AP: Obama Defends His Faith in America Amid Republican Criticism
- Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:25am by
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After a series of statements causing Republicans to criticize his faith in America, President Barack Obama is highlighting the U.S.'s role in the world. (AP File Photo)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Mitt Romney accuses President Barack Obama of considering America “just another nation.” To other GOP politicians running for the White House, Obama has apologized for the United States and is presiding over the nation’s decline.
Now comes the counteroffensive.
The president of the United States is defending his faith in America, confronting GOP efforts to undercut his leadership and raise questions about his patriotism as he seeks re-election.
In the battle over “American exceptionalism,” Obama used a recent trip to Asia to highlight America’s role as the strongest and most influential nation on earth. In this election season, responding to the Republican critique is essential for Obama, the only incumbent ever compelled to show a birth certificate to defend his legitimacy.
“Sometimes the pundits and the newspapers and the TV commentators love to talk about how America is slipping and America is in decline,” Obama said Wednesday at a New York fundraiser. “That‘s not what you feel when you’re in Asia. They’re looking to us for leadership. They know that America is great not just because we’re powerful, but also because we have a set of values that the world admires.”
“We don‘t just think about what’s good for us, but we‘re also thinking about what’s good for the world,” he said. “That’s what makes us special. That’s what makes us exceptional.”
Republicans have seized on “American exceptionalism,” a belief among many in the nation that the U.S. is special among global powers, and tried to portray Obama as expressing ambivalence about the promise of his own country. The message resounds with party activists who still admire President Ronald Reagan, who memorialized America as that “Shining City on a Hill” during the 1980s.
“We have a president right now who thinks America’s just another nation. America is an exceptional nation,” Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, said during a GOP debate in Las Vegas last month. Even his campaign slogan – “Believe in America” – suggests that the current president doesn’t.
Others have tried to use it to their advantage.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, in an interview with Fox News‘ Bill O’Reilly last month, said Obama had “traveled around the country making excuses for America, apologizing for America, saying that America is not an exemplary country.”
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich criticized Obama after 16 Latin American and Caribbean nations filed “friend of the court” briefs in a Justice Department lawsuit against a tough new immigration law in South Carolina, home to an important GOP primary. “It makes you wonder what country does President Obama think he is president of,” Gingrich said.
Obama has given detractors ample material for their attacks.
At a San Francisco fundraiser in October, the president talked about the importance of investing in education, new roads and bridges and other ways to build the economy.
“We used to have the best stuff. Anybody been to Beijing Airport lately?” Obama said, asking what has changed. “Well, we’ve lost our ambition, our imagination, and our willingness to do the things that built the Golden Gate Bridge and Hoover Dam.” Republicans picked up on the comments, accusing Obama of calling Americans unambitious.
During a meeting with business executives in Honolulu last month, Obama was asked about impediments to investment in the U.S. He said many foreign investors see opportunity here, “but we’ve been a little bit lazy, I think over the last couple of decades.“ The ”lazy” comments were quickly turned into an attack ad from Perry.
During a 2009 news conference, Obama was asked whether he subscribed to the concept of American exceptionalism. He said he believed in American exceptionalism, “just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”
The president said he was “enormously proud of my country” and highlighted the nation’s “core set of values enshrined in our Constitution” that ensure democracy, free speech and equality. Words that voters are likely to hear more of during the next year.
A Gallup poll in December 2010 found that 80 percent of Americans thought the U.S. had a unique character that made it the greatest country in the world. The survey found that 91 percent of Republicans agreed with the statement.
In the same poll, 34 percent of Republicans said Obama believed the U.S. was the greatest country in the world, while 83 percent of Democrats said he did.
The American exceptionalism argument has traditionally signaled U.S. strength overseas and the promotion of American values such as freedom of speech and religion. But with Obama’s rise, it has taken on a new meaning.
At a time of economic discord, it builds on the notion that America’s weakened economy could hurt its standing across the globe. It offers a critique of Obama’s foreign policy credentials, even as troops begin heading home from Iraq and the U.S. role in Afghanistan is transitioning.
It also represents a subtle way to question Obama’s patriotism, the seeds of which reside in the “birther” movement that questioned the legitimacy of Obama’s presidency. Suspicions over Obama‘s citizenship eventually prompted the White House to produce the president’s long-form birth certificate showing he was born in Hawaii.
Yet Democrats don’t see this as a debilitating issue for the president, but more a matter of fodder in the Republican primary. Obama, they say, can draw upon it to show optimism in the country.
