Did We Elect Borat President?
Something is odd about President Obama. I don’t mean the usual silly political stuff that he’s a crypto-socialist. I mean he is somehow different from any other politician. I think I began to notice something was a little off when he first started campaigning to be president — but I just couldn’t put my finger on it. It was just odd to have everyone so excited about him and no one was sure why. Then there are all the weird mistakes and goofs he’s made, which only seem to keep multiplying since he’s become president. On one side you have people trying to blow those mistakes up to show what a liberal politician he is. On the other side you have people defending all his actions. I think both sides are getting fooled here.
I finally had an epiphany when Obama, reacting to the public outcry on runaway spending, ordered that $100 million in cuts be made from the budget. The $4 trillion budget. With a projected deficit of $1.8 trillion. That’s like suddenly gaining a thousand pounds and trying to offset the weight by trimming one fingernail. If Obama’s people can find $100 million to cut every year, they’ll have the budget balanced in the year 20,009 AD, by which time the human race will probably have flown to distant galaxies in an attempt to escape the massive debt that has consumed their home planet.
So why would Obama propose something so pathetically silly? I haven’t heard anyone defend this one, but the usual explanation that he’s politically tone deaf doesn’t quite cover it. This is beyond tone deaf. There is, in fact, only one rational explanation for it: it’s a joke.
There’s a conspiracy theory out there that because Obama hasn’t released his real birth certificate, that proves he isn’t a natural citizen and is thus not eligible to be president. I was dismissive of that, but now I think it’s true. If we found his real birth certificate, my guess is that it would say that he was born in England and that his name is Sacha Baron Cohen.
That’s right; we elected Borat president.
I’m like 95 percent certain about this; it just fits, the more I think about it. Don’t all the weird gaffes and the strange adoration of Obama make sense if it were all some Borat-type gag? A lot of the humor in Borat’s character is that Cohen presented him as a well-meaning foreigner who gets people to dismiss his eccentricities as cultural differences. He’d keep getting weirder and weirder to see how far he could go before people stopped being polite. He’s doing the same thing with his Bruno character for a movie coming out this summer. With Obama, though, he’s using a bit of a different approach. We had all these people (probably actors — at least in the beginning) loving him for no apparent reason and declaring to us what a smart person this new politician Obama was. Thus, everyone thought all his weirdness was just what a smart, new type of politician was like.
Cheap shots. Nice tactics.
I resisted making fun of Bush (do you guys REALLY want to get into gaffes?) because I respected him as a human being. Nice to see when the tables are turned, the Right are jerks just like the Left.
Apparently one person on the left “resisted making fun of Bush”. All the other liberals took their cheap shots routinely and they routinely ignore the Obamaisms of President Obama. Perhaps that is why this article was written? Someone in these 57 states needs to point out the hypocrisy of the media.
My personal favorite is the one where he thinks the people in Austria speak “Austrian”
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/04/video_obama_mentions_the_austr.html
@Someone75: Is the only way you can defend Obama to say that Bush did the same thing? Isn’t that the same as condemning him? I thought the whole point of electing Obama was that he was supposed to be different from Bush. Oh and I wouldn’t thought that if you really opposed attacking Bush on gaffes you would have DEFENDED Bush, not just “resisted making fun” of him.
I’d be glad to see a Republican making movies or comedy about Obama. Do they have a sense of humor? Something funny should be portrayed. The SNL sketches on Hillary and Palin were hilarious. Obama has a sense of humor and this is prone to “gaffes”. Just make it funny. I’m waiting.
hey, vivo:
if americans didn’t have a sense of humor, we’d have all put guns to our heads and blown our brains out by this time. indeed, to make it especially humorous, let’s put the videos of heads being sawed off next to those of “waterboarding”. i know you and your ilk will get a kick out of that one.
“Someone75″, thanks for reminding everyone here that satire may only be expressed by those ever-and-endlessly “tolerant” Leftists. (NOTE, child: *S*A*R*C*A*S*M*)
“vivo”, Once you learn to read, try picking up a copy of The Onion.
Oh come on Someone75, nobody believes that. You didn’t resist, and we know you didn’t resist. It’s just a thing Dems say to try and make us feel guilty about laughing at the guy. (It’s not working.)
The problem with making any kind of joke about “The One” is that you are immediately labeled “Racist”. In today’s culture you can be a child raping pervert of the lowest order, but you are better than a “Racist”.
This stuff might be even a smidgeon “funny” except that the subject Herr Michelle Reverend Wright Bill Ayres Frank Marshall Davis-Ubambi — the bouncing about our once most hallowed house moronic mobbed-up murtadd Muslim made-in-the-mould of Mussolini modified Marxist empty galabia pretender to the presidency — hates our beloved fraternal republic even more than did his every-bit as un-and-anti-American fellow ingrate: Sacha Baron Cohen.
Brian Richard Allen
Los Angeles CalifOBAMBIcated 90028
And the Far Abroad
Someone75:
_You’re_ the liberal who resisted making fun of Bush. I heard of you, but I thought you were made up. Like bigfoot.
