Current Article

Confused? Disoriented? Senile? [updated with yet another blockbuster video]

By pm317 on June 19, 2009 at 7:00 PM in Current Affairs

May be not senile. He was confused and disoriented at enough times and exhibited other behaviors that led us to question his capacity to serve.

I am of course talking about Obama.

Poor Mr. Walpin seems fine — I would stop looking for tell-tale signs of senility in his videos, if I were you.

Obama’s reasons for firing Inspector General Mr. Walpin (from the Washington Times article :

Many of the Eisen letter’s charges are rather vague (“he had engaged in other troubling and inappropriate conduct”; “Mr. Walpin had become unduly disruptive to agency operations”). Two allegations are more specific.

1)There was a “May 20, 2009 Board meeting at which Mr. Walpin was confused, disoriented, unable to answer questions and exhibited other behavior that led the Board to question his capacity to serve.”
2)“We further learned that Mr. Walpin had been absent from the Corporation’s headquarters, insisting upon working form his home in New York over the objections of the Corporation’s Board.”

Go on to the Washington Times article for Mr. Walpin’s rebuttal to these spurious claims. The Times has a witness on record who disputes these allegations as well. Also don’t miss earlier posts on this topic from American Girl in Italy, here and here.

What I want to highlight in this post are the few occasions where Obama showed his early signs of senility. Here we go.

Do you remember the townhall meeting in Bristol, VA? Confused, disoriented, and unable to answer questions, that about describes it.

Or this, the 57 plus 1 (plus 2? who knows what the hell he is talking about) states of the United States of America?

Or this more recent confusion and disorientation?

Or this — when did we resolve to halt the rise of “privacy” in that region? Watch for it after 0:49 mark.

Or do you remember “Cinco de Cuatro”? I don’t think he realized his gaffe but the people laughing at him did.

Can we fire him now?

[UPDATE]Take a look at the video below. At around the 0:55 mark, Obama says “..they[SCOTUS] are charged with the vital task of applying principles put to paper more than 20 centuries ago..” Hmmmm, when was the constitution written?

[h/t to commenter noobamagma for the alert]

Do we have to wait until 2012 to fire him?

TeakWoodKite

He is SO fired…and glazed like a clay pot.

Quick get the Donald.

Talk about a “deer in the headlights”.
trixta

Or, how about the “Punch- drunk interview” (steve Croft, 60-Minutes)?

http://www.rantnation.com/w/?p=43

trixta

2009 22 Mar
Steve Croft to Obama: “Are You Punch Drunk?”

Politico – 3/22/09 10:31 PM EDT

“You’re sitting here. And you’re— you are laughing. You are laughing about some of these problems. Are people going to look at this and say, ‘I mean, he’s sitting there just making jokes about money—’ How do you deal with— I mean: explain. . .” Kroft asked at one point.

“Are you punch-drunk?” Kroft said.

“No, no. There’s gotta be a little gallows humor to get you through the day,” Obama said, with a laugh.

Docelder

Who can ask Eric Holder for a legal opinion of whether the firing of Walpin on the basis of a perceived personal disability was legal? That would cause a conundrum. Alinskyism can be an effective two edged sword.
Seattle Moss

Every once in a while I like to go out and really exercise my God given rights and party like it’s 2012. Of course I never drive when I’m exercising my rights responsibly.
My wife tested me awhile back… I came stumbling in flopped on the bed and nearly passed out
It was to my disbelief that she would start asking me stupid questions…Leave me alone! Can’t you see I’m out of it I protested… She persisted anyway
Moss…How many States are there?
Where are the great lakes?
Who is our President?

I got everything correct except for who is president.
I kept saying Hillary!
I guess now you know why I went out in the first place..To try to forget…

Ferd Berfle

I got everything correct except for who is president.
I kept saying Hillary!

It makes one want to weep a river of tears.
Seattle Moss

My point is that even in a near coma I can remember how many states there are in this great country.
How can you get it wrong!!

You can’t get it wrong unless you have allegiance in another faith.

Like a Manchurian candidate Obama showed us all with his slip of the tongue who he really supports and it’s not us.

Ferd Berfle

I got your point, which, though true, did not strike me as much as the comment about HRC.
Portia Elizabeth

What about the slip of the tongue regarding controlling privacy?
Chill inducing.

