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Barack Obama -- a legend in his own mind?
New York Post ^ | June 18, 2012 | By Michael Goodwin

Posted on 06/18/2012 8:01:57 AM PDT by Mr. K

Watching President Obama flop around like a fish out of water, careening from gaffe to desperation to dishonesty, I find myself searching for ways to put his troubling behavior into historic perspective.

Is this The Unmaking of a President? Or is it The Unmasking? Perhaps we are witnessing an American Tragedy. Or maybe we’re seeing final proof his election was The Great Mistake.

All those fit the facts, and lead to a shared conclusion. So far, the 2012 election has almost nothing to do with Mitt Romney. Even the GOP doesn’t love its choice, but the race is a dead heat because Obama is so disappointing.

His fall from grace does more than merely confirm the conventional wisdom that elections are a referendum on the incumbent. Notwithstanding White House efforts to make the race about something or someone else, Obama remains the straw that stirs the drink.

But what a strange straw he is. Far stranger than we knew.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/06/18/barack-obama-legend-in-his-own-mind/?cmpid=NL_BestofOpinion#ixzz1y9ovEUVm

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fail; legend; obamafail; thegreatmistake; unmaking; unmasking
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man does this fit
1 posted on 06/18/2012 8:02:06 AM PDT by Mr. K
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To: Mr. K

Read the words “the great mistake” and immdeiately thought of:
Throw out your hands!!
Stick out your tush!!
Hands on your hips
Give them a push!!
You’ll be surprised
You’re doing the French Mistake!!
VOILA!


2 posted on 06/18/2012 8:04:50 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'll cling to my religion, cigars and guns till they're pried from my cold dead fingers!)
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To: Mr. K
Is this The Unmaking of a President? Or is it The Unmasking? Perhaps we are witnessing an American Tragedy. Or maybe we’re seeing final proof his election was The Great Mistake.

I pick 'All Of The Above'

3 posted on 06/18/2012 8:09:01 AM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Mr. K

If you look at Baraq’s history, every election he won was vs. an inept / damaged opponent.

Obviously McLame fit that category perfectly.

Baraq is like a heavyweight champ who never fought a guy with a winning record.


4 posted on 06/18/2012 8:12:58 AM PDT by nascarnation
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I think a fitting tribute to the Cretin-in-Chief will be mandatory “Barack Hussein Obamaloon” memorial urinals in every bathroom in the land.

Complete with a pic of the dork right in the center.

I’ll drink water/beer/whatever so that I can piss on the worthless piece of excrement every chance I can.


5 posted on 06/18/2012 8:13:56 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Mr. K

“troubling behavior”

What is troubling, he is going to plan. He, his wife, all the Czars he appointed changing policy all hate this country and are doing their best to destroy it.

None of this should have been a surprise - all you have to do is listen to him - he said what he believes, said what he was going to do and did it.

The sad part is the other two co-equal branches are doing little to nothing to stop it.


6 posted on 06/18/2012 8:15:14 AM PDT by edcoil (It is not over until I win.)
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"Without the fabrication, “not much is left,” Ferguson says. Obama’s memoir thus turns out to be a hologram of a fiction of his life instead of the real thing."

Slight correction for the author.

7 posted on 06/18/2012 8:15:50 AM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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Obozo, the phony mystery man, left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator. And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama’s “spiritual mentor”; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama’s colleague and political sponsor.

He has adulterated his 900 member White Hut staff with sodomists-to-be-honored. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected president? Unfortunately, Americans with functioning brains know the answer: half of Americans are either functioning illiterates, or enjoy the wild ride to destruction of this nation!

Of course much blame can be assigned to our one-party system.


8 posted on 06/18/2012 8:22:31 AM PDT by IbJensen (If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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“The book confirms again that the mainstream media failed miserably to vet Obama four years ago...”

If the MSM got a pass for getting into bed wit Billy Boy and whitewashing HIS monkeyshines... they ought to be permanently reduced to irrelevance in this, the most demonstrably spectacular breakdown of credibility ANY organization or profession has EVER accomplished!!

How the MSM, supposedly the watch dog of the public interest, could proudly and very publicly expose its unconditional and wholesale bias in favor of a candidate (ANY candidate) and yet ‘report’ on politics in this country with any expectation of authority is beyond me!!

I’d sooner trust a circus clown!


9 posted on 06/18/2012 8:31:34 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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To: Mr. K
Perhaps we are witnessing an American Tragedy... The biggest to come along in our countries brief history...
10 posted on 06/18/2012 8:32:16 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Mr. K

a mind is a terrible thing to waste


11 posted on 06/18/2012 8:32:33 AM PDT by molson209
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“Barack Obama — a legend in his own mind?”

Also a legend amongst about the 90% of black morons that voted for him because of his color and who will do so again even though this legend is responsible for their incredibly high unemployment rate and the addition of 800,000 ILLEGALS who are now in competition for any jobs that happen to be out there.


12 posted on 06/18/2012 8:33:59 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Can't Get Enough Of Your Love


Sing-A-Long





13 posted on 06/18/2012 8:36:31 AM PDT by devolve (------ ---- ---------toss_subhumans_in_Hannibal*s_wild_boar_pit----------- ---------------------)
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To: NRA1995
Oh Vay!...
14 posted on 06/18/2012 8:38:08 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: edcoil

As Curtis Sliwa opined, “His complection is his protection”


15 posted on 06/18/2012 8:44:30 AM PDT by technically right
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To: Mr. K

The only authentic part of obama is the central, pulsing, throbbing core of evil. Everything else exists to cover that part from view.


16 posted on 06/18/2012 9:11:12 AM PDT by RobinOfKingston (The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
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To: Mr. K
The man who campaigned against the “torture” of war prisoners boasts of killing suspects while taking no prisoners. He called rising debts “un-American” before setting a new record for borrowing. He railed against the imperial presidency before stretching it beyond recognition. The former law-school instructor tried to bully the Supreme Court.

Between now and the election the press will do their best to be 'oh so shocked' that Obama sometimes acts like a tough conservative. It's part of the 'sell' - primarily used to pull in Independents. And hoodwink RINO's... 'See, see, see how tough and conservative Obama is?" It's like Clinton's sister souljah moment. The 'doting court eunuchs' of the MSM fail to notice that this is an effective ploy.

17 posted on 06/18/2012 9:13:49 AM PDT by GOPJ (The 'doting court eunuchs' of the MSM fail to notice...)
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To: edcoil
What is troubling, he is going to plan. He, his wife, all the Czars he appointed changing policy all hate this country and are doing their best to destroy it. None of this should have been a surprise - all you have to do is listen to him - he said what he believes, said what he was going to do and did it. The sad part is the other two co-equal branches are doing little to nothing to stop it.

Should Romney win the election -- and I'm not yet convinced he will -- it will be most interesting to see just who, what, and how much of B. Hussein's "planted infrastructure" he removes. I'm willing to bet czars and lots of other garbage will remain in place. Apathy is just too easy. And should the Supreme Court saddle us with commie-care... Frightening, but it's an easy scenario to believe.

18 posted on 06/18/2012 9:23:31 AM PDT by workerbee (We're not scared, Maobama -- we're pissed off!)
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To: Mr. K

19 posted on 06/18/2012 9:30:43 AM PDT by garjog
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To: workerbee

That is the one question I would ask Mitt how many of these czars will you keep. I would hope the answer would be 0


20 posted on 06/18/2012 9:50:23 AM PDT by edcoil (It is not over until I win.)
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