August 04, 2010
— Ace From JEM in the comments.
So let's establish a long-winded metaphor here. You're a girl, let's say your name is America, and you were in a long-term relationship with a guy - let's call him W - who started off okay, even caught a purse-snatcher and beat the snot out of him.Then he started going off the rails a little, he let go of the purse-snatcher to chase a guy that he thought might mug him. He went out to drink with Ted Kennedy a couple too many times. Just generally got kind of irritating, stopped listening to you, and you realized that you were really annoyed by his big ears. When he put your money in a bank that was going broke you got really mad.
So next time you decided to have a fling with a guy who was as unlike the last guy as possible. Entirely reasonable.
Except that six weeks into the new relationship you realized he'd named his genital wart and liked to talk to it. He spoke authoritatively about everything, but couldn't actually do anything without calling all the buddies he'd known at Harvard. He'd spent weeks telling you about how different he was than the last guy, but then you noticed he went to all the same restaurants as W. He had a lot of brilliant friends but every time you were near them they were trying to pick your pocket. And then he started lecturing you about all your bad habits.
By now you're thinking homosexuality might be a really good idea.
Other articles: Obama's Summer of No Love from Politico, and Jay Cost on What Went Wrong With Obama, which I'm gonna subtitle myself The God Who Failed.
Or: It's the Geography, Stupid.
Here's Cost:
Was there an alternative approach the President could have taken? I think so. Such a tactic would have acknowledged the sizeable McCain bloc. McCain won 22 states, making his coalition a politically potent minority. Obama should have governed in light of this. I don't mean in hock to it. He didn't have to make Sarah Palin his domestic policy advisor, but he should have ignored the hagiographers who were quick to declare him the next FDR. These flatterers always manifest themselves anytime a new Democrat comes to the White House, and they are of very little help for Democratic Presidents who actually want to be great.What he should have done instead was disarm his opponents. If he had built initial policy proposals from the middle, he could have wooed the moderate flank of the Republican party, marginalized the conservatives, and alleviated the concerns of those gettable voters in the South and the Midwest. This is precisely what Bill Clinton did between 1995 and 2000, and it is what the President's promises of "post-partisanship" suggested.
Our system of government can only produce policy when geographically broad coalitions favor it. The Senate, more than any other institution, forces such breadth. Obama created breadth the wrong way. He watered down initially liberal legislation to prompt just enough moderate Democrats to sign on. Instead, he should have built policy from the center, then worked to pick up enough votes on either side. The left would have been disappointed, but the right would have been marginalized and, most importantly, Independent voters - who have abandoned the President in droves - might still be on board.
A revolutionary idea in our polarized political climate, I know. Still: ask your average swing voter what he or she thinks of such an approach, and watch them nod in agreement.
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Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 04, 2010 11:08 AM (i3AsK)
Blows 3 times as much of your money as W ever did in a two week bender at Vegas where he swore he was going to hit the big time and solve your cash problems.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at August 04, 2010 11:11 AM (0q2P7)
Posted by: I'm on vacation at August 04, 2010 11:12 AM (H+LJc)
Posted by: brett favre's crocs at August 04, 2010 11:14 AM (9B8os)
We don't talk much when we don't have to.
Posted by: Michelle O at August 04, 2010 11:15 AM (9PzaA)
brett favre's crocs
Stay away!!
*makes cross sign with fingers*
The power of Christ compels you!!!!
Posted by: laceyunderalls at August 04, 2010 11:16 AM (D77s2)
Isn't that about what Shrillary did during the Lewinsky scandal? Spent some vacation time apart, & acted somewhat cool during joint public appearances, but never went so far as an actual separation.
Did what's-her-name come back from the Bahamas?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 04, 2010 11:16 AM (P9+0W)
He is trying to govern the way Chicago is governed.
We knew it was going to be thus before the election; we know it now.
What I'm surprised at is that all these people (media, public who voted for him) are surprised.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 04, 2010 11:17 AM (QMtmy)
Posted by: Black People Almost Everywhere at August 04, 2010 11:17 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Corporal Hicks at August 04, 2010 11:17 AM (AZGON)
Posted by: I'm on vacation at August 04, 2010 11:18 AM (H+LJc)
That part of the metaphor doesn't hold up as it neglects the "choice" you had.
How about you went to a dating service and they offered you crap for a choice so you did the best you could.
