Barack Losing Mojo and Modo

Obama is “impressively complex”? We are left to deduce what that actually means. I proffer that it means he hasn’t managed to scope out all the nuances to walking and chewing gum at the same time. Reality would seem to bear out my thesis.

Didn’t George W get villified by Kerry and the Dems for taking too long, 4 months after 9/11, to go after Osama and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan?

Doh’bama has had a year since being elected and he still does not know what to do. If it were not for the danger to the troops already in Afganistan, and the danger to Pakistan and to the world if the Taliban and Al Qaeda retake Afghanistan, I’d be getting a good laugh at Doh’s buffoonery.

It ain’t funny. It’s heart attack serious.

I think the SNL writers are reading my mind. That skit applies to the American people too.

Omg, wow. Hell has frozen over.

The Dog Days of the Obama administration…and you still have 3 more years to go.

Long live Al Pacino! rofl

And…Modo, yikes, now seeing the writing on the wall, huh? Hard to ignore any longer?

And…Gallup actually has Obama down to 48 today. Yep.

Excellent post. Thank you Larry. only my right foot isn’t too happy with the slamming I just did on the floor…..nah, it was worth it.

I love the comparison to Hamlet, and the SNL skit is REALLY FUNNY!

Well, MoDo, if he “seems” static, he probably is static. Still waters don’t run at all.

Larry,

butt snorkeling for Obama is no longer fun

I can always get a good laugh when I see your name on a post.

I never understood how the obots thought that “sport” was fun.

In any case, I am so sad for our country that we have to endure yet another bad presidency.

When will the voters, the pundits, learn to vote with their heads?

Obama did not lose his Mojo, Obama never had any Mojo. It was a Mirage. You can’t lose what you never had.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Obama’s election was a classic con, smoke and mirrors, dog and pony show.

Does anyone really think Obama was a cool surfer dude from Hawaii? I can’t believe anyone could fall for that personna.

I’ve known cool. I’ve worked with cool. And Obama ain’t no cool.

Mojo? More like Nojoe, and I want Nomo.

Obama getting it on with Larry Sinclair in the backseat of a limo in Chicago in 1999…that is the real Obama. Too bad no one listened to Sinclair. He was and still is telling the truth.

Wow – I can’t believe it took SNL to effectively say “Why the h__l is the US considering such an enormously expensive health care bill, when China effectively owns the US?”

If this bill passes, I would not be suprised if China starts dumping US assets.

Yep, MoDo was pretty funny. Not sure she intended to be, but I cracked up reading about how she wants Obama to grow a spine and start acting more like Palin.

This time, Obama should adopt Palin’s straight-from-the-gut approach, call the generals into the Oval and tell them, “Your pie-holes you will shut or rise higher you will not. Because, dang it, the president I am!”

Wow, MoDo is channeling Dr. Suess;

“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”

Dr.Seuss
Al Qaeda’s guerrilla chief lays out strategy

McChrystal and Gen. David Petraeus should have been giving their best advice to Obama.

Why, who did they give it to, if not the poser CIC? (Compromiser in chief)

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we lived in a world where PR people were not allowed within an entire country of the White House or Congress. They spend their entire careers making champagne out of spit and look what they’ve given us….illusions and soaring rhetoric written by 26 year old jerks, not even by Obama. Does he even understand the words they put in his mouth? I doubt it, because he can’t seem to remember what his opinions were 6 months ago and comes out with statements which totally deny the earlier ones.
No, PR folks are more interest in externals than in substance. I’m not even sure they know what substance is, since you can’t put sequins on it or set it to music.

Palin = stupefyingly simplistic…… LOL

Palin is and will always be more woman and human than that animal modo will ever be!! ever!

Thanks for the laugh!

Reality would seem to bear out my thesis.

Indeed. You are rucking fight!

I hope Dowd continues to wriggle in discomfort. She bought the hopey-dopey message hook, line and sinker and ravaged Hillary Clinton in the process.

Making Shakespearian references [and why does Dowd use these literary allusions anyway], she cannot save The One from himself. Nor will she ever redeem herself in my eyes.

I saw the SNL skit. Was it my imagination or was the laughter somewhat controlled in the audience. Yes, they laughed but not with the gusto when GW was the butt of the joke. Personally? I thought it was painfully funny.

It’s beginning to sink in. The continuous spin and campaign mode cannot save this Administration. Obama has one more year to pull this off. After that he’s absolute toast. Dowd knows it. The Liberal press as a whole is beginning to sense it.

If this year is a prelude of things to come? Hasta la vista, baby.

I agree. I laughed when I read in the article that his “complexity” makes him seem indecisive. I don’t think it’s complexity – I think he is overwhelmed, and because he has no core values or principles, he has no internal guidelines about what to do. I think he’s of average intelligence, has a below-average sense of self, and has an above-average need for approval – and he is floundering.

Peggy Sue, I’m impressed with your ability to cut right to the truth. I agree with most of your thoughts and am thinking this is because you have a moral center and no hidden agenda(s) and therefor the ability to focus what is best for the public good. Alas, if only our “leaders” thought and behaved this way…

Saw the SNL clip on RBO this morning! I knew No Quarter would have it at some point. It was a very funny bit by SNL.

Too bad that we all knew what Obama would be like! Honestly, I would have liked to be wrong on this one. I would have liked to have had him actually be as great as certain bots I knew thought he would be. I promised to apologize their dreams came true. Well, I haven’t had to apologize and I am well aware I never will, at least not about Obama.

And we as a nation suffer because of having to satisfy the ego monster within him.

The Boston Globe’s Sunday magazine had an essay on the missing oratorical skills of Obama now that he’s been inaugurated. The author asks for poetry from That One, complaining none of his recent speeches are memorable. No JFK style catch phrases. He even concedes that the best speeches by BO were written by Favreau and one his assistants.

Gee, imagine that! No substance to the suit. The Great Orator is really just another poseur.

I’m in general agreement. I knew I would be right about him all along, but would gladly admit I was wrong if by some slim chance my assessment was incorrect.

I guess there are some advantages to my relative old age: I’ve learned to spot a snake-oil salesman a mile away.

I take that as a compliment, Galt.

I don’t think I’m alone. There’s a growing midsection in the country, moderate liberals, conservatives and independents, who are sickened by what they see and hear right now and are growing increasingly weary of the political spin.

Far from alone, we are the silent majority, except for a few of us loud mouths, me most included.

And what is with MoDo’s nonsensical claim that Obama works to transcend identity politics? He is identity politics. His campaign played the race card on a daily basis and he xontinues to do so — at the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, he had to inject himself, and his racial identity into the equation. It is but one of many, many such references by him, including the famous “I know I don’t look like the face you see on a dollar bill.”

MoDo, like many other koolaid sippers, can only go so far in bashing him. The cognitice dissonance is still in place.

The SNL skit on Palin as President in 2012 was also very funny. SNL does seems rather fascinated by Palin and the impact she has on the left wing and this skit in my view was all about the PDS on the left. Sarah plain and simple is tying the elitist left’s tail in knots.

I got this email. I thought you all should read it.

Just Trying to share with you all…….

It makes you wonder…..

Subject: If George Bush was an Idiot… Great Reading

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a tele-prompter
installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have
laughed and
said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really
controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take
Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan’s holdings of GM
stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have
approved?

If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special
Olympics, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and
incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a
thoughtful and
historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing
videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly
narcissistic and
tacky?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have
approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the
non-existent “Austrian language,” would you have brushed it off as a
minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with
people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you
have approved?

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco
de Cuatro” in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May
(Cinco de
Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have
winced in
embarrassment?

If George W. Bush had mis-spelled the word “advice” would you have
hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as proof of
what a dunce he
is?

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a
single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he’s a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush’s administration had okayed Air Force One flying low
over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan
causing
widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what
happened on 9-11?

If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims
throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in
New Orleans, would you
want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism
and
incompetence?

If George W. Bush had created the position of 32 Czars who report
directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is
happening in America,
would you have approved.

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major
corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so,
would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had
taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have
approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10
years, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant
and impressive?

