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Of Picks And Tics
America Talks ^ | 11/30/08 | David Zublick

Posted on 11/30/2008 12:42:12 PM PST by AmericaTalks

Barack Obama's liberal base is furious over his decision to pick centrist members for his cabinet and for bringing the Clintons back to the White House.

Obama has angered the far left by retaining Robert Gates as defense secretary, and retired General Jim Jones as national security advisor. And with Hillary Clinton set to take the helm of the State Department, hope and change has taken a back seat to 'stay the course'.

Gates was the architect of the troop surge, which paved the road for what now can be called a decisive victory in the Iraq war. With that in mind, it is highly unlikely that Obama will withdraw our military within the original time frame that he outlined during the campaign. It is also improbable that the defense budget will be slashed anytime soon, as the attention of the war on terror will now turn toward Afghanistan. This will stick in the craw of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, as well as Obama's puppet master George Soros.

Meanwhile, it is being reported that Obama has developed a chronic facial tic brought on by the stress of the presidential campaign. The Secret Service has also had to increase security due to more threats on his life than any other president-elect in history has received. The spasmodic anomaly has supposedly left his wife Michelle very distraught. The pressure that Obama has been under is only bound to increase with the economic downturn set to get worse before it gets better, and world tensions will take their toll as well.

One can only hope that the "messiah" doesn't develop Tourette Syndrome before Inauguration Day. That could prove interesting.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho2008; lefties; news; obama; obamatransitionfile; politics; tic

1 posted on 11/30/2008 12:42:12 PM PST by AmericaTalks
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To: AmericaTalks

Hmmm. I wonder if SNL and other media outlets will portray 0’s tics as something to be made light of like Pres.Bush’s language “difficulties” or Pres. Fords tendencies towards clumsiness?


2 posted on 11/30/2008 12:47:18 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: AmericaTalks

All his friends hate America or are terrorists.


3 posted on 11/30/2008 12:48:36 PM PST by boomop1
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To: AmericaTalks
it is being reported that Obama has developed a chronic facial tic brought on by the stress of the presidential campaign.

He's a community organizer who voted present 137 times, and never ran so much as a Dairy Queen. He doesnt know what he doesnt know.

The Secret Service has also had to increase security due to more threats on his life than any other president-elect in history has received.

He'll surround himself with enough security to make a dictator look like the Lone Ranger.
4 posted on 11/30/2008 12:52:51 PM PST by Canedawg (The media is a ass, a idiot.," said Mr. Bumble.)
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To: AmericaTalks

I’m dubious....


5 posted on 11/30/2008 12:53:26 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: AmericaTalks

I wonder if Obama will be blackmailable (is that a word?) if he isn’t a citizen and that’s EXACTLY why they wanted him in there.

He better do as he’s told or ooppssiieesss, just happened to find this authentic birth certificate lying around...


6 posted on 11/30/2008 12:53:30 PM PST by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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To: AmericaTalks

if Michelle is “very distraught” over uh’s spasmodic anomaly wait ‘til l8r.if ya’ can’t take the heat get out da’kitchen...better yet ,don’t even go in at all.


7 posted on 11/30/2008 12:54:58 PM PST by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Good Morning Mr & Mrs Scooter and All The Ships At Sea)
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To: AmericaTalks

It’s amazing how fast a kid has to grow up when he’s thrown out into the real world. He thought we Conservatives were mean. Wait he finds out how TRULY NASTY the lefties he embraced become if he doesn’t toe their line. Hell hath no fury like a leftist scorned.


8 posted on 11/30/2008 12:56:27 PM PST by Larry R. Johnson (Tax the poor!)
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To: AmericaTalks
Obama has developed a chronic facial tic brought on by the stress

Thin skinned lightweight...

9 posted on 11/30/2008 12:59:56 PM PST by ErnBatavia (Cuba got "Change"...in 1959)
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To: Larry R. Johnson

He has a facial tick now..? And he hasn’t even assumed power in the BRUSA. (Banana Repubulic of USA)..
In the meantime..where’s his birth cert?


