1 The man is a demagogue's demagogue.  Transformational and Post-Partisan my ass.  An incompetent, ideological fraud.   Piss Be Upon Him.

2

Looking at this ratio, America is suffering its largest drop since World War II. When the economy was at its Bush-era height, in 2007, a little over 63% of adult Americans had jobs. Friday's report shows that only about 58.4% do, a decline of nearly five percentage points. While the unemployment rate remains steady at 9.5%, the employment-population ratio continues to fall each month. In April it was 58.8%, in May 58.7%, and in June 58.5%.

Since America has about 238 million noninstitutionalized civilian adults of working age, this decrease means that we have nearly 12 million fewer jobs today than we would have if the employment-population rate were still at its 2007 level of 63%.

Unemployment: What Would Reagan Do? Henry Olsen

3 "Petty, whiney and generally unlikable".  I'd say that about nails it as a description of Obama.

4 Obama has at times revealed himself to be petty, whiny and generally unlikeable. I could have told you that.

5 -->The message was the usual mix of scaremongering, untruths, demagoguery and, of course, cheap shots aimed at the GOP.

Classic.  Everything the Indonesian Imbecile has said, in a nutshell.

"saving the jobs of teachers"

Isn't the appropriate expression for this, "subsidizing the jobs of teachers"?

You know, I don't think I ever hear anyone use the word "subsidize", even through a year and a half of "saved or created" and when the bulk of the extraordinary feral government spending spree has been on subsidies for everything that the left likes and that makes no economic sense, at all.

I wish Bluto was in the White House press corp and everytime someone said "save" he blurt out, *cough* "subsidize" *cough*.

6 Steve Holt!

7 #1 - But Obama is NOT a demagogue. Demagogues appeal to the masses, Obama can't reach them at all, because he doesn't understand or like them, and more and more or them are starting to see it.

He won by selling himself as a symbol instead of an actual man or politician. Reality is clashing with the various images people voted for, and many don't like it. But I don't see how Obama can rewind to the heady days of Skittles and Unicorns.

8 I don't think Obama has the ability or interest in pursuing centrism, so attacks are all he has.

He's in it for all of the marbles.

9 Matt Damon!

10 I wish Bluto was in the White House press corp and everytime someone said "save" he blurt out, *cough* "subsidize" *cough*.

That's the White House Press "Corpse", not "Core", of course.

11 Unlike Obama, however, Clinton took a two-pronged approach: attacking the GOP was one part. Pursuing center-right policies was the other. I don't think Obama has the ability or interest in pursuing centrism, so attacks are all he has. I'm not sure it will work as well for Obama as it did for Clinton. I think what Gibbs said the other day about their base was the administration's attempt at clintonian centrism.

12 6 Has anyone ever sen Obama nude? I mean COMPLETELY nude?

13 I, One!

14 Nice , Slu , very nice .

15

_{Posted by: Toby at August 10, 2010 08:18 PM (w05/A)}

"There is no 'i' in Teamocil,

At least not where you think."

 

16 I don't think Obama has the ability or interest in pursuing centrism, so attacks are all he has.

Actually, the attacks ARE his politics.  His only intentions, from the beginning, were to get into the Oval Office and attack America and that is exactly what he's been doing without fail.

17 So...next year when the economy is still in the crapper, how do pay for it?

18 Small solace, no doubt, but it would be interesting if someone could "take the pulse" of Facebook.

Pre-Obamacare passage, nearly all my lefty friends posted some pro-Obama snippet every week or so.

Since then, it got much quieter. Now, there's the occasional NPR or Media Matters link from the odd academic; otherwise, silence.

Even my attempts at provocation are met with silence.

They're either out, or doubling down. I feel, ultimately, they'll vote with their pocketbooks.

Key point going forward: Folks don't like to be told they were wrong. They are much more amenable to being told they were misled.

19 So the short version is we already knew up front he was an asshole.
He just played the 52% chumps like a violin.

20 Well done slublog.

Nothing more to say, let's kick ass!! 80 some days to go!

21 #1 - But Obama is NOT a demagogue. Demagogues appeal to the masse

Know what, you're right.  Demagogues have the conviction-less,  underlying cynicism needed to manipulate the people.  This guy is a True Believer.  He sold himself to the American public as a consensus-building moderate, and now he's astonished to find he's doing a reverse Sally Field- "You don't like me!   You really don't like me!"

