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Morning Joe: Obama Sees Our Democracy As 'Stumbling Block To His Greatness' (video)
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2011/12/12/morning-joe-obama-believes-america-not-commensurate-his-gifts ^

Posted on 12/12/2011 8:26:35 PM PST by chessplayer

Morning Joe remains the home of the overwhelming ratio of liberal to conservative guests. Even so, in recent weeks a narrative unflattering to Barack Obama has emerged around the table: Obama doesn't like his job. He doesn't particularly like people and is in the wrong line of work.

An even more damning appraisal was offered today: Obama doesn't think he has failed America. He thinks America has failed him. Or as Joe Scarborough encapsulated the concept, Obama believes our version of democracy is a "stumbling block to his greatness."

JON MEACHAM: I think it's, if you think about it from a biographical point of view, it's his thinking the system, and really the country, is not commensurate with his gifts.


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KEYWORDS: democracy; maobama; scarborough
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To: grumpygresh

General Pinochet comes to mind.

We must watch what we say here. The New Gestapo has eyes and ears everywhere.

FUBO!!!


21 posted on 12/12/2011 10:02:32 PM PST by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Transparency will prevail and America will be shocked at what they will see. The emperor will be exposed as “having no clothes” , as having no loyalty to America, and as having purposely planned for the downfall of our country.


We can only hope but do you really see that happening? Will he be publically exposed?


22 posted on 12/12/2011 10:07:22 PM PST by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: chessplayer

Mussolini felt stifled by the status quo in Italy too so he changed it. He left industry under private ownership but took charge of it.


23 posted on 12/12/2011 10:18:37 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: hoagy62
...the UN Charter states that the job of Secretary General cannot go to any of the Permanent Members of the Security Council...

No it doesn't. Read Chapter III Article 8.

We looked at this after Clinton left office.

-PJ

24 posted on 12/12/2011 10:25:00 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you can vote for President, then your children can run for President.)
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First of all, we’re a republic, and secondly, this collective presumption is not news.


25 posted on 12/12/2011 10:33:23 PM PST by Gene Eric (Save a pretzel for the gas jets.)
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To: Gene Eric

Thank you! Democracies are hated by everyone with a brain and mostly by our Founding Fathers!!!! It is mob rule. French Revolution stuff. Tyranny of the majority. Minorities have no rights whatsoever.


26 posted on 12/12/2011 10:58:44 PM PST by savagesusie
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

you say: “It is a combination of Mussolini’s haughty pose, Stalin’s iron-fist, Alinsky’s marxist community street organizer, and the whole Communist Party USA influence on him, as well as the arrogant, unrepentant attitude of communist terrorist Bill Ayers and his movement slut wife/terrorist, Bernadine Dohrn, a so-called “law professor” at Northwestern Univ.”

and this fella ? that’s his mommy was enamored with - who traveled ‘cross country to attend his rallies, who was at the rally - with a little baby barry on her lap - when this fella was killed???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G91lOe9319o


27 posted on 12/12/2011 11:48:11 PM PST by maine-iac7 (A prudent man foreseeth the evil,... but the simple pass on, and are punished. Prov 23:3 KJV)
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To: chessplayer

FUBO, you illegal Halfrican Marxist Kenyan Muslim SOB!


28 posted on 12/13/2011 12:21:12 AM PST by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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To: chessplayer

Folks, we all need to be more sensitive to Obama’s inner torment, anguish and pain, because he was unjustifiably denied the honor of receiving the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.

Doesn’t America understand the level of sacrifice that he has endured on our behalf? How ungrateful of us not to notice.

/s


29 posted on 12/13/2011 12:30:32 AM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

I hope and pray you are right about the election.


30 posted on 12/13/2011 12:49:27 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: unkus

#22 unkus:

Like the Leftist enemies, we, too, never sleep. And we have better files.

Just biding our time...


31 posted on 12/13/2011 1:08:29 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: maine-iac7

#27, main-iac:

Scary thought. However, we need a lot of proof, not just these kind of photos. No one has put momma Obama with Malcolm X. She’s one of the questions in Obama’s life that has not been answered, and Barry, by keeping her from talking to the press, is hiding something, but what?

That is why we keep looking.


32 posted on 12/13/2011 1:13:28 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Pigsley

The way to get to him is with infantile (Democrat) type antics ... calling him “Barry the Boob” is good ... “Narcissist/communist/socialist/teleprompter reader in chief” is good ... just don’t bother engaging him in any way that appears to make his response relevant. He is going to blow ... and self destruct with drugs...


33 posted on 12/13/2011 4:00:05 AM PST by Neidermeyer
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To: Political Junkie Too

I read it, and you have a point...the language is fairly ambiguous.

However, in practice, no one from any of the ‘big 5’ has ever served as Sec-General. We shall see.


34 posted on 12/13/2011 8:09:29 AM PST by hoagy62 ("Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."-Frank Zappa)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

I hope we are most pleasantly surprised.


35 posted on 12/13/2011 8:47:33 AM PST by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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