Posted by: Vic at August 04, 2010 11:18 AM (/jbAw)
Posted by: torabora at August 04, 2010 11:19 AM (+/qB2)
Posted by: Blue Hen at August 04, 2010 11:19 AM (R2fpr)
Posted by: arhooley at August 04, 2010 11:19 AM (6GjHP)
Posted by: alexthechick at August 04, 2010 11:19 AM (YBXMV)
Posted by: joncelli at August 04, 2010 11:20 AM (RD7QR)
Typically the Obama cheerleader site neglect the real story. The war was essentially over AND won before Obama took office. The date for exiting the country was actually negotiated by the Bush adm.
Posted by: Vic at August 04, 2010 11:20 AM (/jbAw)
Posted by: beerologist at August 04, 2010 11:20 AM (r2UKM)
And what, pray tell, did happen in those mysterious years of 1995 to 2000?
Yes, the question is rhetorical for those readers here..
Posted by: Person of Stupid at August 04, 2010 11:20 AM (V7Ud6)
Posted by: Vic
You went to a dating service and picked Biteme Biden over Sarah? You deserve whatever disease you catch.
Posted by: Blue Hen at August 04, 2010 11:21 AM (R2fpr)
Posted by: arhooley at August 04, 2010 11:21 AM (6GjHP)
Imagine that. If you govern for 35% of the population all of the time, the other 65% starts to resent your a$$ - especially when your idea of honest debate is to demonize your opponents, to use strawman arguments, and, when that doesn't work, to declare:
"I won, b*tches."
Posted by: stickety at August 04, 2010 11:21 AM (EsWC3)
I must of had a decade long delusion, because I'm sure Bush governed just the way Jay Cost said Obama should govern:
Instead, he should have built policy from the center, then worked to pick up enough votes on either side. The left would have been disappointed, but the right would have been marginalized and, most importantly, Independent voters - who have abandoned the President in droves - might still be on board.
And look what it got Bush at the end. (Of course, he did get re-elected).
Posted by: Prof. Venkman at August 04, 2010 11:22 AM (4JpPD)
The Precedent did exactly what he had always intended to do. The idea that any alternative would even go through his mind is laughable.
He was a miserable failure from the first day, showing himself incapable of putting together a cabinet, and then went on to continue to make mistakes and lie about everything. And he has never made a decision that was in the interest of America or America's allies. None. Not a one.
America voted for Suicide by Indonesian and he's delivering.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 04, 2010 11:23 AM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: Dave C who chose to leave the worse possible sock on. at August 04, 2010 11:23 AM (V7Ud6)
Posted by: George Orwell at August 04, 2010 11:24 AM (AZGON)
Posted by: Dianna at August 04, 2010 11:25 AM (qrFCz)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 04, 2010 03:16 PM (P9+0W)
Not exactly.
Posted by: Larry Sinclair at August 04, 2010 11:25 AM (5aa4z)
Posted by: arhooley at August 04, 2010 11:26 AM (6GjHP)
What he should have done instead was disarm his opponents. If he had built initial policy proposals from the middle, he could have wooed the moderate flank of the Republican part
Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Scott Brown , et al. at August 04, 2010 11:26 AM (V7Ud6)
Posted by: that guy that doesn't read all the comments at August 04, 2010 11:26 AM (8/oOq)
Wait....is that a cage of gerbils on your night stand?
Posted by: Vera Baker at August 04, 2010 11:27 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: Pocono Joe at August 04, 2010 11:27 AM (TmgBL)
Cost says... blah blah blah...
Marginalize conservatives.
Marginalize conservatives.
Marginalize conservatives.
Maybe that's not such a revolutionary idea.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at August 04, 2010 11:29 AM (0fzsA)
Posted by: George Orwell at August 04, 2010 11:29 AM (AZGON)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 04, 2010 11:30 AM (UOM48)
------------------------------------
George Orwell, I agree about Jay Cost. He consistently writes as if Obama were even capable of acting on some motive other than narcissism, self-aggrandizement, and anti-Americanism. Cost loves maps and numbers. He needs to start factoring in some psychological analysis of our "leaders."
Posted by: arhooley at August 04, 2010 11:30 AM (6GjHP)
Instead, it’s turned into Obama’s Summer of No Love, thanks to the persistently lousy economy, a succession of major crises and middling distractions — from the BP oil spill to Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s insubordination, to the Shirley Sherrod fiasco — and the ascent of virulently anti-Obama cable-news critics like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin.
Yeah, it's them alright.