“Obama is powerful proof of American exceptionalism, that this country has certain set of ideals,” said Democratic consultant Bob Shrum. “His election and his presidency is a testament to the character of the country.”
Obama has been assertive in recent weeks about America’s unique role in the world as it shifts away from conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. During his nine-day Asian trip last month, the president reiterated the U.S.’s growing role in the region and stressed that “American leadership is still welcome.”
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TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:13amPOS POTUS. Insufferable.
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:12amUh, okay – obama and his grotesque woman have been spewing their hatred of America for over three years – we know where they stand. America deserves better.
GulfPeg
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:31amYes, enough with the lies, Obama!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:33amThat is his faith, collective salvation and communism. He just needs to come out and admit it.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:43amI agree .. he hates America and we all have seen the destruction and proof of it!
TEA!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:49amHis faith ?.. don’t forget the fraudien slip …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMUgNg7aD8M
TEA!
Report Post »mbriz
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 12:17pmNo he hasn’t.
Report Post »hud
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 12:19pmABO because we deserve better. If you go to sleep today and don’t wake up till November, the vote is Anybody But Obummer.Because elections have consequences.
Report Post »mils
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 12:21pmIt’s getting closer to the election..so Obama and wife will start their lies about how the LOVE THIS COUNTRY AND HAVE DOEN EVERYTHING WITHIN THEIR POWER TO HELP, BUT THOSE DAMNED REPUBLICANS have thwarted him in every evernt!!!
Damned Republicans and Love love love America..hahahahahahahah
WE TRULY do deswerve better than this do nothing man…
What ever happened to that uncle of his that was arrested on a DUI????
Report Post »ConservativeCharlie
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 12:26pmsame guy that said the muslim call to prayer is the most beautiful sound on earth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJo3o-SIVps&list=UUIBsFaYvoOEDR2_AJoOfL_w&feature=plcp
Report Post »t00nces2
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 12:39pmLying to the infidel is encouraged among Muslims.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 12:40pmObama belonged to “rev. wright’s” church for twenty years????…I only had to listen to the “reverend” for a minute and know two things…anti American…Anti God. So I wouldn’t expect too much from his congregation..ie..obama and family.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:02pmI’d like to smack that smug ***** in his bitch face.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:19pm… HEY HUSSEIN! Yer a Godda*n muslim communist! You always have been, and you always will be!!! YOU FILTHY LIAR!! Go to Hawaii!! Stay there!! DO NOT COME BACK, YOU WORTHLESS POS!!!!
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:20pmHe’s proud of America? Since when??? Did his head explode when he said it?
Let me guess: Moochelle and Axelrod told him to say that.
If anyone deserves to have “Lyin’ A$$ B****’ as their intro song, it’s that amadan parading around as a newly patriotic, God-fearing, bible-clinging citizen. B****rd.
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:32pmI know in my life time there has never been a question about
Report Post »if the President was a True AMERICAN PATRIOT, until now
with Obama, I wonder if thru out History there was ever another
President AND First Lady thats Patriotism was questioned????
Ari Ben TZion
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:36pmObama hates America and hates what America stands for.
His mother was a socialist doxy who abandoned him. His father was a typical African male fathering countless children and then having nothing to do with them.
Obama’s was a member of the Rev. Jeremiah Wrong’s church for twenty years. Rev. Wrong preaches ‘Liberation Theology’ which is nothing more than communism.
If Obama had his way, he would destroy America overnight.
Report Post »Quagaar Warrior
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:45pm~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Report Post »What a bag of SHiITe !!!
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FreakofNATEure
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 2:27pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OCjMaWZKWU don’t forget this
Report Post »almont
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 2:41pmHussain Bin Lyin Again.
Report Post »His dislike for us is understandable……… Most non-Americans do.
antrancher
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 2:57pmTAQIYYA!!!!! Get rid of the moran in the WH?? Vote!!
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 3:05pmif I were Obama… I’d go home.
Report Post »wesinLR
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 3:06pmhow can you say he does not love this country? You know he loves it.. in every other nation he would be a homeless bum.. here we put him in the white house and he can do what ever he want… so sure he love the country… just hates its free loving ideals.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 3:26pmMy response to Tri-ox Post (on December 4, 2011 at 11:12am)
I agree. Problem is, too many Americans have a short memory.
