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The incredible shrinking President Hour by hour he gets smaller and smaller
NY Daily News ^ | June 7, 2014 | Walter Russell Mead

Posted on 06/08/2014 8:12:08 PM PDT by neverdem

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To: 353FMG

Choose your Masques.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-vqepLziio

They’re handing out the weapons
And your armour’s ready too
But the most important item
Has been left up to you
You must make a firm decision
And once it’s made you’ll find
That the form that you have chosen
Can entirely fill your mind

For the mask you have selected
Stands for Chaos or for Law
And you cannot take it off now
‘til you’re no longer in the War
And the Masks of War are grinning
And from under them you howl
Out the slogans of the part you play
for the Battle’s starting now

Choose your Masks
The ranks are forming
Choose your Masks
The day is dawning
Choose your Masks
And choose the side that you’ll be on
And learn the words of your new song
For the Battle will be long.....so long........


21 posted on 06/08/2014 8:51:42 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: UCANSEE2

Remember how mercilessly Clint was mocked for that?


22 posted on 06/08/2014 8:52:41 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: neverdem
Here is the Grand Total Obama "Legacy".


23 posted on 06/08/2014 8:52:49 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: mylife

I don’t know anyone who didn’t vote.

However I do know that the GOP set us up.

The intersection here, is who gets our vote when set up.

It won’t be for the set up candidate.

If we can continue to grow that kind of voter, then we won’t be “set up” again.

Now *that* is the only allignment there is, in my book.


24 posted on 06/08/2014 8:55:27 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: 353FMG

He is a chameleon, shedding masks.


25 posted on 06/08/2014 8:56:40 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: RitaOK

It has been a difficult war.

Lord we are trying to root out the rot.


26 posted on 06/08/2014 8:58:21 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: RitaOK

I don’t know anyone who didn’t vote.


Plenty of FReepers didn’t vote.


27 posted on 06/08/2014 9:00:07 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: laplata

And that is statistically why we lost.

Oh I know the long and the short of it, but it sure would be easier to get our guys in with the GOP than with radical liberals in charge.

I think it was a major mistake.


28 posted on 06/08/2014 9:03:44 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: laplata

Millions of single voter conservatives did not show up because they drank the MSMs propagandist.

So it is, sit was.

Let us not make that mistake again.


29 posted on 06/08/2014 9:06:18 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: neverdem
The author has omitted in his catalogue of failures to explore Obama's failure in Iran which could be the most serious fiasco of all the Obama years.

Obama's pattern in Iran has been replicated throughout Islam and may well explain the recent prisoner swap. The pattern is to say what is necessary to get elected and then proceed to negotiate away every American national interest that can be identified. If Iran gets the bomb, which now looks to be a moral certainty, the entire balance of power in the Middle East will be radically altered and not to our favor. Iran will be able to intimidate the entire Gulf where much of the world's oil is still produced and we can expect one regime after another to face the choice of arming themselves with nuclear devices or appeasing Iran. The likelihood of atomic war will have increased more than arithmetically.

Note, all of this is being done under the color of successful negotiations no matter how implausible they might appear under a close examination. The same charade was probably contemplated by Obama in the prisoner exchange. He has ordained that America's time in Afghanistan must come to a close and his legacy is in danger; Afghanistan will be left a shambles. So Obama is undertaking a series of negotiations of which the prisoner exchange is merely his opening gambit in order to redefine as a victory that which is in reality a tragic and futile ending to a war costing so much American blood and treasure. He will walk away from an Afghanistan which is breeding and nurturing terrorists proudly declaring victory and citing a series of empty promises which he will tell America is successful policy.

We see the pattern repeated in Israel in which Obama would force Israel into extremely dangerous negotiations with inevitable surrenders but the craven surrender tidied up with a "peace" treaty declaring that black is white.

Everywhere Obama turns we see rhetoric substituted for reality. We see bluster camouflaging surrender. We see a pattern here replayed everywhere Obama casts his gaze. America is under threat from China, Russia, Islam, and communism in Latin America and every threat has metastasized and become more lethal because of Barack Hussein Obama. That is the international picture but we have not even considered the domestic threat to America represented by the shadow government of Barack Hussein Obama.


