1
fascinating

2

shameless & unaccountable

how can we compete with it?

3 I don't remember them working so hard to establish the "context" about "appearances vs good deeds" for Bush.  My memory is clearly faulty.

4 Hey, this thread is full of content!  What gives?

5 No controlling legal authority.

6

They should just charge a $2000 campaign donation for a picture of you sitting at the President's desk and get it over with.

And there are pictures of people behind that desk since Snoop-Obama took office.

7
I thought Indians were sensible people?

8

They should just charge a $2000 campaign donation for a picture of you sitting at the President's desk and get it over with.

for some reason I read that as "sitting in the President's lap"

9 ItÂ’s disappointing that a president who has gone further than most others in terms of putting up firewalls between the White House and special interests

WTH?  Didn't he just subsume the SP lobbyists by hiring them?

10 What do you call those things, on blogs, where there is a title and words underneath?
Because I think I found one.

11 Big ATM has Comrade Zero in its pocket.  That's why unemployment isn't getting any better.

12
Haven't they even thought about what this will do their daughters? Just about all of them will be lesbians...

trapped in a man's body.

heh

13

A key player in the closed-door donor recruitment is White House Chief of Staff William M. Daley, a former banking executive who has huddled in recent weeks over breakfasts and dinners with business leaders and Wall Street financiers in Chicago, New York and Washington — seeking to ease tensions over new financial regulations and other administration policies.

 

Hey, that's a nice little bank you've got there.  Be a shame if anything were to happen to it...

14

Someday, a historican will win a prize when they finally unearth the buried eveidence of how corrupt this administration really is...

And our descendents will sit in a very much weakend country, wondering why we were so blind, and stupid.

15 How can you not hate this smug bastard?

16 I wish I could say I was surprised. alas I'm not.

17

Obama-Care Waivers!  The oh so clever  under the radar solicitations.

18

unprecedented!

Will representatives of Hamas attend these "unseemly but perfectly legal" White House fundraisers?  Or will they stick to donating via the credit card "loophole"?

19 I got a donation behind the desk from Bill Clinton does that count?

20 Mary Boyle, vice president of communications for Common Cause. “It’s disappointing that a president who has gone further than most others in terms of putting up firewalls between the White House and special interests

BULLSHIT!  Bull fucking shit, you commie bitch.

How about some of those White House visitation logs, huh?

The only one who has been this bad is Clinton.

21
gimme some money

22

'ItÂ’s disappointing that a president who has gone further than most others in terms of putting up firewalls between the White House and OTHER GROUPS special interests'

Fixed it...

23 Run Ralph Run!

24

And our descendents will sit in a very much weakend country, wondering why we were so blind, and stupid.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2011 02:16 PM (NtXW4)

We are living in the Tinpot Dome presidency.

25 “It’s disappointing that a president who has gone further than most others in terms of putting up firewalls between the White House and special interests, would host in the White House a meeting with past or current donors.”

I read this line out loud and now my dog won't stop howling ... what's up with that?

26

though they did so noting that the president is joining a long tradition of presidents who have done so.

 

Names please!  (Other than BJ Clinton)

27 Is it going to be possible for a sitting President to take money from persons unknown via unauthenticated credit cards through the Internet without any media scrutiny whatsoever?

28 I hope that Issa has let the White House know that if they turn off the credit card security features of their online donation software this time around that there will be House investigations all through next Autumn.

29 28 I hope that Issa has let the White House know that if they turn off the credit card security features of their online donation software this time around that there will be House investigations all through next Autumn.

Posted by: somebody else, not me at June 28, 2011 02:22 PM (7EV/g)

The problem with good criminals is that they never commit the same crime twice.  They probably won't go with the credit card thing again.

30 It is worrying.  If Obama is committing this kind of unethical/fraudulent behavior out in the open, it worries me about the clandestine stuff that's going on.  This next election is going to have, without a doubt, the most fraud ever. The level of malfeasance will be unprecedented as he tries to get re-elected. 

31

Is it going to be possible for a sitting President to take money from persons unknown via unauthenticated credit cards through the Internet without any media scrutiny whatsoever?

