August 10, 2011
— Ace Jim Geraghty wonders if there's more to this than money.
Sure, the money.
But given that Obama no longer has the adoring crowds, is he doing so many fundraisers because he knows that if he charges people $38,500 to be in the room with him, he's guaranteed some of that old hero worship and ass-kissing?
And even though Obama just instructed Congress that they must set themselves to their duties with a renewed sense of "urgency," for Obama, it's vacation time again.
Press secretary Jay Carney said he doubts the American people would begrudge the president some time off with his family, even in the midst of an economic downturn -- and besides, it is likely to be in part a working vacation."There's no such thing as a presidential vacation," Carney said. "The presidency travels with you."
I remember Bush saying that, and the media insisting he was a damned liar.
He's going to liberal Nirvana, aka Martha's Vinyard, again. Speaking of finding a friendly crowd for ego-replenishment.
...Like his predecessors -- and as with his Martha's Vineyard vacations of the past two Augusts -- Obama will continue to hold meetings and be in communication with aides on both domestic and foreign issues.
That is particularly true of things like jobs.
"The president is focused every day on the economy," Carney said.
Jobs, and his backswing.
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Posted by: al-Cicero, Tea Party Jihadist at August 10, 2011 01:40 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 10, 2011 01:41 PM (SB0V2)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at August 10, 2011 01:41 PM (LH6ir)
Posted by: CoolCzech at August 10, 2011 01:41 PM (kUaEF)
Besides that, fundraising is about the only thing he's relatively competent at. Granted, it gets a LOT easier when you turn off all the safeguards on your website to prevent overseas donations and over-donations from specific SSNs.
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at August 10, 2011 01:41 PM (VZ10+)
Posted by: George Orwell at August 10, 2011 01:42 PM (AZGON)
Posted by: al-Cicero, Tea Party Jihadist at August 10, 2011 05:40 PM (QKKT0)
He's gonna make Michelle a Senator?
Neigh.
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at August 10, 2011 01:42 PM (VZ10+)
Posted by: Billy Jeff at August 10, 2011 01:42 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at August 10, 2011 01:42 PM (8y9MW)
No talk of God then we called you a man
Well, okay, we always called you a God.
Posted by: Judas Iscariot in falsetto at August 10, 2011 01:42 PM (6TB1Z)
With his polling, soon he'll be the one doing the ass-kissing.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 10, 2011 01:42 PM (QMtmy)
Posted by: CoolCzech at August 10, 2011 05:41 PM (kUaEF)
I see what you did there.
Posted by: al-Cicero, Tea Party Jihadist at August 10, 2011 01:42 PM (QKKT0)
you mean like a fundraiser is Obama tapping the self-reassurance well?
sure, he feeds off the energy
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 10, 2011 01:43 PM (sqkOB)
Posted by: George Orwell at August 10, 2011 01:44 PM (AZGON)
Posted by: Johnny at August 10, 2011 01:45 PM (iT/Iy)
Ah ha! No wonder the economy is the way it is. Perhaps we should hide the economy before he gets back from vacation.
Posted by: HappyGoLucky at August 10, 2011 01:45 PM (be5IN)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 10, 2011 01:46 PM (SB0V2)
Posted by: George Orwell at August 10, 2011 05:42 PM (AZGON)
Just what are you trying to say?
Posted by: Sen. John F. Kerry, Just Having A Bag of Oats at August 10, 2011 01:46 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Live Free Or Die at August 10, 2011 01:46 PM (yjGZ/)
Just curious about your units. Is that like a volume, or a mass, or what?
Posted by: pep at August 10, 2011 01:46 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2011 01:47 PM (1+CnU)
Well, yeah, in order to complete the assembly.
Just thought I'd finish it for you so we can move on.
Posted by: pep at August 10, 2011 01:49 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: logprof at August 10, 2011 01:49 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: The Economy at August 10, 2011 01:49 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: al-Cicero, Tea Party Jihadist at August 10, 2011 01:49 PM (QKKT0)
I'm pretty sure that the ego-stroking is a major component of this for most politicians.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at August 10, 2011 01:49 PM (s3JuV)
"The president is focused every day on the economy," Carney said.
On behalf of America, Mr. President - please stop. Go on an actual vacation, and take every other non-national security executive branch employee with you. Enjoy the rest, kids. You've earned it.
Then the rest of us can get back to work.
