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Falling off the trapeze in shiny purple circus tights not only causes injury but can make a person look foolish, which is what Obama did last week when calling Navy corpsmen–corpse-men. Like Sacha Pavlata on a high wire, Obama, master of “ostentatiously exotic” Pock-i-stahn pronunciation, peppered multiple mispronunciations of “corpsmen” with Creole words like “Etazini.” President Obama was so busy showboating French based Haitian Creole he called Navy Corpsman Brossard, both Christian and Christopher in the same sentence.
Maybe it’s me, but juxtaposing familiarity with Creole while appearing clueless about how to pronounce corpsmen [kôr'mən], made Obama look more idiotic than Bush ever could because Bush lacks the unbridled hubris Obama exhibits continually.
Barack Obama has been trying to justify his anti-terror policies by likening them to those of George Bush. Aside from the hypocritical irony can we discover anything else of interest from statements, particularly this one:
“I think that the most important thing for the public to understand,” he told Ms. Couric, “is we’re not handling any of these cases any different than the Bush administration handled them all through 9/11.” Mr. Obama went on to add that “190 folks”-folks presumably just like the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks-had been tried and convicted in civilian court during Mr. Bush’s tenure.
Where did Obama get the figure of 190 ? Not from government sources, but from a George Soros group.
A year ago, Barack Obama’s true believers were euphoric. The huge and jubilant gathering in Chicago’s Grant Park on election night 2008 gave way to almost 2 million people on the Mall for the president’s inauguration.
He took office as the most popular incoming president in a generation. A movement had become a mandate of nearly 70 million votes. People hoped the new president would bring change to Washington, the hallmark claim of his historic candidacy.
Now, the mood through much of the nation seems restive, even sour. It is almost jarring to look at the photographs from Grant Park, to study those upturned beaming faces, many streaked with tears. Was that a movement? Or just a moment?
Independent voters see Pres. Obama in a negative light by a nearly 2-1 margin, according to a new Marist College survey, while almost half of voters say he has failed to meet their expectations.
The poll, conducted Feb. 1-3, showed just 44% of registered voters approving of Obama’s job as president. 47% disapprove. But among indie voters, Obama’s approval rating sits at a terrible 29%, while his disapproval rating is at 57%.
Obama’s 44% job approval rating is the lowest he has scored in any non-internet poll since moving into the WH, according to a review of data compiled by Pollster.com.
For a president who ran on uplifting themes like change and hope, Barack Obama spends an awful lot of time scolding Americans about how he hopes they’ll change.
This week the President again showed how thin-skinned he is about criticism in the media. Maybe he’s so sensitive to criticism because he’s gotten so little of it.
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Glenn Thrush was reminded of another politician who was sensitive about his press reviews.
Republicans have been hitting the Obama administration for Attorney General Eric Holder’s too-quick decision to Mirandize accused Christmas bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab after a mere 50 minutes of what has been described as valuable interrogation. After the Miranda moment, the would-be bomber clammed up.
Critics argue that the FBI did not need to tell the Nigerian citizen that he had a right to remain silent and to an attorney. For one thing, he is not a U.S. citizen, but arguably an “enemy combatant” caught entering the country intent on committing an act of war. And even if he were a U.S. citizen, a “public-safety exception” for putting off a Miranda reading is recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court. So how do the Obamans defend this clear mistake?
The answer: By reminding people that President George W. Bush allowed accused terrorists to be Mirandized first. As if that makes Holder’s decision smart and solid.
A new Gallup poll, taken after Barack Obama used his State of the Union address to advocate a series of new government regulations, finds that most Americans are worried about giving the federal government new regulatory powers, and a large majority do not want to see the government become more involved in regulating and controlling business.Gallup asked, “Which worries you more? Too much regulation of business by the government or not enough regulation of business by the government?” Fifty-seven percent of those surveyed say they’re more worried about too much government regulation, while 37 percent say they’re more worried by not enough regulation. Six percent say they have no opinion.
“She didn’t have insurance. She couldn’t afford it, so she had put off having the kind of exams that she needed. And she had fought a tough battle for four years. All through the campaign she was fighting it, but finally she succumbed to it. And she insisted she’s going to be buried in an Obama t-shirt.” (Shouse’s family said she was cremated while wearing the t-shirt, as she had requested.)
Washington Examiner’s Byron York: Many observers have noted that the president often seems extraordinarily self-referential. It’s all about him, they say. But even those critics might be a little taken aback by the “buried in an Obama t-shirt” remark. Is it really that much about him?
Editor’s note: Obama said the woman did not have insurance but news reports from St. Louis indicate that she did have insurance that had a higher deductible.