 

Only if he has a "D" after his name.

 

32

A key player in the closed-door donor recruitment is White House Chief of Staff William M. Daley....

Ummm - correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't tax dollars being used to pay this guy's salary for his "Day Job"? Is he doing this work on the clock, or after hours?

33 "a president who has gone further than most others in terms of putting up firewalls between the White House and special interests" I'm glad she pointed that out because to the untrained eye, it appeared that he had set fire to the walls between the White House and special interests. And then made a couple of GHB martinis for special interests. And then got all up in special interests like BAM! BAM! BAM!

34 "...a president who has gone further than most others in terms of putting up firewalls between the White House and special interests..."

A HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA  HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

HOO HEEE HA

*breathe*

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

35 Obama is still evolving

36 "...a president who has gone further than most others in terms of putting up firewalls between the White House and special interests..."

That's breathtaking in either its stupidity or audacity (or most likely, both).

37 They don't say "Common Cause, a left-leaning group" now do they.  Check out their webpage.  No, go ahead.  "Good-government group" my ass.

38 It was a gutsy call.

39 6

They should just charge a $2000 campaign donation for a picture of you sitting at the President's desk and get it over with.

And there are pictures of people behind that desk since Snoop-Obama took office.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at June 28, 2011 02:14 PM (GKQDR)

You cand do that for free at the gift shop across teh street. Complete with a full size placard of THE ONE which looks just as animated as him. Michelle's arms are there too.

40 Obama’s network of “bundlers,” Wouldn't it be easier to just cut checks directly to his campaign? It must take some effort to keep up the pay-for-play facade with all his stimulus benefactors.

41

The dissonance between Obama's words and actions is quite loud, why is it that moonbats cannot hear it?

I guess their heads up his ass kinda muffles the sound a bit though.

42

Good-government group" my ass.

Cuba is the paradigm for "good goverenment."

43

I wager it'll be around August when the Communist Democratic Party announces that the election will be just a referendum on Obama and unveil their new campaign, derived from history - simply JA! or Nein.

 

44 An actual post???  Can you direct me to the open posts?  I seem to be lost.  (Just kidding guys.)

45 Given the way he campaigned and to some extent has governed, it makes us wonder why he didnÂ’t hold this meeting somewhere else. You mean, in Europe?

46

More recently, the president taped a video in the residence of the White House, as part of a fundraising “raffle” for donors, offering a dinner with him as a prize.

This bears repeating:

Dinner for schmucks. 

47 Funny thing is, Obama is obliterating any criticism the left can make towards future GOP Presidents.  He's basically doing everything under the sun that is unethical, questionable or downright illegal, which means the GOP can just point to his precedents.

48

Um... its illegal to either Campaign from, or solicit campaign funds, from Federal Property.

So... the Whitehouse isn't Federal Property anymore?  I know we've sold out to the chineses and Saudis... but this much?

49 And here I thought it was against the law to use public resources for political purposes.  Isn't the White House a public resource?

50 That's breathtaking in either its stupidity or audacity (or most likely, both).

Posted by: RightWingProf at June 28, 2011 02:31 PM (UOcNk)

Its called the "Big Lie"... Nazis learned it from the Wilson Administration.

51 In Idaho this is small potato's

52 Late here and this may have been covered.

More recently, the president taped a video in the residence of the White House, as part of a fundraising “raffle” for donors, offering a dinner with him as a prize.

They showed this on Fox and pointed out it was filmed in the WH. That is not tacky or anything like it. It is damn illegal.

But as I keep saying he is Superbama. He is invulnerable to impeachanite because he is protected by blackdemocratium, the densest material on earth.

53 50 And here I thought it was against the law to use public resources for political purposes. Isn't the White House a public resource?

Posted by: crosspatch at June 28, 2011 02:39 PM (ZbLJZ)

Public? debateable.... US? uh.... no...

/looks at his checkbook...

54 54 50 And here I thought it was against the law to use public resources for political purposes. Isn't the White House a public resource?

