July 17, 2012
— Ace Another Romney surrogate on the conference call (unidentified here) said that Obama's polices were tantamount to "socialism."
"The president clearly demonstrated that he has absolutely no idea how the American economy functions. The men and women all over America who have worked hard to build these businesses, their businesses from the ground up is how our economy became the envy of the world -- it is the American way," Sununu said in his opening remarks of the conference call.He added: "I wish this president would learn how to be an American."
The first question to Sununu later in the call was about that comment, which exploded quickly on Twitter for its stark claim about Obama.
"What I thought I said, but I guess I didn't say, is that the president has to learn the American formula for creating business," he said. "If I didn't give all that detail I apologize."
Well, as various DNC flacks said of Romney, when he asked Obama to get his staff under control: Stop whining.
Posted by: Ace at
10:08 AM
| Comments (112)
Post contains 193 words, total size 1 kb.
Posted by: BIG ROB at July 17, 2012 10:11 AM (MuXag)
Posted by: fluffy at July 17, 2012 10:11 AM (z9HTb)
It is very possible, and in fact unfortunately common, to be an American but fail to act like one. Some need learning.
Posted by: angler at July 17, 2012 10:11 AM (SwjAj)
I pay my fair share every April 15th. And its usually more than $15,000. So Obingo can take the rest of his "fair share" that he's demanding and shove it up his fucking ass.
Posted by: Hal Burton at July 17, 2012 10:12 AM (iYvMQ)
Posted by: Albie Damned at July 17, 2012 10:16 AM (Yhu4q)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 17, 2012 10:16 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at July 17, 2012 10:16 AM (SDkq3)
Ms. Wasserman Schultz made her appearance quite late and this appeared to force the other speakers to go on longer than they had expected.
Daylin Leach, who represents the 17th District in the state senate, told the crowd that the Republican Party was full of anti-Semitism. He said, without irony in front of the synagogue's podium that the Republicans are theocrats who don't believe in separation of church and state, all the while describing the importance of his Jewish values. He, as did most of the speakers, reiterated the GOP's opposition to abortion as a reason they most not be allowed to have the presidency back. When he spoke dismissively that Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia would be opposed by those with Jewish family values, he was rebutted from the audience with a cry of "not true" stopping him cold.
Posted by: Galileo Galilei at July 17, 2012 10:17 AM (e8kgV)
I mean, who would think a guy who thinks dog-eating is kinda cool wouldn't be American?
Posted by: AmishDude at July 17, 2012 10:17 AM (T0NGe)
Keep shooting until you no longer have a target
Posted by: Samuel Williams iun OCala at July 17, 2012 10:17 AM (Dll6b)
Posted by: Dr Spank at July 17, 2012 10:17 AM (4cRnj)
But, honestly, that wouldn't be good politics, however true the words would have been.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at July 17, 2012 10:18 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: BIG ROB at July 17, 2012 02:11 PM (MuXag)
This, many times over. If only Obastard could earn as much hate from the Right as the impure RINOs we'd have the right mind set.
The Left never, ever, in any form, at any time, apologized for the over-the-top lunacy they engaged in re George Bush. And apparently it did them no harm at all because they got the most radically leftist piece of shit Prez in history elected.
It's well known that a lie, repeated often enough, is believed. It can work that way for the truth, too. Bash Obie McJugears daily, and ruthlessly. Bash him. It will soak in. Handling him with kid gloves will earn you no points. And being called racist? Pfft. We're calle racist all day every day as it is. What more is there to do when the Left always plays the same hand - 5 of a kind, all the race card.
Posted by: Reactionary at July 17, 2012 10:18 AM (xUM1Q)
Posted by: cajun carrot at July 17, 2012 10:18 AM (UZQM8)
Posted by: joeindc44 says choom on fuckers at July 17, 2012 10:19 AM (QxSug)
Isn't this the same bunch who demanded that Romney tell his supporters to back off the attacks?
