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Our Petty, Country-Be-Damned President
PJ Media, by Tom Bluner

Original Article

Posted By:StormCnter, 3/8/2013 5:05:09 AM

Sometimes, the smallest things can be the most revealing. On Tuesday, the nation — or at least the part that’s still paying attention — learned that President Barack Obama’s administration, in what can only be seen as an incredibly petty and virulently vindictive response to spending “cuts” imposed by sequestration (properly described in most cases as “reductions in projected spending increases”), decided to cancel all tours of the White House beginning March 9. As a result, to name just one of what are surely many examples, sixth graders at an Iowa elementary school which had received approval

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I´m willing to bet the suspension of tours will be lifted very soon. The Easter Egg Roll good PR won´t be enough to offset this very bad PR.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Kansas Conservative, 3/8/2013 5:52:09 AM     (No. 9214292)

Meanwhile, Michelle the Moocher´s shopping sprees continue unabated (at a rate of $18k/week). Full speed ahead toward Greece!


Reply 2 - Posted by: Country Boy, 3/8/2013 5:53:07 AM     (No. 9214293)

Just read about obama´s next royal vacation to Martha´s Vineyard.

51% of the country is totally brain dead.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: Ecclesiastes, 3/8/2013 6:19:34 AM     (No. 9214315)

I think this is great!

I´m thrilled that Obama - the first black ( complected ) President of the United States, a Democrat, an Ivy-League university graduate, a lawyer and a politician - has given such a powerful lesson to these children.


Reply 4 - Posted by: steveW, 3/8/2013 6:26:41 AM     (No. 9214320)

Dear Leader cares about the children. Dear Leader cares about the children´s future. It´s all too wonderful.


Reply 5 - Posted by: ROLFnader, 3/8/2013 6:38:33 AM     (No. 9214338)

Do what I say or you can´t come over to my house, anymore!!


Reply 6 - Posted by: strike3, 3/8/2013 7:08:26 AM     (No. 9214375)

Obama´s childish and vindictive behavior has gotten such strong attention that the names we use for His Lowness amongst ourselves are now making their way into major editorials. This little man is making so many enemies that any more votes for his corrupt party will be the result of election fraud. Can we impeach yet? Listening to boot lickers like Leahy and Feinstein argue in support of his useless and unconstitutional laws fully explains the quality of the flying monkeys who push his agenda. All respect for this government is gone.


Reply 7 - Posted by: eoddad, 3/8/2013 7:19:52 AM     (No. 9214392)

Great Leader (Dictator for Life) probably did not like the little people walking through HIS house anyway and this was a good excuse to close it. Its backfiring with time he´s headed for 30% approval and maybe those democrat senators up in 2014 will put distance between them and him.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: Freeloader, 3/8/2013 7:24:54 AM     (No. 9214405)

FTA:..."The Country Be Damned.´ That´s what we´re seeing now. It´s unprecedented..."

Two-Part Formula for wrecking a Constitutional Republic in twenty-five years or less:

-STEP #1: Elect as 42nd POTUS, then reelect, a wheeling dealing, slick talking, draft dodging, skirt chasing, disbarred outhouse barrister from a trailer park deep in the Ozark Woods.

-STEP #2: Choose as 44th POTUS, then ordain again, an undocumented, Muslim/Marxist, professional rabble-rouser off the windy mean streets of South Side Chicago.


Reply 9 - Posted by: DCGIRL, 3/8/2013 7:27:46 AM     (No. 9214411)

#3 you should also add, first affirmative action president.


Reply 10 - Posted by: Chiritwo, 3/8/2013 7:45:05 AM     (No. 9214448)

Has anyone informed him that it´s not his house. The White House belongs to the people. The children always get punished first to try to force the others hand. It´s been done before and will be done again with this guy as president. I think he´s so far out there that he thought he´d get away with it because he has got away with everything so far. When was the last time one heard about Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty?


Reply 11 - Posted by: baldguy, 3/8/2013 7:49:42 AM     (No. 9214456)

If the kiddies ponied up $500K to Obambi´s "campaign", they would get a private audience with Jugears.


