Amateur Hour
By Pat Racimora on February 12, 2009 at 8:55 PM in Barack Obama, Qualifications
These days my ears hurt a lot whenever I turn on TV news shows. Those who control how we will be forced to live appear to be digging us even deeper into an 8-year-old hole. And the one now trying to lead the new pack is a man with no experience in doing what he is doing. Even after a few days in office, it shows.
Kathleen Parker , writing for the Washington Post, says it so well.
The first however-many days of Barack Obama’s presidency have been a study in amateurism.
Many suspected that Obama wasn’t quite ready, but kept their fingers crossed. Optimistic disappointment is the new holding pattern.
What’s missing from Obama’s performance isn’t the intelligence that voters acknowledged in electing him. It’s the experience they tried to pretend didn’t really matter. Experienced politicians, after all, got us into this mess.
Absent is maturity — that grown-up quality of leadership that is palpable when the real deal enters a room. There’s a reason why elders are respected. They have something the rest of us don’t have — yet — because we haven’t lived long enough. We haven’t made the really tough decisions, the ones that are often unpopular.
Parker goes on to discuss what we at No Quarter have also been saying for a long time. We have a President who wants—needs, really—to be liked. That right there should have been a reason enough to refrain from running for this particular office in the first place. His inexperience alone is likely to reveal itself in a myriad of actions (or, as likely, inactions) that will result in confusing, confounded, ill-conceived, and wishy-washy decisions. You know the old saw: “He who seeks to please everyone ends up pleasing no one.”
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Or, Obama is only in it to please himself. He cannot hide his arrogance and comes off as a petulant child. He makes GWB look infinitely mature
Honestly, I’m beginning to think the media hawked Obama in order to keep their jobs. What better way to be needed than to endlessly go on about a disaster, and in this case, it’s the president.
Lesson learned America. We don’t need an Idol, we need a true leader.
Sheesh, it already feels like four effing long years…
Hussein sucks and there really isn’t much to say after that. Other than he is destroying America.
Thanks again Pat. You’re an amazing artist.
Some good news about the Stimulus Bill — Senator James Inhofe is going to hold up the vote unless he gets 8 hours to read this bill before voting on it.
Thank you kindly, AlexisM. I do have fun…
Pat…Sorry the comments below went off the rails. My personal feeling about that entire exchange is that it is unworthy of the posters here and should be deleted in its entirety. It was really upsetting to me, but it also wasn’t very nice to do on a thread about your beautiful artwork. So sorry.
Buzz, I’ve been entertaining these very thoughts lately. I guess Obama will make good TV/copy for them.
His his arrogancy comes from his ignorancy and the fact he knows nothing and deserves nothing.
“The Devil Went to Georgia” is what he is playin’?
He sure ain’t Papa John Creach…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM6RgtUbWRU&feature=related
Nailed it Pat. Very Funny and to the point.
Hey Pat…Apperently BO “is in danger of being overexposed”….according to Gergan…
How about that? Like a camera ya get at the checkout…
teakwood — he is certainly getting on people’s nerves already. We have seen his act and the only thing he can do is repeat himself. 3 weeks in office and I’m ready for a change.
Peggy Noonan said the samething several days earlier. The composite is perfect Pat. More! More! Indeed, PBO is a cartoon character come to life.
Back in the early 80s (it seems so long ago, now!), I read an insightful little book by Dr. Nathaniel Branden called “The Psychology of Romantic Love.” The nugget that hit me is that an intimate relationship can only flourish if neither partner needs it. He proposed that to have a good relationship, the partners must first be able to come to grips with their “existential aloneness.”
I think you touched on this concept, Pat. A President must NOT need the approval and love of the citizenry. To need them puts boundaries on the ability of the leader to lead and to make the decisions — often painful ones — that must be made. To have that need puts the leader in a one-down position in the relationship between the leader and the led.
Stan Davis
Lakewod, CO
I like this comment. Stan. Something to really think about.
It is indeed “something to really think about.” Where I would start to think about the analogy is here:
Does Obama need the “approval” or “love” of the citizenry? There are some alternatives:
Could it be instead, the blind devotion (and is that the same?) Or the worship? Or the acquiescence to his majesty? Or the abject subjugation of his “subjects”? Or perhaps the humiliation of his enemies, whoever they might be? Or are these things mixed together in some kind of perverse relationship? It’s all very confusing.
Here is what I don’t think is his motivation: to see the United States become a stronger and more prosperous country, regardless of what happens to him.
Trying to reconcile this with Stan’s original statement: perhaps a true leader must not NEED any kind of emotional feedback from the citizenry, whether it may be adulation, love, worship, fear, humble acquiescence, or whatever. It gets in the way of his job, of making good decisions for the country as a whole. (Apologies–I’m kinda thinking out loud here.)
I think that was Bill Clinton’s fault. He needed approval so made concessions to the republicans he shouldn’t have.
Still, even with all of his shortcomings and political obstacles, Bill Clinton was the best president since FDR.
Bill Clinton had something that B-Crack never, ever will. The Clintons always felt like they were “for the people” and they could relate to Americans on every level. For whatever reason, looking at B-Crack makes you feel like you are looking at an alien from another planet. No connection to human beings whatsoever.
oowawa — If he signs this Stimulus Bill which has rationed Medicare for Seniors. I don’t think he’s gonna get much love from the older set. Its hard to love a leader who says hurry up and die already.
I agree completely. The part about our seniors getting screwed is what makes me absolutely crazy. NPR was talking about the new health reforms written into the stimulus bill (sneaky and cruel) that take steps to socialize health care at the expense of seniors. About the new administrations’s opinion that seniors need to “become more accepting of the ailments that come with getting older.” That is just WRONG.
