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October 01, 2010

Rahm Emanuel: These Are The Toughest Times Any President Has Ever Faced
— DrewM

Rahm Emmanuel took his leave today as White House Chief of Staff to begin his campaign for Mayor of Chicago (a position he may not be eligible for by the by).

He couldn't resist one of the Obama administration's patented overstatements.

Obama, he said, is "the toughest leader any country could ask for, in the toughest times any president has ever faced."

I'm in my (dear God how did this happen?) early, very early 40's and I'm not convinced these are the toughest time of my life. I was a kid in the 70's but the economy was just as bad, if not worse, we had just suffered twin blows to our national psyche with Watergate and Vietnam. And oh yeah, the Soviet Union was on the rampage around the world.

I get that the last two years have been very tough and the future isn't looking so hot either (though that was the case in say January of '81) but clearly a guy named Ronald Reagan faced a few challenges.

If you want to look at the broader picture, I could also mention someone named Abe Lincoln. I seem to recall him facing some tough times. Of course the Civil War couldn't have been so bad since Lincoln didn't take as many vacations as Obama has.

Speaking of Obama vacations, he's angling for another one.

(A)t Democratic fundraiser Thursday night, the president said, "I'd appreciate a little break."
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According to the pool report, Obama thanked Phillips for the work he and his wife have done for Team Obama. Then the president mentioned that Phillips and Douglass have an opulent place in Italy and wondered why there had been no invitation to visit. "I'd appreciate a little break and some Tuscan sun," the president said, according to the pool report. "Some pasta. I can use it."

The fundrasier was hosted by Linda Douglas a former reporter who was Obama's spokesliar about health-care. She's subsequently gone to work for The Atlantic Media, which employs insane conspiracy theorist Andrew Sullivan.

Obama and his team need to man up. They've been in office nearly 2 years, that's half the time the are going to get (hopefully). They need to stop whining and accept that yes, they won. They passed a massive spending bill, they've taken over health care and they are promulgating regulations. The nation's health isn't something that just happened, they have had a massive influence on it.

They need to stop acting like bystanders and stop flattering themselves that every damn thing is so 'unprecedented'.

Posted by: DrewM at 09:05 AM | Comments (250)
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1 Typical. Pissing all over us and then claiming it's raining. And the media gobbles it up.

Posted by: kansas at October 01, 2010 09:07 AM (mka2b)

Lightweight.

Posted by: Abe/ Reagan/ FDR/ Hoover/Buchanan/Pierce/Cleveland/ Johnson at October 01, 2010 09:07 AM (A0VTZ)

3 President Obama would have finished that WWII thing before he finished the back nine. The Nazis were nothing compared to a bunch of howling teabaggers.

Posted by: Rahm Emmanuel at October 01, 2010 09:08 AM (xxgag)

4 Dear Mr President,

"Buck Up"

Posted by: fixerupper at October 01, 2010 09:08 AM (J5Hcw)

5 What a pack of self absorbed douchebags.

Posted by: real joe at October 01, 2010 09:08 AM (IpIBJ)

6 Obama's IQ is Lincolnesque. I mean, four score and seven.

Posted by: WalrusRex at October 01, 2010 09:09 AM (xxgag)

7 I know, right? I mean, I couldn't even get decent arugula and Wagu beef at Valley Forge.

Posted by: George Washington at October 01, 2010 09:10 AM (YXmuI)

8 The whole "worst economy since the Great Depression" line is, and always has been, categorical bullshit.

I, too, am in my mid-forties, and I clearly remember double-digit unemployment, double-digit interest rates, and double-digit inflation. It was MUCH worse then, and any media professional (never mind ordinary citizen over forty) who doesn't recall and report that is an imbecile.

Posted by: schizuki at October 01, 2010 09:10 AM (M+lbD)

9 What a pack of self absorbed douchebags.

That's what happens when you mix Kotex and Massengill in the same administration.

Posted by: fixerupper at October 01, 2010 09:11 AM (J5Hcw)

10 He hasn't even faced as tough a time as his predecessor.

Posted by: real joe at October 01, 2010 09:11 AM (IpIBJ)

11 What a pack of self absorbed douchebags. Posted by: real joe at October 01, 2010 01:08 PM (IpIBJ) Just about sums it up perfectly, although I might have said "self absorbed commie douchebags" but who's quibling

Posted by: nevergiveup at October 01, 2010 09:12 AM (0GFWk)

12 Obama, he said, is "the toughest leader any country could ask for, in the toughest times any president has ever faced."

I guess that explains why Lincoln played less golf.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 01, 2010 09:12 AM (7BU4a)

13
tough presidents during tough times...

play a lot of golf.

Posted by: mr boner?, mr boner?, paging mr boner? at October 01, 2010 09:12 AM (BPptn)

14 Dear Mr. Emanuel, You think the USA's situation is toughest ever? Screw you. Signed, The Nation of Israel

Posted by: Israel at October 01, 2010 09:12 AM (MYT77)

15 I'm sorry, but a buried lie in a fairway bunker is hardly in the Pearl Harbor category.

Posted by: t-bird at October 01, 2010 09:12 AM (FcR7P)

16 "I'd appreciate a little break and some Tuscan sun," the president said, according to the pool report. "Some pasta. I can use it."

Pasta has all those nasty carbs. Michelle would not approve. How about a nice toxic organic salad from your wife's garden?

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at October 01, 2010 09:12 AM (9hSKh)

17 War of 1812, Civil War, WWI, depression, WWII, Carterism, Soviets! The toughest times evah! Grow up you pussy! Using socialist tactics are what is making these times so unmanageable.

Posted by: chicken thief at October 01, 2010 09:12 AM (Q0lfL)

Fuckhead means the toughest times some clueless community organizer who never in his life faced anything resembling tough times has had to face. Silly bastard just came out and admitted the whole Zero administration is a bunch of spoiled pussies. We already knew that, though.

Jebus, I don't think I could disrespect those asshats more than I hate them, but they keep fucking trying.

Posted by: maddogg at October 01, 2010 09:13 AM (OlN4e)

19 Cry me a fucking river...so I can bathe in it!

Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at October 01, 2010 09:13 AM (YVZlY)

20 Being ineligible for an office has never slowed down any Chicago politician yet.

Posted by: Vic at October 01, 2010 09:13 AM (/jbAw)

21 I am getting angrier the more I think about this. Tough president? He took a correction in the real estate market and parlayed it into a depression. Meanwhile he submissively shows his ass to every two-bit despot on the planet. He couldn't carry Reagan's jockstrap. Indonesian imbecile.

Posted by: real joe at October 01, 2010 09:13 AM (IpIBJ)

22 That environmentalist's wet dream link on the side bar deserves its own thread.

Posted by: WalrusRex at October 01, 2010 09:14 AM (xxgag)

23 Dear God, did the man *really* try to invite himself to these folks' "summer home" in Italy?

Also, I thought the Dem party was a party "of the people". I sure as heck don't have a summer home in Italy, or anywhere else for that matter. Hell, in this economy I'm lucky to keep the home I've got...

Posted by: Lone Marauder at October 01, 2010 09:14 AM (/bVuS)

24 Hey. He helped the Commie-in-chief put the greatest society, economic engine and beacon of hope in the history of man into the toilet. His work is done. Time for some smorgasbord at Ann Sather's.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 01, 2010 09:14 AM (9Cooa)

25 Obama, he said, is "the toughest leader any country could ask for, in the toughest times any president has ever faced."

Hmm, so figuring out how to cut spending and roll back regulations is more tough then;

The War of 1812 where the British were able to burn down Washington DC

WWII where ten of millions of people died.

The Great Depression, where even with Obama's best efforts, the economy was MUCH worse

The late Cold War period where a wrong step could have caused a full fldged nuclear war.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 01, 2010 09:15 AM (7BU4a)

26 When times are tough, the tough get going . . . . to Italy, catch a little Tuscan sun and vino. But do they play golf in Tuscany?

