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Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

What’s so amusing about this week’s article from the New York Times titled, At Dinner Tables, Restless President Finds Intellectual Escape, is that the author appears to be quite sympathetic to Obama. She seems to want to portray the President as a real statesman; one who is so far above politics and the pedestrian task of being Commander in Chief that he finds it necessary to flee his responsibilities in order to find intellectual escape while dining extravagantly with “elites” in Europe. In contrast, he merely comes across as the arrogant, disconnected, oligarch coddler he is.

The article also seems to say something important about the New York Times’ own disconnectedness, particularly considering the paper’s Pentagon correspondent recently referred to the American public as children, with the government and mainstream media playing the role of parents.

 

While none of the statements within this article are quotes from Obama, you have to wonder if he is voicing these sentiments to the people who surround around him “off the record.” If so, it appears he is indeed what many have suspected. A community organizer desperately leveraging the Presidency in order to reach that final rung on the ladder to oligarchy.

Now from the New York Times. Read it and weep serfs:

WASHINGTON — President Obama had just disembarked from Air Force One and was still on the tarmac in Rome when he turned to his host, John R. Phillips, the American ambassador to Italy, with an unexpected request: How about a dinner party tomorrow night?

Nice to see he has his priorities straight. When he’s not golfing or trying to start another war, he throws dinner parties at 15th Century Italian estates.

In a summer when the president is traveling across the country meeting with “ordinary Americans” under highly choreographed conditions, the Rome dinner shows another side of Mr. Obama. As one of an increasing number of late-night dinners in his second term, it offers a glimpse into a president who prefers intellectuals to politicians, and into the rarefied company Mr. Obama may keep after he leaves the White House.

No, more accurately, he prefers “intellectuals” to the people he was actually elected to serve.

Sometimes stretching into the small hours of the morning, the dinners reflect a restless president weary of the obligations of the White House and less concerned about the appearance of partying with the rich and celebrated. Freewheeling, with conversation touching on art, architecture and literature, the gatherings are a world away from the stilted meals Mr. Obama had last year with Senate Republican leaders at the Jefferson Hotel in Washington.

This probably wouldn’t read much differently from a hypothetical press release issued by the court of King Louis XVI in the 1780′s

One Saturday night in May, Mr. Obama was up well past midnight at the White House for a dinner that included Ken Burns, the documentary filmmaker, and his wife, Julie; Anne Wojcicki, the chief executive and a co-founder of the personal genome testing company 23andMe, who brought her sister, Susan, the chief executive of YouTube; and Tom Steyer, the billionaire hedge fund manager and Democratic donor. Mrs. Obama was also there, but was not on the trip to Rome. The dinner there was first reported by Politico.

 

The dinners often carry over into Mr. Obama’s day job — and his fund-raising. At a White House meeting on working families last month, Mr. Obama included Ms. Wojcicki — who has two young children with her husband, the Google co-founder Sergey Brin, from whom she is separated — in a discussion of workplace policies with other chief executives. Less than two weeks before, Ms. Wojcicki hosted a technology forum and fund-raiser for the Democratic National Committee at her home in Los Altos, Calif., which was attended by Mr. Obama and 25 guests who paid $34,200 each.

 

In Paris, the president was up again until nearly midnight enjoying, among other things, Drappier Champagne.

This sounds like a President who has simply given up. Then again, he may see the past six years as an unqualified success. He protected and further enriched the thieving oligarch class, while polishing up his resume in anticipation of the hundreds of millions he will chase like the Clintons after leaving office. Michelle in 2032? Why not.

It just goes to show. Nero was a piker. Instead of wasting his time fiddling, Obama protects Wall Street with one hand, while washing down ribeye steaks and Drappier Champagne with the other.

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It seems once again that having dictated to the citizenry - "Do not get cynical. Hope is the better choice," this week, we thought the following cartoon was particularly appropriate... 

 

 

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Wed, 07/16/2014 - 01:29 | 4961765 Serenity Now
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And the greasy rag is useful.  ;)

Tue, 07/15/2014 - 23:30 | 4961570 mototard
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Slightly off topic, but the HAMAS/Israel conflict has gone from crazy to just plain weird.  The Muslim Brotherhood, which formed HAMAS, is now being accused of "anal jihad" by a well known Egyptian cleric who is mocking the Muslim Brotherhood while Israel pounds them. 

http://tsecnetwork.blogspot.ca/2014/07/the-muslim-brotherhood-victims-of-arab.html

 

If I was Obama, I would avoid all of these guys and go out for dinner!

