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1. Professor Guvinoff:

Remember the 70s, when we were amused by the “Peter principle”, according to which ambitious people rise to their ultimate level of incompetence? In history, every misguided leadership has always responded to opposition by digging deeper. It would be comical if it was not so dangerous and so costly.

Is there any president ever before in our history who has managed to trigger a wave of protest before the end of his administration’s first 100 days? It’s going to take a lot of hard work to return to America’s roots as guiding principles.

We sometimes wonder whether the tea party movement is going to find enough good leaders? So far, Madison, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and others of their time have served brilliantly in some sort of interim capacity since last February. We will continue to refer to them, and get practical, that’s the American way.

We will figure out what’s next, and we will eventually get our country back on its proper footing. Sometimes I wonder if the Internet is just the natural extension of the trails used by our galloping Paul Revere?

Beware! The socialists are coming! At age 62, I have never participated in any movement of any political consequence. Mr. Obama, thanks for making me feel young and motivated again.

Apr 21, 2009 - 11:09 pm 2. The UnPatriot:

Drunken sailors at least did a days work for their pay.

–The UnPatriot

Apr 21, 2009 - 11:41 pm 3. kenny komodo:

Ms. Rubin I like your analysis very much. However as a retired Chief Petty Officer, United States Navy I would prefer if you do not smear the good name of drunken sailors by comparing them to President Obama. Maybe you could change that to read something like “he spends like a Hollywood Liberal” or something. Thank you.

Apr 22, 2009 - 12:02 am 4. Rachel Peepers:

To use a baseball analogy, it’s the top of the first inning in the Obama administration and our opponents just scored 11 runs.

The Monroe Doctrine was set asunder in the form of a three run homer for the Russians.

Bankrupting our future by spending money like drunken congressmen is good for 5 enemy runs. Obama promised no more earmarks. Maybe his fingers were crossed. We got stuck paying for 9,000 last month. I guess Obama’s taken to wearing fire-proof pants.

Our pitchers can’t get the ball over the plate. Eric Holder started the game and walked the bases loaded with idiotic statements, like Americans are cowards.

Homeland securty committed successive errors by first
accusing returning war soldiers
of potentially becoming terrorists. And then standing by the fairy tail.

Actual terrorists overseas and proven, unrepetent domestic terrorist like Bill Ayers)
are no longer being called terrorists. Good for numerous base hits and and creating a paper thin defense against terrorism.

Plus the enemy’s been stealing our signals. The plans for the new U.S. top secret fighter plan have been stolen.

And Barack’s been spending time in the enemy dugout, who knows what he’s saying to undermine our team

That’s like visiting Kruschiev after he says he’ll bury us.

Using a football analogy, electing Barack Obama is like the Chicago Bears hiring Abe Gibron, then proceeding to go 1 and 12 the next year.

Obama is in water way over his head. He learned in Chicago that poitics was about gaining money and power. But now as President, Obama has to stand up for freedom and everything America stands for. Like the first 10 amendments. Which he’s as incapable of doing as he fumbled when Justice Roberts gave the boy
king the oath of office, which Barack totally screwed up.
And now’s he wants to shred the second amendment so if you’re a gun owner, you won’t recognize it when your high powered weapons are taken away because they “look” like military weapons. Obama also didn’t know shotguns are used in the Army
so Obama wants to also ban shotguns.

Friends, let’s face it. Obama’s qualified to have dinner with terrorists like Bill Ayers and know which utensils
to eat with. But he can’t tell the difference between good and evil. He has no idea what makes this country great. He’s a lonely, lost little man who thinks a theoretical knowledge of Saul Olinsky can get him through.

The only thing that’ll get us through this four years are Americans who bleed red while and blue. It’s time for us to take the reins of government. Next week, I’m formally recommending Barack resign because of poor health and then I’ll proceed to work down the next in command
unil I find someone competent enough and courageous enough to pick up the reins of government. If I find no one up to the challenge,
I’ll be forced to nominate someone, and go through a lengthy appointment process.

Obama’s now the laughing stock of the world. A patent disgrace. Who makes George Bush look like a Harry Truman. The idiots use to say, “Bush lied, people died”

They should be saying, Obama promised change. Chump change is what we got.

Maybe it’s time to start sending brooms to Washington because it’s looking more and more crystal clear every day that what we really need is a clean sweep to clean things up. Never before has one man made such a mess of thing in so short a time, disappointing so many.

Republican or Democratic I don’t care. What we need are people who tell the truth, have a sense of what America is and stands for, and , at the same time, come to work every day with a backbone.

Barack Obama can’t pitch, can’t hit, can’t field, can’t manage. In four short months he’s managed only to make mistake after mistake. He’s a disgrace. By the way, who hired him? No one admits
to it. Then somebody
fire the empty suited, two faced flak.

Hey, folks, if I were Obama, a sorry sorry excuse for commander in chief, I’d go back to Indonesia and open a souvenir shop. A job that isn’t likely to get the world blown up.

If Obama tries to stay another month, I suggest he get those hair dye job maybe two times a day because being scared stiff from the time you wake up in the morning to the time you have to face the frown at night is too much for any guy to handle.

Apr 22, 2009 - 12:52 am 5. Sunglasses on a cloudy day:

(AP) Washington, D.C.

Barack Obama announced today that the United States will be forming a new branch of government, one they say is long overdue. The Department of Paper. This branch of government will oversee the registration of blank paper. Starting on July 4th, 2009, all blank paper products sold in the United States will be embedded with an RF chip. “Technology has come to a point where microscopic RF chips can be embedded in every sheet of paper that is manufactured, allowing us to track where the sheet of paper was purchased, and the individual who purchased the sheet of paper”, said Bill Ayers, the new Paper “czar”. “Words alone, if put in a certain order, can be even more dangerous than a gun, no one should be able to walk around with a gun, so why do we allow people to write whatever words they want without any restrictions? Imagine a piece of paper dictating how America should be governed? The idea in itself is insane. It is the Department of Paper’s sworn duty to make sure this horrific possibility is not realized.”

Change, however, does not come cheap. The price of paper will increase by over 20,000 percent. The bulk of the cost will be to pay for the massive bureaucratic infrastructure needed to track all the paper. “The cost of the RF chips is almost negligible, it is the system we will have to put in place, the system that will guarantee our freedom. There is no price tag on freedom”, said the new Paper “czar” Bill Ayers, adding, “when people start taking their freedom for granted, that is when they are most vulnerable.”

The Onion News Network was at a loss as how to parody the story, then the ACLU entered the picture. ACLU spokesperson Emily Duffois said, in a condescending manner, “It’s just paper. It burns. How important could it be?”, adding, “it’s not like the constitation was written on paper.” When informed that the constitution was indeed written on paper and that she had mispronounced the word constitution, Ms. Duffois could only mutter, “well, then how important could it be, really?” Ms. Duffois then stormed off in a huff, rambling on about how she was late for a meeting and that we were somehow at fault.

Defending the implementation of this new branch of government, Bill Ayers was quoted as saying, “If this department is successful, we will look at the feasibility of implanting RF chips directly into the citizens. It’s very green, and really, it’s about reducing paperwork. It’s more of an environmental thing, but I guess it’s really just the true cost of Climate Change”.

And boy, has the climate changed.

Apr 22, 2009 - 12:55 am 6. MP51:

The big problem is that both the MSM and the kool-aid drinkers have too much invested in Obama to admit they were wrong about him. On ANY level. They will protect him, excuse him, and stand by him ’til the bitter end. There is no careful consideration or unbiased assessment of his actions–it’s all emotion. They don’t want to know.

And that is what’s scary. One of the most incisive blog comments I’ve ever read was from someone asking what Obama supporters are lacking in their own lives that they attach so much meaning to a mere politician. Garofalo was wrong about the tea party crowd being brain damaged. It’s actually the Obama worshippers who are a french fry short of a Happy Meal (and no one proves that better than she).

So I don’t have much hope that large groups of the electorate will turn on Obama anytime soon. Eventually? One can only hope. The future of the Republic depends on it.

Apr 22, 2009 - 1:10 am 7. Войска ПВО:

Ms Rubin writes:

“None of this is to say that Obama does not enjoy a high degree of personal popularity or that Republicans have recaptured the hearts and minds of all their countrymen. But the extent to which Obama has frittered away the opportunity to create a lasting centrist majority is startling, as is the degree to which the hapless Republican Party has begun to set a course for recovery.”

Jennfer, he does not enjoy a high degree of personal popularity, shrieking trolls’ protestations to the contrary. One need only review the shrinking margin between strongly approve and strongly disapprove (now at +2% at Rasmussen, similarly at various other tracking polls; Google it) to see that — as you characterize it — President training Pants has frittered away a lot of political capital.

I dunno about the Republican revival, but there sure is a grass-roots dislike of government at all levels with this clown as the lightening rod.

Tonight I attended an après-Tea Party organizational meeting of over one hundred fire-breathing Americans who were there to do more than hope for change. We were spoken to by two candidates for office opposing the incumbents and they were out for blood as well. The Alleged Hawaiian has done one thins extremely well: he has whipped up a frenzy of enmity that promises to grow as this clown continues to step in one pile of doggy doo after another.

I can hear the trolls now: these astro-turfed, Hannity/Fox News sponsored soirees are but flash in the pan gatherings of racists, disgruntled veterans and old-timers. They won’t amount to squat.

Oh, please, please, please, please keep believing that, trolls! I’m begging you!

Apr 22, 2009 - 1:40 am 8. LeighB:

Releasing the torture memos is for effect, more of his politics of distraction. He was starting to take a little heat, the “European apology and bowing tour” did not play so well, so he and Rahm-Axe (the two-headed monster) got out their top 10 distractions list and ding-ding-ding, the “torture” memos were released.

And if he could discredit the military a bit in the process, why that’s a two-fer, and in the head of Obama it was totally justified on account of they were getting way too much credit for that whole pirate takedown thing. I mean, people just did not understand that the green light for taking action to save one of our guys took…many days of thought. Talk. More talk. Thought. And then on the fourth day came the wisdom, “Oh, well, OK. If his life is threatened…”. (sarcasm off, I promise to behave the rest of the day and not encourage anyone to attend a TEA party on July 4)

Apr 22, 2009 - 1:48 am 9. LeighB:

Oopsie, with a little more coffee this morning, I would have also been able to turn off my italics, along with the sarcasm. My apologies.

Good behavior is on. Sarcasm off. Italics off. Er…drats.

Apr 22, 2009 - 1:52 am 10. PunditKix:

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Apr 22, 2009 - 3:20 am 11. elvis:

Obama promised to dismantle the US. Why be surprised?

Apr 22, 2009 - 3:46 am 12. Bob:

By borrowing trillions of dollars from our children and grandchildren, Obama may be able to temporarily boost the economy – just long enough to get through the next two election cycles. This Ponzi scheme or house of cards will come tumbling down and voters will see that taking money from one group and giving it to others, mostly others who are less productive/unproductive (think GM and Chrysler) will not stimulate anything for very long. When we have to pay for this massive spending either directly through taxation or indirectly through hyper-inflation, sober people (those not “drunk” on celebrity worship) will see what a bill of goods The One has been selling. But he may be able to keep the game going long enough to “succeed” in 2010 and 2012. While I hope Jennifer is right, I fear The Messiah will be able to fool enough of the people for enough of the time to achieve his goals of sustained personal popularity, massive increases in government power and Democratic control of that power.

Apr 22, 2009 - 3:56 am 13. Formwiz:

Well, at least some of us get to say, “I told you so”.

PS I don’t know about point 5. The Tea Partiers weren’t too thrilled with some of the RINOs trying to hitch their wagon to the Tea Party star. A lot of conservatives have been energized, but that’s something else again.

PPS As to Obambi’s popularity, Rasmussen has him at 54 this week and sliding.

Apr 22, 2009 - 3:57 am 14. Marsha:

Oh come on. Obama’s the greatest president since Jimmy Carter – as if that were possible. You just wait till that stimulus starts stimulating. OOO-Doggies! What a party we’ll have then. People from all 57 states will abandon their clinging. The sea levels will drop. We’ll be loved all over the world.

Seriously folks, everybody knows that everything bad that happens in the world, or in our personal lives for that mater, is all Bush’s fault. The Savior will come. He will fix all the damage the evil Bush did. Perhaps with a nice set of show trials of former Bush administration figures, for whatever, the evil Bush infection will be cured, and Obama can be all things to all people as he should be. Besides, did you catch that picture of Obama in his shorts. OO-LA-LA!!! What’s not to like?

Apr 22, 2009 - 4:06 am 15. RacistTeaPartyGoer:

The Republican Party, as evidenced by the AmeriCorps (get paid to volunteer, ONLY IN AMERICA!) vote, are not serious about cutting spending. These Republican politicians need to be replaced, or else the President will skate by without a hair being ruffled.

Apr 22, 2009 - 4:23 am 16. Perry:

I pray he only lasts one term.

45 months to go…

Apr 22, 2009 - 4:28 am 17. Craig:

The Liberal Media will simply NOT ALLOW Obama to blow it. He’s the chosen one. Good God Man! Look at the legacy of Jimmy Carter. Liberals still hold him in reverence…as if world hunger and peace upon the earth were achieved.

Apr 22, 2009 - 4:31 am 18. Gary Ogletree:

Contrary to your statement,Republicans have not found their sense of fiscal sanity. Only 14 Republican senators voted against the latest disgrace, the community activist training program, Give/Serve. This smells a like an Obama style Hitler youth with a pretty name. Tea Time is not over.

Apr 22, 2009 - 4:41 am 19. vivo:

I hope that the next article by Jennifer Rubin will be titled “Do you miss Bush?”.

Another muddy article full of criticism, exaggerations and demagoguery.

Apr 22, 2009 - 4:46 am 20. Wednesday earning | And Still I Persist:

[...] Jennifer Rubin points out the reasons for buyer’s remorse on Obama among independent and conservative voters. And it’s not like the Left is exactly happy with him, [...]

Apr 22, 2009 - 4:51 am 21. 509th Bob:

You’ve made good points. The only thing that I would add is that investors are terrified of putting their money into the economy because nobody can guess what is going to be nationalized next. If such figures exist, perhaps you might want to look into whether U.S. investor capital is now being directed overseas to economies that operate on more predictable capitalist models.

Apr 22, 2009 - 4:55 am 22. Terry Gain:

I was wrong about Obama. It’s not that I didn’t expect him to govern as the radical that he is. This is after all the man who was hand-picked by Billy Ayers to run his failed Chicago schools experiment. And this is the man who sat in the pew of the anti-American racist Wright for 20 years and then chose Wright as his mentor. But I said it would take a year to 18 months to get to this point.

Undeterred, I now predict that when it becomes obvious that the Obama economy is not recovering and the dissatisfaction with him grows, he will need a distraction like no other. And who better than the MSM’s whipping boy: George W. Bush.

Look for show trials or congressional circuses into the Bush administration’s efforts to protect the country and fight the Overseas Contingency Operation.

Apr 22, 2009 - 5:00 am 23. AThinkingPerson:

What a great concise article that sums up a lot of what I’ve seen posters here and on other media outlets writing about. I’m guessing that an article that tries to learn how Obama blew it will be much longer because there’s an infinite amount of ways to discuss.

