A Presidential Crisis of Competence
They (mostly) know not what they’re doing.
Less than two months into this administration, three things are clear.
First, its agenda is every bit as radical as many of us expected and feared. Based on President Barack Obama’s supposedly unimportant past, there was every reason to believe that this would happen. That some Obama supporters are surprised is a “tribute” to a media elite that treated decade-plus relationships with radicals Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, and others as “distractions from the real issues,” and to a McCain campaign that refused to treat Obama’s candidacy as the threat that it was, and now is.
Second, despite strong signals that he is guiding the ship of state in the wrong direction, Obama and his administration have largely refused to bow to reality. Having triumphed in the presidential campaign with marketing and misdirection, they actually believe that voters gave them a mandate to spend hundreds of billions of dollars we don’t have, and to bail out banks, companies, and homeowners without apparent limit. While the markets continue to beg to differ, Obama has been essentially indifferent.
The third clear thing is the one that has apparently blindsided Obama fans the most, but should have been the least unexpected: He and his administration seem not to know what they’re doing. Pick almost any area and you’ll find a trail of incompetence that goes well beyond benign rookie mistakes.
The administration’s nominee vetting record has become a national joke that could take up this entire column.
Then take the economy (please). We knew before the election that Obama doesn’t understand the difference between net worth and income. His statement about “profit-to-earnings ratios” comes from that same well of ignorance.
I seem to recall John McCain being bludgeoned for a self-professed relative lack of economic expertise. McCain was mature enough to admit to it and would, as in previous GOP administrations, likely have surrounded himself with knowledgeable people. But Barack Obama has surrounded himself with the likes of tax cheat Tim Geithner, who scares the markets almost every time he opens his mouth. Meanwhile, the new Treasury secretary has somehow managed not to hire 14 key people he needs. Could it be that there is a shortage of qualified people standing in line to be participants in what is shaping up to be the mother of all train wrecks?
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1. Delia:Zero’s reality checks don’t even exist and if they did they’d all bounce. We have ‘50-cent’ in da house now and that’s what his 0bama bucks will be worth. We have the biggest, dorkiest, sleaziest, scummiest, embarrassment for a POTUS EVER. 0bama makes the simple gardener from “Being There” look like a valid replacement.
God help us.
Mar 11, 2009 - 1:57 am 2. Bob Campbell:If you listen to Obama everything can be blamed on Bush.. Wrong! Stand up Mr. Prez and look yourself in the mirror. Great men take responsibility for their actions.. little men hid behind excuses.
Thomas Sowell’s website — Eric Hoffer’s quote:
“There are many who find a good ALIBI far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.”
There you have it. The plight of the Bamster can be summed up in just a few choice words by Eric Hoffer. So what do you think Obama is using as his favorite ALIBI this week?
Mar 11, 2009 - 4:30 am 3. Craig:“He and his administration seem not to know what they’re doing.”
That must make me clairvoyant like the millions of other conservatives.
Mar 11, 2009 - 4:33 am 4. progressoverpeace:His statement about “profit-to-earnings ratios” comes from that same well of ignorance.
Actually, it was even worse than that. The moron said “profits AND earnings ratio”. Not only didn’t the idiot know what a P/E ratio is, he doesn’t know how to translate mathematical operations to English. I’m betting that the idiot messiah was pretty darned awful at mathematical word problems. Frankly, I’d be surprised if the fool understood any math beyond some basic arithmetic. The Precedent is one incredibly stupid and ignorant person.
(That is not a typo. It is a painfully accurate description of what he was elected to be.)
Mar 11, 2009 - 4:42 am 5. Meryl:“too obsessed with detail and failing to sufficiently delegate”
…and both of these have everything to do with arrogance and ignorance.
Mar 11, 2009 - 4:46 am 6. GD:Another project is Shovel Ready!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/templeofobama/3339532496/
Mar 11, 2009 - 5:24 am 7. John K:Obama is an embarrassment to our nation! Given his absolute reliance on the teleprompter, I am beginning to wonder if we have a Manchurian Candidate as president. He can’t get a out well versed thought from his brain to his mouth. Now we need to find out who is making the input to the teleprompter so we can know who the real president is.
Mr. Obama, please serve our country with honor and resign from the presidency NOW! Take Joe and Nancy with you and go somewhere else. Otherwise, Americans will soon rise up and demand the Liberty you are so quickly taking away.
I just do not get how democrats can still complain about how evil President Bush was, when Obama the idiot, is far worse. Obama is the biggest fear monger to ever come along, can’t build a successful staff, doesn’t understand how tax policy and economics are related, and is bent on solving problems such as global warming (which is a lie), reform health care, and implementing alternative energy solutions when the economic engine of this country is going over a cliff.
Americans, loudly voice your opposition to this pathetic excuse of a president we now are stuck with and get him to resign from his office and hopefully our nation can be saved. Obama thrives on approval ratings. When the main stream media stops covering for him and starts to report with critism of his actions as president, it will do him in.
Mar 11, 2009 - 5:33 am 8. Gary Ogletree:Obama convinced me he was a Marxist way back. But I admit I gave him more credit. I predicted he would go slow at screwing things up because of his great desire to win a second term. I’m sure he meant to run down the economy so he had a real crisis to exploit. I’m sure none of his genius advisers grasped just how bad the economy already was. I suspect they may have actually believed their own rosy predictions for rapid recovery. Looking to 2010, let’s just say “no way” to all the GOP pork lovers in Congress. Primary challengers needed. It may be why God created Tea Parties.
Mar 11, 2009 - 5:33 am 9. Sandra:Scary times. And there doesn’t seem to be any adult supervision in this new administration.
Mar 11, 2009 - 5:37 am 10. Alice Maven:Like other liberals, Obama does believe in supply and demand. He doesn’t understand how markets work. He doesn’t understand that FREEDOM works.
On account of which he thinks government works only when smart people (like him) tell stupid people (like us) how to live our lives.
Only now it seems he’s not as smart as he thought.
Mar 11, 2009 - 5:39 am 11. Peg C.:Betting $500 there will be serious, not frivolous, calls for impeachment within 2 years. Worst. President. Ever.
Mar 11, 2009 - 5:45 am 12. drjohn:Never having had a real job, never having had to meet a payroll, never having had to pay FICA, never having earned the fortune he possesses- these are bad things.
Mar 11, 2009 - 5:50 am 13. Paul:Nothing new here going on. Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, Ohio, New Jersey legislators and governors all run at this pig ignorant level and have for decades. You think this is ugly, you should tune into local access TV of the farm teams of ignorance, self esteem and pomposity of the city councils in any of the dead and dying Democrat welfare cities.
The nice thing about socialism, Democrats, RINO Republicans is that like pubic debts, the sins of the fathers fall on the sons. We are all now chained to these clowns by decades of elitist laws. Any attempt to free yourself is illegal and an act against the state.
Enjoy the drowning.
Mar 11, 2009 - 6:08 am 14. Edmund Jenks (MAXINE):Where is the “Card Check” process for competence in Government when we need it?
I suppose this is what we can assume to be the norm going forward when we keep voting into office ACORN promoting, Tax increase loving (now with Omnibus $18,584 per household – soon to be upped to $80,000 with the Obama budget proposal), Freedom reducing, Organized Labor supporting, Social Engineering addicted, Government enlarging, Free Enterprise punishing, Judaical Branch lawmaking, Lawyer Class zealots from primarily the Democrat Political Party, with appropriating class Republicans!
Truth is, we have only ourselves to blame … and boy, are we stupid.
The Government is only a reflection of ourselves and what we are willing to put up with when we set in motion a steady reliance on a central power assistance in our lives without an adherence of personal freedom standards (the Constitution).
This is what we can expect to happen when we see a mission creep of “”Corporate” (both private and public) selfishness.
Mar 11, 2009 - 6:13 am 15. jr:This joke was foisted on the American people mostly by the Pravda media. One of the first orders of business should be to put them out of business. Don’t buy their newspapers or read their websites and turn off their TV programs. Second, by the spineless Republican politicians. Vote them out, vote for the challenger in every primary. New blood can’t be any worse than the permanent politicians we have now.
Mar 11, 2009 - 6:24 am 16. Maurice:Like it or not, George W Bush must take some of the blame for this. In a large way he created the vacuum into which this tsunami of idiocy is now flowing at an alarming rate. The crash of the financial and housing markets happened on his watch, and no matter how much the CRA, Clinton, Frank, and Dodd contributed to it, it was Bush’s job to make this a HUGE public issue and he did not.
That said, it will soon be hard for any halfway intelligent Obama voter to not begin pining for the good old days of Bush. Obama is taking an inherited economic recession and turning it into a Depression with the kind of crazy, abstracted economic principles that once only lived on college campuses. Worse, he has surrounded himself with incompetent eggheads and has full support of the Worst.Congress.Ever to quote a phrase. The Republicans who voted for the $410 billion robbery last night are basically liberals who live in conservative districts and will do anything to get elected.
Bottom line: It ain’t all Obama’s fault, but he is doing EVERYTHING wrong to fix the problem and is thereby exacerbating the crisis. He’s an idiot, and I think the idea of a Manchurian Candidate is very credible. Take to the streets, Tax Day Tea Party, April 15th.
Mar 11, 2009 - 6:31 am 17. BackwardsBoy:The Vapid One’s arrogance and inexperience are a dangerous combination. Just his ineptitude about the economy alone is cause for great concern.
Mar 11, 2009 - 6:32 am 18. Nomad:If this guy is so smart, why doesn’t he know how our free-market enterprise system works?
Answer “D” __ALL THE ABOVE….