22 "I don't think Obama has the ability or interest in pursuing centrism"

Not only does he not have the ability, 'the smartest man in the world' is a fucking dumb shit, one trick, socialist idiot.  He doesn't KNOW anything else.

Except campaigning.  He'll have two years to do that, AS A LAME DUCK PRESIDENT.

23 lowandslow

Governor Daniels called it child abuse.

24 Why doesn't some Republican throw that shit back in his face.

Because almost all Republicans in office are guilty of the same bullshit.

25

Obama and his ilk always fails the test of the Categorical Imperative.

Always.

26 I'm gonna enjoy watching this Obama fellow's public nervous breakdown.

I think they may have to wheel his punk ass out of the White House in a straitjacket.

I will LOL.

27 One factor left out of the Clinton comparison:  No Ross Perot.  I feel certain that if Perot had not been in the 92 and 96 elections, Clinton might not have been elected in the first place.  Perot was given front-page attention by a media who relished the idea of dividing Conservative and Republican votes.  He even got a table at the Presidential Debates.  (Contrast this with Ralph Nader, the most viable third party candidate in 2000--they not only didn't give him his own table, they wouldn't even let him into the lecture hall.  The media know who they want to win and aren't ashamed about gaming the system.)

28 Say what you will, but I get to dine on the finest wagyu beef.

FuckyouIwon.

29 Obama has long done what Mahmoud Abbas does (and Yasser Arafat did before him): he tells each audience what they want to hear.  He is confident that their pleasure at hearing it will keep them from paying attention when he says the exact opposite to another audience.  Certainly the media won't put the two contradictory statements side by side -- because they are both the audience and the messenger.

30

@18: "They're either out, or doubling down."

If your friends are from SoCal, they're doubling down.  The more The Messiah fucks up, the more Obama stuff you see.  Hell, some local government offices look like Obama Campaign HQ now.

31 FuckyouIwon.

Posted by: King Barry XV at August 10, 2010 08:31 PM (BP6Z1)

King Barry Ethelred Louis Obama XVI, that is.

32 Obama had one tool in his bag in 2008.  His words, his oratory, his speeches ...  in 2008 many people thought he was telling the truth when he told you something ...

now that 60 - 70 % of Americans know, I mean really know he is a liar he is stuck ...  he can't use the one tool in his arsenal ...  well, he can use it but it won't work this time ...

remember when Obama claimed to be a centrist hard core liberals knew he was lying and hard core conservatives thought he was lying ...  the liberals were fine with the lies (they really like the uber-liberal Obama) and the conservatives weren't fine with the lies ...  so basically about 66 percent of America knew, knew he was lying in 2008 ...  now that the other 34% knows he's a liar he   is  so  screwed ....

33 There's nothing good on tv.

34 The more The Messiah fucks up, the more Obama stuff you see.

Lemmings.

35

@19: "He just played the 52% chumps like a violin."

He only played about 20% or so of them.  At least 30% want a communist dictator in charge.  They knew exactly what they were voting for, and did so quite happily.  To the extent that they are pissed now, they're only pissed because he hasn't gone full Stalin.

36 WTF is O Reilly doing having fucking Nancy Grace on his show?

Nancy Grace, of the Duke rapist fame.  BITCH!

37 OT:  From the Examiner:

US Government in Massive New Global Warming Scandal – NOAA Disgraced

Global warming data apparently cooked by U.S. government-funded body shows astounding temperature fraud with increases averaging 10 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit.

The tax-payer funded National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has become mired in fresh global warming data scandal involving numbers for the Great Lakes region that substantially ramp up averages.

http://tinyurl.com/248f5k4

38 How about all those guilty whites who thought they were voting for a post-racial president?  You think they don't feel betrayed?

39 If your friends are from SoCal, they're doubling down.  The more The Messiah fucks up, the more Obama stuff you see.  Hell, some local government offices look like Obama Campaign HQ now.

Seattle, mostly. They're either academics, government workers or family-monied, or some combination. But some have disabled kids, who are "useless eaters" under Obamacare, and others have family who are unemployed. Those are the ones I wonder about.

40

"There is no 'i' in Teamocil,

Our motto is simple-We keep you alive!

41 40 How about all those guilty whites who thought they were voting for a post-racial president?  You think they don't feel betrayed?

The dumb fuckers have no clue. 

I know some of them, trust me their vote was liberation from white guilt and they will do it again.

