98 Comments

1. frank martin:

- With an unemployment rate at 10%, traveling to Copenhagen to lobby for the Olympics to be in the far off city of Chicago.

- Proposing, in broad daylight, that public schools have their hours extended and summer vacations are put to an end.

- With troops in the field, saying that he is “not particularly interested in victory”.

- Lobbying for a health care plan that says that Americans who don’t purchase health care can be fined and failure to pay the fine will result in jail time.

- Firing Inspector Generals who investigate close associates.

Sep 28, 2009 - 2:34 pm 2. frank martin:

I forgot to mention:

“Going to the UN to give a speech that was only slightly less crazy and poorly composed than Ghadaffi’s,Chavez’ or “that-guy-from-Iran-who-looks-like-a-nut”.

Sep 28, 2009 - 2:37 pm 3. tim maguire:

Nothing rejuvenates the conservative movement like putting liberals in charge for a little while. Too bad conservatives are so quick to get sclerotic that we need to put liberals in charge once in a while.

Sep 28, 2009 - 2:38 pm 4. frank martin:

I’ve given up looking for Conservatives and have decided to settle for “Adults of any part of the political spectrum who don’t have serious problems controlling their LSD flashbacks”.

Seriously, this is not a set of ideological complaints, its a simple problem of execution. Its not that his plans are liberal, its that they aren’t “plans” at all. They have no more form and substance than a fart in the wind.

I sometimes think Ive fallen asleep during a late night showing of “America-thon” or “Wild in the Streets”. I feel like the English Naval officer when he arrives on the island in “Lord of the flies”.

Sep 28, 2009 - 2:47 pm 5. McGehee:

Its not that his plans are liberal, … They have no more form and substance than a fart in the wind.

Uh…

Where exactly is the contradiction here?

Sep 29, 2009 - 8:21 am 6. kev:

The only detail I can’t figure out is, why didn’t Karl Rove send me the memo on this back in ‘07?

Because he knew squishy libertarians would have turned away if there was any hint of Republican stage management. He is, after all, a magnificent bastard.

Sep 29, 2009 - 10:31 am 7. Brad:

`I feel like the English Naval officer when he arrives on the island in “Lord of the flies”.’

**Outstanding! I’ve been comparing living during this administration to waking up in the backseat of my own car with it cruising down the road, but there’s no one in the driver’s seat. But your “Flies” analogy is better. Well said! Living during the Age of Obama really is one big “WHAT THE F***?”

Sep 29, 2009 - 10:50 am 8. Bob in Florida:

“The only detail I can’t figure out is, why didn’t Karl Rove send me the memo on this back in ‘07?” Yours must’ve got lost in the mail, or you tossed it – mine was cleverly disguised as a Publisher’s Clearing House sweepstakes entry. Evil Genius #1 said to fight, but not too hard, for McCain/Palin, have faith, and soon we’d be able to laugh at the “superior intellects” (his phrase, though he acknowledged borrowing heavily from Wrath of Khan).

Sep 29, 2009 - 11:08 am 9. john:

Frank,

Shouldn’t that be funemployment?

Sep 29, 2009 - 11:54 am 10. rbj:

I feel like Don Draper waking up in the motel room in this past Sunday’s episode. Only there isn’t a dollar in my wallet and my pants are around my ankles.

Sep 29, 2009 - 12:59 pm 11. Billy Hollis:

I explored a similar idea several months ago.

My plan is a multi-step process, but all the steps look pretty easy except step 11.

Sep 29, 2009 - 1:37 pm 12. Faraday Cage:

God luv ya, Steve, but I have to say… is this the same Stephen Green who, on a Pajamas Media podcast shortly after the election last November, said that Obama was sounding like the kind of President he could live with?

We. Told. You. So.

Sep 29, 2009 - 3:05 pm 13. Pajamas Media » The Manchurian President:

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Sep 30, 2009 - 2:01 am 14. sarainitaly:

“Sen. McCain brings a lifetime of experience to the campaign. I bring a lifetime of experience. And Sen. Obama brings a speech he gave in 2002.”

Sep 30, 2009 - 3:36 am 15. LeighB:

How wonderful it would be if Obama and Oprah both decided to stay in Europe. He is so super smart, I bet he could learn Austrian in half the time it takes Oprah.

Sep 30, 2009 - 4:45 am 16. vivo:

Surprise!

Obama is a Republican President!

Rejoice, dance, sing and shut up!

Sep 30, 2009 - 5:29 am 17. dynomitejim:

How about Gatewater?

May be the dumbest thing a president has ever said. Oh I forgot…Carter two weeks ago…I mean sitting president.

Sep 30, 2009 - 5:52 am 18. Pedro:

Happy days are here again. Nov. 2010!!!!!

Sep 30, 2009 - 6:00 am 19. genghis:

What’s the matter VIVO? Things not quite working out as expected? Boo oo, boo hoo. Hopey Changey seems to be in trouble. Sob, sob. Well, at the next meeting with the comrades, speak up, man.