Reply 12 - Posted by: Blue-Z-Anna, 3/8/2013 8:02:54 AM     (No. 9214480)

And now thousands of border patrol people are being ´part-timed´.

Good thing it´s just a few poor Mexicans sneaking in.... now that the whole Islamist Terrorist thingee has been eliminated.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: pineledger, 3/8/2013 8:03:46 AM     (No. 9214483)

He is so SO much worse than I ever imagined.


Reply 14 - Posted by: udanja99, 3/8/2013 8:25:15 AM     (No. 9214517)

I don´t know about you but a military coup is looking like a pretty good idea to me right now.


Reply 15 - Posted by: krause, 3/8/2013 8:29:07 AM     (No. 9214529)

Obama´s ´war on kids.´


Reply 16 - Posted by: kate318, 3/8/2013 8:37:38 AM     (No. 9214549)

#14, me too.


Reply 17 - Posted by: LAW428, 3/8/2013 8:53:12 AM     (No. 9214589)

Don´t forget the Fast and Furious gun running operation...we haven´t heard anything about that either. The criminals in the White House get a pass while the media focus on cuts on spending increases, which are not consequential at all.

Our government isn´t the problem. This country has all of the framework it has ever had to be great. What is lacking are statesmen in Washington. We have politicians who are on selfish power trips, moving us toward the trash heap of history.

America could be great again, but the Communists have a foothold. Joseph McCarthy was so right!


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: Felixcat, 3/8/2013 9:01:09 AM     (No. 9214618)

Personally, I wouldn´t step anywhere inside The White House while the Obamas are there. Those kids would be better off visiting Mt. Vernon - about 30-45 minuted from the White House. See where a real man and wife of honor and integrity lived.


Reply 19 - Posted by: fire_mission, 3/8/2013 9:13:20 AM     (No. 9214647)

In Hussein´s mind, every American is disposable if seen as a barrier to him achieving his Communist ambitions.


Reply 20 - Posted by: Holeymoses, 3/8/2013 9:18:32 AM     (No. 9214659)

Hope Obama plans to put his presidential library in Kenya or we´ll be having a black mecca every year to whatever site he chooses- all in religious adoration of this petty dictator. So many indications of how little he thinks of the American people.


Reply 21 - Posted by: maryc, 3/8/2013 9:34:35 AM     (No. 9214716)

Priorities please. His vacation time is much more important. I just hope the press picks up some horrible mutant infection from licking the obama´s boots and bottoms.


Reply 22 - Posted by: Bumblebee, 3/8/2013 9:40:52 AM     (No. 9214728)

Our country´s own Chavez light.? But why blame the leader and not the greedy people who elected him? Both greedy Wall Street bankers as well as those greedy citizens who still think that Wash. DC is where Santa lives.
And all those among us who do not love "Truth", Left and Right!


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: jeffkinnh, 3/8/2013 9:42:19 AM     (No. 9214734)

While the article predicts that the People will awaken to BO´s manipulations, the results of the election have caused me to never underestimate the foolishness of the People. We will see.


Reply 24 - Posted by: killerbee, 3/8/2013 9:54:45 AM     (No. 9214764)

#23: You are correct. There´s no way the people will understand the extortion that´s happening to them. They will blame the Republicans who didn´t give Obama what he wanted for their children´s disappointment.

We live in the country of Stupidland on the planet of Bizarro World.


Reply 25 - Posted by: OhMy, 3/8/2013 9:59:07 AM     (No. 9214779)

The constitution specifies that the military are under civilian control #14 but why should this be the only part of the constitution which is respected when Obama shreds the rest of it?


Reply 26 - Posted by: fed-up, 3/8/2013 10:03:26 AM     (No. 9214795)

"Baracks Barracks" love it. LOL

Whoever is recommending this campaign style crap to him, needs to be replaced. The strategery is starting to wear thin.

And I´m with you #13... he´s much worse than I ever thought, too. And that´s saying something.


