RFLMAO: The Irony Deficient “Messiah”
By medusa on July 16, 2008 at 6:35 PM in Backtrack Obama, Daily Show, Elitism, Hillary Clinton, Humor
I stopped reading Maureen Dowd and the rest of the New York Times’ misogynists during the primaries. Like many of Hillary’s supporters, I could not stomach their CDS hatefest, and their Kool Aid keggers just added insult to injury. However, now that Himself is the presumptuous Democratic nominee, Ms Dowd has taken to noticing some of the problems of his candidacy. In a recent Op-Ed, Dowd writes:
When I interviewed Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert for Rolling Stone a couple years ago, I wondered what Barack Obama would mean for them.“It seems like a President Obama would be harder to make fun of than these guys,” I said.“Are you kidding me?” Stewart scoffed. Then he and Colbert both said at the same time: “His dad was a goat-herder!”When I noted that Obama, in his memoir, had revealed that he had done some pot, booze and “maybe a little blow,” the two comedians began riffing about the dapper senator’s familiarity with drug slang.Colbert: Wow, that’s a very street way of putting it. ‘A little blow.’Stewart: A little bit of the white rabbit.Colbert: ‘Yeah, I packed a cocktail straw of cocaine and had a prostitute blow it in my ear, but that is all I did. High-fivin.’ ’
During the primary, when I went looking for editorial cartoons on Barack Obama, I read on Daryl Cagle’s cartoon site that because cartoonists couldn’t draw him well, there were few cartoons of Obama. I wondered then if that statement was a dodge because cartoonists didn’t want to be accused of racism when they caricatured Obama’s African American features. It has been abundantly clear that cartoonists have absolutely no problem finding ways to caricature Senator Clinton. The Cagle cartoonists now appear to be comfortable caricaturing Obama, as can be seen above. About the difficulty to find humor with Obama, Bill Carter writes:
When Mr. Stewart on “The Daily Show” recently tried to joke about Mr. Obama changing his position on campaign financing, for instance, he met with such obvious resistance from the audience, he said, “You know, you’re allowed to laugh at him.” Mr. Stewart said in a telephone interview on Monday, “People have a tendency to react as far as their ideology allows them.”.Noting that the senator seems to emphasize the historic nature of his quest, Mr. Stewart said, “So far, our take is that he’s positioning himself to be on a coin.”
Making fun of politician has been a staple of democracy since its founding. Political satire, invective humor and dramatic irony began in Athens with the founding of democracy and remains essential to the democratic process of vetting, critiquing and exposing through humor. Aristophanes made good use of it in Athens and we continue to reap the benefits from the freedom to laugh at our leaders. In his comedy, the Knights, Aristophanes writes about an Athenian leader:
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Remarkably, Dowd appears to understand that by being off-limits to humor, Obama, who is mostly unknown anyway, is becoming a tight little knot of impenetrable actions, defended vociferously by his surrogates. She writes:
Certainly, as the potential first black president, and as a contender with tender experience, Obama must feel under strain to be serious. But he does not want the “take” on him to become that he’s so tightly wrapped, overcalculated and circumspect that he can’t even allow anyone to make jokes about him, and that his supporters are so evangelical and eager for a champion to rescue America that their response to any razzing is a sanctimonious: Don’t mess with our messiah!If Obama keeps being stingy with his quips and smiles, and if the dominant perception of him is that you can’t make jokes about him, it might infect his campaign with an airless quality. His humorlessness could spark humor.
Americans make fun of their politicians. In fact, all free people do. Hillary joined Amy Poehler in caricaturing herself on Saturday Night Live and people loved it. If out of political correctness or sanctimony, a politician is not laughing along with people, then the jokes are whispered and become less, not more, acceptable. If Obama doesn’t begin to laugh with people, he will become the laughingstock of people. In fact, that is already happening to the arugula candidate, as Dowd states:
He’s already in danger of seeming too prissy about food — a perception heightened when The Wall Street Journal reported that the planners for Obama’s convention have hired the first-ever Director of Greening, the environmental activist Andrea Robinson. She in turn hired an Official Carbon Adviser to “measure the greenhouse-gas emissions of every placard, every plane trip, every appetizer prepared and every coffee cup tossed.”The “lean ‘n’ green” catering guidelines, The Journal said, bar fried food and instruct that, “on the theory that nutritious food is more vibrant, each meal should include ‘at least three of the following colors: red, green, yellow, blue/purple, and white.’ (Garnishes don’t count.) At least 70% of the ingredients should be organic or grown locally, to minimize emissions from fuel during transportation.”Bring it on, Ozone Democrats! Because if Obama gets elected and there is nothing funny about him, it won’t be the economy that’s depressed. It will be the rest of us.
(small, medium and large sizes; for both dogs and cats)
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Ms. Dowd Dufus,
Have you ever heard of the partitive? Try using it! Idiot.
Angry, victimized, out-of-touch, latte sipping, snobby, snotty, humorless, hypersensitive, quick to take offense, and nitpicking. I did say HUMORLESS, didn’t I? Well, it was worth saying twice.
That’s the Big O campaign, and apparently, those who support it.
She may not know her partitive, but her thesis is right on the mark–as you so rapidly, eanestly and enthusiastically demonstrated for us all.
The Real Hope is a Clinton supporter, and she was pointing out that for a NYT columnist, Maureen Dowd has a weak understanding of grammar… and several other things.
Yes I am a Clinton supporter. And I’m sick of Maureen Dowd. She did NOTHING for Hillary.
Maureen is obsessive. She’s been on Obama’s eating habits from the beginning.
She thinks he’s a bit too precious to be president. LOL*
She was WICKED on Hillary.
She is just a true neurotic New Yorker with an odd audience.
I have to admit. I followed her thinking. Even on Hillary.
*yikes*
I do NOT live with 15 cats!
Barky is a little weird about food. I think it’s because he was a fat kid in Indonesia where very few kids were fat.
He refers to him self as “skinny” way too much, just like Michelle calls herself “young”. No Michelle, you’re middle aged just like me.
But Barky wishes no body saw the fat kid pictures,
Yeah, but it’s not just his eating habits. i mean, talk about elitism:
exactly…maureen can go hurl herself off a cliff, she makes me sick. she is ugly, vile and an outright witch.
The right/GOP is using Dowd — or maybe not — anyway I’ve gotten a copy of a Dowd column
OBAMA’s TROUBLING INTERNET FUND RAISING
Certainly the most interesting and potentially devastating phone call I have received during this election cycle came this week from one of the OBAMA’s campaign internet geeks. These are the staffers who devised Obamas internet fund raising campaign which raised in the neighborhood of $200 million so far. That is more then twice the total funds raised by any candidate in history and this was all from the internet campaign.
There are indeed questions about how an unknown like Obama was able to raise such a huge sum of money. So the above snip is from the second forwarded identical email from another source.
IF Dowd didn’t write this column — I find it rather funny that whoever created this email is using Dowd.
She didn’t write it. It was a hoax. I don’t like her lately either so I kind of see it as her dessert, just dessert.
Hope Floats,
Thank you and you understood me perfectly. You are very insightful.
ROFL!
Noting that the senator seems to emphasize the historic nature of his quest, Mr. Stewart said, “So far, our take is that he’s positioning himself to be on a coin.”
