On symbols and leadership

"Mr. Obama shouldn't be faulted for wanting to rest, relax and spend whole days with his family. But the timing of this vacation is incongruent, and so is the location.

"On the timing, there's an air of economic crisis hanging over everything, a sense that other shoes may drop. Actually it's a sense of something impending, with unemployment high, Europe broke and the Mideast reaching full boil.

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Let him stay on the bus to nowhere

That's your president in that thing.
It is ridiculously easy to make fun of your President, so it's not fun anymore, but let's do it anyway. He is begging me to.

His public relations office has admitted that his "official" tour through states vital in the next election -- paid for by taxpayers -- is in fact a political trip. The office used these words in its newsletter: "The spectacle of a

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Send your unneeded shame to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Shame: The painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc.   -- Dictionary.com


Wish you were here!
The President is taking care of his base: union thugs, higher education bureaucrats, teachers, federal workers, Hispanic voters, and the all-important Muslim vote. The last is because, "Islam has always been part of our American family." As

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My brilliant new career

Me and my new life. All aboard!
Associate Administrator for Administration. It's a real job.

And you're going to pay me up to $179,700.00 each and every year til I get bored or die!

The job is in the Department of Transportation, so I'll have to move to Washington, where it gets hot a lot, but who cares -- housing prices are holding up there. I don't think they're having riots yet.

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So who you gonna blame?

The White House and its enablers are scrambling, according to the headlines:

Obama campaign blames Tea Party for downgrade...
Barney Frank blames military...
I blame global warming.

Next week the president is off on a "job creation" bus tour, paid for by taxpayers, through states that just happen to be key battleground states in the election next year. Now there's a coincidence. Obama has

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Fiddling while Rome burns

Suckas!
It's a fine conflagration out there, Nero. From The Drudge Report:
Jobless rate: 9.1%...
GOV'T: Payrolls increase by 117,000...
But number of U.S. workers DROPS by 38,000!
Just 58% of work-age Americans have jobs, lowest since July 1983...
Food stamp use rises to record 45.8 million...
FANNIE MAE seeks $5.1 billion more from taxpayers... 
NYT: 'Time to say it -- double dip'... 
MARKET

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Everything's fine. Eat some cake.

"I see the light!"
delusion / dih-loo-zhuhn / noun
A delusion is a belief that is either mistaken or not substantiated and is held with very strong feelings or opinions and expressed forcefully. In psychiatry, it is defined to be a belief that is pathological and is held despite evidence to the contrary.TOP DEM: 'We've Really Begun to Turn the Economy Around'...
WH: No 'threat of a double-dip

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You aren't supposed to say that

Bernard Goldberg says it anyway:
President Obama has an op-ed out in USA Today about the debt-ceiling debate, and as sure as the sun rises in the east he’s pulling out that old liberal Democratic chestnut, calling for the wealthiest Americans to cough up their “fair share” of taxes. We’ve been through this before, but it means nothing to the president, or any other liberal Democrat for that

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The guy keeps making speeches

Don't go there.
Las Vegas mogul Steve Wynn, a billionaire who calls himself a Harry Reid-supporting Democrat, doesn't think too highly of our President. In a conference call with analysts, he said:
"I'm telling you that the business community in this country is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of the United States. And until he's gone, everybody's going to

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This guy will say just any old thing

"And I do not want, and I will not accept, a deal in which I am asked to do nothing, in fact, I’m able to keep hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional income that I don’t need." -- Barack Obama
President Obama returns to Chicago on Aug. 3 to mark his 50th birthday with fund-raisers at the Aragon Ballroom, with tickets ranging from $50 a person to $35,800 per couple, which includes VIP

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This guy will say just anything old thing

President Obama on Friday kept up the pressure on Republicans to agree to revenue increases in a deal to raise the debt ceiling, claiming 80 percent of the public supports Democrats' demand for tax increases.

The pollster Rasmussen: Just 34% think a tax hike should be included in any legislation to raise the debt ceiling. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 55% disagree

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This was predicted

Vox populi.
President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agreement on reducing the deficit in the coming weeks.

Then, to round up some more folks to scare, he added: "This is not just a matter of Social Security checks. These are veterans checks, these are folks on

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Talk amongst yourselves

Future president.
GOP invites Obama to Capitol to discuss debt...

WH: 'Not a conversation worth having'...

But will meet with Dems?

And will host 'townhall' to Twitter about economy...

'Best way to get appointment with president is to set up tee time'...

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It's hard being President

Junior Bird Man
Drudge Report headlines:

OBAMA LAUNCHES CLASS WARFARE...

'Kids versus corporate jets'...

Calls People Earning $250,000 a Year 'Jet Owners'...

AP FLASHBACK: Stimulus Package Rewarded Private Jet Purchases...


Obama rips Congress for taking vacations during crisis...

Makes plans for Martha's Vineyard vacation...

Fundraising trips...

'Amused' when people say he should be

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You don't say

Michelle Obama describes her husband's work ethic as "tireless. This man doesn't take a day off."

The 70 golf days don't count.
President Barack Obama says his wife and daughters aren't "invested" in him being president and would have been fine had he decided against running for re-election.
That's why he's raising $1 billion to get re-elected.
Former Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs says

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Compare and contrast

President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron likened their personal efforts to two leaders who came before them: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.

Compare and contrast:
This was a few days after Obamaman decided to take on the Israeli prime minister.
For a head of government to visit the White House and not pose for photographers is rare. For a key ally to be left to his own

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Got oil?

The Noble Clyde Boudreaux -- gone bye bye.
As we watch the little meter spinning out of control on the gas pump, let's consider a few causes of spiraling gasoline prices. The Drudge Report lends us some headlines:
Chicago Pump Prices Most Expensive In Nation...
Gallon price nears record; Obama dodges blame...
Only 3 of 280 network stories connect to WH...
EPA Rules Force SHELL to Abandon Oil

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