Can’t think of anything? Don’t worry. He’s done all this in 5 months –
so you’ll have three years and seven months to come up with an answer.

the kids with the weird names

Well those kids are from Alaska. Maybe those aren’t weird names in Alaska. Then again I remember “the cerebral one” saying he had a funny name. Then again I have heard a lot about “the cerebral one”, but have yet to see an example of that. He bumbles and stumbles when he isn’t reading somebody else’s work off a teleprompter.

48% did you say? hmmm, add another minus 5% to that as a reality check for the pollsters who fudge. does anyone know if another us president has fallen this quickly? wondering!

that skit from snl is really funny. add that to obummer’s below 50% poll numbers and i’d say he isn’t going to enjoy his next 3 years very much.

OH HEll, I’ll say it: “Fuck oBAMA AND THE dARK hORSE HE RODE IN ON!”

CAROL HAKA

Many of us knew he wasn’t ready for the job. I can’t even imagine being so blind that one could not see it. It doesn’t bother me a bit that the next 3 years won’t be comfortable ones for him. Did he think this was going to be a piece of cake, or does his audacious narcissism block out all realism?

“In other words boys and girls the lamestream media is catching on that we’re being ravaged by an incompetent politician. Sweet!”

The media will never turn on President Obama because they created him in the first place. To turn on him would be to run on your own child. Will never happen, regardless of his shortcomings.

Obama’s kryptonite is as simple as this… “where’s the jobs”? I remember “where’s the beef”? I remember Reagan using that line. Simple is better. No matter what Obama says… no matter how many celebrities faint at his feet… no matter whose legs tingle… the truth is in this… “Where’s the jobs”?

They turned on Bush, and they created Bush… they loved Bush almost as much as they love Obama. Bush had the angle that his dad was President. The press thought it would be fun. For a while it was. The press wanted a historic Obama. For a short time it was glorious for them. Now they are looking at the styrofoam pillars and they are wetting themselves at the prospects of wrecking the false messiah they helped create. In other words, they loved Bush almost as much as they love Obama… not at all. Both were just convenient and cheap dates for them.

They are fascinated by the effect on their ratings, nothing more. Amazing how someone so”unpopular” gets so many viewers. Neat trick.

hahaha freedom, heck yes they’ll turn on him. they have no memory and no comprehension beyond the 24 hour news cycle.

reality is a xxxxx huh!

Comment by Freedom Fighter | 2009-11-22 22:46:57

The media will never turn on President Obama because they created him in the first place. To turn on him would be to run on your own child. Will never happen, regardless of his shortcomings.

Will never happen? Those who say “never” tend to eat hats.

His shortcomings? Finally, something we can agree on. And dang, that’s an understatement.

Are you not old enought to remember how quickly pols eat thier young first? There is nothing sweeter than destroying that which “you” have created. “We made you we can break you”… or do you think humans like “Tingles” to not cover their ass?

Geez. WSho do you think brung ‘em?

Hey FF,

Never say never.

Pols may eat their young and throw their grandmothers under the bus, but the media won’t. Journlaists are idealists, they believe in something, that’s why they will never turn on President Obama.

I think you have the media confused with the voters.

Geez, you’re more brain damaged than we thought, FF.

Hmmmm, one Chris Matthews…milllions of voters, one Chris Matthews…millions of pissed off voters, one Chris Matthews on the lowest rated cable news network…millions of pissed off voters…

Hmmmm, one Chris Matthews…milllions of voters, one Chris Matthews…millions of pissed off voters, one Chris Matthews on the lowest rated cable news network…millions of pissed off voters…

Well, since Modo has stolen my idea of comparing Palin to Obama, I’ll try to give another comparison using her visceral-cerebral method of contrast.

Palin: Is a straight shooting, meat eating, ass kicker with a backbone. (visceral enough for you?)

Obama: Is a sessile, benthonic, filter feeding invertabrate. (cerebral enough for you?)

This is the perfect thread for that list…

P: Born in Idaho

O: Born in I dunno

etc! LOL!

“Journlaists are idealists, they believe in something”.

What ever that “something” is, it is most certainly not objectivity.

the styrofoam pillars …
Where are they now? Collecting dust in the bowls of some government building like the closing scene of “Raiders of the Lost Arc”?

Or are they sitting in some political landfill rotting away?

For heaven’s sake! lol Where in the world did you learn what the media IS? They are not doing their jobs properly – their job is to be objective and question authority – not to be idealists. They may have been “your way” most recently, but it’s not the history of journalism. They are supposed to be a part of the CHECKS AND BALANCES over our government!

Oh my goodness. WHOSE KID is this….???? What school, what state, is turning THIS out?

I think they may by the pontoons for “The Good Ship Lollipop”, Obama’s version of Caligula’s brothel barge filled with the wives of Senators. History does have a way of repeating.

Journalists are already turning on him. For some of them the Craig termination was the tipping point. For others it is something else. Many of them are looking for a way off the hook right now. But as far as I am concerned, the journalists who put him in there can swing from the starboard yardarm. The damage they have done to the country at this watershed moment is irreparable in my opinion. There is no way this joker will run in 2012. His failure will cast a long shadow over future black politicians. No good will come of this Administration. If you want to blame someone, blame the Georgetown Social set, which is the core of big media–and their counterparts in New York. The failure we see now was 100% predictable, but these media covered it up–and now they whine about it?

FF – after I got up off the floor, I started thinking about your statement. I think you’re projecting your own idealism onto the motivations of the media. And I have a suggestion – don’t put your faith or trust into people until they have shown you what they’re made of. Don’t listen to the words, look for their past behavior – it’s the best predictor of future behavior. Trust shouldn’t be given away blindly – it should be earned. The sooner you learn this, the less heartache you will have in your life, on both political AND personal levels.

Infatuation (which the Obama craze was all about) is based on very little knowledge of “the other”, and when your feet come back to the ground and you see them as they really are, there can be a lot of pain and disillusionment. Save yourself in the future – whether a potential girlfriend or a politician -don’t give away your trust and faith so cheaply. Your trust truly should be EARNED.

(I also hope you will gain a more accurate understanding of what the media’s job is.)

Not your imagination, PS. The laughter was PC laughter as in “Well it is SNL, so we are supposed to get it.” But it was uncomfortable laughter as they are not really on top of it yet. If it had been a GWB joke even now, they’d have been gleeful. You are quite right. There’s no thrill in being right.

I’d like to imagine they are rotting away someplace but knowing Mr. Ego, I’m pretty sure they’re in the basement of the Smithsonian.

Obama is “Impressively Complex”?

Well, so is a cluster fuck.

Or a 32 car pile-up on the freeway.

Or a POTUS tied into a human pretzel by indecision.

Okay, maybe she’s right.

I heard Tony Blankley last week. He thinks if BO’s #’s keep spiraling downward, Hillary will either challenge him or the party will ask him to step aside. I can’t see the latter happening, but stranger things have happened–like him being elected. Tony rattled off a number of things regarding Hillary’s position on issues and where they differ.

He also said that any POTUS expects to be criticized by the opponents. (apparently this one doesn’t) He went on to say when your “friends” begin to turn on you, watch out. That seems to be happening.

And, of course, we know Hillary WILL be ready on day one.

Attorney General Holder’s law firm represents the terrorists in Guantanamo

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/23/pay-attention-to-eric-holders-law-firm-and-gitmo-detainees/

[A]s nearly 100 of the remaining detainees are Yemenis, reflecting that country’s refusal to assure security for repatriated Yemenis, note that AG nominee Eric Holder is a senior partner with Covington & Burling, a prestigious Washington, D.C. law firm, which represents 17 Yemenis currently held at Gitmo. From the C & B website:

The firm represents 17 Yemeni nationals and one Pakistani citizen held at Guantánamo Bay. The Supreme Court will soon review the D.C. Circuit’s ruling that ordered the dismissal of a number of habeas petitions filed by Guantánamo detainees; some of our clients are petitioners in the Supreme Court case. We expect to play a substantial role in the briefing. We also plan to petition the Supreme Court to hear our Pakistani client’s appeal from the D.C. Circuit’s order dismissing his case. Further, we are pursuing relief in the D.C. Circuit under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 for all of our clients. On a separate front, we filed amicus briefs and coordinated the amicus effort in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld in which the Supreme Court in the summer of 2006 invalidated President Bush’s military commissions and in which we have obtained favorable rulings that our clients have rights under the Fifth Amendment and the Geneva Conventions.

