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I love to listen to President Obama in news conference

Posted: Jul 18, 2014

But, we haven't had somewhat this intelligent who could actually think and speak coherently on his feet in a long time. I realize some of his points you oppose, but he is handling MH17 quite nicely.

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Sure, when he's not off being a social butterfly. - nm

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Get over it--actually criticize a real decision or issue - sm

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Dated 7/7/2014

Barack Obama has taken 92 days of vacation since he was sworn in, compared to 367 for George W. Bush at the same point in his presidency

14: Number of vacation trips taken by Obama since he took office in January 2009.

92: Number of days, all or in part, Obama has spent on vacation.

57: Number of vacation trips taken by Bush at this same point in his presidency.

50: Number of visits Bush made to his ranch in Crawford, Texas.

323: Number of days, all or in part, Bush spent at the ranch.

7: Number of trips Bush made to his family’s compound in Kennebunkport, Maine.

26: Number of days, all or in part, Bush spent in Maine.

The numbers do not include visits to the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland.

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Sure, he's Johnny on the Spot - sm

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during a crisis. I don't need statistics to tell me what I already know, nor does a certain sector of the population. We know. Now you get over it. Your guy is a colossal failure except for playing golf and basketball. I hear he's pretty good at those. Even Tiger liked his golf game.

Your just jealous cuz he looks good golfing and playing basketball - LOL nm

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Teleprompter-in-chief... - Waitingforjack

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Yeah, a regular Shakespeare...

I just got water all over myself...I'm laughing so hard. - Thank you!!!!!!

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I literally have tears running down my face from laughing so hard. You are one funny lady!!

Not the only one, dear - Mary Roach

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Ronald Reagan also used the teleprompter. Bush used index cards. Obama uses a teleprompter. If you have ever taken a Speech class, you know that most (at least the good ones) have reference notes. Politicians have advisors and speech writers; most politicians contribute to that process. President Obama is not the first, nor is he the only, politician to use a teleprompter. Refer to The Washington Post for more of a reference than just my uneducated opinion:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-mock-obamas-teleprompter-use/2011/10/18/gIQA6hEivL_story.html

Original comment was really a response to the ease with which he handles the quesitons - Next is that they are all scripted and rehearsed

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And if you're REALLY stupid, you write notes on - your hand!

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I guess you would know all about that. - LOL

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Like Dubya? - LOL

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You should be writing jokes for the pros!! - Seriously!!!

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Very dry, very good!!! ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!

Wow. Your standard of "funny" is really low. - Like off-the-scale low.

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nm

To each his own... - Oh, wait...

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NM :-)

"To each his own?" What right-winger believes - THAT? Did you mispost?

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ROFLMAO

Were you a bully in grade school? - S/M

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Or are you still in grade school?

No, but most members of the GOP seem to be - experts at it.

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I wish I could like this a gazillion times!!!!!!! - Debi

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I was trying to tell my mom about this over the phone and it took me 20 minutes because I couldn't stop laughing!!

20 minutes? Wow, your household must be - a real laugh a minute....

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nm

Average Vacation Days Per President - Mary Roach

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Average number of days per year:
Carter 19.75
Reagan 60.5
Bush Sr 135.75
Clinton 19
Bush Jr 127.5
Obama 35

What do these numbers tell us, if we are being as unbiased as possible?

You and the other poster are missing the point. - Give him more time off.

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I don't care if he took off 1000 vacation days. That is NOT the point. The fact remains that he is an absentee president during a crisis. He is inept and is unqualified for the job.

What point? - Mary Roach

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My reply was in response to the "social butterfly" post. If that is an implication that President Obama is taking too much time off, then a simple chart displaying a comparison (or shall we say, a contrast) of the number of average days taken off by each president should explain.

Social butterfly... - sm

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Schmoozing with the Swells, Hob Nobbing with the Big Boys, fundraiser-in-chief, absentee president in a crisis...

If that ain't the pot calling the kettle black - Mary Roach

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Do you honestly believe that is something unique to President Obama? Seriously? Crack open a Political Science textbook and you will learn nothing else. Let's look at just one example (of "absentee president in a crisis") in order to make this simple to understand: President Bush's response (or, shall we say, lack of response) to Hurricane Katrina.

And those were AMERICANs in crisis. - nm

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Presidential Fundraising Statistics - SM

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Slick Willie leads the pack, but he was a good president (except for his perjury and impeachment).

