Comical Obama Supporters: A Brief Guide to Where the Laughs Are
I hate to be sententious — I’m not even sure how to spell sententious — and God knows I like to ridicule my fellow man as mercilessly as the next fellow man, but this video that’s been making the conservative rounds that shows an anti-Romney protester declaring she likes Obama because he gave her a free phone? Not really funny. I know, I know — but really, the woman is clearly poor and not very well-educated. And mockery is a pin for the inflated, no? Though the federal programs liberals propose to help such people as the phone lady only make their lives worse, the principle that we ought to be concerned for them remains (sorry) the right one. Just because liberals call us mean until we want to hurl defiance in their teeth by saying anything we damn well please, doesn’t mean we should actually BE mean! As ever, I hold conservatives to a higher standard, because we’re the good guys.
What DOES deserve our scorn and ridicule here is an administration that has lowered the office of the presidency to the level of a Boss Tweedian city machine, buying the votes of the poor with a free turkey at Christmas or, in this case, a phone. Not to mention buying their votes for policies that destroy them.
And if you really want to make fun of Obama supporters (and who, at this point, does not) why not go after the well-to-do and educated? The guys who tell you Obama makes a better president than Mitt Romney because “He cares.” Or, even more delightfully, try this fellow — Russell Razzaque, a British psychiatrist, who has written a book called, so help me, Obama Karma: Lessons on Living Inspired by the 44th President. I saw it in a bookstore in L.A. yesterday and downloaded a sample because… well, because I’m always in need of a laugh.
You know, even if Romney wins, I think the Left has won. In the sense that they’ve really robbed me of the sense that this country is made up of mostly rational people who actually know what they are doing. Seriously, if Romney doesn’t win this thing in a landslide, I’m gonna start filling my basement with bottled water and Spam because the zombie apocalypse won’t be far off.
Hoban,you have a point. The ethos of the country is nearly decimated.
I agree with Zombie, yet disagree too. Six of one…half a dozen of another. On the one hand, clearly the woman in question is ill educated and poor. And, just as clearly, it is certainly unseemly to mock her and others like her.
Nevertheless, ridicule does have its place, and it is certainly something which must be used in this death match. As to the ‘rightness’ of it, yes, it is tasteless. But there is an election to win, and the Obamabots won’t vote for Romney anyway. Those who are still undecided hardly care about delicate sensibilities. They care about raw economics, and the notion that their country is going down the tubes. Moreover, many are concerned about the incredible foreign-policy disasters afoot, all credit due to the Radical/Islamist-in-Chief.
Now, as to the (mis)educated class, you know, the folks who think they are enlightened! Phew. Here’s the deal – 2012/09/16/the-deadly-fruits-of-appeasement-infused-by-career-diplomats-many-high-level-civil-servants-too-misschooled-by-leftist-academia-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
this too – 2012/08/21/the-paradox-pitfalls-of-liberal-democracies-in-a-time-of-immoral-relativism-the-havoc-wrought-by-leftist-academia-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
IF it looks like an academic failure of tragic proportions…it is one. The stakes are enormous.
You know, we can’t have it both ways. Conservatives insist that the poor can and must take responsibility for their own lives and either work their way up or pay the consequences (with appropriate roles for local governments and charities, of course). The Progressives insist that poverty is imposed from above, by the bourgeoisie, and that the government must intervene.
There really are “deserving poor”. As King Solomon pointed out (we just read it in the Synagogue), wealth is not always to the clever. Sometimes people ARE poor through no fault of their own.
Adina:
I used to expend a lot of energy thinking about the best way to educate the general population on the dangers of socialism. I think I’ve given up. Out of exhaustion my default assumption is now that we’re gonna have to hit bottom pretty damn hard to wake up the majority of the sleep-walking American public. And because of that I’m thinking that maybe it would be better if it happened on Obama’s watch. At the very least they’d impeach him. That might be instructive.
Regards,
John
Yes. That is mostly where I’ve arrived. When I really look closely at where we are at, I just don’t see how anyone is going to turn this monster Titanic around. The will simply is not there, particularly among our legislators, the administration and the chattering classes. Apparently they are content in the knowledge that this can go on forever and even if it can’t they won’t be effected if it goes south as they are above the fray.
