Welcome to the Punk Presidency
Robert Gibbs’ attack on CNBC’s Rick Santelli is just the latest example of boorish behavior from Obama and his team.
Here’s how I greeted the news of Barack Obama’s victory on election night last November: “Say hello to the punk presidency.”
I was hardly out of line, basing the president-elect’s moniker on his poor behavior during the primary and general election campaigns, best exemplified in May and November YouTube videos. In each case — the first in reference to Hillary Clinton, the second to John McCain — Obama scratched his face with his middle finger and seemed, along with part of each crowd, to smile at the “cuteness” of what he had just done. As I said on election eve, “Once might be an accident; twice is proof.”
I fervently hoped that the former Illinois senator had decided during the campaign that such conduct was required for victory, to be discarded upon achieving it.
Less than 72 hours later, that hope was dashed when Obama, speaking of conversations with our still-living presidents, cracked what he thought was a funny joke:
“I have spoken to all of them who are living,” he responded. “I didn’t want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any séances.”
Hardy har har. Obama didn’t even get the “joke” right. Nancy Reagan infamously consulted astrology. But in the spring of 1996, it was Hillary Clinton who “‘talked’ to Eleanor Roosevelt. … It was not unusual for White House staff members to hear Hillary, behind closed doors, having animated — if one-sided — conversations with Eleanor’s ghost.” Decades earlier, Jackie Kennedy said, “I used to sit in the Lincoln Room and I could really feel his strength.”
I thought that this misstep might be a “thrill of victory” mistake made in the flush of impending power.
But a month later, Obama journeyed into dangerous territory, telling the world that workers who had occupied the Republic Window plant in Chicago were “absolutely right.” At the time, I wrote that “Obama’s support of lawbreakers has the potential to undermine the overall rule of law.” It was not a good sign that Bank of America and Chase Bank succumbed to the public-pressure nightmare, “loaning” over $1 million that will almost certainly never be repaid to settle the workers’ alleged claims.
Then there was the president-elect’s condescending treatment of Chicago Tribune reporter John McCormick on December 16. Obama cut McCormick off in the middle of his question about the controversy surrounding Obama’s former U.S. Senate seat, telling him not to “waste” his question.
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Tom Blumer owns a training and development company based in Mason, Ohio, outside of Cincinnati. He presents personal finance-related workshops and speeches at companies, and runs BizzyBlog.com.
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1. JHM:Could somebody explain in Mandarin English what this neocomrade means by ‘punk’?
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‘Tis a bit disappointing that, despite bein’ dressed for the occasion, none of the Pajama People seem to have wanted to stay up late to dismember His Punkship’s oration.
Happy days.
Feb 25, 2009 - 2:33 am 2. quasar:The epitome of punk is spending gazillions lawy ering up to hide birth cert., college records, button-hole Granny O., etc. but hack into Joe the Plumbers personal life I’m still so pissed off over this, I can’t see straight.
Feb 25, 2009 - 2:51 am 3. IlikeIke:Wow, Tom, your standards for “punk” are extremely low. I’d invite you over for coffee (decaf) but I’m afraid you’d call me a punk…
Feb 25, 2009 - 3:02 am 4. Tom Blumer:Definition: “a young, inexperienced person.”
Feb 25, 2009 - 3:59 am 5. Meryl:1.JHM. If the use of “punk” has to be explained to you, that suggests you still wouldn’t understand it. The boy “president” is a wannabe Fonzie. The big difference is that the juke box ain’t gonna play for him even if he destroys it.
Feb 25, 2009 - 4:02 am 6. Jarhead91:He forced through a $Trillion leftist wish list, then called for a Fiscal Responsibility Summit. So far beyond hypocrisy that it has to be Punk.
Feb 25, 2009 - 4:29 am 7. vivo:“The president and his people had better start demonstrating something resembling adult maturity, and very soon. America can ill afford its current punk presidency.”
How about you Cons call your Republican senators and congressmen and have them straighten out whatever it is you don’t like? Quit whining and do something good. Did you learn anything from the last eight years?
If “punk” means “tell it like it is”, get used to it. It’s about time people start telling the truth. It saves a lot of grief. By this definition, I’m a punk.
Feb 25, 2009 - 4:30 am 8. Sara for America:If the definition of “punk” is radical communist, then, great term.
Feb 25, 2009 - 4:30 am 9. DaveinPhoenix:Punk: the kid with the green and blue hair riding down the street on his skateboard clueless about the nations problems or how to solve them, but thinking he has all the answers.
Yep. It fits.
Feb 25, 2009 - 5:20 am 10. Cybergeezer:“Friends don’t let friends drive drunk”. Citizens “shouldn’t” let Congress and/or the president, legislate like drunken congressmen.
Feb 25, 2009 - 5:32 am 11. Meryl:Are these people really drunk, or are they just good actors?
vivo, “punk” doesn’t mean “tell it as it is”, as the author of the piece explains in comment #4.
Feb 25, 2009 - 5:36 am 12. formwiz:This is what you are when you think you’re being cutesy about giving someone the Single Wing Peace Sign, but haven’t got the manhood to say it to them face-to-face. When I saw Bambi give Hillary and then McCain this sort of thing, “punk” was the first thing to occur to me, too.
Feb 25, 2009 - 5:43 am 13. Ms.Attitude:JHM and Vivo, it’s sad that you don’t see the arrogance of this administration. The starry eyed fans of Obama don’t realize that this will be the downfall of him and our nation. Many Americans do NOT find it cute and other world leaders find it to be immature and ridiculous. Arrogance is a sign of weakness, they will take advantage of it.
Feb 25, 2009 - 5:44 am 14. Politech:From the Wikipwdia page “Punk subculture” in the “Ideologies” section.
“Punk politics cover the entire political spectrum, although most punks could be categorized as having left-wing or progressive views. Punk-related ideologies are mostly concerned with individual freedom and anti-establishment views.
Common punk viewpoints include anti-authoritarianism, a DIY ethic, non-conformity, direct action and not selling out. Other notable trends in punk politics include nihilism, anarchism, socialism, anti-militarism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-nationalism, anti-homophobia, environmentalism, vegetarianism, veganism and animal rights. H
owever, some individuals within the punk subculture hold right-wing views (such as those associated with theConservative Punk website), neo-Nazi views (Nazi punk), or are apolitical (e.g.horror punk).”
Punk subculture is a mixed bag. Punks can come from any and all walks of life and economic classes. I’m not sure that describing the President as “Punk” is entirely accurate.
In the punk subculture, the epithet “poseur” (or “poser”) is used to describe “a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not.
The term “poseur” is much more accurate. (IMHO)
Feb 25, 2009 - 5:51 am 15. Dawn:These examples are truly disturbing. The early middle finger along with the brushing off of his shoulders to the song 99 bitches after a victory over Hillary, were among the reasons I didn’t vote for him. Scary behavior for a President and his staff.
