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President Obama "Has Given Up" On Big Issues, Panetta Fears

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Just hours after President Obama dined at a $10,000-per-plate fundraiser in Washington, former Obama administration CIA Director and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta lamented with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell how "there is a feeling that the president has given up on the big issues facing this country." The problem, Panetta explains, is Obama "approaches things like a law professor," when he should be "rolling up his sleeves."

 

 

Panetta said,

"He approaches things like a law professor in presenting a logic of his position. There is nothing wrong with that. We want to have a president who thinks through the issues. My experience in Washington is that logic alone doesn't work. Once you lay out a position, you are going to roll up your sleeves and you have to fight to get it done. That is key in Washington. In order for presidents to succeed, they cannot just -- when they run into problems, step back and give up."

 

"There is a feeling and I have a feeling that the leadership and the president have given up on the big issues facing this country whether it's immigration or a budget deal or infrastructure funding or trade or energy. there is a sense that you can't deal with that. This country needs that. They can't give up."

With allies like that, who needs ISIS?

 

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Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:34 | 5300531 nope-1004
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Roll up your sleeves and contain Ebola, mr. president!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:37 | 5300558 Syrin
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*Roll up your sleeves and catch Ebola, mein Fuhrer! *

 

-fixed your typos

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:48 | 5300636 Bunghole
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Pull down you pants, assume the position, fluff Reggie and catch Ebola, Herr President.

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:57 | 5300669 modric
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Get to work Mr. President

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:00 | 5300687 Keyser
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This is what happens when an academic ideolog is elected to public office... Reality gets in the way of their utopian fantasy of puppy dogs and unicorns... 

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:02 | 5300702 The9thDoctor
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Obama "gave up" on big issues because Congress gets in his way, and he can't just cram an executive order in like a dictator. /sarc

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:09 | 5300731 Escrava Isaura
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The real key issue is:

Why would anyone at Zero Hedge bother listen to ANY Washington insider in the massmedia?

It’s beyond me.

 

Are we guys ever gonna learn?

 

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:10 | 5300743 kaiserhoff
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The real deal is that AIPAC has used their bitch up and overplayed their hand.  He is more trouble to them now than he is worth, but they don't know what to do next.

I'll bet Mossad has a suggestion.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:16 | 5300770 Escrava Isaura
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And, which suggestion would that be?

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:20 | 5300785 outamyeffinway
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We're at the end of "issues". The next crew is the clean up crew. There's nothing Obama can do and he knows it.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:27 | 5300811 Escrava Isaura
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Mossad could care less about Obama.

 

Mossad knows that the 'future' hystory is not on the side of the Jews.

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:44 | 5300870 espirit
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Emperor Caniggula diddles, while Rome burns.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:11 | 5300943 kaiserhoff
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Barry has become... unpredictable.  As screwed up as the world is now, much of it his fault, no one likes unpredictable,

especially those who bought and paid for his election.

As the legendary Huey Long liked to say, an honest politician is one who, once he's bought, stays bought.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:30 | 5300978 ZerOhead
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This is good news. The less he does the better for everyone.

Now if he would just kindly walk away from all those stupid and expensive wars... and shutting down the coal fired power plants that provide us non-billionaires with cheap energy... and getting his corrupt and inept government with all it's spies the hell out of our lives...

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 19:34 | 5301194 Headbanger
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Now if he would just walk away..

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:29 | 5300814 SilverIsKing
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There's actually plenty he can do.  He can go golfing, shoot some hoops, or even play some golf in the morning and shoot hoops later in the day.  See, it's far from over.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 21:19 | 5301493 TheReplacement
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Some people never learned.  That is why history keeps repeating.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:12 | 5300750 xtop23
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/facepalm

Panetta....could you just slide back into the ooze that birthed you?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:17 | 5300771 Pie rre
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He must be finished with politics so now he's our friend like Clinton.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:38 | 5300803 Escrava Isaura
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NO!

Panetta is the ultimate insider.

 

The ultimate Neo-Liberal policy holder.

 

He's just swing towards the corporatocracy; and in case the SHTF before Obama leaves office.

 

Look at Panetta as the Kissinger of the left.

