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Why I Love Barack Obama

By Larry Johnson on January 18, 2009 at 4:51 PM in Current Affairs

He’s the man. Some folks talk about wanting to help the economy. Not Barack. He’s doing something about it right out of the starting gate. Can you say PARTY HEARTY MARTY? According to the AP:

The price tag for President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration gala is expected to break records, with some estimates reaching as high as $150 million. Despite the bleak economy, however, Democrats who called on President George W. Bush to be frugal four years ago are issuing no such demands now that an inaugural weekend of rock concerts and star-studded parties has begun.

Obama’s inaugural committee has raised more than $41 million to cover events ranging from a Philadelphia-to-Washington train ride to a megastar concert with Beyonce, U2 and Bruce Springsteen to 10 official inaugural balls. Add to that the massive costs of security and transportation — costs absorbed by U.S. taxpayers — and the historic inauguration will produce an equally historic bill.

A big bill? Screw that. The Washington DC caterers, limo drivers, and security companies are raking in the dough. CHA-CHING. And Barack ain’t asking Uncle Sugar to foot the bill. Hell, no!! He is asking averaging Americans, you know, folks like Oprah, Snoop Dog, Stevie Spielberg, and Bruce Springsteen to cough up some coin and cover the cost. Nothing says economic recovery like Hollywood glitterati spending some cash.

And you have got to love the Democratic chutzpah. Four years ago Reps. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., and Jim McDermott, D-Wash, called on George Bush to forego festivities. No dancing and drinking while soldiers are fighting. Hell no. Bush should have just had a subdued reception and limited folks to some pound cake and punch. Why party when the nation is at war?

Well, we are still at war and the economy is floundering like a goose with a sucking chest wound. But if we’re going down the tubes why not party? I am convinced that Obama is just providing a preview of the economic miracle he will work once in office. To hell with fiscal restraint. Spend baby spend. Offer the wealthy and the connected some special Washington insider access and they’ll help finance the recovery on their own. Maybe he could rent out the Lincoln bedroom? Lead the way with some creative fund raising. Boy, is he great or what?

So check out the poll on the right. What do you think will be Barack’s first miracle?

Seriously folks. The media “love fest” for Barack has jumped the shark. If the treacly media coverage continues at this pace we are likely to experience a surge in diabetes. This amount of sugar and sweet would push Lance Armstrong into a diabetic coma. We are going to inaugurate the most brilliant man ever except we know nothing about his academic record. But who cares. We have a miracle worker now.

  • NewHampster

    so here I am watching football and the O’bot wife can’t think of anything but seeing his Oliness speak to the masses.

    It’s American Idol Larry, just enjoy all the miracles he hath, will , might wrought.

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

      Be sure to vote (top right of NQ’s home page. Larry’s polling question:

      What Will Be Barack Obama’s First Miracle?

      • NewHampster

        There’s no choice for…

        Make no lines for the Porta Potties

        that would truly be a miracle

        • http://Godhelpusall lee M

          I couldn’t vote because there was no space for:

          Tell us who he really is, and where he really came from.

        • oowawa

          My kind of humor! Crude, but poignant.

      • Beener

        The $150 mm cost of the inauguaration is complete BS. This number is just based on some shoddy bias journalism. Cost won’t be much different than what Bush spent.

        See this report:

        http://mediamatters.org/columns/200901170003

        and

        “The AP concocts the cost of Obama’s inauguration
        It’s hard to find journalism more shoddy than this, courtesy of the AP’s Matt Apuzzo [emphasis added]:

        The price tag for President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration gala is expected to break records, with some estimates reaching as high as $150 million. Despite the bleak economy, however, Democrats who called on President George W. Bush to be frugal four years ago are issuing no such demands now that an inaugural weekend of rock concerts and star-studded parties has begun.
        Where does that jaw-dropping number of $150 million come from? The AP never says. It doesn’t quote anybody, it doesn’t point to any facts. There’s no nothing. The AP builds an entire story around how much Obama’s inauguration might cost (why stop at $150 million?), yet never substantiates the what-if estimates.

        As we said, journalism doesn’t get much worse than that. ”

        As usual this website is pushing misinformation, based on zero actual knowledge or analysis.

        • Ferd berfle

          The website you linked to is an agenda-driven partisan site. The real numbers reside somewhere a little more objective. Nice try, though.

          • beebop

            The NYT pegs it at $170 Million in their on line rag.

            • GayBlackMuslimLiberal

              Even at that number, adjusting for inflation means that costs are similar to other presidents. Given that there will be many many more people in attendence than at previous inaugurations, then that cost is not too bad.

              • beebop

                You need to read the comments at the oneline ABC column. The things being said here are TAME compared to what is being said there …..

              • beebop

                Here is one of the tamer but more moving comments … just wait until she hears “no” on that college loan for her daughter ….

                And to think I haven’t slept for the last week because I’ve been trying to figure out a way for my daughter to go to college. Don’t worry it will all work out is what I’m told, then I find out that the government only gives student loans up to $5500. and that we will have to get private loans at a rate of three to five percent higher than the government. What university costs $5500. a year and what kind of debt are we starting our younger generation off with. So now I’m told as a parent I will just have to take out the loans to help her, that should be easy since my husband was laid off in November and I was upset yesterday because I spent nine dollars more than I should have at the grocery store. I don’t want a hand out and I’m happy for Barack Obama, but when is reality going to hit Washington. To throw this type of outlandish party whether it’s from donations or not is just a kick in the teeth to those of us that are struggling, how quickly they forget.

                • GayBlackMuslimLiberal

                  All you people are really saying is that either Obama should not have an inauguration at all or he should not have a public one.

                  Given that the public costs of +$100 mm are largely for security this really only applies to a public inauguration. The only way to eliminate most of the tax payer money is to get rid of the security. The only way to do that is to either drop the inauguration or not to make it public. The $45 mm for the balls (which there is actually one less ball than Bush had) is private money and is on a inflation adjusted basis actually lower than Bush, and not out of line compared to other inaugurations. The overall cost is much the same as all previous inaugurations.

                  What you people should really then be saying is you do not think Obama should have an inauguration at all or a very small closed non-public inauguration?

                  I agree the country is in a tough way, but I do think, given the importance of the presidency, and the precident we can afford an inauguration. I assume it is in the budget.

                  I serious doubt both Clinton or McCain would have skipped their inauguration.

                  By the way if there is no inauguration then why don’t we cut all Presidential trips, close the WhiteHouse, maybe put the President in a cheap rental, take away Airforce One, eliminate Camp David, etc. etc. etc.

                  Maybe make some sense to do all that, but it would be a little extreme.

                  At the end of the day Obama could tie his shoes wrong and you people will jump all over him.

        • GayBlackMuslimLiberal

          Clinton spent/raised $33 mm in 1993
          Bush spent/raised $42.3 mm in 2005
          Obama spent/raised $45 mm in 2009

          All campaigns spend about the same on the actual festivities when adjusting for inflation (maybe even a little less for Obama after inflation).

          The $150 mm figure being suggested and compared to previous inaugurations is complete BS, as media comentators are comparing apples and oranges. If you factor in security Bush spent about $115 mm on security for a total cost of $157 mm. Obama security costs are likely to be similar.

          So to say that Obama is spending more than Bush or recent presidents is complete BS. Most of the cost is security, so the only way to get around those costs would to not have an inaugural at all.

          This is a great example of how the media and the web takes unsubstantiated facts and then runs with it and makes them seem real. The myth balloons and everyone believes it.

          • GayBlackMuslimLiberal

            Quoting the NYT:

            “President-elect Barack Obama has raised more than $24 million for his inauguration so far, much of it with single checks of $25,000 or $50,000 from executives from Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Hollywood as well as from former supporters of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

            The $24 million puts Mr. Obama more than halfway toward the goal of raising $40 million to $45 million for what could be the most expensive inauguration ever, topping the $42.3 million that President Bush spent in 2005.”

            See:

            http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/us/politics/06donors.html

            • beebop

              Quoting ABC News:

              The biggest group of donors were none other than the recently bailed-out Wall Street executives and employees.

              “The finance sector is well represented, despite its recent troubles,” Ritsch said. “Those who worked in finance still managed to pull together nearly $7 million for the inauguration.”

              The donors will get some of the best seats in the house for the inauguration, as well as admittance to some of the best balls and other events.

              So now we understand why they wanted him versus HRC or McCain. One of their own. A thief and crook …. they don’t expect any oversight from him. Business as usual at the expense of the taxpayer. Already, we have a Secretary of the Treasury nominee who didn’t pay his own freaking taxes.

              I am proud to say as a former Democrat (sic) that I didn’t vote for him, would never vote for him and am proud not to have voted for him!

              http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Inauguration/Story?id=6665946&page=2

              • GayBlackMuslimLiberal

                So you are saying the finance sector has no right to make private donations to the in the inauguration. Do you think it would have been any different under Clinton or McCain?

                • beebop

                  Honey … we’re bailing their butts out of bad decisions. We are telling them what salaries they can pay … is anyone giving YOU money to go to DC? hmmmmm? I can’t hear you?

                • Ferd berfle

                  Not when they’re getting their arses bailed out with taxpayer money, snookums. Your shame knows no bounds.

        • mary

          Beener

          Relax! No one’s questioning the Great Leader’s ability to spend $l45 million for the Crowning. The fact is this represents the HIGHEST ever amount spent on inauguration! And Mr. Barack Hussein Obama enjoys the jazz and splash a la Hollywood cause he’s just the JayZ Rapper kinda guy anyway. Incidentally, has he taught you the Middleschooler’s Flip-Off lately. Your female friends will love it!
          Keep fighting for the Messiah’s honor….lol

          • Beener

            On an inflation adjusted basis, he is probably spending less than both Clinton and Bush.

            And given that there will be a record number of people you would expect a high price.

            At least there will not be any protestors there like the Bush inauguration. Actually maybe you should show up to protest.

            By the way your comments are border line racist.

            I never fight for Obama. I just like fighting against the logic of you knuckleheads, as you are often just plain wrong.

    • GayBlackMuslimLiberal

      Most of the cost of the inauguration is coming from private contributions! Taxpayer cost inline with previous inaugurations.

      • Diana L. C.

        Bunch of really, really stupid private contributors, but I can’t help but believe that they aren’t paying for the city cleanup, the extra police force, and on and on. It’s going to cost a bundle, and it still doesn’t mean–even if some of the money is private–that it is TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATE FOR THE FINANCIAL SITUATION.

      • RebelCarol

        Taxpayer cost inline with previous inaugurations.

        Wrong Buckaroo! He has to have more security personnel than has ever been needed in the past. Past inaugerations have been just one day fetes, his is four days!

        • beebop

          ABC news …

          “We have a budget of roughly $45 million, maybe a little bit more,” said Linda Douglas, spokeswoman for the inaugural committee.

          That’s more than the $42.3 million in private funds spent by President Bush’s committee in 2005 or the $33 million spent for Bill Clinton’s first inaugural in 1993.

          • GayBlackMuslimLiberal

            Adjusting for inflation Obama is actually spending less than Clinton and Bush.

            • beebop

              You can parse it and defend it any way you want. There was a SURPLUS when Clinton left office. We are in a deep and long depression recession. 0boreme stood here in Ohio and told people it was going to get worse before it was going to get better …. He needs to learn to walk the talk. He’s a phoney from the words “Chicago.” Live with it.

            • Jan

              I was watching Obama on my news, this morning, telling the crowds much national sacrifice would be needed, in part because of the economy.

              So, WTF?

              Looks silly, hypocritical, and my goodness, everyone should sacrifice, BUT the insiders, the elite?

              This is AIG and half moon bay, isn’t it?

              Amateur crap, I swear a PR team more ineffective than the one Bush employed.

              I just thought they could not get more stupid.

              I was wrong.

            • scorbs

              Both Clintons would have encouraged a smaller-scale inauguration out of respect for the millions of Americans who are struggling now and who do not want to help foot an inauguration bill this size. That’s the least Obama should have done, Gay Black Muslim Liberal, is to have made that kind of effort, in tribute to Americans less fortunant than he, or the elites apparently financing him.

              Nor is 150+million “in line with inflation,” in comparison to Bush’s 45 million, just a few years ago. The notion is absurd.

