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[Update] “The Train Is A’Comin’” Wide Open Thread

By SusanUnPC on January 17, 2009 at 5:31 PM in CNN, Donna Brazile, Fox News, MSNBC, Open Thread

NEWS UPDATE: “Israel Declares Cease-Fire; Hamas Says It Will Fight On.”

UPDATE: While we can have a good time, we can make fun of some of the media, and we can express our feelings, as so many of us did today, it is notable that everyone who participated in this thread was mature and rational. Thank you all. You are FREE HERE to criticize and express your real feelings, as all of you did today. That’s because you’re grown-ups and you find racism, sexism, homophobia and other wholesale attacks on groups of people to be repugnant. We encountered a couple people today, in other threads, who used hideous language, and they’ve been banned. If you see ANY such comments, please report them immediately to susanunpc at gmail dot com and/or larry_johnson at earthlink dot net . We will take care of those comments immediately, or as soon as we can. Thank you. And I hope you’re all having a great Saturday night. – Susan

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Some people are wearing pajamas. And one lady is going to hold up the train! I hope the Secret Service knows before the train arrives. (From CNN.) I wouldn’t walk across the street, but if these people think it’s sensible to be out there freezing in 22-degrees-and-dropping weather, who am I to tell them to get some C.S., as my mama would have said.

The update is at the end — It’s from a clearly cranky and cold Candy Crowley.
…………..

Holy cow!

I do hope you’re watching CNN. The train is approaching! Wolf Blitzer AND Anderson Cooper AND Donna Brazile are ALL ON! This is a big deal! They’re describing the train route! it’s thrilling.

OH MY GOD!!!! I just turned to look at the TV, because when i wrote the paragraph above, I was only listening since the TV is behind my desk (which is a good thing).

These fools are all sitting outside swathed in huge layers of clothing that makes them all look like fat giants.

OMG. I just checked Yahoo Weather. It’s 22 degrees out there, and falling. These people are nuts! And all that sniffling does NOT sound good on live TV.

Donna has gigantic earmuffs on and a big hat, and her coat collar is turned up. I think she may turn into an icicle.

Now, that wasn’t a very nice thing of you to think. Honestly. You are bad.

Despite all that clothing, I still hear a lot of sniffling, especially by Donna, and they all look MISERABLE.

But they’re blathering on about the relevance of Colin Powell to Barack Obama, and the dinner in honor of John McCain. Etc., etc. Blah blah blah.

Heh.

I’m bad.

Chris Matthews is anchoring on MSNBC. I knew you’d want to know that.

Now MSNBC is airing earlier footage of the two popsicles PEBO and VPEJB speaking about “new beginnings.” (God, can someone tell these people that that is a ridiculously redundant phrase, and that their high school English teacher would box them about the ears?)

It appears that Fox News has taken the common sense route: THEY ARE INDOORS! And Bret Baier is interviewing Dana Perino.

And — que pasa?

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UPDATE: Whilst Anderson Cooper is opining on that unlike OTHER White House couples, there is a “lack of artifice in the relationship between Michelle and Barack Obama” — I swear on my cat’s life that that is what he just said — I take note of this live blog post by cranky and cold Candy Crowley:

Crowley: A Secret Service No-No

WILMINGTON, Delaware (CNN) — Our first minor glitch happens as we detrain in Wilmington. Seems we — the media — broke free without “handlers.” This tends to upset the Obama people.

As Obama talks, a line of Secret Service walks by me really quickly. I, of course, follow. Turns out people whose line of sight to Obama is blocked by other people have climbed into the leafless trees. That’s a secret service no-no.

These bystanders are now back on the ground.

Benjamin

I’m worse, Susan. I’m not even acknowledging that this farce is taking place. It’s TV black-out for me!

Magic Puzzle Box

I don’t even have cable. I may catch a glimpse online at CNN.com, but otherwise I’ll be checking out of this one mostly. My office building is prepping huge TV screens that have been showing CNN for a few months, but now they’re putting on close-captioning and even sound. I expect to walk through the mini shopping mall on the ground floors on my way to my office hearing the inauguration echoing from every corner.

UKforDems

Israel has announced a ceasefire. Of course this had nothing to do with the change in US Presidency or the Israel General Election next month.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7835794.stm

Maria3

Same here, I will avoid cable news until the 21st, and I’ll mute when local news reports it. This is very hard for me. I am a cable news junkie, LOL. But I have a hard time stomaching Obama, knowing he is a fraud.

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ObamaCrimes,

Isn’t it a crock that while BO squanders $106M on egotistical nonsense, you have to try to scrape bucks together for justice.

Insanity prevails. (One of the signs of the “end times”–the world will seem to have gone completely insane.)

del

Yeah, another person doing TB black-out.

Good time to catch up on all the DVR stuff I haven’t watched yet.

Actually one really good thing about the election of Obama is my TV time has totally cut down. A lot more time to do things I should have been doing all along.

J.J. (The PUMA)

I have finally figured out why Obama spent $700 K to keep from releasing the vault copy of his birth certificate, It offers proof positive that there was no virgin birth.

By the way, the T.V. today really was good. The palm leaves laid on the track by Chris Mathews and the CNN crew as the Messiah past was a nice touch.

kgirl1028

I was going to make a crude joke about obama riding in on his ass michelle. But that wouldn’t be very nice now would it?

mobright

Has you taken a look at the WAPO, in regard to the inaguration?

It would appear Christ has returned to earth — I just don’t know how they can print that trash, with a straight face.

I was reading the Onion headlines the other day, and it took me a minute to recognize the satire, that’s how bad it is…

mobright

Have you, sorry — typos and such, left and right, today…
CentralMass

They’ll never find 3 wisemen and a virgin in Washington.