Posted by: Societyis2Blame at August 10, 2011 01:49 PM (yK8YH)
Posted by: t-bird at August 10, 2011 01:50 PM (FcR7P)
....and we all know he can do SOOO much about Jobs while he's out on a golf course.
Has anyone mentioned lately that he's a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable president???
Posted by: MrObvious at August 10, 2011 01:50 PM (H87Hu)
Posted by: Gubmint Edumacated children at August 10, 2011 01:50 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Barky the Stuttering Clusterfuck at August 10, 2011 01:51 PM (qiOph)
Posted by: George Orwell at August 10, 2011 01:51 PM (AZGON)
Posted by: blindside at August 10, 2011 01:52 PM (3Uns6)
Posted by: CoolCzech at August 10, 2011 05:41 PM (kUaEF)
I knew MY 15 minutes weren't up yet.
Posted by: Bo the dog at August 10, 2011 01:53 PM (ENKCw)
Posted by: George Orwell at August 10, 2011 01:53 PM (AZGON)
"The president is focused every day on the economy," Carney said.
"There are no American tanks in Baghdad!" - Baghdad Bob
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 10, 2011 01:54 PM (4q5tP)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 10, 2011 01:54 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: al-Cicero, Tea Party Jihadist at August 10, 2011 05:40 PM (QKKT0)
Bo the dog for Treasury Secretary!
Posted by: AmishDude at August 10, 2011 01:55 PM (73tyQ)
Posted by: Charlie Sheen at August 10, 2011 01:55 PM (Fw2Gg)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at August 10, 2011 01:55 PM (jx2j9)
There is a chance of revolt by the appliances, Maximum Overdrive style. The grill at Bambi's rented house already caught on fire this week.
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at August 10, 2011 01:55 PM (VZ10+)
He is like a child who got handed the keys to his hated Daddy's toy factory and an unlimited credit card to impress all the celebrities who wouldn't be caught dead with a retard like him if he wasn't President.
He's just going to run around like a spaz pushing buttons and breaking shit. Playing with the perks, abusing the staff, and stuffing paper towels in the sinks so they overflow and make a mess.
He knows he won't be held accountable.
Posted by: sifty at August 10, 2011 01:55 PM (ECjvn)
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 10, 2011 01:56 PM (ENKCw)
http://tinyurl.com/3rcduss
That's not much of a challenge. How hard is it to miss a target that large?
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at August 10, 2011 01:56 PM (VZ10+)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 10, 2011 01:57 PM (73tyQ)
Posted by: al-Cicero, Tea Party Jihadist at August 10, 2011 05:40 PM (QKKT0)
Orgy participants Female): Midge Wilson, Ann Russo, Helen Thomas, Nancy Pelosi, and Patty Murry
Orgy participants Male): Barney Frank, Dennis Kucinich, Henry Waxman, Bob Beckel, and David Axelrod
LET US FUCK!
Posted by: Barky the Stuttering Clusterfuck at August 10, 2011 01:59 PM (qiOph)
America's Caligula ? I'd call him America's Claudius or Nero.
He's just an empty suit shill for the Proletarian Guard.
He's not nuts, he just doesn't give a shit. He doesn't even believe his own bullshit, he's just going through the motions and carrying water for the real leadership - unions and Soros-backed NGO's.
Posted by: Societyis2Blame at August 10, 2011 01:59 PM (yK8YH)
My elderly mom, who comes by her being a democrat honestly (her folks were farmers during the [first] Great Depression and hero-worshipped FDR), was talking to me last night on the phone, and when I was bitching about the God King going on another vacation, said "Well, Bush did it too." I noted that Bush went to his own home or to Camp David, whereas Michelle Antoinette took her posse to Spain and the Obamas vacation in Hawaii and Martha's Vineyard, not in their posh Chicago mansion. I also pointed out the huge amount of golfing and slacking off Obama's doing. The bloom's definitely off the rose, but God, I'm so tired of really nice, good people like my mom giving the God King a break.
I keep going back in my mind to election night 2008. Mom called, and caught me crying in front of the tv. She was genuinely shocked-- "Oh, it won't be that bad." It's so, so much worse than what I was weeping about 3 years ago...and it's not over yet.
Posted by: Palandine at August 10, 2011 02:00 PM (g7D8V)
http://tinyurl.com/3rcduss
That's not much of a challenge. How hard is it to miss a target that large?
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at August 10, 2011 05:56 PM (VZ10+)
--Can't wait to read "How did Barack Obama get into Columbia?"