Posted by: Dave C at August 04, 2010 11:30 AM (V7Ud6)
Posted by: davidt at August 04, 2010 11:31 AM (HtIec)
Going back to Ike, has any other President taken a separate vacation from his wife and family over his birthday? With FLOTUS & progeny going overseas and POTUS going to the ancestral home? Mighty strange goings on.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 04, 2010 11:31 AM (2g2ex)
Posted by: Vic
Credit where credit's due.
And as Mark Steyn points out, hopeychangers fail to acknowledge that Obama's Afghan War is run by Bush's Defense Secretary and General. Speaking of which, who else caught Andrew McCarthy's "Oh no! Not another 'CIA Solution' for Afghanistan. We're still reeling from the last one."
Posted by: maverick muse at August 04, 2010 11:31 AM (H+LJc)
Nice metaphor, but it kinda leaves out the date rape.
Yes, we said we'd go out for awhile, although we were kinda torn about it. But we didn't want to go all the way, just see if we'd be a good fit. Now we're walking funny.
Posted by: Randy at August 04, 2010 11:31 AM (zQKSr)
Posted by: George Orwell at August 04, 2010 11:32 AM (AZGON)
Posted by: nickless at August 04, 2010 11:32 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 04, 2010 11:33 AM (8lCJT)
39 That is pretty much a unanimous given that need not be said anymore.
He can't do what he "should have done" -- he believed/still believes his own press too much. Even an ideological extremist will soften their rhetoric and actions if they see it's running counter to their wishes (Slick was an example of this -- he's fairly radical, but has more political sense).
Fortunately or not, this one seems psychologically incapable of such an act -- it remains to be seen what will happen as the pressure increases.
Posted by: unknown jane at August 04, 2010 11:34 AM (5/yRG)
People keep asking, over and over and over, "but why did he do it this way, since it just inflamed people, ..." without realizing that that reaction was the actual goal, not the policy. The Precedent didn't care two shits about health scare passing, which is why his "vision" of health scare changed daily and why he let Congress run hog wild on it. He just wanted to fight it through Congress as much as he could, destroying the processes and that institution. That was his main intention. And he succeeded in that. And he managed to get the useful idiot junta to vote for something that 70%+ of Missourians just rejected, half a year later.
The Precedent is trying to cause problems in America with his attack on Arizona and his alliance with foreign enemies in that context, like Mexico, and encouraging states to attack each other (as the federal government has not done one of their basic jobs in assuring that one state isn't boycotting another state, as we have the "Full Faith and Credit" clause to explain how states should be treating each other, especially with respect to state laws that have no effect on their state).
None of this is happenstance or coincidental. The Precedent's effects are destructive because they are supposed to be. Someday, the slow folks like Cost (and Krauthammer) will realize this obvious fact.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 04, 2010 11:34 AM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: Drew in MO at August 04, 2010 11:35 AM (wWNlC)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 04, 2010 11:35 AM (eNxMU)
I can sing the Russian national anthem at the SOTU speech and the press wouldn't report it.
Posted by: Barracky Obama.. at August 04, 2010 11:35 AM (V7Ud6)
The Precedent did exactly what he had always intended to do.
Yep. He didn't plan on having a successful presidency in terms of high poll numbers and happy independant voters. He wanted Change, complete and total.
Which is what and why we were hoping he'd fail. Instead he succeeded and the country is failing.
Posted by: Randy at August 04, 2010 11:36 AM (zQKSr)
...ask your average swing voter what he or she thinks of such an approach, and watch them nod
and drool into their Chee-Tos. "Average swing voter" is just another way of describing people who vote for the guy who "seems like a nice guy".
Posted by: spongeworthy at August 04, 2010 11:36 AM (rplL3)
Posted by: t-bird at August 04, 2010 11:36 AM (FcR7P)
Off-topic. But ya don't mess with the Fatman
Posted by: Ludicrous Speed at August 04, 2010 11:37 AM (LdYLm)
They don't want to think about the fact that the President of their country wants to destroy America.
Posted by: Dave C at August 04, 2010 11:39 AM (V7Ud6)
I don't agree with Jay Cost. I can't see any benefit for anyone trying to play to the squishy independents. How do you know what they want for one thing and if you find out what they want today how do you know they will still want it tomorrow.
Posted by: robtr at August 04, 2010 11:39 AM (fwSHf)
Against Obama's State Dept. 18-month travel advisory, FLOTUS took baby to defeat Spaniard racism on vacation.
