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MSNBC Says Give Obama A Break, At Least He’s Not Churchill

This one had me scratching my head, rewinding the DVR and playing it over and over. Invest the three minutes and see if you feel the same befuddlement:

Did MSNBC’s Martin Bashir just compare Barack Obama to Winston Churchill?  Yes he did, with Churchill portrayed as a chain-smoking, stogie lover who drank all day and painted landscapes to beat depression while Obama is seen as a man strong in character who has defeated the demon nicotine and shuns alcohol.

Not only is this comparison patently unfair to Winston Churchill, it turns a blind eye to Obama’s predilection for golf and vacations. This Sunday the Obamas are off to Rio for yet another vacation. And even London’s Daily Mail has taken issue with the amount of golf played played by Obama, pointing out that this President has played more rounds of golf in two years than Bush did in eight.

A British citizen, Mr. Bashir, recently stepped into the 3pm slot on the flagging cable channel, and is no doubt trying to cement his spot in the liberal line up of hosts who will stop at nothing to justify whatever this President does.

Wednesday Bashir challenged recent criticisms claiming that the President spent more time worrying about the NCAA basketball tournament than he has about pressing topics like:

  • Japan’s nuclear crisis
  • Libya’s civil war and the non-stop bombing of citizens by Qaddafi
  • The stalled American economy
  • The ongoing budget battle
  • Gas prices rising with no ceiling in sight

Bashir wants us to cut the President some slack over his attention to the “March Madness” tournament.

“It involves the President of the United States and a certain ritual that he must undergo every year…”

I am checking my copy of the Constitution and nowhere can I find a mention of the annual Presidential ritual of filling out an NCAA March Madness bracket.  (If I have missed it, please send email me – mike@theblaze.com)

Martin Bashir also tries to justify Obama’s basketball obsession not by praising the sport, but by trashing Sir Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister credited with guiding England through the second world war:

“Churchill was known to enjoy a cigar between each serving of a five course meal, rarely smoking less than ten cigars in a day.  The president chews nicotine gum and hasn’t smoked in over a year.”

What?  Huh? Talk about comparing apples to oranges.

And then Bashir pushed me over the edge when he said:

“So with our own Commander In Chief spending a few minutes on his favorite sport, let’s give him a break and hope that he too gains some benefit from a small diversion away from the huge challenges that still demand his every waking hour.”

First of all… OUR Commander In Chief?  I have looked and cannot find evidence of Martin Bashir getting American citizenship. But even if he is now a fellow American, I have to question his thinking.  When a college basketball tournament sits atop a President’s priority list, ANY President, we have big problems.

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  • david3755
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:58am

    Not a great leap to understand obama doesn‘t amount to a pimple on Churchill’s ass, even after he has been dead for decades. Churchill almost single handedly saved the world be seeing what hitler was. Obama is a total loss.

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  • TreadHead
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:57am

    Give the blathering moron a break. He probably meant WARD Churchill. In that case, the comparison makes sense. Face it, Obama couldn’t lead a pack of hungry dogs to raw meat.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:57am

    pretty obvious looking at the Dec hawaiian vacation shorts-and-flipflops photo of his body that he’s enjoying all that high grade venezuelan white from his good buddy Hugo Chavez. now we know why he joked he wanted to divert AF-1 to go see Chavez.

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  • Ironeagle
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:57am

    I say we need more of the cigar smoking manly men to lead in these times to fix the problems that the gutless, girly men have left us with. Dig up Churchill, get him back in working order, stick a cigar in his mouth and a gin (extra dry) martini in his hand and let him loose to lead.

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  • Phoenician
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:53am

    Well, well, ook who obama is going to visit in Rio this coming weekend — another commie!

    http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2010/12/dilma-rousseff-brazils-radical_06.html “The new president of Brazil, Dilma Roussseff is even more radical than her marxist predecessor and can in no way be seen as any sort of ally by Western governments – except perhaps the Obama Administration.”

    “Rousseff was labeled one of Brazil’s most wanted and beautiful fugitives. After three years underground, At the age of nineteen she was captured in 1970 by Brazil’s military police, in a “sting” operation and was considered a big enough catch that a military prosecutor labeled her the “Joan of Arc” of the guerrilla movement. She was submitted to several weeks of brutal torture while held in the Tiradentes prison.