Posted by: Bar at October 01, 2010 09:16 AM (xxgag)

27
Obama is so tough he won a Nobel Prize before he took office.

Posted by: mr boner?, mr boner?, paging mr boner? at October 01, 2010 09:16 AM (5ql/p)

28 I'm in my (dear God how did this happen?) early, very early 40's

Me too. Been in my very early 40's for the past nine years, you get used to it.

Posted by: countrydoc at October 01, 2010 09:16 AM (131HS)

29 History, schmistory! I meant what I said.

Posted by: Rahmmi at October 01, 2010 09:16 AM (No0N3)

30
Obama withstood The Invasion of the Salahis in 2010.

Posted by: mr boner?, mr boner?, paging mr boner? at October 01, 2010 09:17 AM (5ql/p)

31 That has got to be the absolute stupidist thing Rahm ever ejected from his face pustule. Almost unimaginable in it's stupidity.

Posted by: maddogg at October 01, 2010 09:17 AM (OlN4e)

32

6 Obama's IQ is Lincolnesque. I mean, four score and seven.

Posted by: WalrusRex at October 01, 2010 01:09 PM (xxgag)

With the sweet hash, even.

En fuego, the morons are today.

Posted by: s'moron at October 01, 2010 09:17 AM (UaxA0)

33 Yeah, Washington, Lincoln, FDR, lightweights. Gawd, just when I think I can't hate these self important, narcissistic, democrat assholes anymore, they open their dumb mouths. By the way, I don't think I've seen one democrat campaign ad in this area where the coward had the balls to mention his political party. In their defense, they SHOULD be ashamed.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 01, 2010 09:17 AM (mAImR)

34 It's pretty bad when you are quite sure that Betty White is tougher than the current occupant of the White House.

Posted by: pep at October 01, 2010 09:18 AM (YXmuI)

35 Speaking of Obama vacations, he's angling for another one.

I can understand. The pressure of the weekly concerts and parties, let alone taking time to hector Americans about how good they actually have it with their funployment and Obamacare inspired loss of health insurance must be tough.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 01, 2010 09:18 AM (7BU4a)

36 I certainly hope the smell of stale smoke has been sufficiently reduced so as not to disturb the olfactory senses of the present occupants of the White House.

And I do apologize for Dolly's hasty tearing-out of Mr. Washington's portrait. Were you able to save the frame?

(If my irony has escaped your detection, may I suggest directly that you perform oral congress with the contents of my breeches. Good day, sir.)

Posted by: James Madison at October 01, 2010 09:18 AM (M+lbD)

37 Hell, I think Carter had it worse when the Iranians took the hostages. Posted by: Mallamutt at October 01, 2010 01:16 PM (OWjjx) Well I think the hostages had it worse since it was CARTER that was in power!

Posted by: nevergiveup at October 01, 2010 09:18 AM (0GFWk)

38 22 That environmentalist's wet dream link on the side bar deserves its own thread. Posted by: WalrusRex

The 10 10 douchebags have taken the video down, here is a link to the UK Guardian where it still can be viewed.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 01, 2010 09:19 AM (tf9Ne)

39 It's pretty bad when you are quite sure that Betty White is tougher than the current occupant of the White House.

Posted by: pep at October 01, 2010 01:18 PM (YXmuI)

Um, I think I could take Obama in a manliness fight.

Posted by: The Leave Britney Alone Guy/Girl thing at October 01, 2010 09:19 AM (7BU4a)

40 They need to learn their history. Both Roosevelts faced difficult times. Madison faced difficult times. As did Lincoln, Grant, and even Woodrwo Freakin' Wilson! All of them probably faced tougher times than Obama has, but he doesn't care, because everything is always about him.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 01, 2010 09:19 AM (zgZzy)

41
Obama faced down the North Koreans after they sunk S. Korea's ship.

Posted by: mr boner?, mr boner?, paging mr boner? at October 01, 2010 09:19 AM (5ql/p)

42 The toughest leader any country could ask for. Any country with nice bicycle paths and no anti-umbrella gates.

Posted by: t-bird at October 01, 2010 09:20 AM (FcR7P)

43
Obama handled the Dog Dilemma of 2009 quite well.

Posted by: mr boner?, mr boner?, paging mr boner? at October 01, 2010 09:20 AM (BPptn)

44 the toughest leader any country could ask for

This is arguably the dumbest thing I've ever heard, even including things Joe Biden has said. He can't even stand people asking him questions while he's buying shrimp!

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at October 01, 2010 09:20 AM (FkKjr)

43
Obama faced down the North Koreans after they sunk S. Korea's ship.

There's a difference between facing down and going down on the Norks. But it is a small distinction to a libtard.

Posted by: maddogg at October 01, 2010 09:21 AM (OlN4e)

46 And, Drew, there was double digit inflation during deal Carter's admin. Mortgages were 14% with good credit, cost of groceries went up from one week to the next, if you got a 5% raise, it was considered a pay cut. The reason people think that these are the worst times ever, is that we've become entitled people who think we shouldn't have to deal with adversity.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 01, 2010 09:21 AM (mAImR)

47 If you like my martyrdom, you can keep it.

Posted by: B. Hussein OMenthol at October 01, 2010 09:22 AM (A0VTZ)

48 Blah, blah, blah Rahm.

Fuck off.

Posted by: mpfs at October 01, 2010 09:23 AM (iYbLN)

49
The 10 10 douchebags have taken the video down, here is a link to the UK Guardian where it still can be viewed.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 01, 2010 01:19 PM (tf9Ne)

Isn't calling for the murder of those that disagree with you politically against British law? Let alone this was government funded if I recall...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 01, 2010 09:23 AM (7BU4a)

50 "Then the president mentioned that Phillips and Douglass have an opulent place in Italy and wondered why there had been no invitation to visit. "I'd appreciate a little break and some Tuscan sun," the president said, according to the pool report. "Some pasta. I can use it." Yup, he needs to go on another f-cking vacation. But, hey, congress bugged out like the bunch of cowards they are, so why not.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 01, 2010 09:23 AM (mAImR)

Can we arrange a deal with Italy that Obama can go to Tuscany but he has to stay there till 2012?

How about, Obama's allowed to leave the USA and go to Italy, but he cannot come back unless he produces 1) his real birth certificate; 2) his grades; 3) proof of how he paid the tuition & living expenses at Columbia & Harvard; 4) How he paid for the mansion in Chicago in that deal with Tony Rezko; 5) Anything else that occurs to us in the meantime

Posted by: Boots at October 01, 2010 09:23 AM (06JTY)

52
Well, let's see...

Obama took on Arizona...in court.

Posted by: mr boner?, mr boner?, paging mr boner? at October 01, 2010 09:24 AM (5ql/p)

53 I guess Bush had it easy when he was dealing with the worst terror attack in human history???

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 01, 2010 09:24 AM (zgZzy)

54

It took time to free the slaves but IÂ’d appreciate a little break and some Tuscan sun, some pasta. I can use it.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Caan at October 01, 2010 09:24 AM (tcSZb)

55 Obama, he said, is "the toughest leader any country could ask for, in the toughest times any president has ever faced."

To paraphrase Paul Begala, I wasn't born during the Civil War, Great Depression or any of the World Wars but I know about it,

Posted by: John P. Squibob at October 01, 2010 09:24 AM (/U/Mr)

56 When we was young, the family lived in Washington D.C. for a few years, and mother didnÂ’t send us where the American kids went to school. So she decided to teach extra lessons herself, Monday through Friday Â– at 4:30 in the morning.
Now we wasnÂ’t too happy about getting up that early. A lot of times, weÂ’d just fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. But never complain, 'cause mother would just give one of those looks that say, "This ain't no picnic for me either, yunguns. Now make sure you tell the maid to feed Bo before you run off to the Academy."

Posted by: Sasha & Malia at October 01, 2010 09:24 AM (kb0wl)

57 In other news: 'Buck up' advises Fuck-Up

Posted by: jwpaine at October 01, 2010 09:24 AM (g4J4S)

58 I'm sure feels tough when what you do to fix a problem actually makes it worse and then people start noticing that the disease was actually better than the cure.

