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‘Morning Joe’ Panel’s Blistering Theory on Obama Performance: Heard ‘Hail to the Chief’ Too Many Times, Needs Teleprompters

Oct. 4, 2012 9:03am Jonathon M. Seidl

The MSNBC “Morning Joe” panel offered a blistering wrap-up of Wednesday’s debate. Mainly, they were down on President Obama, and offered some honest theories as to why: he’s too used to hearing “Hail to the Chief” with no one challenging him, and frankly he’s become dependent on teleprompters.

Watch below (the harshest criticism begins at 7:45):

Here’s transcript of some of the tougher points:

Jon Meacham: “To cite the person who knows most about politics in my life, my eight year old daughter, who came in and asked, ‘Why is President Obama so mad. … And I think that’s a really good way of putting it. It looked as though he was either at the wrong debate, he was in parallel play, and it also looked to me as if he had the classic presidential case of, no one has spoken to him that way in four years.”

Joe Scarborough: “Stop and say that again, because Chris Matthews said that last night, that maybe he’s heard “Hail to the Chief” one too many times. Say that again.”

Meacham: “No one has spoken to him that way — no one has tried to interrupt him — in four years.”

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Mike Barnicle: We also know anecdotally from your reporting and other reporting that we read continually that there’s very little interaction between this president and members of the Senate and members of the House. There’s very little personal interaction. There’s no phone calls back and forth. We don’t know really what happens when he has conversations about the legislation pending and stuff like that. But we do know from last night when Mitt Romney says I don’t know what you’re talking about, we do know the look that registered on President Obama’s face was, you know, who are you to be saying that to me. There’s another element here as long as we’re talking about this, and Jon Meacham is right, that no one has spoken to him like this for the last four years. There’s another element that perhaps should be under discussion. The president had no teleprompter last night. He speaks almost all the time off of a teleprompter. Forced now to stand on his feet after four years in the bubble, getting pushed back a little, he didn’t do too well. He didn’t do too well.

The irony in all this? One of the reasons the president might not be used to people pushing back is because the press has been relatively complacent over the last four years.

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perry1980
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:47am
No One has every Challenged Obama in 4 years. The media has been nothing more than “yes men” So he was unprepared for the knock out punches by Romney.

They have nobody to blame but themselves

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- smokeysmoke
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:51am
  mabey if the media asked him 1 tough question, mabey he would have been more prepaired than an empty chair
  
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- fastfacts
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 10:52am
  McCain brought this up this morning, totally thanking Obama’s ‘adoring media’ for softening Obama so Romney could take him down: http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2012/oct/mccain_adoring_media.html
  
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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 11:11am
  Thank God president Romney stepped up!
  
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- expresso
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 11:52am
  You are dead wrong. The “Pimp with the limp” challenged him a couple of weeks ago.
  
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- Female
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 11:54am
  The media is probably sick of covering for O. He is the QB who can’t do anything with the ball. The medias been making all the points through fieldgoals.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 12:28pm
  I continued the challenge to Obama immediately after the debate by going to Romney’s website and donating to Romney’s campaign.
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 1:08pm
  “Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.” – Justice William O. Douglas
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 1:32pm
  Chris, that was piss running down you leg!
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 1:42pm
  This performance is an indictment of the press; the false presentations of two men. That press could not control a head to head debate. Sununu said it best, ” Obama just isn’t that smart.”
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:45pm
  “Yes men” is an understatement. The media have been salivating groupies. Charles Manson wishes he had such fanatical support from his people.
  
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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 4:16pm
  We’ve been paying this man to run our Country efficiently for 4 years and find out the only thing he knows is what his teleprompter tells him. Then he said how much work he’s done……….yeah, right!\
  
  He doesn’t talk to anyone (important), doesn’t go to briefing meetings, doesn’t do anything but draw his pay, take our airplanes all over the world for himself & his wifie (for questionable reasons), charging millions to this Nation for their personal fun, then we wonder why he knows NOTHING.
  
  He thought because he finally gave an ok to get Bin Laden was a feather in his cap, when it was Bush’s plan and the Navy Seal’s effort and years of searching & planning that caused it to happen and obama just happened to be in the W.H. at the right time but had no part in getting Bin Laden.
  
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- mixplix
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 8:23pm
  Absolutely, they lived the fiction of the left for four years and it was amazing what 90 minutes of unedited video did to the Progressive movement and the covering of the msm in all venues of the Administration. They are in panic mode at the present time that someone had the audacity to confront their King.
  