Docelder

party like it’s 2012

I will have to remember that one.
Ani

I’m right with you there, SM.
Ladydawnelle

LOL ok Moss that was funny! Ha!
(I mean the part where you’re stumbling drunk)

teeheehahahoho – but I rather doubt it. :-/

bambi otoh – I expect to start seeing him sniffling and wiping his nose any day now. Maybe a little nose hair drip?

maybe up there in the bubble they have dispensaries set up to “keep the CIC kicking” who knows.
NYCgirl

Every time I hear the words “President Clinton”, the image of Hillary flashes into my mind — and then I realize they’re talking about Bill. And when I hear “the President is issued a statement today …”, I think back to whatever it was Hillary was saying at the State Dept. that day.

It’s not just you, Seattle Moss!

mel

It must be strongly pointed out that the labels given IG Walpin by Obama were a result of an Americorp board meeting on May 20th and during that meeting Walpin was asked to leave the room for 15 minutes and upon return, his papers were not in order and he wasn’t given a chance to replace them in order all the while being blasted with direct questions over his two findings of fraud of Americorp Funds.

Strange also that one fraud was Obama’s friend Johnson and the other was an organization in NYC which happens to be a litmus paper organization for radicals educaters associated with Bill Ayers (Opps didn’t know that one huh?).

The board meetin was a set up without question and all because Obama’s buddy Johnson was caught in a fraud of Americorp money and radical educaters in NYC who have ties to Bill Ayers and his methods of teaching.

And no one is really screaming out as to why the WH is not exposing the visitor lists, have to wonder how many times Bill Ayers has been a guest at 1600 Penn Ave. so far over the past few months!

pm317

Details of what happened in the board meeting are in the Wash Times article I cite (I just didn’t cut and paste it — I would encourage everybody to go read it as I said in my post).
NomNomNom

hand in hand with Al Waleed bin Talal, probably.

Ferd Berfle

In summation: That One is a babbling fool.
TexasMirth

Mr. Cinco de Quatro-Punch-Drunk-Breathalizer-Fifty-Seven-States-Austrian-language-community-organizer is a little too cavalier about his job security. Somebody forgot to inform him that illegal actions can cost him his job. IMPEACH THE CREEP!

BettsAz

I saw my first “IMPEACH OBAMA” bumper sticker yesterday ! Made me smile all day!

http://deleted BuzzisbackLatte

I salute whomever had that on their vehicle! Your post will make us smile all day tomorrow!

TeakWoodKite

You want to lay odds it doesn’t last the day?

Seeing how Obots are allergic to certian bumperstickers that need no W.O.R.M. glue?

Tuppence411

From Massachusetts- I saw a great bumper sticker yesterday “Together We DIDN’T! Dump Deval 2010″
Ha Ha! Love it. Hope it’s an omen for Barky ” No He CAN’T- Oust Obama 2012″

Hubby saw a bumpersticker spelling out Obama’s name as ” One Big Ass Mistake America”

http://! stodgie

and texas mirth, you can also bet that the rest of the world is taking note of nobama’s screwups as well. for sure n korea and iran has noted it. i look for israel to acquire new best friends also. sure got the change the obots wanted, but how do ya’ll like it?

cathnealon

Wow I forgot about his interview on 60 minutes.Talk about a flake. Yeah and isn’t it illegal to fire someone because of disability? I think Walpin should claim dementia and then file a lawsuit for workplace discrimination.
VinceP

“Three quarters of a million jobs lost this year. Our financial system in turmoil. And John McCain? Erratic in a crisis. Out of touch on the economy. No wonder his campaign wants to change the subject. ”

“Turn the page on the financial crisis by launching dishonorable, dishonest ‘assaults’ against Barack Obama. Struggling families can’t turn the page on this economy, and we can’t afford another president who is this out of touch.”

“I’m Barack Obama and I approved this message.”

Obama campaign ad

Scout

B0 consistently accuses others of doing exactly what he is doing. He’s the pot calling the kettle black

indigogrrl

Confused? Disoriented? Senile?
try stoned.

Ferd Berfle

He’s not even stoned. He is just plain stupid, which is probably why his academic records have never been released (and won’t ever be). Like his predecessor, he was handed everything, all the while doing nothing to earn it. He even sounds stupid when he tries to ad lib. I am not impressed at all with this shallow, callow, sophomoric frat-boy of a POTUS.

TexasMirth

He’s not even stoned. He is just plain stupid,

I agree – which is why I am so sick of hearing how brilliant our new president is. Cocky, yes. Arrogant, definitely. Intelligent…where’s the proof? The media keeps telling the American people how smart Obama is, hoping the American people are dumb enough to believe it just because THEY say it. But no matter how many talking heads chant that mantra, I see no evidence to support their claims. POTUS is barely articulate with TOTUS. Without TOTUS, he sounds like a buffoon.