            • mary

              GayBlackMuslipObamabot

              Ah Ah dunno! With a trillion in the hole and no money to pay the bills, wouldn’t you say that even 45 million and FOUR days of hoopla is a bit much….???? uh hu hummmmm enough to turn you inhto a Straight Republican, my boy!

      • no kidding

        gayblack — I guess you don’t have a problem with the New President throwing the largest Inaugural in History when we have 2 wars going on and our economy is going down the tubes. Was it only a couple of days ago that Obama said we had to stop runaway spending on Social Security and Medicare? Its runaway spending when it involves the old and the poor — when its about his own personal gratification — he can’t spend enough.

        • UKforDems

          Comment by no kidding | 2009-01-19 01:39:18

          gayblack — I guess you don’t have a problem with the New President throwing the largest Inaugural in History when we have 2 wars going on and our economy is going down the tubes. Was it only a couple of days ago that Obama said we had to stop runaway spending on Social Security and Medicare? Its runaway spending when it involves the old and the poor — when its about his own personal gratification — he can’t spend enough.

          Bush spent $42 million on his last Inaugural bash. A corporate sell out that resulted in such delightful Product Placement menu choices as Frozen Turkey brined in Coca Cola with Donut stuffing.

          His security costs, and we were in the middle of two wars then, (Iraq and Afghanistan are now supposed to be peace keeping missions), amounted to $115 milion.

          So an extra $5 million after 8 years of the worst President ever. Seems very good value. Get the champagne out.

          • truthtelling007

            This offers a false dilemma. This assumes that one is ok with the expenses GWBush’s inauguration. I for one don’t except either premise and would be much more impressed with folks if they didn’t always jump to a dualism to answer concerns.

            If I raise a concern about Bush and Cheney, I get some dualistic thinker saying, “well Obama”..when I didn’t vote for him either. If I say I want to hold Obama accountable, I get called a Republican, a dire insult in my quarters.

            It would be much more impressive if people would assume less about their ideological adversaries and deal with the materials at hand than assuming that the opponent takes the antipodal position to the speaker’s position.

            I would buy into Obama’s “Change” if that money were spent to feed the poor in my city. I make very little money overall with my own business, and yet fed more people in need this year already than Obama will for the next 4 if this is his idea of what is appropriate.

            There is nothing wrong with the country celebrating a peaceful change in politics, but to stomp over the criticisms when people are being thrown out of their jobs, their house, their families due to the economic and social downturn is just simply immoral and glutenous. I don’t respect gluttony. It is a cardinal sin for a reason. And I don’t say that in religious terms, but moral terms.

            Walk what you preach and you’ll gain more followers. Obama preaches a good line, but I’m still waiting for some substance.

            • Ferd Berfle

              The inauguration should be a formal celebration of the U.S. and “We the People” and not of the one, the new President. By formal, I mean respectful of tradition and to those who did not vote for the person taking office.

              After all, it isn’t really about the President but about the system, country, and people therein which have allowed the peaceful transfer of power for over two centuries and not about the person who is elected to take the reins, much less about the color or sex of that person. All too often this little fact goes unnoticed, unreported, and ignored. Presidents are replaced on a regular basis but the office, the country, and its Constitution remain. This sort of celebration, especially in an economic slowdown such as this, cheapens the office, mocks the system, and sets yet another poor example for future generations to follow (or perhaps cringe about. I want no part of such foolishness and will not watch it.

              The last three election cycles have produced a cult-like worship of mere men in lieu of a celebration of the democratic tradition. This is a practice better left to the world of popular music and its groupies and sports and its cheerleaders. It really has no place in the transfer of presidential power.

              Just my $0.02.

          • Jan

            Well, no, because it’s even worse now, right, those problems left to fester, the economic downturn, even worse.

            And Obama selling himself as “smart” should have been perceptive enough to understand the current zeitgeist, sensitive to the nation’s plight.

            It’s an indication of intellect.

            But that’s OK, we’re used to thick kooks.

            ; > }

            • Ferd berfle

              And Obama selling himself as “smart” should have been perceptive enough to understand the current zeitgeist, sensitive to the nation’s plight.

              That’s the problem. The truly wise man knows he is ignorant (paraphrasing Socrates via Plato). PEBO is a legend only in his own mind and in those of his over-indulged, self-important supporters.

              • mary

                FerdBerfly

                Yes. I daresay Odrama could benefit immensely from this Platonic instruction:

                “Know Thyself” — but how could Obarama know anything, let alone Himself when he still inhabits the cave with fellow shadows…For Him to come out, the Light will be too stong and may blind him.

                Ahh….OBAMYOPIA….the affliction of this century! maybe with 50 million cracks on the ceiling, the situaation may change….

  • HC

    Hey Larry, you reprehensible [DELETED BY ADMINISTRATOR: My, aren't you a symbol of hope and change with your filthy, disgusting mouth and your all-consuming HATRED?!!! Get over yourself, and get some help. One of these days, you may actually become a rational functioning human being instead of a hate-filled blight on humanity.]

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

      HC–I see you’re suffering from a case of full-blown Obamautism. What is Obamautism,< you ask? It’s a disease in which your head is so far up your Obot ass that you’re in perpetual O’gasm. Have a nice day.

      • UBM’s Mother

        LMAO, Trixta. Nicely-done words for the new obama-matic lexicon: obamautism and O’gasm. Too funny.

        Larry should do a thread about newly-minted words for the Oblahblah era of hopey-changey warm fuzzies.

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

          Thanks, UBM’s Mom! (For a minute there I thought you were UBM himself!)

          That is a fantastic idea and would be as fun as last week’s “You-know-you’re-an- Obot-when…” thread.

          We could call this thread simply (your words): “The New Obama-matic Lexicon.”

          • Magic Puzzle Box

            Oh, please do. It’ s so clever and hysterically funny. Great comeback for the trolls.

      • lester

        Hey HC…you want to see real hate, go to HuffPO
        and see where they are damanding that GWB be hung.

    • UBM’s Mother

      HC–get a grip on reality. For Christ sake, Larry has the right to say whatever he wants about That One and his frat party–it’s his web site and further, his Constitutional right.

      You do remember the First Amendment, don’t you, toodles?

      • ritamary

        The First Amendment is suspended in Obotland. Nobody dare criticize the Messiah.

    • http://www.anvp.wordpress.com soldier4hillary

      To the oh so wonderful readers here, pardon me as I interrupt our normal titilating conversation as I help clean up aisle two. Oh god, chopping bots off at the ankle after the 20th will be literally orgasmic as we watch there allusion, known as there life, meet reality.

      HC here is a prime example of what we will see and hear as the clouds come out and open up, the sun begins to shine and they are able to get a really really good look at the real world. Because as you know, it does look kind of different from the being in the basement with one hand in there pants and one on the keyboard attempting to do two things at once. Hence, the gibberish responses they leave that makes no sense to the rest of the natural born citizens in this world.

      See, if you take HC’s comments and place “President Elect Obama’s” name in place of “Larry” in his comments. Then you will see how HC here really feels about him. But HC, that’s okay, I understand. Really. I do. At some point ya just gotta get up, brush off your knees, wipe your mouth and just realize that in the real world, we are allowed to not agree. See we have this thing called freedom of speech. No, hold on, let me break it down to bot speech. Ahem

      A long long time ago, these people like, you know, came up with some stuff, and like wrote it down and like, you know, we all have to like abide by it. But like, you really don’t if, you like, you dont want to. And sometimes, like, mommies and daddies, like to teach there kids and stuff, that its like, okay, to like kinda speak your mind because of that thingy that got like words on it and stuff that says you have like, rights. And like the people who wrote it are like way old and stuff, like before IM’ing and text messaging old.

      But that’s okay HC. I am sure President Elect Obama’s first miracle will be curing the world of bots. It would seem fitting since he created them.

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

        Nice troll smack down, S4H!

      • http://none They shoe horses

        Hey soldier, that deserves a salute.

    • HC

      This is not me!

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

        HC–has someone hijacked your name? If so (sorry!), contact the web administrators pronto.

        • HC

          Yes, the person posting above is not me. I will contact an admin, thanks.

      • http://www.anvp.wordpress.com soldier4hillary

        Oh! Sorry! Uh why can’t bots use there REAL or there own name/handle! Sorry HC, that really sucks. But ya just got to stop and laugh sometimes for a moment. They jack names and then the real person has to come and tell us that it’s not them while they get to slink off into the sunset. Damn, we were just about to have some fun. Thanx HC for pointing it out!

      • Ferd Berfle

        My apologies, in addition. I did not realize that your name had been hijacked and should have checked further. Those name-trolls are a despicable lot.

      • elise

        I didn’t think so, HC. Don’t worry. It’s happened to me a couple of times except the impostor in my case was at least literate and didn’t dwell in the bowels of the sewer system.

    • Bob

      Larry loves his country and the Democratic process………….Thug

  • SJ

    His first miracle was to make 150,000,000 vanish and no one noticed, something no other President in history has been able to achieve .

  • FranSC

    “Why I Love Barack Obama”.

    Larry, don’t scare us like that!

    • beebop

      I KNEW it was snark …. Larry would have to be dropped on his head repeatedly to be seriously saying that he loves barky ….

  • beachnan

    Here, here Larry. So agree with your post. When will the Obots wake up from their hopey induced coma? Unfortunately, I believe the comedown from the Obama high, is going to be much worse than the comedown, from the Bush high. When it does happen, I hope that the media, will finally start to do their job as the Fourth Estate. Right now, it is downright embarrassing to witness.

    • Kat5

      Ahhahahahahaha! Talk about producing miracles – the Fourth Estate (otherwise known as Axelrod’s toy poodle) actually doing its job??? The planet will run out of oxygen first.

      • Chicago Joe

        Well, according to a headline on Drudge, Barry “Annie Sullivan” Obama only has four years to save the planet. Hey, maybe there is something to this 2012 stuff after all.

    • Cindy

      I just put the song “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” (the Hitler Youth song from the musical Cabaret) on my outgoing voice-mail message…..beginning with the verse:
      “Oh, Fatherland, Fatherland,
      show us the sign
      your children have waited to see”………..

      I think it’s appropriate!

      • socalannie

        ROFLMAO! I loved that movie. Hilarious & appropriate!

  • wodiej

    I know….when I first saw that heading I thought WTF?? But I realized it had to be sarcasm.

    Well, I think how pathetically idiotic all these people are going to look when Obama falls flat will be ABSOLUTELY PRICELESS.

    First of all…you don’t compare yourself to Jesus Christ. Especially when you haven’t even achieved any normal accomplishments let alone miracles. He can’t even muster a real birth certificate, medical or school records.

    “God will not be mocked”….count on it.

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    • Bob

      Let’s see 98% of one race voted for the alleged black guy Who is the racist

      • NoBamaNoWay

        yep; blacks vote 95+% for obama, but no racism there; obama gets a free ride from the MSM from before the primaries even started, “wins” the primary and the GE, but there are all these (democratic) “racists” out there who just don’t like him cuz he’s black?

        • UKforDems

          Blacks have consistently voted 90% + for the Democratic candidate during a Presidential Election. The issue with AA support for Democratic candidates has in the past been turn out, not poll numbers.

          McCain Palin really offered the AA community something in November didn’t they? Not.

          • Ferd berfle

            Blacks have consistently voted 90% + for the Democratic candidate during a Presidential Election.

            I’d like to see a link for that statement. You might get away with such a statement if you said the last X election cycles. But further back, I believe you’ll find that is not quite the case.

            McCain Palin really offered the AA community something in November didn’t they? Not.

            Now there’s a racist statement. You have just pigeon-holed the AA vote and objectified them as a voting bloc. You are in essence saying they constitute one monolithic group and will vote in lock-step with each other according to what they are told. If I were black, I’d take offense at your silly statement. Wow. It must take all the fun out of life being as omniscient as you seem to be.

  • Animal Control

    Larry, Thanks for keeping a good perspective and the reminders.

  • wodiej

    At first I thought WTF too but then realized it was sarcasm..

    It will be a spectacle to watch the Obot followers when Obama falls flat.

    First of all…you don’t compare yourself to Jesus Christ…especially when you haven’t achieved any ordinary accomplishments let alone miracles. He won’t produce a BC, medical or school records.

    trust me…”God shall not be mocked”….

  • James

    Didn’t Bush’s inauguration cost around 157 million — everything included? These things cost a lot due to the security bills.