 

Tue, 07/15/2014 - 23:37 | 4961589 tony wilson
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sisi the clown running egypt is a mossad asset a very good blood brother of the nazi  israhell state.

Tue, 07/15/2014 - 23:45 | 4961600 Harbanger
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Obama has been charged with crimes against humanity by the International criminal court for attempting to install the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.  The Egyptians revolted and told Obama to go fuck himself.  Do you even know this? what are your thoughts?

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 00:18 | 4961667 Christophe2
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Zionist America controls both sides.  Egyptians are only allowed to choose either military rule by Zionist sellouts or 'political islam' by Zionist sellouts.  People rebelled against the MB because it was so much worse than even the corrupt army rule.  Either way, US/Israel obviously never stopped being in charge in Egypt, and the protests weren't able to change that.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 00:33 | 4961687 Harbanger
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Here are back again with this mindset that no matter what anyone does the game is fixed.  I don't belive that.  I think the Egyptians had more courage than most westerners and didn't want an installed puppet by US/Israel.  That does not mean they will get the governace of their will.  It just means they took some control of their destiny along the bloody path of fighting for individual liberty.  I admire that.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 01:33 | 4961770 Serenity Now
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The argument that everything is rigged is lazy.  Egypt did the smart thing and got rid of the Muslim Brotherhood.  They deserve a lot of credit for that.  Egypt doesn't want to support Hamas, and neither does Jordan or Turkey.  

Contrary to media BS, the entire middle east is NOT against Israel.  But it seems like her allies are.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 02:16 | 4961804 Christophe2
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I didn't mean to imply that the Egyptian people's actions had no impact - things would be even worse for them had they not at least forced the MB out.  In addition, the military knows that unless they toe a certain line, the people will revolt once more.  There is certainly power in that and it changed the equation somewhat, but it still didn't suffice to truly free Egypt from American/Israeli control, that's all.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 03:23 | 4961841 Serenity Now
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I upvoted your comments.  I agree with the majority of what you said.  We might disagree on my next comment, however.  I realize the Egyptian people are not truly free, but I don't think they are capable of self-governing at this time.  In the meantime, I'd rather see American-influenced military rule or propped up dictatorships that stabilize the region than the Muslim Brotherhood (which was voted into power, if I recall correctly).  

What I said probably won't be popular here, but I always strive to be intellectually honest.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 09:50 | 4962380 Husk-Erzulie
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All well and good, but you missed the part when US policy in MENA went from promoting (relative) stability to fomenting chaos and fragmenting sovereign states.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 09:24 | 4962250 tony wilson
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what is the relationship of sisi with israel bitter or rather cordial.

why has sisi block all the tunnels allowing goods into occupied palestine.

what has sisi said about heads of children blown off in the gutters of palestine by usa weapons systems

what about the use of white phosphorus and depleted uranium bombs

collective punishment on an industrial nazi level moses.

fuck off you dumb yahudi cunt.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 01:06 | 4961731 Harbanger
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Stop jiggling your willie with your left hand Wilson, Talk to me.  You raised a very good point, I want to see how you came to your convolution.

Tue, 07/15/2014 - 23:46 | 4961610 NoPension
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Interesting read. Up to now, silence from Muslims, out of fear or sympathy.
" anal jihad", .....boys, watch your ass.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 03:58 | 4961869 Eahudimac
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Anal jihad. LOL! Sounds like a low budget porn flick. Obama and the trannie probably own the DVD,

Tue, 07/15/2014 - 23:35 | 4961583 tony wilson
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Freewheeling, with conversation touching on art, architecture and literature,

bollox this doped up actor cracker is only interested in cock and golf and golf and more cock.

and like all world leaders doing what the rabbis in israel say need to be done.

Tue, 07/15/2014 - 23:52 | 4961620 Harbanger
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and like all world leaders?

Really, ALL world leaders.  Why don't they all just get along then? or maybe all the dictatorships are finally finding common ground and they're only competing for a better slice of the pie.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 00:21 | 4961671 Harbanger
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So what are we not agreeing on, that fact that all world leaders are controlled by the same JOO bastard peeps?  So what's the point in discussing differences?  Putin is just as much an asslicker as Obama then, which I tend to agree with.  Give me an intelligent argument.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 00:49 | 4961712 Rock On Roger
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I doubt Xi likes the juice.

