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October 24, 2012

Obama, The Etch-a-Sketch Chameleon
— Ace

A brief history of some (only some) of Obama's flip-flops.

This list doesn't include broken promises he abandoned for political reasons, like his vow to shutter Guantanamo, his promise to reform entitlements, or his promise to propose some kind of amnesty plan in his first year as president.

Nor his promise -- via a chart prepared for the press and public advocacy by senior economic adviser Christina Romer -- to reduce unemployment to 5.4% by now.

Nor his promise to cut Bush's $480 billion deficit in half, to $240 billion. Instead, he increased it to $1.4 trillion.

And on. And on. And on.

A Biden Flip-Flop... or senior moment. He says "Here in Iowa" while there in Ohio.

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1 First.

Posted by: Jaimo at October 24, 2012 10:57 AM (9U1OG)

2 Epic fail.

Posted by: Y-not, scary Catholic at October 24, 2012 10:57 AM (5H6zj)

3 Let me be clear. I'm um uh a rebel. Rules are made to be um uh broken.

Posted by: Barry Obama at October 24, 2012 10:58 AM (bAGA/)

4 Are we really that surprised?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at October 24, 2012 10:58 AM (da5Wo)

OT: From an amusing article on Breitbart:

"... new study has found Obama's commercials actually energize voters to vote against the President, not his opponent. ..."

Posted by: Optimizer at October 24, 2012 10:59 AM (R4cjW)

6 I tried. When I wasn't golfing I thought about this shit a lot.

Posted by: Barky O'Genius at October 24, 2012 10:59 AM (bFsZ0)

7 Yes, but when President Eye Candy flip-flops it's dreamy.

Posted by: Fritz at October 24, 2012 11:00 AM (vm7ot)

8 OBAMA WINS!!!!!

Suck it reich wingers!!!!!

now, back to this scrumptious COCK.

Posted by: GERG!!!!! at October 24, 2012 11:00 AM (nDcVA)

9 Someone should send this list to Hannity.

Posted by: Holla Fo Yo Dolla at October 24, 2012 11:01 AM (HINxj)

Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable flip-flopper

Posted by: RightWingProf at October 24, 2012 11:01 AM (IC6Er)

11 I'm a better fuckup than my head fuckup.

Posted by: Barky O'Genius at October 24, 2012 11:01 AM (bFsZ0)

12 But, but the kids from nickelodeon have voted and they overwhelmingly choose obama. They have never been wrong! Oh the agony and doom...

Posted by: Hello, it's me Donna not greg/gerg at October 24, 2012 11:01 AM (9+ccr)

13 He's just evolved on all this shit, duh.

Posted by: DangerGirl (@deadlyestrogen) at October 24, 2012 11:01 AM (8xOfO)

14 Sorry to go O/T so early, but just heard Trump's "bombshell." He's offering to give $5M to Obama's favorite charity if he authorizes universities to release his records and if he releases his passport records. It's stuff a lot of us have wanted to know about.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 24, 2012 11:02 AM (6zgse)

15 First it's Michelle bitching at me, now it's the voters. What did I do to deserve this shit?

Posted by: Barky O'Genius at October 24, 2012 11:02 AM (bFsZ0)

16 14 He's just evolved on all this shit, duh.

Posted by: DangerGirl (@deadlyestrogen) at October 24, 2012 03:01 PM

And he just needs four more years...

Posted by: Hello, it's me Donna not greg/gerg at October 24, 2012 11:02 AM (9+ccr)

17 He kept his promise to me!

Posted by: Reggie at October 24, 2012 11:02 AM (DrC22)

18 Has anyone noticed that the oceans seem a lot lower lately?

Posted by: Barky O'Genius at October 24, 2012 11:03 AM (bFsZ0)

19 12 But, but the kids from nickelodeon have voted and they overwhelmingly choose obama. They have never been wrong! Oh the agony and doom...

Posted by: Hello, it's me Donna not greg/gerg at October 24, 2012 03:01 PM (9+ccr)

My kids both voted enthusiastically for Romney because they hate the new school lunches. They were pretty disappointed with the result.

