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    AP Scrubs ‘Muslim’ from Obama’s Self-Referential Joke
    30 April 2013



    Warner Todd Huston reported at Breitbart Monday that “in some of its reports on Saturday night’s White House Correspondents Dinner (WHCD), the Associated Press failed to include one of President Obama’s own gags.”

    Obama said: “These days I look in the mirror and have to admit, I’m not the strapping young Muslim Socialist that I used to be.” But, noted Huston, “in one version of the night’s story (as seen at Huffington Post, Time Magazine, Breitbart Wires, the Ottawa Citizen, and The Columbian to name a few), the AP’s Bradley Klapper forgot one part of the President’s joke,” reporting his words as “I’m not the strapping young Socialist that I used to be,”

    Why? Did they think it had too much of a ring of truth?

    Why did some editors at AP or at the publications that picked up the AP story think it necessary to run interference for Obama on this point?

    By mocking the idea that he is a Muslim (and a Socialist), Obama is trying to render these things too ridiculous for serious public discussion. Fine. His personal beliefs are of no moment, except insofar as they influence his public stances. And the direction of his public policies is obvious. He has maintained a consistent foreign policy line that has enabled the establishment of several Islamic supremacist, pro-Sharia states in North Africa and the Middle East, and a domestic policy that has enabled the advance of the Islamic supremacist agenda to assert the primacy of Islamic law over American law and practice wherever they conflict. No amount of mockery will obscure that.

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    May 1st – The headlines below are all within the last 24 hours. Honest.
    It makes one wonder, what exactly did the Obots expect from re-electing their hero?

    1) A stronger economy?
    a) WA Post: US private employers add just 119K jobs in April, fewest in 7 months
    b) Reuters: Nearly half of US college grads are underemployed

    2) Lower taxes? WA Post: Analysis of Obama’s budget finds a higher tax burden for most Americans (4/22)

    3) Foreign policy leadership?
    a) Fox News: Obama walks back ‘red line’ stance on Syrian government using chemical weapons
    b) WA Post: Iraq on the brink – again

    4) Less terrorism/better security?
    a) USA Today: Boston police arrest 3 more suspects in bombing case
    b) Daily Mail: Saudi Arabia warned the United States IN WRITING about Boston Bomber & finally

    5) Greater transparency? WA Examiner: Issa – New Benghazi hearing will ‘expose new facts’ Obama 'has tried to suppress’

    So only one question remains. What’s more frightening? This disaster of a President or that over 65 million voted to re-elect him? :P
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    The rumors of Barack Obama’s first-class temperament were invented out of whole cloth
    Posted by B. Daniel Blatt at 2:48 am - May 2, 2013.

    Remember back in the days when Barack Obama was promising a new kind of politics, that his supporters promised he would, through sheer force of his personality, transform the partisan divides which polarized our discourse and usher in a new age of civility. The Democrat, many claimed, had a “both a first-class intellect and a first-class temperament.” http://sambacharach.com/bacharachblo...-vs-roosevelt/

    He would rise above petty bickering and, in his own words, help “break [that] pattern in Washington where everybody is always looking for somebody else to blame." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/us...pagewanted=all

    Only problem Obama didn’t have much of a record acting in the way he had promised to. And four years and three months as president have shown him to be quite the opposite of the transcendent leader he promised to be. He, for example, blames others for his failures, whines about the problems he has to face, and questions the motives of his ideological adversaries.

    Nowhere is this more manifest than in his public speeches and press conferences. And he showed his peevish streak in his press conference earlier this week when he refused to take responsibility for his failure to compromise with Congress, responding to a question about his clout with Congress by saying that the questioner seemed “ to suggest that somehow these folks over there have no responsibilities and that my job is to somehow get them to behave. That’s their job.” http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-...ence-president

    Yea, but, did this guy who wasn’t supposed to transcend political differences and want to break the blame-game that pervades in the nation’s capital reach out to Congress and try to avoid the sequester (which the journalist mentioned in his question)? Couldn’t he, with his “first-class temperament” have managed to prod congressional leaders often at loggerheads to hammer out a compromise.

