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2010-06-20 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by tipper 2010-06-20 05:40|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Snakebit? Piffle. Your actions make your sunshine. It's that whole compentence thing that nobody likes to talk about.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2010-06-20 09:51|| 2010-06-20 09:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Carter's presidency was given coherence and meaning by Nixon, Watergate, and without it that presidency seemed formless. Mr. Obama, in the same way, needs Mr. Bush standing in the corner like Boo Radley, saying "Let's invade something!" But Mr. Bush is wisely back home in Texas finishing a book, and the president never sounds weaker than when he suggests his predicament is all his predecessor's fault.

This has always been the sum and substance of Bambi's presidency ... blame someone else for his own failings/faults/inadequacies.

C'mon 2010/2012.

Posted by WolfDog 2010-06-20 11:47|| 2010-06-20 11:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Whereas Dubya was the luckiest man alive...

Posted by charger 2010-06-20 11:49|| 2010-06-20 11:49|| Front Page Top

#4 It's not necessarily just luck. A big issue is the 'Disconnect'. Aside from being a family-man and his sneaking a smoke, there's nothing in the President's roster of faults and accomplishments for an average citizen to point to and say "he's got something in common with me".

That and treating his Office as if the U.S. were a university campus - but that'd suck up a lot of bandwidth.

Posted by Pappy 2010-06-20 13:00|| 2010-06-20 13:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Snakebit? Think about it. Obamas a guy who cut his political teeth through the Chicago Machine and emerged without any significant taint. And its obvious that it didnt occur from any personal luck, intelligence, or sense of morality. Bottom linehe was cultivated. He was never a doer or a fixer and certainly never a leader. He is a brand to be marketed. Pundits of all stripes are finally beginning to shift their criticism from his bad optics to his lack of accomplishment. Perhaps, the most surprising thing is it took this long. Remember, never hire a mechanic without a little dirt under his finger nails and never elect a Chicago politician without a little blood on his cuffs.

Posted by DepotGuy 2010-06-20 14:35|| 2010-06-20 14:35|| Front Page Top

#6 should have been "A Snakeoil Salesman President"

Posted by lord garth 2010-06-20 15:08|| 2010-06-20 15:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Shut-up Peggy dear! You're as disconnected as he is.

Posted by Sgt. D.T. 2010-06-20 16:36|| 2010-06-20 16:36|| Front Page Top

#8 More likely he is the snake. I mean, you have to wonder why we have first a preoccupation with appointing all kinds of politically motivated czars instead of trying to get the most competent people available to head up federal departments and agencies like the EPA. Then you have a massive oil spill and we find that, not only does nobody know what to do about it, but nobody took the most obvious steps that could have been take to prevent it. Instead of making rigorous inspections at the site they were looking the other way while BP broke all the rules. Then, just to make matters worse, you have a dawdling and incompetent response by the federal government. Finally, to tie it all together, you have renewed calls for cap and trade and other green boondoggles. Never let a crisis go to waste, you know. But it kinda makes me wonder, if a crisis doesn't just happen maybe it can be helped along a bit. Maybe I'm just paranoid but it's the same way I wondered exactly how it came to be that the mortgage meltdown happened just a few weeks before the 2008 elections. Coinkydinky? Well, anyway, it certainly was convenient for a certain party especially when it's completely unimaginable that they didn't see it coming. Sometimes you have to make your own luck but I'm wondering just how far these people will go to do that.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2010-06-20 16:43|| 2010-06-20 16:43|| Front Page Top

#9 He's starting to look unlucky

Wonner how "lucky" he was in college? I guess we'll never know....smartest man in the world won't let us see courses take OR grades. We make our own luck... I thinks!

Light'em up if you've got'em Barry. Nothing sooths like a Lucky Strike!

Posted by Besoeker 2010-06-20 17:17|| 2010-06-20 17:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Obama's bad luck is that most people have finally figured out what an incompetent fraud he really is.

Posted by DMFD 2010-06-20 17:35|| 2010-06-20 17:35|| Front Page Top

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