Feb 25, 2009 - 5:57 am 16. Cybergeezer:So, when’s “Campaigner in Chief” getting his gold teeth or grillwork? Tatoo’s, maybe?
Feb 25, 2009 - 6:03 am 17. Mongoose:Vivo: You are a posterb oy for just what the author is talking about. Denial, projection ans invective is your MO. You are a punk, just like your political masters.
It is constitutionally impossible for you to “tell it like it is”, or to even understand the truth when it is told to you. You are too immature and narcissistic to get even close too accepting the truth of things.
The fact you think that pack of thieves, thugs and liars that constitute the Obama administration and the Democrat Party could possibly have an honorable public moment or have the interests of this country in their hearts, and the fact that you cheer lead for this sort of immorality tell the rest of us all we need to know about the state of you maturity, intelligence, decency and honor.
If you should actually grow up someday you will feel deep remorse for the part you played in destroying your nation, no matter how small that part was in the larger scheme of things. If you mange to become a responsible adult, and that is one big if,you will deeply regret how you spoke to decent and experienced people who were trying to set you straight on your misconceptions, malformed character, immorality and indecency. You scoff at this now, but just you wait, one day you will not like how you behaved. Not at all.
If is a daily occurance with you that you turn your back on the truth.
Feb 25, 2009 - 6:06 am 18. LynnS:He did it last night again pretending to reach out to the Republicans then in the next second brought up the problems he inherited pretending the Democrats had no part. I hope the Republicans learn from that one. The Presidency is well scripted and looks very good in a thirty to one hour controlled event. It’s like the West Wing where problems and solutions are tightly packaged in a weekly show with clever comments and back and forth banter. They do get irritated if the script continues to the next show. Time to move on to another episode.
People think he’s cool, and they like to pretend calm and collected, but I like your word better. Punk.
Finally, people should get it straight. President Obama did not run and was not elected to the Presidency. He likes to remind us that he inherited the office and seems angry that he has to deal with all its responsibilities. It seems kind of odd that he is concentrating on Wall Street rather then Pennsylvania Avenue where he says all the problems are. That he inherited. Someone should remind him, that you’d have to go to a desert island that no one claimed to find a place without a past and start your own little kingdom.
And finally, finally. When is he going to stop campaigning?
Feb 25, 2009 - 6:06 am 19. Cybergeezer:13. Ms.Attitude:
Feb 25, 2009 - 6:13 am 20. Real Craig:I think you are correct; We’ll probably read about an attack on our country here, on Pajamas Media, before it is reported by these “Chicago Thugs”.
“Common punk viewpoints include anti-authoritarianism, a DIY ethic, non-conformity, direct action and not selling out. Other notable trends in punk politics include nihilism, anarchism, socialism, anti-militarism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-nationalism, anti-homophobia, environmentalism, vegetarianism, veganism and animal rights…”
In other words, they’re very confused. It’s allright. I was there back in the day. But I didn’t kid myself with faux-political stances. I just was into it for the rock and chicks.
Feb 25, 2009 - 6:41 am 21. sule:Punk seems to be what this culture is all about; immature computer gamed skateboarders gangbang garbed uber adolescents strutting and foul mouthed, shouting into their cellphones over the incoherent lyrics of some three chord rock singer blasting their angst throughout shopping malls and restaurants.
No wonder we’ve elected Barry and his mindless hope, change, and middle finger…Wow…way too much coffee this morning…
Feb 25, 2009 - 6:44 am 22. donttreadonme:Don’t forget Stymie McDoom’s obsession over what Sean Hannity and Rush have to say about him and his missteps. I mean, have you ever heard a sitting POTUS so actively worried about radio commentators? How insecure and immature. This on-the-job-training is going swell, eh?
Feb 25, 2009 - 6:52 am 23. Peter the Bubblehead:17. Mongoose wrote:
Vivo: You are a posterb oy for just what the author is talking about. Denial, projection ans invective is your MO. You are a punk, just like your political masters.
Peter writes: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it here again. Don’t let vivo and his ilk get to you, Mongoose. Just do what I do and skip over their posts. When they start to realize no one is reading them and no one is commenting on them, they will go away and cry to someone else who gives half a ….
Feb 25, 2009 - 7:11 am 24. Cybergeezer:The stock market is voting on “His Emptiness” this morning, and it’s “thumbs down”.
Feb 25, 2009 - 7:23 am 25. foRRever:I agree with these people:
#5 Meryl . . . The boy “president” is a wannabe Fonzie.
16. Cybergeezer . . . So, when’s “Campaigner in Chief” getting his gold teeth or grillwork? Tatoo’s, maybe?
#18 LynnS . . . President Obama did not run and was not elected to the Presidency.
. . . ” . . . you will deeply regret how you spoke to decent and experienced people who were trying to set you straight on your misconceptions, malformed character, immorality and indecency.”
Feb 25, 2009 - 7:46 am 26. Saltherring:Yes, vivo, you are a punk, by Wikipedia/Polytech definition. Mongoose has hopes you’ll grow up some day. I have my doubts, as many in my generation (boomer) still haven’t departed the 60’s. As an example, the majority of the “trustfunders” who inhabit the coastal enclave near my home are in their 50’s and 60’s. Their wealthy parents pay them to paint silly pictures, play “3-chord” music, write books no one reads, but most of all….not to move back home. These nihilists lounge in their wool “uniforms”, smoke pot, compare worthless college degrees and engage in one-sided political debates. Most have never been gainfully employed, and therefore pay no income taxes. They are advocates for “social justice”, abortion “rights”, saving whales, sodomite “rights”, anything spoken by Al Gore, illegal alien “rights”, unilateral U.S. military disarmament, the palistinians, and their recently crowned lord and savior, Obama. So much for growing up….
Feb 25, 2009 - 7:52 am 27. Future member of the Underground Church:A friend of mine who who met young Obama in Hawaii at a basketball pickup game on a military base, confirms the “punk” label. When they arrived, Obama was picking on a much smaller white kid, until a bigger guy told him to knock it off. They never invited him back on base. Remember, at this time, Obama was being schooled by sex pevert Frank Marshall in white-hatred and US- hatred, especially of authority and military. These are not the faux-pas of an inexperienced, slightly out-of-his-league spoiled boy. It is the tip of the iceberg of a true son-of-a-bitch.
Feb 25, 2009 - 8:01 am 28. AnninCA:Santelli obviously can handle his own. The media punked Palin. I suppose that’s just the nature of discourse today.
Feb 25, 2009 - 8:03 am 29. Vinny Vidivici:“Hi, I’m Barack Obama. I’m not really a leader, but I play one on TV . . .”
Responding to critics by name (Santelli, Rush, etc.)? Imagine the reaction to W go after Michael Moore or Cindy Sheehan)
As Kennedy once remarked of Nixon, “No class.”
