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A PR Nightmare for the Obamas
NationalReview.com ^ | Friday, October 2, 2009 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 10/02/2009 3:45:41 PM PDT by canuck_conservative

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To: noiseman

Even poor Bo is all about Obama—the name is his initials.


141 posted on 10/02/2009 9:46:03 PM PDT by ntnychik
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To: canuck_conservative

Chicago got 18 votes out of 94.

FAIL.


142 posted on 10/02/2009 9:46:41 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Be prepared for tough times. FReepmail me to learn about our survival thread!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck; All
Why can’t Chicago DO anything about these thug gangs

Because they are in training to be good democrats, that's why!
143 posted on 10/03/2009 1:29:25 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Shellback, pollywogs! U.S.S. William H. Standley, CG-32)
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To: Fu-fu2; All
Stockyards have been closed down for decades. And my experience sometime in the ‘90’s was that people from outside Chicago associated it with Michael Jordan, not Al Capone.

My most memorable vision of Chicago was when, as a young navy enlisted man, I had to take a train in those parts, a train which went through the south side, which looked like Beirut, complete with fires in trash cans, block after block of crumbled buildings, poverty and dysfunction. I have absolutely hated the place ever since!
144 posted on 10/03/2009 1:36:45 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Vote Republican! We're 1/10 of 1% better than the other guys!)
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To: canuck_conservative
One can understand an American president’s lobbying for an American city to obtain the Olympics...

Sorry Victor, but I absolutely cannot understand it. No other US President has *ever* done such a thing, and for good reason. That this arrogant, narcissistic boob has done so, and failed spectacularly in his attempt, demonstrates two things.

First, it demonstrates the *why* it had nevre been done before. US Presidents have only a finite amount of "political capital" to lay on the line for things, either domestically, or globally. It should never be squandered in such a manner.

Secondly, it demonstrates the complete and utter lack of maturity on the part of the current resident of 1600 Pennsylavania Avenue, Washington, DC. The idea that he even *could* accomplish this, setting aside the idea whether or not it *should* have been done, clearly demonstrates, beyond any conceivable doubt, that he is "not ready for prime time"...

the infowarrior

145 posted on 10/03/2009 3:34:06 AM PDT by infowarrior
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To: VRWC For Truth
And now.....ladies and gentlemen of Denmark..........the moment you have all been waiting for! Voted by People Magazine as one of the "100 Most Beautiful People on the Planet".....
.....M-I-C-H-E-L-L-E O-B-A-M-A!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





146 posted on 10/03/2009 3:41:50 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: David1

Thanks again!

I think she and Sarah Palin might be cut from the same bolt!

Time will tell!


147 posted on 10/03/2009 5:22:17 AM PDT by MaryFromMichigan
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Good thing the Obamas don’t have to worry about the MSM.


148 posted on 10/03/2009 8:05:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: keepitreal

It’s difficult to pick a “worst moment” of the Obama escapade in Copenhagen: there were so many horribly ridiculous ones.

But if hardpressed, I would say that Michelle’s speech about her girlhood in Chicago was pretty bad. It sounds like it came straight from an Oprah script. And it was full of lies.

Michelle grew up in a nice home in a good neighborhood with responsible middleclass parents. She breezed through Princeton on an affirmative action scholarship, and graduated despite some poorly written and poorly reasoned theses.

She tries to display herself as one of those poor kids like the honor student who was stomped to death last week by a bunch of crazed animals.

Michelle is as hollow a woman as her husband is a hollow man.


149 posted on 10/03/2009 9:35:53 AM PDT by Palladin (ACORN is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: notdownwidems

There are still alot of areas of the city like those you remember. The Loop and lakefront areas are beautiful, but there are neighborhoods I wouldn’t venture into—like any city. But there is also a growing Black middle class. There are areas on the outer fringes of the ghettos that are looking surprisingly good. I hope someday soon they start voting in terms of economics rather than race.


150 posted on 10/03/2009 11:26:05 AM PDT by Fu-fu2
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To: carmody
If he doesn’t quit first!

I, too, have been pushing the "quit" meme for some time, including this post recently:

0bama will realize that he really doesn't like being president, people are laughing at him, that he doesn't want the job, and will quit. This is my intuitive feeling and I'm sticking to it. 11 posted on Friday, October 02, 2009 2:14:00 PM by happygrl (Hope and Change or Rope and Chains?)

151 posted on 10/03/2009 3:43:44 PM PDT by happygrl (Hope and Change or Rope and Chains?)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

It’s like reading about life on another planet..


152 posted on 10/03/2009 3:54:56 PM PDT by happygrl (Hope and Change or Rope and Chains?)
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To: noiseman; shield
That's my take on 0bama as well. I think he'll quit.

This is waaaay more work than he's used to.

But he'll camouflage it with a "health issue."

153 posted on 10/03/2009 4:00:38 PM PDT by happygrl (Hope and Change or Rope and Chains?)
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To: Lera; Happyinmygarden
Don’t be surprised if he doesn’t order all American troops guarding Europe home.

No, 0bama will order American troops to evacuate the Muslims in Europe when civil war breaks out there

Remember he stated that, if violence threatens their community, he will "stand with the Muslims."

He will order our troops to shoot at other NATO troops which are guarding European towns and communities, in order to provide safe passage for these people, and to admit them as refugees into this country, millions and millions of them.

154 posted on 10/03/2009 4:10:41 PM PDT by happygrl (Hope and Change or Rope and Chains?)
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To: happygrl

NO, he’ll be given a choice and will elect to resign...constitution qualifications...


155 posted on 10/03/2009 4:33:08 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: carmody

I think Hillary is out of the picture because the simple math that turned off potential donors in 2008 will do the same in 2012: there are no “undecideds” with her; you either love her or hate her, and not enough people love her. In addition, she’ll look 4 years older (scary!).


156 posted on 10/04/2009 4:44:24 AM PDT by Carlos Martillo II (Guernica was a work of art...and I don't mean the painting.)
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To: happygrl

I agree with your intuition! He’s going to walk away from the job. The whole Chicago Olympic thing is part of it. He wants to do the easy stuff. For goodness sakes he can’t even come up with a plan for Afghanistan. Now they are promoting the BIDEN plan. Hmmm ... I thought the media said the Vice President (Cheney) was telling Bush what to do but now it’s okay for BIDEN to tell Obama what to do? Media = HYPROCRISY


157 posted on 10/04/2009 5:07:49 AM PDT by carmody
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To: schu
Why would the IOC want the games in Chicago if it meant that it was about Bam and not about the games? Very rational an the part of the IOC, they saw thru his game.

I see very little rationality in the IOC and the Olympics is tainted with the selection of the butchers of Beijing.

With the possible exception of San Francisco, Chicago was like the worst possible choice of an American city for the Olympics.

158 posted on 10/04/2009 7:21:23 AM PDT by altair (Personally, I was rooting for Tokyo)
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To: rawhide
Oprah may be well-known here in the states, but she a virtual unknown outside this country.

Not so. Her show is dubbed and extremely popular in Japan, for example. Jerry Springer is very big on Japanese TV too ...

159 posted on 10/04/2009 7:28:24 AM PDT by altair (Personally, I was rooting for Tokyo)
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To: carmody
We're on the same page.

As has been stated by someone more clever than I, "the clothes have no emperor."

160 posted on 10/04/2009 10:00:34 PM PDT by happygrl (Hope and Change or Rope and Chains?)
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