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1. bibio44:

‘Later today, the Dear Leader will address the schoolchildren of America. … There is even one bit proclaiming “I pledge to be a servant to our President.”’

Looks like a direct quote. I guess, then, if such a “pledge” does not exist – and has never existed – we’d be justified in calling our Dear Blogger a liar.

So what else is new?

Sep 8, 2009 - 7:25 am 2. Pajamas Media » Words and Deeds: The Awful Advent of Buyer’s Remorse:

[...] Read the entire article here. [...]

Sep 8, 2009 - 8:11 am 3. Dan Rampage:

Sigh…so ill-informed. Bibio44, the blogger is obviously referring to the “I Pledge” video from your hypocritical Hollywood types on YouTube that so many of your fellow liberal school administrators will undoubtedly have accompanying the Statist-In-Chiefs propaganda speech today at 12 noon.

Sep 8, 2009 - 8:25 am 4. Jettboy:

“I came away, though, with this cheering thought: if my intelligent though programmatically liberal friend could have experienced so rapid and drastic a season of political maturation, what does that mean for the Obama’s agenda?”

You are misunderstanding the Liberal’s dislike of Obama. They are saddened that he hasn’t brought all the troops home, closed down Gitmo, and replaced Capitalism with Communism already. The only buyers remorse for them is that they voted in Obama and not Castro or Chavez. Don’t confuse their disapproval with any love of freedom and democracy.

Sep 8, 2009 - 8:31 am 5. inspectorudy:

Hey Bibs, I saw the video and it does exist. It had heavy weights like Demmi Moore, Cameron Diaz and a bunch of twenty something no name actors all pledgeing to serve our Dear Leader. So Bibs, is the 44 your IQ,the only liar here is you.

Sep 8, 2009 - 8:34 am 6. Calvin Ball:

Jezuz H… Soros must have a new bonus program for trolls, because some guy from the trolls union was trying to organize them yesterday. They’re up bright and early…

Sep 8, 2009 - 8:39 am 7. Saltherring:

#1 bibio44:

You forgot to add Roger’s accompanying disclaimer statement, “How much of that will survive the ridicule and alarm it sparked we won’t know until the day is over.” The content of Obama’s message was leaked almost as soon as he announced he would speak to America’s schoolchildren. I would assume the text was purposely released in order to gauge the level and effectiveness of protest against the president’s poorly disguised attempts to politically indoctrinate our children. From what I’ve heard of the speech, is prototypical Obama; long, boring and filled with self-aggrandizing anecdotes and silly euphemisms. Hopefully our schoolchildren will prove to have better judgement than their fawning, unionized teachers or last November’s voters.

Sep 8, 2009 - 8:49 am 8. Insufficiently Sensitive:

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that it will be September 2010 before even three-quarters of the money will be spent. Some economists expect that it will not all be spent by the end of 2010.

And why would that be? Does anyone imagine that the Democratic party didn’t wish a heavy injection of stimulus funds larded out to its preferred constituencies during the election year of 2010?

Sep 8, 2009 - 8:53 am 9. David Thomson:

There is even one bit proclaiming “I pledge to be a servant to our President.”’

Barack Obama is probably going to drop this nonsense. He simply cannot get away with it. Obama will likely sound like the reincarnation of Ronald Reagan. He may very well go out of his way to sound conservative. Obama is getting desperate to show his “moderate” side.

Sep 8, 2009 - 8:55 am 10. Fact Checker:

biblio44:

The exact quote “I pledge to be a servant to our President” is from Demi Moore and it is spoken around 3:58 in this YouTube video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51kAw4OTlA0

They guy with the tattoos says something similar while kissing his biceps: “I pledge to serve Barack Obama” earlier in the video.

Creepy politically correct kitch.

Sep 8, 2009 - 8:56 am 11. Poor Citizen:

The stimulus package was thought up by the Bush administration and carried on at the beginning of the Obama administration when he first took office. It was the Bush administration that created the economic disaster, and spending spree and deficits that could be stacked up to mars, and back. And last time I checked the biggest spender in history, by far, was George Bush. So, was Bush the biggest socialist in history. You need to add a bit a truth, instead of blither to your labeling.

Sep 8, 2009 - 9:20 am 12. RE:

Life is so frustrating for us Cassandras. At least we cannot be faulted for lack of trying.

Sep 8, 2009 - 9:22 am 13. MJBrutus:

I wish that I could share your optimism. Certainly we have seen evidence of buyer’s remorse and something of an awakening in some corners. However, I do not see as much as should be and as would be required to slow the runaway train that is our government down. I’m speaking anecdotally, as is the author here, but I still see an unwillingness on the part of a great many people to admit the big mistake that was allowing this man to assume office.

In part, it is a question of magnitude. I think that it is hard for people to accept that they have been fooled to such a monstrous extent as they were. It is along the lines of the “big lie” where if the lie is big enough, people will be more likely to believe it than if it were a lie about some detail. The dissonance between Obama’s words and deeds is so vast and the disconnects, even now, are so well whitewashed by the MSM that people are still much more willing to believe what they hear instead of their own lying eyes.