Covington & Burling’s Gitmo bar roster has included some of the most radical detainee advocates; see David Remes, who peeled down to his underwear at a press conference in Yemen to draw attention to his clients’ plight and Marc Falkoff, who published a book of detainee poetry and who, in the book’s intro, compared their heroic struggle to the Jews held in concentration camps and Japanese Americans held in internment camps during WWII. [One of Falkoff's "gentle, thoughtful" young poets--a Kuwaiti "cleared for release" and repatriated in 2005--blew himself up in a truck bomb in Mosul last March, killing 13 Iraqi army soldiers and wounding 42 others.]

The fact that Mr. Holder, while Deputy Attorney General, pushed for the release of 16 violent FALN terrorists against the advice of the FBI, the US Attorneys who prosecuted them and the NYPD officers who were maimed by them, suggests that he was perfectly willing to put politics before the national security interests of the country. He is not suited for the job of attorney general, which is central to the issues surrounding the disposition of war on terror detainees.

I was a left-wing radical when I was in college. I took all the positions of this ilk but never felt comfortable in defending them. One of the problems was that most tenets were so contrary to the natural order of things, points had to be connected in round about ways that ended up in a knot of confusion. I think that Dowd would call this “impressively complex”.

In the same way, I think a building designed and built by people who know nothing about architecture, construction, physics, etc. would be seen the same way.

Real truth is always very, very simple when it is fully comprehended.

No, they haven’t. He was mirroring Jimmy”Welcome Back Carter”, but he has surpassed him now too. Libs are trying to compare to other presidents approval rating, but it doesn’t compare, because they didn’t start where he did. Clinton came in to the presidency with lower numbers and steadily gained as people saw his actions.

Unlike Weary Barry, who came in with Hype and people see his actions and they fall like a stone.

Hey… NO Quarter was the first to point out that Obama was a fraud. Now the world is beginning to catch up. Dowd was Obama the biggest press whore. What happen? I hate it when idiot like Dowd goes around reinstating the obvious and calling it news.

Dowd and the rest of the NY-times press whores can just go to hell, if they are now finding out that Obama is nothing but a fraud.

And the Dems will have permanent majority status, Obama will give everyone pink unicorns and monkeys will fly out of my ass!

/snark

Ouch! A “tired” and “irritable” Obama looking increasingly weak in world affairs:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,662822,00.html

The Boston Globe endorsed BO.

What he is going through is just the beginning of his downward spiral of self-destruction.

He’s made his own hell and the demons have come for him.

Where are the jobs promised by the stimulus?
Where is the decision on Afghanistan?

Those would be the Reagan Democrats and the Clinton Republicans.

Less than a year ’til the mid-terms, and the current administration (including Pelosi and Reid) are to dumb (or unwilling) to realize what is about to happen. Think 2004 tidal wave in Indonesia sea change. I hope we last that long.

It wasn’t Reagan, it was Walter Mondale who said “Where’s the beef?” in a debate against his primary challenger Gary Hart.

The line originated from an ad for Wendy’s hamburgers.

Precisely, where’s the beef?

All we see from his supporters are pitiful excuses.

Where are the jobs promised by the stimulus?
Where is the decision on Afghanistan?

“complexity”=Multiple Personality Disorder? IMHO! He is quite the conformer and conforms to whatever crowd or person he is talking too. His calling in life should have been in acting, not politics! He can cry at will, laugh when needed and transform right before your eyes for whatever situation arises. I find the fact that his hair is turning gray and he is losing weight as an issue with obambi bc he is so VAIN, LOL! I bet he is most distressed over his loss of good looks+charm and that is affecting his self esteem. He is more and more displaying his lack of experience and showing what we all said from the beginning, ITS ALL ABOUT HIM! He has lost his appeal and the ability to BS which makes me LOL all day long!!

Palin is and will always be more woman

Well, you just cut right to the chase…
In that article, modo revealed:

Author Envy
Fecundity Envy
Hot Husband Envy
Looking Great w/o Botox Envy

in addition to the confusion and dismay experienced by the Bubble Elites when confronted by a populist revolt.

Paraphrasing Jon Swift: “I get all my psychology from old episodes of Law and Order: SVU”; thus B.D. Wong would describe Obama as having a “cocktail personality” stemming from a deeply narcissistic fracture in his youth. So anyway, the rest of the U.S. agrees with me and thee that Obama is rotten and needs to be replaced.

Someone tell me the alternative– I need hope. What GOPer other than Palin might get on the voting radar screen? Huckabee Halftruth? God help us. What about one of my favorites Dennis the Hobbit challenging O and knocking him out? All pretty damn unrealistic I’m afraid.

So, Batman, what are we going to do?

The rise of both Obama and Palin as serious contenders is an example of the “dumbing down” of the electorate. Voting for people without having a clue to their positions but because they “look good”, speak in empty platitudes (hope and change)as one example, (real Americans) as another, is foolish.

Just as Bush and his “compassionate conservative” message proved otherwise, the American public allows empty rhetoric to become the standard from which they elevate candidates who have little to offer beyond that.

We “reap what we sow” in supporting candidates across the board who issue sound bites instead of substance to gain attention.

How else to explain the insanity that is Glenn Beck and offer that up as political discourse? We are a country much too lazy to do our own research but allow the media to spin it exactly as they wish.

The Edge:
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up way too much room – Jayne Howard
Welcome to the People’s Republic of Amerika! B. Hussein Obama, George Soros and Congress have so much planned for you. The Constitution, they are ignoring it and destroying it as you read this. Obama has taken over the auto industry, the finance and banking industry, is telling people how little they can make and now they are preparing to push through a health care bill that strips the citizens of America of their rights and effectively changes our country to Amerika. Have you noticed the health care bill has no provision for nursing home care? Who needs that, you won’t live long enough to get to one. There is also no dental care in the bill. Who needs teeth when your health care cost doubles, your taxes go up drastically and you cannot buy food? Teeth become obsolete. Americans, come with me to the edge.
Monday, November 23rd, 2009 is a National Day Without An American. Do not go to work, school, or purchase anything that day. Hunter S. Thompson once said, “The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.” Cross over with me. It is time to show the government that “We The People” have had enough. Monday, November 30th, 2009 is another Day Without An American. Congress must know that we have had more than enough of their not listening to us, their ignoring us, the disenfranchisement that they have created is akin to what caused the revolutionary war. Anyone who values their freedom, their ability to make decisions for themselves, must take a stand, before it is too late. Obama has already told us to ‘shut up’ once. No more! To the edge we must go.
Come with me to the edge, that is where freedom can be found. Do you have the courage, the guts to make a difference? Go to work, those of you who still work and haven’t fallen victim to the man-child’s goofy economic plans, change your W4 to 99 dependents and shut off the flow of cash to Washington D.C.. As General Patton said, “I would rather have a good plan today than a perfect plan two weeks from now”. This is not a perfect plan, but I can assure you that if we shut off the monetary supply, they will have to listen. The government does not run on blood, sweat and tears, as they would have you believe, it runs on cash. We can bring them to their knees and force them to hear us. The wise man, General Patton said, “May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t”. Show no mercy. The edge is where we must live until we get their attention. And, lets face it, the view is better from the edge.
The politicians in the D.C. will tell you that you are crippling the military, hurting S-Chip, low income families and the like. Do not believe it. They have plenty of money for vital functions. We can shut down non-essential services and make them answer their own phones. They must listen to “We The People”. When the lies start, and they will, do not believe them. These idiots borrow money every day just to pay the interest on the money they have already borrowed. It is as if they are Imelda Marcos in a shoe store, with a platinum card, except the platinum card is your wallet, your children’s future and the enslavement of generations to come. It is time to make a stand. We must continue the calls, faxes, emails and letters, but it is time to add a twist to the equation and make them come to us to turn the money back on. Ask no quarter, give no quarter. They have been merciless, it is time to turn the tables America, lest you become the Peoples Republic of Amerika.
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I don’t think it’s legal to change your deductions to 99. It simply won’t work. Your employer would refuse to accept it. I still like my plan about them being locked out of their offices

this skit was the SNL writers’ shot back at the WH. Essentially, they’re saying: Fact-check THIS!