Posted by: kansas at October 01, 2010 09:24 AM (mka2b)

The USS Arizona was sunk on my watch, and this numbskull just sinks the state again!

Posted by: FDR at October 01, 2010 09:25 AM (zgZzy)

What you folks don't understand, is that the Obama Washington folks REALLY believe this.

They don't know history. They really are clueless about how this country evolved and grew... how tough things have been before, and HOW we got out of those tough times...

Which is why all of their "solutions" will not work...

Those who do not know history, are doomed to repeat it... which is why they try the same policies which FAILED to fix the depresion...

Its why they Dis our historical allies. Its why Obama feels comfortable putting his feet on the Queen Ann's desk...

They truly are NOT American, except by citizenship.

Hmmm... new accronym? AINO? American in Name Only?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 01, 2010 09:25 AM (AdK6a)

61 OT: This girl deserves a science grant.

Posted by: WalrusRex at October 01, 2010 09:25 AM (xxgag)

Obama, he said, is "the toughest leader any country high school production of The Fantasticks could ask for..."

Posted by: Cicero at October 01, 2010 09:25 AM (QKKT0)

63 It amazes me that leftards insinuate violence. They would be a pathetic match to the conservatives in a violent confrontation. Being an idiot is a piss poor weapon.

Posted by: maddogg at October 01, 2010 09:25 AM (OlN4e)

64 My breakfast this morning had blueberry waffles instead of maple walnut. It was the most grueling meal any human has had to endure.

Posted by: Barky "Sibilance" McChinthrust at October 01, 2010 09:26 AM (NwEKc)

65 Yeah, going up San Juan Hill was tough, but getting out of that sandtrap on the Par 4 at Camp David? That's tougher.

Posted by: Teddy Roosevelt at October 01, 2010 09:27 AM (FkKjr)

68 OT: This girl deserves a science grant.

Lax players get all the babes! (I played it in college, and it was the only time in recorded history that I landed any tail.)

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 01, 2010 09:27 AM (zgZzy)

67
Malisha did more than her father to handle the oil leak.

Posted by: mr boner?, mr boner?, paging mr boner? at October 01, 2010 09:28 AM (5ql/p)

68 History, pre-Obama, never happened. You see, all presidents before Obama were racists. Therefore, the tough times they faced were justified. But these tough times today are 1,000,000 times tougher for this president to face simply because of all the racial attacks he must face everyday.

Posted by: Liberal Academic Douchebag at October 01, 2010 09:28 AM (MYT77)

69 Sorry, Rahm. The local Glee Club just asked for and got a leader who's tougher. And the Brownies.

Posted by: t-bird at October 01, 2010 09:29 AM (FcR7P)

70 I am the toughest leader in history. Did you not see me swat that fly?

Posted by: Barky Muses on his 20 Months of Accomplisments at October 01, 2010 09:29 AM (NwEKc)

71
Obama picked out a nifty rug for the Oval Office.

Posted by: mr boner?, mr boner?, paging mr boner? at October 01, 2010 09:29 AM (5ql/p)

72 Damn, my funny (or should I say "funny") headline in #62 got disappeared. it was (stand by to keep your sides from splitting): 'Buck up' advises Fuck-Up

Posted by: jwpaine at October 01, 2010 09:30 AM (g4J4S)

That's what happens when you mix Kotex and Massengill in the same administration.~fixerupper

New Massengill commercial:

Barry: Rahm, I know I've had half a dozen vactions this year, but I just haven't been feeling FRESH lately.

Emmanuel: That's because you're a slut, Barry.

Posted by: Speller at October 01, 2010 09:30 AM (J74Py)

74 Let's see; charged up San Juan Hill, won (and deserved) a Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the end of the Ruso-Japanese War, rebuilt our navy, crushed the union menace, and spawned a few war heroes. But hey, I never got the chance to play basketball, so . . .

Posted by: Teddy Roosevelt at October 01, 2010 09:30 AM (zgZzy)

These Are The Toughest Times Any President Has Ever Faced...

... and unfortunately for us, we have an incompetent, narcissistic, dimwitted, thoroughly corrupt, bigotted, anti-American, pathological liar in the office of President.

Kind of dims the hopes for a positive outcome a bit.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at October 01, 2010 09:31 AM (r1h5M)

76 These are the times that try men's patience, specifically when they are trying to hit the links and some idiot keeps calling about an oil spill.

And will someone turn up the damned thermostat please? These orchids are drooping.

Posted by: Ben Franklin Obama at October 01, 2010 09:33 AM (FkKjr)

77 Obama is the toughest leader any country could ask for, in the toughest times any president has ever faced.

Thanks. Thanks everyone. I'll be here all afternoon.

Don't forget to try the wagyu.

Posted by: Rahmbo Rimshot Emanuel at October 01, 2010 09:33 AM (swuwV)

78 I would think helping the country to heal after 9-11 and making the decision to go to war was probably a leeeetle bit tougher than what poor Barry has had to face these past two years.

Surely, Rahm can't believe what he said. Surely.

Posted by: sydney jane at October 01, 2010 09:34 AM (T8h7U)

79 Hey! You try running a fucking ungrateful country with nothing but a Blackbarry.

Not only that, but, racism!

Posted by: Your Lord & Savior, Inc. at October 01, 2010 09:34 AM (g4J4S)

80 yeah Reagan had it tough under him the unemployment went up to 10.8% mid way through his second year but at least he could blame Carter even after 30 months in office. Obama can't do that because..... well just because .

Posted by: archie bunker at October 01, 2010 09:34 AM (0YS61)

They are like a bunch of teenagers who think NO ONE has ever experienced the angst that they experience. IT'S ALL NEW.

See it must be the worst of times because if they are the BEST and things are going well, then the times must be worse than any other time.

I hope the ghosts of Lincoln, Buchanan, Truman, Washington, Madison, et al come and beat the shit out of this punk.

Someone remind him that the british burned the White House?

Posted by: barky at October 01, 2010 09:35 AM (ovW1y)

82 Remember President Loafer von Peezprize went on vacation to Bali for a month to "write" his autobio-memoir in the early '90s. The man's life is a perpetual vacation.

Posted by: Drinky Crow at October 01, 2010 09:35 AM (mAm+G)

83 Rahm,

Don't forget to pack the tutu.

Posted by: mpfs at October 01, 2010 09:35 AM (iYbLN)

84
Don't forget Obama made the tough decision to close Gitmo...

some day.

Posted by: mr boner?, mr boner?, paging mr boner? at October 01, 2010 09:35 AM (BPptn)

85
Unspeakably tough times... must be the reason for all the naked, co-ed beer pong by Whitehouse employees.

Posted by: IreneFingIrene at October 01, 2010 09:35 AM (JKe0g)

86 Didn't watch it (can't deal with those asswipes), was all that said with a straight face?

Posted by: irongrampa at October 01, 2010 09:35 AM (ud5dN)

87 (A)t Democratic fundraiser Thursday night, the president said, "I'd appreciate a little break."
New republican slogan:

We finally agree with the President. Vote Republican...because we really need a break!

Posted by: Rocks at October 01, 2010 09:36 AM (Q1lie)

88 These are times that try my men's souls.

Now why can't I just eat my damn waffle?

Posted by: President Barracky Pissypants at October 01, 2010 09:36 AM (9hSKh)

89
Remember that pic of all the hardworking shirtless WH aides Ace was posting a few months back?

It's time to dig out that pic again.

Posted by: mr boner?, mr boner?, paging mr boner? at October 01, 2010 09:37 AM (BPptn)

90 Yesterday I single-handedly faced down unquestioningly the worst hangnail that any human being has ever had.

After overcoming that unprecedented hurdle, I'm off to Man Country.

Posted by: Rahm, Drama Queen of Chicago at October 01, 2010 09:38 AM (gxC8L)

91 Didn't watch it (can't deal with those asswipes), was all that said with a straight face?

Posted by: irongrampa at October 01, 2010 01:35 PM (ud5dN)

No. You are suppose to laugh when the little kids are blown apart.

