May 28, 2013

P.J. O'Rourke: Obama Is Stupid
— Ace

I don't know if I'd say "stupid," if I were interested in being technically accurate.

I'd say "not very intelligent" and certainly not very "intellectually curious."

But we usually say "stupid" in politics when we mean those things. Even when we don't say it, we mean it.

As far as the political lexicon, he's right, Obama's "stupid."

He wonders why people won't call a not-very-intelligent man not very intelligent. Here's his guess:

Maybe we pundits don’t tell President Obama, “You’re stupid,” because we are proudly showing off our sensitivity to the negative stereotypes that hurtful language engenders in a way that we didn’t feel was necessary when we were telling Ronald Reagan, George Bush and George W. Bush, “You’re stupid,” even though actors, WASPs, and Texans are burdened with their fair share of negative lamebrain stereotypes.

More likely itÂ’s because we pundits prize signs of intelligence. We take every opportunity to display our own signs, and President Obama exhibits the same wordy, wonky, academic intelligence indicators that we do, so we donÂ’t call him stupid.

I've been much taken lately with analysis of people's self-definitions of themselves, and the external Signs they post to advertise those internal self-definitions. Before the long weekend, Allah spotted a dopey writer in the New Yorker all but admitting the only thing that matters to her is the signage, not the reality.

First, quoting Jane Meyer of the New Yorker, giving Obama a pass on drone-strike kills because he shows how anguished he is all about it, thus flattering Meyer's own self-conception as The Sort of Person Who Would Put on Shows of Anguish Over Drone Strikes (While Not Objecting To Them Terribly Much In Reality).

One first impression left by President ObamaÂ’s much-anticipated speech re-casting U.S. counterterrorism policy is that of the contrast between BushÂ’s swagger and ObamaÂ’s anguish over the difficult trade-offs that perpetual war poses to a free society. It could scarcely be starker. While Bush frequently seemed to take action without considering the underlying questions, Obama appears somewhat unsure of exactly what actions to take. That is not a bad thing: at least he is asking the right questions. ...

Obama agonized over other limitations, too..... Obama embraced both constitutional and international legal limits, at least in principle, even as he struggled to define them in practice. In fact, his speech was a paean to the theory of “just war,” which requires a balance between means and ends, demanding proportionality whenever the state resorts to the use of force. It’s a sophisticated and nuanced moral theory, on which the law of conflict rests. Obama has openly grappled with the most difficult questions posed by the most serious thinkers in this area…

Note Meyer's more-or-less explicit concession that while Obama talks up a limitations to his power to order assassinations, these limitations exist only "in principle" and Obama "struggles" to actually actuate them into reality. But hey, "it's a sophisticated and nuanced moral theory," and that ought to count!

Finishing up:

Obama’s evident pain over the [drone] program, whose civilian deaths he said would “haunt” him and his command “as long as we live,” seemed a telling change from the secrecy and winking smugness of the past.

Again, Meyer does not seem to care much that Bush's policies are not very different from the one Obama has adopted-- just that Obama puts on shows of Anguish (flattering her Tribe of People Who Pretend to be Anguished About Any Number of Things) and that Bush, on the other hand, didn't "seem" to show Anguish (which, in contrast, flatters the Tribe of People Who Are Sort of Sick of the Tribe of People Who Pretend to be Anguished About Any Number of Things).

I mention all of this because of O'Rourke's mention of the fact that Obama comes from the writerly class (well, Bill Ayers' book put Obama in that class, as far as appearances), and reporters and wordsmiths are themselves flattered when they flatter someone much like themselves.

Recall David Brooks' ruminations on the impeccable crease of Obama's trousers. And note that this is actually a reflexive boast on the part of Brooks himself-- praising Obama for having a terrific crease in his pants is also praising other people who have terrific creases in their pants, and people who can appreciate a jaunty bit of pants-creasing, a group which just happens to include one David Brooks himself.

When I tell you guys I appreciate you for your wit and no-bullshit attitude, think about what I'm really saying: I appreciate your wit and no-bullshit attitude because firstly I appreciate my own.

Thus it really should be no large surprise to find that a soi-disant (self-proclaimed) intellectual, proudly wearing all the Warrior Plumage of that caste but actually lacking all the achievements typically bestowing the right to wear such plumage should be excessively praised by those who themselves wear the signs of the Intellectual without themselves having done much at all to warrant such a display.

As they flatter him, they first flatter themselves.

Consider:

What are these conspicuous howls about? Are they really about the tree?

Or are they really about the people howling about the tree?

Posted by: Ace at 12:41 PM | Comments (300)
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1 foist

Posted by: mallfly, uncertified journalist at May 28, 2013 12:43 PM (bJm7W)

2 as in the members of Journolist saying to each other "how can we foist this half-wit black guy married to that wookie on the voters? Oh, I know, tell people that he's so brilliant that you can't understand him!"

Posted by: mallfly, uncertified journalist at May 28, 2013 12:44 PM (bJm7W)

3 by the way, I read the article this morning, it was in the news dump.

Posted by: mallfly, uncertified journalist at May 28, 2013 12:45 PM (bJm7W)

4 Ace, I thought it apt in the sense that PJ said, he only settled on stupid because there was no rejoinder to stupid.  

I think we have a teenager marxist in DC surrounded by enablers and puppeteers and he's not nearly in as much control as he thinks he is.  The most damaging person to ever hold the office. 

Posted by: Yip at May 28, 2013 12:45 PM (/jHWN)

5

"I appreciate your wit and no-bullshit attitude because firstly I appreciate my own."

 

Well, yeah.  That's why you started a blog, isn't it?  That you still do it shows that other appreciate it, and you appreciate the feedback.

 

Allan G should remember this if he ever decides to start that blog of his own.

Posted by: LibertarianJim (#teamletitburn) at May 28, 2013 12:45 PM (CMbMd)

6 I suppose if I had a cock the size of John C. Holmes, I'd be sucking on it all day too. Until I came...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 28, 2013 12:45 PM (+98Gb)

7 I guess everyone else went to read the article.

Posted by: mallfly, uncertified journalist at May 28, 2013 12:45 PM (bJm7W)

8 I don't get it.  Does Ace like us or not?

Posted by: The Literary-Pretension Douchenozzle Class at May 28, 2013 12:46 PM (8ZskC)

9 Wait, is PJ O'Rourke posting here now? Because, that would be cool and shit.

Posted by: [/i][/b]akula_51 at May 28, 2013 12:46 PM (Vgn84)

10 In fact, his speech was a paean to the theory of “just war,” It was a trite and garble mishmash of moral nothing. That Meyer thinks it greater, tells you all you need to know about her intellectual level.

Posted by: toby928 at May 28, 2013 12:46 PM (evdj2)

11 5 Allan G should remember this if he ever decides to start that blog of his own. Posted by: LibertarianJim (#teamletitburn) at May 28, 2013 04:45 PM (CMbMd) You just proved Ace's point; Allan G. doesn't need a blog. His reputation for being perfectly primed to have one, without actually having one, is all you need.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 28, 2013 12:46 PM (+98Gb)

12 Ataaaaaack Waaaaaaaatch!!!

Posted by: RoyalOil at May 28, 2013 12:47 PM (VjL9S)

13 >>>Ace, I thought it apt in the sense that PJ said, he only settled on stupid because there was no rejoinder to stupid. You mean that there is no follow-up diagnosis to the diagnosis of stupid? Eh, this did has never restrained the left. To call something a lie really doesn't admit of subsequent analysis either, and yet it's still important to do so.

Posted by: ace at May 28, 2013 12:47 PM (LCRYB)

14 circle jerks

Posted by: L, elle at May 28, 2013 12:47 PM (0PiQ4)

15 I commend you for recognizing my commendable qualities.

Posted by: The Literary-Pretension Douchenozzle Class at May 28, 2013 12:47 PM (8ZskC)

16 5 pound blocks of cheese... bags of gro-cer-ies.

Posted by: [/i][/b]akula_51 at May 28, 2013 12:48 PM (Vgn84)

17 Your agonizer, Madame Meyer.

Posted by: bearded Spock at May 28, 2013 12:48 PM (irlNU)

18

" His reputation for being perfectly primed to have one, without actually having one, is all you need."

 

WHOA.

Posted by: LibertarianJim (#teamletitburn) at May 28, 2013 12:48 PM (CMbMd)

19 Oscar Goodman, former Mayor of Vegas, on Cavuto:  "Obama's a slow learner."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 28, 2013 12:48 PM (lVPtV)

20 So what we're saying is that even though Regan was an actual actor, Obama's stagecraft is what endears him to the LIVs (and the Press, BIRM).

Glorious day!  I've screamed about emotivism a lot here, but this is an entirely different (and worse) animal.

Posted by: tsrblke (work)[/i][/b][/u][/s] at May 28, 2013 12:48 PM (mHwvc)

21 Those tree wailers make me giddy as a school girl. I'm not sure who that flatters but their idiocy makes me laugh and warms my heart.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 28, 2013 12:48 PM (g1DWB)

22 Imo, the stupid ones are those who assume it's Obama that's stupid.

He's a proud marxist doing exactly what he intended to do, and that's to do as much damage to our nation as he can possibly get away with.

He has every reason to assume that the general issue msm will provide him plenty of cover and concealment, as they are also on board with his acts and actions, except when the "alternative media" digs deep enough to uncover the msm's perfidy and mendaciousness. Only then will the msm pretend to dig, and only so long as they think the general pop is paying attention... in other words, about as long as it takes to microwave a bag of popcorn.

Posted by: Grimmy at May 28, 2013 12:49 PM (uUsh9)

23 In theory, Obama could be a learned moral theoretician. In theory.

Posted by: toby928 at May 28, 2013 12:49 PM (evdj2)

24 Ironically enough, Rourke's thesis is that pundits don't call people stupid because it completely shuts down all the wordsmithing and bafflegab. Comes to the point too quickly, as it were. I'm not sure where Ace stands on that; I'm only on p. 10 so far...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at May 28, 2013 12:49 PM (PMGbu)

25 19 Oscar Goodman, former Mayor of Vegas, on Cavuto: "Obama's a slow learner." Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 28, 2013 04:48 PM (lVPtV) Slow learner = quick imbecile.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 28, 2013 12:49 PM (+98Gb)

26 How I love hippie wailing and tears.  That vid will never get old.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 28, 2013 12:50 PM (lVPtV)

27 17 Your agonizer, Madame Meyer. Posted by: bearded Spock at May 28, 2013 04:48 PM (irlNU) *win*

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at May 28, 2013 12:50 PM (qyfb5)

28 imagine a grown man who doesn't know how auto liability insurance works even though he had to explicitly refuse comprehensive and collision coverage.

Posted by: X at May 28, 2013 12:51 PM (KHo8t)

29 But seriously, even the ants marvel at the modern left: They've had millions of years to prefect swarming to protect the queen.

And the modern left puts their speed trials to shame protecting theirs.

It's like I think about the moslums: What kind of pathetic god needs something so weak and small as a man to protect his honor?

