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Obama's turning point has arrived
Fox News ^ | June 25, 2013 | K.T. McFarland

Posted on 06/25/2013 2:17:29 PM PDT by libstripper

There is a turning point in every presidency that people point back to and say, you know, nothing was ever the same after that. Sometimes it is the point where presidents go on to greatness. Sometimes, it is when a presidency unravels.

For Jimmy Carter, it was when a group of students seized the American Embassy and took more than 100 American diplomats hostage in November 1979. Carter could do nothing right after that. His attempt to rescue the hostages was a pathetic, feeble failure. During the oil crisis Carter went around the White House in a cardigan sweater turning down the thermostat and turning out the lights, while the American people endured gas rationing and long lines at the pumps because some third-rate petro powers decided to punish us.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: blackmail; nsaleak; obama; obamaputin; putin; snowden
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Even given the point that Obama is an Islamocommunist, Putin's treatment of him is truly degrading and humiliating. Indeed, it even surpasses the treatment most school yard bullies subject their lowliest victims to. The only really accurate analogy is the treatment a prison yard punk receives from a dominant con. That only happens because the punk is a totally contemptible punk who can't resist or escape because he knows something far worse will happen to him. The only logical conclusion with Obama is that he's being blackmailed with information the KGB long ago accumulated about his background including his real nationality, educational background, religion, and how he got into all his colleges. Since his earliest days, he was advanced, mentored,and supported by communists and leftist terrorists who had to keep their KGB masters fully informed. If anybody wants to know where all of his truly important records are, just look to Moscow.
1 posted on 06/25/2013 2:17:29 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: libstripper

Obama is hiding, talking climate change.


2 posted on 06/25/2013 2:19:58 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The RINO/amnesty argument goes like this: 1) If we pander to Hispanics, we will save the GOP, at le)
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To: libstripper

It might be a stretch to suggest he’s bing blackmailed by the Russians. It could be that the rest of the world is smarter than he gives them credit for, and understands that he is dishonest and incompetent (at best).


3 posted on 06/25/2013 2:20:21 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: libstripper

I don’t think the Russkies have to blackmail him, although that’s their M.O. I think 0bama is just a craven narcissistic coward. An empty suit. A puppet who thinks he’s the puppet master. Putin is humiliating 0bama for one simple reason.

Because he can.


4 posted on 06/25/2013 2:20:51 PM PDT by henkster (The 0bama regime isn't a train wreck, it's a B 17 raid on the rail yard.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Yea, but with the current crop of politicians in DC, his hiding will cost us trillions and punish the USA for years.


5 posted on 06/25/2013 2:23:07 PM PDT by edcoil (When given a choice, take both.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

“Carter went around the White House in a cardigan sweater turning down the thermostat”

0bama keeps it at 78.


6 posted on 06/25/2013 2:23:13 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: henkster

I do not think Obama is calling any of the shots. I think his job is to stand and read what is on the prompter. And for that... he and his family get to live “the dream”..... He is nothing more than a figurehead.


7 posted on 06/25/2013 2:24:15 PM PDT by kjam22 (my newest music video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gNI9bWO3s)
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To: kjam22

On target.


8 posted on 06/25/2013 2:28:49 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: libstripper

Putin’s puppet


9 posted on 06/25/2013 2:29:25 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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I really feel sorry for the people graduating high school and into the obamanation.

I thought it was bad graduating into JimmahLand, and it was, especially in farm country.

But we've got nothing on this generation. And besides, for us, along came Reagan and up, up and away we went!

This time, we got round two. "And if you thought the first was bad..."

10 posted on 06/25/2013 2:32:39 PM PDT by GBA (Progressive US: Animal Farm meets 1984 in A Brave New World. Crony capitalism, chaos and control.)
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At least Carter shuffled around the white house turning down thermostats.

Obama jets around the world treating himself like the Sun King on the taxpayer dime.

11 posted on 06/25/2013 2:36:42 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: kjam22

I agree 100% with your “nothing more than a figurehead’ comment. He nor his handlers care about a “turning point”. They also don’t care about reputation or legacy. Get the job done of eliminating freedom and liberty and everything else will fall into place.


12 posted on 06/25/2013 2:44:28 PM PDT by albie
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To: libstripper

--------------NSA Is Hear
13 posted on 06/25/2013 2:45:11 PM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: libstripper

Well said, libstripper. Personally, I have suspected that the Snowden incident was by design. From my understanding, Snowden did vote for Zero, and Zero does have an obvious disdain for the US. It’s seems to me this is what Zero wants: A weakened, humiliated US in par (supposedly) with the rest of the world.


14 posted on 06/25/2013 2:45:19 PM PDT by hawaiianninja (Palm note to self: Call 'em a Depression and a Cold Civil War. Pray for America!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I think he should enlist Aunt Esther to go kick Putin’s ass. That’ll show him!


15 posted on 06/25/2013 2:48:37 PM PDT by Student0165
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To: Doogle

A top con has real contempt for a punk because he knows the punk’ a punk. Same for Putin & Obama.


16 posted on 06/25/2013 2:54:28 PM PDT by libstripper (A)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

If every coal-fired power plant owner announced they are shutting it down on Monday. THAT would be a turning point for his Presidency.


17 posted on 06/25/2013 2:55:05 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: albie

He was just the candidate they could sell. Part black, part white, christian, muslim, etc... all rolled into one empty suit. And he reads off a prompter well. That’s all he does good that I’ve ever seen. He has no basketball game.... he is lousy at golf (despite playing all the time). He’s not smart. He’s a nothing, but he was smart enough to accept the deal. He and MOOshel get to travel the world and live first class for 8 years.... and all he has to do is what he’s told to do.


18 posted on 06/25/2013 2:55:43 PM PDT by kjam22 (my newest music video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gNI9bWO3s)
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To: kjam22

100% agree with your assessment. He’s definitely some organization’s figurehead doing as he is told to do period. An enemy organization that is international I believe. Unknown to us at this time. We can speculate all we want, but we don’t know who.

When we find out we better start the military tribunals, ‘cause this is an act of war against this sovereign Nation.


19 posted on 06/25/2013 3:02:43 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: rockinqsranch

If he is being controlled from outside then snowden has the answers


20 posted on 06/25/2013 3:05:07 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Yesterdays conspiracies are todays truths)
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