Posted by: WalrusRex at October 01, 2010 09:38 AM (xxgag)

92 Obama and his team need to man up.

This assumes the impossible.

Posted by: ParisParamus at October 01, 2010 09:38 AM (bN5ZU)

93 It's not as if Obama's predecessor didn't face challenges in his first two years.

Bush inherited a stalled economy that slid into recession before he could put together his first budget. He inherited a metastasized threat from Islamic fascists that turned into 9/11. The impact of 9/11 reverberated throughout the economy from Wall Street to the airline industry to tourism.

America's response to terrorism had to go from dead asleep to a war footing almost overnight. We had to fight a global war unlike any we had ever fought, and Bush faced Democrat opposition at every turn.

The reason it looks easier for Bush in retrospect is that by and large he made the right decisions and things turned out okay. The reason it's so hard for Obama is that by and large he has failed every test and grievously worsened every situation.

If Obama keeps making disastrous decisions, his successor may well face 'the toughest times any president has ever faced.'

Posted by: lyle at October 01, 2010 09:39 AM (Twbm+)

94 LEAVE BRITNEY BARRY ALOOOOONE!!!

Posted by: Rahm Emmanuel at October 01, 2010 09:40 AM (PA722)

95 Abraham Lincoln could not be reached for comment.

Posted by: Robert at October 01, 2010 09:40 AM (98ywz)

96 Hey Rahm,

I got your matzo balls right here you self-loathing Jew.
STFU

Yup, I'm in an incredibly foul mood today. Between Rahm, Sanchezdouche, Gloria Allred's nonstop harping and the Padres choking I hate the world. Keyrist, my ears are bleeding from Gloria's bleating.

Posted by: mpfs, Matzo Baller at October 01, 2010 09:40 AM (iYbLN)

How about we burn your house down and you run into the countryside with all your crap in a wagon?

Posted by: War of 1812 at October 01, 2010 09:41 AM (sOtz/)

98 What do expect on the high holy day of Rahm Kippur?

Posted by: The Q at October 01, 2010 09:41 AM (pfStM)

99 Obama and his team need to man up.

------------------------

Well, Michelle's doing her part.

Posted by: schizuki at October 01, 2010 09:42 AM (M+lbD)

100 December 7, 1941...

Posted by: A Day Which Wasn't Really That Bad at October 01, 2010 09:42 AM (sOtz/)

101

That Italian guy, the racist Columbus, never had it as hard as Barry The Dream does.

I mean, he was so much closer to Tuscany!

The trials that a young President has to go through to have a fucking vacation are ridiculous! Goddamit!

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Caan at October 01, 2010 09:42 AM (tcSZb)

102 And I managed to make all that worse by losing the war on purpose, kicking socialism into 7th gear, and destroying the black family unit with welfare.

All while being a total scumbag.

Obama is a pussy.

Posted by: Lyndon Shames Johnson at October 01, 2010 09:43 AM (gxC8L)

103 the toughest times any president's policy has ever caused Now I see what he's getting at. For example, the almost-as-inexperienced JFK didn't aim nuclear missiles at the US from Cuba. FDR didn't divide Poland, etc. So they don't count.

Posted by: t-bird at October 01, 2010 09:43 AM (FcR7P)

104 Obama was elected for 3 reasons. 1. The media engaged in the most sweeping propaganda campaign in the history of mankind. 2. The economy collapsed at literally the perfect moment to benefit a democrat nominee. 3. Bush was unpopular. As bad as McCain was, after he picked Palin they moved ahead in the polls for about 2 weeks, and then Lehman collapsed and it was over. Obama's election was more about happenstance than most people realize. They talk about his brilliant campaign etc, but his campaign was irrelevant compared to the 3 items I listed which he had no control over at all. I do not think the media can do it again in 2012. They will try, but it will not be as successful and if the economy is still bad (and it will be) it is on Obama's watch this time.

Posted by: Dan at October 01, 2010 09:44 AM (1jzSs)

105

You ever watch Rahm being interviewed? His face is stiffer than a 1975 animatronic robot at Disney World...

People like Rahm who have no facial expression are hiding some serious personality twistedness.

Wonder what he gets off on...kids? Puppies? latex and punishment?

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Caan at October 01, 2010 09:44 AM (tcSZb)

106

Obama, he said, is "the toughest leader any country could ask for, in the toughest times any president has ever faced."

I don't know of Rahm's statement is on video, but if it is, someone ought to dub in a laugh track.

"the toughest leader any country could ask for" pause, hahahahahahahahahahah

"in the toughest times and president has ever faced" pause, hahahahaahahahahahahaha

Posted by: Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz at October 01, 2010 09:44 AM (4JpPD)

107

They need to learn their history.

Rotfl.. liberals don't "learn" history. They rewrite it on the fly to suit their own purposes.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at October 01, 2010 09:45 AM (e8T35)

108

His administration is facing the hardest, toughest times ever.
Otherwise, I would have gotten my mortgage paid and my free gas by now.
And my skittle shitting unicorn.

Hey! Not my fault the Skittle-Shitting Unicron Manufacturing Corp. is stonewalling my order until we grant it a waiver on ObamaCare. Blame them, the filthy opportunistic capitalist leeches!

Posted by: Your Lord & Savior, Inc. at October 01, 2010 09:45 AM (g4J4S)

109 His administration is facing the hardest, toughest times ever.

Cause we all know Lincoln spent so much time going to the theater.

Posted by: mpfs, Matzo Baller at October 01, 2010 09:46 AM (iYbLN)

110 Maybe Rahm was praising the President's ability to keep his pecker in his pants. It has to be monumentally tough for Obama to not cheat when (a) he has tons of hot young girls begging to slob his knob, (b) girls are sluttier now than they've ever been in history, and (c) there is a klingon waiting for him in the bedroom right now.

In that sense, Obama has it tougher than any president in history. Even Roosevelt had it easy despite the uglier wife, what with the polio slowing him down.

Posted by: wooga at October 01, 2010 09:46 AM (2p0e3)

111 You got a Pussy for a President.

Posted by: Abraham Lincoln at October 01, 2010 09:47 AM (QLmzi)

112

Oh cry me a f'ing river Rahm. Do you seriously think this president is going through worse times than Lincoln, or FDR?

Quit defending the child king. You asswipes built up this joke, made him your token, and now you and your party, like the meth whores you are, have ramsacked the national treasury for 10 trillion for pure poltical bones. My kids and grandkids are already in debt beyond their ability to repay, essentially enslaved to your political utopia, and I am supposed to feel sorry for the hellish nightmare he is suppossidly going through? You sackless crybaby.

Viva the Revolution, 2010

Posted by: KLH at October 01, 2010 09:48 AM (4+tm0)

113 Let me tell you, holmes, fighting the Civil War ain't shit compared to my tussles with Fox News.

Posted by: Barack Obammy at October 01, 2010 09:48 AM (oAZ1S)

114

Four score and seven years ago . . .

Paul McCartney's mother was born. And Paul's here tonight!

Posted by: Obama in a tougher time at October 01, 2010 09:48 AM (pfStM)

115 You know, George Washington spent a lot of time camping in the great outdoors, relaxing, taking it easy, fishing the Delaware River.

It must be true its in Wikipedia.

Posted by: mpfs, Matzo Baller at October 01, 2010 09:49 AM (iYbLN)

116 His administration is facing the hardest, toughest times ever. Thats Michelle waiting at the top of the White House stairs with a frying pan ...

Posted by: Jean at October 01, 2010 09:49 AM (0unJi)

117 Unicron. Christ.

Posted by: Your Lord & Savior, Inc. at October 01, 2010 09:49 AM (g4J4S)

118

yeah Reagan had it tough under him the unemployment went up to 10.8% mid way through his second year but at least he could blame Carter even after 30 months in office. Obama can't do that because..... well just because .

