What Is WRONG With These People???
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on December 3, 2008 at 12:59 PM in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, Chicago politics, Illinois senate, Joe Biden, Media Bias, Media Handling of Story, Race Card, William Ayers
Oh, brother. I just happened to see the following video last night, and could not believe the first story in it. I had to look it up for myself. Anyway, here is the video:
Can you believe that about the school changing its name to Barack Obama Elementary?? Sadly, it is true. Here is the article: New York School Changes Name to Barack Obama Elementary,
Some public figures wait a lifetime — or longer — to see their names affixed to airports, bridges and public schools.
Not so Barack Obama.
In what appears to be a national first, the school board in Hempstead, N.Y., has voted unanimously to change the name of its 460-student Ludlum Elementary School to Barack Obama Elementary School.Officials hope to hold a name-changing ceremony shortly after the new year begins. Such quick action could put the 47-year-old president-elect’s name on a public institution even before his inauguration Jan. 20. “I think we were still caught up in the moment,” principal Jean Bligen said.
Like many across Long Island, Hempstead students followed the campaign closely. Students at the former Ludlum School held a mock debate, and a straw ballot there in grades 3-5 produced 257 votes for Obama, 28 for opponent Sen. John McCain.
The school’s enrollment is 62 percent Hispanic and 36 percent African-American. Several students come from Africa, and many more come from El Salvador, Guatemala, Ecuador and Puerto Rico.
“For me, we made history,” said Teonte Jackson, 11, a fifth-grader who played Obama in the debate. “I feel really proud to have an African-American president. I don’t think it’s a racial thing. I think he will bring everybody together.”
Here’s the thing. If they indeed did follow this election closely, did it not ever bother any of these TEACHERS that Obama refused to provide his transcripts? ANY of his transcripts from any three of the institutions of higher learning he attended? It didn’t bother ANY of them that he treated women so poorly? It didn’t bother them at all that he PLAGIARIZED his speeches and policies?? All because he is half black, he gets a school named after him?? He has done VERY little on his own, as I have been saying for months, and as the video above details.
Oh, but you know there is more:
Clear Stream Avenue School in Valley Stream will also consider a renaming resolution next month, The Associated Press reported.Eileen Garbe, who teaches fifth grade at the former Ludlum School, said the election provided a “monumental” opportunity to bring history alive for students. She plans to retire in about a year and a half after 20 years of teaching. “Isn’t this a wonderful way to go out?” she said.
A photo of Obama already hangs in the school’s office. Coincidentally, since September the school has been sending hundreds of books to an orphanage in Kenya, the home of Obama’s late father, even before the idea of a name change took hold.
The idea began to jell after another fifth-grade teacher asked students Jalani Johnson and Samantha Alburez, both 10, to write essays on why their school should be named for Obama.
Interim Superintendent Joseph Laria praised both students and adults for urging the name change at the Thursday school board meeting. The board’s vote was 5-0.
As he voted, board president Charles Renfroe thought of his own fifth-grade teacher, Artiebelle Lowe, who worked in a segregated, two-room schoolhouse in rural Alabama.
Renfroe still recalls her joy at the news in 1955 that a Montgomery, Ala., seamstress named Rosa Parks had defied Jim Crow laws by refusing to move to the rear of a bus. “I just wish she could be around today to see how far we’ve come,” Renfroe said of his former teacher.
“I think this will unite us,” said another board member, Betty Cross, who has differed with the board on other issues.
Hempstead Village Mayor Wayne Hall said naming the school after Obama is appropriate. “The fact that he was elected on Nov. 4 as the first African American is the achievement,” Hall said. “He doesn’t have to do anything else. The fact that he was elected is the ultimate achievement for all Americans.”
A Web search finds no mention of other schools or public facilities in the United States named for Obama, though such moves are being advocated in Calumet City, Ill., and Portland, Ore.
Geezy pete. JUST because he is half African and half American is sufficient. Wow. That seems like a mighty low threshold to me, but hey - maybe I expect too much. Again, it just shocks and appalls me that these teachers are completely ignoring the reality of how Obama got to where he is - the lying, cheating, stealing, misogyny, homophobia, and deception (to name a few). If they were truly following this election closely, they would have to know on SOME level that what they are doing is all about color of the skin, and NOT character. What the hell kind of message is THAT to be sending to our young people??? No wonder so many of our youth are cheating, lying, and plagiarizing - they see that success comes to those who cheat their way to the top, with no recrimination whatsoever. Wow.
And on a final note of disgust, this was the very end of the article:
In Antigua, the prime minister has said he’s taking measures to have the island’s highest peak renamed Mount Obama, according to the AP.A school in Kogelo, Kenya, birthplace of Obama’s father, was named for the president-elect after he was elected senator.
ANTIGUA??? What the hell does Obama have to do with ANTIGUA??? Kenya maybe, but holy cow, these people have drunk way too much kool aide…
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By Sarah Palin (Release date: November 17. 2009)
“The fact that he was elected is the ultimate achievement for all Americans.”
Yeah, right. Helping defeat Hitler in WWII was NOTHING compared to electing Obama with massive media propaganda and election fraud.
Sure, be happy that progress has been made, but you might want to wait until the man actually does something before canonizing him. What if he does a bad job and ends up as a major embarrassment to the AA community? Will they then tear his name off the schools?
All Hail, Citizens of ObamaLand! Rejoice, at once, or risk immediate detention at Camp Hillary Clinton! Cease and desist the heresy of the following sort: “What if he does a bad job and ends up as a major embarrassment to the AA community? Will they then tear his name off the schools?”
Never question the accomplishments of the Great Barack Steve Obama! Not past, present or future! Nor the motivations of the Inheritors of the Legacy of the Dream! Praise only the happy little children who serve The ObiOne!
(Psssst, invest in TelePrompTer stocks.)
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Well, when he fails (sorry I truly believe he will go down as the worst president in history) will the AA community pay attention and call him out on the truth of his heritage? I believe they will acknowlege that he wasn’t the first AA president but rather the first Arab/American president, whose family were slave traders. That is the real heritage of The Blue Lipped Devil, not AA.
Again, it just shocks and appalls me that these teachers are completely ignoring the reality of how Obama got to where he is - the lying, cheating, stealing, misogyny, homophobia, and deception (to name a few).
