April 27, 2011

A Question I'd Love To See Asked
— Ace

Will someone please ask this on television?

I think it's a winner.

Do you feel that Obama is the man that he promised you he'd be? Do you feel like he's the man the media promised you he'd be? Do you think he was sold by himself and the media accurately, or do you think they have greatly exaggerated his capabilities, qualifications, expertise and judgement? Do you think you were sold on Obama honestly, or do you think you've been taken for a little bit of a ride?

Rewritten: I initially had a stupid, stupid post about this question up. I have disappeared it and withdrawn it because it was so stupid.

Sometimes I have stupid ideas and think they're smart, then I realize I'm just a stupid ass. Which means...


Integrative Complexity

You've got to be pretty smart to make as many mistakes as me and Mensa-Carpool-Buddy Obama do.

Posted by: Ace at 11:06 AM | Comments (217)
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1 Yes, but is there the possibility of Ewok LoveTM?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at April 27, 2011 11:09 AM (LH6ir)

2 Is this thing on?

Posted by: ya2daup at April 27, 2011 11:09 AM (FcKXR)

3 You're the Ewok guy, right? -

Posted by: Marco Rubio at April 27, 2011 11:09 AM (h6mPj)

4 It would be hilarious if Mitch Daniels announced his candidacy by quoting Johnny Rotten: "Do you ever feel like you've been cheated?"

Posted by: Jeff B. at April 27, 2011 11:10 AM (NjYDy)

5 Tapper and maybe even Blitzer might notice, but to hope the media is going to create a buzz around their failures is pie in the sky.

Posted by: Valiant at April 27, 2011 11:10 AM (9/lhd)

6 We want our money back!

Posted by: CanaDave at April 27, 2011 11:10 AM (6FX+Y)

7
That's a lot questions in that question.


Posted by: Soothsayer, over easy at April 27, 2011 11:11 AM (uFokq)

8 Shortened the posting, I see, Ace. A man's got to know his limitations and all that ...

Posted by: ya2daup at April 27, 2011 11:11 AM (FcKXR)

9 What happened to the endorsement whoring?

Posted by: EC at April 27, 2011 11:11 AM (GQ8sn)

10 Does it have to be an interview, or can it be something shouted at cameras while being drunkenly lead of in handcuffs from a slightly cooling hobo? Because...

Posted by: Methos for President! at April 27, 2011 11:11 AM (uqJo6)

11 Quick- someone Photoshop an Ewok with trump hair!

Posted by: Luke S. at April 27, 2011 11:11 AM (9/lhd)

12

"Reporting the news is hard work! Look- there's a unicorn!"

Posted by: Bulldog in Kansas at April 27, 2011 11:12 AM (z1C58)

13 Do you feel that Obama is the man that he promised you he'd be? Do you feel like he's the man the media promised you he'd be? Do you think he was sold by himself and the media accurately, or do you think they have greatly exaggerated his capabilities, qualifications, expertise and judgement? Do you think you were sold on Obama honestly, or do you think you've been taken for a little bit of a ride?

Not sure.

Posted by: Independant Voter at April 27, 2011 11:12 AM (bAySe)

14 I've deleted the previous version, which was stupid, as the way I put it made it impossible for anyone to ask this (that is, I was sayign I'd endorse anyone who said this, meaning no one could actually do so without "kowtowing to a racist, homophobic minor blogger). But I think it's a winner. It's a variation of "Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?" Except it not only cuts to the heart of the myth of Obama, but it wraps Obama around the media's neck too. It's a two-fer. If you can't hang them apart then hang them together.

Posted by: ace at April 27, 2011 11:12 AM (nj1bB)

15 Don't worry, this time everybody that votes for me gets a Sham-Wow!

Posted by: Barack 'There Is Big Trouble In River City' Obama at April 27, 2011 11:12 AM (2PTT7)

16 There is a flaw in your plan.  Your offer of endorsement-style coverage is only going to move a candidate if s/he believes that you have the clout to move the needle.  But if you had the clout to move the needle, you wouldn't need the candidate to start the buzz behind your proposed questions.

It's like the guy who developed the atomic butterfly net.  He showed to a colleague: "See?  You put the net over the target, press the button and BLAM! Everything in a quarter-mile radius vaporized."

His colleague asked, "And how long is that handle?"

The mad scientist looked at the six-foot handle, shook his head and went back to the drawing board.

All I'm saying is, start pushing the questions yourself and THEN invite the candidates to jump aboard if they want to glom onto that meme (which, I hasten to add, is a really good one).

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2011 11:12 AM (ELpjS)

17 Shit. That comment made sense before I clicked "Post."

Posted by: Methos at April 27, 2011 11:13 AM (uqJo6)

18 I don't care what you say.  Obama is awesome!

Posted by: Loony Lefty Chick at April 27, 2011 11:13 AM (wOGfT)

19 That question needs to be trimmed a bit - This is the edited question: Obama, think he's any good with a longbow? - works as either a metaphor or ironically.

Posted by: BumperStickerist at April 27, 2011 11:13 AM (h6mPj)

20

The MFM can't ask a question like that with its mouth full.

Posted by: Cicero at April 27, 2011 11:13 AM (QKKT0)

21
A couple of weeks after the election Tom Brokaw was on with Charlie Rose and said, "We don't really know anything about Obama."


Posted by: Soothsayer, over easy at April 27, 2011 11:13 AM (uFokq)

22 42

Posted by: Deep Thought at April 27, 2011 11:13 AM (khs+8)

23 That's a little more than 'a question' to be honest.....but I like it.

Posted by: © Sponge at April 27, 2011 11:13 AM (UK9cE)

24 Maybe one of Oprah's audience members will ask O that very question.

Posted by: Soetoro Zero at April 27, 2011 11:14 AM (6NuwH)

25 13
Not sure.
Posted by: Independant Voter at April 27, 2011 03:12 PM (bAySe)

Quoth the mouth breathers with scrunched-up faces who thumb masturbate the GameBoy controllers for Frank Lutz's "panels".

Posted by: ya2daup at April 27, 2011 11:14 AM (FcKXR)

26 No, No, No, and Yes.

Posted by: Michelle Obama at April 27, 2011 11:14 AM (IXLvN)

27 14 I've deleted the previous version...

So now the early posters look like retards.

Posted by: Valiant at April 27, 2011 11:14 AM (9/lhd)

28 His colleague asked, "And how long is that handle?"

The mad scientist looked at the six-foot handle, shook his head and went back to the drawing board.

That would have workde if you hadn't stopped me.

Posted by: Egon at April 27, 2011 11:15 AM (uqJo6)

29 15 Don't worry, this time everybody that votes for me gets a Sham-Wow!

Posted by: Barack 'There Is Big Trouble In River City' Obama at April 27, 2011 03:12 PM (2PTT7)


I'll see your Sham Wow with a Slam Chop.

Posted by: Huckabee at April 27, 2011 11:15 AM (EL+OC)

30 No, but he's exactly who I thought he was when I didn't vote for him.

Posted by: huerfano at April 27, 2011 11:16 AM (6zFxS)

31
All those questioned posed by Ace will quickly be interpreted by Tavis Smiley as: "Were you hoodwinked by Obama? Okie-doked? Bamboozled?"