Sure archie bunker, Reagan's whining about Carter was legendary, hahaahahhahahahahahahahahahaha

Posted by: Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz at October 01, 2010 09:49 AM (4JpPD)

119 And I say to you, my fellow Americans, that the only thing we have to fear . . . is running out of Waygu beef.

Posted by: Obama in a tougher time at October 01, 2010 09:49 AM (pfStM)

120 Reagan's tax cuts didn't go into effect until January 1983. Obama already shot his Keynesian load.

Posted by: barky at October 01, 2010 09:49 AM (ovW1y)

121 "Emanuel received a dead fish as a going away present from President Obama's economic advisor Austan Goolsbee during a senior staff meeting."

wow this administration gives strange "parting gifts" wonder if he was expecting a beautiful set of steak knives instead, and was disappointed....
link

Posted by: curious at October 01, 2010 09:49 AM (p302b)

122

I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you.

And the people who knocked these buildings down are gonna hear about my golf scores soon.

Posted by: Obama in a tougher time at October 01, 2010 09:50 AM (pfStM)

123 Though I voted for every Republican since Reagan to McCain, it's time we admit the giant Mess Bush left for Obama to clean up. The trillion in stimulus obviously wasn't enough and Obama's legislative accomplishments are historic. He's a real moderate pragmatist. Obama's recent explanation of his move to Christianity (ah, what was he before?, anyhoo) has convinced me of his moral rectitude and I expect to vote for him in 2012

Posted by: A Concerned Conservative Christian at October 01, 2010 09:51 AM (sOtz/)

124 You want me to do what???

I've got a fucking tee time at 8am. WTF?

Posted by: Paul Revere at October 01, 2010 09:51 AM (iYbLN)

125 Also Reagan did the OPPOSITE of Carter not much much much more of the same.

Posted by: barky at October 01, 2010 09:51 AM (ovW1y)

126 Teddy Roosevelt faced down grizzly bears, but he could never kiss Helen Thomas' ass like I could.

Posted by: Barry the Bitch at October 01, 2010 09:51 AM (gxC8L)

127

We are engaging in a campaign to make the world safe for basketball.

Posted by: Obama in a tougher time at October 01, 2010 09:52 AM (pfStM)

128

134

I agree with you 100%.

Posted by: Ellie Light at October 01, 2010 09:52 AM (pfStM)

129 These Are The Toughest Times
Any President Has Ever Faced Caused
There .. fixed it.

well really, Obama is just part of the progressive effort to destroy the constitution and individual freedoms. But he is not FACING tough times, he is AIDING the final assault, after decades of subversive efforts to undermine our hard won freedoms.

Posted by: bill at October 01, 2010 09:53 AM (lVd7L)

130 Obama's election was more about happenstance than most people realize. Dan, You speak as if Lehmans' collapse at that time was coincidence.

Posted by: Schumer and Soros at October 01, 2010 09:53 AM (dK0WB)

131 Give me a Putter or Give me Death!

Posted by: Patrick Henry at October 01, 2010 09:54 AM (QLmzi)

132 Thnx for your vote of confidence, Concerned Conservative Christian. And your vote. Say, you aren't in Chicago, by any chance? If so, read "vote" as "votes." (IYKWIMAITYD)

Posted by: Your Lord & Savior, Inc. at October 01, 2010 09:54 AM (g4J4S)

133

Lefties are hung up on the "historic" -- Best Ever, Worst Ever, Unprecedented.

It'd be nice if Obama's sales staff stopped their campaign of this nonsense and their boss focused on being a good president now.

Posted by: FireHorse at October 01, 2010 09:54 AM (sWynj)

134 As bad as McCain was, after he picked Palin they moved ahead in the polls for about 2 weeks, and then Lehman collapsed and it was over. Obama's election was more about happenstance than most people realize. They talk about his brilliant campaign etc, but his campaign was irrelevant compared to the 3 items I listed which he had no control over at all.

I agree. Think of what two small items did for the McCain campaign: Palin's convention speech and the Celeb ad. If the entire McCain campaign had had that wit and energy, it would have been a MUCH closer race.

Posted by: Drinky Crow at October 01, 2010 09:54 AM (mAm+G)

135 You know how hard it is on a guy's back to bow so deeply?

Posted by: Barry O at October 01, 2010 09:55 AM (FcR7P)

136 Never before has a President had to party as hard with celebrities.

Posted by: Barry the Bitch at October 01, 2010 09:55 AM (gxC8L)

137 BTW, most, if not all of the tough times this country is currently in are due to Obama's actions.

Posted by: Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz at October 01, 2010 09:56 AM (4JpPD)

138

Tell me about it...

Posted by: James Garfield at October 01, 2010 09:56 AM (sOtz/)

139 December 7, 1941, a Tee Time that will Live in Infamy.

Posted by: FDR at October 01, 2010 09:57 AM (QLmzi)

140 Screw it. I'm just gonna do cross-word puzzles.

Posted by: John Adams, lazy ass at October 01, 2010 09:57 AM (gxC8L)

141 geez, all I did was google "Rahm Emmanuel + tenant problems" link

Posted by: curious at October 01, 2010 09:57 AM (p302b)

142 133 I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you.

And the people who knocked these buildings down are gonna hear about my golf scores soon.

Brilliant!

Posted by: Drinky Crow at October 01, 2010 09:58 AM (mAm+G)

143 Give me a Pitching Wedge or give me a Nine.

Posted by: Patrick Henry at October 01, 2010 09:58 AM (FcR7P)

144

These are the toughest times any president has ever faced... and that's why I'm bailing on this administration. You know what they say: When the going gets tough, the tough resign and seek cushy employment at the head of a corrupt Democratic political machine.

Posted by: Rham Emanuel at October 01, 2010 09:58 AM (dUunI)

145 For Lord's sake you want me to walk down the stairs, cross the street and use the Xerox to make ANOTHER copy of the Constitution?

Can't a Founding Father just finish his waffle?

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at October 01, 2010 09:59 AM (iYbLN)

146 Ask not what your caddy can do for you, ask what you can do for your caddy.

Posted by: JFK at October 01, 2010 10:00 AM (FcR7P)

147 Who forgot the fucking GPS?

Gawd this discovering and shit is HARD.

Posted by: Magellan at October 01, 2010 10:00 AM (iYbLN)

148 his campaign for mayor of Chicago (a position he may not be eligible for by the by)

Chicago is out? Chicago is . . . OUT?!!

Posted by: Rahm "Twinkletoes" Emanuel at October 01, 2010 10:00 AM (t8Lxa)

149 Fourscore and seven strokes ago...

Posted by: Abraham Lincoln at October 01, 2010 10:01 AM (FcR7P)

150 "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall raise any tax, impose any burden, shirk any hardship, support any foe, oppose any friend, in order to assure the survival and the success of my vacation time."--John Fitzgerald Obama, Inaugural Address, Friday, January 20, 1961.

Posted by: Drinky Crow at October 01, 2010 10:01 AM (mAm+G)

151

I only have three regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay, I didn't hang John C. Calhoun, and I didn't take a break to soak up the Tuscan sun.

Posted by: Obama in a tougher time at October 01, 2010 10:01 AM (pfStM)

152 Houston, we forgot our golf clubs.

Posted by: Jim Lovell, Commander Apollo 13 at October 01, 2010 10:02 AM (QLmzi)

153 Give ME a break already!

Posted by: Tuscany at October 01, 2010 10:04 AM (t8Lxa)

154 Mr. Gorbachev, as my ball has landed against your wall, I demand a free drop.

Posted by: Ronald Reagan at October 01, 2010 10:05 AM (FcR7P)

155 This is the first time I've seen the "wonkette" site. Is this a liberal site? Cause if it is, her article seems a little weird in a threatening sort of way.

Posted by: curious at October 01, 2010 10:06 AM (p302b)

156

strange how that sept crisis seemed to benefit dems all the way around, from soros, making tons ,to unions, to goldman sachs, citi. etc...

ever checked out the campaign funds>

Posted by: willow-channels the President and His toadies at October 01, 2010 10:06 AM (8fK1n)

157 Honey, I forgot the duck.

Posted by: Obama in a tougher time at October 01, 2010 10:07 AM (pfStM)

158 All We Have To Fear....is....The 12th At Augusta!

Posted by: FDR in the Handicapped Parking Spot at October 01, 2010 10:07 AM (8lCJT)

159

Obama, he said, is "the toughest leader any country could ask for, in the toughest times any president has ever faced."