AF catfish

OK I sort of *hope* Obama goes a step further imitating Lincoln by donning a stove top hat (or is it stove pipe hat?)

Donna Brazille AND David Gergen are wearing hats, it looks like a third person is wearing one LOL.

(trying to get over it)

ha! roland martin was also wearing some big hat — and sitting way off to the side, so much so that no one else could even turn to look at him, so bundled were they in matching black wool coats — and saying typical, trite things like: yes, the expectations are high for obama, but he’s from the generation that lives up to expectations…

rolling_thunder

He’s a boomer but they pretend otherwise. WTF?

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

Do you think PEBO could grow a beard like that? I agree. He could not. It would be straggly, doubtless. And he hasn’t the cheekbones and deep-set eyes.

(WHY IS THE CAPITOL BUILDING COLORED BLUE BY SOME HUGE BLUE LIGHT?)

AF catfish

The Blue Light – that’s from the Bushie playbook – remember Bush’s first press conference in New Orleans? Blue light.

Also, that heavenly blue might remind people of the clouds and the sky and heaven, and in their minds they’ll link Bambi with God LOL!
AF catfish

Oh if he tried to grow a beard that would be beautiful!

Of course by then he’ll have moved on and will try to be imitating Alexander the Great.

BernieO

I got such a kick out of Gergen’s hat that I recorded a little of the show to show my husband. What a tool!

I was in junior high when the Beatles first became a big phenomenon. Though I liked their music I was appalled by how so many girls I knew went berserk over them. Now I am watching grown men, even conservatives like David Brooks, swoon. They are acting like twelve year olds with their first crush. We are facing a terrible crisis yet these fools are living in a fairy tale world. Frightening.

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

Are you going to share, Bernie?
FranSC

Talk about David Brooks ‘swooning’ about BO – since January a year ago, I cannot get over David Gergen’s excitement about BO. To have worked for several presidents and a REPUBLICAN no less, he has acted like a school boy over BO. He has given him every possible benefit of the doubt. Perhaps seeing O in person gives him more of something. I just don’t get it!

Dave

That’s pretty funny, since Gergen used to be known as “The Cat in the Hat.”

(trying to get over it)

i watched some, and tried to figure out why i feel NOTHING. no historical wow! no happiness. not even sadness. NOTHING. it’s like a big weird event happening in some other country. or maybe the way i feel about the superbowl — remotely aware, but not interested/moved, etc. reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeu (oops, that was the cat on keyboard! i left it because in some surreal way it makes more sense to me than the Historic Event)

my 6 year old watched part of it with me, the part where the train sloowly went thru some MD backwater town; didn’t even stop. “That’s it?!” he said. “Big deal.” And went back to building with legos.

AF catfish

Smart 6-year-old.

The thing is, “cool” Obama doesn’t connect. People who connect are warm, not cool. He is detached and cerebral and uncaring. Right now lots of people who are cool to him are keeping their mouths shut about what they really think.
http://baddemocrat08.wordpress.com obamastolemyboyfriend

That is exactly how I felt on election night with all the talk of the historic crap and pundits crying, etc. I felt nothing, just loathing!

FranSC

I totally get why AA’s are so completely invested in this and are out of their minds with excitement. The young AA boys and girls whose music teacher tearfully announced they were going to the Inauguration. It was quite moving. It is very evident that this experience has been electrifying and will no doubt have a life-long effect on them.

However, how disgusting that they have been so deceived into thinking this man won the nomination away from Hillary fair and square. Also that they think BO is so much more brilliant than he really is. That BO has accomplished so much when he has done virtually nothing. That he was the mastermind behind his presidential campaign that is being called ‘brilliant’ but he had virtually nothing to do with any of it. That he is being compared to Lincoln and JFK when there is no basis for that other than his own suggestions and that of a handful of overzealous media people.

Such lies. Such deceit. I have thought in recent days, maybe it would have been better had I not found out the truth and could be celebrating what would otherwise be quite an historic event and one that I would have otherwise loved. In many ways, however, this election is worse for me than the election of 2000.

http://tojo toni

“I dug right down to the bottom of my soul
to see what I had inside.
I dug right down to the bottom of my soul
and cried…….cuz I felt nothing…..”

Taken from A CHORUS LINE….

I thought your post was interesting because I, like you, feel nothing and had not given it much thought, so it was nice to see you articulate how I feel.

elise

It looked sureal to me and all I felt was dread. I was particullary disturbed by the pic of the amost empty rail station in Washington. For some reason, it reminded me of an episode from “The Twilight Zone”. We watched a segment from the speech, I think in Balitmore, and I literally gasped when he said, “When Americans are knocked down, they always get right back up”. I dug my Hillary tee shirt out and showed it to my husband. Remember, “For anyone whose been knocked down and got right back up”? The little speech writer who was pictured with his hand on the breast of a Hillary cut-out is STILL stealing from her. Unlike many here, I feel a little twinge of pity for Michele. She is brought into the spotlight only when it can’t be avoided and has had to listen to comparisons to JackieO instead of being allow to be herself and create her own legacy as the first Black First Lady. I would prefer her true anger any day over her husband’s invented and empty persona.

FranSC

True, Michelle seems to be reigned in pretty well. As one report said a few weeks back, her going to the White House as the first AA First Lady is even more historic than Obama’s since he is bi-racial rather than AA as he has presented himself. She is a descendent of slaves. That is being judged by some as a higher accomplishment.

However, I don’t buy that she is a victim of the Jackie O talk that she can’t live up to. I suspect imitating the former First Lady by wearing the strands of pearls and similar designer clothes was of her own doing.

elliewyatt

ggggraaagck-aacgh-gghhhh. agggghhhhhaghhhacgh-aaaaccggghhh-ggh. aaaghh-gghh.

Ughh. Sorry. gugh.
T-R

No way will I watch the bamboozler’s coronation.