And then he'll call you a racist.

Posted by: Soothsayer, over easy at April 27, 2011 11:16 AM (uFokq)

32 They are debating blowing the levees.

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at April 27, 2011 11:16 AM (qIHlG)

33 I was going to mention that that's actually more than one question, but then my integrative complexity kicked in.

Posted by: Waterhouse at April 27, 2011 11:16 AM (Hiaja)

34 14
I've deleted the previous version ...
Posted by: ace at April 27, 2011 03:12 PM (nj1bB)

Wise move, Ace. Wise move.

Posted by: ya2daup at April 27, 2011 11:16 AM (FcKXR)

35 ENHANCE AND ZOOMIFY!!!!!!!

Posted by: © Sponge at April 27, 2011 11:17 AM (UK9cE)

36 "kowtowing to a racist, homophobic minor blogger."

I don't think you are minor.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at April 27, 2011 11:17 AM (LH6ir)

37 I didn't read the previous version either.

Posted by: Andrew Breitbart at April 27, 2011 11:17 AM (qIHlG)

38 Do you feel that Obama is the man that he promised you he'd be? Do you feel like he's the man the media promised you he'd be? Do you think he was sold by himself and the media accurately, or do you think they have greatly exaggerated his capabilities, qualifications, expertise and judgement? Do you think you were sold on Obama honestly, or do you think you've been taken for a little bit of a ride?

Streamline the question and introduce it with a framing statement, then follow it with a leading choice question:

Obama and the media covering his campaign promised you that he would be a certain kind of President.  Has he lived up to that promise?  If not, do you think he just couldn't cut it, or do you think he deliberately sold you a bill of goods about his qualifications and judgment?

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2011 11:17 AM (ELpjS)

39 <<

Posted by: ace at April 27, 2011 11:18 AM (nj1bB)

40 Point out that this is the first job he's ever held, and give examples of how someone more experienced could do his job better. Hold him, the media and the Nobel committee accountable for his failures.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at April 27, 2011 11:18 AM (mHQ7T)

41 Posted by: Valiant at April 27, 2011 03:14 PM (9/lhd)

So what else is new?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at April 27, 2011 11:18 AM (LH6ir)

42 14
If you can't hang them apart then hang them together.
Posted by: ace at April 27, 2011 03:12 PM (nj1bB)

That's my job!

Posted by: I am Joe's scrotum at April 27, 2011 11:18 AM (FcKXR)

43 It may help if you would also promise on Ewok pictures in said posts.

Posted by: JAFKIAC at April 27, 2011 11:18 AM (i7YVx)

44 They are debating blowing the levees.

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at April 27, 2011 03:16 PM (qIHlG)



Well, they should just bring GWB in as a consultant.  After all, they said he was pretty effective at that a few years ago. 

Posted by: © Sponge at April 27, 2011 11:18 AM (UK9cE)

45

Ace you might add a list of promises to the American People.

maybe start with transparency and move to going line by line on fiscal issues  and waste.

Posted by: willow at April 27, 2011 11:18 AM (h+qn8)

46 Is he the man the media said he was?  Of course not. 

Is the the man I thought he was?  Absolutely.

Posted by: pep at April 27, 2011 11:18 AM (fe+Ez)

47 They are debating blowing the levees.

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at April 27, 2011 03:16 PM (qIHlG)

Is this about the Midwest floods or are you talking about the gay community offering a gesture of gratitude to Bristol Palin's baby-daddy?

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2011 11:19 AM (ELpjS)

48

o hell add the wars are evil, didn't he promise gitmo closing and leaving Iraq?

remiiiiind them

Posted by: willow at April 27, 2011 11:19 AM (h+qn8)

49 Posted by: Loony Lefty Chick at April 27, 2011 03:13 PM (wOGfT)

Show us your tits, and then we'll decide whether you are a chick.

Posted by: Typical disgusting moron at April 27, 2011 11:19 AM (LH6ir)

50 I don't know isn't that kind of like: "Hows that hopey changy thing working for ya." I would expect all the candidates will be saying some variation of this.

Posted by: The Notion at April 27, 2011 11:19 AM (hD0CU)

51 I recommend more vodka. It always makes me smarter.

Posted by: Spartan Fan at April 27, 2011 11:19 AM (8V6RC)

52 What I would ask:

Could you please explain the term Profits and Earnings Ratio?  How is the Profits and Earnings Ratio used?

Posted by: CUS at April 27, 2011 11:19 AM (wOGfT)

53 Sarah Palin is a whore!

Posted by: The MFM at April 27, 2011 11:20 AM (mHQ7T)

54 cockholster - Amid all the fancy-pants political stuff, we need to keep up with the blocking-and-tackling of AoSHQ commentating. - cockholster

Posted by: BumperStickerist at April 27, 2011 11:20 AM (h6mPj)

55 Integrative complexity = Look, a squirrel!

Posted by: pep at April 27, 2011 11:20 AM (fe+Ez)

56 A simpler, but more succinct question:  Do you think we elected a cockholster?

Posted by: Soona at April 27, 2011 11:20 AM (Qagwz)

57 I recommend more vodka. It always makes me (think I'm )smarter.

Posted by: Spartan Fan

Posted by: willow at April 27, 2011 11:20 AM (h+qn8)

58 They are debating blowing the levees.

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at April 27, 2011 03:16 PM (qIHlG)



REALLY!?!?   That's AWESOME!!!!!  Bring it!!!

Posted by: The Levees at April 27, 2011 11:20 AM (UK9cE)

59 This reminds me of The Unteleported Man by Philip K Dick. One way ride to a planet that was falsely advertised and now people are dying to get back the old fashioned way. At least sex bots work.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at April 27, 2011 11:20 AM (EiH7n)

60 There's only one way to answer this, according to leftards:

RAAAAAACIST!!!

Posted by: bigpinkfluffybunny at April 27, 2011 11:21 AM (1Ialr)

61 Just start a list of his fuck ups, and the ads write themselves.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at April 27, 2011 11:21 AM (mHQ7T)

62
Someone said, I forget who, oh it was Johnny Carson, he mentioned the movie Malcolm X and said, "Someone asked me if I saw Malcolm X. I said, 'No, but I read the hat.'"

Remember the "X" hats that all the cool non-racists were wearing?

*I think it was Johnny.

Posted by: Soothsayer, over easy at April 27, 2011 11:21 AM (uFokq)

63 I don't think I was taken for a ride. I figured zerO for a sorry, no good America hating, marxist douchebag with a marginally functional brain barely big enough to keep his heart beating. I figured right.

Posted by: Barry the Poet at April 27, 2011 11:22 AM (OlN4e)

64 14 I've deleted the previous version...

So now the early posters look like retards.

Posted by: Valiant at April 27, 2011 03:14 PM (9/lhd)

Part of Ace's subtle campaign to get Breitbart to pay less attention to the idiot commenters and more to the Head Moron in Charge.