C’mon guys, let’s give Someone 75 some credit – he did admit that Lefties are jerks.
Nothing crypto about Dear Leader’s socialism. The question is what sort of fusion of German National Socialism, Italian Fascism, and Stalinist Communism he has in store for us. So far he seems to like a brand of Socialism that rewards his friends. How much of the golden goose can you carve up and dish out before she stops laying those nice eggs for Dear Leader?
Everyone in the administration is silly also:
Joe Biden is the human gaffe machine – just wind him up and watch him make a fool of himself.
Janet Napolitano at Homeland Security doesn’t know that illegal immigration is illegal. And she thinks the 911 Terrorists came from Canada. http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2009/04/23/caution-genius-at-work-2/
I have to admit I now look forward to the news each night to see what Borat Obama, and the gang are up to. I thought Geithner would be name dumbest of the dumb, but now Napolitano is making her move. This is more entertaining than anything else on TV. I’ve never seen a bigger bunch of idiots in my life. Don’t miss an episode.
It’s not that Obama doesn’t make gaffes. The difference is that his gaffes rare and in between moments of absolute brilliance and inspiration. Bush was all gaffe and no brilliance.
“So why would Obama propose something so pathetically silly?”
Because it’s symbolism and Obama understands that symbolism is all that’s required to placate his supporters. They are hopelessly ignorant of the truth. All that needs to be done is for the media to report that he’s cutting spending and as shallow as Obamatons are, they’ll believe he’s actually doing something useful.
Either I’m confused @ #15 IS confused or he is as brillient a satirist as Mr. Fleming, saying that Borat Obama has shown any brilleance and inspiration. I certainly haven’t seen any in his Porkulus Bill, World Apology Tour or 2010 budget proposal.
Darn typos! PJM really needs an edit feature!
It would be really hilarious if this was all big joke. But it’s not. I shudder to read the news each day to see what comes next with Obamessiah. Let’s see – charging those Navy Seals with a hate crime and murder? Finding a “foster family” for Somali Pirate-Boy? Creating and outreach program for would-be Somali Pirate Boys? Building a gallows/dungeon next to the Capital for all would be political enemies or critics of the administration? Lots of great opportunities for new gags every day. But the American people won’t be laughing.
What I want to know: Can we prosecute the policy gurus of the Obama administration for serving the enemy (Ahmadinajead, Assad, Castro, Chavez) the way he is trying to prosecute those serving this country?
@16. drjohn; And Obamas supporters all went to schools where “feeling good about yourself” was more important than basic thing like math skills. When you say “One Hundred MILLION dollars” it sounds so much bigger than “four trillion dollars” that they are impressed.
What could be better than a gesture bought at a discount?
“Someone75:Cheap shots. Nice tactics.”
Where are the cheap shots? These are documented facts !
President Obama proposed to 100 million pay cuts in an arrogant attempt to appeal to the Tea Party protesters; see, he thinks we’re dumb. Never mind this offset is nothing compared to his budget & “stimulus.” I think his $100 million pay cuts might inflame more protests instead of quell them.
Confused (#15), you have no idea what you’re talking about. President Obama regularly contradicts himself & makes gaffes daily; the difference is the MSM does not report them! You can have a whole 30 minute program on Obama, Hillary Clinton, & Joe Biden’s gaffes.
Obama did the same thing during the campaign.
Your namesake fits you.
is life? No, Demorez!
#15 I’m confused: Your moniker “I’m confused” truly suits you. Do tell what Carter II’s moments of “absolute brilliance and inspiration” are. I await your list and will try and read with a straight face…
The column would be a lot funnier if BoratO were not rapidly destroying the United States of America, present and future, 24/7.
Someone75, the clarification to your complaint is in your post. You say you respected Bush as a human being and that kept you nice. If it has to be said, it obviously isn’t true. Just more liberal talky-talk.
Don’t you understand? (Of course you don’t. Therein lies the problem.) I don’t respect Borat obama as a human being. I don’t respect anyone who deliberately lies, energetically destroys and actively legislates to kill other human beings under the cover of abortion law. I DO respect LIFE itself which he doesn’t, so I won’t campaign to have him squashed like a bug. I just want him out of that heretofore elevated national office.
I’ve respected a LOT of liberal Democrats in the past, with whom I vehemently disagreed: Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Patrick Moynihan, Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman for starters. I didn’t even have to sink to the antacid of saying “I respect him as a human being.” That’s like saying to an insecure coworker, “Of course, I like you!” How embarrassing.
If Borat obama knocked on my front door, I would only answer it to tell him to go away.
Another piece of evidence not mentioned is that English is obviously a second language for obama.
17. Peter the Bubblehead: . . OK, that’s cool. We can disagree. Lot sof people dont’ liek the stimulus package or the budget. we saw that in the T Parties. I don’t get the Apology Tour though. When did he apologize for beng America? I never heard that.
Can we please work Borat Obama into the conservative vernacular? That’s hilarious!