Posted by: Truman North at October 24, 2012 11:03 AM (I2LwF)

20 Did I unify you fuckwads like I said I would? Of course I did.

Posted by: Prez Urkel X at October 24, 2012 11:03 AM (OBDWE)

21 Honestly, I think Trump had to come up with his current bombshell after the Romney Team told him to drop the bombshell he wanted to release. That's why it's so lame.

Posted by: Holla Fo Yo Dolla at October 24, 2012 11:04 AM (HINxj)

22 That's a pretty devastating collection.

Obama has to be the worst lying President in history. If he loses it will taint the Democratic Party for years.

He is already paying the price- Mr. Obama's believability with the electorate is historically low.

Did you see the "plan" he released?

Actually I think the word "plan" in generous. It's more like a crib of his promises from the last election.

Posted by: marcus at October 24, 2012 11:04 AM (GGCsk)

23 This is a commercial for the Anti-Drug groups.

This is your brain. (picture of Mitt Romney)

This is your brain after years of choom and coke. (flip flopping montage of Obama quotes and him reading from his own book about drugs)

Don't do drugs.

Posted by: © Sponge at October 24, 2012 11:04 AM (nDcVA)

24 "Chameleon" -- that's a lizard whistle (apologies to James Carville)

Posted by: Chris Matthews at October 24, 2012 11:04 AM (DrC22)

25 @8. Nice one. Hope gergles appreciates it...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 24, 2012 11:04 AM (wtvvX)

26 I plug the hole, didn't I?

Posted by: president downgrade at October 24, 2012 11:05 AM (evdj2)

27 I'll never forget one of Obama's earliest meetings of his cabinet -- he allowed cameras in to film the show. The meeting was about fiscal spending (at the same time he was pushing for his trillion dollar stimulus). At the meeting Skunk Napolitano announced she devised a way to save tens of thousands of dollars. Remember this? Yeah, she said her dept would save a lot of money from now on because she's gonna buy office supplies in bulk. I shit you not. That's a true story.

Posted by: soothsayer at October 24, 2012 11:05 AM (jUytm)

28 How is this walking clusterfuck even competitive in this election?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 24, 2012 11:05 AM (bFsZ0)

29 He promised me a weekend trip alone to Camp David. Never happened, that bastard..........

Posted by: Kal Penn at October 24, 2012 11:05 AM (/YJYi)

30 Thank goodness some of these promises(like the 5.4%) didn't come true, out of sheer luck. Then they would have been an economic model to wave on their flag for life, like they do with Billy Boy's luck of having the dotcom boom happen under his which. Of course there was no chance of the stimulus ever working without good sound Austrian economics behind it, which Obama abhores.

Posted by: The Great and Secret Show at October 24, 2012 11:05 AM (WAUbf)

31 I don't even get WHY the many Gregisms, but I find them funny. Twenty years, I wouldn't have, but I have evolved I guess. I just laugh and I'm not sure the impetus (is that the correct word?) for the Gregisms.

Posted by: Baldy at October 24, 2012 11:05 AM (opS9C)

Obama's "genius" is that he pretends he never flipped flopped and that what he said is being done or he is doing.

Posted by: Jolly Roger at October 24, 2012 11:07 AM (t06LC)

33 His flip-flops are just an alternate version of his lies. it is simple, every time he opens his mouth a lie vomits out and splashes on the ground.

The press has let him get away with it but people here notice it. Now the press is seeing he is sunk and they are trying to recover.

To late assholes.

Posted by: Vic at October 24, 2012 11:07 AM (YdQQY)

34 "I disapprove of what you say, but I will not defend ~~to the death~~ your right to say it.

Posted by: BHO at October 24, 2012 11:07 AM (PlCer)

35 @29: This administration does everything in bulk.

Dead diplomats.
Abortions.
Redistribution.
Deficits.
Unemployment.

I'm gonna need a bulkier list...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 24, 2012 11:07 AM (wtvvX)

36 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at October 24, 2012 11:07 AM (6o4Fb)

Those aren't flip flops. They're BIRKENSTOCKS.

Nuance.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Binder Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/b][/i][/u] at October 24, 2012 11:07 AM (4df7R)

Barry's fall was inevitable, it was just a matter of when. The question I had was, Would the MFM go down with their ship or leave it like rats? Or, at leats, which propaganda outlets were Team To The Bitter End and which were Team Hell Hath No Fury.