Ha, I love John Stewart. I would not be surprised if the Obama campaign already has O coins.
Jon Stewart can say the most startling true things and people laugh. The bots probably don’t get it.
It’s still corporate media, and John Stewart, though funny, is still one of their talking heads. He has been fairly impartial throughout this election. But don’t let the jokes distract you. I’m pretty sure a theme is pushed with top-down orders.
I don’t even think what he said is really a joke, why would I let that distract me? Am I missing something here?
With satire, there is always an element of truth.
Yes, but think about what it takes to get on a coin. Stewart’s joke wasn’t really a joke Obama rising to power.
Noting that the senator seems to emphasize the historic nature of his quest, Mr. Stewart said, “So far, our take is that he’s positioning himself to be on a coin.”
Ha, I love Jon Stewart. I would not be surprised if the Obama campaign already has O coins.
sorry for the double post and no I haven’t started drinking yet.
I had to wuit watching Stewart during the primaries. His O love was clear all along and the when the 57 states comment was made and I watched for 2 weeks straight to see that neither Stewart or Colbert had fun with that, I was shocked and appalled. I tuned out. I have tried to go back and still it is not the same. They do make fun of Barack a little, but they certainly do baby the baby! It makes me sick! What an un American American Obarfy is! What kind of moron would be in politics and not be able to laugh at himself??? After the Bosnia deal, Hillary made fun of herself on the tonight show!
I totally agree. Obama is a pill, but it took the media long enough to pick it up. And apparently the historic nature of his candidacy is a very solemn affair. Stewart’s not as funny these days, anyway.
I agree that Stewart and Colbert went extremely easy on Obama during the primaries but didn’t hesitate to lampoon Hillary, McCain and others (Stewart seemed for some reason to particularly dislike Chris Dodd).
They have recently put their toes in the water oh so carefully and made a few humorous points about him like his humongous faux-Presidential Seal which was just too ridiculous to ignore. I guess they feel that they can afford the humor now that he is the presumptuous nominee.
I always loved Stewart and Colbert because they kept me sane during the Bush years, but they really let us down this time. I too stopped watching them for a while because they were just not being fair and balanced.
>>> Stewart seemed for some reason to particularly dislike Chris Dodd
What’s not to dislike?
It’s too bad his Countrywide story came out so soon. I would have preferred Obie pick him as VP first. Two Subprime Lender lovers. Perfect team.
I stopped watching Jon Stewart because of the this and haven’t gone back.
he hasn’t done anything on Obama’s FISA flip flop, can’t say i’m surprised. this election has really opened my eyes, i never thought i’d watch fox and think that they actually can be fair and balanced.
I think people who support Obama don’t want to see their candidate lampooned, because deep down, they know his candidacy is a joke.
Yes, that’s true and it was also conditioned in them throughout the primary season. Saying “fairy tale” was racist.
The Clintons would be so much more fun in the White House again.
I agree — Obama is thin skinned and tedious.
Always enjoyed interviews with the Clintons but Obama is just plain boring to me as a conversationalist.
Indeed. The whole race has gotten boring since Hillary suspended. She was the life of the party, so to speak.
And DAMN I miss Bill!
He has no personality.
Not Bill. Bo has no personality.
Heck yeah, you kidding? I noted 6 months ago on dailykos that comparing Clinton & Obama on “who would be more fun to have a beer with” was no contest: Obama would spend the entire time lecturing me on the history of racism in America; Hillary would be spewing beer out through her nose after one or two jokes. Authoritarians are typically the kids that no one liked. They grow up with a big chip on that shoulder (you know, the one Obama tried to knock off a few weeks ago) and set about getting revenge once they ascend to power. Watch out.
Never could have said it better! Enjoyed this writing.
Ha ha. I like imagining the dirt on his shoulder is just a gigantic chip he’s been carrying around since adolescence.
I wonder if he was the class snitcher.
right - don’t you always notice that it’s the most insecure people that take themselves TOO seriously. fragile ego, fragile facade.
spare me!
The truth hurts or he would be able to laugh it off.
I hate Obama!
The light bulb finally went off, you are right on it. You have explained in a few words what I could not understand for the last few months.
I agree beachnan.
It’s as if people are making fun of the stupid kid on the playground. Obama’s the stupid kid that can’t defend himself, so his toadies come to his rescue.
Backtrack is such a loser. I hope Soldier of Christ prays for us that BO NEVER GETS ELECTED.
Medusa, I will pray for you that he doesn’t get elected, and will forgive you for the unkind words you say about me taking thorazine. I don’t take it personal. Just faith taking erupts people and that is my sword. G-D bless you , child.
thank you soc for your forgiveness. But keep praying that Backtrack sees the light of his idiocy and disappears from politics.
Obama’s supporters see him as Messianic, so everyone is afraid to ridicule him. How many comedians make Jesus jokes? (Okay, maybe dear departed George Carlin did.) There are good reasons not to mess with the Obamaman, like possible controversy, charges of racism, the same kind of “outrage” that greeted the New Yorker cartoon. But the foremost reason comedians are avoiding Obama jokes is completely self-serving–they don’t think they’ll get any laughs. Jon Stewart actually did chastise his audience with an “it’s okay to laugh at him.” The silence greeting his admittedly lame attempts to skewer Obama was uncomfortably obvious. The ‘bots have no sense of humor about their hero.
Stewart did defend the New Yorker cover. But I’ve been disappointed in the apparent hesitancy of comedians to mock Barack. If I hear Letterman do one more “McCain is OLD” joke, I’ll scream.
Letterman should talk. He’s no spring chicken.
off the subject Larry Sinclair is moving up
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ON THE HAL TURNER SHOW THIS WEDNESDAY NIGHT: LARRY SINCLAIR!
the gay man who has claimed he had sex and did drugs with Barak Obama in Chicago!!!
Larry Sinclair will be my guest at 9:00 PM eastern time tonight. Be sure to tune-in as this man talks about what he did with the presumptive Democrat nominee for President.
To call-in and speak on the air dial:
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My favorite part of Hal Turner’s site is where he admits to being a racist. He’s actually proud of it.
Are you sure that’s not satire going over your Obama loving head?
I had the same thought, Hope Floats. I see the Obabies’ senses of humor run as deep as their leader’s.
They don’t get it.
What the hell does Hal Turner’s site have to do with us? Some people believe Larry Sinclair’s story, some don’t. I for one don’t even know who Hal Turner is. Go look for a fight somewhere else, race baiter!
>>> I for one don’t even know who Hal Turner is.
Didn’t he write THE TURNER DIARIES?
No, that was his brother Nat
Wasn’t he married to Tina?
No. Ted.
Pfft. Ha ha. Well played.
True that
oh get over it, he’s just messin’ with you man.
I looked at the Hal Turner show site and frankly, he scares me.
I believe what Larry Sinclair is saying because he wouldn’t have stayed in it this long if there wasn’t something to it. He’s had death threats and a lot of other harassment.
BUT, this hal turner guy is a racist creep who is just as bad as the racists on the other end of the spectrum. I have no regard for the kkk or white supremists any more than I do for the black power and racist groups they have. There’s no room for hatred in our world, it’s hard enough just to get by, let alone to be eaten away from the inside out by hatred and racism.