What an insightful article! I wish it were so – but I believe Obama is serious, which is much more dangerous.
it is a bit frightening how well this fits the facts. Wouldn’t it be great if it was true? “Haha! Fooled you. Now go elect a real president”.
Stop giving me hope.
I think you miss the point. The illusionary savings is not a joke, it’s is the president that is the joke. For over one hundred days Obama, in-country or on foreign junkets, has been practicing the toddi defense; the other dude did it! It was all those other president’s fault for the robbing, raping, and pillaging of the third world, starting with genocidal Washington–although Jimmy Carter and Lincoln is apparently excluded from that lineup. It has been good for laughs. Obama’s cool too, just like recalcitrant Cool Hand Luke confronting that pathological southern prison camp warden when he say’s “What we have here is a failure to communicate.” Over coming our alleged failures to communicate in the past, Obama is the new northern warden promising a new compassionate zoo where the lions and sheep can lay down in sweet peace and reason. All it takes for achieving heaven on earth is serial groveling to our former enemies while our former friends are treated as pariahs. It’s good that Israel probably has several bombs, South Vietnam was not so fortunate during that 70′s decade of the great American debasement. Like those returning Vietnam era vets treatment by Hollywood, apparently returning veterans of the defunct “war on terror” will get to take their place in the liberal pantheon of dangerous and homicidal racist bigots, threatening to run amok with all those growing conservative domestic terrorist groups. It’s hard to be the President from Saturday Night Live.
28. I’m confused wrote:
I don’t get the Apology Tour though. When did he apologize for beng America? I never heard that.
Peter writes: Confused obviously doesn’t watch read the news.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/letters/view.bg?articleid=1166973
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/04/06/obama-apologizes-to-europe-for-us-arrogance-in-liberating-their-asses-on-numerous-occasions/
http://neveryetmelted.com/2009/04/06/obama-apologizes-for-arrogant-america/
I, like many, have been amazed and frustrated that SNL, which made its name ridiculing Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, has been unwilling or unable to find anything funny about Obama. Then I realized that they have just gone “old school” with their humor. If you go back to Eisenhower’s administration and look at the sitcoms, you would see the male as straight man. Carl Betz, Robert Young, Hugh Beaumont all would be in the scene while all sorts of silliness happened around them. (Compare to the weak Joe Biden slapstick they think is funny.) The Dads were never the butt of the jokes. It was only after Archie Bunker that it became fashionable to create the Dad as Doofus model.
We have not elected Borat; We elected Fred MacMurray…
Obama gaffe: Making the mistake that Austrians speak “Austrian”.
Bush gaffe: Torturing Iraqis to elicit forced confessions of a link between Saddam and al Qaeda in order to fabricate a case for an unnecessary war in Iraq which left five thousand American troops and hundreds of thousands of civilians dead.
Obama gaffe: Walking into a glass door.
Bush gaffe: Presiding over the worst economic crisis in our country’s history.
Obama gaffe: Giving an iPod to the Queen of England.
Bush gaffe: Ushering in “No Child Left Behind” as the answer to the education crisis in this country, and then proceeding not to fund the program so that ordinary teachers have to use their own income to buy the resources necessary to meet the NCLB standards.
The bow to King Abdullah was hysterical! Wonder what expensive, thoughtful gift he came up with for him, a Gideon Bible from his hotel room? Give Michelle some credit too: walking around showing off a camel toe made me bust a gut! The official White House painting of her is proof she believes in the right to bare arms.
“it’s…the president that is the joke.”
Bingo.
33 Thanks Peter . . . I read and watched what you posted and I didn’t hear him apologize. He said there has been times when America has been arrogant and dismisive and he also said that Europe has anti-American ideas that we don’t deserve. I think both of those things are true. Where’s the apology? Sorry, but I like to be fair in this stuff and I think he’s maybe getting a raw deal.
Pastor of Muppets:
Bush tortured confession out of Iraqis about a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda? Did I miss that, or have you misplaced your pills?
You can’t get angry at people for stuff you made up about them. That’s not rational. That’s what a crazy person does.
38. i’m confused wrote:
Where’s the apology?
Peter writes: A sitting President of the US APOLOGIZES to the rest of the word for American greatness and the fact those other countries would not even exist were it not for American strength and generosity, and you agree with that?
Obviously your moniker is completely true. You are one confused son of a gun. REAL Americans understand why people are upset at The One’s World Apology Tour.
OBAMA IS A FOLLOWER OF THE LEFT
He subscribes to the Utopian thinking of others.
http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/04/leftist-community-service-drivel.html
But he didn’t apologize. that’s what I’msaying.. In the video clip you sent he even said that America doesn’t get enough credit for the great things we do. Maybe there’s another video clip you could link to because the other one did not have the entire speech. Or maybe somebody else here has a clip or q uote or something. But I’m not hearing anything like an apology.