In short, we have seen some alarm from some quarters, but it has all been at the grass roots level. The level of individuals who are paying enough attention to see the unresolvable contradictions. But I personally know far to many people who simply can’t or won’t wrap their minds around the enormity of the swindle. The Mendacity of Hope is waning, but ever so slowly and I fear the damage that will done before the tide truly turns.

Sep 8, 2009 - 9:25 am 14. Old Soldier:

Poor Citizen: Yes your first 2 sentences are correct. That is why Bush and his party lost the support of conservatives. A big reason Obama is President.

Your third sentence, unfortunately, is absolutely incorrect for two reasons.

1 – The President has virtually no spending authority – that belongs to Congress. The President either signs or vetoes bills. And Congress has been controlled by Democrats for almost 3 years now and Bush was a wimp when it came to vetoes.

2 – Obama and the current Congress have blown past all previous deficits already and they are just getting started. It’s not even close.

Sep 8, 2009 - 9:30 am 15. SenatorMark4:

Everybody is a liar now! There is nothing that can be counted as the truth even when czarist presidential advisors are allowed to resign. Why defend your past statements when they won’t even be noted by the pliant press? No issues there, just move along. Where are the politicians that swore to protect the Constitution? They’re all trying, Republicans and Democrats, to figure out how to spend that stimulus just prior to the 2010 election. Most of it will go to people that benefit from the “redistribution” of our income but don’t get any of it reported via IRS Form 1099-misc. I believe it would be informative if there was an IRS Form 1099-GOV which would let us see where it went. Welfare, AFDC, food stamps to aliens…no prob. No requirement to report. Just another buy of votes, legal and illegal.

Sep 8, 2009 - 9:34 am 16. Ward Dorrity:

We’re now in the endgame of Antonio Gramsci’s and Saul Alinsky’s heirs and disciples. These are the murderous great-great-great-great-grandchildren of the French Revolution, cold-eyed with contempt for you and yours; spiral-eyed crazy with hate for what you believe in and possessed of that utterly unappeasable appetite for controlling mankind.

Just as Hitler was completely candid in “Mein Kampf” about what he intended to do with Germany, the Jews and the world, so the Progressive Left has been completely up front about where they intend to take America, how they’ve planned to do it and what they’re going to do once they get there.

So, when it comes to the Constitution and rule of law, it’s only a game – and when they’re tired of it, they’ll not only sweep the pieces off the board, they’ll upend the table and put a bullet in you while they’re at it. As far as so-called ‘progressives’ are concerned, rules are for losers and history – god-awful bloody history – is my witness.

But don’t take my word for it. Here’s what Niccolo Machiavelli, 15th century advisor to Florentine nobles had to say when it came to conquering those who lived in relative freedom:

“When cities or provinces have been accustomed to live under a prince… they do not know how to live in freedom… and a prince can win them over with greater faculty and establish himself securely. But in republics, there is greater life…they do not and cannot cast aside the memory of their ancient liberty, so that the surest way to conquer them is to lay them waste.”
–This, from Machiavelli’s most famous work, The Prince

So don’t look now, but we’re all living in what’s left of a seriously weakened Constitutional republic in which the collapse of the ideas underlying individual liberty is very far advanced.

By every measure of reason, this regime is working to destroy our republic for their own ends. Even at its worst, America with all its faults, is a paradise compared to the concentration camp culture of the Machiavellian Marxists who have gotten the upper hand today.

So here are the hard facts with which you must deal:

You’ve got to understand that you’re not going to talk or vote your way out of the tyranny that’s coming. And that’s precisely the point of tyranny, isn’t it?

You’ve got understand that the people who’ve now gotten their hands on the apparatus of the American State would rather rule in Hell than live in peace with the rest of us. They will happily reduce Western civilization to stinking pile of rubble and corpses as long as they believe that they will be the ones sitting on top of the ruins. Why? Because a free and prosperous people cannot be enslaved. They must be broken first. Laid waste, just as Machiavelli prescribed so long ago.

You’ve got understand that we’ll never see another truly free, open and honest election in this country until after the next American Civil War – the Left, ACORN, massive vote fraud and gutless Republicans have seen to that.

One of the great lessons from the history of the twentieth century that so many of us have failed to learn is that your circumstances can and will change overnight. But that’s nothing new.

Over 23 centuries ago, Sophocles wrote:
The firm resolve falters, the sacred oath is shattered;
And let none say, “It cannot happen here.”

Well, it CAN happen here. It IS happening here. There are those who are actually cheering for it to happen here, like this bibio44 fool.

We ignore the lessons of history at our peril. 2000 years or so ago, Titus Livy, in the introduction to his monumental history of Rome remarked that his purpose in writing was “to trace the progress of our moral decline, to watch, first, the sinking of the foundations of morality as the old teaching was allowed to lapse, then the rapidly increasing disintegration, then the final collapse of the whole edifice, and the dark dawning of our modern day when we can neither endure our vices nor face the remedies needed to cure them.”

