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Obama’s Disquieting Heroic Fantasies
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| September 26, 2011
| Peter Wehner
Posted on 09/27/2011 11:18:09 AM PDT by ransomnote
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To: commish
lol.
I like the post where you are barefoot outside and wear slippers inside.
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posted on
09/27/2011 11:43:56 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: ransomnote; SpinnerWebb
stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying.actually, it was stop complainin', stop grumblin', stop cryin'.
With that particular gathering you get more street credit if you speak like an ignorant fool.
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posted on
09/27/2011 11:45:25 AM PDT
by
tx_eggman
(Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
To: commish
LOL! My husband was barefoot all summer when he was a boy, but he did live in southern Massachusetts. :)
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posted on
09/27/2011 11:45:25 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: ransomnote
I guess that is true. I am sure Rube Goldberg could solve this problem. lol
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posted on
09/27/2011 11:46:05 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: trisham
Same here. I didn’t have a pair of shoes on from the last day of school until the first day of school, except for when we went to the weekly family dinner on Saturday and church on Sunday.
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posted on
09/27/2011 11:49:49 AM PDT
by
commish
(Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
To: ransomnote
” - - - as his record of ineptness becomes more indisputable, Obama is becoming more intemperate, more aggrieved... “
Thanks for this post. It has been my impression for at least a year that Obama has been making all of his speeches to himself. His recent speech to the Black Caucus the other day is an excellent example of his mental detachment from reality.
He knows that his is unqualified, incompetent, intellectually inferior, and incapable of learning to be even slightly competent in the job that he was so foolishly voted into. So he compensates by standing on his portable soapbox at any street corner and publicly lecturing himself. It is a sad sight to see.
He seems incapable of listening to the advice of experts. He says one thing, and then changes his mind when the time for a decision has long past. Libya is a good example of that.
I have ridiculed Obama at every opportunity because of the harm that his socialist policies will do to my grandchildren. But now, on a serious note, I believe that Obama should resign before this year ends.
The last Presidential meltdown was the sad spectacle of Nixon. Now we are seeing a similar pattern with Obama. For the good of the Nation and his family, it is time for Obama to resign.
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posted on
09/27/2011 11:50:43 AM PDT
by
Graewoulf
( obama"care" violates the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND is illegal by the U.S. Constitution.)
To: workerbee
I think house shoes and bedroom slippers are essentially the same thing. It depends on whats said in your neck of the woods. Kind of like soda or pop/
I think it is more of a monetary difference than a geographical difference. I have traveled to every state in this Union and I have heard the difference from soda, pop, "Coke," etc... But I have never heard anyone switching between house shoes and bedroom slippers.
The likes of Hugh Hefner, Bill Gates, Barrack Obama, Warren Buffet have "bedroom slippers."
Normal people have "house shoes."
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posted on
09/27/2011 11:53:09 AM PDT
by
ExTxMarine
(PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
To: commish
I don’t see that happening today. It’s really too bad that children no longer have that kind of freedom and fun.
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posted on
09/27/2011 11:54:18 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: ExTxMarine
I don’t know a single person who refers to their “house shoes.” And most people I know are normal. :-)
My husband has a habit of calling flip-flops “shower shoes.” That really bugs me.
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posted on
09/27/2011 11:55:56 AM PDT
by
workerbee
(We're not scared, Maobama -- we're pissed off!)
To: GeronL
We always said Coke growing up in Texas, but we always meant Dr. Pepper!!
While in the Marine Corps, my buddies and I had a lengthy discussion about this very subject. We were under a vehicle working and a guy ask if I wanted a Coke. I said, "Yes, make it a Dr. Pepper." He said, "HUH?!?" Then he asked if I wanted a Coke again and I repeated my reply. He had a 12-pack of Cokes and was offering them out. Of course, what ensued was a long, funny, team-building conversation between all of us about different dialects and phrases.
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posted on
09/27/2011 12:01:12 PM PDT
by
ExTxMarine
(PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
To: cookcounty
This was just stunning. You have to wonder if he was somehow lecturing himself.
Very good analysis.
Thank you for that.
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posted on
09/27/2011 12:01:20 PM PDT
by
240B
(he is doing everything he said he wouldn't and not doing what he said he would)
To: commish
I didnt have a pair of shoes on from the last day of school until the first day of school, except for when we went to the weekly family dinner on Saturday and church on Sunday.
ABSOLUTELY! If 7-11 had a "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service" policy when I was growing up, they would lose over 75% of their in-store sales!
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posted on
09/27/2011 12:05:10 PM PDT
by
ExTxMarine
(PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
To: PhilosopherStone1000
He complains about not having time to complain.
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posted on
09/27/2011 12:07:12 PM PDT
by
kevao
To: workerbee
My husband has a habit of calling flip-flops shower shoes. That really bugs me.
Your husband former military? Because, when I was in the Marine Corps, that is what they called flip-flops.
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posted on
09/27/2011 12:07:12 PM PDT
by
ExTxMarine
(PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
To: workerbee
And speaking of fantasy, it takes some pretty fantastical gonads to sermonize to people who are out of work, out of investments, out of homes, etc. while your wife sports $50K baubles on her wrist, gratis.He was speaking to the Congressional Black Caucus.
Full of legislators and their staffers, DOEnergy, DOEducation, HHS, EPA, etc., "civil servants."
The Entitled Class of Washington, D.C.
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posted on
09/27/2011 12:08:45 PM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Obama - Wear The Fail!)
To: ExTxMarine
Oh that's hilarious. My squad had that exact same conversation in Kuwait during the first Gulf War.
Coke, soda, pop .... just a few of the dialect terms for carbonated sweet beverages. :)
Verbal 'tells' to spot the Texan: "I have a Coke, make it a Dr Pepper"
"fixin' to"
"y'all"
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posted on
09/27/2011 12:11:19 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(Watch what people DO, not what they say.)
To: ExTxMarine
lol. It is one of those regional things I guess. I actually remember seeing maps of this posted before.
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posted on
09/27/2011 12:11:52 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: Graewoulf; ransomnote
You guys have his narcissism pegged.
Interestingly, it arises from 2 false and opposite self-images.
Narcissists actually loathe themselves.
“He knows that his is unqualified, incompetent, intellectually inferior, and incapable of learning to be even slightly competent...”
Coupled with a skank and a thug for parents, it’s probable there was “abandonment” or abuse...(O’s predilection for gay sex and drugs speaks to this also). This provides impetus for creating the other false self image...what most people think of “Narcissist”. It HAS to be the opposite of self-loathing. The grandiose-”won”.
In short, Obama careens between two equally false and diametrically opposed self-images.
There’s no “there” there.
He is an empty suit. A rude construct. False. Forever stuck in puberty, where the splitting likely began.
He lies to all precisely because he can never admit the truth to himself.
To: Centurion2000
Yup. You hit the nail on the head. I’m a Minnesota gal who happens to be married to a Texan who was transplanted here. And yes, after nearly 15 years of marriage he still calls me a “yankee!” :-)
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posted on
09/27/2011 12:24:52 PM PDT
by
MNGal
To: Centurion2000
My squad had that exact same conversation in Kuwait during the first Gulf War.
What unit? I was with Charlie Company, 2nd LAI Battalion, 2nd Marine Division!
We went through the berm near the Al Walfrah oil fields. We played cat & mouse and ran reconnaissance along the Kuwaiti border for three days before the ground war even started!
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posted on
09/27/2011 12:26:16 PM PDT
by
ExTxMarine
(PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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