Their comments are cheering on what Sinclair is saying but at the same time, demeaning him to with f*&&ot and other nasty names. I support Sinclair and his right to speak out and hope he can get somebody in MSM to listen, but not this creep hal turner. YUCK.
Gosh….by the time Mr. Sinclair finishes with Obama, Germany and England will be running like crazy journalist saying “Mr. Obama..Mr. Obama…what about Larry Sinclair..sir…Is this true….Mr. Obama…sir..sir….hey…stop pushing me back…hey…Mr. Obama your bodyguard just broke my camera….hey…where did he go???
LOL!! The European media is not like ours, should be interesting thats for sure!!!
What a misstep. All Obama and his campaign had to do is either not react to the cartoon or say it was funny. Now their reaction is bitting them on the ass. I just heard the campaign is on the phone to all the late night shows begging to get a lot of Obama jokes on the air pronto.
It’s like we always tell our kids. Don’t let the bullies or teasers know it bothers you and they’ll leave you alone.
are you all as sick of Obama as I am? Man I am gonna go insane by November! The guy makes me want to puke. There is nothing funny about him! It’s all sick! I kind of wish he’d go away now. I don’t care the reason, just disappear!
Pray for a miracle is all I hear from my mom.
LOL, I love your moniker
Too bad we can’t post .wav files here. I have one that’s Joe Pesci doing a PSA for Tourette’s.
He had a good run of profanity in Casino. I love Joe Pesci.
Your moniker made me laugh. Love it!
Obama is like a crazy relative who comes to visit on holidays and such. No one is comfortable because he’s not funny but you have to pretend to laugh and you walk on egg shells because something someone else says might “upset” him. Every time someone speaks all eyes turn to him to see his reaction. Then when he finally leaves everyone breathes a sigh of relief.
You have better relatives than I. Obama is more like one of mine–just released from prison.
When Rezko starts singing — perhaps THEN Obama’s Chicago ways will catch up with him???
“. .Obama . . . just released from prison.”
That has a nice ring to it.
PUMA
the DNC treats him like the scary little kid in Twlight Zone who could zap people into things or just gone…..
Me too, csuzeq, me too. So eloquently put.
If I have to see his ugly face much longer, I am seriously going to puke.
As Jon Stewart said, “…you know who gets upset about cartoons? Muslim extremists!”
Just ask those Danish cartoonists!
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Or the Scots who put a police hat on a dog.
It was the other way around, a cute little dog was sitting in an upside down police hat. It’s PC run amok. After the dog in the hat flap, there was also the edict that search dogs had to wear booties before being used in certain places, guess which ones. Today there was the one about children’s video of the Three Little Pigs being removed as insensitive to certain sensibilities, guess whose.
Isn’t it annoying when someone shows up in your home and starts telling you how to live? I bet the Obama supporters don’t know it was Brzezinski who decided to arm the muhajideen, use Islamofascism to “give the Soviets their Viet Nam” and displace a lot of Muslims. Carter shut down our domestic intelligence and scaled back our military. Out of this chaos sprang the seeds of BCCI, Iran Contra and 911. Saudi petro-dollar funded black ops and the spread of wahabiism. Islam is a religion of peace, but our CIA made sure there’s plenty of crazy Muslims. They’re bitching and moaning all over the world now.
Hope Floats;
The real question is what appreciation and understanding of what you just said, does BO have?
They’re bitching and moaning all over the world now.
Listening to the interview Mr. Johnson did with Ambassador and Valerie Wilson, Valerie Wilson mentioned a real concern was the amount of contract workers involved.
This issue is pervasive and not just within the intelligence community but within the entire Federal government.
Americans high school students are not taught this history. I am not sure to what extent the general public understands it either.
If you look it at like Rev. Wright and Obama does, then we truly are to pay for the sins of our past in being governed by people who would make themselves above the law.
BO is unprepared. Duck!
One of my favorite blogs which I’ve neglected during the election is RJ Hillhouse’s The Spy Who Billed Me. She gave an excellent interview to Juan Gonzalez for Democracy Now where she elaborates on government outsourcing and the problems it poses. For one thing, this is from another source, many of these security sector “green badgers” are undocumented workers. Our government loses billions in defense secrets every year, because of this. I doubt somehow it’s an accident.
Read this explanation of the President’s daily briefing, and then imagine this is Obama, just based on his debate performances, experience and personality.
AMY GOODMAN: Explain how the President’s Daily Brief works—first how that intelligence is gathered and then how it’s presented to him.
R.J. HILLHOUSE: The intelligence is gathered by the sixteen different intelligence agencies by statute that make up the intelligence community. That would include the more familiar, CIA, the NSA, Defense Intelligence, some [inaudible] various intelligence agencies, the National Counterterrorism Center. And each of those, the analysts first are gather—people gather the product or the intelligence. In some cases, things have been outsourced, like in the CIA the actual case officers are outsourced. They gather that intelligence. It goes to analysts.
In the case of the CIA, the Directorate of Intelligence, my acquaintances tell me that over half is run by private corporations or staffed—the work force is staffed by private corporations with really analytical supervisors signing off on it. So they all gather the intelligence in the field, which much of that is gathered by private corporations in these sixteen different intelligence agencies, is put into analytical products that talk about what the major topics or issues are in the different regions. It’s funneled up to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which sifts through this and determines which are the most important pressing issues, and those are taken and put into the President’s Daily Brief, which the Director of National Intelligence briefs the President on each day.
I mean, we’re all, I think, familiar with the President’s Daily Brief, if nothing else, from that famous, I believe it was August 6th Daily Brief from 2001: Bin Laden determined to strike in the US. It’s meant to be able to give a heads-up to the President, to the very top of government officials, as to what the potential national security problems are that have to pay attention to that very day. And it’s quite chilling when one realizes that because there is no distinction between the work of private corporations, or the work of corporations—some of these are publicly traded, but I say “private” to differentiate from the public sector—the work of corporations and the work of government employees. And so, there is great potential to introduce things into the intelligence stream or simply to nudge things in a certain direction. I mean, there also would be the possibility of political manipulation.
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/7/26/outsourcing_intelligence_author_r_j_hillhouse
A real comfort having BO read this since he failed a National security exercise…
It is not a recipe for success, even for the most experienced chef.
Makes you wonder about the sanctity of the NIE on Iran or any of it for that matter. The espionage and counter intelligence penetration must be immense. No room for mistakes at this level and all I have seen from BO is the way he is a “loyalty killer”. UG
The Spy who billed me, is a informative site. It would be interesting to see what face time BO has had with the MIC. None that I know of.
So BO reads it and has a question..he has no clue about who to really call that
call that won’t shovel shit into one ear and out the other of BO’s. He has nothing to compare it too.
That’s exactly why our country’s ass is saved if the good salt-of-the-earth “folk” base their decision-making on experience and national security when they vote. The hard line left has once again trotted out an epic fail candidate, and they went to extraordinary (illegal) lengths to do it. It was purely based on greed. Obama is fine with this, too, but he could get us into a world of trouble. This is why I think he’s “dangerous.” Not because he’s black and might or might not be a Muslim.
what he is not is of more consequence than what he maybe.
He is not qualified. It has never been about race or religion.
Crazy isn’t it?
That sounds cute. Who got mad at that?