In [[i] totally unrelated news, I need to buy more popcorn and a backup popper.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at October 24, 2012 11:07 AM (zgHLA)

39 Does anyone think this benghanzi email disclosure is going to finish obama?

Posted by: perdogg at October 24, 2012 11:08 AM (oSdsj)

Anybody that did any kind of vetting on this POS back in 2008 knew what his true agenda was going to be. It was all out there. The voting public was just too lazy to do some simple reading. He was the token black prez.

McCain sucking the SCOAMT's dick didn't help either.

Posted by: Soona at October 24, 2012 11:08 AM (n4mRs)

da Zero is EXACTLY what I thought he was and is doing EXACTLY what I thought he would do. Nothing more, nothing less. Just the leftard imbecile anyone with one eye (and apparrently one nut) could see with that one eye closed or blind drunk.

He is a whole new universe of fail.

A whole new class of stupid.

A whole new species of imbecile.

A whole phylum of fuck up.

Posted by: maddogg at October 24, 2012 11:08 AM (OlN4e)

42 Was Kal Penn one of Lex Luthor's lackeys in the new (old) Superman movie with Kevin Spacy? If that was him, I'm sure the preperation for the role proved invaluable as experience for working in the administration.

Posted by: Jolly Roger at October 24, 2012 11:09 AM (t06LC)

30How is this walking clusterfuck even competitive in this election?<<<<<<

Because our country is packed to the tits with assholes, retards, criminals and parasites. They hate you and want you to die.

Sweet Dreams.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 24, 2012 11:09 AM (fnB4E)

44 I'm gonna need a bulkier list...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 24, 2012 03:07 PM (wtvvX)

Good thing they bought that pallet of post it notes.

Posted by: © Sponge at October 24, 2012 11:09 AM (nDcVA)

45 There were crackas that believed the prezident sat in mah pews for twenty yearss and didn't hear me utter a word of hateful rhetoric! You think any of dem dumb crackas are goan care about any of dis!????

Posted by: Jeremiah Wright at October 24, 2012 11:09 AM (/YJYi)

46
Romney blah, blah, blah, Ohio blah, blah, blah.....

Posted by: in bore the real greg at October 24, 2012 11:09 AM (PlCer)

A Biden Flip-Flop... or senior moment. He says "Here in Iowa" while there in Ohio.

I'm sure the Ohioans will appreciate that. Considering they're supposedly the lynchpin in this election, it must be nice to know that the sitting Veep cares enough about earning your vote that he can't even be bothered to remember he's in your state.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Binder Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/b][/i][/u] at October 24, 2012 11:10 AM (4df7R)

48 Romney blah, blah, blah, Ohio blah, blah, blah.....

Posted by: in before the real greg at October 24, 2012 11:10 AM (PlCer)

49 What an asshole.

Posted by: sickinmass at October 24, 2012 11:11 AM (CFi9O)

50 47
30How is this walking clusterfuck even competitive in this election?<<<<<<

Because our country is packed to the tits with assholes, retards, criminals and parasites. They hate you and want you to die.

Sweet Dreams.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 24, 2012 03:09 PM (fnB4E)

Did someone say packed tits and assholes?

Posted by: Bill Clinton at October 24, 2012 11:11 AM (t06LC)

51 Obama could doubly burn Donald Trump for the $5 million by releasing the records and then directly handing the check to some anti-development group. What could be so bad? He flunked some courses? I assume that. He traveled to shithole countries, we know that. Even a "foreign-born" designation would be explained away as "Birtherism" for the 6 days that would matter.

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 24, 2012 11:11 AM (GeD0A)

52 Obama has to be the worst lying President in history. If he loses it will taint the Democratic Party for years.
=========
They know that, why do you think they are so desperate? Including the media.

And Romney better be prepared for Plan B. After he wins, they will file ethics, whistleblower retaliation, harassment and any other bullshit charges they can every single day in hopes of keeping him so busy he won't have time to go after them.

The level of hate they will unleash on Romney, I do not envy the man.

Posted by: RoyalOil at October 24, 2012 11:11 AM (imtbm)

53 If I uhh speak to you in a uhh halting ...tone, and let me be uhh perfectly clear,
If I speak to you in a uhh halting ...tone my woordsuh will persuade you.