The “reality?” I would think that by now it would occur to you, Reverend Amy, that not all Americans share this interpretation of this election. In fact, very few of us do.
Hey sf..How are you?
I appreciated your civil discourse yesterday on another thread but didn’t have the opportunity to respond.
As much as I agree with Amy on how this election was gamed at the expense of Women I do hope for Obama’s success.
In fact my plant and the 80 people that work for me depend on Obama being a great president.
Differences aside we are all Americans and I am pleasantly surprised that obama has thrown the far left loonies under the bus.
I enjoy in my conversations to state that I’m glad Obama picked a Goldwater Republican for SOS and a Bush republican for SOD.
So far my view on foreign policy is prevailing.
Hey Seattle. Calling HRC a “Goldwater Republican” just because she canvassed for Goldwater when she was a teenager strikes me as a bit overstated — she is a mainstream Democrat, always has been, always will be. So is Obama. The accusations of “socialism” and all that during the campaign were ridiculous; so is the notion that he is now moving to the right. He was *always* a centrist Democrat; that was always his platform, that’s how he always presented himself, and that is how he will govern. He is filling his cabinet and administration exactly as I expected he would: by carefully choosing the most outstanding person for each job. HRC, I feel, is an inspired choice to lead in the rebuilding of America’s reputation around the world; his economic team is winning raves across the board; keeping brilliant leaders like Gates in positions of power running our military is very smart; and so on.
He’s doing well so far. Knock on wood.
“He was *always* a centrist Democrat; that was always his platform, that’s how he always presented himself, and that is how he will govern.”
What a big load of BS that is! Yeah, right! He always presented himself as a centrist - so that must be why MOVEON, a very LIBERAL political organization, was his biggest backer! Gimme a break!
God, what denial people go into over this man. You can’t even concede slightly that Obama might be flawed in some manner.
Uh, everyone from leftist groups like MoveOn and DKos to the centrist DNC to independent moderates all supported Obama, both because he was so obviously a superior candidate and because he (ahem) wasn’t a Republican.
Obama won both because of his own qualities and because the Republican brand has been destroyed by Bush. Hillary would have beaten McCain too this year, and probably easily.
You are out of your bloody mind. He was anything but the superior candidate. That’s of course, he reason the Left wing screamed like banshees when he tipped to the middle.
Try as you may to re-write history, we were alive, awake and aware of what went on so go some place else to peddle your dreck.
The election is over, Annie. We’re allowed to be nice to each other now, even if we disagree.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. They are not entitled to their own facts.
Spin this any way you want. The guy has moved to the right of everyone he ran in the primaries. I guess you are thrilled with that. Good for you. The anti war, anti business crowd is not so thrilled.
Sorry, but you are wrong.
MoveOn supported Obama during the Democratic Primaries with only a short day for members to vote on. Since endorsing a presidential candidate was against their original platform, I left MoveOn.
I certainly expect this rush to honor and canonize Obama to occur after he is innaugurated, but before????? It just reeks of something.
Exactly. That’s why DailyKos deified him…because he’s a centrist! LOL!
Sorry to see sfhillary back propagandizing again. Surely there’s something else for her to do. So predictable and damned boring.
I’m a he. And DailyKos deified him because they knew he would win, and the entire planet was absolutely desperate to put an end to Republican rule of the U.S.
And I’m sorry I bore you. I’m here because I think this is a cool community, actually seems to be a better one now that the election is over.
Original response did not go through - short version: DEMOCRATS HAVE RULED CONGRESS SINCE 2006 AND SHARE POWER WITH THE PRESIDENT….BASIC CIVICS!
exactly. And, Bush couldn’t have gotten away with the things he has without the utter complicity of the Democratic Party, even the Iraq War. Even since Bush “lied” to them, there was plenty of enough to be suspicious about — warnings were sent by Clarke and McGovern about the intelligence being fixed to senators, including Hillary.
Joe Biden could barely get his “yes” vote in there quickly enough. The whole 0mama anti war platform was just for show.
Now we know why Obama is still asking for money — he’s got to pay bloggers like the nutcase from SF.
Hey — Obami — no matter how many of these fools you send there is no way we will drink you kool-aid — we remember what that poison drink did to the residents of Jones Town.
Obots — just go away.
Now, now Northwest rain, sfhillary says we’re supposed to be nice now. I do find it difficult when my favorite blog gets sullied by bots.
I did get a laugh the other day though. One of the regular opinion page writers on The Monterey Obama Herald had a hissy fit over the continued begging for alms for the one’s transition. The paper itself is such a drooling Obama disgrace, I’m surprised they decided to print it. During the election, you couldn’t get a pro-McCain letter published (all Obama koolaid all the time) and yesterday, in the spirit of the Christmas season, they published the most ugly slur of Sarah you could ever imagine.
It was great to read Peter Funt’s (son on Alan) meltdown. Invigorating, in fact.
So much for making nice. I don’t see any of that from the Dems.
sorry, that’s son of Alan…writers in the Herald…
I do get worked up when someone tells me how I’m supposed to feel…
thankfully I have all email from the Obamacrat party blocked.
The Obamacrats finally stopped calling for money after I called the beggar some very bad names. I guess they can take a hint that they will never get a penny from me.
Yesterday there was an ethics article about Cheaters Never Prosper, and I think most of us agreed that we could not condone cheating.
There is no way we should condone this election as it was based on fraud and outright theft and lies and corruption. This guy is the most corrupt guy who ran for POTUS in my lifetime - and that includes Nixon. With the last crook who ran Dubya, I just hoped it would be over soon and we would all be out of our pain, but this is the result. Somehow we have to hold everyone’s feet to the fire and keep joining the groups that demand to see this Fraud’s birth certificate - the vaulted one - and refuse to go along with the fraud that was perpetrated this election cycle. Appointing Hillary as SOS should not shut us up, on the contrary we should be even more livid that he is using her. I think we should brainstorm to see what we can do to protest this election. If we condone this election we are condoning theft on an unprecedented level, misogyny again on unprecedented levels, sexism, bigotry, racism, hatred, and allowing someone to serve as POTUS who couldn’t get clearance for the FBI.
I’ve been reading this blog for a long time, and by far my favorite line is that the Obama campaign (and presumably now the Obama transition team?) pays people to post blog comments. I have to ask, does anyone actually believe that, or is it just one of those throw away lines to discredit someone you disagree with?
