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Obama gets emotional to sell public on second-term agenda
The Hill ^ | 02/22/13 | Amie Parnes

Posted on 02/22/2013 7:50:56 AM PST by Cheerio

President Obama is displaying a more emotional side of his personality as he works to sell his second-term agenda to the public.

The Spock-like Obama criticized for being aloof has been ditched in favor of a president who tells personal anecdotes about his life, shares locked-away thoughts from his past and on several occasions has wiped away a tear or two in public.

While Obama has more flexibility to be himself now because he doesn’t face reelection, the personal touches are also in tune with a White House effort to enact an agenda that includes gun control, immigration reform and anti-poverty programs by connecting directly with the public and pressuring Congress from the outside.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: obama
With the low information voters now in control of the nation, this connecting directly with the public and pressuring Congress from the outside is likely to work up against a completed denuded GOP. It is time for the end of the GOP - let's move forward with a new party!!
1 posted on 02/22/2013 7:50:58 AM PST by Cheerio
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To: Cheerio

funding fat and faggots...


2 posted on 02/22/2013 7:57:36 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Cheerio

Spock-like

Riiiiiiiiiight.

3 posted on 02/22/2013 8:07:31 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Nothing will change until after the war.)
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To: Cheerio

Here’s a question. If the event at Newtown wouldn’t have happened, would gun control still be on the Obama second-term agenda?


4 posted on 02/22/2013 8:08:33 AM PST by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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what a fluff piece...the author is a Liberal butt kisser for the Obama thugs.. quit reading half way through... when will the main stream media wake up and see the damage THEY are doing??? as for obama's tears....CRY ME A RIVER HUSSEIN...and then ask if I care ,,,♥
5 posted on 02/22/2013 8:15:22 AM PST by haircutter
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To: Cheerio

he is acting


6 posted on 02/22/2013 8:17:05 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Cheerio
"Spock-like"? Who are they kidding?

Does THIS look like Spock?

7 posted on 02/22/2013 8:28:47 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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8 posted on 02/22/2013 8:33:05 AM PST by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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To: Cheerio

Send him back to Vulcan.


9 posted on 02/22/2013 9:01:34 AM PST by JPG (Stay strong.)
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To: Sacajaweau
And that's just for him and moochelle.
10 posted on 02/22/2013 9:08:14 AM PST by peeps36 (America is being destroyed by filthy traitors in the political establishment)
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To: Cheerio

Read the comments it is like 99% to 1% against Obama. Funny comments.


11 posted on 02/22/2013 10:17:35 AM PST by crazydad (Obamamohamed is a traitor)
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To: Lou L

Yes, it just would have taken a different path, arising out of a coordinated effort by the MSM to raise public awareness and give Obama the opportunity to act.

Newtown just advanced the starting time and gave the Libs an exploitable event with a lot of traction.


12 posted on 02/22/2013 10:27:49 AM PST by tanknetter
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Newtown just advanced the starting time and gave the Libs an exploitable event with a lot of traction.

Wow, wasn't that convenient. Just fell right into the President's lap...right at the lull following the election, and before he was sworn into office for his second term. Some dictators just get all the luck.

13 posted on 02/22/2013 10:39:39 AM PST by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: Lou L

Right. Just like how dome would point out that the same thing happened with 9-11 and Bush, or in the converse with the Iranian Hostage Crisis and Carter.

But I digress.

What’s clear is that, given the rapidity of the Liberal response to Newtown there were things in place waiting for the right time to roll. Whether that time was after a week of the press suddenly focusing on gun violence, or after a tragic event is irrelevant. Things were in place to kick off when needed or possible.


14 posted on 02/22/2013 11:13:58 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: tanknetter

Some, not dome ...


15 posted on 02/22/2013 11:16:08 AM PST by tanknetter
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