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Would Obama be better if he had lost an election?
SFGate: Token Conservative ^ | 10/16/12 | Debra J. Saunders

Posted on 10/16/2012 9:51:18 AM PDT by SmithL

I find myself wondering what kind of a president Barack Obama might have been if he had waited to run for office and not decided to run for the White House almost immediately after winning his U.S. Senate seat in 2004. If he had waited, say eight years, would Obama have a better understanding of how things get done in Washington? Or would he be oversmitten with his ability to win over others and win in the arena?

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KEYWORDS: election2012; obama
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1 posted on 10/16/2012 9:51:21 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Obama wouls still be a gay, self loving wannabe leftist dictator. He apparently hasn’t changed since about age 20.


2 posted on 10/16/2012 9:53:25 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: SmithL

Obama would still be a gay, self loving wannabe leftist dictator. He apparently hasn’t changed since about age 20.


3 posted on 10/16/2012 9:53:45 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: SmithL

Would he be a better person if both of his parents hadn’t hated America, the West, and ultimately been too self-absorbed to raise him?


4 posted on 10/16/2012 9:54:29 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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To: SmithL

What is this moron smoking!?!

If anything, Bath-House Barry would have had a BETTER idea of how to use Washington against America!


5 posted on 10/16/2012 9:54:49 AM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: SmithL

Yeah I’m sure he would have been a republican.


6 posted on 10/16/2012 9:57:16 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: SmithL

Saunders lives and works in the SF Bay area...she wouldn’t recognize a communist if they came up to her and said hi I am a commie. She somehow thinks that O would have moderated if he had lost an election....what a dolt


7 posted on 10/16/2012 9:57:39 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: SmithL
Would Obama be better if he had lost an election?

Didn't Hitler lose an election?

Note: Every time I see a vehicle with an Illinois tag on the road, I think of what they foisted on America - and I'm not happy!

8 posted on 10/16/2012 9:57:45 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ("Get that evil, foreign, muslim, usurping, gay commie bastard out of MY White House!" FUBO!)
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To: SmithL

He lost a race for Congress, it didn’t help.


9 posted on 10/16/2012 10:00:20 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: SmithL

To the headline: a better what? communist, liar, psychopath, homosexual, muslim - what?


10 posted on 10/16/2012 10:01:30 AM PDT by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Correct. But, if he had waited, he’d have been a more experienced assh*le.


11 posted on 10/16/2012 10:02:09 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: SmithL

Unlike fine wine, socialism does NOT improve with age.


12 posted on 10/16/2012 10:02:58 AM PDT by MamaTexan (I am a Person as Created by the Laws of Nature, not a person as created by the laws of Man)
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To: SmithL

No. But the country would be better off


13 posted on 10/16/2012 10:03:15 AM PDT by Mom MD (T he country needs Obamacare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask)
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To: SmithL

He couldn’t wait. There were many people who prepared the path for him, and the plan was, push him NOW.

He probably got flagged when he was 18.

Look at all the Chinese/Asian influence pushing Bill Clinton (Charlie Trie, Elaine Kanchanalak, and so forth) who opened doors, made funding available, paid media people. We eventually saw the skeleton of that structure.

It’s not too clear yet who planned things for Barry Soetero.


14 posted on 10/16/2012 10:03:28 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: The Sons of Liberty
Every time I see a vehicle with an Illinois tag on the road, I think of what they foisted on America - and I'm not happy!

Yeah, that damned Durbin, not to mention Jackson, Jr., Luis Gonzalez, Richard Daley, Rahm E, Valerie J, David Axelprick, and Saul Alinsky -- those are some real scum.

15 posted on 10/16/2012 10:05:12 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great; until it happens to YOU.)
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To: SmithL

Obama did lose an election. In 2000, he lost a Democratic primary race for Illinois’s 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives to four-term incumbent Bobby Rush by a margin of two to one.


16 posted on 10/16/2012 10:06:01 AM PDT by kabar
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To: SmithL

“If he had waited, say eight years, would Obama have a better understanding of how things get done in Washington?”

Obama has never given a rats ass how things “normally” get done in Washington. If he did, nothing in his whack left agenda would have passed.


17 posted on 10/16/2012 10:07:36 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: SmithL

No, we’d have had more of a voting record with which to dispel the MSM creation of a unifying candidate.


18 posted on 10/16/2012 10:12:20 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Islam offers us choices: convert or kill, submit or die.)
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To: SmithL

The answer to this idiot’s question can be found in, “Dreams from my father” and “The Audacity of Hope”. Obozo is obozo is obozo . . . etc.


19 posted on 10/16/2012 10:12:47 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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To: kabar
Interesting but losing a primary to an entrenched incumbent of your own party doesn't have the same effect as losing in a general.

Romney's loss to Ted Kennedy was probably a good thing as Romney himself noted in the 2012 GOP debates.

20 posted on 10/16/2012 10:16:35 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Osama's dead... and so is our ambassador - Coulter.)
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