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2010-08-08 Home Front: Politix

The Obama presidency increasingly resembles a modern-day Ancient Rï¿½gime:

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2010-08-08 15:01|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Very pointy.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-08-08 15:46|| 2010-08-08 15:46|| Front Page Top

#2 the extravagance and arrogance on display among the White House elites that rule America as though they had been handed some divine right to govern with impunity.

ZING! (Doing the job the US Press will not do)

Posted by OldSpook 2010-08-08 15:48|| 2010-08-08 15:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Is the first family proud of America yet?

Posted by JohnQC 2010-08-08 15:58|| 2010-08-08 15:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Obama losing his o-seas base?! Gasp......!

I don't think you can put the Telegraph in the "Ogabe's overseas base" category - they're the relatively conservative counterpoint to the leftist Guardian, and IIRC have always been skeptical of The One's appeal.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2010-08-08 16:39|| 2010-08-08 16:39|| Front Page Top

#5 The Obamas could care less about the public outcry. Their haughty excesses only solidify the notion of a one term presidency.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-08-08 17:25|| 2010-08-08 17:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Thanks Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo), yet another of my fantasies dashed..... ;->

Posted by Uncle Phester 2010-08-08 17:46|| 2010-08-08 17:46|| Front Page Top

#7 They forgot the, "t," in Ancient. That aside, isn't this always the way liberals push? Create a welfare state, remove the military since it's, "bad," and kill the nation with over spending with all the social engineering programs, and make themselves the new elite aristocrasy. After all, every one else is too stupid and cowardly to run things not into the ground.

Posted by miscellaneous 2010-08-08 18:22|| 2010-08-08 18:22|| Front Page Top

#8 They forgot the, "t," in Ancient.

It's French, misc. They spell things funny. See also, this.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2010-08-08 19:47|| 2010-08-08 19:47|| Front Page Top

#9 You know I am kind of curious why the Presidency must be in crisis mode all the time. Yes we are fighting a war, but I guarantee that no one wants another President to micro manage a war. So yes he should go to Chicago for his Birthday and yes the First Lady should wine and dine with Kings. It's their job to do these things. I don't like the way the pres treated Bush whenever he would go take a leak and "take his eye off the ball". God forbid he go to Camp David for the weekend. It became a bunker presidency that was afraid of offending someone by taking the weekend off or campaigning.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2010-08-08 20:14|| 2010-08-08 20:14|| Front Page Top

#10 There's vacations, then there's this whole ostentatious wrong-headed trip to a place best known for Arab princes and playboy types, donning dresses that cost more than a weeks wages for those fortunate enough to have jobs -- instead of going to, say, the Gulf Coast. Then there are the large numbers of vacations and their frequency...

And sorry you "don't like the way the pres treated Bush whenever he would go take a leak and take his eye off the ball", but guess what -- its the standard when the nation is hurting. THese aren;t the days of Calvin Coolidge. We are at war, under threat and undergoing huge economic stresses. You take the job, you have to grind at it if that's what circumstances hand you. Neither Bush nor Obama deserve to gripe one bit more than I did when I ended up getting called back from the reserves and going to combat because of some dumbass in Iraq invading Kuwait, or getting stuck in shithole called Haiti due to Doc Duvalier.

This stuff comes with the job. If you don't like it, don't sign up for the duty. Hard times require hard work and for a real leader, they will draw even more scrutiny. I know I had lots more expected of me at wartime than in the late 70's thru late 80's. Too damned bad. Deal with it, stop whining.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-08-08 21:09|| 2010-08-08 21:09|| Front Page Top

#11 OS: You didn't spend your time in Iraq or Haiti trying to figure out ways of screwing the rest of us over.

Maybe we shouldn't complain about the time he spends on the course?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-08-08 21:19|| 2010-08-08 21:19|| Front Page Top

#12 Love the moniker.

Peanut wasn't this obtuse. And that's saying something.

Posted by Spaviling Scourge of the Algonquins 2010-08-08 21:19|| 2010-08-08 21:19|| Front Page Top

#13 http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/08/correlation-between-persons-mind-and.html

Posted by Uncle Phester 2010-08-08 21:32|| 2010-08-08 21:32|| Front Page Top

#14 TFSM, good point.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-08-08 22:02|| 2010-08-08 22:02|| Front Page Top

#15 Thanks Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo), yet another of my fantasies dashed.....

The Telegraph question aside, you're actually pretty much on the mark, Phester...from what I understand, the European leaders - at least the tougher, more realistic ones, like Sarkozy and Merkel - regard Ogabe as at best a dangerous naif. Vladimir ~~Corleone~~ Putin already knows he can be easily rolled, and a whole cast of lovely lads like Chavez, Daniel Ortega and the Castro brothers think he's probably a kindred spirit.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2010-08-08 23:32|| 2010-08-08 23:32|| Front Page Top

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