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November 27, 2013

Obama's Handwritten Letter to a Critic: I Completely Dispute Your Claim That I Have Created a Hostile Environment for Dissent. And Furthermore, I Have Never "Made Fun" of "Tea-Baggers."
— Ace

Yup, he said "tea-baggers."

Posted by: Ace at 02:06 PM | Comments (212)
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1 first?

Posted by: Mallfly at November 27, 2013 02:06 PM (bJm7W)

2 I love tea bagging with reggie

Posted by: barky o at November 27, 2013 02:07 PM (nN7cn)

3 yaaay. My Chanukah present to me!

So... are you surprised that he doesn't think being tea bagged is such a bad thing?

Posted by: Mallfly at November 27, 2013 02:07 PM (bJm7W)

4 He's really this stupid. Yup. This stupid.

Stupid called and said "I got nothin.'"

Posted by: tangonine at November 27, 2013 02:08 PM (x3YFz)

5 Bastard.

Posted by: Sir Thomas Lipton at November 27, 2013 02:08 PM (/1ATA)

6 Tea bagger, bitter clinger, terrorist, hostage-takever, whatever.

Is Obama really writing letter to critics now? He has time to do this???

Posted by: Lizzy at November 27, 2013 02:08 PM (JRmiD)

7 Biden, on the other hand, might or might not have an opinion about pulling a train as opposed to being ridden in one's caboose.

Posted by: Mallfly at November 27, 2013 02:09 PM (bJm7W)

8 Which of his handlers let him personally respond to this letter in particular????

Posted by: Vendette at November 27, 2013 02:09 PM (MpP9p)

9 There's no proof he ever lied about anything....me either.

Posted by: BignJames at November 27, 2013 02:09 PM (j7iSn)

10 re 8: he has handlers? you mean like fluffers?

Posted by: Mallfly at November 27, 2013 02:10 PM (bJm7W)

11 Mallfly:

the fact that Biden is dumber than he is speaks.... well... shit. I have no verbiage to describe this much dumbassery.

I'll refer you to the song by Honchie "Retard Riot" You can't find it anywhere, but I'll pimp you a copy on the down low.

Posted by: tangonine at November 27, 2013 02:11 PM (x3YFz)

12 Does it strike anyone else as extremely odd that Obama would send a hand-written note?

Posted by: Y-not at November 27, 2013 02:11 PM (zDsvJ)

13 Again, 13 year old girls who just got their first period are more emotionally stable than the President of the United States.

Posted by: alexthechick - Really Universe Really? at November 27, 2013 02:12 PM (Gk3SS)

14 Is Obama really writing letter to critics now? He has time to do this??? Posted by: Lizzy Well he must be done fixing the web site because he had time to go to California to raise money. And I heard on the radio this morning that 8 out of 10 people will be able to sign up now. I wonder how he would feel if AF1 landed safely 8 out of 10 times?

Posted by: Cicero Skip at November 27, 2013 02:12 PM (nN7cn)

15 I'll bet that in the first draft of the letter, all the words were written with letters cut out of magazines.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 27, 2013 02:12 PM (8ZskC)

16 Maroon? Or idiot?
You decide. He's a clown. At best.
And yeah? "We tried to warn you...."

Posted by: backhoe at November 27, 2013 02:12 PM (ULH4o)

17 re 8: he has handlers? you mean like fluffers? Posted by: Mallfly at November 27, 2013 06:10 PM (bJm7W) So many you can't count. Speaking as a lefty, you can tell by the letter he writes with his hand at a 45-90 degree angle to his arm. I don't write that way, which means there is some smearing on the paper when I write.

Posted by: Vendette at November 27, 2013 02:12 PM (MpP9p)

18 I'm tea baggin.

You like that?

/bagging
/bagging
/bagging

want some more?

Posted by: tangonine at November 27, 2013 02:12 PM (x3YFz)

19 He's like Ralph Kramden trying not to call his mother in law a BlabberMouth! The truth will out

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 27, 2013 02:12 PM (t3UFN)

20 Which of his handlers let him personally respond to this letter in particular???? The scary thing is that there isn't an adult anywhere in the White House that said, "Tea-bagger? Yeah, ummmm, DON'T say that. OK?" Talk about a Confederacy of Dunces.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at November 27, 2013 02:12 PM (yz6yg)

21 Barry acts all butt-hurt when people calls him a socialist.

You'd think he'd be thankin' them. That's what you'd think.

Posted by: huerfano at November 27, 2013 02:12 PM (bAGA/)

22 LOL Cicero!

Posted by: Y-not at November 27, 2013 02:12 PM (zDsvJ)

23 Proof that Obama gets his news and opinions from stupid lefty websites, just like all the other stupid lefties.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 27, 2013 02:13 PM (BeSEI)

24 The scary thing is that there isn't an adult anywhere in the White House that said, "Tea-bagger? Yeah, ummmm, DON'T say that. OK?" Talk about a Confederacy of Dunces. Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 27, 2013 06:12 PM (yz6yg) Bingo

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 27, 2013 02:13 PM (t3UFN)

25 Look! My signature looks kind of like a BlackPower Salute! Oh, I know more about White History than the average Black person.

Posted by: BuhRock O-bah-muhh at November 27, 2013 02:13 PM (nbGZj)

26 Thankfully, Obama no longer feels a need to compare himself to Lincoln. The disparity between these two American Presidents is tragic.

Posted by: NeverEvermore at November 27, 2013 02:13 PM (hRV3r)

27 Speaking as a lefty, you can tell by the letter he writes with his hand at a 45-90 degree angle to his arm. I don't write that way, which means there is some smearing on the paper when I write.

Posted by: Vendette at November 27, 2013 06:12 PM (MpP9p)

and a body-language-readying-lefty... props Vend. Good eye.

Posted by: tangonine at November 27, 2013 02:14 PM (x3YFz)

28 Punching down? What's that? Next you know, he'll be showing up here. "I have TOLD you REPEATEDLY! My name is BARACK! Not President Ofuckstick! BARACK!"

Posted by: Secundus at November 27, 2013 02:14 PM (YbiaM)

29 The real news must be delivered to our humble shores by members of a Press from a vanquished foreign foe. The American MSM should rot in Hell. (Who am I kidding? The Left is creating it right here on Earth.)

Posted by: dfbaskwill at November 27, 2013 02:14 PM (ndlFj)

30 'Tea-baggers' isn't an insult around ManCountry.

Posted by: --- at November 27, 2013 02:14 PM (MMC8r)

31 I'll bet that in the first draft of the letter, all the words were written with letters cut out of magazines.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 27, 2013 06:12 PM (8ZskC)

Ahem.

http://onion.com/8Ztb1v

Posted by: alexthechick - Really Universe Really? at November 27, 2013 02:14 PM (Gk3SS)

32 To be fair, he probably meant to have a third set of quotation marks. He's a dummy for sure, but I don't think he meant it that way.