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:58 | 5300908 g speed
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And Panetta says "we want" like some kind of imperial know it all---fuck you Panetta Its what I want form now on and you and yours aren't it---by the way fix your nose---it looks like a beak on a parrot---just had to say it--I feel better now.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:10 | 5300938 Escrava Isaura
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Amazing how little it takes to make you feel better.

Glad that I could help.

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:05 | 5300715 0b1knob
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And the USSA "Has Given Up" on Choomboy.

Time for impeachment and replacement with - uh - Joe Biden.

Oh wait....

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:09 | 5300733 Stormtrooper
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Is Biden an American citizen?  Who's next in line?  Is he/she an American?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:17 | 5300774 kaiserhoff
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Speaker of the House, Boehner.  Sorry you asked?

Then, assuming no replacements have been approved, it goes through the cabinet in the order their departments were created - State first, then defense I think.  If it gets that far, who really cares?  It will be some Colonel, or Corporal.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:49 | 5300883 espirit
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Boner, Big Bird, or Hitlary?

 

We are so fucked.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:28 | 5300982 kaiserhoff
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I screwed it up:

  Speaker of the House, president pro tem of the Senate,  then Sec of State, Treasury, Defense and Attorney General...

  It would take a Guy Fawkes scenario to trigger that, but these dudes have made some enemies.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:54 | 5301094 Iwanttoknow
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"you don't have to be a jew to be a Zionist".J.Biden

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:34 | 5300834 Took Red Pill
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just doing a little fund raising for Hillary. After all, she's going to win, according to Buffett;

http://fortune.com/2014/10/07/warren-buffett-on-clinton-2016-hillary-is-...

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:38 | 5300564 101 years and c...
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there is no reason for the pres to worry about any large issues since they can all be solved by printing money.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:39 | 5300593 mayhem_korner
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Used to be he'd solve the big issues with a beer summit.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:44 | 5300617 hobopants
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Affirmative action at "work".

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:46 | 5300623 Gringo Viejo
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He's lazy which is suprising. All of my gay friends are hardworking and industrious.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:53 | 5300649 tony wilson
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you got no friends faggot

day all dead from der dickgenerard lifestiles

repants now sinner

let jesus inside son

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:09 | 5300737 Gringo Viejo
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@Tony: I'm a 64 year old Christian. While I don't condone the gay lifestyle, I've got way too much on my plate to be throwing stones at anybody. You, on the other hand, are obviously a righteous man.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:34 | 5300833 Jack Sheet
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my scottish friend in mumbai is hoping for a monsoon

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:37 | 5300567 TeamDepends
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Sheeeit. He can't even contain the Wookie.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:54 | 5300658 scrappy
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YES HE CAN!

President Obama and Michelle are at the White Sox baseball game, sitting in the first row with the Secret Service seated directly behind them.

One of the Secret Service agents leans forward and says something to the President.

Barack stares at the agent, looks at Michelle, looks back at the agent, and shakes his head.

The agent then says, “Mr. President, it was a request from the team owner who is a big campaign contributor, and the fans will love it!”

So, Barack shrugs and says, “Well, if it will help my poll numbers.”

He gets up, grabs Michelle by her collar and the seat of her pants, and drops her right over the wall into the field. She gets up kicking, screaming & swearing. The crowd goes wild; cheering, applauding, and high-fiving.

Barack is bowing and smiling, and leans over to the agent and says, “You were right, I would have never believed that!”

Noticing the agent has gone totally pale, Barack asks what was wrong.

The agent replies, “Sir, I said, they want you to throw out the first PITCH!!!”

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:57 | 5300684 New_Meat
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... he throws like a girl!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:02 | 5300704 Keyser
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We know who the bitch is in that relationship... 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:03 | 5300694 benb
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Michelle is a tranny.

Joan Rivers gave her life to bring us that info.

And that my friends is patriotism.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:35 | 5300840 Jack Sheet
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wrong gender somewhere in line 2

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:37 | 5300569 jcaz
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Roll up your sleeves and take an injection of Ebola, Mr President....

Fixed it....