The people of Rome could do neither and night fell in the Western world for a thousand years.

So, when we face the dark dawning of our own modern day of which Livy spoke so long ago, there is a history lesson that every one of you all can and must teach.

It’s the lesson that courageous American men and women taught the British 234 years ago at Lexington Green and beyond.

And the lesson is that the pursuit of tyranny comes with a terrible and deadly cost to its perpetrators. For you are what tyrants fear most – informed, armed and unafraid citizens.

But if you choose to do nothing and surrender to the evil that has overtaken us, not only is your cause lost, but so is everyone else’s. Your surrender will only strengthen those who would perpetrate their evil on others. And that’s the greatest crime of all.

Stay well. Stay safe. Stay armed. Stay free.

Sep 8, 2009 - 9:48 am 17. goy:

Watch it and weep, bibio…

I wonder how many of these celebrity high school dropouts, innumerate imbeciles and left-listing lemmings wrote letters to themselves about their idiotic “pledges” – like BHO originally wanted the nation’s children to do. I wonder who’s actually checked to see if a single one of them has made good on any of it – other than passively abusing their pop culture influence and notoriety to mindlessly ’serve’ what is already arguably the most corrupt, opaque, incompetent, radical administration in U.S. History.

There’s one social group for whom buyer’s remorse is settling in hard – and they’re being all but completely ignored by BHO’s lying, entrenched, Fifth Column media shills.

Sep 8, 2009 - 9:55 am 18. Calvin Ball:

Barack Obama is probably going to drop this nonsense. He simply cannot get away with it. Obama will likely sound like the reincarnation of Ronald Reagan. He may very well go out of his way to sound conservative. Obama is getting desperate to show his “moderate” side.

This is the part that I think is most bizarre of all. I think he really does believe that he’s center-right, and I think he believes that all of the people he hangs out with, from Ayers to Jones to Wright, are also center-right. He’s been immersed in that communist stew for so long, it seems mainstream.

That’s why none of these characters are ever vetted – they literally don’t see anything wrong with a communist truther who doesn’t believe that Israel has a right to exist. And in that world, the notion of green collar jobs is simply obvious economics.

The only ‘radicals’ he has any radar for are Beck and Hannity and Limbaugh. So they’re the only people in the universe who he has any criticism for.

Sep 8, 2009 - 10:05 am 19. MJBrutus:

Poor Citizen: Yes your first 2 sentences are correct. That is why Bush and his party lost the support of conservatives. A big reason Obama is President.

Old Soldier,

Thank you! I was drafting a reply along a similar vein as yours. But you said it better than I could have

Sep 8, 2009 - 10:06 am 20. rbell:

Poor Citizen: You still don’t get it. Bush was a bag boy for the Democrats. For all those years he allowed the media to trash him and his party, he never fought back. Why, because he was taking the high ground? No it was because he was on their payroll for his 8 years in office. He did everything he could to get rid of the conservatives in his own party. He paved the way for the Democrats to take total control of all branches of the government. He kept Chaney on board as VP so that there would be no leading candidate for the nomination when he left. He did not let Rhemsfeld go until just a day past the mid year elections. Once the Dems took the House he canned him. His true colors came forth in his second term. He attempted to spend the country into oblivion and make it ready for a change in leadership.

It is all smoke and mirrors. It is all one party and one elite band of crooks running it. No Bush set the table for Barack. Explain why he was closer to the Clintons than anyone in his own party. You are right Bush started this disaster, but it was all a part of a game plan he was a part of.

Sep 8, 2009 - 10:39 am 21. karlinsync:

How can anyone in Congress say the Stimulus is working when unemployment is up or staying steady close to 10%! Stimulus is to get people back in a work environment, which allows Americans to make money and spend to help other business to hire people. The only hiring is the W.H in the CZAR department. This new administration is a corrupt, lying, and untruthful bunch of yahoos!

Sep 8, 2009 - 11:10 am 22. rbell:

Poor Citizen: I’ll try again to get my message through the censor of this web site. You are right. Bush did start the economic disaster because he has always been a bag boy for the far left. Bush set the table for Barack. He was a Republican straw man. He never was a conservative and actually made fun of them whenever he could. He was neither compassionate nor a conservative. Here is my rationale for claiming he was phony Republican and a part of a conspiracy.

1) Bush trashed the Republican party while in office. He eliminated conservatives from any influence on the party.
2) He kept Chaney as VP so there would be no front runner after he left office.
3) He replace Rhumsfeld only after the Dems took the House.
4) He was closer to the Clintons than anyone in his own party.
5) Upon his reelection he went on a spending spree ignoring the cries of his own party members and the conservatives that helped elect him.
6) He never defended himself or his party during years of leftest media abuse.
7) When he left office he had alienated everyone on the left and right. The country was ready for change and he knew what that change would be.
Notice his current silence on this full frontal assault on our Constitutional liberties.