Feb 25, 2009 - 8:20 am 30. Eugene Grant:Tom, you’re absolutely correct. For all his fancy rhetoric, Obama is actually lowering the quality of discourse in this country.
How is it bipartisanship when you can only attract three – three – votes from your opposition party? And that those three votes are from RINO’s anyways.
The man has bamboozled the American public into thinking he’s got their best interests at heart when in fact he’s nothing more than just another politician willing to do and say anything to increase his power.
Feb 25, 2009 - 8:22 am 31. Janet O.:Well, Websters defines a punk as an “inexperienced youth,” a definition that surely fits. It also means, as an adjective, “poor in quality or condition.” OK with that, too.
I prefer the word “smarmy” to describe Obama, and most of his crew. It means unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech, as in “an oily sycophantic press agent”; “oleaginous hypocrisy”; “smarmy self-importance”; “the unctuous Uriah Heep.” These examples all come from dictionary.com.
Feb 25, 2009 - 8:41 am 32. Vinny Vidivici:Janet:
‘Smarmy’. Like Eddie Haskell when he was ‘behaving’ himself in from of Mr. or Mrs. Cleaver. (Apologies if this reference is before your time. Sometimes I don’t know how quickly I’m growing old . . .)
Feb 25, 2009 - 8:53 am 33. Pat J:Careful. The term “punk” may sometimes refer to a “prison bitch.” Something the author is probably familiar with.
Otherwise, I like the idea of a punk presidency. Punk killed disco. Early 80s hardcore punk was inspired by the likes of Ronald Reagan and Jesse Helms. Maybe this time around punk will kill conservatism. Viva Jello Biafra!
Feb 25, 2009 - 8:57 am 34. Ardsgaine:I have no use for Obama either, but you could have made your point about his behavior without using the word “punk” to describe a president of the US. We just went through eight years of this crap from the other side. Do we have to repeat it? If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, you’re paying the KosKids a real compliment.
Feb 25, 2009 - 9:00 am 35. Anonymous:So I guess it’s safe to say that there’s no love for the Clash, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag or The Ramones on this board? And once again I’m reminded that Republicans are the party of dull old fogies perpetually screaming “Turn down that racket!”.
Feb 25, 2009 - 9:02 am 36. NewHavenette:Another characteristic of being “young” = egocentrism.
Feb 25, 2009 - 9:12 am 37. Janet O.:Has anyone else noticed his tendency to say “my” about everything?…”my” Vice President, “my” plan, “my” nominee … etc. etc. etc. ad nauseum.
Using “the” in most of these instances would be proper and sufficient. Even “our” would work in some cases.
But it’s always MY. My, my, what a young prince we have elected….errr, that’s “we” in the royal sense, as I voted for the other guy.
Vinny: No, I remember Eddie Haskell very well. Perfect.
Ardsgaine: All is fair in politics.
Feb 25, 2009 - 9:22 am 38. Jarhead91:Anonymous – I enjoy listening to all that. On the other hand, I don’t want any of them spending my tax-dollars, setting national policies, or commanding the military.
Feb 25, 2009 - 9:25 am 39. David:On a more disturbing note is Mr. Gibbs reported off hand comment to the effect that he (Gibbs) didn’t know where Snatelli lives, or where his house was. (discussed in G. Gordon Liddy interview with Rick Santelli on radio)
Some could interpret Gibb’s remark as a veiled threat – a completely “beyond the pale” move on the part of any White House official.
An honest American press would leap on Gibbs and ask what he meant by his statement and determine if Gibbs meant this as some sort of intimidation. But we know that won’t happen.
Thuggery is a primary characteristic of Chicago politics… get over it, huh?
Feb 25, 2009 - 9:28 am 40. LynnS:If he doesn’t want to be called a punk, he shouldn’t have a State of the Union Address that’s not a State of the Union Address, pretend to ‘reach across the aisle’, the Republicans clap, then swiftly turn to the right and say “I inherited”. I had to watch the Democrats leap up like Obama had made a basket in a high school game. He’s a punk and so are the Democrats.
P.S.
Feb 25, 2009 - 9:29 am 41. David P:That speech wasn’t music. I like music all genres.
Punk?
Feb 25, 2009 - 9:34 am 42. rvastar:Try a spineless, passive, naive, unprincipled, inexperienced, suspicious smiley glad hand. Like the old saying goes, ‘when you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything.’
I’ve seen 3 of the 4 live. Have you? And it’s the height of hilarity that you seem ignorant to the irony of naming The Ramones in that list, considering that Johnny Ramone — whose guitar style basically set the template for punk rock — was a life-long Republican.
What’s saddest is that I’m also reminded that “punk” used to denote individuality, freedom, and distrust of govt. PERIOD. How does that square with your “all govt, all the time” beliefs?
Feb 25, 2009 - 9:34 am 43. Paul from Hamburg:Anonymous:
I am sure I am not the only fan of The Clash here. “Rock the Casbah” has a anti-Islamist, anti-Ayatollah message that any right-winger can love.
Feb 25, 2009 - 9:36 am 44. glenn:In other words Obama’s a Baby Boomer.
Feb 25, 2009 - 9:48 am 45. Pat J:43. Paul from Hamburg:
Feb 25, 2009 - 9:49 am 46. MikeD:———————–
Yeah. But it also had a disco beat. This is right about the time the Clash sold out.
Every time Obama makes another appearance or speech more people see through the facade. Last night was simply another installment and next week the polls will show a further drop in approval. Fawning devotion will continue to slip away until only the truly dense will continue to worship before this poseur. Is he a punk? Probably. Does he lack class? Apparently. But it is “Future member of the Underground Church” who nails it by identifying Obama as an SOB. He most certainly is.
Joe Biden is a pathological liar. Obama speaks elegantly but he also lies through his teeth. It is hard to accept leadership from someone when they command absolutely no respect. Obama deserves none.
Feb 25, 2009 - 9:55 am 47. Janet O.:For an excellent analysis of the speech, go here: http://mister-integrity.blogspot.com/
Feb 25, 2009 - 10:03 am 48. Fred Beloit:No, Obama is a 3.b., or 3.b. wannabe.
Feb 25, 2009 - 10:09 am 49. Marie Claude:http://www.ask.com/bar?q=definition+of+punk&page=1&qsrc=0&zoom=%3CKW%3EPunk%3C%2FKW%3E+Clothing|Girls+%3CKW%3EPunk%3C%2FKW%3E+Hairstyles|What+Is+Real+%3CKW%3EPunk%3C%2FKW%3E&ab=3&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.merriam-webster.com%2Fdictionary%2Fpunk
Poseur (french wickipedia)
RechercherLe Poseur is the person who serves as a model for the artist and by extension in a pejorative sense, a fate and artificial person can not afford its high ambition, as the model of the artist who by dint of being scrutinized and exposed ends up believing being the true artist. The installer tries to identify with a model not because it has adopted its values for the appearance but it brings the prestige and a certain social status. The word can mean, literally, “someone who takes poses. In essence, a poseur is someone who tries to be something he is not, which ultimately support it as “false.”
