1

No!  No!..  Stay out of the healthcare.  Bad Obama.  Go lay down.

 

2 First greasy spot!

3 Wasn't narcissism one of the knocks on Nixon.

4 That clip was very unfair to Custer.

5 His attacks on Slurpees were the most egregious. That's why he thinks people treat him like a dog. Nobody gives a dog some Slurpee.

6 Onward, to Little Bighorn and victory!

7

You go down there, Obama.  If you got the Guts.  That ain't the Iowa Caucus down there and that ain't Hillary neither.

Obama = Custer?

No.  Custor was an excellent soldier.  He had cajones the size of water melons.  Bad judgement at LBH.  Expected another Washita...

It's a fun movie but very very very LEFT!

8 I hate it when I hit "post" before I'm done.

9

Jean, VDH mentioned Nixon in his article.  I think he's even more thin-skinned.

10 a symphony of rage with many interesting grace notes along the way


Very nicely written.

11

Well I don't know if people talk about our New Messiah like he's a dog--oh he may be a Labrador Deceiver and all that, but I don't know that people talk about him like that.

But what we will see and hear, on the morning of November 3, is Obama squalling like a turpentined tomcat.

 

 

12

Something must be done.

13 @8 - Then stop doing it.

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Patient: "Doc, it hurts when I do this!"
Doctor: "Don't do that, then."

14

Very nicely written.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at October 12, 2010 04:17 PM

Thanks, Heather!

15 Obama = Custer? No. Custor was an excellent soldier. He had cajones the size of water melons. Bad judgement at LBH. Expected another Washita... It's a fun movie but very very very LEFT! Posted by: newguy40 at October 12, 2010 04:14 PM (kduZC) Not to mention the fact that Custer didn't particularly care who he made into political enemies- like the president of the United States (U.S. Grant). Two months after testifying at Congressional hearings against Grant's brother and nephew (on charges of mis-treating Indians) Custer was dead. And yeah, that movie was fun, but it was pretty much revisionist as a history lesson.

16 I liked "LBM" when I saw it, but if you read the book it's way better and you won't like the movie near as much afterward. Berger, while sympathetic to Native Americans, wrote a much more balanced account. The film is typical Hollywood sledgehammer propaganda.

17 I'll join in the group that doesn't really like the Custer reference.  Custer was a good soldier who made a major mistake.  However, once having made his mistake, he rallied his troops best he could and tried to deliver them from the hell into which he'd led them.

I look at BHO more like the Children's Crusade- something everyone knew from the beginning (at least, everyone paying attention) was doomed to failure, but a course from which he will not turn because his beliefs forbid his admitting any possibility of error.

18 Mr. Preznint, I have served Slurpees. I know Slurpees. Slurpees are a favorite of mine. Mr. Preznint, you're no lover of Slurpees.

19 Custer:  Well, tell me what you saw.

Scout:  Do you want the good news or the bad news first?

Custer:  Give me the good news first.

Scout:  We're not going to have to ride back across Kansas.

20 I would have shot a par, but the caddy screwed me.

21 Custer, nice choice. Napleon facing Duke Wellington, or Santa Anna facing Sam Houston would have been just as good. Come to think of it, Santa Anna facing the freedom fighting Texans might be most apropos.

22 Don't forget the Cambridge police for acting stupidly.

23 I didn't fall down, that SOB ran into me.

24 And umbrellas.  They made him look bad too.

25 21 Custer, nice choice. Napleon facing Duke Wellington, or Santa Anna facing Sam Houston would have been just as good. Come to think of it, Santa Anna facing the freedom fighting Texans might be most apropos. Posted by: MikeTheMoose at October 12, 2010 04:34 PM (0q2P7) True, but Hollywood would make a movie portraying GW Bush as a stalwart, steely-eyed hero before they made a movie depicting a Mexican as a vain, narcissistic, coward. Much easier to do that to a white man, especially a blond haired one.

26 Where do TOTUS and the falling Presidential Seal fall in the blame anyone / anything else hierarchy?

27 26 Where do TOTUS and the falling Presidential Seal fall in the blame anyone / anything else hierarchy? Posted by: ya2daup at October 12, 2010 04:43 PM (Wqfrr) The IBEW and the Carpenter's Union- which is why you never hear anything about them.

