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Scarborough admits Obama wasn’t ready to be president; sold to us like bag of chips
BizPac Review ^ | September 25, 2013 | Michael Dorstewitz

Posted on 09/25/2013 10:49:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough is waking up to the fact that despite all the hype that accompanied President Barack Obama when he made his 2008 presidential run, he wasn’t ready for primetime.

“Barack Obama has proven over the past five years that he wasn’t ready to be president of the United States,” Scarborough said on his show Tuesday, according to Newsmax. “And he proves it still today.”

Scarborough said Obama “came out of nowhere” as a freshman senator, and “a couple years later, people elected him president of the United States.”

Obama served less than a decade in the Illinois Senate with a less-than-stellar record that included numerous instances of voting “present.”

He followed that distinguished service with less than a full term in the U.S. Senate, also unimpressive. Most of his time there seemed to be spent running for the presidency.

Yet, solely on the basis that “Barack Obama was against the [Iraq] war,” the Democratic Party “went out and sold him like he was a bag of potato chips, they marketed him [and] he becomes president of the United States,” Scarborough said.

To illustrate his point, the TV host challenged guest Donny Deutsch to “name me a major piece of legislation that Barack Obama passed in the United States Senate, that would suggest that he knew how to work in the United States Senate and would be an effective president of the United States.”

Neither Deutsch nor any of Scarborough’s other guests could.

“You have people that come out of nowhere and get in the Senate. They don’t want to be in the Senate. They don’t want to work for the people that hired them. Immediately, they start running for president of the United States a week after they get to the Senate,” Scarborough said, referring not only to Obama but also U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, who Scarborough described Wednesday as a “phony narcissist.”

Scarborough’s comparison of Cruz’s meteoric rise to Obama’s is misplaced.

The president has demonstrated time after time that he tends to take the path of least resistance. When he spoke against the Iraq war, he was among the majority of lawmakers — including many in his own party.

Cruz’s crusade to defund Obamacare is in opposition to his own party leaders. An aide to U.S. Sen. John McCain said that his boss “f**king hates” Cruz, according to The Daily Caller, and The New York Times reported that U.S. Peter King, R-N.Y., called Cruz a “fraud” who promotes “government terrorism.”

Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz described Cruz, a former student, as “off-the-charts brilliant.” Obama has steadfastly refused to release any of his college records.

Prior to being a lawmaker, Obama worked in a law firm and as a community organizer. Cruz actually ran things, directing the Texas Solicitor General’s Office for five years, serving as his state’s first Hispanic solicitor general and the youngest in the United States.

Cruz also served as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, and in the private sector, Cruz led the Morgan, Lewis and Bockius law firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice while a partner there.

But did I mention? Obama was also a community organizer.

“You can go one after another after another,” Scarborough said. “This doesn’t work. The Barack Obama way does not work.”

I agree, but Cruz is not a part of this ilk.

In 2008, GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was more qualified for the presidency. She had successfully run a city and a state. Obama, on the other hand, had only run for office.


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2016; cruz; joescarborough; morningjoe; morningschmoe; msdnc; mslsd; obama; palin; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; tedcruz

1 posted on 09/25/2013 10:49:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why does the Newsmax article therein referred to call “Morning Schmoe” Scarborough a “conservative Florida Republican”?


2 posted on 09/25/2013 10:56:43 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

In Florida, it’s OK to be a wannabe Republican. Your task is to usually get into some office...pretend to do legislation...help your corrupt buddies who funded the election....and just shake hands with folks. I can’t think of any remarkable Florida political figure over the past fifty years except for Jeb Bush.


3 posted on 09/25/2013 11:00:07 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Scarborough is the fake. He's only saying this now to look as if he's equally “disgusted” with both Cruz and Obama. But Obama never has to run again so that's a moot point in his case.

And you don't have to be a Senator for even one day to run for President. Part-time Senator was only made a big deal by Obama because it was all he had on his resume.

4 posted on 09/25/2013 11:03:18 PM PDT by MacMattico
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“Yet, solely on the basis that “Barack Obama was against the [Iraq] war,” the Democratic Party “went out and sold him like he was a bag of potato chips, they marketed him [and] he becomes president of the United States,” Scarborough said.”

really? I thought it was on the basis that he was black. at least that’s what we were told over and over.


