January 29, 2014

Ron Fournier on the State of the Union: "Diminished Leader... Americans May Have Already Tuned Out Barack Obama"
— Ace

He actually says "Good Speech, Modest Agenda," then the rest of it.

He's a dyed-in-the-wool liberal who's been increasing disappointed by Obama the past couple of years. So his feeling may be taken at least as partially representative of the Disappointed Democrats bloc.

Is that all there is?

In what may be his last, best chance to revive a presidency that has fallen far short of its promise, Barack Obama unveiled his 2014 agenda Tuesday night: small-bore executive orders, studies, summits, and legislation, long-seasoned and stalled. "America does not stand still," he said, "and neither will I."

He focused on the era's seminal issue, loss of social mobility and income equality in a post-industrial, global economy. "The cold, hard fact is that even in the midst of recovery, too many Americans are working more than ever just to get by—let alone get ahead," Obama said to a joint session of Congress attending his annual State of the Union address.

Another cold, hard fact: Obama may not have the skill, the will, or the time to do much about it.

Another cold, hard fact Fournier omits: Income inequality has increased at a torrid pace under the Redistributor In Chief.

It was a good speech about a modest agenda delivered by a diminished leader, a man who famously promised to reject the politics of "small things" and aim big—to change the culture of Washington, to restore the public's faith in government, and to tackle enduring national problems with bold solutions. The night he sealed the Democratic nomination in 2008, candidate Obama looked forward to a day when future generations might say "this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."

Tuesday night was no such moment.

It was, instead, a moment in miniature: an executive order to raise the minimum wage for future federal contractors, and another to create "starter" retirement accounts; summits on long-term unemployment and working families; and scores of promises to "continue" existing administration programs.

"What I offer tonight," he said, "is a set of concrete, practical proposals." Oh, such a far cry from "an audacity to hope."

...

He turns to a recent gushing biographical piece cum interview that ran in the New Yorker.

He also told Remnick that people are looking for "other flavors ... somebody else out there who can give me that spark of inspiration or excitement." He's right, and you had to wonder during the State of the Union address whether Obama's time had passed ... whether even a great address could move the needle ... whether they've tuned him out.

That's an immature impulse, of course. People really ought to not seek too much meaning or "inspiration or excitement" in politicians, political parties, or political 5 point plans. That's kind of Dummy Stuff, isn't it?

But Obama, more than any President I can think of, is all about that and little else.

Fournier turns to various polls, including those that show that a majority of Americans now call Obama a weak leader.

...

Democratic operative Chris Lehane, another veteran of the Clinton White House, said, "It will require disciplined execution to succeed."

That's the problem: Obama has not executed; he has not found a way to overcome his era's obstacles and fulfill his potential for greatness. It may be too late to learn how.

I can't weigh in on whether it was a "good speech." I strongly doubt that. But I didn't watch. At 1:30 am or so I went to bed and turned on the TV and the speech was replaying on Fox. I heard Obama say something -- I forget what, but he used his Stage Whisper fake drama voice -- and I cursed "F*** you" at the TV.

I brushed my teeth and didn't hear much more than I had the first time. When I came back out, he said something else clingy, desperate, and false, and again I said "F*** you," then I turned him off my TV and watched something else for twenty minutes.

So that's what I got out of it.

On the other hand, alleged GOP strategist and CNN gadfly Alex Castellantos got a lot more out of it.

“I think I’ve said before that a speech by Barack Obama is a lot like sex,” Castellanos told a CNN panel after the State of the Union Tuesday night. “The worst there ever was is still excellent.”

Posted by: Ace at 09:34 AM | Comments (325)
Post contains 776 words, total size 5 kb.

1 I said "blow me"Â…. But then I thought - maybe not because O likes cock.

Posted by: redguy at January 29, 2014 09:38 AM (d8wEw)

2 yawn

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 29 days until spring training at January 29, 2014 09:39 AM (u8GsB)

3 I really don't like TFG.

Posted by: Jack at January 29, 2014 09:40 AM (gWHwW)

4 I watched all of it. In the middle Obama threw in a taunt--buried it. Gawd it's bad. Then there was Obama's first paragraph... My brain tried to go into early alert mode and I swear it invented a new word-- This damn thing is going to be a-- Lie-A-thon!!! (I still watched the whole damn thing.)

Posted by: Teleprompter Feed Crew at January 29, 2014 09:40 AM (RJMhd)

5 He and the rest of the left are disappointed that SCOAMF hasn't declared martial law and rounded the rest of us up.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2014 09:40 AM (olDqf)

6 I coulda been a contenda! But I actuall read the post

Posted by: shredded chi - If the river was whiskey, I'd be a diving duck at January 29, 2014 09:40 AM (TwyVT)

7 >>>In the middle Obama threw in a taunt--buried it. what was the taunt?

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2014 09:41 AM (/FnUH)

8 And SCOAMF's phony, grating speech cadence is like water torture.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2014 09:41 AM (olDqf)

9 Barry is incapable of giving a great speech.  He runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.  Or from I to me.

All credit to Dorothy Parker.

Posted by: huerfano at January 29, 2014 09:41 AM (bAGA/)

10 Surprised Castellantos feels that way about prison rape.

Posted by: W.C. Varones at January 29, 2014 09:41 AM (FL7kh)

11 Today, after four years of economic growth, corporate profits and stock prices have rarely been higher, and those at the top have never done better. But average wages have barely budged. Inequality has deepened. Upward mobility has stalled. The cold, hard fact is that even in the midst of recovery, too many Americans are working more than ever just to get by -- let alone get ahead. And too many still aren't working at all. Our job is to reverse these trends. --Barry "Job-Killer" Obama

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at January 29, 2014 09:41 AM (gtjN1)

12 I didn't watch it either but a much remarked on statement he made was that he has cut the deficit in half.

Posted by: Adam at January 29, 2014 09:41 AM (Aif/5)

13 Oh I might have heard -- was it "Most of you (Congressmen) came here to do good"?

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2014 09:41 AM (/FnUH)

14 Wife and I got through Season 2 of Justice League Unlimited instead. At least the economy under President Luthor was doing well...

Posted by: AMDG at January 29, 2014 09:41 AM (t7OO0)

15 He's a dyed-in-the-wool hemp liberal

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2014 09:41 AM (IXrOn)

16 Are all GOP "strategists" liberals?

Posted by: Dr Spank at January 29, 2014 09:42 AM (38LLM)

17 Oh so in the middle of the damn thing-- Obama is all-- "Hey GOP you know that ObamaCare fuck up--well-- What's YOUR plan--HUH?" (and you just know the GOP is going to fall for that--encore.)

Posted by: Teleprompter Feed Crew at January 29, 2014 09:42 AM (RJMhd)

18 "Is that all there is? " Please site your quotes, Mr. Fournier, sir.

Posted by: Michele Obama's Landing Strip at January 29, 2014 09:42 AM (59naz)

19

Job training.  All we need is job training and the planet will heal itself.

Posted by: prescient11 at January 29, 2014 09:42 AM (tVTLU)

20 I always schedule my colonoscopies on the SOTU speech days. They're a good reminder to clean the shit out of my ass.

Posted by: Phinn at January 29, 2014 09:42 AM (HINxj)

21 9 Barry is incapable of giving a great speech. He runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. Or from I to me. All credit to Dorothy Parker. Posted by: huerfano at January 29, 2014 01:41 PM (bAGA/) I just turned the volume down on the TV and substituted the Beatles' "I-Me-Mine" on a continuous loopÂ…

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2014 09:42 AM (olDqf)

22 Did he really propose something called "MyRa" or are you guys making a joke?

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 29, 2014 09:43 AM (RZ8pf)

23 Is that all there is? he says. That's what we've been telling you for years, now. What was your first clue?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2014 09:43 AM (IXrOn)

24 Headline in our local lib rag"Obama,help American workers or I will." Spit my coffee out on that one...

Posted by: hello, it's me also a creep-assed cracka.. at January 29, 2014 09:44 AM (9+ccr)

25 Fap, fap, fap, fap.

Posted by: Mark Murray, Senior Political Editor at NBC at January 29, 2014 09:44 AM (vgIRn)

26 I don't want a Chief Executive who's cool, I want one who's both efficient and cognizant of his constitutional duties. Bambi is neither.

Posted by: joncelli at January 29, 2014 09:44 AM (RD7QR)

27 9 Barry is incapable of giving a great speech. He runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. Or from I to me. All credit to Dorothy Parker. Posted by: huerfano at January 29, 2014 01:41 PM (bAGA/) Actually he runs the gamut of emotions from "Uh" to "Uh, uh. uh."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2014 09:44 AM (olDqf)

28 To be fair though, I hardly watched any of GWB's SOTUs.  They are just fucking boring, and ususally say nothing.  This guy's manner of speaking (condesending lies) is particularly intolerable to listen to.

Posted by: prescient11 at January 29, 2014 09:44 AM (tVTLU)

29 I saw Diminished Leader open for Coven in '71.

Posted by: Countrysquire at January 29, 2014 09:44 AM (LSJmV)

30 >>>Wife and I got through Season 2 of Justice League Unlimited instead. At least the economy under President Luthor was doing well... great show. That was the best season, IIRC, with the whole Cadmus Project arc.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2014 09:44 AM (/FnUH)

31 >>"Hey GOP you know that ObamaCare fuck up--well-- >>What's YOUR plan--HUH?" >>(and you just know the GOP is going to fall for that--encore.) Burr/Hatch/Coburn already released a plan. Not that Obama will ever read it.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2014 09:44 AM (g1DWB)

32 A dude once did me in the butt at college while I was sleeping. Still awesome.

Posted by: Alex Castellantos at January 29, 2014 09:44 AM (38LLM)

33 Listening to the Jets lose on the radio was more enjoyable than Ear Leader.

Posted by: logprof at January 29, 2014 09:45 AM (X3GkB)

34 Obama's first paragraph-- gawd it was a douzzy. "The deficit is reduced in HALF! The housing market is on the REBOUND! Employment is the highest since blah, blah... USA is better than China for investors!!!" Lie-A-Thon.

Posted by: Teleprompter Feed Crew at January 29, 2014 09:45 AM (RJMhd)

35 Did he really propose something called "MyRa" or are you guys making a joke? Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 29, 2014 01:43 PM .....No, it wasn't a dream. even though anyone can already open an IRA, he feels the need to spend more of our money on useless shit that will only bloat the govt. even more. And the left claps!

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 09:45 AM (C3Wjb)

36 Yes, but we all predicted he'd be DOA in 2012 too. Frankly he's got more lives than a cat. And he'll keep hawking bread and circuses. I mean FFS he's introducing a savings mechanism that is not even needed. It's a Roth IRA, anyone could walk down to the corner bank and say "I'd like to Open a CD for a Roth IRA" and they'd have it set up in 10 minutes. But sell it as some "sooper government plan" and the proles will eat it up.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 29, 2014 09:45 AM (GaqMa)

37 Looks like somebody is challenging Tingles's position as chief bootlicker: Mark Murray ✔ @mmurraypolitics Follow Obama's ending on Remsburg wasn't just a story about America -- it also was a story about Obama. Nothing has ever come easy 9:20 AM - 29 Jan 2014

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 29, 2014 09:45 AM (7ObY1)

38 Now, now ace. Those are not approved thoughts towards dear leader. Do we need to come by for some re-education?

Posted by: Big Brother at January 29, 2014 09:45 AM (hFL/3)

39 He turns to a recent gushing biographical piece cum interview that ran in the New Yorker. He loves him some Skeet!

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2014 09:45 AM (59naz)

40 Stopped listening to the messiah in 2008; the last 5+ years of continuous campaigning, finger pointing, and hubris have left me cold, cold, colder than the deep freeze of this AGW winter.