Yes there are still 50% or so of us that have the will, but I don’t think it is enough to pull it off in the time we have and that 50% won’t last much longer as the Democrats and their minions have learned how vote themselves largesse on grand scale that I doubt is stoppable without a crash.
We just keep expanding government through regulation, overreach into education/business/energy extraction etc. etc., new departments; TSA, Consumer Protection Agency and if Obamacare gets moving another what 120 some new agencies. It is maddening.
The good/bad news is that eventually when we can no longer go forward, the whole big ship of Titanic State will stop (Herbert Stein pseudo-quote). If we keep the deficits rolling at current rates we probably hit the wall by the 2020. Then the creditors start telling us how to run things ala Greece.
For me I am going to keep sending money to the republicans and plan to vote on November 6 straight R and walk away and at least for a few months turn off the TV and shut down my political sites and take a break. Maybe if I’m smart I’ll never turn them on again and spend my time trying to figure out how to position myself for the crash.
“For me I am going to keep sending money to the republicans and plan to vote on November 6 straight R and walk away and at least for a few months turn off the TV and shut down my political sites and take a break. Maybe if I’m smart I’ll never turn them on again and spend my time trying to figure out how to position myself for the crash.”
Amen brother. I’m burnt. After the election I’m gonna enjoy Thanksgiving and Christmas, enjoy my family and let the rest of the world go to hell in a handbasket. I’ll check back in January.
Regards,
John
Herbert Stein Rule: “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop
Jeopardy Question #1 Why do a few stupid people think American’s debt is a problem?.
There was a poll last week which reported that nearly 40% of Americans think that the problems of the country could be managed better with one political party instead of two. Huh? You mean like North Korea? like Cuba? Where people live on 50 cents a day? Are pollsters going to opium dens for opinions?
I am a retired accountant. Recently, I spent dozens of hours downloading the US debt since WW II. This is pretty easy, and I used an official web site: US Treasury Debt to the Penny.
I learned that during the ONE PARTY RULE 111th Congress, the amount of new debt averaged $143 BILLION PER MONTH.
I learned that during the TWO PARTY RULE 112th Congress, the amount of new debt averaged $103 billion a month.
Jeopardy question #2: Mathematically, which “new debt” level is better or worse for the US Treasury? $143 B a month or $103 B a month?
Answer: Screw the Treasury. My Uncle Joe needs $500 billion dollars to start up a solar panel plant, so let’s stick with massive new debt. Which Agency office should Uncle Joe go to for the cash?
You are sure you are right and that what you think entitles you to denigrate others. That behavior alienates those whom you might otherwise be able to persuade.
How does that serve your own interests?
You know, I could go all Sam Adams on you, but on second thought, I’ll just say this:
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
and
“You can’t fix stupid.”
After watching too much news and interviews with the informed as well as the uninformed it finally hit me. People need not only employment, but a life’s work. Unfortunately, my observation of our educational system in this country is totally devoid of this. We are in desperate need of teachers who can prompt us to understand “why we are here”. Employment is good. Starting your own business is even better, especially when it increases our quality of life.
When big government offers too much free stuff, many will take that in lieu of life’s pursuits, because pursuits require imagination, innovation and hard work to bring it all together. Unless we all have a life’s work to help, not restrict, humanity, we’re all goners.
Hoban its because in reality we lost the Cold War (or maybe a phyrric victory at best), we just didn’t realize it. You see the USSR poisoned the US with a slow rotting poison long before Reagan bankrupted them.
The USSR seeded the entertainment industry, news media, law, acadamia, and government with communist and socialist sympathizers. It also helped fund the “peace” movement during the Vietnam War just as wealthy socialists are funding the Occupy movement today. What we are seeing is those seeds bearing fruit, they couldn’t defeat us from without so they defeated us from within. Yeah, yeah, I know “tinfoil hat” right? Don’t forget, “Americans play checkers, Russians play chess.”
Look at how carefully this has been orchestrated. The law, schools, and parents have all been manipulated so that they produce drones to follow the Pied Piper of the MSM. Look how many college students are for Obama yet their economic prospects are in the toilet due to his policies. It would take too long to explain it all, but think on how the law, media/entertainment, schools, parents, and government all works together (or are specifically played against one another) create “voters” who are easily lead, lack self reliance, and worship at the altar of big government.