I think the Muslims have issues with dogs, and UK seems to be having some trouble with integration….
Oh. Is it bad of me to wonder why people leave their own countries and expect the people they move in on to live the way they did in their old country?
If they want to live in the 15th century, why don’t they stay there?
Christ, they’ve got issues about everything.
That was a good one, wasn’t it? *hooting*
They are finally breaking through the no-comedy barrier with the New Yorker.
Yay! Maybe the political season will get real, too. It’s got a surreal feel to it right now that’s just too odd!
At least we know why Hillary took 90% of the sexist jokes. She was the only candidate who could laugh at herself!
ANYONE who can stay married to Bubba that long has a galactic sense of humor…
Hey, if she doesn’t want him, I’ll take him.
Damn straight, if you can lampoon Mohammed here in the West, you should be able to lampoon the second coming of Christ. Eh?
I kinda hoped the messiah would be smarter.
Comedy is part of the foundation of our country. This is a democracy that thrives because we are allowed to be irreverant towards our leaders. Not just legally, but our attitude allows it too. One of the worst things (until recently) has been how no one will joke about Obama. It’s viewed as sacrilege or something. That’s really scary. No one in the US should ever be deified like that.
Obama is not President and yet he has taken away our freedom of speech and freedom of expression.
I hate Obama!
well put!
People are obsessed with his race now. After the race baiting he used during the primaries, people are afraid to say anything about him. A friend of mine asked if I thought he would pick Mike Bloomberg as his running mate. She said, “You know, to make him seem whiter. I think most of the country is too racist to vote for a black Muslim.” I cracked up, because he’s not a Muslim (so far as I know), and my friend lives in WV. They’re all racists. Right? I just said most whites would think once again the Jew was using the black for muscle. How many people think Lieberman was a drag on Gore’s ticket? Look at the venomous comments in any piece on the Senator from CT. I’ve heard it said many times, and it’s unfortunate. My friend didn’t get it, though. People are terrified of being labeled as intolerant (unless they’re Republicans.) Obama did a lot during the primaries to instill this fear in people. But then his supporters get off on that.
Your are so right, HF.
Backtrack and his thugs play the race card so often that now it’s the first thing on everyone’s mind.
He has the whole country walking on eggshells. Can you imagine how much fun that would be for four years?
BO has set race relations back 40 years. Friggin moron.
Hope, if you read up on Rev Wright’s history, at one point he was practice Islam and converted later to being a christian. If you take black liberation and mix up with muslim values, you got a new religion it is called maxist worship. This is what was taught to Obama, and he seems to be confused with the real Judeo-Christian values. This is why he looks like his going to vomit everytime he has to say he is a christian. Watch his lips when he mentions Christ’s name, it sounds like he doesn’t know what the cross reallys stands for and it is thrown out there just to say, I believe in the same G-D you believe in. I guess many will be fooled as our old doctrine reveals!
Nobody answers me when I ask a serious question, but I’ll try again. Tucc isn’t part of the real UCC, is it?
This blog seems to say as much, but who can tell? A lot of these churches name themselves as generically as gas stations and real estate offices. They seem like fly by night operations.
http://unitedchurchofchrist.blogspot.com/2008/05/statement-thomas-expresses-pastoral.html?showComment=1212294060000
Thanks Hope
The truth is I don’t have that much personal against Obama (Other than his smearing the Clintons as racists). It is his creepy cult followers that totall repulse me. Now he is going to Europe to be deified, while the nightly news anchors follow him around hoping for the chance at an exclusive interview with him.
I did love the Colbert Report when Hillary fixed the big screen and Edwards was hilarious on that one, too! Then they had to go and ruin it at the end with some stupid black dude. Boooring! It gave me nightmares! Colbert should have quit with Edwards. That last dude, the nobody just ruined the show. He ruins everything!
Do you think the former US of A will be a tourist attraction for Europeans and Asians when it’s in ruins if thta black dude gets to play boss?
Thank goodness we are not letting that happen!
Hey, did Edwards ever get his jet skis from Obambi?
He’s easy to bribe!
So there you have it. Hillary is the micro-manager, de facto fix-it gal. She’s bossy but helpful. She talks like a robot and will use any opportunity to promote herself. The whole skit was meant to seem staged, and she played off the perception of her as a consummate politician by interjecting campaign slogans.
Then Edwards acted like the ditzy redneck he is. Just wanted a jet ski and a cool job as a spy in France or something. You know, the whole beer-drinking, “thumbs up dude” populist image he has cultivated.
Then Obama made some dull speech about the politics of the future and how divisiveness will be eliminated and the lion will lay down with the lamb, and it was like snore. He even had a friggin chart. Cause he’s supposed to be a brainiac Ivy League jerk with a higher calling. And he’s black, and this is very very important. Yeah, he sucks.
Europeans and Asians already love our country. What is the number sport in Japan? Baseball. What is the number one beer? Budweiser. The French love McDonald’s and cowboy movies. Germans love Detroit techno. The Brits don’t like anything, and that’s why we don’t want a monarchy again!
Uh, actually, the Brits and Aussies, due to a weak Gringo Dollar and some arcanities of marriage law, are flocking to Las Vegas to marry.
And, when they get here, they all want to go to Ross to buy duds for the wedding and to wear home.
In fact, Brits are even TIPPING. Hell must be freezing over…
LMAO. I got married in Vegas and have only been back once since. I bet the table minimums are $20 for blackjack.
We were married at the Little White Chapel and put our friends up at the Sahara, but we stayed at the Aladdin. Of course, we bought our clothes in NY. We catered the reception from the dollar store and Trader Joes’s.
Good for cheap Brits discovering Vegas. They might just get a sense of humor yet.
The Brits I know have a superior sense of humor compared to BOBO’s lack of humor.
Some of the TV comedies from the UK are way funnier then the so called sitcoms from the US.
I love britcoms. They are way funnier than the juvenile stuff we have here.
Don’t forget he refused to go on for his own spot and then weaseled his way in after Hillary accepted.
I know it was because he feared Colbert would bring out a real Bong for the Hopium!
Public Service Announcement: You don’t need political analysts; just read the news. Singular lines of news suffice at times. You are now in the post-analytic age. Here is a one-liner from a Yahoo! News piece on the recent passage of the Snoops-R-Us bill in the Senate: “Obama ended up voting for the final bill, as did Specter.”
That one sentence tells you all you need to know about where Obama and most Democrats stand on the issue of civil liberties and what political leaders are not willing to do to protect those liberties. Now, that should be enough to make you withdraw your support from Obama’s presidency — if, that is, you still have illusions about the Democrats in general, and Barak Obama in this round of Anybody-But-Bush/McCain.
“What?” says you, “And let McCain win the election?”
To that it must be said: What on earth is the difference when the Democratic presidential nominee, during the election campaign, votes in the same way as a right-wing Republican not just on any bill, but on a bill curtailing people’s civil liberties?
Does anyone remember in the 60s when we used to answer the phone sometimes with F*** the FBI?
I keep finding myself using my new mantra, “I hate Obama”. I guess I feel like I have to say things…while I still am a free American.
I thought September 11th was the worst of times for America and then along came Backtrack Ofraudma!
I hate him!
Me too, csuz!! The way he stole Hillary’s nomination with VOTES AND RULES!!!!! Muther freaker!
and the rules state ummmmm when voting undecided means you are voting for Obama.