Posted by: Angel with a sword at January 29, 2014 09:45 AM (hpgw1)

41 God, I'm glad I didn't watch that thing.

Posted by: Emperor of Icecream at January 29, 2014 09:46 AM (ZMzpb)

42 "this was the moment when the rise of the oceans sewers began to slow clot and our planet began to heal laugh."

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2014 09:46 AM (IXrOn)

43 Fournier: "He focused on the era's seminal issue, loss of social mobility and income equality in a post-industrial, global economy." Ace: "Another cold, hard fact Fournier omits: Income inequality has increased at a torrid pace under the Redistributor In Chief." Me: Ace, don't fall for the Progressive Narrative Du Jour, this balderdash about "income inequality." Puh-leeze. Their "desperate crises OMG We Must Do Something About It Immediately!!!" ploy got old back in the '70s. "Income inequality" means some people have skills, have the mental capacity to acquire skills, have the gumption to work at whatever it takes -- while others do not. Throwing Big Government Money at this "problem" will not fix this "problem." It's just status quo, now and forever. And the "stats" saying it's "getting worse"? Again: Puh-leeze. Damn lies, statistics, etc.

Posted by: zombie at January 29, 2014 09:46 AM (+cx5n)

44 He turns to a recent gushing biographical piece cum interview that ran in the New Yorker.

Key word: cum.

Posted by: Emperor of Icecream at January 29, 2014 09:46 AM (ZMzpb)

45 "America does not stand still," he said, "and neither will I." America deserves a leader who eschews the Royal Golf Cart. ...and who can read the teleprompted word 'eschew'. You're welcome!

Posted by: Barky McFuckstick at January 29, 2014 09:46 AM (FcR7P)

46

"I think I’ve said before that a speech by Barack Obama is a lot like sex,” Castellanos told a CNN panel after the State of the Union Tuesday night. “The worst there ever was is still excellent.”

 

 

If the sex Alex Castellanos is getting is the stimulatory equivalent of a Barack Obammy speech, then  Alex Castellanos is either fucking a stick of chewing gum or is as virginal as a    Vestal.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at January 29, 2014 09:46 AM (4df7R)

47 I didn't watch the SOTU speech, but did watch 30 seconds of MSNBC coverage afterwards.

All of it was spent gushing over style and delivery, none of it on substance.

Shocking, I know.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at January 29, 2014 09:47 AM (SY2Kh)

48 Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 01:45 PM (C3Wjb) It's a freaking 30-year treasury note. You can already buy those. I have no freaking idea what he's doing with it. Except as someone said in the thread last night setting up the great 401K theft move. Start "MyRA" then use the tax code to ensure that it's the only option in your 401K portfolio, reap all the monies.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 29, 2014 09:47 AM (GaqMa)

49 I made the wise choice of: 1) Playing some counter-strike 2) read part of a Vernor Vinge novel instead. My night was pretty good.

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 56% more DOOM! at January 29, 2014 09:47 AM (09o/X)

50 Oh I might have heard -- was it "Most of you (Congressmen) came here to do good"? Posted by: ace at January 29, 2014 01:41 PM S

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 09:47 AM (C3Wjb)

51 I'm going to rush right out and put my IRA money in a gubmint run program; after all, they've done such a bang up job on healthcare.
 
Fournier loves him some TFG, but not fanatically. I can at least read his stuff without throwing sharp objects at my monitor.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 29, 2014 09:47 AM (wNF3N)

52
“I think I’ve said before that a speech by Barack Obama is a lot like sex,” Castellanos told a CNN panel after the State of the Union Tuesday night. “You wake up with a hurt butt and an empty wallet."

FIFY

Posted by: less than 3 minutes at January 29, 2014 09:47 AM (bkTIc)

53 Why won't you people let him be clear?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 29, 2014 09:47 AM (oFCZn)

54 32 >>"Hey GOP you know that ObamaCare fuck up--well-- >>What's YOUR plan--HUH?" >>(and you just know the GOP is going to fall for that--encore.) Burr/Hatch/Coburn already released a plan. Not that Obama will ever read it. Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2014 01:44 PM (g1DWB) ***************** Okay well let me go off on that a bit. First--what was the Dem plan? Is that a moving target--why yes it is. I'm sure the Dems would explain it as-- "evolving--and nuanced." And then did the DAMN Dems have a plan? No the fuck they did not. Are Republicans suffering from short term memory!? Remember-- Nancy Pelosi-- "You gotta pass it FIRST--to know what's in it!"?

Posted by: Teleprompter Feed Crew at January 29, 2014 09:47 AM (RJMhd)

55 It was, instead, a moment in miniature... Said Moochelle and Reggie, although, they squabble (and laugh at) who said it first.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2014 09:47 AM (IXrOn)

56 and again I said "F*** you," then I turned him off my TV and watched something else for twenty minutes Busty. Lesbian. Pron.

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2014 09:48 AM (59naz)

57 I don't know if his speeches are like s*x, but his presidency is a lot like getting ****ed.

Posted by: Mega at January 29, 2014 09:48 AM (hHFOx)

58 Oh I might have heard -- was it "Most of you (Congressmen) came here to do good"? Posted by: ace at January 29, 2014 01:41 PM ....Sounds like something President ManChild would say.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 09:48 AM (C3Wjb)

59 Meh, just another lefty subtextually whining that Obama is "too centrist," or "not progressive enough." Just like lefties who respond to the empirical evidence that leftist economics is a dismal failure - "No one has ever truly tried communicsm." Or Krugtron's "The stimulus failed because it wasn't big enough." Every single leftist philosophy is based upon eschewing accountability.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 29, 2014 09:48 AM (fT3qO)

60 communism*

Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 29, 2014 09:48 AM (fT3qO)

61 46 - In fairness to Castellanos, I agree that when being forced to listen to TFG , I always think, BOHICA.

Posted by: votermom at January 29, 2014 09:49 AM (GSIDW)

62 It's good to know that in DC politics, there are bought dogs that still stay bought. (sniff)

Posted by: mrp at January 29, 2014 09:49 AM (JBggj)

63 HNNnnNggHH!!!

UHhhhHHNgHHh!

Oh baby! Oh baby!
UhHUHhnNGHHH!!!!!!!!

BARRYYYYY!!!!!


Posted by: Alex Castellanos rewatching the SOTU over and over at January 29, 2014 09:49 AM (5ikDv)

64 and I cursed "F*** you" at the TV.
=============
That's a Club I'm proud to be a member of, "Fuck you" while I scramble to change the channel.

Posted by: RoyalOil at January 29, 2014 09:49 AM (VjL9S)

65 For those that missed it last night, "MyRA" already exists.

It's for people with rheumatoid arthritis.

http://www.trackmyra.com/

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 29, 2014 09:49 AM (4WhSY)

66 Hang on, I can't do an ampersand, but I can do this...?

✔

Posted by: Mega at January 29, 2014 09:49 AM (hHFOx)

67 “I think I’ve said before that a speech by Barack Obama is a lot like sex,” Castellanos told a CNN panel after the State of the Union Tuesday night. “The worst there ever was is still excellent.” Consentual sex, yes. What TFG is doing to America? BOHICA

Posted by: Baron Von Ottomatic at January 29, 2014 09:49 AM (Qat6t)

68 Never tuned Duh!1 in.
His Preznincy has fallen- and can't get up....

Posted by: backhoe at January 29, 2014 09:50 AM (ULH4o)

69 I brushed my teeth... With Hobo Blood and Baking Soda.

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2014 09:50 AM (59naz)

70 Zombie, notmally i would agree with that, In a non fiscal recession / depresion crisis.
The Govt is picking winners and losers.
They are benifiting from govt largesse.
So yeah there is a crisis  for millions at this point
bewteen regulations , pay to play.

look at d.c compared to most of the country

Posted by: willow at January 29, 2014 09:50 AM (nqBYe)

71 "I think I've said before that a speech by Barack Obama is a lot like sex," Castellanos told a CNN panel after the State of the Union Tuesday night. "The worst there ever was is still excellent like a hummer with teeth & braces". Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2014 09:50 AM (lUXJH)

72 As for not watching it: I am not exaggerating when I say that I have not watched a video of, not willingly seen a photo of, nor heard the voice of, Barack Obama, since November 2008. I have absolutely tuned him out, purposely. Yeah, sure, by accident his visage has crossed my gaze here and there, but I instantly turn away, shield my eyes, or change the channel, and whatever else was necessary to cease perceiving him. I also have not spoken his name since 2008. Not once. These steps have kept me mentally healthy.

Posted by: zombie at January 29, 2014 09:50 AM (+cx5n)

73 there are so many errors in that paragraph (not content) but every fkn thing else.

sorry

Posted by: willow at January 29, 2014 09:50 AM (nqBYe)

74 Start "MyRA" then use the tax code to ensure that it's the only option in your 401K portfolio, reap all the monies. Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 29, 2014 01:47 .........Well thank heavens the government is going to step in and do something we can already do on our own. Sounds like (0)care. Facepalm.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 09:51 AM (C3Wjb)

75

Obama walks into a bar and orders a beer.

 

The bartender goes to Obama to serve the beer and Obama has moves to another stool.   The bartender then goes to that spot and Obama moves again to another stool.    The bartender goes one more time to serve the beer and Obama  again moves to another stool.  

 

The bartender says,  " Listen guy , what the hell are you doing?"

 

Obama says,  "  This is the only way I can keep my SOTU promise" 

Posted by: polynikes at January 29, 2014 09:51 AM (m2CN7)

76 So... the oceans are gonna keep rising, then?

Posted by: jwpaine @PirateBallerina at January 29, 2014 09:51 AM (2oU2+)

77 His big brag these days is that 8 million jobs have been created during his administration. I'm no Amish guy but he's been president for approximately 60 months. 8 million divided by 60 is roughly 130,000 jobs per month. Dear Barry, 130,000 jobs/month sucks.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 29, 2014 09:51 AM (g1DWB)

78
It has always amazed me that Obama is regarded as a good orator, let alone a great one. His voice is grating. His delivery is choppy and seemingly divorced from the meaning of what he's saying. His anger sounds shrill, his attempts at humor buffoonish, his "folksiness" condescending. It's as if he still sees himself as a law-school instructor lecturing to a room of bored L1 students.

Posted by: Brown Line at January 29, 2014 09:51 AM (VrNoa)

79 That's the problem: Obama has not executed; he has not found a way to overcome his era's obstacles and fulfill his potential for greatness. It may be too late to learn how. He-llo. See Training Wheels, circa August 4, 1961. Also, see Malignant Narcissim

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2014 09:51 AM (IXrOn)

80 I'm surprised that Alex Castellantos could manage to say anything with so much Obama in his mouth and all.

Posted by: physics geek at January 29, 2014 09:51 AM (MT22W)

81 Note to alleged GOP strategists:  If you think a speech by President Obama is a lot like sex, you're doing it wrong.

Posted by: rabidsquirrel at January 29, 2014 09:52 AM (NkJ0Q)

82 Income inequality is something to applaud, not    bemoan.     Income inequality is the driving force behind people trying to improve themselves.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 29, 2014 09:52 AM (ZkzmI)

83 That's the problem: Obama has not executed;


thank G-d!

Posted by: willow at January 29, 2014 09:52 AM (nqBYe)

84 “I think I’ve said before that a speech by Barack Obama is a lot like sex... “The worst there ever was is still excellent.” This guy has no clue.

Posted by: The Chicken at January 29, 2014 09:52 AM (59naz)

85 Yeah but "MyRa" just has me thinking about the Egyptian god. Maybe that is what Egyptians used to cry out during sex? "my Ra, my Ra, my Raaaaaaaaaaa"?

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at January 29, 2014 09:52 AM (RZ8pf)

86

He actually says "Good Speech, Modest Agenda," then the rest of it.