Personally I find the cult of personality that 0bama has quite disturbing, I’m waiting for the images of Dear Reader on the sides of buildings and on billboards. He’s the only president that I know of that has coloring books and children’s books on him while he’s still alive.
If I could have blamed this leftist ideal on the USSR, I would. Actually, these ideas have been floating around among the “intelligencia” for decades before the Soviets ever held power.
Many of these ideas were floated by Unions who, at the time, were fighting crony capitalism, unsafe working conditions, and a system that generally kept people from getting ahead. They went too far.
Today, we’re no longer arguing over workplace safety, but government run health-care, free cell phones, and welfare systems that are so bereft of hope that people in them do not have any motivation to climb out.
It’s not the same arguments as we faced before. But the “intelligencia” have yet to figure that out.
The Russian Revolution, Progressivism, and labor unions all arose about the same time, over a 20-30yr period. I’m not saying that these ideas didn’t exist until the USSR came about. Rather that the USSR actively encouraged those with socialist and communist viewpoints to enter these fields and rise to promenance in them. Media/Entertainment shapes public perception, education shapes future generations, government agencies shape policy implmentation.
If you cannot beat someone militarily, either because you lack the strength or because of M.A.D. what better way to defeat your enemy than to change the very differences that make you enemies to views that make you natural allies?
Poison had been around for a long time before Lucrezia Borgia.
Not mocking you; It took me a long time to gain the experience
of human nature to see what occurred: The Russians were past
masters of taking advantage of human weaknesses long before
the Soviet Union, and knew very well that excessive unearned
prosperity encouraged a particular flaw in human nature which
masquerades as the virtue of Charity but is in fact a corrosive
vice. One example would be the missionaries who came to Hawaii
to Do Good…and did right well, at the expense of their flock.
The Soviets found and funded such groups in America, speeding
their growth and rise to power, as a way of weakening our will,
and it worked well, better than they could have hoped, due to
the unprecedented duration and magnitude of economic expansion.
To my mind, the question now is not whether the US as a whole
retains the virtue to survive the coming crash of the world
economy, but whether there are individual States which do.
The “Russian” Revolution was not conducted by Russians. Get a clue.
Real Deal:
I don’t doubt that you are partly correct. The funny thing is that modern day Russia may actually be a more hopeful place to live than America. That is very hard for me to say or think.
Regards,
John
I don’t think, frankly, that it’s the USSR’s fault. Socialism (and this is not my own idea — I read it from a wise man whose name escapes me at the moment) appeals to the mediocrities of the world: those people who can’t, by their own talents, rise above the middle of the heap. In a socialist society everyone is at the same level — is required to be — so the mediocrities are comfortable. “Hey, I may not amount to a hill of beans, but neither does anyone else around me.”
If you examine a large “heap” of liberals and an equally large “heap” of conservatives, I will bet you will find, for the most part, a great percentage of “overachievers” among the conservatives and a very small percentage of them among the liberals — at least according to their own self-evaluations.
Don’t forget weapopns and ammo. I am following the Resident Evil model of a mixture of firearms and blades.(No basement though, taking over an abandoned conpo project)
Jake:
I’m going with the Zombieland/Shawn of the Dead model. I’ll try to find an abandoned yellow H1 and use whatever weapons I find inside it. Also I’ll make sure to always go with the two shot protocol and avoid Bill Murray (he’s a big lib anyway).
Exactly. The Prager Zeitung newspaper put it best:
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president.”
Obama is an abject failure under any rational metric – yet stands a chance at re-election. How pathetic we’ve become.
There is a saying that goes exactly in that sense, and probably was just paraphrased:
“I don’t fear the capable man, but the one capable to anything”
Captain:
My point exactly. If even 30% of the country thinks this guy should be re-elected we’re already screwed.
Regards,
John
And I think that is the part that scares me the most. There is a growing segment of the population that either doesn’t know, or doesn’t care what is
HEY FREE PHONE!
The funniest thing about that video with the Obamaphone lady is that program was started under Bush Jr.
People are just ignorant all over.
