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Ten years ago America met a guy named Barack Obama
Washington Post ^ | 7-28-2014 | Jaime Fuller

Posted on 08/01/2014 6:23:49 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

Sunday marked the 10th anniversary of President Obama's national debut at the Democratic National Convention. He was tasked with giving the keynote address at the 2004 event.

He told a New York Times reporter the week before the convention, ''It came as a surprise that I'd be selected for such a privileged position. As my wife reminds me, I better not screw it up.''

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To: TurboZamboni

Prefect comparison!


21 posted on 08/01/2014 7:07:49 AM PDT by TheCause ("that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States")
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To: Will88

I worked as a TV Tech Director at the 2008 DNC. I remember
B-HO painting his pretty verbal canvas of platitudes and centrist rainbows - and looking to my left and to my right as my own TV crew started to get enrolled. I remember thinking “wtf, seriously?”. I was alone amongst tens of thousands of alien zombies. (I’m just thankful that I got to gawk at Megyn Kelly for a while. :) )


22 posted on 08/01/2014 7:08:09 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: Citizen Zed
I recall the endless pimping of the media for Obama surrounding his speech. The talking points memo they were all reading from described him as a "rising star".

It was easy to see even then the man was a hard-core leftist. I feared for the future of this country that night, because I knew the media was determined to elevate him to the presidency. Looking back over these last 10 years, my worst fears have been realized.

What is really sick is that if Obama could run for a third term, he would win.
23 posted on 08/01/2014 7:09:13 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: nascarnation

It’s amazing. And after Obama’s 2008 campaign got underway, I made several posts here calling his campaign “The Cotton Candy Express” because there was so much fluff. Then I started calling him Elmer Gantry because what he was preaching seemed so insincere and overwrought.

Then after he’d been in office a very short time, I posted that: “Obama views the USA like an envioius and resentful Third Worlder.” And later that he is our first Third World president.

He once said that recipients of government benefits are an important part of a winning Dim coalition. But it’s still amazing that he has been able to hoodwink enough Americans to be elected twice.

Demographics, plus several million conservatives were so turned off by McCain and Romney that they stayed home.


24 posted on 08/01/2014 7:10:16 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Will88

Fortunately I missed the speech but it was sure obvious what kind of guy he was once his activities in Chicago and Illinois politics, race and religion began to be revealed.

Apparently there are a lot of people willing to overlook facts when it comes to politics and power.


25 posted on 08/01/2014 7:10:46 AM PDT by wita
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To: Citizen Zed
The first "gay" prissydent:

I mean what type of guy gets in that close to a another man's face, really?
26 posted on 08/01/2014 7:11:22 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: onona
His wife and kids were on stage. I could not get over just how absolutely livid and pissed off she looked the entire time.

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And in ten years, her expression has not changed.

27 posted on 08/01/2014 7:12:04 AM PDT by stillonaroll
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To: LittleBillyInfidel
B-HO painting his pretty verbal canvas of platitudes and centrist rainbows - and looking to my left and to my right as my own TV crew started to get enrolled.

I agree, he's always been so overwrought and pie-in-the-sky that it's difficult to believe so many fell for any part of it. That's what clued me into him during that 2004 DNC speech.

28 posted on 08/01/2014 7:13:27 AM PDT by Will88
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To: mulligan

“How did we...”

Mouse in your pocket?


29 posted on 08/01/2014 7:14:20 AM PDT by wita
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To: nascarnation

And the ineptness of the Republican party.


30 posted on 08/01/2014 7:15:56 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: jsanders2001

Waiting with baited breath for that payback!


31 posted on 08/01/2014 7:16:19 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: onona

And what about that “black widow” dress she wore - that was an “in your face” statement that they were going to f up America for everybody.


32 posted on 08/01/2014 7:17:39 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Citizen Zed

Maybe we need to create a new position in our government. We’ll call it “THE CHIEF BULLS**TTER”. We’ll pay $2,000,000 a year. It would be an elected position. This person would just go around the country and around the world bulls**tting people. This way, we could draw out those people who want the big money for just bulls**tting like Clinton and Obama. All the victim groups could vote their representative in.


33 posted on 08/01/2014 7:20:27 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Will88

“Demographics, plus several million conservatives were so turned off by McCain and Romney that they stayed home.”

Those numbers should include 25% of evangelicals and that alone would have been enough to turn the tide.


34 posted on 08/01/2014 7:20:37 AM PDT by wita
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To: wita
Apparently there are a lot of people willing to overlook facts when it comes to politics and power.

It's been my experience that those who talk the most about honesty and integrity, and lofty political values, are the ones you can count on to be the least guided by such claimed virtures, in public or private life.

The guy claiming to be a great uniter at the DNC in 2004 has been the most divisive, lying president of the post WWII era.

35 posted on 08/01/2014 7:24:12 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Citizen Zed

This could be a very depressing thread if we weren’t closer to his departure than arrival. We hope.


36 posted on 08/01/2014 7:24:35 AM PDT by wita
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To: oldtech
Guess it’s just too hard for them to admit they made a mistake & he is it.

Oh, there was no mistake. America's top elite families wanted their robot in the Presidency and they got him here.
37 posted on 08/01/2014 7:24:53 AM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: nathanbedford

Agreed, my gut instinct told me he was a phoney from the get go....it was the same blend of horsesh!t Canadian Liberals had been ramming down our throats for years...


38 posted on 08/01/2014 7:25:49 AM PDT by albertabound
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To: Will88

“It’s been my experience that those who talk the most about honesty and integrity, and lofty political values, are the ones you can count on to be the least guided by such claimed virtures, in public or private life.”

Speaking of the most transparent administration ever.


39 posted on 08/01/2014 7:27:48 AM PDT by wita
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To: wita
Speaking of the most transparent administration ever.

Yep, the administration that's talked the most about being transparent is the Obama administration. Second place goes to Slick Willie.

Who would have thought someone could come along and almost make Bill and Hillary look honest.

40 posted on 08/01/2014 7:31:14 AM PDT by Will88
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