Posted by: HoboJerky, Hash Hunter at November 27, 2013 02:14 PM (E8IHS)

33 He said "tea-baggers"... only he didn't use quotation marks like someone would if they thought the term was a denigration.

Posted by: Book at November 27, 2013 02:15 PM (qWES6)

34 Obama knows more about Teabaggers than the average Halfrican American.

Posted by: WalrusRex at November 27, 2013 02:15 PM (PjgvN)

35 Punching down? What's that? Sorry. What he meant was "Punching the clown" Totally different.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at November 27, 2013 02:15 PM (yz6yg)

36 Does anybody really think that the buffoons at MSNBC (and elsewhere) would've kept pushing the "criticism of Obama is racist" meme for the past 5 years without White House approval?

One phone call from ValJar and that shit would've ended immediately.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at November 27, 2013 02:15 PM (SY2Kh)

37
Tea baggin' is a term of endearment for conservatives. I learned that from my wife the doctor.

Posted by: Jo Jo Biden at November 27, 2013 02:15 PM (pJF+c)

38 30 'Tea-baggers' isn't an insult around ManCountry.

Posted by: --- at November 27, 2013 06:14 PM (MMC8r)

They never understand that part, do they?

Posted by: tangonine at November 27, 2013 02:15 PM (x3YFz)

39 Pretty sure "denigration" is racist.

Posted by: Y-not at November 27, 2013 02:16 PM (zDsvJ)

40 I can't read that. What does it say, crackas?

Posted by: Rachel Jeantel at November 27, 2013 02:16 PM (bAGA/)

41 For once, I have to err on the side of discretion regarding Mr. Obama. The constituent who wrote the letter said "tea-bagger" first. I'm surprised Obama responded with a personal letter. Someone should send him stories of cancer patients who now have no health insurance thanks to him.

Posted by: Hawkins1701 at November 27, 2013 02:16 PM (93zXY)

42 >>Does it strike anyone else as extremely odd that Obama would send a hand-written note?

Yes.
You'd think that maybe there are few higher priority items on his agenda (*cough* Obamacare *cough*). Then again, he rarely starts his day before 10:00am.....so, maybe not?

Posted by: Lizzy at November 27, 2013 02:16 PM (JRmiD)

43 I've got this.

Posted by: I will tea bag you until you die! at November 27, 2013 02:16 PM (x3YFz)

44 >>Does it strike anyone else as extremely odd that Obama would send a hand-written note? Yeh. Why are we sure this guy is telling the truth?

Posted by: Mama AJ at November 27, 2013 02:16 PM (SUKHu)

45 Keep choking on that moose, Barack.

Posted by: --- at November 27, 2013 02:16 PM (MMC8r)

46 Pretty sure "denigration" is racist. Anything that doesn't rhyme or contains more than one syllable is racist.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at November 27, 2013 02:17 PM (yz6yg)

47 >>I wonder how he would feel if AF1 landed safely 8 out of 10 times?

*snort* Oh, I'm filing that one away for future use.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 27, 2013 02:17 PM (JRmiD)

48 Seriously, is there anything this "man" can do correctly? One would think that a part-time professor, state & United States senator, now the president he could at least write a correct letter. What a cluster......

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 27, 2013 02:17 PM (HVff2)

49
I've never tea bagged, but I have played in the cabbage patch.

Posted by: ayna Morales at November 27, 2013 02:18 PM (pJF+c)

50 Let's ask Joe the Plumber if anyone's been targeted.

Posted by: --- at November 27, 2013 02:18 PM (MMC8r)

51 Sean Bannion @ 20-
Confederacy Of Dunces! Hooboy, any one of those characters in that cool book had more decency, honesty, humanity, intelligence, and integrity in their taint hair than ubamba has in his whole, well, whatever. You know what I mean.

Posted by: EROWMER at November 27, 2013 02:18 PM (OONaw)

52 Ritter went on, saying that he had been hesitant to write to the president for fear of 'retribution,' according to the New York Post's Page Six Given President Obama's administration Mr. Ritter's concerns seem quite natural.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 27, 2013 02:18 PM (23Kgq)

53 Maybe I should write a letter to ~~Preezy O'Dogeater~~ President Obama.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 27, 2013 02:18 PM (8ZskC)

54 Choom Boy musta been blowin' some fine herb when he wrote this.

Worthless fuckweasel.

Posted by: MrScribbler at November 27, 2013 02:19 PM (kaGpp)

55 For once, I have to err on the side of discretion regarding Mr. Obama. The constituent who wrote the letter said "tea-bagger" first. Yeah, and the President is supposed to rise above that kind of shit. Because. Dignity. I don't want a President that's "just like me." I want one who is better than me. Right now I have one who could fuck up a wet dream.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at November 27, 2013 02:19 PM (yz6yg)

56 44 -

Why would anyone lie about something like that?

Posted by: Dayna M at November 27, 2013 02:19 PM (BeSEI)

57 Really irritated that the Daily Mail article misspelled "stationery."

Posted by: Y-not at November 27, 2013 02:19 PM (zDsvJ)

58 >>Does it strike anyone else as extremely odd that Obama would send a hand-written note?

He's done it at least once.
http://is.gd/866Tek

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at November 27, 2013 02:19 PM (hO8IJ)

59 >>>To be fair, he probably meant to have a third set of quotation marks.

He's a dummy for sure, but I don't think he meant it that way.

This, exactly.

This is really not a big deal, nor anything other than an oops-bad-punctuation moment. I seriously doubt there was intended malice, as the context makes abundantly clear.

I mean, there are so many EXCELLENT reasons to loathe Obama, who cares about this meaningless piffle?

Posted by: Jeff B. at November 27, 2013 02:19 PM (n/+FT)

60 >>Does it strike anyone else as extremely odd that Obama would send a hand-written note? From what I've heard from the GWB administration, they will pick out some letters for the president to read each day. In this case, it may have been one of them. Obviously I don't know this for certain.

Posted by: Vendette at November 27, 2013 02:19 PM (MpP9p)

61 I guess the president's excuse is that the person he was replying to, used the term "teabagger" first, and without quotation marks. It's clear to us that the guy was being sarcastic, but perhaps such subtlety is lost on Obama.

Posted by: Book at November 27, 2013 02:19 PM (qWES6)

62 Colonel Kluck strikes again.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at November 27, 2013 02:20 PM (787tI)

63 I wonder if we'll eventually find out that Barky responded because the letter writer is somehow distantly linked to him, like that "undecided voter" who turns out to be a local Dem party activist.

Posted by: Mallfly at November 27, 2013 02:20 PM (bJm7W)

64 I'll bet that in the first draft of the letter, all the words were written with letters cut out of magazines.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 27, 2013 06:12 PM (8ZskC)

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Then he probably turned chickenshit and signed it, "Prince Albert in a Can".