Sep 30, 2009 - 6:12 am 20. D. Peterson:

I feel like I’ve traveled back, in some sort of demented time warp, to the 1970’s–and the 1970s really stunk. To make it worse, it’s like Obama wakes up every morning and asks himself, “What can I do today to be a worse President than Jimmy Carter?”, and then does it.

Sep 30, 2009 - 6:27 am 21. justasimplepatriot:

In aviation we call it CFIT (Controlled Flight Into Terrain.) That is when a pilot drives a perfectly good airplane into the side of a mountain because he/she is distracted or incompetent.

Whatever the cause, it doesn’t end well.

Sep 30, 2009 - 6:37 am 22. MIKE in ATL:

Comment #4 cracked me up!Still smiling…

Sep 30, 2009 - 6:40 am 23. Czar of Defenestration:

I’m starting to see the point of view of good folks like Chuck Pelto, who say they are “grateful” (in a limited sense) for trolls here, in that they not only make good fish-in-barrel-targets, but prove only too clearly the dementia of the Left.

Sep 30, 2009 - 6:48 am 24. Butterfly Mornings and Wildflower Afternoons:

Presidents George Sr., George W., and Obama are the same. They all seem to have the same agenda of the Elite Bankers in mind as they are presidents, and I believe that all of them have spoke about “New World Order” in their speeches.
I believe what I have been reading about the Bilderberg Group and I believe we have not had a president for years and years that is not a puppet for the bankers that truly rule the whole world.
I would like to find out before Election Day if it is true that Governor Rick Perry of Texas along with Senator Hutchison has met with the Bilderberg Group. I would like to know if the Trans Texas Corridor is really confiscating old family owned land. I would like to know if the Trans Texas Corridor is really for the purpose of the Tri Lateral Union and I would love people to know what is really happening. Most people in Texas have never heard of the Tri Lateral Union with Canada and Mexico.

The Europeans and Canadians seem to know more about their governments than Americans do. Our own government just wants to take our money and for us the shut up and lay down.

Sep 30, 2009 - 6:49 am 25. Sebastian Shaw:

President Barack Obama is a rigid Leftist ideologue bent on the destruction of the United States of America as we know it & transform the USA into a quasi-dictatorship with him as the leader; however, Obama underestimated the people’s reaction to his “change.” As a result, most of his Marxist legislation is either put on hold in one of the House or Senate chambers or the Democrats are fighting among themselves with the Socialist Health-Care Fiat while Obama himself is disconnected from reality. Things are only going to get worse for the Democrats as they attempt to Crap & Tax with the Climate Change/Global Warming bill & Amnesty 2.0. President Obama is indeed a gift for the Conservatives & Republicans, but the Republicans must be able to exploit the Democrats overreach. President Obama, meanwhile, still campaigns, yet needs to govern when he does not have the necessary tools to do so; therefore, I expect for campaigning from the listless feckless Obama as he continues to live in Fantasy Land.

I expect more television appearances from the One as his Marxist plans crash & burn, despite the Democrats control of the White House, House, & Senate. President Obama is a deer in the headlights as the pitchforks are aimed at him while he tries to create scapegoats for his stupid feckless leadership.

Sep 30, 2009 - 7:42 am 26. ricpic:

Where was Mr. Green during any sound bite on TV by any standard lefty college professor popping off on any subject under the sun and spouting absolute insanity? With the exception of his melanin content – which is the only thing that got him elected – Obama is an absolutely standard lefty college professor. Of course he’s taking us down the road to hell! Given what he is, a standard issue lefty professor, there is no other road to go down…to the very end.

Sep 30, 2009 - 7:57 am 27. mingus:

One thing for certain. Obama is one creepy guy.

Sep 30, 2009 - 8:01 am 28. Josh:

Vivo in 5,4,3…

What’s that?? Oh he’s already wet himself over this post.

Poor Citizen blows a fuse in 5,4,3,2…

Hang around here long enough and you’ll be throwing dear leader under the bus before he does you.

Sep 30, 2009 - 8:03 am 29. Mr Lucky:

16. vivo.

“Surprise!

Obama is a Republican President!

Rejoice, dance, sing and shut up!”

Rejoice: mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack Hussein Obama

Dance: Alaman left with your new left hand…

Shut up: “It’s a lot more fun than listening to Daddy talk,” Michelle Obama said, prompting Sasha to raise her hands, opening and closing them as she said “blah, blah, blah,” to mock her father talking.
“They basically cut out when I [start talking],” Barack Obama said.

Sarkozy too???

Sep 30, 2009 - 8:22 am 30. David S:

• Jebus, the Republicans are starting to look good. (Oops — I couldn’t find a link for this one.)

Why am I not surprised?

Peace.

DS

Sep 30, 2009 - 8:24 am 31. Stevemmn:

I agree with the article. One could argue that George W. Bush was a Manchurian Candidate sent by Democrats to sabotage Republicans, so turn about is fair play!

Sep 30, 2009 - 8:36 am 32. biblio44:

• Selling out Eastern Europe to the Russians.