Correction, please! The program “started under G. W. Bush” was intended for the physically disabled, who had difficulty, or inability to, get to a land line phone, and for rural welfare recipients, who had no line line available to their homes. However, under Obamanation – anyone qualifies, “the more expense, the better.” No longer DFR’s “a chicken in every pot,” already available: now “A cell phone in every pocket.”
So because the lady calls it an Obamaphone everyone else is ignorant? Interesting…
The Lifeline Assistance Program was set up by republicans and dems under the Clinton Admin, specifically land lines for handicapped, elderly.
The Lifeline Assistance is funded by telecom companies, which in turn charge their customers what is known as the Universal Service Fee.
Both you and the Obamaphone lady are incorrect. She, and her vote, were bought and paid for by propaganda attributing her free phone to Obama.
If anyone would include this clip as a commercial, and somehow use this to blame Obama for the USF (yes, I know it’s been around a while; I make phone bills for a living) which the phone companies were clever enough to list directly on the bill as a charge to the customer – Romney would win in a landslide.
(I’m not against the USF, but this is how people think.)
It may have been started under Bush, but it was for landlines. Obama expanded it to include cellphones, and the costs have skyrocketed.
Well, yes. Every government program gets perverted. Looks at Social Security. They added disability, then welfare, to its role. Same is true of so many programs. NASA is now Muslim outreach but not spaceflight? Really?
Next year’s Obama calendar:
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Andrew – thanks for making me laugh. Somewhere Orwell is also laughing. btw, Razzaque is a Muslim psychiatrist, trying to make sense of his upbringing so projecting himself onto Obama. Ah, psychiatry! Doubt that Freud is finding this amusing, although, maybe so, in an “I told you so” sort of way.
As easy as it is to make fun of the idea of emotional intelligence, that is a key focus of the Chicago-based CASEL, the Center for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning. It is located at U-Illinois-Chicago where Ayers taught. It is central to what constitutes student achievement and growth in our public school classrooms under Obama’s ed reforms.
The idea is that school must provide for equality of outcomes for all and be accessible to all. All are not good at academics but everyone has feelings. Everyone is capable, even if it is coerced, of social interaction and the use of tolls like computers. So social and emotional learning become the focus of all schools. Closes the achievement gap and you can foster politically useful feelings, attitudes, values, and beliefs in the classroom. Continues in college under a Global Perspectives program created in 2008 at that same campus where CASEL is located. Coincidental?
http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/how-social-and-emotional-learning-as-the-primary-focus-is-coming-in-all-the-windows/ is the first story I wrote on SEL. Basically a primer on what is really going on. Will make for a different electorate as early as 2016.
One thing the Obamaphone video has done is to suggest that the Progressive viewpoint on eugenics commonly held in the early 20th century may have been correct.
We look at this person in the video and our eyes decieve us. She appears to be of the species Homo Sapiens, but she in fact merely walks erect.
Andrew, I didn’t actually watch the video of the phone lady because I knew what I would see. But wasn’t the purpose of the story about her to remind us of what personal and political harm government-gone-wild can do and not to provide us with a source of humor? Let me know if I’m wrong.
I disagree with you, Klavan. I think that the Obamabots such as this lady with the “free” phone are perfectly deserving of our mockery and derision.
Absolutely. This is moreso, since the Left uses mockery and shunning to keep people on the plantation. They do it, because it works! To not do the same is unilateral disarmament. And why should they have all the fun, anyway?
Is it ok to mock Dick Hayes the garbageman. Surely a public employee that badmouths one of the people paying his salary and acts as a shill for Obama deserves a snide comment or two.
‘Book learning’ and ‘common sense’ are the two parts of intelligence. People can have one, both or neither, but the easiest to ridicule — and the ones who also are the most dangerous when they get control of the levers of power — are the ones who are book-smart to the point that they believe whatever they think is reality.
Obama’s campaign may depend on those lacking in both to carry him to victory in the swing states, but it’s the people on his side who believe they’re American’s intellectual elite yet at the same time support policies that have no chance of succeeding in the real world who are the ones who’ve created the economic stagnation and the foreign policy morass we’re stuck with today. And because they’re so sure of themselves, they’ll never admit their or their president are wrong about either.