    As James Taranto, in commenting on Tuesday’s press conference his Best of the Web column yesterday, put it:
    http://online.wsj.com/article/best_o...web_today.html

    . . . governing or legislating is more complicated. It requires both compromise and persuasion–the ability to yield to your adversaries and to make them feel it is in their interest to yield to you. It also requires a practical sense of both how your ideas will go over politically, how to make them go over favorably, and how they will actually work in practice.

    Obama is sorely lacking in all these skills–which even his detractors must acknowledge makes his re-election an impressive feat.
    To a very large extent then, Barack Obama lacks the very skills he purported to have in his bid for the White House, the very skills which would supposedly set him apart from the polarizing politics that needed changing.

    No wonder we conservatives remain incredulous that he was reelected to a second term.

    Back in 2008, many on the right, pointing to his record in Illinois and his rhetoric before his rise to fame, said as much. But, yet all too many of our friends in the media ignored our questions about his record, taking instead his claims at face value.

    And four years of such press conferences notwithstanding, some still do.

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    3.He’s a community agitator, what does anyone expect? His job has always been to stir things up, whip up resentments, and basically create a problem others have to solve. That’s pretty much what he’s done as President. He whips up emotion (say, over the Sandy Hook shootings), then insists Congress fix the problem.

    He’s simply unwilling or unable to govern. Rush made the point several times that Obama doesn’t want to be seen as governing, that it allows him to play at being the powerless outsider trying to fix the problem (which he has no intention of doing).

    Remember when Obama said change can only come from outside Washington? Why did none of the rumpswab apologists of the media then ask President Historic First why he wanted the office? I mean, if he wanted to affect real change, and it could only come from outside Washington … then again, how dumb am I, expecting anything approaching honesty or integrity from the media (aka the Propoganda arm of the Democratic Party)?

    Compromise means everyone walks away with less than they wanted. Can you see the petulant Sun King who said “I won” accepting anything less than total capitulation?

    Barack Obama got elected, and re-elected, because the media carried him. They hid his past, outright lied about his opponents, and simply didn’t cover a story if it didn’t suit the narrative. Had Obama suffered even a tenth of the scrutiny and negative press GW Bush or Sarah Palin received, he would never have been elected President.

    ..

    Yeah, this is what happens when a “narrative” is valued over the truth. The left created a narrative under Bush and then, like a Hollywood script (since liberals think Hollywood is reality), they created Obama in the image of a Hollywood archetype:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro The Magical Negro is a supporting stock character in American cinema who is portrayed as coming to the aid of a film’s white protagonists. These characters, who often possess special insight or mystical powers, have been a long tradition in American fiction.
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    The myth of his first-class temperament go back to the financial panic of September 2008, when John McCain panicked so badly. I’ve always thought that the reason Obama was able to remain calm was that he simply could not understand what was happening, or why it was serious. His blissful ignorance of economic reality persists to this day.

    ..

    As I see it, Obama (believing every complimentary word about himself from those throughout his life who feel awfully pleased with themselves having given an ambitious young black person the encouragement borne of soft bigotry) is having difficulty reconciling the roles of executive and agitprop. Since his narrative has been that of the professional outsider, he enjoys the perks of being the ultimate insider while not understanding the role.

    Ironically, Reagan ignored and even scorned his handlers and the newsmakers, going directly to the American people and asking them to put pressure on Congress. We now have a community organizer unable to organize; when he cannot let a particularly American moment of tragedy go to waste, he becomes angry — angry that all those seeming kindnesses, all the good grades as a reward for not showing up, all the applause for pretty speeches, all of it wasn’t about himself. It was all symbolism.

