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applegrove

(118,622 posts)
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 10:30 PM Mar 2014

"Obama, the feckless tyrant"

Obama, the feckless tyrant

by Dana Milbank at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-obama-the-feckless-tyrant/2014/03/03/73470bdc-a320-11e3-84d4-e59b1709222c_story.html#

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President Obama is such a weak strongman. What’s more, he is a feeble dictator and a timid tyrant.

That, at any rate, is Republicans’ critique of him. With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Obama’s critics pivoted seamlessly from complaining about his overreach to fretting that he is being too cautious. Call it Operation Oxymoron.

Last Wednesday, I sat in a House hearing and listened to Republicans describe Obama exercising “unparalleled use of executive power” and operating an “uber-presidency.” They accused him of acting like a “king” and a “monarch,” of making the United States like a “dictatorship” or a “totalitarian government” by exercising “imperial” and “magisterial power.”

But after events in Ukraine, this very tyrant was said to be so weak that it’s “shocking.”




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"Obama, the feckless tyrant" (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2014 OP
"Operation Oxymoron"? Should it not be "Operation Oxymoran" applegrove Mar 2014 #1
+1,000,000,000,000! n/t ms liberty Mar 2014 #5
To Right Wingers, He's GUMBY, Dammit!!! Dirty Socialist Mar 2014 #2
Running completely new narratives on Obama depending on the need. applegrove Mar 2014 #3
You're Right Dirty Socialist Mar 2014 #4
"Make up your mind dude, is he gonna shit or is he gonna kill us?" tularetom Mar 2014 #6

Dirty Socialist

(3,252 posts)
2. To Right Wingers, He's GUMBY, Dammit!!!
Thu Mar 6, 2014, 10:35 PM
Mar 2014

Right wingers twist and distort Obama into whatever is negative. It's amazing.

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