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The Thrill Is Gone:NYT:Obama’s Relationship With America Is Growing Sour
New York Times ^ | June 18, 2010 | Charles M. Blow

Posted on 06/19/2010 7:59:26 AM PDT by lbryce

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To: lbryce
It is becoming increasingly apparent that the magic has drained away.

Never was any magic. Only delusion.

101 posted on 06/19/2010 10:17:01 AM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: lbryce
Photobucket Give him to the Germans who worship him so much.
102 posted on 06/19/2010 10:18:08 AM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: lbryce
... he had to make tough choices (and not always the right ones)...

I'm still waiting for him to make the right choices.

103 posted on 06/19/2010 10:21:03 AM PDT by uglybiker (BACON!!)
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To: lbryce

Blow sure had his liberal thesaurus handy, didn’t he?

Republican = abusive relationship
reckless
cowboy
calculating
feckless

and he fit it all into one little sentence.


104 posted on 06/19/2010 10:27:31 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: lbryce

Apparently, Mr Blow thinks it’s the fault of the public that Barry is a failure.

Blow recognizes aspects of Barry’s bizarreness , but, falsely attributes this to personality quirks and not Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

” He’s the emotionally maimed type who lights up when he’s stroked and adored but shuts down in the face of acrimony.
Other people’s anxieties are dismissed as irrational and unworthy of engagement or empathy.
He seems quite comfortable with this aspect of his personality, even if few others are, and shows little desire to change it. “

Blow is very comfortable with this type of head case in the Oval Office.


105 posted on 06/19/2010 10:38:22 AM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: lbryce

The Demoklatura and their serfs are finally beginning to acknowledge smidgens of the disaster they have wrought.


106 posted on 06/19/2010 11:15:39 AM PDT by dogcaller
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To: lbryce
The Thrill Is Gone

Actually, for some of us, the thrill is just beginning.

To me, it almost feels like the summer of 1980 all over again.

107 posted on 06/19/2010 11:17:10 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: Earthdweller
You are talking about a revolution. IF Obama orders the US military against US citizens it won't work. Officers will resign. Enlisted people will desert. They and previous active duty members know where the armory is on every base. Those will be raided for real explosives and detonators along with belt-fed machine guns and rocket launchers.

Obama will be cuffed and put under arrest by the military just like a third world douche bag. Then we will have another election. After a lot of people die because of him.

108 posted on 06/19/2010 11:21:10 AM PDT by BobS
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To: lbryce
Only four words are needed to fully describe this commentary:

Steaming Pile of B___s__t.

109 posted on 06/19/2010 11:25:13 AM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: EDINVA
Blow sure had his liberal thesaurus handy, didn’t he?

Interesting, too, that he was able to blame Obama's problems on both Bush and Palin in just one line.

110 posted on 06/19/2010 11:27:16 AM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: lbryce

111 posted on 06/19/2010 11:36:39 AM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: lbryce

are you kidding- these leftist elites would have applauded an outright obama takeover of BP- they love the strong man despot action - must have had wimps for daddy’s


112 posted on 06/19/2010 12:08:47 PM PDT by silverleaf (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
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To: righttackle44

I promise to use my powers for good and not for eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevilllllllllllll.


113 posted on 06/19/2010 3:55:41 PM PDT by 60Gunner (But there's this one particular harbor...)
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To: LucyT

Suggets that the timing might be right...in the light of our recent discussion?


114 posted on 06/19/2010 7:11:36 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: no dems; potlatch

“It takes a spillage”

Credit to Mark Steyn. Classic!


115 posted on 06/19/2010 9:50:48 PM PDT by ntnychik
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To: Earthdweller
Neat post among many good posts.

A well armed Judeo/Christian republic has no problem with a Muslim but when they start stoning women here, they had better make sure they are a really good shot.

Indulge me going seemingly off topic, but this sparked something that's been bugging me for a few days now. There's a lovely Indian woman, in her 70s, and her husband of 55 years, a nice little guy who looks a lot younger than he is, who are at the gym the same time I am. I've gotten to know the woman a bit and like her. We were chatting in the locker room about husbands the other day and she told me that theirs was an arranged marriage.

I count myself as not easily shocked, but I was shocked (and amused at myself for it) by her placid acceptance of the practice of arranging marriages. They arranged their own kids' marriages with the children of other people they knew. It makes perfect sense to them. As far as I can see, she and her husband have a loving relationship, and I can also plainly see that in her day, this woman must have been drop-dead stunning gorgeous. Even still she has a lovely unaffected long-legged elegance about her, and has a sweet visage, beautiful eyes -- it's easy to imagine her at the age of 24, putting on the sari, that combination of long skirt, matching middriff top, swathed in a long matching scarf.

Anyway, I got to thinking: Okay, in India, go ahead and have your arranged marriages but in the U.S., when your kids turn 18, what you want doesn't mean squat because it's now their right to choose. Those are the rules in America. If you don't like them, go back to India. Not that she was advocating at all making it "legal" in America to arrange kids' marriages. I expect she and her husband were still in India when they married off their kids, and for all I know she agrees with me heartily.

If she was a Muslim instead of a Hindu (I assume she's a Hindu), she would be complaining that in America, the members of a religion should have full legal right to pursue pretty much any behavior on fellow human beings regarded as property, including wives and children. The Judeo/Christian "system," as one of the founders called it, operates on the premise of respecting the dignity and sovereignity of each person created equal, whether they're Christian, Hindu, Muslim, brown, black, white, yellow, or red. Each is endowed by his creator with certain rights. And when you're 18 in America, your parents no longer have any authority over you.

Individual rights are the essence of American freedom, and we will have to fight to defend them as Islam comes in and strives to "adjust" laws to give Muslims religious immunity from having to abide by American laws of individual rights.

116 posted on 06/20/2010 12:34:18 AM PDT by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: lbryce

Everytime I read this Blow character, I see a fat poodle barking at the moonbats flying out of his ass.

Good grief! When this fruit loop dies, scientists wil be fighting over his head so they can perform experiments in a vacuum.


117 posted on 06/20/2010 7:24:39 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: lbryce

I don’t buy it. When Obama appears on TV the people have a feeling of pride and excitement that permeates from head to toe. They really believe in this nonsense and are patiently waiting for their “checks in the mail.”


118 posted on 06/20/2010 8:54:57 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: 60Gunner
“Figures that someone named Blow would pine over a president who sucks.”

Just needs repeating cause it's so f’in funny and right on!

119 posted on 06/20/2010 8:58:16 PM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: ntnychik

[“It takes a spillage”]

Good one! Shades of Hillary and her ‘village’!


120 posted on 06/21/2010 6:07:44 PM PDT by potlatch
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