Posted by: Soona at November 27, 2013 02:20 PM (FtgP2)

65 Has there ever been a left handed president who wasn't also a democrat?

Posted by: madamemayhem at November 27, 2013 02:20 PM (S2RnE)

66 He knows his audience.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 27, 2013 02:21 PM (BrrWI)

67 To be fair, he probably meant to have a third set of quotation marks.

Reinhold Niebuhr wouldn't have used quotation marks.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 27, 2013 02:21 PM (8ZskC)

68 Yup and I have never made fun of Obamabots...

fucking asshole

Posted by: sven10077 at November 27, 2013 02:21 PM (9jfyN)

69 I think the horde should offer up a letter.

On bacon-fat stained 8x14 paper.

Mailed UPS.

1 sentence for each Moron.

Posted by: tangonine at November 27, 2013 02:21 PM (x3YFz)

70 Has there ever been a left handed president who wasn't also a democrat? Posted by: madamemayhem at November 27, 2013 06:20 PM (S2RnE) Off the top of my head, GWB.

Posted by: Vendette at November 27, 2013 02:21 PM (MpP9p)

71 I seriously doubt there was intended malice

From the guy who flips off debate opponents and smears half his constituents every time he goes on TV? I'm sure his intentions were pure as freeway slush.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at November 27, 2013 02:21 PM (hO8IJ)

72 Ritter went on, saying that he had been hesitant to write to the president for fear of 'retribution Anyone want to bet that the IRS got a call before he wrote this letter?

Posted by: Cicero Skip at November 27, 2013 02:21 PM (nN7cn)

73 65 -

Bush Sr.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 27, 2013 02:22 PM (BeSEI)

74 "I have gone out of my way to listen to legitimate crticism." That almost as funny as I have never "made fun" of "teabaggers".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 27, 2013 02:22 PM (23Kgq)

75 Oh, good. Jeff's here to tell us what our opinion should be.
So relieved.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at November 27, 2013 02:22 PM (S8glN)

76 Ehhhhhhh ... 48 hour rule.

But, man, the huge stupid bubble those people live in.

Posted by: mrp at November 27, 2013 02:23 PM (HjPtV)

77 If Obama's purpose was to deny that he denigrated the opposition and show how he intends to elevate discourse, he should not have used the word teabagger. The obnoxious thing is that he's lying and quite comfortable with repeating crass slurs. He's a fucking punk.

Posted by: Y-not at November 27, 2013 02:23 PM (zDsvJ)

78 Yeah, Vendette, I saw a picture of him signing something, and even as a lefty myself, it was painful the way he held his hand while writing.

Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at November 27, 2013 02:23 PM (WD0KF)

79 Us "mouth breathing", however the Hell breathing through your mouth like a normal human being is an insult, just can't understand the greatness of his majesty the king and must be ridiculed as part of the 'new civility' and 'tone' order by his majesty the king. The GoP needs to drop the nice guy play along bullshit and adopt Ted Cruze's fighting style of giving back what is thrown in your face.

Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston at November 27, 2013 02:23 PM (KCvsd)

80 If I'm not mistaken, he's used the term 'teabaggers' before.

Posted by: --- at November 27, 2013 02:24 PM (MMC8r)

81 In the library, I found a book of gay slang from a-z, and it was written by some brave transgender named Merriam Webster

Posted by: Aboriginal Dirigible at November 27, 2013 02:24 PM (R6JT1)

82 From what I've heard from the GWB administration, they will pick out some letters for the president to read each day. In this case, it may have been one of them. So the conversation was "Mr President, should we send this to the IRS?

Posted by: Cicero Skip at November 27, 2013 02:24 PM (nN7cn)

83 This is really not a big deal, nor anything other than an oops-bad-punctuation moment. I seriously doubt there was intended malice, as the context makes abundantly clear.

I mean, there are so many EXCELLENT reasons to loathe Obama, who cares about this meaningless piffle?

Posted by: Jeff B. at November 27, 2013 06:19 PM (n/+FT)

News News News!!!

Words mean shit.

Well, kind of especially when you the fucking president.

Posted by: tangonine at November 27, 2013 02:24 PM (x3YFz)

84 The average white person might think that the President was being petulant and petty. He was not and is not.

Further, he knows how smart he is. The job is clearly beneath his character and intellect.

Posted by: Joan Walsh at November 27, 2013 02:24 PM (4eNxd)

85 75 Oh, good. Jeff's here to tell us what our opinion should be.
So relieved. Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 27, 2013 06:22 PM (S8glN)
He sounded as if he called the president a "meaningless piffle".

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 27, 2013 02:24 PM (BrrWI)

86
I wrote President Obama a letter, but never received a response. One of his aides named Sandra Fluke called me and asked if I would meet her for dinner. She asked me a question about my vag, and I knew it was about healthcare. How dumb does this Fluke chick think I am?

Posted by: Sydney Leathers at November 27, 2013 02:24 PM (pJF+c)

87 Oh, good. Jeff's here to tell us what our opinion should be.
So relieved.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 27, 2013 06:22 PM (S8glN)

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And he told us not to be insulted by this. He's saved my Thanksgiving.

Posted by: Soona at November 27, 2013 02:25 PM (FtgP2)

88 Has there ever been a left handed president who wasn't also a democrat? Posted by: madamemayhem at November 27, 2013 06:20 PM (S2RnE) According to ye olde internet, Garfield, Hoover, Ford, Reagan and George HW Bush. I was wrong about W.

Posted by: Vendette at November 27, 2013 02:25 PM (MpP9p)

89 77 -

Yep, imagine a black person who says "you called me a n***er," and you respond by saying "I never called you a n***er."

Pretty much damns you, doesn't it?

Posted by: BurtTC at November 27, 2013 02:25 PM (BeSEI)

90 I have 3 or 4 books about the presidents that includes all kinds of oddball facts. I could have gotten the answer from one of those but they are upstairs and I am not. I didn't want to drag my tired ass up there. So thanks for the 411 all ye mighty morons.

Posted by: madamemayhem at November 27, 2013 02:26 PM (S2RnE)

91 Even if the teacher said "tea-baggers" why couldn't Obama have responded with "Tea Partiers"?

Other than, because he's a hateful douche, I mean.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 27, 2013 02:26 PM (8ZskC)

92 From what I've heard from the GWB administration, they will pick out some letters for the president to read each day. -- Sure, I have no doubt about that. But to write out a letter long-hand seems odd to me. I would've thought he'd dictate a letter and sign a typed one. I have two Nixon letters from when I was a kid and wrote to him. (I do not denounce myself. He was better than McGovern.)