Posted by: President Um uh at October 24, 2012 11:11 AM (+I8Mq)

54 In Biden's defense, they are spelled remarkably similar. It's easy to mix OIHO and IOWA.

Posted by: dfbaskwill at October 24, 2012 11:12 AM (71LDo)

55 36 The press has let him get away with it but people herenotice it. Nowthe press isseeing he is sunk and they are trying to recover. To late assholes. Amen.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 24, 2012 11:12 AM (GFM2b)

So his plan booklet is a lot like his budget booklet?

Totally shocking.

But on the topic of shocking, I knew he would be bad. What I didn't realize was the depths of depravity he would sink to-- like the apology tour and bowing, like how awful everything about Obamacare is, and like Fast and Furious.

There are moments when I'm merely angry about it, and there are other, rarer moments when I am enraged.

Posted by: Truman North at October 24, 2012 11:13 AM (I2LwF)

57 IF YOU LIKE YOUR DOCTOR, YOU CAN KEEP YOUR DOCTOR.

He needs a pledge pin that says "I Lie."

Posted by: © Sponge at October 24, 2012 11:14 AM (nDcVA)

58 I want to destroy every single freaking bug on this planet (except butterflies and ladybugs, of course). Carry on.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 24, 2012 11:14 AM (6zgse)

59 And you know what the lefties say when you tell them about all the broken promises?

That he couldn't do anything because the Republicans in Congress stopped everything--made the country suffer just to beat Obama (and because of racism).

And if you tell them, "What about the first two years, where he had full control of both the House and the Senate?"

Oh, well, they come back with some bullshit about how it was only two weeks. Why? I don't know, I'm not a fucking idiot and I sure as hell ain't going to track something so damned stupid down to verify.

Posted by: RoyalOil at October 24, 2012 11:15 AM (imtbm)

60 Obama is 99.99 percent pure lies

Posted by: Dept. of Accuracy Dept. at October 24, 2012 11:15 AM (+I8Mq)

I posted this in the previous thread, but it's just so ridiculous I need to re-post it here for proper mockery. Please forgive the redundancy.

At Weasel Zippers (http://tiny.cc/nw5omw):

"MSNBCÂ’s Analyst Michael Eric Dyson: Obama A Big Government Liberal Because Of SlaveryÂ…"

Here's the quote:

Â“The reason Obama knows that the government is not the enemy is because he comes from a people who were owned, and it was a government-sponsored project. If the government sponsored your ownership, the government has to step in. Now, thatÂ’s 100, 200 years ago, but weÂ’ve seen the legacy of slavery, economic inequality, Jim Crow laws, all of that stuff operates in our own time."

The amount of stupid in that quote is so gargantuan, I can't even...

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Binder Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/b][/i][/u] at October 24, 2012 11:16 AM (4df7R)

I want to destroy every single freaking bug on this planet (except butterflies and ladybugs, of course).

I will happily join you in this endeavor, chique d'afrique.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Binder Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/b][/i][/u] at October 24, 2012 11:18 AM (4df7R)

63 Iowa...Oiho.....hey, 3 letters, right?

Posted by: BignJames at October 24, 2012 11:18 AM (j7iSn)

"So the record is clear: Rather than keeping us safer, the prison at Guantanamo has weakened American security. It is a rallying cry for our enemies."

Why has Barack Obama not removed this threat to our security when he could have easily done so?

Why does he want Americans to be killed so he can keep his illegal torture-house open?!

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at October 24, 2012 11:19 AM (fnB4E)

65 Iowa...Oiho.....hey, 3 letters, right?
Posted by: BignJames at October 24, 2012 03:18 PM (j7iSn)

JOBS are a big fuckin deal!!!!

Posted by: © Sponge at October 24, 2012 11:19 AM (nDcVA)

66 If McCain was too old and senile to become POTUS then so is Biden. By a long shot.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at October 24, 2012 11:20 AM (i0vBR)

67 MWR @66. Aside from the total nonsensical nature of that quote (the mind boggles) does Mr. Dyson not know Obama has no slave blood? His father was from Kenya, and incidentally, I believe his mother's ancestors owned slaves. Smart liberals. \sarc

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 24, 2012 11:22 AM (6zgse)

68 Obama could doubly burn Donald Trump for the $5 million by releasing the records and then directly handing the check to some anti-development group. What could be so bad? He flunked some courses?I assume that. He traveled to shithole countries, we know that. Even a "foreign-born" designation would be explained away as "Birtherism" for the 6 days that would matter.