Posted by: kbdabear at July 17, 2012 10:19 AM (Y7XKa)
Posted by: Cricket at July 17, 2012 10:19 AM (DrC22)
Keep shooting until you no longer have a target
Posted by: Samuel Williams iun OCala at July 17, 2012 02:17 PM (Dll6b)
Keep shooting until the future five generations of the MFer wouldn't think about pulling this kind of shit
Posted by: Albie Damned at July 17, 2012 10:20 AM (Yhu4q)
Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at July 17, 2012 10:20 AM (RD7QR)
Every now and then, he pierces the veil. HeÂ’s usually pretty coy about his ideology, but he lets the veil slip from time to time. Â… His straw man argument is this ridiculous caricature where heÂ’s trying to say if you want any security in life, you stick with me. If you go with these Republicans, theyÂ’re going to feed you to the wolves because they believe in some Hobbesian state of nature, and itÂ’s one or the other which is complete bunk, absolutely ridiculous. But it seems to be the only way he thinks he can make his case. HeÂ’s deluded himself into thinking that his so-called enemies are these crazy individualists who believe in some dog-eat-dog society when what heÂ’s really doing is basically attacking people like entrepreneurs and stacking up a list of scapegoats to blame for his failures.
His comments seem to derive from a naive vision of a government-centered society and a government-directed economy. It stems from an idea that the nucleus of society and the economy is government not the people. Â… It is antithetical to the American idea. We believe in free communities, and this is a statist attack on free communities. Â… As all of his big government spending programs fail to restore jobs and growth, he seems to be retreating into a statist vision of government direction and control of a free society that looks backward to the failed ideologies of the 20th century.
This is not a Bill Clinton Democrat. HeÂ’s got this very government-centric, old 20th century collectivist philosophy which negates the American experiment which is people living in communities, supporting one another, having government stick to its limits so it can do its job really well Â… Those of us who are conservative believe in government, we just believe government has limits. We want government to do what it does well and respect its limits so civil society and families can flourish on their own and do well and achieve their potential.
How does building roads and bridge justify Obamacare? If you like the GI Bill therefore we must go along with socialized medicine. ItÂ’s a strange leap that he takes. Â… To me itÂ’s the laziest form of a debate to affix views to your opponent that they do not have so you can demonize them and defeat them and win the debate by default
I think he believes America was on the right path until Reagan came along, and Reagan got us going in the wrong direction. And and he wants to be as transformational as Reagan by undoing the entire Reagan revolution. Â… I think he sees himself as bringing about this wave of progressivism, and the only thing stopping him are these meddling conservatives who believe in these founding principles so he has to caricature them in the ugliest light possible to win the argument.
Posted by: paul Ryan at July 17, 2012 10:22 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Kelly Preston at July 17, 2012 10:22 AM (+XVQe)
"President Obama is turning 51 soon—and he's celebrating with friends and family back at his home in Chicago.
This is your chance to wish him a happy birthday—face to face." http://tiny.cc/nrrlhw
"Meet Mitt's Choice For VP"http://tiny.cc/hyrlhwIt would be great to see some organization arrange to pay for a single independent voter from a state that matters to attend both events and to gauge their reaction,
Posted by: s u n s h i n e at July 17, 2012 10:22 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: MJ at July 17, 2012 10:22 AM (TR60b)
Posted by: Uncle Milty at July 17, 2012 10:23 AM (rCL2S)
Posted by: Barky O Fuckhead. Preezy of the United Sneezy at July 17, 2012 10:23 AM (UZQM8)
Posted by: Roy at July 17, 2012 10:23 AM (VndSC)
Ouch. I like it.
I've noticed more and more that liberals only like forums in which there is no feedback.
And it's about time conservatives start heckling back. Libs have no qualms.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 17, 2012 10:24 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Lauren at July 17, 2012 10:25 AM (wsGWu)
Posted by: © Sponge at July 17, 2012 10:26 AM (UK9cE)
Posted by: Arms Merchant at July 17, 2012 10:26 AM (+XVQe)
Since when are liberals against....'whining'?
They do it all the time.
Barky is always whining about...."fairness".
He sounds like that sniveling kid on the playground, always whining and saying...."That's not fair!"
Liberals have turned 'whining' into a Way of Life.....an art form, sort of.
The Art of Whining.
Liberals are masters at it.
Isn't that what the whole OWS movement about?.....whining?
Posted by: wheatie at July 17, 2012 10:26 AM (MbB0O)
You could've just said Ogabe is a fucking dick
Posted by: Albie Damned at July 17, 2012 10:26 AM (Yhu4q)
Posted by: Uncle Milty at July 17, 2012 10:27 AM (rCL2S)
Posted by: cajun carrot at July 17, 2012 10:27 AM (UZQM8)
Posted by: MJ at July 17, 2012 10:28 AM (TR60b)
Posted by: The Huggable Robot Devil at July 17, 2012 10:28 AM (136wp)
Posted by: Mr Sununu at July 17, 2012 10:28 AM (DGIjM)
Posted by: joeindc44 says choom on fuckers at July 17, 2012 10:29 AM (QxSug)
1. "I wish this president would learn how to be an American."