28
He hasn't blamed Muslims...

29 Waaah, waaah, waaah. What a crybaby. I'll enjoy drinking his tears (a la Eric Cartman) come November.

30 Slurpees really get on my nerves.

31 the wife, a hard core liberal feminist, voted McCain in '08 because she thinks Obama is mentally disturbed ...   she thinks he may melt down after Nov ...

32

I'll join in the group that doesn't really like the Custer reference.  Custer was a good soldier who made a major mistake.  However, once having made his mistake, he rallied his troops best he could and tried to deliver them from the hell into which he'd led them

 

And the advance intelligence estimated the indian villages as being far smaller than they were. And no one knew that they had Henry rifles. These had a greater range AND higher rate of fire than the Sharps carbines carried by the 7th cavalry.That wasn't realized until archeological digs occured at the battlefield in the late 20th century. The only survivors were the troops under Reno, which didn't engage, and the Indians.And the Indian accounts were full of shit.

33

the wife, a hard core liberal feminist, voted McCain in '08 because she thinks Obama is mentally disturbed

Yeah, I think we've had enough presidents with mal-adjusted childhoods lately.

34 I look at BHO more like the Children's Crusade-

Posted by: AllenG at October 12, 2010 04:25 PM (8y9MW)

Yes. That works on so many levels.

35

Speaking from the point of view of someone who has raised children, at some point BamBam's gonna have a crying, screaming tantrum of epic proportions.  Unfortunately for him, his "sympathetic" enabling audience is about to leave, and the grown-ups have had enough of waiting around for him to figure it out on his own.

A great big can of whoop-ass is about to be opened, and Bammie has a choice: he can continue to wail, in which case, he will be sent to his room until he can calm down, or he can try and adjust his attitude and be allowed to stay in the main room like one of the big boys.

My guess is that the Democrats who are left standing after November 2nd aren't going to be willing to do him any favors, either.  They've seen what happened to people who listened to him instead of their constituents.  They aren't likely to risk doing that again - unless they're weapons-grade stupid (which, unfortunately, many are), in which case they'll be taken out soon enough.

As with most parents, whenever my kids had a right royal meltdown and started throwing things, butts got spanked and attitudes got adjusted.  If they learned, fine - if not, then it was lather, rinse, repeat until they figured it out.  The grown-ups have arrived, and the same thing will happen with Bammie. 

Regardless, the guy's got 2 years left.  If he makes it that long without having to be fitted for a straitjacket, I'll be surprised.  But stranger things have happened....

36 If racists kept driving your car into the ditch, wouldn't you be angry?  If greedy quacks kept cutting off your feet and tonsils, wouldn't you get mad?  If your gay soldier friend kept getting asked about and told on, wouldn't you lose your temper? A little empathy people.

37

My guess is that the Democrats who are left standing after November 2nd aren't going to be willing to do him any favors, either.  They've seen what happened to people who listened to him instead of their constituents. 

I'm worried about the lame duck session, but I wonder about the chances of people lame-ducking in the other direction, against party leadership--the leadership that caused them to lose in the first place.  I wonder whether they'll take some anger out on PelosiReidObama. 

If I were a lame duck this session, I'd be angry at my party's leadership.  I might have some ideological drive to grow government, among other things, but I'd be more motivated by The Stupid from up top.

38 the wife, a hard core liberal feminist, voted McCain in '08 because she thinks Obama is mentally disturbed ...   she thinks he may melt down after Nov ...

Well, if what I gleaned from a conversation between my GF and her step mom (both lefties) is right, even his supporters are pretty much resigned to the fact that he's going to be gone in '12.

39 I want the world. I want the whole world. I want to lock it all up in my pocket. It's my bar of chocolate. Give it to me now!!!!!

And if not, I'm going to blame EVERYBODY because I'm not getting what I want!!!!  Now!!!!!

40 And remember to remind all of the black folks not to vote.

41

True, but Hollywood would make a movie portraying GW Bush as a stalwart, steely-eyed hero before they made a movie depicting a Mexican as a vain, narcissistic, coward.

