Obama: Don’t Drive. Don’t Eat. Freeze Your Butt Off
By Uppity Woman on May 20, 2008 at 12:00 AM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Jimmy Carter
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.”
No Kidding. Barack Obama actually said that today. You can’t make this stuff up. He was talking about America “leading by example”. But it does conjure thoughts of exactly what Barack Obama has in mind.
Talk about an omen of what is to come if this guy, by some freak oddity, became President. I’m just wondering which “other countries” he wants the approval of. I mean, we are talking about the Presidency of the United States here. I wasn’t aware that our food, cars or warmth was subject to another country’s ‘approval’. But that’s just me.
Seeing Obama’s latest remark about his country kind of got me thinking what we would have to do if he were to become President, perish the thought.
Here are some practice tips I would think would work well with an Obama Presidency:
You can start by telling your useless anti-Obama elderly parent or neighbor that it’s just too damned bad if she is cold all the time and needs more heat in her apartment. Tell her old people are useless to Barack Obama anyhow, so turn down that thermostat and Live With It! Those goddamned Old People are a such a burden on society anyhow. Besides, most of them don’t like Barry. So screw ‘em. As one very loving “progressive” Obama supporter so compassionately described it back in January:
So, Barack scored a decisive victory tonight, unless you look exclusively at the old people vote. While he kicked ass in nearly every age group except those over 65, his support goes down progressively as the voters get older and he really, really doesn’t do well with the old people
Pundits are already pundit-ing that he needs to improve among old people because otherwise that whole “breaking down barriers” thing he’s pontificating about doesn’t count if all the old people don’t vote for him because he’s black. Then again, November 2008 is kind of far off. A lot of ‘em will prolly kick the bucket by then.
Bzzzzzzzzz! Time’s almost Up! There are still a lot of old people in the USA and they all still pretty much hate Barry.
You just don’t see too many of them hanging out swooning over his vibrating cell phone do you? Some say that a certain amount of wisdom and discernment comes with age. Translated, this means older people recognize a con when they see it. Just saying.
So bascially, if Barry decides to appoint himself President, he will just have to make all those old people crank down that thermostat to 62, let them freeze, the old farts — so “other countries” will say “Ok”. All 27 million of them! Think of the money the country will save if Obama just gets rid of all those pesky old people he doesn’t have time for. The problem is, he’s going to have to round them all up and make them feel too cold to vote in November or else it’s back to being a Chicago Thug for him. Maybe he can spring Tony Rezko and get him to cut off the heat completely. That’s the Obama-Chicago way.
Here’s considerate Barry smacking down one of those old farts in Iowa, where they simply cannot wait to vote again in November now that they know him better. The guy is just a boatload of compassion isn’t he?
And another thing, America: When Barky Obama is President, you aren’t going to be allowed to eat as much as you want anymore either. So get with the program and stop eating now! That way Barack Obama won’t be sending the Food Police to your house later. They are going to take your food and give it to somebody else who needs it more. You want a big meal? Get an invitation to the White House. Otherwise, no arugula for you!
You also might as well get rid of that damned SUV right now! Of course he can keep his. After all, he is the President! Oh wait, Ok, so he’s not president yet. But he will be just as soon as he figures out a way to cheat again and disenfranchise some more of the 57 states that aren’t going to vote for him. That should fix it. In the meantime, get yourself a subcompact and shove the five kids and the dog in it. If you don’t all fit, leave some kids home or something. And while you’re at it, start biking to work. So what if you commute 30 miles every day.
To be honest with you, hearing Barack Obama make those remarks reminded me of the Jimmy Carter days. Anyone who remembers Jimmy also remembers what a blast it was only being able to get some gasoline on Odd or Even days, depending on the last digit on your license plate. It was also fun to listen to Jimmy give his School Principal lectures to us on TV. I think they called that period in American History the “Carter Malaise”. But at least Jimmy waited till he was actually President to chastise and depress people. Of course, he also got his a$$ handed to him on a plate when he ran for his second term.
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This is just great. Now I`m going to be an old skinny old fart, freezing my ass off, polishing my scooter while I cling to my gun and dust off my bible. WONDERFUL… Thanks pod people.
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Thank God for normal people.
Exactly!
Gas guzzling, face stuffing, sweat staining normal people.
May God bless us all.
And, if not, let’s invade some country for their oil.
That was his memo to his constituents who were complaining about Rezko’s slums.
This comment missed the conclusion:
Stop complaining you low class losers, not everyone should have heating and transport!
Yours Faithfully
Barack Obama
Try living in Castle Grande!
Oy!
WELL –SORRY TO BE MEAN ===
BUT MAY BE OBAMA SHOULD TRY CLOSING THOSE FRIED CHICKEN PLACES FIRST ——
Doesn’t this grinning retard understand the Constitution says we have the right – nay, duty! – to loot the world to be fat sweaty pigs in limos?
Fuck the world if they don’t like it.
You’re not fooling anyone. Hillary’s supporters don’t think like this.
And we don’t call people retards.
Why don’t you, with your “sweaty limo pig” bullshit, join that “grinning retard” who used the word “prolly” in their pathetic little dissertation on the alleged and plainly unsupported superiority of your candidate?
By their own words we shall know them. Team Obama has nothing but idiots who demean and insult. And apparently, four hundred of them are being PAID. Talk about a waste of money!
If that’s how you make your case, clown, you don’t have a fucking argument. Go back down in your mother’s basement and pick your zits.
Hello? Do you think he’s talking to us? Hell no. He’s talking to AL GORE … he’s going to take a world class whopping today in Kentucky and he wants to roll you can call me, Al, out on center stage.
But he has a huge problem. His vote in favor of the Bush/Cheney Energy Bill … that’s right. He’s the only candidate left who supported it. Oh. He regrets it now, dammit, but he certainly didn’t then. When Shumer was screaming for transparency in those closed Cheney meetings, what was Barry doing? Looking for a way to make this work for Illinois … I am pulling the following paragraphs from MSNBC (back when reporting was their stock in trade versus opinion ….):
But even though Obama takes broad swipes at Washington with a special-interest tar brush, even he gets somewhat spattered when it comes to the energy industry. Obama is a strong supporter of the Illinois coal industry, and has received thousands of dollars from lobbyists for the energy industry and employees of energy companies, according to the FEC.
In 2005, he voted for the Bush energy bill, which he vigorously criticizes on the stump, accusing the administration of meeting with conservation and environmental groups only once but meeting with the oil industry 40 times.
Obama’s support for the Bush energy bill brought $40 million to Illinois to help its burgeoning ethanol industry, $1 billion to allow diesel engines to be retrofitted to reduce air pollution and another $85 million for Illinois universities to research how to turn Illinois basin coal into transportation fuels, according to an article in the Peoria Star Journal at the time.
I hope that Al Gore gives more than lip service to his environmental stand. But maybe he’s just one more old tired Democrat with his hand out ….
I guess we’ll see.
i thought so too
but I also think he really is this naive and arrogant as well, what a combo, Dubyah redux with an added flave of cultlike following….
here in AZ where it was 110 degrees yesterday, many elderly people would die without their a/c
perhaps Uhhbama plans to relocate all of us out of these areas, where have I heard that kind of reasoning before..oh yeah the maroons who said the Hurricane Katrina victims should have known better than to live in a flood plain, maybe if Uhhhbama gets his way we will return to what he may consider halcyon days of yore pre-SS when the NYC dept of sanitation had to pick up deceased elderly people off the streets, every day this joker says something else to make me shudder and pray harder for Hillary (or McCain if all else fails)
after he is whomped tonight in KY who do you think they will roll out tomorrow to preempt the victory rounds on TV, Gore or Biden? I hope neither, I respect them both and hope they see Obama is unfit for POTUS….
Barky says you can have a basket on your bike to hold your Bible.
Is Barack Hussein Obama going to be the Pol Pot of the Democratic Party? Kos, Pelosi, Dean, Kerry et. al. couldn’t care less.
Obama’s Wondering Zero.
He’s very off target when he speaks inne?
If we ask those other countries nicely, do you think that they might let us continue to say our Pledge of Allegiance and listen to our National Anthem? Pretty please?
No doubt about it, though, when it comes to who can kiss global butt the best, Obama has it hands down over Clinton, and even McCain. He’s had plenty of practice bowing and scraping in his early years, ingratiating himself to the Combine in Illinois.
Now, as Michelle would say, it’s time that her behind is kissed. Give her something!
As long as millions of us out here stand against this anti-American, wave of insanity there might be a chance that our country survives. This is why I will vote for McCain if Hillary does not get the nom.
We must vote for a patriot. We must vote for someone who has truly served our country.
And I thought Bush was the limit. It appears his other half is on the way up the totem pole.
Thank you.
No, really.
Thank you.
Please direct your thanks to those who deserve it most — Howard Dean and Donna Brazile. Without their swift and unflagging efforts to promote an unqualified conman and kneecap the qualified woman in the race, the Democratic Party might actually have broken its long losing string.
Barack Obama — making Dan Quayle and George W. Bush look competent.
Donna is a *colleague* of Karl Rove’s. He must be thanking her indeed.
“Few would suspect that Rove regularly trades tips with Donna Brazile, Al Gore’s 2000 campaign manager; she tells Rove how Bush’s proposals are faring among Democrats, while Rove makes sure her clients are included in White House events.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A2674-2003Mar9
Democrats unite! It’s time we took our country back – away from the DNC and the mainstream media who decided long ago who the nominee would be. Obama is totally lacking in judgment and experience, and if you want to send a message to the DNC, vote for McCain if Obama is the nominee. Sitting at home or writing in Hillary’s name will not accomplish anything. We must either convince Hillary to run as an independent or vote for McCain. And don’t let the Obama supporters fool you. McCain is NOT another George Bush – they don’t call him the maverick for nothing! Let’s show the DNC that all of our votes count, yes, even Florida and Michigan! WE get to choose the president – not the DNC and the media!!! Remember democracy? Remember one person, one vote? What a concept! It’s a pity the DNC has forgotten it!! Here’s a quote from Obama’s book, Audacity of Hope: “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” Does this convince you to vote for Clinton or McCain? It should.
McCain is no Patriot he is a corporate shill no better than Cheney or Bush
And yet … here you are …. not saying one word about the mighty Obama … how nice to see that the trolls have given up extolling his virtues and are resorting to the politics as usual they decry in others … pot, meet kettle.
Obama is a shill for the Middle East.
No air conditions for summer we have to suffer in the heat and show the world that we are leaders, this is what leaders do according to Obama, then the world will love us as we bury our dead from sun stroke.
Except for Obama, of course. He’ll be buring up fuel in private jets and air-conditioned SUVs and hotel rooms because that’s what the Kwisatz Haderach does. The sacrifices are for us, not for Him. He is The One.
yes. those noi shirts of his might get stained if he had to live without optimal air conditioning. the one can’t be seen with armpit stains, now can he?
Ah, just let him finish his waffles.
Rezko will get you a nice third floor apartment with the windows nailed shut.
Perhaps we should be aggressively searching for alternative energy sources, like Clinton and McCain have made central to their campaigns.
now axt, what do you think you’re doing? suggesting a real solution? the one can’t have us doing that. that’s the type of old politics practiced by those horrible racist ones like hillary and mccain. oh no, we can’t fix the problem. we’ll just tell poor people and old people that they need to suffer in the interests of the obambis and their pals.
my goodness, the nerve of expecting a real solution!!! shame, shame, shame.
can’t think of why, but it has to be racist. after all, it involves disagreeing with obambi, so there’s no doubt that it must be racist. if obambi didn’t think of it, it can’t be good. so you’re racist. and uneducated. and cling to your guns and religion.
oh, and obambi wants your vote.
Politician most likely to admit hemp is essential to any sane notion of biofuels as part of a larger sustainable energy policy:
(a) John McCain
(b) Hillary Clinton
(c) Barack Obama
Comparisons to Carter are important, since he failed to decriminalize hemp.
Barack Obama won’t.
Get ready for the new economy.