Obama's vacationing in Kenya?
Posted by: maverick muse at August 04, 2010 11:39 AM (H+LJc)
Posted by: Randy at August 04, 2010 11:40 AM (zQKSr)
If something doesn't work, it's because the pol sold it the wrong way, and should go back to do some additional polling and blog-reading before trying again.
Instead, the Traitor-in-Chief is totally agenda-driven. He is driven by his hatred for America, and his overwhelming thirst for revenge against the country that gave him far more than he earned and granted him special privileges he does not deserve.
He, like the late, not-at-all-great Chairman Mao, is one fucked-up individual, motivated by the forces held within a twisted mind.
Until someone among the chattering (typing?) class wises up and looks directly at the disease and not the discomfort it causes, we will continue in the downward spiral that will, when it hits bottom, leave the Costs, Goldbergs, Morrisseys, et. al. wondering why things went to shit and whimpering to their bloggy-buddies.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 04, 2010 11:40 AM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at August 04, 2010 11:40 AM (yT8z7)
This is why they are trying to concentrate power in the executive and judiciary. Let's increase the size of government agencies and give them more discretion to interpret law by writing long, vague laws that can mean anything some bureaucrat wants them to mean, and pack the courts to let the interpretations stand. Like someone in an earlier thread mentioned, they'd just go to a feudal system if they could, but until then this will have to do.
Posted by: kurtilator at August 04, 2010 11:41 AM (juh4Z)
Posted by: George Orwell at August 04, 2010 11:42 AM (AZGON)
Posted by: Bill O'Really at August 04, 2010 03:33 PM (OWjjx)
And I heard with, my own ears, "famous, incredible, unimpeachable historian" Michael Beschloss say that O's IQ was "OFF THE CHARTS!".
Posted by: Pocono Joe at August 04, 2010 11:42 AM (TmgBL)
Posted by: Bill O'Really at August 04, 2010 03:33 PM (OWjjx)
And I heard with, my own ears, "famous, incredible, unimpeachable historian" Michael Beschloss say that O's IQ was "OFF THE CHARTS!".
Posted by: Pocono Joe at August 04, 2010 03:42 PM (TmgBL)
Which way up or down?
Posted by: Ludicrous Speed at August 04, 2010 11:43 AM (LdYLm)
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at August 04, 2010 11:44 AM (yT8z7)
They'll realize it only when their happy homes collapse into ashes.
In their partial, pitiful defense, they've never had to analyze a President with the complete Third World revenge mentality.
Posted by: Khalid Abdul Muhammad at August 04, 2010 11:44 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: George Orwell at August 04, 2010 03:42 PM (AZGON)
Well put.
Posted by: Randy at August 04, 2010 11:45 AM (zQKSr)
With us as mere drones, devoid of any free will, to live only at the whim of the State.
Is this what libs mean by "freedom", slavery?
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at August 04, 2010 11:46 AM (9hSKh)
What loads of horse shit. They still don't get it, do they?
Obama is phoney raised by muslims and communists and befriended by radicals, revolutionaries and murderers to provide reparations through redistribution.
He was never going to "govern". He was pushed to the top to create radical "change" with a black face so that he could label all opponents racists.
These fools still think he's just any other american libtard.
Posted by: dagny at August 04, 2010 11:47 AM (464eJ)
Posted by: Dr. Spank at August 04, 2010 03:42 PM (xO+6C)
Hopefully in a training montage somewhere?
Posted by: Randy at August 04, 2010 11:47 AM (zQKSr)
Posted by: davidt at August 04, 2010 11:48 AM (HtIec)
Even then, there's going to be someone to blame. He's perfect, he's just surrounded by dolts.
Posted by: Camille Paglia at August 04, 2010 11:48 AM (9PzaA)
Posted by: maverick muse at August 04, 2010 03:39 PM (H+LJc)
Sorry, ancestral home as in spiritual center, the soul. As in Vegas is to sexual sin as Chicago is to political corruption. He's got to dip himself into the healing waters of Lourdes Chicago-way political slime every so often
That and clean out his pipes with the jolly fellows from Man Country.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 04, 2010 11:48 AM (2g2ex)
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at August 04, 2010 03:46 PM (9hSKh)
Remember 1984. Freedom is slavery. Therefore you should be grateful for your tightly scripted and regulated life--the alternative is slavery.