Posted by: Y-not at November 27, 2013 02:26 PM (zDsvJ)

93 LEAVE JERF B ALONE!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jerf B's Gay Uncle at November 27, 2013 02:27 PM (BeSEI)

94 Well, kind of especially when you the fucking president. I knew we were in for years of the Low-Rent Presidency when, after the Ft. Hood shooting, the "President" led off his remarks with a "shout out" to someone in the audience. I eagerly await the Presidential use of the terms "crib", "spliff", "ho" and "cracka" in a major address.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at November 27, 2013 02:27 PM (yz6yg)

95 Yeah, Vendette, I saw a picture of him signing something, and even as a lefty myself, it was painful the way he held his hand while writing. Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at November 27, 2013 06:23 PM (WD0KF) My hand cramps just thinking about writing that way. For those who can, great. I'll never understand it, though.

Posted by: Vendette at November 27, 2013 02:27 PM (MpP9p)

96

Here's my note to obama: You're a cocksucker, obama.

Posted by: soothsayer at November 27, 2013 02:28 PM (ZgBZU)

97
I only spank the monkey with my left hand.

Posted by: Hussein Obama at November 27, 2013 02:28 PM (pJF+c)

98 I'm sure no one will be angrier than Obama when he reads tomorrow's paper and finds out what Obama wrote.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/b][/u] at November 27, 2013 02:28 PM (CA2NO)

99 I wrote that note. Michelle asked me to write it because Barry can't write shit.

Posted by: Bill Ayers at November 27, 2013 02:28 PM (V5wbR)

100 Further, he knows how smart he is. The job is clearly beneath his character and intellect. Which is odd, because there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever on that point for our Affirmative Action Preezy.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at November 27, 2013 02:28 PM (yz6yg)

101 The sweetest butthurt comes on personal stationary.

Posted by: Fritz at November 27, 2013 02:29 PM (TKFmG)

102 I have two Nixon letters from when I was a kid and wrote to him. (I do not denounce myself. He was better than McGovern.)

Posted by: Y-not at November 27, 2013 06:26 PM (zDsvJ)

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Much better than McGovern.

Posted by: Soona at November 27, 2013 02:29 PM (FtgP2)

103 I don't want a President that's "just like me." I want one who is better than me.

Right now I'd settle for one who is 1/4 the asshole I can be on my worst days.

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at November 27, 2013 02:29 PM (DL2i+)

104 Yep, imagine a black person who says "you called me a n***er," and you respond by saying "I never called you a n***er."

Pretty much damns you, doesn't it?

A more apt analogy would be, some lunkhead writes to Obama complaining about all the "chinks" moving into his neighborhood. Obama's response shouldn't be, "I don't think you should be so concerned about all the chinks."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 27, 2013 02:29 PM (8ZskC)

105 Sure, I have no doubt about that. But to write out a letter long-hand seems odd to me. I would've thought he'd dictate a letter and sign a typed one. Posted by: Y-not at November 27, 2013 06:26 PM (zDsvJ) He needs something to do?

Posted by: Vendette at November 27, 2013 02:29 PM (MpP9p)

106 I don't want a President that's "just like me." I want one who is better than me. Right now I have one who could fuck up a wet dream. Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 27, 2013 06:19 PM

Most of the time I'd agree with ya. But this ain't "most of the time."

I am rude, opinionated, crass, and about as un-PC as you can get. I know dialect and race jokes, and I like them.

But: I love this country, and if it were within my power I would be relentless about protecting its citizens and treasure. Even at the expense of other countries when necessary. And if those other countries complained, I would address them in the same manner Morons respond to Democrat trolls.

So, until some "statesman" comes along who combines my love for the country with all that good be-nice-to-folks shit, I would absolutely vote for a grouchy prick like me!

Posted by: MrScribbler at November 27, 2013 02:29 PM (kaGpp)

107 It looks to me like he just forgot to put quotation marks around the word tea-baggers. It was Mr Ritter who volunteered the term, and Obama's quotation marks around "made fun" and "targeted and ridiculed" indicate that he was trying to refute Mr Ritter in detail.

Posted by: Name: at November 27, 2013 02:30 PM (DwVku)

108 If it came from Biden it would be written in crayon.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 27, 2013 02:30 PM (oFCZn)

109 This, exactly. This is really not a big deal, nor anything other than an oops-bad-punctuation moment. I seriously doubt there was intended malice, as the context makes abundantly clear. I mean, there are so many EXCELLENT reasons to loathe Obama, who cares about this meaningless piffle? Posted by: Jeff B. at November 27, 2013 06:19 PM (n/+FT) This.

Posted by: Hawkins1701 at November 27, 2013 02:30 PM (93zXY)

110

This is really not a big deal, nor anything other than an oops-bad-punctuation moment. I seriously doubt there was intended malice, as the context makes abundantly clear.

I mean, there are so many EXCELLENT reasons to loathe Obama, who cares about this meaningless piffle?

This is an example of the POTUS trying to use the bully pulpit on an individual level. As others have stated, both here and on other forums, this just shows how petty and spiteful Obama can be.

Were this from a R president, the MSM would be running it on every front page, and the 6 and 11 news.

Posted by: PMRich at November 27, 2013 02:31 PM (x/BtJ)

111 I, on the other hand, have made fun of faggots.

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at November 27, 2013 02:31 PM (YWXTN)

112 I have never referred to TFG as a SCOAMF.

Posted by: rickl at November 27, 2013 02:31 PM (sdi6R)

113 So, until some "statesman" comes along who combines my love for the country with all that good be-nice-to-folks shit, I would absolutely vote for a grouchy prick like me! We're coming from the same place.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at November 27, 2013 02:31 PM (yz6yg)

114 If it came from Biden it would be written in crayon. Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 27, 2013 06:30 PM

In block letters, on that brown newsprint-y paper with wide lines on it.

Posted by: MrScribbler at November 27, 2013 02:31 PM (kaGpp)

115 It looks to me like he just forgot to put quotation marks around the word tea-baggers. It was Mr Ritter who volunteered the term, and Obama's quotation marks around "made fun" and "targeted and ridiculed" indicate that he was trying to refute Mr Ritter in detail. Posted by: Name: at November 27, 2013 06:30 PM (DwVku) And the presence of those other quotation marks makes the absence of quotes around tea-baggers all the more inexcusable. The most inflammatory word in the entire letter and it's the one he neglects to "quote?" Okay.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/b][/u] at November 27, 2013 02:32 PM (CA2NO)

116
I wrote President Obama a letter about ObamaCare, and he sent me a return by carrier pigeon to avoid the nosy conservatives prying and stealing our correspondence.

Posted by: K Sebelius at November 27, 2013 02:32 PM (pJF+c)

117 107 -

You don't get to be the smartest man in the world, and be someone who forgets to put quotation marks around words. You can only be one or the other.

Pick one.

The Dems have picked theirs. Or are you just feeling extra charitable this evening?