    Charged with subversion by the right-wing military government, she suffered through the disappearance and torture of her Marxist companions, some of whom died or were killed by the military. Rousseff was held in prison for three years, being released in 1972. The government forbade her to engage in political activities. However, as a fighter for Brazil’s left-wing guerrilla movement in 1969, she exchanged a wedding dress for fatigues and remained in the underground.”

    Obama’s priorities are: Golf, Final Four Brackets, Golf, Parties, Golf, Vacations, Golf, Executive Orders to the 2nd Amendment, Golf, those “tea-bag waving Tea Partiers,” Golf, Silencing dissent, Golf, Taking over health care, Golf, Keeping his records sealed, Golf, Making as many communist friends as he can, Golf, muslim interests, Golf, changing America to the point that it’s unrecognizable, Golf, making enemies out of once allies, GOLF …

    His priorities SHOULD be: The economy, Japan, Libya, and acting like he actually cares about the country he spent hundreds of millions of dollars to take over!

    2012 can’t come soon enough! God bless America!

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:27am

      Obama needs to go down and see how the money the U.S. invested in the Brazil Oil drilling venture is going.

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  • jacobstroubles
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:52am

    Absolutely no breaks!

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  • Ron Staiger
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:44am

    The are only two valid comparisons of Obama to Churchill- they’re both human and heads of state.
    Now lets look at the contrasts:
    Churchill was competent, Obama is not.
    Churchill never bowed to another head of state, Obama does so very comfortably.
    Churchill never apologized for the previous perceived transgressions of his country, Obama does so very often and with great relish.
    Churchill was a statesman, Obama is a bufoon.
    Churchill was a diplomat, Obama is a fool.
    Churchill excelled under adverse conditions and international crises, Obama retreats to ESPN and basketball picks.
    Churchill was decisive, Obama repeatedly waffles.
    Churchill loved Great Britian until his dying day, Obama looks forward to the death of America as we know it.
    How dare anyone suggest these two have anything but the most rudimentary aspects in common!

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  • Ken
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:43am

    Even Chamberlin was a better leader than Obama. Obama is alot like Nero, Obama is fiddling while the USA burns.

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  • whteshark
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:43am

    I’m so weary of this “Little Boy” running (ruining) the country. Oba-Nero fiddled while America and the world burned. Someone pass the pitchfork, please………..

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  • Paul G
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:40am

    Really Glenn..‘sponsored link’? I’ve put up with the pop ups here…but….how much is too much?

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  • mrsmileyface
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:40am

    You’re DAM right hes no Churchill. Churchhill was a LEADER of his people. Neville Chamberlain perhaps but not Churchill. Id even go as far as saying Obama has messed up as bad or even worse than Joe Kennedy did durring the early days of WW2.

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  • Impeach Obama
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:38am

    Obama has the distinction of being the worst US President ever. And he did this in less than 2 years.

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  • VApatriot2
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:37am

    Give him a break? Sure will, November 2012!

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  • kschmud
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:35am

    Thought the presidents medical report said he was drinking too much alcohol and should cut back.

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  • LindaB11
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:34am

    Well goes to show you they have idiots on MSNBC. I think this moron meant Neville Chamberlain

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  • ProgressiveLiberalMarine
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:33am

    I did a bracket, and it took me about 30 minutes, there is no reason he shouldn’t be able to spend 30 minutes out of his day to fill one out as well. It’s not like he is supposed be fixing all of these problems by himself/with his bare hands.

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:51am

      Why not, fix them with his bare hands. He is the root of most of the economic debacle. I don’t blame him for Libya or Japan, just for his lack of action and no sense of emergency. Status Quo for the big guy.

      He is the one that called for CHANGE… But what kind of change. Golf vacations, luxury hotels in Spain, Hawaiiian getaways, Martha’s Vinyard $7,000 bucks a nite Bed and Breakfast.
      Marine, 61 golf outings in the US.

      I honor your service to the MC. I grew up under the code of the 1st Marine Division, but this is getting ridiculous. Next it will be our guns. ( I applaud Wayne LaPierre.)
      No grey areas Marine.
      Only black and white.
      Expendable or alive

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    • thermonator
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:01am

      Well yea sure, but we would expect the President of The United States to have different priorities then you, correct?