Awesome Dude! With fields of hemp, it’ll be like impossible to find all our pot and when we’re all really stoned, we’ll all be like too chilled to be drivin’ around wastin’ energy n’stuff. He is the one!!!
Let alone hemp produces little fuel per weight. Considering soil conservation is a must, producing the junk for such fuel output is a step backwards, not forwards.
Just another slogan for kids, to justify why they lost their brain cells enough to vote for Obama.
Obama waffled on his hemp position
see talkleft columns
He’s going to have Rezko find a way to convert the poor into an alternative energy source.
How? No land nearby to grow the alternatives. I can imagine wind power being an alternative there, but you know how elites complain how their “view” is interrupted by the wind turbines, so doubt wind farms would help on home heating (which is required in Chicago for at least 5 months a year).
The guy stepped into eyebrow level doodoo.
Elites want more soup kitchens, more homeless shelters, more wind farms, more everything, and they want all this stuff put in exactly the same place:
Somewhere Else.
Precisely. Can’t mess up their million dollar “views” with something as unsightly as a 30ft wind turbines marring them.
But it’s perfectly fine to locate them in Barry’s constituent’s backyard instead (who’ll also will have to pay for them, that ships the energy elsewere, even — much like in GA with the nuclear plants. We’re paying for Texas to have energy).
He’s Teddy’s boy.
What did Ted do when they wanted to put a wind farm up near the family “compound?”
In a remarkable turnaround, liberals are now heaping scorn on the 73-year-old senator. Young audiences boo at his name, and the leftish “Daily Show” on Comedy Central makes fun of him.
The source of unhappiness is Kennedy’s efforts to kill an offshore wind farm on Nantucket Sound. Cape Wind was to be the first such project in the United States and a source of pride to environmentally minded New Englanders. Polls show 84 percent of Massachusetts residents in favor. But now it appears that America’s first offshore wind farm will be near Galveston, Texas.
Proposed the month before Sept. 11, 2001, Cape Wind remains in limbo. It’s been frustrated at every turn by a handful of yachtsmen, Kennedy included, who don’t want to see windmills from their verandas. Many millions have been spent spreading disinformation and smearing the wind farm’s supporters.
Hillary is better off without the endorsement of a bunch of two-faced all talk no walk bitter old white men losers ….
How? Soylent Green gasoline.
jwrjr
Just what I was thinking!
soilent green?
soylent green is people
I keep thinking that one day I will wake up and find out that this whole Obama thing has been one very bad dream.
Pinch me, slap me or hit me upside the head–I don’t care what you do, just please wake me up from this nightmare!!
I know exactly what you mean. The whole thing seems surreal. There are people actually chanting ‘yes we can’ and are in some kind of altered state of revelry over a guy in his first term in the senate who has never done a THING for anyone but himself. He has no experience! At all! It’s just the strangest thing I’ve ever seen, and more than a little disappointing.
It’s an American Idol culture, and I hope I AM dead before I hear the suggestions that voting should be done on your cell phone.
It’s just youth and exuberance in large part. And I do agree……that part is good. It comes with a price, however.
Disaffected youth is one of the biggest problems in a lot of countries where radical religions/govts are beginning to take over – inciting violence. They are easy to manipulate and all have the “I’m invincible” complex we all did as teenagers. First thing they always do though is to get rid of all the old people – especially intelligent ones like doctors, teachers, etc. Same pattern every time. Scary stuff.
Pol Pot and the “Killing Fields” anyone?
I remember being a teenager and reading the rise of Nazism and Fascism, or even the Cultural Revolution by Mao and wondering how could people be swept up in this – why didn’t they see through it? At least with Bush, people didn’t brand him a God. An average – “I would like to have a beer with him” type, but not as a Messiah. Really scary stuff.
Never thought I would actually have to consider voting for McCain – putting my country before all else.
That will happen the day after Election Day. Just a bad dream, bye.
Dean scream moment.
There’s more substantive criticisms to levy his way.
Has anyone asked him if there’s any other federally indicted kickback artists he’s borrowed money for a house, or other loan, from?
If he can tamper with a primary, what’s so hard about this?
Even the UN is getting into the act they are sending a delegation to ensure that we nominate this black man for president of the USA, they are coming to make sure that he is not cheated out of this thing by racist white Americans.
What I would really love to know is who invited them and why?
I’m not sure, but the US has been under constant surveillance by this group. Usually it has dealt with our obvious jailing of an inordinately high number of AA men versus white men.
They are going to have a hard time standing in the voting booth with everyone.
I agree with you that he very poor at framing his positions. It’s funny how bad he is at it.
I’ve always thought that one thing he cannot take is Bill Clinton. Bill was and will obviously remain the master of framing his thoughts in a way that hit the sweet spot.
Obama……?
He’s laughably very bad at it. He’s just another ambitious guy with a pony trick up his sleeve. He’s fabulous at working a crowd up to a pitch.
But content?
Here’s my thought. He’ll avoid talking a lot if he were president. Tons of photo ops all around the world.
He’ll do as little as possible.
This is going to come as something of a suprise to the range-rover/Hummer driving Obambi supporters n my affluent neighborhood of 6,000 to 8,000 square foot McMansions.
I kid you not, there are actually vehicles around here that get less than 12 miles to the gallon with “Got Hope” bumper stickers on them.
p.s. I drive a prius and our house is only about 4500sqft, built over 150 years ago-so I can’t be blamed, but nonetheless I am very affluent despite my core working class values and background. Got rich during the 90’s-you know all those terrible years of peace and prosperity
Yeah those Clinton years were just horrible weren’t they? I mean, all that work checking to see how much our portfolios made every month.
i salute you from my little brick 1500 sf house built in the 50s, post war housing boom
we upgraded our a/c, added a tankless water heater, laid down pavers, got on the list for solar panels, but we bought a grand jeep cherokee cause with two kids and two dogs and living in AZ we need it frankly
Uhhbama can pry the keys from my hand as soon as he does what I did and quits smoking….
erm…Jimmah Cartah.
He’s gonna lose anyway. There isn’t much point in this website. The Dems have been given forewarning about this.
If they persist in effing it up with stupid as dirt candidates so be it.
They have to persist now. They are up against the wall …. (I want to add the rest of the lyrics to Jerry Jeff’s hysterical song but I won’t) ….
So much has been said and done that Hillary won’t be able to forget. They screwed themselves and most of them aren’t ready to retire ….
everyday he seems to do a gaff. he really needs some sleep or something, or maybe he is beginning to doubt his inevitability. i have faith in hillary. go hillary tomorrow win them both and shock the world
make the pundits eat cake. hehe
Well it’s got to be rough on the “Presumptive winner” when the “presumptive loser” just keeps whooping his ass. Kind of embarrassing.
I don’t care how tired he is, how could he have said there were 57 states? Even Bush and Quayle never got that far out of reality.
I thought the “not enough Arabic speakers in Afghanistan” remark was pretty fucking stupid, too. I also found the fact that he didn’t realize one of those “Fifty Seven” states, Kentucky, BORDERED his OWN HOME STATE of IL.
The idiot actually claimed that Clinton would win Kentucky because it was uhhhhhhh….in the same region as…Arkansas. Has this fucking dunce EVER looked at a goddamned MAP?
All I can say is this: Alberto Gonzales went to Harvard Law, too.
Save your money, kids! Go to a regional law school! It’s the same goddamned bar exam, no matter where you go!
So Hillary & her supporters advocate gas guzzlers, obesity & keeping the thermostat at 80 year round?
When does the ad for those positions come out?
Should be a humdinger.
P.S. Whatever brand of glue you are sniffing is working for ya!
I want to see that ad, too.
Karl Rove is working on that ad.
erm…
he’s not dietician in chief.
He’s supposed to help deliver the material comforts that come with the power he borrows from the peopl.
If he can’t see himself being a provider to the people he leads he’ll not win power–if he manages to gain power somehow he won’t reatin it very long unless he delivers material comfort.
Let there be food riots and he’ll be swept away by the sans cullottes himself.
Word.
Where’s my goddamn Escalade, Caviar & Hothouse for my dawg!
You best deliver my nigger!
As the only remaining candidate who suppoted the Bush/Cheney energy bill, I’m not really interested in him telling ME anything about what I should be doing … not to mention that hulk of a home he lives in there in Chicago when he and the Mrs. moved from a downtown more efficient condominium … but hey, what do I know? I just expect my politicians who preach to lead by example.
No. Hillary Clinton has an excellent plan to deal with the problems facing this country. You should be aware of it, since your candidate has stolen most of it.
What we are advocating is a nominee who will actually work to implement those ideas — someone who can stand up to the pressure of running for office and being President without wilting like a delicate flower when the heat is on.
Is it true that “No Quarter” is Latin for Dead Ender?
No stupid. It will end deadly.
Ooh…
Sounds exciting!
What book warehouse are you using?
Ask Ayers or Dohrn — they’re the violent ones.
Hey, speaking of Dohrn, is the rumor true that if he gets to be Prez, Obama is going to appoint her Attorney General?
No it is a universally spoken language when speaking truth to power.
Harvard Law should teach these idiots how to make a winning argument, right?
just blow my brains out.
Gladly.
Harvard is vastly over-rated. Ditto for many of the big-name schools.
I know. Wasn’t Harvard where Dubya got his MBA? Remember when the press was telling us what a great job he would do running the country because he would be the MBA President? Now they’re in love with Obama, who seems to be every bit as competent as Bush has been.
PROTEST OBAMA IN HOLLYWOOD FLORIDA ON THURSDAY
protesting Obama’s event at the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Florida on May 22, 2008 because he will not support counting our votes.
PROTEST OBAMA IN HOLLYWOOD FLORIDA ON THURSDAY
America is with you, Florida! EVERYBODY KNOWS.
I’m a big Hillary fan, but you guys are off base on this one.
What he said is exactly true.
AND, it’s a ploy to get people who believe as I do to vote for him.
Ain’t gonna happen. Sorry Barky.
YOU CAN’T HAVE US.
However, he completely looks and sounds like Carter (who was also right). Terrible framing of this issue – see how Hillary makes the same points for how to do frame it right.
Yup…which is why he needs to avoid debates, press interviews, and town halls. LOL*
Really, to win, he needs to continue to do big rallies only.
Not to mention yelling at the elderly … what a guy, eh?
JF, his Wimmin Speech is next.
What he said is, we should conserve to save face with other countries. Here’s a thought, Americans do things because they are the right things to do for America, not because Obama or any of his chosen countries advocates we do.
Hillary inspires. while Barack belittles.
I don’t understand one thing.
Why didn’t Hillary hire real Opposition researchers ?
I thought Clintons knew how to run a great campiagn?
I GUESS NOT !
Wow, Hillary got defeated by a JUNNIOR Senator from IL.
punked by a punk.
More like, outsmarted by the smarter.
lost to a loser.
Hillary and Bill never played dirty. That’s just the myth. They are, however, tough.
But even this so-called tape? She’d never release it. It would hurt to many people in the AA community, and they are truly very responsible and accountable regarding that.
You think her remark about MLK and LBJ hurt?
Wait until someone decides to unleash the real stuff. THAT will hurt.
Agree, Ann.
I suspect Hillary has always known about this tape, but didn’t release it because she cares about the Party.
But it may well explain why she felt the need to stay in the race, if Rove released it.
That, and caring about Florida and Michigan.
Hillary is head and shoulders above the Obamas (especially Michelle) in caring about what’s right for the party.
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Obama said Michelle is a great closer, right? I guess he must know his wife best.
Taking his advice, I will be doing what Michelle Obama said she would do when asked if her husband didn’t get the nomination, would she vote for the other candidate (Hillary) and Michelle said she’d have to think about it.
If HRC is not #1 on the ticket, I’ll have to think about it. And I think me and my vote will walk. Hear me DNC!
She did not expect the party to betray the only democrats that have won the White House for them in 28 yrs. Many of these people wouldn’t have jobs if it weren’t for the Clintons. Who would expect they’d back another loser like Obama? Ironically, the party that shows this much loyalty to the Clintons (and to MI and FL) is the one touting the fact that we should be loyal to the party.
