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The audacity of freedom

E.J. Dionne

Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 | 2:02 a.m.

President Barack Obama is a freer man than he has been at any point in his presidency. He is free from the need to save an economy close to collapse, from illusions that Republicans in Congress would work with him readily, from the threat of a rising Tea Party movement, and from the need to win re-election. This sense of freedom gave his State of the Union address an energy, an ease and a specificity that were lacking in earlier speeches written with an eye toward immediate political needs. It was his most Democratic State of the Union, unapologetic in ...

E.J. Dionne is a columnist for the Washington Post.

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By Future

Feb. 14, 2013

3:54 a.m.

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EJ says "President Barack Obama is a freer man than he has been at any point in his presidency. He is free from the need to save an economy close to collapse"

Really

We had negative growth yet Obama is free from the need to save the economy

We have $16.5 trillion in national debt yet Obama is free from the need to save the economy

We have 23 million un or under employed yet Obama is free from the need to save the economy

Is that what EJ is selling us?
By CarmineD (Carmine DiFazio)

Feb. 14, 2013

4:44 a.m.

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President Obama talks a good game but always plays like an amateur. He failed the American people on every front at home and abroad. On Benghazi, one of the defining moments of his first term presidency, he was an AWOL Commander-in-Chief. The American people made a huge mistake in 2008 and repeated it again in 2012.

CarmineD