    • Angel

      More like $40 million James – not that $40 million isn’t a LOT of money. It is. But no where near the obscene amount being blown on 0bama’s coronation.

      • beebop

        The <em>real uh um surreal number will never make the light of day.

        • no kidding

          The temperature in Wash DC on Tuesday evening will be 16 degrees with a wind chill factor making it feel like 1 degree. God appears to be giving his Messiah the cold shoulder.

          • Ferd berfle

            God appears to be giving his Messiah the cold shoulder

            That should be the first clue to bots everywhere.

      • sowsear

        Not to mention the approximate 700 million to get selected.

      • James

        Angel –

        The 40 million figure is ONLY for the festivities. It does NOT include the extra 100 million costs for security, transportation, and miscellaneous costs incurred by DC and the federal government. The 160 million Obama figure being cited INCLUDES these extra costs. The BASE cost is comparable to Bush’s inauguration cost.

        I don’t like Obama, but let’s be fair here.

        • Mary

          As I recall, the city of D.C. had to declare some sort of “emergency” to receive more federal funds to cover security, etc.

          So , you’re absolutely right: $40 million is just the base cost.

          The rest of the millions will be “hidden” in city/state costs, and the American taxpayer will cover it through federal “emergency” budgets.

          More like $160 million, if you include all the “hidden” costs.

    • grtphoto

      doesn’t matter anyway, hard times equal sacrifice by all right? guess not for the one. it is indeed obscene and tasteless, i am not surprised though.

    • Chris

      And while we’re counting, how about his 700,000,000 plus campaign costs complete with illegal overseas donations and how much did his “return of the roman Empire” set at the DNC cost again? These bleeding hearts who call out the repubs as being for the wealthy, but we-the-Dems-are-all-about-saving-the middle class and the poor, could care less how much they spend on wonkerboy Obama. They will just print more money for themselves and charge you for it. Bunch of elitist hypocrits and stupid ones at that. Make sure everyone supports those Hollywood stars that love to tell you how awful it is here and how Obama is their shining star while banking all that money we willingly fork over to them. Yeah, we’re paying for this show one way or another. Believe it. Come to think of it, we’re the stupid ones.

    • RebelCarol

      Didn’t Bush’s inauguration cost around 157 million

      It was approximately 40-45m.

      • UKforDems

        Comment by RebelCarol | 2009-01-18 20:34:28

        Didn’t Bush’s inauguration cost around 157 million

        It was approximately 40-45m.

        With an extra $110 million in Security.

        Bush had a sponsor fest which caused the WhiteHouse cooks many difficulties.

        Delights such as :-
        Coca-Cola brined Pilgrim’s turkey with Dunkin Donuts old-fashioned cake doughnut sweet and savory stuffing

  • ame

    If Obama had taken the opportunity to just say no to spending outrages sums of money on an inauguration, he really would have moved a lot of people; he chose not to do so. That tells me that Obama is a typical politician who is out for himself. Nothing hew here folks.

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

      Yeah, just think how many homes he could have saved from foreclosure or homeless shelters he could have aided with 150M dollars. Had he done that — contributed every red cent — even I would have marveled at such generosity.

      Let this 150M inaugural price tag be his let-them-eat-cake moment.

      • Animal Control

        I wonder what they’re doing with the homeless people that live on the stream grates on 14th street?

        • cathnealon

          I heard the other day that they DC is hiring special vans to pick up the homeless to drive them to shelters so BO and his delusional Jackie Kennedy wife won’t have to see them as they wave to the crowds.

          • oowawa

            Very smart move. You wouldn’t want to see them televise the homeless waving back with one finger extended. And they wouldn’t be subtle about it. pretending to scratch the sides of their faces.

      • Ferd Berfle

        Once again, That One missed a golden opportunity to set an example for the electorate. Instead, he chose to tell us that we need to tighten our belts, all the while loosening his.

        This does not constitute leadership but only confirms that he is the shallow, callow man I though he was.

        • http://undercoverblackman.blogspot.com Undercover Black Man

          One question for all you joyless jabbermonkeys:

          If Hillary Clinton were about to be inaugurated as America’s first woman president… would you be in Washington, D.C. right now, ready to celebrate… ready to be an eyewitness to history?

          Or would you be so overcome by the state of the economy that you’d be urging President-Elect Hillary to go modest and frugal with the festivities?

          • Ferd Berfle

            I would have recommended she go frugal. This is not a time to celebrate

            If only you were so honest, Undercover BM, you might have made a difference by supporting the qualified one in lieu of the one with the desired color but no inherent qualifications.

            For want of a nail….

            • http://none They shoe horses

              Ferd, I loved to see that quote. Just keep posting.

          • http://firefox AnnieCollier

            Listen Cretin. No one would need to tell Hillary to have a modest celebration. She’d know better. She would have a sense of history and place. Go along now.

            • http://undercoverblackman.blogspot.com Undercover Black Man

              Ahh, a sense of history and place. Bill Clinton is famous for that!

              Remember the Clintons’ inaugural gala in 1992? They showed a 5-minute video produced by their Hollywood buddies, the Thomasons, in which they rubbed the noses of a few of their enemies in it.

              The video “featured clips of such political commentators as David Broder and Fred Barnes dismissing Bill during the primary campaign as a ‘loser’ and ‘dead meat.’ The background music was Frank Sinatra singing George Gershwin’s ‘They All Laughed.’ (‘They all laughed at us and how./But ho, ho, ho! Who’s got the last laugh now?’)

              “The Clintons thought the film was funny–and were unconcerned that it would anger the Washington press corps.”

              Oh, those classy Clintons!

              Let’s hope President Obama takes no lessons from them on how to celebrate a victory in good taste.

              • CG

                oh you mean like “99 Problems and a Bitch Ain’t One” at Obama’s victory speech celebration. I see what you mean by classy…

              • http://firefox AnnieCollier

                As before, you can go now. You have nothing to contribute.

                • http://www.georgianindex.net/Napoleon/coronation/coronation.html trixta

                  Neither Clinton ever flipped anyone off — not even their most ardent detractors.

                  • AMERICA R.I.P.

                    Hillary has class. The Obamas…NONE whatsoever. None.

              • elise

                UBM, I thought it pretty funny and one thing really great about the Clintons: They never found it necessary or desirable to pimp themselves out to the arrogant and overweening members of the so-called press corps since the people loved them. Still love them. They certainly didn’t require a psycho like Chris Mathews to make his presidency a success.

                Now, I know how important you are because you have said so many times, but what I don’t understand is how you have time to write comments here when you should be attending one of the many Inaugural affairs you’ve been invited to attend.

                • Thinker

                  exactly.

                  His guy “won”, but at this very moment, he’s posting on a site that clearly doesn’t like Obama. Shouldn’t he be out celebrating?

                  Things that make you go hmmm..

                  • http://www.georgianindex.net/Napoleon/coronation/coronation.html trixta

                    UBM, like his fellow Odroids, know deep down that we are right about The One, and so he loiters at NQ fearing that the truth will finally come out. As one droid so famously said, “Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is, to be a slave” (Blade Runner).

                    Indeed, the longer the Odroids loiter here at NQ the more obsessed they become about our cause.

                    • http://www.georgianindex.net/Napoleon/coronation/coronation.html trixta

                      [i.e. knows]

              • Ferd Berfle

                Dry up, Undercover BM. This isn’t 1993 and we’re not discussing WJC. Try to stay away from the Common Practice fallacies and own your candidate.

                Christ, you dim bulbs are sounding more like Bushbots everyday.

              • Mary

                We just brush you off our shoulders and scrape you off our shoes, UBM.

                Obama taught us that. :)

          • CG

            urge President-Elect Hillary to go modest and frugal with the festivities

          • lynn

            No if HRC had won, I would watch it on tv. I have the money to travel to DC but in these times it does not seem prudent to spend in excess.

          • RebelCarol

            Or would you be so overcome by the state of the economy that you’d be urging President-Elect Hillary to go modest and frugal with the festivities?

            Hillary wouldn’t be putting on the spectacle that BO is producing. Hillary would be thinking about the state of the economy and her inauguration would reflect the somberness of our Nation’s fiscal problems. So get off your soap box.

            • UKforDems

              Comment by RebelCarol | 2009-01-18 20:49:04

              Or would you be so overcome by the state of the economy that you’d be urging President-Elect Hillary to go modest and frugal with the festivities?

              Hillary wouldn’t be putting on the spectacle that BO is producing. Hillary would be thinking about the state of the economy and her inauguration would reflect the somberness of our Nation’s fiscal problems. So get off your soap box.

              As the first Woman President?

              Yeah right.

              • Ferd berfle

                Once again, your sarcastic remark demonstrates how little you know about HRC. She is not as enamored of herself as That One is–her ego is made of stiffer stuff as demonstrated by her ability to withstand the most vile of attacks from the far right (and far left) and still carry on with a smile and with her dignity intact. That One would have withered under such pressure.

                HRC would have had a simple inaugural as that is the kind of person she is.

                You can go on and on about your precious Messiah until the chickens come home to roost, all to no avail because the only one who can actually do anything about it is That One and not you–and he is not exactly known for being a decisive guy or a hard worker.

              • beebop

                I guess the fact that he outspent her by an obscene amount of money isn’t enough of an indication to you that she wouldn’t have re-enacted the Bonaparte coronation?

                Please.

                And. On top of that, we’ll never know because he used the racial slurs Chicago style to break her knee caps.

          • AMERICA R.I.P.

            UBM…Not one of the other candidates would act like the two year old, immature, spendthrift, arrogant, pompous POS that Obama is. NONE OF THEM would be doing this. It’s 100% the WRONG message for America, and for the rest of the world where there is great suffering. They think we are total idiots for this. The Brits are laughing themselves to DEATH over this idiocy.

            The fact that you applaud this ridiculous nonsense reflects on who you are. The rest of us would be horrified to spend that kind of money when people are losing their homes. But, then again, WE loved our country enough not to vote for the con man. Good luck with that. My guess is you too will want your vote back sooner than later. You F**ked up. Maybe you’ll get a brain and heart and figure it out.

          • http://www.georgianindex.net/Napoleon/coronation/coronation.html trixta

            “joyless jabbermonkeys”

            Nice alliteration, UBM, bit your hypothetical argument is specious, since Hillary is not the issue here. We’re talking about Obama’s inaugural price tag. Don’t change the subject.

            • http://www.georgianindex.net/Napoleon/coronation/coronation.html trixta

              ["i.e. ...but your..."]

            • http://undercoverblackman.blogspot.com Undercover Black Man

              My goal is not to change the subject, trixta, but to get folks to understand people’s enthusiasm for this inauguration by imagine their own beloved candidate — Hillary — in the same position as Obama is now.

              Engage in this mental exercise honestly, and you can clearly picture a huge celebration to usher in America’s first female president… complete with big-money donors falling over each other to foot the bill for the shindigs.

              Therefore, to knock Obama for the price tag of his inaugural festivities is just a political game.

              • truthtelling007

                what if you didn’t vote for Clinton or Obama? What if you repeatedly watch the two parties divide up the nation into their ‘left’ v ‘right’ campaigns?

                For you to state that “to knock Obama for the price tag” is just a political game is to avoid engaging “in this mental exercise honestly.

                I am not at all happy with the price tag or with other examples of extravagant behaviors in our government or in companies who are asking for bailouts.

                Recently for instance Hyundai announced it was launching its own luxury models. And though Hyundai wasn’t a company asking for funds in the recent bailouts, that I’m aware of, the message isn’t being very well received by the working class folks around me.

                TO see a $150 million price tag after the highest price campaign in US history is a bad message, and I need not be told that I need to appreciate the enthusiasm.

                I do appreciate the enthusiasm. I know people who are not kool-aid drinking Obama supporters, but are die hard Democrats who would have been just as happy if it was Clinton. I can appreciate that to them, this is a good thing. They do more to get me to appreciate their position by not trying to influence me.

                If you want to be received with ‘mental honesty’ then you have to give it too, and that won’t happen when you say criticisms of the price tag are ‘just a political game’. This is condescending to critics. And it is both ineffective and inaccurate with me and others.

                Big Money Donors need to put the country first, not the new king.

                Now, I will stand up for your right to speak a different tune here, but unless you simply don’t care, I’d ask you to consider what I’m saying here about generalizing criticisms.

