weakly standard

The problem is not that Obama is or was awful. The problem is that he is what he always is -- adequate and hardly ever more

You are too kind. Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: CheshireLion at October 09, 2012 04:42 PM (zNDIM)

That's going to be a great game.  Go Cardinal!

But it is much, much more the fault of people who pride themselves on being skeptical realists who permitted their minds to run to the magical and to the (frankly, blasphemously) religious.

I actually blame the media.  If it was doing its damn job, 3.5 years into Obama's presidency, the American public would not be shocked that he is nothing more than telepromter reader.  Because if they had done their job, he would have never become President.

Spot on.  SCOAMF did his best, it just paled in close range comparison to Romney. 

We witnessed an alpha male dominate a beta male for 90 minutes on every network.

"The fusion of religion and politics has in fact been every bit as deleterious as the liberals always warned us.

It's just that they were the ones who actually fused God and President."

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This is the best thing you have ever written, Ace.

@44

Mormon, mormon, mormon....

Because if they had done their job, he would have never become President.

I thought they were going to bury him when he whined about his fucking waffle.

In defense of Greg, we are reduced to just ONE troll. He has to do the lifting of dozens of handles both here and on HotAir.

It is a herculean task.

I can't take my eyes off that gif.

Also, I am somewhat concerned that everyone is making such a big deal of Romney's victory on Wednesday that there is no way he could top that.

I don't imagine the next debate could be any worse for Obama, so the media will be able to say he recovered or "got his groove back"

Obama will be worse in the next two debates.

There will be no debates under martial law.

 Excellent, Ace. ....Love the gif.

Hah!

I'm shallow enough to be greatly bothered by the left's elevation of Obama's coolness and athleticism much less his faux intelligence.

That bench-sitting, girl baseball throwing, spastic bowling, high water pants bicycle riding , choom smoking uncoordinated big eared, skinny retard is anything but cool and athletic.  

I've been saying that Obama is not a good campaigner.  He is not a good debater.  He  was not good against McCain.  The press simply declared Obama the winner  and  got away with it.  It helped that he ran as a conservative tax-cutter who was against an individual mandate.  But  whatevs.  Obama  has a wonderful ability to step  in it, to make things worse (e.g., his defense of PBS).   He has none of the empathy of Clinton, the likability of Bush, the experience of Bush 41, or the resolve of Reagan.  He has nothing.  He was a blank slate  for anyone to project what they want on him.  And now he is simply a blank slate.  He is nothing.  He is  going to lose and he is going to lose big.  My guess is he won't even fight for it.  He will wither away.  He has no clue how to overcome adversity, how to persuade people to his side, how to fight. 

When I put $4/gal gas in my car I don't give a good god damn rip about Big Bird.

You don't worry about him pounding on the trunk?

Chloroform. Good plan.

The whole religious imagery thingy with Barky has bothered me from the get-go.

Guys like Bill Maher, you know, athiests, were acting like accolytes to a religious figure.  Not that athiests understand the religious aspects of that behavior, but they were engaging in it.  Barky was their g*d and savior.

All the photos of Barky with halos around his head, all the blather about how Barky was a "Lightworker" and was sent here to heal the planet, shut up already!!  We have a savior and it's not the phony grifter from Hawaii/Jakarta/Kenya and his gluttenous wife.

47 Shines with lies and smiles.

 

What exactly did Romney LIE about in the debate?

And when Liars say that someone is Lying...are they Lying about the Lying or Lying about the Truth?

In this case, I think it's both.

"This is your shit."

Best line of the year. Dead nuts on.

"One of the most wonderful things which will come with a Romney presidency is that Romney will finally, once again, separate Church and State. The president, finally, will just be a man. Not a perfect man. Not a prefigurement of Jesus. Not a prophet and not a savoir."

You didn't know that my magic underwear comes with a cape? Or that I'm already having an architect draft up plans to add a temple spire? The Islamists have their Caliphate.... I don't know what the 1st Mormon kingdom will be named....

@93

A tabula rasa or an empty chair?

Posted by: buzzion at October 09, 2012 04:54 PM (xqxYO)

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That's because their natural inclination is towards slavery. 