Posted by: crosspatch at June 28, 2011 02:39 PM (ZbLJZ)

Public? debateable.... US? uh.... no...

/looks at his checkbook...

Posted by: Prince of the House of Saud at June 28, 2011 02:41 PM (NtXW4)

No... NO!  We foreclosed on it last week!

55 It's hard for me to see how this guy gets re-elected, until I look at some of the possible opposition.

56 Oh, did you know that Common Cause is sponsored by the Tides Foundation?  No, no special interests here!

Lotsa bigwig donors too.

57 Hey, I daily seek to ease tensions by holding my Fun Raiser, as unseemly but legal as that is...

58 49 Funny thing is, Obama is obliterating any criticism the left can make towards future GOP Presidents.  He's basically doing everything under the sun that is unethical, questionable or downright illegal, which means the GOP can just point to his precedents.

Posted by: frode at June 28, 2011 02:38 PM (8z3Pa)

Oh, we'll just make up something new.  Remember how Bush was railed for his awful "bundling".  That was terrible, yes legal, but still terrible.  Terrible.

But Obama's doing it the right way.

59 You know what would really satisfy right now? A tasty cornbrero!

Come to Mitten's House of Cornbreros for the tastiest vittles on this side of the aisle! Not to worry, if you're on the other side, however. Mittens has the moxie and the guts to peddle his wares to you, too! 'Cause he's bilateral ... or somethin' ...

60

The problem with good criminals is that they never commit the same crime twice.  They probably won't go with the credit card thing again.

Posted by: AmishDude at June 28, 2011 02:24 PM

In this, case, Osama Obama simply doesn't have to worry. He'll get a total free pass when he does this again (if he isn't doing it already). When the great Conservative Watchdogs come after him -- think NRO, Michelle Malkin stamping her little foot in outrageous outrage and Ed "Poppin' Fresh" Morrissey, who can be easily diverted by giving him a cubicle on "Blogger's Row" -- there will be two minutes of tepid criticism followed by a shift to whatever some hotshot blogger thinks of gay marriage.

After all, the morals of teh gheys are far more important than another felony or ten committed by the Traitor-in-Chief.

Say hello to the Chicago Jesus, folks: President-for-Life, thanks in large part to the cowardice of his opposition. They'd rather watch the country vanish down the shit-hole than dare to suggest that Mr Historic First be forced to adhere to the law just like us mortals.

61 Every State dinner Obama host is a campaign fundraiser.

62 I'm not going to quote Mary Boyle's egregious lie, but I am going to remember it.

You know how people are frequently identified by their official or unofficial titles, like Tax-Cheat In Chief Tim Geithner, or Internet Troll Coordinator David Axelrod?

Now we can refer to Big Fat Liar Mary Boyle.

Yeah, the Corporate Crony Coordinator-in-chief set up some firewalls, he did... between the public and his shady dealings. I bet he wishes he had set up more.

63 Like I typed before, easy ain't workin'.

64

“It’s disappointing that a president who has gone further than most others in terms of putting up firewalls between the White House and special interests, would host in the White House a meeting with past or current donors.”

Yes Mary Boyle, Jeff Immelt and Trumka have only visited the White House for visitor tour and photograph. Stupid Bint, stop repeating the lies.

65 And yes, I remember the howling and turd flinging from the Dems and MFM (but I repeat myself) over the campaign using a photo of W in AF1 on 9/11. So get out there with your outrageous outrage and bitch at Ø, you know, since you have no bias.

66 I laughed at how uncreative Obama's camp was to "require" using the White House itself as Obi's advertisement backdrop. They'd rather create a legal contention and break laws rather than consider alternative look-alike settings...authenticity pff.

The LBJ Library Museum at UT/Austin has a recreation of the Oval Office from Johnson's administration, along with the ol' black limousine.

I'd be surprised to find out that only LBJ's Presidential Museum has an Oval Office for guests to visit. Doesn't the Smithsonian have a recreated room from the White House of early presidential administrations, as well?

Why not just push Michelle's exercise program and film the campaign ad from each golf course where Obi's tried to play the stick game.