And I bet the families of Fort Hood of the ones who dies by the killer Hansen will not like it when they know the truth oof Obama and Hansen ! Obama is asking Congress to stop the prop and stop the investagation into Hansen.. why you say he wants to do that ?HMMM Did Obama tell the families and the america people just who hansen is and worked for ?NOPE SURE DID NOT !
Did Obama stand there and say his name “Hansen >/ nope he did not !

why oh why..here is why and many have got snap shuts of this band as well downloaded.. The killer worked for Obama as and aviser in homeland sucurity and have many years..did Obama tell the american people this ? NO HE DID NOT. DID HE TELL THE FAMILIES WHO REALLY KILLED THEIR LOVED ONES NO HE DID NOT.OBAMA IS NOW TRYING TO PLACE THE BLAME ON FORT HOOD TO COVER UP HIS TRACKS..

page 29 shows that scumbag terrorist Hasan was one of the transition team..they tries to scrub this but a friend of mine fround it again

http://www.gwumc.edu/hspi/old/PTTF_ProceedingsReport_05.19.09.PDF

Everyone go to page 29…it’s the Homeland Security Policy Report and on 29 it shows that scumbag terrorist Hasan was one of the transition team. They have tried to scrub this but a friend of mine found it again.

I don’t think most people know anything about the Craig termination outside of rightwing news sites and noquarter. Your assessment of journalists turning on President Obama is incorrect.

“Chris Matthews appears to have lost that loving feeling for Barack Obama.

On “The Chris Matthews Show” Sunday, the once smitten MSNBCer called some of Obama’s recent mistakes “Carteresque”: …”

http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/chris-tingle-up-my-leg-matthews-carteresque-obama/

Ironic, isn’t it?

Freedom Fighter mentioned below a disbelief that the media will ever turn against BO. After I stopped laughing, I began to suspect FF might actually believe it. So, to you, FF, I say this:

The media will do whatever it takes to sell ads. Their jobs depend on it. When BO was golden, his image would sell newspapers and magazines. But who was on the cover of Newsweek last week? Now that BO’s numbers are falling, you will, if you pay attention, see more and more criticism of him and his performance. People are turning and they won’t pay to read adulation of a failed leader.

Please don’t be so naive as to think the media will be loyal to a sinking ship. Survival is the bottom line.

The only way Hillary can run is if Obama decides not to run in 2012. There is no way she can challenge Obama if he decides to run again.

You may want them to give you the objective truth or question authority but that’s just you projecting your desires. But the media is what it does, and that is to be idealists and reshape society in their moral and just worldview.

As far as the history of journalism is concerned, I think it is you who has given your trust too easily, when has the media ever been objective? They may seem more biased today because they have lost their monopoly as the sole gatekeepers of information.

Incredibly complex means he speaks in paradoxes, i.e., utilizing mostly or exclusively paradoxes. But that would be too vague for me, that is too complex. It is better to say that incredibly complex means he engages in double speak. So anyway by now, we all do. We love to speak in double speak now and we love when other do. We love complexity. Let the era of double speak make its way as the distinctive characteristic of the 21st. Century.

You’ve attached all your hopes on a false god. Someday you might realize you were less than a zit on Obama’s ass and the malevolent agenda you are too blind to see now.

Where are the jobs promised by the stimulus?
Where is the decision on Afghanistan?

It can just as easily be argued your opinion of the assessment is in error.

Where are the jobs promised by the stimulus?
Where is the decision on Afghanistan?

I know FoxNews knows how to sell ads. But some things are more important than the bottom line. Most journalists do not believe in a profit motive news business model. Advocating equality, social justice, and a more moral consciousness is more important than making money. The same applies to healthcare as well.

President Obama, and Vice President Biden have said repeatedly that the stimulus package has outperformed their wildest expectations. By most media accounts, the economy is on the rebound and hundreds of millions of jobs have been saved by President Obama.

You’re right, Lorac, about his intelligence, that is; however, I would argue BO has an exaggerated or hyper sense of self (hence his narcissism).

If Obama doesn’t resign, having Biden step up as Pres and Hillary as VP midterm, I thought the same, Obama would be told not to run and Hillary would. Especially if Sarah runs. But,really, I think Hillary knows if Obama is that bad, no Dem is going to have a chance. And that’s what we all were saying in 2008!

Absurd argument and unsupportable by logic.

Where are the jobs promised by the stimulus?
Where is the decision on Afghanistan?

For Ms. Dowd and her ilk, Love Means Never Having To Say You’re Sorry.

To duly and sufficiently criticize the POTUS would be to admit, prior to his election, the Fourth Estate put down their pens and picked up pompoms.

true if you mean the few journalists that have been reporting correctly all along. They had know reason to turn, they’re already in the correct place.

However, all these elitist “writers”, of Op Eds, turning on Obama is still news worthy. They can’t even make stuff up for him anymore. That’s news.

Clinton came into office with the msm and the wrath of the Right wing machine working against him– and he still managed to get things done! How I miss those salad days when we had a balanced budget, low unemployment, economic growth, and the admiration of world. Obama has turned out to be a wet noodle, indeed!

I think you misread the article. Ms. Dowd at no point is saying she was wrong about President Obama, she is merely lamenting the public’s inability to appreciate the president’s intellectual and complex nature.

The comparison Ms. Dowd used between a super smart (if not genius), handsome, articulate, fashionable, likable, respectable presdient vs. a backwater, low IQ’d, incoherent, country bumpkin, quitter ex-governor, concludes that much of the public are not thinking people.

Very funny, FF!

FF, how old are you? Your statements about journalists is very naive. The work done to expose Watergate was the last good work done my MSM journalists. It’s been downhill ever since.

President Obama, and Vice President Biden have said repeatedly that the stimulus package has outperformed their wildest expectations.

Are you a parrot for them and incapable of your own thoughts? Your argument is absurd and can not be backed up by logic.

We were assured the stimulus would limit unemployment to 8 points. Once again, where are the jobs promised? Telling us what Obama/Biden have said does not answer the question and is a pitiful and weak deflection.

And you are inconsistent to the extreme:

By most media accounts, the economy is on the rebound and hundreds of millions of jobs have been saved by President Obama.

The same media you just wrote is biased based on their idealism? So now to debate me, the media can be relied on to provide objective facts to support your argument?

Comment by Freedom Fighter | 2009-11-23 10:51:51

You may want them to give you the objective truth or question authority but that’s just you projecting your desires. But the media is what it does, and that is to be idealists and reshape society in their moral and just worldview.

As far as the history of journalism is concerned, I think it is you who has given your trust too easily, when has the media ever been objective? They may seem more biased today because they have lost their monopoly as the sole gatekeepers of information.

You are an easy mark, and this “fact” is a choice gem:

…the economy is on the rebound and hundreds of millions of jobs have been saved by President Obama.

Hundreds of millions of jobs? Where, in the non-existent Congressional districts? Did you get this “fact” from the biased and ideological media?

You are a silly ideologue and partisan and hurt your cause with your absurdity. And quite entertaining, to boot!

Where are the jobs promised by the stimulus?
Where is the decision on Afghanistan?

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Heather: You’re so right! If only Americans would wake up to these demagogues and realize we’re getting screwed!

Thanks, we really do need you to filter everything we read into your biased idealism partisanship drivel.

Where are the jobs promised by the stimulus?
Where is the decision on Afghanistan?

trixa: We need about 24 more Clinton years! I still say, the Clintons as benevolent monarchs would be better than all the Dem and Rep puppet presidents.

Well, if you’re right much of the public is “non-thinking” then that means that the “non-thinkers” voted in Obama.

It’s not that I’m a big Palin fan. But the fact that she’s from a middle class rural background shouldn’t be used against her. The elitism, that ticks off many Americans, is showing.

Bill Clinton came from a single parent home, was sometimes considered trailer-trash, and spoke with a southern accent. The same Washington elites, like Modo, didn’t consider him “worthy” either. Bill’s being a Rhodes Scholar didn’t elevate him in their eyes at all.
No wonder they spend so much time trashing Palin.

Yep, but I would have sworn I heard Reagan also say that in some speech sometime. I still think I remember hearing it. Maybe I just remember so much the one liners taken from somewhere out of context and planted in a Reagan speech like… “there you go again” and “go ahead, make my day” that the years have distorted that one. At any rate, The idea is the real point. The reason one liners work is that they are simple and they stick because they are remembered.