Pease show where that is stated in the DNP rules please or else shut the fuck up troll!
Pelosi, Dean, Kerry, Kennedy, Dodd, Richardson, Donna B, 99% of African americans, unlawful caucas, and all the other “breaking of rules” cause Hillary to be overthrown. And not necessary in that order. She won along time ago before the cheating and the twisting of arms on the delegates. I am sure they are wishing they didn’t put their hands up for this guy. There future is now in the public’s domain.
I’ve been thinking the same thing. I have this urge to stop the self-censorship and call it as I see it while it’s still legal.
Obama certainly has a sense of humor. Look what he married.
he needed street cred, and angela davis was occupado
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Look what he married?” Oh, but you PUMAs would never tolerate sexist comments, would you?
Excuse me, but when you’re running for Miss Congeniality (First Lady), you will be judged on just that. MO is a nasty piece of work.
humor is a difficult concept
LOL*…..what a wry sense of humor YOU can have sometimes.
concept…..
Trekkie humor
yes I admit it,
Hi, I’m Kevin and I’m a trekkie
Hi Kevin!
I’ve been a trekkie for over 30 years
Yaaayyy!
omigod……..you’re a nerd.
Not sexist. I’d say exactly that if he’d married Miss Donnie.
Redd Foxx said: “Their’s nothing uglier than an 80 year-old white woman.”
Obviously he never saw
Winnie MandelaSasquatchMichelle Obama.The original comment was not sexist. It was comparing her to Angela Davis as in her militant political views. Discussing or evaluating her appearance is sexist. I don’t care for how she talked about Hillary Clinton, I think she was rude and disrespectful that is why I don’t like her or think she would make a good first lady.
Actually it was when she said she wanted to scratch Bill’s eyes out was when I wanted to punch her face in. The pit viper from hell. Dear God, that Harpy in the White House, it makes me ill.
LMAO. Angela Davis was actually kind of hot. I still think MO looks like James Brown in his mugshot on The Smoking Gun.
And didn’t have a mirror. He was butt ugly.
You ignored the SAME JOKE upthread teasing Hillary for staying married to Bubba?
Well, you certainly are proving that Muslims and Obama and his followers ALL have one thing in common: no tolerance for mockery.
Irreverence is the most holy of all. You should pray for enlightenUPment.
Senator Obama answered doubts about his inexperience by saying he has gained tremendous insight from his work as a community organizer, civil rights attorney, constitutional law professor, key club president, 4H treasurer, lunch room monitor, two years of jazz, and four years of tap.
Don’t forget crossing guard.
prom queen?
Proof that Barack is the Obamessiah
Obama preached to the multitude by the side of the lake.
Obama created new states from out of the void.
Obama turned whine into Kool-Aid® for his followers.
Obama came to us carried upon a donkey.
Obama triumphed over the beast, the enemy of all men.
Obama was stoned and yet he has risen.
Obama’s flock has millions of sheep.
Obama will reign over us from a house with many rooms.
You must have no other candidates before Obama.
Obama will raise voters from the dead. Count on it.
HARP, you are brilliant!
ROFLMAO!
That was, wow, fabulous. You deserve to write political satire. I bow before your feet (and paste your post into my e-mail). ROFL!
OMG ROFLMAO HARP you are hilarious!!!! Fist bump!!
jesus cristo
thats good
2 things. I believe the donkey is now a jackass and Lake Michigan has been moved to Oregon.
I read an article years ago about the fact that magazines published by religious “cults” do not contain as many humorous cartoons or jokes as other religious magazines.
It was a research study. The researchers hypothesized that the cult magazinew could not afford to make jokes about themselves because their hold on their relaity or truth was already so tenuous that it was too scary to make a joke about it.
Sound the same for Obamaman!
very interesting stuff, thank you!
You can’t make a joke about a joke.
What more proof does anybody need to conclude that Obama is just as bad and harmful for the well being of the Americans (and others) as is McCain or Bush? Your vote for one or the other makes no difference. Voting for either is the same as throwing your voting ballot in the toilet. Political hacks that throw away people’s rights and their protections against arbitrary governance do not deserve to be elected at all.
Hey ummm. Want keep going funny man?
Obama Is So Pretty
Obama is so pretty that the new symbol of the Democrat Party will be a unicorn
Obama is so pretty that Bill Clinton wants to intern for him
Obama is so pretty that the White House Rose Garden will need to triple in size
Obama is so pretty that his anti-matter version is James Carville
Obama is so pretty that his supporters think that he’s smart
Obama is so pretty that he won’t ride in Ted Kennedy’s car
Obama is so pretty that he would be a 10 if his Daddy owned a liquor store
Obama is so pretty that he would even look good in a Hillary pantsuit
Obama is so pretty that when he goes to Iraq he has to wear a Burka
Obama is so pretty that he gives Edwin Edwards makeup tips
Obama is so pretty that his mirror on the wall was struck speechless
Obama is so pretty that he can wear white after labor day
stop it
i think i’m going to lose control of my bladder
HARP reminds me of Cyrano de Bergerac.
I mean this as a compliment:)
Can’t wait to see more of his stuff. He has some really funny put-downs for the trolls. My favorite is “I see that you have taken this time to publicly humiliate yourself.” lol. Where does he get this stuff?
HARP, you’re very funny.
The General of 2008 is not a choice between Democrats in the White House and Bush the III in the White House. It’s not a choice of War Monger vs. Pacifist or Privileged WASP vs entitled Affirmative Action Victim. It’s not a choice between character A and character B, nor of Party A vs Party B.
And it’s a contest not one of you can sit out. You cannot stay at home. You cannot say “but the party”. No you can’t, because to begin with, you’re not a rodent.
No party can embezzle your vote. No party can bamboozle your rights. No party can spit and soil the basic human rights which make you, and by default your society, what only you can eventually hope and dream to make it.
If you support a party which can steal your vote, you have no moral grounds upon which to engage with the world, period.
There are only two democratic choices for President in 2008 for any and all Americans.
It’s either Hillary Rodham Clinton, or John Sidney McCain.
Yes, that’s right — we have a choice between a candidate who isn’t going to be on the ballot and a candidate whose party is actively trying to create a de facto dictatorship.
Uh huh.
Some Democrats, such as the Denver Group, are trying to get Hillary on the ballot. If she is not, then we will vote for McCain. There is nothing wrong with that.
By law and DNC rules, she’s supposed to be on the ballot, the dnc is trying to keep her OFF the ballot.
The Denver Group is trying to force to DNC to follow it’s own rules and bylaws.
The way obama won his first election was to get everybody else thrown off the ballot, he thought he’d give it one more shot.
BS,BS,BS
Yep hire a “green” consultant to take a little more of the peoples “green”- as in bucks. You need a consultant because nobody knows how to make food anymore. Like no one knows how to tie their shoes anymore until Voldemort Obama tells them how.
I went to a music festival where they serve food made
in huge converted metal garbage cans placed over open fires. Yep. Nutritious as all hell- vegetables and grains and legumes. Yep. And total cost is about 18 cents per person to feed them.
How much is the f-ing DNC shelling out (shilling out) to eat “green”? Sending the homeless off to the movies because they don’t like being in crowds?