Well danny, if you’re being paid by Obama to post substantive thoughts in the blogosphere, he is surely wasting his money.
Exactly. This site is not exactly a trove of “persuadable voters.” So the notion that a campaign would choose to spend its resources paying smart ass commenters always gave me a chuckle. I take it you agree?
I’ll agree on everything except for “smart ass commenters”. Dumbass commenter would be more accurate.
It was obvious during the primaries that there were Obama bloggers out there (paid or volunteer) who would post the same comments on various PUMA blogs, comments that were obviously fake. My favorite was from the military mom who wrote a sob story saying that she was voting for Obama because her son in Iraq wanted out of the war.
Or that they all remain bald faced liars…
sf..I look at deep core values. Hillary was a Republican when it was not cool. Hillary always has known the threats facing this country and has not placated to the left. That is why she got up a and cheered the success of our troops at the state of the union while Obama sat on his hands. I personally have been both a Reagan and a Clinton Democrat.
The fact that Hillary,Reagan and myself have been both Republican and Democrat makes me think that she will be pragmatic and a realist concerning the threats this country faces.
Seattle, actually Hillary was a Republican — as a teenager in the early 60s — right when Goldwater was the most revolutionary politician in the country. For that brief moment, being a Republican actually *was* cool. LOL.
Seriously: she grew up in a solidly conservative Illinois family and was a “Goldwater Girl” as a teenager, but became a Democrat in the late 60s and has been nothing but a mainstream liberal Democrat ever since. Recruiting her as a faux Republican is absurd.
At least we know what hillary was. On the other hand we hardly have a clue of what obama was up to in his younger years. And really you need to stop smoking pot. Your dealer must have cut it with something wicked like Formaldehyde cause there’s no way in hell a person with even two good brain cells to rub together would say obama as a superior candidate he won the same way Bush did, he cheated. That doesn’t make one superior, it makes them an opportunist.
“Differences aside we are all Americans ” yep..but he IS NOT American… and he is your president…
SFHillary-
read the following and watch the videos-then…when you get a moment…get back to us.
Thanks
MANY Americans know what really happened during this election and we will not allow revisionists to make up lies about the past.
Watch these video’s released on August 9th 2008 by the Sam J
Ervin Jr, former chairman of Watergate commission, library and museum in Morgantown NC. According to producers, the DNC (with the support of the MSM) has perpetuated a crime and fraud against the American voters by claiming Obama as the presumptive nominee.
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lPCunsrI1Q
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Khsg8iKjU
Superdelegates votes can not count until convention
Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXpz8AJk8TM
*VERY IMPORTANT PART: Why Obama is not the presumptive nominee
- these videos are very educational, interesting, and well-researched and documented. People are indeed repeating history. What is happening in 2008 has happened several times in the past. Educate your fellow voters. Forward these links to others.
http://www.lynettelong.com/caucusfraud/
This is excellent site too…
http://wewillnotbesilenced2008.com/video/index.htm
Bravo. We need to remain vigilant or pretty soon, like the holocaust deniers, we’ll have a whole new version of history. After all, they (he) can’t decide whether he’s Lincoln, FDR, JFK, Bill Clinton or a reincarnation of all of the above in one with MLK thrown in for good measure. The schools are already at it with kindergarten books, etc., about the miracle boy from Africa.
MEchille, of course, has already claimed Jackie who, if you didn’t know, would be thought to be black.
sfhillary…that’s because ignorance must be bliss. If people knew the TRUTH, like we do, they never would have voted for him and would have him deported. The ONLY reason someone with a brain would see this as a normal, fair election is if they were lacking brain cells or information. With all due respect, that’s just a plain FACT.
It is so scary that how much of obamenia is similar to Khomeini in 1979. After a total stranger messiah took power in Iran, names of many public institutions changed to honor the new messiah whom people did not know any about and had done nothing to be the leader of a great nation.
If they wait until he actually does something these kids will be greatgrandparents.
He has done nothing so far.
He knows where the present button is to press.
He could not find the apartment bldgs in his district that need heat in a chicago winter.
These teachers must have graduated from the wm ayers school of education.
WOMEN,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMAS,BUBBAS, AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE
I hope they tell the kids its ok to snort coke, smoke grass and sell the stuff when hard times hit because never know even with a past like that you can still end up being President of this nation.
America seems to be big on role models, they sure get in anyone’s face that is a public person like a athlete if they go off and make them pay because they are role models, but I guess Obama gets a pass, no wonder some of our kids always grow up so confused.
With all due respect, it would not matter to AA’s what Obama does or does NOT do, he will never be able to do any wrong in their eyes. They see his election as some sort of personal repudiation or reward. Never mind how he was elected. Never mind whether or not he accomplishes anything.
I would have been on the front lines of celebration of a black or bi-racial president. Unfortunately, I know too much about this election - the fraud, his in-your-face secretiveness about his college transcripts, his health records, his lack of a certified birth certificate, the passes he received from the media, his frailties that I see much too clearly to be able to be happy for one second about his so called election.
Even Hillary’s appt as S of S will not bambuzzle me into thinking any better of this. I understand Hillary’s decision to be a ‘team player’ so that she can still participate in a more meaningful way, but every time I see his face or hear him speak, I am repulsed.
I wonder who poor old Ludlum was.
That was my first thought too! Hello!
Drunk the kool-aid is being gentle. These are crazy, twisted people. What next? Instead of Washington D.C, why not call it Barack Obama D.C. Thank God the dems didnt get total majority. Chambliss won. This messianic attitude among his supporters is dangerous. When is it going to end? I’ve not seen my country so crazy over a politician. Mass hysteria has taken over.
Well, the good news about mass hysteria is that eventually it implodes. Dutch tulips, dot-com stocks, housing bubble…poof!
Dutch tulips - nice historical reference.
I am betting that a terror attack wipes out DC so that the new capital can be in Chicago.
Actually, I’ve been wondering if he planned to find a way to move the White House to Chicago.
Obama should have attended the school most of us did.
The school of hard knocks.
You cannot hide your transcripts from the “school of hard knocks.” They are inscribed in the lines on your face. I can’t find those transcripts on Obama’s smooth and slick countenance.