He stacks for a different god.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 00:56 | 4961723 Harbanger
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Whatever is the best word ever when you dont know WHAT  the fuck someone is saying..

Tue, 07/15/2014 - 23:39 | 4961593 joego1
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sounds like a I,I,I me me me kind of sociopath of the highest order

Tue, 07/15/2014 - 23:48 | 4961613 alexcojones
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Do you know that scene in the movie Deep Impact?

The tidal wave topples the east coast, New York Twin Towers included.

Might be the only hope for mankind. 

Tue, 07/15/2014 - 23:56 | 4961624 Totentänzerlied
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The thing about the Pentagon reporter... cry me a river. If you act like a child, you will eventually be called a child. The relevant political analogy has been around since Roman times. And it just happens to be absolutely true.

Tue, 07/15/2014 - 23:57 | 4961626 MedicalQuack
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This article is on target and even the White House email bot is awful too.  They are using junk science numbers on there to promote climate control, what a waste and insult to my intelligence. 

http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/06/junk-science-appearing-everywhere...

His cabinet, even a worse story as they are pretty useless too of late. 

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 00:03 | 4961630 kchrisc
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CIA-Obama gets his orders, executes his orders, golfs, does Reggie and some weed/coke and then goes to sleep.

He's a CIA/Israel/elite puppet.

I always laugh when people refer to him as a "socialist" and anti-Israeli. Like claiming an apple is an orange.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 00:13 | 4961652 Harbanger
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Don't you think Israel is fucking socialist? I'm curious why you think otherwise.  Also CIA-Obama is still a question, IRS-Obama is a fact.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 00:05 | 4961639 alfred b.
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    Passenger President...his only job was to get elected, and now he's just hanging around for the 'gravy'.

 

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 00:09 | 4961653 Yancey Ward
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That Obama is just too damned smart to do the job of President of the United States.  Totally explains how he utterly fails to do it well.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 00:14 | 4961658 Jack Burton
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As if the President is a leader and ruler and a powerful man. He is the same puppet as Mr. Bush, only black. The next president, the Bitch Clinton or some Republican of McCain's type, or a Bush. No matter, the President is a servant and a public face for a "Deep State", made up of those who own the corporations, serve in the Pentagon, run the CIA and NSA, sit on AIPAC or in Israel's government, own the Banks and Federal Reserve. All presidents are puppets of the "Deep State", they do as they are told. The next president will do just as Bush, just as Obama, they will do just as ordered. I just can't get over how many people cling to the idea of a free fair open deomocracy where Obama is a liberal socialist and Republicans are honest free market patriots. Fuck 'en 'ell! I dare anyone to defend the Bush record, I dare anyone to defend the Obama record. I dare anyone to show me the difference, minus a few social issues that are none of government's business.

The next president will do as he is fucking told, or he will go for a Jack Kennedy style ride through Dallas or whatever place the "Deep State" chooses to use for his death ride. Get with it, in 2014 the American nation is run by a cabal, they don't even hide, they publish their ideas and plans and they use their power in broad daylight.

Who is the Deep State? Quickly, I urge you to consider.

The heads of Corporate America, especially the companies owning the media and defense industry.

The Bankers and the Federal Reserve Board.

The entire Pentagon, in uniform and the vast civilian contractor corps.

The totally out of control CIA and NSA. The heads of the FBI,DEA,Home Land Security

Israeli's political leaders and their American shadow government AIPAC.

The Media

The Wall-Street Trading firms and bankers.

The leaders of these institutions and the 1% ultra rich combined run America. If you think the voters do, then you are quite mad!

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 09:58 | 4962415 Husk-Erzulie
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You forgot the, now obscure but more wealthy and powerful than ever, European royalty.  Slave, meet your master.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 00:16 | 4961664 robertocarlos
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Fuck him is right. He is clinically insane. He lives for golf and burgers on Air Force One.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 00:25 | 4961675 ObamaDepression
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This is a man that loves the trappings of the office but doesn't want to do the job.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 00:32 | 4961686 alexcojones
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Yeah, I upvoted Bart.

I thought he did a pretty good MDB impression.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 01:05 | 4961697 syntaxterror
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Fuck him and the New York Pravda. Useless pieces lf shit. Both of them.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 00:46 | 4961708 highly debtful
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When an American president asks not to get cynical "because hope is the better choice", or a French president president urges his countrymen to stop bashing their country and "have some confidence", then you know it's time to panick. 