Posted by: BurtTC at November 27, 2013 02:33 PM (BeSEI)

118 And the presence of those other quotation marks makes the absence of quotes around tea-baggers all the more inexcusable. The most inflammatory word in the entire letter and it's the one he neglects to "quote?" Okay. Stop making sense. And certainly, whatever you do, stop reading English like an educated person would.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at November 27, 2013 02:33 PM (yz6yg)

119 O/T: Attacking Thanksgiving from a different angle - USDA created an infographic with suggestions for eating healthier on Thanksgiving.

Think I'll have an extra slice of pie and glass of wine just to spite 'em.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/md5w9wj

Posted by: Lizzy at November 27, 2013 02:33 PM (JRmiD)

120 Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 27, 2013 06:28 PM (yz6yg)

He (Obama) don't need no stinkin' evidence to be sure he is the most brilliant person to ever walk the face of the earf!

Posted by: Hrothgar (Medicare and DMV Administraitor) at November 27, 2013 02:33 PM (XdnQT)

121 re 74: "I have gone out of my way to listen to legitimate criticism."

well, of course, if Harry Reid has a criticism, Barky will listen. Anyone to the right of that, forget it.

Also, Breitbart has an article that suggests that the letter(s) was/were probably written in 2009.

Posted by: Mallfly at November 27, 2013 02:34 PM (bJm7W)

122 In case you hard a hard time reading the letter in that image, here's a verbatim transcription:

"I got you're letter about the obama medical care act and you sound like a total looser whining about it. Alot of people know about how I do compromises ALL THE TIME with tea baggers and other people to.

The Obama Medical care act is affordable and every body knows that who isn't just whinning about it all the time. It's not to political popular right now but alot of people think is pretty good for the health care of the whole country of America in the future.

So I disagree with about you're letter most of it was pretty dumb opinions about health care. But you should probably just think about it some more and not focussed on just what some guys say but also think about YOU'RE OWN OPINIONS about facts and truth."

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at November 27, 2013 02:34 PM (+lsX1)

123 So ... Obama is still a petulant dick?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at November 27, 2013 02:34 PM (ZPrif)

124 Great, now you teabaggers are complaining about the letters I write to citizens of this fine country. I just can't do ANYTHING right as far as being president of this fine country goes, in your opinion, right? I'm illegitimate, I wasn't elected fairly, I really don't have a mandate for all my sweeping reform; that's what you're always saying, right?

It's hard to not feel all this isn't racially motivated animus toward me. Please, please, for your sake and the country's sake, get help with your fixation that I'm not really your President.

Thanks for your kind attention.

Posted by: Valerie Jarret at November 27, 2013 02:34 PM (DLu2s)

125 Personally I suspect someone else actually wrote the letter and Obammy merely signed his name. Does anyone believe that Obammy has the patience to sit down and handwrite a response to a plebe? I don't. But sign something a drone puts on his desk? Sure.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/b][/u] at November 27, 2013 02:34 PM (CA2NO)

126 President Obama appears to be left-handed, which means he's not really part of the authentic black experience.

Posted by: Joan Walsh at November 27, 2013 02:35 PM (TKFmG)

127 Do you imagine he was scratching his face with his middle finger and smirking while writing "tea-baggers?"

I do, for the record.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at November 27, 2013 02:35 PM (lh89W)

128 It looks to me like he just forgot to put quotation marks around the word tea-baggers. It was Mr Ritter who volunteered the term, and Obama's quotation marks around "made fun" and "targeted and ridiculed" indicate that he was trying to refute Mr Ritter in detail.
Posted by: Name

So you don't think Obama would take the opportunity to correct Mr. Ritter and call the Tea Partiers by their actual name? If someone accused you of making fun of fags you would argue that you never made fun of fags, or would you say, "homosexuals"? Face it. Obama's a dick.

Posted by: Dang at November 27, 2013 02:36 PM (YWXTN)

129 I hate to be devil's advocate for our lying race-baiter in chief but it appears that he was referring to the language Mr. Ritter used in the letter.

Ritter wrote, Â“I hesitated to write for fear of some kind of retribution . . . I watched you make fun of tea baggers and your press secretary make fun of Ms. [Sarah] Palin which was especially beneath the dignity of the White House . . . Do the right thing not the political thing."

Don't see the problem since Ritter said, "I watched you make fun of tea baggers." A logical comeback would be, "I never made fun of tea baggers."

Posted by: Hepcat at November 27, 2013 02:36 PM (Q4mug)

130 And certainly, whatever you do, stop reading English like an educated person would. Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 27, 2013 06:33 PM (yz6yg) Of course, what was I thinking? I'll just go back to trampolining. *bouncy bounce!*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/b][/u] at November 27, 2013 02:36 PM (CA2NO)

131

And certainly, whatever you do, stop reading English like an educated person would.

Cause that's RACIST!!!1111!!

http://tinyurl.com/nx5vqm9

Posted by: Ray Cyst at November 27, 2013 02:36 PM (x/BtJ)

132 Lets say I write you a letter wondering why you make fun of spics. And you write back and say "I never made fun of spics!"
Who here is going to defend that or try to find a way to make it seem okay?
I don't know if this is real or not, but seriously? Using that foul term to denigrate a huge chunk of America and you're going to try furiously to spin this as not being so bad?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at November 27, 2013 02:37 PM (zfY+H)

133 I would like to know what constitutes "legitimate criticism" for President Obama

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 27, 2013 02:37 PM (23Kgq)

134 >>"I have gone out of my way to listen to legitimate crticism."

Uh, inviting David Brooks over for the occasional chat does not equal listening to criticism.

Like the deployment of "legitimate" in that sentence, because if there's one thing we've learned about Obama in the last 5+ years, it's that his critics are not legitimate. They're all dismissed as being racists, extremists, etc., and therefore, not worth listening to.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 27, 2013 02:37 PM (JRmiD)

135 I have never made fun of Jughead's jug ears.

Posted by: Parking Lot Bozo at November 27, 2013 02:38 PM (sLRtQ)

136 When someone accuses you of using a slur you didn't use, you don't use the slur in your denial.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at November 27, 2013 02:38 PM (ZPrif)

137 126 President Obama appears to be left-handed, which means he's not really part of the authentic black experience.

Posted by: Joan Walsh at November 27, 2013 06:35 PM (TKFmG)

--------------

You forget that Mr. Obama is half White -- his left half.

Posted by: Hepcat at November 27, 2013 02:38 PM (Q4mug)

138 Is it wrong of me to be skeptical of this hand written letter? And I know everyone will scream at me but supposedly the guy in his original letter referred to "tea baggers" so the letter seems to be responding to that.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at November 27, 2013 02:38 PM (RZ8pf)

139 Can we go back to fighting babies, and pie?

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at November 27, 2013 02:38 PM (N/cFh)

140 I'm sure he has nothing against tea baggers and has never said anything hurtful about them. TEA Party members, however....

