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Barack Obama Has Already Checked Out Of His Job -- Matt K. Lewis, The Telegraph
The degree to which Barack Obama is now phoning it in – sleepwalking perfunctorily through his second term, amid golf rounds and dinner parties – is astonishing
President Obama has emotionally checked out of his job a couple of years early, it seems. How can one tell?
Candidates for president who brazenly assume they are the inevitable victor are sometimes accused of “measuring the drapes” for the White House.
Obama, conversely, seems to be prematurely packing his bags in hopes for an early departure
Just last week, for example, the Los Angeles Times reported that “The First Family is believed to be in escrow on a contemporary home in a gated community where entertainers Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby once maintained estates”.
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My Comment: President Obama has not "checked out of his job" .... he is in fact only now getting started in fulfilling his 2008 campaign promise to "transform America" .... starting with immigration. But there are groups that have checked out in countering the President .... and I would put the U.S. main stream media and the Republican Party on the top of this list.
On a side note .... I am off to my golf game right now. Blogging will return later tonight.
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Alright WNU, just remember swing easy after all it's not far to the green form the red tees.
I WASNT SURE WERE TO POST MY COMMENTS BUT IVE JUST CHECKED OUT A VIDEO THAT WAS POSTED ON BLOG CALLED COLONEL CASSAD AND ITS VIDEO IN RUSSIAN FROM 2012 ABOUT UKRAINE AND I BELEIVE ITS ABOUT BREAK UP OF UKRAINE COULD YOU SEE IF YOU COULD LOOK AT IT AND GIVE SOME FEED BACK ON EXACTLY WHAT ITS SAYING AS THERES NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES THANK YOU
I never never play from the RED TEES!!!! Again James .... you are treading on very dangerous ground .... we Russians start wars for far less.
Blue tees .... always blue tees.
Then again .... considering what I shot today .... hmmmm .... red tees .... sighhh .... at this rate I am getting there.
Peter St. John you are probably referring to this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXISTcz-sO0
Yup .... it predicts the collapse of Ukraine followed by NATO and Russian involvement. In short .... the worse case scenario.
Heh! What do you call a Princess Di in golf? My big goal is to be a scratch player from the TIPPS. I've made a lot of progress, but being in my 60's it's a race against time.
Should not have taken the driver.
I am in my mid 50s .... I still have hope for greatness in Golf .... yes .... I can see it now ..... wearing the Green Jacket .... after breaking all the records at the Masters.
The Republican Party made it clear from the beggining of his presidency that they were going to prevent him from doing anything by all means necessary. That isn't conspiracy theory, it has been made quite clear that he would be fought at every turn. The American people say "no war in Syria" then he gets blamed for being too soft on Syria. Too soft on Putin but nobody wants to go to war with Russia. The guy can't win for losing. Fantastic how many people call him a ni$g$&, and "would you believe what that f-$&+ ni$g$& just did?" Way to show how far our country has gone toward securing equality. If I was treated as badly with as much hatred as has been directed toward him I might just pack the "drapes" too... and tell half of America to go f&+$.
The role of the opposing party is to oppose .... this has always been the essential ingredient in any democracy. And the role of the media has always been to investigate and question the key issues of the day .... or issues that are brought to them.
I do remember how the Democrats and much of the news media ripped into Bush in 2007 - 2008 .... and if I was to use that as a template to 2014 .... there is no comparison .... today's opposition is disorganized and leaderless, and the news media (with a few exceptions) no longer questions or investigates what this White House does .... and when some of them do they are usually months behind ... case in point is the immigration story. Talk Radio has been talking about immigration at the border for months .... the New York Times and the rest of the main stream media only in the past few weeks.
But this is the state of U.S. politics today. It is easy to label your opponents as haters or racists .... but the reality is that many are worried and are using their basic right to voice their opposition and disagreement to policies that they fear is harmful to them. Nothing more .... nothing less.
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"The guy can't win for losing" could apply to Bush. Did you apply it to bush as well?
If Obama would have asked for more funding for the border fence, do you think the Republicans would have opposed him?
Instead what happened is that the DHS secretary, Janet Napolitano, built 20% or 30% declared it hopeless and quit building it. She also said the system worked when the underwear bomber got caught. He was the one that successfully had time t detonate his bomb but it was a dud.
If Obama approved the Keystone XL pipeline would the Republican's oppose Obama?
I just gave you 2 specific, real life, concrete examples where Obama could win and the Republican's would not oppose him.
The same things could be said about Bush with the modifier that he wasn't voted for as president in his first term. I don't consider the electoral college democratic and I'm fairly certain that a little more than half the country would have agreed with me at the time. Bush started his presidency by crapping on a little more than half the country and the notion that the public's vote means anything.
Aizino, the 2 examples you give are for Republican backed initiatives so I think it is obvious that he would get all the republican support he could want. But a republican wasn't voted for as POTUS.
So, the county is split almost down the middle between red and blue, the same problem Bush had for much of his presidency, the problem as I see it as that no defference seems to be given to the winning side. ACA for an example wins over and over but the losing half of the country keeps suing over and over. To me that is an example of majority rule being continually thwarted by the minority obstructionist. I think much of the problems we are seeing are simply the result of an almost equally divided country where there is no clear majority. Truthfully, I can't imagine any scenario where a president can get anything done in such a gridlock. If it was a 70/30 split I would say the losing side should side should sit on their hands and wait for their turn. At nearly 50/50 I have no idea how anything can get done so I don't blame the POTUS for being impotent. If he is a strong leader and fights for his platform he dissenfrachises half of the country, if he plays politic to please both sides he gets nothing done. I'd be playing golf too "you guys fight it out, I'm going golfing". It would be like going to work and having 2 bosses of equal power who expect you to do the opposite of what the other says. This might be the democratic way but it is absolutely a horrible time to be POTUS.
The U.S. is not a democracy. It is a Republic. This is U.S. Constitution 101.
The electoral college is part of the system that was set up. It is part of the U.S. Constitution.
See Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 & Article II, Section 1, Clause 4
What I am really sore about is Democrats pulling on numerous legal challenges to disenfranchise military service member stationed overseas. that as the first ploy, then it was the hanging chad (2nd ploy).
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