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2014-06-08 Government

Obama: 'My Government' Didn't Need Congressional Approval For Bergdahl Deal

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Posted by Fred 2014-06-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 He will not leave peacefully come 2016.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-06-08 01:37|| 2014-06-08 01:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Like a Queen!

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2014-06-08 04:58|| 2014-06-08 04:58|| Front Page Top

#3 If he was a queen (no, not THAT kind) would he not use the royal 'we' instead of 'I' all the time?

Posted by Glenmore 2014-06-08 08:10|| 2014-06-08 08:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Just don't expect us to die to defend 'your' government.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-06-08 10:16|| 2014-06-08 10:16|| Front Page Top

#5 (no, not THAT kind)

Are you sure?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2014-06-08 10:38|| 2014-06-08 10:38|| Front Page Top

#6 One other possibility is that he said it out of pure ignorance. It's just a possibility though. Arrogance is most likely, I think. Could be a combination...But certainly a disturbing disregard for the law. What's even more disturbing is that he'll get away with it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2014-06-08 10:43|| 2014-06-08 10:43|| Front Page Top

#7 "MY GOVERNMENT?" WTF? What a narcissistic ass. I guess it is his government at this point as no one else will claim it--It has gone FUBAR due to his complete ineptitude.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-06-08 11:01|| 2014-06-08 11:01|| Front Page Top

#8 I will say this - if he refuses to leave office peaceably, I will personally pick up my rifle and assist him out of office.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-06-08 12:59|| 2014-06-08 12:59|| Front Page Top

#9 King Barack I will leave. He doesn't want the job. He's done what he came to do: Destroy the United States as a cluture and a military and economic power. Then he'll go spend forty or fifty years as an ex-President, soaking up the bennies and continuing to leech of the people he betrayed.

Queen Hillary I has already been anointed. We get her for 8 years. I'm not sure who they'll pick for us after that, and really, as a peasant, is it our place to worry about whom our betters choose for us? It is our place to serve, to do their bidding. Get used to it.

After watching the Rose Garden ceremony, I have a better feeling for the French under Vichy.

Orion

Posted by Orion 2014-06-08 13:32|| 2014-06-08 13:32|| Front Page Top

#10 heard this before... "Moi, je suis l'etat."

Posted by Unoluns Borgia5998 2014-06-08 13:40|| 2014-06-08 13:40|| Front Page Top

#11 It is interesting that the patron saint of the left, Noah Chomsky (whose name I cannot type without gagging) came out in an interview (see Drudge) and stated Obama was a threat to the civil liberties of all citizens of the United States. He particularly called out the NSA spying AND the armament of the supposedly civilian departments of the Executive branch (which gives me the night sweats)

When Chomsky, whose book is the blueprint for being a community organizer, comes out against one of his "disciples" things are very bad.

He is probably as big a toxic narcissist as any fascist from the past and I guarantee you the empty suit spent more time reading Joseph Goebbels than he did Chomsky. For it is Goebbels who said: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the state."

Does that sound like our administration?

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-06-08 13:40|| 2014-06-08 13:40|| Front Page Top

#12 Then he'll go spend forty or fifty years as an ex-President, soaking up the bennies and continuing to leech of the people he betrayed.

No, he won't. He'll go, certainly. But once he is gone his value alive diminishes significantly. He will be far more valuable to the puppet masters as a martyr. Wait and see, he won't make it 24 months after leaving office, especially if Killary is elected.

Posted by Secret Asian Man 2014-06-08 15:32|| 2014-06-08 15:32|| Front Page Top

#13 Other leftists who have recently criticized the ONE. This is a bit dated (4 months ago) but it seems that more and more are jumping ship. Leftist critics of Obama Jumping Ship? Oprah is still in the closet.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-06-08 15:54|| 2014-06-08 15:54|| Front Page Top

#14 I read somewhere that former President Bill Clinton gets somewhere in the neighborhood of $200,000 per speaking engagement and I think we all know how full of hot air he is so I would imagine he is doing quite well for himself. Likewise Obummer, as long as he can read his teleprompter, should do well even though he seems a lot less energetic than Bubba. Hey, here's an idea for his business card: "Have teleprompter. Will travel." He doesn't have to write his drivel, all he has to do is read it. He can get the same writers to put out a few books. He'll do just fine with Moochelle there to pull him out of bed or off the golf course.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2014-06-08 16:42|| 2014-06-08 16:42|| Front Page Top

#15 Alinsky is surprisingly close to Goebbels/

Posted by OldSpook 2014-06-08 17:34|| 2014-06-08 17:34|| Front Page Top

#16 Dianne Feinstein, Senator, California, former Mayor of San Francisco, ardent supporter of Obama (?) is all over Obama in a negative way regarding the Bergdahl deal.

Is this for real?

Posted by Bubba Graiting8281 2014-06-08 21:09|| 2014-06-08 21:09|| Front Page Top

#17 Feinstein has been in the Senate long enough to become very well acquainted with that legislative body's peculiarities.

So yes, it's the 'Senator' talking.

Posted by Pappy 2014-06-08 21:56|| 2014-06-08 21:56|| Front Page Top

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