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    • 912828Buckeye
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:04am

      Lets see … the middle east is on fire, Japan is in a total mess, our national debt is
      14+ trillion and growing, food and energy prices are going through the roof, unemployment
      is still way to high and our military is stretched to the limit. I’d feel better if he would
      just act like he gives a she it.

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    • ProgressiveLiberalMarine
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:06am

      First off, I remember Dubya taking a crazy amount of golf outing after the wars started, and Boehner takes an INSANE amount of trips, all paid for by the lobbyists he loves.

      And I’m sorry, but strickter gun laws are something I favor, not taking them away, but restricking further availability and taking assault rifles off the market. I am a marksmanship coach and I know that I can’t even trust a lot of military personnel to shoot accurately.

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    • exdem
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:07am

      You would think he would do it in private with so many problems in our nation and around the world. He is immune from criticism and is arrogant and self serving. He is way over his head as President and will go down in history as our worst commander in chief EVER. The only thing he has done in office with confidence and genuine interest is his NCAA bracket picks. You know why he golfs so much?? Because he is still a smoker and smokes on the course. He is not fooling anyone. He just has the strong progressive media lying for him.

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    • ProgressiveLiberalMarine
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:09am

      If anyone, I don’t care which president you mention, had to deal with all of this and spent EVERY WAKING MOMENT thinking about it, they would go absolutely crazy.

      Everyone deserves a little time to unwind.

      Am I talking about the golf trips? No
      But filling out a Bracket, something that at least 70% of men do, even if they dont watch NCAA basketball do? Absolutely.

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    • ProgressiveLiberalMarine
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:13am

      I love when people blame the “Mainstream Media”. Fox News is the most watched news channel, and they bash him all of the time. At what point does the fringe, which many of you think you are, become the mainstream, which I am sure many of you would hate to be considered because then you could be blamed for problems.

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:23am

      “Everyone deserves a little time to unwind ” I’ll agree with that. My question is when is Obama going to start actually doing any WORK? Spending the country into oblivion to pay back all his liberal supporters isn’t what I would call work! Is it 2012 yet?

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:32am

      @ Progressivelib Marine

      What about
      Honor, Courage, Commitment,
      Do you see these qualities in our President.
      I think not.
      Perhaps you are coaching the wrong individuals if you cannot depend on their skills.
      Black and White
      No Grey Area,
      Expendable or

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    • ProgressiveLiberalMarine
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:36am

      I guess it’s true, we should just give a ton more money to banks to bail them out. He should have let the Bush Tax Cuts expire and our deficit would go down for sure.

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    • exdem
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:42am

      @PROGRESSIVELIBERALMORON
      You are constantly talking out your @zz and make no sense. I sincerely pray that your screen name is a lie and you are not a member of our service. We deserve better.

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    • ProgressiveLiberalMarine
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:43am

      First off, I am a good marksmanship coach, but I don’t get to choose who I am told to teach, some people just can‘t and shouldn’t handle a gun.

      I‘m not saying the President is perfect or hasn’t gone back on what he said he would do that made me vote for him. But I would still pick him over McCain any day and I will vote for him again unless there is another Democratic candidate that has a better stance and that I trust more.

      Repeal of DADT and his efforts to get rid of DOMA are something I applaud, even though I know he is using it as a distraction.

      Take the good with the bad.

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    • ProgressiveLiberalMarine
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:29am

      Sorry, in this instance, like most, it’s not going to help to pray because I am in the Marine Corps. Many people just don‘t understand that you don’t have to agree with the strickt mindset of the military at all time about everything to be a good servicemember. My disagreeing with the conservative viewpoint doesn’t hinder my warfighting capabilities.

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:31am

      ProgressiveLiberalMarine

      So you are a partisan hack.It doesn’t matter that Democrats have over the last 50 years and always will run up unsustainable debt and waste taxpayer money on government ponzi schemes and giveaways.

      “Take the good with the bad.” We will when there is any good coming from Obama. So far…..nothing!

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    • exdem
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:32am

      @PROLIBMORON
      Your progressive mindset leaves you confused as to who the enemy is.

