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Maureen Dowd: President Obama is No Bully in the Pulpit
New York Times ^ | 20 Apr 2013 | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 04/21/2013 11:19:01 PM PDT by Cronos

THE graying man flashing fury in the Rose Garden on behalf of the Newtown families, the grieving man wiping away tears after speaking at the Boston memorial service, is not the same man who glided into office four years ago.

...he still has not learned how to govern.

How is it that the president won the argument on gun safety with the public and lost the vote in the Senate? It’s because he doesn’t know how to work the system. And it’s clear now that he doesn’t want to learn, or to even hire some clever people who can tell him how to do it or do it for him.

..Even House Republicans who had no intention of voting for the gun bill marveled privately that the president could not muster 60 votes in a Senate that his party controls.

..The White House had a defeatist mantra: This is tough. We need to do it. But we’re probably going to lose.

When you go into a fight saying you’re probably going to lose, you’re probably going to lose.

The president once more delegated to the vice president. Couldn’t he have come to the Hill himself to lobby with the families and Joe Biden?

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


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To: Cronos

She used to be invited on the Sunday shows round-tables weekly but they dont want her anymore since she is talking down Obama.


21 posted on 04/22/2013 4:39:18 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: sickoflibs

These people are delusional.


22 posted on 04/22/2013 4:56:15 AM PDT by firebasecody (Orthodoxy, proclaiming the Truth since AD 33)
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To: Cronos

Hah! She thinks politics is a frickin movie script, like she can tell them how it ought to go down, what a loon


23 posted on 04/22/2013 5:11:47 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Liberty Valance

Like water to a thristy man.

LLS


24 posted on 04/22/2013 5:25:01 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: Cronos

25 posted on 04/22/2013 5:39:00 AM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: Liberty Valance

Proof stupidity comes in all shapes and sizes.


26 posted on 04/22/2013 6:35:31 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Apparatchik

“Oh, I don’t read what MoDo says in her column- I’m just here for the CZ-J photos.”

Ditto. You beat me to it. Who cares what MoDO says, anyway. But those pictures ... :):):)


27 posted on 04/22/2013 6:49:55 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Cronos
The White House should have created a war room full of charts with the names of pols they had to capture, like they had in “The American President.”

You mean the movie starring Michael Douglas? Really?

28 posted on 04/22/2013 12:11:52 PM PDT by what's up
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