I think the most damning information would be that he got most of his placements based on minority quotas or inside connections rather than academic merit. Given the accounts of the choom years and his overall intellectual performance, I doubt he was that great of a student in solid objective terms.

When he gave himself an "incomplete" on the economy, it likely came as the grade he was most familiar with.

Posted by: Hagbard Celine at October 24, 2012 11:30 AM (Wy3P2)

69 Just got an email from my most rabid obama supporter friend. Claiming that she just read on a conspiracy site that Romney is involved in the benghazi debacle. She said "there's a video, there's a video, there's a video on GLP". I told her I don't go to conspiracy sites cause my anti virus stuff won't let me go there and if she wants she can get the video and I"ll look at it, which is what she wants. Does anyone here who goes to those sites know anything about this?

Posted by: What do you do all day if you don't watch tv, anne? at October 24, 2012 11:32 AM (oZfic)

70 71 If McCain was too old and senile to become POTUS then so is Biden. By a long shot. Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at October 24, 2012 03:20 PM (i0vBR) Right and seeing as Biden is ACTUALLY senile, that's doubly true

Posted by: Ed Gibbon at October 24, 2012 11:36 AM (4eNxd)

71 I want Ohio to quit being like Brett Favre. Will he stay or go? On again off again, maybe or maybe not and in the end all we get is the shaft.

Posted by: Dick Hertz at October 24, 2012 11:47 AM (gkfSV)

72 "I think the most damning information would be that he got most of his placements based on minority quotas or inside connections rather than academic merit." Dems would yawn.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at October 24, 2012 11:55 AM (i0vBR)

73 *** The questionaire shown in the link shows Obama listed his endorsement by the New Party, which was an officially socialist party that existed in Chicago at the time. ***

Posted by: Optimizer at October 24, 2012 12:37 PM (R4cjW)

74 So the record is clear: Rather than keeping us safer, the prison at Guantanamo has weakened American security. It is a rallying cry for our enemies But spiking Bin Ladin's head every speech has no effect on the sensitive muslim feelings? So the chants 'We are all Osamas now' is Bush's fault? Fuckin SCOAMF

Posted by: Schwalbe: The Me-262© at October 24, 2012 12:43 PM (UU0OF)

75 Wasn't there some clip sometime after he was elected where Obama said if he couldn't reduce the deficit, grow jobs, or something or other that he would deserve to be a one-term president? Yeah, Romney should just cut an ad with that clip superimposed with current economic stats, and just let that thing play on repeat in the swing states.

Posted by: Hudson21 at October 24, 2012 02:50 PM (uSuzr)

76 CANDIDATE Obama:

NAFTA bad
Cronyism bad
Guantanamo bad
Patriot Act bad
Bipartisanship good
No-bid contracts bad
Military tribunals bad
Recess appointments bad
Health care mandates bad
Raising the debt ceiling bad
NASA manned space program good
Public campaign financing good
Divisive political rhetoric bad
Taxing health care benefits bad
Detaining foreign combatants bad
Rendition of terror suspects bad
Lobbyists in the White House bad
Presidential signing statements bad
Bush troop withdrawal timetable bad
massive increase in federal debt bad
War without approval of Congress bad
Televised heath care negotiations good
Enhanced interrogation techniques bad

PRESIDENT Obama:

NAFTA good
Cronyism good
Guantanamo good
Patriot Act good
Bipartisanship bad
No-bid contracts good
Military tribunals good
Recess appointments good
Health care mandates good
Raising the debt ceiling good
NASA manned space program bad
Public campaign financing bad
Divisive political rhetoric good
Taxing health care benefits good
Detaining American citizens good
Rendition of terror suspects good
Lobbyists in the White House good
Presidential signing statements good
Bush troop withdrawal timetable good
massive increase in federal debt good
War without approval of Congress good
Televised heath care negotiations bad
Enhanced interrogation techniques good

Posted by: Bruce MacMahon at October 24, 2012 05:03 PM (5oCt/)

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