Mar 11, 2009 - 6:41 am 19. katablog:I’m with #8. I knew O was BAD for America – and yes, I’m one of those that question whether he is even a natural born citizen – but I didn’t believe for a second between O and congress we would spend this kind of money this fast.
I didn’t expect him to purposefully be arrogant towards our best allies. And I did think he’d at least honor his no earmarks pledge since he spoke about it so fervently.
Mar 11, 2009 - 6:50 am 20. TOhio:Incompetent, evil or both, Obama wouldn’t be able to mess up the country without the help of the Democrats in Congress.
This is why every single Democrat in 2010 needs to be voted out of office. We can’t take a chance. EVERY ONE needs to go and we should be telling our friends to vote straight Republican on the 2010 ballot to make sure this happens.
Mar 11, 2009 - 6:51 am 21. Mike G:“If this guy is so smart, why doesn’t he know how our free-market enterprise system works?”
Because basically he’s never been anywhere near it in his whole life. His entire career has been within big institutions (government, universities), the law firms that serve them, and the community organizations that fight for grant money and deal with the washed-up. What he’s never done is work in the kind of small to mid-sized company where most of us work; even a governor of Texas or Arkansas has more day to day contact with that kind of business than Obama ever has. He doesn’t understand that it’s the source of America’s wealth and growth, because he doesn’t have any real conception of it, except as a cash cow to be squeezed for taxes.
Mar 11, 2009 - 6:56 am 22. Mountain Jack:The word incompetence was synonymous with George Bush and apparently, the writer of this “article”.
When the Bush administration came to power, we were facing budget surpluses so large that we were within paying off the entire deficit in about 10 years. Budget surplus projections went far into the future. Bush immediately cut taxes and gave the money to his base and his donors, increased spending by massive amounts, and started a war based upon lies that was and still is funded entirely with borrowed money. He intentionally left our borders unprotected and encouraged corporations to outsource their high paying jobs through tax incentives. He cut taxes during time of war (something no President has ever done) and did everything he could to eliminate the middle class and achieve the goal of his grandfather Prescott that was to establish a global economy by making the U.S. the equivalent of a third world country. He was wildly successful.
In my opinion, it was a calculated decision to bankrupt the economy and to destroy the very social programs that President Obama is trying so hard to grow. The banking fiasco has it’s roots in the deregulation craze of the overrated and overhyped Reagan Administration, then took off under George W. Bush. To blame the current administration for this mess is not only unbelievable, but disingenuous and untrue. American taxpayers became part owners of the banking system in the last months of the Bush administration—BEFORE Obama had ever made a decision–and now these Republican so-called patriots are calling Obama’s proposal to get us out of this mess “Socialist”. The mess is real, the deficit of the last 8 years tragic, and the challenges before our new President are enormous. Prove you’re patriotic Republicans and support our President.
Mar 11, 2009 - 6:57 am 23. Ray K:You state that Obama’s problems are, in part, due to a failure to delegate. Given his inability to fully staff his administration, who can he delegate to?
Mar 11, 2009 - 7:15 am 24. Andrew:Unfortunately, BO will be the most popular failure in history.
Mar 11, 2009 - 7:15 am 25. JB:“Prove you’re patriotic Republicans and support our President.”
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, a-hole.
Mar 11, 2009 - 7:17 am 26. William:Hillary should have gone to the Washington Capitals hockey team to get a good Russian translator.
Mar 11, 2009 - 7:18 am 27. William:Mountain Jack: If you take a couple of minutes to read the Constitution you will find that the President cannot spend any money on his own. All spending bills must come from Congress and although the President has veto power, Congress can override him, thus they hold the purse strings. The current budget is a perfect example
Mar 11, 2009 - 7:23 am 28. Miss Orange:it was written by Polosi and Reid, not by Mr. Incompetent.
@ #11 Peg C
I’ve been saying “decent chance at impeachment” for a while, too. It’s not so much his incompetence I think that will get the I-word in play; rather as Tom Blumer asks, “What does such a person with real power do once their incompetence becomes self-evident to most?” The answer is take desperate measures to cover his ass as things go seriously wrong. I think he’ll make Nixon look like a pre-schooler.
Mar 11, 2009 - 7:34 am 29. JRD:That`s what happens with Affirmative Action. This dork never would have earned anything on his own. He just kept receiving Affirmative Action entitlements. That`s how he got into Harvard, how he got hired at a law firm in Chicago, how he got a book deal thrown in his lap, how he got to make the speech at the dems convention. THIS GUY IS NOTHING ELSE BUT THE FIRST AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PRESIDENT!
He is no great orator. I`ve heard better speeches on Sunday mornings from pulpits. He uses his teleprompter as a crutch. When he doesn`t have one all your hear from his mouth is stuttering. Face it, this guy is an also ran. What he is is a drama queen. He should go to Hollywood. He would be perfect there. He`s a crybaby and watch what a sore loser he is going to be.
Too bad because I feel there are plenty of blacks male and female who are better qualified than him to be president. This dork is a loser and a legend in his own mind.
Mar 11, 2009 - 7:34 am 30. Miss Orange:@Mountain Jack:
“Prove you’re patriotic Republicans and support our President.”
You make the same error our President makes: You conflate the country and the man. The fact is, we are a nation of laws, not men. That’s why we patriots are calling for the man’s defeat. His plans are antithetical to the success of our nation.
Mar 11, 2009 - 7:39 am 31. Al Reasin:#14 Edmund Jenks (MAXINE): What’s with this, “Truth is, we have only ourselves to blame … and boy, are we stupid. ~47% of American saw at least a bit of what was coming and voted no. The evidence was beyond the MSM. All you had to do was look, but no you didn’t want to be judgmental; just to listened to the prose he spouted. You and your ilk have yourself to blame, but we all will pay!
Mar 11, 2009 - 7:56 am 32. Scott:I’m just wondering when he is going to be attacked by a killer rabbit.
Mar 11, 2009 - 8:05 am 33. ajacksonian:When George W. Bush came into office he was facing the collapsing internet bubble and the tech stock plunge that was had been starting up in the last part of 2000: the economy was not going up, but down. To his great credit he took the advice of Keynes during an economic crisis: “Don’t just do something, sit there!” It is amazing that with the dot com bust and 9/11 attacks that 2001 still had a residual GDP growth…not much but it was present. A crisis requires prioritizing what has to be done first, and putting aside all the other things that don’t make the triage cut: things that must be done first, things that should be done second and nice things to do third. President Obama cannot figure out how to triage activities, and so he does them all and does them all poorly. What was known about the supposed ‘paying off the debt’ was the dot com bubble bursting ended it as a concept. Bill Clinton rode that bubble and got out just as it was deflating…. and yet he had a similar problem coming in. So did Reagan. So did Carter. Those that were able to figure out priorities, prioritize them, and then act on the very few necessary did well and those who couldn’t do that did poorly.
President Obama can’t figure out the basics of not spending more during a recession and cutting taxes to spur growth, and does just the opposite as FDR did, which will do like FDR’s spending did and ensure a longer period of static to negative growth. The economy had nearly recovered in 1937 and yet all the spending and tax plans put in place would kill that recovery. So, too, will the bill for all this spending kill any nascent recovery next year. This is not rocket science.
Honoring your allies deeply is something that should never have to be said to a President. He was supposed to ‘firm up’ and ‘mend fences’ with our allies, yet does the exact opposite. Reaching out to our enemies who hate us, giving our allies reason to distrust us, and then insulting us with being ‘too tired’ when the entire State Dept. could have figured this out for him? That is intentional. Or he is so incapable that he can’t ask anyone for help outside of his limited social circle.
That limited circle is running out of friends and even friends-of-friends to try and appoint. He tries to get a Republican in at Commerce and then threatens to pull the one major job of Commerce away from it. That is insulting, not ‘reaching out and being spurned’, but giving a backhand to those you invite in. Putting a tax cheat at head of Treasury has scared off anyone who would be there as we expect competence in Treasury during hard times and it isn’t there. Trying to put a previous paid lobbyist for KSA and China at the head of the National Intelligence Council was a daft move… anyone who puts the Crown Prince of KSA as the top diplomat to be admired in the last quarter century is not someone anyone will trust with anything doing with Intelligence or even intelligence.
Lack of experience, limited social circle, hearing only from ‘yes men’ for years, expecting to have others take obstacles out of your way during campaigns… none of those helps when trying to be President. JFK had help from a wide-ranging family and his father’s extensive set of political and economic contacts to help him as a young President. Not being able to leverage the Governor of NY to put Caroline Kennedy into the Senate points to how he can’t even grease those palms to get experience. That leaves him with the Clinton gang… and just where is their vaunted experience during an econmic downturn? Is he listening to them? So far he hasn’t taken Bill’s advice to lay off the negative language…
The mistakes pile up day after day after day: all unforced errors. He had better watch out about ‘reset’ talk… once entered into the political lexicon, it can then be applied to anyone. Including the one putting it into play. Do notice how the WH crew stopped going after Rush when Rush challenged Obama to a one-on-one debate, without teleprompters? He can’t even pick his fights right.
Mar 11, 2009 - 8:06 am 34. AThinkingPerson:#22 Mountain Jack….I plan on showing President Teleprompter as much respect as the liberal left boonbats did to President Bush for the last eight. No more, no less.
And as for blaming all of this mess on Bush, you’re forgetting the Democratic Congress we’ve had for the last 2 years, Barney Frank and his fellow moonbats who bent the mortgage industry over and President Teleprompter almost TRIPLING the national debt since he took office.
You can’t hide from the fact that this current mess is squarely at the Democrats doorstep. Lie it all away if it helps you feel better about voting this for this tragic mess. But somewhere in the deep, dark recesses of your liberal brain, you know I’m right.