Yep, people who are crowd-leery are always pilling into the Cinema 6– no hordes of screaming kids, chomping adults and blaring sound effects there. So shuffle off the homeless (and hungry) and set the table for the DNC chaff. I’m so proud to no longer be a democrat.
Oh God, this probably isn’t the time to confess that my secret vice is machine cheese, huh?
I love ARCO.
Update!
I’m going to the beach Friday with buddies for a spell. I have been terribly good since I got back from my vacation with my brother.
Lost a bunch of lbs.
I should be respectable in my bathing suit. Not noticable. LOL*
No machine nachos.
Vice conquered for 2 weeks.
I’m so not green, huh?
Frankly, Medusa…one of the first characteristics of Obamabots is their intense idealism. The second is a lack of humor. Talk about a bunch of school marmish attitudes.
Take the Bosnia gaffe. To me? I laughed at Hillary. First, it was obvious her ego got carried away in the retelling of the tale. Then, she got into that corner. Then she had to fess up. And finally, she had to admit just how embarassing it was. Now, to me? It was pretty funny stuff. I’ve also always known that women’s egos are just as big as men’s egos are. The myth that women don’t have one is just that….an hilarious myth.
Imagine my surprise when the Obamabots trotted that out as real evidence that she was untrustworthy. Now, that big fib of hers was about par, in my ironic mind, with Obama’s “uncle” freeing the Jews in Germany. Or any number of other tall tales he’s spun for us all. Imagine my surprise when there was NO laughter when that ego myth was busted.
So a sense of humor is not only missing from Obama but also from his rabid followers.
What’s embarassing to me is when his rabid follower who climbs up on that tall, tall pedestal and lectures others is actually middle aged and should know better. I can take it from bogger boyz who are young. Hell, I raised two sons. I know. These are kids in that stage that I really wondered if I had done a bad thing by introducing them to liberal ideology. (How far can they go? Pretty darn far, let me advise!)
But the older Obamabots?
They are just humorless and dry as bugdust.
>>> Take the Bosnia gaffe.
I thought it underscored and important point: whereas only a few women can tell a joke, even FEWER women can tell a good War Story.
Q: What’s the difference between a Fairy Tale and a War Story?
A: A Fairy Tale begins with: “Once Upon a Time.”
A War Story starts with: “Now this is No Shit, man…This REALLY HAPPENED!”
Women can tell war stories — except we call them the guys we dated stories — and the hand to hand combat.
None of them know what to do now that Hillary is out of the race. They are all floundering.
Its kind of funny to see.
She hasn’t released her delegates yet, and Denver is a month away.
If you were not scared, you would not be here trying to influence the undecided lurkers.
Floundering? We know exactly what we are going to do.
Obama= Bush’s third term!!
Too funny. Why you Republicans are attempting that one is beyond me. You used to be much better at this.
The Wall Street Journal made the claim. djia is merely repeating what the WSJ argued in their article. That you do not know this makes your attempt at condescension look ever the more silly.
Mike….you are back again!!There is nothing that the human heart craves more deeply than the comfort of words you place on this blog. Particularly when your heart is weighted down with the heavy burden of guilt or shame to know you have supported a representative that you thought was the “uttermost change agent”. Flip-flop- flip-flop. Mistakes can be reversal,child.
maybe cause we’re not Republicans, yet anyway. I am still DEM, 20 years so far.
You can’t joke about Obama because if you do, it is only a matter of time before you realize you don’t know where the joke ends and Obama begins. Obama is the joke, we aren’t supposed to see it.
Excuse me French but someone flush the fucking trolls from this site? God, I’m sick of the same old crap every time I try to read through a comment thread.
In other words, you only want to converse with people who HATE OBAMA AND WILL NEVER VOTE FOR HIM! EVER! EVER!
How very koolaid of you.
sfhillary:
Here’s one for you that I haven’t gotten an Obama supporter to answer yet on this blog, Is Obama’s health care plan Universal?
I don’t believe it is hate, child. It is wisdom for not believing the lying deceiftful DNC bais individuals, starting with Pelosi.
Bless you SOC. May the spirit move you thusward.
sfhillary,
Given that the effective practise of free speech requires that the practitioners adopt the responsibility to promote free speech by not violating the freedom of association that makes a conversation possible, your claim that people on this site do not to speak with those who hold different views and want to actually converse is not well-founded.
The truth is as follows:
On the internet, political campaigns attack the sites of otherminded individuals to prevent them from forming consensus among each other. The attackers are the enemies of free speech. They tend to use three tactics.
One tactic is post -flooding through incessant, diffusive postings. It is like having someone constantly interrupt a conversation. A second tactic is thread hijacking. It ca be done by incessant posting or simply by intentionally drawing people off of a topic. A third tactic is to toxify a site by creating an atmosphere that is not conducive to discussion by either black op posting heinous posts or using an abusive demeanor that puts off posters and lurkers.
Posters try to protect their sites from such attacks by fighting fire with fire because, if they cannot fend off the enemies of free speech, their blog is lost.
This site, which was created as a refuge for non-Obama supporters bullied and exiled off of Democratic blogs that either had pro-Obama administrators, or were colonized by Obamabots, is attacked frequently. We try to converse, but Obamabots continually interject because they do not want us to formulate our thoughts without imposing pro-Obama or anti-us thoughts.
If we want to encounter pro=Obama thoughts we are quite capable of seeking them out on our own. We do not need or want to have the preachings of pro-Obama missionaries forced upon us. We do tend to discuss with Obama supporters, when they come to exchange, rather, than proselytize.
Loving freedom of speech means loving both the rights and responsibilities it entails. Protecting free speech can entail acting against those that prevent fruitful associations by their irresponsible conduct.
Steven [ps - Msn is down here. Did you try to call about our debate?]
oops in 1st para “do not want to speak to”
Thank you Steven Mather. I first came to this blog because DU bacame so toxic. The visiousness was unbelieveable. I told friends about it and said the people here are sane. Well, then came the attack of the pod people. You can hardly have a decent discussion anymore without these nothings butting in. I’m so very tired of the same old,same old remarks day after day.
I may succumb to ennui. I’m getting close.
Yes, that’s right. Now you can go back to the many Obama blogs so that you can continue to be blind and stupid like the rest who support this unqualified idiot. You all love to be vile and spread filth. Why can’t we have fun on our blog. You guys are party poopers and can’t take a joke.
Oh, I’m just kiddin’ man.
The little box to the upper left helps. You can hide comments with that feature. I think LJ allows trolls, because it feeds his site hits. More money.
HF,
Sometimes I lack a good eye for the obvious!
S
PS My deficiency is helping me begin a treatise on blog civility!
And what a brilliant treatise. No one’s taken you up on the Pepsi challenge, yet, either.
Any political cartoonist who gives a damn about this country ought to treat Obama just the same as every other public figure. He is a rich treasure trove of things to make fun of…they should be thrilled with all the material he is providing.
Washington Post: Obama “Foolish” and “Irrational” and “Wrong” on Iraq
http://patriotroom.com/?p=558
Maybe next they’ll be calling for a grown-up like Hillary to take the helm.
Thanks, Bill…great reading on that article.
Need comedy? Let’s all run over and visit the gals at hillaryclintonforum.net.