Not this time!
WTF?!
No hummers?!?!
Oh…
He meant the vehicle.
My bad.
Don’t Drive. Don’t Eat and Freeze Your Butts Off is fucking winner as a slogan.
Just wait a few months, you will see that is a GOP ad.
think of that sentence
you can’t eat as much as you’d like…
could he have instead said:
“diet, conserve energy and drive a prius” or not?
Don’t Drive Gas Guzzlers.
Don’t Eat Like a Fu**ing Pig.
Freeze Your Butts Off if you have no circulation due to eating like a Fu**ing Pig.
Or be willing to pay the true cost of being a greedy shithead fu**ing pig.
Sounds reasonable to the reasonable; treasonous to traitors.
Which are you?
i’m 6ft and 165 pds, i don’t drive much at all, and i eat carefully. I’m even personally judgemental about lifestyles of fat wasteful people. But no politician can tell people to act or consume in any particular way. It’s not his job to make decisions for other people. he’s there to ensure the fredom to personally fuck up–or eat, transport or be comfortable.
He’s a complete loser of a candidate.
You are right.
Politicians should let people drive what they want, eat what they want and waste energy how they want…
then send their kids to die for luxury.
That’s the American way.
Pass the Flavor-Ade.
The gas prices raised sharply. It causes pain.
But it’s manageable, and people are, indeed, looking at cars with better mileage with envy.
I know my buddies and I carpool now regularly. That’s actually a very good change. It’s something we thought we should do, but it’s easy to say, “Oh gee, I may want to leave early.” Now, it’s easier to carpool.
So there’s some good coming out of the gas crunch.
My worry is for the people at the low end. I have young women calling me in a panic. They are down to choosing rent or gas. I think they’ll end up choosing gas. The kids will be living in cars. But the alternative? Give up the job. End up homeless anyway.
We need a safety net here while we adjust.
Truly.
Do I feel sorry for people like me? Not really. I have a mid-size SUV, bought when I was hauling kids around for a community group I’m involved with. It was ideal for that. It’s not horrible on gas, but not good, either.
So…..I have adjusted my habits, gang up my chores more efficiently, etc.
That stuff is smart.
And only higher gas prices would have forced me to change, for sure. “Smokey the Bear” doesn’t work.
But food?
Gimme a break. He had a stupid moment.
Heck the cost of my health insurance is a bigger burden on me than gasoline. Obama said yesterday he wanted to reduce everybody’s premiums by $2500 a year. Shows you what an out of touch moron he is. Tell a family who can’t be 20k a year for a single pay HMO that $2500 is going to help them and watch them laugh. That’s right, Barky. Where I am a Single Pay HMO is nearly $900 a month for ONE person and nearly 2k for a family, you dope on a rope. The man is so out of touch he’s practically invisible.
He did say one right thing on healthcare, Uppity. He called that “house insurance.”
The problem is that his plan is a true disaster.
It’s the issue that everyone is bored with. Too technical.
But it always has been a true core difference between the two.
Hillary’s plan is very much on track. His is not.
And Elizabeth Edwards should be ashamed for not endorsing. She’s walking the line, but that’s not enough, and it’s a very, very important issue.
I hope Obama does go with these campaign slogans. They are definitely winners!
Goddamn Americans, especially those fat fu**ing pigs who eat too much and drive gas guzzlers! OBAMA ‘08!
Obama’s loss is going to be spectacular.
Eat, drink & sweat merrily…
for tomorrow, we obliterate Iran!
Hmmm… I weigh 120 pounds, I eat lightly, I try to buy as much locally produced food as possible. I keep my house around 64 degrees in the winter, and rarely use a/c. I drive a compact car with great mileage. I recycle, I buy green products, my carbon footprint is ridiculously low. My energy bills are extremely low. I keep my yard as natural as possible for the little birds and bees to enoy.
Is that enough for you???
No.
Because I can guarantee that lifestyle you chose will come crashing down like a house of cards when — CREDIT — is gone (love the part about buying locally grown veggies, and I can bet not just veggies, the organic ones — goes great with actually paying for bottled city tap water, too).
My family doesn’t live on credit at all. We grow our own veggies; we have a pond for watering them; we don’t have a car to worry about gas prices. When I go grocery shopping I actually carry the food on my back home, even.
Now you latte elites carry 80lbs of food on your backs home. Then tell me about this silly “carbon footprint” shit.
When folks actually live the creed they preach, THEN, they can say they’re “doing something about it”. Until then, they just play musical chairs with their slogans.
And I still believe Obama’s statement is bunk, despite I live a lifestyle that puts most elites to shame.
Well said.
It is Obama’s elitist latte-liberal rich fans who will ignore the very advice he’s giving.
INCLUDING his spoiled wife.
Didn’t I see an SUV parked beside the Obama home in all those Rezko pictures? Why yes, I think I did.
We’re the reasonable people who are backing Hillary Clinton — a candidate who came up with her own plan without having to steal anyone else’s, and who has the intelligence, experience and energy to fight to implement said plan.
Obamabutts are backing a candidate who is all talk, no action, and who looks like he needs a long nap, vacation, or both. Help him, Oprah. He’s fading, he’s fading.
That clip of him yelling at the elderly woman sent chills down my spine. I have to throw up!!! Jesus, the disrespect has no boundaries…
That’s just his inexperience showing. He hasn’t dealt with the public, remember.
That’s why he’s exhausted already, and it’s not even the real deal yet.
I do agree with Ferarro. His tan is why he’s even in the race. He was pushed by the insiders who didn’t want Clinton.
But he’s in over his head. That’s also obvious.
I feel a bit bad for him, only because I was so on-track early on. I had a feeling that he wasn’t read, nor is the AA community.
The pounding will truly hurt their feelings.
I wish that he had waited, but as Hillary once said, “woulda, coulda, shoulda.”
We’re in now.
I think responsible people on Hlllary’s side will just think about the effects on others and find some proactive and smart ways to continue to push forward for people, real people, and not get caught up in the yin-yang.
I’m hoping we all reach a unity of sorts. We see that this has helped the country define its differences and common ground. It’s also helped us see that rigidity is negative. I hope we’ve learned something about scapegoating. It angers people. I like to think we’ve all become more aware about racism and the AA community. I know I have. I like to think that people are starting to be aware of the same, in the female voters as well as the older community.
Really, I’m hopeful that the messiness of this campaign will lead to an inch forward.
That is good enough. An inch.
Anything more? That just isn’t how people or group dynamics really work. We change by inches.
Well, yes. Racism is still a problem in this country; but if this campaign has proved anything, it is that sexism and ageism are perhaps even more troublesome because so many, particularly in the media and the Obama camp, find it acceptable to openly and loudly practice these “isms.” I started out thinking Obama was a decent human being, but when his campaign veered into playing the race card and demeaning women and old people, I understood that he was not. This cannot be chalked up to mere inexperience — he just has no moral compass. Politicians are by and large not candidates for sainthood, and I understand that; but one who bases his entire campaign on bigotry will never be acceptable to me.
Obama’s campaign also has shown very clearly that racism is not limited to white folk.
WOW! I’d venture to say he didn’t exactly do such a good job of winning our respected elders over to the BO camp at that meeting. No wonder they try to keep him out of that type of setup.
That Grandma was PO’d BIG TIME already when she asked him that. GO GRANNY! Go GRANNY!
I can just see some Iowa grannies now giving those grandkids a big ole what-for and what-the-HELL-are-you-thinking at the family dinner table after witnessing THAT! Then TELLING their parents NOT to send those grandkids back to THAT college anymore or they’ll cutoff the family education funds to them. Shoo-oo-oo-oo-IE! GuaranTEE you the younger family members are catchin’ HELL over this one!
Wonder how long it will take Iowa to CHANGE that caucus nonsense now?
I hear Iowa is now just chomping at the bit to get to the polls in November–now that they know him.
Well, Mr. Obama, what did you and your wife eat today? How many times did you eat? Did you eat only the calories necessary to sustain life, or did you go over your allotment for the day?
Did you ride a bike to get where you needed to go? Did your wife? Did you ride in an (GOD FORBID) air-conditioned vehicle? How many mpg did that vehicle get?
What is the temperature on your home set at right now? Do you set it on a sweltering 76-78 degrees, like I do, in the summer months? Do you lower it to 68 degrees in the winter, like I do, because the electric bill gets too costly otherwise? Do you even know what an e-l-e-c-t-r-i-c bill looks like? Have you ever stood in line at Farm Fresh to pay your electric bill on the due date, because you couldn’t scrape up the cash any sooner? Better yet, have you ever received a shut-off notice, and gotten fees added onto your bill? BONUS: If you’ve ever actually had your electric SHUT OFF, and had to pay more to get the electric company to turn you back on?
How much did that suit and tie you’ve got on cost you?
Have you ever sat in front of an electric fan to cool off because you can’t afford A/C? Have you ever scraped up change to buy a pack of hot dogs at the grocery store?
I will never vote for this conehead moron. Ever.
Right on!
Cause we all know Hillary rides a Schwinn, is stick thin & freezes her skinny ass off at home.
She knows suffrin’!
what the fuck does his idiocy have to do with her?
No but at least she doesn’t go on National Television and tell the rest of us to do it—that would be hypocritical wouldn’t it? Kind of like when Barky does it.
but, ahhh,,, ummmm,,,, the price of arugula,,,,
and egg white omelets must be made from free range chicken eggs….. have to keep my family healthy….so they can do well at the $10,000 worth of camps and dance classes i send them to….and the nanny and housekeeper and gardener are so damn expensive, believe it or not they have the nerve to think they should get more than minimum wage,,,and i guess i’d better pay their social security taxes or someone might get me on a nannygate thing,,,..you old people are just going to have to cut back, because we just paid off our loans and we bought this big ass house we can’t afford and only got a $300,000 discount from our crooked friend….so go to the day old bread store and see if you can pick up a loaf, why don’t you. but don’t eat it too fast…after all, you don’t want to raise your body temperature and need air conditioning….and we sure as hell don’t want to pay for treatment if you get sick…and that new exelon plant we’re subsidizing is going to be expensive….so you old folks better take the bus to the doctor….
LOL*……you know the story that has gotten legs from Michelle?
It was her complaint that on a half million a year, they struggled to give the kids piano lessons.
I’ve heard that repeated 10 times now.
She’s an idiot.
And don’t forgot the Latina housekeeper as a statement.
Well.. Michelle has to eat more to keep her body tempurature up, now that she lost her white mink coat at that Christmas party at Jesse Jackson’s house. A girl’s gotta stay warm!!
How in the hell Obama can talk about conserving when he lives in a mansion, and his wife wears mink coats — a real down to earth couple, eh?
hadn’t heard that one.
hope peta hears it – another group he’ll lose.
Somebody stole her mink? RRRRRRRRRROFLLLLLLLLLLLL.
Well if they didn’t socialize with indicted criminals her coat might not have been stolen.
Yep, guess thats why he didn’t care about all those people in his district without heat! I guess the other countries thought it was OK to let the people in the Ghetto in Chicago go without heat in the middle of the winter. His political partner was spending over 48,000 in a weekend wineing and dining the other corrupt individuals in Chicago!! Yeah Barack keep telling Americans they are going on a diet and will have to ride bikes to work to save gas and food! Keep it up and we’ll see a McCain presidency for sure!
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May 20th, 2008 at 1:06 am
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Oh, you poor things. Having to work in an Obama sweatshop. Does Oprah at least offer any medical or dental benefits? A 401(k)? Well, that sucks. Maybe she’ll give you a new car. Or some arugula.
I BELIVE THAT
DEMOCRAT PARTY HAS BECOME —THE LIBERAL JIHADIST PARTY —–WHICH IS DOING JIHAD AGAINST MIDDLE CLASS-JEWISH -LATINO-ASAIN-OLD-WOMEN-LOW INCOME-LESS EDUCATED VOTERS
MAY BE CLINTON SHOULD BE THE ONE WITH A NEW PARTY ——NEW DEMOCRATS —–
THEN WE WILL HAVE 3 PARTIES
NEW DEMOCRATUC PARTY
REP PARTY
LIBERAL JIHADIST PARTY
I FORGOT TO ADD==JIHAD AGAINST CATHOLIC AND WHITE VOTERS —
Marxists. Gotta love em. Not.
