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Obama dreams of ‘going Bulworth,’ New York Times reports
Yahoo News ^ | 16 May 2013 | Olivier Knox,

Posted on 05/16/2013 8:20:19 AM PDT by mandaladon

President Barack Obama—exasperated by scandals, a seemingly stalled domestic agenda and armchair chiefs of staff in the media—wants to tell you what he really thinks, Washington. Really let you have it. In fact, he’s so frustrated with all of the inside-the-Beltway BS that he might hire an assassin to target him in a couple of days, but not before he’s really ripped politicians (especially Democrats), denounced the outsized weight of money in elections and used “socialism” as a rallying cry against health insurance companies. Wait, what? The New York Times reported on Thursday that Obama "has talked longingly of ‘going Bulworth,’ a reference to a little-remembered 1998 Warren Beatty movie about a senator who risked it all to say what he really thought." “Probably every president says that from time to time,” the Times quoted longtime Obama adviser David Axelrod as saying. ''It's probably cathartic just to say it. But the reality is that while you want to be truthful, you want to be straightforward, you also want to be practical about whatever you're saying.'' The Times' description of the movie is a bit antiseptic. Bulworth, a disillusioned veteran Democratic senator from California facing a tough primary, takes out a rich life insurance policy on himself, with his daughter as beneficiary, and hires an assassin to kill him in a few days' time. Thinking he's going to die, Bulworth decides he has nothing to lose and hits the campaign trail skewering the state of politics—and notably the Democratic Party and race relations.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obama; scandals
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To: mandaladon

On Twitter, Iowahawk had him talking longingly of wanting to go Chauncey Gardiner.


21 posted on 05/16/2013 8:42:26 AM PDT by untenured
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To: mandaladon
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22 posted on 05/16/2013 8:46:03 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: mandaladon

Good! Let the true and unvarnished Barry Soetoro that we all know has been lurking in there step forward into full view.

This is Step One in the long predicted Obama crack-up.


23 posted on 05/16/2013 8:46:09 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: mandaladon
In fact, he’s so frustrated with all of the inside-the-Beltway BS

He's frustrated that he can't get his way. The tactics don't bother him one bit. He's an arrogant BASTARD who's seldom had to take "no" for an answer.

24 posted on 05/16/2013 8:46:44 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Uncle Miltie
"wants to tell you what he really thinks"


25 posted on 05/16/2013 8:49:01 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: mandaladon

0bama has told us what he really thinks:

Bitter clingers.

Under my energy policy, utility rates would necessarily skyrocket.

My muslim faith.

Spread the wealth around.

If you can sift through the manure of his lies, the truth gets out once in a while.


26 posted on 05/16/2013 8:49:07 AM PDT by henkster (I have one more cow than my neighbor. I am a kulak.)
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To: mandaladon

He can easily start by releasing his personal records.


27 posted on 05/16/2013 8:50:55 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: Carry_Okie
So they repeat themselves, ever louder, and believe that if we don't buy it, we must either be stupid or "evil forces" are at work.

The Communists globally, including the Weather Underground, recognized that there were sizeable percentages of the populace that would not succumb to political re-education and indoctrination (the REAL free thinkers). The determination was made that they would need to be locked up in prison camps or simply slaughtered (the Weather Underground estimate was that at least 25 million would need to be killed).

28 posted on 05/16/2013 8:51:54 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: mandaladon

It’s Duane Dibley!


29 posted on 05/16/2013 8:53:40 AM PDT by steve8714 (Any homosexual man can marry any woman he wants. Just like any normal man.)
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To: mandaladon

He really wants to “go Caligula”.

He’s well on his way, with that horse’s *ss Harry Reid in charge of the senate.


30 posted on 05/16/2013 8:54:27 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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To: a fool in paradise
The determination was made that they would need to be locked up in prison camps or simply slaughtered (the Weather Underground estimate was that at least 25 million would need to be killed).

A drop in the bucket. According to the Seville Strategy of the Global Biodiversity Assessment, the total population of the planet should not exceed 1 billion. Never mind that restoring native plant habitat requires an enormous amount of labor resulting in GREATER biodiversity (our property hosts 371 plant species).

That is the real tragedy with eco-Marxism. In their lust for power to "save the earth," they just might kill it, because they will have killed the people who know how to manage it.

31 posted on 05/16/2013 8:57:10 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)
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To: chimera
"Try working for a living, Mr. President."

He has no clue about how to do that!! He's never had a job. Flapping your mouth as a community organizer does not count as work.

He only knows how to campaign...from the 'flapping your mouth' experience.

32 posted on 05/16/2013 9:00:01 AM PDT by LADY J (You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have. - Author Unknown)
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To: chimera

This guy is a barker at a carnival side show, hense why he used the side show metaphor the other day.

It seems he is not back in DC taking full control of this run away roller coaster car on the down side run. He thinks only he can pull it out. Great. The more he takes control, the faster the desent will be. Right now, those who are paying attention want some answers, not some speeches or finger pointing. I am awaiting for the first person to ask him the question: exactly what were you doing after 5pm on the day of the Benghasi attack? When he gives the answer that will throw Hitlery under the bus, because he was not involved, it will be the end of his reign of terror.

Next question: Mr. President, you removed the head of the IRS because of that scandal so you apparently believe the guy at the top is responsible, since there are scandals both in the Justice Department and State Department and even apparently at HHS, should not the person in charge of all four go?


33 posted on 05/16/2013 9:02:24 AM PDT by Mouton (108th MI Group.....68-71)
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To: mandaladon

Lazy assed n,,,,,numbskull.


34 posted on 05/16/2013 9:03:11 AM PDT by Old Yeller
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To: BenLurkin

To save time, he could go Kevorkian.


35 posted on 05/16/2013 9:04:18 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: martin_fierro

Yee HAH!!!

I’m gonna be President SOON!


36 posted on 05/16/2013 9:04:37 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: mandaladon

More like “going Bodmin.”

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=going%20bodmin


37 posted on 05/16/2013 9:04:56 AM PDT by Excellence (9/11 was an act of faith.)
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To: Bubba_Leroy
It will never happen. Democrats rely on low information voters not knowing what they really think.

Don't worry.

The media would see to it that WHEN they find out; it'll be blamed quite effectively on the Damned Conservatives!

38 posted on 05/16/2013 9:06:23 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah, but do you want Joe Biden in charge?


39 posted on 05/16/2013 9:06:34 AM PDT by pogo101
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To: pogo101
"Yeah, but do you want Joe Biden in charge?"

Are you kidding?? I'll take Biden anytime over the America hating Kenyan!!

40 posted on 05/16/2013 9:09:42 AM PDT by LADY J (You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have. - Author Unknown)
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