Mar 11, 2009 - 8:11 am 35. Oh, bother:Am I the only one who remembers it took a couple years to impeach Nixon?
Mar 11, 2009 - 8:12 am 36. Canuckistani:It appears that Mr. Obama is someone who believes that profits, or at least most profits, are not earned. If I was masquerading as a journalist, I might want to try and pin him down on that “profits and earnings” ratio. Oh who am I kidding? If I was a journalist, I’d just be basking in his glory asking him how is jump shot was doing.
Mar 11, 2009 - 8:17 am 37. David:@Bob Campbell. Great quote from Eric Hoffer. You’re absolutely right. We’ve had a non-stop series of alibis and blaming others – first Bush, then Rush Limbaugh, now the new target is Eric Cantor. And of course all along it’s been the ‘evil rich’. The One alternately claims to be Lincoln or FDR, but he’s starting to look more like a Robespierre or Lenin.
Mar 11, 2009 - 8:31 am 38. BMoon:The unfortunate by-product of democracy is that you get a representative that truly reflects the populace. For decades the academic elite has bought into the pop-psychology scam that self-esteem was the most important value to infuse children with, producing the blight of what is scornfully now known as “The Trophy Generation.” They could care less about truth, law, rules, competence, honesty, analysis, history, economics. it is all about THEM and their childlike fantasy world of self-absoprtion and narcissim.
Mar 11, 2009 - 8:35 am 39. Paul -Indiana:Re #4. POTUS sounds like people who say “3 times more”. Is that to mean 4 times as much, or 3 times as much?
He’s really funner!
Mar 11, 2009 - 8:41 am 40. Self-hating Boomer:They know exactly what they’re doing; they’re running the federal government just like Chicago. They may yet get their comeuppance, but it’s no mystery why they’re doing what they’re doing.
And of course, the first order of business is paying off all of their friends, and throwing Molotov cocktails at their enemies. No mystery about any of this. This is what happens when you elect the political heir to Al Capone.
Mar 11, 2009 - 8:44 am 41. Pee Wee Herman, Community Organizer:Am I the only one who remembers that Nixon was never impeached?
Mar 11, 2009 - 8:45 am 42. Jbl:Obama is refusing to turn the ship of state away from distructive policies.
Oh. Stubborn. Just like Bush.
The left hated Bush for being like that.
Mar 11, 2009 - 8:54 am 43. Mountain Jack:There are neocon Republicans and Independents who want to break the government permanently, and they almost succeeded during the two terms of Bush. As I pointed out, he was merely following the advice of Grandpa Prescott Bush who planned an assasssination attempt on FDR and had several of his companies confiscated as a result of his trading with the enemy and laundering money for the Nazis.
Their reasons for doing this should be obvious: with deregulation and a cowering populace they literally got away with both murder and robbery of the Treasury. The foreign policy in Iraq under both Bush presidents was merely the vehicle for them to accomplish this. To blame Obama is both naive and ignorant.
Mar 11, 2009 - 9:03 am 44. Josh Reiter:Yet for the life of me I can’t wrap my head around the fact that there are actual people in this world who are drinking up Obama’s koolaid and acting like everything is just peachy. I just now overheard a guy down the hall talking with another guy about the stock market. One of the guys recited Obama’s explanation about ‘profit and earnings’ ratio as though it was some kind of invaluable insight to the condition of the current market. It took everything for me to not jump up and get into the mix. Being at work and all it is generally best to stay apolitical.
Mar 11, 2009 - 9:10 am 45. Jbl:#22, Mountain Jack:
When the Bush administration came to power, we were facing budget surpluses so large that we were within paying off the entire deficit in about 10 years. Budget surplus projections went far into the future.
Well, you are at least correct that the budget surpluses were PROJECTIONS and not “money in hand” surpluses. You miss the fact that after Clinton left office, the GAO stated that the “projection” was overestimated by 30%. The “projection” did not in any way, shape or form anticipate a terror attack on our shores that would require the bailing out of several airlines, 40 Billion dollars going to NY, billions more going to shore up the Pentagon, the INARGUABLE need for additional intel spending and so forth. So, projections are nice…but they’re just “best guesses,” in reality, and I am sick of hearing that “we had a surplus.” No, we did not. We had hopes of a surplus, but events intervened, as they will.
Bush immediately cut taxes and gave the money to his base and his donors, increased spending by massive amounts
Yes, he did cut taxes; the tax cuts spurred on business and helped create jobs, or did you miss the fact that for most of his presidency unemployment was under 5%? You might have missed it, since the press ignored any good economic news. You probably missed the story in the NY Times where even they admitted, in 2006 that the tax-cut created jobs had created RECORD COLLECTION OF TAX REVENUES and so the deficit was being paid down ‘way ahead of schedule. You could look it up. Unlike what you’re blathering, this is actual truth.
…and started a war based upon lies
Oh, stop it, GROW UP – put away that incredibly fake and STUPID meme. If Bush had “lied” his way into war, he would have planted WMD to be found. He did not LIE…he said THE SAME F*CKING THING BILL CLINTON HAD BEEN SAYING SINCE 1998, AND MADDY ALBRIGHT AND ALL THE DEMS WHO VOTED FOR THE WAR AGREED ON AND HAD BEEN SAYING SINCE 1998. If you still want to say “Bush lied,” you just want to be thought a freaking IMBICILE.
…that was and still is funded entirely with borrowed money.
And Obama’s fake stimulus-spending bill is being funded with what?
He intentionally left our borders unprotected
Really? Are you sure about that? Congress had no part in that? The Democrats were ITCHING to protect the borders, right? What president previously (or since) has done more than Bush re the borders? We’ll wait while you answer.
…and encouraged corporations to outsource their high paying jobs through tax incentives.
Really? Are you sure about that? When Bill Clinton took Ken Lay to India with him, wasn’t he doing that? When Bush cut taxes, didn’t he encourage American businesses to stay in America? Why yes, asshat, I think he did.
He cut taxes during time of war (something no President has ever done)
And Obama is RAISING them in a time of deep recession; something no president has ever done. So?
… and did everything he could to eliminate the middle class and achieve the goal of his grandfather Prescott that was to establish a global economy by making the U.S. the equivalent of a third world country. He was wildly successful.
Oh, paranoia. Yeah, you sound healthy, alright.
In my opinion, it was a calculated decision to bankrupt the economy
Oh, there we agree. Given that the “great economic crisis” happened 6 weeks before the election and pretty much ASSURED it would then be won by the Democrats, I am inclined to think that Mr. Soros and his pals were the ones deliberately calculating the destruction of the economy. It surely did not serve Bush to see it fall apart on his watch. How stupid are you? Have you no reasoning skills? What sort of president would kill the economy just before he leaves office and have that stain on his legacy? Fool.
…and to destroy the very social programs that President Obama is trying so hard to grow.
Well, I for one think Obama is a complete fool to try to grow them, but I also thought Bush was a fool for growing them, too. You CANNOT seriously argue that Bush made the government smaller, when he made it bigger than ever. Again – do you have any reasoning skills at all, or is “Bush hate” all you can manage?
The banking fiasco has it’s roots in the deregulation craze of the overrated and overhyped Reagan Administration, then took off under George W. Bush.
Oh. My. God. Go back to Carter, James, and see his move to create bank regulations meant to help the poor get into housing they could not afford. Go back to Clinton, Bill, to see that plan ramped up to the point where banks were fined if they did not make such loans.
You really have no clue, do you?
…To blame the current administration for this mess is not only unbelievable, but disingenuous and untrue. American taxpayers became part owners of the banking system in the last months of the Bush administration—BEFORE Obama had ever made a decision–and now these Republican so-called patriots are calling Obama’s proposal to get us out of this mess “Socialist”.
Ah, I see. You’re using the Obama talking points. Well, yes, you are correct that the TARP (brought about probably because Soros and his pals made a run on the money markets throughout the globe) did happen on Bush’s watch. But that does NOT mean that Obama is not a socialist. You see, Bush could have initiated the first bailout…and Obama CAN STILL be a socialist. The two situations are actually unrelated, although Obama would like to associate them. Bush (not a socialist) started it. Obama (yes, a socialist) put it into warp speed, hyperdrove it and (as you will see in the coming months) has every intention to socialize and nationalize as much of America as he can. He is a socialist. When he told Joe the Plumber that he was going to “spread the wealth around,” he admitted as much. Grow up. Start to think.
…The mess is real, the deficit of the last 8 years tragic, and the challenges before our new President are enormous.
Oh, please. The “deficit of the last 8 years” was no worse – until the very END of the Soros-plagued Bush administration – than other deficits we’ve survived. But now we’re talking trillions and trillions. And the Democrats want more. And more. You can’t even compare the amount of debt Bush put us in, at the last moments of his administration – to what Obama is doing to us.
Prove you’re patriotic Republicans and support our President.
Well, now…that takes some INCREDIBLE CHUTZPAH. For 8 years you and your kind did nothing but tell the rest of us that you hoped Bush failed, that “dissent is the highest form of patriotism” and you pretended that someone was questioning your patriotism (Bush never did) Now you sit there and demand that we shut up, not engage in dissent and “prove our PATIOOTISM by “supporting our president.”
You phony, lying hypocrite, now you have worn out my patience: F*CK YOU!
Mar 11, 2009 - 9:17 am 46. kathy:Prove you’re patriotic Republicans and support our President.
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaha
Mar 11, 2009 - 9:18 am 47. weirdone:The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 37% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. This is a tribute to the fact that the school systems no longer educate rather they indoctrinate and the media no longer informs they propagandize.