Where’s the jobs?

I think it’s so simple and lethal all at once.

He is quite the conformer and conforms to whatever crowd or person he is talking to

You know what I am beginning to think? He does this to hide the fact that he has no personality of his own, or that he fears revealing his true personality. Therefore, he exists in chameleon form only. He said himself he was a blank slate upon which people projected. But he is a slate that chooses to be blank either else that needs to be blank.

Where’s the jobs?

Precisely. Maybe we need someone like Romney to lead us out of this spending orgy and jobs mess? The bozos running DC now don’t have a clue. I would have preferred Clinton, but that option was yanked away from us by my former party.

Anyone have a clue who the GOP is going with next time around? The “popular” choice is Palin, but so was Obama and look how that turned out. Don’t they have someone better to run against him?

Where are the jobs promised by the stimulus?
Where is the decision on Afghanistan?

Palin is not being “trashed” for her small town roots. That is just a smokescreen to defend the fact that the woman has no idea of what she is talking about. Simplistic platitudes and religious references which dot the landscape of her thinking is where the problem lies.

Bill Clinton may have been small town but his mind and his policies were majestic by comparison. Obama was considered “historic” in his quest and the media wanted a piece of that to justify themselves.

Questioning statements and utterances by a candidate seeking office is not always imbued with sexism or racism. However, those serve as handy diatribes against anyone raising the issues.

That name is in that report. Save a copy offline, because pdf’s on the Internet can easily be edited and uploaded over originals. Or, better yet mail a copy or two to the foreign press for safekeeping.

Nidal Hasan
Uniformed Services University School of Medicine

It was Walter Mondale, not Reagan??????? Review our history!

Palin is not being “trashed” for her small town roots. That is just a smokescreen to defend the fact that the woman has no idea of what she is talking about.

Your opinion of Palin and the smokescreen does not prove all the trashing has nothing to do with her small town roots. It could be just plain bias and prejudice elitism behind some quantity of it.

Where are the jobs promised by the stimulus?
Where is the decision on Afghanistan?

When someone says a lie, she/he then waits for a response, thus the blank slate. Conforming is just a strategy to allow the lie to hang.

Yes, most people were happy, employment was expanding…the Repups were complainting as ususal! BUT, the times were good…balanced budget, surplus…CLINTON< HILLARY< 2012!

I think you’re just confused.

Bahahahaah! Journalists are idealists? Well okay then.

Hey-it aint the PR, it was the coporate-controled MSM who enabled the great puppet to con the people! There is plenty of blame to go around…Don’t forget the Dem primaries…

and a more moral consciousness is more important than making money.

FF go back to your life onboard the Starship Obama, or get used to idea that you’ve been played like a tribble.

People don’t vote for who looks good, they vote for who makes them feel good. Obama managed to capture that for a moment, hope, change, a post racial America. The problem is you have to sustain that good feeling or the country will turn on you. “Take an anti depressant and vote Democrat” is not a good campaign slogan.

I agree, Trixta – I think we’re just talking about different levels of his sense of self. What we see (his narcissism – his “exaggerated sense of self”) is undoubtedly a defensive reaction to a deeper lack of one…

“the woman has no idea of what she is talking about.”

Well apparently whatever she is talking about is resonating with the general public because people are sleeping in the streets in the middle of winter just for a chance to meet her.

Listen, the corporate controlled journalist will do what his corporate controlled boss tells him to do!!! How old are you???

If a “consciousness is more important than making money” he/she’s bet on the wrong horse. Hard to believe someone is this naive about life. They act is if they were a caricature stereotype extremist.

Where are the jobs promised by the stimulus?
Where is the decision on Afghanistan?

It seems to me that we are regressing more as a culture in promoting candidates based simply on a “catchy slogan” than on the merits of their arguments.

Palin can hardly put hers into words. If presupposing that I am biased or suffering from elitism because I would like more gravitas from a candidate than listening to someone imitate Bush’s habit of speaking, then so be it.

And if I am an biased elitist, then explain how I can feel the same toward Obama who exercised the same b.s. with the “hope and change mantra” but offered little beyond that?

We are racing toward the bottom in giving any of those above named three politicians a pass on what they say.

If presupposing that I am biased or suffering from elitism because I would like more gravitas from a candidate than listening to someone imitate Bush’s habit of speaking, then so be it.

I’m not presupposing anything about you. I was merely pointing out your assertion may not be true in all the discourse.

Same goes for you being a biased/elitist. I never said that.

Where are the jobs promised by the stimulus?
Where is the decision on Afghanistan?

Netanyahu has rejected Obama’s call for a complete moratorium on the construction of settlements. As a result, Obama has nothing to offer the Palestinians and the Syrians. “We thought we had some leverage,” says Martin Indyk, a former ambassador to Israel under the Clinton administration and now an advisor to Obama. “But that proved to be an illusion.”

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A very telling quote. thanks for the link mountianaires.

Ever heard of a guy named Ted Kennedy?

I’m sure that a superior moral conscience is the reason that ALL of the most prominent journalists donate their multi million dollar salaries to worthy causes.

NOT!

Last I checked, journalists like Sam Donaldson have invested in tax shelters, and other scams to enjoy tax saving loopholes. Equality, social justice, and moral consciousness my ass!

I concur with the average intelligence observation for Obama. He’s no intellectual heavyweight.

I do believe that if we were ever privy to his records we would find an average to below average (an Affirmative Action classic that he got so far) student with some possible mental health issues.

Alas, poor Obama! He isn’t all he was cracked up to be!

People identify with her because she is a real person. That she does not have Harvard roots to me is her greatest strength. We need more common sense and humanity and less book smarts and plasticity in Washington right now.

if his numbers keep dropping, he would be too embarrassed to run again if he thinks he will lose.(his ego couldnt handle losing). can you imagine all the fodder ,and there is plenty, that his opponents will use against him? he will probably say due to the stress on his family (or some other b/s) that he has decided not to run again. of course this is all conjecture since by then he will change the law and declare himself “president for life”

So the argument that people prefer to sit in the rain for hours on end with their kids in tow tells us that she is what – popular? Does not make her presidential material.

Obama garnered huge crowds as well when he ran for office but this does not make him suitable so far to lead.

These arguments are specious since neither side could accurately specify what either candidate brought to the table without reverting to the same slogans and sound bites that were put forth by the campaign. “Real Americans”. “Hope and change”.
Translation: b.s.!

Neither one has been interested in actually answering the pertinent questions needed to define them outside of the bubble they reside in.

Unfortunately, voters got with emotion over issues and for this we get the short end each and every time. Hillary displayed substance while the others just bleeting rhetoric that had little meaning beyond that.

The electorate is equally ridiculous when they insist on claiming that the reason somebody appears to be making absolutely no sense is because they are just so incredibly intelligent nobody understand the 11 dimensional chess they are playing.

Whatever else BO is, he is a crook. And whether MD or anyone else once shilling for him ever admits he is little more than a plant for the people who control him, at some point, they will be forced to accept, he got the job by fraud.
http://jbjd.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/counsel-for-dnc-services-corporation-performs-3-card-monte-for-federal-court/

Little of any substance got done in the first two years of Clinton’s admin. even though Dems controlled the Congress. It wasn’t until Congress changed hands and forced issues like welfare reform and free trade policies on Clinton, that substantial things got done. Balancing the budget was a combination of a conservative Congress holding the purse strings, and the realization of the peace dividend created with the collapse of the USSR; the return, with interest, on the investment Reagan knew would help to end the cold war. Clinton of course deserves credit for wisely moving toward the middle and going along with the Conservative Congress.

I totally agree that people voted for him because he made them feel good about themselves. But, in reality, we should be feeling good about ourselves because of who we ARE, not be dependent on someone else. It’s good for leaders to give us hope, but it should reinforce our own well-developed sense of self, not substitute for it.

Putting aside the cheating, the fact that he won by making people feel good about themselves says a lot about US. It points to something wrong in our youth and others who voted for him, something missing, a void that needed to be filled.