SO
hussien has changed the dem party into jihad liberal party which is doind jihad against us
Working class Americans are eating too much, with having to decide between gas for work, medicine for health care, or food.
That stuff is so affordable right now.
Obama(D-Gluttony) is making a stand. This should certainly get Jared from Subway’s endorsement.
So how many letters to Sen.Obama complaining of Rezko’s lack of winter heat were answered? You mean he doesn’t even let people see the records of his days in Senate?
Oh, he’s just a poor note taker, like those pig Americans are poor dieters….
Set your thermostat for the election at ‘72.
1972
You mean he borrowed money from the federally indicted slum lord for a four fireplace house while the slumlord’s tenants froze in a Chicago winter?
Yes, but each of the four Obama mansion fireplaces were set at ‘72 degrees!
If only you had set the nonworking heater in your public housing to ‘72 that winter, you would not have put America in such a tenuous position.
Blame the lil’ people!
For what it’s worth, it’s AC time here already in the south, we set the air @ 78. Setting it @ 72 would be an example of gold brickin’ from where most households are at.
Talk about intrusive government…
am flashing back to the carter years when we were told what temp to set our thermostats – 68 in the winter and 78 in the summer – due to the always fun gas crisis that had us waiting for our appointed days to wait in long lines to fill our gas tanks. my office followed the guidelines and my fingers were frozen as i tried to do my job at 68 degrees.
i set my temps that way now, to save money and because i’m trying to do my part for the environment. but i’ll be damned if i let the government tell me i have to. same for what i eat – try to eat less (fail in this effort) but it’s none of uncle sam’s damn business!
obambi and carter have much in common – malaise, need to change our ways, need to talk to terrorists. carter was a one-term president. sincerely hope obambi gets no term at all.
now isn’t that just special! barfy is even worse than even i thought.
hello
Greetings, Stalin!
I think the real pointy part of his remark was “… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.”
This is the really stupid part. Just amazingly stupid. Say bye-bye to the White House. Obama is doing the GOP 527s work for them. What a fucking noob.
yep. we’re supposed to ask other countries how to live our lives…in obambi’s world view anyway.
Yeah and Michelle is off limits. “They have better be careful”. They must have fallen on the floor laughing watching this Chicago Thug threaten an entire party. America is going to RUN to the polls. They wil be bumping into each other to make sure this racist turkey doesn’t get control of their lives.
Yeah, don’t make fun of Mrs. Sparklepony.
She will tear your eyes out!
Obama equals Jasmine!
Speaking of eating whatever you want…
Did you know ‘Waco’ is French for ‘Shake’n'Bake’?
N’ I hep’d!
Not by turning the heat down!
Those damn kids in their fuel hungry hearses.
Pass the DLC Brand bacon…
That’s French for ‘dead meat.’
Will there be a Recall?
Hey, I’m all for conservation and I don’t believe in conspicuous consumerism, but why is it that everything that comes out of his mouth just smacks of “I’m clueless and only see to the end of my own nose.” What other countries is he talking about — whose approval do we need?
If he’s trying to say we should lead by example great — here’s the first part of the plan, Barry. You and congress sell your SUVs first — you start driving hybrids and eat a little less arugula and you leave the A/C off and we’ll be right behind ya’. Hey, I drive an economy car and when it starts to stumble, I’ll be happy to buy a hybrid.
But just once, I’d like to see a politician practice what they preach — how offensive is it for his wife to be earning $300K++ a year, he’s now a millionaire, they send their children to ballet class for 10 grand or whatever and she’s telling women in Ohio who maybe make $37K that they shouldn’t go into the private sector? As someone else said — who did she think she was addressing — the graduating class at Vassar?
I don’t being lectured to by these two and told how crappy my country is. This is a great country. I know we have problems — instead of whining and complaining, why doesn’t he do his homework and come up with some real policies to do something about it?
No. That doesn’t go along with the narrative that the DNC should just hand this to him because he is “The One” — well, fortunately he will self-destruct before then. This man is truly unelectable.
whose approval do we need?
The ones we want to move from ‘ripping off by supporting repressive regimes’ to ‘enhancing sane & humane democracies by supporting stewardship’.
But just once, I’d like to see a politician practice what they preach
You voted for Kucinich in the primaries?
why doesn’t he do his homework and come up with some real policies to do something about it?
Such as fuel efficient vehicles, public transportation, eating smart & healthy and being willing to heat houses intelligently & efficiently?
Truly greedy people don’t get what he said.
Truly humble people do.
I guess that eliminates all his rich, upper class elitist supporters in San Francisco who drive the very cars he says he’s against, doesn’t it?
What an insufferable snob this man is.
I can think of one hummer I wish would go off road ….
Ted Kennedy has been known toeat enough for a whole family every single day.
I’m clueless and only see to the end of my own nose
That ‘used’ mirror on his coffe table is what you are talking about?
President Carter was done dirty by Congress.
Obama has accomplished that much on his own. He knows how to do dirty.
Jimmy’s death moment was that lecture on TV. He could have said, Look I know it’s hard, but we may have to make a few sacrifices, will you help out?
Carter made a huge mistake lecturing the people who vote. Just like Barky just did.
Ugh – he wouldn’t eat “decadent” chocolate cake in Pennsylvania, the waffles were “huge” he talks arugula and now he says we all eat too much? Forcing him to defeat a primary opponent is to “tear him down”?
Could he be more delicate?
Gross gross gross gross he grosses me out! I know I’m supposed to be a grownup and vote for him but I cannot! More than John Kerry this guy just repels me!!
Thank you.
No, serioulsy.
Thank you.
How dare he.
Slightly off topic: Did anyone else look at that picture of Plastic Jesus and think, “With a curly green wig, clown whiteface makeup and ruby lipstick, he’d make a splendid Joker”?
You mentioned his middle name,religion,sexuality,and lied about it. How would you feel about the next dead soldier? The next one to lose a limb.I recomment that everyone on this site visit a VA and see what they need.I not going to say why or how you should vote for someone. I found out that a associate of mine lost a family member in the service.Lets think about them for a while.Our country is in trouble . I repeat I’m not going to say anything about a canidate. Just look into your heart and think.God bless you,later.
You’re not going to say anything about a candidate, but clearly accused someone of lying about Obama without mentioning his name.
I will mention a candidate. Hillary Clinton is the only one in the race who will both act swiftly to end the war and will take action, not just talk, to meet the needs of veterans. So if you are really concerned about these matters, you will support her, not Obama, who makes many promises but keeps none of them.
Hillary Clinton has no chance of winning.
Stop whining about it and stop lying about Obama using Republican BS talking points. Voting for McCain will mean 4 or 8 more years of Bush policies and Supreme Court appointments and war in Iran at the very least.
WAKE UP, and stop working for Rove.
I am gonna vote my own best interests, whatever those are on election day.
Just real quick, off the top of my head, there has been no scrutiny of Obamas tax plan yet. He keeps saying he is going to raise taxes in 2010, yet claims he is not going to raise taxes on people making less than 50k a year, and his 2010 tax increase does in fact have tax increases for people making less than 50k.
On foreign policy… Just wow… I would rather have someone at the helm who has the first clue what diplomacy is(even if i disagree with it), rather than the snap reactionary that Obama seems to be. The whole sittng down with terrorists without preconditions things… just does not sit will with me. I am reminded by Jimmy Carters recent failed trip, and at the end of his terms, Bill Clintons final efforts to talk with some of these guys.
Energy policy. Boy I wish I knew what it was. He hasn’t gotten any more specific than a few platitudes, and from the OP, some of those platitudes are downright BAD in any conceivable way I can see the government implementing them.
SCOTUS appointees… I kida agree with where the court is headed at the moment. I mean if you are into child porn, I can see why you would dislike this court but other than that? Oh you are talking about abortion, arnt you? Well Obama is way out of line with my thinking on abortion, and I’m pro-choice. Obama seems to be pro-abortion. But there was a period between 2002 and 2006 where congress could have outlawed abortion and been very successful with it, but they didn’t. I am gonna go ahead and call the republican bluff on this one, because I think the anti-abortion movement is out of steam, and basically irrelevant nowa days.
Welfare policy. Again he hasn’t given many specifics, but it certainly looks like he wants to return to the situation we had before Clinton reformed it all. Wow, that alone would be worse that just about any bad policy that McCain has.
Divided government… I don’t know, its looking like the dems are gonna pick up a few seats in both Senate and house this fall, and McCain wont have coat tails this year. I like those two particular branches being different parties. I think it would be a disaster if Pelosi managed to get a rubber stamp executive. Also it is plain that the republicans in congress are nearly irrelevant, and will be for the foreseeable future.
So after Clinton (who would govern from a “good governance” ideology, rather than DailyKos insanity) McCain seems like the safest bet. I know in me, McCain doesn’t now nor has he ever engendered the sort of hatred that Bush and Cheney make me feel.
And let me tell you… If Obama can’t win my vote, he is not electable in the GE. A lot of the sort of ‘change’ that Obama talks about is simply not affectable by federal government(nor would it be desirable).
No thanks though, but I don’t think McCain would be an awful president Obama. He might be a lame duck, but not actively awful.
We don’t need to do the turd blossom’s bidding as your messiah and his consort have done one heck of a job. If the Republican 527’s managed to sink the candidacy of a Vietnam war hero like Kerry, they will have a much easier time with the likely Democratic candidate. We guarantee it. Start saving for your therapy, you will need years of it.
Barack Obama will never be President. We thank YOU and the rest of you radical and rude nutcases for that.
This is even better than McGovern. Thanks for the memory. Maybe in four years you whackjobs will shut the hell up again so that we can actually elect a Democratic president. Because of you and your stupidity we have only elected two in 30 years. Make that 34 now. Only one of them served two terms because he was a moderate, just like the majority of the party and the majority of America. Barack Obama will land in the same political graveyard as McGovern, Mondale, Dukakis and that arrogant out of touch asshole Kerry. The only good thing about Kerry was that he wasn’t Dean.
“…reminded me of the Jimmy Carter days.” A good comment, especially when we recall that Zbig is Obi’s main foreign policy adviser, and he most surely intends wars much worse than WWII, and his whole damn family–of the same ilk–is all over Obama.
Reminded me of the FDR days. I’m 62 years old. When FRD took office in March of 1933, my father was a lad in high school. Point being, knowledge of those times is not common these days.
And if you learned what was really happening in those years leading into the great war to stop worldwide fascism, you are a rare and lucky student indeed.
“Franklin Delano Roosevelt vs. the Banks:
Morgan’s Fascist Plot, and How It Was Defeated”
by L. Wolfe (That’s Lani)
Well-reported, very readable and true. Easily available with a few clicks. (When your TV whispers, “watch me. Watch me,…” throw something hard and heavy at it. Or at least whisper back, “STFU.”)
Hillary is going to need your support after she wins the presidency too. If she’s stopped, you will know exactly why, and much of how.
(Anticipating the possibility of someone not knowing wtf they are talking about, I’ll say this report is not promoting libertarian policies; quite the contrary, as would be seen by actually reading it.)
Ah Mr. 3 Z’s, to quote SusanUnPc. Mr. JiHad himself. Meet him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJTv2nFjMBk&feature=related
dear obama ratpack paid trolls,
We’ve got 2 moral obligations.
One is to do everything we can for Hillary.
Two is to do everything we can to make sure barfbag doesn’t get the nomination and if that fails to continue to expose what a disaster of a candidate he truly is.
The MSM has ignored his long ugly parade of negatives, but we haven’t.
We will never join the obamamessiah worshippers.
Republicans make up roughly 50% of the USA. Hillary supporters make up half the dem party. So you are fighting against 3/4 of the American voting public.