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2011 11:22 AM (ELpjS)

65 Do you now think that you voted for an inexperienced intern instead of an accomplished executive in 2008?

Posted by: ya2daup at April 27, 2011 11:23 AM (FcKXR)

66 By "Leftard reasoning" a computer that crashes 10 times a day is just too intelligent for the job.

Posted by: Barry the Poet at April 27, 2011 11:23 AM (OlN4e)

67 Yo Ace -

>>Honestly I did want to say that stuff. I love those words. I never saw the movie but I like that one clip they always show.

Who is this supposed to be in response to?

Posted by: Jeff B. at April 27, 2011 11:23 AM (NjYDy)

68 Do you feel that Obama is the man that he promised you he'd be? Do you feel like he's the man the media promised you he'd be? Do you think he was sold by himself and the media accurately, or do you think they have greatly exaggerated his capabilities, qualifications, expertise and judgement? Do you think you were sold on Obama honestly, or do you think you've been taken for a little bit of a ride? They sold us America's First Black President. That's what we got. That's the only thing that mattered to any of the suckbags that voted for him. All the rest was unimportant, racist bitching. You want Integrative Complexity? A president with the body of Steve Urkel, the economic genius of Paul Krugman, the personality of Lenin, and the Bride of Frankenstein.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 27, 2011 11:23 AM (Y0wFY)

69 So is it safe to assume that Ben Bernanke didn't say that he was a reptilian from Zeta Reticuli and his underwear gives him economic advice? Because the markets seem curiously unmoved.

Posted by: joncelli at April 27, 2011 11:24 AM (RD7QR)

70 Ron Paul Ryan 2012!

Posted by: Ben at April 27, 2011 11:24 AM (wuv1c)

71 Show us your tits, and then we'll decide whether you are a chick.

Posted by: Typical disgusting moron at April 27, 2011 03:19 PM (LH6ir)

This is a highly unreliable method, as anyone who's strolled through the Castro knows.

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2011 11:24 AM (ELpjS)

72
Posted by: Barry the Poet at April 27, 2011 03:22 PM (OlN4e)

That reminds me....that shitty poem that JEF wrote reminds me a lot of that earthy looking chic on the Tonight Show after 9-11 that did some crap on his show because she was 'in the vicinity' and had to write a shitty poem about it.

Posted by: © Sponge at April 27, 2011 11:25 AM (UK9cE)

73 A president with the body of Steve Urkel, the economic genius of Paul Krugman, the personality of Lenin, and the Bride of Frankenstein.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 27, 2011 03:23 PM (Y0wFY)

Hisssssssssssss.

Posted by: The Real Bride of Frankenstein, Pissed Off At The Comparison at April 27, 2011 11:25 AM (QKKT0)

74

A question I would like to know is how many people voted in Obama in 2008 simply because they felt it was time for the first black president?

A few hundred thousand? A few million?

 

Posted by: Ben at April 27, 2011 11:25 AM (wuv1c)

75 Even if so, it must be George Bush's fault.

Posted by: The Left at April 27, 2011 11:26 AM (RCwVo)

76
A lot of people admitted that the only reason they voted for Obama was to make history.

That counts for something, but I'm not sure what. Maybe it counts for integrative complexity, I dunno.

Posted by: Soothsayer, over easy at April 27, 2011 11:26 AM (uFokq)

77 I voted for him because is black and dreamy....I'm pretty sure he is still black and dreamy

Posted by: one of America's dumbest dumbfucks at April 27, 2011 11:26 AM (54F2e)

78 Do you now think that you'd rather have had the opportunity in 2008 to vote for a capable and competent candidate who happened to be black, rather than one who happened only to be black?

Posted by: ya2daup at April 27, 2011 11:26 AM (FcKXR)

79

A question I would like to know is how many people voted in Obama in 2008 simply because they felt it was time for the first black president?

A few hundred thousand? A few million?

 

Posted by: Ben at April 27, 2011 03:25 PM (wuv1c)

A brazilian.

Posted by: Sheriff Joe Biden at April 27, 2011 11:27 AM (QKKT0)

80 nd the Bride of Frankenstein. She is built already pre-ribbed so you can use the cheap condoms.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at April 27, 2011 11:27 AM (EiH7n)

81 They will back him no matter what, He can lie and does repeatedly, they like war now. they don't mind a gazillion dollars being spent Now. and they also decided they want gvt in their wombs and boobs., and they will use their paid for media fellow travelers to convince all their friends they are good and right. and so is He.

Posted by: willow at April 27, 2011 11:27 AM (h+qn8)

82 Do you feel like he's the man the media promised you he'd be?

See, that's a tough one. Because to the electorate as a whole he was sold as a post-partisan moderate, if not a conservative. Remember his issues were ending the war without losing, cutting taxes, and cleaning up the government.

To the left though he was sold as a hard core socialist.

And he has certainly delivered on the latter. The former? More wars, more taxes, much more corruption.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 27, 2011 11:27 AM (7BU4a)

83 Crunchy fig, baby! Crunchy figs for the masses.

Posted by: Barry the Poet at April 27, 2011 11:28 AM (OlN4e)

84 I voted for him because is black and dreamy....I'm pretty sure he is still black and dreamy

And don't forget.  Obama is awesome!

Posted by: Loony Lefty Chick (now with less of a shirt on) at April 27, 2011 11:28 AM (wOGfT)

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at April 27, 2011 11:28 AM (IXLvN)

86 Who is this supposed to be in response to?

Posted by: Jeff B. at April 27, 2011 03:23 PM (NjYDy)

Sometimes Ace hears voices in his head.

Posted by: Cicero at April 27, 2011 11:28 AM (QKKT0)

87 You want Integrative Complexity?

A president with the body of Steve Urkel, the economic genius of Paul Krugman, the personality of Lenin, and the Bride of Frankenstein.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 27, 2011 03:23 PM (Y0wFY)



Its really quite sad.  I have some friends who happen to be black that voted for JEF simply because 'it's time for a brotha to be in charge'.......I refuse to talk politics with them on the basis that they obviously voted for him because he was black (well, 1/2 black), but am really curious to ask if they really are socialist welfare program freaks as the dickhead appears to want the nation to be.....

Posted by: © Sponge at April 27, 2011 11:29 AM (UK9cE)

88 Part of Ace's subtle campaign to get Breitbart to pay less attention to the idiot commenters and more to the Head Moron in Charge.

Me thinks Andy loves him some retard.

Posted by: Valiant at April 27, 2011 11:29 AM (9/lhd)

89

the term RACIST is used by LIBTARDS, just like BITING is used by a RABID ANIMAL that is cornered.

It's like a gag reflex.  They are cornered.  Out pops RACISM.

 

Been there done that.   It doesn't phase me in the least.

Libtards hate those of us who are normal, straight, successful and happy.

If we don't go along with their collectivist pap.  They scream likes APES EATING FIGS.

REMEMBER??

"Underground" (by Barack Obama)

Barack Obama wrote this poem as an undergraduate:

Underground

Under water grottos, caverns
Filled with apes
That eat figs.
Stepping on the figs
That the apes
Eat, they crunch.
The apes howl, bare
Their fangs, dance,
Tumble in the
Rushing water,
Musty, wet pelts
Glistening in the blue.