42 Here in Burbank, I'm actually seeing more Che and Obama shit and more chicken tracks ("peace" symbols) all over everything. The hippies are even more sullen. It makes me fuck with them more. I can't help it.

They all know their messiah is doomed to Carterville. Dissent will be cool to them again in December.

43

"Now, this proposal is fully paid for, in part by closing tax loopholes that encourage corporations to ship American jobs overseas. So it will not add to our deficit. And the money will only go toward saving the jobs of teachers and other essential professionals = SEIU and the new improved Acorn (whatever they are calling themselves) in the 57 states. Elections coming in November and Teh One is going to create one helluva lot of jobs for those two groups. I suppose all the laid off Census workers will be available to hand out handbills also

 

44

This man is not a president as he is a harp, trying to throw his arms around the world and we need him like a fish needs a bicycle.

Just some old U2 with lyrics written by the Edge.

Seriously, I have never heard a president of the United States speak with such dripping disdain and contempt toward the electorate.

Drink please.  

 

45 He's in it for all of the marbles.

Posted by: Soap MacTavish at August 10, 2010 08:17 PM (554T5)

You need to look at Obama's history.  He didn't like working in a corporate office, so he got a job as a community organizer.  But it was hard and he wasn't good at it, so he went to law school.  Being a lawyer was hard, so he ran for office -- and when he finally won a seat in the State Legislature, he kicked back.  Eventually he got bored and ran for the US Senate, where he got bored and ran for the Presidency.

(Oh, and along the way, he was supposed to write a book, but that was really hard and he almost had to give back his advance.  Somehow the book got written, though.)

Now that he's discovered that Presidentin' is hard and he's not good at it, he seems to have settled into a groove of golfing and honoring sports figures.  He himself would not choose to be much of a factor in this election or in 2012, because he just doesn't want it anymore. 

So the question is: how much does Michelle want it?  How much do Axelrod and Gibbs and Jarrett want it?  Because they will have to do all of the heavy lifting to get Obama off his ass to campaign, and somehow make him afraid to lose.  Otherwise, he can just coast into being an ex-President, with all the perks and bennies that go along with it.

 

46 He only played about 20% or so of them.  At least 30% want a communist dictator in charge.  They knew exactly what they were voting for, and did so quite happily.  To the extent that they are pissed now, they're only pissed because he hasn't gone full Stalin.

Nailed it. It's the suburban soccer moms (and the occasional dad) who thought it would be "cool" to vote against Bush (though some part of their feeble minds knew Bush wasn't running) who took Obama over the top.

They wait now, with baited breath, to see what Oprah tells them to do in November, now that their husband is unemployed, they're underwater on their mortgage, and the shoe-shopping-sprees to Nordstrom have ended.

47 the money will only go toward saving the jobs of teachers

At this point someone should jam that graph comparing the meteoric rise of education funding with the stagnant level of test scores down Oshithead's lying gob.

48 Awesome commentary Slublog!

49 I personally think Led Zep is the king.

50

Sifty - give em hades in Burbank.  I used to work in your neck of the woods in the Universal bldg.

These libs are bastards.

 

51 Boy, the Rep. Georgia Governor's primary race is tiiiight.  57% in and it's Deal 50.9% and Handel 49.1%.

52 We pour millions and billions into our schools, and look - our vast educational system, now rubble.

53 "I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views," is how Obama got elected.

54 Theft, pure and simple:

Stolen from gateway:
Federal civil servants earned average pay and benefits of $123,049 in 2009 while private workers made $61,051 in total compensation, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The data are the latest available.

The federal compensation advantage has grown from $30,415 in 2000 to $61,998 last year.

This cannot continue.  Where is John Galt?

55 "I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views," is how Obama got elected.

Don't forget our wholesale abdication of doing our motherf*cking jobs!

56 This mongrel's in it for the goodies.  He'll have worn out Air Farce One, the b-ball court, the bowling alley (heh) and every golf course he pretends to play on.  The interior of the WH probably has more broken/replaced urns, vases, lamps, carpet, upholstery, china, crystal, etc. etc. than when the Clintons left. 

I hope when he leaves, his frowny-faced, angry wife leaves him for another woman, and he's left contemplating coming out of the closet or pretending to be an uber-athlete man's man.

