Comments on: Bush wasn’t so bad after all, according to Obama

By: kat in your hat

kat in your hat — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:16:54 +0000

Great post Steve!

By: NoBamaNoWay

NoBamaNoWay — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:12:50 +0000

exactly; this is what infuriates me about obamabot screams for “prosecution of bushCo’s crimes;” do they really think that we are so stupid that we don’t remember the democrat complicity in virtually every one of these crimes, from day one?

i think that what it is, is that they honestly believe that anyone with a D behind their name can do no wrong (that is, unless they fail to adhere to the official dem position on something). oh yeah, the rabid partisanship is really going to get good things done in washington for the american people. not.

By: Salida

Salida — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:53:53 +0000

God help us all and save the USA.
Oh, 4 years, do something get another degree, save your sanity. I know I’m going to do something or else, I’ll probably lose it.

By: RebelCarol

RebelCarol — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:01:54 +0000

There is no way that I trust him to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States

He will probably want to rewrite the Constitution too since yesterday he said he will write a new Declaration of Independence

By: ritamary

ritamary — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:01:05 +0000

Austan Goolsby is Obama’s economic adviser. He is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, the person who met with the Canadian consul in Chicago to tell the Canadians that Obama’s anti NAFTA rhetoric was just campaign talk. When I first started researching Obama I found that Goolsby favors privatizing Social Security. That is why I know it is just nonsense the claim that Obama is a socialist. He is bought and paid for big money interests.

By: ritamary

ritamary — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:44:20 +0000

Please don’t count on the people in Nancy’s district to do the right thing. Who could run against who would have a chance of winning?

By: RebelCarol

RebelCarol — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:37:17 +0000

Can’t wait to see how they change their tune on Obama.

By: RebelCarol

RebelCarol — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:30:52 +0000

I want to make a prediction here: Pelosi and BO are going to shortly be at odds with each other. Who will win? BO. Pelosi seems to think she has won the presidency and will be running things. I think the only thing she will be running is her mouth (as usual), but it will be in a closet somewhere.

By: EWard

EWard — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:18:28 +0000

Anne

I’m glad you mentioned what the press said. Obama was asked what he hoped to accomplish in the early days of his administration. This was his answer.

“I would call my attorney general in and review every single executive order issued by George Bush and overturn those laws or executive decisions that I feel violate the constitution.”

Reality check – The Supreme Court can overturn a law….Congress can change laws….a President cannot overturn a law….

By: AnnieCollier

AnnieCollier — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:24:35 +0000

And yet, in the past week, I can’t count how many times the media morons have referred to him as a “constitutional law professor”. It’s as if they want to drill it in so people will assume that he’s on solid ground no matter what he does. A real Chicago flim-flam man.

By: AnnieCollier

AnnieCollier — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:18:22 +0000

NWR: I, too, have had trouble sleeping…at least since the election. Channel surfing the other early a.m. though paid off. I have been on-line off and on lately so I don’t know if this has been brought up.

Tavis Smiley who was so beaten up by the True Believers for questioning The One, was on (I think it was CSPAN rerun from 1/10). He has a new book coming out defining issues for which he will be looking to hold Obama accountable. For now, he seems to be taking a low key approach, hoping he does right and pulls the country out of the morass but he has set parameters he will be looking for. I believe the book comes out in February. Tavis has a couple of “firsts” as a black man in media. I think he said he was the first hired on NPR. He mentioned that there’s no point in trying to argue with Obama’s group think supporters and you can only show them through his actions. He truly understands Dr. King’s dream of content of character over color of skin. Although he hopes Obama will do well, he stands ready to call him on lack of integrity, etc. Will be using his book as my own check list and teaching primer for my own family.

By: Ferd Berfle

Ferd Berfle — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:55:55 +0000

I’m already tired of his “on the one hand, on the other” schtick.

That is for sure. Everything he says should be tempered by the knowledge that “On his one face, blah, blah, blah; on his other face, blah, blah, blah.

By: Ferd Berfle

Ferd Berfle — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:52:52 +0000

The phrase “the notion” is also overused by the ~~Great~~ Marginal Orator.

By: inconsiderable wretch

inconsiderable wretch — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:45:18 +0000

Great commentary, Larry!

By: Steve_in_KC

Steve_in_KC — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:19:57 +0000

Northwest Rain:

Regarding that Blackberry, I agree. On a TV show I recently saw, there was a judge who was old and losing his grasp on reality, and read all of his bench remarks and rulings from his computer screen. Turned out that his assistant was texting to the judge every word he said. So the defence called the assistant as a witness, and the judge sat there staring at his empty screen, waiting for the words to come. My wife thinks it was a Boston Legal rerun, and I can’t remember what show it was, but that’s not the point.

You are right. The Blackberry may be key to his undoing. He reads from teleprompters in bed when he’s saying, “Oh God, Oh God! Don’t stop!”