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Mark Steyn: Can Obama plug leak in his support? (Steyn at his best alert)
Orange County Register ^ | June 18, 2010 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 06/18/2010 12:01:06 PM PDT by Zakeet

I believe it was Jean Giraudoux who first said, "Only the mediocre are always at their best."

Barack Obama was supposed to be the best, the very best, and yet he is always, reliably, consistently mediocre. His speech on oil was no better or worse than his speech on race. Yet the Obammyboppers who once squealed with delight are weary of last year's boy band. At the end of the big Oval Office address, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews and the rest of the MSNBC gang jeered the president. For a bewildered Obama, it must have felt like his Ceausescu balcony moment. Had they caught up with him in the White House parking lot, they'd have put him up against the wall and clubbed him to a pulp with Matthews' no-longer-tingling leg.

So what? He always "disappoints." What would have been startling would have been if he hadn't "disappointed." His eve-of-election rally for Martha Coakley "disappointed" the Massachusetts electorate so much they gave Ted Kennedy's seat to a Republican. His speech for Chicago's Olympic bid "disappointed" the Oslo committee so much they gave the games to Pyongyang, or Ouagadougou, or any city offering to build a stadium with electrical outlets incompatible with Obama's prompter. Be honest, guys, his inaugural address "disappointed," too, didn't it? Oh, in those days you still did your best to make the case for it. "He carries us from meditative bead to meditative bead, and invites us to contemplate," wrote Stanley Fish in The New York Times. "There is a technical term for this kind of writing – parataxis, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as 'the placing of propositions or clauses one after the other without indicating ... the relation of co-ordination or subordination between them.'"

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KEYWORDS: leadership; marksteyn; obama; opinion; steyn; support
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To: two23

Thanks! That is my work, and I do have it set up as actual bumper stickers.


61 posted on 06/18/2010 6:40:37 PM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: Zakeet

We must neuter him in November. It doesn’t matter his performance 40% or his crimes...40% will still adore him and follow and defend him. How do we dissolve this planter’s wort?


62 posted on 06/18/2010 6:43:22 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Keep your head up and keep moving forward!)
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To: Oceander

It looks great (sounds weird to say that about anything that has carter on it!) But you know what I mean...!
FReegards!


63 posted on 06/18/2010 6:43:34 PM PDT by two23 (Everything About Them Is a Lie)
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To: Zakeet

mrkd


64 posted on 06/18/2010 6:59:24 PM PDT by KarenMarie (NEVER believe anything coming out of DC until it's been denied.)
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To: ichabod1
But they are going to be in the hurt locker too.

Listening to and reading the left, one notes that there is much enthusiasm for "punishing America" -- because we've had it "too good, for too long".

I've never understood this kind of thinking. And you doubtless don't either.

You'd think all of them must be living in a commune, off of an organic garden, growing their own weed. And they're vegetarians. Their computers must be rigged to bicycle generators.

They're ungrateful cretins and f#$*ing crazy, is what they are.

65 posted on 06/18/2010 7:52:43 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: La Lydia

66 posted on 06/18/2010 8:06:53 PM PDT by Palladin (Commodore Obama: "Damn the Constitution. Full speed ahead!")
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To: Zakeet

Mark, thank you for my new tagline.


67 posted on 06/18/2010 8:17:35 PM PDT by Doohickey ("It Takes A Spillage." - Mark Steyn)
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To: two23
Styn also referred to 0bama as the Milli Vanilli president.

Now that's funny, I don't care who you are!


68 posted on 06/18/2010 8:24:03 PM PDT by rdb3 (The mouth is the exhaust pipe of the heart.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
“It Takes A Spillage”

Arial-black, 16-point LOL!!

69 posted on 06/18/2010 9:13:23 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: newheart
Anyone else think that Carville's "We-uh dy-in down heah" speech was Hillary's informal announcement of her candidacy?

The thought crossed my mind that the fact that this was Carville saying this must carry some significance, for Machine Clinton to allow some daylight to be shown between their serried ranks and The One.

Remember, too, that Rahm is supposed to be leaving in the middle future here somewhere. That's been in he back of my mind for a while. When I first heard it, I thought it must be just Rahm wanting to "move on" ...... but now, hmmmmm.

70 posted on 06/18/2010 9:23:52 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: okie01
At bottom, that's the only way blame can be assigned.

Actually, Transocean owns a piece, too -- it eventuated that their rig crew made some unauthorized field modifications to the controls of their blowout preventer stack and kill lines. They were not, as they say in the industry, "100% API" (American Petroleum Institute, i.e. "standard").

Halliburton may also own a sliver for selling BP a "magic" new cement formula which may have failed under testing conditions in the "Macondo" well.

71 posted on 06/18/2010 9:27:59 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: CharlieOK1
Ironic that Obama chose a Greek backdrop for his inaugural ball, isn't it? Now he's trying to turn the U.S. into Greece.

LOL, in more ways than one! -- and here I thought the Greek convention theme referred only to his favorite propensities, not his platform.

72 posted on 06/18/2010 9:31:44 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: DuncanWaring
I was wondering how many of the people who read that will recognize it.

When I was much younger my parents had an album by Johnny Horton which we played constantly. Such great songs! The Battle of New Orleans, North To Alaska, Sink the Bismarck, Comanche, plus many more...

73 posted on 06/19/2010 1:18:06 AM PDT by jellybean (Bookmark http://altfreerepublic.freeforums.org/index.php for when FR is down)
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To: Palladin
#66...

Variation on a post turtle???

74 posted on 06/19/2010 3:13:51 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“It Takes A Spillage”
______________________________________________________________
LOL!!! Good one.


75 posted on 06/19/2010 3:38:18 AM PDT by no dems (I never thought I could loathe anyone more than the Clintons; enter Barack Hussein Obama.)
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To: Zakeet
"It Takes A Spillage."

LOL

76 posted on 06/19/2010 5:42:02 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: lentulusgracchus
Actually, Transocean owns a piece, too --

Perhaps. Fact is, we don't know. And won't know until all the facts come out.

In the meantime, BP bears the ultimate responsibility. Even though, in fact, it may bear none of the blame.

77 posted on 06/19/2010 10:34:40 AM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: okie01

Before all this started, I was saying the same thing. And I guess I still think we needed a swift kick in the ass. But nevertheless, my aim is for us to get up and out of it as soon as possible, and these b@stards are in the way.

On the other hand, sometimes I believe THIS:

“Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind….”


78 posted on 06/19/2010 11:16:08 AM PDT by ichabod1 (I'm no longer so frightened. I'm simply disgusted, It feels better.)
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