57 Why do these buffoons think that throwing mo' money mo' money MO ' MONEY at anything fixes it? Here in Atlanta, the money spent on inner-city kids is astronomical but the end results is kids that are dumber than a stump. Mo' Money does not equal better results.Teachers need to be put on a pay-for-performance plan and standards need to be raised to 1950's-1960's levels (my wife's mom is an old-school school teacher and i have a bunch of her old textbooks; good lord, the stuff that they taught in middle and high school would cause college-grade brains to explode with the knowledge and concepts contained within!). Eliminate the NEA, the  DoEd, the teachers unions and put education back in the hands of the state and local governments. DemonRATs think that they can tax their way to prosperity and can gain greater intelligence by whipping out a checkbook and writing a check on OUR account.

And promote career paths that do not have the word "college" in it. Not everyone is suited for college and they need to be supported, not vilified , because they don't want more book-learnin' but would rather work with their hands. Higher education seems to be more of a path to mediocrity  and liberal indoctrination than anything else.

58 Does the Clinton guy have a chance against the Obama guy in CO? I'd love to see Barry take another ego hit.

59 44 sifty - Burbank... Darts Away? Moonbat teasing target rich central, but I denounce myself for liking the beer.

60 Klinton, for his many and glorious flaws ("should never be confused with a decent human being", in the words of one Arkansas aquaintance) was all about being popular.  Public wants centrist, he will do centrist.  Obama is a hard-core Marxist, from a whole family of flaming Marxists; he would sooner cut off his own nuts that truly pursue "moderate" policies.

61 ... I suppose if AmericaÂ’s children and the safety of our communities are your special interests... Enjoy your short stay in Chris Christie's wheelhouse. What a maroon.

62

_{I personally think Led Zep is the king.}

No.

63

Hey, hey, mama, said the way you move,
Gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove.
Ah, ah, child, way you shake that thing,
Gonna make you burn, gonna make you sting.

Sarah...

64

Seriously, I have never heard a president of the United States speak with such dripping disdain and contempt toward the electorate.

Posted by: Journolist at August 10, 2010 08:41 PM (8EEyy)

And you never saw one hold his biggest campaign rally in GERMANY!!  In fact, you probably never even contemplated a candidate in a US election holding a campaign rally in a foreign country.  You probably even thought that doing something so insane was illegal and would result in the candidate's immediate ejection from the race.

No longer.  Welcome to the new US.  A guy holding citizenship in 100 other countries is now considered eligible for the US Presidency, so long as he might have been born in the US (agreed to by many conservatives, even!) and he can take his campaign all over the world.  Yay!  I know what the Founders would think of these crass offenses to the concept of sovereignty and the purpose for instituting governments, in the first place.

65

Great post.

Oh, and along the way, he was supposed to write a book, but that was really hard and he almost had to give back his advance.  Somehow the book got written, though.)

Now that he's discovered that Presidentin' is hard and he's not good at it, he seems to have settled into a groove of golfing and honoring sports figures.  He himself would not choose to be much of a factor in this election or in 2012, because he just doesn't want it anymore. 

Think you are on to something.  It would explain alot of the on the surface "bad optics" (ugh) like golf and all the trips.  All hat and no cattle. 

Have I ever mentioned how much I hate the Loofah's culture warriors segment?

Especially that so called conservative twit on the right.

66 Vero possumus!

67 Even I'm more mature than the president.  And when was the last time you saw me dancing around?

68 The guitar is screaming...

69  Does the Clinton guy have a chance against the Obama guy in CO? I'd love to see Barry take another ego hit.

Posted by: LincolnTf at August 10, 2010 08:52 PM (w05/A)

Yes he does.  I'd prefer Bennet though.  He is easier to beat in November.

70 Chucklesbee and Newt can suck it for backing Deal here in Georgia.  We need Karen Handel.

I'm beyond pissed.

71 >>>Seriously, I have never heard a president of the United States speak with such dripping disdain and contempt toward the electorate.

Yessss.. For all the crap he took, Bush never once blamed the People. Journalists, in private or between friends, sure. He had Class. This blowhard never had any.

72 51 I personally think Led Zep is the king.

Bite your tongue . . . or mine!

73

Slublog!

You nailed it, good to see you posting again.

We need to expose these lies every chance we get. We need to point out anyway we can that since the dems took over congress unemployment has risen from 4.6% to 10.2% and the defict has risen from $260 Billion to $1.6 Trillion.

make them eat their own shit.

