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2013-10-06 Home Front: Politix

There is an Art to Good Politics; WWII Memorial Shows Obama as Artless.

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Posted by Korora 2013-10-06 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1736 views ] Top

1 As long as the "public sector" is on his side (or vice versa), what does he needs with art?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-10-06 01:36|| 2013-10-06 01:36|| Front Page Top

2 Obama should have personally greeted them there,

The danger with that is at best being heckled by a bunch of old guys and worse, being mobbed by them. These are guys that actually did something. Hard to imagine them idolizing an empty-suit community organizer.

Posted by SteveS 2013-10-06 03:09|| 2013-10-06 03:09|| Front Page Top

3 Bill Clinton would have been there laying on palms, collecting wallets and wives.

Posted by Shipman 2013-10-06 04:52|| 2013-10-06 04:52|| Front Page Top

4 Thuggery in Chicago is an art in of itself, at least to the practitioners. Sort of like Vogon poetry.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-10-06 08:19|| 2013-10-06 08:19|| Front Page Top

5 Steve S is right: Champ would have been boo'd and scorned. The One can't handle that.

The Anchoress is right on the principle and wrong on the details.

Posted by Steve White 2013-10-06 09:46|| 2013-10-06 09:46|| Front Page Top

6 Second Steve White.

Hanging out at Iwo Jima, greeting the corpse men? I'm not military, but made it a point to learn about the Armed Services. If I see someone in uniform, I can tell which service, rank, usually the unit, and some ribbons.

These guys took on fanatics with the bayonet, or the long lance, or the neibleworfer. This guy showed his ass to the military long ago, and is doing it again when just weeks ago he was offering to send this generation's greatest into a land war in Syria. Pro or con, how can a person lead the new warriors while dismissing the auld breed? No, this guy is a pusher.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-10-06 12:30|| 2013-10-06 12:30|| Front Page Top

7 Those old veterans are leaving the scene in large numbers daily & soon they won't matter to the Free Lunch Party, the largest & most influential in American politics at the moment & for the foreseeable future. When the Free Lunches are discontinued, we will be in a world of trouble.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-10-06 12:50|| 2013-10-06 12:50|| Front Page Top

8 "When the Free Lunches are discontinued, we will be in a world of trouble."

Can't happen soon enough for me.

Posted by Barbara 2013-10-06 13:30|| 2013-10-06 13:30|| Front Page Top

9 Champ showed that he is artless long ago. Unfortunately, he is very good at duping the gullible.

Posted by JohnQC 2013-10-06 15:15|| 2013-10-06 15:15|| Front Page Top

10 the gullible are now getting sticker shock on Obamacare. Nothing hits like a financial hit, bitches! Hope and Less Change!

Posted by Frank G 2013-10-06 15:18|| 2013-10-06 15:18|| Front Page Top

11 He is on course with his plans. This whole event is working perfectly. He would be artless if one were to suppose he had America's best interests at heart. He wants to bring America down to Chicagoland/banana republic politics. With that in mind he is performing admirably. Stalin, Hitler, and Pol Pot would be proud...

Posted by 49 Pan 2013-10-06 16:46|| 2013-10-06 16:46|| Front Page Top

12 Stalin, Hitler, and Pol Pot would be proud...

Maybe they will soon share something else in common with The Won....

Posted by Glenmore 2013-10-06 17:55|| 2013-10-06 17:55|| Front Page Top

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