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November 15, 2013

Mark Steyn: Our King Is a Fool
— Ace

I stomped the podcast earlier -- but it's now available for download.

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The other day, someone remarked to me about Obama: "The clothes have no emperor."

On Thursday, [King Obama] passed a new law at a press conference. George III never did that. But, having ordered AmericaÂ’s insurance companies to comply with Obamacare, the president announced that he is now ordering them not to comply with Obamacare. The legislative branch (as itÂ’s still quaintly known) passed a law purporting to grandfather your existing health plan. The regulatory bureaucracy then interpreted the law so as to un-grandfather your health plan. So His Most Excellent Majesty has commanded that your health plan be de-un-grandfathered. That seems likely to work....
The most telling line, the one that encapsulates the gulf between the boundless fantasies of the faculty-lounge utopian and the messiness of reality, was this: Â“What weÂ’re also discovering is that insurance is complicated to buy.Â” Gee, thanks for sharing, genius. Maybe you should have thought of that before you governmentalized one-sixth of the economy. By Â“we,Â” the president means Â“I.Â” Out here in the ruder provinces of his decrepit realm, we Â“folksÂ” are well aware of how complicated insurance is. What isnÂ’t complicated in the Sultanate of Sclerosis? But, as with so many other things, Obama always gives the vague impression that routine features of humdrum human existence are entirely alien to him....
Still, as historian Michael Beschloss pronounced the day after his election, heÂ’s Â“probably the smartest guy ever to become president.Â” Naturally, Obama shares this assessment. As he assured us five years ago, Â“I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors.Â” Well, apart from his signature health-care policy. ThatÂ’s a mystery to him. Â“I was not informed directly that the website would not be working,Â” he told us. The buck stops with something called Â“the executive branch,Â” which is apparently nothing to do with him.

Oprah claims the contempt directed at Obama is due to racism. Nonsense-- the love directed towards him is due to race.

The contempt is due to his actual performance. To judge him by any other standard than his dismal performance is racial condescension.

Posted by: Ace at 02:54 PM | Comments (140)
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1 If only comrade Stalin had known the web-site was not working....

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 15, 2013 02:56 PM (0fdrC)

2 Yeah, Oprah got rich because Americans hate black people.

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 15, 2013 02:57 PM (ZshNr)

3 racial condescension is fine as long as you support Barack Obama. In Mexico, you need ID to vote. But here Democrats insist that Hispanics don't need an ID to vote because of racial condescension.

Posted by: Oprah Winfrey at November 15, 2013 02:57 PM (gWHwW)

4 Obama is not the means to an end. HE is the end itself.

Posted by: ghostofhallelujah at November 15, 2013 02:57 PM (XvrTA)

5 Time to drain some of that brown liquor out of the bottle to dull the pain.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 15, 2013 02:58 PM (BAS5M)

6 Competence is racist.

Posted by: --- at November 15, 2013 02:58 PM (MMC8r)

7 I was for Grandfathering before I was against Grandfathering and I'm for it now, but will veto any legislation that is also for it.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 15, 2013 02:58 PM (0LHZx)

8 >>> Yeah, Oprah got rich because Americans hate black people. Obama was elected President because America hates black people.

Posted by: fluffy at November 15, 2013 02:59 PM (27/ot)

9 Oprah claims the contempt directed at Obama is due to racism. Nonsense-- the love directed towards him is due to race. The contempt is due to his actual performance. To judge him by any other standard than his dismal performance is racial condescension. That's it, really.

Posted by: AmishDude at November 15, 2013 02:59 PM (T0NGe)

10 Obviously, it's Swiss shop attendants who are hurting Obama's performance.

Posted by: andycanuck at November 15, 2013 02:59 PM (7Owhn)

11 If there is no racial condescension there will be a lot of protestin.

Posted by: Jessie Jackson at November 15, 2013 02:59 PM (gWHwW)

Obama is the William J. LePetomane of our time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jDh2Z_1UFA

Posted by: stuiec at November 15, 2013 03:00 PM (eetvJ)

Obviously, it's Swiss shop attendants who are hurting Obama's performance.

And ATMs stealing jobs from people 'n stuff.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 15, 2013 03:00 PM (BAS5M)

"Centu-wian... thwow that wascal down wuff- wee..."

Pontius Obama

Posted by: Barack Pilate at November 15, 2013 03:01 PM (kduZC)

15 That Oprah statement is an example of what I refer to as the "permanent grievance class".
No amount of penance is enough. No amount of reparations would ever be enough.

Posted by: navybrat at November 15, 2013 03:01 PM (Av6y6)

16 "...the love directed towards him is due to race."

Posted by: Ace at 06:54 PM

We have spent the better part of two generations healing the wounds caused by a flareup in racial tensions (caused by the left...), and we did a fine job of building a post-racial country.