Yeah, at a time when life expectancy is rising, we get Obummer’s Eugenics Heath Care. Well, I guess the argument could be made for everyone to “[accept] the ailments that come with [life]” in general. In this case, smokers (such as Obama) or obese people who are a drain on health care resources would be denied health care too.
I guess we’ll be heading in this direction: First old people would have to go, then the disabled, then ill children, then pregnant women . . . . Pretty soon it will be only a small sector of society getting health care. I wonder what Sen Kennedy has to say about Obummer’s health care plans?
Ted has the cash; he could give a shit what the cashless care.
He does not care about this country and its people. I can feel it and it does not matter how stupidly he plays it.
You need to make more comments, Stan!
It seems that some who are posting here not too long ago were telling us what a wonderful President this man would be. Are you having second thoughts?
Thanks to all who commented and for taking my post seriously.
For the record, I was a staunch Hillary supporter in the primaries, but along about May ‘08, I saw the handwriting on the wall. I couldn’t go the PUMA route. So I spent some time working hard to reconcile myself to the fact that I was going to vote for Obama. That’s as far as I went — my vote. No money and no time. It was their time…their moment. Fine, I thought. I stand relieved.
I’ve seen the warts. He’s made some bad mistakes. I’ve had about all the bipartisanship crap I want to see for a while. But as a citizen and still a Democrat, I hope he succeeds. The country needs him to succeed. If he goes down, it won’t be with my help.
Stan Davis
Lakewood, CO
Stan — the only problem is that success for Obama means that he will have spent 9.7 Trillion of our treasury. He will have bailed out every industry and maybe created 3 million jobs. According to Lou Dobbs 22 Million are either out of work or under employed.
This Stimulus which will cost anywhere between 800 Bill and 1.3 Trillion has not been available to be read by anyone and we the people and the Congressional Republicans are clueless about the amount of pork actually in this bill.
I was a Dem all my voting life until this last election but I could not just sit by and watch as they stole the nomination for Obama. Now Hope and Change has become Disaster and Depression. The Census will be used to game the next election. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. Perhaps if Obama fails he will become more humble — that would be a change I would like to see.
Yes, No Kidding. And Stan, with all due respect, for any Democrat who had seen how corrupt this fellow was and how misogynist, sexist, homophobic, racist, how he swindled Hillary and gamed the caucuses, and still voted for him then we are truly doomed. As a lifelong left-wing, liberal Democrat I got the hell out of my Party and went the Independent route. I voted for Hillary and then the old guy, because frankly it was incumbent on us, the Democrats, to make sure the DNC didn’t get away with theft and out and out corruption and win the White House, and to vote for him, whether or not you gave him money is really beyond my powers of comprehension. I, too, hope he fails and soon, so that maybe, just maybe, we can get some adults running the show, something we desperately need considering the multi-faceted crisis we are entangled in.
Bill Clinton did not spend a peny and created 22 million jobs.
I will follow Rush and hope he fails. Why will I want to support his SOCIALIST/MARXIST policies that will wreck this beautiful country?
An excellent post. Obama’s ego needs to be adored is getting ridiculous. His inexperience along with the uh’s and er’s are showing.
I don’t see anything but continual electioneering, speechifying, and the immaturity is in the fear mongering and frantic haste to cobble this flawed stimulus togewther.
Coming in Obama had enormous political capital and it should have been used to assess what was really happening and helping to craft a pigless bill that would go to a hostile week GOP ready to obstruct at every turn.
Instead his fragile dream of charming the GOP to a point of any cooperation is downright silly.
Real change is hard,hard work and incremental.
We need to stop hearing platform speeches, and to expect some grown up leadership.
Obama on Afghanistan is a war looking for a strategy. Scary.
Yes, what Morris 1030 said.
I second that thought.
I am developing a list of people I know who voted for O during the primary and the GE. When the incompetence of the man becomes undeniably apparent, I am going to call each one, arrange a meeting, and make sure I dress for the occasion in my NO BLAME: I didn’t vote for him T-shirt. The people I know will never, ever admit a mistake. They’ll blame the Democrats, blame the Republican, or blame the media. But I know how hard I tried to reason with them an educate them, sot this will be great fun and it appears to be coming sooner than I expected.
O’s inexperience, his lack of any kind of credible job history–some of my main talking points in those days.
Thanks for the post.
these people just best stay away from me….I am liable to slap them across the face.
Well, me too Diana. I bought the “Don’t Blame Me I Voted For McCain” mugs, underpants, t-shirts, bumper stickers, lava lamps, ashtrays, matchbooks, you name it on November 5. I’m ready to rip some Bots heads off. I took sooo much heat from my friends for telling them the truth, and for not falling in line for B-Crack. Now, revenge is mine. Too bad it’s at the cost of America. That’s not cool.
My bumper sticker says: “Don’t blame, I supported Wes Clark.”
Ooops…..Should say: “Don’t blame me, I supported Wes Clark.”
I think he won American Idol and now he has to perform. Maybe the judges (voters) were wrong. But maybe he can still get something going.
He may be inexperienced, but someone pretty crafty sneaked some dangerous language regarding medical care into this socalled stimulous bill that he was promoting.
http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/02/10/congress-members-clueless-to-what-is-in-stimulus-bills/
Hey sowsear read my comment on “Is Barack Obama an Articulate George Bush”. This is what I think is coming our way.
sowsear — During the campaign Obama made it very clear that he was running for those 35 and younger. It would not be surprising to find that Obama wants Seniors on the fast track to Euthanasia.