5 posted on 09/25/2013 11:10:02 PM PDT by willywill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Scar-brow was part of the marketing. Now he what...blames the democrat party for false advertising?

Really? Nice work there, Joe.


6 posted on 09/25/2013 11:18:51 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (Waiting for next tagline.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Anyone who says Obama is inexperienced just doesn’t have the moral courage and intellectual honesty to say Obama is evil.


7 posted on 09/25/2013 11:27:29 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (If you're FOR sticking scissors in a female's neck and sucking out her brains, you are PRO-WOMAN!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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8 posted on 09/25/2013 11:34:25 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Olog-hai

I have no more use for Scarborough than Obama. He is a human tennis match, going one way with vicious mockery of any and every patriot standing, and the other way dissing Obama or the Left. This is daily with him, which means he’s souless.

Obama is still voting “present”, leaving the job he holds mostly to others, and maybe all of it.

Ted Cruz is sooo much more accomplished than Obama that it’s a laugh line to use the word “phoney” in the same sentence.


9 posted on 09/25/2013 11:34:32 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: Olog-hai

After Five years—he comes up with this? Well, at least he did—better late than never. Obama will never be ready to be president of anything.


10 posted on 09/26/2013 2:58:42 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey Ted... YOU ARE PISSING OFF ALL OF THE RIGHT PEOPLE! KEEP FIRING those CRUZ Missiles!


11 posted on 09/26/2013 4:36:37 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Obama hangover...


12 posted on 09/26/2013 4:40:54 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

At worst you’re a little slow on the uptake, Joe...and if memory serves, Joe was one of those selling the chips...or at least calling those who weren’t buying ‘racist.’


13 posted on 09/26/2013 4:42:57 AM PDT by gogeo (I didn't leave the Republican Party, it left me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He remains unready. See tag.


14 posted on 09/26/2013 4:52:28 AM PDT by jimfree (In November 2016 my 13 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The only reason Obama was elected President................he is black. That is it. Sorry. Someone has to say it.


15 posted on 09/26/2013 5:30:22 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Note: this topic is from September 25, 2013. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
"Barack Obama has proven over the past five years that he wasn’t ready to be president of the United States... And he proves it still today... came out of nowhere... [and] a couple years later, people elected him president of the United States." Obama served less than a decade in the Illinois Senate with a less-than-stellar record that included numerous instances of voting "present." He followed that distinguished service with less than a full term in the U.S. Senate, also unimpressive. Most of his time there seemed to be spent running for the presidency... the TV host challenged guest Donny Deutsch to "name me a major piece of legislation that Barack Obama passed in the United States Senate, that would suggest that he knew how to work in the United States Senate and would be an effective president of the United States." Neither Deutsch nor any of Scarborough’s other guests could.
Gosh, it must have taken *minutes* to research these facts. And the points he's making seem so *familiar*, almost as if I'd read them *somewhere* before...


16 posted on 10/26/2013 3:30:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: RitaOK
Ted Cruz is sooo much more accomplished than Obama that...

We have elected 3 sitting US Senators to the presidency - Harding, Kennedy, and Obama. Several others have been losing candidates, most recently Dole, Kerry, and McCain.

Being a Senator is a TERRIBLE resume item for the Chief Executive job. All 3 Senators elected President have been poor at the job, and this actually makes sense.

Senators have no responsibility for anything. Their only achievements, typically, involve accepting bribes and BS-ing about what they would do if they were in charge. Since very, very few Senators have ever been in charge of anything, what they WOULD do if they COULD is usually meaningless.

I like Ted Cruz. I loathe his enemies, so much so that I would support him to spite them.

But, I'm not from Texas or near it. You say he's "so much more accomplished" than Obama (not hard).

Sell me. What has he done to make you think he would be a successful executive? Ronald Reagan was governor of California for 8 years. Ike was, well, don't be ridiculous. FDR was governor of New York. TR was governor of New York and a military leader.

What are CRuz's qualifications to be a successful President?

17 posted on 10/26/2013 3:41:14 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Olog-hai; SunkenCiv

I knew back in 2008 that Barack Obama didn’t have the experience to be president because Jimmy Carter showed us that the White House is no place for on-the-job training. Was Mr. Scarborough too young to remember the Carter presidency?


18 posted on 10/26/2013 8:26:38 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Berosus

Morning Joe just has a brown tongue from, well, figuratively speaking...


19 posted on 10/26/2013 8:41:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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