10 posted on 11/30/2008 1:01:37 PM PST by Oldexpat (Drill Here, Drill There..we must drill everywhere.)
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To: AmericaTalks

Didn’t he tell his people his boss said he had to hire Hitlery?


11 posted on 11/30/2008 1:06:15 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: MissDairyGoodnessVT

He’s going to have two of the worst women on each side of him. LOL


12 posted on 11/30/2008 1:07:28 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: AmericaTalks
"The spasmodic anomaly has supposedly left his wife Michelle very distraught."

How would we know?

13 posted on 11/30/2008 1:38:57 PM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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To: AmericaTalks
"Gates was the architect of the troop surge..."

Bullshit!

Gates very publicly opposed the Surge, and only undertook it at the President's insistence.

Someone needs to brush up on his very recent world history!

14 posted on 11/30/2008 1:41:14 PM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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To: Canedawg

The facial tic is probably just his Manchurian Candidate psychological-behavioral conditioning wearing off.

Nothing to worry about.

[LOL. I’m sorry, but I’m beginning to find his predicament pretty funny. He doesn’t know a thing and will soon step into the most powerful job in the world. There’s something Kubrickian about the whole situation.

It also reminds me a bit of James Coburn’s performance in a very funny film called “The President’s Analyst.” If I remember correctly, he also developed some sort of facial tic brought on by the stress of having to psychoanalyze the POTUS.

Just as the lisping “s” (pronounced as a “th”) in Castilian Spanish was apparently begun as a sign of support by Spanish subjects for their king (who sufferend from this speech impediment), perhaps lefties will purposely adopt this tic as their own — to show respect and support.

I think it behooves us, as patriots on FR, to make this kind-hearted suggestion to all the lib sites we can find.]


15 posted on 11/30/2008 1:47:43 PM PST by GoodDay (Palin for POTUS 2012)
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To: Larry R. Johnson

“Hell hath no fury like a leftist scorned.”

Doesn’t apply here. American leftists are cowards. When confronted with threats of violence, American leftists will either run away or downshift into appeasement mode.

Now, leftists may cry, stamp their feet or wet their pants if nobama doesn’t give them their candy, but that’s as far as it will go.


16 posted on 11/30/2008 1:48:21 PM PST by sergeantdave (We are now in the Age of the Idiot)
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To: AmericaTalks
Meanwhile, it is being reported that Obama has developed a chronic facial tic brought on by the stress of the presidential campaign.

And the birth certificate conundrum.

The spasmodic anomaly has supposedly left his wife Michelle very distraught.

Obama IS a "spasmodic anomaly". She must be distraught for some other "reason".

17 posted on 11/30/2008 1:56:23 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: AmericaTalks
Meanwhile, it is being reported that Obama has developed a chronic facial tic ...

I don't know whether to ROTFLMAO or tremble in fear. He hasn't even taken office yet and he's freakin' out on us already. What an L7 weenie.

18 posted on 11/30/2008 2:05:15 PM PST by LiberConservative (Typical white guy)
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To: sergeantdave
American leftists are cowards. When confronted with threats of violence, American leftists will either run away or downshift into appeasement mode.

That's a very good way of putting something that I've been trying to express on the bc threads. Some people continue to raise the spectre of "riots across the country - looting and pillaging - mayhem and murder" if the Obots don't get their Messiah in office.

I say bull. Only a very small fraction of the Obots have the stomach to commit mayhem and disorder. The rest of the Obot rainbow movement only have the courage to carry protest signs, and most don't even have that.

19 posted on 11/30/2008 2:07:40 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: AmericaTalks

Any bets on how long it takes for the facial tics to lead to full blown psychosis.