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Exidor
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:44am
John McCain summed it up nicely on Fox this morning. They asked him what happened to Obama. He didn’t hesitate, he looked at the camera and said “Four years in a bubble and an adoring media”.

Boom!

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- moonlight on the bay
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:54am
  Bingo!
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:57am
  McPain shouldn’t talk – he was so adoring of Gaybama he lost the last election to him. Case in point – bowing to political correctness to such an extent, he fired team members for vocalizing Gaybama’s middle name; set his attack dogs on his own running mate; referred to the demon in the WH as a “friend” and a “good man”.
  
  McPain is correct in this assessment, but he’s still a two-faced hose-bag…
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 10:11am
  McCain didn’t do himself, or us, any favors by treating the “Anointed One” with kid gloves during the 2008 debates. He did not go after Obama, yet took a beating from him. McCain let Obama walk all over him and didn’t fight back.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 12:32pm
  McCain’s right but there’s more at work than that. Add to that a narcissist who has never heard the word “no” other than as he said himself last night..when it’s said to his opposition by him.
  
  The most telling thing was in Luntz’s group last night when a 25 year old male Obama supporter said he’s now voting for Romney because Romney clearly knows what he’s talking about..and when 50% of new grads can’t find work in Obama’s “more teachers, more green job subsidies” economy…you know that means trouble for the empty chair. Eastwood is looking smarter and smarter today.
  
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- Jenny Lind
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:08pm
  As another point of view and not to start a ruckus, maybe John McCain did this country a huge service by letting him win. Maybe we would have quietly slid down into oblivion without waking up without Obama showing us we had to stand up and be counted. So, I am not so mad at him, and I think he has figured it out.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:27pm
  McCain was a shame. He literally campaigned for Barack.
  
  It was exhilarating to watch Romney fight all 12 rounds, never letting up, throwing forceful punches/arguments at the mentally-challenged commie. Then Romney delivered the KO blow: ” …but we need to have leadership — leadership in Washington that will actually bring people together and get the job done and could not care less if it’s a Republican or a Democrat. I’ve done it before. I’ll do it again.”
  
  WOOHOO! Get a brain transplant, Obum!
  
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Detroit paperboy
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:43am
This Odumbass has not had a hard question thrown his way in really SIX years…..he is way off his game and nobody is buying his BS this time around, aside from Univision most of his questions have been :::: dear leader, what is the most ENCHANTING thing about being president ????? The real story of the past four years is how the press has been EXPOSED for what they really are,,,DEMOCRATS !!!!!!!!! Thank God for the new media !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Master.Debater
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:41am
Mika asks why this Romney doesn’t come out on the campaign trail.

Because you guys don’t cover it! The debate was just Obama and Romney on the stage with no media filter. That’s not good for Obama.

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- SITDOWNANDSHUTUP
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 10:34am
  ding ding ding……..we have a winner. This is 1,000,000% correct. I have seen nothing on Romney on the campaign trail. All I see is how Romney is “not connecting”. Obviously, that lie is being stated over, and over, and over, and over again. The MSGM is at it again.
  
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- yohannbiimu
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 11:52am
  That is a very astute analysis. Every time the media reports something Mitt says on the road they’re taking something out of context or just misreport what happened. The media had to watch like everyone else as spectators, and it was so bad for Obama that few could spin it in his favor. Even Chrissy M. had to admit that his leg didn’t get thrilled, and that Romney won.
  
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Dustoff
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:40am
So Joe. You admit. O-dumber can’t speak with his (teleprompter)
Thanks, but we already knew that.

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Carlinpa
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:39am
It was a classic debate between a successful business man and a successful CON man. When pressed and challenged on the facts and veracity of his (obama) allegations, it is revealed that obama doesn’t know anything about how the economy works

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huey6367
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:37am
Instead of “it’s Bush’s fault” I will now say “It’s Obama’s fault”

But Obama was embarassed now and will come back viciously.

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- Master.Debater
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:42am
  Good. I hope he shows his true character.
  
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- Pokerjoe
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 12:09pm
  I think we have already saw it. But your right he will try and fail. Mr. Mitt.will take him to the wood shed again. Mitt is smarter and brave. I think he will be just fine unless the Big Candy gets in his way. I think thats right, won’t she be the one? You know she will be on El Odumbos side.
  
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dylan
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:36am
How’s the smell of elephant dung, Joey boy? Old RHINO’S have a place to go. They silently lumber away with wrinkled skin flopping, to the RHINO gathering place where one never dies, just ceases to be. Not die, just be. In other words the walking dead. You know: Dingy Harry. In the clinical sense Dingy Harry functions as living and does breath, but he is another one who is at that place of the ‘just be’er’s’. Sad. It is CLEAR that Romney reaches out and grabs life with great gusto. The ‘One’ does not have the faintest clue. Another ‘be’er’.