They’re designing newer, cooler PUMA logos (”This one’s from the ‘Thundercats’ cartoon!”) and bragging about doing daring “activist” stuff like WEARING THEIR PUMA T-SHIRTS OUTSIDE just to get people’s goats.
They’re REALLY ANGRY, and THEIR VOTES ARE THEIR OWN…and, dammit, THEY’RE GONNA SHOW EVERYBODY, YOU BET.
But please don’t mock them…’cause they’re, like, democracy’s last hope and stuff.
Where can I order the hat? Hey…I will buy the shirt and the pants, or whatever it takes to make sure they know how I feel>>>>>>
When can I buy a T-Shirt with the pic from the cover of the NEW YORKER? That way I can wear it to the gym
thank you for the heads up, I am going to go support PUMA and buy some gear
BOOYAH!!!
Since this is Larry’s blog, I would like to ask him a guestion. Is it true that in 1981, Obama traveled to Pakistan while he was a college student. Of course his passport was broken into, and don’t know if this can be confirmed. I am sure you can find this out. But at the time he traveled to Pakistan the country was in turmoil in 1981 and ruled of martial law. Millions of Afghan refugees were living in Pakistan, while the Afghan Mujahedeen operated from bases inside Pakistan in their war with the Soviets. One of the leaders that based his operation in Quetta, Pakistan was Usama Bin Laden (The Sheik).
Pakistan was on the banned travel list for US Citizens at the time and all non-Muslim visitors were not welcome unless sponsored by their embassy for official business. There would be only a few reasons a young Westerner of the Muslim faith would travel to Pakistan in 1981: 1.To Participate in Jihad, which is the duty of every “True Believer”. 2.For religious education in a Wahabbi sect, Saudi funded, Madrassa. Pakistan was not a tourist stop nor the place to hang out with someone’s family in 1981. 3. Drugs.
Remember NO “NON MUSLIMS” Were allowed to travel to Pakistan during those days…this is something that could be checked out…. THE US FORBID IT AND SO DID PAKISTAN.. If this is not false and true- what was a christian man doing going to a “jihad” state for vacation??? That is the magic question to ask if this is in fact true—-only his passport that was broken into can be research by inquiring minds!!!!
I often wonder this same thing. The years of his history around 1981-1986 seem to have gaps, and so much before and since is turning out to have been embroidered, to say the least. Supposedly he went with Pakistani friends (from where?) and they have been in touch since, not just a college adventure.
Unless he was dealing opium big time, the drug part would be a weak reason–he could get drugs in more friendly countries, Nepal for instance.
He claims to have gone twice for spring break. Who the hell goes to Pakistan for spring break?
That was a time before Obama joined the Rev Wright’s church and became a Christian, he must have been a muslim at that time. His father was Muslim and any son would be born muslim
Oh hell, he’s agnostic.
He joined that church for political reasons.
He made up a great story.
He made up a story, however, that wouldn’t fly for minute on the national scene.
Obama’s true ambitions were far less than what some insider white boyz talked him into.
That’s why, in my opinion, he looks sick today.
He’s so far darn out of his league?
It’s one thing to think this is plausible. It’s another to truly go after it.
He has no experience on the national level. He has no real experience.
Hillary got blasted in Arkansas over her headbands.
For real.
She had to change her hair style to please voters.
How many years ago did she start experiencing true public scrutiny?
Versus his?
He’s allowed to collapse people.
Let him collapse.
He was so pushed into this!
It started at the 2004 convention. Maybe Teddy said “listen, this schmuck will go down in flames, you got next”
And barfy bought it
It’s true. Obstensibly he was visiting with a Pakistani college friend over Spring Break, a friend who came from Karachi. As I recall, he went twice. I don’t think he mentioned this in his books, but admitted to it recently. Considering his penchant for confusing fact with fiction when describing his past, who knows what he was doing in Pakistan during those turbulent times? Why on earth would an American college student go to Pakistan as all hell was breaking loose just before the Soviet invasion of Pakistan on a Spring Break? Kind of like heading for Iraq right before the war. Was this a Pakistani friend who attended Occidental? Can’t remember.
Political satire and cartooning are almost as old as our republic.
The great and the not-great have suffered from it for over two centuries.
Only the small minded will take them WAY too seriously.
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/cartoon/civilalbum.html
http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/cartoon/
I agree, but what do you expect from someone who thinks he can walk on water.
I expect drowning
Ever hear the joke about the three priests in a sinking rowboat? One said to the others Our Lord walked on water. It wouldn’t hurt to try. The first one got out and sure enough walked acroos the water to shore. So did the second.
The third got out and promptly sank to the bottom of the lake. One of the priests on shore said to the other, I think we should have told him about the rocks.
BTW, our parish priest told this joke. He had a lot of them.
older, kevin, read my post. Aristophanes, 4th-century BCE.
Medusa, link please? not too “hip” on greek poets
And trolls, no homophopic rants, see my earlier post on kilts and scottishness
Kevin, here’s the Wiki link for ancient Greek comedy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_comedy
Athens, founding of democracy. Democracy, founding of political satire.
I recommend
“Nothing to Do with Dionysos: Athenian Drama in its Social Context.”
(1990) Winkler and Zeitlin Eds.
Do we see with a presumptive barfy presidency a revisit of the alien and sedition acts?
John Adams (Second President, one of the authors of the Constitution for the trollbies) was well-known as being thin-skinned and abhorred criticism. Do we see a similar trait in the chosen one? Can’t mock him, his background, his alleged qualifications?
Scary
Especially when he pops through the 21st century versions of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
fisa?
The thing is, he isn’t dancing with the center. He’s shot straight past that and gone to the right wing. That chick should be wearing a sex fetish stormtrooper uniform.
Michelle?
that would be contrary to the whole nordic blonde thingy
but I get your point
Michelle?
You mean Grace Jones with a very slow Thyroid?
ROFL! I’m dying here!
I’m thinking the cover of The Night Porter.
“You know, you’re allowed to laugh at him.” Mr. Stewart said.
No, you are not. Laughing at Obama is racist.
Then color me with a white sheet and hood, because I find a new reason every day to laugh at the consumptive nominee. Like my send the dnc a penny a day futility, I know its futile, but it gives me a perverse sense of joy. Same with the automatic fu! PUMA! response to democrats.org e-mails, no one reads them, but still I tilt at that particular windmill.
Kind of like the daily dilbert desk calendar.
I had a “Bushisms” one some years back, I guess I’ll be real good and maybe, just maybe, Santa will bring me a “Barfisms 2009″ one.
I find all those suggestions far too demanding. Good golly, who has the motivation to honstly tape pennies?
I must live a different life. I have to swear off posting to make sure I keep up on housekeeping and bills.
If I’m going to devote real effort, it’s at my local Democrat office.
Not in pasting pennies.
But think of those bored little weenies in Chicago, seeing an envelope with the notation “CONTRIBUTION ENCLOSED” and fishing out a copper penny, or one cut in half if I feel nasty?
Frustrate, humiliate, and smile when you flip them the bird
Flip them off?
I MOON them from Las Vegas. In fact, I mooned them instead of the AMTRAK on July 14th (Google “Mooning the AMTRAK”).
I fart in their General Direction, per Monty Python!
I saw that once on the train to Del Mar. That’s how I know when something is butt ugly.