Yeah, I mean, it's not like I had to hold the country together after the British invaded and burned my house down.

Posted by: James Madison at October 01, 2010 10:09 AM (/Pw+r)

160 "We shall go on to the end, we shall vacation in France, we shall vacation on the seas and oceans, we shall vacation with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall vacation on our Vineyard, whatever the cost may be, we shall vacation on the beaches, we shall vacation on the landing grounds, we shall vacation in the fields and in the streets, we shall vacation in the hills; we shall never get back to work."--Sir Winston Obama, Delivered at the House of Commons, Westminster on 4 June 1940.

Posted by: Drinky Crow at October 01, 2010 10:09 AM (mAm+G)

161 We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the waffle-whipped cream complex.

Posted by: Bar-Ike Obama at October 01, 2010 10:10 AM (8lCJT)

162 This guy doesn't know how to run a country.

Posted by: Jefferson Davis at October 01, 2010 10:11 AM (8lCJT)

163 If you liked my first two years, wait til you get a load of my second two years!

No, seriously. Get a load of everything, if you want to survive my second two years. Pork n Beans, crackers, water, TP....

Posted by: Your Lord & Savior, Inc. at October 01, 2010 10:11 AM (g4J4S)

164 Obama and his team need to man up.

Tell us about it.

Posted by: The 1962 Mets at October 01, 2010 10:11 AM (t8Lxa)

165

It has been so tough that Barry almost missed is fantasy draft.

It was close, but he made it to his computer just in time.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Caan at October 01, 2010 10:12 AM (tcSZb)

166 Damn it! It's cold out there. You want me to march 100,000 troops 125 miles in two days? Not without a pair of UGG boots I won't.

West Point never said it was going to be this bad.

Posted by: Gen. George S. Patton at October 01, 2010 10:12 AM (iYbLN)

167 O/T: The world has gone mad...dead asian carp gift to RAM from Aw stan ( link)....kid videotaped.....now this......

Posted by: curious at October 01, 2010 10:14 AM (p302b)

168 At least the Bushies had the good sense to act like they had been to The Show, even if they hadn't.

The fact that the Obama team is consistently surprised at how difficult everything is, compounded by the fact that they cannot keep themselves from commenting every couple of weeks about how difficult everything is, does not inspire confidence in their abilities. The job didn't get bigger when he became President. He's just not big enough for the job.

Posted by: ShadowDoc at October 01, 2010 10:15 AM (iXV5s)

169 And those guys on Guadalcanal thought they had it bad. They never had to deal with the Republicans.

Posted by: President & Hardest Working Man in Government at October 01, 2010 10:15 AM (iYbLN)

170 "Let us therefore brace ourselves to our leisure-time activities, and so bear ourselves that if my administration lasts for two more years, men will still say, 'This was their finest vaca.'"--Sir Winston Obama, Delivered in Parliament at Westminster, 18 June 1940.

Posted by: Drinky Crow at October 01, 2010 10:16 AM (mAm+G)

171 Even with the wall street (planned?) collapse ... McCain could have won if he opposed TARP. The TEA party was a reality already ... it just hadn't been spoken into being by Rick Santelli yet.

McCain didn't seem to want it ... he was happy with being a contender.

We got President Tee Time , the Tea Party had to wait. Our prez is making the turn and facing a strong wind coming back. Barry is loading his cart with a 12 pack of crazy to drink on the back nine. Put your helmets on.

Posted by: bill at October 01, 2010 10:17 AM (lVd7L)

172 These are the times that try men's souls.

2010 Obama translation.

These are the tee times that try my golf score.

Posted by: mpfs, Matzo Baller at October 01, 2010 10:18 AM (iYbLN)

173 I figured DrewM to be in his late 60s, based on how cranky he gets.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo ( NJConservative) at October 01, 2010 10:18 AM (LH6ir)

174 I have not yet begun to golf!

Posted by: Barack Paul Jones at October 01, 2010 10:19 AM (NwEKc)

175 Let them eat dead Asian Carp!

Rahm Antoinette.

Posted by: mpfs, Matzo Baller at October 01, 2010 10:21 AM (iYbLN)

176 Damn the bunkers full golf ahead.

Posted by: Admiral Barrackagut at October 01, 2010 10:21 AM (QLmzi)

177 geez "kiss and tell" has taken on a whole new meaning.....

Posted by: curious at October 01, 2010 10:21 AM (p302b)

178 This is turning into a pretty good thread.

Posted by: mpfs, Matzo Baller at October 01, 2010 10:21 AM (iYbLN)

179 Nice dinner guest. They throw him a fundraiser and then he invites himself to their vacation home in Italy. Stay classy Mr. President.

Posted by: fozzy at October 01, 2010 10:22 AM (lPLCj)

180 Golfing is Hell

Posted by: William Barrack Sherman at October 01, 2010 10:23 AM (QLmzi)

181 Screw Lincoln. Life was pretty tough for Jefferson Davis. He didn't have the entire military-industrial complex of the North to gain indpendence for the Southern States.

Posted by: CMouse at October 01, 2010 10:24 AM (O7DCr)

182 "Le Vaca, c'est moi."--Louis "Hussein" XIV, by the Grace of God, King of France, of Navarre, and of Indonesia.

Posted by: Drinky Crow at October 01, 2010 10:25 AM (mAm+G)

183 I did not have sexual relations with that woman: Mrs. Obama.

Posted by: Obama in a tougher time at October 01, 2010 10:26 AM (pfStM)

184

Rahm Emanuel: These Are The Toughest Times This Is The Biggest Hole Any President Has Ever Faced Dug

FIFY.

It's like Emanuel doesn't have any idea Obama dug the hole.

Posted by: rdbrewer at October 01, 2010 10:27 AM (//VQH)

185 >>I'd appreciate a little break<< What a fucking sissy. The halls of the Kremlin are ringing with Putin's laughter. You think that guy takes a "little break?" Yeah...to beat seals. Then he gets back to being a full-time badass. I'd advise our president to sack up if I thought he had the means to do so. Pathetic.

Posted by: railwriter at October 01, 2010 10:28 AM (3qItU)

186 "Here I putt. I can do no other."--Friar Martin Obama, the Diet of Worms, 18 April 1521.

Posted by: Drinky Crow at October 01, 2010 10:31 AM (mAm+G)

187

"I'd appreciate a little break."

A break? Another break? Every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker, and every minute Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger.

Posted by: Captain Benjamin L. Willard at October 01, 2010 10:31 AM (//VQH)

188

No Drew, you are not wrong. The 70s were worse: gas lines, grocery prices going up every freaking day due to inflation, and interest rates made it almost impossible to buy a house. It looked like the Soviets were invading Afghanistan and were going to take over Africa and Central America through their Cuban proxies. The Iranians were holding American hostages and Carter was just standing there with his dick in his hand, telling the public we had to turn our thermostats down.

Of course, we didn't have a quasi Marxist in the White House with like-minded super majorities in Congress doing everything in their power to destroy the economy like we do now.

Posted by: Log Cabin at October 01, 2010 10:33 AM (slOv8)

189 O/t: "Carl Paladino may file trespassing charges against a team of New York Post photographers who took "close-range" photographs of the Buffalo businessman's 10-year-old daughter inside her home." link

Posted by: curious at October 01, 2010 10:34 AM (p302b)

190 Hard?!

I've been working the window for two hours straight with NO fucking break.

He don't know tough times. I gotta make people wait, take my sweet time going in the back looking for your damaged package, make fucking change....you have no idea the HORROR!

