We've got a "cool" President

[UberNeuman]

Operation Eagle Claw was FUBAR from day one.

It was an ill conceived operation by a President that had no idea what he was doing.

The taking of our Embassy, sovereign US territory, and our citizens was an overt act of war and should have been treated as such. President Carter was then and continues to this day to be a dick.

No, the failure of Operation Eagle Claw was Zbignew Brzezinski's fault...

 

[senseamp]

That's right. There is 25 months of private sector job growth. That's 4.1 million jobs, they report.

LOL!

So we have gone backward for a total of over a million jobs. That 4.1 million jobs over a 25 month period isn't even enough to keep up with population growth.

LOL!

Great recovery................................NOT!

There are millions fewer with jobs today than when this Fool, Bobo, the Post Turtle, took office.

Scary thing is that you claim to be a pilot of a large plane, but have no understanding of inertia.

 

[dwell]

No turnaround? Are you smoking something?
Do you even remember what was happening when Obama took over? We were talking about a coming second Great Depression. Now we are complaining that the recovery isn't fast enough.
That's like someone getting shot, having their life saved by a doctor, and then saying they'd rather get shot again because they aren't happy with the pace of recovery.

Shitty analogy. It's more like someone was bleeding out and new doctor steps in to relieve the first, but rather than tending to the patient he threw a bunch of parties and went on talk shows promoting how cool he is.

Maybe he should spend more time fixing the country than hanging out out with Jimmy Failon.

 

[UberNeuman]

Shitty analogy. It's more like someone was bleeding out and new doctor steps in to relieve the first, but rather than tending to the patient he threw a bunch of parties and went on talk shows promoting how cool he is.

Maybe he should spend more time fixing the country than hanging out out with Jimmy Failon.

Fixing in what way?

Now, if you were an honest person, you'd admit that there is nothing President Obama can or could do to meet your expectations....

 

[senseamp]

Shitty analogy. It's more like someone was bleeding out and new doctor steps in to relieve the first, but rather than tending to the patient he threw a bunch of parties and went on talk shows promoting how cool he is.

Maybe he should spend more time fixing the country than hanging out out with Jimmy Failon.

Even under your analogy, I would still prefer that doctor to the people who caused the bleeding in the first place, and then actively obstruct treatment.

 

[a777pilot]

Bu... bu... but Carter!!! 1980 called. It wants its campaign propaganda back.

Rage on, son, rage on!

There ought to be rage.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...edit-bin-Laden-killing-election-campaign.html

Narcissists make for dangerous Presidents.

 

[senseamp]

There ought to be rage.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...edit-bin-Laden-killing-election-campaign.html

Narcissists make for dangerous Presidents.

Mr Zinke, who is now a Republican state senator in Montana, added that MR Obama was exploiting bin Laden’s death for his re-election bid. ‘The President and his administration are positioning him as a war president using the SEALs as ammunition. It was predictable.’

No bias here.

 

[FerrelGeek]

Sad, but true. As I've said in other posts, people vote for president like it's an American Idol or Dancing with the Stars competition.

Get ready for the debates. It'll be Nixon-Kennedy all over again. Like it or not, coolness sells.

The same thing worked for George W. Bush, just in a different way. He definitely wasn't "cool" in the usual sense, but he was "Republican cool". "The kind of guy you could have a beer with" was a phrase that came up a lot, even though Bush doesn't drink. But the point was that he did a decent job giving off the impression that he was a likable guy. Obama's using the same approach. And considering their respective opponents, this is a good idea. Kerry and Romney have all the personality and affability of planks of wood.

 

[rudder]

I'm glad our President really is cool. He can sing one night and blow away Bin Laden the next.

But would not a "cool" leader accept responsibility if something went wrong with a decision.... say like authorizing a mission to finally get bin laden?

Or would he make sure he had a patsy should something have gone wrong?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303916904577374552546308474.html

Now we really know why this no-brainer decision was really a no brainer for obama. He says yes and it succeeds... well he can make re-election videos. If it fails... we some guy some where down the chain loses his job and takes the blame. So cool.

 

[Bowfinger]

But would not a "cool" leader accept responsibility if something went wrong with a decision.... say like authorizing a mission to finally get bin laden?

Or would he make sure he had a patsy should something have gone wrong?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303916904577374552546308474.html

Now we really know why this no-brainer decision was really a no brainer for obama. He says yes and it succeeds... well he can make re-election videos. If it fails... we some guy some where down the chain loses his job and takes the blame. So cool.

Hack, hack, hack. Tell us again why we should care about Mukasey's predictably partisan spin on the issue? Even Fox is reporting that the Pentagon has already denied his allegations:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...-obama-was-covered-had-bin-laden-raid-failed/

The Pentagon pushed back Tuesday on assertions that Leon Panetta, while CIA director, drafted a memo before the raid on Usama bin Laden's compound that was “highly lawyered” to safeguard President Obama from public backlash if the operation failed.

Pentagon spokesman Capt. John Kirby and three top Panetta aides told Fox News that's not true. That was after former Attorney General Michael Mukasey claimed earlier that a memo had given cover to Obama. ...

 

[werepossum]

ROTFLMAO!

He did not, repeat, NOT order the attack. Leon Panette did.

Obama's hand is so far up Panetta's ass the man's breath smells like Michelle's twat. The man MIGHT be able to order lunch without being so told, but that's about all.

There's a reason you hire a career political operative to be SefDef, and it most certainly AIN'T so that he can make the hard calls. At most, Panetta passed along Obama's order to give the Messiah some political distance if things went to hell. Most likely, it was simply because that's the chain of command. I'm betting that Obama and Panetta were both at the meeting where the basic details were worked out and Panetta only passed along the final go order to start the op.