In five years, Obama has managed to destroy much of that work and resensitize this country to race in a way that has never been seen, even in the depths of the race riots of the 1960s.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 15, 2013 03:01 PM (oJ5Fd)

17 Stop it, you teabaggers!! I'm solving societal ills by tweeting what I ate for every meal...thus helping to decrease illiteracy!!

Posted by: CatherineShaketini at November 15, 2013 03:02 PM (23Kgq)

18 Dear Orca-- Just send back the money, then. Thanks. Whitey

Posted by: --- at November 15, 2013 03:02 PM (MMC8r)

19 Oprah made bajillions of dollars by portraying herself for twenty years as "Everywoman". Then the mask slipped.

Posted by: mama wingr at November 15, 2013 03:02 PM (P6QsQ)

20 All those millions of white housewives that are responsible for Oprah being a billionaire,I hate them.

Posted by: steevy at November 15, 2013 03:02 PM (zqvg6)

21 To judge him by any [strikethrough] other [/strikethrough] standard than his dismal performance is racial condescension.

Posted by: Chris Mathews at November 15, 2013 03:03 PM (gWHwW)

22 That would be the same Oprah that hung out with Jeremiah Wright.

Posted by: --- at November 15, 2013 03:03 PM (MMC8r)

23 Opps. I was so worked up about societal ills I posted #17 in the wrong place.

Posted by: CatherineShaketini at November 15, 2013 03:03 PM (23Kgq)

24 Oprah claims the contempt directed at Obama is due to racism. Nonsense-- the love directed towards him is due to race.

I nominate this for best assessment of Obama ever.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at November 15, 2013 03:04 PM (uhAkr)

25 apparently the left/press never really expected much of our first black president since they refuse to acknowledge his multiple failures and still think his signature legislation is "fixable"

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl at November 15, 2013 03:04 PM (8JJ6O)

26 So, legal question The most relevant statute to forcing people to buy insurance was probably Korematsu, I think. The one that interned the Japs. If the Feds argued that now, would it still apply?

Posted by: Bigby's Boxing Gloves at November 15, 2013 03:05 PM (RLTt1)

27 The way you can tell how little people expect of Obama is that no one has even bothered to try to impeach him.

Wake me the next time a white president gets away with allowing the KKK to patrol a polling place with weapons and then we can have a discussion about how poorly the Obama has been treated.

Posted by: Thatch at November 15, 2013 03:05 PM (qYvEa)

28
not vs. now - how one letter makes a difference.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 15, 2013 03:06 PM (iGPSR)

29 Would Oprah vote for Allen West?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 15, 2013 03:06 PM (IXrOn)

30 I nominate this for best assessment of Obama ever.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at November 15, 2013 07:04 PM (uhAkr)

"SCOAMF" is hard to beat......

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 15, 2013 03:07 PM (oJ5Fd)

31 Bush's unemployment rate made him the worst president EVAR! Obama's much higher one, for five years straight? WINNING!

Posted by: --- at November 15, 2013 03:07 PM (MMC8r)

32 the low expectations of the left/press has for our first black president is ...well.... racist

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl at November 15, 2013 03:07 PM (8JJ6O)

33 apparently the left/press never really expected much of our first black president since they refuse to acknowledge his multiple failures and still think his signature legislation is "fixable" Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl at November 15, 2013 07:04 PM (8JJ6O) They handicapped him, and rode that handicap all the way to obamacare.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 15, 2013 03:07 PM (IXrOn)

34 Would Oprah vote for Allen West? Would she say that the Dem targeting of West and Mia Love was due to racism?

Posted by: --- at November 15, 2013 03:08 PM (MMC8r)

35 The whole 'you're a racist because' thing has/is become a little confusing, not obama404care confusing, but can't the race baiters do a white paper or pass out a flyer defing what is and is not racist.

Posted by: america - land of the racist at November 15, 2013 03:08 PM (eQZZW)

36 And people laughed at me when I warned them of the coming Oprahcalypse.

Posted by: Al Bundy at November 15, 2013 03:08 PM (qYvEa)

37 "SCOAMF" is hard to beat......

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 15, 2013 07:07 PM (oJ5Fd)

I think I like this better. Obama is loved because of his race. That's it. If he were Barry O'Shea he'd be some flunkie in the Chicago machine that Rahm Emmanuel would call a 'f*cktard'.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at November 15, 2013 03:08 PM (uhAkr)

38 Early Off-Topic I had to let an employee go today who worked for me for 19 years. I just could not sustain any more losses to my business, and went too many months without taking a paycheck home. There is no adequate way to express gratitude to someone who shared our children growing up, family illnesses, death and the joy of marriages and children coming into our worlds. What a lousy way to end a week. You you libs who think that businessmen/conservatives are heartless, I have a bag of gangrenous dicks you can suck. And wait your turn, Sandra!