Every leader, no matter how succesful or despised he or she is, has to deal with scepticism and cynicism during his tenure. That simply goes with the territory.

But when they start to acknowledge publicly that this phenomenon has them worried... Oh boy. 

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 01:32 | 4961768 Gold Eyed Cat
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HD I totally agree. When I read Francois Hollande's "stop bashing" quote and Obama's "hope is better" quote I literally wanted to kick them in the face with a soccer cleat.  Their ineffectual, weak, milk-toast, pleas make me sick.  These are not world leaders.  These are sad bent whores.  They dutifully take direction from central bankers who toss them a coin every now and then. 

What happens when the public simply laughs in Obama's face?  What happens when Francois gets flipped the bird everywhere he travels?

 

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 01:53 | 4961791 are we there yet
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@Least wait until you leave office as Richard Nixon did when he said "you will not have me to kick around anymore".

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 00:50 | 4961713 alexcojones
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+1000 Jack, for Deep State in a nutshell. 

AC

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 00:56 | 4961720 potato
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"Freewheeling, with conversation touching on art, architecture and literature, the gatherings are a world away from the stilted meals...."

What in the fvck does he have to say about architecture, art and literature. And who the fvck talks about that shit anyway

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 00:57 | 4961724 JoJoJo
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The President's BFF Valerie Jarrett also claims that Obama is "Way too smart for the Prez job." He's got more of a spell over women than Slick Willie Clinton

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 03:16 | 4961836 Eahudimac
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Well he is the messiah! Duh! Progressive still think he is the cat's ass.  

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 01:05 | 4961729 GooseShtepping Moron
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"A President who has given up." That squares with my own private assessment. When I watch Obama these days at press conferences, he doesn't even seem like he is mentally present. He just stares off into stage left and mumbles. The world is now a more dangerous place than it has been at any point in my lifetime, and the so-called leader of the free world can't be troubled to do anything.

This, I suppose, is one of the final symptoms before the end. People prefer even bad leadership to no leadership. The one thing they won't tolerate is a guy who will neither shit nor get off the pot. Eventually they'll chuck him off the pot and out the window.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 07:46 | 4962034 Comte d'herblay
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He is obviously on some kind of mood enhancement meds, which could included any number of Benzodiazapines, Serotonin uptake inhibitors, Sativa MJ, and cocaine. 

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 01:50 | 4961789 are we there yet
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It is hard being an American king when you are neither.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 02:01 | 4961794 syntaxterror
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Guiness Book of Records

Longest Paid Vacation: Barack Hussein Obama

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 02:04 | 4961797 Milton Waddams
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"Obligations Of The White House..."

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 02:05 | 4961799 are we there yet
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I think the correct DC model of how power is brokered is more like the old Wall Street brokers on the open floor, all shouting bids and puts on the stock exchange, except they're doing it with votes of lobbyists and that no one is really herding our political cats. In short no one is really in full control in Washington.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 07:43 | 4962026 Comte d'herblay
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No, nobody but J Yell, Ben Bernank, Alan Greenspan, Bobby Rubin, Larry Fink, Vernon Jordan, Lord Blankfein, Gary Gensler, Jamie Dimon, George Soros, and a half dozen Jewish Mafia ( you don't think we supply Israel with more money and protection from annihilation at monstrous financial, and human expense because of coincidence, do you?)as evidenced by the 40 yrs control the Jews have over the FED and therefore every aspect of your life .

The black-eyed men and women who are in control of Washington are right there, hidden behind the curtain. Ample proof should be have made it obvious to you by now. Case in point:  TARP, Maiden Lane I and II, a quadrillion and counting of digitally entered FRNs into Lord Blankfein's personal checking account, and so much more you have to be deaf, dumb and blind to think that no one is really in full control of Washington. 

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 07:53 | 4962047 lakecity55
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I gave up in NYC, I am looking for a Muslim publisher for my book, "The Intrenational Termite."

