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“Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule.”

“Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.”

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Author:David Mamet

“Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this ''Obama'' - this character who is there whenever the world needs something.”

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Author:Jon Voight

“Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments... Rightwing pundits bemoan the evident intention of Obama and team to 'tell us what kind of car to drive'. Yet that is exactly what they intend to do...and rightly so. Free-market ideology is an anachronism in an era of climate change.”

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Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“Obama is attacking every business. He is attacking every employer and employee. He is attacking the system. He has a perverse mind.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“Obama is clearly a narcissist in the non-scientific use of the word. He is so self-involved, you see it from his rise.There’s not anyone of independent stature around him. There was in the first term, because he needed them to prop him up. But now that he entered a second term, he’s the master of the universe, so there’s nobody around him. He is impervious to outside advice, real advice that he takes.”

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Author:Charles Krauthammer

“Obama is correct in saying that the world is ready for someone like him - a messiah-like figure, charismatic and glib... The Bible calls that leader the Antichrist. And it seems apparent that the world is now ready to make his acquaintance.”

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Author:Hal Lindsey

“Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.”

Way Defining

Author:John Podhoretz

“Obama is for same-sex marriage. If the President is saying that, then who am I to go the other way?”

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Author:Curtis Jackson

“Obama is for the 300 million souls of the United States what Andreas Lubitz was for the 150 souls of the Germanwings flight.”

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Author:Michele Bachmann

“Obama is from this group that resents the private sector, resents the capitalistic means of production.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Obama is hardly the first president to seek rapprochement with our adversaries and reconciliation with our enemies, of course. But his determination to make nice - even in the face of clear and repeated rejection from the other side - is unparalleled. For Obama and his team, diplomacy with rogue regimes is an end in itself, and any deal, however one-sided, is a win, especially one that the White House communications mavens think that friendly media will call a 'breakthrough' or 'historic.'”

“Obama is huge in the polls these days. His popularity is soaring. Even conservatives are coming around. 30 percent of them now believe Obama deserves a Green Card.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“Obama is looking good because he kept his nerve and retained his restraint. That's a tough combo: nerve and restraint. It takes a cold-bloodedness to pull this off, and there are times when ice seems to run through the man's veins.”

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Author:Andrew Sullivan

“Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill.”

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Author:Daniel Ellsberg

“Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You're thinking of Jesus.”

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Author:John Fugelsang

“Obama is not a secret Kenyon, or a secret Muslim, he's a secret Republican.”

Secret Republican

Author:Bill Maher

“Obama is not just a powerful speaker, but a thinker engaged with the ideas of his country and his age--this argument by historian James Kloppenberg should therefore fascinate anyone interested in American politics or how ideas shape public life. Tracing the influences of Obama's family, educational, and work experiences on his ideas, Reading Obama locates a unique individual in the crosscurrents of American democracy and continuing fights over American ideals.”

“Obama is not the messiah any longer. He is now your standard, ordinary, everyday politician who lies, who breaks promises, who's in it for himself, who can't do anything on his own. He's not qualified. All of this is becoming known, sadly, too late.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Obama is now fighting for his life. He's fighting for a federal government. I believe in a federal government. I hope it sticks around. We had the American Revolution. There was this whole tension between the federalists and the anti-federalists. Then we had the Civil War. We had Lincoln fighting for it. And the secessionists were there. And we have the same issue today.”

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Author:Oliver Stone

“Obama is playing to the lowest common denominator of everybody, and he is telling them that if anybody's got more money than you do, it's not fair and it's unjustified and somehow you have been ripped off or screwed, and that is his message.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Obama is ratcheting up his class warfare to levels that would make Marxists blush.”

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Author:David Limbaugh

“Obama is running again for spite.”

Running Spite

Author:Mort Sahl

“Obama is seen as very, very cool. I think a lot of people find him sexy.”

People Thinking Sexy Very Cool

Author:John H. McWhorter

“Obama is talking to voters as though he is their boss, or their principal, or their father. He is not any of those things. He is their employee. And employers don't like it when their employees yell at them - even if their employees have it right.”

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Author:John Podhoretz

“Obama is telling the insurance companies, as a dictator would, what they can and can't do or what they must or must not do.”

Company Dictator Insurance Companies

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Obama is the closest thing to a Latino that we have. Barack. Everybody wants to see his birth certificate too.”

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Author:George Lopez

“Obama is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves.”

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Author:Julian Bond

“Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.”

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Author:Paul Ryan

“Obama is very much an establishment sort of guy. The whole image of him as a transcendent figure was based on style rather than substance. If you actually looked at what he said, not how he said it, he said very establishment things. He's a moderate, cautious, ameliorative guy. He tends to gravitate toward Beltway conventional wisdom.”

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Author:Paul Krugman

“Obama isn't just too big to fail. He's too big to know. Obama is so vital to the country and to the world, he must be kept out of the loop in order to save him from his failed presidency.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Obama just announced Americans don't consider themselves victims, or entitled. Actually, the vast majority of Obama supporters believe exactly that. They believe exactly that.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Obama liberals, in their incalculable arrogance, believe they are smart enough to defy everything we know about human nature, economics and history by insisting on separating financial efforts from rewards and pretending this can bring prosperity.”

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Author:David Limbaugh

“Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.”

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Author:Samuel J. Wurzelbacher

“Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket.”

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Author:John Podhoretz

“Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly violated it, but his policies have relentlessly assaulted poor and middle-income family budgets.”

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Author:Bob Beauprez

“Obama microtargeted his way to re-election by pitting Americans against each other in many instances. In order to confront the challenges the nation faces, he's really going to have to put his 2008 rhetoric about bringing people together into practice. Otherwise his legacy will only be that of a great campaigner whose promises fell short of accomplishment.”

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Author:Kevin Madden

“Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.”

Wells States Might Remember Ability Dues Senate Mentor Illinois Uncanny

Author:Ron Fournier

“Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is not an authoritarian form of government. This is a constitutional republic, and the president doesn't allow or disallow. The president can't buy or purchase.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Obama needs Facebook to help him get reelected. Facebook needs Obama to keep them out of trouble with Congress and countless government agencies.”

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Author:Daniel Lyons

“Obama never told America how "like, smart" he was or that he was a "stable genius". He was never heard calling himself a genius because stable, smart people don't need to tell people that they are stable and smart. Unstable, ignorant people do!”

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Author:Ed Krassenstein

“Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless.”

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Author:Gary Bauer

“Obama passes Obamacare, the Tea Party comes into existence over two things: this out of control Obama spending.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.”

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Author:David Limbaugh

“Obama really does recognize the threats that are out there; I think he understands the world. He understands the role of America in that troubled world.”

Thinking World Doe America Roles Threat

Author:Leon Panetta

“Obama recently warned some college graduates against being all worried about government tyranny, and Obama has good reason to warn you against that because worrying about government tyranny is the exact sort of thing that will get you audited. Or, when Obamacare is in full force, it will be the attitude that gets you denied life saving health care. So have faith in government. Or it will get you.”

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Author:Frank J. Fleming

“Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.”

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Author:Ice Cube

“Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.”

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Author:Aaron Klein

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