Quit picking on Obama……

BaalsTears

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Any one opposed to Comrade Obama is a racist. Russia is racist. China is racist. Iran is racist. Sunni Arabs and Shia Arabs are both racist. Filipinos are racist. So are Japanese and Koreans. Comrade Obama has succeeded in uniting the entire world in racist opposition to him. The guy's a lightworker.
 

BaalsTears

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​Newly-released documents reveal direct White House involvement in steering the public narrative about the September 11, 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, toward that of a spontaneous protest that never happened.

One of the operative documents, which the government had withheld from
​Congress and reporters for a year and a half, is an internal September 14,
​2012 email to White House press officials from Ben Rhodes, President Obama’s
​Assistant and Deputy National Security Advisor. (Disclosure:Ben Rhodes
​is the brother of David Rhodes, the President of CBS News, where I
was employed until March.)

In the email, Ben Rhodes lists as a “goal” the White House desire “To
​underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a
broader failure or policy.”

The email is entitled, “RE: PREP CALL with Susan, Saturday at 4:00 pm ET”
and refers to White House involvement in preparing then-U.S.Ambassador
to the U.N. Susan Rice for her upcoming appearance on Sunday television
​ network political talk shows.

The Rhodes email states that another “goal” is “To reinforce the President and Administration’s strength and steadiness in dealing with difficult challenges.”

A court compelled the release of the documents, which were heavily-redacted, to the conservative watchdog group JudicialWatch, which has sued the government over its failed Freedom of Information responses. I have also requested Benghazi-related documents under Freedom of Information law, but the government has only produced a few pages to date.

New Benghazi Docs April 29, 2014
 

Locutus

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Is Barry Whiffing?

WASHINGTON — Stop whining, Mr. President.

And stop whiffing.

Don’t whinge off the record with columnists and definitely don’t do it at a press conference with another world leader. It is disorienting to everybody, here at home and around the world.

I empathize with you about being thin-skinned. When you hate being criticized, it’s hard to take a giant steaming plate of “you stink” every day, coming from all sides. But you convey the sense that any difference on substance is lèse-majesté.

You simply proclaim what you believe as though you know it to be absolutely true, hoping we recognize the truth of it, and, if we don’t, then we’ve disappointed you again.

Even some of the chatterers who used to be in your corner now make derogatory remarks about your manhood. And that, I know, really gets under your skin because you think they just don’t get your style of coolly keeping your cards to yourself while you play the long game. Besides, how short memories are. You were the Ice Man who ordered up the operation that killed Osama bin Laden.


more bitch-slaps here:


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/30/opinion/dowd-is-barry-whiffing.html
 

Trex

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I repeat my comment.

You like hockey? Understand it? Then surely you understand that it ain't who's leading at the end of the second period that counts.

Do you like American politics? Understand it?

Comparing hockey scores with Presidential popularity would seem to be both erroneous and mistaken.

Here is why.
In hockey the only score that matters is when the game ends. And that final score then dictates that teams position within NHL hockey.

Presidential popularity rates are indicative of public support for the president and his policies.
At the end of a two-term Presidents term (the end of the game so to speak) why would his public popularity matter politically? He is non electable at that point anyway. A slight party run-on bias could occur but I would expect its impact on the next Presidential election to be minimal.

But right now Obama’s public approval rates are critical to both his and his party’s success. We are now in the critical run–up period prior to both House and Senate elections in November.
It is expected that the Republicans will probably retain control of the House.
A Democratic Party loss of the Senate would be a crushing blow for Obama.
Obviously dropping Presidential popularity scores will factor into those elections.
If Obama looses control of both the House and Senate it will probably help cement him in place as an ineffectual lame-duck President.

Assuming the Republicans won both branches the Republicans would probably then flood the Government with bills potentially damaging to the Democrats.
Forcing Obama into unpopular vetoes.
They could also start launching Senate investigations into Democrats like Hillary Clinton.
Endless Democratic fundraising investigations.
Things like that.

And all this potentially right before the next Presidential election.
 

gopher

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quit picking on ''Obummer":



















plus 18 million more now covered under health care ;)
 

Locutus

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Obama's Last Shot – Climate Change – And Why It's Doomed To Fail

Today the Obama administration publishes its latest National Climate Assessment on the state of global warming. The bad news - inevitably - is that the news is very bad: more heat, more extreme weather, more drought, everything worse than ever before.

Fortunately, there's some good news too: you don't need to believe a word because, just like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's reports, this document is much more a political one than a scientific one.

Its purpose is described well in the headline of this Rolling Stone article: Obama's Last Shot:
"Taking action on climate is one of the most important goals in the president's second term," John Podesta, counselor to the president and his point man on climate policy, told me a few weeks ago. "He feels a profound and urgent obligation to get as much done as he can before he leaves office."

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Obama's Last Shot –Â*Climate Change – And Why It's Doomed To Fail
 

BaalsTears

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The only way to fight climate disruption involves the peoples of all advanced nations accepting a reduction in their standards of living while China and India pollute to their hearts content in order to raise the standard of living of their peoples. That's the way to think about it.