The same for the JEF: Just how weak and pathetic is he that he needs such a constant and persistent defense?

Posted by: RoyalOil at May 28, 2013 12:51 PM (VjL9S)

30 And PJ O'Rourke is a drunken Irish racist with a self-admitted history of drug use. This is nothing from a nothing.


Where is his law degree? Where is his Nobel Prize. WHO IS HE TO CRITICIZE OUR PRESIDENT!!!!!

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, Vermont at May 28, 2013 12:51 PM (jCQ+I)

31 The lost little hippies bawling over the tree stump are a festival of FAIL.  God help them if they ever have to stand up for themselves against someone who wanted to hurt them.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 28, 2013 12:51 PM (8ZskC)

32 SCOAMF is not stupid. He's a mal-educated, blinkered, mind-numbed ideologue, who happens to be president and has the power of the media, culture and the bureaucracy of government in his corner. Along with a considerable number of our citizenry. He is also a SCOAMT/F.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 28, 2013 12:51 PM (+98Gb)

33 Alas, no video of Naked Raygun's "Stupid" on YT. Appropriate theme music.

Posted by: logprof at May 28, 2013 12:52 PM (fOFYL)

34 Well of course it's all about my feelings!  I can't feel YOUR pain, like Willy Clinton says he did.  Can't even pretend to, because YOU are not ME.  And well, that means you and your feelings don't exist.  So, you need to know how I feel, but your crap?  Forget it.  Love me as I am; I can't help it if you all suck.

Posted by: Bronco Bama at May 28, 2013 12:52 PM (hHgxI)

35 He wonders why people won't call a not-very-intelligent man not very intelligent. I think we know why.

Posted by: zsasz at May 28, 2013 12:52 PM (MMC8r)

36 Beta males appreciate beta male passive aggressive "anguish," and dislike alpha male swagger.

Posted by: wooga at May 28, 2013 12:52 PM (edQgj)

37 Oh, and the MFM (delenda est) needs to be called stupid, publicly, on a daily basis. Because, well, they sort of are.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at May 28, 2013 12:52 PM (qyfb5)

38 21 Those tree wailers make me giddy as a school girl. I'm not sure who that flatters but their idiocy makes me laugh and warms my heart. Makes me thirst for beechwood-aged Busweiser.

Posted by: fluffy at May 28, 2013 12:52 PM (YLXZM)

39 We need a wailing aoshq drum circle or whatever ya call it.

Posted by: Waldo at May 28, 2013 12:52 PM (dHIHO)

40 In before MrPink to note that Barry Soetoro sucks cock by choice.

Posted by: toby928 at May 28, 2013 12:53 PM (evdj2)

41 He's stupid. Never marry a woman with a better inside post game.

Posted by: lincolntf at May 28, 2013 12:53 PM (ZshNr)

42 I got all the way down here before I realized this wasn't a movie review. 

Obama's stupid.  We knew this.

Posted by: Not an Artist at May 28, 2013 12:54 PM (uRumV)

43 I think everyone kind of knew that leftist talk of how awful it was to hurt people was all "code words," given that the left's primary hobby for 250 years has been slaughtering peasants. It was never about the slaughter, it was about the *intehnshuns!*

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at May 28, 2013 12:54 PM (qyfb5)

44 The self-proclaimed intellectual is going to continue to be a nuisance animal until we find a way to keep their prions out of the soylent green.

Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at May 28, 2013 12:54 PM (epxV4)

45 Owebama sucks and so does the press that covers him.

Posted by: © Sponge at May 28, 2013 12:54 PM (xmcEQ)

46 Mama always said...and all that stuff...

Posted by: Hot Civillian at May 28, 2013 12:54 PM (ED/BE)

47 For the African-American community that voted for him because of skin color, he's going to leave them quite a legacy isn't he? They must be proud.

Posted by: Bosk at May 28, 2013 12:55 PM (n2K+4)

48 Stuttering Clusterfuck of a Miserable Dumbfuck Failure also works.

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at May 28, 2013 12:55 PM (Hi24w)

49 Don't call me stupid!

Posted by: Otto Obama at May 28, 2013 12:55 PM (aS4Rn)

50 The truth is you could put a hatstand in that office with the kind of support team His Emptiness has, and the hatstand would be having babies named after it, old ladies being buried in 'Hatstand '08' t-shirts, and crying faints at the masterful way it holds a hat.

Posted by: zsasz at May 28, 2013 12:55 PM (MMC8r)

51
Obama thinks there is no problem (not even natural disasters, terrorism) that Marxism cannot solve. That's stupid.

But he's got the American people buffaloed. That's genius. What Obama, Jarrrett, Soros, and Axelrod accomplished by successfully selling Obama and his agenda to the American people is the result of a brilliant, disciplined marketing plan.

So if Obama's stupid, what's that make us?



Posted by: soothsayer, now with 20% less ruth at May 28, 2013 12:55 PM (9Q7Nu)

52 For the African-American community that voted for him because of skin color, he's going to leave them quite a legacy isn't he?


America's Historic Last Black President is nothing to sneeze at.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 28, 2013 12:56 PM (8ZskC)

53

Plausible Deniability requires that he maintain his know-nothingness.

 

It's a full time job.

 

I don't think he's stupid...he is diabolical.

 

 

Posted by: wheatie at May 28, 2013 12:56 PM (L35yH)

54 Obama :: United States Hitler :: Germany Both are/were megalomaniacs who told us exactly what their intentions are/were in print and other media. They both surrounded themselves with like minded ne'redowells who set about hollowing out the legitimacy of the government and filling it in with their own brand of tyranny. The difference between them is how far we will allow Obama to go before we stop him. So, in my mind, the question is not about Obama's intellect - he got himself elected twice, that should settle the question right there. The question is how evil this SOB is. I think he is right up there with White Lightning as far as how pure he is.

Posted by: turfmann at May 28, 2013 12:56 PM (GgGgG)

55

I vacillate quite often on him being:
1. Stupid
2. Smart enough to put words together that sound smart/intelligent/cogent but still common sense stupid
3. Brilliant but playing down to his base
4. Stupid

I usually end up on 1 & 4 and then say it out loud often, to most people within range of my voice.

Posted by: gw mclintock at May 28, 2013 12:56 PM (qwUGR)

56 The tree howling is another version of the "flamboyant dress of aristocracy" -- it's an outward sign of frivolity that sets the person apart from the common rabble.

Posted by: wooga at May 28, 2013 12:57 PM (edQgj)

57 51 Obama thinks there is no problem (not even natural disasters, terrorism) that Marxism cannot solve. That's stupid. But he's got the American people buffaloed. That's genius. What Obama, Jarrrett, Soros, and Axelrod accomplished by successfully selling Obama and his agenda to the American people is the result of a brilliant, disciplined marketing plan. So if Obama's stupid, what's that make us? Posted by: soothsayer, now with 20% less ruth at May 28, 2013 04:55 PM (9Q7Nu) Meh. Their plan only worked because we've had 50 years of Billy Ayers and his acolytes in the classrooms, from nursery to post-graduate.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 28, 2013 12:57 PM (+98Gb)

58 Love O'Rourke. He is such a smart ass. Kind of like a 21st century Right wing Oscar Wilde.

Posted by: Jmel at May 28, 2013 12:58 PM (9tSXa)

59 >>>I don't think he's stupid...he is diabolical. Diabolically stupid.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at May 28, 2013 12:58 PM (4Mv1T)

60

Liberal stupidity is stunning in it's depth.  Just when you think "they can't be THAT stupid," they write something like this.

 

As everyone here has basically said: Barack Obama's "deep reflection" is akin to Chauncey Gardner.  That's not depth - that's retardation.

 

To anyone who has breathed air outside of NYC, Boston, DC, SF, etc. Obama is not only intellectually stunted, he's DEEPLY stunted.  He forgets to salute a Marine, then walks back out and shakes his hand.  He gives Queen Elizabeth a collection of DVD's.  He gets excited that they have Dijon mustard on Air Force one. 

 

He's wiley - I'll give him that.  He has learned the thuggery of Chicago politics, for sure, and is happy to exploit his treachery over law-abiding people.  Every scandal he's facing comes back to that same tap-root, so let's not forget that he's a snake.

 

But snake's are wiley, and single minded - but they're not smart.  And neither is Barack "Chauncey Gardner" Obama.

Posted by: RobM1981 at May 28, 2013 12:58 PM (lV1tZ)

61 I thought Obama was a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure instead of stupid. Seems to me the stupid ones are the ones that voted the scoamf into office, twice.

Posted by: YIKES! at May 28, 2013 12:58 PM (mETGQ)

62

The media don't seem very interested in "what do you read every day" when it comes to TFG.

 

 

Posted by: wheatie at May 28, 2013 12:58 PM (L35yH)

63 Obama's so stupid.... that when the phone rang at 3AM, he thought it was his best fart ever and congratulated himself for his musical ability.

Posted by: lincolntf at May 28, 2013 12:59 PM (ZshNr)

64 I think he is stupid. I think biden had it right way back when. He speaks well and showers

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 28, 2013 12:59 PM (9Bj8R)

65 I need to try to get #SCOAMF trending again. Something else for the list of shit I've forgotten to do.

Posted by: [/i][/b]akula_51 at May 28, 2013 12:59 PM (Vgn84)

66

Obama may be stupid but the people who voted for him and continue to support him are more stupid  or too stubborn to admit that they were hoodwinked.

 

 

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2013 12:59 PM (m2CN7)

67 30 And PJ O'Rourke is a drunken Irish racist with a self-admitted history of drug use. This is nothing from a nothing.Where is his law degree? Where is his Nobel Prize. WHO IS HE TO CRITICIZE OUR PRESIDENT!!!!! Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, Vermont at May 28, 2013 04:51 PM (jCQ+I) "Drunken Irish racist." And this makes you, what, Gandhi? Who is he to criticize the president? An American citizen. And a fellow drug user, as you pointed out. Except P.J. quit decades ago.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 28, 2013 01:00 PM (+98Gb)

68 Obama may be stupid but the people who voted for him and continue to support him are more stupid or too stubborn to admit that they were hoodwinked. Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2013 04:59 PM (m2CN7) They didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on them

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 28, 2013 01:00 PM (9Bj8R)

69

So, in my mind, the question is not about Obama's intellect - he got himself elected twice, that should settle the question right there.

 

I don't think it is a settled matter on his intellect, rather it seems to be he's got some pretty good (re: savvy political handlers) people who know how to do politics.

He's a first rate idiot when it comes to a common sense approach to most things in life. Of course, if pressed to give citations and examples, all I'd have is anecdotal evidence because his grades aren't open for review.

Posted by: gw mclintock at May 28, 2013 01:00 PM (qwUGR)

70 All of these takedowns on the intelligencia's fascination and love affair with Obama forget to mention the fact that they are all fucking idiots who voted for Obama twice, and thus deserve neither respect or anything resembling human kindness, least of all ever again being described as an intelligencia.