Posted by: ObjectionSustained at November 15, 2013 03:09 PM (NdsQP)

39 Enough with the smartest guy bullshit. It's blatantly untrue. The fact that he hides all his transcripts and test scores tells you he is hiding something. That plus all his idiotic comments and mistakes.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman, PhD Bitches! at November 15, 2013 03:10 PM (kkbgQ)

40 Worth remembering -- the ludicrous phenomenon of a "Barack Obama" wouldn't exist or at least wouldn't be tormenting our American existence if Republicans weren't so fuc*ing pathetic.

Posted by: rrpjr at November 15, 2013 03:10 PM (rNCV5)

41 The soft bigotry of low expectations. Affirmative Action has consequences.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at November 15, 2013 03:11 PM (jucos)

42 Posted by: ObjectionSustained at November 15, 2013 07:09 PM (NdsQP)

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl at November 15, 2013 03:11 PM (8JJ6O)

43 I'd like to say that Obama has been well and truly pantsed in the last couple of weeks, but how can you pants someone who has no clothes?

Posted by: pep at November 15, 2013 03:11 PM (6TB1Z)

44 Is obama really planning on leaving office on 1/20/2017? He and his Inner Circle do not strike me as the type to just walk away from ultimate power. These are radical Leftists, after all.

Posted by: soothie and col frank slade at November 15, 2013 03:12 PM (mvUqZ)

45 I'm my own grandpa!

Posted by: D'oh!bammacare at November 15, 2013 03:12 PM (DHQv9)

46 >>> Enough with the smartest guy bullshit. It's blatantly untrue. Barry O is borderline literate.

Posted by: Orion at November 15, 2013 03:12 PM (27/ot)

47 Still, as historian Michael Beschloss pronounced the day after his election, heÂ’s Â“probably the smartest guy ever to become president.Â”

That statement tells me a lot more about Michael Beschloss' IQ than it does about Obama's.

Posted by: pep at November 15, 2013 03:13 PM (6TB1Z)

41
Is obama really planning on leaving office on 1/20/2017?

No, silly.

It's racist to impose the white man's term limits on our First Black President.

Posted by: wheatie at November 15, 2013 03:14 PM (c87DZ)

49 Enough with the smartest guy bullshit. It's blatantly untrue. ..... Posted by: Jesse Pinkman, PhD Bitches! He's certainly the most insane

Posted by: Mr. Wizard at November 15, 2013 03:14 PM (MhA4j)

50 Still, as historian Michael Beschloss pronounced the day after his election, heÂ’s Â“probably the smartest guy ever to become president.Â” Actually, it's quite possible that was Nixon. Which would say what about that kind of IQ-credentialism?

Posted by: --- at November 15, 2013 03:15 PM (MMC8r)

51 The pic illustrating the Steyn article make me wonder: speaking of medical issues -- how come Obama never got that thing next to his nose popped? I think it's actually getting bigger over time, like a vestigial Pinnochio effect.

Posted by: Wm T Sherman at November 15, 2013 03:15 PM (w41GQ)

52 If Barry is the smartest guy they have, just imagine what the rest of them must be like.

Posted by: Bigby's Boxing Gloves at November 15, 2013 03:15 PM (RLTt1)

53

We have nothing to fear with Barack Obama in the White House.

Posted by: John McCain at November 15, 2013 03:16 PM (Pr6hk)

54 Mitt Romney totes exposed obama in that first debate. I am STILL pissed at Mitt for not finishing him.

Posted by: soothie and col frank slade at November 15, 2013 03:16 PM (mvUqZ)

55 " But, as with so many other things, Obama always gives the vague impression that routine features of humdrum human existence are entirely alien to him...." Cue the shots of him looking at a Grocery Scanner. Then run it on an unending loop for several years.

Posted by: D-Lamp at November 15, 2013 03:17 PM (bb5+k)

56 I am STILL pissed at Mitt for not finishing him. ***** Rove said not to appear mean...

Posted by: Mr. Wizard at November 15, 2013 03:17 PM (MhA4j)

57 From Steyn's post re: Obama's intelligence:

"So, if I follow correctly, the smartest president ever is not smart enough to ensure that his website works; heÂ’s not smart enough to inquire of others as to whether his website works; heÂ’s not smart enough to check that his website works before he goes out and tells people what a great website experience theyÂ’re in for. But he is smart enough to know that heÂ’s not stupid enough to go around bragging about how well it works if heÂ’d already been informed that it doesnÂ’t work. So heÂ’s smart enough to know that if heÂ’d known what he didnÂ’t know heÂ’d know enough not to let it be known that he knew nothing. The countryÂ’s in the very best of hands."