74 Fantasy leagues, hoops, golf, eating out- man, he really is a serious writer, isn't he?

75 I hate words...

76 Obama's like school in the summertime . . . no class.

77 There is no doubt that Odipstick as well as Michelle Antoinette hold this country in deep disdain.

78

The "community activism" with Valeria Jarrett on the South Side of Chicago was a prologue.  This was rarely studied or discussed in the media, but is absolutely characteristic of Obama and his familiars.

Much ado about A Cause! Standing up to The Man. Etc.

In the end, Valerie Jarrett made a lot of money, Barack got some bonafides with the brothers, but the people that he was actually working for didn't get jack.  Nothing changed.  Ditto the Anneberg Challenge.

The guy just does NOT have any real executive skills, which you might think are essential as President of the United States.  He has an attitude which some in the populace like, and of course, the Media continues to cover for him. But he basically has NO aptitude for the job he campaigned for.  He's not just in over his head, he has no real clue what he is doing. He is a total idealogue, and will not be anywhere near as poltically nimble and flexible as Clinton was. The 2012 election will be a measure of just how much the Media can bamboozle the people and just who the Republicans will come up with to campaign against Obama.

If the government really published what the unemployement numbers are, and the Media really discussed this in any depth (or at all), this guy's approval numbers would be in the 20% range.  His policies and those of his Administration and the Democrat Congress are simply appallingly stupid. There is no other word for it. In 10 years, people will discuss it openly, but looking for the truth or crticial analysis outside of Center-Right and Conservative /Republican blogs is liek Diogenes looking for 10 honest men.

 

79

@44: "Here in Burbank, I'm actually seeing more Che and Obama shit and more chicken tracks ("peace" symbols) all over everything."

Soviet Monica is the same.  They do babble about him less, though.

80 Clinton was in town today stumping for Sestak.  Does anyone else remember when former Presidents didn't constantly campaign and didn't constantly attack other former Presidents?

81 alexthechick, did you offer Bubba a cigar?

82 Nathan Deal is a good man.  He used to be my Congressman when I was growing up in GA.  His wife actually taught at the middle school I attended, so he'd drop by to do the civics lectures. 

83

@56: "Where is John Galt?"

He already got the fuck out of Dodge.

84 so long as he might have been born in the US (agreed to by many conservatives, even!)

"Agreed to" is a excellent way of putting it...

85 Does anyone else remember when former Presidents didn't constantly campaign and didn't constantly attack other former Presidents?

Posted by: alexthechick at August 10, 2010 09:02 PM (YBXMV)

All impeached former Presidents do that.  Nothing unusual.

86 alexthechick, did you offer Bubba a cigar?

heh I didn't go see him, I have far better things to do.  Like alphabetize my spices.

87

@59: "And promote career paths that do not have the word "college" in it. Not everyone is suited for college and they need to be supported, not vilified , because they don't want more book-learnin' but would rather work with their hands."

Why arbitrarily rule out "Clown" and "Beauty" simply because they also have the word "College" associated with them?

88 60 Does the Clinton guy have a chance against the Obama guy in CO? I'd love to see Barry take another ego hit.

That'd be Romanoff (Clinton) vs. Bennet (Obama). Romanoff has closed the gap, but his base is those libs who don't think Obama's been liberal enough. Neither will win in the general (Denver and Boulder Dems only count for so much when unemployment's high).

That said, the GOP, with it's laser-like focus on losing, has presented us a plagiarist and a no-name campaign-finance cheat as our gubernatorial choices, having pushed the young, energetic, unsoiled  (former NCAA-2 QB) senate minority leader Josh Penry to the curb early on "in the interests of party unity."

So our governor will be a Democrat.

89 heh I didn't go see him, I have far better things to do.  Like alphabetize my spices.

Mmm . . . paprika!

90

"He already got the fuck out of Dodge."

Fk John Gulch. BS.

91

In the end, Valerie Jarrett made a lot of money, Barack got some bonafides with the brothers, but the people that he was actually working for didn't get jack.  Nothing changed.  Ditto the Anneberg Challenge.

That just makes him a pretty typical Democrat 'leader.'  They get richer, while the problems they are sent to solve are perpetual.  Really, what problem have Democrats ever solved?

92

@72: "Any TB's in the house?"

I got TB in the USSR.  Izzat close enough?

93 Clinton can speak extemporaneously.

Obama?  Not so much.  He is a stuttering prick sans teleprompter.

94 The guy just does NOT have any real executive skills, which you might think are essential as President of the United States.  He has an attitude which some in the populace like, and of course, the Media continues to cover for him

maybe he and gibsy can swap jobs. How much worse could it get?