              • Ferd Berfle

                Engage in this mental exercise honestly, and you can clearly picture a huge celebration to usher in America’s first female president… complete with big-money donors falling over each other to foot the bill for the shindigs.

                LMAO. You are the most intellectually dishonest troll ever to haunt these threads. You are engaging in the fallacy of the unknown fact. Legally, that would be called facts not in evidence.

                Again, this is about That One and not HRC or WJC or the voices in your deluded skull.

                • http://undercoverblackman.blogspot.com Undercover Black Man

                  Well, Farfel, I was not arguing a point, I was asking a question. Hard to see how one can engage in a fallacious reasoning by posing a simple hypothetical.

                  As the most vociferous Obama-bashers here have always been ardent Clinton supporters, I find it quite valid to ask people whether they’re hammering Barack about stuff they’d ignore if Hillary were the President-elect.

                  To wit: The grandness of the inaugural celebration.

                  As I pointed out in an earlier thread, Hillary Clinton raised more money than Obama in 2007 and outspent him… until actual votes started being cast. Yet I read here time and again that Obama will be an illegitimate president because he “bought” the election.

                  You need not be an Aristotelian thinker to realize that if Hillary could have raised more money than Obama, she would have.

                  She certainly tried to, didn’t she?

              • http://www.georgianindex.net/Napoleon/coronation/coronation.html trixta

                FYI, I thought GWB’s inaugural price tag was obscene—and that was in the context of Prez Clinton’s trillion dollar surplus! Considering that this country is in an economic melt down, Obama’s exorbitant inaugural bash is not just obscene but unethical. (And my comments would apply to HRC if it were her pricey inaugural, especially because she’s already experienced two with the elections of Prez Clinton.) Apparently, everyone but Obama will have to put “skin” on the table. Why not set the EXAMPLE of sacrifice NOW for the country and world to see?

                I think he could have had a tasteful and celebration with 50M dollars (including security costs), don’t you think? Face it, wasting 150M+ on a party is Obama’s let-them-eat-cake moment.

          • Snickers

            UBM, I would have recommended she be frugal. But she would not have needed anyone’s recommendation because she would not be throwing such a ridiculous amount of money around, the way That One does. I would also not have gone to DC but would have stayed home and watched the festivities on TV. For That One’s coronation, I’ll continue to watch high quality British films and will continue to eschew news coverage from MSM and get my news from the internet especially NQ. So, UBM, are you and your Emmys and Peabodys going to the Great Event so you can hobnob will all the other “Greats?”

            • http://undercoverblackman.blogspot.com Undercover Black Man

              And miss out on the Chris Matthews Tingle-Watch? Surely you jest.

              • truthtelling007

                In this economy?
                don’t know about Snickers, but I’m not jesting.

                SO far my company isn’t being hit yet (I own it and we are diverse in services and clients), but I’m quite aware that others are in a pinch and it is time for the “leaders” to show by example.

              • Ferd Berfle

                Freud would have made a study out of you, BM. You have serious issues concerning identity, character, and morals.

                • Mary

                  Well said, Ferd.

                  Thank you.

      • no kidding

        trixta — Barack Antoinette isn’t interested in anyone but himself.

        • http://www.georgianindex.net/Napoleon/coronation/coronation.html trixta

          “Barack Antoinette”

          LOL!

      • UKforDems

        Comment by trixta | 2009-01-18 17:34:42

        Yeah, just think how many homes he could have saved from foreclosure or homeless shelters he could have aided with 150M dollars. Had he done that — contributed every red cent — even I would have marveled at such generosity.

        Let this 150M inaugural price tag be his let-them-eat-cake moment.

        I thought it would be pie, anyway better than Coca-Cola brined Pilgrim’s turkey with Dunkin Donuts stuffing.

    • wodiej

      I agree…same shit, different day

    • FranSC

      I’m sure BO went along with it because unlike what is said about him being no-drama-obama, he does like this kind of drama. Axelrod is the ‘pagentry’ expert turn campaign manager. Didn’t you notice the dramtically moving, slow theatre music at the train stops yesterday just like in Denver? The kind of music that portrays the satisfaction of ultimate battles won.

      One of the CNN news anchors pointed out that these dramtic crowd events were always the Obama campaign’s specialty that got better and better. After the Greek Column nomination pagent/speech where the attendees (like Oprah) sat for an hour afterwards crying with overwhelming joy, they were not about to do *less* for the Inauguration that will be preserved ’til the end of time.

      Their aim is to eclipse Lincoln and JFK’s Inaugurals, don’t you know.

      • Ferd Berfle

        Their aim is to eclipse Lincoln and JFK’s Inaugurals, don’t you know.

        They cannot eclipse what they do not understand and have not earned.

        • FranSC

          “They cannot eclipse what they do not understand and have not earned.”

          Believe me, we are on the same page here, but for them it is all about the theatrics – if you act the part, it becomes real. There will no doubt be media that will say it was the most historic, the most inspiring, etc., etc., ever!! I dread hearing it.

          • Ferd Berfle

            There will no doubt be media that will say it was the most historic, the most inspiring, etc., etc., ever!! I dread hearing it.

            The media is beginning to sound like one of those cheap Billy Mays commercials. “But wait, if you vote now, you get two Oblahblahs.”

            Or:

            Grand Prize-One Obama
            First Prize-Two Obamas

            That’s one wretched contest. Yuck

      • Chris

        Yep, Axelrod and team Obama and the Dem leadership are practically wetting themselves because they have this opportunity to put on the extravaganza to end all extravaganzas. They would not ever give that up and just like the rest of this horror show, they know everyone will let it pass. Some bit of outrage will surface but they know it will be for naught. They are counting on their friends, the slobbering msm who made this fraud possible, to make everyone feel that this is the best of all worlds and never mind the cost. After all, they told us over and over, He’s the one we’ve been waiting for you know.

        • Marge

          It’s so TACKY. So egotistical. So insensitive. So…. un-Messiah-like. But the bots will love it.

      • no kidding

        FranSC — Wonder if there will be dancing in the streets by Seniors who will toss their walkers away and cheer The Great One when he takes down Social Security and Medicare.

        • FranSC

          I wouldn’t be surprised….at least this week! These crazed celebrants think this human mortal is the answer to everything! And they think he does it with such humility – kind of like Jesus.

    • Chicago Joe

      I totally agree. We all have to have some “skin in the game,” as per Barry, but apparently not him. He should have led by example with a modest inauguration and then dedication to the business at hand. Instead, we have an over-the-top extravaganza lasting days and days. If our recovery, both financial and moral standing, requires personal responsibility and living within our means, it should start at the top.

  • http://noquarterusa No-nonsense-Nancy

    I would love to be able to say “I told you so” to many people I know who have been such Obamabots. The sad thing about that is, that it will mean that our country is in deep, deep trouble. So it won’t have any joy to it.

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

    But this Messiah isn’t required to provide a birth certificate, after all Obama is the result of an immaculate conception. Alas, let’s all admit it, the fingerprints of God are all over his birth.

    To wit: There should be a new birth certificate category at the County Recorders office — “Birth by Immaculate Conception Certificate” (BBICC).

    • wodiej

      oh geez….they’ll be claiming that next.

    • Diana L. C.

      Just to clear up some theology: the term “immaculate conception” applies to Mary, not to Christ. The Church had to come up with a way to make Mary free from the stain of original sin so she could carry Christ in her womb.

      So, instead the certificate should be a “Born by Virgin Birth Certificate.”

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

        Thanks, Diana, you are correct! (My version was sloppy, albeit conceived in the heat of the moment. Ha! Ha!) I love your version too — “Born by Virgin Birth Certificate (BBVBC).” L-ing OL!

  • UBM’s Mother

    Because he keeps my son employed and out of my hair all day. The basement smells better, too.

    • wodiej

      LMAO…..

  • Ms.Apprehension

    His only miracle will be to keep the liberal media blinded and in goose step with his cabal’s agenda (or should I say Bill Ayers’ and George Soros’agenda?).

  • Doc99

    “I think those of us who voted for McCain are going to be a lot happier with Obama than the people who voted for him.”

  • tek

    Larry, thanks for a great post. I had to sit through the love fest and hero worship of the One in church this morning. Honestly, grown people reading passages of his memoir as if it were the Bible! Can they drag out anymore artifacts from Lincoln for him to use? Lincoln took that train route because an assassination conspiracy was discovered on the planned route. Why can’t The One just take his own route to D. C?

    On the up side, anyone see the article that the Obama frenzy overseas is cooling? Other heads of state are realizing he’s a marketing scam, he can’t possibly keep his promises. Well, that’s what happens when you promise everybody everything to get in office. He was burned in effigy by Muslims because of his response (or lack thereof) to the Gaza War.

    I have to say, my heart is breaking that Hillary isn’t taking the oath on Tues.

    • Diana L. C.

      My heart is breaking that I feel so disconnected from our country at this point. I can’t read most of the newspaper, can’t watch t.v., can’t look at strangers without wondering if they are some of the complete morons who voted for this fraud. I have hermit tendencies to start with. I’ll be full-blown hermit during this whole fiasco.

      • Maria3

        I feel that same as you, Diana L.C.

        I am looking forward to after the 21st, I hope that the world will began to realize what a fraud Obama is.

        Hang in there… the crazy, surreal ride will come to a stop.

      • azsarahcuda

        Wow! Thank you for posting this. I thought I was the only one…

    • allimom99

      tek, I’d say your church should lose ite tax exemption for that. How in the world do they justify that cr*ap as being appropriate, and have they ever read from any other selections in a similar way? Seriously, you may want to consider looking for a new place to worship.

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp97WFVFIw0&feature=channel trixta

      They’re reading passages from his books?!!! Gag me with a spoon! As a great antidote, I highly recommend a hilarious reading of Obama’s books by someone on YouTube called The Roach Factor. Listen to all of it, and you are guaranteed a good laugh.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp97WFVFIw0&feature=channel

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp97WFVFIw0&feature=channel trixta

      On the up side, anyone see the article that the Obama frenzy overseas is cooling?

      Actually, according to my own European source (a Russian/Checkoslovakian scholar who lives in Germany), enthusiasm for Obama was never off the charts. She says that at her town and university at Constanz, there was at best a 50+/50- split concerning Obama and his visit to Germany. She, as a matter of fact, sees him for the fraud that he is, and wanted HRC to win the primary. Her husband, a diplomat at the UN, felt the same way too.

    • RebelCarol

      Lincoln took that train route because an assassination conspiracy was discovered on the planned route.

      Alas during Lincoln’s time, the only other mode of transportation would have been by horse or horse and carriage. Since he had to travel from Illinois (not PA as BHO) it would have taken him a couple of weeks to get to Washington. Since BHO is now channeling the Founding Fathers as well as AL, JFK, FDR, he should have ridden a horse like Washington, Adams, etc.

      Oh, and I understand he wants to write a new Declaration of Independence.

      God help us all!

    • no kidding

      tek — Europe always sees the truth about this country and its leaders before we do. Perhaps thats because they have an actual news media.

  • oowawa

    For every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven

    This is not the time for spending millions of dollars on celebration. This is a time for quiet, sober reflection. This is not the time to glorify one individual way off in Washington D.C., but a time to coalesce around family and community and get ready to weather the impending storm.

  • CG

    Obama has dibs on the Lincoln bedroom, and all things Lincoln.

    Spend Baby Spend, Spend Baby Spend, Spend Baby Spend…

    • sowsear

      And FDR and JFK, and Reagan, but not Barry Soetoro.

  • Cindy

    Thank you, Larry.
    My hubby and I are so depressed over “The Inauguration That Ate Amercia” that we are getting the hell out of Dodge this week. Where could we go, we asked ourselves, where there’d be a majority of people boycotting the entire Obama-frenzied D.C. coverage? Why, Midland, Texas of course!
    We’ll be there hoopin’ and hollerin’ for Geo. Bush at his homecoming. Yes sireee…..the experience will DEFINITELY take our minds off of the D.C. madness.

    • azsarahcuda

      I was in the Houston airport last night making a transfer flight. I was SO GRATEFUL to not see even one BO book, mag, etc. in the bookstore windows I thought I would cry. I was SO ELATED to be in the airport bar and be inundated with football on TV instead of the coronation crap that I tipped the server an extra $5. I LOVE TEXAS and all of its CONSERVATIVE people (except you crazies in Austin, of course)! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

      PS Remember the Alamo. :)

      • Mary

        Irony lives: California is bankrupt. Texas is not.