You can laugh at Obama because then he won’t be cool and hip anymore.
And once he’s not cool and hip, he’s history.
SFhillary,Hmm, Mike and the rest of the trolls:
Your spending too much time here bashing us. I guess you guys are really afraid your boy is not going to win. Guys, can’t you understand that we don’t want to vote for an idiot. If this makes me a racist, then all I can say is that YES I AM. We still have free speech and I am excercising my rights while I have them. If you guys don’t like it TFB!
PUMA
They’re here because this is the only way they can convince themselves they’re witty and intelligent and oooooooh, sooooooo superior.
Besides, their mother caught them pilfering her purse, and BamBam is their only source of beer money.
We’re here because we don’t want to let defamation and deliberate misinformation go unchallenged.
You might have noticed that most “Obamabot” posts here are attempts to present rational, defensive arguments, not attempts to promote Barack Obama. For the most part we’re responding to attacks, not initiating them. A lot of those attacks are aimed way below the belt.
Balderdash!
It is true that some Obama supporters are here for basic fairness, but the majority of you are here to intimidate and abuse people and otherwise disrupt conversations that promote views that run counter to yours.
This site was created because Obama supporters purged non-Obama supporters from Democratic sites. For evidence, one need only to travel to these sights and scroll through the archived posts to see that there is nary an anti-Obama thought. This is why we are unsurprised that Obama voted for FISA because it fits with the general operation of his supporters’ activities on the internet. You are a member of the thought police and, if you lived in East Germany, you would be an enthusiastic member of the Stasi. “This is how freedom dies, to thunderous applause.” Well done, Winston.
Roll through any thread here you choose at random–the only qualification being that it’s one that’s been up long enough to collect plenty of comments. Count the number of posts refering to Obama that are undeniably impolite, disrespectful, insulting, abusive, or that contain deliberate distortions of fact. Disregard all those that are simply honest criticisms.
Then see how many “Obamabot” posts you can find in the same thread where abuse, insults, or intimidation is directed toward Hillary Clinton or her supporters.
Compare the two totals. You’ll find a dramatic disparity.
That’s not just here, either. A few Google searches will reveal that the same pattern extends out onto the internet as a whole.
Type in “Obama”, plus any pejorative adjective that comes to mind. Try the same sor of search with McCain, Hillary, or any of the other primary candidates.
You will find more links leading to defamatory attacks focusing on Barack Obama than on all other candidates combined.
This seems to me to paint an entirely different picture of abuse than most here believe to exist. And it’s the reason I don’t feel that I’m out of line when I come in here and respectfully try to make what I consider to be valid–if contrary–points. It feels more like a civic responsibility.
A. Nony Mouse | 2008-07-17 00:24:06
The comments left on this thread by BO’s trolls were so vile, foul-mouthed and misogynistic that the admin deleted them. I know of at least 18 comments that were deleted.
So take your idealized observations back to the Emerald City.
Hey, don’t be sending them to Seattle. We don’t want them.
Are you just slow or do you somehow comprehend that. this. is. an. anti-obama. site.
Therefore, we are not here to make you Obamazoids feel good. If you want to feel good, go to a Huffinton or Kos Obama fellatio party and get the hell out of here. I have a whole collection of sicko posts from all of those places,not to mention my collection from here–all from you Obama stalkers. ANd that is exactly what you are. Stalkers.
Do you all ever get confused when you’re switching names back and forth?
Take your sanctimonious ass elsewhere. No one here is interested in what you have to say.
Is that what is meant by intimidation? You’re thoughtfully providing an illustrative example?
Remember last week when one of them posted
>the truth is you just don’t want obama elected?<
Well duh. That cracked me up. What gave him the clue?
Puma, let us put a golden feather on your head, for you have earned it. Though small in size, its potential tongue of evil is immeasurable in the trolls that pass by here to protect their own. Harken! for the Lions will come and feast on those hounds and lick their paws after the meal!
Had an interesting conversation with an african-american friend from college the other day.
He’s been a Republican since I’ve known him, but I still like him.
His take on Obama is this.
He wears his blackness like you wear a coat.
He wears it when it suits him.
He takes it off when it doesn’t.
When he needs it, it is there to put on.
When he doesn’t need it, he hangs it in a closet.
Maybe that was what Jesse was talking about.
Medusa, this was a great piece. Kudos, girl!
HARP:
Obama is so pretty that his anti-matter version is James Carville
LMAO!
Well I am just waiting for Denver.And Doona we heard what you said.I don’ t think that will happen.Wait,I be right back.
Gosh I heard a voice that sound like ewwwwww.It was Obama inside my t,v I had to shut him off with his fake ad.Values-Oh and his other one he did welfare reform and vreated new jobs.Yeah jobs for people who help steal the votes.
Even to look or hear his mouth make me sick.
NOOBMA. I will not vote Obama even as a ticket for Hillary,Hillary won’t be able to run 2012.
Hillary 08
McCain 08
The Obamanites think the new JibJab is funny, compared to the New Yorker. That’s because while McCain is poking a finger into a disgusting growth and dying on the floor of a senior citizens’ home, Bill Clinton is trying to figure out where to put his cigar and Hillary is a violent and angry bitch. Meanwhile, Barack’s caricature is a new-age Prince Charming, flying on a pink unicorn and singing in an operatic voice.
Isn’t he wonderful? It’s just so funny, John McCain croaks like a bullfrog and Obama sounds like Dudley Doright. Hillary flattens Bill with a frying pan, but the birds and little forest animals love Barky.
“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.” - Mel Brooks
Remember after 9/11 when no one was allowed to make fun of Bush, for like two years? Thats when he started getting away with all of the really horrible stuff, because no one was allowed to question him, not even in a humorous way. That’s the way the Nobama people are now. No one is allowed to question him. It’s really scary. It’s like now they think it is their turn to dictate what we can all think, say and do- including what we think is amusing. No nuance allowed either. They are all about control.
This has been one of the funniest threads I’ve seen here in a while .
I love all the comments, I’ve got a good one for you , I’m a chef as you can
see from my name on top. In 1997 I cooked for the Clnton’s at one of the
inaugural balls…..
I’d love to go cook at the dem convention here’s the menu I’d cook:
Barak- arrugula salad - cause its bitter and boring, and tastes like shit!
Dean, kerry, and kennedy- some chowder made from dead clams, since their
rhetoric has been dead for a long time, and hell they’re all from the new
england area
Hillary- a crab cake cause it might be fat and lumpy, but it’s made from a crab, a feisty creature, very complicated, sheds from time to time, but gets bigger with age, gets to be a softy from time to time, but is loved by all americans, as we have lots of species of crabs in america, and the best of course is the BLUE crab!
super delagates- some salsa from the salmonella tomatoes, cilantro, and chiles, so when they do the roll call and vote they’ll all be in the bathroom
shitting thier brains out, oh, wait they have no brains.
and for dessert- we’d serve one of Cindy McCain’s family recipes, you know the chocolate chip cookies off the wrapper of nestle.
and all will be served on bamboo green plates to add fiber to everyone’s diet
no wait don’t eat the plate!
Oh and Donna Brazille - some putanesca pasta
you know putanesca- ( sause of the wh#re) you are what you eat!
Good thing that’s not what you’re here for, or you’d have nothing to say.