What a surprise he’ll have when he learns that many, many of us, having conscripted and bloodied by idiots before he was walking, have NO sense of humor or tolerance for Incompetence, Stupidity, Cupidity or Mendacity.
Our Dear Leader needs to determine every morning if he is The Monkey or The Football and govern himself accordingly. WE certainly can’t tell, and Gibbs nor the MSM in aggregate wouldn’t know the difference.
I expect no less for $400K, Harvard Law Affirmative Action admittee or not.
I was wondering when Bidon was going to be sent to an “undisclosed location”?
great cartoon Pat…
When Jackie Robinson was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers he was more than just another black ball player, the guy had the talent to prove that he was just as able as any white man to play the sport. That is why he is hailed as a genuine hero and baseball has retired his number, 42. Jackie Robinson is so bad ass that baseball card companies don’t even issue a card #42 for the most part (unless if it’s some special tribute card).
Obama? He’s some hack back bencher hitting .240 and plays questionable defense, but because of his connections went through the minor Negro Leages and straight to the majors. Unfortunately, he’s no Jackie Robinson.
And this is pretty much what we have. A AA ball playing loser trying to perform at the level of major league professionals.
You’re right about the jersey number deal, but the card companies have been issuing cards with the number “42″ for as long as they’ve produced card sets exceeding that set size. It has nothing to do with Robinson’s being “so bad ass” which would make no sense whatsoever anyway. (Even your own comment proves the lack of sense. Robinson WAS “as” talented as any white player, yet how many white players have had their numbers retired by MLB from ALL teams? Most number retirements are done on a team basis to recognize/honor a long-time important player. As an aside Mariano Rivera is still allowed to wear 42 since he had been issued the number before 1997.) Card companies are not owned by MLB; they merely license the players’ images/likenesses and team/uniform trademarks. Everything else about the cards is wholly controlled by the companies, including the numbers. Incidentally, MLB only made the number retirement decision in 1997 and cards were being produced for DECADES before that. Why would Topps, Donruss, Fleer or Upper Deck (all of which produced cards before, and since, 1997) SUDDENLY decide to quit using a number?
Hotels may not use the number 13 for any floors out of superstition, but that doesn’t mean that a 13th floor doesn’t exist in those hotels. Card companies, however, aren’t going to “skip” a number for any specific reason. There have been baseball card sets which have “lost” a number here or there, but they’ve also “doubled” numbers as well–all of which have been accidents.
At that time there were many on the Negro Leagues who could out perform white players.
coment by obama:dubia.. As a baseball fan I said excellent analogy. HOMERUM
Adults learn to deliberate before making important decisions, children can’t wait, they need immediate gratification, they want what they want when they want it and BO threw his little fear mongering temper tantrum and got a trillion dollars.
Inexperience? That would be an improvement over this pre verbal 2 year-old.
Which is why we are in this depression. Change the first word in this quote to Americans and you’ll have it.
wooo
Great toon Pat. And a great article that goes with. So true.
You have unquestionably characterized him perfectly and his “so far” presidency with your most recent depiction. He most likely intended to “muddle through” this presidency by leaning on others to do the heavy lifting for him so that he could sit back and enjoy the ride.
He seems to be rather delighted with the trappings of the presidency and while out on the “campaign trail” touting his supposed empathy for those who are faring poorly in this economy, has failed to deprive himself of anything which seems to delight him. The use of Air Force One to take a trip to celebrate Valentine’s Day with his wife, in Chicago, comes immediately to mind. It costs a lot of $$$’s to put that plane in the air and this seems to be a blatant example of his “let them eat cake” philosophy….the same one he espoused while dining on those $100 lb. Japanese steaks!
Yes, or MEchille’s lobster and caviar room service. They are so impressed with what they perceive to be the trappings of the wealthy elite.
I agreed that MEchille needed help in the fashion department and I believe someone here said Andre Leon Tally from Vogue should help her look better. Apparently he thought so too. She’s on the cover of Vogue in the upcoming issue. Glad my subscription just expired. More drooling. Don’t remember other first ladies being on fashion covers. Were they? Or is this just because Andre is black too?
Wasn’t Hillary the First Vogue First Lady?
You know, I don’t remember that but it certainly could have been. Hillary has evolved so much in her style. She relied on Arkansas designers (personal and interior) in the beginning. I’m from Arkansas too and I thought she could have done better and she did. She is just right now. She’s elegant and professional, feminine and strong. Her whole look says capable and confident.
I agree. HRC gets better with age — like a fine wine, as they say.
how about using a AIR FORCE 1 to travel 154 miles to Virginia SPA for the weekend to a DEM meeeting. How long was he on the air traveling around 500/mph?
His very first trip on the prez plane.
I was thinking the very same thought! He could have taken the helicopter instead of firing up AF One for about $250,000 of our hard earned $$$’s. But then he couldn’t wear the jacket. LOL
Yes We Can Impeach Obama!
Find something Fitz. Anything. And sure I’ll say it: Biden would be better.
Surely you jest?
It isn’t obvious to you that Fitz is in Obama’s pocket?
Fitz never had any intention of doing anything to tarninsh Obama’s reputation. It seems more and more likely that he “outed” Blagoyevich’s nefarious deeds early so as not to cloud Obama’s reputation before THE ONE could get inaugurated.
“It isn’t obvious to you that Fitz is in Obama’s pocket?”
I don’t think so. Who knows? However, I don’t think Fitzgerald is making a case about corrupt Chicago politics but making sure to not tarnish or touch BO. Don’t tell me you are one of those who thinks Obama managed to stay above the fray while all around him were rigging elections, etc.?