        Where’s the recall drive against Schwarzenegger?

  • AMERICA RIP

    When he crashes and burns, do we get a refund?

    Black Tuesday is upon us. Dark times ahead no doubt about it. I just can’t believe anyone would spend 150 Million to party at this moment in America’s history. It’s so reckless and ridiculous that it should scare the hell out of the drones who voted him in. I guess they’re too busy altering the American Flag, choosing what to wear, buying booze and getting ready for everything in their lives to be for FREE.

  • Tess

    Chicago newsies say $160 million for the O and the Hadj- AND it’s borrowed from China.
    I still say the whole ballgame reminds me of Sportin’ Life from “Porgy and Bess”.

    • allimom99

      wow, Sportin’ Life – LOVE that one!

  • HC

    LOL Nice post Larry, and no the HC above was not me.

    I guess imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, even from Obots.

    • candymarl

      TKS HC. I knew that didn’t sound like you. I guess they were trying to get you banned or something. Typical Obot. Let’s screw over (see terrorized elderly black women) the person because they don’t agree. Sigh.

  • NetherLands

    Personally I find the whole fawning-over and multiplex-direct links etc. even more obscene than the bill.

    The huge 150 mill-bill also quoted by UK The Guardian
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/14/barack-obama-inauguration-cost

    The NYT went berserk on the smaller Bush bill, eg
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/11/opinion/11tue3.html?_r=3&scp=1&sq=victor%27s+spoils&st=nyt

    Given the costly PEBO stuff: will he still support the ‘Global Poverty Act’ http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-global-tax-proposal-up-for-senate-vote/

    Obama Bought The Presidency

    • FranSC

      “Obama bought the presidency”.

      Sorry, but the presidency was bought for Obama by Nancy Pelosi who had used a company for her “Take Back Congress” campaign in 2006. This became Obama’s money machine that used social networking sites as well as Pelosi’s SF district’s high dollar entrepreneurs that were ripe for the picking. BO’s only contribution to this stroke of good luck was *he showed up and was not George W. Bush*. He was viewed by this group as the ultimate kind of candidate for whom they could support enthusiastically. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200806/obama-finance
      (Sorry, don’t understand why this did not hyperlink.)

      • http://www.georgianindex.net/Napoleon/coronation/coronation.html trixta

        FranSC–great link and article! But what the piece fails to note is that the “small donors” of $200 or less are untraceable, and that most of these “donors” may very well come from foreign coffers.

        • FranSC

          “What the piece fails to note is that the small donors of $200 or less are untraceable, and that most of these ‘donors’ may very well come from foreign coffers.”

          You are so right, trixta. Actually that article was written in June but researched much earlier. While it is favorable to Obama, it unwittingly reveals a lot – like the connection between the company and Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean and even John Kerry.

          This is the closest thing I’ve seen that reveals how the money was REALLY raised and NOT in those little Obama campaign offices they set up that had 10-15 volunteers at a time. Axelrod and his other campaign people have tried to bamboozle the media and us that these were the volunteers raising $600 million.

          Actually, that CA operation WAS the campaign along with MoveOn.Org. The Chicago-based campaign was minor in comparison doing all the threatrics, per Axelrod’s expertise.

          We’ve now seen some of the statistics that show only 24% of Obama’s contributions were under $200 each. 76% were over $1,000 each. Yet they tried to make everyone think they raised that $600 Million $5 or less at a time. I have a hard time imagining that people like Oprah only gave him $2,300 for the primary and then $2,300 for the GE – the limit. I would bet my life that ways were found for people like that to give millions. And we haven’t even touched on the untraceable ones much less the foreign contributions. What lies and corruption!

          • http://www.georgianindex.net/Napoleon/coronation/coronation.html trixta

            I have a hard time imagining that people like Oprah only gave him $2,300 for the primary and then $2,300 for the GE – the limit. I would bet my life that ways were found for people like that to give millions.

            Yeah, and then there’s that angle! The “bundler” donations from wall street are also another issue.

  • candymarl

    Here are your new rights American Idol fans:

    You have the right to worship Obama. Otherwise, keep your mouth shut.

    THE END

  • sowsear

    I voted for “give sight to the blind” Hopefully the 1st ones cured will be the blind BO faithful.
    “Pity the blind for they do not see”

    • mountainaires

      Hmm…that’s good reasoning, sowsear. I hadn’t thought of that, I was too busy loving the romance between Ahmadinejad and Bibi.

      Since there are “none so blind as those who will not see…” it will probably be that curing the blind will be his first miracle:

      Once BOs in office he’s going to OPEN THEIR EYES to the reality of Prez Barack.

      :-)

  • KarenG

    This morning on Salon, the first domino toppled in
    Obamaland when David Sirota, a head cheerleader for the new President, wrote an aticle called…..”Obama Sells Out to Wall Street.” I put in my comment and told Sirota he shouldn’t be throwing his poms down….he needs to get out on field and cheer…..surely he remembers… it’s H…O…P…E.!

    http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/01/17/sirota/index.html

  • Annie

    Thanks folks – good to know I am not alone in rebutting obotfantasyland.

  • Bob

    I confess– I can’t stand Barack Obama. He has lied
    constantly to the American Public—- He has a terrible work record—– and I believe it will be proven that he is a no good thug— Bush lied and cheated the American public– Remember when you could not say anything negative about Bush He will be great to sit back and watch the great Barack come back to earth I already can not wait to vote against him in 2012

  • Bob

    Hillary looked very bad on TV the other day

    Since she sold out to Barack she may have been subject to some of his voodoo

    • http://firefox AnnieCollier

      Agree. She looks exhausted. Or maybe it’s just the camera shots the Obama Press take. Can’t have her looking good around the frauds.

    • Ferd Berfle

      You know the old adage about lying with dogs. HRC, though, had no really good options left on the table, unfortunately. I am going to really dislike the next 4 years as much as the last 8.

  • http://www.anvp.wordpress.com soldier4hillary

    Hey HC! You know you have finally *made it* when bots jack your name, or sit on blog posts waiting to jump in when any of the *bot call signs* are used. Like the word *miracle*. They thought the mothership was flagging them and came running cause they thought it was tuesday. Once they saw that it was a false alarm they got viscious. Can’t be using the *M* word. It attracts them like flies on sh*t.

  • http://firefox AnnieCollier

    Are we including the Greek columns? I don’t remember any President having to have a gigantic rock concert in order to accept the nomination. Usually it’s at a party HQ with maybe a thousand or so supporters. He seems to need constant visual validation and surround himself with symbols…trying to make it all real somehow. But it’ll never be real because he never did the real work…running for office is all he’s ever done.

    • http://www.anvp.wordpress.com soldier4hillary

      I wanted to throw up when I saw they were singing *old spirituals* at the train pit stop. But when I saw what they did to the flag I saw red. That is WAY to much. One of his supporters jumped all over me because I stated that I had a issue with that. She asked me what was the difference between what they did and a woman wearing a flag bikini. A flag bikini?

      Yes, she compared a bikini in red white and blue with the United States Flag asking what the difference was. At that time it truly dawned on me the magnitude of the next four years. If Palin would of done that, and I use her as a example because for some reason Palins name to a Obamacrat turns them rabid. We would of heard every regulation that exists on descecrating the flag.

      • http://firefox AnnieCollier

        Soldier, apparently the youth (aside from Military) haven’t a clue as to how to respect Old Glory. The other day in our local rag, there was a letter to the editor enumerating the rules for displaying the flag. Very welcome.

      • Magic Puzzle Box

        I didn’t hear about the flag, so I looked up a link for those of us who had no idea: http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/17/the-official-flag-of-the-obama-states-of-america/. When I dug this up, I came across a guy’s blog who is an Obama supporter for sure joking about how his friends had an inauguration party with Sarah Palin toilet paper!

    • AMERICA RIP

      Grrrrr….I just got off the phone with a co-worker. We started to talk about the Coronation and I told him I thought it was really crappy to spend that money now. Well, he immediately called me a “spoilsport” and said he thinks it’s “fantastic” and that McCain would have done the SAME. HUH? Now, this is a man who is having his own financial issues and dead broke. There is NO reasoning with Obots. It’s a sickness. A genuine medical condition that will have a costly cure. He ended up HANGING UP ON ME when I made the point that this money is NOT all private donations. They just run away when you tell them they are wrong.

    • Snickers

      Yes, he needs visuals. Remember the faux presidential seal, the O Force One, the seat on the plane that said President of the U.S., the office of the president elect, and all the other idiocies he needs to validate his importance. It’s going to be a hard four years.

  • ohreally?

    On the evening news tonight, there was footage of a pre-inauguration party with celebs/rock stars like Mary J Blige and U2 performing in front of the Lincoln memorial as if it was a prop for the Obama inauguration. Has something like this ever been done before? The lack of commentary about this is discomfitting. “Sort of” disrespectful to the memory and legacy of one of this country’s most respected Presidents, no? Makes me want to cry.

    • Tess

      I’m on your side here, but is that not where Marian Anderson sang when the DAR wouldn’t let her sing elsewhere?
      This is the deal re Obama: NOTHING IS ORIGINAL Everything he does is “channelled” from past photo shoots and events. My kind-of-all-time-favorite is the Jack Kennedy/Obama-coming up-bare-chested-in-the-surf shot.
      I have every hope of Duke Wayne a/o Robert Mitchum recreations. This guy never lets you down.
      And I’m waiting for one of those darling girls to be under the Presidential desk: coming soon to a mag near you. And Michelle with horsies? Stand by.

      • Jan

        Bono and Mary J Blige are not Marian Anderson bravely and gracefully countering oppressive racism.

        And Obama is not Lincoln.

        From my POV, it almost reads as satire.

        This will be the Obama ops, btw,- photo op type things, and clearly, they don’t get it.

        A bit.

      • http://firefox AnnieCollier

        Yes, Tess. Marian Anderson did sing there and later the DAR re-thought their position and she sang in Constitution Hall. That was an authentic unfoldment of events that had nothing but meaning and signaled change. I believe the Roosevelt’s facilitated this. But it was real, not manufactured for effect. Even the DAR could admit they were wrong. Wonder how long it will take the True Believers? Situations such as these are one reason we want to belong to the DAR…to bring them into the modern age.

        • RebelCarol

          I believe the Roosevelt’s facilitated this.

          You are correct. Eleanore Roosevelt was so upset with the DAR refusing to let Marian Anderson sing that she wrote a letter to them resigning her membership and support for the DAR.

  • http://firefox AnnieCollier

    It’s all just one big hip hop orgy. No class. No respect for history really. No culture. Crass and vulgar bottom feeders. Yes, they are.

    • Ferd Berfle

      It’s all just one big hip hop orgy.

      That is the sum total of their existence. They would be at home in the Rome of the Caesars. I’m surprised the inauguration isn’t being held in some colliseum with gladiator fights following the Obammacus coronation as Emperor.

      • Jan

        I was thinking more like those Sunday morning ads on the Spanish TV stations: two Latina woman with huge plastic breasts wearing bikinis stands next to a Mexican car salesman while he pushes a ’98 Ford Taurus on the public — no money down, bad credit accepted.

  • Bob

    WE MUST NEVER FORGET WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS!

    THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE and THE WAY THEY

    TREATED HILLARY CLINTON— WE MUST BE PATIENT BUT

    THEY MUST PAY FOR HOW THEY CONTROLLED THE DEMOCRATIC

    PROCESS

    • AMERICA RIP

      Bob..you are right. I can’t believe anyone who loves this country would still be a registered Democrat. Talk about crooks.

      • Diana L. C.

        Yep–AGAIN I got a call two nights ago from the Democratic Senatorial Committee wanting my money. I explained AGAIN that I may have been a Democrat since ’72 but that I had resigned from the Party. I told them that until the entire Democratic Party confessed to the fraud that was committed during the Presidential primary and election, I could no longer be counted on for money or support.

        • Bob

          We will not be denied retribution

  • Old Grumpy Guy

    So, Larry, why are you advertising the album of one of that self-congratulatory circle of mutual masturbators – namely Bruce Springsteen – on NQ?

    • Ferd Berfle

      Ouch!