To be fair, that is how Santa Anna is portrayed in the most recent version of The Alamo--a vain fop who treats his men like livestock.  The only Mexicans in that movie who are really portrayed sympathetically are a couple of his subordinates and the tejanos that fought with Sam Houston.

42 I'd have lowered the oceans by now if someone hadn't dumped so much fluoride in it.

43

Yeah, I think we've had enough presidents with mal-adjusted childhoods lately.

Unfortunately, as Gen-X and Gen-Y get older, we're going to end up seeing this quite a bit more, thanks to that lovely 50% divorce rate.

44 I had sorta forgotten the "Reverse Jesus" -- thanks for the reminder; it was one of my favorites along with whoever called him "Satan's goofy, incompetent sidekick"...that was a classic too.

45 Graceless, classless, crybaby.

A tantrum throwing man-child.

46 the wife, a hard core liberal feminist, voted McCain in '08 because she thinks Obama is mentally disturbed ... she thinks he may melt down after Nov ...

Posted by: Jeff at October 12, 2010 04:52 PM (A3tpD)

AFTER?

47 44 I had sorta forgotten the "Reverse Jesus" -- thanks for the reminder; it was one of my favorites along with whoever called him "Satan's goofy, incompetent sidekick"...that was a classic too.

Posted by: unknown jane at October 12, 2010 05:43 PM (5/yRG)

George Soros as the Skipper, and Brack Obama as Gilligan...

"Now, Gilligan, did you do EXACTLY what I told you?"

"Yes sir, I sent Israel a fruit basket, and told the Chamber of Commerce to go to Hell."

"You did WHAT?!? DOH!" (crumples and throws hat)

48 And yet ...

Between 45 and 48 percent (or is it more?) of voting Americans still support Obama; even more, if only by a few additional percentage points, still think he's a good guy, still like him, even though they believe his policies are bad.

Ponder that, fellow morons. Sobering statistics, yes?

I have these Jewish friends who, like the vast majority of American Jews, voted for Obama; who also, like the vast majority of American Jews, have what Gloria Reuben of Commentary magazine (in today's Flotsam and Jetsam column) characterized as a "sick attachment to the Democratic Party." She might also have added that they have a sick attachment to liberal ideology. My friends are dispirited and disappointed by Obama, but they can't bring themselves to admit his flaws and failures. Instead they shake their heads sorrowfully and bemoan the supposed fact that both parties are now equally bad--that both liberal and conservative ideologies offer nothing substantive or productive in terms of solving the problems confronting the nation. This is, of course, the language of denial, but they don't know how to express themselves in any other way. I almost think that if I were to somehow get them to stammer out criticisms of Obama, the Democrats, and liberalism, their heads would explode.

49 I could care less if he has a meltdown (it can be dealt with if it happens), what concerns me is him getting actively vindictive and doing something spiteful.

50 47  Ok...heh...that's pretty good too.

51

On Fox News,  Jonah Goldberg and Charles Krauthammer shred the DNC and Obama on the Chamber of Commerce smear.  

52 rdbrewer: "If I were a lame duck this session, I'd be angry at my party's leadership. I might have some ideological drive to grow government, among other things, but I'd be more motivated by The Stupid from up top."

That's what I'd be expecting from some number of those getting booted out, especially the freshmen and mythical Blue Dogs. The Progressive takeover will cost them their seats and perhaps their (new) professional lives. They have about two options: suck it up for the remainder of the party and hope for new life later (a quid pro quo) or a vindictive streak to pay back those who forced them into bad policy support... support so unacceptable that it will destroy their mission even if they are ideologues.

I hope they learned their Chicago-style politics well because the newly-fired will need to teach their betters a lesson... except for Reid, Boxer, Grayson, and Frank et al. who can go suck the Barbed Cock of Satan™.

53 I think I will drink a Slurpee on November 2 while watching Chrissy Matthews cry.  Do they make pineapple Slurpees?

54 You know who I forgot to put in that list?  Those dumb voters in general.  So easily lied to.

55

"After all, a 'Custer decision' cannot be reversed."

Keep in mind though that the Little Bighorn was really the Indians' Last Stand, too.  True, they pretty well trashed a few companies of cavalry, but they ended up on the reservation in short order thereafter, and never mounted another major uprising.