If O had Fitz in his pocket, I believe O would have talked him out of having the Blogo mess upstage his pre-inaugural lovefest that he was not able to enjoy. If bringing Blogo down was to keep him from appointing someone to O’s seat, it failed!
The fact that JJJr appears to have raised money for Blogo and made no secret of his desire for O’s senate seat looks like he was cooperating with Blago and this had to be a huge embarrassment to O.
I think there is a lot of embarrassment if not more in store for O and his Chicago gangsters.
LOL–You are a brave man, John! (Perhaps correct, too.)
Tomorrow at 7:00am Congress will be voting on a bill they have not read yet. All 600 and some pages. We are being raped.
MBC — They will not be voting on this bill tomorrow morning. Senator Tom Coburn (R) Oklahoma says he will delay the vote if he is not enough time to read all 800 pages of the Stimulus Bill. So it ain’t over until Pelosi screams Botox.
Love the toon Pat. Parker’s article is good. I just wished the WasPo would have put forward these before the election !!
A Juvenile Barack awkwardly playing a fiddle.
Yeah, I’d say that sums up our president perfectly.
You are definitely on a role Pat!
ee gads. You are dragging the bottom of the barrel when you start quoting Kathleen Parker. She’s a conservative columnist, cheer leader for the bush administration both jeb and shrub. She (and just about every other conservative) is the last person that should be talking about making the tough decisions. LOL those bone heads let their love interest double our national debt. Now it needs to be paid down.
I have your really tough decision that is unpopular right here… raise taxes.
Do that and then we can talk about the real deal. Until then they’re all just amateur hour.
I believe Kathleen was one of the conservative women who trashed Sarah and who strangely joined in the Obama lovefest.
Ol Kathleen sure knows how to pick em, doesn’t she?
Raise taxes? So, what, I can pay 70% of my paycheck so Pig Pelosi can spend like mad on her Marxist insanity and social programs? Nah, no way. I pay enough taxes as it is.
yeah I can see how you might put your wallet before your country. (LMAO) The me generation speaks
Oh well.
LOL isn’t this how you warm up before a night of blogging?/
Me Me Me Me Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Hmmm….I feel something in my pants…Oh it’s just WildChild with his hand in my pocket trying to get my paycheck he’s entitled to.
you must not be one of the people then, because the people wrote taxation into law when they laid down government of the people.
So what are you then, commie or fascist?
WildChild…get a brain. This country only exists because of “taxation without representation.” Take a frigging history lesson. Of course we all get stuck with taxes, but at a certain point it’s a joke and not in our best interest…you know, like in the Pelosi Pig Bill. I’m not paying for crap like that. Nor should you. You just don’t get that there is fair and there is unfair. How about that Boston Tea Party? Because there’s another one coming genius.
Right, taxation without representation. Back then it was an issue of class in a class based society and not because the colonists were a bunch of greedy little cowards.
Now of course it’s just about you greedy little cowards, because we have representation.
PS Wild Child. This is America, not Canada. So, the socialist talk doesn’t work for me anyway, nor should it work for any American citizen.
socialism? Before the conservative wave of hysteria transmagorified it into something it isn’t, levying taxes was the responsible way for our government to raise the money it spent.
But now all you hear is Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee from the fours corners of the land … as we go bankrupt. LOL great plan you have there.
Well, let’s see…If the money we paid in taxes went to the right places, we wouldn’t be having these conversations. And your socialist nirvana is a joke. You will, what, only be happy when the very last person of wealth is picked to the bone, sucked dry, and poor? Wow, that’s a lot of liberal hate there honey.
ROFLMAO oh your so full of it. We’ve had deficit spending ever since your god ronny stated all this insanity. The truth is we’ve bee putting it on the credit card since 1981. The only one who came close to making it right was a liberal, named Bill Clinton.
And then you conservatives went and fucked it all up fr everybody
I’m a Democrat putz and I voted for Bill Clinton so STFU.
It’s great to know you’d give up my free speech rights before you’d give up one more tax dollar. OH you’re definitely a conservative.
wild child — Obama wants to spend 9.7 trillion to bail out every industry. Once he spends the treasury then what? Maybe he’ll say I SCREWED UP.
That’s why I said they are all amateur hour. Without levying the taxes to pay for the spending, BOBO is doing the exact same thing the conservatives did under the shrub.
It is irresponsible governing and that is not change we can believe in. It’s the same old same old from the last eight years.
cripes, when is enough, ENOUGH?? The government from local, state and Federal already tax the shit out of us. How about them slashing spending? It’s irresponsible to expect me to pay more taxes for stupid shit we don’t need. If Federal govt would cut out all the waste, they wouldn’t need to raise my taxes. And I would say most of the people on this blog are not from the “me” generation.
I think it’s time to end this little illusion you have going that our national debt was doubled by the boneheaded conservatives because of stupid shit we don’t need ; They made massive tax cuts at a time when we were standing in the doorway of budget surpluses that could have been used to pay down our debt, balance our books and prevent the bullshit we are now living . But instead they gave it away as fuel for the next bubble.
Alexis
The sheeple don’t get it
Bankrupt capitalism
Fairness Doctrine
Scapegoat the rich
Google control of personal life
Equals Marxism….
Well, Seattle….I wish them good luck with that. The one term nightmare usurper will be gone soon and we will become America again. Screw the socialists.
I wouldn’t be that nice to them
Communist’s pure and simple!
I got a stomach ache…Too many happy meals today
I’d be careful about casting dispersions moss. The other night you got your balls busted a little bit and you got so upset we had to vote you back in lest you run off and cry
WC..
I make no apologies!
As for you…You are xenophobic and made a fool of your self talking about Brits the other night…
Seattle…Commies have a mental disease, feel sorry for him!