Posted by: Mr. Pink at May 28, 2013 01:01 PM (o5R8U)

71 Obama's so stupid.... he sent Kal Reggie's Valentine's Day card!

Posted by: lincolntf at May 28, 2013 01:01 PM (ZshNr)

72 lazy. boring. the sum of his world view picked up at a liberal filled cocktail party.

Posted by: joeindc44 at May 28, 2013 01:01 PM (QxSug)

73 EarthFirst: Patagonia outerwear, GoreTex ponchos, $200 hemp Birkenstock footwear and a 1980-1999 Volvo.



Posted by: 13times at May 28, 2013 01:01 PM (fGPLK)

74 Biden got elected 2x, as well -- is he also smart?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 01:01 PM (ZPrif)

75 Back in the USA last night. Never happier to be home. The sinus thing I started out with in Scotland and went to NHS doctor for incubated in son and he was told he has "walking pneumonia." This is the same son who had me trekking up the hills of Scotland with my own version of pneumonia (self-diagnosed in Sterling, Scotland on "Spittal Street" in which I was expectorating and saw the street sign). I think I am better, a bit wheezy still, but can go to doc in a day or two if not improved. I think son sees, NOW, what I was going through when I was dragging my arse up those hills in the misty cold rain. At the time he just thought I was a whiney-pants with jet-lag and a wee cough.

I was so happy to hear English again, after Belgium and France, in Atlanta's mini-version of Ellis Island (aka "Customs"). These are the three kind people of Paris: a male waiter for breakfast pastries, the maid, and a wonderful (and gorgeous) French waitress the last night at a great restaurant found accidentally (it was also my birthday).

We went through security three times from Paris to Amsterdam to Atlanta--after customs we had to be checked again. I can confirm we were not bringing in anything but walking pneumonia, Belgian chocolate and some wool scarves and books.

I do wish I could have recorded the lines in customs for your entertainment. Let's just say "beauty" is not a requirement to enter our grand country. Nor is drug-free barely holding on meth-head wackos (no, I am not talking about myself). Some WEIRD people in line, y'all, which makes the time pass faster. Husband felt it would have been much easier on us all to have first flown into Mexico and crossed the border illegally than the hot room of customs then security in Atlanta.

Regardless, I am home. Thank you, God. Glad we went before the kindling catch fire over there...and it is simmering and waiting for the spark. Saw the post below about the Baltimore train derailment---agree, lots of coincidences, y'all.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky is thankfully not the Duchess of Alba at May 28, 2013 01:01 PM (baL2B)

76 58 Love O'Rourke. He is such a smart ass. Kind of like a 21st century Right wing Oscar Wilde. Posted by: Jmel at May 28, 2013 04:58 PM (9tSXa) I thought Gabe Malor was the 21st century Right wing Oscar Wilde.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 28, 2013 01:01 PM (+98Gb)

77 Meh, whether he is truly stupid or just his actions are stupid is debatable. The outcome isn't. Stupid. Liberalism is a world view largely based on emotions. See tree wailers. It is an orthodoxy that requires you to set aside inconvenient facts and insert emotions to give you the outcome you desire. Free healthcare, global warming, minimum wage .. the list is endless. All based on emotions over facts. Is the person who allows himself to be ruled by emotions stupid? Yes. Does that mean he can't also be evil? No.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 28, 2013 01:01 PM (g1DWB)

78
Let's just say it, those people won't call him stupid because he is black.

Posted by: Little Joey Biden at May 28, 2013 01:01 PM (jKWYf)

79 The media don't seem very interested in "what do you read every day" when it comes to TFG. He'd lie. He'd say the Belgium Gazette and they'd cover for him.

Posted by: zsasz at May 28, 2013 01:02 PM (MMC8r)

80 president empty chair has an empty brain.

Posted by: joeindc44 at May 28, 2013 01:02 PM (QxSug)

81 Conspicuous virtue is the primary mode for all Leftists.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at May 28, 2013 01:02 PM (dwArK)

82 >>> "Drunken Irish racist." And this makes you, what, Gandhi? Who is he to criticize the president? An American citizen. And a fellow drug user, as you pointed out. Except P.J. quit decades ago. Psst! M-Clog is a parody.

Posted by: fluffy at May 28, 2013 01:02 PM (YLXZM)

83 We know Obama is below 95th percentile -- he wasn't a National Merit Semifinalist. Those are public records. He wasn't even a National Achievement Scholar -- that's the lower standards award for black test takers.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 01:03 PM (ZPrif)

84 Is it wrong of me to hope that right after that video ended, each and every one of those hippie douchebags got bitten or a copperhead? Or attacked by Bigfoot? Something befitting their idiocy...

Posted by: shredded chi at May 28, 2013 01:03 PM (Ntnpb)

85

When I tell you guys I appreciate you for your wit and no-bullshit attitude, think about what I'm really saying: I appreciate your wit and no-bullshit attitude because firstly I appreciate my own.

 

In that spirit, I appreciate strait men with a large penis. There should be a group, kind of like Mensa, except, you know, for dudes that have large units to hang out in and buy shirts to identify ourselves, in a totally not gay way, because damn, this joke could lead there quick.

Posted by: Jollyroger at May 28, 2013 01:03 PM (t06LC)

86 Obama isn't stupid but he's no genius either.  He would probably test out above average in intelligence.

The problem is that Obama is not nearly as smart as he thinks he is.

Posted by: Lucky Pierre at May 28, 2013 01:03 PM (5fSr7)

87 Obama's so stupid... even a dirt culture like Islamic Arabia takes advantage of him.

Posted by: lincolntf at May 28, 2013 01:03 PM (ZshNr)

88

Psst! M-Clog is a parody

Hook!

I thought Sefton knew better

Posted by: gw mclintock at May 28, 2013 01:03 PM (qwUGR)

89 also, that fucking guy has the liberal's worst tendency of resume padding. Much like Gore invented the internet, hillary was named after the Mt. Everest climber, and Kerry invaded cambodia and earned 3 purple hearts, for reals...Obama took that unearned laughable nobel prize. He let's people call him a constitutional scholar when he's unpublished and was only a lecturer. He was the law school equivalent of that 400 pound union thug while acting as editor in chief of the harvard law review while, again, being unpublished and largely letting the subordinates do the real work. This fucking guy!

Posted by: joeindc44 at May 28, 2013 01:04 PM (QxSug)

90 I thought Gabe Malor was the 21st century Right wing Oscar Wilde.


There's no roll of wallpaper that can take Gabe.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 28, 2013 01:04 PM (8ZskC)

91

Funny thing about psychology... people on the left think they're the only ones who practice it, and recognize it.  Which means two things: 1. They don't think we have any idea what it looks like, and 2. They don't think anything they do falls into the category of pathology.

 

Which means it's virtually impossible for them to operate without thinking: 1. We have no idea what we're talking about, and 2. We have no idea what we're talking about. 

Posted by: BurtTC at May 28, 2013 01:04 PM (TOk1P)

92 If P.J. O'Rourke thinks the scoamf is stupid, he may have to invent new a word to describe Joe Biden.

Posted by: YIKES! at May 28, 2013 01:04 PM (mETGQ)

93 Obama is in the 80th+ percentile at best. He's above average. And it's mainly verbal. He clearly has average at best mathematical and logical thinking.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 01:04 PM (ZPrif)

94 Stupid is as stupid does.

Posted by: Forrest Gump at May 28, 2013 01:04 PM (mu+2r)

95 86 Obama isn't stupid but he's no genius either. He would probably test out above average in intelligence. The problem is that Obama is not nearly as smart as he thinks he is. Posted by: Lucky Pierre at May 28, 2013 05:03 PM (5fSr7) When the IRS and the media are in your corner, you don't have to be either...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 28, 2013 01:04 PM (+98Gb)

96 'Hope PJ has a good tax attorney.

Posted by: Y-not at May 28, 2013 01:04 PM (5H6zj)

97 8 I don't get it. Does Ace like us or not?
 

Posted by: The Literary-Pretension Douchenozzle Class at May 28, 2013 04:46 PM (8ZskC)

 

Of course he likes you. 

 

Sometimes you embarrass him, like when you fuck the livestock or your sister, but all in all, he has a deep fondness for most of you.

Posted by: jwest at May 28, 2013 01:05 PM (u2a4R)

98 Wasn't this amply covered by Hans Christian Andersen in Kejserens nye Klæder?

Posted by: toby928 at May 28, 2013 01:05 PM (evdj2)

99 It's like I think about the moslums: What kind of pathetic god needs something so weak and small as a man to protect his honor? Or a god who suddenly provides protection against pathogens because someone utters 'Allah Akbar' before slitting the throat of an animal? I'm about a 2 out of 10 on the religion scale, but some religions are so pathetically pathetic I have to wonder just how stupid people can be. Except for the geniuses incarcerated, who have overwhelmingly embraced islam. I mean, what better group to showcase a religion then people that society wants removed from them for the next half century or so?

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at May 28, 2013 01:05 PM (U2UQk)

100

75...Regardless, I am home.

 

Glad you're safely home, ChristyB!

 

 

Posted by: wheatie at May 28, 2013 01:05 PM (L35yH)

101
hahaha. what a time to leave a sock on.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 28, 2013 01:05 PM (jKWYf)

102

he may have to invent new a word to describe Joe Biden.

 

I've always like plagiarizer and two bit hack

Posted by: gw mclintock at May 28, 2013 01:06 PM (qwUGR)

103 If P.J. O'Rourke thinks the scoamf is stupid, he may have to invent new a word to describe Joe Biden. Biden is simply brain-damaged. And wasn't, provably, too bright to begin with.

Posted by: toby928 at May 28, 2013 01:07 PM (evdj2)

104 I do think Obama is stupid.

He's not clever, he's well rehearsed.

And persistent.

You know why pet rodents tend to get out of their cages so much?

Persistence.

You or I would give up if we were they.

So, he continues to push, push, push his evil.

That's why the GOP is stupid for even dealing with him.

Because the only thing that will satisfy him is getting out of the cage we call our limited, federalism form of governance.

But, have no fear!

Our betters in DC--and all the smart guys who self-flatter themselves by agreeing with them--have a fools plan to stop him: Amnesty.

And you're racist if you don't think that's a good idea.

Because all the right-thinking and smart people who've seriously studied this matter have all come to the same solution: Amnesty!

What'd I say? Amnesty!

What's it called? Amnesty!

That's right: Amnesty!


Posted by: RoyalOil at May 28, 2013 01:07 PM (VjL9S)

105

Obama is so  dumb  he thinks his Secret Service code name,  shithead , is a compliment.

 

Obama is so dumb that when Biden told him there had been a bombing in Boston, he ordered the FBI to get to New Hampshire immediately. 

 

Obama is so dumb that he named his dog BO, short for Border Collie.    

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2013 01:07 PM (m2CN7)

106

Maybe the gamma ray burst will get here today.

Posted by: and irresolute at May 28, 2013 01:07 PM (DBH1h)

107 Biden clearly has early stage dementia.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 01:07 PM (ZPrif)

108 I will repeat the one thing we do have on record about Mr. Obama's intellect: He was not even a National Merit Semi-Finalist.

