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2014-11-16 Home Front: Politix

Bus Insider: The Champ is in way over his head.

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-11-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 Even while standing on ValJar's shoulders.

Posted by Whurong Flomosh7989 2014-11-16 01:44|| 2014-11-16 01:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Time to rethink affirmative action---on all levels?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-11-16 05:09|| 2014-11-16 05:09|| Front Page Top

#3 'Affirmative Action' has over time, become a social imperative. The First and Second Confiscation Acts and Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15 would never be enough. Free labor is very, very expensive. We'll never see this mortgage paid in our life times, I assure you.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-11-16 07:25|| 2014-11-16 07:25|| Front Page Top

#4 David Rothkopf's other work:

Foreign Policy's David Rothkopf has an idea. "In short, it may well be that two of the biggest threats facing the United States America -- the decay of nuclear Pakistan and the rise of the Tea Party movement here at home -- suggest a grand solution fraught with opportunity (and delicious ironies)." He suggests, "The tea-baggers want a country? Let's give them one: send them to Pakistan. ... Think of the ways the Tea-bagger worldview makes Pakistan a much more natural place for them to live than America." He describes U.S. Tea Parties and Pakistanis as "two seemingly different but actually remarkably similar groups."

Posted by Zhang Fei 2014-11-16 07:33|| 2014-11-16 07:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Zhang Fei - I think I'll pass on David Rothkopf.

From Wik: Rothkopf was managing director of Kissinger Associates, the international advisory firm founded and chaired by former U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. Immediately prior to joining Kissinger Associates, Rothkopf served as Acting U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-11-16 07:54|| 2014-11-16 07:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Anyone still believe there is not a moneyed, socialist cabal pulling the levers in Washington and in the media ?

MIT Professor Jonathon Gruber to the white courtesy phone please, Professor Gruber

Posted by Besoeker 2014-11-16 08:03|| 2014-11-16 08:03|| Front Page Top

#7 The comments to this article are a hoot.

Seems like a collection of truthers and Marxist fellow travelers, BDS sufferers, with an anti-semite or two thrown in.

Posted by AlanC 2014-11-16 08:29|| 2014-11-16 08:29|| Front Page Top

#8 "In over his head." Those who have been paying attention have known this for a long time. In view of the 2014 midterm election results, there must be more and more people who are paying attention. Now the problem, is how to minimize the damage from this turkey during the next 2 years. Hope the Pubs are up to it.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-11-16 10:04|| 2014-11-16 10:04|| Front Page Top

#9

ValJar is an Iranian and Muslim

Most of the inner circle is muslim.

You cannot go from community organizer to junior state senator to junior US senator to POTUS.

Everyone with two brain cells that was not a true believer knew this.

I can imagine the stories that lurk buried in in baskets all over the MSM that warned us of him.

Thank you MSM for abandoning your role in a free society and becoming part of a George Orwell/Joseph Goebbels propaganda machine

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-11-16 10:34|| 2014-11-16 10:34|| Front Page Top

#10

Posted by Lionel Seltzer1411 2014-11-16 11:50|| 2014-11-16 11:50|| Front Page Top

#11 This is the best summary of Obama's policies I've ever read:

[Obama's]... flaws are compounded by a system that lets him pick and empower those around him. So, if he chooses to surround himself with a small team of "true believers" who won't challenge him as all leaders need to be challenged, if he picks campaign staffers that maintain campaign mode, if he over-empowers political advisors at the expense of those with national-security experience, that takes his weaknesses and multiplies them.

Posted by Frozen Al 2014-11-16 12:15|| 2014-11-16 12:15|| Front Page Top

#12 The Obama administration has done a number of good things overseas—far too many to list here. ..In short, Barack Obama doesn't get a zero on foreign policy by any means. He gets a C or a low C.

No Mr. Historian, President Obama doesn’t deserve a passing grade. The US global standing currently fluctuates between diminished and irrelevant depending on which area of foreign policy that is examined. The Obama Administration has carried out an incoherent worldview with colossal ineptitude. The President himself continues, time and again, to lack any leadership qualities and fixates on the politics of the personal. He’s predictably indecisive and ill-tempered. His only persuasion is to the gullible and shallow thinkers of like mind. Obama’s ease of mistruth reveals a moral deficiency that prevents commitment at any level. Bottom line - US allies don’t trust her; adversaries have no respect and her enemies have little to fear. An honest assessment of the Obama foreign policy is failure at any measure.

Posted by DepotGuy 2014-11-16 13:20|| 2014-11-16 13:20|| Front Page Top

#13 " The Obama administration has done a number of good things overseas—far too many to list here."

Well how about a top three because I can't think of a single one.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-11-16 14:01|| 2014-11-16 14:01|| Front Page Top

#14 Methinks that "good things overseas" remark is an eerie echo of the answer Hill'ry gave when asked to list her accomplishments as SecState

Posted by Pappy 2014-11-16 18:22|| 2014-11-16 18:22|| Front Page Top

#15 David Rothkopf: IF the Tea Party decided to take over and transform Pakistan (though I doubt we would - the whole country isn't worth a bucket of warm spit), we'd turn it into a functioning republic toot sweet. And probably wouldn't have to kill too many of them, either.

Eat your heart out, you worthless b@stard.

Posted by Barbara 2014-11-16 21:30|| 2014-11-16 21:30|| Front Page Top

#16 Note that Rothkopf thinks Obama is doing better than both Reagan and GWB.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2014-11-16 21:37|| 2014-11-16 21:37|| Front Page Top

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