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"People are saying what in the world is going on with North Carolina, we look like Mississippi." - NC Gov. Bev Perdue (D) on the passage of Amendment One, 5-11-12
My Prez wants to party all the time, party all the time, party all the ti-ime
Libya, Bahrain, Egypt, & many other parts of the Middle East are burning, Japan is suffering its worst catastrophe since WWII with deaths likely in the tens of thousands from last Friday’s earthquake, Republicans and Democrats in DC are in crisis mode, unable to agree on how to continue funding the government and cut the deficit. The economy is still in the tank, with no end in sight and with millions still unemployed. What’s our celebrity President up to? Partying (via Memeorandum):
Washington (CNN) – President Barack Obama headlines a Democratic party event Wednesday night, the second time this week and fourth time this month he’s been the main attraction at a party gathering.
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Monday night the president attended another DNC event in Washington, meeting with approximately 50 supporters and potential supporters of his 2012 re-election bid. Obama raised a record breaking $750 million dollars in his 2008 campaign for president and could bring in up to $1 billion for his re-election bid.
On March 4th he headlined two fundraisers in Miami Beach for Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Last week he helped the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee bring in around $1 million at a fundraiser in Boston, Massachusetts.
Just yesterday, we learned that the President was busy filling out his NCAA tournament bracket – and taped his picks for an ESPN segment:
Nice.
I certainly don’t begrudge any President taking vacations, or attending fundraisers, and doing other things of a similar nature. As I’ve noted before, the President doesn’t stop being President just because he’s not physically in the Oval Office. But symbolism is everything in politics, and this President sends out exactly the wrong message he needs to in times of turmoil, something Bush was slammed for in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina but on which Obama mostly gets a free pass. He’s acting in the same careless manner that he did during the oil spill. I wrote about it at the time:
What I have an issue with is the image it projects. One golf game is one thing, but this guy is on the golf course every week, it seems, and during a crisis like the Gulf oil spill, it just doesn’t make sense to be seen every week out there looking like you’re having the time of your life while oil is gushing into our waters and thousands of people across the Gulf coastline are suffering. Can you imagine if this were Bush? Oh wait, we don’t have to imagine it, because Bush was relentlessly dogged by both the left and the mainstream press for not being at the WH “covering all the bases” in the days leading up to Katrina, for not being in the flood waters trying to rescue people after Katrina, and for taking “days” before he visited the affected areas (and let’s not forget that there was a “raaacist” motivation behind his response). And no matter how Bush tried to rectify the mis-perception, his political enemies remained relentless.
But with President Obama, many lefties and media types are treating him like, “Oh, leave him alone. He needs the break, because he’s got a tough life right now.” As if there was a time when any President didn’t have it tough.
All of this makes President Obama look disengaged and removed from what’s going on, almost as if he didn’t care like a President should care. And, quite frankly, I’m starting to wonder if he really does.
Epic.failure.in.leadership. Rinse, wash, repeat.
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not sure i can top that…….
Obama is not, nor ever has been a leader. His main interests seem to be placed on getting the perks of high office, but dither on any tough decisions.
No Fly Zone? Yes, the regime admits that it is time critical, but we can’t rush into it. Troops needed in the Middle East? Sure, lets take about 6 months to think about it then reduce the amount needed.
I read a “quote” (no it was really just satire) from Obama… We’ll let the French lead in Military and we’ll take over for them in desserts.
Seems almost like his game play.
A President should at least give a show of trying to present an image during difficult times. With the Middle East unrest and the Japanese earthquake and tsunami and nuclear plant issues, wouldn’t a leader think “gee, maybe picking brackets might be a way for me to blow off some steam, but it really isn’t appropriate to do it on National Television when the world looks like its falling apart.”
Obama did throw in his webby address though, just to show how much he cares about
himselfJapan and other things besides which college hoops might win.I can’t listen to this man for two minutes before I’m ready to rip my ears off. Clinton was a phony, B actor type, but he didn’t have me angry as this boob does.
People were denigrating Bush for the vacations that he took, yet Obama gets a pass, even though his vacations are all over the place at great cost.
I am looking forward to when this turd gets a permanent vacation. The US and the world will be better off with Obama out of office.
Need to run some numbers to get feel for party prez.
In two years, alleged 60 or so golf outings at 5 to 7 hours each(game,travel,19th hole)= 300 to 420 hours playing golf. or at 2,000 work hours per year x 2, about 10% of presidency playing golf. Add in the parties,vacations, parties, campaigning,etc.,for additional feel for how he might be spending time. This needs checking and I could be wrong…..
Well, at least he will be a mighty fine golfer by the time he leaves office.
I like it. I don’t want Obama to be active. I want him to correct that slice!
I have mixed feelings about Obama’s penchant for golfing and vacationing.
On the one hand, I’d much rather see him on the golf course than have him push another economically illiterate stimulus plan, or come up with new ideas on how to make energy costs skyrocket (it figures – that’s the one campaign promise he kept). He does much less harm when he’s trying to sink putts than when he’s trying to sink the economy. I don’t even mind the vacations….he’s actually spending less money when he’s partying somewhere than when he’s playing president.