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    • ProgressiveLiberalMarine
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:49am

      How do I not know who the enemy is? You tell me who you think the enemy is.

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    • ProgressiveLiberalMarine
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:50am

      @EXDEM

      It depends on what you wanted if you think there is good that has com out of him being in the white house.

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    • exdem
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:26am

      @PROGLIEMORON
      What I wanted was the same thing as most Americans want out of a President. Keep my country safe, keep me free, morals, honor, integrity and UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION!!
      He has gone around Congress and the will of the American people to mold us into what he thinks is right. Not what our laws dictate, but his own personal Fabian Socialist agenda. He is now trying to restrict or remove our gun rights by executive order and even your gun in not safe.
      Would you serve in battle with bean bag shooting guns rather than bullets? Would you work on the border unarmed? Do you agree with our servicemen putting their lives more at risk with strangulating rules of engagement in battle? Be careful who you support- even you are not immune.

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:37am

      Marine,
      I am not sure who our enemy is, because they keep morphing. Communists and socialists dressed as Democrats that want to change everything that my deceased father (1st Marine Div, Okinawa D-30 who carried a 90 pound flame thrower through the battle and survived, then to go on to China and protect the Japs he was just killing) fought for. He fought for YOUR and MY right to say what you want. Wait … Wait, do you think the Communists would allow you to say what you want?

      I DO know that the President has announced in PUBLIC who his enemy is. It is me, and many others who do not agree with his position or otherwise known as “The Political Opposition”

      C’mon Marine, you cannot be serious about voting for him again.
      He loaths the military.

      If you forgot, here is the DIRECT QUOTE.

      “If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, we’re going to punish our ENEMIES and we’re going to reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us, if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it’s going to be harder — and that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2,”

      Honor Courage, Commitment
      Think of all of the Marines on Pelelu, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tarawa, Bougainville, who fought and died for you and me

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 4:31pm

      Hey prog-lib-marine,

      I don’t know what EXDEM thinks, but I think you, and all others of your ilk, are the enemy.
      And I’m sorry, but your way of thinking certainly does hinder your ability to conduct warfare. Unless of course you mean the leftist war against our way of life. (For that, you are perfectly suited)

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  • southernORcobra
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:33am

    Gonna be real easy but here goes. If Obama was running England during the war England’s national language would now be German

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  • thermonator
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:29am

    Ohh pulhleeese!

    Obama has to do what he is good at, looking good and sounding smart.
    Leaders make tough choices and unpopular decisions.
    Obama is an embarrassment and a fool who is making the country and the world a more dangerous place to live.

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  • rabblechat
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:28am

    Obama is a real embarrassment as President. Just like his time in the senate, he votes “present” whenever possible. The man has zero leadership ability. I honestly think he ran for office just for the Golf and vacation! How can he worry about basketball when our economy is on the verge of collapse, not to mention everything going on in Japan and the Middle east.
    Come on Barry its time to man up…

    http://www.rabblechat.com

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:14am

      @rabblechat

      You are exactly right. I like the way CONSTITUTIONPARTY above described it ‘ he is just taking a 4yr.all expense paid vacation.

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  • BQI
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:27am

    Obama may not be Chruchill but I would not oppose comparing him to Chamberlain. Clueless. Good fit.

    http://www.blackquillandink.com

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:27am

    Let me see if I have this straight. The liberals bashed President Bush ever since he got into office and never gave him a break on anything. They badmouthed him if he did or didn’t do everything just right all the time.
    But now they want us to give Obama a break, because he is no Churchill? Well they are right, I think we should give him a break permanently from being President. Let him fade out on the golf course never to be heard from again. Because he couldn’t lead his family out of burning house.
    But this is just typical of the liberals, they bash the Conservatives for everything and try to hold them accountable. But they always want a free pass when it comes to their failures.

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:14am

      Give Obama a break from being President? When did he start being President?

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    • Hephzibah
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:44am

      Can you imagine what the leftists would be doing to GWB (or any other Republican) if he had smoked? Isn’t smoking one of their biggest PC pet topics? Or the obscene vacations? Their hypocrisy is blatant…they don’t even try to hide any more. The cockroaches have taken over our world.