 

BTW, I find it cute that an alleged journalist would take the Preezy's open    pronouncement that he's going to flout the Constitution and go around Congress as being    a   "modest" agenda.   One suspects that when the trains start coming to truck conservatives off to the concentration camps, Ron Fournier's     reaction will be    that it's an    inconsequential     development. 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at January 29, 2014 09:52 AM (4df7R)

87 And then does anyone remember-- Paul Ryan falling for almost the same taunt from-- Timothy Geithner? Remember that? So Paul Ryan dutifully tries to come up with a plan so people can vote FOR something -- (--btw that is the exact line Obama used in his taunt to the GOP last night) and how did that play in Florida? Florida--the state that the GOP absolutely needs to when the Presidency? "Paul Ryan wants to take your Social Security!!!!" Romney and Ryan could have rolled up their sleeves and went with their dry erase boards everywhere--and they would not have been able to counter that. And of course--here we go again.

Posted by: Teleprompter Feed Crew at January 29, 2014 09:52 AM (RJMhd)

88 130,000 jobs/month sucks.

Well it's almost keeping up with population growth. Trophy Time!!!!!

Posted by: Mega at January 29, 2014 09:53 AM (hHFOx)

89 I watched the Dead Zone  again  last night.   Greg Stillson would have made a better President than Obama. 

Posted by: polynikes at January 29, 2014 09:53 AM (m2CN7)

90 I made it through about 15 minutes, which is the longest I've made it through any of TFG's speeches since, well, probably never. Then I shut it off in disgust and listened to Rush's latest album, Clockwork Angels. Pretty damn good album for the oldsters. "The Garden" is one of the best songs they ever did. Sort of their "Stairway to Heaven." Then I turned on MSDNC to watch them gush over the Preezy. FOX was boring me almost as much as TFG. At least you can laugh at MSDNC.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 29, 2014 09:53 AM (7ObY1)

91 The real question, of course, is if those damn bastards let him be clear.

Posted by: Lauren at January 29, 2014 09:54 AM (hFL/3)

92 Ron Fournier's reaction will be that it's an inconsequential development.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at January 29, 2014 01:52 PM (4df7R)

Nah... "progress".

Posted by: Mega at January 29, 2014 09:54 AM (hHFOx)

93 130,000 jobs/month sucks. Well it's almost keeping up with population growth. We're doing our best to help, Mr. President!

Posted by: Planned Parenthood at January 29, 2014 09:54 AM (59naz)

94 Another cold, hard fact: Obama may not have the skill, the will, or the time to do much about it.
========
News Flash: He never did, either. The first two that is. He never had the ability nor the intention to do any of those wonderful things he said to the masses.

So, fuck you.

You called us all racist when we tried to tell the truth--he is a child utterly unqualified in every measure possible to be a President.

So, fuck you.

And you called us racist again when we conceded that even if he possessed the bare minimum of qualifications, not one of his policy proposals were feasible, intelligent or fact-based.

So, fuck you.

In short: Fuck. You.

Posted by: RoyalOil at January 29, 2014 09:54 AM (VjL9S)

95 That's a Club I'm proud to be a member of, "Fuck you" while I scramble to change the channel. Posted by: RoyalOil at January 29, 2014 01:49 PM ......Yep. have my membership card. I got in trouble though with Mrs. Minnfidel because I did that one night and didn't realize my 9 year old was behind me. Which of course she couldn't wait to inform her mother that Daddy said the "F" word to the president! So now I am in the secret "Fuck You" club. First rule of "Fuck You" club. Don't talk about "Fuck You" club!

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 09:54 AM (C3Wjb)

96 drones were mentioned?
or was that a room joke  during the speech?

Posted by: willow at January 29, 2014 09:54 AM (nqBYe)

97 So...we went 0-for-3 for rebuttals last night?

Posted by: soothsayer, they chanted at January 29, 2014 09:54 AM (4Br8g)

98 So that's what I got out of it. - Ace Braver than I. I watched the violence of a serial killer via an episode of Whitechapel. I guess it was a similar experience.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2014 09:54 AM (IXrOn)

99 Ugh - why must Obama and sex even be in the same sentence. Mind bleach.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2014 09:54 AM (POpqt)

100 I'm sure most of you guys have seen that Rep. Grimm video--- let's just remember one thing-- Grimm had to sit through the SOTU. (Gawd!)

Posted by: Teleprompter Feed Crew at January 29, 2014 09:55 AM (RJMhd)

101 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 09:55 AM (PYAXX)

102 Give yourself a raise.

Posted by: cheshirelion at January 29, 2014 09:55 AM (Dq7wL)

103 I guess when you've lost Ron Fournier, you've lost, um, uh, who is this guy again?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at January 29, 2014 09:55 AM (0HooB)

104 Well it's almost keeping up with population growth. We're doing our best to help, Mr. President! Posted by: Planned Parenthood at January 29, 2014 01:54 PM Us too!

Posted by: LaRaza and Republicans at January 29, 2014 09:55 AM (C3Wjb)

105 MyRA??? Isn't that rheumatoid arthritis?

Posted by: DangerGirl Telecommunications at January 29, 2014 09:55 AM (Ryac4)

106 And OF COURSE ace would post while I was downstairs grabbing lunch.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 09:55 AM (PYAXX)

107 Ra, climbing the horizon Rising up the mountain, lighting up the valley below Ra, giver without measure Beacon of compassion, shining through the spectrum of life Day is born, night is gone One in all, all is one Communion with the sun Ra, ruler of all nature Burning on forever, melting all together in one Ra, holy synthesizer Inspiration showers green and growing gardens of love Voices rise to the song One in all, all is one Communion with the sun, with the sun Ra, Ra, Ra, Ra, Ra, Ra, Ra, Ra Ra, climbing the horizon Waves of light come rolling across the floor of the valley Ra, Ra, Ra, Ra, Ra Lift your eyes to the dawn One in all, all is one Communion with the sun Todd Rundgren's UTOPIA, "Communion With the Sun" (1977)

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 29, 2014 09:55 AM (7ObY1)

108 None of the conservative SC justices showed up. Roberts was, of course.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2014 09:56 AM (IXrOn)

109 Didn't watch the speech. Was in the office by 0600, left at 1830. Went home and reheated the Chicken Paprikash I made Sunday night. Curled up by the fire and edited Book 09. Later, it occurred to me the Dead Or Alive song "In Too Deep" could be about buttsecks. Fell asleep right around the time Choom Boy took the stage.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at January 29, 2014 09:56 AM (QXlbZ)

110 I watched the whole thing. (You're welcome!) He was high.

Posted by: LadyS at January 29, 2014 09:56 AM (tMTsS)

111 "I'm no Amish guy but he's been president for approximately 60 months. 8 million divided by 60 is roughly 130,000 jobs per month. Dear Barry, 130,000 jobs/month sucks." Not to mention that these are low wage or part-time jobs. That part of the equation always gets conveniently left out.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 29, 2014 09:56 AM (fT3qO)

112 He doesn't really have the ability to motivate. He can't do anything without selecting a villain, and all he can do is foment hate against the villain. As a motivator toward positive action, that's ineffective. He'd be great at starting a civil war. Not so good at anything else.

Posted by: --- at January 29, 2014 09:56 AM (MMC8r)

113 I'd bet that his new "MyRA" proposal contains a gentle hint as to who he thinks it really belongs to.

Posted by: rickl at January 29, 2014 09:56 AM (zoehZ)

114 Still want to know what this MyRA is and how he has the authority to create it. Were the original IRAs and Roth IRAs created by executive fiat or by acts of law passed by Congress?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 29, 2014 09:56 AM (ZPrif)

115 Oh, guess I'm a little late.

Posted by: DangerGirl Telecommunications at January 29, 2014 09:56 AM (Ryac4)

116 govt would handle your myra as they do your tax dollars.

Invest in 'their' dreams of the future

Posted by: willow at January 29, 2014 09:56 AM (nqBYe)

117 109. It was interesting that Sotomayor was absent too.

Posted by: LadyS at January 29, 2014 09:57 AM (tMTsS)

118 "These steps have kept me mentally healthy."

Zombie, I'm like you: I avoid the JEF whenever possible.

When I was growing up and attending Catholic elementary school, the nuns taught us that some situations in life are what they called "an occasion of sin" - meaning that the situation presented a temptation too strong for us to resist. These "occasions of sin" differ from one person to another, but the best way to handle them, whatever they might happen to be for you, is to avoid them.

For me, the JEF is an occasion of sin: in my case, the sin of wrath - of excessive, uncontrollable anger. So I avoid him whenever possible, for the good of my soul - and I mean that literally.

Posted by: Brown Line at January 29, 2014 09:57 AM (VrNoa)

119 “I think I’ve said before that a speech by Barack Obama is a lot like sex,” Castellanos told a CNN panel after the State of the Union Tuesday night. “The worst there ever was is still excellent. no words....

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2014 09:57 AM (IXrOn)

120 I'm no Amish guy but he's been president for approximately 60 months. 8 million divided by 60 is roughly 130,000 jobs per month. Dear Barry, 130,000 jobs/month sucks. 50 months. 10 months were Christmas hires in retail, fired after Christmas. Not steady employment.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2014 09:57 AM (lUXJH)

121 I was on the phone with DirecTV the whole time trying to get one of my remote controls/cable boxes fixed....and that was infinitely more pleasant than listening to that asshat blathering on and on.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 29, 2014 09:57 AM (bCEmE)

122 I think Alex should never work in this town again.

Posted by: oeJay44incday endorses Cotton Mather's Night Rider Puritan Holy War on Strumpets and Wastrels at January 29, 2014 09:57 AM (QxSug)

123

I managed to     avoid Obama's Shit on the Union speech by falling asleep and then waking up when it was over.  

 

So yeah, Alex Castellanos, I agree with you.   Obammy's speeches are a lot like sex, if the sex is so fucking boring, hackneyed and full of self-aggrandizing prevarication that    you    find it's easier    and more enjoyable    to          pass out until it's done.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at January 29, 2014 09:57 AM (4df7R)

124 "Isn't that rheumatoid arthritis?" Yeah. Which is sort of appropriate given the gnawing and growing pain that will be inflicted upon anyone who puts their money into that "locked box."

Posted by: Lauren at January 29, 2014 09:57 AM (hFL/3)

125 O.K. Super cereal here guys. This one time, at band camp....

Posted by: Alex Castellantos at January 29, 2014 09:57 AM (C3Wjb)

126 Tuesday night was no such moment. You may tell jokes Mr. Jerry Seinfeld...But you are no 'Comedian'.

Posted by: Katya at January 29, 2014 09:57 AM (59naz)

127 The Roth IRA was established by the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-34) and named for its chief legislative sponsor, Senator William Roth of Delaware. -wiki gods

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 29, 2014 09:58 AM (ZPrif)

128 My fellow citizens, the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.

Posted by: You Know Who at January 29, 2014 09:58 AM (hHFOx)

129 Barack Obama duckspeak double-plus-good!

Posted by: Ron Fournier at January 29, 2014 09:58 AM (WDySP)

130 Which of course she couldn't wait to inform her mother that Daddy said the "F" word to the president! So now I am in the secret "Fuck You" club. First rule of "Fuck You" club. Don't talk about "Fuck You" club! Posted by: Minnfidel Oooooooohhhhh! Double sekrit probation Mister!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2014 09:58 AM (lUXJH)

131

“I think I’ve said before that a speech by Barack Obama is a lot like sex,” Castellanos told a CNN panel after the State of the Union Tuesday night. “The worst there ever was is still excellent.”

 

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

 

And then you have the walk of shame and the regrets the next day.

Posted by: @JohnTant at January 29, 2014 09:59 AM (PFy0L)

132 Many only voted because, well, Historic First. Next time maybe libs will try merit as the yardstick. I could hardly keep from laughing while typing that given their front runner 2016 is Historic First, The Vagina Edition.

