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2010-06-03 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by logi_cal 2010-06-03 09:13|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 It's impossible not to feel sorry for President Obama ....

Err, no it isn't.

Posted by AzCat 2010-06-03 09:48|| 2010-06-03 09:48|| Front Page Top

#2 How does a man who invented himself as a force by writing one of the most eloquent memoirs in political history lose control of his own narrative?

Because he didn't write it MoDo?

Posted by Beavis 2010-06-03 09:58|| 2010-06-03 09:58|| Front Page Top

#3 In "Dreams From My Father," Obama showed passion, lyricism, empathy and an exquisite understanding of character and psychological context

That presumes he actually wrote it.
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Posted by logi_cal 2010-06-03 09:58|| 2010-06-03 09:58|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't like the oil spill but the political fallout is priceless.

Posted by HEU 2010-06-03 12:47|| 2010-06-03 12:47|| Front Page Top

#5 The implosion of Jimmuh II is hilarious to watch.

This empty suit is nothing more than a Chicago Mob puppet that the MSM painted all their hopes and dreams upon. He's well on his way to being the worst president in history. Ha!

Posted by Jefferson 2010-06-03 12:57|| 2010-06-03 12:57|| Front Page Top

#6 politico is hammering

Taken together, the Sestak and Romanoff cases suggest a White House team that is one part Dick Daley, one part Barney Fife.

Posted by Beavis 2010-06-03 12:59|| 2010-06-03 12:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Instead of buoyant, he seems put upon. Instead of the fairy dust of hopefulness, there's the bitter draught of helplessness.

Sux finding out there are no Unicorns, eh Barry?

Besides the roiling water below, the skies opened from above and gusting, lightning-streaked rains drowned the president's plans to give a Memorial Day speech at the Lincoln cemetery near Chicago. On the evening news, pictures of the president standing under an umbrella shooing people off the soggy field were a sad contrast to the wildly sentimental Joe Biden presiding, hand on heart, over a sunny and moving Memorial Day commemoration at Arlington National Cemetery

KARMA

Posted by anonymous_2u2 2010-06-03 14:09|| 2010-06-03 14:09|| Front Page Top

#8 MoDo buried the lead: He's gotten a lot of breaks: two opponents in his U.S. Senate race in Illinois felled by personal scandals; a mismanaged presidential campaign by Hillary Clinton; an economic collapse that set the stage for a historic win, memorably described by the satiric Onion newspaper as "Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job."

Except the economic collapse in Sept '08 didn't "set the stage for a historic win", it caused that win, full stop.

Barry was ever and always a lightweight BS artist using his fabulous Lifestory as a magnet for people to project their own kumbaya hopes. He has never, in his weird and accomplishment-light pre-politics professional life, shown any mastery of any difficult subject or management or leadership challenge. No grasp of foreign policy or economics or finance or immigration or trade or any particular region of the world. Nothing except BS and race-mongering.

Posted by lex 2010-06-03 15:51|| 2010-06-03 15:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Yet here he is, by his own choice, in charge of a job of work at the outermost limits of technical knowledge and experience. Wet suit on, close the hatch! Barry to the rescue! Dive Dive! Dive!
How does this spanner thing work again?

Posted by Grunter 2010-06-03 16:31|| 2010-06-03 16:31|| Front Page Top

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