    Obama’s anger is a frustration that he has reached the point where the people (right, center, and even the left) are not willing to disarm, that efforts to severely limit access to the ability to defend themselves crosses a certain, peculiarly American line — that we didn’t elect him that much. He’s beginning to realize that the magic is gone, that the moment has arrived where the wave of racial equality symbolism cannot last forever, and that he will not get his way. Just as many Republicans thought an Obama defeat imminent considering his record and were in disbelief at the outcome, Obama couldn’t believe that Sandy Hook and his persona were surmountable. And he’s angry.

    I wonder what Obama’s legacy will be. For many presidents, it is asked whether they were worthy of the office. For this one, some will ask whether the office was worthy of him.

    ..

    The brat has been pumped up and pampered all his life by others to the point that he truly considers himself a legend in his own mind. Truth is, he is just another over rated sub performer with a god complex - he’s little more than a Pop Warner kid who’s been told he’s far more talented than he really is.

    ..

    Obama the end-result of the “every child gets a gold star”, “there are no winner or losers”, “everybody gets a trophy” mentality of the New Left? And he’s still a cypher as to how—and how well–he got through college and law school.

    He was the token minority/foreign student head of the Law Review, yet really no-one remembers him? …WTF?

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    Which gives us :



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    David Barack Axlerod Obama pulled off a remarkable coup. They figured out how to blend the political machine with Progressive “reform” while denying association with either machine politics or Progressive statism and socialism.

    The political machine harnessed the votes of the lower-class workers. They sought out the poor, the immigrants, the working stiffs and delivered help, service and opportunity. Their contribution to the American lexicon is the “ward heeler” who helped widows, found jobs, twisted arms and generally God-fathered his territory all in exchange for loyalty and votes. Think: community organizer. If you are loyal to the party of the ward heeler, think: hope and change.

    Progressives kicked the job of ward heeler in the butt. Progressives demand reform. They want delivery on promises made. There is never an end to reform because even Utopia can be tweaked.

    The fact is that machine politics is plantation politics and in many ways the opposite of Progressivism. That is where David Barack Axlerod Obama and John Podesta and Cloward/Piven and The Center for American Progress come in. They have taken the constituency of the machine and the promises of Progressives for structural improvement and blended them together into one huge salmagundi of abstractions such as “hope” and “change.”

    Obama can’t deliver. In fact, he doesn’t have anything to deliver. Seriously, what is “gun control.” His adoring fans see it as ending gun violence. Conservatives see it as the door to the police state. Obama obfuscates and reads the teleprompter or just golfs instead of talks.

    What did Obama contribute to “Obamacare”? Just vague assurances of what would be protected and what would not happen and how tomorrow would be sunshine and lollipops.

    What is the whole reasoning behind immigration “reform”? For the Progressives it is citizenship and bringing people out of hiding and so, forth. For Conservatives it is overwhelming educated voters with a fresh batch of takers who will vote early and often for the party of wealth transfer. What does Obama say? Just about nothing substantive, but everything he can to demonize the Republicans.

    By the time David Barack Axlerod Obama’s second term is over, the low information public will be so confused and mismanaged that only a super-strain David Barack Axlerod Obama candidate can propel them to the polls. Obamaphones and SEIU handouts and ACORN-redux will be status quo and the next machine Progressive will have to up the “hope and change” promise to something much more substantial and specific. It will take a national minimum income and paid vacations to feed the bread and circuses crowd.

    David Barack Axlerod Obama is a one trick pony. He is term limited. Breaking the “black” glass ceiling was way more dramatic that breaking the “female” glass ceiling. The David Barack Axlerod Obama Presidency leaves a void in terms of how they pulled off their trick.

    Jimmuh Cahtah taught us how to “shoot the moon” by taking the primaries. In the game of spades you try to avoid taking a spade or you recklessly attempt to get the whole suit. Cahtah’s strategy was the latter and by the time the party machinery discovered that the peanut was in control of the nomination it was too late.