20 posted on 11/30/2008 2:12:13 PM PST by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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To: anniegetyourgun

I’m also dubious....can anyone link me to a reputable second source who can confirm the reporting of this tic??


21 posted on 11/30/2008 2:25:02 PM PST by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts.....)
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To: Redbob
Gates very publicly opposed the Surge

Good for you, Redbob. I was hoping someone would catch that. Gates was toodling along with the Iraq Surrender Committee until he got co-opted and sent to Defense. I was actually worried that he would try to undermine the strategy, but, to the best of my knowledge, he did not.

22 posted on 11/30/2008 2:28:01 PM PST by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: AmericaTalks

Its either Bush’s fault, or caused by CO2.

The weighty duties of the President Elect (i.e. break promises, distance himself from supporters, fending off patronage requests, deal with special interest groups you tricked into supporting you) have taken their toll on his health.

Wait til he unloads some other bombshells: Nobody gets a tax break (who knew), he really won’t give college students and extra $5,000 (didn’t see that coming), immediate Iraq pullout - never really meant that at all.

And one day, probably around two and a half years from now, some renegade MSM reporter is going to stop blaming Bush for everything, and hold Obama accountable for his actions. I can only hope he does this while Obama is trying to eat a waffle.


23 posted on 11/30/2008 2:44:37 PM PST by lacrew (Yup, they're girded!)
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To: Bean Counter

world net daily had the film of the Walters interview. You have to enlarge it to full screen and really look. It is located below his Right cheekbone and is subtle, occurs intermittently. I would not have seen it if I hadn’t looked for it.

It is very subtle,,I am surprised anyone noticed it.


24 posted on 11/30/2008 2:59:01 PM PST by cajungirl (no)
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To: cajungirl

I’ll take your word for it.

I watched part of that interview and found myself developing a facial tic.


25 posted on 11/30/2008 3:06:24 PM PST by berdie
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To: sergeantdave
Now, leftists may cry, stamp their feet or wet their pants if nobama doesn’t give them their candy, but that’s as far as it will go.

Only the amateurs, Dave. Sorry

26 posted on 11/30/2008 3:42:09 PM PST by Ace's Dad
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To: berdie

Hah! It was hard to watch him. I am always struck with what a light weight he is. He is truly the lightest weight pres I have ever seen and that includes Carter.


27 posted on 11/30/2008 3:50:05 PM PST by cajungirl (no)
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To: Thumper1960
Any bets on how long it takes for the facial tics to lead to full blown psychosis.

In Barry or Michelle?

28 posted on 11/30/2008 3:51:03 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: cajungirl

I watched that video several times with the sound turned down so I would not be distracted, and I honestly cannot detect a tic or anything I would consider close to a tic in that video. I think it’s subjective at this point, and it could be him reacting to bright lights for Baba Wawa’s interview.

One example does not make a trend.

I’m not making excuses for The One here, but I simply don’t see a tic at this time. I’m open to any additional evidence that pops up, but I’m waving off on this one, at least for now....


29 posted on 11/30/2008 4:25:13 PM PST by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts.....)
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To: Oldexpat

BRUSA! LOL!! We ARE a banana republic....without the bananas.


30 posted on 11/30/2008 4:33:22 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifinish attitude.e to the god of Convenience.)
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To: AmericaTalks

And if the rigors of the campaign trail and administering his office of president-elect have caused a facial tic, just think what will happen if we have real national emergencies like George Bush had to face...his head will probably explode right on national television.


31 posted on 11/30/2008 4:38:32 PM PST by keepitreal (Obama brings change: an international crisis (terrorism) within 6 months)
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To: sergeantdave

Cowards, yes..but just imagine their foot-stomping, teeth-gnashing, hissy-fitting, name-calling, silly-screeching, etc....like nails on chalkboard, metal on metal, God what a racket! Gonna be interesting real quick!


32 posted on 11/30/2008 7:41:10 PM PST by Larry R. Johnson (Tax the poor!)
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