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OBAMA THROWS A FIT
boblonsberry.com ^ | 04/18/13 | Bob Lonsberry

Posted on 04/18/2013 11:29:21 AM PDT by shortstop

Yesterday was a big news day.

One of the biggest in years.

The nation had been hit by a terrorist attack just two days before, reports were that a suspect had been identified and might even be close to being arrested.

The mysterious assassinations of two Texas prosecutors had been broken open and the country was just learning that it was neither white supremacists nor Mexican drug lords who had targeted our legal system.

Letters containing a lethal poison had been mailed to both the Congress and the White House. For the first time since the season of terrorism commenced in 2001, a poison attack had been launched in the mails.

And all of this had broken since noon.

So when the White House announced that the president was holding a hurry-up press conference at 5:30, you knew it was big.

The Boston evening briefing had been called off just minutes before it was scheduled to start, presumably out of deference to the president’s appearance, and the air was heavy with portent.

Perhaps the president was going to announce an arrest. Possibly he was going to give more information about the deadly letters sent to Washington and whether they were tied to some terrorist plot.

Maybe he had something to say about the evacuations at the Boston courthouse, and at Brigham and Women’s.

Maybe it was just an update to the country on where we stood and what we should expect.

But it was none of those things.

As radio stations and television broadcasts across the country went live, the president and his props walked out and it became clear what this was about.

Barack Obama was throwing a fit.

After some comments from a Sandy Hook father who has become an anti-gun campaigner, Barack Obama took the microphone and wore it out for most of a half an hour.

Not a word about Boston.

Not a word about defending the country against terrorism or any success that might have been had in catching whoever was behind an attack on the country just 48 hours before.

It was Obama about Obama.

His big gun-banning initiative had come up empty.

He had taken the horrific murder of 20 young children and their teachers and whored it out to advance his lifelong anti-gun agenda. He used the tears of bereaved mothers to manipulate the political system to get what he wanted.

Only he didn’t.

The Senate – controlled by his own party – denied him even the least offensive of his attacks on the Second Amendment.

The legislative process played out and he lost and his reaction was – on a day when there was an abundance of truly significant issues facing the country – to throw a self-centered hissy fit.

He ranted and raved, condemning Congress and the NRA and anyone else he could think of. He raised his voice and there was rage in his eyes and he threatened his foes and tried to rally his supporters.

He called on people to support him and his party and to oppose the Republicans and their supporters.

He was concerned about politics.

While there was still blood on the sidewalk.

While a dozen people were still fighting for their lives.

While a nation was looking for leadership.

Barack Hussein Obama was throwing a fit. Outraged at his political impotence. Indignant that the Congress had not bowed before him.

On the day that a poll said 4 percent of Americans believe gun control is an important issue.

Barack Obama was upset about guns.

So clueless. So out of touch. So focused on what mattered to him, without regard to what mattered to the people.

He had tried to gut a piece of the very Constitution he had sworn to uphold, and it bit him, and he threw a tantrum.

It was like watching a spoiled prince, some inbred and addle-minded scion of entitlement and privilege, raging against a disappointment to his ego.

Last night we saw the real Obama.

The one who doesn’t give a damn about anything but himself and his interests.


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0pansification; 113th; angrydems; bho44; bhobanglist; bostonmarathon; cokeheadinchief; crackedup; fastandfurious; guncontrol; gungrabber; lonsberry; maybealittleblowup; obama; secondamendment
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To: shortstop

Narcissistic prick more like it.


61 posted on 04/18/2013 1:10:03 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

I enjoyed it. That was in the style of the late Andy Rooney’s commentaries.


62 posted on 04/18/2013 1:15:06 PM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: shortstop

Rush was of the opinion today that it was supposed to pass the Senate, then fail in the House. Then little barry could blame the GOP. “The Republicans want more children to die!”, etc.,etc. He couldn’t get enough dems to pass the Senate. That is why he is so pissed. Makes sense to me. He wanted the issue for the mid-term elections.


63 posted on 04/18/2013 1:40:07 PM PDT by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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To: GreyFriar

Thanks for the spoiled-brat tantrum ping.


64 posted on 04/18/2013 1:59:55 PM PDT by zot
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To: shortstop
The ricin attacker is a registered democRAT.

The press will bury that tidbit!

65 posted on 04/18/2013 2:02:18 PM PDT by nomad
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
If you wrote a precognitive book about this President 10 years ago would anyone have thought the story was probable? My guess is they would have thought the story was too far out there to even be good fiction.

SciFi? 24? Idiocracy?

66 posted on 04/18/2013 2:03:46 PM PDT by x
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To: shortstop
Not a word about Boston.

Maybe that is because he knew he was going to say it 23 times the next day.

67 posted on 04/18/2013 2:06:29 PM PDT by x
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To: potlatch

>>Please remove my duplicate post. I am getting 500 errors today...!<<

We have all learned to live with them.


68 posted on 04/18/2013 2:19:34 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (LBJ declared war on poverty and lost. Barack Obama declared war on prosperity and won. /csmusaret)
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To: potlatch

We have all learned to live with them.


69 posted on 04/18/2013 2:20:00 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (LBJ declared war on poverty and lost. Barack Obama declared war on prosperity and won. /csmusaret)
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To: ConservativeStatement

They didn't pass my gun grabbing scheme!

70 posted on 04/18/2013 2:51:00 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: freedumb2003

LOLOL, sure looks like it........and you just proved it!


71 posted on 04/18/2013 2:59:41 PM PDT by potlatch (~be content with small victories and simple pleasures~)
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To: basil

What a complete waste of my time watching the usurper-in-chief’s speech regarding gun control. My mama always told me, “When one assumes, it makes an a** out of you or me.” I know who the a** is: resident usurper-in-chief Odumbo.


72 posted on 04/18/2013 3:32:20 PM PDT by lyby
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To: Uncle Miltie

From that chart it appears nobama peaked too late. How appropriate :)


73 posted on 04/18/2013 4:24:27 PM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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To: Travis McGee

I’ve been wondering who the designated Jimmy Shifflett was going to be.


74 posted on 04/18/2013 5:39:20 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: shortstop

Another tantrum.

Will someone please send him to time out. For the next three years.


75 posted on 04/18/2013 6:06:14 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely expressed as advice)
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To: BornToBeAmerican
It was like watching a spoiled prince, some inbred and addle-minded scion of entitlement and privilege, raging against a disappointment to his ego.


76 posted on 04/18/2013 6:28:08 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: shortstop

MAMA, I WANT MY BABA!!!!!!

Your mama is dead Barry, so shut your pie hole.


77 posted on 04/18/2013 11:54:12 PM PDT by Impy (All in favor of Harry Reid meeting Mr. Mayhem?)
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To: Nailbiter

bflr


78 posted on 04/19/2013 2:40:01 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: shortstop

What has him seriously PO’ed is that the suspects are not Tim VcVeigh’s. There goes his pretext for shutting down Fox and talk radio.


79 posted on 04/19/2013 4:51:36 AM PDT by Daveinyork (."Trusting government with power and money is like trusting teenaged boys with whiskey and car keys,)
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To: Servant of the Cross

The frozen expression on Biden’s face sure looks like the cartoons we see here on FR often.

He was doing his usual sworn job of acting out his boss’s will.


80 posted on 04/19/2013 8:30:19 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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