Apr 22, 2009 - 5:05 am 24. Leigh Thelmadatter:

While Obama’s rather spectacular errors are certainly helpful to the Republican Party, it remains to be seen whether the tea parties evolve into a movement, and if so, what kind. An earlier article here at PM indicated that Republicans should not see the tea parties as some kind of vindication of themselves. They were not, as most Republicans are guilty of fiscal irresponsibility as well. It is not a great idea to run as “the lesser evil” because sooner or later, someone will come up with a “good” alternative.

However, Obama offers the Republicans a chance to sell their base’s values and ideas to mainstream America, esp. as we see the consequences of Obama’s policies and near-blind ideology. If the GOP continues on the path of “Democrat-lite,” someone else will take the conservative base from them for good, and perhaps in a direction many of us would not like to see. The talk of secession in Texas seems to be hyperbole for now, but dont count on it remaining so. Despite of how the Civil War is taught in most schools in the North and Pacific (including the way I was taught in NJ), the South never really has accepted the outcome and there is a case to be made for secessionist rights, in spite of Lincoln.

Apr 22, 2009 - 5:24 am 25. Paul -Indiana:

Are you still glad that you voted for Obama?

Apr 22, 2009 - 5:26 am 26. Robert Hooper:

Good analysis but irrelevant, too. The media will continue to cover for him and this will hold his voting block in place for the most part.

Apr 22, 2009 - 5:27 am 27. RE:

The ‘buyers remorse’ crowd bears a heavy burden for their recklessness and irresponsibility in casting their vote for our charlatan president and his endless platitudes. Obama’s razor thin resume and hostility towards American values were perfectly obvious during the campaign, yet many people allowed themselves to be intoxicated on delusional wishful thinking and hype. Well, now they are waking up to the fact that Obama is a disaster. The trouble is he’s not done doing damage yet. What will remain after another thess years and nine months this incompetence and ineptitude? I sincerely hope people learn something from this debacle, but blame shifting seems to be the fashion these days… .

The American people dropped the ball big time on electing Obama. The country now reaps what it has sown. Ouch.

Apr 22, 2009 - 5:34 am 28. Meryl:

“Problem: Young idealistic voters and independents who hate hyper-partisanship are going to be harder to lure to the polls now that they have seen President Obama, not only candidate Obama.”

I submit that anyone who has to be lured to the polls should not be allowed to vote.

My perspective on election is and always has been, do NOT get between me and my polling place on election day, or you WILL be personally impacted.

This past election day eve, I finally told the fourth “whoever” that called to “be sure I was going to vote” that I didn’t need to be told to vote.

I’m sorry to see that Fidel Castro is now annoyed with the The Won. I was hoping that they could take him as their next dictator when Fidel and Raul are gone. Would have been a perfect match. He could just add Cuban citizenship to all his others.

Apr 22, 2009 - 5:34 am 29. Magic:

The media will continue to coverup all of this DNCs / administrations error out of self preservation. They elected him, the provided all the propaganda for him, they will continue to cover his and the DNC errors because if they don’t their egos eill not except that they are not smarter than the adverge snake.

Apr 22, 2009 - 5:36 am 30. Paul -Indiana:

#5. Rachel, ‘drunken congressmen’ wastes the space taken up by ‘drunken’. It’s earth day….save ink.

Apr 22, 2009 - 5:36 am 31. Terry Gain:

I hope that the next article by Jennifer Rubin will be titled “Do you miss Bush?”.

Another muddy article full of criticism, exaggerations and demagoguery.

Another comment from VIVO bereft of substance.

Apr 22, 2009 - 5:39 am 32. glenn:

Problem for the country is there’s no credible political alternative. The Republicans are pretty much useless, the centrist Democrats are going to be purged from the party over the next months, and all the snout-in-the-trough folks in both parties are busy right now dissing the Tea Party protests as racist and Un-American ’cause they see real dange there.

Apr 22, 2009 - 5:41 am 33. Kris:

In my blog, Obama’s First 100 Days, I followed news about his decisions and find that he has a real trouble. It’s much easier to find negative comments then positive and his performance at last summit is even worse then the one in Europe.

Apr 22, 2009 - 6:07 am 34. Oldguy:

The next phase of Atlas Shrugged to be put in place by this administration will be no more layoffs by the private business sector.

Apr 22, 2009 - 6:12 am 35. AThinkingPerson:

#32 glenn… Unfortunately you may be right that there is no credible alternative at this time but I say let Congress eat their own right now. They are busy self destructing (both parties) and throwing each other under the bus. Let them. Why bother tearing them to bits when they’re doing such a good job themselves. By the time the midterms roll around, the wheat will have been separated from the chafe and then the voting can begin.

Apr 22, 2009 - 6:20 am 36. Bilgeman:

Ms. Rubin:

He’s so “blown it” that he’s actually redefining the term.
He will become a verb.
Future politicians will be accused of “pulling an Obama”.

About 20% of Americans smoke cigarettes, the fellow who claims to have been born in Hawaii jacked the taxes on a perfectly legal product from about 39 cents to $1.01 a pack.

Congratulations, ace, you just pissed off twenty percent of the population…and for no good reason.

There are about 60-65 million private gunowners in the United States, and nearly every one of them is a citizen with an eligibility to vote. The Alleged Hawaiian has been making noises, (as down in Mexico), about how he’d like to, if he thought he could, reinstate Clinton’s ridiculous and ineffective “Assualt Weapons Ban”, the PRECISE reason that the Dems lost the Congress in 1994.

Way to go,Obama! 65 million or so voters who will put you out on the street at the first opportunity. For what? To make the rest of America as peaceful and safe as the streets of the South side Chicago district you once represented?

Obama’s DHS drafts a memo, since released, that insinuates very strongly that veterans are tantamount to a domestic terrorist recruiting pool.
America’s veterans, citizens all, now have very good reason to get rid of the DHS snoopers by de-electing the “One”.

Way to radicalize and make enemies of people…many, many of whom ALSO know how to shoot and make things that go “BOOM!”.

He has demoralized the Intelligence apparatus, who now might “brake” when they SHOULD “accelerate”, through worrying about that some future Administration might come along and second-guess what they did to some wretched shepherd foreigner with an AK-47 in order to keep Americans safe.

If you don’t release the rest of the memos, as Cheney has challenged you to do, showing what the waterboarding sessions might have discovered, we’ll figure that like your undisclosed vault-copy birth certificate, that you must be hiding something pretty damaging.

Is playing “Nixon and his Oval Office tapes” worth it?

He has pissed off the “Bonus Class” on Wall Street and in Big Business with his high-handed “Bailout” policies.

Do you think that your own “mack-daddy”, George Soros and your Kennedy patrons have enough jack to fund your 2012 campaign out of their own pockets, sport?

He hasn’t committed to enforcing the laws against Illegal Immigration, (the policy stance that really turned the GOP base against Bush).

Nice work, Obama! How many illegal aliens vote?
Even if your ACORN buddies could gin up a ballot for every single one of them, that’s at most 20 million.
How many citizens are out of work? 8.5% of the population?
Good luck with those ‘10 and ‘12 campaign returns.

He is instituting a “carbon cap and trade” scheme, which is aimed squarely at coal.
Guess what America burns to make turbogenerators turn and produce most of our electricity?
Now guess what’s going to happen to your electric amd utility bills, Mr. and Mrs. Consumer?

Thankee, Mr. Obama!

Those Blue-State Yankees might not feel so warm and fuzzy about you in the dead of winter in Iowa and New Hampshire in 2012, when they’re shivering and/or bankrupted by the one-two-three punch of the currency inflation that’s happening now, the trickled-down pass-through of your “green tax clean air climate change” schemes, and massive job losses from your centrally-planned economy.

And he has done NOTHING to lead the country towards the post-racial utopia his supporters babbled about during his campaign. The “Professionally Aggrieved Ethnicity/ Orientation” industry is still ticking right along, with no signs of slowing down.

Kiss the “White Guilt” constituency bye-bye for a good long time, chum.

He has authorized $900 million in foreign aid to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, and there’s a certain segment of American society that is going to have an existential reason to hate his effin’ guts for playing “Santa Claus” to terorists who have sworn to destroy Israel.

How many Palestinians vote in US elections, Harvard-boy?

His cozying up to (still) the Castros’ Cuba is going to be reason for yet another set of American citizens, (the ones who started washing up in Florida in the early 1960’s), to mobilize against him.
How many Cubans, as opposed to Cuban-Americans get to vote in American elections? Tough to win Florida when you subsidize Palestinian terrorists and shake hands with a Spanish-speaking Communist, and tough to win the White House without winning Florida.

Maybe you think your ACORN cronies will be able to manufacture absentee ballots from Gaza and Havana, eh?

He is babbling about how “Yes, We CAN” rid the world of nuclear weapons, when “No, he CAN’T” even keep the Iranians from ACQUIRING them.

What team are you supposed to be playing for, again?

His polices have caused something like 33 states to pass legislation that the Ninth and Tenth Amendment mean what they say.

The political message here is clear. Butt the Hell out of State affairs…they want no part of what he’s doing.

The Governor of Texas is openly talking about his state’s right of secession.

You think you’re going to win the White House again without Texas, hotshot?

And what has he done for his nutroots base?

We are STILL in Iraq
Guantanamo is STILL open
and the PATRIOT Act is STILL the Law.

So those booger-eatin’ morons who DID “Hope for Change” are standing on the street-corner holding a big fat bag full of air.

Even the dumbest chump one day, every once in a blue moon, can dope out that he’s been used abused and dissed.

Wait until that happens, slick, and then what they put Bush through is going to seem like a mother’s loving embrace of her infant child.

Has he blown it?

Draw your own conclusions.

Apr 22, 2009 - 6:35 am 37. D. Foster:

Obama is a problem, but the major problem remains the Professional Politican in Washington and every State in the Union.

Just think how different it would be if these politicians were all gone from Congress.

Barney Frank, Pat Leahy, John McCain, Chris Dodd, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinsten, Feingold and Kohl of Wisconsin, Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer, Maxine Waters, Bobby Rush, Chuck Grassley, Chuck Hagle, John Murta, Arlin Specter, etc, etc etc.

Congress, both republican and democrat are all spenders and believe in big government. GET RID OF THESE CLOWNS.

The American Voter needs to demand a supeior product for service. Just like the American consumer has demanded a superior automobile over the years. Japanese and German have taken the market from GM and Chrysler and Ford.

Apr 22, 2009 - 6:49 am 38. Sebastian Shaw:

Is this a rhetorical question?

Apr 22, 2009 - 6:53 am 39. Michael O'Brein:

Blowing it is what came to my mind when Obama bent over for that Saudi king.

Apr 22, 2009 - 7:05 am 40. TOhio:

I notice that everyone keeps commenting on how Obama will stay afloat because he has the media on his side. Well.. we need to do something about it!

I think that the next target for the Tea Party movement should be the corrupt American media. We should use our organizing strength to ruin them financially. How? Get everyone to cancel their liberal newspaper subscriptions, stop watching CNN, MSNBC etc.. and stop buying liberal mags like Newsweek.

Many of us (like me) have already started doing this, but if we can get more and more people to do it, we can ruin them financially, hopefully bankrupt them, and get them off the air or out of business. There aren’t enough liberals to keep them afloat and the sooner they go under, the sooner we can stop them from falsely propping up Obama.

Perhaps we target one from each medium and eventually work through them all. Who should be first? Newspaper – The New York Times, TV – CNN and MSNBC (It’s hard to pick which one is worse), Magazine – Newsweek.

This protest can be managed from the internet and its an effective way that all of us can make a difference without having to take time off from work.

Apr 22, 2009 - 7:08 am 41. Jbl:

Unfortunately, all the buyer’s remorse in the world doesn’t change the fact that a lot of gullible Americans handed this man and the extremists in his party a blank check and said, “here you go…” and now there is nothing anyone can do to stop them.

And all of this is thanks to the press, who spent 8 years demonizing Bush to the point where the country was literally mad with hate…and then spent a mere 8 months setting Obama up as the Prince of the World; a man who had not run so much as a hot dog stand in his life, and who was so opaque he would not even release his college transcripts. They gushed and sighed and the same people susceptible to the press’ lies on Bush also bought their lies on Obama.

So, you can thank the press for Obama. And people can have all the remorse they want, but the damage is done, the dye is cast. This tyrant will never allow another election in the US, and he’ll gerrymand every district he can into the Dem column, once he and ACORN get their hands on the census. Hey, they used to project that “Bush will never let their be another election” because it’s what was in their heart all the time, should they ever get back in power. Now they are there.

Be as remorseful as you want. It’s not going to get us anything. America is OVER. The press killed her. Obama buries her more deeply every time he opens his mouth overseas and every time he releases secrets that make us less safe. And he’s about to nationalize the banks and the press. The press has already begun to act like Pravda, so who knows if that’s a loss.

There is nothing you can do to stop Obama. He “won.”

Apr 22, 2009 - 7:15 am 42. Phoenix48:

7. Войска ПВО: – very well said. As a Clinton surviver – it is striking to see just how much Obama has immulated FOB (Friends of Bill) with the ‘Chicago way’.

Most of Jennifer Rubins observations get lost because we are all living in an extroidinary ‘crisis bubble.’

The fact is this guy began running for Pres the day he won his senate seat – and yet since arriving it’s been one fiasco after another. He long ago surpassed Clinton’s amateurishness with appointments. He has only been spared any direct confrontations concerning congressional approvial because of the financial mess.

Thus far he has basically let Pelosi & Reid run wild – while he primps about acting presidential – both @ home when stumping for his budget – and abroad – where he’s still hailed as a transcendental ameri-CAN.

The fact is the ‘crises is a terrible thing to waste’ – a very bad pun on the long time motto of Black Education private funding (‘a mind is a terrible thing to waste’) from the 80’s – basically hijacked whatever adgenda this guy once had when deciding to run.

Even though he’s had the strongest support of the media of any president in my lifetime – he’s really been on his heels. I also don’t buy his ‘popularity’ as repeatedly mimmed in the MSM echo chamber. His ‘tax relief’ for the middle class is every bit a joke as Bush’s ’stimulous’ – somewhere between a one-off $500 – to $1500 for singles or couples with children.

If gas was back up @ $4.00 a gallon and we had commodities going nuts like they were in the last summer of Bush – Obama WHOULDN’T HAVE SQUAT FOR POLITICAL CAPITAL.

The fact is we’ve all had about a 700 Billion ‘tax break’ just in the commodities collapse – and yet no employment turnaround – and people are adding two plus two and getting the math correct.

The Democrats presciption is courting disaster. Jen Rubin is dead right. Once the dust settles and this financial deleveraging is managed – what will be left of Obama? Who cares if he is a Racial touchstone if he doesn’t promote prosperity? Only the looney left will give a hoot.

Apr 22, 2009 - 7:19 am 43. fred:

The country is getting what it deserves in Obonga. If people who voted for him are experiencing buyer’s remorse, well I suppose it’s a good thing but small comfort in the years ahead before he leaves office in 2013. I do note that the MSM will never stop carrying the water for him, as other comments above have pointed out. However, remember that during the Seventies and right up during the 1980 presidential election campaign the media was overwhelmingly in favor of Carter, never castigating him for his buffoonery and incompetence. And then that November the media was shocked by the election results.

As besotted as my generation was with socialism and social hedonism during the Seventies, most of us woke up and smelled the coffee. In November of 1980 most of my university classmates voted for Reagan.

I dispute the entire premise of Ms. Rubin’s essay – about who the constituent groups were who provided the margin of victory for Obonga. The tracking of the data showed that the demographics that put Obonga over the top were the under-30 crowd and over 70% of single females. Does not matter how any of those folks “identified” themselves as (conservative Democrats, moderate Republicans, independents, etc.) Age and marital status were key determinants.