Andrew, I would agree with you except that the person was at a rally to protest Romney. She put herself in the public eye. She was not just some person that was minding their own business and approached on the street.
You know I think it was Beck who said it best? We can survive another 4 years of Obama but we can not survive the electorate who put him in.
Sorry, Glenn… on this one, Beck is dead wrong.
Another 4 years of Obama, and America as we know it is gone.
And quite likely… irreversibly.
If Obamacare is not repealed and replaced in full in 2013, it’s here to stay.
If Obama appoints 1-3 new Supremes, I hope you know where to hide your guns.
If our deficits continue like this, prepare for a certain! fiscal train wreck.
If our military is gutted, fear for your safety and those of your loved ones.
Vote early and often.
Then pass the ammo… excuse me, pass the word.
Cheers.
“…but really, the woman is clearly poor and not very well-educated…” Spoken like a true government bureaucrat / academic sociologist. Personal responsibility is a function of how high your stack of material goods is? At what level of income and education would responsibility kick in? At the Ivy League graduate level? That’s been thoroughly debunked. At the Lindsey Lohan level of income? HA! It would appear the connection between income, state education and responsibility is not a strong one or the determining one.
I’d say the phone lady is quite well ‘educated’ according to current fashion.
She should not be dismissed but treated as the adult she is and her actions can be perhaps not mocked, but legitimately questioned.
If you look closely at the Palestinian celebrators of 9/11 you’ll see Phone Lady’s Arab cousins up close.
Don’t be fooled for an instant about what she thinks of you and everyone else who supports her. Folk like her always reserve the right to bite the hand that feeds them.
I managed to download the Cliff’s Notes version of ‘Obama Karma: Lessons on Living Inspired by the 44th President’.
It seems like a fascinating tome, but I don’t have a lot of time, so I was glad that Cliff’s could so eloquently sum up the entire book in one paragraph. I hope it doesn’t violate copyright to reproduce it here in full –
Table of Contents……… Prologue…………… HE DOES TOO HAVE CLOTHES!! LOOK!!! I SWEAR HE HAS CLOTHES!!! THEY ARE AMAZING, THE MOST AMAZING CLOTHES EVER!!! EVER!!! HE DOES TOO HAVE CLOTHES, HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE THEM??? LOOK!! LOOK AT HIS CLOTHES!!! LOOK AT THEM!!! THEY ARE WONDERFUL CLOTHES, MAGNIFICENT!!!! HE DOES HAVE CLOTHES, HE DOES HAVE CLOTHES, HE DOES HAVE CLOTHES, HE DOES HAVE CLOTHES!!!!! LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA….. HE HAS THE BEST CLOTHES EVER WORN BY MAN… LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!!!!!!!! HE HAS CLOTHES!!! AND THEY’RE GREAT!!! HOW DARE ANYONE EVER SAY DIFFERENT!!! LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!!!!!…………….. Epilogue……… Index.
I hope you enjoyed this inspiring work.
I have literally seen highly educated (and white) citizens and presumed voters, who say stuff like, “I don’t really want to vote for Obama again, but Romney, you know, he’s, I mean, um, Romney, that is, do you really want to vote for one of those, a, aaaaah …. Republican?”
You know, we learned something about economics and human nature in 2008, or should have, that even our most sophisticated, educated, privileged, and rich individuals cannot be trusted to choose responsibility over greed. OK, we were supposed to KNOW that already, “Power corrupts” pretty much covers it, but really 2008 was one for the ages, if we will only see.
I think we’re getting something of that magnitude with Obama as well, but then, we had a major precursor in the Clinton follies in the 1990s, where a total buffoon was in the Oval (sic) Office, *conceded* abuse of office in Filegate and Travelgate that should have resulted in immediate removal from office and maybe 30 days in the county jail, but instead after a major kerfuffle Nothing Happened. Educated and responsible people, elected and appointed officers, media talking heads, and ordinary citizens, could not bring themselves to the simplest judgement and action. That was a Bad Sign, that is paying off now.
Look, Obamaphone Lady is a US citizen, for better or worse. What, really, can you expect from her? But our educated, connected, and wealthy elites, what about them, what expectations do we have for them?