Ferd Berfle

Agreed, TexasMirth. His singular call is the flimflam, which doesn’t take so much in the way of brains as it does smug overconfidence and attention to style–no substance necessary.

And to any bot who disagrees with my assessment, I say prove otherwise. Show me the transcripts. Oh… you can’t.

oowawa

he had engaged in other troubling and inappropriate conduct

This vague charge reminds me very strongly of the recent movie Changeling and the bogus vague accusations used by a police chief to lock up Angelina Jolie’s character in an insane asylum against her will. (a true story about some horrific incidents that occurred in Southern California in the late 20′s).

There’s grave danger in allowing unsubstantiated charges like these pass without challenge. Great work, pm317!

Portia Elizabeth

I was struck by that comment, too. It sounded like BO speak for: “He wouldn’t toe the line like a good Obot.”
pm317

There’s grave danger in allowing unsubstantiated charges like these pass without challenge.

That’s is exactly right. It is cruel and inhumane.

Let us suppose just for a minute that Mr. Walpin was ineffective and old and senile and all the rest of what 0bama is saying, couldn’t there have been a more respectful way of asking him to step down. The fact that they didn’t do that and the content of Mr. Walpin’s work and where it led, is all we need to know to see the character (or lack thereof) of 0bama.

Portia Elizabeth

Their intent was to destroy his credibility along with his career.

pm317

What were they afraid of, right?

arky

“he had engaged in other troubling and inappropriate conduct”

Cocaine? Pot? And that’s just what he confessed to….what else might there be?

J

Once again your analysis at NQ is very superficial and largely based on the right-wing political attack machine. You also continue to show a lack of knowledge of the facts. Anything to slime the Obama administration. I get it. Who needs facts or some minimal amount of balanced or level headed thinking?

Choosing to get in bed with a scumbag like Gerald Walpin really shows your colors NQ and American Girl in Italy.

First of all, Walpin was not fired because he was senile. A bunch of BS. He was fired because he was a right-wing ideologue political hold-over from Bush. He was asked to leave with the change in the administration (like all other political appointees) and he chose not to leave. He was also a horrible inspector general that had extreme right-wing tendencies, which is not the kind of person you are suppose to put into an inspector general job, which generally requires some balance.

Secondly, get your facts straight on Kevin Johnson. It was Gerald Walpin who display extreme wrong-doing in this affair. He abused his position of power for purely political reasons to try and get a Republican elected mayor of Sacramento. He reached far beyond his mandate as a inspector general.

Kevin Johnson and his nonprofit organization, the St. Hope Academy, that received funding from AmeriCorps admitted that some of the funds were mis-used. They ended up giving half the funds back. It was public knowledge, old news and well known. There was no cover-up here or big scandal. A mistake was made and it was corrected. Walpin uncovered the abuse of funds. No problem with that. However, the United States Attorney in Northern California looked into the abuse of funds and did not bring any criminal charges and reached a settlement with Johnson and St. Hope. The matter was settled and Johnson was a “stand-up-guy” through the whole affair. In fact, he was elected Mayor of Sacramento. If it was such a big scandal I hardly think he would have been elected mayor.

However, what your hero Gerald Walpin did went well beyond his official mandate and suggested that Walpin was just using his post for purely political reasons. It also suggested that he was the corrupt scumbag in the affair. He went out of his way to publicized the supposed “criminal” wrong doing by Johnson in the days before the Sacramental mayoral election, which Johnson was in and eventually won. Walpin sought publicity for his findings against Johnson in the local media before discussing them with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, “hindering our investigation and handling of this matter.” In fact the Republican acting U.S. attorney appointed by Bush, Lawrence Brown, filed a sharply worded complaint against Walpin with the oversight office for the federal inspector general that charged Walpin with ethical violations in an overzealous assault on Johnson and St. Hope. The U.S. attorney said that Walpin had “overstepped his authority by electing to provide my office with selective information and withholding other potentially significant information at the expense of determining the truth” — in other words, Walpin had failed to provide substantive exculpatory facts to the U.S. attorney, while trying to push the government into opening a criminal probe of Johnson.

Your man Gerald Walpin was a hard-line conservative in an inspector general position that requires dispassionate judgment and nonpartisan fairness. He has devoted much of his life to the causes of the extreme right, in particular as a trustee of the Federalist Society and as a director of the Center for Individual Rights, a right-wing law foundation devoted to overturning affirmative-action programs. This a guy in March 2008 wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Daily News berating human rights lawyers at Yale Law School for pursuing legal action against John Yoo for his memoranda justifying torture.