– Barack Obama

Posted by: gus at April 27, 2011 11:29 AM (Vqruj)

90 86

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at April 27, 2011 03:28 PM (IXLvN)





Posted by: Teller at April 27, 2011 11:29 AM (UK9cE)

91 *burrows down*

Patience is a virtue. I'm waiting on that gas and house. He's Chicago Jesus. He will deliver. I will not lose faith.

Posted by: Peggy Joseph and millions more like her at April 27, 2011 11:30 AM (OAarG)

92 "Yes, but is there the possibility of Ewok LoveTM?" WE DEMAND TO SEE THE VIBRATING GIF!!!!

Posted by: Bloody Mary at April 27, 2011 11:30 AM (dDbkT)

93 ALLCAPS GUS and stuiec have graced us with their presence!

What a good day at the HQ.

Posted by: Peggy Joseph and millions more like her at April 27, 2011 11:30 AM (OAarG)

94 The whole idea that Obama was "the One" was a joke that conservatives made to put Obama voters down to begin with.  It's silly to ask people if they are disappointed that an irreverent put down turned out to be nothing more than that.

But, I guess since the birther issue is settled, it's on to more serious business.

Posted by: blip at April 27, 2011 11:30 AM (1WdUw)

95 Frick! Off poor, deluded sock that was sold a bunk bill of goods..

Posted by: laceyunderalls at April 27, 2011 11:31 AM (OAarG)

96 Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2011 03:24 PM (ELpjS)

The image that emerged unbidden as soon as I read this was of one of those fat, butch looking things of indeterminate sex with odd looking facial hair that is between a man's beard and a really hairy woman's face before she went in for laser hair removal.

I now hate you.

Posted by: Typical disgusting moron at April 27, 2011 11:31 AM (LH6ir)

97 WE DEMAND TO SEE THE VIBRATING GIF!!!!

Oh yess.  YESSSS!! Obama IS AWESOME!!!

Posted by: Loony Lefty Chick (now braless, but still barely wearing a shirt) at April 27, 2011 11:31 AM (wOGfT)

98
more nuggets of wisdom
thanks, blip

Posted by: Soothsayer, over easy at April 27, 2011 11:32 AM (uFokq)

99

REMEMBER??

"Underground" (by Barack Obama)

Barack Obama wrote this poem as an undergraduate:

Underground

Under water grottos, caverns
Filled with apes
That eat figs.
Stepping on the figs
That the apes
Eat, they crunch.
The apes howl, bare
Their fangs, dance,
Tumble in the
Rushing water,
Musty, wet pelts
Glistening in the blue.

– Barack Obama

Posted by: gus at April 27, 2011 03:29 PM (Vqruj)



You make fun because you're too stupid to understand the genius of his art.  It's Ok.  The rest of the world is too.   

Posted by: © Sponge at April 27, 2011 11:32 AM (UK9cE)

100 Sometimes Ace hears voices in his head. Posted by: Cicero at April 27, 2011 03:28 PM (QKKT0) There's something snarky about double-posting that can be made from that statement but I'm not caffeinated enough to pull it off.

Posted by: joncelli at April 27, 2011 11:33 AM (RD7QR)

101 The whole idea that Obama was "the One" was a joke that conservatives made to put Obama voters down to begin with.  It's silly to ask people if they are disappointed that an irreverent put down turned out to be nothing more than that.

6 words which disprove your claim:

"Mmmm mmmm mmm, Barack Hussein Obama"


Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at April 27, 2011 11:33 AM (FkKjr)

102

Here's a neat question.

 

Has Obama stopped he seas from rising yet?

If not. What does he need to do to accomplish Herculean Feat.

And lastly!!!  What will happen to the APES???

"Underground" (by Barack Obama)

Barack Obama wrote this poem as an undergraduate:

Underground

Under water grottos, caverns
Filled with apes
That eat figs.
Stepping on the figs
That the apes
Eat, they crunch.
The apes howl, bare
Their fangs, dance,
Tumble in the
Rushing water,
Musty, wet pelts
Glistening in the blue.

– Barack Obama

Posted by: gus at April 27, 2011 11:33 AM (Vqruj)

103 You people keep posting the "apes and figs" "poem" and I swear to God that I will find and post AlGoreBasm's "check out my tools" paean to Mother Gaia. Don't make me go there.

I worked the word "paean" into a post!!!!

Posted by: ya2daup at April 27, 2011 11:33 AM (FcKXR)

104

My belief is that Barry told everyone exactly what he was going to do.  Also, if the adage with respect to being known by the company one keeps, nothing was hidden.

People allowed themselves to not believe that he was what he said he was.  People weren't fooled.  They were fools.  Basta.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at April 27, 2011 11:34 AM (jx2j9)

105 Well, let's put it this way.  The shock that he was ever elected still has not worn off.

Posted by: Bean Blossom at April 27, 2011 11:34 AM (MGmET)

106
But, I guess since the birther issue is settled, it's on to more serious business.

Posted by: blip

 

Yup. Here goes: Howz about that third war that Obama's fucking up? Funny thing about the Libyan desert. There's few places to hide. and hiding behind a birth certificate doesn't protect much.

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 27, 2011 11:35 AM (6rX0K)

107 I swear to God that I will find and post AlGoreBasm's "check out my tools" paean

Or the video where he actually read to Harry whathisname.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at April 27, 2011 11:35 AM (IXLvN)

108 The whole idea that Obama was "the One" was a joke that conservatives made to put Obama voters down to begin with.  It's silly to ask people if they are disappointed that an irreverent put down turned out to be nothing more than that.

Wrong. He was declared,"The One" by OPRAHTM.

Posted by: kdny at April 27, 2011 11:35 AM (3j6OS)

109 Obama sucks cock. I was led to believe he didn't, but he does. The media lied to me.

Posted by: Mr Pink at April 27, 2011 11:35 AM (A1Sei)

110 Oh, and by the way, one of the biggest moves in gold ever.  Bernanke spoke.  Fed will continue current policies and the plan to destroy the dollar is working perfectly.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at April 27, 2011 11:35 AM (jx2j9)

111 Obama IS AWESOME!!!

Would you like to come up to my place and see the thrill up my leg?

Posted by: Chrissie Mathews at April 27, 2011 11:35 AM (wOGfT)

112 But, but beein present is soo hard, please give me just fore more years. The wookie and I really likes da plane

Posted by: Barry 'O the bamster dude at April 27, 2011 11:36 AM (f0gjB)

113 A simpler, but more integratively complex question:  Who do you think would be the better as president; Obama or Scooby Doo? 

Posted by: Soona at April 27, 2011 11:36 AM (Qagwz)

114

Caught the end of Bennies presser.  Short version:

Patting little people on the head,  "Yes gas prices are unfortunate and headline inflation is hard, but a temporary inconvenience.  Are there no soup kitchens? Buck up".

Hilarious projection of like 3.3% GDP growth for year, 'core' inflation of 1+%, whatever.  A Chinese racehorse spews less horsesh*t.

Q1 GDP has been revised down to 1.4% with more revisions to come and clearly we're past all that happiness now.