Pastor of Muppets is rocking the denial yet again. Bush presided over the worst economic crisis in our history? What? Talk about your Denial with a capital D. Sheesh bub, are facts not an option for you? Do you just “wing it” in your daily life and fit square pegs into round holes? No wonder you’re an Obama fan/apologist! Contrary to what you’ve been led to believe Nancy Pelosi is a Democrat and was in charge of Congress for the last 2 of Bush’s years (which I’m sure you’re referring to right?). Now, since I can tell you’re a bit lacking in the information department might I point out that Obama’s budget is double what Bush’s was? I know, I know, they don’t tell you that info in your Liberal information pipeline, but in all fairness, it must be said. I’ll wait while you pick your jaw up off the floor.
I wake up every morning hoping and praying that it’s all a nightmare. Then I turn on the TV and it’s not. The sick feeling is real! There’s nothing funny about that. I miss the Bushisms, I really do.
“I guess it’s OK to call the secretary of education here ‘buddy.’ That means friend.” –George W. Bush, Philadelphia, Jan. 8, 2009
I love post like this as it really draws the wingnuts out of their rat holes. I know I can depend on PJM to provide my daily laughs and to think that this can go on for eight more years.
Frank J.: “Bush tortured confession out of Iraqis about a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda? Did I miss that, or have you misplaced your pills?
You can’t get angry at people for stuff you made up about them. That’s not rational. That’s what a crazy person does.”
Read:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/66622.html
I accept your apology.
This is perhaps the best article on Obama yet – and I think it is true!!!! You have captured the essense of the Messiah and his empty suit.
For you movie buffs out there….I sometimes equate this administration to Peter Sellers’ Magic Christian. All hype to take the rich to the cleaners.
Robert Hurley: “I love post like this as it really draws the wingnuts out of their rat holes. I know I can depend on PJM to provide my daily laughs and to think that this can go on for eight more years.”
Robert, if you think this is funny, just wait until the Bush administration torture trials get going. It’s going to be hysterical watching these clowns pulling their few remaining hairs out over how unfair it is that the Liberal/Marxist/Totalitarian/Fascist/Sith Democrats are ganging up on poor widdle Bush and Cheney. Hannity just might have an anyeurism.
Pastor of Muppets:
Bush did not claim that there was a link between 9/11 and Saddam, or cite that as a reason for overthrowing Saddam (or claim that Saddam posed an imminent threat).
I accept your insincere left-wing non-apology in advance.
Iraq became the graveyard of thousands of Al Qaeda and a murderous,genocidal, terrorist-sponsoring, anti-American (therefore beloved by leftists like Sean Penn) dictator who was constantly firing at US and British jets enforcing the no-fly zone, was overthrown, yes at great cost to ourselves and the Iraqis. Had we not, Saddam would still be in power and he’d have nukes now (see 9/11 Report–he was 5 years away in 2003). It’s called leadership. Obama doesn’t lead or even govern–he campaigns.
I accept your apology to George Bush. I know how hard it is for any liberal to admit s/he was wrong about anything, ever.
LMAO: “Barack Obama: President of America for Make Benefit Change and Hope of World.” I’m laughing so hard I can barely type. Bravo, Mr Fleming!
But he has a serious point when he writes that “both those defending Obama and those railing against his politics are wrongheaded. Because they’re both taking him seriously and are going to look like fools in the end.”
It’s time to stop squabbling among ourselves and make a revolution. Today Procrustes at RBO nails the true ground of the revolution, which is to roll back federal power and create a “Fourth Republic.”
See her post here:
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/rbo-rant-obamanation-tea-parties-the-law-of-uninteded-consequences-and-a-constitutional-amendment-convention/#comments
Did Borat have a sister?
The evidence is leaning towards yes.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Harper+must+deal+with+border+blather/1525739/story.html
I accept your stupidity.
Pastor of Muppets:
Did you read your own article? You said Bush tortured Iraqis to admit a connection with al Qaeda, but the article only mention al Qaeda detainees being interrogated (and we already knew their higher ups were waterboarded). Frankly, I hope they connected car batteries to their gonads just for fun.
You’re just making stuff up, getting mad about it, and posting it on the net. You are not a mentally balanced person. And do you really think people are going to get angry when it’s revealed Bush was mean to terrorists? Not everyone is a prissy little girl like you.
I’m Confused, are you going for irony? It’s not working.
Obama would be comical if he was not so dangerous.
53 Sebastian Shaw . . . No, I’m not trying to be ironic. I dont’ hear an apology in any of the things that Peter the Bubblehead provided. I know he’s trying to help and I think he might be frustrated with me and I’m sorry about that but I have to say it like I see it. I’m no fan of this president. And I didnt’ like it when the Democrats accused President Bush of doing things he didnt’ do. (Torture! Duh!) So if Obama apologized for America, he deserves to becriticized. But if he didnt’, then we shouldnt’ be saying he did. All I’m asking for is for someone to show me where I can find find him apologizing for America. I dont’ think any American president has ever apologized for America and if Obama did then I think it’s important to share that stuff with as many people out there as we can.