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:50 | 5300645 booboo
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Most major problems are a creation of the government, do you really want the state to "fix" them? Your life depends on how you answer that question, literally.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:01 | 5300703 Everybodys All ...
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Roll up your sleaze and resign.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:14 | 5300765 Berspankme
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Fuck You Panetta you prick. He's a Clinton shill and just trying to distance Hitlery from Obama- next we'll here that Hitlery will never give up on the big issues. Scum sucking prick Panetta never opened his pie hole when he was in office. Fuck You

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:24 | 5300799 Pie rre
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It's time for crowd funding.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:35 | 5300839 flyingcaveman
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I saw my first "I'm ready for Hillary" bumper sticker today.  But the person wasn't fully committed because they just had it taped to the inside of their window.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 20:11 | 5301283 Freddie
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Budget deal?  LOL!  What budget?  Harry Reid has not presented a budget for 6 + years?  Immigration reform?  They have open borders.  F off Panetta. 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:33 | 5300532 Big Corked Boots
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Given up? Nonsense. He has so many famous golf courses to complete!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:36 | 5300551 SheepDog-One
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Still plenty of time to do what really matters and what he was always all about anyway, pimpin his own ride!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:41 | 5300599 Zhuge Liang
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its any easy job... all he has to do is precisely what his handlers tell him.  no thought or effort required.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:16 | 5300766 benb
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Speaking of pimping and rides. You don't believe the accounts of Larry Sinclair claiming back in the day, in Gang Land, (Illinois) Barry was smoking crack and sucking pee-pee in the back of Limos on the taxpayer dime do you?

CAUSE I SURE DO.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:37 | 5300568 mayhem_korner
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...and a couple more NCAA brackets to fill out.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:33 | 5300533 ebworthen
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Obama is a lame duck figurehead, other than being able to phone in bombing runs.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:12 | 5300949 Omen IV
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and Panetta is a clinton whore who is trolling negative game for Hillary

shes is still a CUNT in a strict NY sense which means she cannot be redeemed nor Panetta

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:34 | 5300535 SheepDog-One
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Obomber now only cares about bombin some folks.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:29 | 5300537 falak pema
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You cannot be Potus and say you "don't want to know about the dirty details" of "getting things done".

The guy at the top HAS to call the shots. No pretending : I can just walk away from this. 

Professor of Law or professor of lies?

Look what US is doing to those Kurds in that town on Turk frontier. Sacrificed one more time. Proxy wars leave their sacrificed to the rage of imperial wars. 

How can Potus say he didn't know that Iran and Turkey now have their hands free to rub out Sykes Picot and take over Syria and Iraq, all carved out from Ottoman remnancy? All resulting from GWB's Saint Louis like Crusade and vengeance of father's frustration and NWO "exceptionalism" hubris. "Its our land to civilize and this oil is OUR oil !" 

Next Step : The road to Mecca. Where the spring of Oil lies. And then we will really be back to pre-WW1 and the clock will move back to the West having to leave "the holy land". 

1291. But that is as story still to play itself out. 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:34 | 5300540 Rastadamus
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Crackers in congress.....

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:36 | 5300545 Syrin
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The American Fuhrer appraoches things like an Affirmative Action former welfare dependent now with access to higher class freebies.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:36 | 5300552 mayhem_korner
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Andrea Mitchell should be part of the "given up looking for work" crowd.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:36 | 5300556 Cangaroo.TNT
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Yeah.  Like a law professor.  Sure.  That's the ticket....

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:57 | 5300676 booboo
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He meant lawn professor

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:38 | 5300566 Bell's 2 hearted
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i think he is beginning to worry about his legacy.

 

and i think he knows he was "had" by summers/geithner

 

if crash occurs before january 2017 (safe bet) i think O will take down a couple of TBTFs [of course, jpm and gs will not be touched .... they will "give" permission ... after they're given first dibs on carcass(es) ]

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:41 | 5300601 Roanman
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He know nothing, if he was a Nazi, he'd be Sgt. Schultz.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:48 | 5300633 Bell's 2 hearted
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obviously he's financially illiterate

 

but i think he's smart enough to know when he's been conned.

 

back in 2009/2010 O - repeatedly - kept saying we had to save the banks in order to get them lending again.

 

wtf? ... no doubt some bit of garbage larry/timmay told him to say.  Problem was jobs/income ... not enough lending ... amerikans were so overleveraged then (and now)

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:49 | 5300643 Bell's 2 hearted
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one other thing.  During 2012 election, Wall Street gave Romney $3 to every $1 to O.

