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Stephens: How Obama 'Gets Things Done'
WSJ ^ | 3/17/2014 | Bret Stephens

Posted on 03/18/2014 12:55:22 PM PDT by mojito

Maybe Barack Obama should have given Zach Galifianakis an off-ramp, like the one he keeps trying to offer Vladimir Putin. Those were some pretty barbed lines the president unloaded on the comic actor last week in their semi-parodic "Between Two Ferns" interview.

In case you're wondering why I'm writing about this—well, I am too. A Malaysian jetliner has vanished into thin air, while Russia has completed its seizure of Crimea and may yet invade other parts of Ukraine. Serious stuff, you might say. But the big story of last week as far as the president is concerned is his appearance alongside the star of "The Hangover" movies, the guy who last year smoked a joint live on the Bill Maher show.

"Zach actually was pretty nervous," Mr. Obama later told Ryan Seacrest, the"American Idol" impresario, in a radio interview. "His whole character is to go after the guest and I think he was looking around and seeing all these Secret Service guys and thinking, 'I wonder what happens here if I cross a line?'

"But we had a great time."

Incidentally, I quote these lines from the Us Weekly report of the Seacrest interview. Us magazine is where I go for my political news these days. The online article also had a link to a photo gallery of Mr. Obama hanging out with various celebrities, like Justin Bieber. "What's up, my dude!" the Canadian teen star says to the president of the United States. "What's up, Biebs!" the president of the United States answers back.

In fairness, this was before Biebs's Miami DUI. In fairness, also, the president does important work. Just the other day, he was photographed standing by his Oval Office desk, casually dressed in jeans, speaking to Vladimir Putin....

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: momjeans; neocon; obama
aka The Decline and Fall of the American Republic.
1 posted on 03/18/2014 12:55:22 PM PDT by mojito
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its rumored that before thier recent falling out Obie that used to call Vlad ....Honey Pie.....


2 posted on 03/18/2014 1:01:49 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Jesus came to Save not Entertain / Ground John Kerry Now!)
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To: mojito
aka The Decline and Fall of the American Republic.


3 posted on 03/18/2014 1:06:13 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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Just the other day, [Obama] was photographed standing by his Oval Office desk... speaking to Vladimir Putin....

[Obama's] appearance alongside the star of "The Hangover" movies... "Zach actually was pretty nervous"

Vladimir wasn't.

4 posted on 03/18/2014 1:10:25 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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"That's it!! ...I'm unfriending you on Facebook!"


5 posted on 03/18/2014 1:13:56 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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The seat is vacant till 2017...

Haphazardly at best.

6 posted on 03/18/2014 1:14:01 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Servant of the Cross
Yeah .... who's laughing now? Other than Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn?
7 posted on 03/18/2014 1:19:39 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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0bama does not say “gets things done.” His vocabulary is not that good. He says “get stuff done”. Ya know he alway be talkin like dat.


8 posted on 03/18/2014 1:20:53 PM PDT by forgotten man
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Sounds like the title of the shortest book ever written.


9 posted on 03/18/2014 1:28:33 PM PDT by Argus
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To: Argus

Book? You mean Leaflet.


10 posted on 03/18/2014 1:29:28 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: forgotten man

dat and his negrobery number is FI FI For -Fi Foe Fi Foe


11 posted on 03/18/2014 1:33:07 PM PDT by al baby (Hi MomÂ… I was refereeing to Obama)
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To: mojito

How Obama gets things done...

Bust Your Kneecaps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlDGFrP4NgI


12 posted on 03/18/2014 1:35:39 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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PPOTUS* has his own remarkable style. That’s for sure.

(*Pillow Princess Of the United States)


13 posted on 03/18/2014 1:47:31 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Guns SAVE Lives! www.VCDL.org)
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Ø getting things done..


14 posted on 03/18/2014 1:56:49 PM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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The only thing I’d like to see Clown Prince “get done” is entering a cell in Leavenworth.


15 posted on 03/18/2014 6:03:56 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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Obozo is a joke...a very, very bad joke.


16 posted on 03/18/2014 7:19:13 PM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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