Alexis
I don’t have time to carry on with someone that just wants to argue for the sake of arguing…I had a long day and I have better things to do…
Have a good night!
don’t forget that kleenex Moss. LOL In case you have to blow your nose for nose blowing sake.
I ‘m not xenophobe you whimpering dufus. Aliens don’t get to take part in the decision making in this country. but hey, maybe you’re a big fan of the illegals voting and such. I know I’m not
here have a kleenex
“Whimpering dufus?” Wow. Coming from a man who wants my paycheck because of liberal greed, jealousy and rage.
WC
The reason why I have never e-mailed you despite the date you wanted was because of a comment you made on this blog
Something about offering your ass up!
A blogger came back and said too much information…
I will never forget that…Wimpy!
Seattle…ROFLMAO….Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Moss you did email me and I deleted your email. The last thing I needed was to let a closet conservative into my life.
take the rest of the box, you’ll need it.
Yeah right!!
Wc…Most of the bloggers dislike you in a big way. While you were sulking after getting your ass kicked the other night many of them continued commenting about your hateful xenophobic posts a few days later..Very embarrasing for you I’m sure.
I know what people think of me on this blog as I had my hour on radio and my own thread..
The bottom line is..You just got kicked in your baby nuts tonight!
Offer your ass up somewhere else!
Wimpychild!
Comment by JustMe | 2009-02-11 21:03:42
WTG Seattle I am proud to call you a friend!
I may write my story one day I know many here do not think as an ex Brit I should post here however as you say we are all in this together…
I will send good thoughts for your business and the families who you support through your employees!
You’re a great American~~
Comment by Seattle Moss | 2009-02-11 22:11:31
I’m proud to call you a friend too!
Try to forget what WC said the other night. That is not representative of the vast amount of people here.
Wow I touched a nerve didn’t I? LMAO You know Moss you ought to fess up to the people about this whole you didn’t e-mail me bullshit that you are trying to pass as reality. It’s because you emailed me that I knew your little sell out post linked by UWM was authentic and not some game he was playing. You signed your name to it. The same name you signed to the email you sent me.
Now before you break into tears be a man and tell the truth.
Oh and I got no more kleneex for you. LOL you took my last box
You asked Susan for my e-mail
I obliged.
You said that you wanted to meet me for lunch..
I said OK
Then you start talking strange
about butts in the air..Very weird!
Seattle…I guess the problem is no one can resist you – male, female, commie, whatever!
Alexis,
ROFLMAO!!
I love closet republicans the best!
Well, we can all have crushes on you here, but might not talk about shoving our butts in the air. Wowzah!
excellent moss, as long as we are clear that when you said The reason why I have never e-mailed you … you were lying through your teeth. I guess it’s better then all the tears. LOL lies I can handle
ROFLMAO you may now return to your regularly scheduled homoerotic fantasies Moss
I really doubt that Seattle has “homoerotic fantasies.” That might be some serious wishful thinking on your part.
Why did you ask me to go on a date with you?
I tried to oblige your desire to meet up with me for a chat for lunch as you requested, but I guess you didn’t like my Iraq is a brilliant strategy or my pro business attitude.
So I stopped trying when you started talking strange to the bloggers at large.
I’m glad we didn’t meet up!
He’s the one fixed on my ass. It’s here in black and white for all to see.
Seattle…are you saying that WildChild was talking about the “spear in the rear?” Good lord. We already have B-Crack to deal with, can we move off you two crazy kids and your dating history?
Not much of a come back!
You came here looking for a fight and you lost..Good night!
A date? You big mo…ss. I was just being nice Mo…ss. You were just on of my blog homies and I gave you a shout out. Sorry you took it the wrong way mo…ss.
Many bloggers have discussed that wc comes on this blog whacked.
Once I realized how Anti American it was and how he says other crazy things I couldn’t get away fast enough.
You know something mo…ss. If you actually had to take the time to tell the world that I lost… I didn’t
please don’t dream about me.
WC..I hope you have a better day tomorrow!
Later!
bye bye butt boy.
The women on this blog know me very well…
Nothing takes away from the fact that you are a xenophobic and many people think you are low class.
WildChild…WTF is wrong with you? Seattle is straight no matter how much you wish he was your BF.
oh please, Mo..ss has been slobbering all over my ass all night…. or he’s been lying to you.
You chose.
“Mo ss has been slobbering over your ass all night?” Really, show me where. What I see is a compassionate human being humoring someone who isn’t well.
Mo..ss, you fantasize about my ass.
ummm, maybe you missed the part when Mo…ss kept bringing up my ass.
You are disgusting and inappropriate WildChild and I am going to report it to Susan. I hope you get banned. Something is way wrong with you.
Cool don’t forget to forward this little gem to Susan you flaming hypocrite
Comment by AlexisM | 2009-02-13 00:39:30
Seattle…are you saying that WildChild was talking about the “spear in the rear?
I was making a joke to try to lighten up your pathetic, mentally deranged drivel. But to seriously suggest that a married, straight man “wants your ass” on a public blog…who the hell do you think you are you sick f**k?
WC..You came here and attacked me saying that I’m going to need a tissue.
You’re the one that needs a tissue.
I’m just reminding you of something you said on this blog back on August.
You didn’t say those sexual inuendos to me, but to somebody else on this blog…
I saw the comment like your comments the other night and was shocked that you are really low class.
There are many people that remember the rambling bull crap that you say.
You make inappropriate comments on this blog..
Maybe I will talk to my friend SWusan about the xenophobia you pulled on those bloggers the other night.
LMAO , right, it’s Ok when you do it. LOL it’s all in good fun. Now as to what I am, what I am is the guy who is not the married guy on the down low named Mo…ss going on and on about my ass.