 

i'm sure he remembers

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:40 | 5300854 lasvegaspersona
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Bell's

not sure about all you say but I too do not believe he makes it out of office before collapse. It will be the fault of years of over spending but he has been at the helm for 7 or 8 years and this will be the 'Obama Collapse'...he can protest all he wants but just as Hoover was not entirely to blame for the Great Depression...it will still be pinned right to his 'legacy'.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:40 | 5300571 Roanman
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The biggest joke in this piece is presenting the notion of Obama and logic as though the one is in contact with the other.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:39 | 5300574 petaloka
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To say he has given up is to suggest that he once cared to begin with.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:38 | 5300575 Tenshin Headache
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He has in no way given up. He is just waiting until after the election.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:40 | 5300584 highly debtful
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America is now an empire in rapid decline. Obama inherited an ungodly mess and he succeeded in making it messier and ungodlier still. He lacks vision and perspective and will-power and moral courage. It is a tragedy that in this decisive moment of US history he has become the 44th president of your United States, at a time the country should have gotten a Washington, a Teddy Roosevelt or even a Dwight D. Eisenhower. 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:48 | 5300639 11b40
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Or a McStain/Palin or a Mittens/Ryan --- whatever.  We are well and truly fucked as a country and a world.  Washinton, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy.....those old guys are just so not 21st century dudes, doncha' know.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:12 | 5300753 highly debtful
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I cited those three presidents for a reason, though in my view the list is evidently not exhaustive: Washington fought the British in a quest for freedom and self-determination, (Teddy) Roosevelt fought the powerful trusts and Dwight D. Eisenhower fought the military-industrial complex in his farewell speech. These men recognized the dangers of their time and acted upon them with courage and moral rectitude. Is this not what is urgently required today?

I do not have a problem with the downarrows for my comment above, but could you please explain to me why you disagree? I mean it, I really would like to understand this better. 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:15 | 5300957 g speed
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I believe the down arrows are for your assumption that someone in Gov't can fix it-- I guessed what your were trying to say and your point is well taken however --times are a changing and corruption is rampent at the highest levels of gov't-- I don't think with out cleaning house any difference in the outcome with a new president no matter how competent and well meaning he/she may be----I didn't down you--

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:27 | 5301000 highly debtful
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Thx for your answer and your take on this, much appreciated. 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:52 | 5301085 11b40
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LISTEN UP, FOLKS.

Something very strange just happened to me.  Shortly after posting on this thread and expressing my sentiments about Mr. Panetta, I got an invitation form someone I never heard of and who should have zero reason to want to join my network of associates on LinkedIn.  He is a Senior VP with THOR Global Defense Group.  Maybe he wants to sell me a sniper rifle.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/thor-global-defense-group

Maybe my paranoria is working overtime, but this just seems creepy to me.  Anyone else out there getting any strange contacts?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:38 | 5301016 11b40
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HD, sorry if you didn't get the sarcasm, meant to convey the futility in placing any hope for the choices we have to select from.

I do not disagree with you, and I did not vote either up or down.  In fact, I wholehaeartedly agree that we need a real American to take the reins of this country and get us back on track.  My personal sentiments are simple - America, right or wrong.  When right, to be kept right, and when wrong, to be made right.  Problem is all the sociopaths and borderline psycotics at senior levels across the government and corporate America who are overwhelminly in it for themselves and short-term gain.  IMHO, JFK was the end of the line for us.  His assasination was the beginning of America's last long chapter before reaching The End.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:01 | 5300670 scrappy
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I'd take a Stonewall Jackson or a General Patton (Post War Germany when he realized) over those.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:05 | 5300713 The9thDoctor
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I'd take Ron Paul over those

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:06 | 5300925 max2205
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I'd take a firing squad

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:18 | 5300967 g speed
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Jackson did a convincing job with his war on the NY banks--- effectively shut them out for years--and also finished the "whigs" -- 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:39 | 5300587 Pantalone
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I have faith that Obama will get things done in his third term. 

Who buys these fucking masturbatory manuscripts anyway? 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:22 | 5300789 wee-weed up
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I have faith that Obama will get things done in his third term.

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Yep, why do you think he's dragging his feet on stopping ebola?

When it gets bad enough, he can declare martial law...