Bennie hopes he's "telegraphed our intent" adequately, meaning a rise in over-night rates imminent and QE3 following a pause to gauge the 'success' of QELite.

Translation, we raise prime to stop inflation in its tracks and continue to press ducats. 

 

Posted by: gary gulrud at April 27, 2011 11:36 AM (/g2vP)

115

Put you democracy to bed.  Stick a fork in it.  Kiss it goodbye. 

O V E R

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at April 27, 2011 11:36 AM (jx2j9)

116 Ask this question of who, exactly?

Posted by: blaster at April 27, 2011 11:37 AM (Fw2Gg)

117 "61 Just start a list of his fuck ups, and the ads write themselves."   How about televising a turtle on a fence post for 60 seconds at a clip. No narrative, no explanation. Let that run a couple of hundred times and see what the audience makes of it.   I would personally love to hear the left's objection to such advertising.

Posted by: Ginormous Goober DeLarge at April 27, 2011 11:37 AM (Q5+Og)

118 because they felt it was time for the first black president?

I felt that way about Alan Keyes but it was a fleeting crush, soon forgotten.

Posted by: Bob Saget with a can of cheezwiz at April 27, 2011 11:37 AM (F/4zf)

119 Gold, freaking $1530.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at April 27, 2011 11:38 AM (IXLvN)

120 PM's going vertical .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at April 27, 2011 11:39 AM (npr0X)

121 How about televising a turtle on a fence post for 60 seconds at a clip. It would be right up there with Mike Gravel throwing a boulder into a pond.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at April 27, 2011 11:39 AM (mHQ7T)

122 USA Today had a recent poll and discovered that 50% thought Trump would make a "poor" or "terrible" President.  My only thought was trying to imagine a poll phrasing a question like that of a democrat. 

Posted by: pitythefool at April 27, 2011 11:39 AM (BjQSh)

123

96 The whole idea that Obama was "the One" was a joke that conservatives made to put Obama voters down to begin with.

Pointless to put Obama voters down. They're too stupid to know they are being put down. Too stupid to know an empty suit with no experience, no integrity, and no guts as long as it reads a teleprompter smoothly and has no discernable negro dialect. There you have it, Leftard Jesus. A cheap plastic bobblehead mounted on the dashboard of the ship of state, while the imbeciles make excuses why the erratic direction changes are explainable by the complex intellect of their plastic bobblehead.

Posted by: Barry the Poet at April 27, 2011 11:39 AM (OlN4e)

124 These "crunchy" figs enrage me.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 27, 2011 11:40 AM (Y0wFY)

125 I am much better off, I haven't paid for gas or my mortgage in two years.

Cause I don't got no car or house.

http://tinyurl.com/6dm4ac

Posted by: Peggy Joseph at April 27, 2011 11:40 AM (JpFM9)

126 Barry is such a polished me.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at April 27, 2011 11:40 AM (6yyVB)

127 sock off.

Posted by: maddogg at April 27, 2011 11:40 AM (OlN4e)

128 What has the Fucktard in Chief fixed thus far??

Posted by: gus at April 27, 2011 11:40 AM (Vqruj)

129 shep smith is a dumb ass. yes, i know, but it can't be said enough.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at April 27, 2011 11:40 AM (IXLvN)

130 Dude, you're not stupid.  Just racist.  C'mon get with the program.

Posted by: rockhead at April 27, 2011 11:40 AM (cFBSB)

131 Posted by: Bob Saget

Sorry dude, but I fucking hate you.....

Posted by: © Sponge at April 27, 2011 11:41 AM (UK9cE)

132 Integrative Complexity

What.


/Behold, the essence of how I view this neverending Charlie Foxtrot that is the 21st Century.

Posted by: AoSHQ's worst commenter, DarkLord© at April 27, 2011 11:41 AM (GBXon)

133 where did the troll blip go? Didn't he stay to play and enlighten us?

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 27, 2011 11:41 AM (6rX0K)

134 SOOoooo.... Anyone heard Obama finally released the birth certificate?

Posted by: CoolCzech at April 27, 2011 11:42 AM (kUaEF)

135
iknow, remember this one?

"I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God."
Evan Thomas, Newsweek Head Stooge
June, 2009

Posted by: Soothsayer, over easy at April 27, 2011 11:42 AM (uFokq)

136 136 where did the troll blip go? Didn't he stay to play and enlighten us? Posted by: Blue Hen at April 27, 2011 03:41 PM (6rX0K) Nope. Hence the name "blip," presumably.

Posted by: joncelli at April 27, 2011 11:42 AM (RD7QR)

137 I'd still like someone to ask Barry straight up:  What do you believe is the cause of our current recession?

Posted by: toby928™ at April 27, 2011 11:43 AM (GTbGH)

138 The secret to being smart is knowing stupid. That way you don't get stuck on stupid.

Posted by: NortonPete at April 27, 2011 11:43 AM (fVuwW)

139 Still the best fairy tale ever: http://tinyurl.com/6jm53h2

Posted by: ParisParamus at April 27, 2011 11:43 AM (bgSjf)

140 Ted Nugent!

Posted by: Ted Nugent! at April 27, 2011 11:43 AM (xs5wK)

141 where did the troll blip go? Didn't he stay to play and enlighten us?

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 27, 2011 03:41 PM (6rX0K)



Sooooo many of the trolls are like my dog, who likes to come into a quiet room, usually while your sleeping, float an air biscuit that he's been brewing awhile, then slink away to avoid the aftermath.

Posted by: © Sponge at April 27, 2011 11:44 AM (UK9cE)

142

Hey!!!  What ever became of the horrific DISASTER in the Gulf of Mexico??

It was awful.  Asses were being kicked and necks were being stepped on, and golf clubs were being swung.

But after extorting a nice juicy SLUSH FUND.

POOOOOOOOOOF.   Disappeared.

And what happend to the APES and their underwater GROTTOS?

Posted by: gus at April 27, 2011 11:45 AM (Vqruj)

143
'Member all those halo photos framing Obama's head?

Yeah, the conservative media did that to mock Obama and his supporters.

Let's move on from this silliness and appeal to moderates.

Posted by: Soothsayer, over easy at April 27, 2011 11:45 AM (uFokq)

144

Sometimes I have stupid ideas and think they're smart, then I realize I'm just a stupid ass.

Remember the study that showed incompetent people are too dumb to recognize they're incompetent?  Congrats, you've just proved you aren't incompetent.  Or, at least not too stupid to realize your own mistake.

I hope that didn't sound mean.  I actually meant it as a compliment, and not the left-handed kind.  Maybe this is why I'm not a professional writer/blogger...

Posted by: Mayday at April 27, 2011 11:46 AM (TRgli)

145

11 Quick- someone Photoshop an Ewok with trump hair!

Posted by: Luke S. at April 27, 2011 03:11 PM (9/lhd)

ahem.

Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at April 27, 2011 11:46 AM (gH+Hj)

146 Under water grottos, caverns Filled with apes That eat figs. Stepping on the figs That the apes Eat, they crunch. The apes howl, bare Their fangs, dance, Tumble in the Rushing water, Musty, wet pelts Glistening in the blue. – Barack Obama>>>>>>>>>> There isn't a single thing I could write about this that wouldn't give Ace chest pains. So, I'll just keep my thoughts to myself. Thank you.