2. "the president
has to learn the American formula for creating business"
The apology is total bullshit, of course. You don't mistake statement #1 for #2. Sununu pulled a page out of Obama's playbook here by saying the no-no words to get them out there for public consumption, and immediately trying to explain them away to protect against the blowback from the media.
Also, how about an old guy pops a cap in the ass of 2 young hoodies/concealed carry thread?
Posted by: Xander Crews at July 17, 2012 10:29 AM (CtB2X)
Posted by: soothsayer at July 17, 2012 10:29 AM (9Q7Nu)
Posted by: joeindc44 says choom on fuckers at July 17, 2012 10:29 AM (QxSug)
Posted by: The Huggable Robot Devil at July 17, 2012 10:31 AM (136wp)
Let's be serious here, Obama's too stupid to learn how to be American. That sort of thing is way past him.
Posted by: Uncle Milty at July 17, 2012 10:31 AM (rCL2S)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at July 17, 2012 10:31 AM (da5Wo)
Posted by: cajun carrot at July 17, 2012 10:31 AM (UZQM8)
Posted by: Arms Merchant at July 17, 2012 10:31 AM (+XVQe)
http://tiny.cc/0eslhw
http://tiny.cc/pdslhw
http://tiny.cc/5bslhw
via drudge
Posted by: s u n s h i n e at July 17, 2012 10:32 AM (oZfic)
Let me be clear, that wedding you've been planning? The one I've asked you to forgo gifts so you can redistribute that money to my campaign? Well, the thing is, you didn't build that relationship. It wasn't because of hard work and sacrifice, it was because of other people, and because it was because of other people, you really don't deserve the fruits of your union.
Barack Obama
Posted by: @huffpeter at July 17, 2012 10:33 AM (NHNJt)
Actually what prevents him from being an American is his sociopathic ego.
Doesn't take much neural firepower to be a patriot.
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at July 17, 2012 10:33 AM (mIoJ0)
Posted by: Joan Walsh, The Girl Who Can Hear Dog Whistles at July 17, 2012 10:34 AM (/AHDz)
The left's idea of " Jewish family values" is whatever is vogue among Liberal Democrats. They would be shocked to learn what the Code Of Jewish Law says about Abortions, Homosexuality and immorality; similar to values held by most Republicans
Posted by: bigben at July 17, 2012 10:34 AM (x759p)
Posted by: Xander Crews at July 17, 2012 02:29 PM (CtB2X)
Any time some old codger does this, he should get his social security payments doubled.
Posted by: Reactionary at July 17, 2012 10:34 AM (xUM1Q)
Posted by: Uncle Milty at July 17, 2012 10:34 AM (rCL2S)
I wonder how many people didn't answer the drudge VP poll cause their candidate wasn't there and there was no box for other? Rasmusen said something on some show about drudge's polls being relevant, how relevant can they be when he excludes some of the possibilities. Mitt hasn't release any list of possible VP candidates so it's all conjecture at this point.
Posted by: s u n s h i n e at July 17, 2012 10:35 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: Fritz at July 17, 2012 10:36 AM (02fNe)
Posted by: bigben at July 17, 2012 10:36 AM (x759p)
Posted by: redneck randal at July 17, 2012 10:36 AM (UZQM8)
Posted by: Soona at July 17, 2012 10:37 AM (gaYoA)
Posted by: Fritz at July 17, 2012 02:36 PM (02fNe)
Meh. Why burden some employer like that? Better to pay him to stay home and smoke his choom or whatever.
Posted by: Reactionary at July 17, 2012 10:38 AM (xUM1Q)
Posted by: joeindc44 says choom on fuckers at July 17, 2012 10:39 AM (QxSug)
I'd rather see the GOP engage in some hard-hitting verfiable charges, such as "Obama outsourced the stimulus to the Democrats in Congress, who then used it to pay off campaign contributors." And then list them.
Or, "Obama's corrupt energy department invested in companies connected to campaign donors who then went bankrupt, putting their employees out of work." Then list the companies and the amounts.
