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The increasingly odd political optics of Barack Obama
The Los Angeles Times' Top of the Ticket ^ | April 26, 2011 | Andrew Malcolm

Posted on 04/26/2011 6:16:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

In politics, what you're really doing is often much less important than what it looks like you're really doing.

And with only 560 days left until the voters' next verdict, President Obama is rapidly painting himself into a public-relations corner with an ongoing series of possibly accidental gaffes that are accumulating in the public mind.

And the biting humor repertoire of late-night comics: "Donald Trump says he's President Obama's worst nightmare," Jay Leno said last night. "No. Having to make a decision is President Obama's worst nightmare."

The former state senator may, in fact, be slaving away on 18-hour policy days. But much of that is closed out of sight. So the public is left to focus on Obama's frequent vacations, golf outings, celebrity gatherings and proclivity to give a speech at the first whiff of trouble.

With no real opposition, Chicago's Democrat pols care little about how insensitive things look.

Any one of these apparent missteps is inconsequential. However, accumulated over his 118 weeks in office, they create the impression of carelessness at best or, worse, arrogance.

What the White House issues are photos of a tieless, laughing Obama, feet up on the historic Oval Office desk, chatting on the phone system that he complains is so decrepit.

What the public sees, while it frets over stubborn unemployment and soaring gas prices, is a diffident Democrat who takes a 17-vehicle motorcade of SUVs and limos to be seen looking at clean-energy cars.

A pontificating president who suggests that one worried commuter buy a new car instead of complaining.

A guy who spent 745 million donated dollars to get into the White House complaining to visiting editors about losing his anonymity and being locked in the presidential bubble that provides service, luxury, power and security unimaginable to most.....

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TOPICS: Government; Politics; Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: california; golf; jayleno; latimes; libya; losangeles; obama; tsunami
You're not in Chicago anymore.
1 posted on 04/26/2011 6:16:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

To me he is an obvious fraud. Supported by the Socialist Media.


2 posted on 04/26/2011 6:21:49 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Shut up and eat your Beans!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LA Times not loving The One anymore?


3 posted on 04/26/2011 6:22:42 PM PDT by Former MSM Viewer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nice to know that a journalist actually noticed and reported the above.


5 posted on 04/26/2011 6:27:58 PM PDT by victim soul
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To: Former MSM Viewer
They still love him. They have their lips firmly affixed to his semi-turgid member. They just want him to shape up and get his shit together before he blows in completely.
6 posted on 04/26/2011 6:29:52 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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They still love him. They have their lips firmly affixed to his semi-turgid member. They just want him to shape up and get his sh*t together before he blows in completely.
7 posted on 04/26/2011 6:29:59 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The wheels on the Obama Marxist Crazy Train are definitely wobbling more and more. And in all of his megalomania and narcissism, he really doesn’t seem to care.


8 posted on 04/26/2011 6:32:17 PM PDT by NWFLConservative (Game On.......Fight Like a Girl!!...............Saracuda in 2012)
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To: Former MSM Viewer
LA Times not loving The One anymore?

Nah, they're still love-struck teens when it comes to Obama. But they have seemingly given Andrew Malcolm free-reign in his blog/political commentary section called Top of the Ticket. He's been throwing darts at Obama's picture for some time now. Worthy reading.

9 posted on 04/26/2011 6:35:11 PM PDT by AHerald ("Behold, your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his home -- John 19:27)
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To: NWFLConservative

He is managing an economic collapse, followed by martial law. Then, what election in 2012? “It’s too dangerous.”


10 posted on 04/26/2011 6:37:02 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: Former MSM Viewer
LA Times not loving The One anymore?

See who they endorse in 2012.

11 posted on 04/26/2011 6:39:35 PM PDT by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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Jay Leno said last night. "No. Having to make a decision is President Obama's worst nightmare."

And here is 0bama making that top level decision....

Accompanied by senior advisers (those old balding white geezers)

Heads.......Ragu beef

Tails.........Lobster....(no pun intended)

12 posted on 04/26/2011 8:56:55 PM PDT by spokeshave (Obamas approval ratings are so low, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the USA.)
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