95   Really, what problem have Democrats ever solved?

Well, Clinton did manage to utterly humiliate NOW so that was good.

96 Really, what problem have Democrats ever solved?

Posted by: nickless at August 10, 2010 09:07 PM (MMC8r)

The problem of getting up and going to work.

97

@77: "Fantasy leagues, hoops, golf, eating out- man, he really is a serious writer, isn't he?"

Fantasy leagues, hoops, golf, eating out men.....

FTFY.

98 The Hawaiian version of, "All hat and no cattle," is, "All ukulele and no canoe."

99 baby, baby, i am about to lose my worried mind?

100 The problem of getting up and going to work.

Only for half the country.  The other half, they make work harder.

101 You know, I can see Hilary running against him in 2012 just to kill his chances at a second term.

Think about it, if she ran it would collapse his support even if the economy recovered and he won the primary.

That would make him just another one termer and keep Bill as the most successful D since FDR. (thanks to Perot, as commented above)

102
He's really going to be insufferable when some of the MFM finally spits his c*ck out.

103 79 Obama's like school in the summertime . . . no class.

Posted by: Fat Albert at August 10, 2010 08:59 PM (6lHx3)

Technically, Russell. But point taken.

104

@95: "Really, what problem have Democrats ever solved?"

How to separate the taxpayers from their income.  How to bring Islam from a backwards-ass religion to a global threat.  How to destroy the nuclear family.  How to put blacks back in bondage. Etc., etc., etc.

Their success rate at solving problems is quite impressive.  They just disagree with us on what constitutes a "problem"

105 All impeached former Presidents do that.  Nothing unusual.

Yeah, well, I inherited all of those problems from my predecessor who got us into this mess in the first pl....  oops, never mind.

106 There’s a lady whose sure all that glitters is gold
And she’s buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there, she knows if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.

107 There’s a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
’Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook, there is a songbird who sings:
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.

Ooh, it makes me wonder,

108

12 6

Has anyone ever sen Obama nude? I mean COMPLETELY nude?

 

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

Not me.  We used a glory hole to get the kids.

109

He's a Frankenstein monster made up of the preachy sanctimoniousness of Al Gore, the elite snobbery of John Kerry and the ultra-partisanship of Nancy Pelosi.

Nice point.  He also has the political idealism and practicality of a sophomore and the maturity of an adolescent.

110 Its not as hard as it seems.

111 And yesterday I saw you standing by the river,
And weren't those tears that filled your eyes,
And all the fish that lay in dirty water dying,
Had they got you hypnotized???

112 "The message was the usual mix of scaremongering, untruths, demagoguery and, of course, cheap shots aimed at the GOP"

POLITICAL BIGOTRY -- that what Obama was doing. Stop beating around the bush and start clearly labeling this behavior as POLITICAL BIGOTRY.  This in turn opens up the option to label Obamacrats as BIGOTs.   Which in turn may cause them to rethink their POLITICAL BIGOTRY strategy as BIGOT is a LABEL that has a lot more STICK TIME than scaremongering, demogoguery, cheap shots, etc...  

113 I can so see this jackass going Jetblue and walking away if the media gets half as critical as Bush suffered through. I think the second half of his term will be fascinating stuff - like bodies laying in the road. And I'll bet a case of 5.56 he'll pardon some bloody interesting cats.

114 Does Ace drink?

115 decided to edit yr post a little... "In most ways, Obama is unlike any president in the modern era." There ya go

116

Karen Simpson...

117 The voters acted stupidly.

118 I watched Glen Beck again.  He was talking about Dreams of my Father and reporting what a Neo-Commie he IS and what a  nut-ball father WAS..   He is acting like an old Soviet Comrade with his behavior.  They aways talked like they where like and  for the common man but acted like Royalty.  The same way he and his wife are acting all the time.

119 Uh, how about the economic illiteracy on display here? "Now, this proposal is fully paid for, in part by closing tax loopholes that encourage corporations to ship American jobs overseas." So... RAISING taxes on corporations will encourage them keep jobs in the US. How will this magic incentive work? Is it, like, if you ship jobs overseas, we'll tax you more on that, so we can pay for our stuff? Well, what if the tax actually does discourage corps from sending jobs overseas? That would mean tax revenues from whatever loophole he is claiming to close, would be reduced. He can't possibly be taxing activities that encourage corps to send jobs overseas, and also taxing them when they respond to the incentive by not sending jobs overseas. So which is it? What it is is this: The guy's a moron; someone typed up that mess of contradiction for him to read off the TelePrompTer; and the whole lot could count on no one in the media being smart enough to notice the nonsensicality of his statement.