Posted by: toby928 at May 28, 2013 01:08 PM (evdj2)

109 "All women become like their mothers. That's their tragedy. No man does. That's his." -Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest Unfortunately, I think Obama DID become like his mother: an American hating communist. *spit*

Posted by: Jmel at May 28, 2013 01:08 PM (9tSXa)

110 Joe Biden is so stupid... when he wants Indian food, he gets a Big Gulp and a Slim Jim.

Posted by: lincolntf at May 28, 2013 01:08 PM (ZshNr)

111 Biden clearly has early stage dementia. Then he's had it for at least 30 years.

Posted by: zsasz at May 28, 2013 01:08 PM (MMC8r)

112 The only thing I took from this post is that we are AWESOME!

Posted by: Dr Spank at May 28, 2013 01:08 PM (4cRnj)

113 Obama has a plan to protect us from gamma rays. He is going to cover us in layer after layer of bullshit.

Posted by: and irresolute at May 28, 2013 01:08 PM (DBH1h)

114 >>Unfortunately, I think Obama DID become like his mother: an American hating communist. *spit* To be fair, so was his father.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 28, 2013 01:08 PM (g1DWB)

115 Obama always was a red diaper baby. If anything he hates white people *less* than his mother did.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 01:09 PM (ZPrif)

116 Obama and his ilk fall squarely into the "too clever by half" category of stupid.

Posted by: filbert The Whig at May 28, 2013 01:09 PM (7vimm)

117

Obama is so stupid (HSIH?)

 

He's so stupid,  earlier today  when he was strolling the boardwalk with Christie, he  was surprised all the hotels aren't red, and the houses green. 

Posted by: BurtTC at May 28, 2013 01:09 PM (TOk1P)

118
Did anyone hear that "independent" caller today on Rush?

Before he even said it, I knew it was it coming: "Bush's two wars."


Posted by: soothsayer, now with 20% less ruth at May 28, 2013 01:09 PM (9Q7Nu)

119

 Obama isn't stupid but he's no genius either. He would probably test out above average in intelligence.

The problem is that Obama is not nearly as smart as he thinks he is.
Posted by: Lucky Pierre at May 28, 2013 05:03 PM (5fSr7)


He better hope the IQ test does not contain any history, spelling or geography questions.  He also will not test very well on  the spatial section either if his operation of an umbrella is any indication.   

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2013 01:09 PM (m2CN7)

120 Anyone that thinks socialism and Marxism is a good idea is a friggin' idiot

Posted by: Buzzion at May 28, 2013 01:10 PM (s7T+D)

121 When they installed Biden's hairplugs they drilled the holes too deep.

Posted by: Lucky Pierre at May 28, 2013 01:10 PM (5fSr7)

122

Maybe if we keep calling him...'Stupid'...he will finally show us his college transcripts?

 

 

Posted by: wheatie at May 28, 2013 01:10 PM (L35yH)

123 IMMIGRATION BILL SWELLS TO OVER ONE THOUSAND PAGES Kinda remind you of obamacare?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 28, 2013 01:10 PM (9Bj8R)

124 In that spirit, I appreciate strait men with a large penis.There should be a group, kind of like Mensa, except, you know, for dudes that have large units to hang out in and buy shirts to identify ourselves, in a totally not gay way, because damn, this joke could lead there quick.

Posted by: Jollyroger at May 28, 2013 05:03 PM (t06LC)

 

 

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

 

 

This is just too good to be true.

Posted by: Barney Frank at May 28, 2013 01:10 PM (tY0y0)

125 Barry's purported intellect is on a par with his alleged athletic prowess.

Posted by: toby928 at May 28, 2013 01:10 PM (evdj2)

126 If an intellectual falls in the forest, and there's no one there to hear them whine....

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 01:10 PM (piMMO)

127

He clearly has average at best mathematical and logical thinking

 

Anytime he's off the prompter and forced into extemporaneous moments, it's like listening to that girl on that commercial pimping "What's better, more or less, bigger or smaller?" when she says, "You want more, you just want more"

Posted by: gw mclintock at May 28, 2013 01:10 PM (qwUGR)

128 He clearly has average at best mathematical and logical thinking. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 05:04 PM (ZPrif) Couple of weeks ago the scoamf visited an elementary school and mention to a student that subtraction was hard.

Posted by: YIKES! at May 28, 2013 01:10 PM (mETGQ)

129 125 Barry's purported intellect is on a par with his alleged athletic prowess.

Posted by: toby928 at May 28, 2013 05:10 PM (evdj2




And umbrella skillz.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 28, 2013 01:11 PM (lVPtV)

130 When they installed Biden's hairplugs they drilled the holes too deep. Posted by: Lucky Pierre at May 28, 2013 05:10 PM (5fSr7) They kept drilling till they felt squishy tissue, but they could not find any?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 28, 2013 01:11 PM (9Bj8R)

131 Barry's purported intellect is on a par with his alleged athletic prowess.

I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read this . . .

Posted by: filbert The Whig at May 28, 2013 01:11 PM (7vimm)

132 15 I commend you for recognizing my commendable qualities.
Posted by: The Literary-Pretension Douchenozzle Clas


Exsqueeze me?

Posted by: The Literary-Pretension Douchenozzle Class antipode at May 28, 2013 01:11 PM (6TB1Z)

133 114 >>Unfortunately, I think Obama DID become like his mother: an American hating communist. *spit* To be fair, so was his father. Posted by: JackStraw at May 28, 2013 05:08 PM (g1DWB) Nah his father was a Britain hating communist. To be fair Obama is that as well.

Posted by: Buzzion at May 28, 2013 01:12 PM (s7T+D)

134 Number 1 sign that he could be a dumbshit - he's a democrat.

Posted by: That Guy at May 28, 2013 01:12 PM (iPq1D)

135 re 78: "black" is a code word for "black" so it's racist no matter how you say it.

Posted by: mallfly, uncertified journalist at May 28, 2013 01:12 PM (bJm7W)

136  Barry's purported intellect is on a par with his alleged athletic prowess.

Posted by: toby928 at May 28, 2013 05:10 PM (evdj2)

 

The most shallow  as issues go but definitely   the most aggravating.  At least for me. 

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2013 01:12 PM (m2CN7)

137

 the contrast between BushÂ’s swagger and ObamaÂ’s anguish over the difficult trade-offs that perpetual war poses to a free society. It could scarcely be starker. While Bush frequently seemed to take action without considering the underlying questions, Obama appears somewhat unsure of exactly what actions to take. But that is not a bad thing..."..

What an ignorant comment by an idiotic scrunt. 

 

Anyone who has read Bush's book or heard him interviewed knows that he agonized and consulted and prayed over his decision to send Americans to fight.  To this day, Pres. Bush meets returning troops and visits the wounded, all without fanfare and press.

 

Obama is a wishy-washy, hand-ringing, pearl clutching milqutoast who won't take action (including trying to save American lives in Benghazi) until the poll numbers and Valerie Jarrett tell him what to do.

Posted by: LASue at May 28, 2013 01:12 PM (pWeX5)

138 The only thing I took from this post is that we are AWESOME!

Posted by: Dr Spank at May 28, 2013 05:08 PM (4cRnj)

 

 

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

 

 

Yes, we certainly are.  And award-winning too.

Posted by: Soona at May 28, 2013 01:13 PM (tY0y0)

139 IRS Employees Directed To Lock Down Data Across Entire Agency, “Not To Wipe, Re-Image Or Destroy Any Hard Drives”… Weasel Zippers The Internal Revenue Service is in the process of locking down all computer data across the agency, a sign that investigations into the scandal-plagued agency may be taking a broader sweep than initially anticipated.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 28, 2013 01:13 PM (9Bj8R)

140 Stupid vs. Evil, my favorite dichotomy of Leftism. Example A: If you believe the car your neighbor drives kills polar bears, you're stupid. If you know that's bullshit but legislate/educate as if it's fact, you're evil. I apply it to Libs I know all the time. Ask which one they are. Extends to virtually any issue.

Posted by: lincolntf at May 28, 2013 01:13 PM (ZshNr)

141 We are like the little kid that points out that the Emperor has no clothes, but, to segue from Anderson to the Brothers Grimm, instead of admitting the truth, we get stuffed into a barrel filled with nails and rolled down a hill into the river.

Posted by: toby928 at May 28, 2013 01:13 PM (evdj2)

142 When they installed Biden's hairplugs they drilled the holes too deep. Posted by: Lucky Pierre at May 28, 2013 05:10 PM (5fSr7) Not to worry. It's like drilling trough sheet-rock and not hitting anything. Just use anchor plugs.

Posted by: YIKES! at May 28, 2013 01:13 PM (mETGQ)

143 Everyone thinks they are funny and can dance. Few people are actually funny or can really dance. When someone refers to their self as an "intellectual" it's the first indicator that, just maybe, they are not.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 01:14 PM (piMMO)

144
Anyone who has read Bush's book or heard him interviewed knows that heagonized and consulted and prayed over his decision to send Americans to fight.To this day, Pres. Bushmeets returning troops and visits the wounded, all without fanfare and press.

Obama is a wishy-washy, hand-ringing, pearl clutching milqutoast who won't take action (including trying to save American lives in Benghazi) until the poll numbers and Valerie Jarrett tell him what to do.

Posted by: LASue at May 28, 2013 05:12 PM (pWeX5




Great post.  And very true.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 28, 2013 01:14 PM (lVPtV)

145 Earth First. We'll log the other planets later.

Posted by: losthusker at May 28, 2013 01:14 PM (5MzrL)

146 OT are you f*cking kidding me Chrispy Creme won his boyfriend a stuffy at the boardwalk today?!!?!? WHEN IS THE WEDDING

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 28, 2013 01:15 PM (2up3Q)

147 Anyone who has read Bush's book or heard him interviewed knows that heagonized and consulted and prayed over his decision to send Americans to fight.To this day, Pres. Bushmeets returning troops and visits the wounded, all without fanfare and press. *** There's another thing. Bush actually prayed. Obama claims to pray but I would guess that many believe it's for show as well. He's too "intellectual" to rely on prayer.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 01:15 PM (piMMO)

148 Glad you're safely home, ChristyB!

Posted by: wheatie at May 28, 2013 05:05 PM (L35yH)


Thank you, wheatie. I have left the country before but never felt so homesick nor wanted to come home to USA as during this trip. I think it was the "traveling while ill" deal but making the best of the situation...but it was also all of the weirdness going on over there. When the stuff hits the fan I want to be amongst morons with weapons and stuff. 

We saw beautiful sights, went to two cathedrals we had been to before (Westminster Abbey and Notre Dame) and took it all in at a slower pace (husband and I). It was all worth it, even with illness, as, by golly, we paid $$$ and were going to see the sights no matter what! I am rather surprised I am not typing from an iron lung at this point after four countries in two weeks and six trains.

I am thinking we were not messed with as we looked sort of messy European by the end of trip and only doing laundry once in middle (it was my version of "backpacking through Europe" with one-carry on bag and giant travel purse which doubles as a weapon). I was paranoid last night in Atlanta I would know someone on plane home (we usually do), as I was a mess and a half. Maybe I do now resemble the Duchess of Alba...