Posted by: dogfish at January 29, 2014 09:59 AM (nsOJa)

133 The traditional IRA was "established by the Tax Reform Act (TRA) of 1986, (Pub.L. 99-514, 100 Stat. 2085), a Traditional IRA is an individual retirement account (IRA) in the United States." - wiki gods

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 29, 2014 09:59 AM (ZPrif)

134 About that MyRA. This is not independently verified but... My wife has a friend who was obama booted off of private insurance. Had no other real choice but to sign up through the exchange. Surprise, she is now REQUIRED to take her children to whatever doctor appointments the government deems as necessary. I'm betting that if you have a retirement of any sort and you get a MyRA, your MyRA isn't yours and your other retirement planning won't be either. Has anyone else heard of the children of obamacare thing?

Posted by: traye at January 29, 2014 09:59 AM (tAyaV)

135 He's not running for office again. He doesn't give a shit if people vote for him. And it appears he can do what he wants without the approval of congress. So, Obama is doing just fine. And for the leftys that don't love him anymore...if they had another election tomorrow, they'd vote for him in a heart beat. Look at Seeger -- a 50 year apologist for a mass murderer and they were fapping all over the place for him yesterday.

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 29, 2014 09:59 AM (E4MKN)

136 "...Americans may have already tuned out ..." Bathhouse Barry. Actually, it has gone way beyond that to laughing at the jackass.

Posted by: Steve in Greensboro at January 29, 2014 09:59 AM (ZG3Fa)

137 130,000 jobs/month sucks. Not to the new government cheese rats that hold many of those jobs. And how many of those other jobs are low-paid, part time work?

Posted by: shredded chi - If the river was whiskey, I'd be a diving duck at January 29, 2014 09:59 AM (TwyVT)

138 A speech by Obama is like sex? Really? Maybe the Fulton St. Fair.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 29, 2014 09:59 AM (l3vZN)

139 114 I'd bet that his new "MyRA" proposal contains a gentle hint as to who he thinks it really belongs to. He'd love to call it ObamaRetire, but too many people would hope he meant it literally.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 29, 2014 09:59 AM (7ObY1)

140 I bite my thumb at him.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 29, 2014 10:00 AM (F75MN)

141 This Fournier fag seems to be upset that obama isn't Hugo Chavez.

Posted by: soothsayer, they chanted at January 29, 2014 10:00 AM (QVbQw)

142 The MyIRA was "established by the Fucking Whims of Barry McFuckstick Act of 2014".

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 29, 2014 10:00 AM (ZPrif)

143 he used his Stage Whisper fake drama voice -- and I cursed "F*** you" at the TV.


Of all the dogshit dimestore rhetorical devices that cockwipe uses, that is the most annoying.  But Medved is probably still insisting he's a great orator; unless he's using an expanded definition of that term.

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 29, 2014 10:00 AM (7FFZz)

144

I think I’ve said before that a speech by Barack Obama is a lot like sex,” Castellanos told a CNN panel after the State of the Union Tuesday night. “The worst there ever was is still excellent.


Yep,  no one mispronounces  words like corpsmen and Orion  or accidently reads  the wrong text on the teleprompter   quite  like  Obama. 

 He does it the bestesses.

Posted by: polynikes at January 29, 2014 10:00 AM (m2CN7)

145 “I think I’ve said before that a speech by Barack Obama is a lot like sex,” Castellanos told a CNN panel after the State of the Union Tuesday night. “The worst there ever was is still excellent.”


Oh, trust me, I saw enough of this on my FB TL last night. I stay in touch via FB with several folks with whom I would not engage politically because of their leanings (lots of photos of fundraisers for PPAct and DeBlasio on their TL, as an indicator). One couple was discussing "coitus during the SOTU", and felt POTUS "hit it out of the park", while asked whether the Republican response "could've been any stupider". The uphill battle that we face is that these people have just as much, if not more, access to the low-information voter as we do. And that's a real problem for changing minds.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at January 29, 2014 10:00 AM (XrGnJ)

146 I'm old enough to remember when "unilateral" was considered a dirty word by the left. Of course, so is my 14 y/o.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 29, 2014 10:00 AM (fT3qO)

147 There are no good obama speeches. come on, what's the "tear down this wall" or 9-11 debris speech? Such bullshit, his oration is shit, and the speeches are written by hackiest hacks, like he just picked up a high school model un third place debater and made him his speech writer.

Posted by: oeJay44incday endorses Cotton Mather's Night Rider Puritan Holy War on Strumpets and Wastrels at January 29, 2014 10:00 AM (QxSug)

148 I'm sure MyRA would be kept in a lockbox and not frivously spent like some other nationalized retirement program, right?

Posted by: DangerGirl Telecommunications at January 29, 2014 10:01 AM (Ryac4)

149 "That's the problem: Obama has not executed; he has not found a way to overcome his era's obstacles and fulfill his potential for greatness. It may be too late to learn how."

That's the Left.  Always looking for the man on horseback. 

Plus this: "and fulfill his potential for greatness".  Note to Fournier - that's not why we elect presidents.  The primary duty of the chief executive of the United States of America is to uphold the Constitution.  He swore an oath (three times, so far) to do so.  The results ought to be self-evident.

Posted by: mrp at January 29, 2014 10:01 AM (JBggj)

150 Obama's not running for office again. The key word is "running."

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 29, 2014 10:01 AM (7ObY1)

151 I'd bet that his new "MyRA" proposal contains a gentle hint as to who he thinks it really belongs to. He already said. MyRA = My R A.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2014 10:01 AM (lUXJH)

152 If Obama's speeches are a lot like sex, then how do you know when his speech is over? When the MSNBC anchor drops her nail file.

Posted by: zombie at January 29, 2014 10:01 AM (+cx5n)

153 Holy crap. I cannot find the-- "What's YOUR plan?"--part in the transcript at WaPo. It was the part where Obama was the most animated. Wonder if he went off script? (Anyone else remember hearing that part?)

Posted by: Teleprompter Feed Crew at January 29, 2014 10:01 AM (RJMhd)

154 142 This Fournier fag seems to be upset that obama isn't Hugo Chavez. Posted by: soothsayer, they chanted at January 29, 2014 02:00 PM (QVbQw)
And that is supposed to make us think Obama is a centrist.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 29, 2014 10:01 AM (F75MN)

155 Todd Rundgren's UTOPIA, "Communion With the Sun" (1977) I saw them in Louisville, KY on that tour. Great show.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at January 29, 2014 10:01 AM (0HooB)

156 "Has anyone else heard of the children of obamacare thing?" I had not heard of that, but I have heard that there will be "home visits" for children enrolled in those plans. I can't remember the exact details on that though.

Posted by: Lauren at January 29, 2014 10:01 AM (hFL/3)

157 Today, after four years of economic growth, corporate profits and stock prices have rarely been higher, and those at the top have never done better. But average wages have barely budged. Inequality has deepened. Upward mobility has stalled. The cold, hard fact is that even in the midst of recovery, too many Americans are working more than ever just to get by -- let alone get ahead. And too many still aren't working at all. Our job is to reverse these trends. Okay... first off: what "economic growth?" The only numbers we have are your fudged GDP numbers- and even the raw numbers there are skewed because of your monetary policy. Secondly- I wonder what might make companies and "those at the top" hoard wealth rather than spending it (which is how the middle and lower earners get to make more money, after all)? Could it have anything to do with crippling financial regulation (Dodd-Frank), crippling -and unnecessary- environmental regulation, and a sweeping health insurance law which has all the constancy of a fart in a hurricane?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 10:01 AM (PYAXX)

158 I'm no Amish guy but he's been president for approximately 60 months. 8 million divided by 60 is roughly 130,000 jobs per month. Meanwhile, the population has gone up, what, 12 million?

Posted by: --- at January 29, 2014 10:01 AM (MMC8r)

159 I was on the phone with DirecTV the whole time trying to get one of my remote controls/cable boxes fixed....and that was infinitely more pleasant than listening to that asshat blathering on and on. Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2014 01:57 PM .........When you listen to the SOTU, you get angry. When you get angry, you get mad. When you get mad you drink Valurite. When you drink Valurite you wake up nest to Ace in an alley. Don't wake up next to Ace in an Alley. Call 1800 DirecTV.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 10:01 AM (C3Wjb)

160

Ace, don't let Fournier get away with a faulty premise:

 

He focused on the era's seminal issue, loss of social mobility and income equality in a post-industrial, global economy.

 

Nick Gillespie:

 

This is flatly wrong. Research published last week by economists at Harvard (Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren) and Berkeley (Patrick Kline, Emmanuel Saez) concludes that rates of mobility among income quintiles have not in fact changed in decades. As the Washington Post summarized it, “Children growing up in America today are just as likely—no more, no less—to climb the economic ladder as children born more than a half-century ago, a team of economists reported Thursday.”

 

Fournier is mourning his leaderÂ’s failure to attack a pretend problem.

 

 

 

 

Posted by: CJ at January 29, 2014 10:02 AM (9KqcB)

161 He didn't mean to betray me on the farm bill, the budget, amnesty, and all. It was an accident. And it was my fault. He wouldn't have betrayed me if I hadn't complained about him pissing on me. So these black eyes are really my fault.

Posted by: Battered GOP Voter/Wife at January 29, 2014 10:02 AM (LmepH)

162 He already said. MyRA = My R A. Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2014 02:01 PM (lUXJH) -- Yup. Obamacare -> deathpanel So then he gets whatever you put in MyRa

Posted by: votermom at January 29, 2014 10:03 AM (GSIDW)

163 his Stage Whisper fake drama voice

Oh, good grief, I hate that voice too. It is so phony! He gets all breathy and fake strained but it still sounds like BS.

Posted by: PJ at January 29, 2014 10:03 AM (ZWaLo)

164 .........When you listen to the SOTU, you get angry. When you get angry, you get mad. When you get mad you drink Valurite. When you drink Valurite you wake up nest to Ace in an alley. Don't wake up next to Ace in an Alley. Call 1800 DirecTV. Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 02:01 PM (C3Wjb) LOL!!!

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 29, 2014 10:03 AM (bCEmE)

165 Curled up by the fire and edited Book 09.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at January 29, 2014 01:56 PM (QXlbZ)




This, I believe, was a much better use of your time.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 29, 2014 10:03 AM (yh0zB)

166 this Alex person is he/she really a republican consultant? that explains a ton the worst sex ever is, is rape

Posted by: thunderb at January 29, 2014 10:03 AM (zOTsN)

167 139 A speech by Obama is like sex? Really? Maybe the Fulton St. Fair. Posted by: Jinx the Cat That's Folsom, baby: Folsom Street.

Posted by: zombie at January 29, 2014 10:03 AM (+cx5n)

168 “I think I’ve said before that a speech by Barack Obama is a lot like sex,” Castellanos told a CNN panel after the State of the Union Tuesday night. “The worst there ever was is still excellent.” What? I don’t know who Castellanos is & after reading that I don’t want to.

Posted by: Carol at January 29, 2014 10:03 AM (z4WKX)

169 111 I watched the whole thing. (You're welcome!) He was high. Posted by: LadyS at January 29, 2014 01:56 PM (tMTsS) ************** Come back--Come back? Do you remember hearing that part where Obama is telling the GOP-- "whats' your (healthcare) plan?" I'm trying to find the exact wording in a transcript. Not finding it at the WaPo.

Posted by: Teleprompter Feed Crew at January 29, 2014 10:03 AM (RJMhd)

170 Obvious notes: Did we let him be clear? Has he said something before, as in stuff he's always said, thereby referencing some imaginary point in time in which he put forth the intellectual effort to justify his shitty ideas? Did he move the needle? Where are my 100,000 teachers and taxes on the rich that we need to get America working again? Was there a pivot to jobs? Have we come far, but not far enough? Is now the time for action?