30 posted on 06/08/2014 9:09:08 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: neverdem
The author has omitted in his catalogue of failures to explore Obama's failure in Iran which could be the most serious fiasco of all the Obama years.

Obama's pattern in Iran has been replicated throughout Islam and may well explain the recent prisoner swap. The pattern is to say what is necessary to get elected and then proceed to negotiate away every American national interest that can be identified. If Iran gets the bomb, which now looks to be a moral certainty, the entire balance of power in the Middle East will be radically altered and not to our favor. Iran will be able to intimidate the entire Gulf where much of the world's oil is still produced and we can expect one regime after another to face the choice of arming themselves with nuclear devices or appeasing Iran. The likelihood of atomic war will have increased more than arithmetically.

Note, all of this is being done under the color of successful negotiations no matter how implausible they might appear under a close examination. The same charade was probably contemplated by Obama in the prisoner exchange. He has ordained that America's time in Afghanistan must come to a close and his legacy is in danger; Afghanistan will be left a shambles. So Obama is undertaking a series of negotiations of which the prisoner exchange is merely his opening gambit in order to redefine as a victory that which is in reality a tragic and futile ending to a war costing so much American blood and treasure. He will walk away from an Afghanistan which is breeding and nurturing terrorists proudly declaring victory and citing a series of empty promises which he will tell America is successful policy.

We see the pattern repeated in Israel in which Obama would force Israel into extremely dangerous negotiations with inevitable surrenders but the craven surrender tidied up with a "peace" treaty declaring that black is white.

Everywhere Obama turns we see rhetoric substituted for reality. We see bluster camouflaging surrender. We see a pattern here replayed everywhere Obama casts his gaze. America is under threat from China, Russia, Islam, and communism in Latin America and every threat has metastasized and become more lethal because of Barack Hussein Obama. That is the international picture but we have not even considered the domestic threat to America represented by the shadow government of Barack Hussein Obama.


31 posted on 06/08/2014 9:09:08 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: nathanbedford

Nice.

bttt


32 posted on 06/08/2014 9:11:20 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: neverdem
Why, then, does a feisty President with more power than any of his peacetime predecessors, one who is determined to use those powers to the max, look so much a victim of events he can’t control?

I'll take "How About He's an Intellectual Pygmy With Delusions of Personal Adequacy?" for $1,000, Alex.
33 posted on 06/08/2014 9:12:36 PM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: neverdem

If blacks ever want to vote Democrat again, they should consider the fact that Democrats picked the worst candidate possible to be the first black President which to me is one hell of an insult. They damn well KNEW this guy was an absolute fool, but they pushed him like a God anyway. So now not only is he the first black President but hands down the worst President in this nations history which just does a hell of a lot for black pride doesn’t it.


34 posted on 06/08/2014 9:17:45 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: No!

Sadly, with two U.S. Supreme Court appointments and scores of federal judges, his far left wing legacy is sealed as regrettably it is for this nation. Depite all of this he has 40% of the vote on any time of the day. Solid pro-abortion NARAL and Planned Parenthood; GLTB and Silicon Valley and Hollywood billionaires (Soros?), the cotton and banana plantation crowd, and the left wing media. Any election begins with NY; CA; IL;MA; WA; OR potheads; RI; and VT in the bag!


35 posted on 06/08/2014 9:18:52 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: neverdem
little man BIG network!!


36 posted on 06/08/2014 9:19:00 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: nathanbedford

And he started the whole fiasco by not honoring American blood shed in Iraq, while kissing Persias arse and NK arse and Venezuelas arse all of whom were in league.

Oh this fellows is duplicitous and Machiavellian, but he is not stupid.

The king of 3 card monte, a common cheat, but not so common.

Now we have the Bergdahl matter, 5 hardcores in exchange for a traitor.


37 posted on 06/08/2014 9:19:56 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: neverdem; All



38 posted on 06/08/2014 9:20:38 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: neverdem

All according to plan...


39 posted on 06/08/2014 9:21:09 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.")
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To: mylife

You’re right.


40 posted on 06/08/2014 9:21:15 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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