I do love some RetroTv though!
oowawa

I have to disagree, Susan, that the phrase “new beginnings” is “ridiculously redundant.” For example, there is such a thing as moldy “old beginnings,” such as when God created the heavens and the earth. I mean, that happened a long time ago, about 7000 years or more in fact, and so cannot be said to have the same bright shiny newness as the imminent Inaugural and all it portends. I’m going to stop now, before I drift off into inadvertent sacrilege.

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

Oh god. I came close to thinking you really meant that. Whew. Heh. I’m laughing out loud.
Dave

Or as in “everything old is new again,”
and “meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”

Ima Blue Dot in Texas

C’mon guys! Get on board. Don’t you realize the significance of this “historic” event? Why, it’s the end of an Error, and the beginning of the Obamanation!
Wisewoman

I’m an AA female and I refuse to watch the tripe, shallow, made for TV BS. I truly detest the lying, race-baiter and I will not watch one minute of it, today, tomorrow, Monday or Tuesday. This is one person I AM NOT PROUD OF and I think the country lost its marbles selecting him enough so that he could steal the rest for the margin of victory!!

AF catfish

Hi Wisewoman, you’re in a tough spot. People must assume you voted for him, which would drive me batty.
Animal Control

You truly are a “wisewoman”
alabamian

Amen sister!

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

I added a photo from CNN’s home page. I just had to show you how absolutely miserable these people are — and for what? They’ll be lucky if they see him for two seconds!

Thank god the rest of the population isn’t out there. Some people have the sense to stay indoors.

(Wolfie said no more PEBO speeches today. Dang.)

oowawa

They’ll be lucky if they see him for two seconds!

Perhaps. But such a rare, once-in-a-lifetime glimpse could be a true epiphany:

“I was just a little boy then grandson, just like you. but I knew, right then and there, that was the exact moment when the oceans stopped their rise.”

http://noquarter foxyladi14

can’t watch it..i lost my barf bucket..
HARP

I have better things to do…….like install a new sump pump.Let me know when he visits the Ford theater.

CG

That’s not until the anniversary, in April…

oowawa

That would be April 14th, Ruination Day, the day that Lincoln was shot, that the Titanic went down, the day of Black Sunday, the worst day of the Dust Bowl. Gillian Welch:

And the great barge sank
And the Okies fled
And the Great Emancipator
Took a bullet in the back of his head . . .

The great dignity and sorrow of this song belies the phony pretensions of the Lincoln wannabe.

oowawa

To hear Gillian sing this song in front of vintage footage of dust bowl refugees:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS34wz0zc-A

riverplate

Let me know when he visits the Ford theater.

That is sooo NQ. Everybody’s either hating or whining today. Susan’s dissing anyone who turns out to see the train. Others are claiming to be physically ill. Pathetic, but no surprise to any regular reader.

http://www.wegoted.com/dailytake/ trixta

THEY’RE BAACK!

riveplate — that comment and your presence here at NQ are soooooo Obot!
http://baddemocrat08.wordpress.com obamastolemyboyfriend

You are too far away from your tv! Get back where you belong! You don’t want to miss the big event, bot!
RebelCarol

Then go somewhere else.

jiminycricket

Someone please tell me because I can’t watch it without throwing up……did they bring along the GREEK COLUMNS?

cynic

I think there are already plenty of them waiting in Washington, DC. And not made out of styofoam.

cynic

Ah, give those poor freezing track-side spectators a break. People are hopeful about possibilities. After 8 interminable years, they know some sort of change is rolling down the rails. And being hopeful isn’t the same as being stupid. What those heavy mittens hide is how many of them might have their fingers crossed for luck.

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

That is true. And coming from a “cynic,” that’s quite a sweet thing to say.

It’s safe to say we all have our fingers crossed. I just would rather skip all this and have him get to work.

P.S. Israel approved a unilateral ceasefire today. Now that’s news.

rolling_thunder

P.S. Israel approved a unilateral ceasefire today. Now that’s news.

Methinks Hillary had something to do with the ceasefire. ‘Ya think?
Andrew P

My fingers are bent, not crossed. One on either side of the middle, which is fully extended. The man is an egomaniacal liar who has never done A THING for anyone else in his life. Possibilities, my a__.

cynic

Having such a mindset renders objectivity impossible. It’s a filter. It only lets through what reinforces the original premise. Everything else just bounces off.

If you’re objective, you recognize that both the positive and the negative possibilities are real. You support one set of possibilities and resist the other. Generalized negativity is worse than useless. It’s the first thing we need to overcome if we want to pull the country out of its downward spiral.

BernieO

I agree. It’s the media that is freaking me out. A healthy democracy needs an objective, adult media. These guys are infantile and just plain bizarre. I can’t get past the fact that these are the same fools who did everything they could to destroy Clinton’s presidency. They absolutely hated Bill Clinton but now praise Obama for appointing all those Clintonites. They favored Bush over Gore. They’re sexist, juvenile despicable excuses for journalists. We are in too much trouble for Obama to get a pass on substance no matter how good it makes people feel.

At least there are a few liberal critics left:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/01/17/sirota/

http://www.wegoted.com/dailytake/ trixta

They [the media] favored Bush over Gore.

‘Nuff said!

rolling_thunder

We could have had Hillary and NOT be HOPING and crossing our fingers. We would know with CALM assurance that the lady will deliver. Of course the only change you’ll see is Bush gone and another dude takes his place..oh yeah a dude who happens to like and agree with BUSH.
ritamary

Being hopeful in regard to this particular individual, after everything we know about him, and everything that happened during the primaries – yes, it is stupid.

I had tried to be a bit hopeful after he picked some good people for his administration. Then Blagogate happened. My stomach twisted and turned the same way as when I first saw the “Bros before Hos” t-shirt.

sowsear

Wake me up when it’s over (I hope before I die).
http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

David Gergen’s nose is as red as Rudolph’s.

