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Shhh. The president is sleeping
Reuters ^ | January 31, 2014 | Keith Koffler

Posted on 02/02/2014 7:37:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

President Barack Obama is out of gas. Pooped out. Gone fishing. Or rather, golfing. He’s just not that into it anymore. The republic is safe from any further vast left-wing legislative prescriptions for our ills.

But Obama’s increasing job fatigue is, paradoxically, cause for serious concern. While he sits back, aides in the White House and in the agencies are busy enacting a stealth agenda of rules and regulations. And on the world stage, Washington’s withdrawal threatens national security.

The president on display at Tuesday’s State of the Union is one who has shrunk from the pretension of becoming a president on the order of Ronald Reagan or Franklin Roosevelt into the purveyor of a list of puny policies that tinker at the margins.

Instead of offering “fundamental change” and inspirational hope, Obama made increasing the minimum wage for federal contractors the centerpiece of this year’s address. The increasingly disinterested president even had trouble pronouncing the name of his other “big idea,” a limited savings vehicle the White House is calling a “MyRA.”

Major issues like debt, deficit and entitlements? Fuhgetaboutit, way too much bother....

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: congress; minimumwage; obama; obamasotu
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1 posted on 02/02/2014 7:37:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama has no idea what he says from one day to another


2 posted on 02/02/2014 7:39:37 PM PST by molson209 (Hillary Clinton)
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He’s just not that into it anymore.

He's been into being king.

If he can't be king, he's not into it.

If one of our allies gets overrun, or a huge regional war gets kicked off because he's "not that into it," he'll just blame it on Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, and return to his leisure activities. His MSM mommy will cover for him and trumpet the excuses of his shills, and that will be that.

4 posted on 02/02/2014 7:42:43 PM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sleeping? *snort* Six feet under, I wish.


5 posted on 02/02/2014 7:43:12 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama’s weary.

I’m weary.

The country’s weary.

We are in trouble.

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6 posted on 02/02/2014 7:44:04 PM PST by Mears
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
He’s just not that into it anymore.

Obama was NEVER into governing. He enjoys campaigning, and he's very good at it. And he really enjoys the perks that come with his office.

But as far as governing, he's like a bored little boy. He'd just rather be doing something else. And I suppose that's good for us. If he had the cold drive of LBJ, we'd be in an even bigger mess than we are now.

7 posted on 02/02/2014 7:49:38 PM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Leaning Right
You may be on to something.

Count me as damned glad LBJ is 6 feet under.

8 posted on 02/02/2014 7:54:00 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The truth is the bureaucracy does not need the Bolshecratic Party any more. It will continue to grow all by itself. It makes its own rules and punishes anyone that stands in its way.


9 posted on 02/02/2014 7:54:35 PM PST by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: Leaning Right

As much as I despise Lyndon Johnson, seeing his name in the same sentence with Barack Obama makes me laugh out loud. It’s like comparing a top-flight Ferrari to the worst Yugo ever assembled. Thank the Lord he didn’t run for another term as he could have.


10 posted on 02/02/2014 7:54:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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To: Leaning Right

If he keeps on in this direction he may end up being the best president ever for the conservative party - his own people “seem” to be being burned out by him. Embarrassed by his stupidity . . . and when a rat sees someone as stupid, that is saying something.

It could be good for us, that is, if it wasn’t that the GOPe are a bunch of commie wannabees.

My mouth to God’s ear that the country will see the Tea Party has the answer.


11 posted on 02/02/2014 7:57:32 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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What president!The POS should be in a cell!


12 posted on 02/02/2014 8:01:28 PM PST by plainshame
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As much as I despise Lyndon Johnson, seeing his name in the same sentence with Barack Obama makes me laugh out loud. It’s like comparing a top-flight Ferrari to the worst Yugo ever assembled.

Please clarify. I see both LBJ and Obama as Yugos, complete and utter historical failures. It is hard for me to say which one has harmed the country more. LBJ destroyed a generation with Vietnam. That effect is still being felt today. Obama has ruined race relations, and has put the country into a debt spiral.

I know Obama has a couple of years to go, but at this point I'd vote for LBJ as the worse of the two.

13 posted on 02/02/2014 8:06:02 PM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: molson209

I suspect that Obama stays pretty well drugged up, just Hitler did when the Allies were closing in.

TEA anyone?


14 posted on 02/02/2014 8:07:16 PM PST by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think he should try heroin.


15 posted on 02/02/2014 8:08:25 PM PST by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)
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He’s still going to get amnesty and citizenship for illegals, thanks to Boehner, Ryan, and Cantor.


16 posted on 02/02/2014 8:10:42 PM PST by oldbill
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To: workerbee
I thought this was a story about Benghazi.
17 posted on 02/02/2014 8:14:06 PM PST by peeps36 (I'm Not A Racist, I Hate Douchebags of All Colors)
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To: Leaning Right
I'm talking about as politicians and governing. President Johnson ran his student council in college, ran the “Little Congress” of congressional aides and rose to prominence in Congress in a short period of time, effectively running the Senate when Ike was in the White House. Mr. Obama never accomplished 10% of that on his own and was lifted up by a sort of affirmative action from his days at ACORN until now. LBJ was the real deal as far as seizing and using power, however disastrous the results might be, Mr. Obama has no idea how that is accomplished. He is where he is on the backs and shoulders of other men.
18 posted on 02/02/2014 8:15:23 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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To: grumpygresh

Straight heroin, not some street garbage that’s been repeatedly stepped on. Yes, I do know what that means.


19 posted on 02/02/2014 8:19:41 PM PST by libstripper (Asv)
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To: workerbee

Careful, then you get the zombie with his asshairs stapled to his scalp as Emperor.


20 posted on 02/02/2014 8:21:25 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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