    • http://firefox AnnieCollier

      How true. All of this requires close editing of entertainment types. As mentioned earlier, I support Clint’s films now simply because he is a check writing Republican. No Oprahor MSM ever again, or any of the Hollywood lefties. I have always loved a wide range of music from classics to country. The exception…rap and hip hop which don’t qualify as music as far as I’m concerned.

    • basil

      Hehehehehe.

      Give me Mozart. :wink:

      • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp97WFVFIw0&feature=channel trixta

        I must admit that I like Rap, Hip Hop, and Reggae as a street art forms (don’t whack me, Grumpy!), although I certainly could do without the misogyny and gangsta stuff. Can one separate content from form? I don’t know, but not all Rap and Hip Hop songs are negative or misogynistic.

        Actually, I love classical music too, but these past few years I’ve been thoroughly immersed in Argentine tango music and dance.

        • Old Grumpy Guy

          Do you do the tango with a rose clenched in your mouth?

          • http://www.georgianindex.net/Napoleon/coronation/coronation.html trixta

            Alas, no, Grumpy. Actually, Argentine tango isn’t anything like what is seen in old movies or on Dancing With the Stars — that is, rose in the mouth theatrics, etc. In fact, it’s a completely different dance in spirit and in aesthetic. Many would be surprised to hear that Argentine tango is as much an intellectual enterprise as it is a physical one. But one has to dance it to really understand what I’m talking about.

            BTW, great series on the composers–and I agree with your number one pick!

        • http://firefox AnnieCollier

          trixta: I have most of Carlos Gardel’s recordings and do love most folk music as well…some very beautiful Bulgarian and Eastern European folk music can be quite enchanting. Love the professional performances of Argentine Tango. The first I ever saw in SF was Tango Argentino. Gorgeous costuming…the male dancers in black tuxedo and every female dancer in a different designed dress in black and silver sequins…

          • http://www.georgianindex.net/Napoleon/coronation/coronation.html trixta

            Yeah, Anne C, you know what I’m talking about!

      • Old Grumpy Guy

        Good man Basil

    • oowawa

      that self-congratulatory circle of mutual masturbators

      You know, OGG, there really was a punk band called The Circle Jerks. But unlike the current crowd of wealthy celebs, they didn’t take themselves so seriously.

      • Ferd Berfle

        And they were fun to listen to (along with the butthole surfers).

        • Jan

          The Dils.

          Leading to Rank and File, of course — chip and tony.

    • sowsear

      Yes, A few years ago (last year), I loved Bruce Springsteen and have most of his CDs, but I’ll be damned if I can bring myself to forgive him for falling into obama-mire. He is a big disappontment.

      • Jan

        Obama is connected directly to a man, Tony Rezko, convicted of stealing from the people of IL, the very people Bruce ostensibly champions.

        So, you know, which is it?

        I stopped taking him seriously when he came out for Obama.

        Clinton was still in the race, too.

    • UKforDems

      Comment by Old Grumpy Guy | 2009-01-18 18:53:09

      So, Larry, why are you advertising the album of one of that self-congratulatory circle of mutual masturbators – namely Bruce Springsteen – on NQ?

      TO obtain money? Bruce Springsteen has been a loyal Democratic supporter for years. He will have been happy for any of the Primary Candidates to have beaten the Republicans.

  • http://firefox AnnieCollier

    Barry and MEchille don’t have enough class to understand how inappropriate rap and hip hop are for such an occasion. If they want it at their private parties (balls)…but even then…pretty crude.

    Oh well, I’m not expecting elegant state dinners or YoYo Ma in the East Room.

    • oowawa

      Oh well, I’m not expecting elegant state dinners or YoYo Ma in the East Room.

      Maybe “Yo Yo Flash,” or “Ice Ma.” The times, after all, they are a-changin.

      • http://firefox AnnieCollier

        Hahaha…as in back to the stone age?

    • Magic Puzzle Box

      Didn’t you hear about the big discussion/interview with Michelle Obama about the size of her butt shortly after the election? If there was any doubt about having no class, it was dispelled immediately for me.

    • RebelCarol

      YoYo Ma in the East Room.

      Speaking of YoYo Ma, I had a flashback to the West Wing show where YoYo Ma performed. Guess what! Starting at 8:00 A.M. PST Tuesday morning on BRAVO, the West Wing marathon begins.

  • CG

    Why I Love Hillary
    in an email Hillary wrote

    This is not a goodbye, because we’re all embarking on a new American journey.

    With our nation moving in an exciting new direction, you and I and all Americans are going to be a key part of the change that is coming. I couldn’t be more hopeful about meeting the challenges and seizing the opportunities that lie ahead.

    But I want to take just one moment to look back at the incredible experiences you and I shared over the last two years. From the moment we launched our historic campaign back in January 2007, I was deeply moved by the amount of support you showed me.

    We spent 17 months in a hard-fought campaign making sure that every American had a chance to make their voice heard. We made history by putting 18 million cracks in the very highest glass ceiling.

    And when that campaign came to an end, we kept working and fighting, putting our hearts into making history again by helping to put Barack Obama and Joe Biden in the White House.

    I’m so proud of all we accomplished, but most of all, I’m proud to call you my friend. Your devotion to making our country and our world a better place has been a constant source of inspiration to me.

    In our most difficult moments, it was you who kept our efforts moving forward. In our happiest moments, you and I celebrated together. Together we walked this amazing journey one step at a time and I couldn’t have done without you.

    And as I take the first step on the next path in our journey, I know you’ll be right there with me, as always, in my heart and by my side.

    Thank you, God bless you, and may God bless America.

  • http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/ Not your Sweetie

    I was going to vote for “cause the lame to talk” but wasn’t there so I picked the closest

  • Bob

    The other day I received a half price offer from the New York Times I mailed it back to them a told them to call Barack for money It’s going to be nice to see them go bankrupt. A former Democrat subscriber to the New York Times

  • Nobody Special

    Bummer you can’t vote more than once in the poll. A fair poll? Come on guys! I have dead relatives that want a say. Where’s my acorn representative?? Oh yea, partying in DC…never mind.

  • basil

    I confess I’m beginning to wonder if I’m just suffering from a bad case of sour grapes or whether my revulsion at the obamextravaganza is justified.

    I admit as I surf the web and images of the throngs at the Washington Mall rock concert and delirious coverage of that one sprouts everywhere I think maybe it’s just me.

    Then I think about Hitler, propaganda, book-banning, speech-banning, Leni Riefenstahl and I have to face the fact we’re witnessing the dawn of American facism.

    For the first time in my adult life I am afraid for my country.

    • Ferd Berfle

      There are no sour grapes on your part, basil. Your repulsion is understandable and justified. Many of us feel the same way. This is not a time for wretched excess but a time for taking stock of who we are and what needs to be done in the coming months and years to get us back on the track.

      That One has made this all about him when it should actually be about the country. Shame on him and his worshipers for making a solemn occasion another excuse for a frat party.

      • basil

        When I taught music in NJ’s version of the South Bronx I coordinated the middle-school kids ‘moving-up’ ceremonies and sometimes went to their proms.

        The parents would often attend, dressed in butt-skimming skirts, cleavage-baring sheer see-through mid-riff tops, showing far more flesh than their kids.

        And their dance moves were, shall we say, xxx-rated.

        I used to be so embarrassed at the vulgarity but of course you couldn’t say anything to them or point out they weren’t exactly presenting a good role model for their kids. If you did try to explain, they wouldn’t have understood and probably would have accused you of racism.

        BO’s nauseatingly conspicuous substanceless obamorgy reminds me of that. :roll:

        • Ferd Berfle

          I’ve seeen that sort of stuff, too. Apparently being a liberated women doesn’t mean what it used to mean. Leaving nothing to the imagination does not constitute liberation but objectification.

        • sowsear

          Basil, Your use of the word “conspicuous” reminded me of the term “conspicuous consumption” That is exactly the term which best describes BO’s spending.

          • Ferd Berfle

            And wretched excess, a lovely phrase that describes the unneeded coronation celebration about to occur.

    • http://firefox AnnieCollier

      basil, I’m with you. I couldn’t stand to listen to GWB after it was proven how he and Dick had used us and his 9-ll approval to carry out their nefarious plans.

      I think what I’m most disturbed about is that after the past eight years, we’re at the mercy of another con man. I really thought that we would be able to come out on top with an honest President this time. I can’t bear to listen to this one either. Dear God, let me live long enough to see our country back on track with an honorable leader. It’s not this one.

    • Diana L. C.

      I’ve been afraid since my last years of teaching in a typical middle class suburban high school. I really, really did not see much in the way of logical thinking in a large percentage of my students. And I saw a LOT of winking at cheating to get what they wanted.

      There were many very good students, but I would say the majority had no sense of ethics.

    • http://www.hillaryorbust.com Hillary or Bust

      “Then I think about Hitler, propaganda, book-banning, speech-banning, Leni Riefenstahl and I have to face the fact we’re witnessing the dawn of American facism.”

      It is not just you. I feel the same way.

    • no kidding

      basil — Just 2 days ago Obama said we must stop Social Security and Medicare’s runaway spending — then how about not spending 150 Million and lead by example. This is all about style not substance. We get it and its infuriating to those of us who honestly believe that a President — should care about all Americans equally. Obama makes it obvious that he cares about no one but himself and his fat cat friends. Sadly those who don’t get it yet will see the light as the American Dream dies for more and more Americans and all the good will being lavished on this fraud will turn to tears as they see how they have been had.

  • basil

    HRC has class. She knows the difference between gauche exhibitionism and appropriate ceremony.

    Unlike BO, she is neither a thug, a thief, a liar or the world’s most egotistical incompetent unqualified
    fraud.

    • sowsear

      Basil, You sure have a way with words:

      Unlike BO, she is neither a thug, a thief, a liar or the world’s most egotistical incompetent unqualified fraud.

      We could also add unpatriotic, unAmerican, non-Christian, and diabolical.

      • sowsear

        Also “stinky” according to MO

  • basil

    :oops:

    The above comment was in response to UBM but his post has disappeared.

    Oh well.

    • Ferd Berfle

      He’s a hit-and-run troll. More run than hit, usually.

    • http://undercoverblackman.blogspot.com Undercover Black Man

      My post has not disappeared, oregano. Apparently you just haven’t mastered the intricacies of “nesting” comments.

      My comment is upthread where it always was.

      And your reply ignores and contradicts the historical anecdote I provided. Apparently you haven’t mastered the subtleties of argumentation either.

      • CG

        and your sage mastering of the subtleties of argument contradicts the historical anecdote… the epitome of good taste and classiness is the fine example PEBO set for America’s daughters, and Malia and Sasha, that being “99 Problems and a Bitch Ain’t One” flaunted at Obama’s victory speech celebration. Great message, huh, Obama smiling and laughing and struttin’… I have several other examples of Obama’s extraordinary good taste and classiness, if you so desire, as far as historical anecdotes go that is.

        Gotta love your twisted reasoning, in defense of the indefensible… Will you please write the Ms. Manners and Good Taste column?

        You might be interesting if you were like Michael Eric Dyson, as far as being persuasive, and so I was wondering, can you channel him?

        • http://undercoverblackman.blogspot.com Undercover Black Man

          Aw, see now, CG… I caught you talking out of your hat.

          Prof. Dyson digs Jay-Z too, just like Obama. Matter fact, Jay-Z wrote the introduction to Dyson’s book “Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip Hop.”

          Being that you find Michael Eric Dyson so “persuasive,” perhaps he can persuade you that rap music isn’t just for thugs.

          • CG

            You are such a dope! I believe I have all of Michael Eric Dyson’s books and I have gone to see him speak in person. I trapped you! MED is an amazing speaker. You never heard me say that rap music is just for thugs, and you miss the full extent of argument that MED makes about rap music. MED laid down some great examples of rap lyrics, good and not so good at a lecture I heard. However, this discussion began when you stated that the Clintons are not classy and do not have good taste. So do you think it is classy and within good taste to flaunt “99 Problems and a Bitch Ain’t One” at Obama’s victory speech celebration? It has nothing to do with whether it is rap or for thugs. Do you think it might be about disrespect? The same kind of disrespect the Clintons supposedly showed the media by laughing at a 5 minute intro about media “bloviators.” So, again I ask you, do you think it was classy and in good taste to mock Hillary, women, and young girls, Sasha and Malia, as a candidate for the presidency, to use that song as a victory celebration like that demonstrates good taste and classiness? I’m just saying…

            • http://undercoverblackman.blogspot.com Undercover Black Man

              “So do you think it is classy and within good taste to flaunt ’99 Problems and a Bitch Ain’t One’ at Obama’s victory speech celebration?”