HARP

Booze

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

Naaaahhhhhh. He’s outside and freezing!

HARP

Strange….I thought his nose would be brown.

arky

LOL!!
Harp cracks me up

You guys are hilarious! I have the flu. If I were to accidentally watch one second of Barfarma I would puke my Pepto Bismol. Funny, I actually prefer lying here sick and TV-less to watching anything BO.

Wake me when it’s over…Ford Theater…you guys are great. You have me laughing so hard my stomach hurts even worse! Bring it on! I’ve got a big bottle of Pepto…LOL.

HARP

Sarcasm is one more service we offer.

KmX

The Nation who should most fear a A Barack Obama presidency is Africa. One of Obama first order of business is to reinstate no abortion restrictions for foreign aid. I can imagine planned parent hood would now open abortion factories in Africa.

I am yet to see an original thought, idea, act or speech from Obama. He is the first muti racial president and doesn’t even know how to create his own history. He has to go back and copy Abraham Lincoln. His speeches are composites of previous written works.

I can’t wait for him to recreate the famous picture of JFK with his childten playing under the desk in the White House. Only this time Obama will have his little girls recreate that scene.

Don’t forget Lincoln wrote a letter to Lydia who lost five sons. Obama wrote a letter to his girls to tell them why he ran for President.

trixta

Africa is a nation? But I agree, Obama is a man without a history and, I might add, the Zelig of our times. (See Woody Allen’s ZELIG.)

KmX

Yes Africa can be referred to as a nation. There is even the Africa Nations Cup. In this Instance I am using Nation as a Noun. Even Asia can be refeered to as a nation. It is large and diverse enough to be call a nation. But yes I know it is a continent. lol

Nation: 1. A relatively large group of people organized under a single, usually independent government; a country.

2. The territory occupied by such a group of people

http://www.wegoted.com/dailytake/ trixta

Kmx — Wasn’t Palin WRONGLY accused by her detractors of making such an erroneous claim — that Africa is a nation? You may be trolling with us here . . . . A continant, refers to a large geographical stretch of land on earth, which may or may not contain nations.

In any case, you’re conflating the terms nation and continant to mean one and the same thing. By your understanding, Brazil and Argentina would be part of the same “nation”–which, makes no sense because these countries do NOT share the same governmental organization, culture, community, etc. Furthermore, as nations they are demarcated individually by a specific history, identity, and sense of place. The same could be said for the individual nations of Rwanda, Kenya, or South Africa — each characterized by different colonial histories, ethnic communities, languages, governmental organization, etc.
kgirl1028

I have never heard of asia being referred to as a nation. Africa is a continent, always has been always will be. The only continent i have heard refured to as a nation is Austrialia.

http://baddemocrat08.wordpress.com obamastolemyboyfriend

I bet if honest Abe was here to watch this horrorfest, he’d punch Obama in the face! Abe would know what a no good rotten liar Pigpen is!

(Someone used pigpen to describe Odrama yesterday, saying that Cherlie Brown character with all the dirt around him is what Obama is like and now I have to use it!)
RebelCarol

I am yet to see an original thought, idea, act or speech from Obama. He is the first muti racial president and doesn’t even know how to create his own history. He has to go back and copy Abraham Lincoln. His speeches are composites of previous written works.

Let’s see: BO is channeling Lincoln, FDR, JFK, MLK and the Founding Fathers. Who else can he channel?

bert

Herbert Hoover

Ferd Berfle

Calvin Coolidge.

IndyRobin

I “love” Donna Soooo much I made a video just for her
(heehe) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvuMDmqwwbI

http://baddemocrat08.wordpress.com obamastolemyboyfriend

That was my favorite you tube video during the primary! I sent it to my ex boyfriend, the cad, and he said well, you had me thinking there until it became Ode to Hillary!

I hate my ex boyfriend now almost as much as I hate Odrama!

HARP

I hope your ex and Obama will be very happy together.

http://baddemocrat08.wordpress.com obamastolemyboyfriend

I’m sure they will live the same misery, except Obama gets to live it at the White House.

I did learn that they are made for each other!

AF catfish

Fox News has Lynn Sweet! Much better. She has the REAL story of Obama. Recommended!

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

Thank you for the tip! That’s great. I like her. Some people kept saying she was in the tank for Obama, but I never did. I think she’s got a traditional, REAL reporter’s standards going for her. I’ll never forget her badgering Obama that day in Texas when he was trying to avoid questions, and she was leading the pack of reporters in demanding answers.

Sassy

Folks, I can’t take four years of this!
Give me a cigarette and a blindfold!

sowsear

and earplugs, please
Patience

Hillarious!

trixta

i watched some, and tried to figure out why i feel NOTHING….

Probably because we’ve been here before with GWB, and have refined blocking out such poseurs to a fine art. I’m about as resigned to BO as I was to GWB—which is to say that I’m NOT. Obama is just another brand in an obnoxious commercial. As a habit, I watch TV by blocking out and muting the commercials, never really paying attention to what or how a particular commodity is being sold. Indeed, my mind wanders to other things, or I just surf to other channels. Since this weekend is going to be one long infomercial on brand BO, I’ll just keep the TV off, thank you very much.

[It's like] maybe the way i feel about the superbowl.

I rarely watch the Super Bowl, but even I recognize that those athletes have talent and work hard to cultivate their skills. If Obama were allowed to play in the Super Bowl, they’d have to move the goal posts and shrink the field so that he could score a point or win the game. Of course, any foul or penalty against him would be characterized as racist.
basil

I cannot WAIT until this is over!
But will it ever? (be over)

Today I tried to watch the news but couldn’t find anything except the absurd Thomas-the-train poo-poo choo-choo tripe.