Once we get rid of Obama, we’re going to have a lot of work yet to do. Problems with schooling, parenting, media messages… if we don’t get back to where Americans learn to develop their OWN sense of self, we’re going to have another Obama get “elected”.

In the past, SNL went to some effort with the makeup to get as close as they could to both Bushes, Ford, and Clinton. How hard could it be for SNL to slap a couple of Mr. Potato Head ears on their Obama impressionist?

What is the argument here? That Sarah Palin makes sense because Obama plays 11th Dimensional Chess? Neither one is correct so why are we maintaining that Palin is smarter than she is when all elements point otherwise?

Obama is a bust! A big “rah rah” about nothing of any substance. The problem is that we continue to vote for people who offer nothing more than that. Comparing Obama to Palin is not the argument. Both are equally unqualified to lead.

Only it just so happens that he is in that role and you seem more than willing to replace him with yet another empty vessel to prove a point. The logic seems to be lost on me since I believe that both are fundamentally vacant.

It puzzles me to see you so prejudiced against Palin. Why is she unqualified to lead after leading her State two terms? Which decision has Palin made that shows up as a blatant error? I see Palin as the best leader we have had in my lifetime. I cannot identify one error that she has made. On the contrary, I see her faith in Christ shinning bright and her faith in God moving her forward with confidence and might.

May God bless Palin in everything she does. That will keep God pretty busy.

Obama is a bust! A big “rah rah” about nothing of any substance.

He was “not Bush” and that was about it. Then of course it turned out he is a lot like Bush after all. But why wouldn’t he be like Bush? The same process selected him. I fear all our Presidents will be like Bush now, because the selection process itself favors that outcome.

In the meantime, I don’t think Obama is attending worship services on Sundays on any regular basis. I think that is a blatant mistake on his part.

You don’t sound too smart to me here. Palin breastfed her son during the presidential campaign. Something you wouldn’t be able to do even if you wanted to. Palin made no errors of her own during the campaign and she answered challenging questions head on. I happened to agree with most of her answers. Palin was bashed with filthy innuendo. She was gracious enough to forgive her foes and keep going forward.

Hillary on the other hand succumbed to a meeting in Harlem between her husband and Obama that framed her options. Bill decided what were to be Hillary’s policies from there on. On the day of the nominations she put down her country to protect her best interest. She failed to put her country first. Hillary made graves mistakes that showed her wanting. She lost because Obama outsmarted her.

I think you should reconsider what Palin offers.

Why would someone’s religious beliefs, or lack thereof, but an issue? This country is drifting far too much to the Right in their selection of candidates as to who has more heft with the Almighty than the other.

Is it too much to require competence, integrity, truthfulness, and intellect in a president or does it all depend on who goes to church on Sunday?

Bush was a Born Again and look where that led. Obama not attending services does not make him a good president anymore that Sarah going weekly would make her a better one.

The Dragon Lady is just crazy. She couldn’t stand Gore and helped defeat him. Then she couldn’t stand W. Now Obama joins the crowd.

I would vote for an Atheist for president if she/he would act faithfully as an atheist. I have no problem with that. But for people who believe in a religious faith, it is concomitant to act accordingly. Fail to do so puts them in jeopardy.

In my estimation, Palin, aside from her religious beliefs, acts according to the character traits you require. When has Palin acted incompetently, deceitfully and unfaithful? And in top of that, she takes a chunk of her time and dedicate it to the renewal of her spiritual conscience. That my friend is invaluable. The spirit is the one who controls the body, except when the body quashes the spirit. What is normal? Normal is when the body quashes the spirit, that’s what we know as normalcy. Heroes are those that obey the spirit.

She offers nothing. And what is with the breastfeeding comment? How do you know if I breastfed or not and what has that got to do with anything?

Her book is dedicated to singling out those she deems “done her wrong” and you say she is forgiving? She has few kind words for anyone between those pages and many have pointed to her lies.

Hillary let her country down? She could have gone the entire way to Denver pleading her case and all it would have done is split this nation down the middle.

Delusion, meet fantasy here.

Hey!!

Don’t sully Starfleet’s good name with a crack like that!

I guess I am rather suspicious of those who listen to the “voices in their heads”. Going forward, I prefer that those running for office at least give us a glimpse into the mindset of those “voices” who guide the candidate in their decision making.

Too often those “voices” have been totally wrong in their directives. Iraq anyone?

If God is so determined to reign death, destruction, mayhem, and chaos onto the world let Him do it for Himself from now on. It would seem that He does not need us to do His dirty work.

Are you sure her book is about “singling out those she deems “done her wrong”” or a narrative of the McCain campaign seeing it from her standpoint, an insider’s view?

What I want to know is what was said during the Bill Clinton – Barack Obama meeting in Harlem? That’s the only thing I would spend a buck for. Nothing else is that important to me. I want to know how was the Hillary Clinton campaign manipulated afterward. That is what I would like to know. Nothing else, thank you.

People can usually spot phonys, unless they don’t want to (bots!). And phonys, always aware that their real self may be exposed, have to work harder and harder to keep up the act. When Narcissists like Obama become more prominent and exposed to the world, the efforts to maintain their false image become exhausting, and they collapse in act III. Watch out when this happens, because they lash out with all of their might–and Obama has a lot of that as POTUS–at everyone who isn’t totally devoted to them. Their attitude is “So you don’t love ME? I’LL SHOW YOU! !” And rather than defend their countrymen, Obama loyalists will quietly blend into the background out of embarrassment, and watch the bloodbath. The World is a stage, and this Tragedy has been performed countless times.

It is a positive sign though when people like MoDo start to express doubts. If enough Obama supporters see the light and are vocal about it, the petard created by increasingly partisan, potentially violent divisiveness, can be defused.

Well, we’ve tried a foreigner now for POTUS, that isn’t working so well. Next time let’s pick someone who at least satisfies the Constitutional requirements for POTUS.

This should have been a response to Churl, below. How’d it get here?

Keep an eye on Texas: Kay Bailey Hutchison or Rick Perry. He’s pretty and she’s smart.

Bill Clinton campaigned on a promise to balance the budget. Let’s give credit where it’s due.

Excellent point! But I think this may have been directed at the scrupulously fact-checking CNN.

Did CNN do a fact-check story on Al Gore’s recent claims that rocks only two kilometers down are millions of degrees hot? First of all, nowhere is the Mohorovicic discontinuity (the boundary between the earth’s crust and mantle) only two kilometers down. And the interior of the earth at it’s hottest is only between 5,000 and 6,000′ C. Of course, advertising Gore’s incredible scientific ignorance would cast all of his other insane claims into doubt, and help to expose the fraud that AGW really is. CNN wouldn’t want to do THAT, now would they?

It’s ok, I’m on to season 8 of “Spooks”.
Yet it is remarkable to me from the vantage point of my altitude currently, that anyone in their right mind would call the media idelistic.
In fact, it is one of the most “beamed up” perceptions of reality that I have witnessed in many a star date.

No disrespect to tribbles of course, since they were born pregnant (idealism) and consume 50% of their metabolism to reproduce(BO’s Astroturf). They are also not picky at all when it comes to sustanance.
So perhaps, when the news is silenced, they will achieve Pon Farr or perhaps a short lived Zen moment. This is evedenced by the fact that the constituion is not taught in any depth in our PUBLIC schools.

Freedom Fighter — I’m not sure whether you’re pulling my leg or are sincere, but I’m going to respond as though sincerity were your goal.

It would be wonderful if our news media were motivated by such lofty and righteous goals. It would also be a miracle. Doesn’t it occur to you that the tabloid newspapers are successful because they cover their rags with sensational photos and headlines? They know exactly what sells so many papers and they cater to the buyers. Rupert Murdoch did not become one of the wealthiest men in the world by fronting his papers with stories about Al Gore.

MSNBC is last in news because it bought into the Obama fantasy early on and refused to see the trending toward the right by the country. But even MSNBC is beginning to come around. Chris Matthews actually commented that Obama is “dithering”. If Tweety is truning on BO, you can be sure the dominos will begin to fall.

It’s about revenues and fantasies don’t put food on the table the way they used to.

I will vote for Kinky when it comes to Texas.

No, early in his presidency Clinton, and a complimentary MSM, claimed that the budget could NOT be balanced, as a way to dampen too highly unrealistic expectations. It was Gingrich and the Republicans who campaigned with the Contract for America, and one of the targets in that contract was a balanced budget.