Posted by: rabidfox at November 27, 2013 02:38 PM (Gejy0)

141 Posted by: Mallfly at November 27, 2013 06:34 PM (bJm7W)

The one thing Obammy learned (although not very well) is how to neuter a statement with a weasel qualifier.

As in "legitimate" criticism which can never ever come from anyone to the right of Chairman Mao

Posted by: Hrothgar (Medicare and DMV Administraitor) at November 27, 2013 02:38 PM (XdnQT)

142 132 -

Exactly. It's a simple question: which terms do you find offensive? The ones you find offensive, you won't use, under any circumstances.

Obama doesn't find that term offensive. Neither do, apparently, a number of commenters here.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 27, 2013 02:39 PM (BeSEI)

143 MWR, since you're around, can FSS do this? http://tinyurl.com/m6b6gjk

Posted by: Vendette at November 27, 2013 02:39 PM (MpP9p)

144 Okay, how many of you morons have practiced nudism? Is it anything other than "Look at me! Look at me!"? It has nothing to do with health. And let's be honest: most people look better with their clothes on.

Posted by: François Villon at November 27, 2013 02:39 PM (kkbgQ)

145 I saw this earlier today and assumed it was a hoax. But now The Daily Mail has put it's journalistic integrity behind it, so my fears are allayed.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at November 27, 2013 02:40 PM (ZPrif)

146 He didn't write the letter. No hearts over the 'i's.

Posted by: --- at November 27, 2013 02:40 PM (MMC8r)

147 Don't see the problem since Ritter said, "I watched you make fun of tea baggers." A logical comeback would be, "I never made fun of tea baggers." If you want to be at the level of Ritter. Yeah, you would. However, there's supposed to be a certain dignity that goes with the office. Most normal people who rise to the level of President - as opposed to malignant narcissists - would write, something like " "I never made fun of members of the Tea Party or those who share their beliefs." However, since we don't have a punk who is President, we don't have anyone inspiring us to rise about our base nature. It's a small matter in the particulars, but a large matter overall because it's an indicator of the level of class, decorum, and maturity we have in the Oval Office. Which is to say, none at all.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at November 27, 2013 02:41 PM (yz6yg)

148 Don't see the problem since Ritter said, "I watched you make fun of tea baggers." A logical comeback would be, "I never made fun of tea baggers."
Posted by: Hepcat

Wrong. And here's an example...

"I watched you make fun of fags." A logical comeback would be, "I never made fun of fags."

See, that ain't quite right. One would be expected to reply, "I never made fun of homosexuals."

Posted by: Dang at November 27, 2013 02:41 PM (YWXTN)

149

I have a rule that anyone who uses the slur "teabaggers" is a mentally unhinged liar with anger issues who I feel free to treat with open contempt.

Posted by: Warden at November 27, 2013 02:41 PM (E1Pa2)

150 I call bullshit. Regardless of whether the teach er the term first or not, Chicago Jesus knew what he was doing when he responded. He even knew we would see it. This is just another example of his smugness. He's flipping us the bird and laughing in our faces.

Posted by: shredded chi at November 27, 2013 02:41 PM (QHG6t)

151 damn typos!

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at November 27, 2013 02:41 PM (yz6yg)

152 "Â‘The president told me what he thought I wanted to hear,Â’ Mr Ritter told the Post. Â‘The letter is just words on a paper. It doesnÂ’t mean anything to me because Obama doesnÂ’t mean any of it.Â’" Heh, the people seem to be catching on...

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at November 27, 2013 02:41 PM (VVsZ2)

153 Most normal people who rise to the level of President - as opposed to malignant narcissists - would write, something like " "I never made fun of members of the Tea Party or those who share their beliefs." Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 27, 2013 06:41 PM (yz6yg) ^^^This

Posted by: Vendette at November 27, 2013 02:42 PM (MpP9p)

154 The only problem with nudism is people over the age of 30 doing it. And dudes. And unsightly people. Nudism limited to 23 year old hot chicks is perfectly acceptable.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at November 27, 2013 02:42 PM (ZPrif)

155 This is just another example of his smugness. He's flipping us the bird and laughing in our faces. THIS

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at November 27, 2013 02:42 PM (yz6yg)

156 I bet Obama is doing a lot worse right now. Right this very second he's probably lying about something. I wouldn't believe him if he said the cranberry sauce taste great.

Posted by: Hepcat at November 27, 2013 02:42 PM (Q4mug)

157 Look, when I yelled that stuff it was in quotation marks, trust me. So that makes it okay, right? Right? And BTW, how come all of those other clowns at MSNBC can call wingnuts teabaggers but I get canned for calling someone a cocksucker? Huh?

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at November 27, 2013 02:42 PM (dfYL9)

158 piffle?
Posted by: Jeff B. at November 27, 2013 06:19 PM (n/+FT)

This.

Posted by: Hawkins1701 at November 27, 2013 06:30 PM (93zXY)

"piffle" adds up.

Posted by: tangonine at November 27, 2013 02:42 PM (x3YFz)

159 These defenses of TFG's use of a disgusting word seem to be missing the point that the entire letter is an utter lie.

Posted by: Y-not at November 27, 2013 02:42 PM (zDsvJ)

160 154 The only problem with nudism is people over the age of 30 doing it. And dudes. And unsightly people. Nudism limited to 23 year old hot chicks is perfectly acceptable. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at November 27, 2013 06:42 PM (ZPrif) --- Dammit. *gets dressed*

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at November 27, 2013 02:43 PM (N/cFh)

161 Dammit. *gets dressed* Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Let's not be too hasty here!

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at November 27, 2013 02:44 PM (yz6yg)

162 122 In case you hard a hard time reading the letter in that image, here's a verbatim transcription Thanks. Your translation makes it clear that this bit of news is both hugh and series.

Posted by: Anachronda at November 27, 2013 02:44 PM (U82Km)

163 Bannion, I'm 19 years too old for naked. Flatbush Joe said so.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at November 27, 2013 02:45 PM (N/cFh)

164 New thread to take your nudity, or lack thereof if you're inclined, over to visit.

Posted by: Vendette at November 27, 2013 02:45 PM (MpP9p)

165 Why does one need to 'practice' nudism? I pretty much got it down immediately.

Posted by: --- at November 27, 2013 02:45 PM (MMC8r)

166 Ronald Reagan used to write personal letters to people all the time. He got many letters from people, and corresponded regularly with some people, with handwritten letters. I have a book of presidential letters written by George HW Bush, and some of them are really hilarious. George had very sharp sense of humor. George W. Bush (43) wrote a personal letter to the family of every man or woman who was killed in action in either Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) or Operation Iragi Freedom (OIF) during his presidency.

Posted by: Severe Conservative riding Orca at November 27, 2013 02:45 PM (v6hyJ)

167 160 154 The only problem with nudism is people over the age of 30 doing it. And dudes. And unsightly people.