Posted by: ChristyBlinky is thankfully not the Duchess of Alba at May 28, 2013 01:15 PM (baL2B)

149

If anyone were to be labled stupid, it would have to be those who voted for him.  The JEF and his minions, and the SCUM (birm) are just evil, American hating shitstains.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 28, 2013 01:15 PM (XFYiQ)

150 The Internal Revenue Service is in the process of locking down all computer data across the agency, a sign that investigations into the scandal-plagued agency may be taking a broader sweep than initially anticipated.
Posted by: Nevergiveup


In other news, drugstores in DC report an unexplained run on Kaopectate.

Posted by: pep at May 28, 2013 01:15 PM (6TB1Z)

151 Eh. I don't think Obama is stupid in the ordinary sense of the word. All leftists are stupid in the specifically Orwellian use of the term, that is, they are in an intellectual stupor, StopThink. The problem with Orwellian stupidity is that it positively precludes curiosity and encourages mental laziness ---- which is why even highly intelligent leftists never rise above the level of being clever.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 28, 2013 01:16 PM (C8mVl)

152 There's another thing. Bush actually prayed. Obama claims to pray but I would guess that many believe it's for show as well. Five times a day.

Posted by: toby928 at May 28, 2013 01:16 PM (evdj2)

153 we get stuffed into a barrel filled with nails and rolled down a hill into the river

Ooh.  The Barrel.

Posted by: filbert The Whig at May 28, 2013 01:16 PM (7vimm)

154 Remember when someone said Obama had the highest IQ of any President in history? I think Obama actually believes it himself.

Posted by: dantesed at May 28, 2013 01:16 PM (vF+kM)

155 Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 05:14 PM (piMMO)

I can't dance, and while I think I'm funny I recognize that most people will either find my humor repulsive and/or not be interested in it .

Posted by: tsrblke (work)[/i][/b][/u][/s] at May 28, 2013 01:16 PM (mHwvc)

156 If he's so GD smart how come his grades are under lock and key. Barry is dumber than Biden. He can just read off a teleprompter better.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 28, 2013 01:16 PM (1Jaio)

157 @137 Posted by: LASue at May 28, 2013 05:12 PM (pWeX5)

Amen!

Posted by: ChristyBlinky is thankfully not the Duchess of Alba at May 28, 2013 01:17 PM (baL2B)

158

Posted by: LASue at May 28, 2013 05:12 PM (pWeX5


He recently had his annual bike ride with wounded vets which was pretty awesome.   He still rides  his  bike  like  a  maniac.   

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2013 01:17 PM (m2CN7)

159 OT are you f*cking kidding me Chrispy Creme won his boyfriend a stuffy at the boardwalk today?!!?!? I first read that as stiffy. Gak.

Posted by: toby928 at May 28, 2013 01:17 PM (evdj2)

160 >>> Did anyone hear that "independent" caller today on Rush? The guy who wanted to pay his fair share of taxes?

Posted by: fluffy at May 28, 2013 01:17 PM (YLXZM)

161 One of Barry's widdle fans comments at the New Yorker:


I remain amazed at the number of people that somehow continue to think that Obama is the Anti-Christ, some sort of real devil in human form, evil and beguiling and deceitful. The evidence is that he is just a lot smarter than most people, charming and funny when required, and facing a series of difficult practical and prospective problems, and trying to fix them while faced with determined opposition trying to thwart anything he might want to do. When I read the title to this, and not having any knowledge of the speech itself, I thought the title referred to an endless war with the Republican/Fox News opposition.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 28, 2013 01:18 PM (lVPtV)

162

I'd love to see sooperjeanyus Barky  make an equal number of takeoffs and landings in an F-102 like that mouthbreather GWB did. 

 

It wouldn't take long.

Posted by: Jaws at May 28, 2013 01:18 PM (4I3Uo)

163 If he's so GD smart how come his grades are under lock and key. *** he's too humble to release them.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 01:18 PM (piMMO)

164

114 >>Unfortunately, I think Obama DID become like his mother: an American hating communist. *spit*

 

 

To be fair, so was his father.

 

----------

 

So was his step-father...and his 'Uncle Frank'.

He was raised by America-hating communists.

 

And his mother converted to Islam...so both his fathers, and his mother, were muslims.

 

 

That joke he made..."I look in the mirror today, and I'm not the young strapping muslim socialist that I used to be"...got a lot of laughs.

 

But he didn't say that he was not a muslim socialist.

He just said that he was no longer a 'young strapping' one.

 

That was so typical for TFG.

He throws out the truth in a joking way...but the joke is on 'us'.

 

Posted by: wheatie at May 28, 2013 01:18 PM (L35yH)

165 I can't dance, and while I think I'm funny I recognize that most people will either find my humor repulsive and/or not be interested in it *** See? that's funny.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 01:19 PM (piMMO)

166 In other news, drugstores in DC report an unexplained run on Kaopectate. And Radio Shack stores announce an unexpected increase in sales of 'bulk erasers' which have an uncanny ability to erase the contents of hard drives when held too close to them.

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at May 28, 2013 01:19 PM (U2UQk)

167 Five times a day. *** Doh!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 01:19 PM (piMMO)

168 Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 28, 2013 05:18 PM (lVPtV)

Teh stoopid is strong in that one.

Posted by: filbert The Whig at May 28, 2013 01:19 PM (7vimm)

169 He's not stupid. It's Integrative Complexity, You Guys.

Posted by: Dana Milbank (D-WaPo) at May 28, 2013 01:20 PM (pqxhz)

170 And Radio Shack stores announce an unexpected increase in sales of 'bulk erasers' which have an uncanny ability to erase the contents of hard drives when held too close to them. ** Magnets?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 01:20 PM (piMMO)

171

144 -

 

The human brain has to train itself to not believe everything  the ears hear.  I would have thought that was self-explanatory, at least for teenagers, but I found myself having that discussion with my daughter recently. 

 

It's pretty simple: when somebody says  "I'm not mad at you."  It means... they're mad at you! 

 

When somebody says "this is the absolute truth!"  It means they're lying, at least in part. 

 

It's two sides of the same coin.  We're programmed to believe what we hear, and we're programmed to lie (and expect other people to believe what we say). 

Posted by: BurtTC at May 28, 2013 01:20 PM (TOk1P)

172 88 Psst! M-Clog is a parody Hook! I thought Sefton knew better Posted by: gw mclintock at May 28, 2013 05:03 PM (qwUGR I did not know. Must have missed the posts when it was exposed.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 28, 2013 01:20 PM (+98Gb)

173 If Obama is so conflicted and torn up over all of this, then where's the proof? Does he personally oversee each drone launch? Does he send bakeeesh to the civilians killed in said drone strikes? Or does he go party with JayZ and forgets anything happened. The point is, of course, that these writers -except for PJ- are awful assholes who worship Obama in some sort of onastic mirror reflection of themselves.

Posted by: joeindc44 at May 28, 2013 01:20 PM (QxSug)

174 I can dance funny.

Does that count?

Posted by: filbert The Whig at May 28, 2013 01:20 PM (7vimm)

175 See? that's funny.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 05:19 PM (piMMO)



Only because it's true .

Posted by: tsrblke (work)[/i][/b][/u][/s] at May 28, 2013 01:20 PM (mHwvc)

176 Remember when someone said Obama had the highest IQ of any President in history? You know the other President that is regularly cited as one of the smartest? Nixon.

Posted by: zsasz at May 28, 2013 01:21 PM (MMC8r)

177 Welcome to the post-modern life where all that matters is signifiers rather than what is being signified.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies. at May 28, 2013 01:21 PM (VtjlW)

178 Btw, I have to note that you guys can tear someone a new asshole with aplomb. The commenters are indeed the best feature of this 1985style blog.

Posted by: toby928 at May 28, 2013 01:21 PM (evdj2)

179

I can't count how many people I've had the displeasure of "working" with who got where they are (making a fortune) by simply repeating buzzwords they don't understand. Plonking, basically.

 

That's what Obama is. Worse, that's typical of workers these days. Bullshitters and scammers, and they always rise to the top.

Posted by: Atlas Shit the Bed at May 28, 2013 01:21 PM (7UFw3)

180 Also, fuck the fat bastard Chris Christie.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 01:22 PM (ZPrif)

181 yeah, he wanted to pay his fair share something tells me he pays 0 in taxes

Posted by: soothsayer at May 28, 2013 01:22 PM (+7i2c)

182 Love that clip...

I most assuredly do love that clip...and *that* is the sound of the native moonbat emo in its natural habitat mewling good man...mewling

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 01:22 PM (LRFds)

183 175 Magnets? Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 05:20 PM (piMMO) Yes. Electromagnets with a momentary on/off switch. Used to use them at the old radio station to bulk erase "carts" (looked like 8 track tapes but were loops of varying length to run commercials). The urban legend was that if you held it next to your balls, it would render you impotent for a short period. No one had the balls to try (literally).

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 28, 2013 01:22 PM (+98Gb)

184 Ace, re. your "soi-disant (self-proclaimed)" bit ...

One of the things I appreciate (not a long list) about the French is the language. And I tell you what, this has put a smile on my face. Not only is this a smart military blog ... not only are many of the people who post to it (not least the lead Ewok) full to bursting of razor sharp wit with no discernible trace of bullshit ...

Not only all that. No, by my sainted trousers!!! We also learn little cool things like THIS expression! Self-proclaimed, gotta love it, put it right up there with raison detre!

:-)

French. One (well, two) word(s) at a time.

Posted by: Bill in TN at May 28, 2013 01:23 PM (mJh3Z)

185 ou guys can tear someone a new asshole with aplomb

A plum, a barbed pineapple, whatever comes to hand.

Posted by: pep at May 28, 2013 01:23 PM (6TB1Z)

186 That nice boy Britney Griner dunked in the NBA. Twice. Empowerment, you guys!

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 01:23 PM (ZPrif)

187 185 I can't count how many people I've had the displeasure of "working" with who got where they are (making a fortune) by simply repeating buzzwords they don't understand. Plonking, basically. That's what Obama is. Worse, that's typical of workers these days. Bullshitters and scammers, and they always rise to the top. Posted by: Atlas Shit the Bed at May 28, 2013 05:21 PM (7UFw3) I know. I refused.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC at May 28, 2013 01:23 PM (6TXDj)

188 You know the other President that is regularly cited as one of the smartest? Nixon. *** About 15 years ago I was going through the tweens with my daughter and she was lying her ass off even when the truth would have been better. It was making me crazy because she was also really, really bad at it and I always knew when she was lying. A friend came into work one days and told me about a special he had seen on intelligence that claimed that those who are proficient in lying typically find greater career success. I think he was trying to make me feel better.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 01:23 PM (piMMO)

189 190 French. One (well, two) word(s) at a time. Posted by: Bill in TN at May 28, 2013 05:23 PM (mJh3Z) Raison bran.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 28, 2013 01:24 PM (+98Gb)

190 WNBA

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 01:24 PM (ZPrif)

191 You guys can tear someone a new asshole with aplomb Amateurth.

Posted by: Bawney Fwank and the cast of Glee at May 28, 2013 01:24 PM (MMC8r)

192 Magnets? Oh, yeah. Big time electromagnetism. It's not my #1 preferred method of ensuring a hard drive is forever unreadable, which involves a very large sledgehammer. But it's a close second when time is of the essence. brb: Black Suburbans in the drivew

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at May 28, 2013 01:24 PM (U2UQk)

193 Also, fuck the fat bastard Chris Christie. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 05:22 PM (ZPrif) ??? How?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 28, 2013 01:25 PM (9Bj8R)

194 Plonking, basically.

As an old-timer on the InterTubes, I must take a moment to protest the hijacking of the term "plonk".