Posted by: Lizzy at November 15, 2013 03:17 PM (JRmiD)

58 17 Oprah made bajillions of dollars by portraying herself for twenty years as "Everywoman". Then the mask slipped.
xxx

Sister, I feel your pain.

Posted by: Rosie 'Butch' O'Donnell at November 15, 2013 03:18 PM (25HWz)

59 "Oprah claims the contempt directed at Obama is due to racism. Nonsense-- the love directed towards him is due to race." Oprah has her cause and effect completely reversed. He was "HIRED" because he was black. If he gets "FIRED" it will be because he was no damn good.

Posted by: D-Lamp at November 15, 2013 03:18 PM (bb5+k)

60 41. Well TFG really only likes giving speeches and having AF1, fleet of Marine1 copters and the limos at his beck and call, not the actual presidentin stuff. He'd probably love it if they can sell Michelle as the next preezy, he'd still have all the perks and no pesky cabinet demanding he make a check mark an an abbreviated list to decide things.

Posted by: palerider at November 15, 2013 03:18 PM (dkExz)

61 After reading Mark Steyn's article (as usual, he slices like a hammer), can anyone explain to me why anyone... ANYONE in this country is still allowing this criminal to remain in office? I'll wait...

Posted by: Damiano the Economic Traitor at November 15, 2013 03:18 PM (j0wOO)

62 Steyn's ending in that piece is precious. And so is Ace's, above.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at November 15, 2013 03:19 PM (tmFlQ)

63 Our King Is a Fool He was born a SCoaMF and he'll die a SCoaMF.

Posted by: toby928© at November 15, 2013 03:19 PM (QupBk)

64 2 Yeah, Oprah got rich because Americans hate black people. Posted by: Lincolntf at November 15, 2013 06:57 PM (ZshNr) But no matter how much money Oprah has, racist Swiss store clerks will not show her their finest, most expensive handbags. Be sure to see her new movie The Butler on DVD.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at November 15, 2013 03:20 PM (Y92Nd)

65 Wow, That chapter on his battle with racism in his Presidential memoirs is growing,

Posted by: 7 Days in May at November 15, 2013 03:21 PM (j6DTo)

66 44 Still, as historian Michael Beschloss pronounced the day after his
election, heÂ’s Â“probably the smartest guy ever to become president.Â”

That statement tells me a lot more about Michael Beschloss' IQ than it does about Obama's.
Intelligence isnt the same as smarts or common sense. I worked for a bunch of Stanford Physics PhD's in the real world. They were very bright and had great ideas but couldnt translate that into a product to save their freakin' lives. They needed me and my lowly BS EE from Cow State (Iowa State University, bitches)

Posted by: odd... at November 15, 2013 03:21 PM (kduZC)

67 58 After reading Mark Steyn's article (as usual, he slices like a hammer), can anyone explain to me why anyone... ANYONE in this country is still allowing this criminal to remain in office?

I'll wait...
xxx

It's against our bylaws to impeach a man who can be classified in any way, shape or form as a "minority."

Sorry. Better luck next time...

/off to a party with my Donk home boys!

Posted by: The Repblican Party at November 15, 2013 03:22 PM (25HWz)

68 obama totes woulda saved The Hindenburg...but he didn't know how to fly Blimps

Posted by: soothie and col frank slade at November 15, 2013 03:22 PM (mvUqZ)

69 I was right.

Posted by: Zombie Geraldine Ferraro at November 15, 2013 03:22 PM (dfYL9)

70 In five years, Obama has managed to destroy much of that work and resensitize this country to race in a way that has never been seen, even in the depths of the race riots of the 1960s. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 15, 2013 07:01 PM (oJ5Fd) He has lent ammunition to the arguments of racists as a result of his incompetence. He has done damage to race relations in every conceivable manner; Damage that will take a long time to repair, if it's even possible. This is what we get for electing a man based on something other that the content of his character.

Posted by: D-Lamp at November 15, 2013 03:22 PM (bb5+k)

71
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows.

Posted by: Dwight D Eisenhower at November 15, 2013 03:22 PM (Pr6hk)

72 >>> "and no pesky cabinet demanding he make a check mark an an abbreviated list to decide things." Note: The Cabinet almost never sees or speaks to TFG. If he has 4 Cabinet meetings a year, it's a lot for him. It's some lackey staffer, just off from a long afternoon of beer pong, that is responsible for presenting his majesty with his "Yes", "No", "Look into it" checkboxes... most likely by emailing them to his iPad, since he can't ever be bothered to attend in-person briefings.