Posted by: logprof at August 10, 2011 02:01 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: stuiec at August 10, 2011 02:01 PM (Di3Im)
Posted by: The Hobbit formerly known as Donna at August 10, 2011 02:01 PM (OVCfn)
duh, her daddy's a senator
Posted by: . at August 10, 2011 02:01 PM (k1rwm)
Plus, if he's campaigning or vacationing, he's not on tv, causing the economy to crash.
Posted by: shibumi at August 10, 2011 02:01 PM (z63Tr)
Posted by: George Orwell at August 10, 2011 02:02 PM (AZGON)
Can you imagine Barry chopping brush with a chainsaw? It would be like making Joe Biden vice-president. Oh............
Posted by: pep at August 10, 2011 02:02 PM (6TB1Z)
Quite an indictment if you ask me.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at August 10, 2011 02:02 PM (jx2j9)
Posted by: logprof at August 10, 2011 02:03 PM (BP6Z1)
63/68 - "As a columnist, she is a thought-murdering demon of stupefaction." Wish I had written that.
Posted by: Societyis2Blame at August 10, 2011 02:04 PM (yK8YH)
Posted by: t-bird at August 10, 2011 02:05 PM (FcR7P)
"Mr. Depping plans to set up a new lender that will operate beyond the reach of banking regulators—and the deposit-insurance safety net. Backed by the private investment firm of Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen, the company won't be able to call itself a bank, but it will be able to do business the way Mr. Depping wants."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 10, 2011 02:05 PM (DEcmU)
http://tinyurl.com/3rcduss
They have no idea how college applications work. Nobody reads those stupid application essays. And who cares how she got in?
She graduated. What does that tell you about Columbia?
Posted by: AmishDude at August 10, 2011 02:05 PM (73tyQ)
The market appears to be aware of this, Mr Carney.
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at August 10, 2011 02:07 PM (1rHeD)
Correct me if I'm wrong but the guy works out of his home.
Posted by: lowandslow at August 10, 2011 02:07 PM (GZitp)
Posted by: Fritz at August 10, 2011 02:07 PM (/ZZCn)
I've often wondered what our blessed leader and his wife, or celebs, or journalists, think when they hear or read so much animosity towards them. People just don't like them in the very least, and some even hate them with a passion. But they just keep returning, somehow looking for relevance or justification, and receive none, but keep returning over and over? Masochism, I suppose.
Is this your problem, gutterscrunt?
Posted by: jwm at August 10, 2011 02:08 PM (spEu4)
Nobody is going to want to remember their one-term-stand with this buffoon.
He's like a girl you meet when you're drunk at the bar. You call all your friends and tell them how pretty she is and how she's gonna rock your world all night and she's like totally your soulmate.
Then in the morning you wake up next to some ugly psycho skank with four teeth, you're wallet is gone, and you remember you called your boss and quit your job so you could marry this girl.
The last thing you want is all your friends reminding you how in love you were with the girl. You just want it to go away.
Obama knows he's a fake and a fad. He's milking it for every little dollar and thrill he can.
Posted by: sifty at August 10, 2011 02:08 PM (ECjvn)
Posted by: you cant filter this at August 10, 2011 02:09 PM (j+tgP)
Posted by: lowandslow at August 10, 2011 06:07 PM (GZitp)
So?
Posted by: Carl Brutananadilewski at August 10, 2011 02:10 PM (73tyQ)
Obama sits around in his white Fat Elvis suit munching on ding dongs and pretends to be a deputy sheriff.
Posted by: cherry π at August 10, 2011 02:10 PM (OhYCU)
82: He actually said that ? And I've got to believe he thinks the same thing on the economy, energy policy, and everything else.
Note to the Left - this is why "intellectual" isn't necessarily a good quality in a President. The "intellectual's" ego won't let them pick subordinates who are more competent than you. Coupled with the temptation to micro-manage because you are smarter than your subordinates, this leads to the incompetent compost-heap of policies we see before us today.
Posted by: Societyis2Blame at August 10, 2011 02:11 PM (yK8YH)
--Don't forget that said slumpbuster has to have countless pictures taken with you and calls you her "boyfriend" after one sleepover.
Posted by: logprof speaks from experience at August 10, 2011 02:11 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: The Hobbit formerly known as Donna at August 10, 2011 06:01 PM (OVCfn)
"I AM big! It's the PRESIDENCY that got small!"
- Barack Obama Desmond
Posted by: stuiec at August 10, 2011 02:11 PM (Di3Im)
Posted by: Osama bin Truck Monkey, TEArrorist at August 10, 2011 02:13 PM (jucos)
He don't need no instructions, to know how to ROCK!