Pretending to be nice after being abusive for so long, doesn’t work. In fact we are just now starting to feel the anger that has been festering for so long due to barry’s tactics and your attacks.
You didn’t win us with vinegar and you surely won’t make us get in line with a fake sugar substitute.
The tsunami of dissent will be heard loud and clear.
That we fall on the same side as republicans for the first time in many of our lives – is Obama’s fault.
Thanks.
No, really.
Thank you.
Buck it up chump. You have 4-5 senate seats in trouble, and it looks like you are gonna lose seats in the house as well. The only glimmer of hope you have is McCain, and if he is elected because of Hillary supporters like me, he is basically lame duck before he enters office. He will be the first candidate since the development of television to go down in popularity the day after he is elected.
Wow, you have a lot on your plate.
Writes itself, doesn’t it, K?
I guess you could argue that Obama is the Great Uniter after all. He has single handedly united republicans and just about all of Hillary’s democratic supporters (as well as a whole lot of Independants)in their common dislike and loathing of him.
Good point. When we defeat him he will have served some purpose.
Karen that was very well said. Any “nice” trolls can go screw themselves.
I actually agree with Obama on this, but it is the sort of honesty that would cost him in a race with Republicans, who will insist on Americans’ God-given right to keep swilling at the hog trough. Too reminiscent of Carter’s sweaters.
My only beef with Obama is that he is electorally weak with a flawed support constituency.
Read my post below. It’s only admirable if you believe Americans are all driving around in SUVs with the thermostats cranked up at home. This is the kind of “America is in trouble because we are whiny brats” simplistic thinking that the Du Ponts and old Rockefeller families used to justify not giving a crap about anyone but themselves. It’s Reagan’s “Welfare Queen” mentality all over again.
It’s going to to over really well with people struggling to make ends meet. I agree that many Americans are incredibly wasteful, and I won’t shed one tear for people who bought gas-guzzlers they didn’t need and now can’t afford. But they are in the minority. Most of us live far from luxurious lives- and are still hurting. I don’t need a lecture from Barack “check out my new digs” Obama on how to tighten my belt, thanks.
We have improved efficiency in almost everyting in the last 25 years .. cars, fridge, heating you name it. Instead of further increasing efficiency and use alternative energy, Obama wants Americans to not live a comfortable life.
We elect a president who can help us lead a comfortable life not the one he suggests.
He is backward thinking instead of forward.
Cannot afford to have a marxist as our president.
Someone tell this dipshit that millions of us drive Honda Civics,not SUVs, and already keep our thermostats at 68 all winter. And we still suffer from high gas and heating bills.
We really want this obnoxious clown as President for the next four years? Mr. “hey stop whining and tighten your belt?” Good lord.
I’m going to say this much: during WWII my mom’s dad was a farmer/fisherman. The army came in and stoled all of the food and larger boats. If my mom’s dad didn’t hoard food (a “crime” that would’ve got him killed), they would’ve all been as dead as the people she saw off the sides of the road (along with the anti-aircraft killed citizens). It was so godawful, her neighbors ate her dog and tanned the hide (and Japanese don’t eat dogs).
NEVER going back to that shit, EVER. Obama wouldn’t have to worry about another 4 years in office, citizens would raid the White House and kick him out completely. He’ll go down as the worst president in US history. In turn, set back having a Black president for another 100+ years; let alone civil rights for Blacks, since folks will be highly suspicious of other Black candidates, thinking they’d have the same views as that fruitcake.
It hurt Carter when he asked this country to sacrifice, and it’ll hurt Obama. You can’t make folks sacrifice, unless it’s for survival, and we’re nowhere near that point (and won’t be even in 20+ years).
Obama needs to go, period. The nub doesn’t understand history, let alone a country full of immigrants and naturalized citizens who’d NEVER go back to starvation again — be it a Russian immigrant, to an REAL African who’s country faced years of famine. He wants to stop eating, move to Kenya, and live as the natives, not the British old guard. Obama wouldn’t last a week there without crying about the hardship, especially when he’s reduced to eating “jungle meat” (monkey) and/or BBQ rats.
Wimp.
You rather America go the hell than let a black man run it.I am not paid to do this. I hate how fucked up Fox , Bush ,Oreilly ,Limbaugh,made our country. You would rather distroy the country than let a black man run it.4,000…4,001,…4,002,…can you feel me.Stop hating people and think about love. Doesn’t Larry’s face look like the guy from the Nike cult with the tracksuits.Why is his face sweaty?It has a kind of Jim Jones quality to it.Think for yourselves.
Kid Funkybreath, we know YOU aren’t paid to troll. No One here, despite or dislike of him, thinks Obama is dumb enough to higher a troll who is incapable of a single coherent thought.
Now have a good day at school, don’t give your sixth grade teachers any sass, and try not to get beat up at recess again.
Yeah shame on us for not understanding that Auchi, Alsammarae, Rashid Khalidi and Zbigniew Brezinski have nothing but good intentions for us.
I thought they were bringing us Obamatopia? The pod people told me so!
You believe Obama, you’re allowing him to tell you what to think, as if he’s a authority, when he isn’t.
Think for yourself.
You don’t.
Maggots would find the Obama crew distasteful, they’re so rotten.
Sorry.
Funky I care about Barky as a black man about as much as he cares about me as a woman.
Your comment is racist.
Listening to Senator Obama’s comments tell me that he wishes to play upon fear rather than provide solutions to problems.
FDR
While Senator Obama puts up roadblocks to progress and the betterment of all, Senator Clinton offers concrete solutions to issues like fuel efficiency, global warming, green energy technology and job creation.
Obama thinks that he has made contact with the common folk when he mentions the cost of arugula at Whole Foods! Hillary, knows that most people, with gas prices the way they are, are taking a cold hard look at the bottom line. She knows that they do not have limited amounts of disposable income and therefore are not just driving around for the hell of it.
During a political campaign people do not want to hear a candidate put up roadblocks. They want to hear from a candidate who empathizes with their difficulties but in the end tells them, “if we all come together, and work together, we can solve these problems. Here is how I (we) will do it.”
He is just another nay sayer who has seen to it that he has his own little piece of the American dream (big house, housekeeper, wife’s personal trainer, 10,000 dollars of expendable income to spend on daughters ballet/sports fees) telling average jane and average joe that they need to be making sacrifices and doing without.
Oh, I am so sorry Senator Obama. You get a prime piece of real estate and an empty lot for a song while I should back away from the all you can eat chinese buffet!!
correction:
(limited) replace with (endless)
I wonder what Senator Obama heats his own big old house with. (Big, Old houses are a bear to heat in the winter….especially in Chicago!!)
Anyone taken a look at his heating bills recently?
you don’t think he wears a big ugly sweater? j/k girlfriend!
You mean Michelle doesn’t wear boiled wool around the house?
The only think American woman have to fear is Barky himself.
Barack Obama was perfectly willing to let the black senior citizens who were living in his district while Senator of Illinois freeze their butts off for 6 months without heat. They were unfortunate enough to live in the buildings owned by Obama’s slumlord friend, Rezko. All the while, Obama was receiving money from Rezko for his campaign and attending lavish fundraising parties in Rezko’s warm home.
Yeah….we should all freeze, that will take care of everything. Especially since it is partly Obama’s fault that the price of heating oil is so high…he signed on to Cheney’s energy bill.
I have the feeling that this won’t even look like America when Obama is through with it. Mr. anti-America “I don’t need no flag pin” Obama will be sure of that.
Larry -that attack on Jimmy Carter was stupid .
Everyone in the WESTERN world had those petrol restrictions. It also gave us small Japanese cars & yes I remember rationing the heating oil -then we developed our natural gas resouces.
It was MASS stupidity to stop energy efficient advances.
Stick with European politics and the mess they’re in, okay? You’re under restrictions thanks to your Commie lifestyle.
“Petrol”, lol.
Love how Europe likes to dictate things about the environment, and then I remember when my brother returned for a visit. He complained royally that, you know our big cars with their 15mpg ratings, were so slow. See in Germany they don’t use catalytic converters, so their little LeMans could zip to 100mph on the Autobaun.
Now what is a catalytic converter? IT’S USED TO REDUCE TOXIC EMISSIONS FROM COMBUSTION ENGINES.
It’s required in all US cars, but in Europe it’s not.
Then they come around talking about “carbon footprint” and being “green”? The hypocrisy knows no bounds.
Did you not notice that this thread is not authored by Larry? Not all of the items covered here are written by one person. Thanks for noticing
Petrol? this guy is definitely sitting somewhere in Gaza.
Could be Pakistan. He set one of his wivies on fire last week for ticking off his mother–and the damn bitch lived.
Mary Ellen he wear a flag pin now, didn’t you hear about it on Fox?Think people Bill Oreilly the world’s biggest RACIST helps Hillary out after attacking her husband for years.Karl Rove a bigot is helping Fox.Sean Hannity friend to TERRORIST,Hal Turner a anti-semitic,neo-Nazi, bomb maker that had a sleepover at his Lloyd Harbor house.They’re controlling your mind.Vote the opposite of what Fox does and America will be safe.Think about it,YOU’RE SIDING WITH FOX.THEIR NUTS.Think about the dead troops.THINK.
You wouldn’t know racism if it bit you in the ass.
Guys Young Barry did not know about Hanford, yet Barry looks down upon others so very often. Tut Tut Tut.
Off-topic, but can someone tell me why Micah Bryzenski (sp?) gets paid to have orgasms on MSNBC every morning?
With Terry McAulliffe, a few moments ago-
“Oh come on, Terry~”
“You’re good Terry, you’re good!”
“Isn’t the number 2026? No? Oh, you got me Terry, you got me!”
“Ha ha ha!”‘
“I love this, I love this!”
What a fricking airhead. Why is she here?
One word describers her political acumen: airhead.
There is a whole rash of 21 year old political “strategists” this year. If you got a B in history you can be one too. Next year they will all be working at Starbucks again.
She’s here so that time goes by and the country sees what Barky really is.
In Portland, OR – Obama held an outdoor rally and set the portable toilets up on a Portland Police Memorial, desecrating the site. Left their excess items there, too. The flag is clearly at half-mast in recognition of National Police Week for those who have lost their lives in the line of duty.
Are you surprised? We won’t be needing police any longer. Louis Farrakhan’s goons are going to protect everybody.
“Jimmy [Carter] also remembers what a blast it was only being able to get some gasoline on Odd or Even days, depending on the last digit on your license plate.”
I remember those days very well. I had to babysit my neighbors’ children, so that she could go to the gas station at 6 a.m. (on her day to get gas) and sit in the line waiting for the gas station to open. I don’t think that any of these kids who are voting for Obama would like that.
BTW, I loved your picture of little Oliver Twist holding out his bowl. “Please sir, I want some more.” Isn’t that going to be Obama’s new campaign slogan?
This is too much. Obama lives in a mansion and drives what and eats what? This man has never known struggle.
Meanwhile the average american is trying to figure out how to get milk, eggs and provide medication for their children or their parents..
Let them eat Arugula
Dang Uppity the pod people want more than the thought police? The food police? The energy police? And other countries we have to answer to?
Yesterday I watched a video where Obama tells us his time is now because all he sees in the country is violence and destruction (video Clear and Present Danger).
Today I hear that we have to DO WITHOUT, LOWER OUR STANDARD OF LOVING – BERRY VISION. And part of BERRY VISION is BLAME BLAME BLAME you damn Americans. I don’t know about you but I am getting sick of BERRY VSION, and you can add Michelle vision and especially Wright, Ayres, and Rezko vision.
I guess Berry he has no real hope or faith in America’s ability to rise to challenges, to innovate, or our ability and willingness to work to find ways to maintain our civilization.
Hillary leads us by telling us to roll up our sleeves to find solutions for America. To find alternative energy sources. To invest in Green Initiatives to provide thousands of new jobs and also maintain our standard of living. And aren’t our farmers the best in the world any more, is Berry telling us they have lost the ability to feed us?
Some people will agree, Americans drive big gas hog SUVs (especially a certain class of Americans we have been hearing about lately).