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    • Rickfromillinois
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:52am

      Does anyone recall the liberals complaining about all of the golf that Bush played? Obama has played more in 2 years then Bush did in eight and instead of the liberal press complaining about it they either ignore how much golf he plays or makes excuses for it. Personally I do not have any problem with how much golf either of them plays but if you are going to complain about it how about being fair in your criticism? With all of the crises that are going on right now, the middle-east, Japan, unemployment, and the budget, how about stop playing games, going on vacation, and at least appearing to be concerned about what is going on in the world and our country? As for comparing Mr. Obama with one of the greatest war time leaders in history, this is ludicrous beyond belief. Only only some kind of a fanatical partisan zealot would even think about making moronic comparison.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:24am

    Can anyone get rid of this horrid channel or at least do a soul and brain check before turning to listen to them??????????????????????????????????????? ARGGGGHHHHHHH!

    More emptiness, soulless lost people. More darkness….funny that GOD unveiled the darkness of the age with obama….

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    • I-HATE-THE-WORD-DISENFRANCHISE
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:17am

      It is as though there is a vail over people’s eyes. For the last couple years I’ve tried showing many the evil before them. If you show them direct evidence a blank look comes over their face.

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  • grandmaof5
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:19am

    He’s not a president, he is an occupant of the White House for a little while longer, and then we will elect a president. I don’t care if he smokes or not, as long as he does it outside (which I understand he doesn’t). He hasn’t been president for 2 years, he has been a puppet for 2 years, and the sooner he’s gone the better.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:38am

      Grandmaof5

      Morning, I have to agree with you. The sooner Obama is gone the better. I never would think the day would arrive when we could have a president that actually makes Carter look competent (barely) in comparison.

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:46am

      Morning, SNOW, I never thought we would have a president I would say bad things about, policies maybe, but not personally. This president is rolling downhill faster than the tsuanmi rolled over Japan and creating as much destruction. He is a pathetic human being.
      Hope all is well there, 48 here this morning but will be a beautiful day. Hope you continue to get better.

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    • LadyIzShy
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:58am

      I agree 100%. waiting for a REAL president

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:04am

      @grandma5

      You are right, he is just an“occupant” of the White House and doesn’t even do that well. He hasn’t spent enough nights in there for them to have to change the sheets yet. He certainly is no Churchill, he had guts and made decisions. I would think the left would be upset with him the way they want to save everyone other than Americans.While he is still analyzing what to do, Quaddafi is slaughtering those poor people.

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    • Da Kingfish
      Posted on March 19, 2011 at 4:41pm

      God let the idiots elect this Obamination just to show them the error of their ways, and that we will never elect another useless POS.

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  • Robert-CA
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:18am

    @ least Churchill had some balls & stood against Hitler .

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    • BurntHills
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:58am

      Bashir has the same anti-British sentiment obama has: anti-colonialism. obama picked it up in muslim indonesia, age 6-10.

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:07am

      Ditto

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    • tobywil2
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:18am

      Churchill enemy was Hitler. Well Obama has his enemy too. Obama’s enemy is the entrepreneur, the creator of the wealth that sustains and enhances our lives. Churchill helped save our way of life, Obama is determined to destroy freedom and prosperity by using the government’s monopoly on force to oppress the entrepreneur while rewarding his political cronies! http://commonsense21c.com/

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    • DisillusionedDaily
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:24pm

      Nothing this man said touched upon the fact that Obama is not doing the job the voters hired him to do. Obama takes pride in awards he doesn’t deserve, lies constantly about his achievements and does not have any of the attributes of a leader! Comparing him to Winston Churchill is like comparing Rep. Anthony Weiner to a sane person! Where did MSNBC find this Chris Matthews wannabe with a British accent?

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:18am

    Obama is definitly not a Churchill, not even close; Churchill identified the main problem on the horizon and helped LEAD his nation in their greatest and finest hour of defiance to a mortal enemy of purest evil.

    Obama is not a LEADER in any sense of the word; a crisis hits of epic proportions, and he goes off on vacation or golfing.

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    • lovenfl3
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:20am

      Agreed Snow, Churchill was a great man. He was a true leader in his country. I’m sure a man like Churchill would have been focusing on solving problems, not worrying about filling out his NCAA bracket.