Report Post »A week before the election, Soulless, Godless, Obama will kiss up to the voters, and perform some great, impressive, Presidential deed, and he’s in. Also, in my opinion, elections are so rigged these days, Obama will win by a landslide. I would have bet the farm, that Clinton could never have been re-elected for a second term, but he got back in. We need a four year term limit for all elected officials.
AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 3:53pmThis @ss – Obama the Destroyer – has got to go!
Report Post »lodgerat
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 4:06pmIt’s election time. Time to say anything to get elected. NoBama in 2012
TEA
Report Post »your sensei
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 4:14pmObama spewing hatred for America for three year?
Examples? Anything at all?
Report Post »michael48
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 4:52pmyes indeed, he’s proud of all 57 or 58 tele-tantrum states…uh..uh..uh…
Report Post »Tagudinian
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 5:21pmAny American who believes this bogus claim by Obama that he and his Obesity Queen wife Moochelle dearly love America has got to be so gullible, retarded, or just a plain moron on food stamps. Obama hates America. He apologizes for America to satraps, petty tyrants, Muslims, Chinese Emperors and jihadists. He badmouths America because it is a democracy not a socialistic society. So this community organizer bozo is trying to wiggle his way out of the benjo ditch labyrinth of lies of his own making.
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 5:29pm3 years too late….
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 6:26pmWhat Has HE done with all our TAX MONEY ???
Why does he ARM the Mexican Cartels ???
Why are WE sending all our JOBS to other Countries ???
Why can’t WE Drill For OUR OWN Oil ???
Why can’t we give FARMERS the WATER they NEED
to GROW their CROPS ???
Why is our AMERICAN LANDSCAPE being saturated
with Hundreds of Thousands of WINDMILLS ???
I could keep going, but the BLAZE allows Me only a
Report Post »limited number of characters….DUMP OBAMA !!!!!!!
mils
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 6:58pmRepublicans had best stand up and start screaming that they are not the ones saying America is not the very best….quote Obama’s speeches…
Report Post »Conservatives let this man get out on the world stage and spew his hatred both ways…according to him we’re lazy people, gun lovers etc..yet he says it’s republicans saying crap.
.CONSERVATIVES GET YOUR BIG GIRLS PANTIES ON AND ANSWER THIS MAN BACK..LOUDLY♥♥VERY LOUDLY!!
15jgrant
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 7:09pmWTHeck are you talking about? An argument with no support is not an argument. It is an opinion. Your argumentum ad ignorantiam, or your appeal from ignorance, shall hold no power over me, dark deceiver. You and your ilk, always drawing false conclusions because there is no way to prove them wrong. Haven’t you ever thought that there is no way to prove them right either?
Report Post »dasbunker
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 7:36pmBut the Sea cow is finaly proud of America.
Report Post »I am sure that will change in November.
Ruler4You
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 7:48pmA liar can’t change his stripes. obama will always be a liar.
The “unemployment” numbers were rigged to make it ‘look’ like “he” has had an effect on unemployment. Those numbers are ALWAYS post revised. Always.
He has spent the last 4 years (including his campaign, which was 18 months long) called America a ‘looser’ nation. Always. It was only a few months ago when he last was out telling the world that America was a handicap for the world.
Now we are back? Just like that?
Fundamental change is complete? Only a FOOL would promote such crapola. And only a fool would believe it.
obama is kissing America where the sun don’t shine. Or trying to.
Report Post »PKama
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 8:01pm@CHAZMAN
Why do you want to dump him on us here in Hawaii ? We do not want him either. Send him to Kenya where he was really born or send him to Indonesia where he had to become a citizen in order to live and attend a muslim school with his mother and stepfather the Zoetoros.
Report Post »dwh320
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 8:14pmThe sad truth is that even though it is clear Obama is just telling another LIE the Progressive sheep and the zombie general public will fall for it completely. The media will do all they can to be sure Obama get reelected.
Report Post »WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges05
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 8:30pmNice photo of smirking puppet Barack Hussein Obama (AKA Barry Obama, AKA Barry Soetoro). From “Obama WTF” blog (reported by Examiner.com):
“Obama’s Docùmented Lies: 158 and remarkably still growing” from 2009 yet!]