Mo.. ss I don;t really care. When you were down I stood by you. I defended you. I had your back. If you want to call me low class that’s your business. But if you and your widdle fwend alexis are what is considered high class… LOL then I guess it’s a topsy turvy world ins;t it.
You are despicable WildChild. I pray to God you get banned. You have way crossed a line you pig.
Yeah WildChild, the definition of high class is airing your homoerotic fantasies on a political blog. They have 976 numbers for your sick shit. Call one and get lost.
This doesn’t require a faith based solution. Email Larry , email Susan, make your case. I’d be more then happy to stand before their judgment.
well, if that’s what it takes to be high class I guess Mo…ss was right. he’s high class.
Wild child,
Please let go of your pet cat’s balls and stop forcing it to frantickly claw at your keyboard. Give it a rest! I’m about to call the ASPCA on you.
Do you smoke crack you freak? Really you are hallucinating. And if Susan and Larry promote someone like you discussing your “ass in the air” and a straight man “wanting your ass” on this blog then God help them too.
great, now we have another high class perv in the house. This one is into cat balls.
LOL so I guess when you threatened me with emailing susan you were as full of shit as Mo..ss has been all night. I can see why you guys are pals.
Let’s face it wildchild
You came on this blog to attack me because i was disappointed in what you said to some English folks that have lived in the united states and you felt they should have NO say in what happens.
I will say it again..You were totally out of line and everybody told you so.
As for ubm…He came on the blog the next day seeking forgiveness and I told him I hold no grudges.
As for my post that night..I meant what I said on Jan18th
You can’t be anti bush and anti obama and anti everything..
Larry the next day had a post about this subject..I’m not the only one.
I’m leaving. And if Susan and Larry don’t tell you to STFU then I hope a lot of people reading this get nauseated enough to leave. You’re a really sick, pitiful man. So pathetic. If Seattle was anything other than a gentleman he would kick your skanky loser azz for your lies and insults you Queen.
I emailed Susan WildChild. She can do what she wants with this. But if Larry wants to be taken seriously as a political blog then he might not want some raging lunatic talking about his “ass in the air” and people “wanting his ass.” You’re way off the rails pal. Way off.
Mo…ss, contrary to your delusions of grandeur. I don’t come to this blog because of you.
Ever.
The only people talking about my ass in the air on this blog was you and Mo..ss.
You did it. You own it.
Comment by WildChild | 2009-02-13 00:58:24
Seattle is straight no matter how much you wish he was your BF.
oh please, Mo..ss has been slobbering all over my ass all night…. or he’s been lying to you.
You chose.
I am a straight woman so I doubt I have a dog in the race of you craving Seattle’s ass. You brought all of this on yourself. I own nothing other than a barf bag at this point.
WC
You can’t change the facts about what you said back in August.
Try to stop being so stupid. I know your back up hitter isn’t here tonight
You obviously have no material!
WC. Check your AOL mail account.
what facts? all we have here tonight is just you talking shit mo…ss.
hmmm, I think i see your disconnct. Somehow you and the Mo..ss talking about my ass all night makes ME gay.
Bwah Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!
Interesting.
Alexis,
Don’t waste anymore time or emotion on Wild Child, there are no words that I know of to adequately describe the level of his/her profound ignorance, and I know lots of words, most of which would be unfamiliar to wild child, and I could probably tie him/her up for quite some time on wikipedia if I decided to do so. I’m writing to YOU Alexis,please don’t respond to him/her and waste your limited time on this earth with idiots. I enjoy and appreciate your passion and your posts when they are directed toward issues, not when they are in response to imbeciles.
No, WC, you continually claiming that Seattle “wants your ass” is what got us to this point. And I doubt a straight man runs around claiming another blogger “wants his ass.” I don’t care if you are gay or straight, although airing your crap here and not on some dirty boy blog is silly. But it’s attacking a straight, married man with claims that he wants to have sex with you that are beyond reprehensible. Got it? I’m going to bed and hoping that the owners of this blog find you as disgusting as the rest of the bloggers here do.
Why else would Mo…ss be talking about my ass? According to Mo…ss he’s been dreaming about it since august. That’s a long time to be thinking about another mans ass.
greed, jealousy and rage? They taught you that at Jesus camp didn’t they? I’ve always wondered why you fascist commies call it Jesus camp? Jesus would have given the shirt off his back if it could have helped alleviate suffering.
LOL but not you.
Wow WildChild you are a really sad person. You came here and immediately looked for a fight and started insulting people. Pathetic. You’re just an angry, America hating commie with some big issues. Good night.
you can’t even see it can you?
OH god, how quickly they become fringe
What I see is someone who needs serious mental health care. Good luck with that.
great, now your doctor Freud. Ring me up when you morph into Doctor Phil. LOL Then your imaginary being will be complete.
This was kind of fun when the issues were being discussed in a colorful way. But not so fun when you go after each other.
I worked hard on my little toon–aren’t we supposed to be talking about that subject?
Sorry Pat. You would think that due to our current economic meltdown that people would steer away from creating fictions as a way to better there position, but that is not the case. Knowing how much damage a fiction passed off as truth can do, it is the wise move to go after them and the people who attempt to con others with them whenever and whereever they are in the act.
30 billion to save the Salt Marsh Mouse in No. CA. for Nancy. I’m all for restoring marshland but not from the “stimulus” package.
Sometimes even conservative Bushites get it right.