    Who is out there to replace David Barack Axlerod Obama? We ask the same question concerning Ronald Reagan. But in our case, we are looking for a person of deeply held, established principles. In the Demonizingrat’s case, they are looking for someone who can fool a majority of the people a majority of the time.

    Obama is an eel. He has never really worked at anything other than messing around with other people’s money and oozing his way to power. After 2016, he, like Bill Clinton, will become enormously wealthy doing nothing and will traipse around the country basking in the light of his own flame.

    He has shown us that we do not need a President. He hides from leadership by delivering occasional bromides and permitting the petty meanness of his underlings provide us with warnings concerning a darker future for those who get in the way.

    His “temperament” is the ice-cold demeanor of a socio-path. He would throw Michelle under the bus if he found it “necessary” to his further his own advantage.

    Too many smart people are still trying to imbue Obama with Presidential qualities as would be fitting of a person who is president of all the people and has the good of the nation at heart. Schemers who rob the bank are not worried about the depositors. They are there simply for the money.





    Obama blames everybody during press conference
    12:32 AM 05/01/2013


    President Barack Obama spent most of his surprise April 30 press conference on the defensive, blaming the Senate, budget cuts, Republicans, Syria’s dictator and much else for the shaky start to his second term.

    He had nothing major or new to announce, and no theme or message to steer media coverage.

    About a third of the way through the press conference, Obama responded to a question about his political clout by saying sardonically that “as Mark Twain said, rumors of my demise may be a little exaggerated at this point.”

    “In the Senate, this habit of requiring 60 votes for even the most modest piece of legislation has gummed up the works there,” he complained.

    “On Syria, I think it’s important to understand that for several years now what we’ve been seeing is a slowly unfolding disaster for the Syrian people … this is not a situation in which we’ve been simply bystanders to what’s been happening,” he argued.

    “It is true that the sequester is in place,” he also observed. “It’s damaging our economy. It’s hurting our people,” he said.

    The word “economy” came up ten times. However, six of those times concerned Latin American economies. Three other mentions came when he tried to blame United States’ stalled economy on the GOP’s agreement to sign his 2011 proposal for a budget sequester.

    The 48-minute press conference ended with the departing president turning back to the podium to congratulate a basketball player for being gay. “We judge people on the basis of their character and their performance,” Obama said. “I’m very proud of him.”

    Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/01/ob...#ixzz2SALuldtF


    “We judge people on the basis of their character and their performance,” Obama said. “I’m very proud of him.”
    Sadly the American voters did not do the same.
    Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/01/ob...#ixzz2SALh8iJv
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    “I will tell you this on the IRS front. I’ve worked in this town for over 20 years in the White House and on Capitol Hill and I can say with a very strong sense of certainty that there are people very close to this president that not only knew what the IRS were doing but authorized it. It simply just does not happen at an agency level like that without political advisers likely in the West Wing certainly connected to the president’s ongoing campaign organization.”

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    I wonder how much is unreported?

    Does not include "perks" that come with the job ...

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    President Obama continues to fail as CEO
    PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
    Published: June 12, 2013



    COLLEGE PARK, Md., June 12 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama is failing as chief executive officer of the U.S. government.

    His appointment of Susan Rice to be his top national security adviser and other missteps, indicate he views the fallout from recent scandals as a political challenge, rather than a management failure.

    Nothing could be less true or more damaging.

    Revelations about the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups, the U.S. Justice Department broadly searching the email of journalists and recent revelations indicate systemic management dysfunctions, and a culture of contempt for the protections of individual rights and the limits on the executive power required by the U.S. Constitution.

    His stockholders -- the American people -- are rapidly losing confidence in his management. In a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll 55 percent of respondents said IRS targeting of conservative groups raised doubts about the broader honesty and integrity of the Obama administration.

    Yet, Obama is behaving as if all the turmoil on Capitol Hill and the media come down to Republican gaming in preparation for the 2014 congressional elections.