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:26am

      If it would help Mr.Obama start acting like our President -> I wish he would chain smoke!!! Even President Carter tried. Mr.Obama seems to be above the petty problems that currently beset the world. I want to know his plan for the country’s future, not his guess about a basketball contest.

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:32am

      Mr. President, I served with Winston Churchill, I knew Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill was a friend of mine. Mr. President, you’re no Winson Churchill.

      Thanks to a lively debate from Lloyd Bentsen and Dan Quayle, with Judy “PBS” Woodruff
      as a fair and balanced moderator. I am sure she was thinking that we are all “White Trash”

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:34am

      82nd,
      The Political Correctness Team has his smokes in the terracotta wall outside the WH.
      He is a pawn.

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    • drbage
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:35am

      @SnowLeopard.
      I agree. I guess Mr. Bashir felt that being British would give credence to his comparison. What next, a French bobblehead to compare him to DeGaulle? All these leftist pundits that praise his intellect, reflection, etc. make me want to puke, Wake up, he is not sitting in some ivory tower at Hahvahd or UChicago pondering the what-ifs of life, it is reality! While Obama pondered, consulted, dithered about instituting a no fly zone in Libya, Qaddafi was able to turn the tide and, in effect, Obama was setting up another slaughter of people and a humanitarian disaster. While the scenario was unfolding, each day brought Hilary out(Obama was behind closed doors getting his bracketology together) to say that we needed to consult our allies–NATO, the Arab League, the Useless Nitwits….well, all have given Obama the okay and still he ponders. Guess, he’ll do that on the long flight to Rio. I never thought that the day would come when I would say that I feel sorry for Hilary, but it is almost here. She has seen what Obama hasn’t done in Libya and yet she is the one who has to call and chastise the leaders of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

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    • Paul G
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:38am

      Ok…off topic…but what‘s with these new ’sponsored links”?
      Come on Glenn..I(We) can give you creds for what you’ve been doing…but….REALLY? how much $$ is ..it’s now annoying

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    • Oil_Robb
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:46am

      Who is this left wing English Tali-announcer?……Isnt there anyone comming out of American schools that could do that job….it seems like every second person on TV has an English accent these days

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:55am

      @Paul G
      I agree! I will not ever visit any of those links.

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    • constitutionparty
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:57am

      The media is all saying give him a break because he only spent 5 or 10 minutes doing this. This where they are all wrong… my concern is not the 5 minutes… it is that he knew all the players on all the teams. How much time does he spend in a day watching basketball in a season? He must spend hours watching basketball, takes a break to play golf, has a concert at the White House and still can squeeze in time to go to Rio. That is not a president… this is someone just having having a 4 year all expense paid vacation. Let’s just pray it does not become an 8 year vacation.

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:02am

      Obama is not close to Churchill, he is more like Neville Chamberlin

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    • I-HATE-THE-WORD-DISENFRANCHISE
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:05am

      It would seem strange unless everything happening fits your overall scheme’s.

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    • ConservativeFeminist
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:08am

      Nice attempt to excuse Obama’s non-presidential behavior Martin Bashir, BUT NO CIGAR

      (̅_̅_̅(̅(̅_̅_̅_̅_̅_̅̅()ڪ

      Obama is still dropping in ratings per recent poll data.

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    • NickDeringer
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:12am

      More anti-colonialism. I wish our genius pundit class could get a clue. MS-Aljazeera propping up Professor O’Barry like good little propagandists.

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    • broker0101
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:19am

      SNOW, how does someone on the Public (Disability) Teat afford hi speed Internet and a computer? I hope you at least have to eat cat food.

      broker0101  
    • Dustyluv
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:20am

      Nero fiddled as Rome burned…
      Obama dribbled out his bracjets as the World burns…

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    • Cymry
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:24am

      Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that the obama “chicago style” machine (including the mainstream media, and certain RINOs) are using Alinsky techniques against those who ask (“birthers”) that obama be vetted to be qualified for the office he holds?

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    • what4
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:25am

      Odumbo the girlie man is no leader by any definition of the word! My only hope is the rock he is living under gets to heavy to get out from under!

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    • t00nces2
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:31am

      Who’s going to clean this puke off my laptop?…

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    • jakartaman
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:32am

      Barry is the worst current world “leader” and worst USA president ever!
      barry is a very big mistake – I just hope we can survive his last two years of
      communist rule.