Posted by: Randy at August 04, 2010 11:49 AM (zQKSr)
Posted by: Torgo at August 04, 2010 11:51 AM (AZGON)
61 Clinton didn't hate the U.S. He wasn't embarassed by it and had some sense of history. I didn't like him. In fact, I remember hating him or so I thought.
Posted by: dagny at August 04, 2010 11:53 AM (464eJ)
Posted by: George Orwell at August 04, 2010 03:42 PM (AZGON)
It's funny, in a morbid way, that The Precedent even stated pretty much this, himself, during his asinine oil spill speech:
"... our determination to fight for the America we want for our children. Even if weÂ’re unsure exactly what that looks like. Even if we donÂ’t yet know precisely how weÂ’re going to get there. We know weÂ’ll get there."
LOL ... though scary.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 04, 2010 11:53 AM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 04, 2010 11:55 AM (2g2ex)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 04, 2010 11:57 AM (2g2ex)
Let me be clear: Kal Penn left, and a Precedent has *needs*.
Posted by: Barack H. Obama, Mmm Mmm Mmm at August 04, 2010 11:58 AM (p05LM)
Posted by: Fritz at August 04, 2010 11:59 AM (GwPRU)
Clinton was actually SMART. Not just politically smart, but intellectually brilliant - a guy who could actually consider multiple ideas at the same time and could work with opponents to advance the country's interests (see NAFTA, Welfare Reform, and cutting the Capital Gains rate in 1997).
Philosophically, I probably disagree with Clinton on 80% of the issues, but I can't argue with his style of governance.
Obama is a emotional and intellectual retard. Any human being who gets to age 49 and still believes the warmed-over Marxist nonsense preached by his college professors is an infant.
Posted by: stickety at August 04, 2010 11:59 AM (EsWC3)
Posted by: davidt at August 04, 2010 12:00 PM (HtIec)
Our system of government can only produce policy when geographically broad coalitions favor it.
System, shmystem, watch me cook up another "system"...
Posted by: The CHANGE you voted for dumbass at August 04, 2010 12:02 PM (+FkcS)
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.. excuse me for a sec.. Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha.. ok..
His presidency is one big clusterfuck. He has managed to piss off not only the people who didn't (and never would) vote for him, but nearly everyone who did as well!
His three big accomplishments please no one.
Stimulus - Even the leftards are starting to see we ain't been exactly stimulated.. (Think of whacking off to a pic of Helen Thomas here..) The economy is tanking worse than ever and jobs outlook is even worse.
Health Care reform.. no public option for his progressive base.. pisses off seniors by raiding Medicare.. pisses off his young supporters who will now be paying twice as much for something they didn't buy previously anyway because they didn't think they needed it. Score another big one for Barry!
Financial Reform. No one can 'splain to me what the fuck they reformed, much less what it means to me. Several thousand pages and they still have to appoint someone to actually write the regs! What The Fuck? The progressive base is pissed off because the corporatist Geithner is running the show. Wooohooo! Another score for the Barrymeister..
So, us Conservatives never expected much from him, so we can't really be disappointed.. but the lefties heads are exploding like popcorn..
Don't Ask Don't Tell - libtards were yelling at him in a town hall yesterday.. that's one of his meeting where everyone is screened really carefully!
Repealing Bush Tax Cuts - Barry will blame Congress for this when they aren't allow to sunset..
all kinds of shit.. it's more fun reading the lefty blogs these days listening to them fight with each other about who's to blame for the dilemma they're in (that is the ones who are not in denial). It's like Christmas in August!
Posted by: ChiTown Jerry at August 04, 2010 12:06 PM (f9c2L)
Posted by: davidt at August 04, 2010 04:00 PM (HtIec)
His biggest campaign rally, for the American Precedency, was in GERMANY!! In friggin' Germany!
He should have been tossed from the race right then.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 04, 2010 12:07 PM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: George Orwell at August 04, 2010 12:10 PM (AZGON)
Yes, they are fools who don't see the problem that American libtards for the most part think that everything Obama wants is a good thing. They are with him, and blame every problem in life on racists, i.e. Republicans, i.e. Tea Party. Con artist opportunists of all social classes have migrated toward Marxism in hopes that they'll get more and climb higher on the global socialist pyramid. There are no starving masses in America. The audacious hope to be the new haves by taking from workers; not so much to take the place laboring in the work force. Rather, simply cut to the chase. Stay on welfare and take the goods from services they never rendered, and refuse to render by taking an available job. It happened throughout Europe, Asia, Latin America and Canada, the Middle East and Africa.