And a lot of Americans are over weight but remember how JFK encouraged young Americans to exercise. That was because JFK loved Americans, didn’t see us just as typical white racist who cling to guns and religion, and most damning of all fear tall skinny black guys and their entourage.
More hypocrisy from Obama and the pod people. I guess he forgot about the threat of race riots if he is not nominated part.
Obama TELLS you?
What do you think, you always believe a politician?
He’s not a preacher, he’s not to be trusted, he’s a corrupt politician.
I see.
Wow.
You know, during those days people worked locally. With the mass consolidations, most people have to commute in order to get good jobs. It’s no longer a ten minute jaunt to go make a living. With Urban Sprawl, it’s even worse now. People can give up gasoline and not work or they can use gasoline and earn a living. Local farmers need gas for their equipment so Barry can get his arugula on time. Using a plow with a horse might slow down Barry’s salad. But people like Barry don’t have to think of those things.
More hypocrisy from Obama and the pod people. Don’t drive but take loads of bundled cash from the oil industry.
Kid Funkadelic-
Yeah…anyone who supports Hillary or points out the corruption of “The Chosen One” must be associated with the right wing. The fact is, Kid, that the Obamabots are EXACTLY like the right wing nutcases.
So, Obama wears a flag pin because he has to in order to try to bamboozle the voters that he’s suddenly a patriot. This is the same guy who was given a flag pin by a veteran at one of his rallies and he took it off the moment the rally was over. The next day, he wasn’t wearing it at the debate. That shows you how much he cares about our military troops. Whenever he is asked questions at townhall meetings by veterans, he doesn’t even acknowledge their service. Obama is a black George Bush and all you left wingers who have been railing about right wingers for all these years are emulating them.
Kid said: “You would rather distroy the country than let a black man run it.4,000…4,001,…4,002,…can you feel me.Stop hating people and think about love. Doesn’t Larry’s face look like the guy from the Nike cult with the tracksuits.Why is his face sweaty?It has a kind of Jim Jones quality to it.Think for yourselves.”
For one thing, “distroy” is misspelled, get yourself an education, for gosh sakes!
So, anyone who doesn’t vote for Obama must be a racist, eh? What did you say? “Think for yourself”? This is coming from a guy who has done nothing but spout the Obamabot mantra, “YOU ARE A RACIST IF YOU DON’T VOTE FOR A BLACK MAN” –”YES WE CAN YES WE CAN YES WE CAN” “HOPE–CHANGE—HOPE—CHANGE”.
Wake up, kid….get yourself some much needed help.
I applaud you effort to educate one of the chosen pod people even though you and I know this will fall upon deaf ears.
That video exchange alone should have disqualified him. What were the Iowans thinking?
How dare anyone ask Obama a question?! Don’t you know that he did not have a speech in front of him? He makes me sick, yelling at a person like that.
My God, he just wants to finish his waffle!
Obama on Iran:
This will make your head spin. Make sure to wear a neck brace otherwise you may get whiplash:
Make Up Your Mind.
Mind you he said these very different things in a space of six hours.
Lemos, my head almost exploded when I listened to him talk about Kennedy and Krushchev. This man is incredibily stupid about history and it’s IMPORTANT details.
No wonder most seniors and baby boomers despise him. They know he’s talking crap.
That is stunning! I wish the MSM would see fit to actually COVER those two statements. He’s allowed to run all over the Country making these nonsensical statments, and demonstrate his utter lack of knowledge, and yet they are silent.
The problem is that Obama is another George Bush. He gets this shit wrong because he doesn’t know it. The basic premise of public speaking, in order to not screw up, is to KNOW your subject and talk about what you know. That way, if you get thrown off your prepared speech, you’ll be fine because you know your subject and can talk about it.
Obama just doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He cannot speak consistently and coherently. Hillary knows her stuff. She doesn’t screw up because the knowledge and understanding is inside of her brain.
And yet.. once again, the MSM (AP being the worst) is promoting the weaker (but oh so likable) candidate over the class valedictorian. They did this with Gore and Bush. Bush was given a free pass cuz it was sooo much fun to travel with him! And Al Gore who would have been an amazing president, was treated like the nerdy outsider with off the chart SAT scores. It’s like high school.
I wonder how much gas Obama uses in that big ol’ limo he’s carted around in? Oh…it’s ok, because he’s helping his oil lobby friends. Obama—the great bamboozler.
IS his campaign even green?
Good point.
Are ANY of their campaigns green?
Where I live, reusable shopping bags are not yet mandatory, but I see more and more people using them, making a point to bring them to the store.
I no longer get those looks when I hand them to the clerk as it’s become more common, which is a good thing, to see people pitching in.
Geez: It doesn’t get any better than this. Just let this Obama couple talk and let all of their “friends” talk and they will manage to dig a hole so deep (for themselves) that come election time…we won’t even be able to locate them anymore.
Is Obama going to call to ban NASCAR? The right wing would love that!
lol. another constituency he just lost!!! pretty soon, his voters will fit in the same closet.
Lucinda- I’m sure that if Obama ends up as our Prez (heaven forbid!) that his Obamabots will all make excuses for his failures, just as the Bushites made excuses for Bush.
In the meantime, Obama will continue to blame his cabinet for all his mistakes, just like he blames his aides every time he’s caught in a lie.
As opposed to Hillary who will fess up to her mistakes and correct course.
My husband just told me last night how bitter he is towards folks who can retire with a pension. He pointed out how folks are clueless as to how expensive it will be to just put food on the table in our old age. I said we will make it don’t worry. Here’s where the bitterness comes in: I didn’t want to just make it. I didn’t want to be bitter like my father and not have anything. (We are making a little over $100,000 a year now).
If we are lucky and stay healthy, we both plan on getting part time jobs to make ends meet.
God help us all.
Where are those part time jobs? What are they paying? Can I walk to work?
I agree it doesn’t get any better than this. Now I know where Michele Obama’s “always a smaller piece of pie” rant of a few weeks ago comes from. The Obama’s are way to far to the left for me.
Strange for being far left since their campaign is so far right with the corporate involvement and the far right tactics.
Robin and Robyn Hood. Rob from the rich and give to the poor. Middle class is just out of luck.
John, I don’t even watch MSNBC anymore. It’s a waste of time. With that many Obamabot’s on the air, it’s like watching a show put on by marionette puppets.
In the world of TV….it is the RATINGS that keep them alive. Shut them DOWN, by NOT turning them on.
Let them go get a job with Obama.
The “Clinton Supporters Count Too” site is up and running. Join the boycott of NBC/ MSNBC; I already sent in several protest emails to them and their advertizers. The link is:
http://www.clintonsupporterscounttoo.org/
I just realized something. The pod people better gear up for the “Whitey” issue. They have been claiming Fox news is the devil. Well Fox is owned by Rupert Murdoch who endorsed Hillary in her ‘06 Senate bid. If Fox has that video and with all the bad mouthing the pod people have been doing to Fox they should be very worried now. Karma will bite them in the ass yet again as it has been for months now. They just don’t see it.
I’ll bet any money that Obama will slash social security to the point it won’t even be recognizable by the time he’s halfway through his first term…if we are so unlucky as to get that moron as our President. When do you ever hear him say that he will help senior citizens?
I have never heard any sound bites of what he would do to help Seniors. He is too busy trying to hypnotize our sons and daughters to vote for him. This man is truly frightening. However, I have 3 sons..one is going to vote for John McCain. The other 2 are simply not going to vote…which is fine with me.
Who the HELL does he think he is …Jimmy Carter
I found those words and thoughts to be the most offensive of the season.
He, who lives in a mansion ,shops at Whole Food, whose wife wear $600.00 a PAIR shoes , yet dresses his kids like raggamuffins is telling me about how to live..The arrogance ..the arrogance of this piece of crap knows no bounds.
He seems too worry more about the 3rd world than “his” country…he really should go run for office in one of these places because he doesn’t have the chops to be Americas president. Oh how I hate him….
David Pouffle looks, and sounds, just like David Petraeus.
Weird.
the obamas remind me of tammy faye and jim baker ..all excess for them and nothing for anyone else…they should both only end up like the bakers…what trash are thes obamas …..i am soooooo angry with what he had the gall to suggest…….
While I agree that these are issues we must address, what he is really doing here is blowing his dog whistle to his young, affluent, followers.
meaning: Everyone should drive Toyota Priuses just like we do… or pretend to do.
meaning: Get in shape, America. Devote your life to the vanity of the body. Get a Personal Trainer and get with it. Shop at Whole Foods.
meaning: It you were wonderful like us, you’d live in Portland, or Seattle, or San Jose. You wouldn’t live someplace hot and humid, or frigid.
meaning: America is history, and it’s the history of dead white men (who wrote the history after stealing America from the black, red, and yellow man). From now on, you SUV driving, hamburger eating, air conditioned proletarians are going to have to answer to a Higher Power… Obama.
When Obama fires his maid and gardener so that he and Michelle have to actually do some work, turns down HIS thermostat, has to give up fine dining and cancel all those ballet and other classes where they are driving driving HIS SUV then perhaps I might consider doing any of the same. But only perhaps.
Shouldn’t we first examine how green the Obama household is? I wonder how energy efficient that stately mansion of theirs is anyway. I’m thinkin, not very.
That house is cursed. Look how they purchased it.
Just heard on MSNBC- “the Clinton campaign has been accusing the Obama campaign of being sexist… you know, that kind of dynamic might work against an old white man, but it doesn’t really work against Obama…”
That’s right, because we can’t imagine a black man ever being sexist…
So there you go- black men can’t be racist, they can’t be sexist…christ, we should have been electing them to every political office, all along! They are all holy, saintly creatures, without sin!
As a wholly owned subsidiary of General Electric, what more do any of us expect?
Al Sharpton for attorney general! Louis Farrakhan for V.P.!
And I was always taught that it was racist to judge a person by their ethnicity. Apparently the Obamabot feel that it racist to NOT judge a person on the basis of ethnic group.
This is certainly a Bizarro election: a Republican campaigning on ending global warming and Democrats arguing that we should judge on the basis of race.
MSNBC really tells it like it is, periodically, sweetie!
I wonder if Obama plans on appointing his friend Rezko as Housing Director? Slumlord, Rezko, will be sure we keep our heat down….he did it in his slum buildings in Obama’s district without any problem…just shut off the heat! I’m sure Obama felt those who lived there were happy to go without heat so Rezko would have enough money to fund Obama’s campaign!
Rezko as Housing Director?
Can he do that from the supermax if he is convicted?
Obama would pardon him, and get him the director job for HUD.
Hey pod people tonight I will be celebrating the huge victory for Hillary as she derails any chance Obama has. He can’t prevent the May 31 meeting of the rules committee now. And we are aware of the “stampede” of delegate endorsements coming. Maybe Obama has some better than Byrd left? Gore perhaps? Big deal. See you trolls in August and that is 1000 years in dirt digging time. Have fun as we wear you and Obama down to a nub between now and then.
The pod people fail to realize there are enough SDs in play to protect Hillary from being shutout. Unless they can force her to concede she can now go the distance. And fat chance of her conceding to that wannabe dictator. And they should be very afraid of Rupert after badmouthing him all these months. They might want to extend the fake nice crap to Fox now. Maybe Fox won’t release the “Whitey” video if they have it. Or maybe not.
We now bring you back to your regularly scheduled program.
And another thing, America: When Barky Obama is President, you aren’t going to be allowed to eat as much as you want anymore either. So get with the program and stop eating now! That way Barack Obama won’t be sending the Food Police to your house later. They are going to take your food and give it to somebody else who needs it more. You want a big meal? Get an invitation to the White House. Otherwise, no arugula for you!
You also might as well get rid of that damned SUV right now
Excuse me? Isn’t this happening now ? You want to blaim him for this. Its Sean Hannity’s fault.He keeps talking about terrorist.A anti-semitic , neo Nazi slept at his house. His name is Hal Turner look it up on wikipedia. Do the opposite of what Fox says. Love people don’t hate them.
Yawn.
Funkybreath – You’re late for school! No cutting classes!