Posted by: Damiano the Economic Traitor at November 15, 2013 03:23 PM (j0wOO)

73 obama wanted to save Nancy Kerrigan from Jeff Gillooly...but he can't skate

Posted by: soothie and col frank slade at November 15, 2013 03:24 PM (mvUqZ)

74
Degrees (especially from the Ivy's) don't equate to knowledge - grade inflation and the need to maintain high graduation rates. If you get in, you will get your degree.

Posted by: phreshone at November 15, 2013 03:25 PM (Pr6hk)

King Shit on Turd Hill.

Posted by: wth at November 15, 2013 03:26 PM (wAQA5)

76 Malamutt, ol chum, you especially should not discount the value in "discovery" or whatever it's called when evidence is presented.

Posted by: soothie and col frank slade at November 15, 2013 03:26 PM (mvUqZ)

77 The American Revolution was fought over a 2% tax. ... (Yeah, I know there was more to it. It was still a hell of a lot less than what is going on now.)

Posted by: Damiano the Economic Traitor at November 15, 2013 03:26 PM (j0wOO)

78 >>

Oprah claims the contempt directed at Obama is due to racism. Nonsense-- the love directed towards him is due to race.

The contempt is due to his actual performance. To judge him by any other standard than his dismal performance is racial condescension.

I've been trying for a long time to say that succintly, and then you went and said it, and well.

Posted by: Sphynx at November 15, 2013 03:27 PM (cll/q)

79 Succinctly

Posted by: Sphynx at November 15, 2013 03:27 PM (cll/q)

80 heh, I think Ace once used the phrase "King Fuck Of Shit Mountain" a long time ago about someone

Posted by: soothie and col frank slade at November 15, 2013 03:27 PM (mvUqZ)

81 It's been a wonderful week seeing King Dogeater finally getting wide exposure as the nonfunctional retard idiot that he actually is. I just love reading this stuff.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 15, 2013 03:28 PM (8ZskC)

82 Obama isn't smart. He is learned....in the sense that he went to the right schools, reads the right books, magazines and newspapers and can look "concerned" at the right things. This does not mean he has learned anything or actually can do anything. Posted by: Mallamutt at November 15, 2013 07:21 PM (OWjjx) As Reagan said: "The Problem with our opponents is not that they are ignorant.... It's that they know so much which isn't so. "

Posted by: D-Lamp at November 15, 2013 03:28 PM (bb5+k)

83 Degrees (especially from the Ivy's) don't equate to knowledge - grade inflation and the need to maintain high graduation rates. If you get in, you will get your degree. Posted by: phreshone at November 15, 2013 07:25 PM (Pr6hk) If you read the latin that some degrees are printed in it says, "This certifies that all checks for the requisite number of credits have cleared." A degree is nothing more than a fancy receipt.

Posted by: Damiano the Economic Traitor at November 15, 2013 03:28 PM (j0wOO)

Â“What weÂ’re also discovering is that insurance is complicated to buy.Â”

Better call up one of them genius fucking Navigators, eh Barry?

Posted by: wth at November 15, 2013 03:29 PM (wAQA5)

85 Intelligence isnt the same as smarts or common sense. I worked for a bunch of Stanford Physics PhD's in the real world. They were very bright and had great ideas but couldnt translate that into a product to save their freakin' lives. They needed me and my lowly BS EE from Cow State (Iowa State University, bitches) Posted by: odd... at November 15, 2013 07:21 PM (kduZC) There appears to be some sort of Chasm between Theoretical Physicists and Experimental Physicists. Enrico Fermi was one of the rare birds who was both, and enjoyed being both.

Posted by: D-Lamp at November 15, 2013 03:30 PM (bb5+k)

86 you gotta love Ted Turner every few years he has CNN do a glorifying biography of himself what an insecure little man he must be

Posted by: soothie and col frank slade at November 15, 2013 03:30 PM (mvUqZ)

87 Thomas Massie looks like a spawn of Reid. Votes like one too.

Posted by: 7 Days in May at November 15, 2013 03:30 PM (j6DTo)

88 Oprah made bajillions of dollars by portraying herself for twenty years as "Everywoman". Then the mask slipped. Posted by: mama wingr at November 15, 2013 07:02 PM (P6QsQ) Oprah won an Oscar for her role in The Color Purple. She never portrayed herself as average but as morally superior, tolerant and forgiving.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at November 15, 2013 03:31 PM (Y92Nd)

89 Paul Broun has issues with reality and under stairwell upskirts shots.

Posted by: 7 Days in May at November 15, 2013 03:31 PM (j6DTo)

90 72 @65....there are 55 Democratic Senators that will not impeach Obama and entire army of journolist who would love nothing more than impeachment to change the subject. Posted by: Mallamutt at November 15, 2013 07:24 PM (OWjjx) Yup. But Erick Holder might be a very different matter.

