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What a start for Obama (The "King of Hope" Tanks)
pittsburghlive.com TribLIVE ^ | Monday, February 9, 2009 | Ralph R. Reiland

Posted on 02/08/2009 10:57:18 PM PST by Syncro

What a start for Obama

By Ralph R. Reiland
Monday, February 9, 2009

"Well, That Certainly Didn't Take Long" was the headline on Maureen Dowd's column in The New York Times last Wednesday.

Dowd, unswervingly a Bush-basher and pro-Obama over the past two years, was referring to Obama's success in knocking himself off his elevated pedestal within two weeks of his inauguration.

Obama and his "arrogant attitude" went "SPLAT" (caps in Dowd's original) after a "cascade of appointments who 'forgot' to pay taxes" and the development of a "helter-skelter stimulus package."

Rasmussen Reports survey on Feb. 2 found that only 37 percent of Americans favor the administration-endorsed stimulus package. In a Gallup survey completed on Feb. 1, Obama's approval rating is 64 percent, down 19 points since his inauguration. Six more weeks of the same and he'll be at zero.

Simply put, the King of Hope became the Emperor with No Clothes even before the magazine covers celebrating his inauguration were off the shelves at Borders and Barnes & Noble.

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A grand jury is looking into $1.5 million in taxpayers' money that ended up in the coffers of California-based CDR Financial Products after the company donated $100,000 to [Bill] Richardson to register Hispanic and American Indian voters.

Timothy Geithner, Obama's now-confirmed Treasury secretary (a job that includes control of the IRS), also failed to "jump in" and pay $34,000 on money he earned from 2001 to 2004 while working for the International Monetary Fund. "Had his (Geithner's) vote come after the Daschle news, it's likely that Geithner would be the one leaving town today," reported Newsweek on Feb. 4.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2009polls; bho44; biden; bo; daschle; democrat; democrats; dowd; dowdsplat; first100days; geithner; joebiden; kingofhope; littlejoe; maureendowd; obama
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"...the King of Hope became the Emperor with No Clothes...
1 posted on 02/08/2009 10:57:19 PM PST by Syncro
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To: Syncro

The Ayatollah Crapola..


2 posted on 02/08/2009 11:05:25 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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I like Dowd’s Charlie Manson reference.
3 posted on 02/08/2009 11:06:36 PM PST by Syncro (Ti Ming -- Use Librally)
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To: Syncro

The Ayatollah Crapola..


4 posted on 02/08/2009 11:06:54 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Syncro

He’ll be at the elementary school tomorrow.


5 posted on 02/08/2009 11:14:46 PM PST by HollyB (Nobama: Money does not grow on trees)
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To: Syncro

King of Hope for Dopes, that is.


6 posted on 02/08/2009 11:14:51 PM PST by Post Toasties (Conservatives allow the guilty to be executed but Lefties insist that the innocent be executed.)
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To: Syncro

Odooma. changeling and traitor marxist. Scaring the sheeple to follow his commie doctrine of hope-a-dope.


7 posted on 02/08/2009 11:15:39 PM PST by o_zarkman44 (Since when is paying more, but getting less, considered Patriotic?)
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To: Syncro
"Gallup survey completed on Feb. 1, Obama's approval rating is 64 percent, down 19 points since his inauguration. Six more weeks of the same and he'll be at zero."

Zero's the name, Empty suit's the game.

8 posted on 02/08/2009 11:19:57 PM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: HollyB
He’ll be at the elementary school tomorrow.

Good; maybe he'll learn something.

9 posted on 02/08/2009 11:27:56 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Jimmy Carter -- the first white Barack Obama.)
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To: Syncro

83% approval rating seems a little inflated to me, considering he didn’t get that many votes. 64 sounds more like the original number should be. Should be solidly below 50% by the end of the year and should continue dropping the rest of his tenure.


10 posted on 02/08/2009 11:35:11 PM PST by Force of Truth (Sarah Palin in 2012!!!!!! WOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Syncro
Learning Islam, ALL it's ways and hatred for America Image and video hosting by TinyPic How much more proof do you need?
11 posted on 02/08/2009 11:44:54 PM PST by MtnMan101
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12 posted on 02/09/2009 12:02:27 AM PST by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: Force of Truth
I fancy the survey question eliciting that 83% was:
"Do you think America can finally feel good about having a black president?"

HF

13 posted on 02/09/2009 12:08:43 AM PST by holden
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To: Prole
Believe this ! Image and video hosting by TinyPic
14 posted on 02/09/2009 12:17:20 AM PST by MtnMan101
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To: Syncro

“Freshman Senator created by the Chicago Political Machine Becomes Leader of the Free World.” The fact that he doesn’t know how to lead would be consistent with that headline. Or maybe this would be better: “The office of President of the United States to be Renamed ‘Global Community Organizer’”


15 posted on 02/09/2009 1:03:43 AM PST by RepublicanMeansAmerican
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To: Syncro

Smoking Gun: Democrat Insider Says “Obama Has Secret Plan to Fund a Patronage System”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGafMHsV4Ug&eurl=

I believe it. Listen particularly to the last line the guy says.


16 posted on 02/09/2009 2:03:05 AM PST by Technical Editor
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To: Syncro

17 posted on 02/09/2009 2:11:15 AM PST by Diogenesis (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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“Helter Skelter Stimulus”. Perfect. It is obvious Obozo has no clue what is in it. It is just something he got his socialist friends to come up with. The gang of three Republicans who will make this go should be purged.


18 posted on 02/09/2009 2:11:52 AM PST by screaminsunshine (f)
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To: Technical Editor

I’ll be sharing this one.


19 posted on 02/09/2009 2:13:53 AM PST by sneakers
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To: Force of Truth
Should be solidly below 50% by the end of the year and should continue dropping the rest of his tenure.

I am giving him only 6 months before he falls from grace. And I am waiting for the disappointed liberal feeding frenzy to happen, of which Dowd's column is, most probably, a harbinger.

The gist of the matter is: the Dumbs had a perfect chance to elect Hillary and cement Dumbo policies for decades to come. Instead, they went overboard and got Zero elected, biting off way more than the public can chew, let alone digest. In many ways, I am glad McCain, an unpredictable "conservative", but a decent man, did not inherit this mess.

20 posted on 02/09/2009 2:53:59 AM PST by ARepublicanForAllReasons (Give 'em hell, Sarah!)
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