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    • proudpatriot77
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:37am

      Does anyone really think Oh-bama has given up smoking? Oh, I forgot. He is the most transparent president in history. Too bad he doesnt take a full-time job on ESPN filling out brackets. Just make sure his favorite tele-prompter leaves with him.

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:38am

      Obama “shuns” alcohol? He had a “beer summit” and brews his own white house ale…Give me a freakin’ break! That simple statement invalidated the whole story, if Bashir does not know Obama likes beer then why would the rest of his opinion even be relevant?

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    • BreeZee
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:39am

      CHURCHILL? CHUCHILL!!!!! obamma mamma can‘t even hold up Churchill’s jock strap. I am F-ING sick and F-ING tired of these pinheaded leftist progressive idiots like this guy and Genk/Cenk/idiot and the rest of the lame st. media protecting this guy at the cost of losing the country. It shows how STUPID the left MiSNBC congragation is. As Ron White says “You can’t fix stupid”.

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:46am

      Reply to DRBAGE -drbage @SnowLeopard.
      I agree. I guess Mr. Bashir felt that being British would give credence to his comparison. What next, a French bobblehead to compare him to DeGaulle?

      *******************************************

      DEGAULLE??!!!!! Come on, you’ve got to be kidding me! Compare him to DeGaulle?!! Never say so! The magnificent, omnipotent B.O. can only be compared to Napoleon! No lesser mortal will do! Charlemagne and Joan of Arc were serious contenders, but really…if one is going for the cream of the French crop, it must be Napoleon (even if he was Corsician born, but who is counting)!!! ;-P

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    • Gold Coin & Economic News
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:47am

      No, by no twisted stretch of the imagination is Barack Obama even close to the character of Winston Churchill.

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:06am

      So right you are snow, Obama is no leader. Most certainly he is President, but he is not my Leader, nor do I recognize any ability to be a leader within in him. Yet Something nags at the back if my mind in reference to what we already know about Obama, dreams from his father. What better way to undermine America than to neglect the real issues and to be seen as uncaring as the French aristocracy before Basteele Day? Personally I believe this is all part of a very malicious and purposeful plan to ruin America.
      Beware of the other hand.

      P.S. Glenn, about your comments on Obams upcoming Presidential Executive Order; You do realize that you just might be right and if you are right just exactly what the ramifications of such an act on his part would be?
      Rex51.

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    • gman46
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:18am

      Still with the changing History, the great men such as Churchill, are delegated as alcoholics and chain smoker’s as men who really do nothing, such Obama are glorified.

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    • pm69cv64
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:32am

      Correct me if I’m wrong but, isn’t this the channel that bashed BUSH for 8 yrs? now the table has turned and they say {while crying} please lets give him a break he just needs some kind of outlet. GIVE ME A BREAK!!! He wanted the job. he got it deal w/ it and all that goes w/ it. just more proof that the left wants all responsiblity, but cannot handle any critizism. Mind you that put a yourapeen [lol] to make this comment. Notice he started by saying major story too. this channel MSNBC MARXIST SOCIALIST NATIONAL BARAK CHANNEL HAS TO GO!!! These people have no clue thier pathetic diatribe is why I say this.

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    • HillBillySam1
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:33am

      Ain’t it strange that when Bubba Clinton was going thru his “Monika Lewinsky Crisis”, MSNBC made no comparisons between how Winston Churchill used his cigars and how Bubba Clinton used his…….???

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    • Ironmaan
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:38am

      He’s not Churchill, he’s Chaimberlain and he is allowing evil to grow.
      http://guerillatics.com

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    • cozmo
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:21am

      I would much rather have a churchill than a chamberlain any day of the week.

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    • 1proudAmerican
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:25am

      The way Obama is held up so high and praised no matter what he does makes me sick. The left is totally opposite when it comes to Bush. Bush is blamed for everything, even now, but Obama always has an excuse.

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    • neversaynever
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:53am

      Did anyone read the DailyMail article? Mr. Bashir seems to think Mr. Obama doesn’t drink, yet that article says he’s fond of brewing his own beer. That doesnt match up.