We don’t need scumbags like this guy Walpin in our government. This guy should have been shown the door much faster.

Ferd Berfle

I just made a little editorial correction to your comment so that it would reflect the truth.

We don’t need scumbags like this guy ~~Walpin~~ Obama, That One, in our government. This guy should have been shown the door much faster.

J

Fortunately, the vast majority of the American people disagree with you! Blahb away in your echo chamber if it makes you feel better.

Ferd Berfle

Excuse me, Spanky, but it is you with your rose-colored glasses and inability to see beyond your own petty little world-view that represents an echo chamber. I thought the bushbots were bad but you moronic, slack-jawed, mouth-breathing obamabots are as dumb as coal buckets.

Crawl back in that hole from whence you came, worm.

TeakWoodKite

Ferd, when BO’s EPA approved blasting the mountain tops he rendered coal buckets and hole obsolete.

So if a guy is a member of the Federalist he is a “scumbag”? So any Bush hold over is a target? Without any due process?
—
J should do a better job of copying and pasting.
——–
This is a posting by Joe Conason
salon.com
Friday, Jun 19, 2009

Then in March 2008, he wrote an Op-Ed essay for the New York Daily News berating human rights lawyers at Yale Law School for pursuing a legal action against John Yoo,

.

…near as I can tell. For some reason the link doesn’t work for the referenced Op-ed at the Daily News. The article attempts to conflate this illegal firing with Whitewater.
Makes the former IG out as

“he has devoted much of his life to the causes of the extreme right, in particular as a trustee of the Federalist Society and as a director of the Center for Individual Rights, a right-wing law foundation devoted to overturning affirmative-action programs.”

..

Ohhhh. He’s a bad man…
Portia Elizabeth

Ferd — do you not see that J (aka James, Jay, James G -did I leave out anynames?) received his talking points on a stone tablet from Mt. Obama? His vast majority have assurance from on high that yea, verily, these words are gospel and Halpin is a heathen who speaketh in truths and, worst of all, a Yale man.

http://sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ American Girl in Italy

J is Julie, Reason and Cherry.

http://! stodgie

j, put a dirty sock in it and show some respect for your posters here who bring more to their table than you do. all i see from you are dirty elbows. go wash up and include your mouth.

mel

Hey J, how stupid are you really?

Your first so called fact is a lie, and that is according to Oama’s letter to Congress over the firing of Walpin. So I guess you consider Obama a pathological liar then, good for you, most everyone else does too!

Second, funny if Johnson did no wrong, then why is the FBI now investigating him, does the FBI with Obama appointed instructions from the AG’s office act on the basis of fabrications?

Johnson misused unknowingly Americorp money, hmmm so either Johnson is stupid or you are, which is it?

As for the rest, even responding is a waste of time because you provide no proof of a thing you say except your own words, which are lies according to the facts, even the one about his firing to Congress, which you forgot to mention Obama had done illegally!

Huu might accept your trolling tactics, but people not on kool aide don’t, so back to your parents basement and your Cheetos to await Axelrod’s next mmarching orders troll!

J

It does not matter what excuse is used, Walpin is a scumbag and needed to go. Call him senile, whatever works that scumbag needed to go. And frankly, it is only fair, as the Democrats won the election and they should be able to decide who gets put in these position, just like the Republicans do when they win.

And we will have to see just how far the FBI investigation goes. Right now they have not contacted Johnson and in fact likely have all of his emails. Another waste of tax payers money. It is old news that there was a mis-use of funds and a settlement was reached and the funds are being paid back. Old news. It was investigated by a Republican U.S. attorney and nothing came of it. Nothing was hidden, there was no conspiracy, everthing was admitted to and there was no criminal charges and in fact Johnson was even elected mayor.

And go check the record yourself on the complaint the U.S. attorney made, not about Johnson, but about Walpin.

Here is the actual letter that was sent by the Republican U.S. attorney to Kenneth Kaiser, Chair, Integrity Committee, Counsel of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, complaining about Walpin.

Read it for yourself…

http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/Brown_letter_to_Kenneth_Kaiser.pdf

This website makes all kinds of allegations about Johnson and how Walpin is the hero and a good guy and was wronged, but there is really no fact checking, but only a repetition of republican partisan attacks. A joke! Zero credibility. NQ is just a Republican mouth piece.

http://sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ American Girl in Italy

Julie (J – Cherry – Reason) – You are an Obama mouthpiece. And abc, hahaha they are in bed with him, for crying out loud.