Posted by: oeJay44incday endorses Cotton Mather's Night Rider Puritan Holy War on Strumpets and Wastrels at January 29, 2014 10:04 AM (QxSug)

171 Great orator my ass.

Posted by: Stuff Cicero Said In Latin, vol. II at January 29, 2014 10:04 AM (RHeYi)

172 Oooooooohhhhh! Double sekrit probation Mister! Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2014 01:58 PM ..yep. Now I just silently mouth fuck you when I see his jugeared face come on the t.v.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 10:04 AM (C3Wjb)

173 osted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at January 29, 2014 01:57 PM (4df7R) LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 29, 2014 10:04 AM (7kkQJ)

174 Why should we factor in the number of jobs lost? That's totes unrelated.

Posted by: Average Leftist at January 29, 2014 10:04 AM (fT3qO)

175 160 Classic Minnfidel!

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at January 29, 2014 10:04 AM (ojnk6)

176 I saw them in Louisville, KY on that tour. Great show. Cool. I'm jealous. I was only 13 that year and didn't see the show. Utopia served as their own opening act on that one, iirc. Not a big Rundgren fan but I loved Utopia, ProgHead that I am. Prog Rock, of course, not politics!

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 29, 2014 10:04 AM (7ObY1)

177 also the idea the progs are disappointed shows just how much more they want they want a socialist dictator they want no opposition ever they want rule by dictate

Posted by: thunderb at January 29, 2014 10:04 AM (zOTsN)

178 .........When you listen to the SOTU, you get angry. When you get angry, you get mad. When you get mad you drink Valurite. When you drink Valurite you wake up nest to Ace in an alley. Don't wake up next to Ace in an Alley. Call 1800 DirecTV.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 02:01 PM (C3Wjb)




*golf clap*

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 29, 2014 10:04 AM (yh0zB)

179 How we got 401(k) plans: 1978: Congress passes the Revenue Act of 1978, which includes a provision that allows employees to avoid being taxed on a portion of income that they decide to receive as deferred compensation, rather than direct pay. The provision becomes InternalRevenue Code Sec. 401(k). 1981: The I.R.S.issues rules allowing the funding of 401(k) plans through employee salary reductions. 1982: Several companies-such as Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo and Honeywell -- begin tooffer 401(k) plans to their employees. By 1983, nearly half of all large employers either offer a 401(k) plan or are consideringoffering one, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute. 1984: The Tax Reform Act of 1984 requires "nondiscrimination" testing to prevent 401(k) plans from favoring highly compensated employees over rank-and-file workers. At the time, Congress was concerned that executives would take advantage of 401(k) plans more than lower-paid employees. 1996: Assets in 401(k) plans surpass $1 trillion, with more than 30 million participants. 2001: The Economic Growth andTax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 provides for catch-up contributions for participants 50 and older, as well as the creation of Roth 401(k)s, which let after-tax contributions grow tax-free. 2006: The Pension Protection Act of 2006 allows employers to automatically enroll employees in 401(k) plans, and offer target-date funds as adefault option . Read more: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/the-surprising-origins-of-your-401k-cm258685#ixzz2rodkQOWl Still not seeing where these types of things are passed on whims during a SOTU speech.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 29, 2014 10:04 AM (ZPrif)

180 161 Ace, don't let Fournierget awaywith a faulty premise: He focused on the era's seminal issue, loss of social mobility and income equality in a post-industrial, global economy. Nick Gillespie: This is flatly wrong. Research published last week by economists at Harvard (Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren) and Berkeley (Patrick Kline, Emmanuel Saez) concludes that rates of mobility among income quintiles have not in fact changed in decades. As the Washington Post summarized it, “Children growing up in America today are just as likely—no more, no less—to climb the economic ladder as children born more than a half-century ago, a team of economists reported Thursday.” Fournier is mourning his leader’s failure to attack a pretend problem. Posted by: CJ YES!! See my comment #43 above for the same point.

Posted by: zombie at January 29, 2014 10:04 AM (+cx5n)

181 Okay... first off: what "economic growth?" The only numbers we have are your fudged GDP numbers- and even the raw numbers there are skewed because of your monetary policy. And the change in calculation.

Posted by: --- at January 29, 2014 10:04 AM (MMC8r)

182 nevermind, goes back  to steam  cleaning the carpets.

Posted by: willow at January 29, 2014 10:05 AM (nqBYe)

183

Today, after four years of economic growth, corporate profits and stock prices have rarely been higher, and those at the top have never done better. But average wages have barely budged. Inequality has deepened. Upward mobility has stalled. The cold, hard fact is that even in the midst of recovery, too many Americans are working more than ever just to get by -- let alone get ahead. And too many still aren't working at all. Our job is to reverse these trends.

 

Someone refuted this the other day with facts and figures  during other administrations.   Appears the Bush  boys had the most level playing field between poor and rich. 

Posted by: polynikes at January 29, 2014 10:06 AM (m2CN7)

184 All I got out of it was Ace brushed his teeth before bed.

Wait, Obama said something last night? Missed it.

Posted by: JWF at January 29, 2014 10:06 AM (1l37M)

185 Not long ago, I was tucking my 11-year old into bed and he asked me a question:
==================

Him: "Dad, what's the biggest mistake America has ever made?"

Me:"Well, how we treated the American Indians comes to mind, the Bay of Pigs, ----"

Him:"I think the biggest mistake we ever made was electing Barack Obama."
===================

Now THAT'S how you make your old dad proud. ::sniff::

Posted by: physics geek at January 29, 2014 10:06 AM (MT22W)

186 Holy shit. Cannot find it at the nor.org copy of the transcript either.

Posted by: Teleprompter Feed Crew at January 29, 2014 10:06 AM (RJMhd)

187 170. Yes, I do remember "What's your plan?" Tauntsy JEF.

Posted by: LadyS at January 29, 2014 10:07 AM (tMTsS)

188

"People really ought to not seek too much meaning or "inspiration or excitement" in politicians, political parties, or political 5 point plans. That's kind of Dummy Stuff, isn't it?"

 

It sets the stage for some pretty high body counts - at least, that's what history tells me.

 

"Let me see - trying to get inspiration from people and movements who are dedicated to acquiring temporal power.  What're the odds of that going wrong?"

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Buy a Hissy or Coniption, Get a Free Fitting! at January 29, 2014 10:07 AM (hLRSq)

189

"...alleged GOP strategist and CNN gadfly Alex Castellantos..."

 

That there is such a thing as a 'GOP Strategist' is a marvel to me. All evidence indicated such an animal doesn't exist. It's like finding Bigfoot or proving the legend of the dreaded Chupacabra.

Posted by: Whig Party Chairman in 1852 at January 29, 2014 10:07 AM (2jF2B)

190 I posted this in last dead thread. I listened to last week’s podcast after Mark Levin’s show was over. Then I put Levin on again. Levin had Dr. Paul Kengor on, he said how much of an influence Frank Marshall Davis was on TFG, Valerie Jarrett & Axelrod. He called SCOAMF a “red diaper baby”. Now I am reading his article at The American Thinker from almost two years ago, about the meaning of “Forward” etc.

Posted by: Carol at January 29, 2014 10:07 AM (z4WKX)

191 today's There's Always One is some idiot walking backwards on the treadmill

Posted by: soothsayer, they chanted at January 29, 2014 10:07 AM (QVbQw)

192 Off, damned sock.

Posted by: troyriser at January 29, 2014 10:07 AM (2jF2B)

193 How many of those 8 million jobs are in the oil production industries that his skinny ass has tried to stifle?

Posted by: --- at January 29, 2014 10:07 AM (MMC8r)

194 That there is such a thing as a 'GOP Strategist' is a marvel to me. All evidence indicated such an animal doesn't exist. I disagree. The GOP couldn't do this badly on its own.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 10:08 AM (PYAXX)

195 Physics geek. W Wilson? Lots of dead from that guy.

Posted by: traye at January 29, 2014 10:08 AM (tAyaV)

196

If you want nothing more striking than the comparison between big govt socialist and small government conservative, compare the economy under Reagan vs. Obama.

 

Reagan:

In one month, created over a MILLION jobs.  Labor market participation rate was INCREASING.  Economy was rocking from 1982 onwards and didn't look back until GHWB started fucking things up.

Obstacles Reagan faced:  oil crisis, 13% Fed rate, runaway inflation, no $1T stimulus, no Quantitative Easing, SNL crisis, short period of extended UE benefits.

 

Despite all of this, under Reagan the economy flourished and Americans were back to work.

 

Obama:

0% Fed rate, no inflation, no oil crisis, $1T of stimulus, QE easing to the tune of at least $3T in new money, endless extended UE benefits.

 

And yet, despite all this help and big govt cheese our economy is about as shitty as it was under Jimmy Carter, and he has almost doubled the national debt to what will be $20T by the time he leaves.

 

The comparison is quite shocking when you account for all the headwinds that Reagan took on and defeated and then compare the tailwinds that still can't push this economy "forward" under obama.

Posted by: prescient11 at January 29, 2014 10:08 AM (tVTLU)

197 Do you remember hearing that part where Obama is telling the GOP-- "whats' your (healthcare) plan?" I'm trying to find the exact wording in a transcript. "Nine million people have enrolled in the exchanges or Medicaid." "Let's see if your numbers add up." He actually said those two things within two minutes of one another.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 29, 2014 10:08 AM (659DL)

198 Obama and sex: It was great for you, wasn't it? I mean, I'm really terrific aren't I? I'm much better than your rich Republican boyfriend who didn't care what happens to you and never did. Hey, baby, Have I got the goods or what?!!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 29, 2014 10:09 AM (7kkQJ)

199 Teleprompter Feed Crew, about when do you think he said this? How many minutes into the speech?

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 29, 2014 10:09 AM (bCEmE)

200 today's There's Always One is some idiot walking backwards on the treadmill Posted by: soothsayer, they chanted at January 29, 2014 02:07 PM .........Is he wearing mom jeans and does he have big jug ears? I think I know that fucking guy.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 10:09 AM (C3Wjb)

201 I am not sure how Alex Castellantos could say the speech was good. It was mediocre at best and terrible in comparison to other Obama speeches.

Posted by: wodun at January 29, 2014 10:09 AM (fbqZE)

202 "How many of those 8 million jobs are in the oil production industries that his skinny ass has tried to stifle?" Also, how many are in Texas?

Posted by: Lauren at January 29, 2014 10:09 AM (hFL/3)

203 Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 29, 2014 02:08 PM (659DL) I'm doubly glad I didn't watch, then. I'd be out looking for a new TV today.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 10:09 AM (PYAXX)

204 Obama, who?

Posted by: Comrade J at January 29, 2014 10:10 AM (6kkPP)

205 It's a she.

Posted by: soothsayer, they chanted at January 29, 2014 10:10 AM (QVbQw)

206 I guess I'll need to look into future candidates' strategists now.  Anyone who would hire Alex Castellantos  is nobody I would ever support.

Posted by: Marmo at January 29, 2014 10:10 AM (QW+AD)

207

OT, but there is a fucking cold breeze coming through my office door, and I have neither  A) a window, nor B) an outside wall.   My office is inside ANOTHER office.

 

This sucks.

 

*bundles*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at January 29, 2014 10:11 AM (4df7R)

208 Now we know why the markets are down 4% since last week:

FED TAPERS BOND BUYING TO $65 BLN MONTHLY PACE FROM $75 BLN

PLease, sah, more gruel!!!

Posted by: weft cut-loop[/i] [/b] at January 29, 2014 10:11 AM (cxs6V)

209 I'm doubly glad I didn't watch, then.

I'd be out looking for a new TV today.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 02:09 PM (PYAXX)




Yep, that's why I don't watch him, to keep from going Elvis on the TV.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 29, 2014 10:11 AM (yh0zB)

210 oohhh, great applause line from a guy who didn't even participate in the drafting of the law named after him

Posted by: oeJay44incday endorses Cotton Mather's Night Rider Puritan Holy War on Strumpets and Wastrels at January 29, 2014 10:11 AM (QxSug)

211 I heard that he said "What's in your wallet?"  and then under his breath said '...give it to me you filthy capitalist'

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 29, 2014 10:11 AM (ZkzmI)

212 FWIW, I read that Jon Stewart was Meh on the speech too. He said something like the Obama is in the "don't give a fuck" phase of his presidency.