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    • pajamash
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:22pm

      Broker, truly not cool going after a person like that. Just so you know, I reported you.

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    • pajamash
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:30pm

      “Still with the changing History, the great men such as Churchill, are delegated as alcoholics and chain smoker’s as men who really do nothing,”

      GMAN – I have done a great amount of reading about the World War II era. Churchill did like to embibe and did smoke a lot of cigars. The thing is so did FDR. Why did Bashir pick Churchil and Churchill alone (rhetorical question as I think we all know the answer)?

      I find it interesting that today so many will easily throw off the issues far too many of todays athletes have with their personal behavior (”Hey you can’t look poorly at their achievements based on their personal life”) yet this man trashes someone that was such a key to the eventual defeat of the Nazi’s.

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 1:13pm

      Heck no,,,no breaks for Obama. We will be ‘mourning’ his election long after he is gone,,,,and making reparations to the damage for the next eight years. Give him a break??? Heck no………….

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    • Redhandpaddy
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 1:15pm

      When listening to the media drones praising Obama and giving him a free pass on everything one is reminded (as first pointed out by El Rusbo) of an overprotective parent of a special needs child. In effect what the media is doing is giving a sigh of relief that the clown did not actually soil his pants in public on any given day and or thanks that he is barely functional enough to chew nicotine chewing gum and simultaneously f*rt.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 1:42pm

      Shuns alcohol? Wait a minute, last I heard, his last medical exam had his doctor telling him to *moderate* his alcohol intake because he drank so much.

      No, Obama is no Churchill. Churchill was one hell of a great man. There is simply no comparison.

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    • Mikeyyy
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 1:53pm

      Obama couldn’t lead me to 7-eleven.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 2:09pm

      Hey oil robb,
      They did a study and determined that people with a british accent are believed to be more intelligent.
      I‘M NOT BS’ING YOU
      This study explores the connection between accents and the perceptions they produce, between both native English speakers and non-native English speakers. It assesses the degrees of attractiveness, friendliness, and intelligence of six male speakers as perceived by students from a small liberal arts college in the northeastern United States. The speakers in the study represent the following countries: England, India, Jamaica, Russia, the southern United States, and Mexico.
      The study shows that the British accented speaker rates highest in all three categories. The southerner from the United States rates lowest in attractiveness and in intelligence, and the Indian accented speaker rates lowest in friendliness. The researchers pose that the reason for these results are due to attributing stereotypes to these accents.
      The Democrats game is up everyone can see the angles
      Putting people in white lab coats at healthcare speech was the funniest one…..LOL

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    • avenger
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 4:14pm

      sure ..lets give him a break..how about a vacation in the caribbean with immelt of GE..let them cook up some really poisonous light bulbs…..

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    • Raymond97
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 4:41pm

      You have to give Obama a break. It takes time for some one to write the answers to give the people. Just listen to him when he shoots from the hip. It is not nice.

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    • CaptGregg
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 5:01pm

      If one were to compare Obama to a U.K. Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlin would be my first choice.

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    • Lotus503
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 5:41pm

      Churchill was a M-A-N…enough said.

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    • independentvoteril
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:30pm

      IF it would make Obama a leader.. LET HIM SMOKE.. and IF we put basketball names on countries MAYBE HE WOULD PAY ATTENTION.. How about IF we bring a Japanese Movie star to talk to Obama about the tragic things going on in Japan .. HE WOULD UNDERSTAND.. The man has the IQ of a pigeon.. (and I am insulting the pigeon)..I firmly beleive he has ADD he has NO attention span at all..

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    • restorehope
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:00am

      Actually Winston Churchill and Obama are polar opposites for this reason: Churchill actually saved his nation, and that is something that Obama will never be able to put on his own resume. Comparing the two men is laughable.

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    • gman46
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:27am

      @pajamash,

      I know he was, what MNSBC is doing defining him by his drinking and smoking. They completely ignore that Churchill was one of the key figures to win World War II and a decisive leader, something Obama should take notes on. I was just stating it’s changing History if we delegate his desire for a good drink and a Cigar defines him if he was a good man or not.

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    • Da Kingfish
      Posted on March 19, 2011 at 4:32pm

      Obummer could rise to the challenge of polishing Churchill’s shoes, or wiping his butt.

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