Posted by: USPS Postal Worker at October 01, 2010 10:35 AM (iYbLN)

191 Stephen J. Cannell died?

Posted by: curious at October 01, 2010 10:35 AM (p302b)

192 This the Entitlement mentality. We are Entitled to a Harvard education (paid for by someone else, after which we hide our scores) Health Care (likewise paid for by someone else) Golf every day (taxpayer funded) and by the way, how dare we be challenged by the temerity of untoward world events that make us not enjoy our waffle.

Posted by: rawmuse at October 01, 2010 10:36 AM (RD9iz)

193

I'd appreciate a little break.

Don't worry, slapnuts. You're gonna get one in 2012.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 01, 2010 10:36 AM (zgZzy)

194 I crapped bigger than this guy.

Posted by: Zombie Ulysses S. Grant at October 01, 2010 10:37 AM (jmf9+)

195 "Putts!"--Gen. Anthony "Hussein" McAuliffe, in reply to a German ultimatum to surrender, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne, December 22, 1944.

Posted by: Drinky Crow at October 01, 2010 10:38 AM (mAm+G)

196 THIS ...
IS ...
THE BACK NINE

Posted by: King Obanidas at October 01, 2010 10:39 AM (NwEKc)

197 "I'd appreciate a little break and some Tuscan sun," the president said, according to the pool report. "Some pasta. I can use it."

Yup, the toughest times any President ever faced, EVAH!

Poor little old me... I'd appreciate an American President again.

Posted by: CoolCzech at October 01, 2010 10:40 AM (tJjm/)

198 Walk it off, pussies!

Posted by: Jon Stewart at October 01, 2010 10:41 AM (emmoC)

199 Eat a sensible breakfast, Spartans... for tonight, we dine on arugula!

Posted by: Obama, King of Sparta at October 01, 2010 10:41 AM (FcR7P)

200 Now that Rahm will move back to Chicago and run for mayor, can we like send him a dead fish or something as a going away present? Or how about a new ballerina tutu, and a nice set of steak knives?

Posted by: CoolCzech at October 01, 2010 10:42 AM (tJjm/)

201 I came, I saw, I teed off.

Posted by: Barrack Obama at October 01, 2010 10:46 AM (QLmzi)

202 A sand wedge!!! A sand wedge!!! My kingdom for a sand wedge!!!

Posted by: Richard III at St Andrews at October 01, 2010 10:49 AM (8lCJT)

203 This thread = awesome.

Our Vacationer-in-Chief = Spineless, delusional, thin-skinned whiner. I knew he was getting in over his head with this job, but damn. It would be funny if there wasn't so much at stake.

Posted by: Melinda at October 01, 2010 10:50 AM (oBLJm)

204 oh woe is me, being president is so difficult. This is the toughest job anyone in ALL of history have to go thru

Posted by: 4rc at October 01, 2010 10:50 AM (KYMyA)

205 Presidenting is hard. Let's go shopping!

Posted by: railwriter at October 01, 2010 10:50 AM (BsK3p)

206 Laugh all you want at Rahm and Barry. But do you have any idea how tough it is to get that many tee times per week and fit in that many vacations per month? It's pure hell.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 01, 2010 10:54 AM (1Jaio)

207 Hard? Dude, I gotta use paper or plastic. That is some serious sweat inducin' work.

Posted by: Acne Riddled Teenager at October 01, 2010 10:54 AM (iYbLN)

208 218 This thread = awesome.

Our Vacationer-in-Chief = Spineless, delusional, thin-skinned whiner. I knew he was getting in over his head with this job, but damn. It would be funny if there wasn't so much at stake.

Posted by: Melinda at October 01, 2010 02:50 PM (oBLJm)

Hush, Melissa!

Can't you see the poor guy is trying to eat his shrimp?

Posted by: CoolCzech at October 01, 2010 10:55 AM (tJjm/)

209 @223: ummm, I meant, Melinda...

Posted by: CoolCzech at October 01, 2010 10:57 AM (tJjm/)

210 Come on people give the prez a break. You saw how hard it was for him to get the umbrella through the gate.

Posted by: mpfs,Matzo Baller at October 01, 2010 10:59 AM (iYbLN)

211 oh woe is me, being president is so difficult. This is the toughest job anyone in ALL of history have to go thru

You mean you never heard about me in Rev. Wrong's church?

Posted by: Jesus at October 01, 2010 11:01 AM (t8Lxa)

212 This D bag couldn't handle the press if they treated him like they treat Palin.

Posted by: kansas at October 01, 2010 11:02 AM (mka2b)

213

I don't want to comment on the Georgia situation before I get all the facts, but General Sherman acted stupidly.

Posted by: Obama in a tougher time at October 01, 2010 11:03 AM (pfStM)

214 You have to admit, if you were as fucking clueless as the Jug Eared Wonder Boy from Harvard, you think that these are the toughest times too.

Fortunately there are many people who vote who are not as clueless as fuckwad Barry Hussein Soetoro Marxist Alinsky.

Posted by: TexBob at October 01, 2010 11:05 AM (7cXE7)

215
Yeah, the economy in the 1970's was also bad. But probably worse because you were probably wearing SedgefieldÂ™ jeans and a polyester shirt.

Posted by: Dang at October 01, 2010 11:06 AM (TXKVh)

216 y'all are funny as hell.

Posted by: MDH3 at October 01, 2010 11:06 AM (4u+LN)

217

Amen, Drew.

Mid to late 70's were heinous. Gas lines, banana republic inflation, intractable Soviet Union rattling sabers and invading Afghanistan, Watergate, mind bogglingly high interest rates, the hostage crisis, on and on. If I hadn't been so young and had more at stake at the time it could have been real scary.

JFK's time wasn't real smooth either, Rahm. America at war over race in the Jim Crow south, Vietnam, the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis, Kruschev pounding his shoe and screaming how he would bury us, nuclear fallout drills under school desks and in halls. Toss in the fact that JFK, RFK, & MLK were gunned down in cold blood.

God, these are the most narcissistic people. It's all about THEM. I hate to toss out cliches because everyone has tough aspects to their life. But man up,guys. And remember, you campaigned and made promises for these jobs. We didn't exactly drag you to the WH kicking and screaming and chain you in the oval office. You guys need to have a scene like the one in Godfather 1 where the Godfather smacks Johnny Fontane in the face, gets in his grill and says, "You can start by acting like a MAN!!"

Posted by: RM at October 01, 2010 11:09 AM (1kwr2)

218

This

wondered why there had been no invitation to visit. "I'd appreciate a little break and some Tuscan sun," the president said, according to the pool report. "Some pasta. I can use it."

is just mind-boggling. POTUS publicly cadges an invitation...cringe-worthy.

Posted by: MDH3 at October 01, 2010 11:09 AM (4u+LN)

219 >>I, too, am in my mid-forties, and I clearly remember double-digit unemployment, double-digit interest rates, and double-digit inflation. It was MUCH worse then, and any media professional (never mind ordinary citizen over forty who doesn't recall and report that is an imbecile.<< +1. Maps of the world had many, many countries in red to signify that they were "Marxist," and people didn't laugh when they said "Soviet Empire." I'm 43, and I feel considerably safer now than I did when even kids could use acronyms to describe warhead types...SLBM, ICBM, MRBM...

Posted by: railwriter at October 01, 2010 11:11 AM (3qItU)

220

Yes, definitely tougher than the Great Depression. Or the Civil War. Or either of the world wars. Tougher than Vietnam or the Cuban missile crisis. I guess that's why Barry needs so many vacations. Because it's such a tough job.

Posted by: RickJ at October 01, 2010 11:13 AM (9A7mh)

221 It has to be so difficult for President Obama.

It is definitely harder than hiding in a small space at the age of 13 then being shipped to Auschwitz and then dying of typhus in a filthy bunk at Bergen Belsen at the ripe old age of 15.

I will never know his pain.

Posted by: Ghost of Anne Frank at October 01, 2010 11:14 AM (iYbLN)

222 oh really?

Posted by: A. Lincoln at October 01, 2010 11:17 AM (EmbBn)

223 I just want everyone to know that as I was forcing my men to cross the Delaware to attack the Hessians in a horrific snowstorm at a time it seemed the very existence of our newborn country was in doubt... I thought to myself what a pussy Barak Obama would be one day. There, I said it!