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pakaeboiboi
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:36am
….. where’s my CHOOOOM GANG when I need them most ???????

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OhSuzieQ
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:34am
Yeah!!!!!

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AlphaProtocol
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:33am
To Barack Obama,

You got destroyed by Mitt Romney. Do you know why? Because he’s an earnest, respectable man with an inspired vision for America; and you, you’re a selfish, lying, marxist sack of feces.

See what hanging out in the Whitehouse until 1am every morning drinking your swill, and believing your own BS gets you?

You’re a phony. I hate you.

Sincerely,

America

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- OhSuzieQ
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:53am
  The Good won over evil !
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 10:17am
  It’s not over yet Suzie. I spent an hour in the prayer room at my church before the debate last night. I plan on the same for the next three debates and the election, with plenty of prayer inbetween. I’m considering tying a lamb up in my back yard just for backup.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 1:50pm
  I prayed before the debate also GONZO. I thanked God and prayed after it too.
  Make no mistake though…the Obama smear machine will have the empty chair pile on the smears next debate. Only now Romney has to a degree innoculated himself from the smears and they will backfire on Obama.
  
  Now the Ryan-Biden debate will be a bloodbath…and its’ going to help Romney immensely like a one-two punch when Ryan dispells the smears against him especially seen next to the clownish Biden.
  
  But next Romney-Obama debate Obama will pile on the smears..it’s too late for Obama though. My guess is Obama’s campaign grossly underestimated Romney while grossly over estimating Obama’s purported charisma. The empty chair thought he’d win it with and economic policy of “more teachers, more green job subsidies” and spinkle it with a few anecdotes about his grandmother and “pre-existing conditions”. He’s never been credibly challenged, not even against McCain. Romney knows his stuff and he’s likable and he’s got the record and the ability to back up what he says. Obama’s got chronic unemployment and skyrocketing debt under his watch and a hugely unpopular Obamacare. Letterman and The View isn’t going to cut it neither is “more teachers, more green job subsidies”.
  I’ll be praying too GONZO.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:51pm
  @GONZO
  I’m considering tying a lamb up in my back yard just for backup.
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  LOL!! Let’s continue to reclaim our inheritance. I prayed that the God of Hosts would confuse the enemy like He did in times of old. I also prayed for angels to surround Romney. God hears us. He is faithful.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 3:33pm
  Krypto, that is EXACTLY what I was praying! Awsome!
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 4:13pm
  GONZO,
  Wow, yes, God is awesome!
  
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SREGN
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:29am
Obama built that.

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salvawhoray
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:28am
Obama kept going over 2 min. Hell at one point he took almost 5.

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- OhSuzieQ
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:38am
  Obumma is toast! I really saw the true Obumma. Know nothing.
  
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- moonlight on the bay
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:49am
  That’s Ohama’s problem as far as time limits go. When he DOES answer questions from the press or during interviews, he takes FOREVER to answer the question! Rambles on and on. I KNEW that would hurt him when there’d be a time limit on his answers. He spent the last three days getting coached and THIS is all he brings? He WAS getting coached, right? He wasn’t at a show at the MGM Grand or spending all that time at the gambling tables, was he? Well, he DID gamble after all didn’t he??? Gambled on Romney’s chances at beating him and LOST.
  
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BurntHills
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:28am
last night was the best Jesus moment ever seen. somewhere the ”obama-rules-of-engagement” Afghanistan war’s 2,004 US soldiers and ambassador Chris Stevens and the 3 other US 9/11 terrorist victims and the 26 USN SEALs from the mysterious “chopper crash” are smiling…

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- OhSuzieQ
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:55am
  Amen!
  
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dadsrootbeer
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:23am
Ironic that the drive by media lame stream press are blamming their king’s performance on not having the teleprompter and ego and not themselves for creating this monster. By not asking tough questions, vetting and performing basic journalistic duties this is what happens. There are consequences for being in the bag for the child king.

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- moonlight on the bay
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:52am
  Well, if Obama’s heard “Hail To The Chief” too many times, the mainstream media is who’s been performing the number!!!
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:22am
Bwahahahahahahaha!