Obama broke his own law when he fired Walpin, giving him one hour to clean out his desk.

Obama labled him senile.

That was wrong.

Do you work for Johnson? Or are you just a fulltime obama WORMer?
tminu

ABC? The official propaganda arm of the Obama marxist politbureau? PFFFT!

Walpin discovered that Johnson would be refunded what he was paying back…WALPIN UNCOVERED DOUBLE DIPPING EMBEZZLEMENT IN THE MILLIONS

Then when he went to AG they as Obo lackies were cherry picking what they would prosecute, and have done this egregiously in so many cases such as Obama’s administration tax evaders. When Walpin went public about this exposing Johnson during his campaign, THIS is when all hell broke loose because a Johnson supporter acting AG did not want Johnson’s race affected. Walpin was fired illegally and only after a Senator who passed the law with Obama making such a firing illegal confronted them did they change the firing to 30 days leave, and then falsely accused Walpin of senility.

This case is really about how the AG does not prosecute according to the law, rather as Obama lackies. It’s also about Obama corrupt to the CORE, and Michelle was probably behind the request to fire Walpin because of her work with Americorps.

DCMediagirl

ABC? The official propaganda arm of the Obama marxist politbureau?

Wow. Strong words. Also mind-twistingly paranoid and overwrought.

http://sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ American Girl in Italy

“This website makes all kinds of allegations about Johnson and how Walpin is the hero and a good guy and was wronged, but there is really no fact checking, but only a repetition of republican partisan attacks. A joke! Zero credibility. NQ is just a Republican mouth piece.”

Where did I do that, exactly? The point is his illegal firing, and the claims that Walpin is basically senile, but given an hour notice, over the phone. And the fact that he was investigating Johnson and Americorps, and found wrong doing.

You claim this is partisan, but yet, don’t you think the Americorps board had reason to *lose confidence in Walpin*? Considering he was accusing Americorps of wrong doing, there is no big surprise they voted to have him removed. Sounds like a partisan fight, alright, but coming from the left.

And as for your copy/paste – I didn’t write this article, so you should have changed the name in your rant. And you don’t need to spam a site with the same comments over and over again….
jbjd

Liar liar pants on fire.

The link you provided contained several documents, at the end of which was this letter from Mr. Walpin to the U.S. Attorney and others, dated in August 2008. ‘Please, arrange to meet with this office to discuss best ways to address our findings that AmeriCorps funds distributed to Mr. Johnson were misspent.’ In this letter, Mr. Walpin stressed that, while the IG generally goes after private entities who misspend public dollars, it is perhaps even more important to go after public concerns, like Mr. Johnson’s group, where civic minded young citizens sacrifice a year of their lives receiving a mere pittance to live on, in order to help their country, and not to wash his car or run errands. More than one month later, news of the allegations is in the press. (There is some indication that the press said something negative about Mr. Walpin’s office and, he wrote back in response; however, he made clear, he would not discuss any criminal aspects of his office’s investigation.) In April 2009, the U.S. Attorney writes a letter reporting Mr. Walpin’s contact with the press was out of line.

But where is the U.S. Attorney’s response to that August 2008 letter from Mr. Walpin to meet with him and two of his fellow investigators to discuss how to proceed against Mr. Johnson based on their findings he misspent public funds?

hokma

“scumbag like Gerald Walpin”

What on Earth makes him a scumbag dounchebag? Because he found Obama’s buddy KJ with his hand in the cookie jar?

Moron, KJ was misappropriating federal money to have people wash his car. KJ should be doing the perp walk. Walpin never overstepped his authority – Obama did.

Obama broke the law. Let me repeat that because you seem a little slow. Obama broke the law. Not just any law. A law that he co-sponsored. The law he co-authored (which he should understand since he is a Constitutional intellectual – yeah right) states that the only way to fire an Inspector General is to first give the Congressional oversight committees a reason and proof for such a firing and to do so at least 30 days prior to such firing. Obama did not do that. He fired the man without warning – without advising Congress – and without a reason except later stating that he was senile. And he did that with 3 of them – all three uncovering problems with Obama’s buds. That my socialist friend is an impeachable offense.

What we don’t need is douchbags like you trying to hijack this country and turn it into a socialist state. Which the large majority do not want according to every poll.
http://none donnal

Because someone is right of issues would not make them not qualified to be an IG. A hard line is needed to do an IG’s job. The government needs a man of this type more than they need a Mr. Obama. It is if you have not taken notice to the fact that it is Mr. Obama who has devoted his life to hard left causes and who has benfited from affirmative action.