Posted by: D-Lamp at November 15, 2013 03:32 PM (bb5+k)

91 While Impeachment remains politically impossible with a dem majority in the senate, it's time to start publicly suggesting that Jugear Resign In Triumph. After al,l how can he now possibly top this stunning accomplishment? Fundament Transformation of Health Insurance? ......well HELL YAH

Posted by: ontherocks at November 15, 2013 03:32 PM (XfYgW)

92 (Iowa State University, bitches)

Posted by: odd... at November 15, 2013 07:21 PM

Cyclones!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 15, 2013 03:32 PM (yh0zB)

93 Jim Bridenstine has the swears of aToronto mayor.

Posted by: 7 Days in May at November 15, 2013 03:33 PM (j6DTo)

94 I've been trying for a long time to say that succintly, and then you went and said it, and well. Posted by: Sphynx at November 15, 2013 07:27 PM (cll/q) George Bush Sr. said it even more succinctly. "The soft bigotry of low expectations. "

Posted by: D-Lamp at November 15, 2013 03:33 PM (bb5+k)

95 THE KING IS A FINK!

http://is.gd/k7T3Yr

Posted by: HeatherRadish™, drinking beer at November 15, 2013 03:33 PM (hO8IJ)

96 Ralph Hall needs a bail out package and early retirement.

Posted by: 7 Days in May at November 15, 2013 03:33 PM (j6DTo)

97 Intelligence isnt the same as smarts or common sense. Arrrrggg. He.was.not.even.a.National.Merit.Semi-Finalist. That's one of the few things we do know. He's neither learned, nor wise, nor educated. He's fucking dumb as a post. At best, he's crafty, in a confidence man kind of way.

Posted by: toby928© at November 15, 2013 03:33 PM (QupBk)

98 >>Posted by: ObjectionSustained Oh, that's rough. Thoughts and prayers for all of you.

Posted by: Mama AJ at November 15, 2013 03:34 PM (SUKHu)

99 Oprah claims the contempt directed at Obama is due to racism. Nonsense-- the love directed towards him is due to race. The contempt is due to his actual performance. To judge him by any other standard than his dismal performance is racial condescension. Very well said, ace. That needs to be spread far and wide.

Posted by: rickl at November 15, 2013 03:34 PM (sdi6R)

100 Even finkier.
http://is.gd/A2qlX7

Posted by: HeatherRadish™, drinking beer at November 15, 2013 03:34 PM (hO8IJ)

101 ....I thought the IPhone software update was gonna fix the bugs living in my keyboard? .....jeeeesh

Posted by: ontherocks at November 15, 2013 03:35 PM (XfYgW)

102 Better call up one of them genius fucking Navigators, eh Barry? Posted by: wth at November 15, 2013 07:29 PM (wAQA5) Hell yeah, bitchez! I gots me this ACORN job and they says if I type shit on a website, I gets me a Lincoln Navigator! They don' even care that I just gots outta prison for credit card fraud and theft and shit. But daaamn! Website is all slow an shit! An those people all calling and hollerin' and shit. Best be givin' me some chrome 22" spinners and an Obamaphone with that shit for putting' up with dis.

Posted by: Obamacare Navigators at November 15, 2013 03:35 PM (j0wOO)

103 >>92 Fuck Oprah and the pathetic little man whore she married. Posted by: Mallamutt

Hey, watch what you say about my woman.

Posted by: Stedman AKA Eric Holder at November 15, 2013 03:35 PM (cll/q)

104 "Oprah claims the contempt directed at Obama is due to racism. Nonsense-- the love directed towards him is due to race." Truer words have never been quoted!...

Posted by: Spun and Murky at November 15, 2013 03:35 PM (4DCSq)

105 President Rainman. Knows nothing about every day stuff, but can count the dimples on a golf ball with one eye tied behind his back.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at November 15, 2013 03:36 PM (l0lja)

106

"Oprah claims the contempt directed at Obama is due to racism."

So how many Brand New Racists did we get this month? 5 million or so? It's not being dumped off their insurance or anything, they just all of a sudden decided to become bigots.

Posted by: wth at November 15, 2013 03:37 PM (wAQA5)

107 Yup. But Erick Holder might be a very different matter. Posted by: D-Lamp at November 15, 2013 07:32 PM (bb5+k) You think there are 12 Democrats in the Senate who would vote to impeach Holder?