NO Bush was always playing for the other side.

Sep 8, 2009 - 11:18 am 23. uncommon sense:

Bilbo 44-”Ipledge allegiance to kiss Soros butt for $10/hr for doing nothing but being an Idiot” . Bilbo-tell me is Soros going to give you any of the 2 billion that the Onescum just gave him to help drill for OIL(how EVIL) in BRAZIL? Ignorant Bilbo-werent you one of those idiots who marched into that schoolroom in Kansas City, Mo last October chanting O_BA_MMMAMMAAAA? Like the little brainwashed commies they are. You can go back and cry to Soros now Bilbo. Im sure he to cheap to pay your dumb arse more.

Sep 8, 2009 - 11:31 am 24. Pathena:

Has anyone gone through the 1000-page Act billed as the “Stimulus Plan”? And what of the 1000-page Bill for Health Reform?

Sep 8, 2009 - 11:56 am 25. goy:

rbell, I’m afraid I must agree almost completely. If not for 9/11, and the fact that an American President was finally forced to do something about Radical Islam’s War Against the Rest of the World® (a blue dress prevented Clinton from making good on his plans to do that in 1998), it’s pretty clear that GWB’s presidency would have mirrored his father’s pretty closely.

However, I wouldn’t hang this list on GWB alone. Except for Reagan and one or two notable statesmen, the Republican “leadership” has been playing this same game for some four decades. Since Nixon, the two-party system has been a case of far-left socialists in the Democrat Party pretending to duke it out with center-left Republicans who’ve willingly played the “bad cop” / “fascists” in a script written and produced by the left’s lying, entrenched, Fifth Column media shills.

Conservatism hasn’t had a voice since Reagan. And until it gets one we’ll be heading down the slippery slope to socialist “Utopia” at one of two different rates regardless which party has the majority.

Sep 8, 2009 - 12:04 pm 26. malclave:

“Recently, a television interviewer asked Obama if he had any doubts. “Never” was his response. That’s the answer he requires you to have as well.”

A couple of weeks ago, I was watching the musical “Camelot” on DVD, and I recall one bit of dialogue that seems applicable. It’s right after Arthur meets Lancelot, and realizes that the Round Table can be a force for good. (Hopefully I’ve got the lines accurately… if not, well, you get the idea)

Arthur: I’ve done it! I’ve done the right thing.
Lancelot: Did you ever doubt it, Your Majesty?
Arthur: Of course. Only a fool never doubts.

Sep 8, 2009 - 12:19 pm 27. Meryl:

I recall after the 2004 election that there were therapy sessions offered in Florida by devastated Gore voters (who lost).

Now we may need therapy sessions offered to obama voters (who won).

This is getting very confusing. It leads me to conclude that whether they win or lose, liberal voters need therapy afterwards.

They might want to consider THINKING ABOUT WHAT THEY’RE DOING BEFORE THEY VOTE IN THE FUTURE…then at least they don’t have to regret winning.

Sep 8, 2009 - 12:33 pm 28. Dave:

bibio,

the ‘quote’ to which you refer is, I believe, from a video that’s been produced for quite some time, a series of celebrities endorsing various heartfelt and substance-free proclamations.. I saw it myself some months ago, and was nauseated. I do not remember that specific line but I suspect it is in there, along with many equally nauseating cliches.

it is not a part of the school speech or the working paper materials which were to accompany the speech. and I do not know if the video played, as was planned.

But as to calling the poster a liar, what ever stopped a person like you from saying it WITHOUT such bona fides? Fire away. No surprises there.

Sep 8, 2009 - 12:34 pm 29. Herb:

A man walked into a very high-tech bar. As he sat down on a stool he noticed that the bartender was a robot. The robot clicked to attention and asked, “Sir, what will you have?”

The man thought a moment then replied, “A martini please.”

The robot clicked a couple of times and mixed the best martini the man had ever had.

The robot then asked, “Sir, what is your IQ?”

The man answered “oh, about 164.”

The robot then proceeded to discuss the ‘theory of relativity’, ‘inter-steller space travel’, ‘the latest medical break throughs’, etc.

The man was most impressed. He left the bar but thought he would try a different tact.. He returned and took a seat. Again the robot clicked and asked what he would have? “A Martini please.”

Again it was superb. The robot again asked “what is your IQ sir?”

This time the man answered, “Oh about 100″. So the robot started discussing Nascar racing, the latest basketball scores, and what to expect the Dodgers to do this weekend.

The guy had to try it one more time. So he left, returned and took a stool…. Again a martini, and the question, “What is your IQ?”??

This time the man drawled out “Uh….. bout 50″.

The robot clicked then leaned close and very slowly asked,

“A-r-e y-o-u p-e-o-p-l-e s-t-i-l-l h-a-p-p-y w-i-t-h O-B-A-M-A?
=

Sep 8, 2009 - 12:35 pm 30. Dave:

And the prize goes to David Thomson, for correctly guessing that Oblama would sound more conservative than Reagan!