Posted by: George Washington at October 01, 2010 11:19 AM (tJjm/)

224 Toughest leader? hmmm, well I guess, even the marxists are finding it really tough to continue looking at Preznit prissypants as a leader

Posted by: PaleRider at October 01, 2010 11:20 AM (dkExz)

225 Cut me some slack, crackers! You guys talk about me like I'm a lazy, shiftless bum! I need a rest. Martha's Vineyard plum tuckered me out!

Posted by: Barry Obama at October 01, 2010 11:20 AM (tJjm/)

226 Hell yeah it was harder in Lincoln's day. There were only two or three golf courses in the whole country!

Posted by: Dang at October 01, 2010 11:26 AM (TXKVh)

227 Poor Barry ... his yellow brick road was not paved by the good witch or Elton John ... it was Soros enablers. And now the chosen won is finding out he has absolutely NO qualifications to be leading the free world ... and the flying monkeys are demanding their free health care and unlimited pensions.

It seemed so easy to play the agitator ... but making things WORK is hard.

Let me eat my waffle, oh .. and praise me. BUCK up you infidels.

Posted by: bill at October 01, 2010 11:32 AM (lVd7L)

228 "Obama, he said, is "the toughest leader any country could ask for, in the toughest times any president has ever faced... and I did my level best to make them tougher." Fixed that for you, you pencil-neck, toe-dancing Chicago POS. Now go home and wait for your House subpoena...

Posted by: richard mcenroe at October 01, 2010 11:32 AM (nt5G9)

229 Oh come on. You forgot Bush. Was there ever a president that has such treasonous assholes in the opposition party while he was fighting a war? This douchebag would melt under real pressure. he can't handle Bill fucking O "criticizing" him, how would he stand up to criticism from the entire left wing media, the cultural elites on both sides of the atlantic, and the cave dwellers as he tried to fight a war which everyone, including the wimp ass pentagon, was telling him was lost. seriously, this fucking guy is a moron.

Posted by: nine coconuts at October 01, 2010 11:46 AM (DHNp4)

230 These mofos are ignorant of history which explains why they are clueless as to how to solve problems instead of making new ones. No comparison, the 70s were worse by far and I doubt the WWII generation was jumping up and down with little to no gas, chocolate, coffee, sugar, and other stuff available that these douchebags couldn't do without. These people just make me livid. They are so vain and stupid.

Posted by: laddy at October 01, 2010 11:46 AM (f4e3N)

231 That said, Give us a couple more years and we will make it even worse.

Posted by: rahm asshole at October 01, 2010 11:47 AM (DHNp4)

232 This explains why these marxist always end up murdering their opposition (stalin, putin, mao, ...) they can't handle criticism. If he thinks this is a tough time imagine what he would do given real pressure.His only pressure is losing the midterms. He thinks the marxism, loss of american security, rise of china, et al. are good things so what is he complaining about? the economy that he fucked up? the difficult getting bills though his party's congress? living with the neandertal?

Posted by: nine coconuts at October 01, 2010 11:51 AM (DHNp4)

233 And....and.....and.....Bob Dylan wouldn't even have his picture taken with him!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at October 01, 2010 11:54 AM (ZuXtZ)

234 since when is eligibility a problem for this bunch?

Posted by: elspeth at October 01, 2010 12:07 PM (ik8X5)

235 I just processed an unprecedented amount of material. I blame Michelle for making me eat all that tofu.

And Bush, of course.

Posted by: Obama's Colon at October 01, 2010 12:07 PM (UOcNk)

236 Mr. President, please suck my balls. A fucking five year old can determine in his/her mind you're nothing but a big fat liar with an even larger ego. Only one word in the english language can discribe you....DISGUSTING. George Washing, Abe, FDR, JFK, Gipper and others... if your can read this, I apologize for this complete nincompoop idiot jackass numbnut bonehead fool.

Posted by: Sparky at October 01, 2010 12:32 PM (r0u40)

237 Like a good Chief of Staff, he's merely setting the tone for next two years: "Everyone picked on us!"

How disappointing. Even our Marxists are pussies. The only group that isn't, is the conservative women. Very counterintuitive.

Posted by: hannitys_hybrid at October 01, 2010 12:37 PM (zpqa2)

238 Fuck obama and all his whining. It is his party that crashed the markets with all the sub-prime bullshit. If he wasn't such a loofer, he would have known what he was getting himself into.

Half of me believes the repubs fronted an un-winnable candidate just so America could see how bad it is under rino and lefty governance. Then again, that would be giving too much credit for the douche bags running the GOP, then.

Posted by: sTevo at October 01, 2010 01:54 PM (VMcEw)

239 He thinks times are tough right now. Just wait till he is taking it the ole squeek hole by bubba in the pen!

Posted by: Stephana at October 01, 2010 02:02 PM (530OM)

240

Well, the Umbrella-Challenge Crisis was definitely on par with history-shapers like the Civil War, and WWII.

Come on you guys--cut these pussies a little slack. How would you like to mince a mile in Rahm's pointy little ballerina shoes, huh? Yeah. Didn't think so...

Posted by: NorthernX at October 01, 2010 02:20 PM (iSSxt)

241 Obama, he said, is "the toughest leader any country could ask for, in the toughest times any president has ever faced."

Not with that thin skin...

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at October 01, 2010 02:25 PM (fxACH)

242 Zombie 1: We won't know how tough he is until we eat him.
Zombie 2: Ptui. Not enough brains.

Posted by: gail at October 01, 2010 02:40 PM (f46PC)

243
Pucker up, America!
My ass ain't gonna kiss itself!

Posted by: Your Lord & Savior, Inc. at October 01, 2010 02:46 PM (g4J4S)

244 Look, cut me some slack! Since I found out I was ineligible to run for mayor of Chicago even if I greased every palm from Berwyn to Rensellaer, I've decided to join Second City! Tragedy is easy, as I've found out over the last two years with President Eazy-Bake, but comedy is hard!

Posted by: Rahm 'Shecky' Emanuel, Two-Fisted He-Man Ballerina at October 01, 2010 03:14 PM (2PTT7)

245 It was tough picking out those great quotes for the new round prayer rug in the oval office.

Posted by: jbinnout at October 01, 2010 04:00 PM (zhiFM)

246 Obama, he said, is "the toughest leader any country could ask for, in the toughest times any president has ever faced."

The depression and World War II were a piece of cake by comparison.

Posted by: FDR at October 01, 2010 04:09 PM (oBAOc)

247 Obama, he said, is "the toughest leader any country could ask for, in the toughest times any president has ever faced."

Poor Barry. Antietam was nothing compared to the violence of the Tea Partiers. And I only had to deal with George B. McClellan and Jefferson Davis. B.O. has to worry about Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.

Posted by: A Lincoln at October 01, 2010 04:13 PM (oBAOc)

248 "I'd appreciate a little break."

Let me be clear. I need a vacation!

Posted by: King Barack the First at October 01, 2010 04:16 PM (oBAOc)

249 The toughest president in the toughest times ever? You've got Putin in a launch with a crossbow hunting whales, and we've got Barry riding around Nantucket on a girl's bike in his mom jeans. The comparison could only have been worse had Putin been bare-chested. Seriously, though, that speech by Rahm was terrible. Every other word that wasn't "toughest" was "Mr. President". His delivery was so piss-poor that the part where he was "choking-up" at the end made me think it was faked. Whoever wrote it should've been fired, and, quite honestly, can't any of these people take the podium without a teleprompter or notes to issue a simple thank you for the opportunity to serve?

Posted by: Snake Plissken at October 02, 2010 05:01 AM (4SDHr)

250 It's not even the toughest time in the last 10 years. The dot com bubble bursting, 9/11, the recession caused by both and the ensuing Afghan and Iraq wars were tougher obstacles than what we have now. We just had a president then who could get things going again whereas Obama's another disaster the country has to live through.

Posted by: Felix at October 02, 2010 02:27 PM (MbJfC)

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