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 02:06 | 4961801 OmPonzi_PonziOm
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Being left handed and also born on August fourth I have to say this about Obama.  Left handed people do not think like right handed people. I noticed this in Junior high and basically taught myself everything my way. What has appeared to be Obama's abysmal decision making is actually more like in the moment pattern language spontaneous reactions that lefties are inclined to embrace, usually after the fact to a growing list of Black Swans. I really think also he has become a bit of a misanthrope because of all the friggin nutcases out there! A women hater martini hour power junkie Congress and wing nuts everywhere i.e. "Michelle is a transvestite alien." Etc. Etc. And if the NSA and the CIA have his ear, then he is listening to pure evil that thinks nothing about the suffering of whole populations to push some bizarre kleptofascist agenda. If you had all that shit coming at you wouldn't you punt also? Whatever good intentions and insight he originally had have been replaced by a tawdry crew of echo chamber yes men scrambling for power around him in a wack-a-mole world. His job really sucks. I wouldn't want it.       

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 03:13 | 4961831 Eahudimac
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"If you had all that shit coming at you wouldn't you punt also? "

No, I would do my goddamned duty to the american people to better the country for them and their children. Obama is everything that is wrong with this country wrapped up into one human being.  You Obama supporters really have your heads in your asses. I could go on to list his miserable failures, how he has made corruption in government an art form, and site endless examples to back up my statements, but trying to rationalize with a democrat is like buttering bacon. 

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 03:24 | 4961842 Eahudimac
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And WTF does being left handed have anything to do with anything about Obama being the country's shittiest prez ever?!?!?!   

Your post is bizarre and devoid of any logical conclusion.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 06:19 | 4961949 BeetleBailey
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Yo...Fuckbama is a lying fuck.

AND BEFORE SOME LIBERAL CUNT YAMMERS ABOUT BUSH....SHUT....THE FUCK UP AND STAY ON POINT (LIKE THE ONE ON YOUR HEAD)

Barry Soetero Fuckbama has been (by design) a fucking disaster for the US.

The prick never really grew up IN the US, and was mentored by Commies and Marxists (Frank Marshall fucking Davis)

The prick hid his college transcripts so well, it'll take a roided up Indiana Jones to find them...meaning....HE LIED...

Bought off bankster puppet of an empty suit. The prick needs a Teleprompter to speak to second graders....

Voted for by complete fucking morons....I run into an Obamavik - sure as shit they are dumb as a bag of assholes.

NO one I meet is for the prick, and never was. The odd person that is, is so fucked up Drano wouldn't fix their plumbing....

This prick never should have sniffed the office. His 8 years will go down as an un-mitigated disaster.....

 

 

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 10:03 | 4962433 Husk-Erzulie
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Classic... beautiful :-)

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 07:36 | 4962015 Comte d'herblay
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One of the best <Sarc On> rants I've read here in a very long time.

IT is <Sarc On>, isn't it???  Isn't it???

 

You're 'right' though about left.  We southpaws (clinton was one and a surprising number of POTUSi were) are wired differently and the fact the world we live in is 83% developed for right handers, makes an average I Q leftie, already behind the 8 ball his entire life. It takes a far greater intelligence in a leftie to at least compete with average righties.

It's a burden in a subtle way that affects everything we see, hear and do.  

 

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 10:37 | 4962358 notadouche
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He is an embarrassment to his left handed breathren.  I cut off my left arm in protest.  What appears to be abysmal decision making is actually ABYSMAL DECISION MAKING.  It doesn't matter what his dominant hand is and if anyone took serious what you said you would set being left handed back to the stone ages when it was a sign of the devil.  As a left handed person myself, HOW DARE YOU.   Left handed people, if anything, are predisposed to NOT listening to what other people have to say when it comes to figuring things out because we are more self reliant.  

I sure hope you were being sarcastic because I would hate to think even a single sentence of yours was anything but jest concerning the plight of lefthandedness.  

I cannot determine if you are very clever or very misguided.  Hmmm....   

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 02:47 | 4961811 Muppet
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I recommend seeing the new movie "America" to all.   Saw it tonight at the movie theatre.   Really exposes the left.   Highly recommended viewing.

The film creator Dinesh D'Sousa will likely be going to jail soon.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 03:32 | 4961849 Serenity Now
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I haven't seen the movie yet, but I will asap.  Heard Dinesh on the radio with Hugh Hewitt, and he gives a great interview.  His movie 2016 is also wonderful.  

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 05:58 | 4961931 redd_green
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You can believe any word out of D'Souza, the propaganda meister himself?  Please.  The democrats and republicans are both broken beyond repair.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 07:28 | 4961998 paint it red ca...
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Pointing out the now obvious will not enlighten those that refuse to accept how they have been so horribly and blatantly deceived by pitch men they were presented as one or another flavor of leader. It is impossible for them to accept how screwed we cattle are because they lack the humility to accept they could be fools or that they personally could actually be  property to be managed through MSM manipulation and deception.