How funny. Our president is like a fictional character. Excellent articlle PJM ^___^
53 Sebastian Shaw . . . Not at all, no, I’m not doing ironic. I’m no big fan of this president, though I like a few things he ‘s said and done. I like his speeches. And i defintely didn’t like when Democrats accused Bush of things he didn’t do. So, if Obama apologized for America and I don’t think any president has ever done anything like that, then I think we need to criticize him for it and get that word out there for people. But all I’m asking for is some place I can go to hear or read it. The stuff Peter the Bubblehead (love that name. My dad was a bubblhead. it’s a navy deal.) the stuff from Peter didn’t have any apology in it. I know he’s trying to help and probably pretty frusrated with me. Sorry for that. Actually it’s my daughter who started me on this when she asked me why Obama apologized and i didn’t have an answer for her. So here I am. Can anybody help me out? thanks.
President Government suits Obama more than Borat.
53 sebastianshaw . . . Sorry but when I hit submit my things don’t appear . . .anyway, I’ll keep this short. No, I’m not being ironic. I’m not a big fan of this presidetn, though I like some of what he says and does. But if he really did apologize fro being America,then we should criticize him for ti and let everybody know. But that stuff Peter Bubblehead provided didn’t have any apology in it. Actually it;s my daughter who got me started in this. she asked me why did Obama apoologize for being Americans and i didn’t have an answer. (wow I’m getting tired of typingthis, it’s liek my thir d time). Anyway, who can tell me whee to go to find a quote or clip orsomethign? thanks.
“And do you really think people are going to get angry when it’s revealed Bush was mean to terrorists? Not everyone is a prissy little girl like you.” 53.FrankJ
Thank you! This girl thinks we should be mean to terrorists. Real. Real. Mean.
Hub:“Bush did not claim that there was a link between 9/11 and Saddam, or cite that as a reason for overthrowing Saddam (or claim that Saddam posed an imminent threat).”
Okay, then please explain the following:
President Bush in a televised address to defend his administration’s policy on Iraq, September 2003:
“We’ve learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases. And we know that after 11 September, Saddam Hussein’s regime gleefully celebrated the terrorist attacks on America.
Some citizens wonder, after 11 years of living with this problem, why do we need to confront it now? And there’s a reason. We’ve experienced the horror of 11 September.
On June 14, 2004, Vice President Dick Cheney said in a speech that Saddam“had long established ties with al-Qaida.”
Additionally, your defense of the War in Iraq is pretty hysterical. Saddam would have nukes by now? You seriously believe that? It’s really sad how you reactionary right wingers will grasp wildly at any scrap of BS that will help you mitigate the shame and dishonor you all have brought upon yourselves and this country by being consciousless cheerleaders for the worst president in history.
This makes no sense.
Perhaps, Puppet Guy, but Bush seemed to know that we don’t have 57 states in the US, and that Austrians primarily speak German. (But evem you have to admit the Costco DVD – that don’t even play the UK DVD players – is Funny, funny stuff).
“Bush gaffe: Presiding over the worst economic crisis in our country’s history.”
I am pretty sure that when Obama’s economic policies are fully implemented, the public will look back on the last few months of 2008 as not being so bad – certaintly not the ‘worst’ time.
Are we really comparing this administration to the last one?
Bush committed one ridiculous gaffe after another in scripted situations with limited access. Obama is out there in public, responding to real questions in real time.
There’s no comparison.
Borat Hussein Osama.
It has a certain ring to it.
Here is the explanation:
1) affirmative action
2) Obama is a closet muslim.
Sorry, it seems plain to me that Borat was much wiser than the O’Bumbler. And, to Mr. 3Com Park, Mr. Bush always sounded like an idiot, but the O’Bumbler ACTS like one.
Both are clowns.
Yes, Borat sort of rings true, but also consider Mike Myers as Dr. Evil doing his clueless “million dollars” riff.
Pastor of Muppets
Wow. Liberals really do eat recycled food, don’t they?!
I sincerely hope you didn’t pinch your moniker from a great Metallica album; that would be insufferable.
If it would save just one American life, I would support flaying the entire inmate population of Gitmo alive, btw. Screw you dopes who somehow have sympathy for people who gladly would off all of us – yourselves included – at the slightest opportunity.
Mr. Fleming, what do you have against Mr.Cohen? At least he is honest about his intentions to gull us, and isn’t endangering the Republic.
NW
PS – I wager Someone75 has deep cocoa colored eyes, with floating bits of corn.
Whether or not there were ties to Al-Qaeda in Iraq beforehand is beside the point. The point of the war was to bring Al-Qaeda into Iraq so we could go about killing them there instead of trying to kill them in New York or Selma or Memphis or Boise or Las Vegas.
In other words, let’s say Abu and Hamid want to kill Americans in the grand jihad. The invasion of Iraq made it easier for them to try, because it was easier to travel for them from Damascus or Riyadh to Baghdad than it is to go to New York. The following disadvantage to Abu and Hamid: the Americans in Baghdad were equipped to shoot back.
WMDs, Al-Qaeda ties … true or not, they were immaterial. The point of the Iraq war was not oil, nor was it Saddam Hussein (may he rot where he is most surely burning); the point was to kill people who wanted to kill Americans. The last administration could never say that without betraying the plan.