[...] Starry-eyed kool-aid drinkers are busy naming elementary schools after Obama before the man is even officially sworn in, apparently missing the irony that people who voted for Obama were far less informed than McCain voters. Gee, you think maybe our educators might spend a little more time teaching kids civics than wasting time and money renaming schools for a man who might end up embarrassing them in the White House. [...]
This country has gone to hell. I mean COME ON. The guy hasn’t done anything other than lie, cheat and steal to get “selected” by a bunch of dumazzes who know nothing about him and wasted their votes. This makes me puke.
“Fraud”– I truely appreciate all of your comments and am on the EXACT wavelength as you. Keep ‘em coming so I can keep my sanity!
He won`t stop until he has turned America into an Obama-nation.
Mark my words, there will be an Obama memorial in D.C. after his death, and his image will appear on currency. There is no doubt in my mind.
LOL…That should make the dollar more worthless than it is right now.
Well then let’s make sure that Hillary’s is not far behind his.
PUMA!!!
Image on currency? yeah right, thats the atmosphere now. But americans always forget. When his presidency fails, he’ll be forgotten.
Jay,
Haven’t you heard about the Obama Commemorative coins. Only $9.95 for the collection.
As Uppity Woman says, tho’: “Dont’t try spending them. They’re not real. Seems about right.”
-MS
great post Amy, couldn’t have said it better. It sure is setting a low threshold for achievement isn’t it?
The 11 yr old said it isn’t a racial thing-oh really? Well when 90%+ blacks voted for Obama and the entire school is 62% hispanic and 36% black, that’s not racial? You’re damn right it is. All this whole thing is about one thing-trying to even the score with white people. I don’t care how many schools, boulevards and mountains they name after Obama or any other black person, it’s not about position of power. It’s about personal attitude, accountability, achievement. The fact that so many people are overlooking all the things Obama has done that are dishonest shows their lack of principles too. All I can say is “you reap what you sow.”
This is still LOOMING:
http://www.rense.com/general84/treach.htm
For Pete’s sake…give it a rest!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-obama-ad-03-dec03,0,1805354,print.story
By Sara Olkon and James Janega
Tribune reporters
December 3, 2008
An anti-tax activist from upstate New York who is questioning whether President-elect Barack Obama is a “natural born citizen” eligible for the nation’s top job said Tuesday that his non-profit group spent “tens of thousands of dollars” to get his message across in ads in the Chicago Tribune this week.
Robert L. Schulz, 69, chairman of We The People Foundation, took out ads Monday and Wednesday to raise questions about whether Obama’s Hawaii certificate of live birth is authentic.
The ads echo accusations circulated online by some Obama opponents before the election. Cases challenging Obama’s citizenship have been tossed out of courts in several states, and Hawaiian officials have vouched for the authenticity of Obama’s birth certificate, which is locked in a state vault. The Obama campaign likewise has always dismissed the accusations.
Nevertheless, some critics remain dubious.
Here are the allegations raised in Schulz’s ad, and some relevant facts:
•The birth form released by Obama was “an unsigned, forged and thoroughly discredited” live birth form, Schulz says.
Last summer, Obama’s campaign presented a digital copy of his certificate of live birth. After critics questioned its authenticity, staff at FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, said they had seen, held and examined the actual birth certificate.
•”Hawaiian officials will not confirm” that Obama was born in their state, Schulz says.
Initially, Hawaiian officials said that privacy laws prevented them from releasing a copy or confirming that Obama’s copy was authentic. But in late October as questions persisted, Hawaii’s health director and head of vital statistics reviewed Obama’s birth certificate in the department’s vault and vouched for its authenticity.
•Schulz says that legal affidavits state Obama was born in Kenya.
The affidavits that Schulz refers to are filings by the Obama critics themselves in the court cases challenging Obama’s citizenship.
•Obama’s paternal grandmother is recorded on tape saying she attended Obama’s birth in Kenya, Schulz says.
The group’s Web site posted what it says is a transcript of a long-distance phone conversation in Swahili and English from late October between a questioner in the United States and Sarah Hussein Obama, in her Kenyan home. The translator said he was one of two interpreters conducting the interview in a crowded hut during a celebration, over a speaker phone that dropped the call three times. A copy of the recording was not provided by Schulz.
• Schulz says that “U.S. law in effect in 1961 [the year of Obama's birth] denied citizenship to any child born in Kenya if the father was Kenyan and the mother was not yet 19 years of age.”
If a child is born in the United States—as Hawaiian officials state that Obama was—that child is a U.S. citizen regardless of his or her parents’ nationalities. If born to an American parent outside the U.S., the law at the time would require the U.S. citizen parent to be at least 19, which Obama’s mother was not. The provisions of this law were subsequently loosened and made retroactive for government employees serving abroad and their families. It appears that this would not apply to Obama’s mother. The matter would seem to be academic: Hawaiian officials vouch for Obama’s birth certificate.
•Schulz says that in 1965, Obama’s mother relinquished whatever Kenyan or U.S. citizenship she and Obama had by marrying an Indonesian and becoming a naturalized Indonesian citizen.
U.S. law lists the specific acts and formal procedures necessary to relinquish U.S. nationality. The statute requires the acts be performed voluntarily and with the intention of relinquishing one’s nationality. In many instances, one must be 18 to renounce one’s citizenship. Obama moved to Indonesia in 1968 and moved back to Hawaii while still in grade school. There is no indication that Obama renounced his U.S. citizenship.
Schulz supports his argument with a reproduced Indonesian school document that states Obama’s citizenship at that time as “Indonesian.” But the same document also lists Obama’s birthplace as ” Honolulu, Hawaii.”
Schulz, interviewed by the Tribune on Tuesday, said his concern about Obama’s citizenship is not partisan.
“We never get involved in politics,” he said of We The People. “We avoid it like the plague.”
Tax debate is fair game, however. The Queensbury, N.Y., man has been active on tax issues for nearly 30 years. Last year, a senior judge in the Northern District of New York ordered Schulz to shut down a Web site that sold advice on avoiding taxes.
Asked about the case, Schulz said the government has tried to silence him.
He hopes the Tribune ads bring his group prominence.