Thus, what really matters is how many of these people during the next four years are going to “get” the “Carter lesson” that brought us to our senses. Because Obonga is going to be far worse than Jimmy “Dhimmi” (and he is, over at Jihadwatch.org the “Dhimmi of the Year” for more than one year)Carter.

Apr 22, 2009 - 7:23 am 44. elvis:

TOhio….. We have been in agreement with your idea for years.It wouldn’t take long to do this. The MSM is already ailing!

Apr 22, 2009 - 7:27 am 45. Jbl:

#22, Terry Gain, SPOT ON. They’re already laying the groundwork for that, and the press will obediently hop on.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5196551/Barack-Obama-Bush-officials-could-be-prosecuted-over-torture-documents.html

Bush will be the whipping boy for the rest of his life, and I think he knows it, and knew it ‘way back in 2003. There is a reason why he keeps silent. Perhaps he ends up being the sacrifice needed to bring America back to its senses.

If that’s still possible.

Apr 22, 2009 - 7:27 am 46. fred:

TOhio at #40,

The newest political appointee sent to the Pentagon as a legal adviser, Rosa Brooks, has publicly called for the government to bail out the media and take it over. Also, for the government to issue licenses to journalists. Don’t get me wrong, I love the idea of bankrupting the MSM and getting the Tea Party movement to focus on them. But, bear in mind the mentality of these Soros operatives.

These people will stop at nothing to get what they want. And right now they like the idea of the government taking control of entire industries. They fancy themselves as competent CEO’s.

Apr 22, 2009 - 7:27 am 47. Войска ПВО:

16. Perry writes:

“I pray he only lasts one term. 45 months to go…”

Perry, with the greatest of respect, all that is needed for him to get a second term is for us to just sit on our fannies and pray.

NOTHING WRONG WITH PRAYER, BUT WHILE YOU’RE AT IT, GET OUT THERE AND DO SOMETHING — VOLUNTEER, ATTEND A TEA PARTY, JOIN A GROUP AND PLAN A TEA PARTY, START BREATHING FIRE AT YOUR LOCAL INCUMBENT, QUESTION THESE DINKS, RINOS, OR OTHER PURVEYORS OF THE STATUS QUO!!

..sorry for the raised voice; thre, I feel so-o-o-o much better.

Apr 22, 2009 - 7:30 am 48. AThinkingPerson:

As a side note to TOhio and others about the media propping Carter II up, did anyone see CNN this morning when they were discussing Carter II’s first 100 days? They had someone on that is tracking his campaign promises and he got poor ratings almost across the board with I think one “waiting to see” on an issue. This on CNN. Point being, there is hope yet that the message that we currently have an oppressive government led by Carter II is getting out.

Apr 22, 2009 - 7:30 am 49. BC:

Gawd, you guys put both the “numb” and “nuts” in numbnuts. Obama is dealing with an unbelievable mess left behind by Bush and his people. I was recently at a coffee shop frequented by people often on the inside of government matters, and a guy behind me was giving his friend a Cliff Notes version of the economic mess. There was nothing classified, but there was a lot more than gets reported, including two things that stuck out: grandstanding Congressional members screwing up tentative deals and the fascinating issue with “Smart Guys” — basically the exact financial industry equivalent of underworld “wise guys” and with pretty much the same moral outlook on life. Basically “smart guys” are well connected financial types with resources to exploit any opportunities, loopholes or weaknesses in the financial markets, including how to game TARP and the bailouts. There is no intent whatsoever to be part of any solution — it’s all about working the angles with exactly the same mindset of any 2-bit hood.

Another curious thing from the conversation was which financial institution started the high-leverage, uber derivative greedfest game that ended up being copied by all the other big players and which led to their downfall: Salomon Brothers (now part of Citigroup). I was not aware of this but a few minutes on Google showed that this was indeed the case, but how often did Salomon Brothers come up in the blame game over the financial mess?

The same issues pop up with the “torture memos” — Obama was stuck with years of this shameful BS (the “high-value info” is also BS since you can call anything not utterly worthless “high value” and ignore all the other routes for obtaining it, which you likely had to do anyway to confirm any value) and had to walk a no-win line between not pissing off agencies like the CIA who were already on the defensive about their political backbone and competency during the Bush years and who felt they had to follow orders in any case, and trying to reposition the US back on the high ground in terms of integrity while appeasing those seeking “justice.”

But…whatever — this is a right blog site after all….

Apr 22, 2009 - 7:31 am 50. Lynn B.:

TOhio; # 40
Already taken care of that. Cancelled any and all. Now the mags and papers want to give me “free” to “get me back”. I don’t want free, I want fair. I’m not getting either one from the media or O. THAT is just the whole problem. I am ready to Tea Party again here in Ohio. Are you?

Apr 22, 2009 - 7:32 am 51. RE:

I want a president that likes America and respects the American people.

We clearly do not have one now.

Apr 22, 2009 - 7:37 am 52. Nosinin:

Great idea TOhio. I no longer take the paper, don’t watch MSM -albeit am curious at how they are spinning the latest sometimes-Only concern is that he has that Rosa Parks (?) is that her name? in the defense dept squawking about gov ‘bailing out’ the media. Holy Carumba!! Let’s see. The media is going bankrupt because NO ONE TRUSTS THEM OR CARES TO LISTEN TO THEM. SO lets spend taxpayers money to keep them afloat so that MORE PEOPLE WON’T TRUST THEM OR LISTEN TO THEM. If there is no market for it, WHY would the gov bail it out (think I know the answer to that =o Back to your idea, TOhio-GREAT IDEA!!

Apr 22, 2009 - 7:37 am 53. Joe Bison:

It seems that Obama has no coherent program
except for throwing money at things and trying
to tell people what to do, except for foreign
tyrants.

Maybe this is a good thing because if he was
better organized, with the control the
Democrats have, he would be more damaging.

This gives time for him to be seen as weak
and ineffectual and eventually uncool. The
media is of course biased but when people
start laughing at him he is done.

Apr 22, 2009 - 7:43 am 54. Clarion_Caller:

He took and oath to “PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION”.He is not keeping that oath.

Apr 22, 2009 - 7:51 am 55. Sebastian Shaw:

BC, put down the Kool-Aid & start drinking something healthy; it will clear you mind of the cobwebs.

The fact is President Obama’s monster budget & “stimulus” has poured gasoline on a raging fire; he has expanded the Federal Government while the public sector is still losing jobs.

Cap & Trade will just pour more accelerant on the raging fire & make it an Inferno.

The Economy became President Obama’s when he signed the “stimulus.”

Apr 22, 2009 - 7:58 am 56. Bilgeman:

#49 BC:
“Gawd, you guys put both the “numb” and “nuts” in numbnuts.”

It ain’t like you lot are the varsity squad, sport.

“Obama is dealing with an unbelievable mess left behind by Bush and his people.”

Right, tovarisch, the Czar was a bad, bad man! We got that…now what?

” I was recently at a coffee shop frequented by people often on the inside of government matters, and a guy behind me was giving his friend a Cliff Notes version of the economic mess. There was nothing classified, but there was a lot more than gets reported, including two things that stuck out: grandstanding Congressional members screwing up tentative deals and the fascinating issue with “Smart Guys” — basically the exact financial industry equivalent of underworld “wise guys” and with pretty much the same moral outlook on life.”

Ahhh, I see! The new bogeyman will be “The Wreckers”! or is it “The Kulaks”, or some combination of the two.

Hey if Hillary bails out, will she then be the “Trotsky”?

Does it sound to you like we’ve heard all this before somewhere?

How’d I do on my early 20th century Russian political history, comrades?

Fred, you were a card-carrying New Marxist Man…any of this bunk sound familiar to you too?

Apr 22, 2009 - 8:02 am 57. Meryl:

54. Clarion_Caller

I agree with your point, but have another comment.

I’m not trying to be cute with the following.

I do NOT believe that he “took an oath”. That would mean that in his thoughts he actually made a mental, intellectual commitment to the Constitution, which I do not believe he did.

An accurate statement would be that “he said an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.”

And now, that being said, where are the Senators and Representatives whom we would still like to believe actually did “take an oath” to preserve that Constitution? Where are the articles of impeachment? Even Senator Byrd has been bleating publicly about obama’s violation of Separation of Powers….but no action being taken.

The Constitution was written to protect our nation from people like obama. I do not see ANY ELECTED OFFICIAL fulfilling their oath to protect that Constitution, and in so doing, protect our nation.

We are toast. Stick a fork in. We’re done.

We had better fight back before the means for fighting back have been taken from us.

Apr 22, 2009 - 8:07 am 58. AThinkingPerson:

BC conveniently forgets that as Sebastian points out so nicely, the economy became Carter II’s when he signed the stimulus and the budget. As for being “stuck” with the torture memo’s, BC also is forgetting that Carter II’s own Cabinet member Leon Panetta, told him NOT to release the memos due to security concerns (guess Carter II is not worried about security quite yet). Cheney wisely now calls on Carter II to release the rest now that the genie is out of the bottle to show how many further attacks were thwarted. It remains to be seen if Carter II owns a set big enough to do just that or if it’s true that he released just enough to get everyone’s attention off of his failed visit overseas and his bowing, hand shaking tragedies.

Apr 22, 2009 - 8:10 am 59. Sebastian Shaw:

The media will play Obama & the Democrats’ defense until they cannot; they will turn on Obama when he does not fit their template as savior of the world. Obama’s fall from grace will be fast after his so-called popularity shatters like the illusion it is.

Apr 22, 2009 - 8:11 am 60. donttreadonme:

We, the members of Drunken Sailors For Change, hereby protest the “drunken sailor” analogy proferred by Ms. rubin. Let it be known that we:
1. Never borrow money to fuel our benders.
2. Only spend our own money for aforementioned benders.
Thank you,
DSfC

Apr 22, 2009 - 8:11 am 61. RE:

The moral of this story is

“Never trust the judgment of an Obama voter”.

Apr 22, 2009 - 8:13 am 62. TalkinKamel:

LOL, doncha just love the way guys like Vivo and BC “argue”?

First, they try to insult us into silence. (“You put both the ‘numb’ and ‘nuts’ in ‘numbnuts’”—Oooooh, snarky!)

Then they blame everything on Bush. It’s all Bush’s fault, you see. Obama’s just a victim of coicumstance, or, “We’ve still got George Bush to kick around!”, or, furthermore, “President Bush is still dead—or still, supposedly, an idiot. Or Whatever. Whatever it is, it’s all his fault.” It’s the Saturday Night Live version of political commentary.

It’s April. Obama’s been in office since January. Come June, or thereabouts, you’re really going to have to find a new excuse for him, fellas. You can pull out the “It’s all Bush’s fault!” card indefinitely. Or, maybe you can, but don’t ask us to take it.

Apr 22, 2009 - 8:13 am 63. TalkinKamel:

#56 Bilgeman

LOL! “BUT, SURELY COMRADES, YOU DO NOT WANT JONES BACK!” sez Squealer the Pig! (Read “Animal Farm”).

Hilary is Trotsky, Wrecker-Kulaks are trying to undermine the glorious new revolution (working in tandem with the bogeyman)and it’s all Bush’s fault. Everything is Bush’s fault! Be on the look out for agents of Bush, comrades! And now let us sing “Meadowlands’, as we march off to work to pay more taxes for the People’s glorious revolutionary bailouts!

Apr 22, 2009 - 8:18 am 64. tanstaafl:

Key groups who helped vote in President Obama are having serious buyer’s remorse.

Other key groups appear to be leaning on “their” President to continue the witch hunt against the Bush administration, leading this President to release interrogation memos (probably wasn’t too difficult a decision for Obama, tho’ he claims he searched his soul) and, yesterday, to flip flop somewhat on his position on investigating/prosecuting individuals who gave opinions on or were associated with interrogation tactics in the previous administration.

Some of this absurd activity smells like behind the scenes Puppetmasters pulling Presidential strings.

Apr 22, 2009 - 8:20 am 65. Ms. Attitude:

49. BC: Bush did everything wrong and Obama is right. Your little rant changed my mind. Thank God for liberals who get their information by eavesdropping and Google. (Did I say God, I’m sorry, I forgot that he wasn’t welcome in our country anymore.)

Apr 22, 2009 - 8:21 am 66. Fragmentarian:

Vivo you poor pathetic fool, it’s only been a hundred days. How long before Bush, or heck Warren G. Harding for that matter, starts looking pretty good in comparison? Who says Mr. Obama can’t perform miracles?

Apr 22, 2009 - 8:28 am 67. LynnS:

Time really is relative. Only 100 days yet it feels like a lifetime.

Apr 22, 2009 - 8:31 am 68. Sebastian Shaw:

How’s Obama’s cabinet coming along? [crickets]

Apr 22, 2009 - 8:37 am 69. Insufficiently Sensitive:

But the extent to which Obama has frittered away the opportunity to create a lasting centrist majority is startling, as is the degree to which the hapless Republican Party has begun to set a course for recovery.

He never INTENDED to create a ‘centrist’ majority. That was the bullshit spewed by the MSM in their efforts to drag their Savior over the election finish line first. Had the MSM done the due diligence that the country needed in sizing up the two candidates for President, it would have had to face his actual history of behavior, not words. That would have shown his needle pegged at hard left anti-capitalist, if not anti-American.

And don’t count on the hapless Republicans ‘recovering’ any time soon. Reading their literature as they attempt to pump up their war chests, there’s no principle beyond ‘we gotta stop them horrible Democrats’. Until the Republican party purges its drones and hacks and replaces them with articulate principals with some principles, they’re about as dumb as they were under President Bush. Exhibit A: Michael Steele hoping to address a Tea Party, having done nothing to create it – and the organizers having the sense to turn him down.

Tanstaafl@64: Other key groups appear to be leaning on “their” President to continue the witch hunt against the Bush administration, leading this President to release interrogation memo

This witch hunt is the most serious threat to the Union since the Civil War. I don’t believe for a minute that Obama is not right at the top of the decision tree to pursue it, authoritarian that he is. As a master of disinformation (his ‘present’ votes in his brief legislative career served to conceal his real positions on issues, the better to pose as ‘centrist’ in his Presidential campaign), he will oh-so-reluctantly consent to let ‘justice’ be done.

Kinda reminds us of Stalin, scolding his underlings with his ‘Dizzy with Success’ memo after the population caught onto the death toll of the Ukranian famine that he himself imposed.