Reply 27 - Posted by: Roberto 22, 3/8/2013 10:20:58 AM     (No. 9214843)

Eric Bolling´s Donation poses a prolem for BO....


Reply 28 - Posted by: dbdiva, 3/8/2013 10:47:46 AM     (No. 9214934)

POTUS ~ PUNK of the United States.


Reply 29 - Posted by: Butch59, 3/8/2013 11:07:06 AM     (No. 9214987)

#14 Add me to your list. And if they do, they will have a lot of help from a large group of citizens.


Reply 30 - Posted by: Dignitary Protection, 3/8/2013 11:25:50 AM     (No. 9215025)

#14, I like that idea also.


Reply 31 - Posted by: knarfski, 3/8/2013 12:33:11 PM     (No. 9215150)


Reply 32 - Posted by: peterfleming, 3/8/2013 3:01:41 PM     (No. 9215394)

With Breitbart and YouTube unofficial, citizen reporters photographing EVERYthing, where are the golfing, shopping, jet flying, vacationing videos of the pretender/spender in chief? Isn´t Diane Sawyer mafia media doing enough censoring already? Brainwashing nightly is bad enough.
Can´t we get at least a few gross behavior
photos of these arrogant destructive people
in big spending action? Where is everybody?
Why does Fox news show Obamao happily getting on and off some prop helicoptor, always in a suit and always waving to nobody
Why can´t Fox show him looking bad, too?
Nobody dares to photo him golfing. How come?


Reply 33 - Posted by: typhoon, 3/8/2013 3:55:55 PM     (No. 9215464)

I´m with 14.


Reply 34 - Posted by: rocco49, 3/8/2013 4:44:40 PM     (No. 9215532)

How about we shut down the White House completely and let Joe and Barry work out of my garage? That way I could keep an eye on that skinny punk liar ansd that old gasbag plagiarist! I´d even offer to buy them lunch...whatta ya say?


Reply 35 - Posted by: nonsense, 3/8/2013 6:15:01 PM     (No. 9215644)

I don´t ever, ever want to hear Mrs. Fork-Tongue tell us that Bari "loves us". Too bad the "takers" fall for that line of bullish blankish.


Reply 36 - Posted by: Rafter, 3/8/2013 6:16:40 PM     (No. 9215647)

Give a Dope enough Rope...

He´s shot himself in the foot so bad...
Yer dang tootin´ he needs some serious gun control... !!
His own... !!

Fun to watch this guy unravel before our very eyes.
Pass the popcorn, please.
Haven´t been able to say that in a while!


Reply 37 - Posted by: Bobn.T, 3/8/2013 7:43:49 PM     (No. 9215773)

Be careful what you say.
Advocating the overthrow of the gov´t is treasonous. You may be identified as mentally ill or unpatriotic. That might cause you to be unable to buy guns, get employment, etc.
Might even result in DHS, FBI, Secret Service,or other gov´t officials visiting you and wanting to silence you or march you of to an undisclosed location. You might even be a drone target.

If advocating the overthrow, that may be interpreted as threatening the Pres. Not good - would bring the Secret Service immediately.


Reply 38 - Posted by: noddy, 3/8/2013 8:12:26 PM     (No. 9215799)

#27, later that afternoon Sean Hannity complimented Eric on his generosity and said he too would pay for a week. You´re right; big embarrassment for Stinky.


Reply 39 - Posted by: grambo, 3/8/2013 10:42:49 PM     (No. 9215999)

For above posters considering a coup, remember that Eric Holder has refused to rule out a drone strike on Americans on American soil if they are deemed, by unnamed officials, a threat to the country. Now why would he take that position? Does he anticipate your sentiments and hopes? It doesn´t bode well for our Republic.


Reply 40 - Posted by: Japanorama, 3/8/2013 11:26:14 PM     (No. 9216035)

What did Americans think when they elected low-life thugs from the ghettos of Chicago?


Reply 41 - Posted by: Susannah, 3/9/2013 1:17:29 PM     (No. 9216877)

Was it Charles Krauthammer who said that the price of Obama´s golfing weekend would have kept the tours running for a year?



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