Posted by: stace at January 29, 2014 10:11 AM (9PXzx)

213 "Nine million people have enrolled in the exchanges or Medicaid." Nine million, huh? Didn't your team project that you'd need at least 21 mil (or something like that) with at least 40% of them being healthy to make it work? What, pray tell, is the health-risk breakdown of those enrollees?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 10:11 AM (PYAXX)

214 Re: that 9 million figure....how many were medicaid and how many were replacing coverage Barky McShitstain kicked them off of? I'd be surprised if even a million were ne2, not to mention the young healthy ratio they need.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at January 29, 2014 10:11 AM (ojnk6)

215 I was going to watch. My wife looked at me and said, why? So you can get pissed off and swear at the TV for an hour? I agreed, poured myself a nice bourbon (Bulleit if you must know) and watched Mad Men. Much happier as was Mrs. Minnfidel.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 10:11 AM (C3Wjb)

216 OT, but there is a fucking cold breeze coming through my office door, and I have neither A) a window, nor B) an outside wall. My office is inside ANOTHER office.

This sucks.

*bundles*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at January 29, 2014 02:11 PM (4df7R)

 

Sounds like a poltergeist to me.   Maybe a spider poltergeist.  

Posted by: polynikes at January 29, 2014 10:12 AM (m2CN7)

217 "It was, instead, a moment in miniature: an executive order to raise the minimum wage for future federal contractors, and another to create "starter" retirement accounts; " Sorry, haven't had a chance to read the comments, but has anyone pointed out that the above is how the govt is going to steal the principal in retirement accounts? The govt is going to sell you an annuity with a "guaranteed return". In exchange, part of the prinicipal in your account will be frozen and escheat to the state when you die. It's coming.

Posted by: Meremortal at January 29, 2014 10:12 AM (1Y+hH)

218 Okay Mediate has it. Still Obama went a bit of script from this and improvised by adding an extra 'What's your plan!/" Sort of like a recess taunt. *** Now, I don’t expect to convince my Republican friends on the merits of this law. But I know that the American people aren’t interested in refighting old battles. So again, if you have specific plans to cut costs, cover more people, and increase choice – tell America what you’d do differently. Let’s see if the numbers add up. But let’s not have another forty-something votes to repeal a law that’s already helping millions of Americans like Amanda. The first forty were plenty. We got it. We all owe it to the American people to say what we’re for, not just what we’re against.

Posted by: Teleprompter Feed Crew at January 29, 2014 10:12 AM (RJMhd)

219

"Nine million people have enrolled in the exchanges or Medicaid."

-

There should be an asterisk there that points out that 8.5 million of the 9 million wend on medicaid

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 29, 2014 10:12 AM (ZkzmI)

220 Sounds like a poltergeist to me. Maybe a spider poltergeist.

Posted by: polynikes at January 29, 2014 02:12 PM (m2CN7)



A big face-spider poltergeist. With hairy legs.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 29, 2014 10:13 AM (yh0zB)

221 The Fed just announced that they are tapering the Bond Buying program down to $65 Billion a month. So now we are adding 3/4 of a Trillion dollars to the bond market in Monopoly Money. I see a bad end no matter what the Fed does.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 29, 2014 10:13 AM (32Ze2)

222 It was a good speech about a modest agenda delivered by a diminished leader... It's gotten to the point where Verne Troyer couldn't portray him in the movie.

Posted by: t-bird at January 29, 2014 10:13 AM (FcR7P)

223 Dude, watching television in bed is terrible for you, especially if you already have problems sleeping.

Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at January 29, 2014 10:13 AM (yE8uc)

224 I'm tired. Someone be a dear and peep for a nood.

Posted by: soothsayer, they chanted at January 29, 2014 10:13 AM (QVbQw)

225 Also, how many are in Texas? Posted by: Lauren at January 29, 2014 02:09 PM (hFL/3) === About half the new jobs. About a third of the good paying jobs. But does he ever look to Texas for advice? Noooooo. It's pissed me off for 5 years.

Posted by: stace at January 29, 2014 10:13 AM (9PXzx)

226 Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 29, 2014 02:13 PM (32Ze2) 65. Billion. Per. Month? And that's a decrease. Holy fuck.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 10:14 AM (PYAXX)

227 Anybody got the name of a good divorce lawyer?

Posted by: Mrs. Castellanos at January 29, 2014 10:14 AM (MMC8r)

228 I'm tired. Someone be a dear and peep for a nood. Posted by: soothsayer, they chanted at January 29, 2014 02:13 PM Nope, Nothing, just a test pattern.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 10:14 AM (C3Wjb)

229
I'm tired. Someone be a dear and peep for a nood.

Posted by: soothsayer, they chanted at January 29, 2014 02:13 PM (QVbQw)




So soon?



Nope.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 29, 2014 10:14 AM (yh0zB)

230 half in Texas and the other half in ND

Posted by: thunderb at January 29, 2014 10:14 AM (zOTsN)

231

The Fed just announced that they are tapering the Bond Buying program down to $65 Billion a month. 

-

There is no financial methadone.  Cold turkey is the best way to get over the addiction.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 29, 2014 10:14 AM (ZkzmI)

232 I love Mike LeeÂ’s speech linked at the sidebar. Why couldnÂ’t he offer the GOP response? Mark Levin said it was embargoed until 10 pm. I know that the SOTU was still going at 10 pm, or I believe it was from looking at comments on that thread last night while I was restarting computer at work.

Posted by: Carol at January 29, 2014 10:14 AM (z4WKX)

233 thanks

Posted by: soothsayer, they chanted at January 29, 2014 10:14 AM (QVbQw)

234 So again, if you have specific plans to cut costs, cover more people, and increase choice – tell America what you’d do differently. Hmm. Repeal Obamacare, the very thing which has increased costs, dropped people, and limited choices?

Posted by: t-bird at January 29, 2014 10:15 AM (FcR7P)

235 "I'm tired. Someone be a dear and peep for a nood." You'll stay on this thread and you'll like it, mister.

Posted by: Average Leftist at January 29, 2014 10:15 AM (fT3qO)

236 "...and fulfill his potential for greatness." There's no "potential for greatness" there. There never was. Obama is a petty, small man, who only reached the highest office in this country because enough people got suckered into buying a bill of goods.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at January 29, 2014 10:15 AM (itCai)

237 I didn't mention it last night because the numbers weren't yet in, but now they are.

I had predicted in advance that this would be the least viewed SOTU of Obama's presidency, and yep, Nielsen says that America collectively are tuning this guy out. Numbers are way down.

The small mercy is that comparatively few people would thus have seen Cathy McMorris Rodgers' absolutely horrible rebuttal afterwards (which I had also correctly predicted would be sad and weak).

Tim Stanley at the _Daily Telegraph_ didn't pull any punches about McMorris Rodgers:

"For all his faults, Obama is in his office because the Republicans have failed to provide a convincing alternative. They've yet to strike the right balance between folksy and presidential. Take the official GOP response, which featured a nice Republican lady sitting on a sofa talking about life, love and the American way. It resembled an ad for muscle pain medication. It was amateur. It's why conservatives keep getting beaten."

Posted by: torquewrench at January 29, 2014 10:15 AM (gqT4g)

238 So, MyRA huh?

You mean to tell me the same class of shitstains, hipsters and assholes that can't be bothered to spend $100 a month on health insurance are hot-to-trot to start saving money for retirement?

They just haven't done so yet as they're eagerly awaiting the confidence and security a government program to do so will bring?

You mean like how they're fuck-all excited about the money confiscated to pay for Social Security?


Posted by: RoyalOil at January 29, 2014 10:15 AM (VjL9S)

239 "214 "Nine million people have enrolled in the exchanges or Medicaid." And how many of those had insurance already before King Obama took it away?

Posted by: Lauren at January 29, 2014 10:15 AM (hFL/3)

240 About half the new jobs. About a third of the good paying jobs. But does he ever look to Texas for advice?

People generally don't ask for advice about something they have no intention of ever doing.

And besides, if it's not a government job, it doesn't count.

Posted by: HR at January 29, 2014 10:15 AM (ZKzrr)

241 off, lame sock

Posted by: Burn the Witch at January 29, 2014 10:15 AM (fT3qO)

242

Sounds like a poltergeist to me. Maybe a spider poltergeist.



Posted by: polynikes at January 29, 2014 02:12 PM (m2CN7)




A big face-spider poltergeist. With hairy legs.


 

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 29, 2014 02:13 PM (yh0zB)

 

 

*smacksmacksmacksmack!*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at January 29, 2014 10:15 AM (4df7R)

243 Nine million people have enrolled in the exchanges or Medicaid." - There should be an asterisk there that points out that 8.5 million of the 9 million wend on medicaid Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 29, 2014 02:12 PM Do you have a link for that? Holy shit? So we took people off of private insurance and put them into the government program? I am sure that's a feature and not a bug for Barry.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 10:16 AM (C3Wjb)

244 200 Teleprompter Feed Crew, about when do you think he said this? How many minutes into the speech? Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2014 02:09 PM (bCEmE) ********** Tami. Thanks I found the genesis of it. I put it up thread. Bt I still remember him improvising in that sections and adding a bit to it. I remember it because it was the part where he seemed to be the most animated. And, it reminded me of Timothy Geithner when he taunted Rep. Paul Ryan from the damn dais at a public hearing about the budget and the deficit.

Posted by: Teleprompter Feed Crew at January 29, 2014 10:16 AM (RJMhd)

245 228 Anybody got the name of a good divorce lawyer?

Posted by: Mrs. Castellanos at January 29, 2014 02:14 PM (MMC8r)


Yeah, you could divorce him on grounds of adultery. Open and shut.

Posted by: joncelli at January 29, 2014 10:16 AM (RD7QR)

246 MyRA. it belongs to him

Posted by: thunderb at January 29, 2014 10:17 AM (zOTsN)

247

"...my Republican friends..."

 

 

He doesn't have Democrat friends, let alone Republican friends.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Buy a Hissy or Coniption, Get a Free Fitting! at January 29, 2014 10:17 AM (hLRSq)

248 I'd like to break that Alex Castellantos in half.  What's his face, the Podesta guy, him, I'd like to throw off a balcony. 

Posted by: Mikey Grimm at January 29, 2014 10:17 AM (B5y+v)

249 The small mercy is that comparatively few people would thus have seen Cathy McMorris Rodgers' absolutely horrible rebuttal afterwards (which I had also correctly predicted would be sad and weak). Dana PeRINO said her good friend McMorris Rogers would give a great rebuttal. So, I knew in advance it would suck.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 29, 2014 10:17 AM (7ObY1)

250 All I got out of it was Ace brushed his teeth before bed. Wait, Obama said something last night? Missed it. Posted by: JWF at January 29, 2014 02:06 PM (1l37M) I think he threw that in there for dramatic effect.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2014 10:18 AM (IXrOn)

251

BTW, I love how Obammy chose to point out the story of that one woman who had a pre-existing condition and, just after the start of January, "Felt a sharp pain."  Then shortly thereafter had to have emergency surgery,   which pre-Obammycare would have bankrupted her.

 

My response when I heard mcfuckstick saying that on the radio?   "Yeah,  no one was arguing about the pre-existing conditions part, jackass.  And congrats, you've     discovered the point of catastrophic coverage,    just in time to     realize you've MADE IT ILLEGAL, you fucking worthless piece of piss-stained   jizz rag."