Apr 22, 2009 - 8:41 am 70. typos_R_us:

People scoff when I predict a civil war.
The Usurper is screwin’ up by the numbers, his ratings will be lower then Bush’s for the same basic reason, ie; He has fallen into the center trap. Presidents want to govern from the center because it is the only way to ensure their agenda has smooth sailing. That is impossible, of course. So a president’s movement to the center reduces his support from whichever side elected him without increasing his support from the side that didn’t vote for him. Plus it looks like he is being weak, which attracts the sharks.
So as the Usurper’s approval rating falls to the high 30’s and Congress drops back into the teens, the Socialists that stole the white house will be getting nervous.
Remember, it is the white house that is keeping the various investigations into ACORN, Judge tampering, birth certificates, etc. from moving forward. When it looks like Congress is about to flip in the mid terms, panic will set in. Impeach the Usurper and turn the FBI loose on the various crimes committed to put him in office and the Chicago machine is looking at serious jail time. Plus ALL bills signed by the Usurper will be null and void once it is established in court that he is not a natural born American citizen and ineligible to hold the office.
So the Socialists will either abandon their dogma and go capitalist to restore the economy or create a national emergency and declare martial law to stop the mid term elections. Is there any history of a socialist abandoning dogma?
That is when the next civil war starts.
The so called civil war actually started when Lincoln refused to remove Federal troops from states that were in secession. Secession was legal (10th amendment) under the constitution in effect at that time. Maintaining troops in a sovereign nation is an act of war.
Tea parties won’t accomplish anything except possibly changing one bunch of crooks for another bunch of crooks, which is what the election of ‘06 did. They lack direction and organization. If the tea parties were working toward a Constitutional Convention, then there might be hope for them. Maybe…… AFAIK the Constitution doesn’t directly address the subject. Maybe it would fit under the right to assemble, but I doubt that the USSC would see it that way.
A cross in a bucket or urine, OK. Saving democracy, no way……..

Apr 22, 2009 - 8:42 am 71. jerryofva:

BC:

Even the NYT now reports that finacial disaster really belongs at the feet of Chris “AIG” Dodd and Barney “Mac attack” Frank. Let’s not forget that Elliot “Spritz” Spitzer’s political attack on AIG led to the practices that bankrupted the company. The Bush is responsible for the meltdown meme sounds a lot like the anti-corruption campaigns in the old USSR where the big crooks went after the little fish and the innocent to show that they were taking care of corruption all the while laughing at the gullibility of the “masses.” Dodd, Frank, Rangel, Pelosi and of course the POTUS et. al. are laughing at you right now.

The only difference between the Soviet masses and Obamanation is that the Soviet public knew it was a fraud and the crooks were still in charge while you guys will continue to buy it hook, line and sinker until your untimely death at the hands of our soon to be socialized medical system.

Apr 22, 2009 - 8:43 am 72. goy:

- Republicans have found their sense of fiscal sanity, …
Hmmm… reactionary, primarily partisan posturing against wildly insane levels of spending isn’t exactly what I’d call ‘fiscal sanity’. And I note there’s no link to support this, as with the other points. In fact I don’t believe this statement can be supported objectively, yet.

- The Republicans have both reconnected with their base and provided a foundation for attracting key swing voters on core economic issues.
Really? Where? Again, I see no supporting link. There was Zero evidence of this reconnection on 4/15. Zero evidence of any Tea Party demonstration rooting for the GOP over the new Social Democrats. It’s pretty clear that the GOP (if that’s what you mean by “The Republicans”) doesn’t have any clue who their base is any more. And there’s no indication that’s likely to change without a wholesale replacement of GOP Congresscritters.

- But the extent to which Obama has frittered away the opportunity to create a lasting centrist majority is startling, as is the degree to which the hapless Republican Party has begun to set a course for recovery.
You got that first part right, Jennifer. But on the second – the GOP hasn’t set a course… at least none that’s been communicated to its ‘base’ – let alone the electorate as a whole. Until they do both they will remain as irrelevant as Meghan McCain.

Apr 22, 2009 - 8:45 am 73. Robert Hurley:

I love it – the tea baggers are the one who voted against Obama to begin with. You all live in a fantasy world which is great because in the real world changes are being made and policies enacted. Polls continue to show that the majority of the voters approve of what he is doing. Oh I know that doesn’t fit your fanatasy world.

Apr 22, 2009 - 8:51 am 74. Michael:

Obama is sooooo stupid. I can just hear him your years from now standing before the Supreme Court saying “not guilty, your Honors”. What goes around comes around.

Either that or he (or the leaders of the Democratic party) really does intend to become dictator, in which case the former will never came to pass.

In past I used to laugh when I was told that President (any name will do) will create a crisis, declare marshal law, and never hold elections again.

Now I am not so sure.

Apr 22, 2009 - 8:53 am 75. AThinkingPerson:

Robert Hurley… My, my, my, still relying on Carter II’s polling numbers to ease your conscious? If that helps you sleep at night, so be it. I think the people living in a “fantasy world” are people such as yourself that trudge onward even in the face of such obvious ineptness. I’ve always wondered how people like Jim Jones convinced bleary eyed followers to drink up and after reading comments like yours, tragic and misguided as they are, it’s no wonder that unquestioning followers lined up to partake. Wake up Robert. You’re starting to look a little silly. Shall we take a poll just to be sure?

Apr 22, 2009 - 8:59 am 76. Bilgeman:

#73 Robert Hurley:
“You all live in a fantasy world which is great because in the real world changes are being made and policies enacted. Polls continue to show that the majority of the voters approve of what he is doing. Oh I know that doesn’t fit your fanatasy world.”

If you want to have a substantial dialogue, go read what I wrote in my #36…tell me about who is living in a fantasy world of what poll RESPONDENTS indicated, versus the policies and actions that the fellow who claims to have been born in Hawaii has actually DONE and their likely effects.

Or is your participation limited to lightweight sneering?

Apr 22, 2009 - 8:59 am 77. David Levavi:

Those who are confident that Obama will be unseated after four years aren’t being realistic. The democrats deluded themselves in election after election only to be disappointed and to see Republicans candidates win again and again.

Republican voters need to be smarter. Obama will be running as a popular incumbent in 2012. Have no illusions.

Apr 22, 2009 - 9:02 am 78. AThinkingPerson:

Robert Hurley… I’m still feeling kind of sorry for you because you’re so misinformed SO I did you the favor of digging up the President’s daily tracking poll. If you can stomach it, I’d suggest you take a peek because they’re not quite as optimistic as you portray.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

Please note the chart at the bottom which shows his approval ratings going….. down.

Apr 22, 2009 - 9:04 am 79. tanstaafl:

Remember Obama saying that he couldn’t be held accountable for things Bill Ayers did when he was 8 ? (Obama was actually 13 when Ayers did some of his last exploits…)

In…Trinidad ? last week, Obama said he was glad he wasn’t held responsible for something that happened when he was only 3 months old. (I guess that refers to the Bay of Pigs…)

What is this crapola, as a personality syndrome ? Me, me, me, now that I’m here, the world will be a bed of roses ? A variation on malignant narcissism ?

Apr 22, 2009 - 9:04 am 80. Bilgeman:

#70 typos r us:
“People scoff when I predict a civil war.
The Usurper is screwin’ up by the numbers, his ratings will be lower then Bush’s for the same basic reason, ie; He has fallen into the center trap. Presidents want to govern from the center because it is the only way to ensure their agenda has smooth sailing. That is impossible, of course. So a president’s movement to the center reduces his support from whichever side elected him without increasing his support from the side that didn’t vote for him. Plus it looks like he is being weak, which attracts the sharks.”

It might come to that, but I think a coup will be far more likely. If the Dems lose the mid-terms,the state levels, and lose ‘em big enough to where they’ll be worrying about an “Obamastain” killing their 2012 chances of keeping the Congress, I’d reckon that they just might be the ones who lead the charge to impeach, convict and remove this goober from office.

If you think about it, that’s roughly what happenned to Thatcher after the Poll Tax debacle. The Tories putsched her and voted in John Major as PM.
It bought them a little time, but I think they’ve been paying for it for a long, long time now.

Apr 22, 2009 - 9:06 am 81. goy:

- You all live in a fantasy world…

Heh. Yes – one that was foisted upon us by useful idiots like you, bub.

And no, last time I checked the polls didn’t show support for what “he’s” doing. Quite the contrary. They only show him as popular, independent of what “he’s” doing. Those two things are only conflated by people like you, as part of the fantasy supporting the world you have forced onto the rest of us.

Apr 22, 2009 - 9:07 am 82. Rachel Peepers:

TOhio is onto something big.

Bob Hurley, you’re too well written to lay down that shallow thought pond and expect people to jump in it. Were you in a hurry? You’re better than that.

AThinkingPerson gets the prize for the most thoughtful comments.

Войска ПВО: Everything you say goes double for me.

Apr 22, 2009 - 9:13 am 83. Jack Okie:

Obama, the RINOs, and the rest of this mess we’re in are all symptoms. Until we get the federal government pulled back to the powers actually defined in the Constitution, and respect the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, we will continue to be vulnerable to an overreaching federal government.

I believe we Tea Party folks should push the state sovereignty bills in our respective states for all we’re worth. This will not only lay the groundwork for state push-back, it gives us a wonderful opportunity to educate those who aren’t familiar with the Constitution and the Founders’ thinking.

What do y’all think?

Apr 22, 2009 - 9:13 am 84. Ms. Attitude:

73. Robert Hurley: Keep relying on your polls. My mother received a call from a pollster. They asked her what her party affiliation is, she told them Republican. They said they only wanted Democrats and hung up….

Apr 22, 2009 - 9:17 am 85. The UnPatriot:

49 BC

Unfortunately, BC himself steps on his own argument. These so called “Smart Guys” have been around since the beginning of time. They are neither the puppet nor the master of any political party. In the end, they are no different than the unqualified home buyers that “gamed the system” and “exploited any opportunity” due to their own greed and sense of entitlement and now have “no intention whatsoever to be part of any solution” other than to encourage theft of my hard earned money to pay for their mistakes.

I would posit that the real “wise guys” here are our so called “representatives,” Democrat and Republican alike, who have stolen more of our money, literally at the point of a gun, than any bank ever has. And, the irony of the recent efforts do so in support of the financial industry and BC’s “Smart Guys,” with BC’s approval it seems, is simply unbelievable. At least with the bank, you have some choice as to whether to participate in the scam or not.

–The UnPatriot

Apr 22, 2009 - 9:28 am 86. howiem:

Anyone who was looking could have seen that this Marxist who cannot even prove he is an American was out to destroy individual freedom. People accepted all the MSM lies about him and let this impostor into the white house, thinking that he was just some liberal do-gooder. Well, folks, I’ve got news for you. He is a hard core American hater and a racist. The American people became brain dead over decades of watching the MSM, became illiterate idiots in college classrooms where they could not see that they were being taught what to think, not how to think. And now he has control of a complaint congress, which every day is making laws that will place you lives under his control. From now on, I will pay taxes with an IOU.

Apr 22, 2009 - 9:32 am 87. steveg:

#40 TOhio……The most bias mainstream (liberal) mag by far is Newsweek. The most blatantly left-wing news outlet is MSNBC.

I agree, the protest should also target the MSM.

Apr 22, 2009 - 9:49 am 88. Peter the Bubblehead:

40. TOhio wrote:
We should use our organizing strength to ruin (the American media) financially. How? Get everyone to cancel their liberal newspaper subscriptions, stop watching CNN, MSNBC etc.. and stop buying liberal mags like Newsweek.

Peter asks: How, when you have done none of thos ethings for a while to begin with. I haven’t read a liberal newspaper EVER, and have even stopped buying the conservative-leaning one in my state just because I can’t afford a dollar a day for a 20 page newspaper for the last 3 or so months. I never watched MSNBC and stopped watching CNN when I rotated off shore duty in 2003 (as CNN was the only channel we had access to in the shops on base). And I haven’t bought or read Newsweek since 1989. I’m afraid I can’t do much to help bring down the Dinosaur Media by myself other than continue to find my news on-line from other-than-so-called-mainstream sources like I have been doing for the past 5 years.

Apr 22, 2009 - 10:12 am 89. karlstro1:

It’s to late for remorse. This is the danger of a bias Press that refuse to dig into facts and the background of “The King.” His lying and appointment of individuals who qualifications lack any kind of respect from working people who abide by the law is disgusting.

Apr 22, 2009 - 10:14 am 90. Bilgeman:

#40 TOhio:
“I think that the next target for the Tea Party movement should be the corrupt American media. We should use our organizing strength to ruin them financially. How? Get everyone to cancel their liberal newspaper subscriptions, stop watching CNN, MSNBC etc.. and stop buying liberal mags like Newsweek.”

Goes without saying. The next TEA parties should be held outside the news headquarters and local bureaus of CNN and NBC, or the local most Liberal MSM outlet in your town.

Let’s see ‘em ignore it when it’s right outside their front door.

But also, since we’re talking some hardball, don’t buy crap advertised by the MSM goobers…the ad revenues is what makes them “Go”, when that dries up, all the propagandist dirtbags will have to look for work, (and I could use me a good lawn-boy, journalism professionals encouraged to apply).

And let’s take it down local…where all politics are.

If you make hiring and firing decisions at your company, and you live in an employment-at-will state, take a walk through your parking lot and note who has Obama stickers on their cars, or who have overtly voiced Liberal political opinions.

When it’s “Layoff Time”, you’ll know who to axe first.

People who voted for the post-capitalist,post-racial, Welfare State should be the ones to most enjoy the fruit of their labors by standing in a multi-racial and multi-ethnic line, all equally broke, down at the unemployment office, should they not?

I also would decline to hire any recent college grads, if there was another candidate with adequate experience.

If you’re an HR professional, you should know how to play this game and “english the ball” better than I.

With the Alleged Hawaiian in, we’re all taking a big bite from the shyt-bisuit, so let’s make sure that those who put him in the Oval Office get the biggest tummyache, shall we?

Apr 22, 2009 - 10:20 am 91. Peter the Bubblehead:

To BC at #49:

Just out of curiosity, do you go through your entire life with blinders on, or only where your messiah The One is concerned?

Apr 22, 2009 - 10:24 am 92. Peter the Bubblehead:

55. Sebastian Shaw wrote:
The Economy became President Obama’s when he signed the “stimulus.”

Peter adds: You forgot to add “…without ANYONE even reading it.”

Apr 22, 2009 - 10:27 am 93. Michael T:

Why did you elect this man? Were there no warning signs? The dubious religious affiliation? The parentage? The endless catch phrases and empty rhetoric? The endorsement by the liberal lefties? You can’t say you weren’t warned.

Apr 22, 2009 - 10:28 am 94. Peter the Bubblehead:

60. donttreadonme wrote:
1. Never borrow money to fuel our benders.
2. Only spend our own money for aforementioned benders.

Peter adds: Don’t forget…
3. Only spend our money AFTER we have actually earned it.

Apr 22, 2009 - 10:31 am 95. Peter the Bubblehead:

67. LynnS wrote:
Time really is relative. Only 100 days yet it feels like a lifetime.

Peter writes: To paraphrase Einstein;
Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. Elect Obama as President for 100 days and it seems like a lifetime. That’s relativity.

Apr 22, 2009 - 10:40 am 96. hp:

Michael O’Brein Blowing it is what came to my mind when Obama bent over for that Saudi king.

remember the instance of blagojevich/obama sitting intimately inches apart POST election, as proof an image proudly displayed on the illinois government website newsletter itself? all the while obama and camp denied any intimate association during the same period. well, unlike that moment snapshot in time conveniently being deleted immediately upon public disclosure of its existence, visual proof of “the bow” will be a whole lot harder to eradicate from the entire w-w-w before 2012. catch us offguard once, shame on u……..

Joe Bison when people start laughing at him he is done

most true. narcissists tend to come undone when confronted with the truth that is an openly unadoring crowd.

Apr 22, 2009 - 10:42 am 97. Paul M Hupf:

The President is being unmasked. What is revealed is that he never was and isn’t what he said he was while campaigning. “Hope” and “Change” are nebulous words which he used during the campaign but which were never defined. His supporters knew what he meant but to the majority of the voters they were deliberate deceptions. The MSM featured him as if he were a new messiah, picturing him as if there were a halo around his head. There wasn’t and there isn’t. He is rash and impulsive not only on domestic issues but in foreign relations as well. The only restraint is the Congress and the majority is in his back pocket. That must change before 2010 and if not most certainly in 2010.