Nudism limited to 23 year old hot chicks is perfectly acceptable.
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at November 27, 2013 06:42 PM (ZPrif)
---
Dammit.
*gets dressed*

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at November 27, 2013 06:43 PM (N/cFh)

running about with your bits in the wind is just asking to get said bits nipped off by a badger or a shark or a really brave squirrel. All in all? Never a good plan.

Posted by: tangonine at November 27, 2013 02:45 PM (x3YFz)

168 How condescending. And unsurprising.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at November 27, 2013 02:46 PM (0HooB)

169 To be honest, I'd never heard the term until it was used as a derogatory term for TEA Partiers.

Posted by: Y-not at November 27, 2013 02:46 PM (zDsvJ)

170 Don't see the problem since Ritter said, "I watched you make fun of tea baggers." A logical comeback would be, "I never made fun of tea baggers." Posted by: Hepcat at November 27, 2013 06:36 PM (Q4mug) That might be a logical response from Joe Schmoe from Idaho when he's bullshitting with his buddies down at the bar. It's not a logical response from a politician, and certainly not the President. A more presidential response? "It has never been my intent to mock or deride those whose opinions differ from mine, and I regret that you have received the wrong impression about me in that regard. I welcome the input of all Americans, be it directly or through their elected representatives in Congress. It is only by listening to such diverse voices that I can help guide this country away from the mistakes of the past towards a more hopeful future."

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/b][/u] at November 27, 2013 02:46 PM (CA2NO)

171 136Â When someone accuses you of using a slur you didn't use, you don't use the slur in your denial. Posted by: Flatbush JoeÂ Yes you do. Of you're a pretentious asshole that has no regard for anyone that disagrees with you, you do. And then you sit back and laugh. He's fucking trolling us, guys and gals.

Posted by: shredded chi at November 27, 2013 02:47 PM (QHG6t)

172

Remember the book that claimed Obama called the Tea Party "teabaggers?"

Yup.

http://tinyurl.com/237pltp

Posted by: Warden at November 27, 2013 02:47 PM (E1Pa2)

173 If there's one thing Obama deserves, it's the benefit of the doubt.

Posted by: Chris M at November 27, 2013 02:47 PM (MbZ2B)

174 167 running about with your bits in the wind is just asking to get said bits nipped off by a badger or a shark or a really brave squirrel. All in all? Never a good plan. Posted by: tangonine at November 27, 2013 06:45 PM (x3YFz) --- I don't have sharks or squirrels in my house. Or badgers.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at November 27, 2013 02:48 PM (N/cFh)

175 So, what do guys do in nudist colonies if they get a boner? Is there some sort of boner code of conduct?

Posted by: François Villon at November 27, 2013 02:49 PM (kkbgQ)

176 148 Posted by: Dang at November 27, 2013 06:41 PM (YWXTN)

- enh. Still can't get worked up about it. There's so much worse he's said and done. Depends on how you read it. I'm sure the tone of voice in your head makes it sound horrible. In mine, not so much.

Can't stand the guy since I first heard he was involved with Rev. Wright. But this, no big deal.

Posted by: Hepcat at November 27, 2013 02:49 PM (Q4mug)

177 175 Have you ever seen the women that go to nudist colonies?

Posted by: shredded chi at November 27, 2013 02:50 PM (QHG6t)

178 My hand cramps just thinking about writing that way. For those who can, great. I'll never understand it, though. Posted by: Vendette at November 27, 2013 06:27 PM (MpP9p) In my case, nuns who wouldn't accept a left-handed slant to my cursive and forced me to write with a right-handed slant. The only way to write with a right-handed slant if you're left-handed is to sort of write upside down.

Posted by: The Bourbon in Boehner's Belly at November 27, 2013 02:50 PM (CRY7r)

179 Any of you faggots, wingnuts or teabaggers touch any of my stuff, and I'll kill ya.

Posted by: Barack "Psycho" Obama at November 27, 2013 02:50 PM (v6hyJ)

180 78 Yeah, Vendette, I saw a picture of him signing something, and even as a lefty myself, it was painful the way he held his hand while writing. My Dad held his pen that way, but he was a righty who broke his arm at a critical time in school and had to figure out how to write left-handed to get his schoolwork done.

Posted by: Anachronda at November 27, 2013 02:51 PM (U82Km)

181 My Dad held his pen that way, but he was a righty who broke his arm at a critical time in school and had to figure out how to write left-handed to get his schoolwork done. Posted by: Anachronda at November 27, 2013 06:51 PM (U82Km) My mom had polio; she was naturally a righty but polio wrecked her right side, so she grew up a lefty.

Posted by: Vendette at November 27, 2013 02:52 PM (MpP9p)

182 The letter is a shrug to me; it might not be real and anyway who cares? Its not like its news that the president despises me and everything I stand for, he's made that abundantly clear.
Its just people trying to spin the wording as no particular problem that upset me.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at November 27, 2013 02:52 PM (zfY+H)

183 personally-- I don't think bho has ever had an ass whippin' in his life. People who've had their butt whipped KNOW there is ALWAYS someone out there who can kick yours. It tends to make you less arrogant, AND more of a realist. Not all ass whuppin's are physical. This guy needs one in all aspects of life, physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, tantric, 4th dimension -- ALL ---

Posted by: rld77 a fellow traveler at November 27, 2013 02:52 PM (UJ8mu)

184 My name is NOT "Shitweasel" "Maobama" "O'Fuckwit" or "Bareass Insane Ogabe." Please, people, it's been five years. Even a bunch of typical white racist teabagging bitter clingers should have learned how to spell it by now.

Posted by: da prezzy at November 27, 2013 02:52 PM (KnC4k)

185 If every conservative voter sent the White House a tea bag for Christmas...he'd probably declare martial law and suspend the Constitution.

Posted by: Born Free at November 27, 2013 02:53 PM (xL8Hf)

186 I have two Nixon letters from when I was a kid and wrote to him. (I do not denounce myself. He was better than McGovern.) - I voted for McG in 1972 but I'm pretty sure the statute of limitations has run on that. I felt a little better about it when I read Ambrose's The Wild Blue Yonder and found out that McG was a legitimate war hero (unlike our Secretariat of State).

Posted by: WalrusRex at November 27, 2013 02:53 PM (PjgvN)

187 I'd like to write a letter to the White House: Barry, Take your fucking feet off my desk or you're going to lose them. Signed, Dack Thrombosis

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 27, 2013 02:54 PM (oFCZn)

188 The whole tea-bagger nonsense got a big boost by those high-brow intellectuals at MSNBC:

http://tinyurl.com/mep96go
.. That exchange was mellow compared to Rachel Maddow's April 9 program. Air America radio contributor Ana Marie Cox, who also appeared on that program and Maddow teamed up to use the word "teabag" at least 51 times in a 13-minute long segment of bad "teabag" puns.