As for worst president in history? Let’s talk again in 2012.
5. Judy, NYC:
“to make it especially humorous, let’s put the videos of heads being sawed off next to those of “waterboarding”.”
You call that humor? Just what I said, Reps have humor?
6. Ed Wallis:
““vivo”, Once you learn to read, try picking up a copy of The Onion.”
And once I pick it, what do I do with it?
I thought he was the Heinz president, with 57 states and all.
3ComPark, Obama cannot articulate a comprehensive sentence without at least 3 teleprompters telling him what to say. He traveled oversees with 12–twelve–teleprompters, yet he still made gaffes. He bowed before the Saudie king. He mispoke at a town hall, despite his teleprompter.
Keep your head in the sand ignorant one. And quite bringing up President Bush! You know your argument is lost when you refer to George Bush. He’s no longer the President! Obama is! And he is the subject of the essay.
Stay on the subject incorrigible, incessant little child mind.
Pastor of Muppets, you are so effing stupid that you don’t even know that one of your liberal heroes Ted Kennedy, who let a girl suffocate at the bottom of a river was the lead author of no child left behind.
“President Bush in a televised address to defend his administration’s policy on Iraq, September 2003:
“We’ve learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases. And we know that after 11 September, Saddam Hussein’s regime gleefully celebrated the terrorist attacks on America.
Some citizens wonder, after 11 years of living with this problem, why do we need to confront it now? And there’s a reason. We’ve experienced the horror of 11 September.
On June 14, 2004, Vice President Dick Cheney said in a speech that Saddam“had long established ties with al-Qaida.” ”
Doesn’t say anything there about Saddam having anything to do with the orchestration of 9/11. Merely that his regime had some ties to Al Qaeda.
@32 “Bobblehead”
If that’s the “news” you read then….wow.
Where is comment with my Twitter? I promise you one night with my sister. Is very niiiice.
http://twitter.com/BarackBorat
Nice article, but I just had to comment. I “listened” to what our President said about finding more money. He did not say he wanted to cut 100 million! What he said was he thought each area or department could find at least 100 million to cut and 100 million here and another 100 million there and pretty soon we would be talking about real money even in Washington.
If people or reporters would just listen.
Bill
OK, well, since no one can help me find Obama apologizing for America it didn’t happen.
I think Obama proposed the 100 million in cuts for no other reason than he thought his stenographers in the press (as Rush calls them) would dutifully take notes and hale the mighty One for his glorious cutting of the budget.
Shockingly it didn’t work out that way, even the stenographers in the press couldn’t quite pass that off as a bold and brilliant move. No worries, this to will quickly go down the memory hole because as commentator #15 states; Obama has moments of “absolute brilliance and inspiration”, (was he/she really serious?) or so we’re told ad nauseum. I’m still waiting to see this brilliance and inspiration for myself.
Bill, he said he was going to have his cabinet cut 100 mil from each of their budgets. That might add up to a few billion. In a budget of several TRILLION. And many of the “cuts” he’s making aren’t cuts at all, since he’s just shifting money around.
We did listen. Obama is bullsh*tting the American people.
Trouble:
“If it would save just one American life, I would support flaying the entire inmate population of Gitmo alive, btw. Screw you dopes who somehow have sympathy for people who gladly would off all of us – yourselves included – at the slightest opportunity.” That makes you no different than the terrorists. We are suppose to be a country of laws. Once you dispense with laws, you sink to the level of the very people you oppose. You seem to believe the end justifies the means.
haha…americans are generally dumb be it obama or bush!
americans used to be innovators and inventors and all that stuff but not anymore. they are now just plain stupid!
Who is this “Barack Obama” you guys keep speaking of? Is he like that wacky Ron Paul character or is he one of those nobodies who hosts SNL from time to time?
Pastor of Muppets-
Your Dad didn’t spend much time with you, did he? Is that why you believe ” Bad attention is better than No attention” ? Because that is the way that you act.
I love this. I actually think that most of what was said about Bush is in actual fact TRUE of Obama.
http://twitter.com/BarackBorat
Hello, and please to come up on my Twittering. My mustache still tasting of Ted Kennedy’s testes. But is nice. I am giving all America a clock-radio with $100 million savings. Then we visit 57 states and I buy a new wife.
http://twitter.com/BarackBorat
So should we be looking for Ashton Kutcher to jump out and tell us all we’ve been punk’d?
Hey Shadow, get a clue “That makes you no different than the terrorists. We are suppose to be a country of laws. Once you dispense with laws, you sink to the level of the very people you oppose. You seem to believe the end justifies the means.” You have obviously never served our Country of Laws. The people who have dedicated their lives to kill Americans are not part a uniformed military who obey laws. They are not signatories of the Geneva Convention In time of war you do what is necessary to defeat the enemy. And like it or not they are the enemy. If putting underwear on some terrorist’s head or water boarding him yields information that saves American lives – do it. We don not need to know how the information was obtained and we do not need to tie the hands of our intelligence community. Do you think this is something new or just done under the Bush Administration? Maybe we should read the Terrorists bed time stories after giving them cookies and milk and a good night kiss? In this case the end does justify the means, and we don’t need to know the means
Right on the money, HKR. By the way, bedtimes stories combined with cookies and or milk is against Sharia and punishable by being buried up to one’s head and stoned. And not the good kind of stoned. You can have a bedtime story. You can have a cup of milk. You can even have a non-zionist cookie. But in any combination this is an abomination. Why do you want to corrupt these poor misunderstood gentleman with your evil, decadent, Western ways of milk and cookies?