#2 Claims not an active Muslim as child; Indonesian paper proves he lied
#16 Claims he passes tough Nuclear Law; NYT uncovers he took Nuclear Industry pay-off and watered down the bill
#18 Claims his parents met at Selma civil rights march; Washington Post noted it occurred 4 yrs after Obama’s birth
#25 Obama claims he never supported a ban on handguns; he has twice
#46 Despite reeking of cigarettes, Obama denied smoking to ABC; now admits smoking on MSNBC
#50 Obama claimed he never prayed in a mosque; his campaign had to retract that statement
#64 Obama’s “Dignity” ad claims he “worked his way” thru college and law school; campaign admits only two summer jobs
#76 Obama tells Israeli media that he’s a member of the Senate Banking Committee; CNN confirms he’s delusional
#87 Obama lied about his father’s religious upbringing! half-brother confirms Obama’s father was “RAISED Muslim”
#113 Attacking Palin, Obama has the audacity to claim,”Words mean something; you can’t just make things up “; BHO makes stuff up
WOULD YOU LIKE TO REMEMBER MORE?
Report Post »http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-baltimore/obama-s-doc u mented-lies-158-and-remarkably-still-growing
jzs
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:00pmOf course he believes in America. For one he banned waterboarding, something we prosecuted and convicted Japanese soldiers for after WWII, and our own soldiers during Vietnam. He‘s shown the rest of the world that Americans don’t torture, something that was too common in Abu Graib and otherwise during the Bush administration.
Other nations, the rest of the world weren’t impressed by the revelations of torture by the United States – as if we were a third world country – and our invasion of a country on false pretenses.
Sure the rest of the world is happy President Obama is in office and restablished moral leadership after the distasterous management of George Bush. Americans should be proud.
Report Post »Conservative2011
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 9:00amExactly what I think too. The fact that he can sit back and say that we are lazy with no ambition when he has run this country 4 trillion in the hole and counting while hiring thousands of government workers. It is hard to have ambition when we have this tyrant for a leader that does not even work with our congress and has pushed citizens against one another when they should be joining together to push OBAMA out of office instead. What an embarrassment to this country, and he is nothing but a lying sack of **** that needs to removed from instilling further damage. Where the hell is the evidence from all your squandering of our money. Oh now I remember it was wasted on green lies for friends in these fake green jobs and also funneled through all the thousands of new union employees who now have to contribute money to you for your stupid campaign financing of $1 billion dollars. Take that money and use it to build all those bridges you promised but failed to spend money on. Take a look at the wasted money that one of his spending binges went to by copying and pasting the following link into your web browser, I think you will find it very interesting, if it hasn’t been erased yet:
Report Post »http://coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=774a6cca-18fa-4619-987b-a15eb44e7f18
db321
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 10:06amThis is a must read article – not for the faint of heart.
http://injesus.com/message-archives/prophetic/insights/blockbuster-confirmation-the-tom-fife-story
Report Post »db321
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 10:52amYou may already know this or you had a solid hunch – not for the faint of heart.
http://injesus.com/message-archives/prophetic/insights/blockbuster-confirmation-the-tom-fife-story
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:44pmThe heat from patriotic Americans must be getting to this turd, so now he tries to back-peddle. Please hurry November 21012!
Report Post »mecanic
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:12ambarrack hussein obummer is a LIAR and THIEF. anybody that dosen‘t see that by now dosen’t want to see it. be ready for what happens in 2012 election.. he will CHEAT and LIE to get re-elected. be ready AMERICANS- plenty of food-faith-family-friends-AMMO. GOD BLESS AMERICA and GOD BLESS REAL AMERICANS.
Report Post »hud
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 12:20pmNeeds to be prosecuted under RICO laws.
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:36pmWhen I see him (Obama) standing in front of the American
Report Post »Flag, my stomach gets a little queasy, It is like what doesn’t
belong in this picture??? And the answer is always Obama.
He just doesn’t belong in front Of our Great American Flag.
countryfirst
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 6:57amObama said” the Muslim call to prayer is the most beautiful sound on earth”. He forgot the mention that a close Second is the sound of our economy crashing.
Report Post »lvjohn
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:11amObama needs to drop his middle name and change it to phony it suits him
Report Post »almont
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 2:44pmI think we should start using his middle name…… It suits his beliefs.
Report Post »kschmud
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:11amobama – is a putz!
Report Post »15jgrant
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 7:10pmHe’s a train display in Pennsylvania Dutch Tradition set up for Christmas?
Report Post »ginger100
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:10am“He’s a real nowhere man”
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:21pm“…sitting in his nowhere land…”
*with his teleprompter
Report Post »last frontier
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:09amUh Uh…. if the countra fails my Daughters will succeed! maybe he should do us all a favor and go a few days early to his Holiday day tree vacation.