Posted by: sifty at August 10, 2011 02:13 PM (ECjvn)
Posted by: mike at August 10, 2011 02:13 PM (Qg0Un)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at August 10, 2011 02:14 PM (jx2j9)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 10, 2011 05:55 PM (UOM4
Apparently jobs are tight even for trolls, you just can't throw one away without another concern lined up.
Posted by: ontherocks at August 10, 2011 02:14 PM (HBqDo)
And then posts them all over the internet, emo fuzzy style.
Lord.
Posted by: sifty at August 10, 2011 02:14 PM (ECjvn)
Posted by: Bill Clinton at August 10, 2011 02:15 PM (2jQGY)
Posted by: t-bird at August 10, 2011 02:15 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: . at August 10, 2011 06:01 PM (k1rwm)
Hallöchen curious mein Schätzchen. Glaubst du wirklich du kannst dich hinter einem kleinem . verstecken?
Oh und ich warte auf deine Freunde so daß sie dir sagen können das ich hier bin.
Posted by: Ma Bell at August 10, 2011 02:15 PM (H/MnC)
Posted by: Palandine at August 10, 2011 02:15 PM (g7D8V)
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at August 10, 2011 02:16 PM (r4t7/)
Posted by: Norma Desmond Obama at August 10, 2011 02:16 PM (Hx5uv)
It's kinda like that, but dude, this chick is screwing over all your friends at the same time.
Posted by: Papa Editor at August 10, 2011 06:14 PM (Zs83Q)
So?
Posted by: Mitch Daniels at August 10, 2011 02:16 PM (73tyQ)
Posted by: Fresh Air at August 10, 2011 02:16 PM (B+T/0)
Posted by: . at August 10, 2011 05:33 PM (k1rwm) = Gotham Princess
Carry on.
Posted by: Y-not at August 10, 2011 02:16 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: beedubya at August 10, 2011 02:17 PM (AnTyA)
Ego-Rejuvenation for The Vapid One™?
Soul-stealing would be a more apt description.
Remember that picture of him looking in the mirror at himself?
It was Photoshopped.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 10, 2011 02:18 PM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: . at August 10, 2011 05:33 PM (k1rwm) = Gotham Princess
Carry on.
Posted by: Y-not at August 10, 2011 06:16 PM (5H6zj)
Gotham whore might be a better name for it. Since all its knows how to do is linkwhore.
Posted by: buzzion at August 10, 2011 02:18 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: Paul McCartney, Adoring Supporter at August 10, 2011 02:18 PM (B+T/0)
You would have to have a low estimation of the intelligence of China to think they would accept him.
I think their reply in Mandarin would approximate:
"Fuck that noise, round-eye!"
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 10, 2011 02:19 PM (DEcmU)
I wonder how they're going to handle the God King's midwest bus tour thingie he has coming up. I expect there will be a lot more Joe the Plumbers out there. The media will try to destroy them, as they do, but unless Obama's flunkies really vet the questioners so only worshippers get through, it could be a disaster for the One.
Posted by: Palandine at August 10, 2011 02:20 PM (g7D8V)
Posted by: Waterhouse at August 10, 2011 02:22 PM (zz0ma)
Actually, it was a harp that Nero was playing while Rome burned, not a fiddle (the hillbilly thang hadn't been invented yet). So that makes PP the Harpo Marxist.
Posted by: Basement Cat at August 10, 2011 02:24 PM (UrDdz)
Posted by: Media Fellaters at August 10, 2011 02:26 PM (EmQvy)
HeyPaul, appreciate it but we've got a new foreign policy now. Could we make it "Na, na, na, na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, Heyyyyy Palestinian Freedom Fighters."
Posted by: Vacationing Obama at August 10, 2011 02:26 PM (Hx5uv)
Fair enough. What if we threw in a Bruce Lee poster, Yao Ming, and a player to be named later? And we'll take nothing and like it (aka the Smails Clause)? Any chance?
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at August 10, 2011 02:29 PM (r4t7/)
I think your toe just crossed a line.
Posted by: Jack at August 10, 2011 02:29 PM (8IAHO)
@4: "Barry really has become America's Caligula."
Actually, I was beloved by the masses. Your guy - not so much.
Posted by: Zombie Caligula at August 10, 2011 02:30 PM (xy9wk)
Posted by: Media Fellaters at August 10, 2011 02:31 PM (EmQvy)
And every night on me. Please make it stop.