Here I side with that great Nixonian statesman, Pat Buchanan. You don’t put military hardware on the Russian border without Russian permission. Just as Bush met Russian aggression in Georgia with nothing but rhetoric, Obama is wise enough not to challenge Moscow (and there probably was a quid-pro-quo re: Iran). Even JFK’s “victory” during the Cuban Missile Crisis included taking our missiles out of neighboring Turkey.

Sep 30, 2009 - 8:46 am 33. Poor Citizen:

The author is on the right track. Bush left Obama with all the right issues in which to fail like his presidency and his party did. A ruined economy, wall street crash, banking crash, credit crash, massive unemployment, two failed wars, mass corruption and racketeering, failed foreign policy, failed domestic policy…. etc etc…

You might think that Obama, and the country had no chance last December…as we all know they were very dark days indeed.

But somehow this president is actually facing these issues head on and working toward real solutions. Will he succeed? The jury is still out.

Sep 30, 2009 - 9:11 am 34. MJBrutus:

The only detail I can’t figure out is, why didn’t Karl Rove send me the memo on this back in ‘07?

Are you paid up on your Vast Right Wing Conspiracy dues?

Sep 30, 2009 - 9:22 am 35. billslayer:

32. biblio44: The infrastructure was ALREADY being put in place–Obama pulled the plug on it. I’m sorry, but Obama is an effeminate weakling and Putin knows it. He pulled a concrete bargaining chip off the table and got ZERO concrete results. He is weak, this is why the Russians, Iranians, terrorists, and liberals love him.

Sep 30, 2009 - 9:24 am 36. Adult:

@Poor Citizen
>>The author is on the right track. Bush left Obama with all the right >>issues in which to fail like his presidency and his party did. A >>ruined economy,
The economy is not “ruined”. Yes, the fact that Congress failed in their oversight duties and allowed Wall Street to gamble to a degree unprecedented in world history caused a huge problem. The solution to this problem is already in law. When an institution becomes “too big to fail” we have laws on the books to deal with that issue, they are called anti-trust laws. The federal government has no business being in the mortgage industry. Steps need to be taken to totally restructure the financial industry so that these structural problems are eliminated. The Obama administration did not do that. They just covered the problem up. If you think the economy is ruined now wait until bail out II is needed.

>>wall street crash, banking crash, credit crash
This was the result of bad policies going back to the early 90s. Policies that Congress put in place. Part of these policies were a direct result of extortion by community “activists”. Policies like forcing the banks to give loans based on race to people who are not credit worthy. There is plenty of blame to go around.

>>massive unemployment
I guess you aren’t old enough to remember the Carter Depression. And unemployment wasn’t even 8% when Obama took office. Remember his promise that unemployment wouldn’t go over 8% because of the stimulus bill? The policies that are being put in place now are going to make unemployment worse. This war on successful people and successful businesses that Obama has launched is going to make things far worse. A special tax on people who make over $250,000 to pay for Soviet style medicine? That is all small business owners. But of course the leftists don’t understand the difference between a C corporation and an S corporation.

>>two failed wars
Iraq failed? When did that happen? The war against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan failed? How many attacks have they launced on American soil since 9/11/2001? What, I didn’t hear you? ZERO. And that is a failure how?

>>mass corruption and racketeering
Mass corruption and racketeering in the Democratically controlled Congress and in a large network of organizations that Obama has been actively supporting for years.

>>failed foreign policy
Let’s see. We crushed al-Qeda. Crushed Saddaam. We isolated North Korea and Iran. How is that a failed foreign policy? Oh, the liberal Euro Trash don’t like us. I take that as a badge of honor.

>>failed domestic policy
You got me here. Which policy specifically are you talking about? And doesn’t Congress manage domestic policies?

>>You might think that Obama, and the country had no chance last >>December…as we all know they were very dark days indeed.
I didn’t think that. I thought Obama had no chance because he is a Marxist Islamic globalist. Not because the country was finished.

>>But somehow this president is actually facing these issues head on >>and working toward real solutions. Will he succeed? The jury is still >>out.
You can’t be serious. “Real” solutions? This is a joke right? A foreign policy that consists of “surrender before you see the whites of their eyes”. And a president running around the globe looking like a buffoon. Apologizing to the rest of the world because the United States saved them from total subjugation by a tyranny not once, not twice, but three times. Claiming that the fall of the Soviet Union was a bad thing. A fiscal policy that consists of going to war with anyone who is successful and putting us into a debt that we can never repay. Nationalizing the banks and the mortgage industry and the domestic automobile industry. Greatly increasing the power of unions to extort companies and workers that don’t want to be union?

Obama is an amateur who is in way over his head and thinks that ideology is a substitute for policies that actually work.

Our enemies are being emboldened in a way that I did not think was possible because of Obama’s actions. They are going to hit us here at home and hit us hard and it will be all Obama’s doing.

YOu are truly delusional.

Sep 30, 2009 - 9:36 am 37. Paul -Indiana:

I think there is a more appropriate title than ‘The Manchurian President’. Substitute a 6-letter ‘m’ word that starts with MUSLIM. Obama seems determined to allow the Muslims to win in Afghanistan and to get a nuclear weapon. He either favors their victory or has an insane idea that they will play nice when they have WMD so they won’t feel threatened by free people in the world.