Of course, if you provide a credible quote from BEFORE 1994 from Clinton claiming he promised to, or could, balance the budget, I’ll concede the point.

And I DID give credit where it was due, or did you not bother to read the last sentence?

Very well said!

Little of any substance got done in the first two years of Clinton’s admin. even though Dems controlled the Congress.

Fast forward that insight. Yikes!

When Clinton was elected, Bush #1 and his team didn’t care whether American jobs were being outsourced!! They couldn’t believe, in their words “a Third rate Governor from Arkansas could touch Bush1 After all, he want the Kuwait war–Who gave Hussien the idea he could invade Kuwait with no consequences…..It was the economy-stupid!

PE, FYI, Senator KBH was handed a copy of the original TX complaint of election fraud. (The one currently posted is so much better; it spells things out more clearly, for the lay person.) http://jbjd.wordpress.com

It was the economy-stupid!

It always is. It is now. The democrats are tone deaf and have misinterpreted the media driven Bush hate as some kind of a mandate for radical change. People don’t want that. They just hated Bush because the media told them to. They will soon hate Obama, because the media hasn’t changed in the past eight years. Only maybe they feel more empowered now than ever.

I would vote for an Atheist for president if she/he would act faithfully

Yes because it is not so much what somebody is made of as it is that they are made. Obama is a bun that wasn’t ready to come out of the oven. Let alone be made President. Two memoirs notwithstanding.

It’s also growing as a perception all over the Japanese blogs and conservative media.

http: //www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/11/obama_bungle_produces_worst_us.html

A magazine in Tokyo is reporting that President Obama’s summit with Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama was a frosty disaster, precipitated by incompetence on both sides and an entirely avoidable diplomatic slight to the Japanese side by Obama. The visit was abruptly re-scheduled, seriously inconveniencing the Emperor of Japan, as well as the Prime Minister, whose intricate schedules require meticulous planning and coordination.

Japanese weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun cites an unnamed insider at the Foreign Ministry, who delivers a devastating account of not merely a failure to agree, but figurative slaps in the face of the rude president, delivered in retaliation. If true, President Obama has demonstrated high-handed arrogance once again, and antagonized a key ally, weakening a relationship of critical security and economic importance to the United States.

“To tell you the truth, it had to have been the worst US-Japan Summit Meeting in history,” a source of ours at the Foreign Ministry revealed to us.

I feel torn because Matthews was maybe the one MSNBC person I used to actually like to watch. Then he found the false messiah the night of the Philadelphia speech. It is interesting to me because that was the first speech of Obama I ever watched… and I was watching MSNBC that night. I started the speech really impressed too. But something happened during it. It was like I saw smoke and mirrors… he was saying a lot of things without saying anything at all. It sounded good, but what was that again? I had to think about it. Then all of the sudden Matthews was visibly smitten. He professed the tingle openly. I am partly thankful to Matthews, because his stupor is a part of what set my alarm bells off.

I started watching Matthews when he had a hardon for Scooter Libby. I made the mistake of thinking he was seeking the truth. Since he has been drooling over Obama, I now see he is just a partisan ideologue hack with blinders on to truth. Let’s see if he turns on his master in a meaningful way.

Where are the jobs promised by the stimulus?
Where is the decision on Afghanistan?

But is she brave enough to do something about it?

OA — this is from Bill Clinton’s 1996 campaign:

For the last 12 years, Republicans hid behind rosy scenarios while quadrupling the national debt. We knew this had to stop. In 1992, we promised to cut the deficit in half over four years. We did. Our 1993 economic plan cut spending by over a quarter trillion dollars in five years. The only deficit left today is interest payments on the debt run up over the 12 Republican years before fiscal responsibility returned to the White House.

President Clinton is the first President to cut the deficit four years in a row since before the Civil War.

And of course I “bothered to read” your entire comment. But claiming that Clinton deserves credit for a move to the center is not the same as saying he deserves credit for balancing the budget.

And talk about a lousy impression. Perhaps the worst ever. Even Chevy Chases’ “Ford” is more realistic than this bozo trying to be Obama.

First you must pass by this internet jem of denial. Can’t remember the last time I was asked to do so. Remarkable.

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“In his capacity as Disaster & Preventive Psychiatry Fellow at the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine, Nidal Hasan registered (RSVP’d) to attend as an audience member a number of Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI) events in the period June 2008 to February 2009. All of these events were open to the public.

Our Presidential Transition Task Force Events are open to the public and invitations were shared with numerous government departments and agencies, including senior officials at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS). These senior leaders at USUHS in turn shared the invitation with their subordinates, including Hasan.

At no time has Nidal Hasan been affiliated with HSPI or The George Washington University. He has never served as an HSPI Task Force Member, briefer, or featured speaker at an HSPI event.

HSPI’s Presidential Transition Task Force is not and was not affiliated with any Administration; and was created prior to the election.”

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pj you need really big boots to type xxxx like that.

don’t we get some of the dumbest trolls on the net or what!

pj, got those big boots on after throwing out manure on here i see. hearing voices is clearly your issue little bot. you make no sense and type out bull that doesn’t commpute but in your poor kooliad soaked brain. we need a good laugh from time to time. that is all your posts are worth.

Maybe each and everyone of our freedoms will be eroded on account of security concerns. Maybe by 2030 not one simple freedom will survive.

Yep, concern trolls are sneaky and dumb. Where’s Ferd? He’s the concern bot master. We have really seen them all, haven’t we?

Wearing out the prayer mat in the Lincoln bedroom perhaps?

/cheap shot.

We’ve probably had atheist presidents. They just have pretended otherwise.

The voices in my head.

Yeah, where is the troll emasculator Ferd?

I believe that BO will do anything that says “I’m not George Bush”. Bush went to church and his faith was clearly a part of the man. BO will show us he doesn’t need no stinkin’ church or religion.

Yes, it will be bad for him politically since it looks so callous to many not to expose his daughters to a church family. I mean, how could he and Mish attend Trinity with Jeremiah for so long and at times, with regularity, but does so little of it now?

Notice he never claimed that he would balance the budget, just cut the deficit in half, and much of the long term cuts in spending were already in place when he took office. Plus a large portion of the deficit towards the end of Bush 1 was for the savings and loan bailout, so Clinton was sure to understand that the deficit during his first term was naturally going to drop dramatically even if he did nothing. Micky Mouse could have been President and the deficit would have been cut. And the vast amount of his cuts in government spending were from the military, because of the peace dividend that Reagan was instrumental in creating. Reagan DID increase the deficit partly in his efforts to break the financial back of the Soviet Union. Call it borrowed money that was wisely invested. Those efforts paid off in the long run, and Clinton just happened to be the lucky one in office to get the credit when the returns on Reagan’s investment were finally enjoyed.

Nevertheless, you said that Clinton campaigned on a promise to balance the budget. He did not, that statement is false, even using your own citations, whether they’re true or not.

Ay carrumba! Que pasa amigos?

obama is weak weak

yes–it was gingrich and the republicans who campaigned on a balanced budget AMENDMENT–get that! there is a difference between balancing the budget or even attempting to balance the budget and amending the constitution. newt and company failed–no amendment–but surprise–the budget was balanced without amending the constitution.
by the way, many of us consider newt’s contract, more appropriately, a “contract on america”.

That’s it Buzz! The media apologists keep trying to myth-build Obambi’s supposed ‘great intellect’ the same way the far right keeps myth-building the reality of what Reagan really did or did not do. Its a battle of the myth-builders on the left and right! For too many people in charge its all about who writes history.

You are so right. Even John Stewart has made fun of the many umms and aahs and pregnant pauses in Obama’s responses, yet this guy imitating Obama speaks fluently without a stutter. How hard can it be to really mimick the way Obama actually speaks.

Sorry, OA, but I must respectfully disagree – again. I forgot that you had requested something pre-1994. If you google it, you can read verbatim Clinton’s acceptance speech at the 1992 Democratic Convention. He speaks precisely and explicitly of balancing the budget at least twice in that speech.

