J. ever did ...

Posted by Steve White 2010-10-28 09:03|| 2010-10-28 09:03|| Front Page Top

#5 ...remove him due to his incompetence.

Well, it ain't gonna happen, NOT to say I disagree with the principle.

Posted by Alan Cramer 2010-10-28 09:17|| 2010-10-28 09:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Won't happen. The race card (and their own rising poll numbers while he's in charge) will ensure the Republicans don't try to impeach him. The Dems wouldn't dare because if they turned on him they'd lose the black vote entirely. More likely a landslide of Democratic money starts to go towards Hillary for the 2012 primary challenge.

The only scenario I can see Barrack voluntarily stepping down would be if he knew he would lose the primary to Hillary by a landslide. Otherwise he'll fight them at the ballot boxes with his dwindling percentage of hard core lefties hoping the other side decides not to show up on voting day.

Posted by rjschwarz 2010-10-28 09:19|| 2010-10-28 09:19|| Front Page Top

#7 If he finishes one term and then leaves, will be as irritating as Jimmy Carter in his senile years? or as vulgar as Bill Clinton in his pedophile years?

YES think of both as one person, then throw in really aggravating TV "preacher"(Reverend Ike for example) and add a permanent whine, "They wouldn't listen to me"), and you're close.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-10-28 09:44|| 2010-10-28 09:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Hillary Clinton is eagerly waiting in the wings to be called by her party. She is no better than Obummer. Both are radical leftist idealogues.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-10-28 09:55|| 2010-10-28 09:55|| Front Page Top

#9 I certainly hope nobody takes him out (he won't be impeached). I want him to finish his term alive, bitter, and repudiated. Making a martyr of him would overshadow his overreaching socialism, arrogance, lack of credentials and experience, and general jerkery.

Posted by Frank G 2010-10-28 10:07|| 2010-10-28 10:07|| Front Page Top

#10 Making a martyr of him

It changed JFK from a marginally incompetent president into 'one of the greatest ever.'
This is, I believe, a serious risk, and I hope he respects his Secret Service people more than his Dem predecessor did. They have their work cut out for them, God bless 'em.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-10-28 10:33|| 2010-10-28 10:33|| Front Page Top

#11 "Once he got into the White House he is very unhappy having to govern ... he is very frustrated, he is very depressed, some reports say he is on medications and he cannot concentrate or focus, which is a mental problem."

He IS Americas version of Gordon Brown.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-10-28 10:58|| 2010-10-28 10:58|| Front Page Top

#12 How's about we throw in a one-way ticket home to Kenya with his lovely parting gifts?

Posted by Alan Cramer 2010-10-28 11:05|| 2010-10-28 11:05|| Front Page Top

#13

I'll give you one good reason he'll never be impeached or otherwise removed from office.

Posted by Fred 2010-10-28 11:45|| 2010-10-28 11:45|| Front Page Top

#14 If that picture of Biden wasn't so despicably evil it'd be funny.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-10-28 11:56|| 2010-10-28 11:56|| Front Page Top

#15 separated at birth from Jack Nicholson's "Joker" Batman effort

Posted by Frank G 2010-10-28 11:57|| 2010-10-28 11:57|| Front Page Top

#16 rjshwarz hit the nail on the head. Race card beats an ace

Posted by chris 2010-10-28 12:32|| 2010-10-28 12:32|| Front Page Top

#17 There is the matter of physical health. Is he still smoking?

Posted by charger 2010-10-28 12:39|| 2010-10-28 12:39|| Front Page Top

#18 rjshwarz hit the nail on the head. Race card beats an ace

Dunno about that. If enough investigation on all the DoJ and other corruption goes on and it keeps pointing back to Bambi, enough people will be pissed enough to have House feel comfortable to start impeachment proceedings. I have often wondered since this Chicago boy was elected if he would finish his first term without being impeached.

Posted by DarthVader 2010-10-28 12:52|| 2010-10-28 12:52|| Front Page Top

#19 There is the matter of physical health.

Only if he had a stroke. Which I do not wish on anyone. An impeachment effort would not be effective unless the Republicans have veto-proof majorities in both Houses, which isn't likely to happen. The president is not going to step down -- why should he, when he can golf and go headline rallies on the government dime for a few more years, things he's good at -- although it's likely, in my uneducated opinion, that he will choose not to run again.

He should have stayed in the Senate, where he could shmooze and posture to his heart's content without any accountability.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-10-28 14:01|| 2010-10-28 14:01|| Front Page Top

#20 I think all 100 Senators were just on the receiving end of TW's anark. ouch.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-10-28 14:31|| 2010-10-28 14:31|| Front Page Top

#21 He'll finish his term but he won't run again.

The guy doesn't even enjoy being president. He's constantly trying to shirk the work and sneak out to the golf course.

As ex-President he can everything he likes about the job, and none of the work and criticism.

He was always just a face anyway, the left put him forward as their only electable front. He's becoming a liability and the left will find a new face and persuade him to retire.

Posted by Skunky Angeack7024 2010-10-28 14:40|| 2010-10-28 14:40|| Front Page Top

#22 First (and hopefully only) Affirmative Action President.

This is probably the first time in his entire life he's had a 'real' job where he actually has to work and is held responsible for it. He doesn't like and, by all accounts, Michelle defiantly doesn't like it.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-10-28 16:25|| 2010-10-28 16:25|| Front Page Top

#23 Nope. He will have to serve the next 6 years in order to pay off all the promises he has had to make over the last couple weeks.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-10-28 16:58|| 2010-10-28 16:58|| Front Page Top

#24 As if he has ever paid for anything.

Posted by Grunter 2010-10-28 17:28|| 2010-10-28 17:28|| Front Page Top

#25 I could see him doing an LBJ and bailing out of the '12 campaign if it looks like he's not going to get the nomination.

I could also see him being Jimmy Carter 1980, with a strong primary opponent in ~~Ted~~ Hillary ~~Kennedy~~ Clinton. How that would play out would be dependent on how the "superdelegates" lined up.

Resign before 1/20/13? Not flamin' likely.

Posted by Mike 2010-10-28 17:39|| 2010-10-28 17:39|| Front Page Top

#26 O reminds me of the Kennedy joke, "Its my football so we play by my rules". In my opinion he will cling to everything he believes. When November elections are over he will continue as he has. He would have been called an Oreo in the old days by his own people. He desperately wants to be black so he clings to his teachings as a life preserver. He will rally his people to himself at the expense of the country. Riots like in France are very possible. It is a sad thing to see. He is a very weak man and will go out kicking , screaming and possibly in a straight jacket.

Posted by Dale 2010-10-28 21:59|| 2010-10-28 21:59|| Front Page Top

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