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at January 29, 2014 10:18 AM (4df7R)

252 244 You'll see real numbers for this right around the time we find Hoffa and the JFK assassination is definitively cleared up.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at January 29, 2014 10:18 AM (ojnk6)

253 Lie-A-Thon. Posted by: Teleprompter Feed Crew at January 29, 2014 01:45 PM (RJMhd) Does he believe the trash that the teleprompter spit outs at him? Is it from brain damage from all the drugs as Choom Boy days? I put FNC on in my car at 11:30. Megyn Kelly had Mark Thiesen, I probably misspelled his name, sorry, on. He said large parts of last nightÂ’s SOTU were taken from BushÂ’s 2007 SOTU, he knows because he wrote it. SCOAMF blames Bush & now plagiarizes him too!

Posted by: Carol at January 29, 2014 10:18 AM (z4WKX)

254 Cool. I'm jealous. I was only 13 that year and didn't see the show. Utopia served as their own opening act on that one, iirc. You're correct: no opening act at that show. Both incarnations of Utopia were really good, but I liked the first one myself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUGKqPPj2c4

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at January 29, 2014 10:18 AM (0HooB)

255 "...and fulfill his potential for greatness." Is that anything like being poised for greatness? And OT- but I had to share. The Horde may be aware that I'm getting ready to sell my house. As part of that, of course, we're cleaning everything up nice and tidy, and then taking pictures. Mrs. Tenther just called me to ask a different question, but then bragged "We have our first room clean with pictures!" DT: "Which one?" MT: "The entry way!" This is going to be a looooooong process.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 10:18 AM (PYAXX)

256

Do you have a link for that?

 

-

 

OK, I     exagerrated - it is more like 7 million    out of 9 million that are now on medicaid.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 29, 2014 10:18 AM (ZkzmI)

257 "Cathy McMorris Rodgers' absolutely horrible rebuttal..." Worse than Jindal and Water Boy?

Posted by: Meremortal at January 29, 2014 10:18 AM (1Y+hH)

258

YES!!
See my comment #43 above for the same point.

Posted by: zombie at January 29, 2014 02:04 PM (+cx5n)

 

The title of Gillespie’s piece is “Why does Obama conflate income inequality with mobility? Because it allows him to preach populism while doing nothing.” (link in sig)

 

I don’t know how they measure “income equality” but measurements for income mobility show it has NOT gotten worse. When Democrats are trying to restructure the entire economy – the entire citizen-state relationship – base on a stat, that stat better damn well be correct.

 

BONUS: The biggest single factor in lack  of income mobility? “The fraction of single parents in the area.” Another gift from enlightened progressives.

 

 

 

Posted by: CJ at January 29, 2014 10:19 AM (9KqcB)

259 "F*** you whale!"

Posted by: Japanese whaler at January 29, 2014 10:19 AM (9eDbm)

260

Obama & Co are hurting the very people they most profess to want to help.

From 1995 to 2001 Obama was Chair of the Annenberg Challenge in Chicago, an ambitious $387 million privately funded effort to run a controlled experiment as to how liberal ideas could improve inner city education. 

An August 2003 final technical report of the Chicago Annenberg Research Project by the Consortium on Chicago School Research found that "the Challenge had little impact on school improvement and student outcomes, with no statistically significant differences between Annenberg and non-Annenberg schools in rates of achievement gain, classroom behavior, student self-efficacy, and social competence."

You'd think that Obama & Co would have learned a lesson from that.

It's all a grasp for power, based on exploiting class, gender and race divides.  Until now, no country on Earth has been better at leveling these differences. 

 

 

 

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 29, 2014 10:19 AM (EPEqj)

261 Here's the hot Columbian girl I had picked out for Ace from "90 day Fiance", but it turns out she doesn't like bacon. http://tinyurl.com/n5nnfkv

Posted by: jwest at January 29, 2014 10:19 AM (u2a4R)

262 OT, but there is a fucking cold breeze coming through my office door, and I have neither A) a window, nor B) an outside wall. My office is inside ANOTHER office. This sucks. *bundles* Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at January 29, 2014 02:11 PM (4df7R) Sign of a ghost present.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2014 10:20 AM (IXrOn)

263 216 I was going to watch. My wife looked at me and said, why? So you can get pissed off and swear at the TV for an hour? I agreed, poured myself a nice bourbon (Bulleit if you must know) and watched Mad Men. Much happier as was Mrs. Minnfidel. ___________ Yea, that is a nice bourbon. My favorite, actually. That shelf is a little too high off the ground for my wallet these days, but if you go for another one tonight, think of me.

Posted by: shredded chi - If the river was whiskey, I'd be a diving duck at January 29, 2014 10:20 AM (TwyVT)

264 He doesn't have Democrat friends, let alone Republican friends. Posted by: Mikey NTH - Buy a Hissy or Coniption, Get a Free Fitting! at January 29, 2014 02:17 PM Speaking of that rat fuck McCaint. I see that his formal rebuke got his old man panties in a bundle and might run again just to spite them! I hope he does and gets his ass primaried. This time by a viable candidate. I'd love to see that POS career end in humiliation.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 10:20 AM (C3Wjb)

265 Tami. Thanks I found the genesis of it. I put it up thread. ===== Oh thank God! I don't have to listen to one word out of that buttmunch's mouth.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 29, 2014 10:20 AM (bCEmE)

266 235 So again, if you have specific plans to cut costs, cover more people, and increase choice – tell America what you’d do differently. Hmm. Repeal Obamacare, the very thing which has increased costs, dropped people, and limited choices? Posted by: t-bird at January 29, 2014 02:15 PM (FcR7P) ****************** Correct--something like that. Again--the damn Dems--can we call what they did--how they passed it-- "a plan"? No one read the damn thing, Nancy Pelosi infamously said-- "you have to pass it first to know what's in it!" And Obama and/or Sebelius is still unilaterally changing the damn thing. Plus the full effect of whatever it ends up to be is a damn unknown but sure--the republicans have to be the responsible ones and honest with the public-- and come up with a plan.

Posted by: Teleprompter Feed Crew at January 29, 2014 10:21 AM (RJMhd)

267 Dana PeRINO said her good friend McMorris Rogers would give a great rebuttal. So, I knew in advance it would suck. Ted Cruz gave the best rebuttal of them all. I posted it today over at my place. Click my nic...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at January 29, 2014 10:21 AM (0HooB)

268 "just after the start of January, "Felt a sharp pain." Then shortly thereafter had to have emergency surgery, which pre-Obammycare would have bankrupted her. *" *Unfortunately, her first monthly premium was not paid because of the faulty website so she didn't actually have coverage.

Posted by: What we'll find out next week at January 29, 2014 10:21 AM (hFL/3)

269 Libs like this are the worst. For one thing they know how ideologically polarized the WH and Congress are and how impossible it is to find middle ground when you don't even agree on the problem. They also disagree with nothing O would've pushed through if he maintained the Dem majority. So it's phony centrist posturing. I guess it's more exciting to present it as the Travails of Obama, though, as opposed to boring partisan politics.

Posted by: JL at January 29, 2014 10:21 AM (m+BIj)

270 Obama mentioned vaccines for drug-resistant bacterias. Unfortunately, vaccines are for viruses. The Ivy League is not what it used to be, not even close.

Posted by: Beagle at January 29, 2014 10:21 AM (OMxeO)

271 Yea, that is a nice bourbon. My favorite, actually. That shelf is a little too high off the ground for my wallet these days, but if you go for another one tonight, think of me. Posted by: shredded chi - If the river was whiskey, I'd be a diving duck at January 29, 2014 02:20 PM ....Yea, it's not an every day drinker unless you have a wad of cash. But man is it good!

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 10:21 AM (C3Wjb)

272 Ugh. I'd read that he babbled about the "wage gap". If it's such a big problem, why is he just now thinking about maybe doing something about it?? Who would hear him and think "oh, now that he knows about it, he can totally fix it!!" So I tried to find something written about what he'd said on the subject and ended up at Huff Po where they quote from another article about how raising the minimum way will help women cuz they get minimum wage more often: >>Dana Dreher, who works 20 to 40 hours a week as a waitress at a McCormick & Schmick's Seafood and Steaks in St. Louis, says she makes $20,000 a year including tips. "I don't think the tip wage is fair -- it definitely needs to be increased," she said. "There's so much variability in pay." >>"Sometimes I have to ask myself, Am I going to pay my rent or my utilities?" said Ms. Dreher, who has a master's degree in social work from Washington University but has been unable to find a job in that field and owes $60,000 in student loans. "Once there was a bad snowstorm and business was really slow, and my pay was really cut. I had to plead with the woman at the utility to give me a few more weeks to pay my electric bill." For fuck's sake people, why would you think that you should be able to work one low level job for "20-40 hours" when you have $60K in debt? It's not supposed to be that easy.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 29, 2014 10:21 AM (SUKHu)

273 watching television in bed is terrible for you, especially if you already have problems sleeping.

Yeah, that was kind of the most interesting part of the post.

Turning off the screens and devices at a decent hour to facilitate sleep is hard.

Posted by: HR at January 29, 2014 10:21 AM (ZKzrr)

274 Sup

Posted by: Myra Hindley at January 29, 2014 10:21 AM (2jQGY)

275 Speaking of things that didn't make the Transcripts... Did anyone write down Cathy McMorris Rogers' 5-Can Casserole Recipe?

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2014 10:21 AM (59naz)

276 Obama's INCREASED income mobility. Just in the wrong direction.

Posted by: --- at January 29, 2014 10:22 AM (MMC8r)

277 Evidently, establishment whore, Cathy McMorris-Rogers would like to have Gretchen Carlson's child. Posted by: CPAC Welcome Committee at January 29, 2014 02:21 PM Pics or it didn't happen.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 10:22 AM (C3Wjb)

278 Barack who now?

Posted by: Charles Gibson at January 29, 2014 10:22 AM (DLu2s)

279 "just after the start of January, "Felt a sharp pain." Then shortly thereafter had to have emergency surgery, which pre-Obammycare would have bankrupted her. *" Hey, remember when we could do all that insuring those with pre-exisiting conditions for less money and you could keep your doctor? Good times.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 29, 2014 10:22 AM (659DL)

280 269 initially faulty website vs. medical bankruptcy, hmmm...

Posted by: JL at January 29, 2014 10:23 AM (m+BIj)

281 266 Tami. Thanks I found the genesis of it. I put it up thread. ===== Oh thank God! I don't have to listen to one word out of that buttmunch's mouth. Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2014 02:20 PM (bCEmE) ********** Exactly. Know you know what Rep. Grimm had to sit through. Then he had that reporter trapping him and lying to him. Plus--do I really hear what the NBC New York channel is telling me Grimm said-- not really.

Posted by: Teleprompter Feed Crew at January 29, 2014 10:23 AM (RJMhd)

282 Posted by: Mama AJ at January 29, 2014 02:21 PM (SUKHu) *headdesk* Though I'll rebut your criticism just a bit- in this economy, she probably can't *get* better employment. So her lament is valid. Her proposed solution is not.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 10:23 AM (PYAXX)

283 that 'thing' you quoted is banned it's a long time troll

Posted by: soothsayer, they chanted at January 29, 2014 10:24 AM (QVbQw)

284 Sign of a ghost present.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2014 02:20 PM (IXrOn)

 

Which would make sense,    since this building used to be the state mental hospital before the   current facility was built.

 

You don't have to be crazy to work here, but the ghosts are.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at January 29, 2014 10:24 AM (4df7R)

285 Nood people.

Posted by: Teleprompter Feed Crew at January 29, 2014 10:24 AM (RJMhd)

286 281, Yeah JL, the National bankruptcy will be much more beneficial......

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at January 29, 2014 10:24 AM (ojnk6)

287 You know what will help income inequality? Immigration amnesty. In much the same way that lower defense spending makes the world safer. Or something.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 29, 2014 10:24 AM (659DL)

288 "Obama Co are hurting the very people they most profess to want to help.
From 1995 to 2001 Obama was Chair of the Annenberg Challenge in Chicago, an ambitious $387 million privately funded effort to run a controlled experiment as to how liberal ideas could improve inner city education."