This word "plonk."  I do not think it means what you think it means.

Posted by: filbert The Whig at May 28, 2013 01:25 PM (7vimm)

195 at least in principle When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie ® at May 28, 2013 01:25 PM (1hM1d)

196 AOSHQ is award-winning after all...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 28, 2013 01:25 PM (+98Gb)

197

162 -

 

You also have to misspell words that inadvertantly  get at the  truth, like "Present Obama is  ruler of the Divided States of Amerikka!" 

 

If you're going to be grammatically correct, you can't be our Mary. 

Posted by: BurtTC at May 28, 2013 01:25 PM (TOk1P)

198 I only lie when I think I can get away with it, or when it's easier, or when I'm just in a lyin' mood. Otherwise I'm a stickler for the truth. Honest.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 01:25 PM (ZPrif)

199 We Need Barack's Absence?

Posted by: lincolntf at May 28, 2013 01:25 PM (ZshNr)

200 Donnie says vacuum.

Posted by: Donnie DiMauro at May 28, 2013 01:25 PM (evdj2)

201 Magnets?

Don't ask us.

Posted by: Insane Clown Posse at May 28, 2013 01:26 PM (irlNU)

202 A friend came into work one days and told me about a special he had seen on intelligence that claimed that those who are proficient in lying typically find greater career success. I think he was trying to make me feel better. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 05:23 PM (piMMO) Or lying to you?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 28, 2013 01:26 PM (9Bj8R)

203

To be serious, you guys, every President should be allowed common hiccups, misspoken words and such but Obama goes beyond these items.

 

He misspelled Syracuse.  He mispronounced common words, (corpsman, Orion) and not because of any regional dialect.  He had no clue that Kentucky bordered his own home state of  Illinois.  He had no clue that Auschwitz was liberated by the Russians and not the Americans.  He had no clue that Austrians do not refer to the German language they speak as Austrian.  He had no clue regard to simple economic terms.  He continue to read from the teleprompter when it clearly was the same text that was from the previous speaker.

 

Obama is slightly less retarded than Biden. 

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2013 01:26 PM (m2CN7)

204 This word "plonk." I do not think it means what you think it means. This. Were's my killfile, I'd show that young whiper-snapper what a proper plonking entails!

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie ® at May 28, 2013 01:26 PM (1hM1d)

205

Did anyone hear that "independent" caller today on Rush?


Posted by: soothsayer, now with 20% less ruth at May 28, 2013 05:09 PM (9Q7Nu)

 

Yup, sounded like every independent I ever met. Leftism is above partisanship.

Posted by: Atlas Shit the Bed at May 28, 2013 01:26 PM (7UFw3)

206 195 190 French. One (well, two) word(s) at a time.
Posted by: Bill in TN at May 28, 2013 05:23 PM (mJh3Z)
Raison bran.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton


My favorite is still trump the oil.

Posted by: pep at May 28, 2013 01:26 PM (6TB1Z)

207 Tearing a new asshole sounds painful. But truth is, tearing your existing asshole is plenty painful all by itself.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 01:26 PM (ZPrif)

208

"It does. I have a dance specifically for when I'm waiting on food to finish nuking in the microwave.

It. Is. Awesome."

 

Is that anything like the Can Opener Dance my dogs do at feedin' time?

Posted by: Jaws at May 28, 2013 01:27 PM (4I3Uo)

209 Obama is slightly less retarded than Biden.

Assertion of facts not in evidence.

Posted by: filbert The Whig at May 28, 2013 01:27 PM (7vimm)

210 Or lying to you? *** that is a distinct possibility.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 01:27 PM (piMMO)

211 He's a dumb shit.

Posted by: Moochie at May 28, 2013 01:27 PM (iPq1D)

212

188......and *that* is the sound of the native moonbat emo in its natural habitat mewling good man...mewling

 

The Mewling Moonbat.

I like it.

 

Not to be confused with the Barking Moonbat, which only manifests during  mating season.


 

Posted by: wheatie at May 28, 2013 01:27 PM (L35yH)

213 Which one of you morons wrote this comment to the article at the New Yorker?


The writer is in love. This article reads like a PR piece from the Obama administration, written to assuage the guilty conscience of liberals skeptical of Obama's drone policy. Did even Bush and Cheney go so far as to assassinate U.S. citizens without trial? When will we judge Obama by his actions, not his speeches? Imagine the outcry from liberals if a conservative president was killing U.S. citizens abroad, from above. But because a center-left president is in office, and because he's an intellectual (?) and an articulate speaker (?), and because liberals are just so much smarter (?) and  morally sensitive (?) than conservatives, and probably because he's black (?), well then, actually it must be OK after all. "It" being not just drones, but an expanded security state, an administration that spies on reporters to get at leakers, etc., etc. I mean, at least he wrings his hands before approving a drone strike, unlike that cowboy Bush. That makes all the difference.

Yeesh!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 28, 2013 01:28 PM (lVPtV)

214 plonking. I don't know, maybe. I think it's more that he's adopted the filibuster style that some attorneys do when they're just not really that smart. If I drone on about all these considerations and things that I am shotgunning against the wall and use a lot of oxygen, then when I stumble to my conclusion, it will sound like I worked on it. I mean, compare debate 1 and debates 2 and 3 when he got to collude with his co-debate partners. He not only took off and ran with his "100,000 teachers and getting the rich to finally pay some taxes, just their fair share, really" jobs bill iniative, but also that stupid law about sex discrimination law suits and of course, what he said in the rose garden. It was memorized when it wasn't random word generation.

Posted by: joeindc44 at May 28, 2013 01:28 PM (QxSug)

215 And Radio Shack stores announce an unexpected increase in sales of 'bulk erasers' which have an uncanny ability to erase the contents of hard drives when held too close to them. ** Magnets? Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 05:20 PM (piMMO) I see that the DOJ might need the services of SHRED again. Just a reminder, SHRED is a wholly owned subsidiary of Happy Fun, LLC Happy Fun, LLC - Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies. at May 28, 2013 01:29 PM (VtjlW)

216
Obama is slightly less retarded than Biden. Posted by: polynikes


Disagree.  He is not without intelligence.  He IS without any intellectual curiosity whatsoever, and so he remains in a state of suspended animation from his college days.

Posted by: pep at May 28, 2013 01:29 PM (6TB1Z)

217 Asked my lib friend last week if food came from the food mines. She answered that she wasn't sure.

Posted by: That Guy at May 28, 2013 01:29 PM (iPq1D)

218 Not to be confused with the Barking Moonbat, which onlymanifestsduring mating season. You mean Marcootter is always looking for a mate? shudders

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie ® at May 28, 2013 01:29 PM (1hM1d)

219 Not to be confused with the Barking Moonbat, which only manifests during mating election season.

FIFY.  Although there is little difference between the two for genus Moonbattus Barkassholica.

Posted by: filbert The Whig at May 28, 2013 01:29 PM (7vimm)

220 Could a stupid man pick a Number One Seed to win the NCAA's? I hardly think so.

Posted by: lincolntf at May 28, 2013 01:30 PM (ZshNr)

221 The Mewling Moonbat.
Which is, of course, a type of weasel.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies. at May 28, 2013 01:30 PM (VtjlW)

222 A friend came into work one days and told me about a special he had seen on intelligence that claimed that those who are proficient in lying typically find greater career success. I think he was trying to make me feel better. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 05:23 PM (piMMO) Very true, except within VDHs' Muscular Class. Doesn't work when you have to actually preform tasks that require physical effort, along with thought. Although fully able and more than intelligent enough within the high power corporate world, I flat refused to do it. I would have killed somebody. And I fucking hate suits.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC at May 28, 2013 01:30 PM (6TXDj)

223 Egomaniac that he is, if he did possess any real kind of intellect, he would've long ago shared his college transcripts.  They were not good because he's a garden variety Marxist with, as Ace said, no intellectual curiosity....the real litmus test to great thinkers.  His grades sucked.  He has mediocre intellect.  Not to be confused with being a great liar with nearly the full force of the American media behind him.

Posted by: Lady in Black (I haven't read all the comments yet, but...) at May 28, 2013 01:30 PM (ovWeo)

224 ****checks the handbook**** Yep there it is on page one You're all RACIST!!!!11!!

Posted by: Navycopjoe at May 28, 2013 01:31 PM (OpRai)

225 Obama's above-it-all attitude isn't as much intellectual incuriousity as the knowledge he's right and you're wrong and has he got a pogrom for you.

Posted by: zsasz at May 28, 2013 01:31 PM (MMC8r)

226 The writer is in love. This article reads like a PR piece from the
Obama administration, written to assuage the guilty conscience of
liberals skeptical of Obama's drone policy. Did even Bush and Cheney go
so far as to assassinate U.S. citizens without trial? When will we judge
Obama by his actions, not his speeches? Imagine the outcry from
liberals if a conservative president was killing U.S. citizens abroad,
from above. But because a center-left president is in office, and
because he's an intellectual (?) and an articulate speaker (?), and
because liberals are just so much smarter (?) and morally sensitive (?)
than conservatives, and probably oh screw it, it's because he's black (?), well then,
actually it must be OK after all. "It" being not just drones, but an
expanded security state, an administration that spies on reporters to
get at leakers, etc., etc. I mean, at least he wrings his hands before
approving a drone strike, unlike that cowboy Bush. That makes all the
difference.Yeesh!



Posted by: pep at May 28, 2013 01:31 PM (6TB1Z)

227 What would be totally awesome is an untipped-to-the-questions-ahead-of-time Obama on "Jeopardy". I bet that clown couldn't answer ohh, more than four of the low level questions. Intellectually incurious, unaccountably smug, and married to a wookie is no way to go through life, son.

Posted by: Somewhat Sorry To Offend You at May 28, 2013 01:31 PM (bAR0K)

228 Moron in a Members Only Snuggie

Hmm, a Snuggie that takes memberships.  I'm intrigued . . .

Posted by: filbert The Whig at May 28, 2013 01:31 PM (7vimm)

229 213 Tearing a new asshole sounds painful. But truth is, tearing your existing asshole is plenty painful all by itself. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at May 28, 2013 05:26 PM (ZPrif) Are you alluding to an experience? And by the way, are you actually from Flatbush? If so, where?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 28, 2013 01:31 PM (+98Gb)

230 In fairness, I think the best description of Obama is Stoner. He has all the attributes one associates with the breed. And I say this as someone experienced in this area.