              CG… my dear sweet gullible CG… you ought not believe everything you read in the New York Post.

              (Then again, I doubt you even read the original gossip item in the Post. No doubt you just picked up this little meme in the echo chamber of the blogosphere without ever bothering to ascertain its validity.)

              You are referring to Obama’s victory party in Des Moines after the Iowa caucuses (January 3, 2008). A New York Post “Page Six” gossip item alleged: “As Obama and his wife, Michelle, strolled triumphantly into his victory party… Jay-Z’s ’99 Problems’ was blaring.”

              Only problem with that is… there’s video on YouTube of Barack and Michelle strolling into that victory party. (Click here to watch it.)

              Ben Smith of Politico.com says that’s a U2 song playing… NOT Jay-Z’s “99 Problems.”

              Womp womp.

              In fact, Ben Smith wrote on January 14: “So I’ve now spent way too much of my morning trying to report out the New York Post’s item that Obama had sexist entrance music… It’s a provocative scene. But I can’t find any evidence that it happened…”

              Can you point me to any evidence that it actually happened, CG? Or do you accept that you swallowed a bad rumor… and have been belching it up ever since?

              • CG

                I don’t read conservative newspapers and I don’t watch FOX News. I saw a discussion about this on CNN, and none of the guests (probably all Obama supporters) disputed that the song was not played at Obama’s victory speech celebration. So I am pointing you to CNN…

                Do you think it is classy and within good taste to flaunt “99 Problems and a Bitch Ain’t One” at Obama’s victory speech celebration whether Michelle strolled into it or not? Do you remember seeing JayZ bragging about it? I do.

                I think you and I live in different worlds, you are busy at NY Post and Ben Smith, and I am listening to JayZ and CNN.

                • http://undercoverblackman.blogspot.com Undercover Black Man

                  Point me to something with links, please. I have no reason to trust your vague recollections about this.

                  Particularly when I linked to the very video you’re talking about… which shows it didn’t happen!

                  Did that not register on you at all, CG? It. Didn’t. Happen.

                  • CG

                    I didn’t watch your link or read your link. Neither prove that the music was not played during the victory celebration. You live in denial, and I’ll live in my recollections, recollections of CNN, of JayZ, of Michael Eric Dyson. I’m content and it’s perfectly fine for us to disagree, even healthy I’ll say. I hope for you that Obama will be all he promised, but even Spike Lee has doubts that Obama can deliver on those promises. (Do you want me to tell you about the interesting Spike Lee lecture I attended? Really fascinating…) I have to agree with another poster, why aren’t you in DC? You really should be in DC for the historic history-making history and not here at NQ, or NY Post or Ben Smith. Really, get out and celebrate, Dude, DC style; it’s all in the heart bro’, show your love and loyalty in DC! Did you ever see Dracula: Dead and Loving It? Another recollection, and you leave the impression of one of the characters on me for some reason. All the best to you. C’est tout… I disentangle…

                    • http://undercoverblackman.blogspot.com Undercover Black Man

                      I didn’t watch your link or read your link.

                      Wow. You repeatedly pop shit about “99 Problems” like it was a big deal… yet when presented with credible evidence that you were misinformed, you don’t even bother to glance at the evidence.

                      Yes, please, CG… do disentangle my boot from your colon. And don’t pop shit with me again, lest you be corrected likewise.

                      As for why I’m posting here and am not in D.C., all I can say is… in these difficult economic times, I could use the $7 an hour.

      • truthtelling007

        “Apparently you haven’t mastered the subtleties of argumentation either.”

        Here’s what I find most interesting. If you are the master of argument, then why do you do so with such condescending distraction? Certainly someone of your vast acumen would be much more suited for debate at a level above this crowd, no?

        Or do you need to have intellectual superiority in each and every comment?

        Repeatedly you spar and joust with people you treat as inferior to your own wit. Is this the sign of your competence or your inadequacy?

        Now, I’ve given you the benefit of the doubt that you might have something legitimate to say. And to be honest, I will regret resigning you to this rather banal line of thinking.

        Displaying hubris over someone missing your comments in such a long thread, filled with so much pablum from time to time, seems to be such a short standard for someone with your level of intelligence.

        Thus I ask, What is it you wish to succeed at when you make comments like this? I don’t want to presume to know your motivations. That is where I believe others make a mistake.

        I just see your responses as no different than the grown up who takes pride in beating kids in games of chance or skill when clearly there is an advantage to the adult. I don’t assume you are more adult or mature than others here, but your town exudes this sort of air.

        As someone who has encountered the perils of arrogance, I have had to ask myself, what is the use of my intelligence if I can’t simply communicate with others without looking down at them? And what would it say of my real skills if I have to repeatedly joust with lesser minded fools?

        UBM, do you look down at the people of NoQuarter?
        And what do you stand to gain with these lines of condescension?

      • Katmoon

        Looking for a fly swatter

  • mountainaires

    I don’t know which is worse, the media sycophants fawning all over the Messiah, or the right-wing talking heads grousing and whining about it.

    Rush Limbaugh: They never gave Bush a chance in 2000!

    Oh, the stupid. It burns. bwahahahahahaha…at least you can get a laugh out of reading Michelle Malkin and the rest of the right wing exploding heads.

    And, you need to laugh these days, or you’d cry! Besides laughing is good for your health. :-)

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17569.html

    • Ferd Berfle

      It’s the MSM but moreover the extremists. The far-right kooks are just as bad as the far-left kooks. The two meet at the fringes and become the same “all for me and to hell with the rest” crowd. They are partisan hacks who care about nothing except themselves.

      Have you noticed how the far left is just as rabid in anti-Clinton sentiment as the far right is?

      • sowsear

        Maybe the are in a circle.

      • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp97WFVFIw0&feature=channel trixta

        So true, Ferd. This is what has irked me for a long time, especially when the far Left went for Nader instead of Gore. The their politics of purity facilitated the selection of GWB, no less. Also, their mutual dislike of and attacks on the Clintons has always bothered me.

  • Jan

    Maybe he thinks it’s 1999.

    And aren’t Springsteen and U2 retro?

    ROTFLMAO…

    • Ferd Berfle

      He thinks it’s 99 BCE, judging from the columns and the pompous nature of his rallies. Caesar would be envious.

    • Anon

      Too bad he couldn’t get Micheal Jackson in on the deal. Then it really would be a freak show of epic proportions.

    • http://firefox AnnieCollier

      Yeah, and there’s certainly not a thing edgy about rap or hippy hop either. Terribly boring, repetitious neanderthal beat with low language.

      OGG’s Top Ten, however, will survive the ages. The only classical piece I can truly say I can’t listen to one more time is Pachebel’s Cannon in D. Because, after pop culture discovered it, it’s been played to death at every wedding and on and on in an attempt to show they’re classy.

      • http://firefox AnnieCollier

        we could call that Canon…he probably didn’t do cannons. Sorry.

      • NoTrollZone

        I still love Pachelbel’s Canon in D and
        I’m not even tired of Ravel’s Bolero!

        Now hip hop and rap are pretty much another matter. There’s some I like, some I can stand and most that makes disco sound like high art in comparison. Also strange about hip hop and rap is that the best tunes usually have samples from decent music thrown into the mix to make it have some style. For the most part, it’s a bottom feeder’s choice. And it has had it’s 15 minutes of fame for way too many years now. Really how many ways can you call a woman a B a W a S?
        Ravel’s Bolero might be based on the repetition of a theme, but it’s a theme that has great beauty. Rap and other crap, ain’t got no beauty to begin with. Just piss and moan into the mike.
        It’s an art form that has never evolved into another, just shaken down poorer and poorer.

  • arran

    W’s inaugural cost $42.3M and Clinton’s, $33M.

    Obama and the media might call something a Ob-miracle that I either would not call it such, or wouldn’t have the truth and transparency to know.

    If I had BO’s ear, I’d tell him to get out of Iraq and leave the entitlements alone unless he could possibly be fair there.

    With the federal coffers being way down this year, why would anyone continue with Bush’s tax cuts?

    BO and his family won’t have to sacrifice anything these next four years, but he’s asking us to.

    • no kidding

      arran — How do you have Stimulus and Deficit Reduction in the same plan? I can’t watch the MSM or my head will explode.

  • Steve1

    L a r r y, I am sooooo glad you have not given up your objectivity regarding the false messiah! TG…..it good to see some reality check given with all the hopy, feelly crap that the MSM is putting out. Those screwed shitheads. Glad to see you are still honest and telling it like it is!

    • Steve1

      feely, its…hopey

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp97WFVFIw0&feature=channel trixta

    So true, Ferd. This is what has irked me for a long time, especially when the far Left went for Nader instead of Gore. The their politics of purity facilitated the selection of GWB, no less. Also, their mutual dislike of and attacks on the Clintons have always bothered me.

  • Steve1

    I saw some coverage from MSBC, I use to watch that one prior to the Dem primaries….can not tolerate that shit, anymore! But, I did catch some portions of BO’s train-trip to DC…I can not believe Rachel Maddrow, her biased attacks, her phony analysis. She is infected with mad cow disease! I cano believe that crap…she is worst than Fox ever was in their reporting. Get rid of that Mad, phony excuse of a reporter. What has become of our country. She is as bad if not worst than that crazy dip-shit, Obermanne! OMG, the corporate controlled MSM has to be broken. They are doing more harm to our Democractic process than Acorn! Stop the madness!!

    • Bob

      Well we certainly can not accuse her of many sexually attracted to Barack but we can’t rule out Michelle

  • Jan

    Those who can do, and shut up about it.

    Those who can’t tell everyone they’re just like Abraham Lincoln, even as they rip off the people of IL.

    What drugs do those people take?

    Shame, shame…

  • Old Grumpy Guy

    Talking about the celebrity circle jerkers, did anyone watch the Golden Globes and see the warm reception Laura Dern got when she talked about how great it was that Obama got elected? The liberal left just take it for granted that every other showbiz celebrity shares the same view. I switched to something else immediately.

    • truthtelling007

      lol, no I didn’t catch that…I tend to avoid Awards shows. But yes, the presumption of enthusiasm can be rather narcissistic. I was watching a flick this am about Republicans in Hollywood. And though I too felt some of them had a rather naive view about their situation, I did empathize about their isolation.

      An example given was from a “christian” film maker who asked, “why is it that people can do movies from a black experience, or woman’s view, or gay lifestyle, but I can’t make a movie about my ‘christian’ values without being ignored or blacklisted?”

      I think this was a good question, but it had an easy answer. That is because the above three mentioned groups, black citizens, women, gays, and others have not been the oppressive class at anytime. And many things have been done in the name of “christianity” including blatant morality preaching to those who don’t want it.

      I empathize with this specific person because she had never done that and now has to pay a price for other people’s zealotry. Had I been there to personally talk to her, or someone like her, I’d have simply drawn the distinction between the examples given because like it or not, Christians are not an oppressed class of people in the US by even a long shot.

      Conservatives may be an endangered group though now under BO and his 4 year reign. And this would be a travesty because, as a person who doesn’t subscribe to right or left, we cannot ignore the voices of people who don’t agree with us on these value systems and expect them to sit by idle while others change the world around them.

      Flipside of it, we continually see extreme conservatives going on a red baiting scare over Democrats by calling them socialists or marxists when they aren’t either. Most people have no idea how to even be a marxist. If confronted with real marxist views, they’d disagree.

      I’m in favor of ending the zealotry from both sides and start dialogue that opens both sides up to their commonality instead of solely their differences.

      One of my favorite people is a Republican. He’s the guy who runs this blog. He’ll tell you very quickly I’ve never asked him, “why are you a Republican” or ever let it even be an issue. He’s just himself. And I’d be offended if you called me a Democrat simply by wanting criminal accountability from the now passing administration as if I have to choose one or the other.

      I agree with Old Grumpy Guy about putting an end to political bigotry. He’s unabashedly snarky towards bigots and zealots.

  • Jan

    Obama can’t DO, he can only distract.

    He’s a poseur.

    But this inauguration seems a big mistake, pentimento, everything from the faux Lincoln headdress, to the washed up retro rockers asked to pony up cash– I can’t fathom what they’re thinking.

