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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
The IRS did WHAT???


41 posted on 05/16/2013 9:10:21 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: pogo101

a doofus or an islamic marxists? easy choice!


42 posted on 05/16/2013 9:10:46 AM PDT by Deathtomarxists (yellow black or white hillary's pantsuits stink by night!!)
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To: LADY J
He has no clue about how to do that!! He's never had a job.

Not quite true. Remember, his book talks about a brief stint flipping burgers as a teen. He describes that as "being behind enemy lines".


43 posted on 05/16/2013 9:19:23 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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More like Bullwinkle


44 posted on 05/16/2013 9:19:53 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave ofo attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: mandaladon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SjbPi00k_ME



The Cafe' Ame'ricain is officially SEQUESTERED!

45 posted on 05/16/2013 9:24:02 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: henkster

“0bama has told us what he really thinks:”

Exactly so. He’s shown his true beliefs many times. However since most Americans no longer have any critical thinking skills they put their trust in “experts” to interpret the glaringly obvious.


46 posted on 05/16/2013 9:25:36 AM PDT by Pan_Yan (I believe in God. All else is dubious.)
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To: mandaladon

Let’s look at a timeline. Obama can’t resign too quickly because the Democrats don’t have everything set up yet, and it would really look fishy. He can’t wait too long to resign, or the troubles will just keep getting worse. The Democrats have done a timeline. They already know when Obama will resign.


47 posted on 05/16/2013 9:31:38 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Mouton
Side show barker is a good simile. Of all the Presidents I have witnessed in my lifetime (which goes back to Eisenhower), this bum is the least presidential of any of them. For all their faults, his predecessors at least tried to do their jobs, work with the people who can make things happen (Congress, et al.), and tough it out when they started taking some heat. We may have disagreed with them, but at least they got in the ring and took some punches as well as giving them. All this child does is cry. Doing any real work in governing seems like a foreign concept to him.
48 posted on 05/16/2013 9:43:25 AM PDT by chimera
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To: pogo101
Yeah, but do you want Joe Biden in charge?

Not really. But at this point if it were to happen it would be a case of going from worse to bad.

49 posted on 05/16/2013 9:46:04 AM PDT by chimera
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To: chimera

Like many affirmative action candidates, he wanted the title, the perks, and the prestige-he wasn’t even thinking about the actual job. That never entered into his vision of being “Mr President”. That’s one reason he gets all bent out of shape when he’s forced to realise that he’s president, not king-just issuing decrees is so much easier than consulting Congress, the Constitution, and the law of the land.


50 posted on 05/16/2013 9:50:55 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: GlockThe Vote

I was gonna say, Obama might try Bulworth he’s been
doing bullwinkle and it hasn’t been working.


51 posted on 05/16/2013 9:51:00 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: mandaladon

Moe? Is that you?


52 posted on 05/16/2013 9:56:54 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: chimera

Right, it is a simili, not metaphor. But on substance matter, I also agree with you. BTW, your comment about doing any real work in governing being a foreign concept is right on the mark because his personal history has nothing to do with the US experience. He sees himself more like a guy protesting in Cairo or Tinanamin Square than the person who works within the government to make it happen. Like a child, he throws a tantrum whenever he does not get his way.

As long as we can keep the heat on this guy, keep up the pressure, he will crack and when he does, he will bring himself down. Nothing we can do will be able to get him out as his party is not going to let that happen, so, we have to work for the best and that is he needs to publicly show exactly what a man child he is.


53 posted on 05/16/2013 10:03:26 AM PDT by Mouton (108th MI Group.....68-71)
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To: R_Kangel
Have no fear, after he goes manic, the press will absolve him, once they hear his excuse.

and of course the media will again label incredulous conservatives who express disbelief as 'racist'...

54 posted on 05/16/2013 10:10:35 AM PDT by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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To: Pan_Yan

Or they put their trust in experts, who misinterpret the glaringly obvious.


55 posted on 05/16/2013 10:40:30 AM PDT by henkster (I have one more cow than my neighbor. I am a kulak.)
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To: henkster

I stand corrected. You used the proper verb.


56 posted on 05/16/2013 10:43:38 AM PDT by Pan_Yan (I believe in God. All else is dubious.)
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