Sep 30, 2009 - 9:37 am 38. Khiri:

33. Poor Citizen:

Just what do you mean by “real solutions” and “succeed?”

His kind of solutions and success will mean the end of America as we know it.

We may have our flaws, but we’re still the best country around. People don’t risk there lives to come here cuz we suck!

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Sep 30, 2009 - 9:59 am 40. misanthropicus:

Evil, evil, evil, those Republicans!
And when you see the long range of their scheme, it’s simply petrifying – the destruction of the Democrat Party, which could well explode at the next election, result of the attempt of Obama’s extremists to keep the course on the same anti-American trajectory.

Sep 30, 2009 - 10:02 am 41. Adult:

@Biblio44
>>Just as Bush met Russian aggression in Georgia with nothing but rhetoric,

Actually President Bush met Russian aggression in Georgia with 5,000 American troops dug in on the south side of the East-West Georgian highway. The Russians were told if they tried to cross that highway they would be at war with the US. Also, the US Air Force had ground attack planes and fighter planes in the skies over Georgia. The Russian armored commanders were told that if they did not withdraw they would be attacked. The “humanitarian aid” that was flown in was actually heavy equipment for the troops.

>>Obama is wise enough not to challenge Moscow (and there probably was a quid-pro-quo re: Iran).

Excuse me but Poland and Czechoslovakia are not on Russia’s border. Please get a map and see for yourself. The missile defense system mostly consisted of radar. You are telling us that Eastern European countries possession of radar is a threat to Russia? I seriously doubt that the missile defenses were traded for anything substantial. If they had been Obama would have been shouting his “victory” from the rooftops. So, if Obama wanted to trade something for Russian help with Iran, I might be able to swallow trading the anti-missile missiles but trading radar? Please.

Russia is not the Soviet Union. Whereas the Soviet Union may have been able to bring sufficient credible threats to bear to obtain removal of OFFENSIVE missiles from their border, Russia does not have the capability to carry out any threats, so their threats are not credible.

Sep 30, 2009 - 10:07 am 42. genghis:

POOR CITIZEN’s analysis underscores the deplorable inadequacy currently extant in America’s institutions of higher learning. It would be unfair to regard PC as a brainless, unthinking twit when one takes into account where his thoughts and attitudes were formed and nurtured. Even good genes doesn’t protect you from bay environment.

Sep 30, 2009 - 10:27 am 43. Bob Miller:

Exactly which Republicans are smart enough to have programmed Obama?

Sep 30, 2009 - 10:36 am 44. biblio44:

41. Adult: “@Biblio44>>Just as Bush met Russian aggression in Georgia with nothing but rhetoric, Actually President Bush met Russian aggression in Georgia with 5,000 American troops dug in on the south side of the East-West Georgian highway. The Russians were told if they tried to cross that highway they would be at war with the US …. Russia does not have the capability to carry out any threats, so their threats are not credible.”

Do you really believe this? With US forces stretched to the breaking point and barely able to contain ragtag insurgents and the Taliban?

“Excuse me but Poland and Czechoslovakia are not on Russia’s border.”

Absolutely correct. I should have said Russia’s neighborhood.

Sep 30, 2009 - 11:08 am 45. Fantom:

33. Poor Citizen:

Now that there is some funny stuff. LOL…. maybe you should give up your day job. You did say to were a teacher right? Looks like you might have found something you are good at.. comedy.

Sep 30, 2009 - 11:18 am 46. JED:

Two and a half years into the Obama-phenoma we are still trying to second guess, define, and predict who is now the president. It is amazing how elusive the policies, principles, allegiances, priorities, and positions have been through the rhetoric and castigations. Wishful thinking and idealism have been distractors and celebration causes from both sides of the aisle. Is it hope and change or change and hope for the best? The markets try to rally but consumer confidence is still shy.

Sep 30, 2009 - 11:29 am 47. Ruebacca:

Don’t think 1994 is going to repeat it’s self. The left learned from that experince too. The left is moblized and active. If the Dems don’t ram health care through the left will colapse.

In American politics if you lose your base you don’t have anything. Look at both Bushes.

If you are a consevative you need to get off your ass. Write hand written letters and donate money if you cant make meetings. Everyone must do somthing.

Sep 30, 2009 - 11:30 am 48. Adult:

@biblio44
>>Do you really believe this? With US forces stretched to the breaking point and barely able to contain ragtag insurgents and the Taliban?

Yes, I believe it. My brother was there. And in my job I do computer work for the military. I did support work for the supply effort.

Sep 30, 2009 - 11:33 am 49. Ted:

Steven: You revealed our secret plan – dang you.

Sep 30, 2009 - 11:57 am 50. BC:

Hardly. Barely past 8 months into Obama’s Presidency and the major problems have been: Republicans owning up their reputation as The Party of No (ideas, cooperation, responsibility, ethics…); the right wing media being even more malicious, rumor mongering, and rock throwing than ever before, even starting before Obama took over; and the mainstream corporate media doing its now usual darndest to confuse the heck out of people.

Sep 30, 2009 - 1:06 pm 51. AThinkingPerson:

What a great article! It would laughable if it weren’t tragically true.