I bet you even approve of the Navy assasinating those three Somalian yachtsmen who were simply sharing their culture with that American captain. Next thing you know you’ll try to force religious tolerance and basic human rights for women on them. What sort of a monster on you?
Quite a conversation. I liked the budget image of gaining a thousand pounds and then trimming a fingernail to counter it–vivid. The only way to catch His Slickness and stay above the confusion, reversals and disconnects he’s deliberately generating is by clear thinking and documenting the insanity. But Barat Obama sure highlights the absolute insanity we’re all witnessing–oh that it were a joke.
Team Obummer is hell-bent on taking this country all the way down where they can then “reorganize” it a la the Alinsky chaos plan-”a new foundation” his slick PR–short for prompter–team calls it. Don’t expect anything less or you’re childishly naive. While it’s a disgusting “come unto me” apology tour abroad, here it’s his Revenge Tour–and he’s the punisher. It’s pathological embittered radical politics–been around a long time– and they think it’s time to take America down and are throwing everything they’ve got into it. What I find the most amazing is the mass hysteria at work where there appears to be so many who don’t even want to know the extent of what’s happening and are totally committed to adoring this shallow kid no matter what. That’s like having a frenzied rock concert on the Titanic while the ship is listing–and thinking it’s cool special effects. Really, this kind of fascination and unconditional adoration is the foundation for facism. God help us.
72. SoulJava wrote:
Whether or not there were ties to Al-Qaeda in Iraq beforehand is beside the point. The point of the war was to bring Al-Qaeda into Iraq so we could go about killing them there instead of trying to kill them in New York or Selma or Memphis or Boise or Las Vegas.
Peter writes: Actually, the war in Iraq was to depose Saddam, who ignored numerous UN resolutions imposed against him and thumbed his nose at the cease-fire signed after the First Gulf War in 1991. It had nothing to do with drawing terrorists into the country so we could kill them. At the time the war began, it was fully expected that the Coalition would go in, capture Baghdad, depose Saddam and put him in jail/on trial, implement a new democratically elected government and then get out. No one really expected the insurgency that grew around the escaped Saddam, starting first with his Bathists and later spreading to include al Qaeda.
And the war was NOT started only because of the possibilities of WMDs, even though people on BOTH sides of the partisian aisle AND oversees all saw the same intel and agreed it indicated Saddam was working on his WMD program again. That was but a small part of it, and it has been learned that, while Saddam did not have the weapons everyone feared stockpiled in the backyards of his numerous mansions, he did have the plans and materials standing by to be implimented on a moment’s notice and could have had such weapons in mere months, perhaps weeks.
I’m still confused:
Read this:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124044156269345357.html?mod=sphere_ts&mod=sphere_wd
MS Attitude . . . thanks for the link . . .
“Mr. Obama was asked in Europe if he believes in American exceptionalism. He said he did — in the same way that “the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks in Greek exceptionalism.” That’s another way of saying, “No.”
That’s just the author drawing his or her own conclusion. It’s an opinion. Obama’s response to the question was “yes” The author says his answer was “no.” That’s not true or fair. It would be easy for me to say that the author thinks the Greeks don’t have the right to think they’re exceptional people. Is that what the author thinks?
“Mr. Obama makes it seem as though there is moral equivalence between America and its adversaries . . . ”
“Makes it seem” is an opinion, not a fact. It’s like me saying Mitt Romney makes it seem like Christianity isn’t good enough, so he’s a Mormon.”
“He apologized for America and our adversaries rejoiced.”
Where is the apology? Where did he say “I’m sorry” or “I apologize”? He didn’t. It’s just the author’s opinion, putting words in Obama’s mouth. He said that America isn’t perfect, and that’s true. I’m not scared of that kind of talk. I think it’s OK.
I’m sorry, but this all seems like people who don’t like Obama cooking up stuff, like they’re claiming things not because they’re true but because they might be able to convince people that they’re true. I don’t think that’s fair. The people I admire most are the people who deal with the truth head on even though it might not be exactly what they want to deal with, you know?
Obama is simply counting on enough people not being able to differentiate between a million, and billion, and a trillion.
it’s like saying I gained 40 stone since college, so I’ve started a plan to lose 10,000 grams. Without knowing the conversions for these measurements of weight you don’t know if I’m making a real effort or not.
Once you find out a stone is about 14 pounds, and 10,000 grams = 10 kg or about 22 pounds; you wonder how I gained 560 pounds and if losing 20 or so will make much difference.
