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For a Teachable Moment, U.S. Needs a Better Teacher Than President Obama (Richard Cohen)
New York Daily News ^ | Tuesday, August 25th 2009

Posted on 08/25/2009 8:16:33 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Edited on 08/25/2009 8:45:43 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Let's go back to that "teachable moment." It was proclaimed by Barack Obama after he said that police in Cambridge, Mass., had acted "stupidly" in arresting Henry Louis Gates Jr. for essentially being black in his own house.

It has been a month now, and the one sure thing we have learned in this extended teachable moment is about Obama himself. He can't teach.


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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackobama; bho44; bhofascism; bhotyranny; democrats; lessons; obama

1 posted on 08/25/2009 8:16:33 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Even while he leads us into a joke of a disaster of a health care reform bill, I can’t help but feel a twinge of a desire to defend Obama’s Afghanistan policies against the liberals and cowards who fear some sacrifice.

Although it is just deserts, perhaps, for the beating that Bush took from Obama himself on Iraq.


2 posted on 08/25/2009 8:23:10 AM PDT by ConservativeInMaine
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To: nickcarraway
His brilliance is not brittle but supple.

"Brilliance"? WHAT brilliance? Give me ONE example.

3 posted on 08/25/2009 8:23:29 AM PDT by kromike
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To: nickcarraway

For the haloed one the question is not about a teachable moment, but has Obama ever had a learning moment.


4 posted on 08/25/2009 8:25:12 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: kromike

I’ll second that. Brilliance? FAIL


5 posted on 08/25/2009 8:34:06 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: nickcarraway
Who is the bigger man?

6 posted on 08/25/2009 8:38:08 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: nickcarraway

Another lefty out there called him a stuffed suit PR ploy created by corporate raiders.


7 posted on 08/25/2009 8:43:42 AM PDT by junta (Conservatives, the word "racism" is now ours.)
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To: xkaydet65

Bingo!


8 posted on 08/25/2009 8:59:47 AM PDT by MainFrame65 (The US Senate: World's greatest PREVARICATIVE body!.)
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To: kromike
Brilliance"? WHAT brilliance?

It's all Hollywood "charisma"...think Denzel Washington. In reality, Zero is a puffball upstairs.

9 posted on 08/25/2009 9:52:13 AM PDT by what's up
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Obama is NOT a teacher.

Obama is NOT a professor.

Obama IS a bully.

Bullies “teach” by negative conditioning. Disobey=Pain.

Obama is a bully who has been resisted and bullies don’t like that. It makes bullies cry.


10 posted on 08/25/2009 10:13:39 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: nickcarraway
Wait a minute! It's off-topic, but there is an absolutely stunning clause buried in the last paragraph...

The country needs health care reform and a success in Afghanistan, and both efforts are going in the wrong direction.

...and a success in Afghanistan...???

Little Richie Cohen actually wants to win a war???!!! How can this be?

11 posted on 08/25/2009 10:44:33 AM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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Little Richie Cohen actually wants to win a war???!!! How can this be?

Afghanistan is the good war, or broken clock, liberal punditry.

12 posted on 08/25/2009 7:11:31 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: nickcarraway

Dick Cohen is an obnoxious ass pirate, but he says what he believes, not what his party believes or his “people” believe. 90% of the time what he believes is the same thing as what Tim Kane believes, or what Howard Dean believes, or what Barak Obama Believes. But 10% of the time at least some of it is what I believe, and he’s not afraid of calling out Obama when it is. That’s the only reason I read him.


13 posted on 08/26/2009 11:03:44 AM PDT by presidio9 ("Don't shoot. Let 'em burn.")
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14 posted on 08/27/2009 4:50:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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