Posted by: Donnie DiMauro at May 28, 2013 01:32 PM (evdj2)

231 Leftism is in large part about being extremely concerned about "being concerned" (where the definition of be is seem).

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at May 28, 2013 01:32 PM (cMjv7)

232 182 ---"Welcome to the post-modern life where all that matters is signifiers rather than what is being signified." Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies. at May 28, 2013 05:21 PM (VtjlW) -------------------------- THIS.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 28, 2013 01:32 PM (C8mVl)

233 232 Obama's above-it-all attitude isn't as much intellectual incuriousity as the knowledge he's right and you're wrong and has he got a pogrom for you. Posted by: zsasz at May 28, 2013 05:31 PM (MMC8r) GET WITH THE POGROM! New slogan!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 28, 2013 01:32 PM (+98Gb)

234 Jane...I don't think a member of The Horde would call him "center-left".

Posted by: wheatie at May 28, 2013 01:32 PM (L35yH)

235 And if that's all one cares about, then of course results and so forth aren't all that "pertinent." In fact, they sort of "detract" from "the things that matter."

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at May 28, 2013 01:33 PM (cMjv7)

236 1985-style blogs rule! I have read this blog with the Lynx text webrowser and it works.

Posted by: Donnie DiMauro at May 28, 2013 01:33 PM (evdj2)

237 Dammit

Posted by: toby928 at May 28, 2013 01:33 PM (evdj2)

238 241 Jane...I don't think a member of The Horde would call him "center-left".

Posted by: wheatie at May 28, 2013 05:32 PM (L35yH




True, but I loved the comment.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 28, 2013 01:33 PM (lVPtV)

239 I would hate to be the one who leaks his transcripts. Seal Team 6 would cap me in the forehead at 4 am, and no one would be the wiser. But I would support you if you did it.

Posted by: The littl shyning man at May 28, 2013 01:33 PM (PH+2B)

240 Posted by: Donnie DiMauro at May 28, 2013 05:32 PM (evdj2)

Recognizing your possibly vast experience in herbal intoxicants, I must disagree.

Obama has that brittle edge I associate with coke heads.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2013 01:33 PM (O6Tmi)

241

If Obama actually was even moderately intelligent, he would be able to give some evidence of that, e.g. his IQ score, his ACT and/or SAT scores, his LSAT score, his GPA and/or his college transcripts, samples of his writing, etc.

 

What we have instead is a steadfast refusal to provide ANY EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER of his alleged intelligence.

 

So, yeah.  He's stupid.

 

Posted by: OCBill at May 28, 2013 01:34 PM (Mj+FA)

242 And I f****** hate suits.

Come on down.  You're going to like the way you look, I guarantee it.

Posted by: George Zimmer at May 28, 2013 01:34 PM (6TB1Z)

243 Drugs will do that to you.

Posted by: georgeofthedesert at May 28, 2013 01:34 PM (Eq2MX)

244 Obama has that brittle edge I associate with coke heads. yeah. . . NOW he's a coke head . . when he was younger it was pot, but now he's in the Elite

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 28, 2013 01:35 PM (2up3Q)

245 http://youtu.be/HIULIJxVr7A

and now the Tree's rebuttal to Earth First....

do recall though it is not the leftoids who are to blame it is the folks who fall for their shit

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 01:35 PM (LRFds)

246 247 Posted by: Donnie DiMauro at May 28, 2013 05:32 PM (evdj2) Recognizing your possibly vast experience in herbal intoxicants, I must disagree. Obama has that brittle edge I associate with coke heads. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2013 05:33 PM (O6Tmi) "Something like a phenomenon, baby! Tellin' your body to come along, those White Lines..."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 28, 2013 01:35 PM (+98Gb)

247 Watch Out China! White House Says Obama Will Talk To Chinese Leaders About Their Hackers Gaining Access To U.S. MilitaryÂ’s Top Weapons SystemsÂ… And if that doesnÂ’t work heÂ’ll write the dreaded sternly worded letter. they are all laughing at us while the "smartest" man in America is ruining us

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 28, 2013 01:35 PM (9Bj8R)

248 227 AlexTheChick,

a crap weasel but yes m'lady

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 01:36 PM (LRFds)

249 249 And I f****** hate suits. Come on down. You're going to like the way you look, I guarantee it. Posted by: George Zimmer at May 28, 2013 05:34 PM (6TB1Z) If you had any guts you'd hire George Zimmerman to be your spokesman...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 28, 2013 01:36 PM (+98Gb)

250 I have read this blog with the Lynx text webrowser and it works. Posted by: Donnie DiMauro


Posted by: Zombie George Kenneth Galbraith at May 28, 2013 01:36 PM (6TB1Z)

251 I am a member of the tribe that hates everyone who isn't competent, honest, and respectful of the Constitution.

So....I pretty much hate everyone in the DC area who is remotely involved in government.

(Including Bannion because he is a selfish prick and won't loan me an M1A1)

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2013 01:36 PM (O6Tmi)

252

"Egomaniac that he is, if he did possess any real kind of intellect, he would've long ago shared his college transcripts. They were not good because he's a garden variety Marxist with, as Ace said, no intellectual curiosity....the real litmus test to great thinkers. His grades sucked. He has mediocre intellect. Not to be confused with being a great liar with nearly the full force of the American media behind him."

 

Possibly.

 

The transcripts may also call him out as  born outside  CONUS, a muslim, an exchange student, or   the son of a different daddy - who knows!

Posted by: Jaws at May 28, 2013 01:36 PM (4I3Uo)

253 In retrospect...I meant stupendous

Posted by: PJ O'Rourke at May 28, 2013 01:37 PM (ED/BE)

254 A golf course is a great place for privacy, the kind of privacy one might desire to do drugs. The dude is not an athlete, but he goes all the time anyway...

Posted by: lincolntf at May 28, 2013 01:37 PM (ZshNr)

255
And if that doesnÂ’t work heÂ’ll write the dreaded sternly worded letter.

they are all laughing at us while the "smartest" man in America is ruining us Posted by: Nevergiveup


Oh yeah?  Well, watch out, because I'm gonna use Helvetica Bold for this bad boy.

Posted by: BHO, rampant at May 28, 2013 01:38 PM (6TB1Z)

256 "260 In retrospect...I meant stupendous Posted by: PJ O'Rourke at May 28, 2013 05:37 PM (ED/BE) " Fabulous. :-P

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at May 28, 2013 01:38 PM (cMjv7)

257

There are no greater narcissists than the DC/NY press corps and their self-love and self-aggrandizment was always set to culminate in the elevation of one who best reflected their values in a gold-encrusted mirror.

 

If the preceeding sentence didn't offend you for being overwritten and generally stupid, then you too might be an Obama voter with a good crease in your pants.

Posted by: sans_sheriff at May 28, 2013 01:38 PM (Lljg2)

258 Iowahawk is running out of patience, if this tweet is any indication:

"Washington: you can either say goodbye to (1) Eric Holder, or (2) the consent of the governed."

When you've lost Iowahawk('s sense of humor) . . .

Posted by: filbert The Whig at May 28, 2013 01:38 PM (7vimm)

259 In fairness, I think the best description of Obama is Stoner. He has all the attributes one associates with the breed. President Spiccoli?

Posted by: zsasz at May 28, 2013 01:38 PM (MMC8r)

260 I like the French.  As long as they're in France.

Posted by: Soona at May 28, 2013 01:39 PM (tY0y0)

261

I would bet a large sum of money he would score relatively low on an IQ test.

 

He would not  do well on the mathematical section.  He would actually do worse on the language, pattern section depending on which IQ test he took.  I'm guessing he would not do well on the spatial testing based on no evidence that supports  he has any mechanical skills  at  all.  He may do okay on the verbal section.  

 

The logical reasoning section is the one I would be curious about. 

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2013 01:40 PM (m2CN7)

262 Posted by: PJ O'Rourke at May 28, 2013 05:37 PM (ED/BE)

Thank you for that, Mr. O'Rourke.  That will complete this audit.

Oh, there's some DOJ guys in the hall, asking to see your phone records.  Should we send them in?

Posted by: The IRS at May 28, 2013 01:40 PM (7vimm)

263 I have read this blog with the Lynx text webrowser and it works.
Posted by: Donnie DiMauro

Posted by: Zombie George Kenneth Galbraith


Eat it, plagiarist.

Posted by: Zombie Lincoln Steffens at May 28, 2013 01:40 PM (6TB1Z)

264

Okay. I gotta ask...

 

"Tree farts"...?

 

The moonbat in the video was wailing about this...mourning them. 

Do these people go around sniffing for tree farts?

 

Posted by: wheatie at May 28, 2013 01:41 PM (L35yH)

265 RE: Jane Meyer et al.,

I'm both fascinated and terrified of the ease in which their psychopathology so readily exudes and then justifies their own malice.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at May 28, 2013 01:41 PM (eHIJJ)

266 265 Yeah, I'm seeing the ship sailing on the Lawful Society. The people empowered by the Constitution don't follow it, but still expect to be empowered.

Posted by: zsasz at May 28, 2013 01:42 PM (MMC8r)

267 >>>When I tell you guys I appreciate you for your wit and no-bullshit attitude, think about what I'm really saying: I appreciate your wit and no-bullshit attitude because firstlyI appreciate my own. Actually, your support off TARP was pretty much bullshit. *he shoots he scores!!*

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at May 28, 2013 01:42 PM (kHFrF)

268

I would bet a large sum of money he would score relatively low on an IQ test.

 

Just put him on Jeopardy. We'll know soon enough.  And  you just know he'd come in last place with a $6T deficit.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at May 28, 2013 01:42 PM (0HooB)

269 but, like, obama's law professors claim that he was like the smartest guy ever, you guys. And liberals don't just claim that they're smart or other people are smart because they're sympatico on their rigid reactive world views.

Posted by: joeindc44 at May 28, 2013 01:43 PM (QxSug)

270 Yeah, I'm seeing the ship sailing on the Lawful Society. The people empowered by the Constitution don't follow it, but still expect to be empowered. Let the Wild Rumpus begin.

Posted by: toby928 at May 28, 2013 01:43 PM (evdj2)

271 A golf course is a great place for privacy, the kind of privacy one might desire to do drugs. The dude is not an athlete, but he goes all the time anyway...

Posted by: lincolntf at May 28, 2013 05:37 PM (ZshNr)

 

 

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

 

 

And you don't think there's nary an ounce of drugs at  any  of his WH parties?  If you do, then there's a bridge in NYC I'd like to sell you.

Posted by: Soona at May 28, 2013 01:43 PM (tY0y0)

272 Sure, he's stupid. That's why he's getting EVERYTHING he wants (sooner or later, one way or another). I love PJ O'Rourke, but he swung and missed on this. Here's how stupid Obama is: he's using his own scandals over his First Amendment abuse to propose new laws which set the stage for government to determine who's a journalist and who's not. This is the ultimate crisis-as-opportunity finesse. His OWN scandals become his oppportunity. Obama isn't stupid, he's just a phenomenally audacious phenomenon in American history, and very few people really understand this.