120 Sarah P said she could see Russia from her house.  Little did she, or all of us, think the USA would become the USSR.

121 You know who I blame for Obama and the mess we're in? MIKE DITKA If he had run against Obama for Senate he would have won. And now we'd be two years into Ditka's presidency. Da Coach would be a damn site better than Obama and he doesn't have to pretend to be an athlete. But no, Ditka chose not to run. Everytime I see Baraka Obama giving a speech I imagine Ditka at the dais and think what could have been.

122 Rember the House just passed the Teachers Union bill to pay off the Unions before school starts.  Think of it as new grade school tuition.  Since the debt we are going to end up with our children are going to have to pay for.

123 What my god was Ditka thinking!

124 Not to get too psychoanalyz-ey, but for all of the "no drama Obama" hype we heard during the campaign, it's pretty clear to me that the president isn't comfortable in his own skin, because who he pretends to be and who he really is are not the same person.








This is who--or what--he is.

125 @125 Sarah never actually said she could see Russia from her house. Fey did on SNL. She said you could see Russia from parts of Alaska which is true.

126

Thisis who--or what--he is.

Posted by: baldilocks at August 10, 2010 10:10 PM (eCBLw)

Absolutely.  Seeing that never gets old; unlike simpleton fucksticks printing out boring Led Zilch lyrics so they can feel "edgy" like they erroneously thought they were 40 years ago.  Pathetic really....

127 Fox News says that in addition to closing a tax loophole in order to pay for this bill, it also cuts food stamps in 2014! So I guess the money is out in the meantime, but in 2014, a lot of people get to tighten their belts even more... so the Dems can pretend to have paid for a bill to buy votes now... But of course, the Dems are saying they will find another way to pay for the bill before the food stamps are cut - but that means they need to stay in power, of course! Does anyone else have trouble with the idea of cutting food stamps (most of which are supposed to be feeding children), in order to do something "for the children"? And does anyone else keep hearing an old cartoon character voice saying, "I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today..." - in Congress?

128 I'm sure some other know-it-all has pointed this out, but who cares?  The "bully" in "bully pulpit" is not the big, dumb, mean guy who took your lunch money.  Back in Teddy's day, "bully" meant "cool."

129 boring Led Zilch lyrics

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 10, 2010 10:28 PM (qPpkJ)

Are you really ankle-biting Led Zeppelin?  Where's a damned moderator when you need one?

130 Led was so 60-70-s let em go.

131

I met Obama during a campaign stop in 2004 when he was running for Illinois' US Senate seat.  He was rude!  I thought for sure he would lose by a lot to a very charismatic Republican, Jack Ryan (who was married to that actress Jeri Ryan).

Too bad Obama's puppetmasters kept opening up all opponents divorce records, and airing their dirty laundry.  Dirty laundry won.

132

Are you really ankle-biting Led Zeppelin?  Where's a damned moderator when you need one?

Posted by: FUBAR at August 10, 2010 10:40 PM (LPL4Z)

Enjoy them all you want; if I want to be bored by them there are plenty of classic crock stations and asshole tribute bands to waste time on.  I figured that M100 was Raykon or some other shitheaded troll but if you enjoy seeing that garbage in print here, I guess there's no accounting for taste.

133 Wow, that is one weak worthless fuck of a President.

134 $10 billion of this money goes to the unions. Before the money gets to the "teachers" the unions skim off their share of mandatory "contributions".

The money skimmed by the unions goes directly into the union political advocacy/footsoldier network to get out votes for Dems.

 

That's what I figured when I first heard about that outrageous scam on the news. Unfortunately, however, the MSM isn't picking up on it, and it isn't getting any traction, and so most of the public will remain blissfully clueless .

135

Yessss.. For all the crap he took, Bush never once blamed the People. Journalists, in private or between friends, sure. He had Class. This blowhard never had any.

Exactly, Democrats always forget that the people are never wrong and the customer is always right.  But then for them that 's two philosophies too many.

136 92
"That just makes him a pretty typical Democrat 'leader.'  They get richer, while the problems they are sent to solve are perpetual.  Really, what problem have Democrats ever solved?"

They solved the overpopulation problem in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.