Kids, gotta work, gotta do it yourself, you’re the one responsible for whether you succeed or fail.

RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM.

A very conservative message. Totally insincere, but very conservative.

Sep 8, 2009 - 12:36 pm 31. The UnPatriot:

Poor bibio – the wild and wily internets are not feeling kindly towards him today.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22I+pledge+to+be+a+servant+to+our+President.%22

produced about 90,000 results for “I pledge to be a servant to our President.”. It took a whole 0.28 seconds.

I think that the guy kissing his biceps is Dweezil Zappa. I was a bit surprised. I always thought of his dad, Frank, as more of a anti-establishment libertarian and would certainly expect buyer’s remorse from him, if he were still alive. As for, Dweezil can’t say much.

–The UnPatriot

Sep 8, 2009 - 1:04 pm 32. Calvin Ball:

How can anyone in Congress say the Stimulus is working when unemployment is up or staying steady close to 10%!

Where’d the money go? ACORN’s hiring.

Sep 8, 2009 - 1:25 pm 33. Calvin Ball:

I recall after the 2004 election that there were therapy sessions offered in Florida by devastated Gore voters (who lost).

Now we may need therapy sessions offered to obama voters (who won).

When a dog spends most of his life chasing cars, and finally catches one, then what? Honestly, I think they’d be happier bitching in paper-mache heads. Now the tea partiers are having all the fun (without paper-mache heads!!!11), and they’re in a total funk.

Sep 8, 2009 - 1:29 pm 34. Calvin Ball:

A very conservative message. Totally insincere, but very conservative.

I disagree. I think he’s simply too shallow to see the contradiction. I think he believes every last word of it, internal contradictions and all.

The Alinsky model is a peculiar thing – they really are revolutionary entrepreneurs. The community organizer who sits around and waits for daddy government to hand him something fails. The successful ones get out and hustle. They hustle the government, they hustle the foundations, they hustle the corporations, they hustle rich individuals, but they have more hustle than a used car salesman.

Indeed, they most certainly believe in the spirit of enterprise – but not in the productive sector. Only in the pursuit of political goals. So there’s no contradiction at all between the hustle of the community organizer and the worship of the central state. You’re supposed to give your all. But the them, not to your own business.

Sep 8, 2009 - 1:38 pm 35. macko:

unpatriot:

I think that’s the singer from Red Hot Chili peppers

Sep 8, 2009 - 1:57 pm 36. kdell:

Ward and rbell – very well stated points. Keep it up please. folks like you help drown out the drivel of the bibio’s.

Sep 8, 2009 - 2:04 pm 37. bibio44:

10. Fact Checker: biblio44: The exact quote “I pledge to be a servant to our President” is from Demi Moore and it is spoken around 3:58 in this YouTube video.

Well the next time Demi Moore addresses our schoolchildren as president, I’ll worry about it.

Sep 8, 2009 - 2:27 pm 38. The UnPatriot:

35. macko:
“I think that’s the singer from Red Hot Chili peppers”

I stand corrected.

–The UnPatriot

Sep 8, 2009 - 2:29 pm 39. AdrianS:

Wow!

Shocker! Judge orders trial on eligibility issue
Arguments planned Jan. 11 for challenge to Obama

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=109242

Obama was born in …. Kenya!

Sep 8, 2009 - 2:34 pm 40. Annie:

We need to do something about ACORN…NOW..

all the hoopla over jones and obama slips more b.s. by us.

Demi Moore is as dumb as Michael Moore and her child husband..a good fit. stupid is a stupid does/says…

Sep 8, 2009 - 2:47 pm 41. steveg:

McCain made a big mistake not presenting Obama as the Chicago version of Al Sharpton.

Sep 8, 2009 - 3:25 pm 42. scott:

Its nice to see Obammi going all wobbly.

Too bad the pubbies don’t have a man on the roster that can convince America he’s anything other than a shill come the 2012 election. Just as it is a dirty shame the pubby party has forsaken RWR and all he stood for.

Maybe a general? We need another Ike only with a bit more activism thrown in.

Sep 8, 2009 - 3:48 pm 43. Now and Then:

29. Herb:
You forgot the punch line:

Then the robot asked, “What is your IQ sir.”

So the man said, “1.”

The robot stood back and said, “I’m sorry, Mr. Beck but you’re a recovering alcoholic and drug addict and I can not serve you.”

Sep 8, 2009 - 6:37 pm 44. Mike2:

16. Ward Dorrity:

Good way to put it. I especially liked you linking today’s radical left to the French Revolution. Hannah Arendt did a good job of outlining the difference between the American Revolution and the French Revolution.

And yes, the left has been quite candid about their plans for this country and their disdain for our Constitution all the while using it to undermine this country. Obama too was quite transparent in both the primaries and the general election. I am continually amazed by those that try to say he was a stealth candidate or that they didn’t know. The signs were all there. We knew all we needed to know about him after the “We are the ones we have been waiting for” speech in Berlin last summer. Probably no co-incidence he made the speech in Berlin either. Quite symbolic.