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free … it expects what never was and never will be.” —Thomas Jefferson
Mar 11, 2009 - 9:19 am 48. Thomas B:Many times now, I’ve seen accusations from all sides that conservatives/liberals/Republicans/Democrats vote for the people who “make ‘em feel hot ‘n horny” (I kid you not, that is a direct quote).
Here’s an idea; America, the next few times we elect Senators/Governors/Presidents/etc., don’t vote for the person who makes you feel safe and secure (a.k.a., “hot ‘n horny”). Instead, vote for the annoying nerd who knows what to do, ESPECIALLY if the nerd is willing to find someone else who knows what to do.
I understand that this will actually require research, but fortunately, we have this insanely useful tool called the Internet. At most, even if you never watch TV or read a paper (good riddance to both), it will only require a couple hours a day to have a solid picture of who’s competent and who’s not.
Mar 11, 2009 - 9:20 am 49. Edmund Jenks (MAXINE):31. Al Reasin: You and your ilk have yourself to blame, but we all will pay!
Voted for the only miserable choice I had to vote for – McCain. The only alternative to a Radical was Liberal-Lite.
I am admonishing our general culture of non-participation … if you take the 46% or so of those who did not vote for Barack Obama, and add all of those registered voters who did not place a vote for anybody, one comes up with a figure that well over 60% of all registered voters did not vote for the person who is running this 44th Presidency.
The Fourth Estate can not be given the major excuse for why we find ourselves in this position for the next four years. Sorry … but the answer to the reason why we are saddled with this level of incompetency lays with all of us.
Mar 11, 2009 - 9:28 am 50. weirdone:AThinkingPerson: You make the point I have been pointing out since the campaign. Since the Dems took over both houses of Congress the Dow has fallen from 12176.56 to less than half its value on 4 Nov. 2006. Every penny that Bush spent in his last two years was approprited by the Dems in Congress while they obstructed regulation of Fanny Mea and Freddy Mack and the banks.
Mar 11, 2009 - 9:30 am 51. rdkng07:Hey Jack! Pass me some of that refer…
Mar 11, 2009 - 9:30 am 52. Brad:Am I the only one who remembers it took a couple years to impeach Nixon?
**You must be; he wasn’t impeached. He resigned when he understood Congress had the votes to do so and would.
**Mountain Jack, please seek medical help.
Mar 11, 2009 - 9:31 am 53. RebeccaH:Obama, with no previous executive experience, appears to be falling into the same trap as Democrats Clinton and Carter before him: too obsessed with detail and failing to sufficiently delegate.
Who is Obama going to delegate to? His crew of idiots? We are in deep doo-doo with this guy.
Mar 11, 2009 - 9:38 am 54. retrophoebia:Speaking of governmental competence… another article by John Reed about the government’s general inability to get things done.
http://www.johntreed.com/CCMyers.html
Mar 11, 2009 - 9:43 am 55. Charles:#7 John K “Now we need to find out who is making the input to the teleprompter so we can know who the real president is.”
George Soros is the puppetmaster.
#22 Mountain Jack.
Mar 11, 2009 - 9:56 am 56. Bruce:Prove your not an idiot by dealing in reality…
“Mountain Jack:
There are neocon Republicans and Independents who want to break the government permanently, and they almost succeeded during the two terms of Bush. As I pointed out, he was merely following the advice of Grandpa Prescott Bush who planned an assasssination attempt on FDR”
Planned an assassination attempt on FDR?? Uh, Mountain Jack, you may want to change that tinfoil on your head. It doesn’t sound like the secret transmissions you’re receiving from Mars are coming in clearly ….
Mar 11, 2009 - 9:58 am 57. TL:Hey Mountain Jackass, remeber that Bush’s popularity was low even among Republicans, let alone Libertarians and Independents. If by attacking Bush you mean to attack the political philosophy of the folks who post here then you are missing your mark, widely. Quit living in the past. Tell us why the freedom we demand is so evil in your view. Why is it so terrible to demand freedom, including the freedom to own the fuit of our own labor including our property, and to do so on moral as well as practical grounds? How are you hurt when I do something productive for myself and my family? Go ahead, tell us why we should abdicate freedom and join you in your socialist utopia. And go ahead and argue just how well you think Obama is playing the hand he was dealt. But quit trying to saddle me with Bush and then walk away as if you’ve proven some point.
Mar 11, 2009 - 10:00 am 58. donttreadonme:Stymie McDoom at a McD’s drive-thru:
Mar 11, 2009 - 10:03 am 59. deguello:“Thank you, thank you…Thank you for…” waits for screen to scroll..
“taking my order today. I’d like a…” waits for screen to scroll..
“Number 1 value meal…” waits for screen to scroll..
“With a diet Coke…” waits for screen to scroll…
“Please super-size it.”
I think it’s racist to hold the Messiah to white eurocentric standards of competence,and I’m goin’ to denounce you all to Al sHARPTON, THE ACLU,and the NAACP, we goin’ take awayPJM and make it diverse;the only standard that matters is how much free money he can give bler, po’,people,and he’s done that! HAPPY OBAMA VOTER,CHICAGO,ILL
Mar 11, 2009 - 10:06 am 60. deguello:MOUNTAIN JACK;ARE YOU SURE YOU SPELLED THAT CORRECTLY? I THINK YOU LEFT OUT THE A S S.
Mar 11, 2009 - 10:08 am 61. bear:Mountain Jack: I only got through two lines of your first post…you clearly did not have a job in the year 2000 before Bush took office. I’ve lived through several recessions, and this is the first that began with a Republican President, but it was a Democratic Congress. We had big problems starting in the late ’90’s going into Bush’s term. There are leading indicators when this happens. You have no idea what you’re talking about with respect to the genesis of outsourcing taxes or the economy in general. Before you write you should actually develop some credibility.
Mar 11, 2009 - 10:09 am 62. Korla Pundit:If the GOP had not thumbed their nose at opponents of big spending and especially the Shamnesty, then there would still be a GOP majority in both houses of Congress.
If the primaries were not sabotaged by states that allow Dems to vote in the GOP nomination, John McCain would not have been forced down our throat, and maybe Rudy Giuliani would be President, instead of Captain Bullshit.
If the law were enforced, and voter fraud was actually prevented and punished, and campaign contributions from foreign powers and billionaire criminals were stopped, then Obama would not have won.
If we don’t want this country to turn into another Zimbabwe-style failed Socialist state, then maybe we’d better start standing up to the Marxists and stop being so damned nice to them.
Mar 11, 2009 - 10:15 am 63. bear:Thank you Jbl. There’s a few more details to fill in but what’s the point.
Mar 11, 2009 - 10:22 am 64. The Historian:OUR LAWYER IN CHIEF KEEPS SPINNING
Why can’t lawyers and politicians be truthful and just tell it like it is?
http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/03/lawyer-in-chief-keeps-spinning.html
Mar 11, 2009 - 10:25 am 65. bear:Korla…good points, but all water under the bridge. The puppet master is the real problem as I think Jbl alluded to.
Mar 11, 2009 - 10:30 am 66. Jbl:bear, that’s why they win…because their energy is BOUNDLESS – they will lie, and lie and lie and never give up and eventually we all just get tired of it.
Mar 11, 2009 - 10:33 am 67. merry:not to Historian: Obama is not a lawyer. He lost his law license in 1996. I do not know why he lost the license.
Mar 11, 2009 - 10:36 am 68. J Marshall:Brad #52 – Mountain Jack #22
It’s not medical help that Mountain Jack needs; its spiritual help. His language and style of writing are suggestive of an intelligent and educated man. But intelligence and “education” are no guarantee against ignorance and wrong-headedness. Frequently, with liberals, their ignorance is culpable as springing from morally-blind bigotry.
Mountain Jack’s spiritual blindness is evidenced in his portrayal of Bush as an indecent, unethical liar. Perhaps he was somewhat wild and uncouth in his younger days, but his life-transforming faith made him a decent, compassionate, truthful and upright man.
Mar 11, 2009 - 10:42 am 69. DEGUELLO:#45 JBL and MOUNTAIN JACK (ASS);thanks for the surrealist moment: a mean a positive mention of patriotism by a liberal;it’s Like Bin Laden saying that he loves Jews.BTW Didn’t you liberal tumors bore us all all for years by saying that “Patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel?”I should add, surrealism is the first refuge of the libtard.
Mar 11, 2009 - 10:47 am 70. Korla Pundit:My point is that the GOP is not going to make any inroads in 2010 unless they get their act and their message together, and to purge out all the RINOs like Snowe and Spectre, They need a solid platform based on principles, and anybody who wants to enjoy the Party’s vast campaign finances should have to be totally on board. They did it back in the days of the Contract With America. Something akin to that needs to be put together.
We the undersigned swear to the voters of this country, if you elect us, we will:
- Resist shamnesty in all its forms, and will finally put tough border security in place (and we will also kick the stuffing out of the Mexican gangs and drug cartels, too)
- Reverse any elements of the Porkulus that are still possible to reverse. Some of those hundreds of billions of dollars don’t have to be put on our children’s backs.
- Ban all earmarks, and make it Constitutional, if necessary, to ensure that all bills must be available in full to the public via the Internet at least a week before the House or Senate may vote on them.
Stuff like this.
Without this kind of agreement, people feel their votes will be betrayed by phony Republicans and Conservatives-in-name-only.
Ånd sadly, that’s our only hope of combatting the Marxists. A third party in this country always has been, and always will be, a fantasy.
Mar 11, 2009 - 10:47 am 71. Paul of Alexandria:Jbl (45):
Mar 11, 2009 - 11:11 am 72. ricpic:Thanks. That was as good as the original article.
Zero knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s sticking it to The Man and loving every wound that bleeds.