If we ever restore a legitimate government, I would like to expect most of the “educated” elite to do manual labor on, say, 1000 calories a day for perhaps ten years and those who survived could apply for restoration of their citizenship. Some things the oldtime communist thugs had right.
Or cede them the West Coast and let all the academics and those who think academic rule would be so awesome go there. Then wall them off and film it to make a new reality series and cautionary tale for the rest of us.
“There are more than enough tenured Obama supporters who have no excuse.”
Those are the credentialled connected who perfected “rigging the system” with their years in academia, they are the one making excuses for themselves and for Obama. They believe they are the smartest, smarter than those who “didn’t build their businesses”, they don’t get “the respect they deserve”. The respect of millions, if not billions, of payoffs. Obama is their best hope to show the bitter clingers who is the “boss”. The uneducated zombies, like Mao’s peasants, are the easiest to manipulate. Give them a morsel, they’ll be as loyal as well trained dogs. Who suffered the most under Mao’s great Leap Forward? The peasants. Who suffered the most under Obama’s Great Recession going Forward, the uneducated zombies.
“…hold conservatives to a higher standard, because we’re the good guys.” That is why we have four liberal moderators for the debates without a single objection or demand from any of the “good guys.”
To be fair, he didn’t say we weren’t stupid. Clearly the Republican party is the party of stupid.
No, I’m not a lefty, I just recognize that the left has gotten as far as it has because the republicans are so god awful incompetent (or in on it).
Jesus and 0bama did not both leave us with a debt we can’t repay. We already have a sin debt that we are unable to pay – for the cost is death – but Jesus paid that debt for us because we can not. It’s like the judge in court declaring you guilty and the sentence is death – then he steps down from the bench and takes your punishment upon himself.
0bama on the other hand increased our financial debt to beyond what we can repay.
Other than that minor quibble, great video as always.
May I add another Christian’s observation:
Mr. Klavan’s article reminds me of the reference in the Bible, Acts 12:23.
King Herod, manipulative, arrogant and egotistical power monger that the was,
“arrayed in royal apparel, sat on his throne and gave an oration to them. And the people kept shouting,”The voice of a god and not of a man!” Then immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And he was eaten by worms and died. But the word of God grew and multiplied.”
All I can say is, “Lord, Your will be done–be glorified!!”
“What DOES deserve our scorn and ridicule here is an administration that has lowered the office of the presidency to the level of a Boss Tweedian city machine, buying the votes of the poor with a free turkey at Christmas or, in this case, a phone. Not to mention buying their votes for policies that destroy them.”
And yet Obama is still doing well in the polls. I still can’t understand that. Right now I would rather vote for a pumpkin for president rather than Obama, yet this guy is still doing well in the polls. I just hope Americans can see how Obama and his minions are trying to buy votes, just like any good group of thieves from Chicago. I just can’t see the American public falling for this. At least I hope they don’t fall for it.
The Iphone woman represents much more than idiotic liberals grubbing for free crap or buying votes like Chicago ward politicians from the 20′s. Pictures like this shock and disgust most Americans from the other side of the cultural divide because we are blissfully unaware or naive about what ideas have taken over our culture from academia, to TV, to Hiphop and Heavy Metal – “cultural determinism, the reduction of all human relationships to issues of sheer power, the idea that one’s identity is centered in one’s ethnicity or race, the rejection of the concept of the individual…” (from Veitch’s book on “Modern Fascism.”) Andrew K. is right – the acid toxic nature of post-modernism eats at all thinking, reason and civility….it does become a contest of simple mocking, for there is no reasoning with people of the likes of Bill Maher, Nancy Pelosi, Holder or the Iphone woman.
Ridicule isn’t the way to handle private and individual matters, though in politics, which is public and of everyone’s concern, it works fine. Ridicule is a very potent weapon, do you realize, Mr Klavan that the Left has been applying ridicule against its adversaries all along? It is just HOW ridicule is applied, the tone is making the music…..
And the Obama’s policies (not persona) should be ridiculed publicly, and possibly with wit.
The polls now show that Presidink Obama has 140% of the black vote which was, almost exclusively, sent in by cell phone.
Get plenty of canned goods and ammo.
Polly
You are being watched by Nation of Islam volunteers!