Keep up the great writing! Takes the edge off the “Obama Administration” induced depression.

Sep 30, 2009 - 1:32 pm 52. bear:

“But somehow this president is actually facing these issues head on and working toward real solutions”

Prove it.

Sep 30, 2009 - 1:33 pm 53. Rick:

Do I detect a note of desperation in the shrill squeallings of the trolls? They continue saying the same old talking points, while ignoring the facts. . . Pres. Obama is doing more to hurt his party than anyone else. We can only try to prevent him from doing the same to the country. .

Sep 30, 2009 - 1:57 pm 54. Poor Citizen:

numbers 36, 38 and 42. adult, khiri and genghis:

financial crash: headlines 2007 (who was president?)

failed war: headlines 2006 (who was president?)

Blackwater corruption proven 07-08(President?)

Torture disgrace 2005,6,7,8 (who was president?)

Republicans resign corruption prison (who was president?)

massive unemployment: 2007, 2008 (who was the President?)

Failed domestic policy (katrina) headlines: 2004

Now listen up… those were the headlines in many, many, many newspapers that the whole (whole) country was reading about except for those like adult, ghengis and khiri (or larry moe and curly to friends) did not get the chance to probably read about. So please, get a library card and have your parents take you there and show you where you can get “real” information ok?… you can thank me later for another history 101 lesson. Oh, and when you learn something boys, thank a teacher.

Sep 30, 2009 - 2:09 pm 55. Kathryn:

Liberal ideologues are dangerous and we’ve got ourselves the mother of all liberal ideologues in office. Put simply, Obama is not that bright. This article is brilliant. Check out more of Obama’s unbelievable gaffes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4-AKcH3eC8

Sep 30, 2009 - 2:13 pm 56. ked5:

21. justasimplepatriot:

