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Posted on 11/16/2013 6:54:27 AM PST by RoosterRedux
“There are going to be ups and downs during the course of my presidency,” Obama said. “I think I said early on when I was running, I am not a perfect man and I will not be a perfect president.”
He didn’t seem to consider that this may not be part of the usual ups and downs. And though he deserves credit for his apologies — seven times during his news conference, he said the problems with Obamacare are “on us” or “on me” — it’s not likely that the public’s loss of trust will be repaired no matter how often or how genuinely he says “my bad.”
Even as he accepted responsibility for the debacle, he couldn’t resist transferring some blame to the assembled press (“the things that go right, you guys aren’t going to write about”) and to Republicans (“repeal, repeal, let’s get rid of this thing”).
But Obama seemed genuinely puzzled by the notion that his leadership may have been the cause. He dismissed a question about whether his administration may be too insular (“I meet with an awful lot of folks”).
And, he said, “when I do some Monday-morning quarterbacking on myself,” he concludes that maybe he should have been “breaking the mold” with the rollout earlier because “the federal government has not been good at this stuff in the past.”
Wait a minute: Monday-morning quarterbacking? Maybe the president does understand that the game is over.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I think that the failures of Obamacare can help sink liberalism and big government solutions in general, to problems facing our nation.
Here we see what happens when you create a massive government intervention into 1/7 of the economy, to “fix” the problem of the millions of uninsured people.
If conservatives campaign properly in future elections, they will be able to point to Obamacare as the poster child for what happens when you have big government solutions. Liberals would love to impose big government solutions in other areas, such as energy policy and education. This whole fiasco may encourage masses of voters, who are not knee jerk liberals, to take a second look at conservative values, and conservative solutions to our problems.
And all of this can translate into support for conservative candidates in elections in 2014, 2016, and beyond.
The true believers on the lunatic fringe of liberalism will never vote for Republican or conservative candidates. According to some polls, only about 20-25% of voters belong to the fringe.
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ROFLMFAO!! The day the Media abandons a Progressive, a Socialist, a Communist, a Marxist, a Muslim or an American hating, lying POS will be the same day Satan serves snow cones at the gates of Hell. But I appreciate your giving me a hardy laugh on a rainy NC Saturday morning.
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Moot...IMO...
WaPo has been castrated since Klintoon schmoozapalooza in '92 & hence...
Bob Woodward is the figurehead emeritus...
...Not only he WOULDN'T (sold out) take this cabal down a`la '73...
He COULDN'T do it...
For lack of testicular fortitude...
When Obama does such a spectacularly bad job of Sunday-afternoon quarterbacking that even his most ardent cheerleaders like Dana Milbank have begun to throw down their pompoms in disgust and leave the field, it’s over for Obama.
Obama and his sports references. To laugh at. He does leadership about as well as he did basketball in high school. About as well as he does golf today. Turn in your jersey, LOSER!
The fumble is a symptom of obozo’s stupidity and ineptitude but it is that coupled with the fact that he is term limited that will spell the end for him. He is probably functionally incapable of doing anything that will actually work or otherwise be a positive. He NEVER had any leadership skills and he is arrogant and inexperienced.
perhaps thas why he MISSES whats going on around him?
Precisely. In a country of over 300 million people, what one man thinks, is irrelevant.
If Obama had any experience, he would know better. He represents the academic world (our betters). He couldn't unplug a toilet or dig a well.
He's Hahhvahhd, dont'cha know.
Thank God that Harvard and the university elite are being destroyed by the good old interweb.
Goodbye and good-frikken-riddance!
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