Balanced budget - Mary Roach

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Yeah, let's look at the budget when President Clinton's term was over. He not only got us out do the red, we had quite a surplus when he was finished. I don't know about you all, but I would be in big trouble if I ran up a big deficit and left a big mess for someone else to clean up. That seems to be a trend for multiple Republican presidents. And it's all about how "Let's cut spending." Hypocrites.

If you're going to deflect, why don't you just start a new post - about the budget.

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nm

Deflection? - Mary Roach

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I responded to the post mentioning "Slick Willy." In other words, Bill Clinton. I'd you didn't get that, that's your loss.

That's different. Bush had to attend McCain's - birthday party! (nm)

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Simply not true--smarter than most--President Obama is - Not a knee jerk reactor

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I'm sure those quick and swift reactions look good to you. I prefer the diplomacy, thought and educated responses. GW was simply guided by a bunch of idiots (Rove and Cheney). He couldn't put a simple thought together on his own. Bush, Sr at least had a chance. Didn't prefer his policies, but far better than son.

And what makes qualified? Don't go there with GW. Very slippery slope. It's politics. It is a very unique qualification list: appearance, action, thought, diplomacy.

Not smarter than most is TRUE- DUMB AS A STUMP - Not a knee jerk - JUST A JERK

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n/m

I would put his Intelligence up against - any of us

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You really think with his accomplishments that he is a stupid man? I think you are just emotional.

President Clinton - Smarter than the average bear
President Carter - turns out a whole lot smarter than given credit.
President GW Bush- not so bright - smart enough to be led and follow in dad's footsteps
President Bush Sr. - pretty good head (even if I did not like his policies--you might learn something from this observation)
Reagan - hard to tell - we were in the twilight years. He had some interesting economic advisers - albeit the policies haven't worked out so well in the long run.

President Obama turns down his intelligence so as not to embarrass or overwhelm--that is the accomplished politician part. Same goes for Michele Obama. She could squash us like bugs. She's just being polite, after all, she is the First Lady.

Elected twice - yep! And he earned it. He didn't ride on anyone's coattails.

I needed my evening giggles. - TY!

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You almost made me laugh as hard as the Shakespeare post above, but not quite!

Speak for yourself. You don't know any of us here - want to try again

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Your subject line is not a great way to start if you want anyone to believe what you write. Since you do not know any of us and our backgrounds, the rest of your post I don't take seriously.

There are people here who have masters, PhDs, etc. It's not emotion. Having a degree is not an emotion. We worked hard to get where we are. We were not given degrees or awards.

Those are your opinions on what you feel about the people. Doesn't mean its the truth.

There are many of us who have researched all of their backgrounds. Our observations are different than yours. I won't go into what I found out about them while researching, but its way off from your opinions.

Michelle...not quite on the squashing us. In fact quite far from it. She got to be in the position of First Lady through marriage. It has nothing to do with a measure of her intelligence, ineptness, or whatever you call it.

Put in position twice by bankers and 1%ers.

The only thing we are "learning from this observation" is who you like and don't like.

No one needs to know you. We've got all - sMg

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your and other right-wing posts to fill them in on the intelligence level of the writer.

Well, aren't you the sweet one. - g

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True and to the point. Thanks for bringing some sense and truth - to the board. - nm

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GOP wouldn't know sense and truth if it walked - right up and slapped them.

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False numbers. Plus you can't count Obama's 6 years - to 8 years of others

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Kind of a nice try but not really.

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Refer to Get Over It post above - Those Numbers were comparison to same point in pre

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Refer to get clue post - nm

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Your math? - Mary

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Go back to preschool if you don't understand the meaning of the word "average."

Wow. LOL - Mrs. Tingles - sm

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Why would you say its "going to drive you n"? It's only your opinion, which is fine. We all have different levels of what we consider intelligence and someone who can "think coherently".

If you think this is "intelligent thinking and speaking coherently on his feet" all I say is you must have your expectations pretty low. To me and many economist, lawyers and even other politicians in his own party we are all shaking our heads. If he is so intelligent then he must love playing dumb I guess. What is coming out of his mouth is neither intelligent, coherent, and people are wondering if he is "all there" ("checked-out" is what a lot of people are saying - and no not conservatives...by psychiatrists, economists and politicians). Have you seen some of the democrats faces after he says something that doesn't make sense?

