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Just heard Ken Rudin on NPR say Obama is a poor leader, poor negotiator, and poor fighter (vanity)

Posted on 12/08/2010 12:20:04 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies

I was scanning radio channels in the car shortly ago and the tuner stopped at NPR (Neal Conan's Talk of the Nation) just as Ken Rudin said that the Democrats are in an uproar about Obama. He said that the general consensus is that "Obama is a poor leader, a poor negotiator (he gives concedes before the negotiations even start) and a poor fighter."

It was surreal.

Rudin asked Conan if he remembered the point in The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy exposes the Wizard as a fake and says "you're a very bad man" and the Wizard responds by saying "no, I'm just a very bad Wizard." Rudin stunned me by then saying "well that will be Obama's epitaph."

Made my day!


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1 posted on 12/08/2010 12:20:11 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Why he’s a racist.


2 posted on 12/08/2010 12:21:31 PM PST by murrie (For God so loved the world, that he gave His only begotten Son..........)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

He’s obviously a racist.


3 posted on 12/08/2010 12:21:46 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

To place his name anywhere near the words “leader”, “negotiator” or “fighter” is laughable.


4 posted on 12/08/2010 12:22:10 PM PST by albie
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Remember Glenn Beck predicted this.....

Pray for the Safety of the Secret Service.


5 posted on 12/08/2010 12:22:17 PM PST by GraceG
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

That’s not the news.

The news is how long it took the Libtards to wake up.

There’s a news story.


6 posted on 12/08/2010 12:22:25 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: murrie; MrB

lol...of course he is. And now so is NPR.


7 posted on 12/08/2010 12:23:00 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Amazing.

Just a few months ago he was the most brilliant and capable man to ever take the oath of office.


8 posted on 12/08/2010 12:23:28 PM PST by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Obviously, the Left just doesn’t want a Black man to be President.


9 posted on 12/08/2010 12:26:15 PM PST by kittymyrib
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To: WayneS

This “Just a few months ago he was the most brilliant and capable man to ever take the oath of office.” made me puke then and it still makes me gag
but of course you are correct.

I didn’t think I’d see or hear any 0dumbo supporters admit their mistake. A mistake that cost us.

Hopefully the damage is minimal.


10 posted on 12/08/2010 12:26:49 PM PST by RWGinger
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Who is this Rudin fellow? Don’t believe I’ve heard of him.


11 posted on 12/08/2010 12:27:02 PM PST by RexBeach
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

now they’ll lose their public funding. LOL


12 posted on 12/08/2010 12:27:30 PM PST by sappy (criminalibs)
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To: kittymyrib
Blasphemy!!!

;-)

13 posted on 12/08/2010 12:28:36 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: RexBeach

I just know the name. He’s a hardcore lib IIRC.


14 posted on 12/08/2010 12:30:02 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

>>a poor leader, a poor negotiator (he gives concedes before the negotiations even start) and a poor fighter.”

Now we know what would have happened had Michael Dukakis won in 1988


15 posted on 12/08/2010 12:31:31 PM PST by raccoonradio
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Ken Rudin

http://www.npr.org/people/1930204/ken-rudin

Ken Rudin
Political Editor, Washington Desk

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September 9, 2008

Ken Rudin is the political editor for NPR, where he directs campaign coverage for the network. Ken’s focus is on all aspects of politics, from the presidential contest — the primaries, national conventions, debates and general election — to the races for the House, Senate and governor, as well. He has analyzed every congressional race in the nation since 1984.

For nearly two decades, Ken has been a familiar presence on many national TV news programs. He writes the “Political Junkie” blog on NPR.org — an interactive feature that takes questions from readers on campaign history, strategy and trivia. The blog, which earlier ran for three years as a column on the Washington Post Web site, has spawned a “Political Junkie” on-air segment every Wednesday on NPR’s Talk of the Nation. Ken was also a key player on the NPR team that won the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton award for excellence in broadcast journalism in 2002.

Ken also produced the popular ScuttleButton contest, a weekly campaign button puzzle, for the Washington Post, and wrote the “Political Graffiti” column for The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper.

From 1983 through 1991, Ken was at ABC News, where he served as deputy political director and later as the off-air reporter on Capitol Hill covering the House. He first joined NPR in 1991, as its first political editor. Ken returned to NPR in 1998, after a three-year absence during which he was the managing editor of the Hotline, a daily political newsletter.

A political junkie for many decades, Ken has one of the most extensive collections of campaign buttons in the country — a collection that now surpasses 70,000 items. Ken is a graduate of Pace University in New York.


16 posted on 12/08/2010 12:34:17 PM PST by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

NPR-types probably read HuffPo, DU, DailyKos, etc. Given the brutal thrashing Obama’s been taking on the comments-sections of such sites, it’s not surprising NPR would echo the sentiments.


17 posted on 12/08/2010 12:34:52 PM PST by Fantasywriter
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Keep NPR’s Federal Funding!!! *snicker* /sarc


18 posted on 12/08/2010 12:35:46 PM PST by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
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To: SteveH
Ken Rudin is the political editor for NPR

Just think -- if Rudin goes completely around the bend and attacks Obama in some mis-guided assassination attempt, then Rudin will be forever branded as a "rightwing religious extremist".

19 posted on 12/08/2010 12:37:00 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Sniff. I find it so moving when they begin to eat their own.


20 posted on 12/08/2010 12:40:17 PM PST by 3AngelaD
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