Mar 11, 2009 - 11:20 am 73. MikeD:Thanks Jbl (@#45)for saving me and so many others the time and effort that would have been used on addressing the village idiot. Another denizen of Daily Kos, I suspect, who comes here to showcase the utter ignorance of that site. Gets really tiresome. Kind of like the utterances from rvastan, Steve P, vivo on other threads. These slugs are completely transparent and don’t realize how much we laugh at them. Logic and common sense never seem to be part of their schtick. Mockery is sometimes just not enough.
Mar 11, 2009 - 12:11 pm 74. Paul M Hupf:The most compelling evidence of the President’s incompetence was his expressed willingness voluntarily to abandon the “missile shield” in exchange for unspecified cooperation from Russia in dealing with Iran. Experience teaches that one simply does not abandon allies or give to the opposition what it wants in exchange for offhand rejection and worse still: insult.
Mar 11, 2009 - 12:13 pm 75. karlstro2u:Early in the campaign season I kept asking people why reporters were not concentrating on Obama’s leadership abilities after voting 130 times “present”. It is crystal clear now- he has zero experience. He’s great with the speech reading, and the Hollywood lifestyle but absolutly no regard for truth and justice for ALL legal Americans.
Mar 11, 2009 - 12:31 pm 76. imyou:This mess may be the catharsis the nation needs. Is socialism that bad? Is capitalism the answer? Is our Constitution that good? Is the presidency real or an illusion? For that matter, are politicians really elected or are elections crimes of opportunity? Do rules of law really apply to our representatives? Is racism real? Is a lie a lie or is it misspeaking? Is it being conned or dissingenuousness (is this even a word)? Is it journalism or a stand up comic routine when the performer is licking his lips while breathlessly describing the tingle running up its leg? Can you get arrested for this? Is this a joke?
Mar 11, 2009 - 12:49 pm 77. Ian Thorpe:I agree that Obama is incompetent, it was clear from early in his campaign he was not fit to be President BUT yu guys should be glad you don’t have Britain’s incompetent Prime minister leading the country. The only idea he has left is to echo every stupid plan Obama announces.
Mar 11, 2009 - 12:55 pm 78. tiling courses:I agree with Ian Thorpe. It is a scary time for the world and I am not sure that we have the right people in the most important jobs. I just hope that I am proved wrong.
Mar 11, 2009 - 1:13 pm 79. Paul -Indiana:#45 pointed out a lot of good stuff. If you can get a copy of The Limbaugh Letter, El Rushbo goes into great detail about the financial crisis and a timeline concerning its creation. Primarily the impediment to heading off the problem was Barney Frank and Co. along with the Dems in Congress.
Mar 11, 2009 - 1:27 pm 80. epb:Obamboozled. A community organizer w/ no list of accomplishments; a distinguished-less professor; a meritless tenure (a mere figurehead?) for Harvard Law Review… Obama: a man without a public record, and an unknown personal history. He’s a fake. Why is anybody surprised by his incompetence?
Mar 11, 2009 - 1:34 pm 81. Korla Pundit:> He’s great with the speech reading, and the Hollywood lifestyle but absolutly no regard for truth and justice for ALL legal Americans.
Worse, he’s not actually great with speeches either. You keep hearing that, but I find his speeches unlistenable. They are mundane and banal, full of ethereal, wishy washy vagueries. That, on top of the obvious lies and smearing of this country’s history, values and President (at the time), make his speeches painful to hear, but otherwise forgettable.
But you’ll always hear that he’s a great speaker, even with all the “um” and “er” stumbling. Why? Because that’s all the media found they could safely focus on, not wanting to actually look at his record, his biography, his writings and interviews from his Socialist days, his associations, his political ties, his family, his voting record, his drug-taking, his smoking (still!), or his absolute lack of any job experience, beyong voting ‘present.’
They could only talk about what a great “speaker” he was with his teleprompter. That plus the race card.
Mar 11, 2009 - 1:49 pm 82. Jon Card:“Profits and earnings” and “profits to earnings” misses the point. It’s “price to earnings”. It’s the price of a share of stock divided by the earnings-per-share of the stock.
Mar 11, 2009 - 2:19 pm 83. Sherab Zangpo:I’m sorry, I will repeat my very well-known analysis: the subversives DO KNOW what they are doing, and they are in fact doing it pretty well. If honest men and women in Congress will not stop this madness, we will soon be in Chavez land.
The subversives have prepared all this for decades. It has been announced in the leftist boards (a.k.a. “newspapers”), taught in the radicals’ party schools (a.k.a. “universities”) and now it has happened.
Obama and his comrades will soon abandon the pretty face they show on TV and show their real face (the face that they showed on week one: “No discussion, WE WON” is just a rumble of thunder).
Thank you for the opportunity to comment.
Mar 11, 2009 - 2:21 pm 84. surf66:yo jack.. ~~~~~~~ pffffffft *hup* …paaaaaaaaah….* wow, man
Mar 11, 2009 - 2:21 pm 85. tx_girl:JBL, thank you for saying what I’ve been thinking for SO LONG.
Mar 11, 2009 - 2:22 pm 86. joeblough:To quote:
Charles Krauthammer And The Self-Deception At “Core of American Conservatism”
Mar 11, 2009 - 2:30 pm 87. progressoverpeace:We all know what the “P/E ratio” really is. The point is that, not only doesn’t The Precedent know what the “P” in “P/E ratio” stands for, he also doesn’t know that “and” is not used to describe a ratio – something that any normal 10th grader is well aware of.
The Precedent shows, with this one, little “profit and earnings ratio” comment, a stunning lack of knowledge in several disciplines that should scare anyone, knowing that this idiot is running our ship of state.
Mar 11, 2009 - 2:47 pm 88. Bart:Mountainjack,
Apparently you have spent too much time in the mountains “jacking off” and too little actually learning about the root cause of our economic disaster. Like most leftists, you forget the political game Clinton played when he pressed in early 1999 to relax credit requirements for low income and credit crippled borrowers then leaped on the bandwagon as chief cheerleader and supporter of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act which stripped us of any reasonable regulatory oversight of banking through deregulation. The voting in the House was overwhelming and had unanimous consensus in the Senate. The NYT published an article containing a warning about the potential problems ahead if a recession hit and loan guarantees for subprime loans by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were called.
Another little fact conveniently forgotten is that in 2006, Democrats took control of both houses and they were the ones pushing for the first banking bailout, not Republicans or conservatives.
It would be easy to continue bursting your little anti-Bush fart bubbles but unleashing more of the same stink does no good.
While true that Bush is complicit in some of this and he should take responsiblilty for what happened under his watch, like any other president, he can go just so far and exercise just so much power. Too bad he didn’t take the opportunity to use the bully pulpit and hammer the truth home with a lot more force than he did.
Mar 11, 2009 - 2:48 pm 89. Leatherneck:Obama may be following Maurice Strong’s playbook. A George Soros type agenda. Not just socialism, but an attack on the USA as we know it.
It has only been 50 days.
Mar 11, 2009 - 3:53 pm 90. D Foster:The major fact is “If the Republican Party cannot figure out how to get the “Conservative” Wing of the party to return and if the Republican Party cannot figure our a way to get a number of “Democrats” to vote as Republicans,
Mar 11, 2009 - 3:54 pm 91. bear:THE OBAMA’S AND LIBERALS WILL BE IN CHARGE FOREVER.
Fact: There are more Liberals and Freeloaders than Taxpayers. We may see the likes of Pelosi and her cronies remain in power for years,
Reason, There are very few Conservative Republicans in office and for sure Washington. With the Republicans and Conservatives allowing the Media and Democrat Propoganda Machines to demonize George Bush and the war on Terror for the past 8 years, and not fight back, any in real fashion,
Obama and Biden is what we deserve. We need to fight the battle the same way the Liberals do. No Rules.
Bart: He was a victim of his own gaffes and couldn’t have hammered it home without ridicule.
Something MJ will have to get used to for 4 years
Mar 11, 2009 - 4:01 pm 92. ny nick:Obama’s flaws were there for all to see during the campaign. He was elected primarily for two reasons. George W Bush, with his incompetence, arrogance and cronyism, so soiled the bed for anyone with an (R) next to their name that even an untested, aloof, spoiled opportunist like Obama was preferable to another Republican. Second, the media spent the better part of two years ignoring his flaws, explaining away his mistakes and praising his every move. He was credited with running such a smooth and efficient campaign. That is only true if you ignore Rev. Wright, his back channel remarks about NAFTA, his obviously disingenous remarks in front of the Israel lobby about believing in an undivided Jerusalem, remarks he completely disavowed the very next day, and many other examples. Obama says what the audience in front of him wants to hear. Change the audience, change the message. He has never been a leader. Not once in his entire career has he taken a controversial position and defended it. Remember when he told his primary supporters he would filibuster the FISA Bill? Once Hillary was dispatched, he not only didn’t filibuster it, he voted in favor of it. I’m not a conservative. There are not too many people to the left of me politically. Obama has shown the same pattern since he’s been in office. He has brought in the safe choices. The onces who make him look good to the Washington Press Corp. In return, they protect him. They don’t like to blame Obama for any of his mistakes. Problems are always someone else’s fault. That won’t last forever. This is the same pattern we had when Bush was first elected. The press liked him. They protected him. Eventually, they turned on him just as they will eventually turn on Obama. When they do, they will pretend they had nothing to do with getting him elected in the first place, just like they did with Bush. We are governed by dunces and clowns. The vaulted press is either too partisan, (Pajama’s media included), too lazy or too dumb objectively report the truth. Instead, they chase “access”. This is exactly how we go from an incompetent conservative to an incompetent liberal.
Mar 11, 2009 - 4:05 pm 93. bill-tb:The ACTING president is proven to be the TELEPROMPTER president.