Posted by: The Chicken at August 10, 2011 02:31 PM (r4t7/)
You left off those Kagan, Napolitano, Janet Reno, Pantsuit, and Sotomayor (or however the hell you spell it).
Can't have an orgy without the big 5.
Posted by: Media Fellaters at August 10, 2011 06:31 PM (EmQvy)
I'm Top Ten, right?
Posted by: Froma Trollop at August 10, 2011 02:32 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: sifty at August 10, 2011 06:08 PM (ECjvn)
Sad part is, after his sorry ass is booted, he might not have the luxury of flying on AF1 but he'll still be taken care of by his uber wealthy puppeteers.
Damn I loathe this asshole.
Posted by: ErikW at August 10, 2011 02:32 PM (FYjav)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 10, 2011 02:34 PM (EmQvy)
Sounds just like *it* to me.
Posted by: jwm at August 10, 2011 02:36 PM (spEu4)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at August 10, 2011 02:40 PM (eOXTH)
Posted by: PollyAnna is a PaleRider at August 10, 2011 02:41 PM (ql12X)
No one clicks your links you pathetic troll. Go to Zerohedge since you claim to love that site so much
Posted by: buzzion at August 10, 2011 02:42 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: . at August 10, 2011 06:38 PM (k1rwm)
Wie oft muß ich dir sagen, jemand hat dir ins Gehirn geschißen. So bitte, hör auf mit deinen idiotischen "links"
Posted by: Ma Bell at August 10, 2011 02:45 PM (H/MnC)
@14: "Hey, I told him to try a BJ from a fat girl. It's like a spa treatment, Baby!"
That's all he needs - a slumpbuster!
Posted by: Baseball players everywhere at August 10, 2011 02:45 PM (xy9wk)
Jak často musÃm řÃct, někdo vám dal hovno do mozku. Tak prosÃm, přestaň s idiot "odešel"
Posted by: . at August 10, 2011 02:51 PM (k1rwm)
Why doesn't Boy Wonder deserve a vacation? It's hard work turning America into Cabrini Green and by all accounts, that is one thing that Boy Failure has accomplished.
Posted by: Lowell Mather at August 10, 2011 02:51 PM (Cqwtt)
brb-Pivoting to jobs.
Nah, I'm just fucking with ya'. I'm taking a well deserved vacation. Destroying the world's largest economy is hard work.
Posted by: President Stumbling Clusterfuck of a Miserable Failure at August 10, 2011 02:51 PM (hbAPu)
meggy mccain....how come you never came to class?
Posted by: . at August 10, 2011 02:52 PM (k1rwm)
Attention whores get off on ANY attention, good or bad, direct or indirect.
Posted by: Tami at August 10, 2011 02:54 PM (X6akg)
Then in the morning you wake up next to some ugly psycho skank with four teeth, you're wallet is gone, and you remember you called your boss and quit your job so you could marry this girl.
The last thing you want is all your friends reminding you how in love you were with the girl. You just want it to go away.
Posted by: sifty at August 10, 2011 06:08 PM (ECjvn)
PRESIDENT MOPED!!!
Posted by: Minuteman at August 10, 2011 02:57 PM (hbAPu)
Posted by: AndrewsDad at August 10, 2011 03:14 PM (C2//T)
Oh, yeah, Barky is focused like a laser...on his putter and iReggie or both.
This question should be asked daily by the WH reporters:
I have always wanted to know the answer as well, and Opie-Jay stuttered and snarked.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky at August 10, 2011 03:18 PM (FnRYN)
Posted by: jwb at August 10, 2011 03:20 PM (qcP08)
Posted by: steevy at August 10, 2011 03:46 PM (sYXFH)
Posted by: The Accident Audio Book at August 10, 2011 04:14 PM (gRXfV)
Posted by: Brown Line at August 10, 2011 04:31 PM (vf21t)
Posted by: Peregrine Took, Tea Party Mafioso at August 10, 2011 05:28 PM (SzxHJ)
"The president is focused every day on the economy," Carney said.
Further evidence that Obama is just an imbecile, not a brilliant Manchurian plotting to destroy the capitalist system. If this economy is the product of 2 1/2 years of daily focus by Obama? Then he's an imbecile.
Posted by: Jerome at August 10, 2011 06:44 PM (hP+4o)
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Posted by: George Orwell at August 10, 2011 01:39 PM (AZGON)