Words like "Patriotic" and "Fairness" have completely different meanings to different people.
Posted by: Arms Merchant at July 17, 2012 10:39 AM (+XVQe)
Actually what prevents him from being an American is his sociopathic ego.
Doesn't take much neural firepower to be a patriot.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 17, 2012 02:33 PM (mIoJ0)
Very true
Posted by: Uncle Milty at July 17, 2012 10:39 AM (rCL2S)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at July 17, 2012 10:42 AM (da5Wo)
That's why we are taking your first-born for our new civilian youth defense corps.
Posted by: Emperor Choom I at July 17, 2012 10:43 AM (+XVQe)
Or, "Obama's corrupt energy department invested in companies connected to campaign donors who then went bankrupt, putting their employees out of work." Then list the companies and the amounts.
Words like "Patriotic" and "Fairness" have completely different meanings to different people.
Posted by: Arms Merchant at July 17, 2012 02:39 PM (+XVQe)
-----------------------------------------------------
What I'd like to see and what would be really catchy to Americans? "Barak Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure/tyrant.
Posted by: Soona at July 17, 2012 10:43 AM (gaYoA)
Posted by: joeindc44 says choom on fuckers at July 17, 2012 02:29 PM (QxSug)
Give him credit he invented the intercontinental rail
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 17, 2012 10:43 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: Monstrobot at July 17, 2012 10:43 AM (sTS/8)
Posted by: t-bird at July 17, 2012 10:45 AM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - late for despot training again at July 17, 2012 10:46 AM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Monstrobot at July 17, 2012 02:43 PM (sTS/
----------------------------------------------------
Did you ever stop to think that Limbaugh might not be a comic reader like you? You know, he might actually have read real books.
Posted by: Soona at July 17, 2012 10:50 AM (gaYoA)
Posted by: Choom Gang at July 17, 2012 10:50 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Kensington at July 17, 2012 10:50 AM (/AHDz)
affix views to your opponent that they do not have so you can demonize
them and defeat them and win the debate by default"
Anyone who's every worked with a liberal can attest that they are lazier than the average bear.
The only time they seem to work hard is when they're tearing down stuff others have built.
They are like some kind of weird evolutionary cul-de-sac that can only exist in a society whose affluence precedes their appearance. No wonder they don't see the hard work that goes into building a civilization. It was mostly done before they came on the scene.
Posted by: BS Inc. at July 17, 2012 10:51 AM (P2Ufm)
I'm very glad to see him back.
Posted by: Kensington at July 17, 2012 10:52 AM (/AHDz)
Then maybe he shouldn't engage in horseshit paranoid speculation.
And I'm willing to bet good money that I've read far more "real" books than Limbaugh has.
And you can go fuck yourself, asshole.
Posted by: Monstrobot at July 17, 2012 10:52 AM (sTS/8)
Posted by: eleven at July 17, 2012 10:53 AM (KXm42)
Posted by: joeindc44 says choom on fuckers at July 17, 2012 10:53 AM (QxSug)
Posted by: jukin at July 17, 2012 10:54 AM (5oKRH)
Seeing as how it was said earlier *here* that the *dems* were playing that game about the batman movie, maybe Rush was just reporting on it. And I can't believe I'm saying this, but, geesh man.
Posted by: GMan at July 17, 2012 10:55 AM (sxq57)
Posted by: joeindc44 says choom on fuckers at July 17, 2012 10:57 AM (QxSug)
"57 Let me be clear, that wedding you've been planning? The one I've asked you to forgo gifts so you can redistribute that money to my campaign? Well, the thing is, you didn't build that relationship. It wasn't because of hard work and sacrifice, it was because of other people, and because it was because of other people, you really don't deserve the fruits of your union."
In other words...dibs on the first born.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - trying to stay awake in the middle of the afternoon at July 17, 2012 10:59 AM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - trying to stay awake in the middle of the afternoon at July 17, 2012 11:01 AM (hLRSq)
"I wish this president would learn how to be an American."
That's awesome. It's succinct, and gets to the heart of it. Socialism is inherently anti-American, and Obama's a socialist (or collectivist, to be more precise). He even dares to properly apply the "s-word".
As I have said elsewhere, Obama's commentary not only shows his contemt for personal property rights (it's essentially a laughable rationalization for the govt seizing private property) - which is central to "being an American", but also his contempt for the rule of law - which is essential for civilized self-government in general.