Posted by: rrpjr at May 28, 2013 01:44 PM (X5Zf7)

273

"Yeah, I'm seeing the ship sailing on the Lawful Society. "

 

The mast will be dipping below the horizon  shortly.  Bon Voyage!

Posted by: Jaws at May 28, 2013 01:44 PM (4I3Uo)

274 Stoner or cokehead, Obama's got that "yeah, i'm fooling everyone- they're so stupid" attitude, I associate with drug users. However, I've also seen something similar with affirmative action guys in school who deserve a "D" or "F" but through working the guilt of the prof(i.e.. first member of my family to go to college/ don't be the one who kills my dream of being a doctor) wind up with an "A" or "B". They have zero respect for those who enable them because they "fooled those dumbasses". That's why he fails upward - no one will call him out because of his historic first firstiness from high school all the way to the presidency.

Posted by: Somewhat Sorry To Offend You at May 28, 2013 01:45 PM (bAR0K)

275

So basically he's the first Affirmative Action President, right? 

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at May 28, 2013 01:45 PM (EGPJQ)

276 I had to laugh about "soi-disant" and the parenthetical following, assuming your readers wouldn't be familiar.  You writers are so funny.  I think, however, that "self-styled" is a better translation.

Posted by: glide55 at May 28, 2013 01:46 PM (Z2aee)

277 I like to think of Obama as intellectually unencumbered.

And also as a  stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable commie asshole.

Posted by: Marmo at May 28, 2013 01:46 PM (pcgW1)

278 Sure, he's stupid. That's why he's getting EVERYTHING he wants (sooner or later, one way or another). I love PJ O'Rourke, but he swung and missed on this. Here's how stupid Obama is: he's using his own scandals over his First Amendment abuse to propose new laws which set the stage for government to determine who's a journalist and who's not. This is the ultimate crisis-as-opportunity finesse. His OWN scandals become his oppportunity. Obama isn't stupid, he's just a phenomenally audacious phenomenon in American history, and very few people really understand this. *** I don't think he's stupid either. He's only stupid if his intent WASN'T to ruin the country,

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 01:46 PM (piMMO)

279

I have to apologize.  I did not consider Obama's peer reviewed legal papers he published while at Harvard and during his term as the editor of the law review.

 

Wait what?  He never really had anything submitted for review and publication? The deuce you say.   

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2013 01:47 PM (m2CN7)

280

And you don't think there's nary an ounce of drugs at any of his WH parties? If you do, then there's a bridge in NYC I'd like to sell you.

 

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Who the F--- wants a NYC bridge?

Posted by: SFO city engineer at May 28, 2013 01:47 PM (EGPJQ)

281 Obama isn't stupid, he's just a phenomenally audacious phenomenon in American history, and very few people really understand this. Posted by: rrpjr at May 28, 2013 05:44 PM (X5Zf7) And Hitler was a great tactical Military genius also

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 28, 2013 01:48 PM (9Bj8R)

282 Posted by: rrpjr at May 28, 2013 05:44 PM (X5Zf7) Dude, it's not that Obama is smart. It's that he has a press who covers for him even when they don't have to. A press that all but hails him as a benevolent god no matter what he does. Honestly, let the press give the same treatment to Biden for six months and he suddenly become the genius shoe-in for 2016 to the Lo-fos.

Posted by: Somewhat Sorry To Offend You at May 28, 2013 01:49 PM (bAR0K)

283

And yes, Obama's stupid as a post. Worse, he's lazy to boot. Of course he needed his beauty sleep the night four Americans were bombed to death in Benghazi. Because Vegas, bitches!

 

"But... but.... he was receiving updates!"

 

"ON WHAT?!?! HIS FUCKING BLACKBERRY THAT HE TURNED OFF LEST IT DISTURB THE WOOKIE?!?!?"

 

 

Posted by: sans_sheriff at May 28, 2013 01:49 PM (Lljg2)

284

he's using his own scandals over his First Amendment abuse to propose new laws which set the stage for government to determine who's a journalist and who's not. This is the ultimate crisis-as-opportunity finesse. His OWN scandals become his oppportunity. Obama isn't stupid, he's just a phenomenally audacious phenomenon in American history, and very few people really understand this.

 

Obama is not doing anything.  The left as a whole and the 52%  are  allowing him to do this.    If the bank swings their vault open and the bank managers indicate they will look the other way,  the most incompetent  bank robber is going to be able to get away with large stacks of money.  

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2013 01:50 PM (m2CN7)

285 246 I would hate to be the one who leaks his transcripts. Posted by: The littl shyning man at May 28, 2013 05:33 PM (PH+2B) Bet ya they've been destroyed. Probably by Kagan.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at May 28, 2013 01:51 PM (qyfb5)

286 If Obama were as brilliant as they say he is, where are his new ideas? All he offers is the standard liberal boilerplate.

Posted by: zsasz at May 28, 2013 01:52 PM (MMC8r)

287 Of course he's stupid. Dumber than a bag of high-grade owl shit, as my late pappy would've said. So were Stalin, Kruschev, Brezhnev, Chernenko..... Andropov was the only one with any brais and he set the stage for the intellectually meh Gorbachev to tear it down. Tyrants are always stupid.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at May 28, 2013 01:53 PM (kHFrF)

288 And yes, Obama's stupid as a post. Worse, he's lazy to boot. Of course he needed his beauty sleep the night four Americans were bombed to death in Benghazi. Because Vegas, bitches! *** I'm trying to remember the thing about who is most dangerous as a manager. Smart and lazy, if I recall, was the least dangerous type of leader because they will delegate and not micromanage. Stupid and energetic is the worst because they will have their hands in everything despite not having a clue what they are doing. I think Obama tends more towards the latter although I don't think he's stupid. He's just of average intelligence like any schmoe on the street.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 28, 2013 01:54 PM (piMMO)

289 >>>Stupid and energetic Getting ready to shitcan one o them matter o fact

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at May 28, 2013 01:57 PM (kHFrF)

290 It's really of no consolation to mock Obama, is what I'm saying. We're going on 5 years making fun of Obama, it doesn't even take the sting out of the irreversible damage he's causing every day.

Posted by: soothsayer at May 28, 2013 01:57 PM (C0ttM)

291 ***293 If Obama were as brilliant as they say he is, where are his new ideas? All he offers is the standard liberal boilerplate. ****** no,no,no...don't you see. We're going to do it all again, only smarter this time. Except for the corruption and cronyism and haste under cover of darkness, we'll keep all that.

Posted by: joeindc44 at May 28, 2013 01:58 PM (QxSug)

292 Pure geniusness

Posted by: Unklefabio at May 28, 2013 02:05 PM (LJaTq)

293 Conspicuous consumption.

Posted by: Elizabethe on the phone at May 28, 2013 02:08 PM (B1Yvr)

294

I don't think it's an issue of intelligence so much as a total and compunctionless audacity (and the skill to dissemble it) never before seen in American history and which, to date, has not elicited ONE clear and knowing (much less politically shrewd and effective) response from ONE Republican. There's no way you can call that "stupid." I'm not saying Obama is "smart" in the ways we usually ascribe to politicians or whatever social figures (I think our society is way off base anyway in its use of the terms "smart," "genius", etc.) But Obama is like our modern age Pechorin, the eponymous character in Mikhail Lermontov's novel "A Hero of our Time," about a scoundrel who was an elegant, cunning and proud composite of the vices of his generation. That's Obama. While most Republicans are biting their nails about how this or that issue will play with the media or the public, Obama is driving ahead relentlessly with what he wants no matter what ANYBODY says. Call him a thug, fascist, pathological liar, narcissist, or all of these things -- but "stupid" doesn't work. It's a meaningless descriptor.

Posted by: rrpjr at May 28, 2013 02:08 PM (X5Zf7)

295 The moral is that which serves Truth. Without Truth, morality is a means of control by defining "sin" in useful terms. Sin, of course, leading to the option to punish for those who hold the rod. The left, having divorced themselves from the idea of "Truth" through the misconceptions of post-modern linguistic and philosophical acrobatics, are free to embrace as "moral" that which feeds their vanity and which provides more control. Drone strikes are possibly war-crimes, until Obama does them. The "anguish" is posthumous justification, but is barely necessary as the only justification is, "It's okay for the Right People to do evil as we've already established that they are the Right People. It's right there in their title." Prior to the left's philosophical ascendance, there was the useful idea of the "Pharisee." The ostensibly religious fellow whose religious observance was an ostentatious show to establish his place in the social pecking order. This is different than the common hollywood trope of the corrupt preacher or hypocritical church lady. The Pharisee was devout and possibly sincere in his belief, but also used such visible devotion as a public means of establishing his place in the world. Today, he is called an Al Gore.

Posted by: Komissar Vladimir at May 28, 2013 02:28 PM (sBegS)

296

The Internal Revenue Service is in the process of
locking down all computer data across the agency, a sign that
investigations into the scandal-plagued agency may be taking a broader
sweep than initially anticipated.


Posted by: Nevergiveup

 

By locking down, they mean deleting. By sweep, they mean sweeping all the hard drives clean.

Posted by: Michael the Hobbitt at May 28, 2013 02:34 PM (vVMIQ)

297 Nope, he's saying Obama is shit-ass stupid.

Posted by: Steve at May 28, 2013 02:54 PM (s9LaU)

298 I've known for years that liberals are all about appearances. They are entirely governed by images and bumper-sticker slogans, and they are obsessed with projecting their own image of themselves as smart, virtuous people. Example: in the town where I go to sit in a coffeeshop and write stuff, there's a Civil War memorial. And every afternoon a trio of tiresome old hippie jackoffs go out and hold a daily "peace vigil" by meditating in front of the monument. Now, if they're really into meditation, one would think it would be best done someplace other than a busy town square. And if they're really into peace, one would think it would be best promoted by something other than sitting in front of a statue. But of course the goal isn't peace, or meditation. The goal is to make sure everyone in town sees how concerned these unemployable nincompoops are about peace. They might as well walk around with neon signs on their hats saying "I CARE ABOUT PEACE!! YAY ME!!" All of the Obama Administration's policies are the same sort of useless, pointless, ineffective, and idiotic exercises in self-flattery. "I CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT!! YAY ME!!" says Al Gore as he jets off in a cloud of smoke.

Posted by: Trimegistus at May 28, 2013 03:01 PM (x60FF)

299 92
If P.J. O'Rourke thinks the scoamf is stupid, he may have to invent new a word to describe Joe Biden.

Posted by: YIKES! at May 28, 2013 05:04 PM (mETGQ)


No sweat, Biden will probably invent the word himself.

Posted by: PersonFromPorlock at May 28, 2013 03:22 PM (5hNpF)

300 Obama is so totally nvested in socialist Muslim agendas he is blind to how stupid he makes himself look with his fanatical mindset agenda drivien.

Posted by: ron n. at May 28, 2013 07:19 PM (6fvl0)

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