Context “Punk”
In the punk subculture of the 1980s, the word poseur was used in the “zines” in the punk movement to designate persons who, from the perspective of another member of the punk subculture, has not adopted the core values of punk.
The punk subculture has a wide range of political viewpoints, from the extreme left to extreme right. However, there are “core values” shared by most members of the punk movement, among other things: the challenge to power, the critical values, class power, the concept of “DIY” (Do It Yourself “in English – or “Do it yourself”), to eliminate injustice, and so on.
Feb 25, 2009 - 10:23 am 50. Ardsgaine:Janet O.: I’m not talking about what’s fair, I’m talking about being effective. By using the word “punk”, Mr. Blumer redirected the debate from Obama’s behavior to his own. That’s not an effective strategy.
Feb 25, 2009 - 10:25 am 51. Shef Rogers:Please, don’t invoke Punk when you clearly know nothing about it. If we made a Venn Diagram of “Obama” and “Punk,” there would be absolutely no overlap. If only he were a punk! If only! God, he’d give you people something to moan about! Alas, he’s more like a Sinatra fan.
Feb 25, 2009 - 10:26 am 52. joe:vivo is a punk
Feb 25, 2009 - 10:31 am 53. Moogie:#35 Anonymous: So I guess it’s safe to say that there’s no love for the Clash, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag or The Ramones on this board? And once again I’m reminded that Republicans are the party of dull old fogies perpetually screaming “Turn down that racket!”.
This 52 year old “dull old fogie” from the liberal state of Washington happens to like Nirvana, Muse, Pearl Jam, STP, Dusty Springfield, Pendulum, INXS, The Animals, Vivaldi, and Scottish Highland music. Variety is the spice of life! Oh, yes… I ride a Honda Valkyrie and have two tattoos… so far.
I’d appreciate not being pidgeon holed, thankyouverymuch.
If one of the definitions of “punk” is “individual freedom” then that means Obamduh is definitely NOT a punk. In his mind, we are all just hammers, marching to his tune, a la “The Wall.”
Feb 25, 2009 - 10:33 am 54. Turn Down That Racket!:Anon 35:
“turn down that racket” is GOP code for “I’ve been working all day and need some peace and quiet.” Especially now that houses don’t automatically come with a cute den for refuge like Mr. Cleaver had.
We’re really a party of inner serenity, peace and love. If we didn’t need to get up in the morning, we’d stay up late and play our music loud too. Dude, I was blasting my music and annoying my parents while 33 rpms were big.
Know why you don’t see many young republicans at the GOP convention? They’re off partying or shacking up in hotel room. Standing on the floor to hear delegate chatter and anned speeches is a democratic party idea of fun. Our coventions are boring so we go to where the fun is and leave it to the oldsters. As we age we get trophy wives and go to parties (or back home early, letting our leftist friends stay up and argue politics and joke about our early to bed rule–we have a trophy wife and we’re going to take advantage of her!– before she divorces us).
Our kids hopefully read when they aren’t ruining their eardrums. That’s why Ann Coulter outwrites her peers on the left.
Peace.
Feb 25, 2009 - 10:44 am 55. Josie:As someone raised on Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys,et al and curently a fan of the only TRUE modern punk, Ministry, I can respect the attitude and passion in that music.
But we are not talking about music here.
There is a huge difference between “punk” and “punkass”. I respect punk. I do not tolerate punkass. This President is the latter.
…and yeah, rvastar, Johnny was the reason the song was called “My Brain is Hanging Upside Down”, and not titled “Bonzo Goes to Bitburg”.
Feb 25, 2009 - 10:48 am 56. johngaltlives:of course its the punk presidency. After all, the OBAMASKANK is nothing more than a brown noser for George Soros. Everything commie moslem Obama does is designed to destroy America, as his mastah Soros wants. that explains Blago, the tax cheats, etc. Soros has never faced justice for all his economic crimes and those around the Obammaskank feel they are above the law, just like Soros does. Obamaskank is incapable of any real thinking of his own, so Soros uses him just as the public face of his hate religion/hate America agenda. Soros is a bigger problem, Obamaskank is just the idiot he uses to get what he wants.
Feb 25, 2009 - 10:50 am 57. zanne:I have liberal friends emailing me they just can’t listen to him anymore. One said “I can’t listen to another speech and I like the guy”. My response back was. “You will get over that”.
Feb 25, 2009 - 11:04 am 58. karlstro:This Administration has no regard for the working middle class. The outright lies, the mocking of individuals who attemp to bring common sense to our budget problems and just plain ol’ inexperience of this President is insane. What a classless Hollywood act.
Feb 25, 2009 - 11:35 am 59. Rachel Peepers:They used to call Jim MacMahon the punky QB because he was brash, bold, rebellious, but, most importantly, a winner.
Dembo H. Obama is the opposite.
One word that describes him is incompetent. But, a better description of Barack, the boy punk President, is whiner.
If you’re a TV station that runs anti Dembo commentaries, B. Hussein threatens to have your license revoked.
If you do conservative commentary on the radio, the B man uses his bully pulpit to tell people not to listen to you. What a loathsome, unamerican, unadult thing to say.
“Don’t listen to Rush. He’s putting bad thoughts in your head.”
From that statement you can deduce that Barack doesn’t give you much credit for critical thinking. The next thing I expect B. Hussein to do is provide a list of approved radio shows that I can listen to. Of course, would I expect anything else from head punk? Doesn’t he realize how silly he sounds?
Which causes me to wonder.
What in tarnation is the source of this egomaniacally unhinged, childish behavior?
My sense is that Barack has more than a few demons galavanting around his core. One that rears its ugly head (Michelle excluded)from time to time is the desire to be a bully boy. He seems to get pleasure out of bullying reporters. Bullying corporate executives. Bullying most anybody who disagrees with him.
Like most bullies, though, the trait isn’t born of courage or conviction, but rather of low self esteem and confusion. To make himself feel better, he has to degrade others. My father always told me the cure for being bullied is bloodying the bully’s nose.
I just know that, confronted alone in a dark Chicago alley, Barack would turn tail and run like a scared rabbit. Because, at heart, the guy is a, sniffling teary-eyed, mamma’s boy coward.
And something else we are discovering.
Incompetent.
His spending spree is like throwing gasoline on an economic fire. It’s like giving antibiotics to someone suffering from salmonella. For our sick economy, Barack isn’t Doctor House. He’s Doctor Death. Because you can’t spend your way out of a recession by printing more dollars. Enough artificial short term spending and this economy will crash. Inflation will soar.