IG’s are looking for wrong, not looking for nice.
Perhaps he was having a p_ _ _ing match with the U.S. Attorney, and spoke of what he found. The fraud was no secret, and the public has the right to know. A settlement was reached for Mr. Johnson and Hope to repay funds, this would tell those of us who know of these type of things that there was misuse of funds and that repayment was needed.

Mr. Johnson was to pay 78,000+ and Hope over 400k. Neither have paid the settlement as of today. If Mr. Johnson does not pay the 78,000+ back perhaps the IRS would have an interest in his receiving gifts in this amount. Now, wasn’t that what Mr. Daschle was on the hot seat for, for not paying taxes on services he received?
pm317

Forget about Walpin, he looks like he can take care of himself and may be screw 0bama along the way.

The message of this post is this: “Look at the nincompoop you idiot obots elected.”

Ferd Berfle

The message of this post is this: “Look at the nincompoop you idiot obots elected.”

That, indeed, is the crux of the matter from which all else proceeds. I’m still awaiting signs of the change that was supposed to follow the election of That One. Oh, that was just a slogan. Never mind.

trixta

He abused his position of power for purely political reasons to try and get a Republican elected mayor of Sacramento.

J–your are sooo misinformed! The mayoral race in Sacramento came down to a run-off election between two candidates, Johnson and the incumbent democratic mayor Heather Fargo.

Also, Kevin Johnson’s St Hope most likely will not payback a dime of the $400,000 owed (from the original $840,000), since the corporation is in bad financial shape.
From Walpin’s Report to Congress about St Hope’s repayment of funds:

“Provides no protection of the corporation’s interests. While papering it to appear that Johnson and … St. HOPE … have agreed to give back half of the $847,673, … in fact, that is false. Johnson is paying nothing; while he advanced (money for St. HOPE’s initial payment), Johnson has no obligation to pay one cent, … and he can very promptly even obtain reimbursement (of the advance).

“Moreover,” Walpin continued, “St. HOPE’s financial condition is so precarious that it is unreasonable to count on St. HOPE to be able to make the 10 years of payments provided by the settlement agreement.”

Touting the settlement as being in the government’s interest “is an attempt to pull the wool over the public’s eyes,” Walpin charged.

jbjd

“Misinformed”? He’s making this up! Didn’t he listen to the tapes? Mr. Walpin was on national t.v., more than once, stating when he got the call from the WH to fire him, he thought they could be calling him to continue coordinating his help to ratify BO’s nomination of Justice Sotomayor for the SCOTUS! Mr. Walpin said, ‘I know she is progressive but, I endorse her nomination.’ So much for J’s opinion that Mr. Walpin is a ‘one trick pony.’
Karma

Shortly after his fraud was finally revealed on the news and glossed over. Johnson won the election and immediately attempted a power grab to make all the other city counsel members essentially irrelevant next to him.

The ‘Strong Mayor’ proposal failed and has never been discussed again. Until these same charges resurfaced again and within days of Walprin’s firing.

Can anyone say hmmmmmm?

And just for good measure. The petition to place this measure on the ballot….has 37,000 signatures PRIOR to hitting the streets to collect signatures.

Naw nothing to see here….

http://www.sacbee.com/ourregion/story/1914040.html

NomNomNom

Lawrence Brown, your hero, is an advocate of the new law that allows for taking DNA from anyone arrested, regardless of whether they are subsequently charged with a crime or convicted of a crime.
I wouldn’t be citing him as some sort of authority for good governance.
Better not spit on the sidewalk, @sswipe.
http://news.findlaw.com/prnewswire/20090528/28may20091241.html

Ferd Berfle

Sounds like the Patriot, i.e., Last Refuge of Scoundrels Act. I don’t like anyone making assumptions, whether they are bushbots or obamabots. The outcome is the same–less freedom and more intrusion by those who haven’t a clue.

If one is to be candid, the abuses of the previous administration must be considered along with the abuses of the current one.

Oh, that doesn’t fit into the partisan equation. Sorry for responding.

AngryWhitePerson

Obama is currently sucking up and yucking it up with the Radio & TV Correspondents Dinner, laughing at his own jokes, laughing at his administration, and laughing at his audience. All while looking delirious and tired. Someone should ask him if he knows what day and date it is. Or maybe someone should just speed up the clock so we can race ahead three years and get this yokel out of office. Nice to know where his priorities are. Not with the protestors of Iran or anything else for that matter. Nah, he knows where his “bread his buttered.” The media in his pocket.

hokma

I saw a little of that and he is still not funny.