    By appointing Rice, who misled Americans into believing the murder of U.S. diplomats in Benghazi was the result of spontaneous street demonstrations when the State Department simply knew otherwise, as national security adviser. Obama is challenging the GOP to stop him if they can, instead of committing to get to the root of recent scandals and fixing what is broke.

    Similarly, the president sent up three very liberal nominations for the pivotal D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, where the constitutionality of many presidential actions is determined. The plan, crafted with Democratic senators, is to force their Republican colleagues into blocking those appointments, make the GOP appear obstructionist and distract attention from all the scandals.

    At the heart of Obama's problems is his aloof style, impatience with critiques and disdain for the rules of the game. For example, in a clear disregard for the separation of powers, his administration is training Democratic members of Congress and their staff to help sign up constituents for health insurance under Obamacare.

    Wrong on two counts: Signing up Americans is clearly an executive branch responsibility, which should be kept out of the hands of politicians, and it appears Americans who have Democratic representatives are more entitled to government benefits than those who vote Republican.

    Similarly, we learn that Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin, D-Ill., specifically asked the IRS to investigate conservative groups in 2010, which led to terrible harassment. Yet, the president hasn't encouraged his Democratic colleagues to better discipline their more visceral political instincts.

    Over and over again, the president has demonstrated by word and action an attitude of whatever it takes to move forward his progressive agenda. In the federal agencies and on Capitol Hill, this cultivates impatience and disregard for thoughtful people who have honest disagreements with him and their constitutional rights.

    Now his second-term agenda is threatened by growing distrust and lack of confidence in the honesty and fundamental integrity of his administration and with more than three years remaining, that is a terribly dangerous brew.

    Any good CEO would root out the abuses at the IRS, Justice and elsewhere, put in place reasonable standards of performance and expectations for the use of managerial discretion and establish mechanisms to both evaluate managers' performance and insulate them from inappropriate outside interference -- for the IRS, the likes of Senator Durbin.

    To win back the confidence of all Americans, the president must forthrightly take responsibility for government agency missteps and abuses, and explain what he is doing to fix them -- this is no time to lead from behind.

    Instead the president continues to treat the multiplying crises and escalating concerns about his leadership as a political game -- this to the great peril of our liberties, security and ultimately the legitimacy of our republic.

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    Our American president is in love with himself. He has a lot of people feeding on this. They are Democrats, because they have always been that way. The message got lost, and people just continue on down the road, trying to remember why or if they are lost too.

    When the president stands at the podium to make a speech, watch how he moves his head, posing, if you will. Then he starts to speak, and you realize he is picking his words, carefully. It is a game, and he figures to be the top player. His smoke and mirrors no longer conceal his missteps to most of us.

    Putting pressure on the press, he tries to influence opinion by telling us that what he is doing, is our will. He thinks the press is his, and all he has to say is "boo" and we will all be scared. After picking on the press, he went after the gun people, telling us this is what we want. Then comes the NSA listening in on our calls, or at least recording them all, so they can come back to listen later. He was surprised to learn we object to that as well.

    There is the next factor. It is his appointment of people who I think are bad for the job. Besides the lying, Ms. Rice was still picked. Eric Holder is the guy from "Fast and Furious" so I need say no more.

    Obama said there were serious Red Lines in Syria. We would do "something" (like intervene) if poison gas was used. It was, but we have done nothing.

    ..


    We are carrying Obama. As far as can be told, he will doubtless be remembered by history. Not necessarily just for being the first mixed race president. History will catch up with his ego. "Hubris is mine, and it fits" seems to swell his head when he speaks. I know most of his ideas are recycled from other politicians.

    The rest of what you are saying, is just so you can read your own words. Democrats vote for their party, and always will. Republicans vote for a person, or an interest, rather than the party itself. That allows us to vote for a Democrat if he is worthy. The difference in attitude is almost too thick to cut with a knife. It is not the Party, stupid, it's the people.

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