And cancel the 2016 election.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:42 | 5300588 pot_and_kettle
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Don't know what y'all are worried about when, right in the Oval Office, we have

KID DY-NO-MITE!!!!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:40 | 5300589 semperfi
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Obama is just the latest bitch of Rothschild Regime who can't handle his job.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:41 | 5300600 syntaxterror
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That dumb fuck gave up when he hired Geitner and the rest of the bankster scum before he was even sworn in.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:53 | 5300653 Zhuge Liang
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that is afterall who put him there...  probably just now starting to figure out that he is not the great messiah that they told him he was... 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:22 | 5300695 Bioscale
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Obama does as he is told. What to give up? Golf? No, dear, no no

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:41 | 5300602 PaperBear
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F**k CIA-funded ISIS. And get your finger out with ebola, mr president.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:41 | 5300604 11b40
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Panetta also says Obama should have invaded Syria last year.  He is a NWO neo-con war monger.  Moar war, moar war!  Let's help the good Al Ciada.  Send lawyers, guns & money!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPlMmwOq7U8

"In an interview on CBS News' "60 Minutes" that aired Sunday evening, Panetta told Scott Pelley that he "really thought that it was important for us to maintain a presence in Iraq.

"The United States withdrew its last combat troops from Iraq in 2011 after an agreement could not be reached with Iraqi President Nuri al-Maliki about residual U.S. troops.

Panetta also said that the President should have been more aggressive in aiding Syrian opposition fighters two years ago. He said that would have hindered ISIS' rapid expansion of its reach and deadly influence.

"The real key was, how can we develop a leadership group among the opposition that would be able to take control? And my view was to have leverage to do that, we would have to provide the weapons and the training in order for them to really be willing to work with us in that effort," he said."

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:30 | 5300819 flyingcaveman
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Good thing he spoke up at the time.  Showed real leadership and dedication to his paycheck when it counted.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:14 | 5300950 max2205
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End big Government so these assholes starve to death

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:42 | 5300609 syntaxterror
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The biggest issue facing the sheep is: how do I get more free shit? And Obamao seems pretty adept at solving that.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:28 | 5300813 Pie rre
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Given what we've learned of the traitorous scemes of the last hundred years why not just scam the system for whatever?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:43 | 5300614 SmittyinLA
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Hard to believe we put such a political douchbag as Panetta in charge of the CIA, funny how low and unqualified the bar is for the head of our foreign intelligence.

 

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:01 | 5300697 New_Meat
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What is this "WE" left-coast-man?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:07 | 5300725 scrappy
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Like the political officer on Red October?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 19:00 | 5301115 Iwanttoknow
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He is also shating with our BFF,Israhole.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:44 | 5300618 Goldilocks
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Lesley Gore - Sunshine, Lollipops And Rainbows
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQmBXEZEYtg (1:33)

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:45 | 5300620 g'kar
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Greenspan's wife interviewing the ex-cia director. That's credibility for you.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:45 | 5300622 Shizzmoney
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Here's my editorial:

A) Obama doesn't give a fuck

and 

B) Neither does Panetta

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:47 | 5300630 tony wilson
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President Obama "Has Given Up" On Big Issues, Panetta Fears.

 

panetta told fox news.

scum this may sound serious but donte worry goy

the rabbi has it false flag covered.

 

isis ebola

ebola isis

turkey mossad isis

cia ebola

no what i mean suckers

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:48 | 5300638 Bumbu Sauce
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Panetta, a career criminal embedded in FEDGOV, is just trying to clear some space for his true boo, Hillary Clinton.  I do not believe that Killery is electable, but the idiots that comprise the American electorate never cease to amaze me.

 

This asshole should have been tried and executed for treason a long time ago.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:57 | 5300682 11b40
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Panetta is a scum bag, alright, but that part about Clinton not being electible I disagree with.  In fact, if things don't change (and they could), she is headed for a landslide.  The Republicans can't fight their way out of a wet paper bag.  They are about to blow the Nov elections.  Just watch as they turn off more and more voters tilting at windmills and ignoring the tides of social change.  Name one potential REpublican candidate you would put odds on.

On paper, she has the Dem nomination in the bag.  There will be a push for Warren, but she either won't jump in or won't get traction with the general elctorate.  The one big wild card on the Dem side for 2016 is Jim Webb.  Stay tuned.

