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Mr Obama's catchphrase is 'Yes, you can!' - so why is he telling us Brits 'No, you can't'?
The Telegraph ^ | 22 Apr, 2016 | CHARLES MOORE

Posted on 04/23/2016 12:02:11 PM PDT by MtnClimber

It is bad form to attack a fellow columnist, so I must be kind to the President of the United States of America, who appeared in this slot yesterday. As his political career draws to a close, Barack Obama is proving that he has a great future as a journalistic commentator. I salute him: the newspaper trade needs all the talent it can get in these trying times.

Besides, it is reassuring to know that he is a friend of this country. One of his first acts as president was to remove the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office, so some of us formed the view that he thought the Anglo-American relationship was no longer all that special. Seven years later, we are being proved wrong.

It turns out Mr Obama now thinks it is so special that it authorises him to take part in our electoral process.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: brexit; eu

1 posted on 04/23/2016 12:02:11 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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0bama loves how the EU is destroying Europe.


2 posted on 04/23/2016 12:03:37 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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The Royal Family’s Court jester is on vacation, so they invited the Obamas over.....


3 posted on 04/23/2016 12:03:38 PM PDT by JBW1949
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He does this because he is an arrogant, Free America hating boob.


4 posted on 04/23/2016 12:04:02 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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ouch. It takes a Brit to totally dismantle a loser.


5 posted on 04/23/2016 12:04:31 PM PDT by grania
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Unfortunately we Americans know all to well his ‘Yes, you can’ meaning you will accept everything has said and done, which took a while to see through him and his evil ways...

OUR new theme to him is: “ASAP get the hell out of America!!!”


6 posted on 04/23/2016 12:05:54 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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There is an assumption that when this thing speaks he is uttering words with meaning. That is a doubtful assumption given his verbal history.


7 posted on 04/23/2016 12:06:11 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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The writer apparently has Obama mixed up with Sammy Davis, Jr.


8 posted on 04/23/2016 12:09:42 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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It’s “yes, WE can”.

As in “not you”.


9 posted on 04/23/2016 12:11:15 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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Short answer: because “yes, you can” comes with the unspoken rejoinder, “when I let you.”


10 posted on 04/23/2016 12:22:06 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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As his political career draws to a close, Barack Obama is proving that he has a great future as a journalistic commentator. I salute him: the newspaper trade needs all the talent it can get in these trying times.


Yep if you like to hear liberal horse blank pablum, Obama has a great future in that area.

I think Obama will follow in the footsteps of the Clintons. He’ll write his book, go on the lecture circuit, get big paychecks, and maybe even start a half assed charity as the Clintons did.

While Obama will leave the White House in January, he’s never going to quite go away.


11 posted on 04/23/2016 12:34:44 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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“It turns out Mr Obama now thinks it is so special that it authorises him to take part in our electoral process.”

Well, as a former citizen of Kenya, he may be so authorized.

That said, IMO this asshat, our whitehut resident, is an ego maniac. He is a mental midget encased in an adult body. He has caused more damage to the US than all of enemies in all of the wars we have fought. I feel sorry for you all to have to endured one of his missives in your newsprint. Here is a suggestion, do the opposite of what he recommends and you will be fine. Follow his advice and you will regret it. The guy is never right, even a stopped clock is correct once
or twice a day, but not him. The only thing that distinguishes his intellect from that of a rock is a functioning parasympathetic nervous system. We know that as apparently he breathes.


12 posted on 04/23/2016 12:36:15 PM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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England is a special place that should forever remain as pure as The Knights of Bath.


13 posted on 04/23/2016 12:45:15 PM PDT by Bogie (Just a coincidence?)
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Well, Bob the Builder he is not..


14 posted on 04/23/2016 12:52:05 PM PDT by Trillian
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If we want influence, security, free trade, democracy and the rule of law, we can get these things only by staying in the European Union, he informs us. We cannot contemplate living – as his own country so proudly does – as a wholly independent state.

So, a few decades of hanging around in the going-nowhere EU erases British history back to 1707?

little bammy must have really hated that Churchill bust...

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15 posted on 04/23/2016 12:57:37 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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Should we send Little Big Ears back to Kenya? YES WE SHOULD!


16 posted on 04/23/2016 1:05:56 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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British history in 1707 ???

Queen Anne’s War would have been going on about then...

We were British then not independent...


17 posted on 04/23/2016 1:28:52 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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Brutal commentary. LOL

I love seeing Obama skewered so elegantly.


18 posted on 04/23/2016 1:46:33 PM PDT by ladyjane
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Why would anyone behave as if Obama has anything to offer the conversation?


19 posted on 04/23/2016 2:37:46 PM PDT by stevem
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Obama has moved on from destroying America to destroying Europe. He may be the most narcissistic psychopath who ever lived.


20 posted on 04/23/2016 2:40:32 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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