Remember waaaaaaayyyy back in February when everyone from Randi Rhodes to Donna Brazile was telling us that the Superdelegates were essentially illegitimate (I DISTINCTLY remember Brazile telling us, repeatedly, that she would resign from the DNC if the Superdelegates overturned the popular vote) and MUST support the person who won in their own state?
Then we started getting Obama endorsements by Kerry, Kennedy, Richardson, Waxman, now Byrd…all from states carried by Hillary…so we don’t hear that argument any more.
Doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten it. And it doesn’t mean that argument isn’t on tape. By their own argument the Obamabots must insist that the Superdelegates of Hillary states vote for Hillary. They must insist that the winner of the popular vote win the nomination.
Or, they must stand exposed as total hypocrites who will do and say anything to win. What’s it going to be?
You’re going to do what Fox say huh? I guess I found the American al- Qaeda.You’re giving Bush a do over.DONT DO WHAT FOX TELL YOU TO DO THEIR LIARS.
Uh, I am new here, and thought this was a bit of a fun site, as comments were often witty. This thread, however, suggests now that folks will jump on anything Obama says, without actually trying to get the message. I want HRC to get the dem nom so badly, I can figuratively taste it (and when I bite my lip, I literally taste it), but Obama is right on the money on this one. HRC has addressed this as well–that the USA can not continue it bloated energy consumption. Honestly people, the rest of the world does not exist so that the USA can be irresponsible. Our own behaviors have contributed to the problems of this country and the world. Obama says plenty of things to go after, but this is definitely not one of them.
The problem I have here is not with the goals that he outlines; the real problem is with the suggestion that other, unnamed, countries have the authority to make these decisions for us. Obama has an unfortunate tendency to defer to the U.N. for decisions.
A second problem is the complete hypocrisy of a candidate who travels to campaign events in an S.U.V. and lives in a mansion, arguing for more responsible fuel usage. He looks anorexic so I’ll grant he probably doesn’t waste food, but do you really want the U.N. to mandate your maximum caloric intake?
I think his point is that we need to remember that the USA depends on other countries as energy suppliers, whether in the form of petroleum products or foods. Honestly, why should some other country do without, so we can have ours?
I think that, because he has not worded things well in the past, anything that isn’t crystal clear coming out of his mouth is automatically construed in the worst possible light.
I absolutely will not vote for this man, but he is correct on this point.
Just need to correct something…
I thought I was on a different blog, with the “fun” and “witty” comment, sorry. This site has a different tone.
Could you please direct me to the blog with funny and witty comments? I have not found that part of the blog’o’sphere yet.
Would you kindly know something about energy policy before you post about energy policy…
The USA has plenty of energy, we can freely consume as much as we want. The problem has been special interests. There is a certain segment of society (the liberal elite, ignorant uneducated working class people seem to get it) that pitches a fit every time some one tries to develop a non oil based resource, be it coal, wind, wave or nuclear(and now there is liberal elite opposition to bio-fuels as well??? huh?) Although they seem to like direct solar, even though it is about the worst option right now.
So maybe… just maybe, if you liberal elite types would just let an alternative take off, we could end dependence on mid-east oil, or at least its impact on our markets.
Maybe if you guys would stop taking a view along the lines of “there is no answer, ignorant uneducated working class people will just have to take the bus” we could make some progress.
Certainly not going to happen this election cycle.
Great commentary, Uppity. BTW, when was the video in Iowa taken? If it was during the primary…I can’t believe he won it. It was also amazing to hear David Schuster criticize him…I guess that was before drinking the koolaide. Obama would be the very worst President in our history. I am ready to vote for McCain if Hillary is denied the nomination. Democratic Party Leaders could not be more incompetent to have allowed a system that would catapult a crass neophyte.
It drives me nuts when I hear Obama talking about eating less, driving less, or being cold. Energy is everywhere!! It’s just a matter of harnessing it. We’ve just got to figure it out!!
I work with kids—they’re extraordinary and smart, and quite capable of figuring out the solution for any problem if given the motivation and opportunity. Instead of lack, we should be focusing on ingenuity, abundance, and a rich, thriving environment as a by-product. It’s quite possible for all of us to have our desires met without being deprived of something else. It’s all about intelligence and figuring things out—and a college degree is not required. Everybody is usually a genius in SOME area—the only problem is, most people don’t realize how talented they are and don’t develop it. Imagine how great our world would be if they did!!!
Exactly. People spout the consensus reality stuff about “dwindling resources” with absolutely no hint of the notion that the greatest resource is human creative potential.
“The spark of genius in the pre-school child, if it has not been destroyed already, is often typified by the Socratic manner in which the child asks “Why?” Sadly, in the United States in our times, that spark of genius is usually soon quenched…
“Why are today’s putatively literate people so blindly credulous?’
“The answer to that question is the subject of this report.”
It’s easy to find, but less easy to read–all 90 or so pages. But it’s there, and it’s very valuable.
Who’s paying you Michelle Malkin ? Hillary hooks up with Rush Limbaugh ,Bill Oreilly,Sean Hannity,Ann Coulter,Glen Beck, the people that ATTACKED her family.Does this makes sense to you . there are more than 4,000 dead people because of YOU. Stop being RACIST.Stop listening to OREILLY.Wake Up . What you are doing is suicide for our country. You don’t love America, you love Rupert Murdoch.
Spacious thought, support your assertions, and you can’t.
You might as well be Wright, raving about Anglos, and Jews.
Really, cmon, show some intellect, here.
LOL! A little scared about the Oregon results tonight, eh? Go away.
Im not that eloquent prose, but can I suggest a 100 writing course at your local community college? You’ve posted like… 10 times on this thread and basically say the same thing every time, and it is incoherent.
I would like to respond but… you are not saying anything.
Specifically what Im asking is, can you develop any of your ideas for more than a single sentence?
Also, looking at Malkins blog right now (what you are posting has something to do with her right?) I can take both you and her in once sentence.
It is not enought to stand against ideas you dont like, you have to stand for something.
Also, No Quater is obviously (looking at the growth over the last month) is going to be one of the hottest blogs this year. Congrats for at least being able to figure out which way the wind is blowing;)
Apparently I went to sleep last night as a progressive female and woke up to find that I was George Bush or Dick Cheney. I had no idea that I was personally responsible for the Iraq War.
Thanks for clearing that up, for a minute there I thought it was George Bush, Dick Cheney, and the PNAC, and the MSM that love Obama so much, that pushed the war on us, even though Senators (like your pals Kerry, kennedy, and edwards, voted to push for more inspections) My bad.
God, what a nationalistic racist pig you are. 4000 dead? Try 250,000, you PIG! Iraqi deaths count too, you fool.
My guess is the blood’s on YOUR hands because you voted for Ralph Nader, and you’re just looking for someone to wipe it on.
you CULTIST ObamaBOTS love throwing around the suicide word don’t you?
Hey have you all made any sneaker purchases lately? Watch that koolaid. IT can be a KILLER!!
(if you don’t understand this? you prove my point and are probably still in your teens)
just another mongral puppy for Barry
OT:
I heard on the news this morning Oregon’s votes are by mail?
I really hope Obama’s group isn’t moneky fu**ing, here, they might have a surprise….
We means you. Our means your. Get that straight right now.
You know this BO dilemma is very easily remedied, right? He can kill 2 birds with one stone!
SOYLENT GREEN!
Kill all the old people, dry their bodies and process them into a food source called SOYLENT GREEN. How easy is that? Someone send Mr. Hopey-Changey a copy of the movie! Actually, he would be killing 3 birds with one stone: Overpopulation (which could, in the long run, solve his energy shortage issue, no?), food shortage and the pesky senior citizens who are too smart to vote for him.
Now the SUV/energy thing is something he’ll just have to figure out himself. I’ve done my patriotic duty by solving the pesky senior and food source problem. He’s on his own figuring out the energy issue. HEY! Maybe Dick Cheney could give him some tips on that since Mr. Hopey-Changey loved his energy policies so much that HE VOTED FOR THEM.
How to Serve Man… My God Obamabots.. it’s a cookbook!!!
SOYLENT GREEN breakfast….SOYLENT GREEN EGGS and HAM with a side of hash browns made from younger shredded seniors, MUCH TASTIER than the older 90-100 year old seniors.
SOYLENT GREEN dinner menu:
Appetizer: SOYLENT GREEN Fingers on the half shell served with SOYLENT GREEN spinach processed to taste even better than the real thing and just a touch of SOYLENT GREEN garlic.
Green liver and onions. Liver cut and dried FRESH from useless seniors who never drank alcohol! DELICIOUS! YUM! Naturally the onions are sliced from only the best organic SOYLENT GREEN we can find (processed from vegetarians ONLY!), no chemicals or additives.
Dessert: SOYLENT GREEN Tiramisu! Layers upon layers of the most incredible SOYLENT GREEN ladyfingers and SOYLENT GREEN cream filling sprinkled with only the finest ground SOYLENT GREEN espresso beans. The BEST Tiramisu you have ever eaten!
Finished this fine dinner with only the best coffee! SOYLENT GREEN Gourmet Supreme fresh ground coffee.
ENJOY! Courtesy of the Hopey-Changey pod people cookbook.
I’m getting pretty darn fed up with that word “racist” being tossed around like it’s cotton candy. Where I grew up, there was a sign outside a small town that said “niggers” better not to spend the night—THAT’S RACIST!! When my girlfriend was six-years-old, a black man smiled at her once and gave her a nickel. Her mother marched her into the nearest bathroom and scrubbed her hand with soap and water and said, “Don’t you ever touch a black man again!” THAT’S RACIST!! Please save your racist rants for cases where the term truly applies. Otherwise, you’re diminishing the suffering that people who really WERE discriminated against had to bear.
Absolutely, Carmen. I’m sick of them throwing the racist charge around onto anyone that doesn’t support Obama, or criticizes him. They’ve hit the motherlode with Obama because he cannot be criticized, and every word about him is passed through a racism filter. Is this the new America they want? Where people become afraid to say anything for fear of being branded a racist?
That’s not the way to stop racism. The other day I was watching my black neighbor helping his best friend next door, who is white, build a swing set for his kids, I thought that is how racism is overcome. It’s through the everyday stuff, the living next door to each other, working together, getting to know each other one-on-one. All those words and accusations that Obama’s surrogates and supporters throw around don’t stop racism… they make it worse.
I LOVE the Race Card. It’s on TV every day. People are rolling their eyes. They can’t wait to get to the polls and cut this crap out.
“…and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times”
What??? First of all, can I keep it real here for a minute? Black folks should definitely take issue with that because we get cold than a mofo in the winter time and 72 USUALLY isn’t warm enough! Is he crazy????
Hey Sugar, I updated my blog to include your remark. I think those 1 in 10 African Americans deserve some recognition for their good sense.
He is so full of shit it makes me crazy. It’s him and his ridiculous farm subsidies for ethanol production and other organic source fuel production which is making everything so expensive. There’s not enough arable land to meet the mandated amount of ethanol production. What he’s done and what he’s planning is actually far far worse for the environment than he can grasp. But don’t take my word for it – http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a.pAPYRaYj98
BTW – there is no oil shortage; and peak oil is a myth of the liberal-fascist-Obama wingnuts in this party.
I hate to be the one to break this to yeah, but…
If $130 a barrel oil doesnt break the back of the Opec Cartel, nothing is going to break it… Which means Opec no longer exists in any meaningful capacity… Which means oil is running out.
Its time to fish or cut bait on energy production. Its either nuclear, coal or offshore wind. Choose your poison.
swanky, I saw a documentary on the ethanol scam. It takes something like 350 bushels of corn to make a gallon. Add to that the cost of energy to process it and the cost of gasoline right now is cheap. In the meantime, the cost of all alternative grains are now getting higher by the day because of this– you are right. It costs more to feed livestock. There isn’t enough grain for the world to eat. So much for that solution. I think electric cars are a riot too. Try starting one of those in the NE winter, not to mention cost of ‘powering’ it. I don’t know much about them, but please don’t tell me I would be expected to use electricity at 12 cents a killowatt hour.