Apr 22, 2009 - 10:45 am 98. Peter the Bubblehead:

77. David Levavi wrote:
Republican voters need to be smarter. Obama will be running as a popular incumbent in 2012. Have no illusions.

Peter writes: The One will be running as an incumbent, sure enough. Popular? At the rate he’s going? No way!

Apr 22, 2009 - 10:51 am 99. John B:

You guys are too much, I don’t deserve to march in the same parade.

That O-Vomit is an idiot is, and was, foreseen by many, (myself included). The Obama-nuts forget he won by a rather slim margin, like 1%,,, it wasn’t exactly a mandate. There was a whole bunch of us right wing, racist, extremists, (sarcasm off) who did not vote for him. In fact, I can’t seem to find anyone now locally who admits to voting for him nowadays.

Everyone is talking about how O-Vomit is losing his base supporters, but no one is mentioning the base opposition,,, if we were to gain only a few percentage points with a valid, believable, serious, fiscally conservative candidate, other than a RINO like McCain, we could easily win back our country in 2010, and again in 2012.

I can only hope.

PS, I live in the South where white guilt ran supreme, I note that the “N” word is gaining popularity again in places where a year ago it was not uttered in polite company.

A sign of the times. This is not a popular President.

Apr 22, 2009 - 10:59 am 100. Peter the Bubblehead:

83. Jack Okie wrote:
I believe we Tea Party folks should push the state sovereignty bills in our respective states for all we’re worth. This will not only lay the groundwork for state push-back, it gives us a wonderful opportunity to educate those who aren’t familiar with the Constitution and the Founders’ thinking.
What do y’all think?

Peter writes: Hear! Hear!
The five points I was pushing for at the Boston TEA Party;
1) Limited Government!
2) Fiscal Responsibility!
3) Personal Resposibility!
4) The Rule of Law!
5) National Sovereignty!

Yell it loud! Let them hear us all across the nation, especially in DC!

Apr 22, 2009 - 11:01 am 101. Peter the Bubblehead:

86. howiem wrote:
From now on, I will pay taxes with an IOU.

Peter writes: Hey, howiem, maybe you can get a cabinet position!

Apr 22, 2009 - 11:03 am 102. ricpic:

But won’t Zero have to introduce martial law to protect us from all the right wing crazies out there?

Apr 22, 2009 - 11:29 am 103. Nemrod:

Obama isn’t a druken sailor. Obama is the guy who steals you creidt card then has to spend the limit before you can cancel it.

Apr 22, 2009 - 11:43 am 104. one of my own.:

Why bash Obama? Why? Because he is gay? I am gay too. So what? If you were married to Michelle you would be gay too. People need to stop being homophobes and accept that our president is a gay man.

Apr 22, 2009 - 11:49 am 105. The UnPatriot:

86. howiem wrote:
“From now on, I will pay taxes with an IOU.”

The crazy thing is that you actually can! I saw no end to the ads for refund loans. Maybe we can create a new, bundled, financial derivative and call it the Creditors Reserve Account Package. I will propose you as the chairman of the governmental insurance backing agency if you like.

Here’s an idea – Don’t overpay in the first place. You are simply loaning money to the beast and getting no a negative return on your investment.

On the other hand, any Pelosi-Obama-Reid supporter who accepts a refund check is a truly unpatriotic hypocrite.

–The UnPatriot
It is not my patriotic duty to pay for other peoples stuff.

Apr 22, 2009 - 12:07 pm 106. TOhio:

#90 Bilgeman: I like the idea of targeting the advertisers who advertise with the liberal media. Boy.. would the ad revenues drop like a hot potato! (Companies do not like to be in the middle of controversy and will avoid them like the plague.)

So..now we possibly have a two-pronged strategy:
1) Select a specific corrupt media group to target – CNN, Newsweek, The New York Times, MSNBC

2) Boycott the companies and the products that are advertised with them

If we tell our family and friends, we can make a difference just like we made a difference by showing up to the Tea Parties. There aren’t enough liberals to support all of the crooked liberal media. Somebody will fall and it will have a chilling effect.

As far as I am concerned, if the government nationalizes the media then we still haven’t lost because it will really be OBVIOUS that these media outlets are puppets of Obama’s government. But.. we can use the Tea Parties to protest this, too!

The tax day protest was the first wave. The media should be part of the second wave. Deceitful media needs to be destroyed.

Apr 22, 2009 - 12:08 pm 107. The UnPatriot:

That should read

… and getting no a negative return on your investment.

with “no” stricken out with a line through it.

PJM needs to add a preview option.

–The UnPatriot

Apr 22, 2009 - 12:12 pm 108. stuart Williamson:

I’m in lae, as usual, but I think Jennifer left out a very important 7th blowing-it point: his gratuitous fawning, apologetic posturing and demeaning of America and all previous Presidents in his effort to make himself beloved in the rest of the world. Grovelling to Arab despots.

Americans may criticize their own politicians or public figures, but to demean the Nation of which you are the President, in the interest of your own vanity and arrogance, is to alienate even yourown supporters.

And PLEASE don’t suggest turning organized response over the the GOP – who are totally one-deaf and ham-handed in campaigning and winning the hearts of the electorate; too focussed on self-serving, to do anything other than screw up everything, just as they did in “08.

The rise of the Exceptionalist Movement will be across party lines, and will be led by those who have no strong party identification.

Apr 22, 2009 - 12:30 pm 109. donttreadonme:

one of my own,
what? clarify please. If you need to let the Benadryl wear off, that’s cool. I am patient.

Apr 22, 2009 - 12:36 pm 110. donttreadonme:

Bilgeman,
Dead, spot ON. I long ago cancelled newspaper ’scripts. I never watch network TV. I am telling everyone that I know to do the same. In fact, I am emailing the local “Tea party” organizers to “pollinate” the very action-plan you propose. Man, I love change!

Apr 22, 2009 - 12:40 pm 111. Pastor of Muppets:

John B: “PS, I live in the South where white guilt ran supreme, I note that the “N” word is gaining popularity again in places where a year ago it was not uttered in polite company.”

As if we needed more evidence to suggest that many parts of the south continue to be racist cesspools.

Apr 22, 2009 - 12:43 pm 112. The UnPatriot:

111. Pastor of Muppets:

As opposed to Boston – the most racist town I have been in.

–The UnPatriot

Apr 22, 2009 - 1:07 pm 113. lee:

Obama apparently promised Latinos to push a comprehensive immigration reform in the first 100 days in office. Can anyone confirm if he has?

Apr 22, 2009 - 1:08 pm 114. Ms. Attitude:

111. Pastor of Muppets: Liberals are the most racist people in our nation. Your elite think that the poor blacks are helpless and can’t do anything without help. The conservatives know that ability has nothing to do with the color of ones skin. Get out and meet people, get out of your shell, I have and I must admit that I met the most racist people in our country in CT…you like to believe what is protrayed by your TV!

Apr 22, 2009 - 1:14 pm 115. Ed Wallis:

PoM #111,

…and in just what ugly “cesspool” do you live, in which mindless leftist rechanting as reflected in your posts is accepted as a substitute for genuine thought?

Apr 22, 2009 - 1:20 pm 116. bobbcat:

111. Master of Puppets: “As if we needed more evidence to suggest that many parts of the south continue to be racist cesspools.”

These exist in pockets all over the country.

Apr 22, 2009 - 1:21 pm 117. malclave:

I think it’s important that we also acknowledge when the President gets something right.

1. As noted in the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_NCAA_Men's_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament]wikipedia entry[/url], the President successfully picked North Carolina to win the 2009 NCAA men’s basketball championship.

2. ???

Apr 22, 2009 - 1:25 pm 118. lee:

I’ve heard some unsavory things about Boston, Texas, and Chicago regarding racism.

Apr 22, 2009 - 1:30 pm 119. Mike:

I started to miss President Bush the day after the flubbed inauguration.

I’m almost starting to miss Clinton. Almost!!!

Apr 22, 2009 - 1:32 pm 120. always right:

Don’t underestimate President Obama’s inability to string two coherent words together unscripted. More and more of such moments could not be hidden by the media.

This is not a sophisticated and elegant man, as portrait on screen.

Apr 22, 2009 - 1:48 pm 121. David P:

Add those Hollywood elites who slobbered over the smiley glad hands pledge to secure Israel, they’ll be joining the group of disgruntled supporters very shortly. Masquerading as Israel’s “closest” ally during the election, the “change” administration just allowed Turkey to sell deadly, advanced weaponry to the Lebanese Army (Hezbollah). It’s time these reckless & misguided Hollywood moguls ask in which part of the “Obama Israeli security promise plan” does this fit? They should begin to ponder if changing the strategic balance of power in the region by arming Israel’s enemies to the teethe might be counter-productive. Hopefully they’ll question whether these aren’t the deceptive actions of someone poised orchestrate the greatest betrayal of the Jewish people since the Holocaust.

Apr 22, 2009 - 1:54 pm 122. AThinkingPerson:

111. Pastor of Muppets: The south is a racist cesspool? Man you definitely need to get out of your cave more. Have you been to CA within the last 5 years? Talk about your man made septic tank. No wonder all of the loonie liberals and Hollywood moonbats come out of that place.

Apr 22, 2009 - 1:58 pm 123. mayanpiper:

Obama’s election is the best thing that ever happen. After “the One” four year term is up, no one, but no one will ever vote for a left candidate again. Not in my lifetime. It’s as if they already know and they are stealing everything from the candy store……

Apr 22, 2009 - 2:04 pm 124. Sebastian Shaw:

On of MY own, once more you make really stupid statements:

“Why bash Obama? Why? Because he is gay? I am gay too. So what? If you were married to Michelle you would be gay too. People need to stop being homophobes and accept that our president is a gay man.”

Excuse me??? First we a not bashing Obama; it is called CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM. We are giving examples of Obama’s weakness as POTUS.

Bashing is just stupid ad hominem attacks. You know all about those On Of My Own.

Get your head on straight. Good lord you are dumb!

Apr 22, 2009 - 2:04 pm 125. Terry Gain:

Obama will be running as a popular incumbent in 2012. Have no illusions.

No chance. The economy will be even worse than it is today. The illusion of competence will have been destroyed. And this is without another terrorist attack, which grows more likely by the day.

Apr 22, 2009 - 2:09 pm 126. Anonymous:

#106 TOhio….John Kerry made a statement recently that he plans to save/aid the Boston Globe/NY Times if need be. The Boston Globe may file for bankruptcy in the very near future without government intervention. I guess it is not good enough that taxpayers are subsidizing ACORN (Voter Fraud, Inc.) and liberal media outlets such as PBS and NPR. So why not throw in a couple dozen leftist rags for good measure?

Can you imagine how liberals would react if the government was giving money to Fox News,the Wall Street Journal are conservative talk radio? Bailing out liberal newspapers (if it does occur) should be a huge issue at upcoming tea parties.

Apr 22, 2009 - 2:24 pm 127. AThinkingPerson:

#118 Mike: I’m with you Mike, I started to miss Bush the minute I heard he had boarded the plane for Texas. I knew when Beyonce and Stevie Wonder were the Inaugural highlights that a new day for America had dawned. I was honestly bordering on depression the other day when they showed Bush tossing out the first pitch at the baseball game. Remember the days when our President traveled overseas and DEMANDED respect. Remember that safe feeling of knowing that no matter what, he’d put American interests first?

Apr 22, 2009 - 2:38 pm 128. one of my own:

Is Obama blowing it?

Bilgepump 3000 . . . That’s your cue.

Apr 22, 2009 - 2:41 pm 129. one of my own:

118. Mike: . . . “I started to miss President Bush the day after the flubbed inauguration.”

You mean when that idiot Bush-appointed Judge Roberts decided to “wing it” and memorize that incredibly complex 35-word sentence and boots it? You mean that moment?

You people really are amazing. How can a person who can muster the consciousness to drive a car or order a Big Mac be so patently cluelesss about what happens right before their eyes?

Wow.

Apr 22, 2009 - 2:45 pm 130. TOhio:

#125 Anonymous: You’re right. The liberals would have a fit if we bailed out the conservative press. However, you have brought up a good idea for a tipping point for another Tea Party movement…

If the government bails out any corrupt media outfit (like the Boston Globe) the we should form Tea Parties to protest it. This could be a good rallying point for all of us and lead to larger boycotts of all liberal media.

Apr 22, 2009 - 3:15 pm 131. Bilgeman:

#104: mutated blog-slave:
“Why bash Obama? Why? Because he is gay? I am gay too. So what? If you were married to Michelle you would be gay too. People need to stop being homophobes and accept that our president is a gay man.”

Ahhhh, it all starts coming together now.

Why are YOU bashing Michelle Obama,freak-lad?

She’s fairly easy on the eyes, IMN-S-HO, even if she is a little miswired about the “Black Thing”.

Because she’s a woman?

Why do you chase Delia up and down the comment threads? Cavorting and capering and flouncing about to get her attention only to trash her.

Because she’s a woman?

I have some news for you, my truly disturbed and confused little blog-slave…

You ain’t Gay.

On the outside, you’re a rooster,(okay, maybe a capon), but on the inside, you’re a hen.

You hate women because you apparently want to BE one.

I hit closer to the mark with the link to the “Buffalo Bill Dance” than I suspected, didn’t I?

Some further bad news for you…the fellow who claims to have been born in Hawaii ain’t Gay either…you just have a jase of “jungle fever”…not all that many Black men are “down” with sissies, (unless they’re incarcerated).

On the bright side, you may perhaps one day be convicted and locked up…then you can be the Queen of the Cell Block.

Your Blog-Master is pleased with your performance for us…you have both entertained and nauseated us in equal measure.

Apr 22, 2009 - 3:24 pm 132. TalkinKamel:

I thought I would be glad to see the last of Bush, but now I miss him.

“REMEMBER, COMRADES!” (said Squealer the pig), “YOU DON’T WANT JONES BACK, DO YOU?”

Everything is Bush’s fault. He caused the ice age, and killed off the dinsaurs!

/Sarc. What else?

Apr 22, 2009 - 3:25 pm 133. The Historian:

THE PRESIDENT JUST WANTS TO BE LIKED
Cool and popular is his cherished goal.

http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/04/president-panders-for-personal.html

Apr 22, 2009 - 3:59 pm 134. ked5:

119. Mike:

I started to miss President Bush the day after the flubbed inauguration.

