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Obama: Embattled, Embittered, and Lashing Out (The Crack-Up Continues)
Commentary ^ | 9/30/2010 | Peter Wehner

Posted on 09/30/2010 10:54:50 AM PDT by mojito

Barack Obama’s recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine paints a portrait of a president under siege and lashing out.

For example, the Tea Party is, according to Obama, the tool of “very powerful, special-interest lobbies” — except for those in the Tea Party whose motivations are “a little darker, that have to do with anti-immigrant sentiment or are troubled by what I represent as the president.”

Fox News, the president informs us, “is ultimately destructive for the long-term growth of a country that has a vibrant middle class and is competitive in the world.”

[....]

Set aside the discordance of these words coming from a man who said, on the night of his election, “I will listen to you, especially when we disagree.” There is a hazardous dynamic developing.

To understand why, let’s start with this: President Obama is a man of unusual vanity and self-regard. He considers himself to be a world-historical figure who deserves treatment bordering on reverence. That is why over the years he has surrounded himself with individuals who have a romanticized view of Obama....

When a powerful man like this is successful, it can make him impossible to live with. When a powerful man like this is failing, he can become dangerous.

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


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama
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To: mojito

Who would stop Obama if he dissolved the congress if the democrats lose both houses and or if he refused to step down if he lost the 2012 election for president?


41 posted on 09/30/2010 12:04:06 PM PDT by SgtSki
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To: toolman1401

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


42 posted on 09/30/2010 12:04:54 PM PDT by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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To: mojito

“...are troubled by what I represent as the president...”

I am not “troubled.” I am totally pissed that a commie fascist is President.

THATS what you represent, Zee-rho.


43 posted on 09/30/2010 12:09:08 PM PDT by Adder (Note to self: 11-2-10 Take out the Trash!!!)
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To: mojito

In the pics I saw of the event at Madison most of the spectators were wearing RED t-shirts. They are showing their true colors now without worry.


44 posted on 09/30/2010 12:09:29 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: bigredkitty1

Maybe he can carve out a piece of Syria for the palestineans and call it uhBummer momba jambaland, where he can reign..I’ll give him an air ticket...
He wants us to feel sorry for Him??? awwwwww..Nah go rot..


45 posted on 09/30/2010 12:10:57 PM PDT by aces
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To: mojito
Whoever is in charge of keeping sharp objects, ropes, cords, firearms, and drugs in overdose quantities away from the President had better be extra diligent in doing his job today.

For Obama’s sake, I hope that person isn't Michelle.

46 posted on 09/30/2010 12:19:08 PM PDT by Mobties (Let the markets work! Reduce the government footprint!)
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To: SgtSki

I can see the white house w/no electricity, uhbummer mamba jamba hiding in the dark w/ Barney Frank...oh no I’m blind..while Michelle guards the door threatening to unleash her medusa imitation while 3 black panthers patrol the front..


47 posted on 09/30/2010 12:20:46 PM PDT by aces
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To: mojito

Nothing more dangerous than an insulted narcissist with the nuclear launch codes.


48 posted on 09/30/2010 12:21:03 PM PDT by crosshairs (If I agreed with a liberal, then we would BOTH be wrong.)
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To: SgtSki
"Who would stop Obama if he dissolved the congress if the democrats lose both houses and or if he refused to step down if he lost the 2012 election for president?"

You know who.

49 posted on 09/30/2010 12:22:01 PM PDT by datura
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To: All; cayuga; ChocChipCookie

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts


50 posted on 09/30/2010 12:25:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Palin/Bolton 2012)
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To: MWestMom; NFHale; hiredhand
underestimated the level of narcissism that drove him to so quickly implement his agenda

his ego aside, the 'plan' has been in production for near 100 yrs...

a 'black' president is the perfect vehicle to make the final push, and knowing that he would have but 4 yrs max to get it all on paper, with the real possibility of only 2 yrs [with a pushback like we're seeing], makes the flurry of the agenda and tactics a no-brainer...

for those who think the lameduck will be flightless, remember that itll only take a couple scorned rinos to flip the senate, and the damage done will be all but irreversible by way of the ballot box and pols...

obambam might not be the end of the world, but he has finalized the run to TEOTWAWKI...for better or worse to be determined by the success of the 'pushback'...

51 posted on 09/30/2010 12:27:23 PM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

52 posted on 09/30/2010 12:28:24 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (King: "I have a dream"...Sharpton: "I want a check")
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To: SgtSki
Who would stop Obama if he dissolved the congress if the democrats lose both houses and or if he refused to step down if he lost the 2012 election for president?

He can tell them to leave. What happens if the Republican majority refuses to go?

53 posted on 09/30/2010 12:37:34 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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To: grumpygresh

“A public display of intoxication? An angry Dean scream?”

We’ve already seen the intoxication, the insane eyes closed giggling over investment in the auto industry.

As for a Dean scream, that was the MSM sinking him. If they had played it up as a victory cry, and praised him for it, and MSM collaborators repeated it, then it would have been a victory cry. But, the party bosses declared that Dean must go, and he handed them the perfect excuse.

Now I’ll go tinfoil speculator: Kerry’s people had revealed that they had a Bush-killer, a memo proving W went AWOL, and Kerry’s election was a sure thing if they pitched him as a military hero and played up the veteran issue. So a proven AWOL Viet Nam-dodger against someone who Served in Nam with three- THREE- Purple Hearts, a slam dunk (were it not for Times New Roman, kerning, and superscripts and Free Republic).


54 posted on 09/30/2010 12:51:33 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: Gilbo_3
Very true. With that said, what would the implication be of Rahm Emanuel as mayor of Chicago? Are the rats really evacuating the sinking ship or are they just being realigned? Anyone given this any thought?
55 posted on 09/30/2010 12:59:37 PM PDT by MWestMom (Tread carefully, truth lies here.)
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To: MWestMom
Are the rats really evacuating the sinking ship or are they just being realigned?

At the end, it will be just King Hussein and Valerie Jarrett holed up in the O-bummer bunker.

56 posted on 09/30/2010 1:06:07 PM PDT by mojito
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To: MisterArtery
He will stay and do as much damage as he can by means of executive orders and rogue bureaucracies running amok. He will betray Israel just for spite, and sabotage US national security any way he can.

He will not have a nervous breakdown-- narcissists are too well organized internally for that. And he will not resign, unless there is some huge face-saving figleaf to hide behind, perhaps some chance to play the ultimate martyr.

57 posted on 09/30/2010 1:10:10 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: SgtSki

>> Who would stop Obama if he dissolved the congress if the democrats lose both houses and or if he refused to step down if he lost the 2012 election for president?<<

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.


58 posted on 09/30/2010 1:11:17 PM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: mojito

At the end, it will be just King Hussein and Valerie Jarrett holed up in the O-bummer bunker.
___________________________________________________________

Hitler had a better “bunker buddy.”


59 posted on 09/30/2010 1:14:03 PM PDT by MWestMom (Tread carefully, truth lies here.)
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To: SgtSki
Activation of the 25th amendment, backed up by federal marshalls as needed.
60 posted on 09/30/2010 1:27:15 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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