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How Obama’s media strategy unraveled with recovered POW
The New York Post ^ | June 7, 2014 | John Podhoretz

Posted on 06/07/2014 10:22:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

What happens when the world’s greatest spin doctor commits malpractice — on himself?

That is the question that now bedevils Barack Obama after what have been, without a doubt, the worst weeks of his presidency.

From the Veterans Administration scandal to the jaw-dropping events surrounding the swap of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the man with the most remarkable intuitive grasp of how to preserve and enhance his own image the world has ever seen has now tarnished it almost beyond recognition.

Who would have expected such a development? From the speech in 2004 that made him a rising star through the campaign in 2008 that made him president, Obama was the most formidable political propagandist of all time.

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

An unabashed liberal and among the most nakedly partisan politicians in this country’s history, Obama came to fame in ’04 loudly declaiming that we are not red states or blue states, but the United States. He knocked off Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries by using the mechanisms his party had put in place to empower its left wing — while claiming to be a more unifying figure than she.

In June ’08, he began speaking at a podium with a decal resembling the presidential seal on it, a brilliant way of planting the suggestion that his election was a foregone conclusion....

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bergdahl; media; obama; veterans
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1 posted on 06/07/2014 10:22:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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The Post should take the NYT to the woodshed.


2 posted on 06/07/2014 10:25:00 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Pride comes before the fall.....


3 posted on 06/07/2014 10:25:13 PM PDT by spokeshave (OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
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To: spokeshave

Something the ANC cronies should remember as well.


4 posted on 06/07/2014 10:33:12 PM PDT by Republican1795.
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Gilbo_3; Impy; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; Perdogg; Liz

Great gloat post above!

A bad year for Obama

Obamacare roll out
Russia
VA health care catastrophe and crimes

Now this ‘swap five terrorists for a deserter’ trade,

He just cant get a break@!


5 posted on 06/07/2014 10:34:10 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
These schmucks don't even know what hit them. Obama wants attention to be on Bergdahl.

Bergdahl is a distraction to divert attention from Obama's treason.

6 posted on 06/07/2014 10:37:57 PM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party ...or else it's more of the same...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Oops.

No Obama spear-catchers on staff at The New York Post?

7 posted on 06/07/2014 10:44:51 PM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: kiryandil

Plenty, just like every other fishwrap in this country, down to the weeklies, the college, high school and middle school newspapers, even the penny pinchers and trade mags.


8 posted on 06/07/2014 10:56:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: sickoflibs

Great gloat post above!

A bad year for Obama

Obamacare roll out
Russia
VA health care catastrophe and crimes

Now this ‘swap five terrorists for a deserter’ trade,

He just cant get a break@!


Obama’s doin’ just fine.

It’ been a bad year for America though, thanks to Obama


9 posted on 06/07/2014 11:08:09 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: rdcbn; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; Clintonfatigued; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; Gilbo_3; Perdogg; ...
RE:”Obama’s doin’ just fine.
It’ been a bad year for America though, thanks to Obama”

OK, if you wanna be a technical bummer, yes Obama is doing fine.

He has been reelected and that not changing no matter how many things he gets blamed for.

But the other Dems up for re-election this year, they are not nearly so lucky as he is.

10 posted on 06/07/2014 11:17:14 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He is still doing the same dog and pony show as well as he has always done. The only difference is that his lies can no longer cover the mounting and impossible to deny body of evidence of his greed, incompetence, and evil. B


11 posted on 06/07/2014 11:55:53 PM PDT by WMarshal (Free citizen, never a subject or a civilian)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bergdahl and V A ping.


12 posted on 06/07/2014 11:57:22 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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To: sickoflibs

13 posted on 06/07/2014 11:59:01 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just waiting for the spinning top to fall now.


14 posted on 06/08/2014 12:13:20 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: justa-hairyape

He resembles an untelligent coo-coo bird attempting to take off.


15 posted on 06/08/2014 1:19:22 AM PDT by V K Lee
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama has been horribly tainted by his and his ilk’s actions his entire time in office. Yet with all this, even some grumbling from Democrats and media outlets still pretending they’re not biased, his popularity among blacks is at, what, 85% now, down from 98%?


16 posted on 06/08/2014 1:56:31 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gene Eric
Ambassador Chris Stevens was supposed to be the trade, a high ranking US official for high ranking Taliban.

That is why the rats cannot allow Trey Gowdy’s Benghazi committee to get anywhere.

17 posted on 06/08/2014 2:07:24 AM PDT by Jacquerie (To restore the 10th Amendment, repeal the 17th. Article V.)
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To: Ray76

Fox was just reporting on the next scandal (to get Bergdahl off the front page???). The 10’s of thousands of illegal immigrant CHILDREN being brought across the border, and he/Holder are ordering lawyers for them to be paid out of tax payer money - totally illegal they say. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/07/us/us-to-provide-lawyers-for-children-facing-deportation.html?_r=0


18 posted on 06/08/2014 3:58:59 AM PDT by Humal
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To: Gaffer
>"his popularity among blacks is at, what, 85% now, down from 98%?"

Wait till they figure out he's not black!

First and foremost, if he really was a brother, he would have legalized cannabis DAY ONE! Instead he buried his ID under executive orders!

19 posted on 06/08/2014 4:07:08 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The author gives Obama way too much credit. I still believe he is nothing more than a puppet and probably has never had an original thought in his life. And I wonder who wrote his convention speech? I doubt he did. What has Obama actually accomplished in his life on his own?

He didn’t build that.


20 posted on 06/08/2014 4:22:38 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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