This is a person they have getting up giving speeches, yet until the words are written on a teleprompter he cannot function. Lets talk about JFK for a minute. Now THERE was an intelligent man. Ronald Reagan was also intelligent. They knew the subject matter they were talking about. They wrote note cards, but actually knew what they were talking about, so didn't have to read it word for word. We have not seen anyone as intelligent since them.

Sure Obama is a smooth talker and I'll give him credit for that, but that's about it. I don't know about you or anyone else, but I prefer to hear some substance in a conversation. Some sign of life that you know the subject matter you are talking about. Not reading speeches somebody else prepared for him that he thought it not important enough to read up on what it was about, but rather just read what someone writes on the teleprompter. So as for intelligence? Not getting much of that with him. His responses are pretty limited (not my fault, Bush's fault, republicans fault, anybody else but my fault. The dog did it, there were balloons in the way, this that everone and everything else but not me). Have you ever listened to him talk when there is no teleprompter or if it breaks down in the middle of one of his pre-written speeches? Good gracious he just can't do it. Without that we hear (well you don't have to read what I write, I'll provide samples of him trying to talk)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XuItt6iuMc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKbd2pbuBxU

I'll only provide 2 samples. It hurts too much to listen to him.

Also I guess if you're into the "me monster" thing, sure he is pretty self centered if that's your thing. His narcissistic traits are getting recognition that's for sure:

He turned Mandella's funeral into an "all about me" session:
# of times he mentioned Mandella: 8
# of times he mentioned himself: 14

At a different funeral he mentioned himself 63 times and in another speech he mentioned himself over 117 times.

He reads books about himself to kids and he gives the Queen as a gift that is supposed to represent the country, instead of a great gift he gave her a collection of himself giving speeches (however, I do have to say the look on her face was priceless).

Then of course you have the recent stunt of using a tragedy of a downed plane with 25 of our citizens as his latest photop gig. Mentions there was a plane down and within 18 seconds started in with jokes and talking about himself. I guess he just can't get enough of hearing about himself.

Then of course when he's not talking about himself, he's taking selfies all over the place (even while Michael looked on disgusted). Like I say if you are into that sort of thing you got yourself a winner and I'm happy for you. For myself though I prefer to listen to people who understand issues and have more substance in their speeches talk about the issues. There are plenty of people in all parties qualified.

As for his intelligence that is a matter of opinion. It really makes me laugh when people say so-n-so is sooooooo intelligent. Well that's what they say about a lot of other leaders from other countries we read about in history books (names remain unmentioned). Maybe he is "intelligent", but of course nobody will ever know because they have all his records sealed. People only repeat he is intelligent because that's what he tells you about himself.

GREAT POST!!! - NPC

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This is one of the best posts I've read in a long time. I didn't want it to end. Thank you for saying everything so well from the serious to the humorous. I enjoyed every word!!

Thanks NPC. I value your opinions as well - Mrs. Tingles - sm

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and what you think of my posts. Always look forward to reading what you write The so called "intelligence" of this man is that people talk about as though he is a god to them just really amazes me. Even more so now that economists, lawyers, physicians, judges, politicians (even his own party) and other world leaders are talking about what is going on does not line up with what people write here. Every time I read a post about how woo'd they are over his charm and good looks and such a nice singing voice and "oh look he ate a hot dog he is just like us and understands us" I just roll my eyes. They just completely ignore facts.

Wow! I stopped reading at "Ronald Reagan was also intelligent." - Ron and Nancy and the White House Astrologer

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Ronald Reagan was so intelligent that he and Nancy consulted an astrologer in order to make decisions. This is a fact that is not disputed and actually confirmed by aides and staff of the White House and CIA officials. When VP Bush found out, he was incredulous. If you think Reagan was intelligent and Obama is not, that says a lot more about you than it does about President Obama. Intelligent people do not believe in astrology and run the country based on what their astrologer tells them to do.

I can pull up hours and hours of idiot tapes on Presidents Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II, but it proves absolutely nothing. We know conservatives love Reagan, but the fact is that the actual man was nothing more than a B movie actor of extremely average intelligence who could read his lines off a teleprompter and who believed in astrology. How is that intelligent?

A president who believed in astrology is the conservatives' hero. Doesn't that just tell you everything you need to know?

That's okay, I stopped reading yours after you wrote I stopped reading - Mrs. Tingles - sm

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Don't care to read any further.