Posted by: wooga at October 09, 2012 04:44 PM (vjyZP)

Nice call back to the glory days of NR and YAF.

So does this Jesus analogy make me the disciple Peter?

Should I be wearing ear muffs so I won't be hearing any cocks crowing?

Wow, WTF:

Here's where it gets gooey. Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.

I knew that he had a creepy obsession with Obummer, but this is literally cultish.

@99

Even athiests need gods. They just replace them. You should read some Eric Volgelin sometime. Most of the liberal enterprise has an apocolyptic feel because in Volgelin's thesis they are striving to create heaven on earth.

Posted by: PJ at October 09, 2012 04:54 PM (DQHjw)

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I understood how the Anti-Christ will attain power instantly.

Posted by: Max Power at October 09, 2012 04:55 PM (q177U)

He does. He has more experience of making a fool out of himself than most other people ever will

This was a battle in which Romney defeated the media, like Patton defeated Rommel. Obama played the role of Sgt. Schultz.

Posted by: Joe Biden

Vice-President Biden, while that is impressive, and I really want to suck it, I'm going to have to ask you to put your pants on.

Obama:  "I killed Bin Laden."

Romney:  "Libya."

Obama:  "What about your 47% gaffe?"

Romney:  "What about your Uncle Omar and Auntie Zeituni?"

End of second debate.

Remember that Hillary won the popular vote in the top Dem electoral states NY,NJ,PA,OH,FL and CA and still lost to Obama. 

Obama was selected by the DNC and not elected.

Posted by: wooga at October 09, 2012 04:46 PM (vjyZP)

erm you clearly havent seen Andrew Sullivan's Impression of the Obama Logo.

Do a search for GOATSIE  but under no circumstances should you do this search from work.

If the SCOAMT was just a buffoon, a  political abberation, a bump in the road, I'd be able to just blow him off like a buzzing fly.

But he has truly damaged my country with his hate.  And he  has and still does  encourage  his minions to do the same thing. 

I want  him stomped.  And I want everyone who  still supports him and his ideals (I'm looking at you, MFM) to be politically  mutilated  beyond any  passing  recognition. 

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 09, 2012 04:44 PM (wIgpo)

And by "swinging", you mean hitting on married women.

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 09, 2012 04:44 PM (wIgpo)

But then they're going to ask you to put your dick back in your pants

All Paul Ryan has to do is somehow allude to Biden's last debate about FDR going on TV to calm the populace down after the 1929 market crash.

That is still today the most insanely idiotic thing ever said by a politician.   

Posted by: joeindc44 found the last comment to be vile, particularly vile at October 09, 2012 05:05 PM (QxSug)

  Well if slow joe tries to bork Ryan. all Paul has to do is calmly refute him. Hysterics is not a winner...

112....His first job in Chicago (whatever they called it officially).

Civil Rights Attorney.

That's what it was called officially.

Which is also....all about race....and making money off of it.

Barky's shakedown of Citibank, in 1995 on behalf of ACORN...to force Citibank to make subprime loans...is what lit the fuse for the Banking Crisis.

So...you could say, that Barky's 'first job'....led to the Financial Crisis that got him elected.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2012 04:53 PM (m2CN7)

Yeah, that always bugged me, too. I got cut from my 7th grade basketball team (good thing--turns out I was really good at wrestling) and I'd put money on my ability to beat Obama in a game of hoops.

Posted by: wheatie at October 09, 2012 05:06 PM (l5RhJ)

The only difference between Barry and Jesse Jackson is that Barry was successful at getting elected. Outside of that they are just self-aggrandizing shake down artists

Remember that youtube of Cake's, "We are building a Religion?"

@166

Anyone else read that story and think of the scene in Anchorman where Ron Reads "Go fuck yourself San Diego" and acts like nothing happens while everyone else realizes the magnitude of what just happened.

I can see him walking off stage telling Michelle "Well, that went well. Lobster?"

I think the media is  starting to come around to the idea that it will be a hell of alot more fun  and profitable attacking a republican in the oval office then it will  be trying to defend  the numbnuts who occupies it now for the next four years.they feel they're better suited to attacking so why not jump ship now and look forward to what they love to do best

Another excellent post by our esteemed host.