Now if we can only get them to all repeat the same time over and over again all day long… we can improve the odds
Regardless of the fact Kathleen Parker is a conservative columnist, she spoke highly of Obama during the primaries and always took Hillary to task. Then in the general, she continued to speak well of O and against McCain and Palin. Plus the fact, she was on Chris Matthew’s Sunday show every other week. No one got on there unless they were in the tank for Obama. We are all delighted that perhaps she is seeing the light.
I would not trust Kathleen Parker one iota. Am I happy she is dissing Barry? Yes. But she got him elected by hounding Governor Sarah Palin. Parker is a mollusk.
Peggy Noonan is another reprehensible creature whose off mike comment revealed her true feelings. She was relentless on the attack against Palin. Noonan is an iguana.
While we are at it, how about Christopher Buckley, son of William F Buckley Jr. Christopher Buckley is a one of the STDs (Socialist Traitor Democrats) (NQ dems are not STDs) who voted for and publicly endorsed Barry. Buckley is a scorpion.
Now onto Colon Powellosi. He endorsed Barky and dissed my Sarah. Colon is a salamander.
All the people I mentioned are conservatives who morphed into STDs all because of O. And Parker and Noonan are females last time I checked. Their behavior is inexcusable and now they want to pretend they weren’t in the tank for BO.
When I mention their names I have to scratch my face like Barry did to Hill and McCain.
Thanks for the info. Especially when someone like myself learned how bad WaPo got and stopped reading them.
They were all looking out for their own job security. Noonan was a former Reagan speech writer who has gotten loopy. Buckley has to resign from NRO. You all know who his dad was, one of the iconic conservative thinkers of all time. Powell believed everything he read about Palin, never met the woman and his perceptions of her thru the media filter was his single reason for dropping McCain.
Un Feakin believable.
Powell, like every other AA in this country – conservatives, republicans, as well as the salivating democrats, et al, could not help themselves when it came to Obama and electing an AA to the presidency. It was all very racially one-sided which they would deney to their dying day.
The only one who spoke rationally about O was Michael Steel, the new chair of the RNC. He remained loyal to his conservative philosophy and party while all around him people like Juan Williams from NPR, a republican, cried on every occasion that put Obama closer to January 20th. It was disgusting.
Yes, all the NeoCons that promoted Bush backed Obama.
Scott McClellan, Powell, Buckley, the list goes on. They knew a good bet.
I only disagree about Powell and Palin. He was NEVER going to support his supposed “friend” McCain. He had been helping Obama during the priimary, But he still had the stench of promoting the war in Iraq then, so they kept as quiet as possible and just said he was “advising the campaign.
Powell tried to find EXCUSES to give. And then the final piece was so laughable. It had nothing to do with his race. NOOOOOOO! (snark) You only voted for the first African American, as a majority did, but it had nothing to do with him being African American. LOL
You are so right on this point. This is why BO is GWB’s third term — i.e. Phase II of the fascist takeover of this country.
Phase II consists of
* corporate pillaging of whatever is left to pillage;
* privatizing SS;
* rendering the dollar worthless via hyper-inflation;
* double-digit interest rates;
* continuing GWB’s perpetual war policy;
* and continuing to erode our right’s via FISA.
I have lost friends over my support of Sarah..
I’m proud of my vote and I’m proud of her values!
She is a libertarian more than anything. I think you have said this much yourself. She has her own beliefs but doesn’t foist them on other people.
He is my proof. When McCain picked Palin the people interviewed in Alaska couldn’t even name what her religious views were. They didn’t know.
Alaskans are incredibly independent souls with libertarian inclinations. Its a frontier mentality.
Lose some friends but keep your self respect. Country First Dude.
It doesn’t matter what party you belong to, Palin rocks and she’s the future of this country. Period. If the wing nut, batcrap freaks could get out of their own way, and stop destroying America because of party nonsense, we could have real leadership instead of the dumbazz we got.
The minute Obama was elected I took off my Texas Democrat bumper sticker and replaced it with “Country First”. It looks so much better.
That’s the spirit. All us people in the middle are quite literally PUMAS. This extends way beyond the original intent of the term. It was mainly Hill supporters but now it now applies to that large swath of territory cut through the middle of the political landscape.
Same here. Only I don’t mind the “casual” friendships I lost, because this election showed who were friends.
In my mind, one doesn’t send nasty, threatening and condescending notes if I don’t support their guy. I didn’t do it to them for suppporting the empty one, who were they for acting as poorly as they did?
Also, in the blog world, learned that they were liars. I would receive one email saying, I support Hillary too, but would never send out articles promoting Hillary’s campaign, only Baracks. And then after they knew I left a certain blog, started posting their articles on there DAILY.
To another who would say the “secretly” supported Hillary, but then blogged, “it’s important for all of you to know I did not vote for Hillary”. …. to “I couldn’t vote for Obama, so I voted for Nader”…and her blogging that she voted for “Obama”.
Being this online community started so strong in 2003/2004, this was the first full election where this community was in swing, so I think I was done a favor to see how folks really are and apparently don’t have integrity and consider what they write in the online world as noncommittal.
What exactly did Ms, Parker say in this article that is “off?” She made 2 points: Obama’s inexperience is showing and he needs to be liked–and I think that is a dangerous combination.
You don’t have to trust her, but what did you think of this particular article?
I agree with Ms. Parker (whom I usually dislike) that Obama’s inexperience and his need for adoration spell trouble. Also, hes a dishonest lying turd, but thats sort of par for the course in politics.
All he had to offer was “hope and change”, neither of which is happening.
Pat – great cartoon and excellent post. While the article is spot-on, it is also too late. That is what I think if this article. Too darn late.
She could write dozens of articles exposing this empty suit and still not make up for the insults she threw on Sarah and Hillary.
Well I don’t believe this statement she made above.
