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Obama: incompetent and ideological
NY Post ^ | May 30, 2010 | Michael Barone

Posted on 05/31/2010 2:46:53 AM PDT by Scanian

'Obama Struggling to Show He's in Control," reads the headline on The Washington Post's story on Barack Obama's Thursday press conference, where most of the questions were about the Gulf oil spill.

"Defensive, unauthoritative and equivocal," wrote Congressional Quarterly's Craig Crawford of Obama's performance. "He came across as a beleaguered bureaucrat in damage control."

Uh-oh. People, even people in the Obama-friendly press, are beginning to say that the oil spill is Obama's Katrina. That it destroys his reputation for competence.

Obama's press conference -- his first in the White House in 309 days -- didn't make him look any more in command of things than the photos of President George W. Bush's flyover visit to New Orleans. The candidate who told us his electoral victory would be seen as "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal" is now the president who seems helpless to prevent the oil slick from spreading.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bush; ideology; oilspill; presser
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1 posted on 05/31/2010 2:46:53 AM PDT by Scanian
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Was Obama a dual citizen? By birthright of his father and by adoption by
his stepfather, he may not be a NBC, and consitutionally disqualified from
holding office. He claims US citizenship due to his Hawaiian connections.

"ALOHA"

2 posted on 05/31/2010 3:00:10 AM PDT by Liz (If teens can procreate in a Volkswagen, why does a spotted owl need 2000 acres? JD Hayworth)
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To: Scanian

Shame the headline is more decisive than the article which is full of weasel words i.e. equivocal.

Barone is never going to be a fire-breather so I’m not surprised or disappointed but I knew the headline was too good to be true.


3 posted on 05/31/2010 3:00:51 AM PDT by relictele (.)
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4 posted on 05/31/2010 3:01:20 AM PDT by Liz (If teens can procreate in a Volkswagen, why does a spotted owl need 2000 acres? JD Hayworth)
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To: Scanian
Democratic victories in 1992 and 2008 were indictments of the two George Bushes for incompetence

Both Bush's lost support from conservatives because of ideology. Bush 1 :, "read my lips, no new taxes", then raising taxes. Bush 2: Medicare drug entitlement.

What is the TEA party all about? Both parties are wrong for America ideologically.

5 posted on 05/31/2010 3:03:31 AM PDT by Need4Truth (the just shall live by faith.)
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To: Scanian
Applying a new twist to being famous for being famous, Obama supporters during the campaign were literally unable to point to any single accomplishment by the candidate except that he ran a good campaign.


6 posted on 05/31/2010 3:06:47 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: nathanbedford

Obama did not have Any competence to lose!


7 posted on 05/31/2010 3:19:19 AM PDT by DooDahhhh (AMEN)
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To: Need4Truth

due you really think it was medicare?

I think Bush 2 simply wimped out. I personally think he was a great-American and I thank G-d every day that he was president during 9/11 than Al Gore. But, he simply didn’t fight—he let the dems and the media bash him endlessly and he never fought back. I gave up when he didn’t fight for John Bolton to stay in the UN. (calling Islam a religion of peace didn’t help the situation either)


8 posted on 05/31/2010 3:21:03 AM PDT by Jaysin
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To: Liz

LOL!!


9 posted on 05/31/2010 3:21:45 AM PDT by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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To: nathanbedford

Contrary to beliefs dear to the liberal intelligentsia race, ethnicity, and gender are not qualifiers for any position of leadership and do not inherently denote moral superiority. President Obama is the end result of nearly fifty years of a national obsession with affirmative action.

Having seen the consequences of electing an ill prepared chief executive, one can hope the electorate will return to evaluating potential leaders in terms of accomplishments, values, philosophy, and personal accountability. For national survival we must move beyond the politics of racial identity to achieve Dr. King’s dream of people being judged by their character and not the color of their skin.


11 posted on 05/31/2010 3:37:38 AM PDT by Soul of the South (When times are tough the tough get going.)
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12 posted on 05/31/2010 3:38:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Liz

“ALOHA” = Always Let Obama Hide Adequacy


13 posted on 05/31/2010 3:46:28 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Hey, Barack "Hubris" Obama, $10 is all it would take, why spend millions to cover it up?)
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“ALOHA” = Always Let Obama Hide Adequacy


14 posted on 05/31/2010 3:48:19 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Hey, Barack "Hubris" Obama, $10 is all it would take, why spend millions to cover it up?)
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What a putz!


15 posted on 05/31/2010 4:00:20 AM PDT by safetysign
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To: Scanian
Obama’s competency is in three areas:

1. community organizing (i.e. trouble-making),

2. oratory (i.e. reading well what others have programmed into his TelePrompTer), and

3.concealing his past.

16 posted on 05/31/2010 4:01:36 AM PDT by Mobties
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Think of it this way: even though the media is his pals, the media is of the mindset that gubment can solve all the world’s problems, and when anyone, including a lib, prove that to be patently false, they melt down.


17 posted on 05/31/2010 4:14:01 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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Gee, the country elected a two-bit community organizer, a guy who never had a real job and people are SHOCKED at Obama’s complete incomtetance??

I seemed to recall Obama himself saying that his major accomplishment was that he “ran” his presidential campaign! Great, huh? But the MSM desperately — desperately — wanted the antI-Bush candidate and the people desperately wanted to believe. Like we do watching a movie, enough people were willing to suspend their belief, completely disregarded this guy’s background, and voted for him with tears of joy.

Obama is the complete disaster that we all warned about, maybe worse.


18 posted on 05/31/2010 4:16:52 AM PDT by Obadiah (I can see November from my house!)
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True, but we have a golden opportunity here, and that is not just to undo Obama-ism, but to seriously damage the precept that gubment can fix any and all problems. This is NOT just "Obama's competence" under scrutiny, it's GUBMENT'S.

We should repeatedly make the case that close-shore drilling would have allowed divers to fix that a long time ago, too.

19 posted on 05/31/2010 4:21:37 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: DooDahhhh
My thoughts exactly Gitmo closing- trails of terrorist in New York, the Fort Hood Shooter, the Christmas day bomber and on and on-I read an article about the Sestak problem a in the AP-The article said it under cut Obama’s carefully craft image, I damn near spewed my coffee—LOL the comic strips have moved to the news sections of the paper..
20 posted on 05/31/2010 4:46:52 AM PDT by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
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