 

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 23:39 | 5301897 TrustbutVerify
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"the tides of social change"...like ever lower levels of education and the rising tide of government dependency - coupled with national bankruptcy?  

Take another toke...as for me  I'll say, "No thanks."  

Thu, 10/09/2014 - 12:09 | 5308990 11b40
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You can rail against the rising tide all you want to, but it will still come in.

Perhaps it is you who are stoned, simply braying at the moon.  What you like or don't like really doesn't matter.  If the Republican party wants to remain relevant, they better start dealing with reality, or they will soon become just another part of the dustbin of history.  Why can't they figure out that allowing themselves to be identified as gay rights bashers, anti-women, anti-immigrant, anti-science, for big polluters, and on & on, is dooming the party long-term?

We have a number of so-called anarchist here, but that is a movement that will never go anywhere.  We have plenty of folks who can identify the problems for free, too.  We don't need to pay 500 members of Congress to do that for us.  We need people who can work together and make things better.  That is thier job.  They are failing miserably, and all of us are the losers as they deliberately divide us into opposing camps for their personal benfit and the benefit of their sponsors.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 20:03 | 5301268 Anonymouse
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Spot on.  Ever notice that all these Democrats lately commenting negatively about Obama are all Clintonistas?  What they are saying may be true, but it is only to help the Hillary campaign

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:23 | 5300660 TrustbutVerify
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Worth checking...there is a scene in the excellent movie, "Serpico," where he gets caught in a doorway during a drug bust.  His fellow police officers (who are generally on the take) sit back and allow him to get shot in the face. (Serpico is the honest cop that's messing up the vast bribery/graft system.)  It seems evident this is Obama's M.O. We all know shi# happens, sometimes very serious shi#. Obama's M.O. is to simply sit back and let it happen - allowing the U.S. to figuratively get shot in the face - only its happening time and time again.  One must personally consider why Obama sits back and does nothing - but it is happening - on multiple fronts.  

Obama's personal inaction is purposeful and the implosion we are witnessing is what he desires.  He's getting everything he wants.  He has quite a few in government and the general population that support him completely.  

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:56 | 5300667 besnook
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looks like the party is ready to throw obambam under a bus to try to win the election next month. the full court press for billary2016 starts in january. meanwhile this is what faces the usa.

 

Yanis Varoufakis in his article "What if the capital of future doesn't need us?", describes what he saw in Austin-Texas and what that means:While I was watching from my window in Austin-Texas, I saw a big cloud of dust deep in horizon. Two days ago, I was walking in that area and I was surprised by the view of the big factory where bulldozers and machines were continuously working, producing the dust. From the front side of the building under construction it was obvious that (fortunately) they were not building a new trade center or apartment blocks. No, it was a big industrial center.”Although I didn't notice it the first time, after a few seconds I realised that something was missing from this factory: people! Specifically, I counted three. All of them were wearing helmets and protection suits and were located in a small office in a space outside with a few computers, while they were covered by a tent like those used by the army. Ten bulldozers, three cranes and more or less ten moving tools, at least from what I could see, were moving without drivers, operators, workers generally.”When I returned to my office, I went straight to find a colleague who knows well what's going on. He informed me that the workplace I saw, was the new factory of Apple to produce MacBook Pro. It was true that, it was constructed through almost complete automatization. The materials had been selected through a way with which, the automatic machines - therefore robots connected to eachother through a local wireless network (intranet) - to be able to construct without human interference - even the hydraulic structure of the building will be constructed by plumpers-robots. A factory that under normal conditions should employ thousands of workers is functioning with the presence of less than one hundred souls.”I asked him about the move of Apple to produce computers in America, by bringing back in the US the production from China for the first time after decades. 'How's that?' And the answer was the expected one, although quite impressive: 'Wages are of no importance. The export of productive processes from America to China (off-shoring) was only an intermediate stage. The production has returned to America, but not the jobs. The new factory of Apple, not only is constructed without American workers' sweat, but will also produce MacBook Pro through complete automatization, without hiring Texans. Welcome to the New, Brave World', ended with a smile, referring obviously to the Brave New World of Aldous Huxley.” [...]When bulldozers and plumpers-robots that at this moment build the new factory of Apple, will start to learn from eachother and cooperate inside a robotic network, even the few jobs concerning the operation of these robots will vanish. In case that these armies of interconnected machine slaves belonged to everyone, thus if everyone had the right to benefit from the goods that they produce, then no problem. What should be done, however, in case that these machine slaves, the capital of future, belong (like the most of today's capital) to the very few, while at the same time most of the people do not have access in the goods they produce and an opportunity to work for a (human) wage?” Source: http://www.lifo.gr/team/apopseis/45702
Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:05 | 5300711 11b40
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How much taxpayer money did Texas give away to Apple to build this new factory, I wonder.