I’m almost starting to miss Clinton. Almost!!!

~~~~~

I think we’ll miss carhtarh before he’s done.

Apr 22, 2009 - 4:39 pm 135. donttreadonme:

We, the members of the Latin American Transgendered Muslim African Communist League (LATMAC)wish it to be known that we are pleased as punch with our new POTUS.
Sincerely,
LATMAC

Apr 22, 2009 - 5:08 pm 136. Mary in LA:

Re: dead-media subscriptions: Even if you discontinued liberal spewspapers and ragazines long ago, as I did, there’s still something you can do to put spokes in their wheels:

When they send you a subscription solicitation, use their postage-paid Business Reply Mail envelope to send their flyer back, helpfully annotating it with something like the following:

“Dear Sir or Madam: As I find your wares inadequate to line my cat’s litterbox [start my barbecue, wrap the garbage, etc.], I write to inform you that I shall not be subscribing to your publication.
Sincerely, John Galt”

Apr 22, 2009 - 6:29 pm 137. Anonymous:

Bilgeman @56,

Sorry it too me so long to get back to you on that question of yours. My mother is in serious condition in the hospital (needs heart surgery, an aortic valve replacement, they can’t do it until they can do a catherization and they can’t do the catherization until her kidneys are functioning better, which they are now improving, whew!)and I’ve been out all day with my siblings and Dad.

I didn’t read “BC’s” post because I’m familiar with his style. What almost everyone on the Left I know do not seem to understand is that the equities’ markets are forward-looking, not backwards-looking. Stock prices and money flows into productive investments reflect what investors see down the road. In fact, theoretically, a stock price is the net present value of future earnings over X time horizon. Obonga owned this economy’s performance the moment it was clear he was going to win the election. What are investors anticipating? Higher taxes: income, capital gains, and payroll. They are, as my firm is expecting, anticipating the cap and trade program, which will be a humongous wealth transfer that will cripple our economy far into the future. Moreover, how can anyone trust the scientific community now that so many of its members have politicized science to serve political ends? What we are going to have is economic policy that is anchored to energy policy and which is anchored to a disproved AGW. Junk science becomes the basis and the excuse to rape this nation’s wealth. The scope of this evil is breathtaking. These are the things that investors are anticipating.

BC is just groping and reaching for anything he can throw up there to show the flag for his side. It only works with uneducated people, but definitely not with me. One should never underestimate the possibilities of how far the Left will go with denial and obfuscation.

Bilgeman, your Russian history is spot on. But I must tell you that I never participated in any effort to deceive others or myself for that matter. My participation in Marxism was mostly academic and very little activism in the mix.

The other side likes to blame the greedy bankers. We contend that the problem stemmed from the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act. I know that credit default swaps played a huge role in this, but if there were no toxic mortgages I daresay there would be much less of the portfolio insurance called credit default swaps. Besides, Bush tried to warn everyone about this stuff. So, blaming Bush (the gag reflex)is kind of lame. No, in the two weeks before Obonga’s victory he owned the economy.

Apr 22, 2009 - 6:32 pm 138. fred:

Bilgeman @56,

Sorry it too me so long to get back to you on that question of yours. My mother is in serious condition in the hospital (needs heart surgery, an aortic valve replacement, they can’t do it until they can do a catherization and they can’t do the catherization until her kidneys are functioning better, which they are now improving, whew!)and I’ve been out all day with my siblings and Dad.

I didn’t read “BC’s” post because I’m familiar with his style. What almost everyone on the Left I know do not seem to understand is that the equities’ markets are forward-looking, not backwards-looking. Stock prices and money flows into productive investments reflect what investors see down the road. In fact, theoretically, a stock price is the net present value of future earnings over X time horizon. Obonga owned this economy’s performance the moment it was clear he was going to win the election. What are investors anticipating? Higher taxes: income, capital gains, and payroll. They are, as my firm is expecting, anticipating the cap and trade program, which will be a humongous wealth transfer that will cripple our economy far into the future. Moreover, how can anyone trust the scientific community now that so many of its members have politicized science to serve political ends? What we are going to have is economic policy that is anchored to energy policy and which is anchored to a disproved AGW. Junk science becomes the basis and the excuse to rape this nation’s wealth. The scope of this evil is breathtaking. These are the things that investors are anticipating.

BC is just groping and reaching for anything he can throw up there to show the flag for his side. It only works with uneducated people, but definitely not with me. One should never underestimate the possibilities of how far the Left will go with denial and obfuscation.

Bilgeman, your Russian history is spot on. But I must tell you that I never participated in any effort to deceive others or myself for that matter. My participation in Marxism was mostly academic and very little activism in the mix.

The other side likes to blame the greedy bankers. We contend that the problem stemmed from the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act. I know that credit default swaps played a huge role in this, but if there were no toxic mortgages I daresay there would be much less of the portfolio insurance called credit default swaps. Besides, Bush tried to warn everyone about this stuff. So, blaming Bush (the gag reflex)is kind of lame. No, in the two weeks before Obonga’s victory he owned the economy.

Apr 22, 2009 - 6:36 pm 139. Rob:

I believe it is McCain’s fault that we are stuck with Obama. I could not believe what a lame-ass campaign he ran. It was as if he was determined to loose. He reminded of someone who is dying to get to a party, and when he gets there, then says, he is fasting. Why din’t he just say home.

Apr 22, 2009 - 6:44 pm 140. BC:

Yeah, let’s not blame the guy who was, up until a few months ago, running things for a full 8 yrs — that’s enough time to: complete college and go on to get a doctorate degree; have 2 kids 2 yrs apart and have them both in school; put 120,000 miles on a car if driven by a typical American; or…hmmm, run a country’s economy, individual personal privacy, and international prestige into the ground.

I don’t want to appear again to be of a snark-ish nature, but you guys do also put the “duh” in dumb.

Apr 22, 2009 - 6:45 pm 141. one of my own:

Bueller? Bueller? Still waiting for that Obama quote apologizing for America. Anyone? Bueller?

Apr 22, 2009 - 6:49 pm 142. AnnieB:

I am watching the left try and rewrite history. (WOW! Obama’s white house has an official who can speak Spanish – unlike Bush.[Who actually spoke the language himself - but ignore that fact] We are SO KOOL!!!!11111lllll )

Trust me – Obama will be supported by the MSM to the last breath – of the MSM.

Fortunately, that is not a great length of time.

Apr 22, 2009 - 6:51 pm 143. one of my own:

131 Bilgepump . . . Right on cue. Very good. Tomorrow we;ll do . . . “You put your right foot in, you pull your right foot out, you put your right foot in and you shake it all about. You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around. That’s what it’s all about.”

Don’t worry, it only sounds complicated. You’ll catch on.

Apr 22, 2009 - 6:52 pm 144. Bilgeman:

#138 Fred:
“Sorry it too me so long to get back to you on that question of yours. My mother is in serious condition in the hospital (needs heart surgery, an aortic valve replacement, they can’t do it until they can do a catherization and they can’t do the catherization until her kidneys are functioning better, which they are now improving, whew!)”

Hope she pulls through soon, bud. Prayers on the way.

“Obonga owned this economy’s performance the moment it was clear he was going to win the election.”

Nicely put…subject to some maipulations, but broadly speaking, I can see the validity of it as a barometer of future weather.

“What are investors anticipating? Higher taxes: income, capital gains, and payroll. They are, as my firm is expecting, anticipating the cap and trade program, which will be a humongous wealth transfer that will cripple our economy far into the future.”

If that’s ALL we suffer, I’ll be one happy sailor.
I think it’s going to get worse than that.
Currency inflation and asset deflation, massive job losses throughout all sectors of the economy…even government employees are already being affected.

A Depression is what happens when you mishandle a recession, and the Alleged Hawaiian doesn’t even know where the “clue-store” is located.

He yammers today about “clean renewable energy”.

Pah…get some shut-eye, Fred.

Apr 22, 2009 - 7:05 pm 145. Aleena:

BC, it is the typical liberal ploy to try to change the subject; it will no longer work. If you can defend what President Obama is doing, do it. If not, please remember that Bush is no longer president. If you keep bashing him, you look out-of-touch with the present situation and basically you’re boring us. And totally unable to justify what President Obama is doing.

You also think it is clever to call names. It isn’t it’s immature.

Apr 22, 2009 - 7:12 pm 146. AThinkingPerson:

BC’s quote (#140) is this little gem in which he’s referencing President Bush: “or…hmmm, run a country’s economy, individual personal privacy, and international prestige into the ground. ”

I know you’re trying to make a jab at President Bush but you do realize that all of your points apply to Carter II right? Hilarious!

Remember BC… The economy officially became Carter II’s when he signed onto that infamous pork filled budget. It’s all his baby now. All of that shell game “it’s Bush’s fault” ended the day Carter II broke his “no pork” campaign promise. That must have been a proud day for his adoring followers (and was a told-you-so day for the rest of America).

Remember BC… International prestige comes not with bowing and hand shaking and grinning like a Cheshire cat for the cameras. International prestige comes with respect of which Carter II got none from the International community. Shall I provide links to the foreign press reporting snarky comments about Carter II from Putin, etc.? I’d love to if asked!

Remember BC… Individual personal privacy? Now how is Carter II guaranteeing that when he won’t even guarantee the privacy of the CIA in fighting terrorism? How about the privacy one has to own a gun? How about the right to a private union vote that Carter II is promising the Unions he’ll take away? Guess privacy isn’t high on Carter II’s agenda.

I’d say next time you might think a bit before posting such silly comments. Might you fit the “duh in dumb” comment you seem to love to repeat ad nauseum?

Apr 22, 2009 - 7:27 pm 147. SukieTawdry:

Has it been only 100 days? Are you sure?? Seems longer, lots longer. Sigh.

I’ll give the man credit for one thing, though. I find this administration’s antics so alarming that on 4-15 I attended my first protest ever (and I came of age in the 60’s). It’s not just any president who could claim that accomplishment and in his first three months even.

Apr 22, 2009 - 7:28 pm 148. WhyamInotsurprised?:

#69 Insufficiently Sensitive –

Hey Man, you stole my thunder! I was thinking exactly the same thing. If this gal, Ms. Rubin truly thought that BHO was anywhere near “centrist” as she stated in “… the extent to which Obama has frittered away the opportunity to create a lasting centrist majority is startling” then I will have to take her comments with a large serving of salt.

Also, I don’t believe “republicans” will get their shit together. It is dreaming. It is action by “conservatives” that will change things. And we do need to clean house in Washington DC. Maybe McCain’s challenger in Arizona will be a good start. While I voted for him (against BHO) I am still very disappointed with his “values” and political posturing. Quite frankly, he makes me sick.

We need people with backbone to kick ass in Washington. But alas, my fear is that the damage done to our country by an inept and corrupt educational system has metastasized. It will take some long, dangerous and bloody surgery to remove the cancer and let the med’s/treatment work. A full recovery of Ms. America is doubtful even if immediate emergency action can be taken.

Apr 22, 2009 - 7:37 pm 149. AThinkingPerson:

One last comment, liberals seem to enjoy bringing up Bush to contrast with Carter II, so I’ll take the liberty of doing so myself….

Bush was in office for 8 years and wasn’t widely criticized until the end of his second term. Here we are with Carter II wrapping up his first 100 DAYS and we’re already organizing Tea Parties? Says a lot doesn’t it?

Apr 22, 2009 - 8:06 pm 150. goy:

- Here we are with Carter II wrapping up his first 100 DAYS and we’re already organizing Tea Parties?

Exactly. Is there any previous case where a newly elected POTUS inspired over half a million people to take to the streets protesting his policies after less than 90 days?

Apr 22, 2009 - 8:24 pm 151. Oakley:

TOhio said:

“I think that the next target for the Tea Party movement should be the corrupt American media. We should use our organizing strength to ruin them financially. How? Get everyone to cancel their liberal newspaper subscriptions, stop watching CNN, MSNBC etc.. and stop buying liberal mags like Newsweek.”

You hit the nail square on the head. Not only should we boycott these Obama comrades, but write letters to the editor, email the news organizations, carry signs dismissing them at rallies, and whatever other means people can think up to let these idiots know what, EXACTLY we think of them and their poor excuse of journalism.

Apr 22, 2009 - 10:36 pm 152. Oakley:

Obama has “blown it” since he declared himself running for POTUS.

Apr 22, 2009 - 10:38 pm 153. vivo:

62. TalkinKamel:

“LOL, doncha just love the way guys like Vivo and BC “argue”?

Then they blame everything on Bush. It’s all Bush’s fault, you see.”

Oh, I get it. These reps expect Obama to sit there, get drunk and choke on a pretzel. Then take vacations right and left. Make all his friends rich and screw the public. Yeah, I get it.

66. Fragmentarian:
“How long before Bush, . . . starts looking pretty good in comparison? ”

Who’s Bush? Did he die?

36. Bilgeman:
“jacked the taxes on a perfectly legal product from about 39 cents to $1.01 a pack.

Congratulations, ace, you just pissed off twenty percent of the population…and for no good reason.”

2nd hand smoke? Emphysema? Cancer? Medical costs paid by taxpayers? Cough, cough . . .

88. Peter the Bubblehead:

” I haven’t read a liberal newspaper EVER,”

If you have high blood pressure, don’t buy them. Otherwise, they will enlighten you. Submarine life can be constricting (figuratively speaking).

100. Peter the Bubblehead:
“Yell it loud! Let them hear us all across the nation, especially in DC!”

You don’t yell those things, you DO them.

Apr 22, 2009 - 10:49 pm 154. BC:

To a (non) AThinkingPerson: “Carter II”? Is this the latest lame meme attempt by the always wrong right? The TARP/bailout approach was an option that most economists and financial types in general thought had the best shot of getting the economy back in gear in the shortest amount of time. Bush was completely over his head on this and simply let Paulson and the others do what they had to do, although they did it in a half-ass fashion (Lehman Brothers, for example, should not have been allowed to collapsed — that turned out to aggravate the situation, but did indicate the rescuing the other big players was the right, if painful decision. I think that “smart guys” term I overheard being used pejoratively came from the “Smartest Guys in the Room” book/movie about Enron.)

I personally hate politics and don’t exactly have much in the way of nice things to say about Congressional Democrats who should have done a lot more to red flag at least the more outrageous bits of dumbf*ckery by Bush and his people. I was surprised by how relieved I was when Obama was elected and even more while watching his inauguration speech on TV with friends — it felt like a grown-up was at the wheel for the first time in a long time.

But this country has a 2-party system, and I’ve always felt that when it worked, it did so when both parties were legitimately counterbalancing each other by playing their roles as conservatives and liberals, with each taking turns at being the brake and the accelerator — you need both to get anywhere. A liberal vision advances a culture, conservative restraint mitigates doing to without venturing too much into dead-end extremes (remember those post 60’s open classrooms that seemingly emphasized everything other than the 3 R’s?). Bush’s legacy is only going to get uglier, but even I, a longtime and unrepentant Bush basher, really just wants nicer days ahead, including getting problems fixed and being able to have more real debate and less name calling (including — maybe — even snarky remarks….)

Apr 23, 2009 - 6:57 am 155. Talkinkamel:

“SURELY, COMRADES!” (said Squealer, the pig), “SURELY, YOU DO NOT WANT JONES BACK!”

We all want nicer days, BC. Doesn’t look like we’re gonna be getting them any time soon.

Apr 23, 2009 - 7:54 am 156. Talkinkamel:

Vivo:

“OH, COMRADES,” (said Squealer the Pig, skipping back and forth), “REMEMBER, YOU DON’T WANT JONES BACK, DO YOU?”

(Who the hell expects Obama to choke on a pretzel? Not moi. Really, you guys are going to have to come up with a new excuse, and soon, because Obama’s been in office a while now, and you can’t keep blaming it all on the previous administration).

