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Obama Defends Decision Not to Visit Border: ‘This Isn’t Theater’
Mediaite ^ | 7/9/14 | Matt Wilstein

Posted on 07/09/2014 4:46:56 PM PDT by Nachum

After delivering a statement about his administration’s plans to deal with the current crisis at America’s border with Mexico Wednesday afternoon, President Barack Obama addressed for the first time the mounting criticism over his decision not to visit to border on his trip to Texas this week. In answering a reporter’s question on the controversy, Obama defended his decision by saying he was more interested in a substantive solution to the problem than a simple “photo-op.” The president explained that his Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson will be making his sixth trip to the border this week and briefs him

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Pure Kabuki Theater
1 posted on 07/09/2014 4:46:56 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...
 

 

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2 posted on 07/09/2014 4:47:35 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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Never believe anything until it's been officially denied.

This is nothing but Theater.

3 posted on 07/09/2014 4:48:34 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: Nachum

Unless it’s Chris Christie hugging me and then we’ll use that photo all over the country...


4 posted on 07/09/2014 4:48:52 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Nachum

More like a circus.


5 posted on 07/09/2014 4:50:02 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Nachum
doobie
6 posted on 07/09/2014 4:53:16 PM PDT by baddog 219
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LMAO


7 posted on 07/09/2014 4:56:36 PM PDT by nascarnation (Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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To: Nachum

Gutfield ... Dark Journalist? Great analogy, BTW.


8 posted on 07/09/2014 5:04:27 PM PDT by MHGinTN
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To: Nachum

Free fax to your Senators and Rep - https://www.numbersusa.com/sendfax


9 posted on 07/09/2014 5:04:34 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Nachum
CUP
10 posted on 07/09/2014 5:05:50 PM PDT by baddog 219
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“This isn’t theater” So he goes to the home of a movie producer and invites actors and actresses instead for a photo op?


11 posted on 07/09/2014 5:06:43 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: Nachum
drink a little beer, shoot a little pool, go down tonight ...

go down tonight


smoke a little dope, drink some more beer, go down tonight ...

go down tonight


But no .. repeat; NO .. photo op

12 posted on 07/09/2014 5:11:16 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: realcleanguy

What was Ø’s original invite to Perry for a tarmac handshake, if not “theatre”.


13 posted on 07/09/2014 5:14:51 PM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Nachum

And he isn’t a leader.


14 posted on 07/09/2014 5:17:15 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Nachum

Bammy was on a high from second hand choom.


15 posted on 07/09/2014 5:22:22 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Nachum

Once an assh***, always...
By the way, Hi! IRS.
I’m sure I’m now marked.


16 posted on 07/09/2014 5:24:31 PM PDT by sasquatch
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To: Nachum
Hey hubbie, can you help in the garden? Maunuel Labor has lice....


17 posted on 07/09/2014 5:27:41 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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To: Nachum

Imagine if Bush had said this during Katrina! Or is Obama a racist for degrading Mexicans?


18 posted on 07/09/2014 5:32:55 PM PDT by GilGil
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Dear Congress....just send money.........BO is seeking $3.7 billion in funding for this new fiasco.


19 posted on 07/09/2014 5:36:32 PM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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To: Nachum

$3,700,000,000 / 150,000 new, “immigrant” children = ~$25,000 a head!

Another way to look at the math $3,700,000,000 / 2,000 miles of US-Mexican border = $1,850,000 per mile. You could build a heck of a fence for that kind of money!


20 posted on 07/09/2014 5:39:45 PM PDT by outofsalt
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