Schulz said his group also considered a similar ad in USA Today, but said the cost was prohibitive. He said his group considered both the Chicago Sun-Times and the Tribune, but said his group settled on the Tribune because of the size of its pages and its larger circulation. He would not specify how much his group spent on two days of full-page ads except to say they cost tens of thousands of dollars and were paid for by donations from supporters.
And the Cult of the fake COLB is pinning its hopes on these guys? Where’s Texas Darlin and Techdude when you need em?
Good luck in court!!!!
Concerned “Citizen” - What the hell country is your loser troll azz from? Because you sure as hell aren’t a US Citizen. We have a thing called the Constitution. Ever heard of it? Or did you get past 3rd grade in Gaza? Well, you can laugh all you want but your fraudulent, lying, cheating, thieving scumbag boss is going to have to answer to this one way or another. Too bad for you that you are brainwashed by a pathological liar.
these people need to create a site - zombiesforobama.net. thats exactly whats happening. When it comes to BHO, I’ve seen the glazed eyes of obama supporters, and if anything negative is said about BHO, they become irrational and unreasonable and angry. Sad state of affairs!
well, let us suppose the Supreme Court does its duties… next Friday
Everyhing out of each of these mouths are saying, it was all about race. PERIOD. Isn’t that pitiful?
But school teachers across our counry were overstepping the bounds and pushing O-shit! And they are adults and supposed to know better. HA! Look at the behaviors of O-’s addult supporters. Theft, sexism, intimidation, threats. GEE such swell role models. But, alas, O did this himself, so it was A OK
The stories I heard of teacher giving O’s brochures, but OpEd about McCain as facts…giving stories, etc. Was just amazing. Many teachers should be losig their jobs for their poor conduct.
But also, Hempstead happens to be a town that has a a majority of their population as blacks. And we saw from the election, 92 percent of Blacks voted for the “African American” candidate. So, it just continues their trend.
What do all the worshipping bots do if
the electoral college is told he isn’t elegible to run?
That is so not going to happen. The fix is in. He was pushed through the DNC and he’ll be pushed through to be inaugurated. The Illuminati win again!
The awful thing about this is by pushing this type of canonization of Obama just due to his race, these people are going to create a backlash.
Look, if Mr. Hopey Changey actually does something while in office, then the appropriate time to name streets and schools after him is after his death. Not now.
By pushing this just over his race, they are setting the school up for attacks from white supremist groups. Not that this should be reason NOT to do it, because I don’t believe in backing down over something like that generally…but by pushing the issue so soon due to obvious racial bias, the potential for more racial division and violence is there.
Amy, I re-read your post title and I am cracking up….that’s not a serious question is it-what is wrong w these people? LOL
Hillary or Bust
I agree they are honoring him as a hero before he ever accomplishes anything. however, seems to be the case since the begining of this thugs (that is all he is a chicago thug) career? He has never accomplished a dang thing. He cheated and gamed the system for every office he has held. This man has NEVER done an honest days work in his life, he did absolutely nothing to help those in his district on the south side of Chicago, YET, his supporters somehow he will be able to fix the economy, stop terrorism, bring peace, love and joy to the world!
I am all for giving people a break when it is deserved. It is not earned by lying, scamming and conning americans.
EVEN CANADA & THE UK ARE REPORTING THIS:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/6687
Was our media paid off not to report it?
the media and Obama supporters don’t care. Cheating. lying, stealing? Ok. Constitution, being honest, personal accountability, not ok.
And yet more adoration for The Squatter Elect:
MARION, Ala. (AP) - A small central Alabama county whose mainly black residents gave Barack Obama more than 70 percent of the vote on Election Day has created an annual holiday in honor of the president-elect.
The Perry County Commission voted 4 to 1 to observe the second Monday in November as “The Barack Obama Day.” County offices will close and its roughly 40 workers will get a paid holiday.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D94RBG180&show_article=1
lol. squatter elect. I like that terminology.
Unfortunately, this is inevitably gonna cause a backlash. All this adoration usually ends up in hate in the end.
Benny, I think he’s counting on the “adoration” getting him through for the long term. After all, it’s been working for someone I can think of for about 2000 years. Just wait until the “miracles” start in earnest.
It gets even better…Opa-locka, Florida plans to rename Perviz Avenue to Barack Obama Avenue on President’s Day in February.
Well, hey, that’s “fair,” right? All MLK did was start the Civil Rights movement, espouse non-violent protest, march, organize, and give his very life to get HIS name on some boulevards posthumously.
Obama was born half African and stole a nomination to get HIS on schools, avenues, etc. (Remember him saying it was “fair” for him to get some of Hillary’s delegates from MI?? Some concept of fairness he has…). So, like, what’s the problem already?!?
Great comments, y’all! You are some smart, funny, people!
I suspect the backlash will be enormous once “The One” is revealed as mere mortal with questionable decision-making skills. Then the howl will arise and the fingers will point.
I just hope the public remembers who and what hoisted Obama to the throne: the DNC, the spineless press and all the Washington hacks who wanted a piece of the pie [not Michelle's, of course]. And then, the Obamatrons need to pick up a mirror, take a good, hard look and weep for the country they took for granted.
For all our sake’s, I hope Obama is better than I expect. But my hopey-dopey meter predicts bad times a-coming!
Whether I hope that Captain Kumbaya suceeds or fails is irrelevent. The Dems are showing that they can’t govern just as much as the GOPers.
We’re not gonna take it
Never did and never will
Don’t want no religion
And as far as we can tell
We ain’t gonna take you
Never did and never will
We’re not gonna take you
We forsake you
Gonna rape you
Let’s forget you better still.
But when Captain Kumbaya’s approval drops below 50% the media will quickly revive the “America is still racist” mantra.
Peggy Sue, I’m afraid that for a very sizable part of the country, there never will be a backlash. Instead, others will be blamed for mistakes. The scapegoats-to-be are already falling into line . . . . In general, people will believe what they want to believe, in spite of their lying eyes.
This just confirms my general impression that he is leader of a celebrity cult rather than leader of America and the free world. Several weeks ago both Us and People magazines had the Obama’s on the cover. I don’t recall any President elect on the cover of those magazines ever before. I have never seen any President-elect, or even President, get so many cover stories. The good ‘ole USA is celebrity addled while a majority of people can’t pass a basic civics test. Obama is the logical (or illogical) conclusion of the dumbing down of American society.