In aviation we call it CFIT (Controlled Flight Into Terrain.) That is when a pilot drives a perfectly good airplane into the side of a mountain because he/she is distracted or incompetent.
~~~

I’ve read some of those reports. Or when they *don’t believe the indicators telling them there’s a mountain in front of them.*

Though I do think obeymugabe knows exactly what he is doing. He wants to be king of the world, adn thinks if he destorys America, it’s enemies will love him. Yeah, just ask chavez and imanutjob – they’ve had more fun mocking him than sarkozy did.

Sep 30, 2009 - 2:14 pm 57. goy:

- … those were the headlines in many, many, many newspapers …

Whining because The Left Wing Media no longer has a lock on public information?

Best change your handle to ‘Poor Baby’.

Sep 30, 2009 - 2:28 pm 58. garrettc:

Poor citizen:
That the thing about cherry picking. They look so juicy, but some of them are rotten.

Finacial crash 2007: It is not who was President, but who controlled congress? Being a teacher you should know that.

Failed war: how did that work out after all?

Blackwater corruption proved: so what, small potatoes.

Torture disgrace: Please. Undignified, yes. Were they cutting off heads, raping prisoners? Feeding people into shreaders, hanging them from the ceiling until thei arms dislocated? Get a grip.

Massive employment: Again, who controls finacial policy and when did that massive (smaller than now) unemployment start to ballon? You’re a teacher, so you get to speak first.

Republicans resiging…: Well we can be sure that Senator “cold cash Jefferson, convicted on most counts, will never see more that a country club jail. Dod and Rangel; not so much. Democrats don’t have much to crow about in the corruption arena. So, as a teacher, in the critical thinking department..?

Failed Domestic policy (Katrina). No, an excellant example of the inability of an ever larger Federal beaurocracy to perform any meaningful action. Not to mention the totally unqualified and corrupt Louisiana government which is in primary control of rescue efforts. Have you heard of States Rights?

And you think the “real” information comes from newspapers?

Sep 30, 2009 - 2:35 pm 59. Peter the Bubblehead:

Someone wrote:
“But somehow this president is actually facing these issues head on and working toward real solutions”

Peter asks: Really? Then please explain why The Won is over in Denmark and not in the US trying to reverse the current trends in the economy, unemployment, and perhaps even sitting down and talking to his own generals to come up with a workable plan to actually perhaps WIN a war?

Sep 30, 2009 - 2:52 pm 60. X:

POOR REASONING still suffers the Orbasm

Sep 30, 2009 - 3:05 pm 61. Mel Z:

Why would the Olympics select Chicago?? I mean some barbarians aged 17-19 beat some honors student to death 2×4’s while a bunch of animals stood around. What kind of sick city is this?

Sep 30, 2009 - 3:22 pm 62. always right:

If the Dems don’t ram health care through the left will colapse.

IF ONLY it’s true.

What will likely happen is the left will turn up 10 notches (yes, hard to imagine that) in their craziness.

The Bush years will be like a garden stroll.

Sep 30, 2009 - 3:23 pm 63. always right:

Now listen up… those were the headlines in many, many, many newspapers that the whole (whole) country was reading about ….

There LIES your problem.

Listen, in order not to appear like you are totally uninformed, read up on something esle besides only the headlines from many, many, many newspapers.

Sep 30, 2009 - 3:29 pm 64. locomotivebreath1901:

Hmm. A stealth republican.

Uh, Stephen?

You can call Obama a marxist. You can call him a Muslim. You can call him a liar, and you can even call him over exposed, but don’t NEVER call him a republican… because, you know… THE ONE will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger.

Sep 30, 2009 - 3:31 pm 65. SYN2O:

So why would we vote for another president in 2012 if the one is doing a great job for us. That would save money to the taxpayes. All we have to do is bitch for 8 years and get what we want. Occassionally send the Cavalry to D.C. in the millions to get them all wee weed up! And have Grandma and Grandpa call their Senators and Congressmen.
Meantime lets lock and load.

Sep 30, 2009 - 3:48 pm 66. J F BALLS:

Obama, being able to become president of the USA, proves that the citizens of this country are basically insane—those who voted for him, I mean. They have an unconscious desire for a “suicide is painless” end, ASAP.

I’ve been reading old USN&WR issues, and their pundit, David Lawrence, ends the May 30, 1960 issue with a column, “History Repeats”.

You know, the old Santayana insight, “Those who refuse to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.”

It’s about the idea of “summits”, in those days taking place between Khrushcev and Ike.

Lawrence puts the hoary liberal argument thus:

“We cannot refuse to sit down and talk. If nothing comes of it, at least the air will be cleared and we shall know where we are.”

YUP–history ALWAYS repeats!

He writes—”The first reaction among many people in the West a few days ago when the second ’summit’ conference collapsed, was one of fright and shock. For what else was next, it was asked, except war?

This has been precisely the danger of ’summit’ conferences. When they fail, widespread fears arise that there’s nothing else left but war.”

The author ends with a quote he wrote in 1955-

“Governments that wish to preserve freedom must steer by the compass of basic principle. They cannot surrender to the whims of expediency now without risking the surrender of their liberties later on.”

There goes America, if Obama succeeds on his Narcissistic quest.

You could say that he is all about the “expediency” of making the NOW be totally controlled and dominated by—OBAMA!

Sep 30, 2009 - 3:51 pm 67. John:

Not a stealth Republican. Just a detached, way-too-in–awe-of-himself wimp.

If Obama wasn’t laid-back and had spent years being incredibly cautious about taking the lead on anything controversial, he never would have beaten Hillary in the primaries or McCain in the general, because people would have looked at his agenda and thought: Al Shapton on Prozac. But you can’t fake going 20 years at just laying back, never taking the lead on anything and never being pushy against your own core supporters when they’re taking you off a cliff. So it’s in Obama’s DNA to be afraid of conflict with anyone who’s not a conservative/Republican, and it’s that fear that makes him incompetent as a leader.