Let them watch for all I care. However, if they DO anything, it had better be civil. I maintain and practice my right to self defense.
We would say she is ghetto as “hell”, she took a big bite out of the streetlife.
The devil messes with you when you choose his path.
In her case he took away here dignity and her femininity. Or should I say she unwittingly gave it away.
Good article, great video!
To reinforce what I said in my comment no.23 about Ridicule, I have a quote of Thomas Jefferson:
Ridicule is the only weapon which can e used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them.
And by the way Obama has of course studied Saul Alinsky, who in his book confirms the very potent weapon of ridicule. Obama has made extensive use, with the purpose of destroying. Ridicule can be used to built and push the wrong ideas aside by exposing them and ridiculing them. Using ridicule in a positive way isn’t easy, the border of decency mustn’t be overstepped as Obama is continuously doing. What I try to say, is also to use the same weapon Obama uses, just turn it against him, with intelligence and wit.
For my American friends, which generally are direct (and blunt sometimes) I’d like to tell that diplomacy also is the art of sticking a knife in an adversary’s stomach, and laugh while doing it. Mr Romney, from what I’ve heard is applying it sometimes, he should be doing it more often.
Very funny, I needed the laugh. Andrew is special, really talented.
“Liberal” socialism (communism) is basically only a plea to defer one’s own god-given rightful responsibility to take self-reliant responsibility for one’s own actions, by diluting it in, and so giving them up to, The Group (to any group, to every group)! To trade one’s responsibility to become objectively, factually right, for the putative right to remain irresponsibly wrong.
i.e: “I didn’t do it – ONLY The GROUP did it! Whee!”
(Other semantic variants on this puerile meme are “The SYSTEM” – It was a Systemic Problem! I didn’t do it – ONLY The SYSTEM did it!” … and the same with “The Procedures,” etc)!
They scheme for, and pretend to imagine, that one can have greedy rights, without a corollory of enduring the reciprocal need for onerous responsibilities.
Some assume foreign criminals (i.e: moslem terrorists) have some sort of right to “basic human rights,” while ignoring that all real rights are commensurate with responsibilities!
There’s something called the social contract, which is based on the Golden Rule of Law (which defines all morality simply as “Do Not Attack First!”) and which so enables trust, progress, and civilization. This contract holds that, only by Responsibly upholding this Rule, are you afforded Rights.
Your only real right is to not be attacked first, and your only real responsibility is to not attack others first. As that contract defines your right, it does not thereby supersede it.
When you renege on your responsibility, you become a criminal (because, when you decide to attack others first, then, by definition your choice defines you as a predatory, criminal aggressor, and they as your innocent victims – there’s no two ways about it)!
Upholding the contract also defines you as a free citizen; when you break it, you effectively, freely, give up your right to be a full citizen.
When you ignore your civic responsibility and decide to become a criminal, you lose your civil rights (say, to vote) for the duration of your punishment.
But if you’re the citizen of a foreign country, you have no such specific rights to lose, only the universal right to remain free, which is dependant on your responsible observance of all others’ similar rights (to not deprive them of their rights to life, freedom, and to own property) and so your own choice to do so should justly deprive you of the right to freely move about to continue to harm others.
In the old days, only real live individual human citizens had rights, while all mere groups (of individuals) were, at best, assigned some temporary, revokable privileges.
But these days, the criminally negligent, infantile delinquent liberals prefer to pretend that since all humans are falliable and therefore potentially, erratically dangerous, (much as they themselves prefer to see themselves, as an excuse for their chosen irrationalities) only groups should be given rights, while all mere human individuals should at most, be assigned some temporary, revokable privileges.
When groups are idolatrously given rights, all real, individual human citizens automatically lose them, and become slaves to the idol of the collective.
Emocrats are immoral relativists who prefer to use the evasion tactic known as the Argumentum Tu Quoque to push their group-might-made-rights agenda of avoiding personal self-reliant responsibility by basically claiming:
“”EVIL ISN’T EVIL BECAUSE WE ALL (‘The Groups’) DO IT TOO! Whee!”
;-(
Emocrats don’t use the higher, cognitive brain functions – they only emote. Too much reacting, not enough problem solving; the fruits of always buying into and re-selling pre-packaged victimology scenarios all the time; they find it much easier to blame others and do nothing, than to help them selves by accepting personal self-reliant responsibility.