I can see that you are an admirer of Ronald Reagan. I liked him, too. But it was Bill Clinton who brought us out of debt. If we’re going to lay responsibility for the negative events of his terms of office at his door, it’s only right to acknowledge what was positive. IMHO

OOOO, “Contract ON America”, I’ve NEVER heard THAT one. Hahahaha, that’s the FUNNIEST thing I’ve EVER heard!

Ignoring the silly semantic distinctions in your comment, the budget WAS balanced, and it happened when Republicans held Congress for the first time in 40 years, and it’s Congress that holds the purse strings.

Contract On America. Isn’t that the Obama plan of Socialism?

I think maarisathena got mixed up.

Are you referring to this?

“He promised to balance the budget, but he hasn’t even tried. In fact, the budgets he has submitted to Congress nearly doubled the debt. Even worse, he wasted billions and reduced our investments in education and jobs. We can do better. (Applause)”-WJBC

This is the only mention Clinton made in that speech on the budget issue. While he does chide Bush for promising to balance the budget and failing to do so, he never promises to actually balance the budget, just that he would “..do better.” No matter how I read this, I can’t infer that he promised to balance the budget, can YOU?

At a point early in his Presidency, “Time” magazine had a very long and detailed article about balancing the budget. The conclusion was that it was not possible, and that argument was actually used to deride the Republican target of a Balanced Budget Amendment. Those stupid Republicans, everyone KNOWS you can’t balance the budget. That is of course as long as the Democrats held the congress.

Here’s an interesting admission in his speech that validates my claim that Clinton enjoyed the Peace Dividend.

“The end of the Cold War permits us to reduce defense spending while still maintaining the strongest defense in the world, but we must plow back every dollar of defense cuts into building American jobs right here at home. (Applause) I know well that the world needs a strong America, but we have learned that strength begins at home. (Applause)”–WJBC

Even Clinton is not so partisan that he can’t give credit where credit is due. Is Clinton less partisan than YOU?

And if you think that I’m just giving Clinton credit for going with the flow, maybe I am. It is often wise to go with the flow, especially when the flow is moving in the Right direction.

OA –What you cited was one of the references from his speech, but you must not have read all the way down. (I’ll admit it is a long-winded speech, but since you wanted citations, there they are.)In that address he also said the following when explaining how he would make a better President than George H.W. Bush:

“He’s never balanced a government budget, but I have 11 times.”

You asked for “any” examples of a pre-1994 statement from Clinton. I’ve offered two; however, I’m sure if I wanted to waste an afternoon rereading all his campaign speeches, I could cite more. I thought those statements were fairly direct as to what Clinton was promising to do in his campaign for POTUS, but perhaps you wanted something more concrete. I’d be very interested to know how Bill Clinton could have explained his intentions any more clearly than he did.

My original claim above was that Clinton campaigned on the promise to balance the budget. During Clinton’s tenure the budget was balanced. What could be more straightforward than that?

Your original claim was that Clinton “..campaigned on a PROMISE to balance the budget.” Your words! He did NOT PROMISE THAT! Your quotes DON’T SAY THAT! You are stretching and distorting the statements in an attempt to prove something that never happened.

It would have been HUGE HEADLINE news at the time if ANY candidate were foolish enough to make such a hugely bold and definitive promise, which is why I know he never did. It would have been potential political suicide to make such an unpredictable promise. Remember Bush’s disastrous “Read my lips”? Clinton is far too politically savvy to make such a promise, and he doesn’t do so in any of your citations.

And your last two sentences are a non sequitur. They provide no logical linkage to a proof that Clinton promised to balance the budget. What could be more straightforward than that?

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“hundreds of millions of jobs have been saved by President Obama.”

Around 300 million people live in the US – which includes children and retired people (who, to be clear, don’t have jobs).

So I guess he saved ALL of our jobs, plus a bunch in other countries. What a guy!

“What a guy”? No, what a GOD! !

The only sector where there’s job growth is in the realm of repossessions, and foreclosures.

Maybe FF considers every discrete job that we do as a separate job. “I had a dozen jobs today, from taking out the garbage to vacuuming the cats (my favorite)” Multiply that by 365 and Obama may have saved me 4,380 jobs in a year! Multiply THAT by the amount of people in the US and Obama may have saved our country 1,314,000,000,000 jobs! See. WHAT A GOD!

I won’t even consider the “other” type of job, the one that rhymes with snowjob.

No more digging up Clinton quotes. Here is one of your own:

Of course, if you provide a credible quote from BEFORE 1994 from Clinton claiming he promised to, or could, balance the budget, I’ll concede the point

Remember this one?

“He’s never balanced a government budget, but I have 11 times.”

Now will you concede the point as you promised?

How do you morph the statement “He’s never balanced a government budget, but I have 11 times.”, into “I promise to balance the budget.”?

He may have been implying that he would be better than Bush with the budget, but he never made the clear, declarative, campaign promise, “I promise to balance the budget!” He would never have so foolishly committed himself. It would be almost like A-Rod bragging that he’ll hit 4 home runs in the first game of the World Series. It’s possible, two other players have hit 4 homers in one game, but as arrogant as A-Rod is, he would never be so brash as to publicly boast about doing it.

I do NOT concede the point, you haven’t, nor will you ever be able to, find Clinton PROMISING TO BALANCE THE BUDGET DURING EITHER CAMPAIGN! ! !

Please read your own words:

…or could, balance the budget…

I believe you’ll find that saying he’s already done so 11 times is saying he could do it.

I’m not sure why you are so adamantly opposed to entertaining a suggestion of accomplishment by Bill Clinton, but I suspect you despise the man and perhaps even the President. If that’s the case, then no matter how much we parry semantics, (because it truly does come down to interpretation – as you also did in your quote from Time magazine), you will not be persuaded to think differently of him. In that case, perhaps the wisest course is, as you mentioned above, to go with the flow.

So if it assuages your sense of righteousness, then I bow to your greater intensity in this matter.

He balanced the budget 11 times in the state ranked 48th in GDP, big woop. He was not using that accomplishment as proof that he could do the same for the US budget, he was using it to contrast himself with Bush on economics.

Words have meaning. I was very irritated during the last campaign when Obamunists frequently claimed “McCain said he didn’t know anything about the economy.” Not only was it a misquote, it was taken grossly out of context. While answering questions in the presence of Phil Graham, a long time Senator and ECONOMICS PROFESSOR, McCain deferred an economic question to his economic adviser by saying, “I’m not the expert here, I’ll let Senator Graham answer that”. 16 years from now, if somebody claims that McCain admitted ignorance of the economy, they’ll get the same stubborn refutation from me that you’re getting now. Accuracy matters, if only to prevent things from wildly evolving into urban myths, like Clinton was mostly responsible for a balanced budget.

Now Now, Obama may be incompetent, BUT HE CARES.

I’ve been watching an aloof Obama who’s lacking in presence and visceral connection to the people. Obama’s been speaking in tongues and appears uninvolved and tired.

There is no passion,sense of urgency,or clear idea as to the kind of President he wants to be. I don’t feel the aspirations, and don’t hear policy details. Nuthin’. Lots of White House leaks do not a President make.

This is a trainwreck.

While I opposed Reagan’s policies, he was a man of presence,humor, and he connected strongly with people. Mostly all people. He had the gift of communicating. And he exuded energy and positiveness.

Obama cannot do this, and as a Democrat he sadly will cost the Party bigtime, but the Democratic leadership had a choice and chose Obama for which they will pay bigtime.

Sad.

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Awesome list!!!

Can we add a few?

If George W. Bush had thrown a pitch out at the All-Star game that landed 10 feet from home plate, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had quashed a Congressional investigation into an apparent terrorist act against our troops on our own soil, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had attempted to raise taxes in a recession, would you have approved?

Lark, I don’t think you’re helping Palin’s cause. I am the BIGGEST Palin fan there is, but bashing Hillary and Bill Clinton on a PUMA website is just plain rude. PUMAs supported McCain/Palin last fall. Some of them are still on board with Palin, some aren’t. But why are you here spouting your religious slogans?

Palin doesn’t wear religion on her sleeve.

Palin isn’t infallible. But she has a record of integrity that is admirable. I wish people bashing her intelligence would simply study her record. Reading her book would be a good start.

Очень интересно, но все в будущем хотелось бы еще побольше узнать об этом. Очень понравилась ваша статья!