Someone mentioned who Obama would appoint if he ever
“got” to be Pres.
I have:
HUD director: Tony Rezko
CIA director: Nadhmi Auchi
Head of EPA: Dick Cheney
Secial Liason to LGBT Community: Donnie McClurkin
Head of Homeland Security: Bill Ayers
Special Envoy to ex-States of MI and FL: Donna Brazil
Head of FBI: David Axelrod
Special Ambassador to Israel: Jimmy Carter
Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
(Just for laughs of course. Obama is toast before July 1, 2008!)
you don’t even have to go that far
the Fools he will be TOLD to SEAT in various places will be almost as bad
He will make NO decisions you know.
He never does. He steals them from other BETTER more INFORMED (or ILL-INFORMED) politicians.
He’s a walking xerox machine.
Don’t forget Penny Pritzker in charge of the Fed.
You guys are good finding that clip!
I’ve never seen that!!! What an incredible A*shole Barry is!!! I mean I never really thought he would come out and be so RUDE and NASTY to ANYONE on the campaign trail!
Isn’t that the time when you are supposed to paint a smile on your face no matter what????
He’s TERRIBLE as a candidate and even more disgusting trying to pretend to be a MAN!! (roflmao)
He’s nothing but a pencil dick punk in a cheap suit!
Dawnelle, Barky doesn’t like old people and they don’t like him. But he doesn’t need that 27 million voting block either. He’s got AAs, a few old hippies on the bong, college professors and students, and radicals who still worship Bill Ayers. That should do it.
If Kid Funkadelic is one of the bloggers that Obama is paying to “make nice” with Hillary supporters, he should get his money back.
This is the mentality of Obama kool-aide drinkers.
Hey Kid, you might not want to guzzle the Obama juice so fast, look what happened to Ted Kennedy. Overdose of kool-aid may cause seizures.
Now, I think it’s time for your nap, you sound a little cranky.
Kennedy probably had a seizure because he finally saw some of these clips of his plagerism (I can’t spell that, lol), pompous BS pontifications, degrading slights on old woman that question him, brushing people aside so he can EAT HIS WAFFLES! (etc,etc)
I mean perhaps someone made a short (or long) video clip and presented it to him like they did GW after Katrina?
Forced him to watch it and it caused him to SEIZE up??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWSjUe0FyxQ
He probably cancelled that 400 blogger program. Couldn’t find 400 polite followers.
Coming soon: his political ads on Food Network TV.
Barky may have just let a big old cat out of the bag. Anybody interested in how this connects to his Global Poverty Act??? Get ready folks, you won’t be able to afford to eat, drive or heat your home (if you are lucky enough to still have a place to live) once we all start paying his Global Poverty Tax. The Precious, with help from his friends in the Senate, has decide we should all be taxed to bring Africa into the 21st century. Nope, no eating for us when there are people starving in the “mother country.”
I blogged it for any who are interested.
http://tinyurl.com/5hldgg
Why are you listening to Fox. the people that attacked Hillary’s family.Voting for McPain will cause more deaths.I don’t throw the word racist around just for fun. You do know you’re homophobic. You called Sen.Obama gay,anti-gay,black,too black, muslim, christian. Its sad.How much is gas today. Who died in a war that MCPAIN and hillary supports.You’re working for Oreilly and another family has a flag on a shelf in their house. all because you hate a man so bad. You tell lies and stick up for Sean Hannity. A man who has a sleep over with a TERRORIST Hal Turner.Look it up on wikipedia.
Hey Uppity didn’t you said Ayers has a problem because he has Malcolm X photo on his door.The same Malcolm X whos death was the fault of the US goverment.The same Damn goverment that tried to get MLK to commit sucide.Remember COINTELPRO. Stop working for Fox.
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Listen, I want Hillary to get the nomination as much as anyone else, but a lot of you are just blinded by hatred here. Most of you sound like you would support the Bush oil/coal handouts that Obama voted for. While Obama is clearly changing positions here, his new position is right-on. Yes, people need a/c to get by in very hot weather, but 80 degrees won’t kill anyone. If 70 degrees in the winter makes you cold, put on a sweater. And guess what — Americans are super-fat. You should be eating less.
I think Obama would be a much worse president than Hillary, but I understand he is not talking about these things as legislative mandates. Also, while these measures would help our standing in the world, the best reason to do these things is just because they are right. We should be good people. Reduce your consumption of food and fuel to benefit the environment for your children. Come one, we’re progressives — these are the things we’ve been standing for and must continue to stand for, even when they come from the mouth of a duplicitous jerk.
Lastly, if you’re saying you won’t vote for Obama in November, you’re crazy. I hope Hillary pulls this out, but I’m a realist — it doesn’t look good. I’d have trouble voting for Obama now, but I’m sure I’ll get over that after months of hearing what McCain wants to do to our country. Saying you’d vote for McCain is just dumb. The main reason I support Hillary is because she isn’t afraid to say that Democrats are right, Republicans are wrong, and there are things that are worth fighting for. Obama may be a weak leader who preaches the idiocy of bipartisanship, but McCain is a hardcore conservative Republican. Don’t be fooled, he is no moderate. We can still fight Obama, but when and if the time comes, we must vote our principles. If you’re a Hillary supporter, I can’t believe McCain fits your principles better than Obama (although both are obviously less than ideal).
I’m not voting for Obama without Hillary on the ticket, but that does not mean I am voting for McCain. I may vote third party or write Hillary in. I have a poll on my website and it’s almost 50/50 split between people who are voting for McCain and people who are writing in Hillary.
Democrats unite! It’s time we took our country back – away from the DNC and the mainstream media who decided long ago who the nominee would be. Obama is totally lacking in judgment and experience, and if you want to send a message to the DNC, vote for McCain if Obama is the nominee. Sitting at home or writing in Hillary’s name will not accomplish anything. We must either convince Hillary to run as an independent or vote for McCain. And don’t let the Obama supporters fool you. McCain is NOT another George Bush – they don’t call him the maverick for nothing! Let’s show the DNC that all of our votes count, yes, even Florida and Michigan! We get to choose the president – not the DNC and the media!!! Remember democracy? Remember one person, one vote? What a concept! It’s a pity the DNC has forgotten it!! Here’s a quote from Obama’s book, Audacity of Hope: “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” Does this convince you to vote for Clinton or McCain? It should.
“McCain is NOT another George Bush – they don’t call him the maverick for nothing!”
Actually, they do call him the maverick for nothing. How is he a maverick? Even GWB wouldn’t want to stay in Iraq for 100 years? His environmental plan is weak — you’d need a microscope to differentiate it from Bush’s “plan.” What about healthcare? While Hillary supports universal care and Obama at least wants to modestly increase coverage, McCain wants to start taxing your employer’s contribution to your health insurance. That’s the GOP way — increase the taxes on the poor and working class. Oh, I know! McCain was against the Bush tax cuts for the rich, before he was for them. At least he says that he wants to appoint super-conservative judges. That sets him apart from Bush, wait…
And, despite your best attempts, I’m not scared of Muslims. In fact, the McCain Christian right scares me much more (remember, now he likes Falwell and Robertson, don’t forget Hagee).
I held my nose and voted for Kerry, I can do it again with Obama. Don’t forget 2000 — any vote that is not for the Democratic nominee is a vote for McCain. They told us in 2000 that Gore and Bush were the same — does anyone still believe that? I, too, hope Hillary is on the ticket (hopefully on top!), but I’ll vote D anyway. Then, you just have to come back in 4 years and fight for a true progressive candidate, knowing Obama at least won’t have screwed things up as much as McCain would have.
Deep Breath, how much is the Obama campaign paying you? Do me a favor, take a Deep Breath, and hold it!
Again, thanks for the hatred. I’m a doctor — I don’t need Rezko money. But, I remember the mistakes of 2000. I don’t wan’t to live through that again. D>R, that’s what matters (exceptions include Zell Miller and Lieberman). I suppose if you don’t want to vote, that’s fine (but stupid). Just don’t vote for a dirty Republican. Assuming you support progressive ideals (maybe that’s wrong), you’ll regret a McCain vote.
words matter only when they are true,
and yous are.
Talkin’ ’bout hard times…
I am an environmentalist who hates SUVs, but a presidential candidate needs to come up with a better way of languaging the idea of conservation.
That does make sense. Rereading the quote, it does sound a lot like Jimmy Carter. The ideas are good and noble, but it was said in a bumbling way that will cause people to recoil by reflex. Surprise! Obama says stupid stuff. So much for his great ummm…speaking…uhhh…style (not only does he sounds like Kerry, he even kind of looks like him). Still, when it comes to the environment, Hillary>Obama>>McCain.
Don’t be fooled by the 400 bloggers hired by the Obama campaign. They are desperate to convince the Clinton supporters not to jump ship and vote for McCain in November. I fear we have one of them with us today. Teach the DNC and the mainstream media a lesson! The people choose our President – NOT the party leaders and the media! Enough people have fallen for Obama’s bullshit. Let’s end it now! Vote for Clinton or vote for McCain! No other options!!
Thanks, that name calling is helpful. I’ve been a Democratic activist since junior high. I’ve been on my county central committee. I worked for Gore in 2000, Dean in 2004, and I was a precinct captain for Hillary this time around. You can complain about the media treatment Obama has received — and you’re right. But, McCain gets the same kind of free ride from the media. The media have their two man-crushes, and everything is going their way. It’s disgusting. Complain, whine, try to change things — I’m all for it. But, then realize the future of our country is more important than a grudge.
Exactly, and that’s why I won’t vote for a racist, elitist who pals around with the likes of Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, and William Ayers.
So you approve of Hagee, Robertson, Falwell, Bush, etc.? I’m not condoning Obama, just condemning McCain. Hopefully the Michelle tape is real and comes out soon, then perhaps all of this will be moot.
Same thing! And I don’t believe you’re not working for the Obama campaign, either. If you had done your homework on Obama and truly wanted what’s best for this country, you would agree that while McCain is not the first choice, he is the only one. Go back to your boss and tell him we mean business. We will not only vote for McCain, but we will contribute to his campaign, and spend as much time campaigning for him as we have for Clinton. Don’t believe it at your peril. The DNC can expect a mass exodus from the Democratic party come November. It can disband for all we care. They’ll never get another penny from us.
And another thing, it’s not a grudge. I’ve done my own vetting of Obama because the mainstream media, the DNC and people like you didn’t bother, and now we’re stuck with him. Well, he may be the nominee, but he’ll never be President of the United States.
I didn’t bother? Please explain how you know so much about me. You apparently know lots of things I didn’t know about myself — such as my love for Obama and how his campaign is paying me. News to me. I know exactly who and what Obama is because I’ve also done my own vetting. I know he would not be as good of a president as Bill, but better than any Republican in my lifetime.
If I were getting paid , as you are, for blogging, I’d argue all day, but I’m not, so I’ll end with this. So many, many people feel as I do, and it IS going to make a difference in November. You can blog 24/7, and you can’t stop it. Bye now.
Nancy, you know the irony here? You constantly question my motivation, just like the MSM always do with Hillary! Now I know how she must feel. No one will accept that she takes a position because she actually believes it is the best course. Right now, I’m having a lot of trouble believing you don’t work for McCain for Karl Rove. Aside from shady personal associations, you haven’t explained how McCain has better policy ideas or will sign/veto/nominate better than Obama. As a Hillary precinct captain and progressive doctor who supports universal care, how could I possibly support Obama over Hillary — stop questioning my motivation. This is sad. Over the past several months I’ve said on many occasions, regarding many topics, “Hillary supporters are better than that.” You make me think that generalization is false.
“freak oddity” ??? he’s the Democratic nominee in the year of the Democrat running against an incredibly weak John McCain.
McCain is running on George W. Bush’s platform, what else needs to be said?
http://www.Bush-McCainChallenge.com
Wait and see. This country is smarter than you hope.
THIS GUY REALLY IS THE ANTI CHRIST.!!!!!!!!
And you’re a southern imbred retard!