Posted by: Joejm65 at April 27, 2011 11:46 AM (BDB5n)

147 Pontius Pilate was a governor,

Jesus was a community organizer.

Posted by: That guy that gets the lefty talking points REALLY late at April 27, 2011 11:46 AM (27KAF)

148

Livermore joggers warned of pantsing attacks

 

My apologies to Monty. Pantsing is a real word.

Posted by: Ginormous Goober DeLarge at April 27, 2011 11:47 AM (Q5+Og)

149
Just more proof of how we pumped up Obama's god image to mock him.


Posted by: Soothsayer, over easy at April 27, 2011 11:48 AM (uFokq)

150 Sometimes I have stupid ideas and think they're smart, then I realize I'm just a stupid ass.

Get off me.

Posted by: Your Back at April 27, 2011 11:48 AM (8bdLZ)

151 Integrative complexity?

Try depressive realist. That's our diagnosis.

Posted by: Asscheeks of Saturn at April 27, 2011 11:49 AM (le5qc)

152 "he's sort of DOG"

Posted by: gus at April 27, 2011 11:49 AM (Vqruj)

153  where did the troll blip go? Didn't he stay to play and enlighten us?

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 27, 2011 03:41 PM (6rX0K)

 

Perhaps if all of you would patiently listen to opposing points of view and nurture the diversity of the many peoples of the world, they'd stick around awhile longer.

Posted by: Average Joseph at April 27, 2011 11:49 AM (Qagwz)

154

zerO's poetry is a fairly good match to his leadershit. It is pointless, directionless, plain stupid, and he thinks it rates a B+.

Posted by: maddogg at April 27, 2011 11:50 AM (OlN4e)

155 Libya, oh Libya (tattooed on my tibia)
Libya's my third war, baby!
Missiles fly 'cause we're at war, so
Fire off a gross, so I can score mo'.
Libya, oh Libya (we ain't goin' amphibia)
Libya, the war waged on who?
In the east, the rebel clown crew
In the west, Q-Daffy's grounded few.
While forlornly above waves the red, white and blue
As I bomb the hell out of Libya.

Posted by: Zombie Groucho Marx at April 27, 2011 11:50 AM (FcKXR)

156

Perhaps if all of you would patiently listen to opposing points of view and nurture the diversity of the many peoples of the world, they'd stick around awhile longer.

Or perhaps we'll just request that they masticate feces and expire.

Posted by: maddogg at April 27, 2011 11:51 AM (OlN4e)

157
Thomas continued...

"He's going to bring all different sides together...Obama is trying to sort of tamper everything down. He doesn't even use the word terror. He uses extremism. He's all about let us reason together...He's the teacher. He is going to say, ‘now, children, stop fighting and quarreling with each other.’ And he has a kind of a moral authority that he – he can – he can do that."

Wow.

You'd think a grown man would be embarrassed to utter such words.



Posted by: Soothsayer, over easy at April 27, 2011 11:51 AM (uFokq)

158 Well, at least he cut the deficit in half.

Posted by: Bugler at April 27, 2011 11:51 AM (VXBR1)

159 A Question I'd Love To See Our Economy Ask Obama: "You want to back up, Mr. President? You're standing on my dick."

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 27, 2011 11:51 AM (FI38b)

160 The image that emerged unbidden as soon as I read this was of one of those fat, butch looking things of indeterminate sex with odd looking facial hair that is between a man's beard and a really hairy woman's face before she went in for laser hair removal.

I now hate you.

Posted by: Typical disgusting moron at April 27, 2011 03:31 PM (LH6ir)

I'm talking about the trannys - you're thinking of the bulldykes.  The trannys are a hell of a lot easier on the eyes, although disturbing at a deeper level.  Nothing like looking at a hot chick and thinking, "I wonder if I could convince her to keep me out of her pants?"  It just seems... unnatural.

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2011 11:52 AM (ELpjS)

161 Fat, drunk and integratively complex is no way to go through life, son.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at April 27, 2011 11:52 AM (MT+0i)

162 And what happend to the APES and their underwater GROTTOS?

I forgot the cave was underwater, so my theory of the figs becoming crunchy by drying out on the floor is all wet....they'd still be chewy.

Posted by: Bean Blossom at April 27, 2011 11:52 AM (MGmET)

163 A Question I'd Love To See Our Economy Ask Obama:

"You want to back up, Mr. President? You're standing on my dick."

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 27, 2011 03:51 PM (FI38b)

Never gonna happen.  Because the Economy can't ask any questions, because Obama's boot is on its windpipe, not its dick.

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2011 11:53 AM (ELpjS)

164

I can't imagine the number that voted for him just because it was a historic opportunity to have the first black American president, that wasn't Jesse Jackson. And I get it. Even up here in Canada, my god-daughter's family, black but not American, were THRILLED with THE ONE.  I don't think most American's could get past race, even if the media did it's job and bitch-slapped them hard with reality. He was still going to be the first black President if they voted for him. So they voted for him.

The number had to be high. But Hugh Hewitt or Dennis Pragar were pointing out before the election, that the historic first lasts 6 months, tops, and then you're dragged back to reality.

For most of the young people and the black people, that reality is a real unemployment rate of what, about 25%.

For all of us, reality means skyrocketing gas prices, MASSIVE increase in the debt, and a horribly expanded government, that honestly, scares the crap out of me. Maybe though, considering how things were going with entitlements, we were going to hit that wall eventually and Obama just accelerated the train into overdrive.

Posted by: Canadian Infidel at April 27, 2011 11:53 AM (GKQDR)

165

Can you imagine a Conservative saying.

"I mean ina  way Palin is standing above the country above....above the world, in a way she's God (or Godette)."

Just imagine how many libtard pants would be shyte.

And imagine Palin wrote this!!!!!!!!!

"Underground" (by Barack Obama)

Barack Obama wrote this poem as an undergraduate:

Underground

Under water grottos, caverns
Filled with apes
That eat figs.
Stepping on the figs
That the apes
Eat, they crunch.
The apes howl, bare
Their fangs, dance,
Tumble in the
Rushing water,
Musty, wet pelts
Glistening in the blue.

– Barack Obama

 

Posted by: gus at April 27, 2011 11:53 AM (Vqruj)

166 And it has been the conservative media that has compared Obama to Lincoln, FDR, Kennedy, and freaking Jesus. Yes it is all apart of our master plan muahahahahaha!

Posted by: Mr Pink at April 27, 2011 11:53 AM (A1Sei)

167 FatSkinny, drunk and integratively complex is no way to go through life, son.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at April 27, 2011 03:52 PM (MT+0i)

FIFY.

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2011 11:54 AM (ELpjS)

168 where did the troll blip go? Didn't he stay to play and enlighten us?

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 27, 2011 03:41 PM (6rX0K)

 

Perhaps if all of you would patiently listen to opposing points of view and nurture the diversity of the many peoples of the world, they'd stick around awhile longer.

Posted by: Average Joseph

 

And the fun in that would be?