Posted by: Optimizer at July 17, 2012 11:04 AM (As94z)
Posted by: The Dude at July 17, 2012 11:04 AM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: small town girl at July 17, 2012 11:05 AM (0Y6d0)
Posted by: Barack Obama at July 17, 2012 11:05 AM (8J5Ck)
Posted by: Choom Gang at July 17, 2012 02:50 PM (e8kgV)
His brain is as dead as his career
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 17, 2012 11:06 AM (1Jaio)
You know that scene towards the end of Step Brothers where Will Ferrell is trying to become a grown-up and tells his therapist he has so many questions and starts asking all sorts of ridiculous ones? I keep picturing Obama there after he loses; this guy has a whole lot of things he needs to learn.
Posted by: Uncle Milty at July 17, 2012 11:11 AM (8J5Ck)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at July 17, 2012 11:12 AM (Pixxe)
Here in NY, we borrowed money to build the I-90 (before there was even an Interstate system), with the arrangement that it would be paid off by charging tolls, and the tolls would end once it was paid off. So we PAID for that road. That was the deal.
Once the road was paid off, the kept the tolls anyway, to pay for maintenance (which we already pay taxes for). Not only did they keep the tolls, they more than doubled. They broke their deal.
Now Obama's coming back and saying that that the govt isn't satisfied with even that - that we actually OWE MORE, because now the govt is claiming a share in money earned by businesses because they used the thruway. Wow.
Posted by: Optimizer at July 17, 2012 11:14 AM (As94z)
It was always interesting to watch the retired folks come out to ask the lawmakers why the NYS Lottery, which, according to them was supposed to cover education, didn't work and the retired folks still had to pay enormous school taxes. They were always a huge crowd and they were always dismissed by the lawmakers and it was never ever explained to them where the lottery money is going if not for education.
Posted by: s u n s h i n e at July 17, 2012 11:18 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 17, 2012 03:06 PM (1Jaio)
huh? He's had a long and illustrious career in doing VO work. Not many games or cartoons where he hasn't had his finger in the pie
Posted by: The Dude at July 17, 2012 11:19 AM (tw6Ar)
Posted by: The Dude at July 17, 2012 03:19 PM (tw6Ar)
Fine, his acting career then. I don't care. I've got a scorched earth approach to all Obamazombies. Fuck him with a light saber.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 17, 2012 11:26 AM (1Jaio)
He knows.
Posted by: tachyonsnuggy at July 17, 2012 11:31 AM (HSQgV)
EXEC BRANCH: It started with Obama strong-arming BP into handing over their reparations fund for his goons to manage, when Obama's job is to enforce the law - which said that BP's liability was a fraction of that amount. Then there was the illegal war on Libya, where he consulted the UN, but not Congress. Then the recess appointment, when Congress wasn't in recess. Now there's the 1st Contempt of Congress of any sitting cabinet-level position, as Obama pisses on Congress's oversight authority.
LEGIS BRANCH: Senate hasn't passed a budget in 3 years; rolls over for Obama.
JUDICIAL BRANCH: Regardless of which way the decision went, the minority and majority opinions for the biggest decision in a generation were written, in large part BY THE SAME GUY. In addition, the court had already abolished private property rights (via Kelo), but now our personal spending decision are not our own either.
All this stuff is WAY outside anything America ever called "normal", and it has happened in a very short time. Sonunu has really "called it", when he essentially calls out Obama for being un-American (a very alien thing for the US President to be).
Posted by: Optimizer at July 17, 2012 11:37 AM (As94z)
Posted by: Schwalbe: The Me-262© at July 17, 2012 12:22 PM (UU0OF)
To Insane Hussein everything comes from the state, which is now him, and without it, and him, individuals would be nothing and have nothing, when in fact the state gets everything it has from individuals and would be nothing, and have nothing, without them. Obama is quite mad - on the level of a rabid dog. He should be locked up in a mental institution.
Posted by: FeralCat at July 17, 2012 12:40 PM (vfiok)
Posted by: Bcochran1981 at July 17, 2012 01:29 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: steevy at July 17, 2012 02:18 PM (6o4Fb)
Hide Comments | Add Comment | Refresh | Top
64 queries taking 0.2018 seconds, 240 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.








Posted by: Cicero at July 17, 2012 10:09 AM (QKKT0)