What the CIA has to say about Reagan's intelligence - MacroDiva

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http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/17/20110401.pdf

An excerpt:

Since 2001, the reappraisal really took off with the publication
of Reaganâ��s voluminous personal and professional writings that demonstrate he was a voracious reader, a prolific and thoughtful writer, a fully engaged mind with a clear, reasoned, and consistent philosophy.

More recently, scholarly analysisâ��some of it by former Reagan
critics of the Reagan administration record, including declassified documents, makes a convincing case that the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Soviet Union were no accidents and that Reagan deserves credit for his national security policies that led to these
developments. Finally, there are the illuminating Reagan diaries, which have persuaded many skepticsâ��including Iran-Contra prosecutor Arthur Limanâ��that Reagan was a thoughtful and capable president.

FYI: It is perfectly true that a heartbroken and frightened Nancy Reagan did consult an astrologer after her husband was shot and nearly killed. When he recovered, President Reagan did humor her to some extent to give her some peace of mind regarding his travel schedule, but he did make any decisions, ever, based on astrology. The true record, should ever wish to get over your unfathomable infatuation with Obumble, and take the time to examine it, clearly shows otherwise.

Thank you for this post. - sm

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I bet Mr. Reagan is looking down smiling upon you today!

Oh, good for you. You found an internal CIA "cheerleader" paper. - sm

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I think you probably should have read that whole paper before you posted it. LOL. The writer is a CIA historian trying to make a case that Ronald Reagan was involved in intelligence briefings and actually read the CIA reports while he was POTUS. This paper is trying to dispel the general consensus that Reagan had little interaction with the CIA. It's a rah, rah CIA internal paper. It's not a very convincing paper, actually, and it's NOT all flattering, and quite a bit of it is what seems to be revisionist history; indeed, within the CIA internal paper, this paragraph is contained describing the effect.

"Every organization—be it family, tribe, nation, or intelligence service—has its lore, its mythology, its memory of How Things Were and Came to Be. These received historical narratives can be problematic for the historian, who tries to understand and interpret for others the past as it was and on its own terms—not, for example, bringing a “present-mindedness” into historical inquiry that judges the past by the knowledge, standards or sensibilities of the present. Inevitably, however, the received narrative is often a mixture of the demonstrably true, the uncertain, the dubious, and the patently false—and the boundaries of all these categories
constantly shift, thanks to the penchant of historians toward revisionism, re-revisionism, ad infinitum. Far from being fixed, the past is never over, it seems."

The back part of the paper actually says that during the 1980 presidential campaign, Reagan's campaign manager, William Casey (whom Reagan named as his CIA Director) believed that Reagan was capable of absorbing only a paragraph of text at one sitting.

So there's that too.

Oh, the cognitive dissonance is glaring. Love that glossy version! - "President Reagan did humor her..." LOL

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Quoting you: "FYI: It is perfectly true that a heartbroken and frightened Nancy Reagan did consult an astrologer after her husband was shot and nearly killed. When he recovered, President Reagan did humor her to some extent to give her some peace of mind regarding his travel schedule, but he did make any decisions, ever, based on astrology. The true record, should ever wish to get over your unfathomable infatuation with Obumble, and take the time to examine it, clearly shows otherwise."

Since the Reagan's admitted to consulting an astrologer, it makes it an inconvenient truth that gets the glossy treatment, we know. LOL. Maybe conservatives are the ones who should examine St. Reagan's actual belief in astrology and little green men because they clearly prefer the glossy version of the truth.

Ronald and Nancy Reagan went to weekly astrology classes and zodiac parties in the fifties and sixties. Reagan also signed legislation as governor of California that declassified licensed astrologers as fortune-tellers, and that then allowed them to accept payment for fortune telling. Donald Regan revealed in his book that Reagan’s entire schedule was based around White House astrologer Joan Quigley’s advice about planetary alignment. Then there's Joan Quigley's book, quite an eye opener. The White House staff was embarrassed and had to frequently explain the arbitrary changes in Reagan's itinerary without telling too much and giving away the game. The astrologer Joyce Jillson says she was paid $1200 to pick the vice president from a list of seven names. Strange stuff.