Thanks

Sep 8, 2009 - 7:25 pm 45. Thomas:

Ineptitude as decisive political force

The inept governance of the Czar led to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
The inept governance of the Weimar Rep. of Germany incubated Hitler.
The ineptitude and dilettantism of the Republican establishment led to the ascent of Kenyan demigod.

Compared to Angela Merkel of Germany – a true, successful conservative LEADER! – her Anglo-American counterparts are primitive dolts regardless of their Yale or Harvard diplomas. The human quality, the prevailing intellect of this Nation’s elites are substandard.

Either they are captives of some private business interest which is detrimental to the country like Bush-Abdullah, Bush-Mexican cheap labor lobby or unable to go beyond the tenets of Marx-Engels and the New Left Socialist dogmas.

Take a look at the portraits of the 32 (?) Czars and Dante’s inferno comes up: The inscription on the gates to the Hell:
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here” …

(Lasciate Ogni Speranza Voi Ch’Entrate)

Sep 8, 2009 - 7:28 pm 46. Mortrey:

Poor Citizen says: “The stimulus package was thought up by the Bush administration and carried on at the beginning of the Obama administration when he first took office. It was the Bush administration that created the economic disaster, and spending spree and deficits that could be stacked up to mars, and back.”

My, my, my……Poor Citizen, aren’t you aware of the “run” on the market in September of ‘08, in the amount of 5 BILLION dollars that threw the fear of God into Bush? He was scared to death that the market was going to collapse and did the only thing he could to “save” it—as explained by Kanjorski on C-Span not long afterwards. Sounded to me, right off the bat, like something Soros did! He gleefully collapsed the British market years ago. And, I think we all know who the puppetmaster is behind the “Won”. He subsidizes halos photoshopped around the “Won’s” head in print media, as well as “other” things.

And, if you’re so “concerned” with the money being spent, what do you think of Michelle Obama having 26 SERVANTS at taxpayer expense?

What? I don’t hear anything…..I’ll wait….

Sep 8, 2009 - 7:30 pm 47. rickb308:

11. Poor Citizen:
The stimulus package was thought up by the Bush administration and carried on at the beginning of the Obama administration when he first took office.

Not quite right.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, abbreviated ARRA (Pub.L. 111-5), is an economic stimulus package enacted by the 111th United States Congress in February 2009. The Act of Congress was based largely on proposals made by President Barack Obama and was intended to provide a stimulus to the U.S. economy in the wake of the economic downturn. The measures are nominally worth $787 billion.
No Republicans in the House and only three Republican Senators voted for the bill.[1][2][3] The bill was signed into law on February 17 by President Obama at an economic forum he was hosting in Denver, Colorado.[4]

Legislative history

House of Representatives
The House version of the bill, H.R. 1, was introduced on January 25, 2009. It was sponsored by Democrat David Obey, the House Appropriations Committee chairman, and was co-sponsored by nine other Democrats. On January 23, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said that the bill was on track to be presented to President Obama for him to sign into law before February 16, 2009.[5] Although 206 amendments were scheduled for floor votes, they were combined into only 11, which enabled quicker passage of the bill.[6]
On January 28, 2009, the House passed the bill by a 244-188 vote.[7] All but 11 Democrats voted for the bill, and 177 Republicans voted against it (one Republican, Ginny Brown-Waite, did not vote).[8]

Senate
The Senate version of the bill, S. 1, was introduced on January 6, 2009, and later substituted as an amendment to the House bill, S.Amdt. 570. It was sponsored by Harry Reid, the Majority Leader, co-sponsored by 16 other Democrats and Joe Lieberman, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats.

I really don’t think the democrats were working with bush after nov 5th.

Obama & the dems own this monstrosity.

Sep 8, 2009 - 8:46 pm 48. Inrptrn:

“Indeed, they most certainly believe in the spirit of enterprise – but not in the productive sector. Only in the pursuit of political goals. So there’s no contradiction at all between the hustle of the community organizer and the worship of the central state. You’re supposed to give your all. But the them, not to your own business.”

Typical model communist organizer, proudly displaying his trophy room in service to oppression and state control. Give a person who doesn’t know any better, because they were either never taught anything else, or every alternative was brain-washed out of them, (typical public educated young person these days) a job and they will do anything.

Sep 8, 2009 - 8:59 pm 49. Calvin Ball:

I think somebody’s confusing the “stimulus” with the bailout. Neither was a good idea, but only one had anything to do with Bush. And theoretically, they taxpayers should get some of that bailout money back, whereas the “stimulus” money is simply flushed down a bunch of Obama’s buddy’s bank accounts. Not that I’m expecting to see much if any of that bailout money back, mind you.

Sep 8, 2009 - 9:28 pm 50. NahnCee:

The thought occurs to wonder if Roger’s friend is having buyer’s remorse, or if it’s simply the latent racism that has been discovered in the past seven months in us all by the Enabler-in-Chief and his White House coterie.