My eyes opened only after it was too late and it is well beyond that now. The cattle are already ushered to the packing house. Most do not accept it because they have not yet felt the knife pull across their throat. Instead they watch the rapidly vanishing myth played for them on monitors everywhere; in restaurants, lobbies and (for God's sakes) even gas pumps.

Best of luck fellow bovines. Look away, reality is not on TV.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 10:07 | 4962442 Husk-Erzulie
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One good thing about the criminal tard in chief... the Zero threads on ZH are even better than the gold threads. ;~p

Greenie

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 07:29 | 4962001 Comte d'herblay
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There's your view of the tree, my view of the tree, and then there's the Tree.

Two are 'perspectives' representing only a fraction of the tree, the truth (tree).

The parties are not 'broken', they are the Tree.

It is only when thinking that they are supposed to be governing in a manner that is "of, by, and for the people", that we err. 

 

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 07:36 | 4962008 drendebe10
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Leftish Seattle Costco pulled the book off its shelves..  f*ck Costco... 

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 02:49 | 4961816 Dublinmick
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For those who do not think Barry can be weary, you don't know what extended rounds of golf can do to you. The stress was too much, I gave it up.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 02:58 | 4961823 Harbanger
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What is it with the Irish and golf?  I have some Irish friends who are new to the US, they love golf but can't play.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 03:28 | 4961845 Serenity Now
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Didn't the Scots invent golf?  I'm not trying to insult the Irish by asking the question, but I think the game originated over there.  The Japanese love it, too, so go figure.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 04:04 | 4961876 Harbanger
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Thing is, Golf implies that you have the luxury of time, which means you've attained a certain level of personal success.  I find it funny that leftists like Obama who've always hated any symbolism of "the man" or "the rich" took up such a sport.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 04:41 | 4961895 Serenity Now
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It's typical of leftists.  They are absolute hypocrites.  

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 07:24 | 4961967 Comte d'herblay
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The benefits of golf were a mystery to me for as long as I can remember. Used to ridicule those who 'played' it, as many here consider a huge waste of available time (though if you know any one addicted to the game, that too is moot) and 'a good walk spoiled'.

However the time one spends on a round usually 2-4 hours, depending, presents challenges that are hidden from the non-golfing critic.

The exercise alone of walking a 7,200 yd  course, carrying 40 lbs of clubs and stuff on your shoulders,  are so many it would take a professional Phys Ed instructor to point them all out.

Add to that a terrain that is loaded with hills and dales, and the strain of walking up 300 yds of incline 8 times in 3 hours, and you can bet only the most healthy human beans can do it, half of it. 

There are as many reasons to take up the game as there are players out there.  If many many more would do it, a great many of our personal ills would disappear in a fortnight. The exhaustion, of the good kind, is worth every miserable, frustrating swing. And the Swing is the thing.

As elusive as Loch Ness, Yeti, and an honest woman. 

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 07:38 | 4962019 drendebe10
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...the lazy turd fudge packer in chief is too lazy to walk and carry its own clubs..

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 02:55 | 4961822 Fuku Ben
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He's homesick for Man Country

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 07:46 | 4962033 lakecity55
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Hey, ICE! Bath House here! Where is that new delivery of mexican boys? I have a steam room party tonight!

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 04:36 | 4961889 Aurora13
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"If so, it appears he is indeed what many have suspected. A community organizer desperately leveraging the Presidency in order to reach that final rung on the ladder to oligarchy."

That is sheer beauty.
Thank you so much.
Forgive them Lord
Those who are Inside don't know what they do.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 04:58 | 4961906 ILikeBoats
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Ken Burns - member of the establishment media... Wojicki - fundraiser for Obama; her sister, head of YouTube, which we know is used for social manipulation (per the recent info on GCHQ etc. ) ; and, a billionaire hedge fund manager and Democratic donor.  How are any of these folks "intellectuals"?

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 06:43 | 4961960 Comte d'herblay
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Intellect is measured in relative terms, against a set of right answers to questions,  hence the IQ test.

By that measure, just about anybody is more stupider than those in Hedge Fund Mgmt, establishment media, and world wide interweb moguls.

Witness:  17 % or lower approval ratings by the proletariat, the great unwashed, and yet they return their reps and senators, and POTUSES who are felons to office term after term after term after term.

