Help Me Bubba-Wan, You’re My Only Hope (Video Added)
This afternoon, President Barack Obama held a White House meeting with the last Democrat to hold that office, and the only Democrat to win re-election to that office since LBJ, Bill Clinton. After the meeting, the two held a brief press conference in which Obama offered a quick introduction before turning the Q&A over to Clinton. The subject of all this is the deal that Obama and the Republicans reached concerning the Bush tax cuts. Clinton did a much better job of selling those cuts than Obama did during two press events earlier this week. He noted, in his wonkishly informed way, how the deal isn’t perfect but it’s better than what Obama can reasonably expect to get after the GOP takes over the House in January. He also noted that, overall, the tax cuts will help the economy. And he even went into a detailed discussion of how they payroll tax cuts that are part of the deal will help us become more competitive internationally. Clinton was in command of the facts, and did strong work selling the tax cut deal — the deal that Obama has so far failed to sell to his own party.
And then, an extraordinary thing happened.
Obama said he had kept the first lady waiting for half an hour, and told the press they were in “good hands.” And he left the briefing. Clinton did not.
The former president continued the press conference, the logo of the White House behind him in what looked like a flashback to his pre-Monica days.
Clinton looks quite a bit older now, true, but he also looks like he’s in charge. He handled the press as well as he ever did, which is a stark contrast to the way the current president mishandled the press — twice — earlier this week.
After Clinton ended the press conference, MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan came on and asked about the “optics” of all this.
Here’s what I saw. I saw a current president who has never looked less interested in doing his job. I also saw a former president who never lost interest in doing that job. Obama’s demeanor and body language suggested that he’d rather be anywhere but where he was, and then he followed through and actually bolted for the door. Clinton’s demeanor was that of a passionate wonk trying to sell a policy he actually cared about, that he thought would be good for the country. It didn’t matter that it wasn’t even his own policy that he was selling.
I saw a president who, for a few minutes a least, ceded his job to his predecessor. He’d failed to sell his own policy, so he needed and got some rescue from Clinton.
This was the third press appearance President Obama has made this week, and it was far and away the weirdest presidential press briefing I’ve ever seen. Where Obama goes from here is anyone’s guess.
Update: Real Clear Politics has video of the spectacle. Obama actually interrupts Clinton delivering an answer, to say his bit about keeping the first lady waiting, before hitting the exit. Clinton says, “I don’t want to make her mad, just go” and waves POTUS on his way without missing a beat and continues with the presser.
As I have posted on another site: If there is anyone who still does not believe that obama is nothing but someone’s sock puppet, this should remove all doubts.
ODG.. it was disgusting to see. I was embarrassed to watch it. Obama was a sniveling fool.. wow, I’m still cringing.
It was like watching an old “I love Lucy” show…you know she is going to do something stupid and you just can’t watch!!!, but you’re glued.
It was truly cringeworthy. Kept the first lady waiting for 30 minutes??? Obama really just wants to enjoy the trappings of power–the responsibility and duties, not so much.
I have to say, I miss Bill Clinton as well as George Bush. Clinton drove me nuts at the time, but that was because he was such a master politician–brilliant, smooth, convincing, and ruthless.
Does anyone really believe that Obama can rebound anywhere near as well as Bill Clinton from the recent election disaster?
Can you imagine what the Media would have said if W. brought in H.W. for something like this? Or if Bush brought in Reagan? Or Reagan Ford? The free passes this guy gets are truly amazing. Any honest scrutiny of him boarders between hysterical and terrifying. The next two years are shaping to be a bumpy ride.
That was embarrassing.
What’s even worse is that Clinton was never a real popular president. He never won a majority of the voters. He was the first Democrat to lose the House in 50 years.
I miss Bill Clinton! Please bring him back! Name him the Presidential Czar and let him serve out the rest of Obie’s term. Puhlease!
Don’t be fooled for a minute by the expediency of Clinton’s damage control troop. They have been actively required since his questionable real estate deals in Arkansas and necessary blood trail to the white house. A study of his military status, personal grooming by Sen. Fulbright, education, and personal definitions of common items in any accepted dictionary should convince all but those still breathing the toxic gasses rising from the democratic party cesspool that the only extraordinary qualification that he could exhibit would be a long form birth certificate.
He possesses neither the body language copied from William F. Buckley nor the debate experience of the POTUS and is widely used to promote world government progress. Indeed a simple wiki study of the word “affect” has been the closest definition of his shady character to date.
ONLY< ONLY!! if the much maligned and shamed monica can be vice president..only only if bill wears the blue dress while crawling around the white house.
Hey, I like clinton, he's the original "good ole" boy, BUT!!..I do not respect him. I think he's been given a pass with the crappy stuff he did.
Does anyone believe obummer can rebound?
Obama’s an idiot but on this occasion what was he supposed to do, tell the former President (obviously drunk) that the conference was over just cuz he had to go? So let the guy talk – how does that reflect on Obama?