He is also the poster person (Can’t say ‘boy’ or will be called racist; can’t say ‘child’ because technically he is an adult.) and the epitome of the self-esteem philosophy of parenting and educating our children. Everything you do is good and all children deserve an “A” whether or not it is earned. American children are spoiled and coddled from birth to death and given everything by their parents. And now they have come to expect it as a birth right. Boy will they be in for a shocker if and when a depression comes.
I always knew that someday America would lose its status. It happens to all great societies and empires - Greece, Egypt, Rome, England. But I never thought it would occur in my lifetime. I always thought it would be 200-250 years from now.
There’s nothing at all wrong with these people. They understand the very real importance of symbolism.
It’s simple: Barack Obama is the first black American president. In the eyes of a lot of minority kids, the simple fact of his election is of enormous importance. It doesn’t just tell them that a centuries-old racial barrier has at last been broken–it demonstrates it.
Most Americans can probably understand the significance of that intellectually, but I suspect you’ve got to have grown up on the wrong side of a racial divide to really feel the true emotional depth of it.
Renaming a school is just an acknowledgement and an affirmation. Changing the school’s name wasn’t done for Obama. It was done for the kids.
No, I’m sorry, that’s not a good reason. The kids can already be excited over the fact that he’s going to be president. They don’t need the school named after him. It’s also dangerous and sets the kids up for being the target of a backlash. Just because Obama is president doesn’t mean racism stopped existing or that white supremist groups aren’t still out there.
Um, you mean he is the first BI-RACIAL president ELECt (not prez yet). The teachers claimed they followed this election closely, but it seems what they followed was the Kool Aide version, not the version that too many of us knew was going on.
I appreciate that people, many people, would be happy to have a president who wasn’t a white man, but how he GOT there and who he IS is more important than the color of his skin. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again - it is just as racist to vote for someone simply because of the color of their skin as it is to NOT vote for them because of the color of their skin.
Moreover, this kind of hero worship based solely on skin color and NOT achievements is disturbing to me. Tiger Woods is a great golfer not because he is of mixed heritage, but because he is a great golfer. Thurgood Marshall was a great SC justice not because he was AA but because he was a great jurist.
IOW, it cheapens REAL accomplishments, like those of people like MLK, or Marshall, when someone like Obama, who has a DEARTH of real achievements is given accolades usually reserved for those who have achieved real greatness (and stealing a nomination, engaging in voter registration fraud, caucus fraud, and voter fraud doesn’t count towards “greatness,” at least in my book…).
And what does THAT teach the kids?
It teaches the kids that they’re 30 second attention span, honed to perfection by our current “give it to me now” media culture, is sufficient to accomplish anything.
You too can grow up to be president. No really, you can.
oops, that would be their 30 second attention span.
Technically he’s not even “President Elect” yet until the electors have put in their votes. The whole “Office of the President Elect” crap is just more Axelrovian psychological haka to push an unreality as reality onto the American people–just like the whole “OBAMA HAS WON, HILLRY SHOULD DROP OUT” bullcrap that was pulled in January.
I believe the rush to legitimize him is due to the underlying feeling that something is just not quite right. Even though they want to ignore it, it’s there. Why deny that he’s half white? They must proclaim it over and over on signs and coins and anything else that might impress the already faithful. It’s a scam. And it’s not for the kids. It’s an attempt to solidify the illusion. It won’t work. Too many of us know otherwise.
I believe, if given a chance, that Obama has the ability to legitimize himself and become a truly exceptional American president. Only time will tell. Until it does, I don’t believe it’s in America’s best interest to foster expectations of failure. We’re in serious trouble right now and in dire need of a more positive mental attitude about our national future. The expectation of failure doesn’t serve us well. A symbol of hope does, provided we work together to turn it into something that’s actually real.
Expectations truly matter. If you doubt that, just consider the economy. Half the battle to economic recovery is belief that things will get better. The other half is working intelligently to make it happen.
I believe that if i concentrate hard enough i will make my tree grow 1000 dollar bills. There must be a way. I must hope. Screw going to work. I believe….I hope.
There’s no point playing a game if you figure you’re beat before you even get started. Mind-set is half the battle. Don’t ask some one-time hippy turned New Age philosopher. Ask any successful military commander or business owner.
The problem is that he’s already failed to win a legitimate election. Like GWB, when you start off by cheating to achieve your goal, and the end justifies the means, there’s not a thing that can be right after that.
No amount of positive thinking will change him into a man of substance following a life lived as a lie. We know they’re all good at “acting as if” and using “prosperity thinking” but that can only go so far. The truth won’t be denied forever.
I reserve my positive thinking for the country surviving this nightmare.
Excellent point, Annie. Well said!
If there was any significant irregularity with the 2008 presidential election it has yet to be demonstrated. Contrary to the expectation of some, there were no indications of actual election fraud. As hard-fought as the election was, and as well-funded as those opposing Obama were, I have a very hard time believing that any rumor of a significant election irregularity wasn’t fully explored.
Obama won the popular vote by a 6 point margin and gained 365 electoral votes to McCain’s 173. This outcome was pretty much as the polls had been predicting for weeks.
While we can find fault with campaign tactics, fund raising, media coverage, etc, the election process itself was about as legitimate as they come.
It is quite obvious that caucus fraud was used during the Democratic primaries, favoring Obama. You’d have to be in complete denial or stupid to think otherwise.
Yes, he’s done so much for SO many already:-)
Releasing a peace dove now!
Stop the hate but keep the hope!
Obama’s selection does not inspire confidence. The economic problems we face are almost insurmountable; I’m sorry O just does not inspire confidence.
So what? Does that mean all of sudden they are gonna strike gold or something. You should look up what symbolism is. It is a representation of something in an Image. It isn’t tangible. It isn’t something that makes something happen. It is what it is a “symbol”.
I guess the point I am trying to make is that the situation is basically the same. What you are saying is that it took a Black man as president to make these kids realize that they have self worth? I’m not buying it one bit.
After the excitement wears off and they learn that Obama being president isn’t going to stop them from having to do homework. To having to work at a burger join, to having to actually WORK to achieve. They aren’t gonna be holding statues of Obama in their hands. The situation hasn’t changed and in time neither will a person’s attitude. That is something that is partly talent and the other half taught either through moral guidance by their parent or through experience. Don’t you get that.