Surrendering your cell phone as a SYMBOL of something? Obama “staying in touch with everyday Americans”, like, say, Joe the plumber?
Obama loathes the average guy. He said so in SF and they got it on tape.
Anyway that is not the point I was making. There is nothing wrong with the article. Which is why I said:
What she said in the article is fairly obvious by now.
I am referring to Parkers past switch hitting tendencies and her elitist attitude which was on full display in her focus on criticizing Palin. This shocked the conservatives over at hot air for instance. She became their nemesis. They wanted to strangle her and Noonan. This went on for weeks. Drudge even linked to it, as if shocked, if I remember correctly.
She could write wonderful stuff exposing Obama, but come 2012 she is capable of twisting just about anything.
I think this thread is great Pat, love the cartoon, and I wasn’t in anyway criticizing you or the article. I don’t think anyone else thought so. I was just giving a warning about Parker and Noonan on something that still stings in the minds of many.
Winston, for me, the article is one of the early (along with MoDo) winners of a plate of crow. There’ll be more. I think it’s great to point out their hypocrisy. They’ve definitely been shown, in comparison to their sell out, to be unworthy of conservative credentials. Phonies, one and all.
Love Pat’s cartoons.
Yes, they went after Sarah simultaneously. It was shameful. I’ll never bother with either one of them. Noonan who was a speech writer for Reagan…not a fan of him…but wouldn’t you think she’d have admired Sarah?
Yes AC, thanks for backing me up on this. Its a total mystery to me. It was a simultaneous attack.
I was flummoxed over what took place. At the time I never heard of NQ. I was over at hot air just lurking at the stream of people pounding away at their keyboards with intense outrage over the betrayal. Same thing at LGF.
Drudge was linking on a regular basis just to expose them cause he liked Palin from the word go.
He always seems to favor the under-dog. Drudge has very considerable libertarian leanings. He is scared to death of google for example.
Anyway it was so counter-intuitive and drew an enormous amount of attention. No one could figure out the motive behind it, especially when it became clear that the criticism was over stupid stuff. Parker and especially Noonan came off as snobby elites like they had some kind of intellectual superiority over the unwashed and we had better listen to them for we could not possibly understand what we were witnessing.
Keep in mind that the powers that be are freaked over the connection Sarah made with average people.
All this mind you when she wasn’t even at the top of the ticket. The other meme that the MSM was hell bent on jaming down our throats was that Sarah was the drag on the ticket.
Every person I have ever talked to voted for McCain BECAUSE of Palin.
Just for the record I would vote for Hill or Bill in a heartbeat to get rid of Obama. It might come to that.
The convergence of those mentioned along the same trajectory made it seem like it was orchestrated. I have always viewed the media with suspicion and when I see 90 degree turns or 180s, something is up.
Pat love the toon but the ears aren`t big enough. I knew he was Dumb-O immediately. The ears were the tip off!
Obama unmasked. He’s not a populist. He needs Wall Street and they own him. Just look at our Treas. Sec.
Same old, same old. The banks win. WallSt wins.
He is hugely disappointing, and his inexperience is showing through the smiles, the gloss.
This is a great toon. I love it.
Thanks for the link to Katleen Parker’s editorial. I read it in its entirety and was struck by two things, First Parker seems to be saying that BHO wouldn’t relinquish his Blackberry because he wanted to say in touch with “ordinary Americans”. That’s absurd. To BHO “ordinary Americans” are props for a photo op; to adore him and make him look good at a campaign stop.
Secondly, she makes an analogy between BHO and an abused spouse who is FEMALE. I was rather offended by the comparison. Not that I’m an abused spouse. But her initial use of the gender neutral word “spouse” means it could be man or woman. Yet in the next sentence she clarifies that her comparison is to a WOMAN. Are there no weak males? no abused husbands?
Absolutely.
Hey Pat! Another very funny graphic–kind of reminds me of my older son when he picked up the violin. Ghastly!!
Kathleen Parker? Wasn’t she the conservative columnist who dissed Sarah Palin? In fact, if I remember correctly she led a pack of vicious dogs who took great sport in tearing Palin down: she didn’t sound right, didn’t go to the right schools, was too stupid to be VP.
And now we have Barack Obama. As President. I’m not a conservative nor a Republican. But I’d prefer Johnny Mac in a minute over what I’m seeing now. In my mind, the Kathleen Parkers of the world have no right to state the obvious. Yes, Obama is an amateur. And Kathleen Parker and Peggy Noonan and a whole slew of Republican mouthpieces helped put him in the WH.
They ought to take a good, hard look in the mirror.
Good cartoon!
Very nice cartoon describing what is going on! The only problem is he is doing exactly what he said, as an inexperienced candidate, he would do. He is towing the Democratic Party line and doing what the Democratic leaders want him to do. The people who voted for him wanted him to put the country into further debt and give them all kinds of social services. He is doing what he is good at, which is giving speeches and running for office. He never said he was good at governing or that he had real governing experiences.
In fact I admire him for being smart enough to know that he does not know everything and putting on his team many Clinton people, which I believe is what Hillary would have done.
Anyone who thinks that government and how it functions can change overnight just because there is a new president deserves to be disappointed, and as usual we all suffer. When will we learn that good looks and good talk, no matter how motivating, is not enough and experience counts?
Rich
Thanks for a good laugh. This psycho-babble about “needing to be liked” was funny enough, but then the cherry on top: a poster quoting Nathianel Branden, that Ayn Rand disciple who left his wife to pair with Rand and later cheated on her (Rand). She ditched him for being deceitful — and an intellectual lightweight.
Rand’s other notable disciple was Alan Greenspan. You all know how well his application of her free-market philosphy turned out.