Report Post »freeweever
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:08amYou can tell he’s lying because his fattt lying lips are moving. This man wouldn’t know the truth if it was tattooed on his eye lids much less scrolling across his affirmative teleprompter. He has no records of education anywhere, there are no people coming forward to say he was so cool on campus…no one saying I remember taking a class with him, of course it would have been an Honor class lol. He is a fake human being a fake American and definitely a fake Father figure for America. He is a communist- racist- sexist- liar who is so Manchurian it is funny.The sexist remark is for his support of Sharia law and his statement about his Grand Mother calling her a typical White Woman. If that is the case then Mr Insane Obama you are a typical_________________________________. Fill in the blacks with whatever you want because mine is too Profane. Your valkyrie is foiled Mr President now go home…wherever that country or Hell is.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:48amHey Freeweever…Don’t hold back…tell us what you REALLY think! ha ha Thanks! Well said!
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:14pmNice Freudian slip there – “fill in the BLACKS”.
Report Post »spfoam1
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:07amObama is a lizard who changes his color to suit every environment. The legions of idiots who follow him and support him are blind to his changes, by greed, envy, and entitlement.
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:11amYes, remember always watch the other hand. This guy is a big trickster.
Report Post »db321
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:16amToo Late Big Ears, your Presidency, Administration, Democratic Party, George Soros, Van Jones, Seth Sunstein and your liberal Media is Done! Stick a fork in it. In 2012, the American people, God willing, is going to send you on a permanent vacation.
When I go to vote – I am going to run up the steps of the Court House and when I reach the top, I am going to raise my arms and jump up and down in victory like Silvester Stallone did in the movie Rocky. I can hear the theme song in my head.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:32pm@Anti_Spock, Tiger may be a dog, but even dogs have standards. Please don’t imply that he would favor the First Sow over a porn star. That’s insulting to the aspiring actress. :)
Report Post »ambrosia
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:07amAmerica KNOWS what is exceptional
Report Post »and YOU are an EXCEPTIONAL, INSUFFERABLE JERK !
BeHeardAmerica
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:05amOf course Satan would.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:04amDude has absolutely no shame.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:03amWe all knew he would do this the closer to the election it gets. I don’t think anyone with half a brain will be fooled.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:21amARES338, I agree with you. I think our president need to start looking over his shoulder, I think his past statements and his own actions are biting him in the A$$.
Report Post »Brae
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:02amThis is like a snake oil salesman saying ‘trust me’. No on in their right mind would find anything credible in what this man says.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:08amAll the Republicans have to do is put his anti-American sayings next to what he is saying now. And they think Mitt flip-flops!!!!!!! Obama will say anything to get reelected. What he says and what he has done is just a joke and one that should be shown again and again in a very, very long ad.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:41amNHW: Would make an excellent campaign video…
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:58amI agree .. now all we have to do is find a Republican with the balls to do it! I would!
TEA!
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:45pmNHW..
I think that is a great Idea….. He has run this Country down at
Report Post »every opportunity. A comparison would be Great…
Al J Zira
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:02amI love the picture of arrogance on Obama’s face. The Blaze finds such flattering images.
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:25amIs there a picture of him with a different expression on his face?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:29amProbably not hard to find such images since that is the core of the man just shining through ….
Report Post »mrfunn
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:33pm.
Al J Zira,
Agree, a better picture would be one of the many pictures of Obama with his nose up in the air and a halo surrounding his head.
Report Post »asmurff
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:56amHis past words and actions have defined his lack of patriotism, comtempt for America and its people. All his spin, lies, smoke and mirrors won’t erase it.
Report Post »tmplarnite
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:59amObammy: Liar in Chief Troglodyte traitor!
Report Post »Grace1798
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:56amAnyone who continues to back and support and believe Obama and his followers are either fools and/or too stupid to see the damage he’s done and will do.
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:16pmOr are honest, real, Americans who know who the real liars are.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:53amB. Obama and his wife have done more to demoralize and demonize this country in just a few short years than anyone else in history. How dare that man act, yes ACT, like he loves America.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:47amObama only has faith in HIS exceptionalism. He shares that “good job, ” narcissistic arrogance that so many of our Lefty Blaze commenters display in their nasty comments. Lefties have a tendency to look down their noses at traditional values like patriotism, individual rights over the collective, faith, hope and charity. They have a hollow hunger for the spiritual which they mistakenly fill with politics, anger, resentment, and envy. That hunger is what created the “social justice/ redistribution ” godless , philosophy which, like Communism, only creates more injustice . And following the Alinsky code to “win at any cost,” they employ the bully / character assassination of their political opponents whom they view as inferior “infidels.”