It’s only when his teleprompter buddy is unplugged does the real dunderhead show up. No wonder there was no presser with Brown.
Mar 11, 2009 - 4:13 pm 94. Don:To paraphrase what was said by our troops:
Mar 11, 2009 - 4:54 pm 95. Sara123:“Embrace the suck,” people, ’cause it’ll probably get worse.
When Republicans act like timid, guilty people instead of competitors in the face of liberal media baiting, they look weak and stupid. Welcome to McCain’s territory – Rinoland.
Personally, I am not certain McCain would have done much better than the boy-messiah. He would have been baited by the media into the same socialist agenda to “prove” he is not an evil Rush Limbaugh kind of Republican and to please his little airhead daughter and wifey. That is what Bush did with his drug program in an effort to gain the favor of liberals while in office.
Republicans never learn. Liberals in the media only stop attacking when Republicans (or their children and spouses) are attacking and dividing the Republican party like McCain is famous for doing. Prior to Reagan, that was the picture of the Republican party. We should never forget that Rinos attacked Reagan as an “extremist hater.” They did all they could to help the liberals defeat him and to stay as the minority party for socialism. We, the people, got rid of Rinos at that time. They’re baaaaaack! And we get Barack!
Mar 11, 2009 - 4:55 pm 96. Jbl:“Obama’s flaws were there for all to see during the campaign. He was elected primarily for two reasons. George W Bush, with his incompetence, arrogance and cronyism, so soiled the bed for anyone with an (R) next to their name that even an untested, aloof, spoiled opportunist like Obama was preferable to another Republican.”
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I have heard that argument made a lot, and I think I am going to reject it. People forget that until the “sudden global economic crisis” of October, McCain had actually pulled three percentage points ahead of Obama. That was when Obama went to NYC to see Bill Clinton, remember? His campaign was freefalling.
McCain was not a great candidate; I had to hold my nose to vote for him…but he had pulled ahead of Obama. Then he pulled his “let’s call off the campaign for the crisis” stunt (although, to be fair, if he hadn’t done that, Obama probably WOULD have, and the press would have praised him to the skies for it, instead of mocking him, as they did McCain.)
President Bush was in the site of the press and the dems rhetorical rifles for 8 years, and they were relentless and eventually their rhetoric, coupled with Bush’s own inability to articulate his policies, his unwillingness to defend himself and his real mistakes (which, to be fair, every president makes). He left office with very low approval ratings, and yet McCain COULD have beaten Hillary. And he pulled close to Obama before the “crisis” and the doubling-down of the press in their Obamaworship.
Bush has plenty of scars and wounds, it’s true…but you can’t blame him for Obama, as easy and tempting as that seems to be. The facts do not convince.
Mar 11, 2009 - 5:06 pm 97. one of my own:Your opinions on competence are irrelevant having failed to see it over the last 8 years. Perhaps you should stick to opinions on his ability to barbecue, or maybe on his wife’s biceps. You know, something meaningless where there’s no right or wrong. Yeah, that’s more like it.
“I think she’s ugly!”
“Yeah, and I think she’s fugly!”
*spitting milk out my nose all over keyboard, ugh!*
Mar 11, 2009 - 5:58 pm 98. fireyourguns:Ever notice how the “Messiah” has that “one leg shorter than the other” ghetto strut going on(very popular with the Black Panther crowd in the ’60s) every time the camera’s are rolling? I feel sorry for those two adorable little girls of theirs though, and hope that they’re sheltered from the national embarassment that they’re parents have become. I’ll bet that they’re taught in school that spending one billion dollars of borrowed money per hour, twenty four hours a day, when you’re already broke, just isn’t a very good idea!
Anybody notice that in February, China saw a twenty five percent increase in automobile sales after… CUTTING TAXES? Go figure!
What we have here folks is “Failure to Communicate” on the part of Barry and his band of merry moochers! Yesterday, he kept his mouth shut and the DJIA picked up five percent. Today, stocks were showing a moderate, if not steady increase, and then… Bang!… Barry speaks!
The good Rev. Wright’s “God Damning of America” couldn’t be clearer! Way to go, liberal America!!! Hope you’re enjoying what you’re seeing…Fools!
Mar 11, 2009 - 6:16 pm 99. eor:I heard today that England is stopping treatments for serious cancers because of the cost to the health care system. I had an older woman with a paraplegic son tell me today that if the health care plan is passed by this administration, the old, ill, and disabled will become disposable. It is frightening because the left already thinks it is okay to kill babies in any manner to get rid of them. I remember the horrors of the Hitler regime. I have no doubt they will have a Gulag for those of us who oppose them. I wish someone would give me some positive news—-
Mar 11, 2009 - 6:19 pm 100. DaveinPhoenix:And if I hear one more time about Bill Clinton’s balanced budgets, I think I’ll puke my freaking guts out. The creep wrote 7 budgets in ‘94 before finally getting it right – thanks to the first Republican congress in 40 years.
How quickly some people conveniently forget the words “government shutdown” – caused by Democratic refusal to accept cuts in THE RATE OF GROWTH of the most expensive of our social programs like Medicare and the school lunch program. These proposed smaller increases in the rate of growth of these programs were met with hysterical shreaking by the ignorant MSM watchers everywhere. But Republicans wouldn’t budge.
We have a Republican congress to thank for the modest welfare reform measure enacted at that time too. It was Republicans who reformed the rules of congress, reformed a failed welfare system, and literally wrote the balanced budgets. Not Bill Clinton. We should be so lucky at this point in our economic nightmare to have a Republican congress.
So if the idiots of America want to look back in history and blame George Bush, fine. Yes, I agree, he allowed a Democratic congress to spend too much money. And if you really want to look back in history – look at 1994 and remember, it can happen again. It’s just too bad that the thanks Republicans got for these terrible balanced budgets was to get voted out of office and replaced by a Democratic party. No wonder most Republicans took a dive to the left in the past 10 years…
Mar 11, 2009 - 6:45 pm 101. fireyourguns:Ok “eor”, here’s some positive news!
Mar 11, 2009 - 6:47 pm 102. oloipien:http://www.obamaclock.org/
It’s not looking good. He is in way over his head.
Mar 11, 2009 - 7:01 pm 103. AThinkingPerson:Obama’s going to have a breakdown, or resign due to stress.
You heard it here.
#102 oloipien – Promise?
Mar 11, 2009 - 7:51 pm 104. Dave:Has anyone seen the “Debt Star” picture on Glen Reynolds page (Instapundit)? I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there.
Mar 11, 2009 - 8:16 pm 105. thaDeetz:“22. Mountain Jack:
The word incompetence was synonymous with George Bush and apparently, the writer of this “article”.
When the Bush administration came to power, we were facing budget surpluses so large that we were within paying off the entire deficit in about 10 years. Budget surplus projections went far into the future. ”
Incompetence?
This tripe about budget surpluses is that, tripe. There is no such thing when there is an amorphous pledge by the Federal Govt. to maintain payments to Social Security and Medicare recipients to the tune of . . . drum roll please . . .
$65 to 75 TRILLION Dollars.
And this is before ObaoMao got his hand in the national till.
You know, the supposed LOCK-BOX. Can you say unfunded mandate? Didn’t think so.
Mar 11, 2009 - 8:21 pm 106. Kathryn (sign: Reagan Conservative Petition):We need “the adults” to get elected in 2010, aka REAGAN CONSERVATIVES! No undermining RINOs.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/we-demand-true-conservative-leadership.html
Mar 11, 2009 - 8:37 pm 107. What'S going on?:I love you jbl- will you marry me? Your response was so insightful and credible. Do you maintain a blog?
Mar 11, 2009 - 8:38 pm 108. Meryl:102. oloipien….can you promise? That would be a fine thing. Thanks for the thought anyway!
Mar 11, 2009 - 9:04 pm 109. one of my own:98. fireyourgubs: writes “I feel sorry for those two adorable little (Obama) girls of theirs though, and hope that they’re sheltered from the national embarassment that they’re parents have become.”
Yeah, its a shame, isn’t it, to have parents who have achieved so little in life . . . never mind that they’re respected and admired by everyone who isn’t like you (AKA the majority of the country). Maybe you should offer to adopt those nappy-headed little girls. I’m sure they’d prefer to spend their days being home schooled in the “Heavenly Valley Trailer Park and Live Bait Store.” You could treat them every Sunday to some biscuits and gravy down at Delia’s Kwik Kafe.
Jesus, can the delusional moralizing get ANY WORSE THAN THIS?
Mar 11, 2009 - 9:23 pm 110. Confused in Virginia:I don’t think anyone can top the great post by jbl #45; however, I would like to add a couple of things. I am not a Republican, although I am very conservative. The first thing that irritates me, and has irritated me since the beginning of the campaigns, is the absolute disrespect that Obama showed to President Bush. I was taught from early in life that if you cannot respect the person, you should respect the position they hold. When the presidential campaign started 3 years ago (give or take), Obama made it clear that he didn’t have the grace to refer to the President as President Bush. He chose to call him George, Bush, and sometimes George Bush, although his opponent was Senator McCain, who Obama was comfortable with just calling him John McCain, as though the office that he held and still holds was of no consequence. I have chosen to disregard Obama’s title as titles seem not to matter to him.
Secondly, the stuff about having a “mandate from the American people,” is made up of awfully smelly manure. If statistics are to be believed, Obama received 52% of the vote. With only 64% of registered voters actually voting, that means that Obama was elected by only 33% of registered voters – not 52% of the American people. THE MAN WAS ELECTED BY 33% OF REGISTERED VOTERS, which doesn’t come close to being the majority of Americans. That is by no means a “mandate.”