Sep 8, 2009 - 10:52 pm 51. Gaffe Prices:

Buyers Remorse sets in when you realize just how much that vote is going to cost you.

Where once the boomers nicked their parents charge card for a day of shopping, now the boomers charge up stuff on their children’s and grand children’s cards.

Sep 9, 2009 - 12:44 am 52. Pajamas Media » Obama’s Words and Deeds: The Advent of Buyer’s Remorse:

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Sep 9, 2009 - 12:57 am 53. bobbybb:

Buyers remorse….sure some folks are very disappointed that not all of the big problems we face today have been solved in 9 months. Even some libs are frustrated because Obama has not been able or willing to keep all of his promises. Fact is, his approval rating is still just over 50%, barely, which is much higher than Bush’s. It may go down some, but we still are a country pretty evenly divided on the direction we should be going. Don’t know if Obama will hang on for a 2nd term..but if he does run, likely will be close to 50/50 again…who knows what will turn the tide?

Sep 9, 2009 - 1:14 am 54. klrtz1:

Thanks for setting the record straight, rickb308. I sure get tired of hearing lies about George W. Bush.

Anyone who blames the Republican Party for the radicalism of the Democratic Party is part of the problem, not part of the solution. Anyone who claims the two parties are the same is just crazy.

Conservative crazy talk helps Democrats.

Sep 9, 2009 - 2:28 am 55. David S:

Roger said:

“What Obama is doing to us as individuals he is also endeavoring to do to America as a whole: to render it less powerful, less “exceptional,” more part of a housebroken collective.”

I would say the USA could use a little “housebreaking” after years of pissing all over the rest of the world. Certainly it would be better than the complete incontinence demonstrated by the GOP.

Peace.

DS

Sep 9, 2009 - 4:10 am 56. Jack’s Newswatch » Blog Archive » Buyer’s Remorse:

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Sep 9, 2009 - 5:18 am 57. SAF:

I think we can divide the electorate into the following buckets more or less:

1. Ultra left
2. Left
3. liberal democrat
4. democrat
5. conservative democrat
6. Independents who voted for Obama
7. Independents who voted for McCain
8. Republicans who voted Obama
9. All republicans who voted McCain

My analysis by group:

1. Certainly not happy with lack of withdrawal etc. but had no other brand to buy: no remorse.

2 & 3 Pragmatic and loves the course of events: No remorse.

4. maybe too liberal but would have never voted McCain but might have preferred Hillary: No remorse

5. Perhaps feels fooled but for the most part would not have voted for McCain: Little remorse

6. too liberal for some, Ok for others: 50-50 remorse

7 and 9: More I told you so than remorse

8. Probably the largest group of remorseful people. But a small percentage of the electorate.

SO as far as truly remorseful buyers I would put it at less than 5% of the voting public. I define remorse as those who would now switch votes to McCain and for most democrats that would not be the case.

Sep 9, 2009 - 5:53 am 58. rbell:

54 Klrtz1: Still drinking the Kool Aid? You know what helps the Democrats? Ignorance. I paid attention in college. When my Marxist economist professor explained to the class how they were going to take over the country, I believed him. This is all part of an orchestrated game plan. The left got tired of the Clintons and found Obama the perfect vehicle for their take over.

When Kennedy (JFK) said “we are fighting for the hearts and minds of men” the Russians already knew that. Their propaganda mills were already entrenched in Academia. In 1968 they changed the immigration laws to destroy the Anglo Saxon Protestant predominance within our population. Another gift from the other Kennedy (that Lion could swim) sic. Today they are importing people from the Sudan and putting them on the welfare rolls as I write this. In 1976 they disbanded the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Why? Because by that time the House was predominately Un-American. The Democrats were treasonous in their opposition to Regan’s cold war efforts. Who was Regan fighting? Oh The Communists.

With the Communists it is always the same. Truth is their first target. “We are for the little people, the most vulnerable in our Society”. Ya sure. They are usually the first to go. How many peasants did Stalin starve to death? As soon as the truth is gone, as soon as they control the media, then goes personal freedom and liberty. If the people resist, then come the firing squads. DeSaVou all over all again. Think I am nuts. Take it up with my economics professor. Even the Jews in Germany thought Hitler was a silly little man, right up until they boarded the trains. They thought the same thing. It can’t happen here. We are at the point where only God can save us now.

My apologies to those who know how to speak French. Usually I just wave a white flag. If you don’t like me try Herb. He is much funnier. Good story.

Sep 9, 2009 - 6:08 am 59. lphillips:

I have noticed also that there are fewer and fewer cars that still have the Obama stickers on them.

That’s a good sign.

Sep 9, 2009 - 6:24 am 60. Galen:

Fear no! Tonight Obama will say,”i’m sorry I’m sticking you with that fool Biden but I realize I’m not fit for this job and have given my resignation to the Secretery of State. I’m happy to return to my true profession–collecting tolls on the Dan Ryan Expressway.

