Is Obama the weakest Commander-in-Chief in US history?

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

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Is President Obama the weakest Commander-in-Chief in US history?
Daily Telegraph, by Niles Gardiner

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll released today reveals a striking lack of public confidence in President Obamaâ€™s ability as Commander-in-Chief, with just 17 percent of Americans describing his leadership as â€œstrong and decisiveâ€, compared to 36 percent who believe it is â€œindecisive and ditheringâ€. This should come as no surprise as the Obama administration floundered for several weeks before even committing to international efforts to rein in Colonel Gaddafi.

It really has to suck to be worse than Jimmy Carter.

And I'm sure Carter is finally breathing a sigh of relief having lost the position of worst president

LoisLane · **Joined:** Sun Jan 06, 2008 11:23 am **Posts:** 1641

Yes, NO contest...

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

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STOCKS: Lots of Selling; Worst Run
of Selling Days in 33 Years Possible
ABC News, by Dan Arnall

The stock market is selling off this morning as broad worries about the global economy come into focus. At this point, the Dow Jones Is down about 65 points. If the major industrial average ends in the red today we will have seen nine consecutive days of selloff â€“ a run thatâ€™s happened only 25 times since 1928. The most recent run of nine days of selling happened back in February 1978. Investors seem to be shrugging off the better than expected jobs report from payroll company ADP (114,000 new jobs created by private sector

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/0 ... sible.html

-={ARCLIGHT}=- · **Posted:** Wed Aug 03, 2011 11:56 am

chuckmo48 · **Posted:** Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:01 am

-={ARCLIGHT}=- · **Posted:** Fri Aug 26, 2011 5:18 pm

Obama hits the links for the 78th time

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

-={ARCLIGHT}=- wrote:

Obama hits the links for the 78th time

SEEN IN MARTHAS VINEYARD

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How Obama Spent
His Summer Vacation
Human Events, by John Hayward

Barack Obamaâ€‹â€™s misadventures in Marthaâ€™s Vineyard are some of the stranger unforced public-relations errors in recent memory. Spending a fortune to jet off to a fabled playground of the rich, while the country suffers from his recessionary economic policies, was a bizarre slap in the face to an electorate that has already come to view this President as arrogant and out-of-touch. â€œOpticsâ€ matter. Camp David is a nice vacation spot, too.

Naturally, Obama played a lot of golf on vacation. Part of the problem with skipping off to the golf course so frequently is that when he plays a lot of golf on vacation, he gets heat for it. Upon learning that Obama â€œplayed the trifectaâ€ by hitting all three of the big golf courses in Marthaâ€™s Vineyard, Downgrade America finds itself wondering how much that costs.

The snarky White House response of asking about Speaker John Boehnerâ€™s handicap was a disaster. Itâ€™s childish, it keeps people talking about the Presidentâ€™s incessant putting, it diminishes the stature of an office we like to think of as uniquely important, and it puts Obama in the middle of a very large glass house with stones in his hands.

Developments in Obama's Libyan war didnâ€™t cut his vacation short, and the Great D.C. Quake didnâ€™t even pull him off the links. The latter incident is a relatively minor criticism â€“ nothing happening in post-apocalypse D.C. required him to scoot off to a command post â€“ but it looks really bad in context. Repeated images of Obamaâ€™s disengagement produce the kind of â€œopticsâ€ that play on an IMAX screen.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45757

northeast wrote:

The Moocho had the Edgartown water front closed down the waterfront for 3 hours while she had lunch,the towns parking was closed and no one could enter or leave,people were trapped inside stores.this is no bs I live here and work on the water front,did the same thing last year.He is a duffer not a golfer,in more ways than one

imagine if this happened while W was in office.

karent · **Joined:** Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:33 pm **Posts:** 1408

He did return early for Irene.

Tiger1 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 27, 2011 7:56 pm

karent wrote:

He did return early for Irene.

The ONLY reason he left there early, was because the hurricane was headed straight for him.

Regionite · **Joined:** Tue Sep 14, 2010 4:06 am **Posts:** 698

karent wrote:

He did return early for Irene.

Nope. He waited for Gov Cristy to say get the hell off the beech your tan is fine.

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

karent wrote:

He did return early for Irene.

Did MSNBC say that?

Regionite · **Joined:** Tue Sep 14, 2010 4:06 am **Posts:** 698

I had to vote present because I am not certain if Obama is in fact the Commander in Chief. I know it's a phrase often attributed to the officeholder of President but it's a little know secret there are security levels that a President may or may not be granted. Most people just assume that being sworn in automatically grants you an all access pass to everything there is to know but that access is NOT automatic. Some levels are, others are not. Now you may ask what if the President has a need to know but doesn't have clearance. Temporary clearance can be granted as needed.

So Obama may hold the political title Commander in Chief but the one thing that lets me sleep at night is knowing behind the scenes there are checks & balances on the mighty US war machine. You may have noticed in the publicized accounts of the UBL raid that Obama seemed to be dragging his heels right to the end. I also note that before Bush left office he told a reporter they would get UBL because the office would force his successor to do so. Taking all this into consideration it does help explain how an anti-capital punishment Senator would would become President and then order an assignation raid on US public enemy #1 despite his own beliefs.

edge540 · **Joined:** Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:42 pm **Posts:** 7910

Regionite wrote:

I had to vote present because I am not certain if Obama is in fact the Commander in Chief. I know it's a phrase often attributed to the officeholder of President but it's a little know secret there are security levels that a President may or may not be granted. Most people just assume that being sworn in automatically grants you an all access pass to everything there is to know but that access is NOT automatic. Some levels are, others are not. Now you may ask what if the President has a need to know but doesn't have clearance. Temporary clearance can be granted as needed.

When the voices in your head told you this, were you on this planet or another one?

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

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Memo to Dems: Dump
Obama before itâ€™s too late
Daily Caller, by James Poulos

This summer has cemented it: Barack Obama is a lame duck. His administration is a failure. Democrats know it. And they only have months to act.

Their president has lost the support of Wall Street donors. He has driven high-powered Democrats to go public with humiliating criticism. One in four Democrats have told CNN they want a different nominee.

Whatâ€™s the problem? In a hugely influential New York Times editorial, psychologist Drew Westen lamented that Obamaâ€™s problem is himself. â€œLike most Americans,â€ he wrote, â€œat this point, I have no idea what Barack Obama â€” and by extension the party he leads â€” believes on virtually any issue.â€

There is still time for Democrats to fix this â€” but only if they force their leader not to seek a second term. As a president, Barack Obama is doomed. He is doomed now, doomed on Election Day and doomed even if he wins, until the day he leaves the White House.

http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/02/memo- ... -too-late/

Regionite · **Joined:** Tue Sep 14, 2010 4:06 am **Posts:** 698

edge540 wrote:

Regionite wrote:

I had to vote present because I am not certain if Obama is in fact the Commander in Chief. I know it's a phrase often attributed to the officeholder of President but it's a little know secret there are security levels that a President may or may not be granted. Most people just assume that being sworn in automatically grants you an all access pass to everything there is to know but that access is NOT automatic. Some levels are, others are not. Now you may ask what if the President has a need to know but doesn't have clearance. Temporary clearance can be granted as needed.

When the voices in your head told you this, were you on this planet or another one?

So let me get this straight since your sarcastic comment indicates that you think you know it all. Are you claiming that's not how security clearances work? Or are you actually silly enough to believe the military will just turn over the keys to the kingdom to anybody who just manages to get elected? I'm sure even you know that even a member of the House or Senate has to pass security checks just to be on intelligence or defense committees so why would you find it hard to believe that a President would not be automatically exempt?

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