If symbolism is all that is need then how come people still run red lights, when its obvious that the yellow light means slow down and stop?
if hillary had won, how many schools would have changed their names to mark the historic nature of her presidency before she was even inaugurated?
my guess? zero.
this is a bunch of crap. symbolism over realism, brand over substance, empty rhetoric over change. this is the year when america lost its greatness, not achieved it.
He hasn’t done anything ,except to hire the Clintons past administration, and make good on paying back his buddies with cabinet posts, and buy his wife a 30,000 dollar ring, AND WHY WE ARE AT IT, THE MAN IS NOT EVEN ELIGIBLE TO BE THE PRESIDENT. HOW COULD SO MUCH GO SO RIGHT, FOR THE WRONG PERSON? AND IF I SOUND BITTER, TO “F”ing BAD.
What has become of my country? I can’t believe that we are all being steered down this road. What are we going to do about it?
We can read, write and bitch about that asshole getting to where he is…………….I can’t even say his name anymore, or stand to here his voice. But what can we do about it?
I feel lost, like Tom Hanks on that island.
Teacher, keep the faith. America made a HUGE mistake by electing obama. We survived bush, and we’ll survive obama too. although this time, his messianic followers are worse and remind me of brain-dead zombies. We will overcome. It may take some time.
For one, I’m not convinced America actually did elect obama president. Based on what I witnessed, as well as the ovewhelming evidence that has been documented regarding the rigged caucuses and how the obama supporters engaged in questionable and in many cases, criminal behavior during the caucus process, in order to steal the nomination away from Hillary, I don’t have any confidence whatsoever that the powers behind the obama anointment were not also at work during the GE to guarantee an obama “win” at any cost.
The will of the people was definitely usurped during the Primary and the obama supporters warned that there would be “blood in the streets” if the ONE didn’t get the nomination. Their blind devotion to an unknown entity, such as obama, who has achieved NOTHING of significance during his entire political career, is frightening in itself.
Now, amaziningly, they want those of us who were disenfranchised by the DNC’s rigged primary and who gave Hillary the popular vote, to follow with blind allegience too?!
Anyone who achieves power the way obama has is not good for the country in the long run. I have a great forboding of what’s in store for our country and I believe Hillary does too and is why she accepted the SOS position. I have no doubt that if the obama administration fails, the pundits and the MSM, will immediately put all the blame on the Clintons (particularly Hillary).
Let us not forget that the men that helped place obama in the oval office (Soros, Z. Brezinski and David Rockefeller) have an agenda of “one world government” and won’t stop until they achieve it.
Calm down, everyone, I just spoke to the school and they told me it was a mistake. They actually meant to name the school after Plaxico Burress.
ROTFLMAO
Ditto!
Day after I teach my students, and tell myself, that honesty is the best policy. There has not been one honest thing about this election.
If one only believes half of what they read on the net, and doubt the other half, I still see no honesty in the 2008 election.
When are words going to become the shit that hit the fan? As in the 60’s, when is enough, enough?
I feel like I am on the sit-n-spin that my daughters used to have. Day-aftere-day,I am just sitting and spinning the reality to find some truths.
We have survived bad presidents before, and that doesn’t worry me; our country can handle that. It is our constitution that is at risk here.
I am a social science teacher. A person who is teaching one thing and living another.
benny we may survive, but at what cost? Will we all be writting diaries on how we surived? As the attic diaries of the past?
I used to have the news on 24/7……………no more, FCC has been bought and paid for by you know who, or his puppet masters.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D94RBG180&show_article=1
NEW HOLIDAY SET FOR OBAMA
Heck, why just one day? I believe we should have the 365 Obama Holiday. With this economy, who would it hurt?
Well it may hurt Obama because where would he go to purchase a 30,000 ring for his trophy wife:-)
Stop the hate!
Donna Brazile, You are the biggest bigot out there. Most prejudist..right up there with OPfra!!
Stop the eating and keep on hating!!
All I am saying is give P_ _ _ _ a chance.
No, I mean, all I am saying is give Bambi a chance. Nothin’ but love for ya man!
Stop the hate!
If Obama had any integrity he would immediately ask that no school or institution be named after him. He would want his record and accomplishments to prove himself first.
This shows me that Obama is nothing more than an egotistical male who enjoys being fawned upon. Let him have his day in the spotlight though. Their can be only One. I wonder how its gonna feels to all the black men out there whom worked hard and accomplished 100 times what Obama has, to be looking at him getting all these recognitions for only being elected president. Nothing more than that.
Where are all the schools named after the first African American to die in war defending america. What about the first African American to go to space. If it is an accomplishment to repeat others achievements and be exhualted for them simply because of your skin color, why stop at president. What about the first African American to have electricity? What about a car? What about the first to own a house?
Life and the deeds we create aren’t based on skin color, they are based off of how we contribute to society and the things we accomplish. Those are the things that matter. In the end, Obama will be nothing BUT the “frist african american president”. He won’t change anything other than a couple of sentences in a history book.
This tells me one thing. The majority of Americans are completely shallow and brain dead with no integrity and sense of accomplishment at all. This is why these people don’t ever “make it” in life. They put emphasis on things that in the end don’t amount to anything.
congrats to the 44rth president whom happens to be born to a black man!
But we don’t really know that, do we?
Obama is a highly motivated and skilled organizer. He seems to be putting together a damn good team. I don’t think he has any intention of seeing the nation fail. I hope that attitude proves highly contagious.
Yes well that MAY be true. We will see. I certainly don’t want to give him kudos UNTILL he proves himself first. I never did that for any president, even Bill Clinton. The point is that he has to DO something to prove himself first. Let us see first shall we.
All i know is at this point. The only thing they are praising him for IS being the first African American president. They are naming a school after him for THAT reason alone. That is all i have to go by at this point. No other evidence is there.
Oh, this is all so disgusting. Mount Obama? I’m going to puke.
Just what Obama the narcissist needs! Well, we know he has a mountainous ego anyway. :^(
I’m surprised the 54% of Catholics that voted for him haven’t petitioned the pope to start proceeding for canonization. He might actually be a saint BEFORE Mother Teresa and John Paul II. Isn’t this a delusional, parallel world we are living in.
It creeps me out!