Equally strange was Reagan’s obsession with UFOs. Reagan's staff had to work diligently to keep this fact out of view. Colin Powell, then Reagan’s National Security Advisor, “would struggle diligently to keep interplanetary references out of Reagan’s speeches”, according to biographer Lou Cannon. “Here come the little green men again”, Powell would sigh, when the topic inevitably came up on a regular basis. The president was consumed with the notion that an alien invasion would somehow be a uniting event for the world. Reagan also tried to discuss the subject with Mikhail Gorbachev during a summit, but the Russian leader quickly changed the subject. Here is a picture of Reagan’s notes where he wanted to add that verbiage to a speech.

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It reads, quote: “I think there is too much anti-Soviet preaching in view of what we are trying to achieve right now. And toward the end perhaps I still would like my 'fantasy' – how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if creatures from another planet should threaten this world.” RR

Yes, he kept trying to talk to Americans about space invaders and add verbiage about creatures from other planets to his speeches! LOL. Sounds like a movie because it is one (of several).

It is extremely hilarious to watch the cognitive dissonance of the far Christian Right to embrace a B movie actor and avid astrology buff as an intelligent man. The same far right subculture that enjoys reinventing President Barack Obama as some kind of radical Muslim completely and utterly ignores and glosses over Ronald Reagan’s weird obsession with little green men and adoption of the practice they consider demonic occult and idolatry.

I've heard that all my life (63), Dems are - brilliant, Repubs are stupid.

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It's not true, but some things never change.

Yes, excellent post. - Debi

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America sure was respected when Ronald Reagan was president. Now America is not taken seriously because of the weakness in the White House. I regret voting for him the first time.

America lost its respect with Bush Jr - nm

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And your point? - SM

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Who cares anyway? Newsflash: BO is and has been president for 5-1/2 years. All failures (and there are many) during his terms fall squarely on his weak shoulders.

Point - sm

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The point is that President Obama has, once again, had to start from a negative point, due to Bush's inadequacies, lies and flat screw-ups, to work towards making the U.S. what it should be. The foreign community has a lot more respect for the United States than it did when GW was president. Oh, and guess what, it hasn't necessitated a war anywhere, yet.

Same old song... - S/M

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I think we're all a little bit tired of the finger-pointing and the blaming. No matter what you want to believe it's not going to make it the truth. Period. G'night.

Can you imagine the mess we'd all be in if a - Republican had inherited Bush"s -

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office instead of Obama? Every single one of us would already be living in our cars.

Well, her point might be that he was - unbelievably short on brains.

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Very insightful post. Thanks. - nm

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Wish I could like it 100 times.

You are joking, of course! - ProMT

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Obama has driven me away from the Democrat party. The rest of you can follow him over the cliff ... LOL...!!!

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Why is there a Media Blackout on Nuclear Incident at Fort Calhoun in Nebraska? By Patrick Henningsen Global Research, June 23, 2011 21st Century Wire Since flooding began on June 6th, there has been a disturbingly low level of media attention given to the crisis at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Facility near Omaha, Nebraska. But evidence strongly suggests that something very serious has in fact happened there. On June 7th, there was a fire ...

Jul 30, 2012
I heard there were 40,000 people at his inauguration. The good part was only 14 missed work. ...

Sep 05, 2012
People need to wise up and see this so-called President for what he is. link ...

Sep 06, 2012
The backbone of America is hurting. Will Obama "fix it" this time? http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/06/Unemployment-Rate-Rises-to-8-4-Percent-in-Rural-Counties ...

Feb 11, 2014
1827 days down, 1073 days to go until he is no longer Liar in Chief, Dictator, King, Destroyer of Democracy or whatever else he may be called. ...

Nov 03, 2009
Obama love-in has little impact on how Canadians view Americans, poll findsBy Colin Perkel (CP) – 23 hours agoTORONTO — What a difference a president makes. Well not that much actually, according to a new poll on Canadian attitudes toward Americans.The survey to be released Monday suggests Canadians view U.S. President Barack Obama far more favourably and with considerably less contempt than they did his predecessor, George W. Bush.At the same time, according to the poll, Obama has h ...

Apr 13, 2011
I have no political heroes. None! I don't see President Obama as a hero. I don't see him as a villain. I think he's done some things well and others not so well. However, his speech will determine for me whether I will support him or not. There is not one person running on the other side that I would tolerate so far, so I'm sure hoping he doesn't lose me. LOL. How can he lose me? If he caves in to the people who want to take my Medicare and/or social security from me, ...