For some reason he has no sense of humor and his jokes are over the line in most cases of immature.
cathnealon

And earlier his psychological abandonment issues were on full display with his little conference on how to be a better father since he didn’t konw his own. Oh, the pathos, the pain. How embarassing to have the leader of the free world in the midst of at least 4 different international crises, a domestic economy about to sink like the Titanic expounding on fatherhood. Oh, how quaint. Kim Jong, Mahmoud, the Ayatollah oh yeah they’re all laughing.

TeakWoodKite

cathnealon, That “first father” routine was a gag reflex moment.

I wonder if BO participated in “Taking your Daughter to work” day?

Portia Elizabeth

Assuming he actually worked…

TeakWoodKite

Well the google hits the brick wall, which hasn’t happened in a while to me.

Axelods falling down he job. Or maybe BO is not such “first father” after all.

I googled “BO participated in Taking your Daughter to work”…Even Obama in the search does not yeild the

I guess he thinks his daughters are not worthy of this tradition. Don’t it make ya feel all warm and fuzzy when the google is a virgin and BO is nowhere to be found on the net???

TexasMirth

Obama is currently sucking up and yucking it up with the Radio & TV Correspondents

along with drawing and swatting flies…busy guy.
http://! stodgie

yup, i accidentally turned on cnn last night and there nobama was. i immediately moved on. my friday nights are for relaxation and not yelling at the tv.

alphaBeach

uh-oh. One of the rationale for firing Walprin is that he “worked from home”. (although that had arrangement had been previously approved.)

Hillary is working from home due to her injury. She better have all her t’s crossed and i’s dotted on her permission slip! ….naaaahh, even O wouldn’t be that dumb.

http://deleted BuzzisbackLatte

Well, technically, doesn’t Obama work from home, also?

Where is the Oval Office, a commute away?

TeakWoodKite

Well it surely isn’t Kansas now is it?

http://deleted BuzzisbackLatte

No ~~Toto~~ Teak, it is most definitely NOT in Kansas! LOL!
ConfusedAmerican

Teakwood be careful who u ask….You never know which one of the 57 states Obama might say the WH in LOL

alphaBeach

yea….he and M hit the gym every morning so he can put in his 9-5 down the hall.

ok, maybe to be fair to the guy, 9-6:30, as i learned during the very enlightening burger run with brian williams

alphaBeach

ruh-roh. One of the rationale for firing Walprin is that he “worked from home”. (although that had arrangement had been previously approved.)

Hillary is working from home due to her injury. She better have all her t’s crossed and i’s dotted on her permission slip! ….naaaahh, even O wouldn’t be that dumb.

alphaBeach

sorry if i appear disoriented and confused… didn’t mean to post three times ; )

politicalidentitycrisis

Oh, man! I almost fed the troll. Nope, not gonna do it!
noobamagma

Always enjoy these… I also think during the announcement of Sotomayor, he said that the constitution was written “20 centuries ago”… or 200 centuries ago… one of those. Haven’t heard that since or that anyone gave him any trouble over that mistake.

pm317

You were right!! Take a look at around the 0:55 mark, 0bama says “..they[SCOTUS] are charged with the vital task of applying principles put to paper more than 20 centuries ago..”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqShO72gQq4

TeakWoodKite

Pm317, any chance he is talking about the bible?

or the 57th state of awareness?

jwrjr

He is talking about the Koran (Quran?).

TeakWoodKite

That came six centuries later no?

Docelder

That would have to be a reference to Roman law which dates back around 2000 years. I am no lawyer, and don’t know much about this past that European law was based from these Roman law principles. Still the reference to Roman law by our modern day President… I have to admit has me somewhat troubled. This might be more telling than anybody realizes. If nothing else it is an interesting trip into the mindset of this man we call Mr. President.

pm317

If nothing else it is an interesting trip into the mindset of this man we call Mr. President.

Or his speech writer’s.

It is quite a mystery why he would not say or use the word constitution (which is what SCOTUS are tasked to uphold.)

TeakWoodKite

I saw this while waiting in the dentists office among the stack of ubiquitous of magazines.

For the bevy of single ladies interested in dating Obama’s speechwriter Jon Favreau, the news that he is off the market was sad enough.

But to learn that his current girlfriend, Ali Campoverdi, not only works for the White House, but is also a former Maxim model and a Harvard grad seems a bit much.

Isn’t there some ethical concerns about fraternizing at work?

TeakWoodKite

Much better link, Fox news cropped the shot.