AND as I was trying to escape the madness and ordering a pair of good bird-watching binoculars the customer service rep asked if i wanted to purchase an Obama TV. I almost canceled my order.

For the umteenth time in the past year I am ASHAMED to be an American.

Any predictions about when (if ever) it will be safe to tune into local news?

The only silver lining for me is a weekend Law and order marathon with back-to-back episodes.

HARP

I`ll watch re-runs of Sesame street before I`ll watch the little train that could…..WOO..WOO…I THINK I CAN…I THINK I CAN.

Ferd Berfle

I’ll watch the Blowing-Sands channel, thanks, rather than listen to that overbearing wind turbine. Others that won’t be showing Obamacus include:

The Drying Paint Channel,
The Growing Grass Channel, and
The Dripping Faucet Channel.

Take your pick, any would be more enlightening and edifying than the Other Channels devoted to the adoration of That One.

sowsear

What channnel, starting when, my hisband wants to know?
arky

USA network has a “House” marathon on, on Tuesday. Also recommended is TCM…lots of old movies.
Dave

An Obama TV? WTF!

BTW, I’m a birder, too. Still using my trusty Nikon 10 x 40s which have held up well for over 25 years.

basil

BTW,

Anyone else catch that idiotic Maryland Senator, Peggy joseph, saying on video in public that the economic meltdown didn’t matter as long as BO was CIC?

This was just after the Maryland Gov had announced more state lay-offs.

(I’ve been trying to post the link but it won’t get through the spam filter)

It’s at foxbaltimore.com

HARP

Try this one.

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/17/state-senator-it-doesnt-matter-if-marylands-broke-as-long-as-obamas-president/

basil

Law and Order?

It’s on Bravo starting at 6 or 7pm EST.

sowsear

Thank You, brave citizen, Basil.

basil

Oh JEEEEZZZZZUUUUSSSS!

I just clicked on Susan’s link to CNN and saw this headline;

‘Dispatches from Obama’s train trip to the inauguration’

DISPATCHES????????????

“An important message sent by a diplomat or an officer in the armed forces.”
baltochefnancy

I live here in Baltimore,

What an embarassment- this crap cost my restaurant near the city hall
major $$$$$$$ because no one could get near here. This coronation is just
a joke. I Still and always will be Hillary Fan, cooked for her at an Inaugural
ball still smiles with memory of it. But just for you all here – here’s the real
joke of it all- 1. they went to the war memorial, NOT the real RR station where
Lincoln came why not? who knows. 2. They told our embattled mayor to
hide, not even in sight! LOL! 3. where was nancy pelosi, ? hiding in the crowd
hmmm embarrassed over your birthplace? dont worry we’re embarassed here
by her too with her” primary ” behavior! 3. curious where Mikulski and
cardin were? are they on board? so to speak the train or what? interesting
we did not see them.

If Obama really wanted to make a statement, he would have gone to the real
train station, Federal hill, or better yet, fort Mchenry!!! dont ya just love a dog and pony show! Thank Goodness our streets are free and clear now
and they are in DC. !!!

AF catfish

No way – was that reported they made your mayor hide? And has Pelosi visited before, or is she just shying away now?

BernieO

How weird is it that Bush humiliated Condi at Omert’s request?
http://buchanan.org/blog/

And how is this for an example of serious Kool Aid poisoning? David Brooks is bad, but Mark Shields i positively nauseating. Here is Shields gushing over Obama:

“One of the great advantages that Barack Obama has, in addition to his exceptional personal qualities and strengths, is that he is the first post-cultural president we have had in this country.”
He goes on to say we fought over Vietnam andwomen’s rights then says:
“And Barack Obama, it couldn’t mean less to him. And he has none of those scars. He has none of that baggage. He doesn’t have to prove that his side was right, because he didn’t have a side.”

WOW!! A liberal pundit praising Obama for not having caring about women’s rights. No coincidence he didn’t include the fight over civil rights here. Obama does take sides when his personal interests are involved. We’ve come a long way, baby!

Here’s the video. Only watch if you have a strong stomach. It’s a sickening example of idol worship.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june09/politicalwrap_01-16.html
KintheNorthwest

Again I say that this is the most ludicrous spending of the taxpayers money during this time of economical recession.
Why is it that everyone else in America has to tighten their belts but Obama is spending spending spending. He is not only spending unnecessary taxpayer funds on his inauguration but his family’s and his life style shows extravagant spending.
Look at his Hawaiian vacation. I will make a bet that it was close to a 1/2 million dollars or more. (Could a few people, companies or ??? be helped out, instead of people losing homes or jobs?).
Look at where he was eating during Bush’s last speech. I heard that the dinner for those 1/2 dozen or so in the dinner party was a few thousand dollars. (it was probably more than most people make in a couple of months).
I guess Obama wants to be the first in a lot of things during his Presidency.
JMHO

mobright

National Enquirer said Bush was boozing, and Obama BBQed him.

Or something of the sort.

— Maybe Obama was boozing, and Bush BBQed him.

I suppose it doesn’t matter.

(I was in line at Target, I was bored, reading the headlines, stocking up on laundry detergent, as I have boatloads of clothes, and such, to wash. We run a clean ship, here, or we try to.)

basil

SOWSEAR!

Oh Nooooooooo . . . .

I was looking at the wrong date. The Law and order marathon is TOMORROW!

$%$$##@)!