Paddles.
A cool trillion to slackers and deadbeats does, though, engender deadbeat voter loyaly. Isn’t it interesting that there is nothing, zero, zilch in the trillion to benefit responsible, bill-paying, mortgage paying Americans? The creeps keep repeating the mantra, “if your neighbor’s house is foreclosed on, yours loses value.” Number one, I don’t care. Number 2, short term only. That talking point is a red herring. Pure Obama-bunk.
Why do the dems use every warmed over scaremongering talking point (no matter how illogical) they can conjure up to justify spending our economy to death?
When all is said and done, it’s all about votes.
99% of the trillion is designed to endear the deadbeat voters (obama’s base) to the Spendocrats.
The Barack credit challenged voter base bought houses without apparently realizing they were signing a contract to make timely monthly payments. That’s what caused the subprime mess. That’s what sabotaging our whole economy.
I use the word, sabotage, because Barney Frank insisted that banks lower lending standards. The dems knew in time the piper would want to be paid. The dems knew that it was only a matter of time before the shinola hit the fan.
Now Barney gets on TV and talks like he’s part of the solution. No, Barney. You and your dem buddies were and are the problem.
But there’s no end to their flagrant, brazen audacious greed. Now Barney wants his share of that trillion. Says Barney jokingly to his golf buddies”I created this mess and now I want to be rewarded for it.” “Laugh,laugh laugh.”
Well, guess what, Barack the incompetent agrees with Barney, whose personal pockets are being lined with stimulus money as we speak. Isn’t it wonderful how things work?
Big picture, Barack and his band of merry men (Barney being the lead merry maker) want their constituencies (deadbeat, pull yourself up by your bootstraps and then pull me up, too, slobbering sycophants ). They want their constituences to think of Barack, Barney, Harry and niggardly Nancy as their sugar daddies.
And what deadbeat, “my car got repoe’d slacker” wouldn’t vote again and again for a sugardaddy.
Listening to Barack’s speech today was like listening to a Nazi prison guard handing out chucks of soap-hope to get the line moving for the impending euphemistic shower.
But, says, niggardly Nancy, “Little do the unwashed non-Barack believers realize that they’re going to wake up in a wonderful socialist society. Where it’s every man for his neighbor.”
Without a doubt in my blond haired head, Barack, Harry and Nancy are out to destroy the same entity that has made the quality of life better and better for each American generation.
The destruction has begun.
Regardlesss of what Barack the hypnotizing mesmerizer says, the knot’s been tied. The gallows have been built.
And Barack is about to put the rope around the proverbial neck.
I don’t care what Barack’s speechwriters’ call it. What’s about to be lynched is capitalism.
And with it, the American Dream.
Feb 25, 2009 - 11:36 am 60. bear:God save the King
Feb 25, 2009 - 11:52 am 61. Paul from Hamburg:Pat J:
I don’t agree about the disco beat. However, if The Clash did indeed “sell out”, doesn’t that prove that they are Republicans?
Feb 25, 2009 - 12:30 pm 62. Moogie:Rachel Peepers, it doesn’t get any more succinct than what you just said. Amen.
All lying and posturing and punkiness aside, etc., … I think what angers me more than anything is the mainstream media. The “Fairness” doctrine is a double edged sword – it might start swinging to the right to lop off some heads right now, but momemtum will eventually swing it around to the left. “What goes around…” and all that.
Another thing: I wish the liberals would stop saying “Get over it.” Hell no I won’t get over it. I’m a middle class tax paying individual, and I can feel the vibration of the governmental langoliers chomping towards my home.
I refuse to live with blinders on – I’d rather see the evil as it approaches, than have it sneaking up behind me.
I pity the ‘bots who don’t have a discerning bone in their bodies. The deception Obama is dealing is very cunning and subtle, but for those with finely tuned brains, his lies come through loud and clear, and his REAL agenda is frightening in the extreme.
Feb 25, 2009 - 12:39 pm 63. Jay:How do I spell punk when describing Obama and his homeboy Holder? p-u-s-s-y ,they are not man enough to be called punks.Hardcore rules!
Feb 25, 2009 - 12:45 pm 64. Andrea:Well said. Mr. BO and Friends are not in this for the country. They are in this for what they get for Themselves. Poor excuses for Representatives of free citizens.
Feb 25, 2009 - 1:19 pm 65. fred:I always thought that “punk” style meant:
- a tendency towards nihilistic destruction
- insolence and rudeness
- total lack of respect for any traditional truths or knowledge
I didn’t vote for Obonga, but based on my understanding of punk culture – I was in college right during the time of its height (1978-82)Obonga’s not a punk.
He’s a practitioner of Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.” A Gramscian Marxist infiltrator, because he’s a Red Diaper Baby. These people believe in maintaining deception at every level in order to gain access to power and to gain people’s trust. A con man.
Punks are actually better people than that. At least they’re honest.
Feb 25, 2009 - 1:19 pm 66. AnninCA:It’s going to go further, I predict. Republican governors better start now and cite specific passages in this bill that require states to alter laws, etc., or beware. Biden’s remarks that the Feds would take back money is quite serious, I think, and the message has been sent that this bill WILL be used to bully out Republicans.
It’s so messy and big, nobody could possibly distribute the funds without complants.
Danger lies ahead.
Feb 25, 2009 - 1:47 pm 67. Turn Down That Racket!:Beating up on Obama is not the Answer. At least not yet. It’s demeaning to what we stand for to engage in such a childish series of posts that personifies Obama as “Doctor Death,” “momma’s boy coward.” etc. (and that was a mature post).
The US is adrift fromm traditional mores and ideas about spending and government. It needs to get back. Snarky remarks about Obama isn’t going to get there.
The GOP screwed up the economy by overspending for 8 years. Lobbyists and graft smelled to high heaven. The voters removed their congressional majority. The sure-footed GOP responded by putting up an aged man to the voters: he had no particular profile for controlling spending; he had been in the Senate for decades, but was known mostly for trying to assist Lincoln Savings, controlling election speech via McCain-Feingold and being a “maverick,” whatever that was supposed to mean.
The Democrats ran one of the most agile candidates in recent years and the GOP didn’t lay a hand on him. Yeah, yeah, the media was complicit, but it always has been so: ask Nixon. Ask Reagan.
Obama is a traditional tax and spend democrat, the kind i have voted against for decades. But he is a far more articulate and agile George McGovern, and he beat us! Yeah he did it with the aid of a bad economy, but the GOP brought it on and deserved that weight on their back.
In particular, the GOP failed in the battle of ideas: instead of standing for less spending, frugality, adult judgment, it stood for graft, piggy Dennis Hastert and competence only in graft. The Democrats drove their ACORN loaded truck through the door.
The idea that Obama and his party offends is fiscal soundness: but the GOP put the US in spot where every state and city has the opportunity to beg from the US. Let me repeat….The GOP put them there!!!