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 27, 2011 11:55 AM (6rX0K)

169 Is asking Obama to stop playing golf so often racist?

Posted by: mare at April 27, 2011 11:55 AM (A98Xu)

170 146
And what happened to the APES and their underwear GROTTOS?
Posted by: gus at April 27, 2011 03:45 PM (Vqruj)

Why, profit, of course!!!

Posted by: Zombie Groucho Marx at April 27, 2011 11:56 AM (FcKXR)

171 Musty, wet pelts
Glistening in the blue.

– Barack Obama


He must have written that back in the Seventies...

Posted by: CoolCzech at April 27, 2011 11:56 AM (kUaEF)

172 Of course Barry is not who the media promised he would be. And I'm hours behind now --stupid work, but if a liberal comments on the birth certificate announcement "Oh yes, I heard the president took time to go over that TRUMP issue which Barry should have had the courtesy to do before Nov 2008 instead of covering the sort of big news that Panetta is going to SecDef and Patraeus is getting shoved out of the way via CIA directorship. And the transcripts will be a bit of a yawner too, if they come out. All fluffy courses with grading based on papers that only god and Barry know the actual authors of no doubt. But if we are asking old questions "WHY did Rezco --the guy now in prison on RICO charges" sell Barry and Meanchelle such a big slice of his lot that adjoined theirs that Rezco's lot was no longer eligible to build on? The guy was a real estate developer, I'm sure he knew the zoning laws made the lot he retained basically useless after that transaction? Could it possibly because Barry had influence to steer a housing project contract to Rezco? And remember said 'housing' project was built with leaking roofs, failed plumbing etc. Oh yes, Barry's evil white half totally screwed over the poor brothers in Chicago, leaving them living in 3rd world conditions while Barry yucked it up.

Posted by: Palerider at April 27, 2011 11:57 AM (dkExz)

173 You want to see real unvarnished racism? Watch the left when we get around to running Allen West for President. Then you'll see some snot slinging racism.

Posted by: maddogg at April 27, 2011 11:57 AM (OlN4e)

174

The number had to be high. But Hugh Hewitt or Dennis Pragar were pointing out before the election, that the historic first lasts 6 months, tops, and then you're dragged back to reality.

Posted by: Canadian Infidel at April 27, 2011 03:53 PM (GKQDR)

There was a line of thought that went, "OK, so maybe he's not experienced -- but everyone says he's really smart, so he'll catch on and learn the job as he goes, especially with an old Washington hand like Biden there to give him advice."

And it didn't take very long for him to demonstrate to anyone with a drop of intellectual honesty that he really is untrainable.

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2011 11:58 AM (ELpjS)

175 And of course it was conservatives that made Bush tshirts, victory plates, and called him the lightworker so they have no room to talk....oh wait

Posted by: Mr Pink at April 27, 2011 11:58 AM (A1Sei)

176

Notice how Obama hits a WHITE golf ball?  Over and over and over and over again.

 

Yeah, you smell what I'm cookin'.

Posted by: gus at April 27, 2011 11:58 AM (Vqruj)

177 If I see that fucking poem one more time, I'm going to stop reading AoSHQ.

Posted by: Andrew Breitbart at April 27, 2011 11:59 AM (Qagwz)

178 especially with an old Washington hand like Biden there to give him advice."

And it didn't take very long for him to demonstrate to anyone with a drop of intellectual honesty that he really is untrainable.

Posted by: stuiec

 

Looking to Biden for advice may have been in retrospect not the optimum solution either.

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 27, 2011 11:59 AM (326rv)

179 clearly racists questions

Posted by: yip at April 27, 2011 12:00 PM (SyLEU)

180 The Sea's will lower mid way thru my second term, gas will be free and my golf game will improve as it should cause that's all I do. Just suck it up, I, Barry 'O have spoken.

Posted by: Barry 'O the bamster dude at April 27, 2011 12:01 PM (I2kmr)

181

Hey!!!  What ever became of the horrific DISASTER in the Gulf of Mexico??

Heard that scientists find the the gulf has pretty much recovered: it got a score of 69 v. a 70 score pre-BP spill.

Posted by: ParisParamus at April 27, 2011 12:01 PM (bgSjf)

182

"Maybe though, considering how things were going with entitlements, we were going to hit that wall eventually and Obama just accelerated the train into overdrive."

 

Kind of like high speed trains?

Posted by: Ginormous Goober DeLarge at April 27, 2011 12:02 PM (Q5+Og)

183

Posted by: stuiec at April 27, 2011 03:58 PM (ELpjS)

I remember that too now.

That was kind of a rehash because I have a vague recollection of people saying that about W. "He's surrounded himself with good people."

Difference is Bush was never a stupid, utopian Marxist.

 

Posted by: Canadian Infidel at April 27, 2011 12:03 PM (GKQDR)

184 Shorter Ace:

"Is this the Change you expected?"

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at April 27, 2011 12:03 PM (BvTwT)

185 178 You want to see real unvarnished racism? Watch the left when we get around to running Allen West for President. Then you'll see some snot slinging racism.

Romney/West 2012!  Sweet to negate claims of GOP racism; sweet because LDS didn't admit blacks until fairly recently.

Posted by: ParisParamus at April 27, 2011 12:03 PM (bgSjf)

186 Don't say I didn't give you fair warning
(H/T: Guy Fawkes)

Posted by: ya2daup at April 27, 2011 12:03 PM (FcKXR)

187 So you are basically asking the question that Reagan asked when he ran against jimmy carter? 
"Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?"

link

the link contains "the actor and the detail man" in the original pre tinyurl link

Posted by: curious at April 27, 2011 12:04 PM (k1rwm)

188

Gay : Viking

Integrity : guys without shirts

Integrative complexity : smarts

Posted by: Emperor of Icecream at April 27, 2011 12:05 PM (epBek)

189 I'm gonna put you morons on some useful Muslim info. Yer welcome.

Posted by: maddogg at April 27, 2011 12:05 PM (OlN4e)

190

Hey!!!  What ever became of the horrific DISASTER in the Gulf of Mexico??

Well, see... the glorious leader healed it when he went down for that photo op.  Disaster?  What disaster?

Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at April 27, 2011 12:07 PM (gH+Hj)

191 Don't get me wrong, I do think he was a hyped candidate.  They all are.  Have you seen Pawlenty's campaign video?  This is politics.

As someone who voted for Obama, I don't know that I did it because of the "stagecraft" or whatever.  It was conservatives that seemed more concerned with this.  And, sure, there were a lot of 18 year olds who bought the hype.  But I remember that with Bush and Clinton, too.  You reach a certain age, and you look past the campaign ads, they are a factor....  but I don't watch Oprah and could care less about who she thinks I should vote for. 

The biggest area where Obama has failed to live up to the hype is not in "breaking" his campaign promises...  he simply failed to be "post-partisan."  I wish I could have predicted the profound level of disrespect that the GOP would channel against Obama...  but I kind of imagined that the Republicans had enough dignity not to scream at the President during the State of the Union speech.  So, yeah, I am disappointed.  But I don't know that someone who rabidly hates the President is in a position to criticize him for being occasionally offensive.