Nota bene: Obama worked hand in glove with Bill Ayers on Annenberg.

You know, Ayers, "a guy who lives in my neighborhood," according to Obama, with no closer ties than that.

The media couldn't run away from the Annenberg story fast enough in 2008 and they've stayed well clear ever since, even though its implications for education policy (a shit-ton of money funneled to cronies with no good outcome for the kids who were the suppsed beneficiaries) has huge implications.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 29, 2014 10:24 AM (gqT4g)

289 Oh, good. Derp is here.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 10:24 AM (PYAXX)

290 46 "I think I’ve said before that a speech by Barack Obama is a lot like sex,” Castellanos told a CNN panel after the State of the Union Tuesday night. “The worst there ever was is still excellent.” Somebody likes being butt raped.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 29, 2014 10:24 AM (x09C5)

291 Though I'll rebut your criticism just a bit- in this economy, she probably can't *get* better employment. So her lament is valid. Her proposed solution is not. Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 29, 2014 ..........She could do something crazy like many including myself did and get this thing called a second job.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 29, 2014 10:25 AM (C3Wjb)

292 Other things that some of you missed last night: Climate change is settled fact and is, right now, causing the California drought.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 29, 2014 10:25 AM (659DL)

293 >>Someone be a dear and peep for a nood. Nood peep.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 29, 2014 10:25 AM (SUKHu)

294 Omaha!  Omaha!  Omaha!

OMAHA!

Posted by: King Barry desperately trying to stay relevant at January 29, 2014 10:26 AM (UzPAd)

295 For fuck's sake people, why would you think that you should be able to work one low level job for "20-40 hours" when you have $60K in debt? It's not supposed to be that easy.

Even if she was working full-time in her chosen field of social work, going $60K into debt to get a social work job is stupid. 

(If she's got the right state licensure, she could set up as a therapist and charge $200 for a 50-minute hour.  But that's a lot more work than whining that no one will give you a paycheck.)

Posted by: HR at January 29, 2014 10:26 AM (ZKzrr)

296 *bundles* Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at January 29, 2014 02:11 PM (4df7R) Sign of a ghost present. Ghost spiders.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2014 10:27 AM (lUXJH)

297 The govt is going to sell you an annuity with a "guaranteed return". In exchange, part of the prinicipal in your account will be frozen and escheat to the state when you die. It's coming. Posted by: Meremortal at January 29, 2014 02:12 PM (1Y+hH) Rush has been warning about that for years, even before SCOAMF was elected.

Posted by: Carol at January 29, 2014 10:27 AM (z4WKX)

298 Do you have a link for that? - OK, I exagerrated - it is more like 7 million out of 9 million that are now on medicaid. Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 29, 2014 02:18 PM (ZkzmI) That CATO video I linked this morning went through all of the JEF's lies in numbers. In the dump thread. I think I found it at instapundit this morning.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 29, 2014 10:28 AM (IXrOn)

299

The small mercy is that comparatively few people would thus have seen Cathy McMorris Rodgers' absolutely horrible rebuttal afterwards (which I had also correctly predicted would be sad and weak).

 

The revelations coming about RomneyÂ’s lack of confidence heading into debates with Obama explain McMorris quite well. Deep down, They. ArenÂ’t. Convinced. We. Are. Right.

 

Their lack of confidence  when they arenÂ’t speaking to a friendly crowd of supporters shows.

 

 

Posted by: CJ at January 29, 2014 10:28 AM (9KqcB)

300 Castellanos is a republican?

Posted by: Carol at January 29, 2014 10:28 AM (z4WKX)

301 301 As far as the Libs are concerned Carol, yes.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at January 29, 2014 10:29 AM (ojnk6)

302 Oh I don't know. Obama is a diminished leader in the same sense that Bill Clinton's "Johnson" was "diminished" once Monica Lewinsky had completed her kneeborn assault on the Presidential membrum virile. Come to think of it Clinton's flaccid membrum and Obama have a lot in comment.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at January 29, 2014 10:29 AM (wdHk6)

303 A priest friend of mine commented, "If that speech was like sex, I'm thankful I'm celibate." 

Posted by: no good deed at January 29, 2014 10:29 AM (vBhbc)

304 Something for Fournier to consider.  Back in 2008, someone else gave a speech at the RNC convention.

"This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting and never use the word "victory" except when he's talking about his own campaign. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed ... when the roar of the crowd fades away ... when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot — what exactly is our opponent's plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he's done turning back the waters and healing the planet? The answer is to make government bigger ... take more of your money ... give you more orders from Washington ... and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world. "

Posted by: mrp at January 29, 2014 10:29 AM (JBggj)

305

For fuck's sake people, why would you think that you should be able to work one low level job for "20-40 hours" when you have $60K in debt? It's not supposed to be that easy.

 

She figured it was only a matter of time before the money rolled in from her sweet Social Work masterÂ’s degree.

 

 

 

 

Posted by: CJ at January 29, 2014 10:32 AM (9KqcB)

306 Too bad they didn't tune him out in November 2012

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 29, 2014 10:34 AM (1Jaio)

307 Had to laugh, my account called me during the speech and asked if I was listening to this shit. I said no. He said his foulmouthed sister was texting him like a sailor on crack.

Posted by: redenzo at January 29, 2014 10:35 AM (WCnJW)

308 That CATO video I linked this morning went through all of the JEF's lies in numbers. In the dump thread. I think I found it at instapundit this morning. Posted by: artisanal ‘ette at January 29, 2014 02:28 PM (IXrOn) I’ll go to this morning’s news dump. Thank you.

Posted by: Carol at January 29, 2014 10:39 AM (z4WKX)

309

So I tried to find something written about what he'd said on the subject and ended up at Huff Po where they quote from another article about how raising the minimum way will help women cuz they get minimum wage more often:

 

Nothing beats the CNN.com guest column from the president of the AFL-CIO who illustrated the need for a minimum wage hike via the story of an unmarried  fast food worker with 4 kids from various men. High school dropout. Rarely held down jobs.

 

Every story they use to push leftist cause features a Grade-A F-ck-Up as the main character. And weÂ’re not supposed to notice.

Posted by: CJ at January 29, 2014 10:40 AM (9KqcB)

310 Nine million people have enrolled in the exchanges or Medicaid." - There should be an asterisk there that points out that 8.5 million of the 9 million wend on medicaid Posted by: Vashta Nerada 3.9 million people sign up or re-sign for Medicaid EVERY year. He is taking credit for that. 6 million have been thrown off their insurance with estimates that 50%-75% have bought new policies while as of the first part of January private insurance reports to State Insurance Boards reported only 390,000 NEW private customers throughout. So Obama made up all those numbers last night. The current true numbers can't be determined yet because of the huge backlog of paper applications, no one knows who has and has not paid, and the fact that insurance companies are told not to release any numbers like any good business in a Socialist/Fascist Utopia. I don't have specific cites because I've just read most everything I can find all over but there are few 'official' figures with lots of 'anon' sources. Don't take my word for it but the ACA has already destroyed the Insurance AND healthcare industry. Thank God the GOP refused to back those crazy Tea Party nut jobs who tried one last time to stop it. Now the Leadership can introduce a sensible takeover of 17% of the free market economy.

Posted by: Daybrother at January 29, 2014 10:49 AM (vRxtK)

311 I can't weigh in on whether it was a "good speech." I strongly doubt that. But I didn't watch. At 1:30 am or so I went to bed and turned on the TV and the speech was replaying on Fox. I heard Obama say something -- I forget what, but he used his Stage Whisper fake drama voice -- and I cursed "F*** you" at the TV. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Heh. That just about describes my interaction with anything on TV from any news channel about Obama / Democrats. Its really all the same - Democrats good, Republicans bad - in some form or other. To which I just say "Fuck You". I have no less disdain for anyone in the media than Pelosi, Reid, or Obama. They're all the same, effectively.

Posted by: deadrody at January 29, 2014 10:53 AM (aT8Zk)

312 Well, Alex, if a coke whore in the back of a van down by the river is "excellent,"...... well, to each his own.

Posted by: Bobby Ahr at January 29, 2014 10:53 AM (zmZ2x)

313 Duh!1 is all phony, all the time. "Carnival of Lies" was a nice turn of phrase....

Posted by: backhoe at January 29, 2014 11:03 AM (ULH4o)

314

"To be fair, the Republican Party is largely to blame. Its leadership is weak and the House caucus is increasingly, stridently conservative."

 

Well there's your problem right there, America.  The damn Tea Party is inadequately muzzled and keeps interfering with the President's agenda.  How do you expect a Democrat to compromise if the other side won't completely surrender up front?

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at January 29, 2014 11:08 AM (Xq2WY)

315 "He focused on the era's seminal issue, loss of social mobility and income equality in a post-industrial, global economy."
And there's your problem right there. You think it all boils down to economics, because you're a mindless marxist.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 29, 2014 11:11 AM (zfY+H)

316 Castellantos thinks the best sex is being a bottom for a Cleveland Steamer, and Barky sure loves being a top.

Posted by: Dennis Kucinich at January 29, 2014 11:19 AM (lryY4)

317 I say "Fuck you" and more even when he is not reading bullshit (written by some young, liberal, onesie-wearing cockpocket) on his  TelePrompter.  I do, however, say it a lot more if I hear him say something, anything.  Same for the 'rat party, left, unions etc. et al.  Fuckers are ruining the greatest nation ever.  Fucking fuckers. Fuck them with a flaming pineapple.  Sideways.

Posted by: eureka! at January 29, 2014 11:19 AM (xiXna)

318 "Fournier turns to various polls, including those that show that a majority of Americans now call Obama a weak leader." No kidding? I knew this in - 2008, and I'm supposed to be a dumb Righty... Love the lag time...

Posted by: Rodney C. Johnson at January 29, 2014 11:20 AM (nL5y5)

319 >>He's a dyed-in-the-wool liberal who's been increasing disappointed by Obama the past couple of years. So his feeling may be taken at least as partially representative of the Disappointed Democrats bloc.<<

I wouldn't get caught up in it Ace. Liberals  support of each other is ephemeral. There is really not much else they can get from Obama. They are already moving to go down of Hillary so she can complete the destruction.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 29, 2014 11:28 AM (GGCsk)

320

"The media couldn't run away from the Annenberg story fast enough in 2008"  "Nota bene: Obama worked hand in glove with Bill Ayers on Annenberg." Some may say this is old news, but it's a tell that if you give Obama money and wherewithal he's never helped anyone but himself and his cronies.

"Punch back twice as hard," Famous 21st Century political philosopher.

ObamaCare is one line of attack, as it will clearly fail to help more people  than it hurts, even before we factor in the cost of the inevitable Health Insurance bailout.  But after five years in office the evidence is now clear that "Obama & Co isn't working", especially for the constituencies Obama most professes to care about: minorities, women and the young.

Are you better off than you were five years ago?  Now ask how anything Obama babbled about last night will do anything to help.

 

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 29, 2014 11:28 AM (EPEqj)

321 How was China able to fake that Moon landing stuff so well? Why isn't the media calling them out on that stunt?

Posted by: and irresolute at January 29, 2014 11:30 AM (RqHWH)

322

Well, thereÂ’s no accounting for oneÂ’s sexual appetites, is there?

Mr. Castellano sounds rather kinky.

Oh my, indeed.

Posted by: My Sharia Moor at January 29, 2014 11:34 AM (P9ya5)

323 "...and the House caucus is increasingly, stridently conservative." Not by any normal measure.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at January 29, 2014 11:43 AM (itCai)

324 We wrote the book on Obama cum interviews! And, yes, we will have another double scotch.

Posted by: chrissie matthews' kidneys at January 29, 2014 11:49 AM (abZxN)

325 "a speech by Barack Obama is a lot like" rape - He thinks he was great, but his victim knows better... and it is never "excellent"...

Posted by: Watcher at January 29, 2014 12:16 PM (Mu1Tl)

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