Posted by: Hepcat at November 27, 2013 02:54 PM (Q4mug)

189 New one

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 27, 2013 02:55 PM (oFCZn)

190

..."critics on the left have been using the controversial term to poke fun at the right-wing protesters. "

Yeah. That's what they were doing. "Poking fun."

Posted by: rrpjr at November 27, 2013 02:59 PM (s/yC1)

191 It just is deeply depressing to me the hate and ridicule piled on the very concept of one of the most fundamental and honored of our American traditions and heritage. The hate from these people never stops, for America and for what we believe - and us.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at November 27, 2013 03:06 PM (zfY+H)

192 This post needed the sproingy eyes.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/s] at November 27, 2013 03:10 PM (Xlbr8)

193 "I have never made fun of Republitards, Tea-baggers, or conserva-scum!" -- BHO

Posted by: Phinn at November 27, 2013 03:11 PM (KOGmz)

194 I felt a little better about it when I read Ambrose's The Wild Blue Yonder and found out that McG was a legitimate war hero --- I think he was dead-wrong about most things, but he seemed to have some semblance of humanity and honor.

Posted by: Y-not at November 27, 2013 03:19 PM (zDsvJ)

195 It was the Autopen, I swear, not me!

Posted by: president o'bumbles at November 27, 2013 03:20 PM (ZyZIo)

196 He said "tea-baggers"... only he didn't use quotation marks like someone would if they thought the term was a denigration.
Racist!!!

Posted by: president o'bumbles at November 27, 2013 03:22 PM (ZyZIo)

197 The word is "vulgar". President Obama is vulgar.

Posted by: AmishDude at November 27, 2013 03:23 PM (S2Yx+)

198 Really irritated that the Daily Mail article misspelled "stationery."
You won't sit still for that, Y-Not?

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at November 27, 2013 03:25 PM (ZyZIo)

199 Pot, meet Kettle.

Posted by: Tea Bag at November 27, 2013 03:32 PM (9u2hL)

200 In every handwritten piece I've ever seen by Obama, he has consistently proven himself the King, of, the, superfluous, comma.

SmartestPresidentEverÂ™

Posted by: Will at November 27, 2013 04:02 PM (FdjiO)

201 Some of my best friends are Teabaggers. Really. Reggie! Peel me a grape.

Posted by: Barrack Obama, Swashbuckler Extraordinaire at November 27, 2013 04:11 PM (JQuNB)

202 "Posted by: Will at November 27, 2013 08:02 PM (FdjiO)" Uh-oh.

Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at November 27, 2013 04:13 PM (JQuNB)

203 150 -- Regardless of whether the teach er the term first or not, Chicago Jesus knew what he was doing when he responded. He even knew we would see it. This is just another example of his smugness. He's flipping us the bird and laughing in our faces. Posted by: shredded chi at November 27, 2013 06:41 PM I totally agree. Obama is an arch-provacateur. He was playing the same game yesterday when proclaimed that he's "not particularly ideological." That remark had two audiences: the first was the crowd of donors that needed to be assured that they're just ordinary Americans with differing, but not un-American views. The second audience was people like us. He was consciously flipping us his middle finger and delighting in the shock it caused. If you haven't lived among the hard-core left and haven't heard the kind of things they behind closed doors, it's hard to believe someone could be so inveterately hateful and provocative. But Obama's imagination--and that of all his ilk--moves in a completely different orbit than ours does. It's hard for normal people to place themselves into the mindset of someone like Obama, Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, Lee Oswald, et al. You almost have to "touch pitch" to do so. The radicals get away with so much because, although their hatred is hidden in plain sight, most people don't perceive it. Normal people can't really hate that way. They therefore can't imagine that anyone else would either. They come up with all sorts of explanations for Obama's odd remarks and actions without ever seeing his real motivations (I'm speaking of the "mushy middle" of the electorate here, not of the dems ideological base, which in varying degrees cheers Obama's provocations). This blindness among normal people allows the revolutionaries to get away with all sorts of obvious outrages. And make no mistake, Obama and Co. take sadistic delight in our outrage over their outrages. They love our impotent fuming.

Posted by: Meriadoc at November 27, 2013 04:17 PM (MBZW0)

204 Heh! Voting will not get us out of our current trajectory. R & D are both against the constitution, freedom, freewill, common sense, et al. Gird your loins and prepare appropriately.

Posted by: IronSun at November 27, 2013 05:36 PM (BjWoe)

205 To be fair, he never did make fun of tea-baggers. He was dead serious when he smeared them; not a hint of fun at all.

Posted by: Dales at November 27, 2013 05:57 PM (ajeIF)

206 Peel me a grape.

Posted by: Barrack Obama, Swashbuckler Extraordinaire

No way I'm Googling that. It sounds dirty. And gay.

Posted by: Dang at November 27, 2013 06:12 PM (YWXTN)

207 "Regardless of whether the teach er the term first or not, Chicago Jesus knew what he was doing when he responded. He even knew we would see it."

I wonder if that's why the letter was selected for him in the first place. His aides know that the JEF loves to be "edge" and "transgressive", and this gave him the figleaf he needed to to say "teabagger" in public. My guess is that the Kos Kids were coming in their pants when they saw how their Hero pulled a fast one on the rubes.

Posted by: Brown Line at November 27, 2013 06:17 PM (a5bF3)

208 Let's not be niggardly in condemning this gay baiting slur.

Posted by: Zombie Commie Walter Cronkite at November 27, 2013 07:28 PM (oNqbW)

209

Brown Line 207: Exactly right. As others have said if he didn't mean to slur with "tea baggers" he would have put it *inside* the quotes.

He is a really nasty, arrogant individual. His leftist policies are bad enough but there are *so* many other reasons to despise him.

Posted by: FOAF at November 27, 2013 08:01 PM (rZ7kp)

210 If you're not a tea-bagger, you're a tea-baggee. How do our balls taste, Barky?

Posted by: M_Shields at November 28, 2013 05:37 AM (u0IQ5)

211 What's really funny is that wealthy lefties are still shelling out big bucks to hear him speak. Suckers. In three years he's going to have the 8 PM slot at MSNBC and they can see him everyday for free.

Posted by: East Bay Jay at November 28, 2013 12:51 PM (7v8o1)

212

"Does it strike anyone else as extremely odd that Obama would send a hand-written note?"

It's like the story he told on Oprah's show of how he paid out of pocket to have his personal attorney go to Hawaii to collect his 2nd birth certificate, then bring it back to DC, when he's Commander-in-Chief and he could have had it collected by a Navy attachÃ© and brought to Maryland by U.S. Navy aircraft in a mailbag, then delivered to the White House.

Posted by: Speller at November 28, 2013 04:17 PM (J74Py)

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