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Right and left finally agree: Obama has checked out
Market Watch, The Wall Street Journal ^ | July 16, 2014 | Darrell Delamaide

Posted on 07/16/2014 11:20:37 AM PDT by Veto!

It’s one thing if hardened critics like Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly ask whether the Obama presidency is “imploding,...”

Or if Republican lobbyist Ed Rogers says Obama “seems to have taken something like an early retirement,”…..[his]recent speeches reveal “a state of mind that suggests he has checked out.”

It is another, however, if the chief U.S. commentator for the Financial Times, Edward Luce, takes Obama to task, as he did this week, in an op-ed titled “Farewell to trust: Obama’s Germany syndrome.”

Luce takes the flap over the CIA spying on an ally like Germany as symptomatic of an administration that has lost the trust of the public both at home and abroad.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: incompetence; obama; polls
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To: Veto!

No, he has not ‘checked out’. He knows exactly what he is doing. Side-stepping? Maybe but he is still on his destructive course.


21 posted on 07/16/2014 11:49:52 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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To: Blue Turtle
Obama is very much engaged in the destruction of our country. He wants to change the face of our country and redistribute misery equally. I see him fully aware of what he’s doing.

On that score, he is fully engaged. And in foreign "policy," he's getting the results he wants, with the ISIS caliphate he no doubt promised to his Saudi supporters who arranged (with money) his candidacy.

22 posted on 07/16/2014 11:50:16 AM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Cubs Fan

“IMO he is going to issue as many executive actions (imperial edicts) as he can get away with. no scratch that, even more than he can get away with.

He has gone full blown tyrant and from what I can see he is just getting started.”

I tend to agree mostly. I have a theory on what he is doing though. He is going to so abuse the powers of the presidency that the American people demand that the President’s powers be rolled back. He will leave all future presidents substantially weaker.


23 posted on 07/16/2014 11:50:31 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
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To: Noamie
Generally, he never did anything longer than 3 years

I read somewhere (here?) that that's a sign of narcissism.

24 posted on 07/16/2014 11:52:19 AM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Veto!
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25 posted on 07/16/2014 11:52:35 AM PDT by RetSignman (obama: "For the love of Alinsky, how much more do I have to do to get them to impeach me"?)
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To: Noamie

Good point. Those pulling the strings are engaged. And the regime will be in Martha’s Vineyard soon.


26 posted on 07/16/2014 11:55:44 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: Noamie

Now let’s be fair. If we add up all the time he’s spent on vacations, parties fund raisers and the like, I think we’ll find that after eight years, Øbama will have only “worked” about three years.

Of course, his and ours definition of “work” is vastly different.


27 posted on 07/16/2014 11:57:13 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: All

Maybe he should move on to Brazil, I don’t think the government there is capable of the sort of implosion that the people want to see in order to avoid the second humiliation of the 2016 Olympics.


28 posted on 07/16/2014 12:01:09 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Sectarian warfare -- no dog in that hunt)
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To: Veto!
I don't think he ever checked in but let's leave the light on in case he decides to.


29 posted on 07/16/2014 12:04:17 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: Veto!

Obama is a marxist fool that had no business in the USA.

His supporters need to stay away from me.

He has set back our nation 60 years or more with his ridiculous ideology. Hey MSM and Big Education, you are the
ones that put this asshat up here.

YOU caused our troops to die in vain.

YOU are going to cause me to react.


30 posted on 07/16/2014 12:05:26 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Obama only wanted the power and trappings of the presidency so he could go golfing and be adored at fund raisers.

So true. These days I wish we had a European-style political system: A mostly-cerimonial President elected by the people, and a powerful Prime Minister chosen by the House.

Of course, that wouldn't have been so good when Bush II was President, and Pelosi was Speaker.

31 posted on 07/16/2014 12:06:34 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: All
I don't think he ever checked in but let's leave the light on in case he decides to.


32 posted on 07/16/2014 12:07:11 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: RetSignman

Scary picture…are there really “stop deportation” protestors at the White Hut?


33 posted on 07/16/2014 12:07:48 PM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Blue Turtle

I have a dream, a dream where hanging for treasonous traitors is reinstated and the usual suspects get to wear Columbian neckties


34 posted on 07/16/2014 12:11:32 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Veto!

The premise is partially correct in that he is no longer even pretending to act “within the system.” That arrears to the illiterati such as the LSM as “checking out” but in fact in reveals a far more insidious course of action. It is just to taxing for him to lower himself to work within mere mortal institutions, so instead he is ruling by degree, as befitting one anointed by the gods (or a megalomaniacal narcissist, whichever comes first).


35 posted on 07/16/2014 12:15:32 PM PDT by crusher (GREEN: Globaloney for the Gullible)
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To: Blue Turtle
Obama is very much engaged in the destruction of our country.

Valerie Jarrett, Eric Holder and Michelle Obama are actively engaged in the destruction of the country since they are the terrible trio running things in D.C. Obama agrees with all of it, of course, but he is instead using his second term to boost his frequent flyer miles.

36 posted on 07/16/2014 12:18:22 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason ("Journalism is dead. All news is suspect." - Noamie)
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To: Veto!

Do you have to “check in” before you “check out? He’s never been interested in the actual job. Just the perks of playing president.


37 posted on 07/16/2014 12:21:41 PM PDT by Wyatt's Torch
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To: Veto!

Who cares what Lord Farquhar said in the Financial Times. Everyone here has known that Zippy’s a Marxist since 2007, at least.

Lord Farquhar still hasn’t figured it out.


38 posted on 07/16/2014 12:30:08 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Veto!
From the article:Hmmmm... coke mixed with just a touch of meth.

People are talking about nobama checking out. IMHO, he never checked IN!

39 posted on 07/16/2014 12:37:15 PM PDT by upchuck (The country is being billed for its own execution. ~ h/t: SpaceBar)
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To: Wyatt's Torch

Never lose track of the realization that Obambi is fulfilling the vision of the glitterati to bring the nation under their control.


40 posted on 07/16/2014 12:37:48 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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