I believe that's also the definition of insanity.

 

 

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 05:56 | 4961930 redd_green
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What a stupid article.   So "While none of the statements within this article are quotes from Obama"  but you clearly intend to blame the past 40 years on Obama.   Obama hasn't fixed any of the problems the Democrats are claiming he fixed, but at least he hasn't sent 20,000 American troops to get shot at every time some tyrant farts.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 05:59 | 4961934 AdvancingTime
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 When we look at the definition of propaganda we find it is a form of communication that is aimed towards influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position by presenting only one side of an argument. Propaganda is usually repeated and dispersed over a wide variety of media in order to create the chosen result in audience attitudes.

Today a program at the White House creates a message by spinning, scrubbing, molding, and shaping it, they then send it out to the public. They often go as far as to make a, "call to action", where those listening are encouraged to push forward their agenda. This is one of the ugly realities of modern communication, the ability to send out millions of messages directly and unfiltered, More on this subject in the article below.

http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/04/white-house-propaganda-machine.ht...

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 06:12 | 4961945 zipit
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Some blacks call Obama a "Snuggler" (for cozying up to whitey and his interests).  Others call him this: "Black Man At Sharpton Rally Calls Obama "House Nigger"": http://youtu.be/Sl0DwApnjEY

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 10:12 | 4962463 Husk-Erzulie
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Great Vid

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 06:59 | 4961976 cn13
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Obama promised the world and delivered almost nothing.

You have to laugh at the suckers who bought his "Hope and Change" pitch.

There isn't a successful country led by a black man in the world.  In fact, the poorest country in the  western hemisphere is Haiti, another black led country.

So what do we do? We put black man in power.

The best word to me that describes Obama is "lazy".

 

 

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 07:10 | 4961985 Dr.Engineer
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Alright, this has actually pushed me beyond my limit.  F*ck you New York Times.  You aren't worthy of wiping my butt.  Everyone who reads you is either a moron or too lazy to cancel the subscription.

Let's face it, either Obama is totally imcompetent, a pawn of somone beind the scenes, or trying to destroy America.

And "No, I'm not racist."  I would say the same thing if he was green, white, or orange.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 07:45 | 4962030 Playtime's Over
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Fuck him and the progressive petard he rode in on. 

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 07:49 | 4962036 IndianaJohn
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'Monkey on a String'

Lyndon LaRouche waited a couple of months after Obama's inaguration to announce to the world that our president is a fraud who is an agent of the banking elite. LaRouche has been pounding the table for impeachment ever since.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 08:07 | 4962072 quasimodo
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I really wish stories like this that appear in this worthless rag(NYT) had a comments section. I think even for the NYT's it would be surprising how many posters would call bullshit on drivel like this.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 08:29 | 4962118 deerhunter
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34,200 per plate fundraiser of 25 people????  WTF?  Is the 200 for the valet parking or tips for the Secret Service peeps that have to sit around listening to those inane conversations for five hours.  God.  American isn't becoming a laughingstock,,, America is a laughing stock.  China could build a landbridge and walk through Canada and occupy all the property and farmland they have been buying up and not a finger would be lifted.  WE are already owned,  lock stock and barrel.  For those of you not gun people that means we have been disarmed already.  Have a nice day.  Rant off.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 08:28 | 4962119 RevRex
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FUCK THE LAW, FUCK THE CONSTITUTION, the important thing is that we have a negro President!

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 08:35 | 4962129 Againstthelie
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In contrast, he merely comes across as the arrogant, disconnected, oligarch coddler he is.

I'm shocked. Isn't human history the proove that Black DNA in leadership positions is creating prosperous, efficient, non-corrupt societies? Let's take a historic example of our days: South Africa. A backwarded White country is turning quickly into a modern and really progressive true Black country. The Black in the White House must be a statistical 3-sigma event.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 08:42 | 4962147 d edwards
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IF HE'S SO FUCKING BORED WITH IT ALL HE SHOULD DO US ALL A FAVOR AND RESIGN! HE HAS SO F-ED UP EVERYTHING (ON PURPOSE) AND HIS FLOODING OUR NATION WITH THIRD WORLD PEOPLE IS THE coup de gras!