Sep 9, 2009 - 6:42 am 61. paul_unalaska:

David S – what is your fascination with trying to appease the rest of the world? What does that mean?

Perhaps you should follow the late singer/ actor Rick Nelson’s sage words of ‘Garden Party’ – ‘You can’t please everyone but you got to please yourself’

If the U.S is so loathed, why is the U.S. still a member of the U.N.? Why does numerous African countries, the Palestinean territory etc., still accept our tens of billions of aid money, goods and volunteers to be in their country?

Why does Germany, Italy, Japan to name but a few of our former enemies allow U.S. military bases present in their country?

I travel a great deal for work since 2003. From that time to 2008 I hadn’t ANY problems with folks in West African countries, Belgium, France nor English people I’d befriended.

This ‘need to be liked’ is eerily like SNL’s ‘Roy Smalley’ sketch. This ‘U.S. was/ is the global scourge’ is ludicrous you play upon. Get over your self loathing.. Oh wait.. are you an artist? hahaha

Perhaps pay more notice to U.S. and U.S. ex-pats who used their kids to campaign for politicians.. This was grossly on display on Europe’s CNN last year whereas U.S. ex pats living in France exploited their children to explain the ‘Hope’ n ‘Change’.

It was similar to Kathy Lee Gifford exploiting her children on television. Creepy..

Sep 9, 2009 - 8:08 am 62. Sebastian Shaw:

I was in a Wal-Mart parking lot loading my bags in the trunk & noticed a partially torn Obama sticker off a car bumper. I have not seen many more Obama stickers than I had on election day. The worm has turned.

Sep 9, 2009 - 8:31 am 63. Bohemond:

TARP as conceived by Paulsen and passed by Congress was supposed to buy up the toxic mortgage-backed assets that were petrifying financial houses’ balance sheets. But as soon as the Obamanistas took over, they converted the TARP funds into indefinite-term subsidy/loans which they would not let the bankes repay, while not removing the toxic debt. And so long as banks are stuck with the money, Obama and Geithner have them by the short hairs.

Oh, and some of the TARP money, in complete disregard of the appropriating act, was spent on GM and Chrysler- and in concert with the Stepford Wife TARP-recipient banks was used to effect the government?UAW takeover of those companies.

None of this has anything to do with the subsequently-passed Porkulus

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“Poor Citizen, aren’t you aware of the “run” on the market in September of ‘08, in the amount of 5 BILLION dollars that threw the fear of God into Bush?”

It was 500 billion, and could have run beyond 2 trillion had Bernancke and Paulsen not closed the markets. While one is reminded of Soros’ previous stunts, even he doesn’t have that kind of money: this was a nation-state. Who? The Chinese? Absolutely not. Chaos in US financial markets and a plunging dollar is Beijing’s worst nightmare. Who else has that much in US currency holdings to dump? Petro-states. To date, nobody knows which one(s): but make no mistake, it was a deliberate Pearl Harboring of the American financial system.

Not that Soros is innocent: there is very good reason to believe he and his hedge funds were behind the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

Sep 9, 2009 - 8:52 am 64. Charlie (Colorado):

The stimulus package was thought up by the Bush administration

No, the stimulus package was all Democrats. You’re thinking of the bank bailout, which was of roughly the same scale, represented the government getting actual assets, and is already being paid back.

Sep 9, 2009 - 8:54 am 65. scott:

Thomas is exactly right. Pubbies just hate that sort of talk. They’ll stay out of power until they admit this truth and make it their standard.

They must apologize to all humanity. They failed and criminally to boot. I believe Ronald Reagan would say the same even though it might seem to violate his 11th commandment. Today’s pubbies aren’t really even conservatives at all. Not even a little bit.

Sep 9, 2009 - 9:58 am 66. myth buster:

rbell, you forgot one step. Between loss of liberty and firing squads comes “reeducation.” Killing your political opponents is an overt action that can spark revolution, so it’s best left until after it’s clear they won’t see things your way. It’s also worth noting that one of the means of stripping liberty is gun control.

Sep 9, 2009 - 12:36 pm 67. Keating Willcox:

Your essay was great.

Obama will succeed in 2012 because by that time the economy will have recovered, and the only tax increases will be to Republicans. Acorn will register millions of new, solid dem voters, and they will all be on entitlements.

Sep 9, 2009 - 2:18 pm 68. Big Red:

Galen, he’ll be real easy to spot, since the Dan Ryan is a FREEway, he’ll be the only one standing there with a bucket and a hand out. But it is another way to raise taxes, so I suspect he’ll be there.

Sep 9, 2009 - 7:06 pm 69. rwisher:

He might regret it, but he’ll vote for the next one. I have found liberals possess either selective memory or an ability to rationalize anything. He couldn’t be a liberal otherwise.

He will find a reason to stay on his destructive path, much like the scorpion in the fable.

Sep 11, 2009 - 6:49 pm

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