Spare me the aged stuff about Carter and the CRA: the GOP did nothing to trim the CRA in 8 plus years. Spare me the howling about spending: what were Bush and Paulsen doing just before Obama got in? Loaning $ to banks that used it to…buy other banks and throw big parties! Yes, the GOP really has real credibility on the spending issue.
So spare me the snarky remarks about Obama: he’s been in office less than 60 days. Spare me too the childish name tags. The battle is one of values and ideas: between the tax and spend democrats and the save and spend wisely party, if it still exists anymore.
Domestically, Obama’s doing what he does naturally as a democrat and as a President with serious economic problems. Abroad, for now, he is holding to a lot of the Bush policies.
Feb 25, 2009 - 2:00 pm 68. Jeff:I like the “Punk” term.
Feb 25, 2009 - 2:05 pm 69. ked5:The “poseur” term is appropriate.
Liar is the truth.
4. Tom Blumer:
Definition: “a young, inexperienced person.”
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With thug tendencies, and a cocky attitude.
Feb 25, 2009 - 2:36 pm 70. Roderick Reilly:Are Obama and his minions being “punks,” or are they simply revealing their visceral dislike for a majority of Americans and the attitudes and values those Americans share with each other?
The Obama crowd does not like most of us, and are intent on punishing and scolding us at every opportunity. It is tragic that the financial meltdown added more venom to their hubris, and, in their twisted world view, justified their contempt for the American system they inherited.
They are an impatient, insolent, impudent and arrogant lot, and think in terms of “rule” rather than governance. That this effete academic weakling got elected is a culmination of the decline of American values. On some level his contempt for most of us may be perversely justified.
Feb 25, 2009 - 3:37 pm 71. Sk8 Punk:Dude don’t know jack about Punk. I am punk. Johhny Ramone was punk. Obama ain’t punk. He’s more punk for the Hamptons. Read my blog on punk and Johhny Ramone, the father of punk. Punk is antiestablishment and anti bull$!*t. http://rebelsk8.blogspot.com/2009/01/johhny-ramone-on-true-punk.html
Feb 25, 2009 - 3:55 pm 72. David:Get it right. Obama ain’t punk. He upper eastside piss down my back and tell me its rainin elite.
Punk presidency. I don’t think so. You’re giving him too much credit.
I prefer Michael Barone’s term: thugocracy.
Feb 25, 2009 - 4:34 pm 73. Delia:I prefer the loving, gentle, even-keeled terms:
“Self-serving, sophomoric, boorish, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, b-cupped, usurper, hbic douchebag.”
You’re welcome.
♥, Delia
Feb 25, 2009 - 5:32 pm 74. Revoltocon:The punks I know are wiry, tough and mouthy. Obama’s wiry and mouthy, but not tough. He gets others to do his dirty work. And Gibbs is only mouthy. I’d let him get by for the same reason I would not hit a girl. And I’d much prefer thugocracy-wannabe to define the lot of them.
Feb 25, 2009 - 5:44 pm 75. chris in Toronto:I prefer the term, “totalitarian”.
Feb 25, 2009 - 6:32 pm 76. hp:squawling brat is more like it.
Feb 25, 2009 - 6:51 pm 77. Letalis Maximus, Esq.:Punk? I don’t think so. Just another arrogant prick of a Harvard grad? Yeah, that I can see.
Feb 25, 2009 - 7:03 pm 78. Letalis Maximus, Esq.:Oh yeah, and the original punk was not Johnny Ramone (although he was a great punk). Punk is about doing it yourself. Punk is anti-establishment. Punk is anti-bullshit. But, the original punk was…Martin Luther.
Feb 25, 2009 - 7:06 pm 79. rrr:That’s it, Pat J. Find the meaning of the term as far removed as possible from what was intended and then give warning like it’s going to be taken that way. You may feel good about yourself for putting those Bush-lovers in their place, but your navel-gazing impresses no one but yourself. By the way, that level of sophistication is called the “root fallacy.” Way to give an example I can use in class!
Feb 25, 2009 - 7:27 pm 80. Tom Blumer:69. ked5:
Exactly.
Feb 25, 2009 - 7:35 pm 81. Maimonatease:“Punk” means different things to different people.
To white kids born between the late-60 and the early-80s, punk is a kind of compliment. (See Letalis Maximus and others, above). This sort of punk is anti-establishment (although nothing could be more ‘establishment’ now than the clothes, hairstyles and body piercings of white punk, but that’s another story). This sort of punk is about loud, fast, short rock n’ roll songs, and, most importantly, the DIY (do-it-yourself) ethic. The Google, Facebook and other web startup kids all absorbed this white DIY “punk” ethic, and its a great thing. Its actually pretty fundamentally libertarian.
To black kids, ‘punk’ is closer to its original meaning: a coward. There are few insults worse in hip-hop than ‘punk’ – except for any of the homosexual insults, both those are often understood as included in the term ‘punk’. If a black person calls you a punk it means he knows you are a coward and will not fight.
In the 50s, ‘punk’ meant similar things to blacks and whites, but, like so much else, language diverged into fiefdoms by the 60s.
I don’t think Obama fits either definition of the word ‘punk’. He’s not a coward in the black sense of punk, nor is he a liberty-loving DIY rocker in the white sense. I think he’s just your typical flowery-but-vapid post-modern Ivy league product. A socialist who won’t admit – even to himself – that he is one. A retread who thinks he is the most advanced thing on ice. A (mostly empty) suit, who can unironically proclaim one thing and then 30 seconds later proclaim its exact opposite. If he were white he would never have gotten anywhere close to the office he now holds.
Feb 25, 2009 - 7:42 pm 82. ili:Definition: “a young, inexperienced person.”
Feb 25, 2009 - 7:42 pm 83. Maimonatease:Oh, and #67 got this one exactly right: ragging on Obama will get you nowhere.
The fact is, the GOP congress of the past 8 years was a disaster, straying from every single core principal the Republicans have. And W did not seem to even know he had the veto power – or at least was too cozy with the corrupt Republicans in Congress to ever use it. And the whole time the GOP intelligentsia (if that term can be used) mostly defended, rather than holding their feet to the fire.
In foreign policy Obama has, thus far, changed nothing from the Bush administration. But now that the media project on Iraq and Afghanistan has served its purpose, they have an. . . uh. . . more ‘nuanced’ view of the war on terror. Yes, the WOT, as Panetta just confirmed, is still going on. Now Obama is leading it, but without any of the nasty CIA and State leaks and vicious minute-by-minute media slandering that Bush had to deal with while he was WOTCIC (I think I just coined that).
Feb 25, 2009 - 7:51 pm 84. fireyourguns:“I was a punk before you were a punk”! Fee Waybill-The Tubes… Obama’s no punk, he’s an usurpian P.O.S!