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:08 | 5300729 besnook
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i wonder how many macbooks those heavy equipment and roboplumbers are going to buy.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:56 | 5300672 sainchaw
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trying to pimp a fucking book. what a clown. 'oh what happened to your dog? he died of peanut butter poisening'

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:57 | 5300681 Catullus
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In the era where the constitution mattered, the president "rolling up his sleeves" was specifically not allowed. Of course, the constitution is dead and this is the imperial presidency where the puppet can have his minions to do whatever they want. So the fact that there's no "action" really means that there's no cover right now for one particular faction of the government to do as they please. That's what pancetta is complaining about.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:57 | 5300683 seek
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Perhaps O's handlers spelled out the truth/future to him and showed him the timetable and he decided putting forth any more effort into his acting career as President were pointless.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:11 | 5300742 New_Meat
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and TOTUS was gven the assignment to break the news to him on the 19th hole.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:11 | 5300747 Falconsixone
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Big jew dipshit greedy scumbag issues or the distruction of america issues? Can't fight jew wars for them if everyone's in a civil war living in a ditch and the fiat papermoney can't buy bombs to complete greater israel for lying jew pigs. Yes we do need more bombings. Pickup the pace obummer or the jew meat wagons wheels will fall  off and the jews may have to do something other than lie, steal, cheat and connive. Hurry up and wait israel, it's only a matter of time until a real islamic state punches your clock and fires you out of a cannon back to wherever you came from.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 19:47 | 5301229 Oil_City_News
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@falconsixone

seems as if you could use a Sabbatical

 

this may be a good place to start...

 

 

http://www.chabad.org/

 

 

The current Shemitah (Sabbatical) cycle started on September 25, 2014 and will run through September 13, 2015. The big changes tend to manifest toward the end of the cycle, he noted, so we may see dramatic events in September 2015. The Shemitah pattern, he suggested, "is something that operates in the supernatural and the natural...and given the right circumstances, it can become a sign of warning and judgment...If you talked to the Rabbis, they'll say the Shemitah was showing that really God is in charge of everything," and that people should turn away from worldly things and turn back to God.

 

Wishing you an inspiring, uplifting, and meaningful Shemittah year!

 

 

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:16 | 5300773 Bumbu Sauce
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Dog eater is going to be madder than hell when he reads about thisin the paper tomorrow.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 19:13 | 5300776 ekm1
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Hey sheeple!!!!

 

Remember what I said?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:24 | 5300790 RaceToTheBottom
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With Congress so disfunctional, nothing would clear those two bodies anyway.  Just catch a quick 18 holes...

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:22 | 5300791 DeadFinks
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What? Obama rolls up his sleeves for every speech he gives about jobs.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:23 | 5300794 lasvegaspersona
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Let us all hope he is just giving up.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:24 | 5300800 Spungo
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If you pay him 10k and he figuratively sucks your dick, is that still prostitution?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:29 | 5300809 Son of Captain Nemo
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Oh when you want the VERY best!... Most coherent!... 

Government policy wonk that occupied both the "revolving door(s)" at the DoD and the CIA in his career as a sociopathic facilitator in the war making, perjuring and bankrupting of your Country Department?...

Then Leon Pin"heada" is the guy you want making predictions about your future with his first hand knowledge and skill in aiding and abetting your economy feet first into the abyss!!!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:32 | 5300828 NuYawkFrankie
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That Panetta's one lizard-like ugly mo'fo!

Geez!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:34 | 5300832 RaceToTheBottom
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"Just hours after President Obama dined at a $10,000-per-plate fundraiser in Washington, ...."

I hope they are not carrying that money.  Them Policeman going to take it away

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:34 | 5300837 LibertyBear
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There is a feeling and I have a feeling becaues I feel that I think I feel because I feel that Obama has given up on Big issues.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:38 | 5300853 gwar5
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Moar golf!