He can’t challege Pelosi or Reid in Congress, and he can’t challenge people like Ahmedinejad or Putin on the world’s stage because that would mean he’d have to lead by providing a strategy. That’s not his style. Other people are supposed to provide the strategy, and then Obama gives a speech, the media orgasms and he takes credit. And then smokes a cigarette. Force him to use another formula, and he’s lost.

Sep 30, 2009 - 3:59 pm 68. moho:

lol. Thanks for self-destructing your movement like this. By the way, it appears that August actually staunched the ebb of Obama’s polls. And he appears to have gained a tick or two. Thanks again, it might not have happened without your crazed and confused expressions of ambient hostility.

A CBS/New York Times poll put him at 56%-33%, compared to 56%-35% in August. An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll has him at 51%-41%, compared to 51%-40% in August. A Fox News poll has him at 54%-39%, compared to 53%-40% in August.

Sep 30, 2009 - 4:02 pm 69. SukieTawdry:

Rove, you magnificent bastard!

Sep 30, 2009 - 4:03 pm 70. Ani:

Oh, dear. We’ve been calling him the manchurian candidate for almost two years now. Sometimes I can’t help but think this was orchestrated by Rove to ruin the Dem brand for decades to come.

Excuse me while I go tighten the screws on my tinfoil hat.

Sep 30, 2009 - 4:05 pm 71. AThinkingPerson:

Re moho: “self-destructing your movement”. Lol! Thats a whole lotta wishful thinking there moho. We could sit around and pick our noses for the next 3 years and still win the next election. Obama is chasing off all the left, the far left, the moderates and the Independents each time he opens his mouth. I say MORE OBAMA on the news please! MORE OBAMA on Letterman please! The more we see him the less we like him. MORE, MORE, MORE!!

“Thanks for self-destructing your movement like this.” ~ moho

LOL!! Delirium has set in.

Sep 30, 2009 - 4:52 pm 72. moho:

Ani, that’s funny given that its your party with record low approval numbers. No need to tighten those screws, you’re doing just fine in the batsh*&t insane department.

Sep 30, 2009 - 4:54 pm 73. Neo:

I’m coming to believe that Obama is a “stealth Birther“

Sep 30, 2009 - 5:08 pm 74. Common Sense:

When we have a President who was elected to office by a constituency who:

A) lives with their parents
B) waits by the mailbox for their government handout
C)doesn’t pay taxes because they are wealthy enough to have crafty accountants to keep all their ill-gotten gains to themselves

We are in trouble!

Sep 30, 2009 - 5:18 pm 75. Golfmage:

Had it covered a week ago:

http://witgunandstein.blogspot.com/2009/09/long-live-manchuria.html

Sep 30, 2009 - 5:36 pm 76. rachel peepers:

I can’t believe that nobody has said it before I.

Barack Obama is a full blown certainty to go down in history as the worst American President ever.

Whether he’s led out of the White House in handcuffs or not, Obama is sunk.
have a nice day,
rachel

Sep 30, 2009 - 5:55 pm 77. RebeccaH:

The only detail I can’t figure out is, why didn’t Karl Rove send me the memo on this back in ‘07?

Sorry you didn’t get the memo, Mr. Green. The Dark Lord Rove plans in mysterious ways.

Sep 30, 2009 - 6:02 pm 78. Ed Wallis:

To #75 Golfmage,

What you wrote on your site is ok, BUT, it is the CONTROL (i.e.TV)

and NOT the “media” type (visual versus verbal…e.g. YouTube)

which matters.

Sep 30, 2009 - 6:15 pm 79. AThinkingPerson:

Re #76 rachel peepers: “Barack Obama is a full blown certainty to go down in history as the worst American President ever.

Whether he’s led out of the White House in handcuffs or not, Obama is sunk.”

AMEN!!

Sep 30, 2009 - 6:19 pm 80. Delia:

-And, as the ship of fools keeps sinking into deeper caca, the band of merry lefties play on…

Sep 30, 2009 - 7:04 pm 81. Khiri:

54. Poor Citizen

You didn’t answer my questions.

You’re true to your trolldom. Can’t argue worth a damn.

Sep 30, 2009 - 7:56 pm 82. jack:

Who exactly IS running the White House? Obama hasn’t met with Gen. McChrystal — who has? Who is making the decisions? I’m guessing it’s Rahm Emanuel. This is, to say the least, not good.

Sep 30, 2009 - 8:45 pm 83. Jack:

Oh yeah, and I forgot to add a missing bullet point to your list:

“– Sell out Israel.”

Sep 30, 2009 - 8:46 pm 84. paul_unalaska:

‘record low approval numbers’ -

You do realize the 2 big honchos, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have abysmal approval numbers..

The following site is interesting yet vague regarding the Senate races, respectively:

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/09/senate-rankings-september-2009.html

Sep 30, 2009 - 8:56 pm 85. Pragmatist:

All you need to know about the idiotic MOHO Troll is that he is a self confessed JEW HATING Mohammedan end of. In fact a pretty typical Obamanation supporter.

Oct 1, 2009 - 5:58 am 86. Pragmatist:

Seems that like everything else the Troll MOHO spews out his Poll data is wrong too, This is from The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 28% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-nine percent (39%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11 (see trends). Republicans have a very slight edge on the Generic Congressional Ballot.

Fifty-one percent (51%) say the President has not been tough enough on Iran while just 30% have confidence in the United Nations’ ability to combat terrorism.

On economic matters, just 26% of workers now report that their employers are laying people off. That’s down from 28% a month ago and 30% the month before, resulting in the second straight monthly improvement in the Rasmussen Employment Index.

The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update). Updates also available on Twitter and Facebook.

Overall, 49% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance. Fifty-one (51%) disapprove. 56% strongly disapprove of the Health Care proposal 41% approve.

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

30/09/09

Oct 1, 2009 - 6:07 am 87. mojo:

How else do you explain:

There actually is a just God?

Hey, I took a shot…

Oct 1, 2009 - 8:33 am 88. goy:

@86. Pragmatist: – Seems that like everything else the Troll MOHO spews out his Poll data is wrong too…

This shouldn’t surprise anyone.

And in a larger sense, focusing on BHO’s or political party approval is a distraction from the truly revealing data. For instance…

- Barely a third of Americans think the U.S. is “heading in the right direction” (whatever that means to them). This indicates clearly that the vast majority of Americans don’t approve of the nation’s leadership or where it’s taking the nation.

- Almost 80% of the nation believes Congress will vote on a health care bill without understanding what’s in it.

- An overwhelming 83% think Congress should be doing something it refuses to do – that is, to publish bills online for scrutiny by the People before voting on them.