Not only is this man incompetent, he lacks class as he showed in dealing with Britain’s Prime Minister. Of course that mistake was because Michelle was too tired from having to choose a menu, and having to pick up her daughters from school, so that their grandmother can take care of them. Such a full day – who can possibly ask that she do more?. People wonder who writes Obama’s speeches for the teleprompter; I think that it’s Michelle who is actually running this country. Of course she knew that she could never be elected, so Obama is the face man, and she gives all the orders.
Mar 11, 2009 - 9:52 pm 111. deborah burge:well i see it as our country becoming exactly what our fore fathers had fought so hard not to become a socialist government, that preys on the people,the very people that still believe in our constitution and will die for .they already trying to take away the 1st and 2nd amendments from us and if they do that will be the start not the end .we as Americans need to wake up and get these so called fundamentalists to start to realize they are the ones destroying our country and giving it away just as our own government is.
Mar 11, 2009 - 10:07 pm 112. elvis:Great summary of the fire that Obama is going to put us through.
Mar 12, 2009 - 5:26 am 113. You are sad:Hopefully we Americans will be refined and not burned from it.
Obama is arrogant and incompetent.
The racism, bigotry and sheer delusion shown in these comments is sad as hell. You all need to join the rest of civilization ASAP.
Mar 12, 2009 - 7:03 am 114. The Wizard:My distain for the Obamanation has nothing to do with the color of his skin….it is his incompetency! He appears to be so TIRED these days, so he must go home to party hearty until the wee hours with the latest HIP HOP crowd and Hollywood left-wingnuts! Duh!
Since his election, over 2 million people have lost their jobs, the Dow has dropped over 5,000 points and the man has broken EVERY CAMPAIGN promise!!! And he is astonished!
What idiot would sign a 1,000 page stimulus bill without one individual reading it? He is now going to sign a multi-billion dollar package with over 8,500 EARMARKS!!!!
Obama’s lack of management and leadership skills are screaming volumes about his inability to govern. I nearly fell off my chair when he stated he was “surprised” at the volume of paper and details that come across his desk! Welcome the real world!!! What an idiot! This is what we get for electing a man based on his skin color rather than credentials, experience, wisdom, decorum and honesty.
I find him embarrassing and totally unfocused on America and our economic crises. Perhaps this practicing incompetent is truly the MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE of 2008!
Mar 12, 2009 - 1:58 pm 115. fireyourguns:109. one of my own:
98. fireyourgubs: writes “I feel sorry for those two adorable little (Obama) girls of theirs though, and hope that they’re sheltered from the national embarassment that they’re parents have become.”
Yeah, its a shame, isn’t it, to have parents who have achieved so little in life . . . never mind that they’re respected and admired by everyone who isn’t like you (AKA the majority of the country). Maybe you should offer to adopt those nappy-headed little girls. I’m sure they’d prefer to spend their days being home schooled in the “Heavenly Valley Trailer Park and Live Bait Store.” You could treat them every Sunday to some biscuits and gravy down at Delia’s Kwik Kafe.
Jesus, can the delusional moralizing get ANY WORSE THAN THIS?
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Tell me ooyo, just what has either one of them achieved? Taking handouts your whole life isn’t my definition of achievement, that’s my definition of entitlement. This guy was, and is no more qualified to be POTUS than you are, but because he’s a socialist/liberal, you and your stinking hippie friends fawn over him like he’s the second coming of Christ! That, you ignorant fool is “delusional morality”! Btw, what’s with the Jesus reference? The disgusting liberals that I’ve ever had the displeasure of coming into contact with just scoff at the thought of there being a higher power, ie; “the little man in the sky”. Maybe you’re not as liberal as you think you are, eh? And, why the racist “nappy headed little girls” comment? My post was in reference to their parents becoming an embarrassing national “laughing stock”, [see]; “Obama’s administrative appointments” coupled with “Obama’s broken campaign promises” and my post may become a little clearer to you. My reference to the kids had nothing to do with your stupid rant! Finally, I’d much rather have bisquits and gravy at Delia’s “Kwik Kafe” on the lake, next to the “Heavenly Trailer Park and Live Bait Store”, than at “OOYO’s Cucumber Sandwich and Multi-Flavored Coffee Hut” (formerly know as Starbucks) any day! I’ll bet those kids would too! Now, dump a bottle of patchouli oil over your head, put on your tie dye, blast the Grateful Dead through your Walkman, and go find something to protest!
Mar 12, 2009 - 2:00 pm 116. JD:This is the predictable result of electing an intern-president.
Just look at Joe Biden – the man has been in the Senate for 36 years and asks what the “website number” is! Could his long tenure have anything to do with his complete lack of real world knowledge?
http://trackacrat.com/category/barack-obama/
Mar 13, 2009 - 3:58 am 117. Nine-of-Diamonds:@fireyourguns:
Fascinating. Every time a conservative debates a prog, it’s the progressive who is the first to resort to racial slurs. (For example, that oh-so-charming “nappy headed” comment). I have seen this more times than I care to remember on nearly every conservative blog I frequent. “You just think 0bama’s a n*****! Waaah!” Maybe all this lib talk of “tolerance” and “post-racialism” is nothing but a sham. Sad, isn’t it?
Mar 13, 2009 - 5:19 am 118. SeanO:As an English conservative I have watched with increasing alarm your new president. I am old enough to remember the Reagan Presidency when he was continually pilloried as a bumbling imbecile; Gore Vidal and references to colouring books spring to mind.
Mar 13, 2009 - 6:25 am 119. Cybergeezer:Looking at President Obama I am starting to feel that a lot of the criticisms of Reagan could really be applied to him. I read that he is going to Chicago for the Spring Break (he needs a holiday in the middle of an economic crisis). Further, his astonishing blatherings and ineptitude when dealing with important matters, his gift to Gordon Brown, his weakness when dealing with Congress. Is he just a front man who is going to spend the next 4 years watching Basketball and playing with the Whitehouse pens?
Perhaps, now is the time to see if there is anyone pulling the strings and he is just the ineffectual front.
I do not mean this to be a conspiracy theory just something to wonder about.
45. Jbl:
Mar 13, 2009 - 7:14 am 120. Tom Blumer:Nice shotBullseye!; These Obamalings are retards.
#113, your non-responsive, name-calling, stereotyping comment is what is sad as hell.
Mar 13, 2009 - 7:32 am 121. Nine-of-Diamonds:@ # 118 – I just want you Brits to know that many of us Americans were also outraged by the Obamas’ treatment of Gordon Brown. Unfortunately we elected a narcissist to represent our nation, and true to form he shows little consideration for the needs of others. He has spent his entire life striving for higher and higher offices, accomplishing nothing, and then seeking promotions before his record of underachievment can catch up with him. Now that he’s the Commander-in-Chief it’s fascinating to watch him continue to slack off and/or pass the buck for his own failings. Our only consolation is that as these incidents continue to mount, more Americans will realize that the man is unfit for the office he holds.
Mar 13, 2009 - 7:48 am 122. tanstaafl:They (mostly) know not what they’re doing.
‘Tis certainly my overwhelming impression, thus far.
As for the question raised above of behind the scenes string pulling, I believe (no conspiracy theorizer, either) that there is enormous (and not transparent) money & organization backing the entire Obama steamroller. And has been, for a very long time.
The obvious question, since the Obama campaign brought in (and spent) unheard of amounts of money during the 2 year campaign ($150 million in Sept. 2008 alone, total haul around $750 million) is where all those copious millions came from.
Socialist & power monger extraordinaire, George Soros and his collection of less than obvious funneling organizations are certainly in that picture.
Mar 13, 2009 - 9:37 am 123. Korla Pundit:I think Obama was hired by Reginal Perin in an attempt to make the U.S. fail. Unfortunately, this time the plan isn’t backfiring.
Or maybe it was Bialystock and Bloom…
Mar 13, 2009 - 9:50 am 124. stuart Williamson:The essential problem is not that he shouldhave delegated more. Nor is it that he should have delegated more wisely. It is that he is not in charge of delegation – or anything else.
Puppets do not delegate. Puppets do not make decisions.
Axelrod, Plouffe and the Chicago Machine cabal scammed the Democrats into placing him in the White House, and he only does what he is told, reads what is printed out for him on his twin teleprompters.
We have President Obamanoccio, whose nose grows longer every day.
Mar 13, 2009 - 2:51 pm 125. Carla:olopien, Naw his nerves get re-relaxed at all the parties and eating out at resturants and trips to Chicago. If he was real presidential material he would have nerves and he’d be studying and getting intelligent people to help him and he’d actually care about America and its people. Every word and deed would be to help not hinder our economy and every word out of his mouth would not be a lie. He has only one love and its himself.
Mar 13, 2009 - 4:48 pm 126. one of my own:115 fireyourgubs . . . Now, now, Mister Hysteria, don’t you go all ballistic on us here on this civilized little board. And why do you have a problem with the word Jesus? It’s a nice word. A friendly word. Some would say an inspirational word. Ironic, given your apparent disdain for the counterculture. (You see, Jesus was a hippie.)
You might want to consider this – you are now the counterculture in every sense of the word. And you know i. It’s obvious by your desperate tone. You’re and your kin here are now irrelevant, just like liberals were for the last eight years. We don’t care about your religion or your politics or your complaints about being marginalized. We’re not interested in your opinions on abortion or gay marriage or health care. None of it matters. You see, we have no interest whatsoever in bipartisanship. You know that, right?