It’s -6 in my neighborhood and a perfect night for
LAO reruns.

sowsear

Thanks again, Basil, we did figure that out when it didn’t appear on tonight’s Bravo. You said “weekend”. My husband was psyched,too.
We’re about 13 above here in north central NY. Where are you that it’s so cold?

rolling_thunder

Oh Susan, I hope you watch and describe the Kenyan family garb during the inauguration.
~~Please be graphic. They’ll be staying in the Lincoln bedroom ya think? Please keep a look-out for Odinga in the first row of seats.~~

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Question: Did bamaboozler fly from Washington to Philadelphia only to take the train back to Washington? Is this insane or what? He rides in a train the size of 2 football fields back to the whitehouse? This must be Oprah’s idea and she has terrible judgement.
Doc99

Where’s Don Corneliue, now that we need him?
ddc

Hillary got whhhipppped by a black guy ~ and now, she’s just……his secretary!!!! Bwaaaaahahahahahahahhahahahhahaha!!!!

President Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., 44th President of the United States of America 2008- 2012

Join us in DC on January 20, 2009, to see Barack Hussein Obama Jr.’s inauguration as the 44th President of the United States of America ~ and watch Hill (as his secretary – taking dictation & HIS orders) & Bill (figuring out what (who) next to do with his cigars ) sit on the sidelines like the losers they are (IF those losers were even invited)!!!!

Deal with it you bitter beeyotches!!!!

Did I mention: President Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., 44th President of the United States of America 2008- 2012

Hill will be waaaayyyy too old to run in 2012, plus who’d vote for her? The twenty PUMA’s that stormed the intertubes? Bwaaaaahahahahahahahhahahahhahaha!!!!

LOSERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mobright

Can’t you troll DK, or one of those?

Oh, right, they don’t matter, anymore.

Judy L. NC

Yup. DK has shrivelled up and DIED!

Benjamin

It’s Barack Hussein Obama II, not Jr., junior. Is your teacher offering extra credit if you make a blog comment about the inauguration? Just wondering.
Jackarooty

ddc,
I’ll bet that felt really good, huh? Just like taking a big fat dump, hot and steamy.
kgirl1028

And the only reason you have time to write all that is because you got laid off from your job. LOL you are too stupid to realize you are just admiting you screwed your self. I”m not that looser, cause i didn’t vote for one. I voted for someone who i knew could do something for me. Not just give really nice speaches. Why is it that people are so quick to brag about their own brazen stupidity?
MG

Here is a little truth that the Canadians seem to see and that our own MSM fail to acknowledge (or complicit in hiding it).

From SavagePolitics.com:

2. Will George W. Bush end up being the last true US President? Increasingly, it seems that he just may. As lawsuits against President-elect Barack Hussein Obama—questioning his US citizenship—continue to grow, he ever more adamantly continues his refusal to produce his real, viable and original birth certificate. CONTINUE TO SOURCE

I don’t he has the merits to be called anything but an ursurper.
I do believe we will have a great AA President one day but he is not the ONE.

baltochefnancy

hey ddc laugh now but you might need us in 4 when you don’t get what
you want. ps when is your 21st bithday? childish liitle post. grow up.

RebelCarol

you might need us in 4 when you don’t get what you want.

Is that as in four days? Because I think ddc is going to be crying in his beer long before four years are up.

Just don’t come crying to us ddc because we will all say “We told you so.”

baltochefnancy

hey ddc laugh now but you might need us in 4 when you don’t get what
you want. ps when is your 21st birthday? childish liitle post. grow up.
Doc99

Make that Cornelius … sorry.

sowsear

Is it Corleone you’re thinking about?

rolling_thunder

Let me repeat myself. 57 million or more Americans are looking at this and saying OH SHIT! WTF? and canadians and all over the world are saying ocrap is prez of US..oh shit.

basil

I know.

It’s humiliating, isn’t it?

SJ

Sorry but I have not witness such crap in all my life Obama on a train going to Washington, these hundreds of thousands that they say needed to get a glimpse of the great one before the big day.

He is so struck on this Lincoln theme that I read that they were having Pheasant and some kind of stew that Lincoln liked for one of these dinners, my god how much more ridiculous can this event get.

Obama was missing the Lincoln scissors tail coat and hat, and the media well they know the entire world is waiting to see this swearing in of Obama.

I don’t know who gave them the media a heads up on that one, but they sure feel that millions all over the world will be glued to their TV sets to witness this historic event as they put it, man we are having 24/7 brain washing of the Obama frenzy
How Rude

Hey, DDC, child, now you know that HRC and Bill made BO slobber and grovel to allow him to steal the vote. No experience loser of a criminal BO and his gargantuan pug-UGLY “woman” (and I use that term loosely). Why do you suppose the usurper appointed all the HRC folks? LOL. He had to or be exposed for the fraud he is. Silly. Good luck with those diapers when you s**t a load at your messiah’s incompetence and failed promises.

Flat on his egotistical face as soon as the boogie man says “boo!”.

Steve1

How Rude….Hey, Rev Manning has commented regarding her highness? He says, she looks like, “King Kong’ baby sister! Lol. Who is paying the expenses for the granny???? Tax ppayers???
Steve1

How Rude….Hey, Rev Manning has commented regarding her highness? He says, she looks like, “King Kong’ baby sister! Lol. Who is paying the expenses for the granny???? Tax payers???

How Rude

Hey Steve1, yeah I watch the Pastor all the time from Sinclair’s site. LOL. Granny? Oh, she’s just one in a loooong line of hangers-on with BO. It’ll be a million times worse than anything that Elvis ever encountered. He’ll be carting ‘em all over from Kenya by the boatloads. Cousins will come out of the woodwork. The White House will look like a cheap hotel. What a shame.

Dave

At least we can agree with DDC that BHO will be a one-termer.