It has been happening in America since FDR/LBJ in order for Obama to have already gotten away with treason, uncontested. Where to date is the impeachment process begun in Congress? Republicans in Congress, rather than confronting Obama, throw up their hands while unconstitutional laws are signed. They give lip service to upholding the Constitution and LEGITIMATE Congressional legislative procedure and rules of protocol by members while Obamarx's revisionist-truth goes marching on.
Posted by: maverick muse at August 04, 2010 12:11 PM (H+LJc)
The major difference between Clinton and Barry, is that Clinton is an egotist, whereas Barry is a narcissist. Clinton was out for Clinton. He wanted power and prestige (and, no doubt, the money and babes that would come along with it). He was willing to do whatever it took to get that, even if it was at odds with his ideology.
Barry, on the other hand, cannot conceive of his ideology as being wrong, or of himself not being the one to bring it's transformative power to America. Yes, he craves power, but not because he wants it - because he feels it's his rightful place to be at the top of the pyramid. Any other outcome wouldn't make sense to him.
Posted by: Farmer Joe at August 04, 2010 12:13 PM (z4es9)
Shows that a single Arkansas Democrat mother did a better job raising a boy who became potus than "the typical white" multicultural Marxist grandparents did. At least the Clintons were of age when they chose to support the SDS ideology; whereas Barry got it along with Mohamed from the cradle.
Posted by: maverick muse at August 04, 2010 12:19 PM (H+LJc)
And the Germans loved it. Which is really dumb since ironically they played right into the role they disdain as an occupied American/NATO satellite nation.
Posted by: maverick muse at August 04, 2010 12:22 PM (H+LJc)
Clinton's mass murders outside of Waco, TX and Bosnia sealed his fate in hell, the only band that will let him play sax.
Posted by: maverick muse at August 04, 2010 12:28 PM (H+LJc)
That version of Clinton sure disagrees with the one I remember. He vetoed welfare reform twice before signing it when it passed by the Republican congress with a veto proof override.
The much bally-hood shutdown over the budget was planned in advance of the budget even being drawn up by Congress.
Everything that Clinton was given credit for by the press was the result of the congress and everything that Newt was blamed for was the fault of Clinton.
All of the rest of the Cinton apologists posts are overlooking how bad he actually was.
FOLKS - just because Clinton is not the radical anti-American communist like Obama doesn't mean thay he was any less evil than he was when he was in office. Let's not forget that the changes that were made to CRA and F&F that led to this collapse were done under the combines Clinton-Dem congress cabal before the Repubs took the House.
In short, don't get all rosy glasses for Clinton because Obama is smearing our faces in shit.
Posted by: Vic at August 04, 2010 12:29 PM (/jbAw)
I've worked a number of different jobs so far in my life, and I've come to know which managers are good to have, and which ones are absolutely useless. The useless ones always say something like the above quote. Always.
Posted by: Cameron at August 04, 2010 12:33 PM (BBCJ1)
Our system of government can only produce policy when geographically broad coalitions favor it.
Hence their efforts to bypass the Electoral College.
Posted by: butch at August 04, 2010 12:34 PM (8NiWI)
I'm certainly not all nostalgic for Clinton. He did a lot I didn't like, and he certainly debased the office quite a bit. On the other hand, if I could swap him for the O right this minute, I wouldn't even think about it.
Posted by: Farmer Joe at August 04, 2010 12:40 PM (z4es9)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 04, 2010 12:53 PM (rfHsm)
I feel like Andrew Sullivan.
On second thought, no.
Posted by: JEM at August 04, 2010 04:42 PM (o+SC1)
"'I think we're on a different kind of a news cycle than what I've been used to Â… And a lot of that commentary is very inflammatory,' said Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin, a liberal Obama ally in the Senate."
Ahahaha! Yes, "different kind of a news cycle" with "very inflammatory" commentary. It's just all so new and unprecedented, isn't it Mr. Harkin? Just ask that liar, Chimpy McBushitlerburton and his Satanic cohort, Cheney, about that and how times have changed so uncharacteristically since Obama was deified by the MFM. Maybe, Senator, you could even manage to interview Sarah Palin and demand that she tone down her rhetoric considering all the kid gloves handling her post-Alaskan attention.
That's Senator Harkin, everyone. We affectionately call him Idiot. But in honor of these "new" times, that'd be Senator Fucking Idiot.
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