I do, however, take exception to the idea that Obama has been "adequate".  The guy has gone AWOL to campaign almost full-time, just like when he was a Senator, for cryin' out loud!  We were attacked on 9/11, and the guy took of to Vegas!!

What you're touching on here, however, ist the stunning contrast we have in this election.  One the one hand, we have the incumbant, who is remarkable for the fact of how far he has gone with hardly anything you could call a real accomplishment, and without even any real experience EVER running ANYTHING!

On the other hand, you have a guy who has been legendary for turning around financially-troubled organizations, be they private companies, a non-profit, or a state government.  A guy who has vast amounts of executive experience.  If the country buys a clue, and elects him, this may go down in history as one of those moments where just the right guy miraculously shows up on the scene, seemingly from nowhere, and by accident, at just the right moment.

A financial Winston Churchill moment, if you will.

Posted by: soothsayer at October 09, 2012 05:07 PM (jUytm)

Fredo Biden: I can handle things! I'm smart! Not like everybody says... like dumb... I'm smart and I want respect! How come my fingers smell like poo?

Posted by: Ben at October 09, 2012 04:50 PM (C2Y4l)

Yes, this. Plus if Slow Joe is anywhere near coherent he will be awarded victory. Not. Over. Yet.

Posted by: mrp at October 09, 2012 05:05 PM (HjPtV)

If they could collect more than a handful of commies or actresses together to do anything at all, they might not be losing so badly.

And if you ever see a retarded chimp, run like hell.

Posted by: wooga. Totally not ripping off Daniel Tosh. at October 09, 2012 05:07 PM (vjyZP)

You can't run from me!  Just like Romey, your doomed!

"He is a guy who speaks vacuously of hopes and dreams and change and fairness."

You almost got it perfect .... I would have substituted out "fairnerss" for  fantasies".

@203

George Clooney

Cake: Building a Religion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4yvvCv79QY

This is your deeply weird, Great Man on a White Horse worshipping psychological hangup.

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Wait a sec. Now Romney's supposed to be saving us *from* a guy on a white horse? I guess irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.

(look up "white horse prophecy" on Wikipedia)

Posted by: mama winger in paul ryan's district at October 09, 2012 04:57 PM (P6QsQ)

Biden They're going to put YA'LL in CHAINS!! That's a good one. I might use it in the debate

Posted by: Uncle Milty at October 09, 2012 05:16 PM (8J5Ck)

They have a lot of dysfunctional human garbage but not nearly as bad as those quisling fucks Schmidt and Wallace.  I want those ambulatory butt-plugs' lives completely ruined.

Someone must have really been impressed with Obama when he was a college sophomore, because he sounds like one.  Which suggests that's the point at which he  began  getting his sphincter licked,  and no longer needed  to engage in any more intellectual curiosity. 

Certainly being President for 4 years hasn't added to it. 

182...The only difference between Barry and Jesse Jackson is that Barry was successful at getting elected. Outside of that they are just self-aggrandizing shake down artists.

True, they are the same sort of con-artists...

But Barky is far more talented and effective at demagoguery, than ole Jesse.

[Which is probably why JJ hates his guts.]

Barky had the gaul to declare that poor people were 'victimized' by the greedy banks who gave them mortgages that they couldn't afford to pay for....

Whe HE was the sonuvabitch who forced them to do it!

OT: Drudge has some links to Greeks protesting the arrival of Merkel.... in Nazi uniforms.

Anyone think that the Greeks would be in a much better situation if they were willing to put as much effort into, you know, actual work as they do protesting?

Posted by: Dave S. at October 09, 2012 05:23 PM (d4o2E)

Biden: Do what you want to Big Bird but keep you're hands off of ELMO!!!!

Blast from the past:

http://tinyurl.com/8egtjeh

Maybe he'll do some water-walking for an encore.

194.....But I thought Michelle hated wheatie???

Uh oh.

What did I miss?

Should I go into hiding?

  @ 203

Big Mooch running after Barry with a frying pan?

Posted by: Isaac Davis White at October 09, 2012 05:30 PM (Dll6b)

Reggie Love: Oh he's a queen alright and a good one at that

Remember Dennis Green's epic meltdown after a game when he ranted at a reporter, "They are who we thought they were!"   That's what this sounds like.  