 

We'd get B1den you say? At least HE wouldn't be able to hide behing the race card.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 08:48 | 4962164 Last of the Mid...
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  Restless President Finds Intellectual Escape, Yeah, with his anus maybe. This guy is so disconnected with the man on the street he should be on another planet while the mainstream press is still selling him as intellectually superior. Scam of the century, your government telling you to leave the critical thinking to them, a deadly game that rationalizes their unchecked greed as they print trillions and assign the middle class to hidden inflation hell for the next few generations. All the while putting out press releases that the other party is doing nothing to help the middle class. Absolutely stunning in its duplicity.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 09:07 | 4962207 notadouche
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I will never forget the sight of throngs of people listening to his inaugural address.  I can only imagine the throngs of peoplex10 cheering wildly as he departs office.   The media will show the picture and interpret that they cheer their beloved leader and wish him well.

If the cameras zoomed in closer to the crowd they may notice torch's and pitchforks and his departure more akin to an escape.  Ok that won't happen but the cheers will not be a standing ovation of honoring a performance but one of relief that the performance has ended.

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 09:14 | 4962228 mendolover
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Do we even know enough about this cutout to say he is an 'intellectual'?  Anyone who thinks this guy is an intellectual better wake the fuck up!

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 09:34 | 4962306 notadouche
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In an ironic twist "A restless and extremely disappointed constituency grow tired of this president being weary of the duties of president"  

It would seem to me that if he stuck to being president he would be much less weary of the job.  Being dictator is a much tougher job.  Managing the affairs of other countries can be tiresome.   Lying is much more demanding intellectually than telling the truth.  Yes I would imagine this president is very weary indeed.  One can only imagine how tired the man would be if an intellectually honest press existed and Hollywood elites would be intellectually honest and open.   It is a bit funny how little you hear from celebrities concerning poltics these days.  6 years ago you couldn't stop them from spouting off.   Now all that can be heard is the chirping of crickets on a hot summer night.  

 

Wed, 07/16/2014 - 12:09 | 4962857 Barry Rothbard ...
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Obama is a broken human being and has been his whole life. This is why it is easy for TPTB to bend him to their will. I feel sympathy for Obama in the sense that he suffered immensely in a tragic and loveless childhood. It does not excuse the fact that he has become a monster, but things could have turned out differently. Think about the circumstances of his completely FUBAR life.

From all appearances Obama grew up in the murky "intelligence world." Obama Sr. is most likely not his father. Even assuming he was, he did not play a role in raising him. His mother was working for a known CIA front in Indonesia (USAID) and she palled around with and exposed young Obama to deviant commies like Frank Marshall Davis during his childhood. Mama Obama eventually grew tired of her young charge and shipped him off to live permanently with his grandparents in Hawaii. Obama himself says that he felt lost during his teenage years and turned to drugs as an outlet.

His college years were also strange, to say the least. Multiple school transfers, visits to Pakistan, and a Herculean effort to prevent any of his college transcripts from being released after he won the election would indicate that there is something in his background he desperately does not want revealed, and I doubt it is simply bad grades! If it is true that he is a foreign national who was born in Kenya and was being bankrolled by someone, this would probably be revealed in the transcripts. This fact alone would make him an easy target for blackmail in the same way that the predatory sexual proclivities of Slick Willy were well-known to TPTB, who undoubtedly used the information to keep him in line.

We also know from Russell Tice that the NSA was spying on Obama when he was a Senator, so they undoubtedly have had all the dirt on him for many years. Methinks Obama also has sexual tendencies that are being used against him. Kal Penn and Reggie Love will hopefully one day fill us in on the details, but the speculation regarding his preferences just adds another layer to the multiple layers of deception surrounding Obama's life and would seem to make it it all the easier to control him.

I think that Obama's lack of a responsible father figure/role model throughout his childhood and his abandonment by his own mother has severely scarred him, as even he has noted. His narcissitic personality is, in my view, an outgrowth of this abandonment and is a defense mechanism. If he can't be sure of or have certainity about anything else in his life, at least he can convince himself of his own brilliance. He also has an "outward-oriented" personality and wants to be loved and adored by the masses because he himself was never loved or adored. This explains his career in politics. That he became a lying, murderous sociopath willing to do the bidding of TPTB doesn't come as a huge surprise when you consider the psychological torment that this man has suffered through his entire life, some of it his own doing and some of it completely out of his control. I think at bottom lies not an "intellectual," as the NYT would have us believe, but rather a desperate, scared, and insecure child who only wants to be loved. That he seeks out this love through projecting power and serving the interests of the most vile criminals on earth is what is most tragic of all.

 

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