Apr 23, 2009 - 7:56 am 157. DoctorT:

Yes, I believe he is blowing it.

But, he is keeping one promise. he is “remaking America”. Of course to do that he seems determined to tear it down to the ground. The question is will the people speak up enough to stop him. If they don’t the next question will be, “is it worth living in his idea of utopia”.

Apr 23, 2009 - 9:37 am 158. Alaskan:

RE: 40 TOhio:
One way to target the MSM is to find out who their advertisers are. Boycott the advertisers not just the corrupt media. Then write to these advertisers telling them you will not purchase their products until they quit advertising in the MSM.

Apr 23, 2009 - 11:18 am 159. typos_R_us:

Boycotting the MSM is a waste of time. They would profit from it.
Boycott their sponsors. Start an E-Mail campaign against those corporation advertising on CNN and see what happens.
Since most major ad campaigns buy on all formats and outlets,
Pulling their ads from CNN would save them both money and customers.
It wouldn’t take that much either. If the Funny blue widget company gets a few thousand e-mails from people swearing to not buy funny blue widgets because they advertize on CNN, funny blue widget Inc. would still advertize on MSNBC and Fox, CBS, ABC, Et.Al., so They could still move those funny blue widgets.
The problem with this sort of campaign is that you can only do one Media outlet and one Widget Company at a time. So it takes a long time to work.
Bilgeman, what the Usurper did was a coup. Illegal action against him would be a counter coup. There won’t be a military coup because there is no one with the balls to lead it. Military leaders with moral courage are selected against on the O-6 level. The US system is designed to produce Military leaders that are physically brave but lack the moral courage to act against their political masters.
No leaders for a coup is the goal of the system that produce military flag officers. A few sneak thru anyway, MacArthur comes to mind, but they are the exceptions that prove the rule.
I don’t think there will be a legal coup (one that operates within the law, but outside the intent of the law), since the Usurper is one of “them”, with his dubious background making him easy to control.
The last thing any politician of either party wants is a President that actually runs thing ( unless it is them, of course).

Apr 23, 2009 - 11:42 am 160. Robert Hurley:

More buyer remorse

“As he approaches the 100-day mark of his presidency, Barack Obama’s job approval ratings are higher than those of his most recent predecessors. However, the 44th president is even more distinguished by his strong personal popularity. Fully 73% of Americans – including as many as 46% of Republicans – hold a favorable view of Obama as a person. Fewer people held favorable impressions of George W. Bush (61%) and Bill Clinton (60%) early in their first years.

Obama’s job approval stands at 63%, while 26% disapprove of the way he is handling his job as president. His approval rating is up slightly from March (59%). Opinions about Obama’s performance remain highly partisan. Fully 93% of Democrats approve of the way Obama is handling his job as president, compared with just 30% of Republicans. Independents’ opinions fall in between, with 58% expressing positive views of his performance and 27% negative opinions.

In terms of the ever-popular “partisan” question, along with “what do independents think?” the answer is Obama’s doing very well:

Apr 23, 2009 - 11:43 am 161. Sarah Burnett:

#36Bilgeman:
Ms. Rubin:

He’s so “blown it” that he’s actually redefining the term.
He will become a verb.
Future politicians will be accused of “pulling an Obama”.

About 20% of Americans smoke cigarettes, the fellow who claims to have been born in Hawaii jacked the taxes on a perfectly legal product from about 39 cents to $1.01 a pack.

Congratulations, ace, you just pissed off twenty percent of the population…and for no good reason.

There are about 60-65 million private gunowners in the United States, and nearly every one of them is a citizen with an eligibility to vote. The Alleged Hawaiian has been making noises, (as down in Mexico), about how he’d like to, if he thought he could, reinstate Clinton’s ridiculous and ineffective “Assualt Weapons Ban”, the PRECISE reason that the Dems lost the Congress in 1994.

Way to go,Obama! 65 million or so voters who will put you out on the street at the first opportunity. For what? To make the rest of America as peaceful and safe as the streets of the South side Chicago district you once represented?

Obama’s DHS drafts a memo, since released, that insinuates very strongly that veterans are tantamount to a domestic terrorist recruiting pool.
America’s veterans, citizens all, now have very good reason to get rid of the DHS snoopers by de-electing the “One”.

Way to radicalize and make enemies of people…many, many of whom ALSO know how to shoot and make things that go “BOOM!”.

He has demoralized the Intelligence apparatus, who now might “brake” when they SHOULD “accelerate”, through worrying about that some future Administration might come along and second-guess what they did to some wretched shepherd foreigner with an AK-47 in order to keep Americans safe.

If you don’t release the rest of the memos, as Cheney has challenged you to do, showing what the waterboarding sessions might have discovered, we’ll figure that like your undisclosed vault-copy birth certificate, that you must be hiding something pretty damaging.

Is playing “Nixon and his Oval Office tapes” worth it?

He has pissed off the “Bonus Class” on Wall Street and in Big Business with his high-handed “Bailout” policies.

Do you think that your own “mack-daddy”, George Soros and your Kennedy patrons have enough jack to fund your 2012 campaign out of their own pockets, sport?

He hasn’t committed to enforcing the laws against Illegal Immigration, (the policy stance that really turned the GOP base against Bush).

Nice work, Obama! How many illegal aliens vote?
Even if your ACORN buddies could gin up a ballot for every single one of them, that’s at most 20 million.
How many citizens are out of work? 8.5% of the population?
Good luck with those ‘10 and ‘12 campaign returns.

He is instituting a “carbon cap and trade” scheme, which is aimed squarely at coal.
Guess what America burns to make turbogenerators turn and produce most of our electricity?
Now guess what’s going to happen to your electric amd utility bills, Mr. and Mrs. Consumer?

Thankee, Mr. Obama!

Those Blue-State Yankees might not feel so warm and fuzzy about you in the dead of winter in Iowa and New Hampshire in 2012, when they’re shivering and/or bankrupted by the one-two-three punch of the currency inflation that’s happening now, the trickled-down pass-through of your “green tax clean air climate change” schemes, and massive job losses from your centrally-planned economy.

And he has done NOTHING to lead the country towards the post-racial utopia his supporters babbled about during his campaign. The “Professionally Aggrieved Ethnicity/ Orientation” industry is still ticking right along, with no signs of slowing down.

Kiss the “White Guilt” constituency bye-bye for a good long time, chum.

He has authorized $900 million in foreign aid to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, and there’s a certain segment of American society that is going to have an existential reason to hate his effin’ guts for playing “Santa Claus” to terorists who have sworn to destroy Israel.

How many Palestinians vote in US elections, Harvard-boy?

His cozying up to (still) the Castros’ Cuba is going to be reason for yet another set of American citizens, (the ones who started washing up in Florida in the early 1960’s), to mobilize against him.
How many Cubans, as opposed to Cuban-Americans get to vote in American elections? Tough to win Florida when you subsidize Palestinian terrorists and shake hands with a Spanish-speaking Communist, and tough to win the White House without winning Florida.

Maybe you think your ACORN cronies will be able to manufacture absentee ballots from Gaza and Havana, eh?

He is babbling about how “Yes, We CAN” rid the world of nuclear weapons, when “No, he CAN’T” even keep the Iranians from ACQUIRING them.

What team are you supposed to be playing for, again?

His polices have caused something like 33 states to pass legislation that the Ninth and Tenth Amendment mean what they say.

The political message here is clear. Butt the Hell out of State affairs…they want no part of what he’s doing.

The Governor of Texas is openly talking about his state’s right of secession.

You think you’re going to win the White House again without Texas, hotshot?

And what has he done for his nutroots base?

We are STILL in Iraq
Guantanamo is STILL open
and the PATRIOT Act is STILL the Law.

So those booger-eatin’ morons who DID “Hope for Change” are standing on the street-corner holding a big fat bag full of air.

Even the dumbest chump one day, every once in a blue moon, can dope out that he’s been used abused and dissed.

Wait until that happens, slick, and then what they put Bush through is going to seem like a mother’s loving embrace of her infant child.

Has he blown it?

Draw your own conclusions.

Apr 22, 2009 – 6:35 am

WELL SAID BILGEMAN. The only thing I can possibly add to your accurate, concise comments is this.

We will soon be using the name Obama to replace the eeffffing eff-word. By then we will have been seriously “Obama-ed”.

Apr 23, 2009 - 12:37 pm 162. Subotai Bahadur:

Late to the thread. Can only agree on one key point. The media will support Obama as long as they exist regardless of any facts. The Federal government will bail them out financially so that they can continue to provide cover.

But there is an assumption in Ms. Rubin’s article that I have to say is perhaps not justified. Or more exactly two assumptions. First, that somehow the Republican party has returned to its roots. If they had, they would be standing up and fighting instead of pretending that they are not even up there. They would have a National Chairman who would be supporting the Tea Party movement instead of being the invisible man when he is not apologising to the Left for the existence of conservatives. And if they had returned to the roots, the RNSC would not have announced immediately that they would be supporting Arlen Specter [a Democrat in RINO clothing] and John McCain [just a RINO] against conservative primary challengers. So far, they have ignored any chances to show that they have a hint of a clue as to what we are about to go through as a nation, and their role as an opposition party.

That said, there is a more critical second assumption that may not be a “given” in this equation. First, let me accept most of the list of groups that the Democrats are infuriating, and why. Further, with the help of the media, they are not even pretending to cover their own butts in the process. They do not seem to care what people think, and further they are doing it in the face of a collapsing economy that never portends good electoral news for the party in power. It is as if they do not care how many voters they alienate.

OK, those of both parties who manage to get and hold seats in our Houses of Lords do not get there by lacking political cunning. Professional politicians are expert at waffling enough so as to try to limit the damage for what they do.

The Democrats, and their supporters in the media and Obama Troll Corps, are acting like they have had a political lobotomy. It is as if they have absolutely no fear at all of any electoral consequences in 2010 or 2012, regardless of what they do.

I’m a retired Peace Officer. I am used to dealing with felons and criminals [and I agree with Twain's formulation of the only native American criminal class being Congress] and it is basic to look for inconsistencies in a story, actions, or an alibi. Why do they act outside their normal patterns? What would trigger such a change? What do they know that is not otherwise in evidence?

If they are acting as if they do not care about the 2010/2012 elections, it has to have a reason. There may be others, but I have three conjectures [and would welcome others being added to the discussion].

1) They actually believe that by November 2010; everybody will be making an above the median income, the unicorns will be defecating skittles all over the country, a perpetual motion machine will solve all of our energy problems, and all of our enemies will love us. Such blind faith in the face of the reality is totally out of character for the cynical political class.

2) They believe that the American people will be so beaten down that they will accept continuing along the path the Democrats set, that even the Republicans will not be able to put up any opposition. This also goes upstream of reality. There is already a growing movement to get rid of the lot of them in Washington regardless of party, and even if the Tea Party Movement does not become a 3rd party, a lot of people learned the lesson about sitting the election out. In bad times, the party out of power makes gains. The first rule of politicians is self preservation. For Democrats to make such an assumption is also out of pattern.

3) They literally do not have anything to fear from the voters because either they do not expect the elections to take place, or they believe that the results have been pre-ordained. Given the fact that we will be in serious domestic trouble in 2010, not to mention several wars on the verge of breaking out overseas; one could see this group, devoted more to power than the Constitution, planning on a State of Emergency being declared. OR they could believe that they have perfected their control of the voting process. Remember, in the last several elections they have become masters of accumulating false/illegal registrations [it is interesting that some cities [Milwaukee and Detroit come to mind, but there are others] have more registered voters than there are men, women, children, and household pets according to the last census. ACORN got just shy of $4 Billion in the “Stimulus” Bill. We have seen a Democrat state Attorney General insert 150,000 known false voter registrations into the voter rolls [Missouri, 2008] instead of flagging them as requiring provisional ballots as Federal law requires. And we have seen that in every close election, Democrat poll workers have the ability to find ballot boxes and bags of absentee ballots in their homes and cars weeks after the election. Somehow, they always give the Democrat the margin of victory.

This last pair of alternatives would justify the overweening confidence the Democrats are displaying, and combined with the inflated egos of politicians, would explain much of their behavior. They may actually do believe that they are immune to consequences.

The Democrats seem to be willing to make statutes, contracts, and the Constitution elastic things. One wonders how far the social contract will stretch before it breaks.

Subotai Bahadur

Apr 23, 2009 - 1:07 pm 163. aprilnovember811:

Professor Guvinoff,
That is a wonderful post! I couldn’t agree more.

Apr 23, 2009 - 1:34 pm 164. Bilgeman:

vivo:
“2nd hand smoke? Emphysema? Cancer? Medical costs paid by taxpayers? Cough, cough . . .”

My, but aren’t you quick off the trigger?

I love pistoleros like you, let me demonstrate how you have just shot yourself in both feet:

1) “2nd hand smoke?”

Really? WHERE? Smoking has been all but banned indoors in nearly every state. If you’re breathing secondhand smoke, it’s because you’re standing outside…MOVE.

Not content to share the planet, though, in some places the Oxygen Nazis have actually banned smoking outside in public places…because their asses are too fat and lazy to walk upwind.

That’s one foot…here’s the other:

2) “Medical Costs Paid By Taxpayers?”

Okay, Einstein, let’s see if your vaunted intellect can remember what the Alleged Hawaiian’s cigarette (and snuff…I didn’t forget you guys and gals who dip), tax-hike is supposedly FOR?

Childrens’ Health Care “Programs”.

I guess SOME taxpayers paying SOME people’s medical costs, (and the salaries of the parasite bureaucrats who will administer them), is just hunky-dory, huh?

BTW…if’n you want to do some “extra credit work” try finding out where the money from the Attorneys-General Tobacco (Shakedown) Settlement went…

And just for target practice, I guess, you took aim at the next thing sticking out in front below your (undoubtedly slender),waistline:

3) “Emphysema? Cancer?”

Hey, fatso, what happenned to the “Victimless Crime” meme? Or is that bromide only trotted out when you need a pre-packaged slogan to support legalizing prostitution and decriminalizing marijuana?

Nice shootin’ Tex! You nailed that pecker right in the eye. (Too bad it was your own).

BTW, I DO hope that you are not overweight and your Body Fat Index is within state-approved parameters…because they’ll be coming after YOUR globulous behind next. And watching morbidly obese people run is a HOOT!

Kindly don’t bother telling me about your “glandular condition”…I, Mr. Taxpayer, will have to pick up the medical bills when your Twinkie-eatin’ carcass gets type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

I think we’ll also pass a law making YOU pay extra to fly in first class, (with the wider seats, y’know?). And keep you out of theaters and busses and trains, too.

Yeah, bubble-but…just you wait until all the self-righteous petty-assed sloganeering you use to support the persecution of tobacco users gets aimed at you…

Apr 23, 2009 - 2:17 pm 165. Xanthippas:

Yes, the President is clearly blowing it.

http://people-press.org/report/509/obama-at-100-days

Apr 23, 2009 - 3:38 pm 166. Bilgeman:

#165 Xanhippas:
“Yes, the President is clearly blowing it.”

Yup, must be. I didn’t expect them to start “campaigning” for him again so soon.

Let’s see how they’re flacking for the fellow who claims to have been born in Hawaii:

“Fully 73% of Americans – including as many as 46% of Republicans – hold a favorable view of Obama as a person.”

I’m not exactly sure what “…Obama as a person.” is supposed to entail, anyone have a clue about this qualifier?

That he doesn’t have sex with children under the age of 8?
