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Now Glenn Thrush reveals the outline of an e-book that Obama will try to get Politico to quash and I'll bet this is the last we may see of it and its steamy contents. Before they yank it offline, here's some chief points:
Obama’s trash-talking competitiveness, a trait that has defined him since his days on the court as a basketball-obsessed teenager in Hawaii, was on display one night last February, when the president spotted a woman he knew was close to Sen. Marco Rubio in a Florida hotel lobby. “Is your boy going to go for [vice president]?” the president asked her. Maybe, she replied. “Well,” he said, chuckling, according to a person who witnessed the encounter. “Tell your boy to watch it. He might get his ass kicked.”
David Maraniss's book outlines how Barack-O was a bench-warmer at Punahoe as his nickname was "The Bomber," one of those three-point maniacs whose accuracy wasn't as good as his self-centered non-team playing might hurt the team. He was self-obsessed, not basketball-obsessed.
The president’s less-than-stellar appraisal of his own team’s efforts has been a recurring motif of 2012.
In late May, what was intended as a clever campaign stunt — dispatching Axelrod to Boston to personally make the case against Romney on the steps of the State House — went awry.
As Axelrod was greeted by pro-Romney hecklers chanting “Axel-Fraud,” Obama was in the West Wing watching with growing disgust as the event unfolded on cable news. The scene, he scoffed to a nearby aide, was an ill-conceived “spectacle.”
“We aren’t going to do that kind of thing again, are we?” he asked peevishly, not a question but an order. Obama has no qualms about throwing a punch, his close intimates say, but can’t stand looking foolish when he does.
Biden continues to be the gift which keeps on giving----handing the GOP free passes to club the Administration for keeping such a goofball unleashed. Now we see that Joe Hair-Plugz is also a nasty lying POS.
Biden’s misstep, also in May, in announcing his approval of gay marriage — which forced Obama to do the same before he intended — caused greater disharmony in the White House than was reported at the time.
Biden blamed Campaign Manager Jim Messina for “throwing him under the bus” with the media during the gay-marriage flap — a charge that turned out to be untrue. In an emotional one-on-one meeting with Obama, Biden apologized profusely and said he’d been betrayed by Obama’s aides.
The president tried to calm him down, saying, “Look, Joe, there are people who want to divide us. You and I have to be on the same page from now on. You and I have to make sure that we don’t get divided.”
Plouffe and other West Wingers were even angrier that Biden had screwed up his boss’s carefully laid plans to announce his position before next month’s Charlotte convention — even as Biden previously had counseled against weighing in on the issue for fear of alienating battleground-state independents.
So Biden can't follow HIS OWN ADVICE and blames Messina et al. erroneously when he FUCKS UP on Sunday Morning Talk Shows about Gay Marriage. Now he'd make a great POTUS if Oblamer croaked for some reason or another...!!!
Many of Obama’s advisers have quietly begun questioning whether they should have picked Wasserman Schultz, an outspoken Florida congresswoman, as his DNC chairwoman. She has clashed with Chicago over her choice of staff and air-time on national TV shows — and they think she comes across as too partisan over the airwaves.
Obama’s brain trust secretly commissioned pollster David Binder to conduct an internal focus study of the popularity of top Obama campaign surrogates. Number one was former press secretary Robert Gibbs, followed by Cutter. Traveling press secretary Jen Psaki, who was added to a second study, was third. Axelrod, Plouffe and current White House press secretary Jay Carney were bunched in the middle. Wasserman Schultz ranked at the bottom.
Wallowing at the bottom would be more like it... DWS was a perfect choice---for the Republicans...!!!
Obama really doesn’t like, admire or even grudgingly respect Romney. It’s a level of contempt, say aides, he doesn’t even feel for the conservative, combative House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the Hill Republican he disliked the most. “There was a baseline of respect for John McCain. The president always thought he was an honorable man and a war hero,” a longtime Obama adviser said. “That doesn’t hold true for Romney. He was no goddamned war hero.”
Time and again Obama has told the people around him that Romney stood for “nothing.” The word he would use to describe Romney was “weak,” too weak to stand up to his own moneymen, too weak to defend his own moderate record as the man who signed into law the first health insurance mandate as Massachusetts governor in 2006, too weak to admit Obama had done a single thing right as president.
The two things Obama fears most about a Romney victory: A 7-to-2 conservative Supreme Court within a few years. And the equally unbearable possibility, in his mind, that Romney will get to take a victory lap on an economic rebound Obama sees as just around the corner. “I’m not going to let him win … so that he can take credit when the economy turns around,” Obama said, according to an aide.
It isn't that Romney stands for "nothing." Aside from his health care experiment, not working out well in wildly liberal Massachusetts where he was governor, Romney has stood for free markets and economic freedom from high taxes---two chains that Obama and Clown Biden want to eliminate from America by enveloping them in BIG GOVERNMENT. Barry Soetero AKA Barack Obama has never been a team player, lets his collateral relatives live in housing projects in Boston or in huts in Nairobi slums. He's still The Bomber, only this time he bombed big time at the Box Office!
The article ends with a delicious ironic anecdote about having the owner of the New Republic, a "Facebook billionaire" soon to become a Facebook millionaire, among others, at a small snobbish salon soiree. The New Republic's nastiest writer, Jon Chait, shortly wrote the single nastiest lying scribble-sheet piece of garbage since the campaign has started, so one can wonder what signals Obama was sending when he was rubbing Hughes' leg under the table!
Despite Obama’s all-in commitment to the campaign, there have been signs of strain. And people close to him detect, from time to time, a yearning for the high ground. It is most often reflected during his drafting of speeches — a therapeutic, clarifying exercise for a politician with a writer’s impulse to reconciling contradiction through narrative.
To give Obama a break from the relentless negativity of the campaign, friend and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett quietly set up a salon/dinner for Obama over the summer — which lasted more than two hours, a huge block of presidential time.
On hand were Jarrett’s friend and Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson, Facebook billionaire and new New Republic Publisher Chris Hughes, and Apple executive Scott Forstall, who led the team that developed the iPhone.
One of the topics?
Civility and political discourse.
The serial con man and ultimate fraud Soetero/Obama has to be eliminated from American political life and sent to write the third version of his memoirs---assisted by Bill Ayers or this time by a team that can tell the truth?
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