I'm not trying to be a troll here....  I'm just saying that I don't think people feel "betrayed" by the fact that Obama is constantly trying to make deals, delivers on some of his promises, and gives in on others.  He's a centrist.  I'd prefer to live in a world where I get what I want only half the time.  On the other hand, I think you ask the question in the blog:

Do you feel that Obama is the man that he promised you he'd be? Do you feel like he's the man the media promised you he'd be? Do you think he was sold by himself and the media accurately, or do you think they have greatly exaggerated his capabilities, qualifications, expertise and judgement? Do you think you were sold on Obama honestly, or do you think you've been taken for a little bit of a ride?"

Now I am offering an earnest answer.  You troll for information like this, no need to offended that someone is actually bothering to answer the question that you wish a reporter would ask someone.  Maybe you wish I'd answer differently ("Oh I am so disappointed that I am going to vote for Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney!"), but what can I say? 

Posted by: blip at April 27, 2011 12:08 PM (XIFQU)

192 IÂ’ve said for a long time that this was a issue that only Obama could resolve, but meanwhile his own minions were out there churning the waters of discontent.

Obama had grown incredulous at the overall debate. He had watched as even Republican House Speaker John Boehner and Republican Rep. Paul Ryan had been sucked into the discussion of his birthplace, aides said. In his own interview prep sessions, Obama was warned that the “birther” subject might arise – even though it had subsided from the headlines for more than two years since the presidential campaign. Finally, on April 19, in a meeting with White House counsel Bob Bauer, the president asked about the feasibility of getting his long-form birth certificate at last.
“It wasn’t one specific thing” that tipped the scales, a senior administration official said. But Trump was a major factor …

ItÂ’s sure is nice to see that Obama came to the aid of Boehner and Ryan.


Posted by: Neo at April 27, 2011 12:08 PM (tvs2p)

193

Perhaps if all of you would patiently listen to opposing points of view and nurture the diversity of the many peoples of the world, they'd stick around awhile longer.

Posted by: Average Joseph

 

And the fun in that would be?

Posted by: Blue Hen at April 27, 2011 03:55 PM (6rX0K)

 

Fun?  Why, it would be a celebration of togetherness.  People all over the world with one goal, one singular thought, one integratively complex leader.  With everyone in total agreement, we would have no more wars.  The eating of tofu would be a universal language.  And nobody would smoke cigarettes or cigars, except, of course, our god-king.

Posted by: Andrew Breitbart at April 27, 2011 12:10 PM (Qagwz)

194 osted by: stuiec at April 27, 2011 03:52 PM (ELpjS)

Most of San Francisco is unnatural. When a run-of-the-mill gay couple is like a breath of fresh air, you know you aren't in Kansas anymore.

Besides, Thai trannies are much better looking than the SF variety.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at April 27, 2011 12:11 PM (LH6ir)

195 ... but I kind of imagined that the Republicans had enough dignity not to scream at the President during the State of the Union speech.
Posted by: blip at April 27, 2011 04:08 PM (XIFQU)

It wasn't the State of the Union speech; it was his umpteenth chock-full-of-lies "sales speech" for ObamaCare in September 2009.

You are entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

Posted by: ya2daup at April 27, 2011 12:11 PM (FcKXR)

196

Fun?  Why, it would be a celebration of togetherness.  People all over the world with one goal, one singular thought, one integratively complex leader.  With everyone in total agreement, we would have no more wars.  The eating of tofu would be a universal language.  And nobody would smoke cigarettes or cigars, except, of course, our god-king.

Posted by: Andrew Breitbart at April 27, 2011 04:10 PM (Qagwz)

 

....and we wouldn't have to worry about stupid, fucking socks.  But I digress.

Posted by: Average Joseph at April 27, 2011 12:14 PM (Qagwz)

197

Blip writes 6 paragraphs to explain he's an idiot.

Integrative Complexity

Posted by: maddogg at April 27, 2011 12:16 PM (OlN4e)

198 @197
He's [Obama's] a centrist.

bwahahahaha! 

Posted by: Y-not at April 27, 2011 12:16 PM (pW2o8)

199 I voted against Obama (pbuh) because I saw it as an historic opportunity to vote against an anti-Semitic, anti-American cocksucker who never did anything productive in his life, and was clearly hell-bent on bringing down this great nation as punishment for all of its imagined transgressions.

His race had absolutely nothing to do with it, and I resent the implication that I considered the color of his skin when I cheerfully, happily voted against him. And the next time I'm at a cocktail party and someone suggests that my motives are racially based, he will be picking up his teeth with broken fingers.*

*extra credit for the source of that quote.


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at April 27, 2011 12:16 PM (LH6ir)

200 So "bliptard".  I didn't occur to you that Obama was a dishonest incompetant fuck up??

Posted by: gus at April 27, 2011 12:19 PM (Vqruj)

201 Did anyone else think Obama seemed a little bitchy about the media breaking away to cover Trump? I think Obama is a little jealous of Trump's ability to get press and not the kind he wishes on Palin. I bet he and Axeldick were a little surprised that even with the media pushing Trump as a birther he got some good press coverage out of it. I predict much bitchiness to come from WeeWeeWon.

Posted by: gesc at April 27, 2011 12:21 PM (W3r1v)

202 iknowtheleft.   LIBTARDS still haven't figured Opie out yet.  He's a Commie.  They expected a bleeding heart.

Posted by: gus at April 27, 2011 12:22 PM (Vqruj)

203 See what I mean...  you call the guy a commie, but he's nothing of the sort.  He's just a reheated Bill Clinton.

And then you ask me if I am disappointed that he isn't more of a commie.  So...  he failed at getting universal health care and chose to promote an old GOP plan?  That's supposed to disappoint me? 

Posted by: blip at April 27, 2011 12:33 PM (XIFQU)

204 Have you seen the previous Presidents?  Bush? Clinton? Papa Bush?  They were also kinda good, occasionally awful.

Posted by: blip at April 27, 2011 12:35 PM (XIFQU)

205 and chose to promote an old GOP plan?

Hahahahaha

Posted by: toby928™ at April 27, 2011 12:36 PM (GTbGH)

206

Looking to Biden for advice may have been in retrospect not the optimum solution either.


At this point sheer nonsense would be a step up.  And a Magic 8-ball better than either.

Posted by: Dave at April 27, 2011 12:44 PM (xyGrR)

207

Obama is a Communist.  He is bent on taking from the productive and giving to the useless.  Bliptard is a moron.   Stupid fucks like BLIPTARD expect Opie the Commie dimwit to be your garden variety "more programs" libtard..

He isn't he is a destroy the American economy, so we can all be equal type of Commie libtard.

Posted by: gus at April 27, 2011 12:53 PM (Vqruj)

208

Grandparents Commie

Mommy.Commie
Daddy Commie

Frank Marshall Davis his mentor Commie.

Jeremiah Wright......

Posted by: gus at April 27, 2011 12:55 PM (Vqruj)

209 I love the collective questions. Now for extra-credit condense them down into one sound bite that will slice like a hammer. Then we can repeat said phrase over and over and over and.........

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