Maxim model? Isn’t BO’s favorite magazine Maxim? “Ms Campoverdi is now an aide to a White House deputy chief of staff”…

DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF MONA SUTPHEN
Mona Sutphen is Deputy Chief of Staff to President Barack H. Obama. Prior to holding this position, she was a member of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition.

Before joining the Transition, Sutphen served as Managing Director of Stonebridge International, LLC, an international strategic consulting firm based in Washington, D.C., that advises Fortune 500 corporations on business opportunities and challenges worldwide.

From 1991 to 2000, Sutphen was a U.S. Foreign Service Officer, serving in the White House at the National Security Council, at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, in the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia, in the State Department human rights bureau, and at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok.

Sutphen is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the co-author of The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Rise While Others Thrive (Simon & Schuster 2008). She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and received her M.Sc. from the London School of Economics.

.

The Wesy Wing inference is almost unavoidable. Sorry PM317 for the tangent but you said “speech writers” first But it seems he got bored with full sized cuts outs.

shadow

Poor Obama, he still can’t find a church in DC. I heard there’s a mosque right across the street.

trixta

Shadow, BO hasn’t found a church because he is his own religion.

J

http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/Brown_letter_to_Kenneth_Kaiser.pdf

http://! stodgie

and j i have this to say to you! YAWN!

http://deleted BuzzisbackLatte

Obama broke the law. There’s no amount of excuses for that one. What, is Obama allowed to channel Nixon and everything is well in botworld?
JJ

Will Lyndon LaRouche stop Obama healthcare?
http://sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com sarainitaly

yeah!! so glad you did this post!
helenk

In the la times of June 19 there is a story about the
Supreme Court changing the law so that now the victim of age discrimination will have a harder time proving their case.
With economy tanking and jobs being lost, now it will be easier for companies to get rid of people who have seniority and get paid more.
Can’t we have a forced retirement for these fools of age 62. They sure do not care about the people anymore.

WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE AND MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE

trixta

Obama has also issued a five-year freeze in cost-of-living increases for SS recipients. At a minimum of 4%+ inflation per year, that’s quite a bit on money to withhold from people who have contributed to the system all of their working lives. This and gutting Medicare and rationing health insurance to seniors is unconscionable. In contrast, ACORN has been granted funds in the BILLIONS for future shenanigans to secure BO’s reelection in 2012.

Docelder

Obama has also issued a five-year freeze in cost-of-living increases for SS recipients.

With Obama inflation coming, their checks may be effectively halved by the time five years is over. I think seniors voted for him too. But he always seems to hurt the ones who love him.
jbjd

But they’re old, anyway. Maybe they will starve to death before they become homeless because they cannot afford to pay their rent.

We set up government to help us, not to enrich the workers carrying out government programs. Here’s a disturbing video I found on PBS about what happens to workers who develop cancer after working at America’s nuclear facilities.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/expose/

Glennmcgahee

A sign of things to come. No wonder Geitner hasn’t hired all his staff yet. They might uncover all the fraud taking place with the misuse of the TARP and Stimulus Funds. Thats alot of unemployment as you fire the regulators and overseers.This guy’s job was to do exactly what he did. We know that the money was mispent yet the person in charge of discovering/uncovering fraud is fired. We all know the real reason. As far a the guy being elected mayor. So was Marion Barray after we all saw him smoking crack in a hotel room. It doesn’t mean a thing except that voters are stupid and money can buy an election.
I’m a Linda too

so, this means Obama believes he, himself should be fired, for exhibiting such poor behaviors, right?

We accept your resignation Obama.

pm317

We apply his standards to everyone, including him.

EWard

I’ve been trying to catch up with all the posts. The NQ regulars are a smart group and cannot be hoodwinked by Obama and his cult followers.

What stood out to me in the letter was the fact that Johnson’s nonprofit had to payback over $800,000. Yet, Walpin pointed out that the organization is so poor, it isn’t going to happen.

When does the majority push back on Obama’s socialist agenda? Even with the mortgage assistance plan, how can anyone make payments when there is so much unemployment? It seems BO has declared war on business. This in turn is creating the cycle of loss jobs and confidence. BO has no business regulating commerce, salaries, and any other industry. ABC News is a joke! Now, he wants to ruin health care……
K

Walpin was incapable of doing the job from both ethical and senile reasons.

http://noliinsipientiuminiuriaspati.blogspot.com/ adagioforstrings

Walpin was ~~incapable~~ prevented of from doing the job from both unethical and ~~senile~~ corrupt reasons of Obama.