That he hasn’t worshipped Satan in at least two months?
That he ALWAYS washes his hands and cleans up after himself after he’s committed a chainsaw murder?

WTF does that MEAN?

Here’s an interesting bit

“Obama’s job approval stands at 63%, while 26% disapprove of the way he is handling his job as president.”

Think about it for a minute. The guy only won the election by a 10% margin…55-45% (roughly).
Did all those McCain voters change their minds in less than a year to make it a 65-35% spread?

Not bad for a Messiah, and he was only at a job approval rating of 59% in March, so in a month and a half he’s supposed to have “converted” an extra 7% of Repus and Indies to “O-botism”.

What has he done again in the past month and a half to pull off this feat?

The G-20? Durban? Shake hands with Chavez and snuggle with Castro?

Must have been the Portuguese Water Dog…cute little pup. Everyone say: “Awwwwwww!”

Ah, well, the poll people said “Americans”, not “voters”, didn’t they?
So maybe I’m supposed to THINK “Voters” when they SAY “Americans”…that must be it.

Of course, “Americans” who cannot, or do not, vote…they really don’t matter much in politics when you come right down to it.

(Unless their numbers can be used to sway the minds of dullards who have no capacity for critical reading).

What’s that you say?
They’re STILL “Americans”…they SHOULD matter?

Hmmm, maybe they’re NOT really “Americans” at all…maybe some are foreigners who just happen to live here:

“The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted April 14-21 among 1,507 adults interviewed in English and Spanish on landlines and cell phones,”

Ahhhhh…THERE it is!

There’s the “fine print” that you weren’t supposed to read, chilluns!

A sample of 1500 people, of whom an undisclosed number could not even articulate to the pollster in the English language, and from an undisclosed geographic location, of undisclosed (and unverified) income level and even of citizenship status, (just like our Alleged Hawaiian), is being sold as:

(drumroll please!)

73% of Americans saying “Obama O-Kay!”

Every illegal alien we asked said so.
Everyone in San Franciso said so.
And even the students of Mrs. Grundy’s 3rd grade class in Peoria IL, (REAL Americans from the Midwest Heartland!), said so.

Have I gutted and filleted this POS “poll” enough?

THIS is what you’re using to “beat the drum” to remind the suckers that “The One” is STILL “Number 1″?

Smells like “Number 2″ to me…

Apr 23, 2009 - 6:40 pm 167. goy:

- But this country has a 2-party system, and I’ve always felt that when it worked, it did so when both parties were legitimately counterbalancing each other by playing their roles as conservatives and liberals, with each taking turns at being the brake and the accelerator — you need both to get anywhere. A liberal vision advances a culture.

This is a steaming pile of unsubstantiated opinion that is driven purely by the motive force of argumentum ad temperantiam fallacy. Compromising with morally adolescent, leftist ideology has only served to weaken America.

Classical liberal vision advances culture (or has). But today’s so-called liberalism – actually leftism – is the furthest thing possible from liberalism in the classical sense. In today’s world, conservatives fill the role of classical liberals, for the most part. Leftism is socially and culturally regressive, as it advances only the collective at the expense of the individual – that is, at the expense of individual liberty as well as individual responsibility. And that’s the philosophy running through the core of everything our new “adult” *cough* president espouses.

We live in a world were 2+2=5 because we’ve incessantly compromised with willfully blind ideologues who insist that 2+2=6. Compromise with leftist moral adolescence is socially and culturally destructive, and we’ve seen this demonstrated clearly in America by the fact that as we’ve become more socialist, our governmental bodies have become more narcissistic, more corrupt, more unaccountable and more arrogant. The pinnacle in this regard so far – at least here in America – has been BHO’s administration and the Pelosi-Reid Congress.

Apr 23, 2009 - 7:23 pm 168. Peter the Bubblehead:

166. Bilgeman wrote:
I’m not exactly sure what “…Obama as a person.” is supposed to entail, anyone have a clue about this qualifier?

Peter writes: When you add the ‘…as a person’ disclaimer, it generally means you like the person being spoken of in general, you think he/she is a nice guy, you might even chat with him over a beer at the neighbor’s BBQ. But it generally means you do not like the job he does, what he stand s for, or several other specifics.

Usage example; “I like the guy as a person, but his policies scare me. I like the guy as a person, but I think he’s flushing this country down the toilet. I like the guy as a person, but I’m afraid he’s giving our future away to the Chinese.”

Clearer?

Apr 24, 2009 - 5:12 am 169. AThinkingPerson:

So I guess after 168 posts and an insightful article it can be summed up as YES, Obama IS BLOWING IT!

Apr 24, 2009 - 7:43 am 170. Charvakan:

Lots of wishful thinking. Dream on.

Apr 24, 2009 - 11:17 am 171. Peter the Bubblehead:

Anyone have any clue to what Charvakan is referring?

Apr 24, 2009 - 1:28 pm 172. howiem:

Robert Hurley,
If you want to quote polls, I suggest you look at the demographics used in the polls, when as many as 20% more “Democrats” than Republicans are surveyed. The polling these days \is not used to measure public opinion, rather to sway it. Furthermore, a number of the questions are written in a way to induce bias into the responses. As Mark Twain said, there are “Lies, damned lies, and statistics”. Polls today are all three.
For those who liked the idea of paying taxes by IOU, don’t laugh yet. The California government is using IOUs to pay for contract work. Do a google on it and you will see. When the Federal government starts doing this, it will mean that there is absolutely nothing backing up the IOUs to give them credibility of value, However, if the Federal Government starts issuing them in lieu of payment for work performed, I will gladly accept the chairmanship of the IOUN (“N” as in nothing) organization.

For those supporting a boycott of the MSM, keep it up. In case you haven’t seen their financial numbers lately, it is working. Goof example: The great economic minds at the NYT have told their proletariat subordinate, The Boston Globe, to find a way to save $20 million asap, or shut down. In the past two years, according to Opinion Journal, Best of the Web, the Globe has lost about $160 million, thus, at least in the NYT’s view, $20 million in cuts makes up for $160 million in losses…and these same people were calling Reagnomics “voodoo”! It is also obvious that Obama learned his economics from the NYT…how to lose money without hardly trying. After all we can’t be sure he really has any degrees, since he won’t produce any records.

Apr 24, 2009 - 4:31 pm 173. Derek:

Didn’t you guys just lose an election in New York? If this is blowing it, then you guys can keep blowing me all you want.

Apr 24, 2009 - 4:42 pm 174. Charvakan:

Let me clarify. The idea that any significant section of the population that voted for Obama is now having second thoughts and is ready to switch to the Republican side is pure wishful thinking from conservatives.

Apr 24, 2009 - 5:35 pm 175. Bob from Virginia:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/media_having_trouble_finding_right

Enjoy!!!!

Apr 24, 2009 - 6:50 pm 176. Peter the Bubblehead:

174. Charvakan wrote:
Let me clarify. The idea that any significant section of the population that voted for Obama is now having second thoughts and is ready to switch to the Republican side is pure wishful thinking from conservatives.

Peter writes: We never said that all the buyers remoreful are ready to start voting Republican. Just that they’re ready to dump The One.

Many of us who post here, who spent months having to listen to The One’s supporters trumpet how he was going ‘change’ the world with his ‘hope’ (Yes we can!) between October and December are now finding those same supporters as rare as hen teeth. Many of us are now finding that those same people will not even admit to having voted for Obama now.

Apr 24, 2009 - 7:51 pm 177. MikeD:

Charvakan:

One of us will be terribly disappointed going forward. Want to place a big money bet? You could lose your ass on this one buddy. Or more.

Apr 24, 2009 - 10:05 pm 178. BC:

To Goy: No. Liberals are not “leftists” — that’s a made-up pejorative label, and to be fair, true conservatives are not right wingers. If you Google “liberal” and click on the “definition” link at the upper right, you get: “a. Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; b. free from bigotry. b. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.”

You can snicker all you want, but that is what being liberal really means, and not that rubbish Fox News and other wingnutty hangouts put out. And conservatism by its nature does not come up with change and new ideas, but will embrace them if they prove useful. Liberals tend to be idealists, conservatives pragmatists. Accelerator and brake, brake and accelerator.

# Of, relating to, or characteristic of liberalism.

Apr 24, 2009 - 10:06 pm 179. RightwingHippyChick:

Is there actually *anything* President Obama got right?

Apr 25, 2009 - 2:05 am 180. vivo:

164. Bilgeman:

My response to you wasn’t posted.

Probably a smoking “editor”.

Apr 25, 2009 - 3:00 am 181. Bilgeman:

#179:RWHC:
“Is there actually *anything* President Obama got right?”

Perhaps. His dressing-down of credit-card companies is a move in the right direction, although we’ll have to wait and see what fruit it bears.

He might be “stealing a march”, and allowing them to “give an inch” where the bills working through Congress would have had them “give up mile”.
Or it might not be a dog and pony show and he really does put the bite on their behinds.

If you want to know one of the direct causes of the debt-fueled economic implosion, you should take a close look at the timeline of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2005.

All it takes to crash a Ponzi scheme is one or two entities being hard-assed about getting their promised money.

In this case, it was “What’s in YOUR wallet?”. who were pissy about folks declaring bankruptcy and walking away.
Of course, while everyone is collecting feathers and heating tar about mortgage companies, no mortgage company that I know of is charging people 29% p.a. interest and gleefully slapping fees on everything in sight and for any reason under the sun.

Apr 25, 2009 - 5:19 am 182. Bilgeman:

#180 vivo:
“My response to you wasn’t posted.
Probably a smoking “editor”.”

Don’t demonize someone you don’t even know.

Your post probably exceeded the weight limit, and your arguments have been deleted because of it.

Apr 25, 2009 - 7:23 am 183. Missy:

The Economist, well known for its objectivity, rates Obama’s first 100 days in office as ‘Very Good.’

Apr 25, 2009 - 4:18 pm 184. Bilgeman:

#183 Missy:
“The Economist, well known for its objectivity, rates Obama’s first 100 days in office as ‘Very Good.’”

Yes, quite…

http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12516666

Apr 25, 2009 - 5:54 pm 185. goy:

@178. BC: – Liberals are not “leftists” …
Okay, now try reading it again for comprehension. This is precisely the point a stressed.

And the notion that “leftist” is just a “made-up pejorative label” is more unsupportable horse dung, emanating from what is most likely a total unawareness of history. Clinically, contemporary leftists are moral adolescents who espouse inherently broken ideologies like socialism, marxism, communism and other types of nanny-state collectivism – all of which are based on a naive, distorted view of human nature. People who favor these leftist ideals today have co-opted the term and labeled themselves “liberals” in order to avoid the stigma of being associated with leftist democide on the order of 150,000,000 murders during the 20th Century (and counting).

… conservatism by its nature does not come up with change and new ideas, …
More unsupportable squat product. Some of the most conservative companies on the planet – IBM, Xerox, Kodak, ITT, et al. – were responsible for the newest ideas and biggest changes of their day. The Founding Fathers were archetypal conservatives by today’s definition, and their efforts completely changed history with an entirely new form of government. What you don’t understand is that with respect to ‘change and new ideas’, conservatism is all about a rational rate of change, i.e., to avoid the sort of radical, untested, reckless change our federal government is engaging in now, and which will lead to ruin if left unchecked.

– Accelerator and brake, brake and accelerator.
Right. Accelerate. Brake. Accelerate. Brake. Ugh. That’s exactly the way my Mom drives. That’s the very best way to make your passengers sick. Which is exactly what the see-saw, argumentum ad temperantiam compromise with leftist ideologies has been doing to America for decades: making us sick.

Apr 25, 2009 - 6:23 pm 186. goy:

BHO’s first 100 days in office.

Apr 25, 2009 - 6:26 pm 187. supercars:

For some reason, obamas 100 days is said to be successful according to economist. but the question is, if it will be going through? i hope so.. keep it up obama. good luck.

Apr 26, 2009 - 1:34 am 188. howiem:

BC
Quoting one definition to make your case is meaningless. There are many definitions of “liberals”. Look up classic liberal, which is defined as believing in individual freedom, free markets, and LIMITED government. The original meaning has been corrupted so that today liberals are those who believe in controlling everything, their freedom is the freedom to tell everyone else what they must do. They want government to control our lives, and when government controls that is collectivism, socialism, Marxismm, etc. The government cannot control free people without coercion, otherwise it cannot control. So go play your troll games someplace else.

Apr 26, 2009 - 5:52 am 189. deguello:

183 missy: tHE ECONOMIST is a globalist rag written,for the leftwing plutocracy that runs Obama .To call them “objective” is like calling the NYTIMES “the newspaper of record”.

Apr 27, 2009 - 9:53 am 190. deguello:

187 SUPERCARS: Don’t hold your breath you half-literate illegal alien:You are about to see a supercarwreck,courtesy of OBAMA.

Apr 27, 2009 - 9:56 am 191. Charvakan:

176. Peter the Bubblehead:
177. MikeD:

I am sure you will come up with reasons why these polls are wrong, just like during the elections, but the following article seems to refute your claims:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ikQec4s9i1Pkvb_MecsjUpBAkNaA

Apr 27, 2009 - 10:11 am 192. Reaganite Republican Resistance:

I guess “velocity is a virtue”, as has been said about Obama… when you’re trying to ram a radical agenda down the throats of a economically shell-shocked populace before they wake-up to what you’re doing. And what Obama is doing is dismantling everything that made America great… in the name of his wacked-out Marxist-professor mentors.

Only a fool would cheer risky programs with no historical precedent of success like astronomical pork-barrel spending (while borrowing ALL of the money from communist China), a Jimmy Carter-esque pacifist foreign policy steeped in appeasement, embracing scum like Hugo Chavez while insulting traditional allies… and Obama & Co. display a pattern of dishonesty that is troubling- that’s putting it politely.

Check back with us in a year- when people start to come out of the ether after a couple international embarrassments and 10% inflation from the reckless print-money spending-spree that The One if foisting on us.

In three years, people will wince at the very mention of the name “Obama”- and the GOP could win 40 states running Gilbert Gottfried.

Apr 27, 2009 - 2:38 pm 193. Fiebinator:

To Mrs Hurley’s son, Bobby:

No, Poll’s show people like Pres Obama, not his policies. After all he’s a nice, reasonably intelligent man with a self-described gift for errudition. Polls also show that people decreasingly fooled by or enchanted with his course. This trend is certain to continue since every economic decision he has made increases the size of the eventual crater. He is channeling the worst bits of Hoover and FDR.

Apr 28, 2009 - 12:57 pm 194. Terry:

It is amazing to me how the fox news is so quick to belittle President Obama after just 100 days in office. Then you have the nerve to hold up cards grading him for his effort after 100 days in office on your show. Fox news said nothing but negative things about him when he was running for President and you still continue to do so with him in office. Living in the south I know prejudice when I see it and you guys have shown that you fall in that class of Americans. You have shown no respect for him. America spoke and voted him in office in hopes for change. The only people upset he is in office are the rich white americans and the southern redneck americans. If you guys on fox news would had kept an eye on Bush when he was in office 8 terms like you have been keeping an eye on Obama after only 100 days in office maybe we would not be in this freakin mess.

Apr 30, 2009 - 7:23 pm 195. howiem:

Charvakan,

You can have all the polls you want to, but unless ghe web site shows or has a link to the complete poll, we do not know the poll demographics or whether or not the questions were skewed. Most of the polls are biased in some way. Pollsters are human with their own biases, no matter what they say. And when the MSM conducts a poll, you can guess which way the bias is slanted from the names of the players.
As for terry’s comments, after what the MSM and the Statists did when George Bush was President, what do you expect? What goes around comes around. There is probably some racism involved, but there is far more to the dislike of Obama than merely race. And, by the way, It wasn’t only Fox that did the 100 day rating. All the major media did, as they do for all presidents. The print media has white space to fill and need to make some money before they go bankrupt.

May 2, 2009 - 10:58 am