So, never having any facts which would ever agree with their perpetual irrationality, the left must always resort to the slanderous evasions known collectively as the critical thinking logical fallacies (the deflective ad-hominem personal attacks, the distractive strawman red-herrings, and of course the immoral relativist’s favorite, the tu quoque – i.e: “islam isn’t evil because we all do it too! Whee!”).
Isn’t it funny that people who actually have facts, rarely (if ever) seem to feel the need to indulge in fallacies?
The ever-Moving-Forward lemmings or Progressives, only ever really “progress” from the responsibility to become factually, objectively right, to the opinion that they have a subjective right to remain irresponsible wrong!
Their motto is: “Property IS Theft!” but I say: “Communism IS Crime!”
Great post. The poor should be grateful for whatever we see fit to give them. In the words on Michelle Malkin, there are two kinds of people: those who sign the front of paychecks – the makers – and those who sign the backs of the paychecks – the takers. The takers have run roughshod over us for too long, with their unions, civil rights laws, equal this and equal that. Time to end this nonsense. Jonathan Swift (eat the poor) and the Dead Kennedys (kill the poor) had it right.
personally i say laugh away at foolish obama supporters. Heres why. First off libs love to tout public education. this woman is clearly uneducated and poor but its not from ‘lack’ of education. she got the same public education as i did im sure, but from the entitlement attitude she expresses and is a cornerstone of the black community. she is the 47% that mitt was talking about. she is the priome example of a person who loves to be ignorant and love getting free stuff regardless if it makes her a slave or not. Next we should make fun of her and people like her because not doing so changes nothing. its not as if we can reason with her and she would see the error of her way. no sir, on the contrary she would call us names, call us racist, vote obama and relish every second of it because to her and her community dependency is “keeping it real” and any attempt to better yourself is a clear sighn of white washing and or selling out. the people in this vid are not worht saving as far as im concerned. if we are to truly adhear to our conservative principlas, then we have no choice but to understand that some people cannot and should not be saved. we are created equal, but 1 second after that creation we are and always shall be different. you look at these people and laugh at them just as you would an old photo of yourself wearing a horrible outfit and looking super proud. this lady is natures prom pic. cool at the time and in her setting, but after is looked at with embarrasment and humor!
Shame on you Mr. Klavan for insulting 12-year-old girls at a Justin Bieber concert by comparing them to Obama supporters!
Ha! Consider me rebuked.
Absolutely brilliant! Even Ann Coulter would be impressed. The sad thing is that so many won’t get the joke.
“The guys who tell you Obama makes a better president than Mitt Romney because “He cares.””
Hm… “He Cares.” That sounds familiar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVVBgbeilVA
Where’s Buster Keaton when you need him?
Klavan – That is just stupid. We are in a death cage match for our real survival where the enemy will do ANYTHING to ensure their victory and you want us to hamper our efforts with the Marquis of Queensbury rules.
Shorter larsky and hoban – Stupid Should Hurt.
R Daneel:
Mockery is one of my favorite breakfast cereal choices. I haven’t seen the Obamaphone clip but as described it sounds hilarious. So I have no problem with mocking it. It’s just that sometimes you don’t know whether to laugh or cry. How do these things exist? We’ve been hemorrhaging money for so long that I just don’t see why we haven’t completely bled out already. At this point even a torniquet may be too little too late. It seems to me that Atlas Shrugged becomes more prescient every day.
Regards,
John
BRAVO!
I have to disagree with Klaven on this one although I do see where he is coming from. He wants conservatives to take the high road. Unfortunately human nature does not often respond to that type of circumstance. It tends to tune it out. Ridicule is a form of communication and can be used effectively to obtain some sort of conformity that is needed to produce a useful and functional society. People at times need to be ridiculed out of their ignorance especially when it is willfully chosen. One must make sure though that the ignorant understand the ridicule and why or the effort is wasted. I sincerely doubt the ‘phone woman’ understands the ridicule.
Also of note is the progressives have been using ridicule for decades as a means of conformity to great result. Sometimes you just gotta fight fire with fire.
“Emotional intelligence” is a bone they throw to people who did not do well in school.