Steve1

Susan….I just spend a wonderful day with my family, TCB! These stupid assholes. MSM, the stupid MFS…can you believe that some people actually believe these morons? This is way to much hype, overboard. Everyone that I have spoken with, regarding the Drama Queen’s coronation, are mad as hell, regarding the 106 million dollars of tax payer’s money which is being spend on the Drama Queen. Well I hope they are enjoying it.
Judy L. NC

The comparison to Lincoln has been bugging the everlovin’ crap out of me. I heard someone on CNN say the comparison of the two is shallow, that Lincoln had it MUCH worse than Obama….civil war and all. As the train pulled into DC, somebody on CNN said there had NOT been the multitudes of people they had expected….heh.
Peggy Sue

I cannot bring myself to listen to the spinmeisters on the upcoming inauguration. I’ve been on the computer, reading and watching BookTV. I don’t care for the next grand pronouncement or description or the additional swoons by the psuedo-press.

But I find the money being dropped on this gala affair downright obscene. Didn’t everyone go nuts when Bush spent $75 million on his inauguration? And yet I understand that once security is thrown in Obama’s bash will be twice that much.

With the country on the brink of finiancial disaster.

Somewhat un-Lincolnesque, I might add. That is, if you buy into the Lincoln hokum.
rolling_thunder

Over 57 million people need to get a rebate for all the taxes they paid in 2008 and not pay ANY taxes until this ~~pig~~ gets out of office. We don’t want to pay for his parties nor do we want to support Odinga and the clan.
~~King Kong’s baby sister~~ is quiet now but for how long? OMG…the coronation starts at 7am out west.

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rolling_thunder

I’m so floored. Pig with purple lipstick gets to be CIC without EVER having registered to the selective service which is a legal requirement for all males who turn 18 and since Oct, 1959. All low level government jobs now require you show your selective service card and require background checks. But the pig is NOT VETTED at all. Makes ya sick.

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Change the voting age to 22. Kids can’t be choosing our president. They have no idea what they are doing.
Jeremiah God Damn Barack Abraham Lincoln Omerica

At least President Lincoln, who was from illinois had the decency to do his whistle stop tour after the he had actually been in office for a term, and had successfully ended the Civil War.

Barack The Bullshit artist just keeps wrapping himself in the visual trappings of greatness without having done anything to deserve the accolades.

Barack JFK Obama.

Barackopolis.

Obamadollars.

Brackraham Lincolnbama.

What has this fraud ever done?

When i was a child there was a joke that went like this:

Can you whistle?

Then look up my ass and Whistle when you see a train coming…

Who knew that joke would turn into our political reality.

Looks like a Chicago Steamer is coming down the shoot folks!

Whistle stop tour my ass.

Jimmy Carter ~~The Worst President Evah!~~, your legacy is safe in 3, 2, 1…

Atleast, based on his track record of having done nothing to actually help his constituency and lasting only a short time in any position before running for the next, we can all breath a sigh of relief knowing that in 2 years, The King of the Schmucks will put the presidency on hold to run for POPE!

I wonder if he will relocate the Vatican to Hyde Park.

Meanwhile the fuckin planet still hasn’t been healed and the waters are still a rising!

But hey, It don’t matter if Maryland is Broke! All that matters is Obama is president! Look at my new Obama watch everyone…isn’t it purtee??

The ignorance of so many people who are lucky to have had the right to vote in this country disgusts me.

Sheople?
No!
Poople!

Sheep have brains.
Sam

Why hasn’t anyone noticed how enamored of the limelight Obama is? He has been on more magazine covers over the past four months than Princess Di ever was in a year. He cannot get enough photo-ops. It may be the presses job to adore him, but isn’t his job supposed to be something else ENTIRELY? It appears the constant self-aggrandizement is only going to continue and at some point people are going to wake up to the fact that photo-ops and good times are what it is all about for our first true “celebrity president.”
Diana L. C.

Hey, what event are you all writing about?

(I am really good at denial.)

stodgie

diana, i know about it but won’t acknowlege it. i am ignoring this bruhaha.

Maria3

Inauguration and Hajj compared

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8egoZZfN5Q&eurl=http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaLatest.htm
Anon

This whole thing symbolizes nothing more than the GRAVY TRAIN to me. Don’t worry about that mortgage Sweetie, the gravy train is here!!! Need gas for your tank? Come on over to the gravy train. We are spreading the wealth, Sweetie. Don’t you worry!
RebelCarol

After reading most of the posts on this thread, I feel better knowing I am not alone. I have refused to watch or listen to any of the blather today regarding BO’s train trip. I will not be watchng very much TV this weekend either and definitely will not turn on the TV Tuesday.

I think the Boy Wonder is going to wake up Wednesday morning and fall flat on his face. He’s going to realize the seas haven’t parted and his walk-on-water shoes have lost all their air.

Any bets on how long it is before the MSM start turning on him?

Sam

I think that on Wednesday morning the photo-ops and partying will just continue. There will be lots and lots of useless, unproductive, well phtographed “meetings.” “Officials” and “experts” will continue to party hardy at the White House and nothing, NOTHING will “change.” It will probably take the entire 4 years for everyone to get totally PO’ed about it and even then the far left will continue to opine about how wonderful it all is.At that point the Republicans will present us with their own version of a “saviour” and 52% of the country will go for that. What a racket!

debbie

All of this publicity is great news for getting Democratic policies passed. Obama’s extremely high approval ratings are a major political resource and puts him in an excellent bargaining position with Congress.
ritamary

I don’t think the bought-and-paid-for media will turn on him until after 2012. After all, they are planning on making beaucoup bucks with his campaign commercials in 2012, like they did in 2008.

kgirl1028

You are giving our fellow americans credit for brain cells they no longer have.