Feb 25, 2009 - 8:02 pm 85. Nora:There’s a difference between being PUNK and being A PUNK.
Others above have explained the core values of punk – and one of them is being true to who you are and not hiding it. Joe Strummer was a Marxist and never tried to hide the fact, as our Dear Leader does. (OTOH, Johnny Ramone invoked the name of George W. Bush when the band was inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame.)
The Ramones were punk. The Clash were punk.
Teh One’s just a punk.
Feb 25, 2009 - 8:41 pm 86. SukieTawdry:For what it’s worth, I think he’s got a glass jaw. In both senses of the term.
Feb 25, 2009 - 9:32 pm 87. J Charles:I give Gibbs credit. He’s sticking up for his administration. He will not let counter opinions stand as the “final word.” If George Bush did this he would haven’t been demonized by lies and mockery. He let the Marxists totally demolish the republican brand. Bush is so trashed he can’t show his face. Bush I did the same thing and lost the election to Clinton. Bush thinks history will redeem him. That’s a joke when the liberal college professors are the ones writing the history books!!
Feb 26, 2009 - 12:39 am 88. Chester White:“I am sure I am not the only fan of The Clash here.”
No, you aren’t.
Most of their politics were/are for crap, but LONDON CALLING was probably the best album of its decade. Not a bad song on there.
Feb 26, 2009 - 3:28 am 89. vivo:11. Meryl:
13. Ms.Attitude:
17. Mongoose:
23. Peter the Bubblehead:
26. Saltherring:
I don’t think anyone got my drift. You call this a punk presidency because Obama tells it like it is. That’s not arrogance. I know you don’t like his policies. But you know where he stands.
Mongoose continues to be delirious. He keeps saying the same thing over and over. Talk about maturity . . .
Peter, it’s not about ignoring me, it’s about knowing that there are other thinking people around you. I don’t live in a bubble, you guys amaze me with your ideas.
And Saltherring, your neighbors are sheltered and snobby, but at least they seem to care about other human beings. Sometimes there are good parasites in the animal world.
Feb 26, 2009 - 5:33 am 90. LynnS:Obama stands up and says we have to take personal responsibility for our actions. Yes, tell it like it is. Then the very people who are cheering and waving the flag walk away leaving about 6 lbs of trash per person behind including flags.
Now Obama is telling it like it is again. You don’t have to take personal responsibility for your actions with his actions but he did say you have to take personal responsibility for your actions with his words. That is how you say two different things and tell it like it is; man, dude, baby.
You know what, I’m going to have to vent once in a while and if not here that’s OK. I saw how the left eviscerated President Bush with their name calling and their caricature’s. I’ll go for a walk and try not to mutter out loud so people have proof I’m crazy.
Feb 26, 2009 - 7:08 am 91. SarahB:Gibbs is just another punk loser in the loser left who are unable to bear the thought of living life without wielding power over others. The left’s pretense of concern for the downtrodden in society is case in point.
Once in awhile even life’s losers win. It is an anomoly that the ObeMessiah was elected. He is a loser in life with millions of losers hoping that he will take care of them.
Before the screeching begins, by using the term loser I mean he values power over all else. He is a changeling, a chameleon who changes his exterior identity to fit his surroundings. He is an empty vessel who will be whomever he needs to be to gain power. He is typical of leftist leaders who are vacuous and masterful in mimicking behaviors that please others and lead to power. Look at the lefts’ puppetmaster who calls all the shots, George Soros. He appears to be a sociopath who chooses not to murder individuals, but to murder and destroy countries. ObeMessiah is his puppet. Losers on a mission.
Feb 26, 2009 - 7:30 am 92. deguello:#1 JHM: He could, but this site is geared for people of normal intelligence who don’t need the obvious explained to them. Go ask your special ed, teacher.
Feb 26, 2009 - 10:31 am 93. deguello:VIVO #7 Congratulations on your brave act of self awareness;we always knew you were a punk,but for you to come to the same conclusion, is a real breakthrough!Perhaps now you”ll acknowledge the syphillis ravaging your brain,and buy some penicillin before it’s too late.
Feb 26, 2009 - 10:37 am 94. Former Belgian:“Punk presidency” or “Punked by the presidency”?
The USA will be nostalgic for Dubya before these four years are over.
Feb 26, 2009 - 11:56 am 95. deguello:Former Belgian: The US will be nostalgic for Nixon,by the time this is over.
Feb 26, 2009 - 12:10 pm 96. vivo:93. deguello:
You will never make it as a medical doctor or a shrink.
Regards,
A punk
Feb 26, 2009 - 1:58 pm 97. Roderick Reilly:“”"”"”"”That’s not arrogance. I know you don’t like his policies. But you know where he stands.”"”"”"”
We DO?
Which day of the week? What time of day? On what specific thing at which given moment?
Feb 26, 2009 - 2:44 pm 98. TE:More proof of what a childish punk Obama is is when he told a U.S. Senator “Go f*** yourself” during an exchange on Senate floor…
Oh, wait…
Feb 26, 2009 - 4:00 pm 99. deguello:#96 VIVO Maybe not, but at least I’m not a punk!
Feb 26, 2009 - 5:33 pm 100. RomanceWritR:A punk is an immature bully. You know, an inexperienced machine politician that gives his opponents the finger.
Feb 26, 2009 - 6:12 pm 101. lobbey:Former Belgian: The US will be nostalgic for Nixon,by the time this is over.,/i>
keep dreaming, former belgian
Feb 26, 2009 - 7:08 pm 102. Dot:“A friend of mine who who met young Obama in Hawaii at a basketball pickup game on a military base, confirms the “punk” label. When they arrived, Obama was picking on a much smaller white kid, until a bigger guy told him to knock it off.”
Oh, a friend of yours met him, did he? And then you woke up from your dream….
“A punk is an immature bully. You know, an inexperienced machine politician that gives his opponents the finger.”
Or who says f*ck you to Senator, or shoots a friend in the face. Or calls a reporter a major league a**hole. Or who has an affair and ditches his wife for someone wealthier. Absolutely stellar.
Feb 27, 2009 - 3:57 am 103. vivo:97. Roderick Reilly:
“”””””””That’s not arrogance. I know you don’t like his policies. But you know where he stands.”””””””
We DO?
Which day of the week? What time of day? On what specific thing at which given moment?”
You’re watching too much conservative MSM. Fox, Limbo and others are loaded with lies, distortions and word manipulation. Hearing them you’d think the world will end tomorrow. They prey on paranoids.
Feb 27, 2009 - 5:15 am 104. deguello:#102:DOT SIZED BRAIN: With all that,Cheney is still twice the man and leader the Messiah is,he did not cause economic catastrophe,followed by civil war, which will be this punk’s legacy.