We’re a lot like Dick Cheney in that regard. Remember when that reporter said, “Mr. Vice President, 70 percent of the American people think the Iraq War has a terrible mistake and we shouldn’t be there.” To which Cheney replied, “So?” That was his true self speaking. He tried to cover it up, but it was too late. He didn’t care what the American people thought in the least. And don’t care what the right wingers think. You’re completely impotent. And you will remain so until Republicans retake the seat of power, which will happen eventually, but by the looks of it, it won’t be anytime soon. So, rage on, you beautiful lunatic. Roll around in that right-wing muck with all the other dim-witted malcontents. Maybe you should consider moving to southern Alabama. I hear there’s a house just came up for rent. You might find a few free shells lying around.
Mar 13, 2009 - 6:25 pm 127. KJB:A fourth thing is also clear: Obama does not have the energy for this job.
Mar 13, 2009 - 7:18 pm 128. FRANK:What a bunch of loonies and losers!
Mar 14, 2009 - 3:53 pm 129. FRANK:Two months, two months the President has been in office and you demand immediate perfection. Where were you when motive-less Bush raided Iraq and had more than 4,000 of our young military killed and thousands more permanently injured? Where were you when Cheney cleverly worked President Bush’s strings and lied about WMD and and stole (Halliburton’s bid free billion dollar war contracts) and committed treason (revealing the name of a secret CIA worker)? And gave the rich the biggest tax break bonanza in history? And approved torture of the worst kind, lied about it and then placed American prisoners in harm’s way? Approved violations of intrusion in our lives without a legal warrant? When President Bush took more vacation time off than any previous President? And you want me to take your thoughts seriously when physical features and characteristics form the bais of your negative rhetoric? Please!! You see I believe we are our brothers’ keeper, I believe that no one should be sick because they are too poor to have insurance, I believe that evey child should have an equal educational opportunity regardless of their zip code, I believe that mere companionship does not cause patriotism to rub off (the way the old Sen. McCarthy and HUAC did). No sir, don’t try to convince me that you naysayers and shoot from the hip fascists have my country’s best interests at heart. Your ideas are ugly, your rhetoric too pat , your vision for America’s future too narrow and negative. I’ll stick with President Obama’s vision (the candidate I supported with my vote and my dollars) and feel comfort tonight as I go to sleep knowing that tomorrow my neighbor will not be illegally spied upon by my government, that the President is doing his best to manage a long in the making mess, and that Barack Obama has my back. And even though you did not and do not support him, that’s okay, you can rest easy too.
Frank
What are you kidding me?
Mar 14, 2009 - 3:56 pm 130. sfcmac:Two months, two months the President has been in office and you demand immediate perfection. Where were you when motive-less Bush raided Iraq and had more than 4,000 of our young military killed and thousands more permanently injured? Where were you when Cheney cleverly worked President Bush’s strings and lied about WMD and and stole (Halliburton’s bid free billion dollar war contracts) and committed treason (revealing the name of a secret CIA worker)? And gave the rich the biggest tax break bonanza in history? And approved torture of the worst kind, lied about it and then placed American prisoners in harm’s way? Approved violations of intrusion in our lives without a legal warrant? When President Bush took more vacation time off than any previous President? And you want me to take your thoughts seriously when physical features and characteristics form the bais of your negative rhetoric? Please!! You see I believe we are our brothers’ keeper, I believe that no one should be sick because they are too poor to have insurance, I believe that evey child should have an equal educational opportunity regardless of their zip code, I believe that mere companionship does not cause patriotism to rub off (the way the old Sen. McCarthy and HUAC did). No sir, don’t try to convince me that you naysayers and shoot from the hip folks have my country’s best interests at heart. Your ideas are ugly, your rhetoric too pat , your vision for America’s future too narrow and negative. I’ll stick with President Obama’s vision (the candidate I supported with my vote and my dollars) and feel comfort tonight as I go to sleep knowing that tomorrow my neighbor will not be illegally spied upon by my government, that the President is doing his best to manage a long in the making mess, and that Barack Obama has my back. And even though you did not and do not support him, that’s okay, you can rest easy too.
Frank
Hey Frank:
You need to get beaten with a big clue bat. Here it is:
The ‘Bush lied’ mantra of you leftwingnuts is hackneyed and has been debunked. Repeatedly.
We DID find WMDs:
1) Declassified NGIC report:
http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/Iraq_WMD_Declassified.pdf
2) 1.77 metric tons of enriched uranium: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3872201.stm
3) 1,500 gallons of chemical weapons agents:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/13/AR2005081300530.html
4) Last major stockpile from Saddam’s nuclear efforts arrives in Canada
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25546334/
I am an Iraq War veteran, and I’m damned glad we found those weapons before they could be used.
Saddam was a WMD weilding megalomaniac and a threat to U.S. forces in the region.
Since you’re so wrapped around the axle over body counts, where’s your hissy fit over the millions of lives taken by the Islamofascist zealots we’re fighting against?
We did kill alot of bad guys (READ al Qaeda and Taliban) in Iraq and Afghanistan. Don’t expect me to lose sleep over it either, sweetpea. The trouble with you selective anti-war types, is you’re only pissed about body counts when we’re fighting hostile countires you don’t deem as enemies. You also have less of a problem with Islamofasicts than what it takes to stop them. That seems to be a common thread with you Lefties. 9/11 didn’t hit close enough to your own back yard.
Get a grip as to why Iraq and Afghanistan are so crucial in the opening volley of retaliation against terrorists where they live and breed. Terrorists are bred, trained, indoctrinated, funded, and supported across the Middle East. They manufacture jihadists like god damned assembly line parts. This war ain’t over by a long shot.
The very least our victories in Iraq and Afghanistan have accomplished, is sending a message to the muslim f**ksticks who want to subjugate Western Civilization to a brutal Caliphate: We will hit back.
If it were up to me, several Islamic nation-states would have been carpet-bombed into asphalt parking lots. That is how you fight a war. But I was a Soldier, not a diplomat.
Oh yeah, and about your Obamessiah:
Bush did what he had to do to to strike back against Islamic terrorists and keep this country safe during the remainder of his tenure. He did a damned good job. Don’t expect much from B. Hussein (aka “negotiate without preconditions”)Obama.
He launched his career from the home of two domestic terrorists William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, and collaborates with radical groups like ACORN under the guise of “community organizing”. He sat in a church for over 20 years listening to the sermons of a rabid moonbat who “god-damned” America and railed against “whitey” and Jews.
Some of the world’s worst dictators and Islamic goons are head over heels for him. He accumulated Frank Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky, Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Amahdinejad, Louis Farrakhan, Daniel Ortega, Jeremiah Wright, the Arab-American Action network, CAIR, and Hamas among his associates, admirers, supporters, and mentors. He’s a human bug light for despots, terrorists, and hate spewers. No wonder the Islamic extremists salivated for a ‘change’ they can believe in.
Just a preview of coming attractions:
Obama and his Democrat majority will increase taxes and spending. They will carry out their threat to take money from taxpayers and give money to those who do not pay taxes, let alone work. The trillion dollars he plans on spending will be a drop in the bucket before he’s through.
It won’t take long before the economy collapses completely.
The Eurotrash, NorthKorea, China, Venezuela, and Islamic comrades (Iran, in particular) are rejoicing in this latest tragicomic episode in American politics. We are now saddled with a corrupt, socialist, terrorist cavorting, narcissistic charlatan, who suits their agenda. Obamabots placed all of their faith and adoration into an empty suit with serious defects.
Obama will kowtow to all of the world’s malefactors, fulfilling his promise to ‘reach out’. To those who foolishly believe that being a pliant doormat will somehow make the United States a more “moral, respected, endearing, popular, positive role model”, brace yourselves.
It will only serve to encourage hostile nations, Islamic ones in particular, to take advantage of a deteriorated American political and economic system, rife with Democratic milksops.
This, of course, is supposed to improve our ‘world image’. If you think Clinton’s non-response to the numerous terrorist attacks on his watch gave al Qaeda the green light, Obama will be in the control tower giving the okay for take off.
B. Hussein Obama doesn’t have your back, sweetpea. Try another part of your anatomy.
SFC Cheryl McElroy
Mar 15, 2009 - 10:20 am 131. LarryOldtimer:US ARMY (RET)
I see that Mountain Jack has, as have so many people, Arithmetic Deficit Disorder. Just as Nancy Pelosi does, who obviously can’t tell the difference between a thousand and a million. The numbers being thrown around have even me reverting to scientific notation, to comprhend the magnitude of these absurd projections.
Mar 17, 2009 - 2:24 pm 132. Roy49:So, this is where all of the bitter, bible hugging, gun totting bigots and haters of America hang out at huh? I have never read so many bitter, hateful comments on a blog than this one. It seems to be filled with racism and sore losers. Sore losers because your stupid and idiotic party didn’t have the good sense to pick a better presidential candidate than McCain and that racist Palin? John McCain? That’s what you come up with after 8 years of the crimnal administration of Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld? What an assorted corral of lunatics the GOP is. Limbaugh? Cheney? Hannity? Coulter, Palin, O’Reilly, Oh Really? There’s a book named: Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe (Hardcover)by Arianna Huffington. Everyone on this psychotic blog should read a chapter every night before you lay your empty heads down at night!
Mar 26, 2009 - 4:39 am 133. Roy49:To SFC Cheryl McElroy: Are you some kind of an idiot or what? I was in Iraq and the crappy links you pasted in your blog equate to ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Any country in the world has those same grades of chemicals and seeds…THEY ARE NOT WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION! Is that what you learned after being in the Army for so long? Again, THEY ARE NOT WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION! The invasion of Irag was unconstitutional…case closed!
Mar 26, 2009 - 4:51 am 134. aweso:now thats entertainment! ignorance truly is bliss.
132 hit it all on the nose.
Mar 26, 2009 - 4:29 pm