Posted by: Vendette at November 15, 2013 03:37 PM (GAUeg)

108 Best news of the day was that King Idiot was nowhere near San Francisco. Cause you know he would have upstaged BatKid.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at November 15, 2013 03:38 PM (l0lja)

109 Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl at November 15, 2013 07:11 PM (8JJ6O) Thanks, PG

Posted by: ObjectionSustained at November 15, 2013 03:38 PM (NdsQP)

110 They needed me and my lowly BS EE from Cow State (Iowa State University, bitches)

Are you old enough to know Do-Biz? Someone mentioned that the other day and I've craved all week.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™, drinking beer at November 15, 2013 03:39 PM (hO8IJ)

111 You think there are 12 Democrats in the Senate who would vote to impeach Holder? Posted by: Vendette at November 15, 2013 07:37 PM (GAUeg) Is not having a chin an impeachable offense?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 15, 2013 03:39 PM (oFCZn)

112 Orca's in the tank for Jugears.

Posted by: ontherocks at November 15, 2013 03:39 PM (XfYgW)

113 obama CANT EVEN SPEAK A FOREIGN LANGUAGE Musical instrument? NOPE. Exceptional literary work? Nope. Published peer-revied scholarly articles? Nope. Landmark cases? Nope A fortune made from the private sector? Nope. A single person he has ever helped personally? NOPE. obama is a paper icon

Posted by: soothie and col frank slade at November 15, 2013 03:40 PM (mvUqZ)

114 You think there are 12 Democrats in the Senate who would vote to impeach Holder? Posted by: Vendette at November 15, 2013 07:37 PM (GAUeg) Quicker than they would Obama. A lot would depend on what charges and evidence could be laid against him.

Posted by: D-Lamp at November 15, 2013 03:40 PM (bb5+k)

115 Oh, that's rough. Thoughts and prayers for all of you. Posted by: Mama AJ at November 15, 2013 07:34 PM (SUKHu) Thanks. Frankly, I handled it in a kind of cowardly fashion, but there was no good way.

Posted by: ObjectionSustained at November 15, 2013 03:41 PM (NdsQP)

116 Never ever try what can't be done? How do you know it can't be done if you don't ever try?

Posted by: GMB at November 15, 2013 03:43 PM (nkPV9)

117

110 They needed me and my lowly BS EE from Cow State (Iowa State University, bitches)

Are you old enough to know Do-Biz? Someone mentioned that the other day and I've craved all week.

I graduated in '83. It looks like they started up in '82. I moved to sunny Cali after graduation so missed out on those cookies! Too bad. I never met a cookie I didnt like....

Posted by: odd.. at November 15, 2013 03:44 PM (kduZC)

118 can anyone explain to me why anyone... ANYONE in this country is still allowing this criminal to remain in office? I'll wait... xxx Because the voters who voted for him must first be punished. Severely. Mercilessly. Unto abject humiliation.

Posted by: ObjectionSustained at November 15, 2013 03:45 PM (NdsQP)

119

113

obama CANT EVEN SPEAK A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Sure he can... remember "Cinco de Quatro"!!!

Posted by: wth at November 15, 2013 03:45 PM (wAQA5)

120 "obama CANT EVEN SPEAK A FOREIGN LANGUAGE"

Doesn't he speak Austrian? Forgive my bad memory.

Posted by: GMB at November 15, 2013 03:46 PM (nkPV9)

121

113
obama CANT EVEN SPEAK A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

He can recite muslim prayers in perfect Arabic, though.

...According to Nick Kristof with the NYTimes.

Posted by: wheatie at November 15, 2013 03:47 PM (c87DZ)

122 Is obama really planning on leaving office on 1/20/2017? He and his Inner Circle do not strike me as the type to just walk away from ultimate power. These are radical Leftists, after all. Obama doesn't want to be there anymore. He wants to get his book deals and Google board spot and speaking engagements. He will be worth $300 million in ten years. It won't be because he's worth the money, but because he has sprinkled his loyal people throughout the Federal Leviathan. He will be free to criticize the US as much as he wants, and to play and do whatever he wants and whoever he wants without scrutiny. I think he wants out ASAP.

Posted by: Hand Sanitizer[/i][/b][/i][/b] at November 15, 2013 03:47 PM (sByIH)

123 You know what time it is, folks! It's time to pin the fail on the honky!

Posted by: V. Jarrett at November 15, 2013 03:48 PM (aD2Kw)

124 Exceptional literary work? Nope. Published peer-revied scholarly articles? Nope. Landmark cases? Nope A fortune made from the private sector? Nope. I've made this point a few times here. If he were an interesting genius the Presidency would be his golden age. He'd be able to contact and converse with any number of true geniuses on the planet today. He'd collaborate on interesting projects, make great and small changes and observations, and publish to his heart's content. Who does he hang out with instead? Jay Z and Beyonce. He invited some Scholars and Historians to dinner once that I know of, and one of the people there made the observation that he was trying to impress them rather than having a dialog. He's an imitation of a scholar. He signals properly, but there is zero substance.