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jaylew
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:21am
This morning….that one white haired bimbo on that MSNBC morning joe show looked like she started her period early. And Mark Halperin….unshaven from his red eye flight back from the Colorado debate looked especially jittery…..there is nothing more hilarious than watching the faces of normally smug liberal know it alls….finding themselves in positions…spinless…..with giant red “L”‘s etched on their foreheads….”L” for liberal….and after last nights debate…”L” for Losers.

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RayOne
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:19am
I have one word to my Democrat Brethren, ‘ObamaPhone.’

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- OhSuzieQ
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:40am
  Hahahahahahaha!!
  
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- moonlight on the bay
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:59am
  Obama phone lady, when asked how Obama did with the first debate: “He sucks! Bad!”
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 10:13am
  Looks like those phones may be disconnected soon.
  
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- midnightvelvet
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:05pm
  You actually think that President Romney will get rid of those phones? Not likely.
  
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ARSILHOUETTE
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:18am
What I noticed most of all was that Obama very seldom looked at Mitt while Mitt was talking. He would look down and than to the right. Romney was in front and slightly to the left. He looked like a freshman going against a seasoned Senior in his first debate.

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woodyee
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:13am
“Mainly, they were down on President Obama, and offered some honest theories as to whey”…

I’d like to here about those theories on whey, but can you please give us the “why” of the story? Thanks, Jonathan!

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RJJinGadsden
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:10am
LOL, Hope most of you heard the opening of Glenn’s show this morning. The song will be a classic.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:10am
Obama fell apart, Romney crushed him – understand clearly though; Obama’s insanity advances more and more with each day, and he is capable of doing anything to hold onto what power he has. Do not ever underestimate him.

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- hauschild
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:21am
  It’s not really Obama – he’s the puppet – literally; an empty suit; no substance whatsoever. You saw it last nite. It’s really embarrassing to those with real intelligence that this dude is POTUS. He appears at times more wet behind the ears than King Tut.
  
  Expect the media not to make the same mistake for the rest of the debates. Those will have questions seriously skewed to allow the Marxist to flourish, and continually painting Romney in a bad light. I’ve seen it time and time again. I believe last nite was a rare exception; not the norm. The lunatic fringe will not be denied.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 11:06am
  Yeah Haus. They got caught flat-footed big time. Jim Lehrer was hung out to dry and blamed for Obama’s poor performance. They will make sure that the next moderator will be thoroughly threatened and intimidated. Lehrer was letting Obama talk WAY over the 2 minute limit. He gave him all the chances in the world. I would even bet that Lehrer is getting death threats for not coming to Obama’s rescue. Who wants to bet?
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 3:26pm
  @MIL-DOT
  Lehrer was thrown off his game too. He tried to shut Romney up from the start, but not only did Romney NOT cower down as Lehrer expected, but to Lehrer’s astonishment, he punched back and gave the Obama moderator a black eye that stung like hell the rest of the night.
  
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Gonzo
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:10am
“frankly he’s become dependent on teleprompters.”
It’s taken you morons 4 years to figure that out? You should all be ashamed, but you’re too damned dumb to know it.

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- hauschild
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:25am
  And, we’ve still got respected talking heads on “our” side that claim Obama is “intelligent”. What’s that movie with the line, “You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.”?
  
  Being educated in no way – absolute NO WAY – means one is intelligent.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 10:07am
  Don’t forget they keep telling us how likeable he is too Hchild. He’s about as likeable as the kid in “The Omen” to me.
  
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- hauschild
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 12:30pm
  I just don’t understand what a traditional American would think they have in common with this dude (even leftists). He was raised overseas by communists. That alone should be a warning sign for anybody with any ability to think independently and reason.
  
  When you grow up outside of the country you are now a citizen of, how can you possibly have instilled into you (even with non-commie parents/grandparents) any semblance of what it means to be a true citizen of that country – including your responsibilities of carrying the torch as an American???
  
  So many people don’t see it, but it was one of the first things I picked up on years ago. If the dude running your country hates your country, what do you think he thinks of you??? At some point, I would think that emotion would trump food stamps, housing subsidies and free medical.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on October 4, 2012 at 2:37pm
  @HAUSCHILD
  Being educated in no way – absolute NO WAY – means one is intelligent.
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  I would put it differently: Being a Harvard graduate in no way, absolutely no way, means you are educated or intelligent. And the reason for that is AA.
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:09am
Well, DUH! 0bama is lazy and too used to having the press cover his ass at every turn.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 4, 2012 at 9:09am
No matter how bad the defeat of Obama last night; we must not underestimate him – the insanity of Obama is such he has become capable of anything. Until Romney enters the office of the Presidency, we must be ready for anything from Obama, and I mean anything.

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