Texas Playwright

Fraud and his fraud backers/handlers overhyping this sham democracy again. Haven’t been watching since the PA primary debates when I believed the American people finally would see this empty suit once and for all. Won’t be watching/hearing the fraud for the next four years. Will get my news from blogs like these. Will find the appropriate goal to pursue–election reform, restoring the Bill of Rights, supporting qualified women for office, etc.
kgirl1028

Playwrite you have far too much faith in the sheepled masses.
Maria3

Obama inauguration to hit big screens
MSNBC strikes deal to put coverage in nation’s theaters

http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2009/01/17/the-train-is-acomin-wide-open-thread/#comments

kgirl1028

oh hell no! Can we get a way from this man? What the hell did no one read 1984?

http://firefox AnnieCollier

I pretty much have the mute button on today and Tuesday I think I’ll go see Clint’s new film…the least I can do to thank him for his big donation to the RNC for McCain/Palin. And, it’s quite topical since it’s about combatting gangs and we’ve just had our 6th gang shooting so far this year over in Salinas. It’s getting to be a war zone…same families of thugs who are making our southern border more dangerous than Baghdad. Shootouts are between Hispanic males between 15 and 30. They’ve got the CHP backing up the local PD and county sheriffs but we actually need the National Guard to pick them up and hold them for Homeland Security. Deport the whole fam damily. From the increase in law enforcement, schools, welfare and medical systems, they’re sucking California dry. It’s too big a price to pay for the general public to finance welfare for ag industry.

Sam

LOL, I’ve turned the channel to Disney.

http://firefox AnnieCollier

Obama inauguration to hit big screens
MSNBC strikes deal to put coverage in nation’s theaters

Echhhhhhhh! Alright then, it’s onward to the beach.
http://www.hillaryorbust.com Hillary or Bust

The environmental impact of the inauguration: Over a half a billion pounds of CO2 -

http://thechillingeffect.org/2009/01/14/ifl-inauguration-will-produce-575-million-pounds-of-co2/
kgirl1028

well considering how damn cold it is we need that CO2 so we won’t freeze to death. THe only plus side to this inagaration.
Thinker

This is going to be a movie weekend.

B movies are always funny but if they get really bad, I’ll just pop in an Al Pacino movie.

Did anyone hear about this new gangster movie starring Johnny Depp? It’s set in Chicago. Sounds interesting.

My family is in D.C right now. I’ll probably give them a call, just to check in.

Another also: Someone is publishing an Obama comic book, kinda based on Spiderman.

My mom pre-ordered a dozen of them for herself and her friends. By this point, she doesn’t want to hear any of my smart ass comments about Obama, real close to cussin me out so I don’t talk to her about him anymore. Thanks for the site Larry!

…I did agree to stop by to start her car everyday though.
jesslepp

Did anyone see Chris Matthews this morning admit that he was in on the scam since Obama’s keynote speech at the ’04 convention. Matthews aired this comment from 2004: “I think the immigrant experience combined with the, with the African background combined with the incredible education, combined with his beautiful speech, not every politician gets help from a speech. But that speech was a piece of work!” THE FIX WAS IN–WE FELL FOR IT. Who is going to hold the pundits, media, ININFORMED PUBLIC accountable down the road for this con?
Ferd Berfle

The train ain’t a-comin’; it’s a leavin’ with the rest of our cash that Bush and Cheney failed to take with them. That One is just going to finish another job this Administration didn’t complete.

Thanks a lot, bushbots and obamabots.
KintheNorthwest

I have a feeling that when Obama and his family are done with their time in the White House they will many many more records in the White House; mostly financial.
I have this sinking feeling that the Obamas feel that there is no limit to their expense accounts as long as the American taxpayers pay for it. Let the Amercians tighten their belts a bit while the president and his family lives high off their backs.
riverplate

The LA Times’ Tim Rutten — my favorite op-ed writer — has a book review today that draws on Richard Hofstadter’s elucidation of “the paranoid style” in American politics.

Much to be appreciated here, as Hostadter’s description fits NQ to a T:

“One of the impressive things about paranoid literature is the contrast between its fantasied conclusions and the almost touching concern with factuality it invariably shows….It produces heroic strivings for evidence to prove that the unbelievable is the only thing that can be believed.”

Apocrypahl Kenyan birth records, anyone? Larry Johnson tape? Impending Russian invasion of Alaska? (That last one was for trixta).

Check it out.

http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-rutten7-2009jan07,0,6116790.story

Ferd Berfle

You accuse us of being paranoid. Actually we question the veracity of your candidate and you obamabots. I have yet to see anything approaching the truth about your candidate mainly because he is keeping it a big secret. What’s up with that, toodles?

No, we aren’t paranoid. You, on the other hand, are a gullible, soft-headed waste of genetic material who thinks That One is the greatest American who ever drew breath.

On second thought, I’d rather be “paranoid” than stupid like you.

Maria3

ARRRRGH! There is no escaping Obama! I can’t believe I am paying HBO to have Fraud’s inauguration on three HBO channels!

However, I will be glued to the television when he is found to be an illegal fraud:)!

Eligibility battle rages on 3 fronts
Court, Congress and college challenged on constitutionality

Officials at Occidental College in Los Angeles, Calif., have been served with a demand to produce records concerning Barack Obama’s attendance there during the 1980s because they could document whether he was attending as a foreign national – in one of three fronts now established by those contesting the president-elect’s constitutional eligibility for the Oval Office.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=86325
Hursepeette

My new forum http://www.huskoeb-billig-vejledning.info – uhs is damaged. nyone igve feeedback to us
sowsear

I can’t laugh about anyone’s being drafted; I have grandchildren at risk, especially if PEBO manages to stretch his presidency into a lifetime scam.
sowsear

BO’s father wasn’t an immigrant, he was a visitor, a “fly-by-night” one, at that.
Isn’t Rahm’s father still in Israel?
arky

Exactly!
http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

She was not even on the train. She was with CNN outside freezing. But maybe she likes that better because it’s a paid gig.
Judy L. NC

That was my rant on Friday after hearing Diane Rehm use the “I” word too! GEEZ! Rewriting history.