Feb 27, 2009 - 5:18 am 105. Nomad:Soon to hear a LOUD THUD in Wash D.C. as mainstream middle America is getting feed with all this CRAP and start telling those brainless idiots where to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Feb 27, 2009 - 5:41 am 106. Paul -Indiana:59. Rachel Peepers:
In addition to your fine points, don’t forget that Dodd, franks and Obama were three of the largers benefactors of campaign funds from Fanny. Vested interest?
Feb 27, 2009 - 9:36 am 107. Hall:Aside from the fact that the author wouldn’t know “punk” if it smacked him in the face, this diatribe is an exercise in absurdity.
To suggest that the nation is up in arms over the behavior of President Obama is patently ridiculous. The man brings a grace and wisdom to the office that has been conspicuously absent for several decades.
It’s stunning how many right-wing ideologues manage to find their plane of alternate-reality, and seem to believe that the rest of the country sees the Pink Elephants too…
Feb 27, 2009 - 10:13 am 108. rvastar:So appointing tax cheats, lobbyists, and racists to senior positions, as well as continuing Chimpy McHitlerBush’s war policies, is how the Left now defines “grace and wisdom”?
You sure are a fickle bunch…but thanks for the update
Feb 27, 2009 - 10:37 am 109. ljdramone:Sorry, y’all, but Republicans are supposed to be the punks these days. Anarchy now! Don’t vote, it only encourages them!
Guess you didn’t get the memo or something.
Feb 27, 2009 - 11:33 am 110. deguello:#107 Very good Hall you are a case in point of liberalism’s most important trait:Pathological denial of reality.Check the Ohole’s negative poll numbers. the lowest of any recent president so eary in his term.
Feb 27, 2009 - 1:36 pm 111. Dot:“#102:DOT SIZED BRAIN: With all that,Cheney is still twice the man and leader the Messiah is,he did not cause economic catastrophe,followed by civil war, which will be this punk’s legacy.”
deguello:
Obama caused an economic catastrophe and a civil war? Oh, wait, you’re one of those idiots who can see into the future and know what’s going to happen. Why don’t you try buying a lottery ticket instead of playing a moron on the internet? In this world we actually stick to facts which I know is a stretch for conservatives. As to your comment in 110, why do you say things which are so easily proven untrue?
The Gallup Poll’s one month ratings of presidential approval/disapproval ratings starting with Carter show that Clinton had a 29% disapproval rating, while Obama is at 24%, and W.Bush was at 21%. So let’s play a little game: which is higher, 29% or 24%? Hint: If you answer 29% you’re a liar who can’t do basic research. So who has the dot sized brain?
Feb 27, 2009 - 2:07 pm 112. Cybergeezer:110. deguello:
Feb 27, 2009 - 3:21 pm 113. NelsonMuntz:“Ohole”; fantastic; That’s worse than a black hole.
Point me to your post about John McCain’s “Chelsea Clinton’s father is Janet Reno” joke, or his calling his own wife a c**t in public. Oh, what? You don’t say.
Feb 27, 2009 - 7:24 pm 114. Horace Wells:I guess compared to all the graciousness of Bush’s entourage and major supporters, Obama must be really punky. After all, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rush were such charming orators and were so good at schmoozing and winning over even their harshest critics.
Feb 27, 2009 - 7:42 pm 115. Horace Wells:The pot is calling the kettle black!
deguello,
Feb 27, 2009 - 7:46 pm 116. mjishernameo:this has nothing to do with politics, but a person like you of such low intellectuality and integrity can’t be taken too seriously. Anyone you admire has to be someone I can’t respect.
Why would anyone expect this man to demonstrate ethics, character, honesty, compassion….he was abandoned by his loser father and his whorish mother…I mean, he is a good orator. But that’s it. That’s it. That’s it. We elected a mouth and vocal cords. There is NOTHING behind the curtain. He may be a sociopath, don’t giggle, he’s showing the signs.
Feb 27, 2009 - 8:01 pm 117. vivo:My question is does anyone who voted for him realize what they did?
Mitt 2012
112. Cybergeezer:
“110. deguello:
“Ohole”; fantastic; That’s worse than a black hole.”
You are sooo cuuute!
Feb 27, 2009 - 8:58 pm 118. Math Teacher, San Antonio:Sheesh! I stumbled on a playpen for GPOOWG’s (generally pissed off old white guys) and other crazies.
If you people ever get back in power, it will be proof positive that our educational system is f**ked.
Better put on your foil hats, folks, you have a long 8 years ahead.
Feb 28, 2009 - 12:18 pm 119. rvastar:Nah…idiots like you — i.e. Obamabots — proved that a few months back.
Feb 28, 2009 - 1:50 pm 120. mjishernameo:Hey math teacher:
You are a racist…I’m neither male, nor white, nor old…
Idiot. No wonder our kids are the train wrecks they are…with the likes of you teaching them.
Feb 28, 2009 - 2:39 pm 121. EriktheRed:You guys oughtta get with the guy does the Big Hollywood blog. According to him, it’s the consevatives who are now the “new punks”.
Get your talking points straight already!
Feb 28, 2009 - 10:37 pm 122. deguello:#111 DOT_SIZED BRAIN(and getting smaller)No, dear, I never claimed to read the future,But anyone except a liberal equipped with a dot-sized brain , (is that redundant?) could predict that if you elect a marxoid street thug,with the economic knowledge, of a retarded slug,he will destroy the economy. Since the Ohole’s accession, and AFTER his “stimulus” public waste bill got passed, the Dow is down 3000 points,about3 trillion dollars, and this is only the beginning of his reign. I stand by what I said before, The messiah’s negatives are low so early in his term. Oops your dot sized brain, just shrunk to a micron?
Mar 3, 2009 - 10:42 am 123. deguello:HORACE,#115 or is it HORTENSE? If you want to feel superior,and self righteous, go join a convent.
Mar 3, 2009 - 10:45 am 124. deguello:RE:#118MATH “TEACHER”. Hey MT: Did you know that teachers have the lowest SAT scores of all College Grads? It’s true,and it explains your cretinous post.
Mar 4, 2009 - 5:24 am 125. deguello:HORACE WELLS: Dear Hortense: I admire Jefferson,the ancient Greeks,Lincoln,Machiavelli, Edmund Burke and Nietzsche among others (proof of my “low intellectuality”).Whom do you admire? Let me guess: Obama, Stalin, Castro, welfare mortgages for the undeserving, diversity,and other libtard beliefs;that must be proof of YOUR “intellectuality”.I’ll take mine anytime.
Mar 4, 2009 - 5:30 am 126. Bryant Rock:HAHA. Are you mad because Obama happens to be smart and articulate? He doesn’t take cheap shots, he just tells his opponents that they contradict themselves. It’s ok if young unintelligent people want to resort to name calling, than let them, because Obama is hundreds of times smarter than this article’s author.
Jul 21, 2009 - 9:27 am