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:52amObama has a strong, unshakeable faith……in the 12th Imam
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:24amBARBER, since you have clearly studied them, could you tell me one “Alinsky tactic” that has NOT been used by the Beck/Rush/Fox machine?
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:33amAnd, in fact, how many did you use in your comment?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:39amTIF: There is a difference between telling facts and manipulating them. Alisnky was an ardent manipulators of communities ( for their own good, of course, because he was the Big Daddy of the Lefty’s arrogant attitude toward those not as cabalist/ elitist as the organizers were ) , words and opponents. Know the Left is out to destroy Fox because the Left does not like to hear facts which do not support their agenda. No tolerance for differing opinion is the root of the character assassination we see daily in the MSM. Murdoch has been in the gunsights of the International Left since July when they were able to make the phone hacking ” allegations, ” which was practiced in all of the tabloids, go viral and Alinskied into the “Target/ freeze/ isolate, ” etc. on Murdoch‘s conservative outlets and Cameron’s conservative government…
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:43amSoooo the one they haven’t used is___________________ (?)
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 12:03pmbtw, you DO know that the phone hackings of the deceased girl, her family, and of several celebrities/notable public figures did occur, and that James Murdoch resigned, right?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 12:30pmTIF: Are we playing tic tack toe? Last statement wins? I know all about the Murdoch media witch hunt. I am convinced that the International Left is trying to destroy all conservative media outlets because the Left can not tolerate, nor survive, the publication of opposing view points. I am convinced that the International Left had a strong hand in the Occupies following the London August riots. I read comments in the NYT for months calling for “revolutions in the streets” of America . You will not convince me otherwise, and I obviously will not sway your Lefty viewpoints. Oh, and about ” Murdoch resigned:” yeah, so did Cain. I think both were the result of the endless “allegation” tactics ( rather like being attacked by a swarm of killer bees ) of an organized, brutal, bullying, and well-funded Lefty coalition.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 6:41pm@ tifosa
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We LUV Bama too !!!!…All the corrupt Dembos on the Hill !!
Report Post »jujubeebee
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:47amOBAMA campaign SHOWBIZ!
Report Post »barber2
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:23amCan‘t wait to see what praise will come out of the Democrats’ Big Lie teleprompter for 2012 ! Hopefully, this !mposter-in-Chief and his Marxist Party will discover that the authentic patriotic Americans are “99%” fed up with their lies and character assassinations. Fooled us once, Democrats…….
Report Post »dchetak
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:42amSo, this President thinks the Constitution enshrined “democracy”? WTF? It set up a Republic. Any highschooler knows this, don’t they? Again, by definition, Liberals are fools. An ignorant person can be educated. A fool will always be blind to reality.
Report Post »Very sad.:(
UlyssesP
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:37amSorry Barack, you are disingenuous AT BEST. Stick to your progressive social engineering, community organizing, socialist re-distributive principles.
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:33amToo little lies, too late. Obama is part of an intellectual movement that despises this country for its role in opposing global Marxism. Any statement by him to the contrary is a lie.
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:44amCorrect.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kqVZUCRth0&t=7m13s
NHwinter
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:26amVery good video and well worth 23 mins. to watch. Thank you. Pass it on.
Report Post »randy
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:32amI personally do not question Obamas Patriotism at all, I‘m confident he’s a patriotic Muslim.
Report Post »IMPEACH the SOB POTUS!
last frontier
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:11amRandy, I think you meant to say Pathetic.
Report Post »Alphonso
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:51amHey, How about a little respect for the POtuS….?
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:30amThis arrogant muslim ahha has NO faith in AMERICA. he does however have faith in its destruction! he lies again as always in all ways.
LORD, I just want to thank YOU for waking us up and using this grand example of a “useful idiot” to do so. In JESUS’ name, amen.
Report Post »neverending
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:35amAmen and amen.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:54amAnd an Amen from me too.
Report Post »Return2Freedom
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 2:05pmAmen from me too. Sometimes it hurts to learn a lesson.
Report Post »almont
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 2:47pmAmen brother
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