On the other hand, while domestic matters fare better when Obama is busy doing his NCAA brackets, foreign matters fare worse. When the President of the US abdicates a leadership role in handling international incidents in favor of letting the UN take charge, you know the end result can’t be good.
Exhibit A, Libya. Remember how the leftists tore into George W. Bush because he spent 5 extra minutes reading “My Pet Goat” to children rather than panic them on 9/11? Obama is now having his “My Pet Goat” moment, except he’s dragging it on for weeks. And it’s not the first time. He had an extended ‘Pet Goat Moment’ when the Iranian people took to the streets to demand freedom a couple years back. During the 2008 campaign, he pulled out ‘My Pet Goat’ when Russia invaded Georgia. These are cases where it is NOT good for America when Obama ignores his duties and votrs ‘present’.
Agree with him or not (and there were plenty of times I didn’t), Bush was never caught short in those situations, but then again, he was a leader. No one will ever accuse Obama of that.
I have a hypothesis. I posit that Obama got shell-shocked by the response of the Tea Parties and the 2010 election and I think he is wondering about his legacy now. He is thinking that he should just lay low until things improve and then come out and hope the American people have short memories. That way, he won’t be remembered as the President who nearly ruined the country.
Hotspur, I don’t think I agree with that. Obama is a classic narcissist, he doesn’t view anything that he has done as being wrong. He isn’t capable of thinking that is anything less than great.
He even said that he is willing to listen to others and their ideas, but he doesn’t think they are right.
He is surrounded by his fawning friends who will keep telling him how great he is doing. These are his hand picked people, he wouldn’t tolerate any dissent.
I think he waits on issues because he thinks it will resolve itself before he has to act.
He has dithered with the oil spill, with Libya he wants to let it wait too long that it will no longer matter. He is still voting “present” instead of making a hard choice.
I couldn’t stand Bush for one main thing, he never saw a spending bill that he didn’t sign. He showed leadership though. He took a stance on things, and even if he wasn’t 100% right with his choice, he lead those choices and worked them to improve them as best as possible. Bush capitulated some though, once the Republicans took their “thumpin’”. He stopped at that time to be the leader that he had been prior to that point.
Obama is so self absorbed that he believes that the only person on earth smart enough to be President is him. He thinks that his office makes him a king. He laments that it isn’t a dictatorship. Then again, so did some in the media, as they bow to Duh One (termer).
When hasn’t any American president had “a tough life right now”? What a red herring that is!
Mr. Hopenchangy has only himself to blame, first, for wanting the job (for which he is overwhelmingly unqualified, as the past two years have shown), then, for making a mockery of the office, and finally, for his incredible inability to make up his mind about the simplest of decisions.
When he was first elected I hoped his agenda would fail; I did not wish specifically for him to fail per se.
Now I suppose I really do want him to fail, for that is the surest guarantee that at least some of the dunderheads who voted for him last time will see what kind of a pile of barnyard poop the guy and his agenda really are.
hey for the first time in his life he found something he is good at. he certainly isn’t any good at running the country.
Obama is a classic narcissist. IT’S ALL ABOUT HIM. I also think he is a closet dictator. I mean, really, how hard does it have to be to even fake compassion?? He is a pathological liar (goes with the narcissim, they have to lie to keep the illusion going). He was so good at lying and fooling the people during the campaign. Now that he’s got the presidency, he can do whatever he wants and there is nothing we can do about it till November 2012. He doesn’t care about showing compassion to those suffering whether they are Iranian, Libyans or Japanese. Even his own people…oh wait maybe we aren’t “his people” to borrow a phrase from Eric Holder. He is Barack Obama and we can all suffer while he struts his stuff. Oh well….let them eat cake.
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The more Comrade Obama is out of the country–the better for us peons.
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Like in the THREE AMIGOS movie–it was a lot better when the Mexican Bandidos finished burning, robbing, killing, and raping the villagers and finally left. Ditto for the Vikings and Marxists. And it’s not a movie–it’s real!
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Unfortunately–they always come back for more!
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Rocketman
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Japan is falling in the sea,
Mid-East riots will not stop.
The price of gas is soaring up,
4 bucks sure won’t be the top.
Too many states are going broke,
Too many folks are ready to choke,
Barack Obama where are you?
Barack Obama’s rendition of Leslie Gore’s 1960′s hit:
“It’s my party,
You can cry if you want to,
Cry if you want to,
Cry if you want to,
I would cry too,
But I won’t listen to you”
Old Goat:
Still, I think it’s possible he doesn’t want to make big decisions because he’s worried how they’ll turn out. He doesn’t want to be the leader because he doesn’t want to take the hit if things turn sour. There’s a reason Truman had the plaque that said, “The buck stops here.” Unlike Obama, he knew he would take responsibility, regardless of how things turned out. I believe our current President fears that.
Almost as if he doesn’t care? Only his dishonest delusional supporters believe he cares about our country. The only time he cares is when he can put his support behind an issue that will either hurt or cripple America, or squash the efforts for those striving for freedom abroad.That is the truth.
…@ST: forget about Barry today. Let’s party!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGyPuey-1Jw&feature=related
Not to worry, Joe “What Did He Just Say” Biden is watching the Oval Office while Obama is out golfing and partying. Sleep tight.