Obama is who we thought he was... a vapid Ivy League affirmative action baby who has never accomplished anything substantive other than being in the right place at the right time for white liberals to fawn over.

Posted by: JParker at October 09, 2012 05:22 PM (60GaT)

WAIT WAIT WAIT

Lets set the record straight.

ANDREW SULLIVANS ENTIRE FLIP TO THE LIB SIDE AND HATE OF REPUBLICANS IS THE RESULT OF ONE THING.

Andrew Milky Glutes Sullivan's penchant for unprotected ass sex with random strangers in bathhouses and alleys in washington DC led to him contracting the AIDS virus.

The Federal government had a strict policy of not allowing people with aids to apply for and become citizens.

Andrew blamed bush for that.  He has been trying to get US citizenship for years but cant because he didnt have the brains to put a condom on what ever random guys dick was up his ass on any given night.  Because of that policy he hates Rush and he hates conservatives now.

Moral of the Story?

If you are going to stick a cock up your ass, for fuck's sake put a rubber on it.

Posted by: JParker at October 09, 2012 05:41 PM (60GaT)

haha....whoops sock off.

Posted by: backhoe at October 09, 2012 05:42 PM (ULH4o)

Obama is gonna send Smokin Joe Biden in place of Obama

Posted by: Isaac Davis White at October 09, 2012 05:20 PM (Dll6b)

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Agree.  This election is for all the marbles.

Posted by: RayJ at October 09, 2012 05:45 PM (pI/IV)

Marriage was the only way someone with HIV infection could get citizenship.   THats why he was so angry when Bush said no to gay marriage.

Posted by: Evilpens at October 09, 2012 05:47 PM (ck76k)

NO, its to hide his tripple chin so they dont panic and think he might actually EAT eat their dicks and subsequently run away.

It also helps to hide the hammer he uses for those that change their mind.

Its also a stand in for Michelle Obama for when barry stops by.

ACE: "One of the most wonderful things which will come with a Romney presidency is that Romney will finally, once again, separate Church and State. The president, finally, will just be a man. Not a perfect man. Not a prefigurement of Jesus. Not a prophet and not a savoir.

Just a man. A good man, and a smart man. But ultimately just a man."

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong – faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it’s too late.

-Dune

I think it goes beyond, competence, Ace--I think that the reason this debate had the impact it did is because many Americans saw for the first time a president who is not the alpha we demand he be.  When looked at in this way, and put in the context of his crumbling policy of appeasement in the Middle East, it goes a long way towards explaining his reluctance to meet with strong leaders like Netanyahu, who would undoubtedly steamroll over him like Romney did. 

And it has to raise the question in people's minds, even if as yet unspoken:  in a head-to-head Cuban-Missile style confrontation with an alpha like, say, Vladimir Putin, would our daddy be able to beat up their daddy?  Might he overreact, as weak men often do, in order to prove his strength?

A year or so ago, Drudge ran a photo of a helmeted Obama delicately pedaling a bicycle, juxtaposed with one of Putin holding a rifle.  A lot of people dismissed the inference as ridiculous then; I don't think nearly as many would today.

The Ohio SurveyUSA poll confirms Romney's lead in Ohio for the moment. At www.insidepolling.com we re-weight the polls to historical voter turnout party weights for 2004, 2008 and 2010 along with some averages and electoral vote projections. This gives the reader the ability to see what the polls would look like under a party weighting that more closely aligns with their view of the electorate as opposed to the pollster's bias.

What's going on here is very simple. There's a significant chunk of the electorate, maybe 5%-6%, who aren't wild about the idea of another four years of Barack Obama, but who had, until last Wednesday night, heard nothing but negative things about Mitt Romney.

In that one 90 minute debate, Romney successfully dispelled the idea that he was nothing but a cold, stiff, ruthless, vulture capitalist and let these voters know, in much the same way that Ronald Reagan did in 1980, that it's OK to vote for him. He's now become an acceptable alternative.

That's why the polls are moving in Romney's direction and that's why he will win on Nov. 7th.