- Perhaps most revealing is the fact that “Members of Congress have now surpassed corporate CEOs to hold the least favorably regarded profession in the country.”

There’s a pattern here, and it explains why the Tea Party phenomenon appeals to people of varying political stripes. By focusing on BHO’s lack of approval, we miss the much more important facet of our dying Republic: Presidents come and go, but the Fed and bad apples in Congress seem to remain forever. And the more entrenched these parasites become, the lower Congress’ approval sinks – 16% last time anyone checked.

The message seems pretty clear. If we want better government – at least judging by the People’s perception of what we have now – we need a complete turnover in Congress. The new Congress’ first order of business needs to be an audit of the Fed and its failed Keynesian money policies – responsible for the boom/bust thrashing and recent tanking of our economy – followed by deregulation of the banking industry and other industry sectors that have been driven as far from a free market as possible. Thanks to our Manchurian President and the manner in which he’s managed to piss off just about everyone, those pipe dreams are looking more like potential realities every day.

Oct 1, 2009 - 9:07 am 89. Tommy777:

@genghis:

You assert that POOR CITIZEN was educated past elementary school? I disagree, sir!

Saw the best definition of political correctness a while back: Basically it’s the belief that you can pick up a turd by the clean end

Oct 1, 2009 - 1:13 pm 90. Paul -Indiana:

#43. Bob Miller:Exactly which Republicans are smart enough to have programmed Obama?
=============================================
Pretty nearly any of us. However, we didn’t. He’s a self-made idiot.

Oct 1, 2009 - 2:39 pm 91. David S:

@88. goy:

And in a larger sense, focusing on BHO’s or political party approval is a distraction from the truly revealing data.

True that. Better to focus on what Americans want in terms of policy.

Barely a third of Americans think the U.S. is “heading in the right direction” (whatever that means to them).

Interestingly, this number was rising fast (up to 45%) until the GOP started up the noise machine on health care reform over the summer. On policy issues the Democrats are doing great – but the media onslaught from the right has been a deafening roar.

The message seems pretty clear. If we want better government – at least judging by the People’s perception of what we have now – we need a complete turnover in Congress.

2006 and 2008 represented significant progress on this front. That’s why we now have a President that agrees with the 2/3 of Americans who want a public health care option, and a solid majority of Democrats in congress, too. The biggest danger to Democrats is that they will fail to hold together and get significant reform passed – but that danger is remote, as there is no upside to failure, and Democrats know it.

The fact that you are still promoting deregulation as the answer to all of our economic problems simply points up how little you have comprehended the events of the last eighty years. If you really think the present state of the global banking system is “as far from a free market as possible” you also suffer from a distinct lack of imagination.

Peace.

DS

Oct 1, 2009 - 2:50 pm 92. Daily Right 10/1/09 « The Quantum Conservative:

[...] *The Manchurian President, by Stephen Green. [...]

Oct 1, 2009 - 5:23 pm 93. So What:

#54
Would you like to re-visit democratic so called leaders comments on Iraq and WMD’s Would you like to discuss how the N.Koreans obtained their nuclear technology and who GAVE it to them. Your one sided commentary which is liberal is proof why as a teacher No Child Left Behind failed and why our schools are a cess pool and education is just a word. You are just like Bill Clinton,it was a right wing conspiracy that told him to and helped him do what he did with Monica. Blame everyone else for failures and forget being responsible for ones actions.

Oct 1, 2009 - 9:17 pm 94. Delia:

Meanwhile, his bloated, bloviating egonificence loses the Chicago bid for the winter Olympics. DUST, doh-bo-eyyyy!

Bahahahahahaha! Eat that pooter!

Oct 2, 2009 - 11:27 am 95. Today’s Tidbits:

[...] The Manchurian President I’m beginning to believe that ‘Dear Leader’ is hell bent on being the 1st and only partly black POTUS in US history. Humans don’t have long attention spans for some things, but race, color, creed stick in the memory forever. [...]

Oct 2, 2009 - 12:20 pm 96. Tyler:

Someone who is in complete compliance with their actions cannot be labeled as a “Manchurian Candidate”

Oct 2, 2009 - 2:20 pm 97. goy:

@91. David S: – Better to focus on what Americans want in terms of policy.

Exactly. And all of that is made abundantly clear in Rasmussen’s polling. They DON’T want socialized medicine, for instance.

- the GOP started up the noise machine on health care reform over the summer.
LOL!!! “Health care” wasn’t even an issue until BHO and his bolshevik buddies in Congress made known their goals to seize control of the health care industry.

- 2006 and 2008 represented significant progress on this front.
Hardly. The parasites with the lifetime incumbencies all need to go. Every single member of Congress needs to find another job. If there’s a problem in America, they are it.

- The biggest danger to Democrats is that they will fail to hold together…
Actually, that’s the biggest guarantee. If Democrat parasites weren’t ABSOLUTELY SURE that Americans want NO PART of socialized medicine, they would have passed their “public option” plan a long time ago. Nothing is stopping them. They have the votes they need – they just want “cover” when it all goes south, the way it has in Massachusetts.

Go educate yourself on economics, Zippy. Then you can pretend to be capable of holding an intelligent conversation on the subject of banking and deregulation. The slobbering drivel you spew in response to your socialist brainwashing demonstrates that don’t have the slightest clue what the term “free market” means. When we get back to a commodity money policy the feds can’t corrupt, and a free market that isn’t regulated to the point of dysfunction, things will get better. Every historical referent shows that the government’s present policy is doomed – it’s never worked and never will. That your unsuccessful education failed to prepare you to understand this fact is not a surprise.

Oct 2, 2009 - 2:47 pm 98. Cheryl Miller:

Run and hide in a bunker! Take care of yourself, sorry to say times to express yourself are not in this year, you will be labeled a racist, a target for hate, Pelosi said it herself, she has seen this. I would give you shelter but am too afraid.

Oct 2, 2009 - 8:43 pm

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