Posted by: Hand Sanitizer[/i][/b][/i][/b] at November 15, 2013 03:52 PM (sByIH)

125 113 obama CANT EVEN SPEAK A FOREIGN LANGUAGE Posted by: soothie and col frank slade at November 15, 2013 07:40 PM (mvUqZ) I'm not so sure about that. Didn't he attend a madrassa in Indonesia? I'll bet he can at least recite passages of the Koran in Arabic.

Posted by: rickl at November 15, 2013 04:00 PM (sdi6R)

126 Â“What weÂ’re also discovering is that insurance is complicated to buy.Â” To think, they beat up Bush 41 over a bar code scanner, while this putz is just finding out the second most reason (after having to pay for it) why folks hate insurance of any kind.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at November 15, 2013 04:06 PM (e8kgV)

127 You've hit the essence of ti with this Ace:

>>Oprah claims the contempt directed at Obama is due to racism. Nonsense-- the love directed towards him is due to race<<

The man had zero qualifications to be president. That's why Bill Clinton called it a "fairy tale".

It wasn't even fair to put these expectations upon him. What is it exactly that led people to believe he could accomplish anything? Hope?

Obama's presidency is about projection and people's need to cheer someone based on demographics. It's what the Democratic Party has become all about.

It's also ultimately why Hillary falls so flat. It's "time"? What is that supposed to mean? We should vote for another unqualified person?

We now have measurable results to display how prominently a failure this entire approach and liberal philosophy is.

Yet still they want to march on? At what cost- our nation? Never.

Posted by: Marcus at November 15, 2013 04:21 PM (i5wRf)

128 Well, Oprah is sort of a damaged brand at this point. But anyway, Oprah probably wouldn't hire someone with a resume as thin as his to run her network. I sure as hell bet she'd fire ANYONE that ruined a HUGE project such as this. She's can 'em, and she wouldn't care if they were gay and purple with polka dots. She's turned into a real jerk, and I am sick of listening to one of the world's richest self-made women bash the very system that allowed her to accumulate such wealth, and smear the very people that have made her whole career possible in the first place: middle class white women.

Posted by: Mistress Overdone at November 15, 2013 04:22 PM (2/oBD)

129

Thank God for Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steele. It's good to have at least SOME examples of superlative black intellects. The clown in the WH certainly isn't one.

He has set race relations back at least five decades. I'd like to see him on an Alabama chain gang.

Posted by: mac at November 15, 2013 04:24 PM (pEsGM)

130 "129 Thank God for Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steele.It's good to have at least SOME examples of superlative black intellects"

Can I add Walter Williams to that list? Tim Scott too.

Posted by: GMB at November 15, 2013 04:35 PM (nkPV9)

131 I saw Racial Condescension open for Orchestal Manourvers in the Dark in 1984 at the Pittsburgh Arena

Posted by: Minuteman at November 15, 2013 04:52 PM (P/TzR)

132 How long can you huck a podcast from a week ago?

Posted by: RokShox at November 15, 2013 04:55 PM (8MMMw)

133

Oprah claims the contempt directed at Obama is due to racism. Nonsense-- the love directed towards him is due to race.

The contempt is due to his actual performance. To judge him by any other standard than his dismal performance is racial condescension.

Profoundly sufficient ace,which I will be stealing.

Posted by: dogfish at November 15, 2013 05:18 PM (nsOJa)

134 "Oprah claims the contempt directed at Obama is due to racism. Nonsense-- the love directed towards him is due to race."

I don't care if I'm late to this party or that several others have already said what I'm going to say, because that observation is so fucking dead-nuts-on and money that it deserves all the attention it is getting here. It's something that all of us felt subconsciously but never expressed explicitly. This is why we come here.

Posted by: holygoat at November 15, 2013 06:18 PM (HYFht)

135 "I was not informed......DIRECTLY" How clumsy is that little locution? Would love to hear that one get unpacked.

Posted by: jd at November 15, 2013 06:57 PM (AEEza)

136 Still, as historian Michael Beschloss pronounced the day after his election, heÂ’s Â“probably the smartest guy ever to become president.Â” So what's up with this Beschloss guy? Is he feeling ashamed or stupid yet? Or is he impervious to either of those, like the Democrat Party propaganda arm, aka the American media?

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at November 15, 2013 07:29 PM (VVsZ2)

137

What clueless clods. Obama AND Beschloss.

Posted by: KR1 at November 16, 2013 05:25 AM (oEfom)

138 Oprah is going Bellefonte?.

Posted by: Bufalobob at November 16, 2013 08:23 AM (r8ENS)

139 Oprah and Obie sittin' in a tree
K-I-S-S-I-N-G. . .

Posted by: Dirty Old Man at November 16, 2013 09:05 AM (Avvys)

140 Oprah is done. Put a fork in it. Done.

Posted by: Mistress Overdone at November 16, 2013 10:24 PM (2/oBD)

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