The Left would probably have absolutely no problem with the Obamessiah pulling a Custer if they could get the same long term result.

56

Unknown Jane:  I had sorta forgotten the "Reverse Jesus" -- thanks for the reminder; it was one of my favorites

Heh.  I think of that every time I see him pointing a finger away from himself (every day). 

Anonymousdrivel:  a vindictive streak to pay back those who forced them into bad policy support... support so unacceptable that it will destroy their mission even if they are ideologues.

Surely, you aren't suggesting these people are nasty, vindictive, and self-oriented.

I can't call it.  I would think they'd be a little ticked at how tone deaf all three, PelosiReidObama, were.  What they've done over the last two years is long form hari kari.

In Pelosi's case, she never figured out that, as Speaker, she represented more than just the dead-enders in her district.  She behaved terribly selfishly.  It's like she assumed everyone was in a district like hers.  She didn't take the time to care.  I can't imagine them not disliking her just about as much as Republicans.

57

Good Custer joke:

Facing a tough re-election bid, the President called in his closest advisors.  "What can I do to boost my popularity before November?" he asked.  After much debate, it was decided that a new Monday holiday would be well received by the public.  The President and his advisors then debated about who should be the honoree for the new holiday.  After hours of argument, someone proposed George Custer, since he was, after all, an American hero.  Everyone agreed that Custer was a fitting choice. 

The President then went and announced the new holiday in a stirring speech.  He concluded by saying that the first George Armstrong Custer Day would be commemorated with a new monument, in Custer's honor, being unveiled on the National Mall.

For months, work on the monument progressed behind a special barrier, designed to keep the design a secret.The appointed day came, and, after more rousing speeches by visiting dignitaries, the President gave the signal to the sculptor.  The sculptor pulled the rope, the barrier fell, and the public first saw the monument.

There was a loud gasp as the crowd beheld a statute of Jesus, standing upright, with his arms outstretched, standing atop a pedestal adorned with friezes of dozens of Indians copulating.

The President leaned over to the sculptor and said: "What in God's name is this?  It's supposed to be a monument to George Custer!"  The sculptor whispered back: "It is.  It's Custer's last thought - 'Jesus Christ, I've never seen so many fucking Indians!'" 

58

Custer was arguably the best regimental and brigade cavalry commander for the Union.  He learned his trade against some of the best.  I'd plunk him down as the best union or secesh too. 

There are many better comparisons for O for the competency thing.  McClellan and Beauregard come to mind.  Except both were exceptional at lower, less responsible ranks and duties.  THAT cannot be said for O who has no record or accomplishment at any rank or duty.

59 57 There is a similar joke that ends with"holy cow look at all those f'ng Indians."Gotta love those 7th Cav hats.

60 49 I could care less if he has a meltdown (it can be dealt with if it happens), what concerns me is him getting actively vindictive and doing something spiteful.

Posted by: unknown jane at October 12, 2010 05:53 PM (5/yRG)

Wait, you're concerned he MIGHT do that?!?!

Do I sound like a broken record?

61 That was the end of my Religion Period
After my religion period, I took up with a swindler: Allardyce Merriwhether
"Mr. Meriweather, you don't know when you're licked.
"Licked? I'm not licked. I'm tarred and feathered, that's all."


During my years with Meriweather,... ...he lost an eye as a result of a fifth ace... ...dropping out his sleeve in a poker game. It didn't faze him, though. Deception was his life's blood,... ...even if it caused him to get whittled down kind of gradual like.

62 Oh- watch a clip with the "poison from the goonads" line. Hilarious. To hell with the anti establishment politics and revisionist shit underneath it (I think this is an Arthur Penn movie?) some of it is hilarious anyway.

63 21 Custer, nice choice. Napleon facing Duke Wellington, or Santa Anna facing Sam Houston would have been just as good. Come to think of it, Santa Anna facing the freedom fighting Texans might be most apropos.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at October 12, 2010 04:34 PM (0q2P7)

Santa Anna easily.  The Mexicans lost because the Texicans attacked during their siesta.  Like Obama golfing.