Obama is NOT like a "law professor" because that title gives this loser brains and a law license he doesn't have.

Obama was stripped of his law license because he lied on his bar application. Michelle was stripped of her law license because of insurance fraud while at her crony 'no show' hospital job. 

Palin got the frenzied Palin treatment as a total distraction so that these two sociopaths could avoid getting vetted, because noone did..... 

 

 

 

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:08 | 5300930 Bastiat
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From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School's Senior Lecturers has high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.  http://www.law.uchicago.edu/media

It at least looks like a fact that he was a law professor, fwiw.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:35 | 5301022 max2205
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3........

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 20:00 | 5301258 lex parsimoniae
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"during his 12 years a a Professor".. so he has what experience that qualifies him to lecture?

He's a 'Law Professor' because someone who got paid off said he was.   

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:19 | 5300965 Perimetr
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The SOB gave up on all the "big projects" the day he got elected.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:26 | 5300994 jacship
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Cover  Mr. NOplanNETta

Write a book like Shillary

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:26 | 5300996 Son of Captain Nemo
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Maybe Al's wife can interview these people next?...

http://xrepublic.tv/node/10711

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:27 | 5300998 Smiley
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He hasn't given up, he has secured his retirement and is over it.  All he has to do now is not be overly hostile to whoever is going to be elected to replace him so he can get his golden ticket; the blanket pardon all outgoing presidents get from the newly elected president.  After he gets the golden ticket he will probably become a golf course recluse and not give a damn one way or the other how the world turns out.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:29 | 5301008 Playtime's Over
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Total BS from Monica's boyfreinds right hand job man.  Mr. Panetta still doesn't have a clue, it's MUCH worse than a little lack of direction. No mention of Benghazi, Egypt or any of those unpleasant things under his watch.  Covering his ass, plain and simple.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:35 | 5301019 q99x2
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Not even a traitor believes a traitor you scumbucket. The US military only takes order from the UN if traitors like Panetta are there to tell them to. Arrest him for treason. 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:42 | 5301047 Playtime's Over
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If only he would have done what the sackless Clinton operative was wimpering under his breath, very quietly.....so as not to arouse suspicion.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:55 | 5301095 curmudgery
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Feeeee-lings..... Woah, woah, woah, Feeee-lings.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 19:03 | 5301096 Atomizer
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Andrea Mitchell, you were the many MSM sucking on Obama's vigina. Live with your mistakes. Keep the 24 viewers that watch your show from a hotel lobby or airport concourse.

Not going to give you the time of day. I'll post on ZH, and ignore the video production of you back tracking what we told you six years ago. This President is a fraud 

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 19:06 | 5301127 Esculent 69
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President Obama- "You're not being screwed, it just feels like it is."

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 20:15 | 5301290 tongue.stan
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Pannetta was in the room when Cheney told the military to stand down on 9/11.

He, and every other lizard like him, are the problem.

He belongs upside down hanging from rafters like the rest of them.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 20:31 | 5301333 Last of the Mid...
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He hasn't given up, he's a one-trick poney. It's over his head intellectually, he's nothing more than a cardboard cut out reading a teleprompter, a head of lettuce, there is NOTHING underneath. 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 21:29 | 5301532 red1chief
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"Budget Deal" translated: "Let's cut Social Security and Medicare, and while we're at it cut taxes on the .01%"

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 06:44 | 5302284 MickV
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Obama is not an eligible natural born Citizen, since he was born British, of a British subject father. No natural born Citizen can be born with foreign allegiance. In fact, Obama may be British to this day.

He was muscelled in by the NWO for the express purpose of voiding the US Const., since when there is no legal executor of the laws, then there is no law, and the law is what evil men say it is. Why do you think he "rules" (does as he is told) by executive order?

He and the DOJ now oversee the Cloward Piven distruction of the US, and attack every aspect of American life and culture--- from our borders, to sports, to guns, to family, to religion, to our money--- all under attack by the progressives and their fellow travelers, who never dreamed they could get this far by guilting Americans with the rise of a "black" man.

Now they see that they may have overplayed their hand. Something is in the works to get rid of him.

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 07:42 | 5302368 talisman
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Pancetta is not one to be throwing bricks

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