RRR Amy:
Gosh, I find all these Obama naming really embarrassing and pathetic…
Mount
OlympusObama ??? ROFLOL…. How absurd.These people need to get a grip on reality.
Let’s just change the name of our country to USO and be done with it. United States of Obama. We’ll have Obama Fries with our Obamaburgers and drive through town in our Obamobiles.
It could be a two-fer - O for Obama AND his benefactor, Oprah!!! A whole new brand - O-Squared. Cars, universities, whatever - it’s all good, right?!
ROFLOL !!! This is hilaroius!!!!
correction:
hilaroius —-> hilarious!!!
Didn`t GM stop making the Obamobile?
They’ve replaced it with the aptly named ObamaUnityCycle designed with a single wheel for bots on the go.
OMG, look at THIS NONSENSE.
These folks need to visit I Psychatrist, QUICK!
Ala. county sets ‘Barack Obama Day’ as new holiday
MARION, Ala. (AP) - A small central Alabama county whose mainly black residents gave Barack Obama more than 70 percent of the vote on Election Day has created an annual holiday in honor of the president-elect.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D94RBG180&show_article=1
You don’t have to do anything worthy, just be black and get a holiday?
OMG!
I prefer reading something more a long this line.
Chambliss: Palin ‘allowed us to peak’
Fresh off his runoff victory Tuesday night, Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss credited Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with firing up his base.
Photo: AP
“I can’t overstate the impact she had down here,” Chambliss said during an interview Wednesday morning on Fox News.
“When she walks in a room, folks just explode,” he added. “And they really did pack the house everywhere we went. She’s a dynamic lady, a great administrator, and I think she’s got a great future in the Republican Party.”
Chambliss said that after watching her campaign on his behalf at several events Monday, he does not see her star status diminishing within the party.
The Republican also thanked John McCain and the other big name Republicans that came to Georgia, but said Palin made the biggest impact.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16162.html
Sarah, on her own, is a Closer.
Maybe the school thought the name change would entice the Obama’s to send their daughters there?
The truth is that usually they do it for a reason, ie money, attention, free advertising…you know, the American way…land of opportunity for all! LOL
…definitely fits for Antigua. A very pretty island that I’m sure is hurting severely in tourism. Antigua, as with many in the caribbean, is a British island, British West Indies.
What’s next, replacing Washington on the one dollar bill? The O-ne dollar bill?
Mini-vomit.
I’m of the opinion that we should write down all the imbecile nonsense and the names of those who utter it for posterity.
Once Obama starts demonstrating his clay feet most of these Obots will deny deny deny their cultish worship of the man.
Nah nah nah! We can’t deny ourselves the delicious pleasure of repeatedly embarassing them by reminding them of their pathetic and shameful genuflecting before a Chicago pol as well as their Gestapo like behaviour with pro Hillary Democrats.
I hope many books and documentaries are done for posterity on the obots shameful and embarassing behaviour.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081203/ap_on_re_us/obama_holiday
Do these people know ANY history?? Do they know Hitler was elected? Shouldn’t we wait to name things after him?
As a commenter said upthread, if Obama had any decency he would publicly ask things not to be named after him while he was president. But we’ve seen him pass up opportunities like this before, and he will again.
Humility is not one of Barky’s traits.
Not saying that Hitler and Obama don’t share traits, but Hitler, although popular in his party, was not elected to anything. He was appointed through pressure of his Nazi army, by the chancellor and given absolute power by him. In essense, hitler used a cult of followers to force the hand of an elected president whom was given power by the people to bring them out of economic hardship and protect them from certain preconcieved threats to their county.
Remember how Saddam Hussein’s Iraq looked before his fall? There were statues and paintings of the leader everywhere. Now we are starting to glorify Obama by naming things after him, even though he is just now coming into power. By having teachers and students attend a school named after a leader currently in power, we are emulating dictatorships the world over: the attendees at that school are in effect pledging allegiance to the Leader by their daily attendance. Do we want to go down that road?
best comment of this entire thread. Exactly.
I used to teach in elementary school. I think a study of the Constitution, a mock caucus done fairly and then unfairly with intimidation, stealing sign in sheets, locking people out, a mock legal and illegal voter registration and balloting would be the lesson plan in my classroom.
Values, principles–who’s gonna put ‘em front and center in the USA again?
Shameful and ignorance. Moses and the prophets had prophesied the promised Messiah, the divine Deliverer, the Son of G-d, the mighty Redeemer of Israel. Obama has done nothing to be called anything that stands holy. He is rumored to be a bi-sexual- and as all lustful men, he will do something in the next four years to satified the urge. Go ask Bill Clinton. He only lasted 6 years before he was caught. These urges are too strong and they will surface. I can’t see Michelle giving him that urge pleasure. She reminds me of a frigid woman. It took me many years to forgive Bill and hopefully he has learned his lesson. Men are pigs at times and piggish men will fall out of grace sooner or later. We have been warn of many false prophets that will arise in the latter years, this is just another phoney trying to be a G-d for all mankind. Now, if I start seeing his face on our money, then, I will be very worry about “who he really is” in our revelation, until then., I will see him as a false prophet.
Thanks, Amy! Great post, even though the subject matter sickens me. I guess I need to change my name to “UpChuck”, because that’s what I’m going to be doing alot of for the next four years!! Mon Dieu!!!
LOL, Cindy! And thanks!
Y’all are some FUNNY people! Thanks for the witty banter around this disturbing topic.
The O-ne dollar bill was good, too!
National holiday - PLEASE. WTH already??
I’m sure someone is thinking about building a huge monument to Obama in the nation’s capitol. I have a design in mind: A huge cowpie! Pfffffft.
Stick it right next to the Washington monument with a sign that says “This is what happens when you stick your phallus into an a-hole.” And make sure the cowpie looks like it’s coming out of the Obama logo.
a school is nothing i heard some were some are naming there children after him.ack
I live in NV, where many African-Americans didn’t vote for Obama and openly prefered Clinton. When asked why it’s because they live in a state with high housing and schooling integration, property was truly affordable and many didn’t need subprime mortgages, and many professionals are heads of businesses with multi-racial or even mostly White employees in a wider mainstream venue. Obama’s election itself wasn’t going to change these facts and many said they already acheived much of their goals in lives.
They’re just taking a cue from their leader; most people wait until they’ve accomplished something to write one autobiography, let alone two.