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Honey, I Shrunk the President
Wall Street Journal ^ | October 4, 2012 | JAMES TARANTO

Posted on 10/05/2012 1:54:36 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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.....In short, it means that the liberal media so coddles liberal politicians that they have no idea how to cope outside that liberal media bubble...

Barack Obama has been so totally coddled by the liberal media that he looked absolutely shell-shocked in this debate. Stunned, unhappy, angry, sour--and at some points genuinely incoherent....

It reminds me of how progressives have built their base, one hapless dependent at a time. Obama was the face of his constituency - what the Left wants America to be, "Stunned, unhappy, angry, sour,.... genuinely incoherent," incapable of coping and DEPENDENT on Them.

1 posted on 10/05/2012 1:54:40 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

he did look really small


2 posted on 10/05/2012 1:57:55 AM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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Hitler finds out Obama lost the debate.
3 posted on 10/05/2012 2:00:04 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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[Taranto article] But the journalists who are pointing the finger at Obama have three fingers pointed back at themselves. Instead of challenging the president, the press corps--with a few honorable exceptions.....

Okay, okay, let's feel the love for Jake Tapper, the Univision interviewers about "Fast & Furious" (good job, again), and a shout-out to the American Spectator for quoting .... James Taranto.

So, James, WSJ editors -- how about it? How about a shout out to people who had it right all along, like Rush Limbaugh, Mike Savage, and Mark Levin? Michelle Malkin and Mona Charen? What? You don't invite them to your feasting-table? After they brought the broccoli and the veal piccata and laid out the flatware and linens?

Ingrates. Those guys slaved in the trenches and polished your carving knives for four years .... and you can't even say a good word for them in your hour of deliverance.

4 posted on 10/05/2012 2:07:27 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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Hidden at the bottom of the page - a chart- [uber-LIBERAL St.Pete Times opines that Obama must hope supporters [viewers] changed the channel before the debate ended]! Breaking down the presidential debate
5 posted on 10/05/2012 2:21:10 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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See also the comments to this article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443768804578036490415028514.html#articleTabs%3Dcomments and much more ...
6 posted on 10/05/2012 2:30:42 AM PDT by trekdown
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Indeed!!!! We (thanks to the like of Rush, Levin, Palin and others) have ALWAYS known he was an empty suit. I have no sympathy for the supporters who are in utter shock for the first time seeing what we have always known.

This media is just as complicit in our country’s undoing as fearless leader himself. and they need to be turned out to pasture.


7 posted on 10/05/2012 2:35:55 AM PDT by SueRae (See it? Hell, I can TASTE November from my house!)
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...journalists who are pointing the finger at Obama have three fingers pointed back at themselves. Instead of challenging the president, the press corps...have spent the past four-plus years puffing him up and making excuses for him.

The truth about the last four years is worth repeating, except I want to say it louder!

...journalists who are pointing the finger at Obama have three fingers pointed back at themselves. Instead of challenging the president, the press corps...have spent the past four-plus years puffing him up and making excuses for him.

8 posted on 10/05/2012 2:41:08 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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The love affair may be hitting the rocks and I have no sympathy for any of the jilted parties.


9 posted on 10/05/2012 2:48:43 AM PDT by Bullish (The stink from this amateur regime smells all the way to Kenya.)
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“”My God, in the four years that we’ve seen him in the White House, I don’t think we’ve ever seen the president so flaccid, so dull-brained, so jejune, so shifty, so downcast.””

Not difficult to understand - he has never been publicly challenged by the unbiased media or the fluffy talk show hosts. Unrestrained, he panders to his supporters and lectures other audiences. Much like what he is doing now. He didn’t have the courage to insult Mitt Romney to his face - so he is spinning his hatred at campaign events. No-one to challenge his lies, lack of dignity and decency.


10 posted on 10/05/2012 2:49:15 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers.)
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How could you forget Sean Hannity?


11 posted on 10/05/2012 2:51:57 AM PDT by Bullish (The stink from this amateur regime smells all the way to Kenya.)
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Journalists were at such a total loss to explain Soetoro’s performance, or lack thereof, that it took the genius of Al “Fat Albert” Gore to find the real culprit — the altitude (it's amazing he didn't say it was AGW). However, leave it to Zero to find the real cause — Mitt Romney — since he couldn't seriously blame George Bush. Is this a new theme?
12 posted on 10/05/2012 2:55:21 AM PDT by immadashell
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One thing I heard on the radio today was an interview with a makeup expert. Three things she pointed out were that Romney smudged his makeup by rubbing his upper lip just before he went on stage, Obama was given a dark eyeliner, probably to mask fatigue, and that as the debate kept going, Dumbo's ears got redder and redder.

She gave some excuse about lighting, but I'm betting that if someone had tracked his BP, his stress and fury at being actually questioned without being fed the answers would have been one click short of a anger management episode.

Odd that this wasn't noted...

13 posted on 10/05/2012 2:57:37 AM PDT by jonascord (Democrats are the people on the Left Side of the IQ Bell Curve.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Spot on.


14 posted on 10/05/2012 3:07:49 AM PDT by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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The liberals and Obama’s radical protectors put him on his own plantatation. He has no idea how to behave or defend himself off of the plantation.


15 posted on 10/05/2012 3:07:54 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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“The love affair may be hitting the rocks . . “

Yep. Chrissy Matthews tingle down the leg was just Obama peeing on his leg and telling him it was raining . . . now Chrissy feels betrayed.


16 posted on 10/05/2012 3:08:27 AM PDT by Twinkie (Live and let live.)
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He was very, very angry. Did you see the photo of him and his lovely wife right afterwards? She was truly furious!


17 posted on 10/05/2012 3:08:31 AM PDT by livius
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Lefties, you set up a phony, groom him, build his image, protect him, praise and adore him, never question him, never confront him, never criticize him, ...

And then, one day, you have to push him out in the real world and BLAM...

You find out he is still just a phony.

And then you get angry??


18 posted on 10/05/2012 3:10:14 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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The Obama that guys like Matthews and Sullivan expected instead was a character in a fairy tale--a fairy tale written by guys like Matthews and Sullivan.

Brilliant!

19 posted on 10/05/2012 3:10:24 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.")
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The love affair may be hitting the rocks and I have no sympathy for any of the jilted parties.

You summed up what others have been saying with several paragraphs. LOL. Good one.


20 posted on 10/05/2012 3:14:38 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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