But without the information to make the comparison, it doesn’t sound bad. Obama is counting on ignorance… which is usual for a politician really.
#26. I second your comment.
To Ms. Attitude @ #95 – Thanks. In the brief periods I had time to try and find the specific articles I was looking for, I was unable to find them again and settled for what I hoped were ‘good enough’ to get my point across. Apparently good enough ain’t good enough for some poeple who are particularly stubborn.
Again, thanks for the help and back-up.
96. I’m still confused wrote:
That’s just the author drawing his or her own conclusion.
Peter notes: And then even when you provide the requested details that should have been more than good enough, some people are STILL too stubborn to admit they are either wrong or too bull-headed to see what is in front of their eyes.
97. Gekkobear wrote:
Obama is counting on ignorance… which is usual for a politician really.
Peter writes: I thought The One ran on the platform of being the Un-politician? Being everything DC was not? Isn’t that why 52% of the population voted for him? if he is not fulfilling this promise, to avoid politics as usual, can we have a re-vote?
Wall street journal’opinion, umm wonder if it isn’t a arrogant rant !
I didn’t understand that O was apologizing for anything to Sarkozy, but rather that he was cheating him
Smartest and coolest Administration evar! …what’s most amazing and impressive to me though, 100 days into this debacle, is the staying power of the MSM. I mean, can you imagine the energy and coordination required to cover for this bumbling group of incompetent fools? Impressive.
Bravo MSM!
The Shadow
You seem to believe the ends justify the means.
They do. I’ve been in management long enough to know that fear and intimidation are (sometimes) justifiable techniques.
Plus, by their (al Qaeda’s) own doctrine, it’s either them, or us. I vote us.
If this was about parking tickets, I’d feel differently. But it isn’t; it’s about the survival of Western civilization. Sometimes, you gotta be a sumbitch to survive.
Sorry, but the apology . . . it’s just not there. All anybody can point to is opinion pieces. It’s ok though, everybody has moved on kind of like they did with the T Parties.
yawn . . . I got trashed in the comments as usual. I’m not a lefty. I’m a centrist, but none of you believe that.
Apparently, when someone makes fun of Obama, I’m supposed to just think it’s all in good fun. Yeah, I remember how you guys cried foul when Bush was skewered by the Left.
Personally, I think anyone who is extreme on the right or on the left is an idiot. Yes – that includes some of you people. A level-headed approach that listens to both sides is the only hope we have. The Right has some decent ideas, but a lot of stupid ones. Same for the Left. But then we have sites like this and KOS which propagate hate and lies.
As if anyone cared.
To Peter the Bubblehead: while Bill Clinton and others suspected Hussein of having a WMD program, they didn’t have enough intel to say for sure. And Clinton certainly didn’t have enough to even contemplate taking out Hussein. After 9/11, especially from when Afghanistan was invaded over the Taliban’s refusal to turn over bin Laden, there was much greater intel coming in from the area and pretty much all of it was pointing away from there being any Iraqi WMD program left or Hussein having any connections whatsoever to al-Qaeda, both of which were cornerstones for justifying a preemptive invasion to remove Hussein as a grave, mortal and/or imminent threat.
The invasion was never more than the fulfillment, using post 9/11 fear and anger as a cover, of a long standing policy wish by the now defunct Partners for a New American Century (“PNAS”), an American Enterprise Institute affiliated neocon boys club whose members peppered Bush’s cabinet, and included Cheney, Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, and and Paul Wolfowitz for starters. When Clinton was President, the PNAC sent him a letter asking him to take out Hussein, which Clinton wisely ignored. Needless to say, the next President was not so wise (to see the letter, as well as who signed off on it, just Google: PNAC letter Clinton.)
Enlightenment at last!! The truth is revealed. Behold the words
SACHA BARON COHEN BORAT.
Drink beer for a while and these words become:
BO RAN A CON, BHORAT CHASE.
(Bhorat is the correct spelling in Canuckistan.)
I don’t know what all the fuss is about. Obama is GREAT!!! Did you see that pic of him in his shorts without a shirt? Ooo-la-la! What’s not to like???
He’s so cool he does Leno. He parties every Wednesday and all the cool dudes are there. $100 a pound steak. Meat fit for a King. Michelle is so great with those arms and her great love for America. How bout Bo? What more could one want???
Obama is cooler than Carter. Slicker than Clinton. Sexier than W. Deal with it you guys. I got that good ole tingle for the One.
Two words: Robert Gibbs.
If you are ever having a really bad day, look in the mirror, take a deep breath and thank God that Robert Gibbs is not your wingman. Its like Jeff Spicoli all grown up and fifty pounds heavier. Its like the Family Guy without one iota of humor. Its like Dumb & Dumber in which both parts are played by the same idiot. If our POTUS gave this doorknob a thorough go-over, and then hired him, we are so doomed!
Kermit the Frog,
61. You meant third worst, yes? Carter<Obama<Bush Seriously, open your garage door BEFORE starting your engine.
I believe Borat is smarter than Obama and his MSM groupies.
This is 100% true
Check it out… Borat Obama’s bio