    Tasteless, unfocused, and unoriginal.

  • Amirosa

    Larry, thanks for the sense of humor, but for a moment I was worried. The O festivities remind me of Queen Marie Antoniette extravaganzas and “let them eat cake” But the Obots don’t care whichever way.

  • Cate

    Everyone listen up…….Every person of color did not vote for Obama. I happen to be one of them. I will not worship a man that walks, talks, breathes like me., and especially one that conned, lied, and manipulated his way to the POTUS without any experience, without ever having done anything. I cannot find the words to describe this. It is mind bogling. I have no respect for him. He may have the position, but Hillary got the popular vote.

    I do not trust him. His presidency will never be legitimate. And the media and all those black people don’t care. He could run over someone and they would find an excuse for him. However, ill- gotten gain does not lead to success. And all of the change he promised, he appointed all of President Clinton’s people, who are washington people. He knows he knows nothing. Hillary is awsome.

  • tek

    Larry: the MSM must be reading you. The latest headline on Yahoo! is that this is the most expensive inauguration in history.

  • http://www.lesstalkmoreactivism.blogspot.com whoframedrudy

    My yoga instructor actually asked the class to make little ‘O’s for Obama’ with our fingers in our yoga pose. Mother of Mercy save us!

    • http://firefox AnnieCollier

      Though I don’t use the symbol (well except in front of the tee vee while I’m alone), I must admit I’d have been tempted to give her the “I” finger instead…maybe in the Barry manner…at the side of the nose.

    • http://www.hillaryorbust.com Hillary or Bust

      You really should complain to the yoga studio or gym about that. Politics has no place in a group exercise class, much less yoga.

  • Ted

    The question is not IF there will be an interdiction of Obama’s Presidency by the Supreme Court, the questions are WHEN and HOW that interdiction will transpire — that is, if the USA is to continue as the Constitutional Republic that now exists.

  • Mandelay

    Have we ever had a President who, immediately after being sworn in, sat down at his (sigh, yes, only “his”) desk to immediately go to work? I’d like to see that on Tuesday. Take the oath, go straight to the office and work.
    Oh, yeah, all millions collected to do anything but work can be returned to those $50,000 a pop donors or … with the donors’ permission … used to assist the needy. Ya think?

    • Anon

      Better yet, sworn in right there in the Oval Office. Off to work you go. Not a dime spent.

  • erin

    The only thing missing from Obama’s coronation is a crown. Can you see him actually wearing a crown and holding a sceptre? Going on his behaviour during the Primaries I am sure he thinks he is entitled to them.

  • http://deleted Buzz Latte LaRue

    Posters of Obama in the local Walmart just sent me over the edge today

    This is sheer madness of the commercial kind. Of note however, none had sold, the display box was full. Didn’t see any in any carts either.

    All you can say is WTF.

    • Strawberrybitch

      Or how about Costco selling two different childrens’ books on Obama, three adult non fiction ones and a BHO calender…or Bed Bath and Beyond selling those stupid collector plates, or Walgreen’s selling Obama greeting cards. What the hell is going on? This is downright creepy. My mother use to tell me, when she was a little girl in Germany, Hitler had tons of that kind of crap made in his likeness as well. But after he was defeated, she would find all kinds of stuff thrown into the local river. Collector spoons, jewelry etc. And a lot of it was made from silver and gold.

      • http://undercoverblackman.blogspot.com Undercover Black Man

        “What the hell is going on?”

        Supply and demand, I suppose, Strawb.

        I don’t feel the need to buy any of that crap… but to the degree the folks are cranking it out, it must mean that somebody’s itching to buy.

        Let’s call it an “economic stimulus” and let it do what it do.

        • Ferd berfle

          I don’t feel the need to buy any of that crap…

          Only because you’re selling it.

          • beebop

            Have you read some of the comments at the ABC article about the amount of money being spent at the coronation?

            http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Inauguration/comments?type=story&id=6665946

            He doesn’t crown himself until tomorrow and already the serfs are not happy. In the world that expects instant results, he’s in a big world of hurt. He doesn’t get 100 days from Ma and Pa in the worst economic crisis since WWII. They will give him about a month. Tops. He better be thinking fast. And obviously getting others to do it for him since he will probably need a vacation after the heavy lifting of the next two days ….. :)

            • Ferd berfle

              So true. That One hitched his little red wagon to the herd and the herd expects results. Voting “present” won’t cut it any more.

              LMAO.

  • http://deleted Buzz Latte LaRue

    I plan on taking my ipod with me on Tuesday just in case I need a distraction from any televisions.

    I refuse to watch such a travesty perpetrated on the american people with the express intent to further obfuscate the truth of the election and Obama himself.

  • jessinwisc

    There will be a natural end to all of this, and it will be called REALITY. REALITY will strike, and we will judge and be judged on deeds and not just words. Obama actually has a chance to DO great things–let’s see what he actually does. I have the same apprehension watching all of this election hype as I do witnessing an overdone wedding staged by a self-centered bride. Reality is sobering, and while celebration is a natural outlet for the relief of having survived the last 8 years, we have to temper our optimism with the realization that there’s work to be done, and unfortunately we as a people have put our trust in the wrong leader before, and proven that our Congress was incapable of correcting our course. We must be vigilant and not allow ourselves to be lulled by stagecraft and koolaid. I wish the true winner of the Democratic primaries, Hillary, were taking her rightfully earned position, but I believe she will shine on the global stage. The White House isn’t big enough for the Clintons! Bill and Hill–big brains, big hearts, true world citizens! :-)

  • smiles

    For the next few days, we just have to grin and bear it because America doesn’t want to find herself in another “guilty” position. If/when Obama’s true colors come out and people judge him by his actions and not his image, America can still look back and say how much they embraced a black person and not feel like it owes blacks anything. (I’m AA by the way) If this weren’t allowed to be so blown up, then RACIST! is what we would hear. I think we’re messaging our own backs trying to make up for slave and segregated history.

    Also, on another topic:
    In order for Obama to continue to be the “hope we have been waiting for”, he has to continue to create a situation where hope is necessary. If people had been financially secure and satisfied, then there would not have been a window of opportunity for Obama to take advantage of. To remain a “saviour”, Americans have to have something to be saved from. He might continue to create situations (however dire) to keep Americans fawning over him. Even during the primaries he was good at making himself look like the victim.

    • AMERICA RIP

      If people would have been financially secure, or satisfied, then Obama wouldn’t have been the nominee. Much less the phony “selected” King of the United Republic of Obama. People are looking for the free ride, the reparations, the lazy do nothing lifestyle that he promised them. Boy will it be fun watching their heads explode. So sad about human nature, which prevented us from having a real President.

    • no kidding

      smiles –

      In order for Obama to continue to be the “hope we have been waiting for”, he has to continue to create a situation where hope is necessary. If people had been financially secure and satisfied, then there would not have been a window of opportunity for Obama to take advantage of. To remain a “saviour”, Americans have to have something to be saved from. He might continue to create situations (however dire) to keep Americans fawning over him. Even during the primaries he was good at making himself look like the victim.

      I agree completely.

  • smiles

    Also, I don’t agree with giving out all of this bail money that we don’t have. From what I can tell, Obama loves luxury and extravagance. He solves his problems with money. In his life he always seems to have access to money whether it be his or someone else’s. I don’t even know if the man knows how to come up with solutions using any other way. I mean, that method hasn’t failed him yet, but for our country it could be devastating.

    • Chicago Joe

      You hit on it. He has solved all of his problems, wants and needs with OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY. In fact, he and Michelle have made a regular cottage industry of it.

  • CG

    I occasionally make food and serve the homeless, and I believe things are getting rough out there for so many who’ve been laid off. So video experts out there, will you please help tell the story of today’s brother can you spare a dime poverty in America (former military too) juxtaposed with the excesses of this inauguration, with a screen moment, “following the money,” the donors and the bailouts, etc. And then add the quote

    “Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) tells People magazine in the issue out Friday that he and his wife, Michelle, do not give Christmas or birthday presents to their two young daughters. Obama tells the magazine’s Sandra Sobieraj Westfall in a seven-page cover story that he and his wife follow the unusual practice because they “want to teach some limits.”“??

  • Ferd berfle

    The inauguration should be a formal celebration of the U.S. and “We the People” and not of the one, the new President. By formal, I mean respectful of tradition and to those who did not vote for the person taking office.

    After all, it isn’t really about the President but about the system, country, and people therein which have allowed the peaceful transfer of power for over two centuries and not about the person who is elected to take the reins, much less about the color or sex of that person. All too often this little fact goes unnoticed, unreported, and ignored. Presidents are replaced on a regular basis but the office, the country, and its Constitution remain. This sort of celebration, especially in an economic slowdown such as this, cheapens the office, mocks the system, and sets yet another poor example for future generations to follow (or perhaps cringe about). I want no part of such foolishness and will not watch it.

    The last three election cycles have produced a cult-like worship of mere men in lieu of a celebration of the democratic tradition. This is a practice better left to the world of sports and its cheerleaders. It really has no place in the transfer of presidential power.

    Just my $0.02.

    • Mary

      Here’s the true irony of Obama’s associating himself with Lincoln:

      When Mary Todd Lincoln actually bought the Lincoln bed—-secretly, without telling Lincoln himself—and he found out she had overspent the budget….

      Lincoln himself had a fit and told her it was WRONG to do such a thing while the country was at war and people were starving. He REFUSED to sleep in the ornately-carved bed with lavish purple tassles.

      The bed itself spent years and years in storage, or sold off, until Laura Bush decided to refurbish the Lincoln Bedroom and return it to “Lincoln era” style.

      Abraham Lincoln had never actually slept in it, and literally SCOLDED his wife for such extravagant waste.

      There we all are.

      • Ferd berfle

        What a great story, Mary!

        Lincoln was a true patriot, a man of incredible honor, and our finest President. The name of That One shouldn’t be in the same document as Abraham Lincoln, much less chapter, paragraph, or sentence, especially since he has done nothing, zero, and nada to even merit such a comparison. There is simply no basis upon which to compare and contrast the two. The addle-headed sycophants can bluster until the chickens come home to roost, but I will never buy into the whole Lincoln-Obama comparison. It does not exist, at least not at this time or place.

  • Sassy

    Larry, I’m glad the rarified air hasn’t pickled your brain.
    Keep speaking out, for many of us are irrelevant, until tax time!

    • beebop

      Do you think that Tim Geithner will get it right this time? hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

  • I’m a Linda too

    Obama’s lies and hypocrisy slapping us in the face at record speed.

    Putting this incredible cost on the taxpayers back at a time when HE is asking for “sacrifice” from Mainstreet, when he makes the bold statement our “economy is bad and getting worse”.

    This lying sack White House resident has made it clear why he doesn’t get respect and has no place being president of the citizens of the United States, because he cares only about HIMSELF.

    • Thinker

      The Audacity of Hypocrisy.

      He wants regular people to make sacrifices, or as he and Michelle say, “You are going to have to work.”

      But he spent what, close to $100 million just to accept the nomination last summer, stages that were built by the same set people who worked for Britney Spears, now he’s spending $150 for his coronation.

      Let’s make “Barack Antoinette” his new nickname.

      He spends money foolishly and this is the person that is supposed to save our economy? Then he picks a man who can’t even pay his taxes to be the head of the IRS?

      What kind of sh!t is this?

      It’s like we are in some sort of bizarro world.

      • Ferd berfle

        The Audacity of Hypocrisy.

        Indeed. It extends to his henchmen:

        Favreaux: The Audacity of Grope

  • mary

    I must say that when I first read the headline above, I got scared! But, hell, Larry, we need to be reminded by irony and caustic wit…so keep it going! I want to read SOON about your “Love for The Great One” for other reasons….Keep us renewed in our idolatrous worship of the Saint and Leader of the Free-as-long-as-you-pay-my-salary World!

  • mary

    COULD NO QUARTER SPONSOR A NAME CONTEST FOR OBARAMA. BARACK ANTOINETTE WAS CITED ABOVE.

    LET’S SHOW OUR LOVE FOR THE MESSIAH….

    Praise the Lord and pass the BS, Barky!

    I suggest “Obamarama”, “Obamyopia” and Odrama (latter I stole from someone here at NoQuarter–I like xeroxed copies like Barky!)