Obama’s the President; he has other things to do. Clinton can sit all day basking in the former limelight. It’s almost delusional to project all this nonsense onto a busy man. After all, he’s got a country to run – into the ground, but run.
Iowahawk predicted this.
I missed this today and would love to see video, does anyone know where to find it?
I added a link to it. Watching it a second time didn’t make it any less bizarre.
Indeed, I have Youtube video of it here too:
http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/2010/12/obama-outsources-press-conference-to.html
As ETAB has skillfully determined, little lenin isn’t interested in the ugly work of acting as the president…policy, dissension, all that unpleasantness. He is only interested in BEING the president..cheering crowds, columns, logos, TV appearances, magazine covers, etc..
He may start bringing a relief pitcher to all his public appearances. As soon as things begin to get ugly, he can remember he’s late for his manicure appointment.
I think the American President has too much power for one person. Get it right (Reagan) and it’s OK,get it wrong (Obama), and all hell breaks loose. ONE MAN CAN DESTROY A COUNTRY that has centuries of blood ,sweat and tears behind the makeup and character of a nation.This is exactly why an Enlish form of Gov,is the answer.It will take years to fix the nation,but the President might go in two years but what about all the ACTIVIST JUDGES who think it is their ‘calling’ to change the country.Sorry America, you have a lot of growing and grooming to do.God Bless and Good Luck.
You are 100% correct, and it wasn’t the founder’s intent for the president to have this much power.
Repealing the 17th amendment would help. Until it was passed, state legislatures elected Senators, which gave the states greater power. Elected senators are too often a rubber stamp for the president.
An amendment to reinforce the true intent of the Commerce clause would also be good. Much of presidential power derives from administrating unconstitutional activities allowed by perverting the meaning of that clause.
“Where Obama goes from here is anyone’s guess.”
How about back to Chicago, with his tail tucked between his legs? Honestly, has the man no shame?
Shame? I’m wondering if he even has a pair down there. What a pathetic performance.
well, sarah obviously had it right on that point.
“all Obama wants for Christmas is his own set of b@!!$”. That way Bill, our “first black president” won’t have the need to step in with his.
Well,if this is the “Chicago way” of doing politics,it’s finally been exposed for the fraud and the sham it has always been then`
How many interns did PBO promise former (and current stand-in) President Bubba for this personal bailout?
I don’t know, but if it takes Obama out of the decision loop send in dozens. Its for the good of the country, after all.
hillary still needs $400,000+ to pay things off….
Wow. Just WOW.
So, an impeached president is better than the current TOTUS with current issues!
0bama has truly brought the US Presidency to an embarrassing low that will be hard to be beaten.
You would have had to see the look of pride on Obama’s face..it was like a little kid meeting his football hero and not being able to stand still..
This is great the third president to be impeached is asking the second president to be impeached but not convicted. This is indeed funny, perhaps Obama is trying to get the title of being the first to actually be convicted by the Senate. Andrew Johnson almost got this by one vote but lets see this historical president make a new historical precedent by being the first Black President voted in and thrown out in his first term!
I would oppose any impeachment effort for Obama, unless actual criminality can be clearly proven. The Clinton impeachment didn’t really make the repubs look all that good. We have had incompetent boobs as prez before, remember Carter. The republic managed to survive it. The best way to deal with Obama is to wait out his 2 yrs, and make sure he is not reelected. If we can get a really good repub nominee in 2012 (by no means assured) he might even win in a landslide with coatails, and give us a repub senate as well.
Sorry he really needs to be impeached because he is derelict in duty and has not only upheld the constitution but stomped on it. He has not enforced the law of this country but actually tried by using the DOJ to sue a State (Arizona)for enacting a law that mirrors the US law on immigration.
There are many reasons to write Articles of Impeachment against him and the rest of his administration, please do not get me started with most of them as I am tired of this boy and his horribly bad decisions and the danger he is bringing upon this nation.
I have to disagree with you. Waiting it out is going to be horrendous for this country. We do’nt have that much time. This person in the White House is a clear and present danger to the republic and should have been thrown out yesterday
As much as I’d like to see Obama removed from office, every time I think “President Joseph Biden,” I black out. This problem will not be solved easily.
I agree withthe impeachment and I say that if a good lawyer (team) delved into the activities of this POTUSINO with depth, and no regard for the dust it may cause, he would then be eligible for jail and worse, deportation, and have his passport to the U.S. taken away, never allowed to return. At the same time I believe those in the “Congress” that knew and know he is not eligible to be in the position he holds should be tried and fried also
with no secret service security detail, and *none* of the perks of retired presidents that *we* taxpayers fork out for.
In my view Richard 40 has gotten it right. Impeaching a president is a long, ugly, no-win situation for everyone involved (especially conservatives in this situation) and the likelihood of actually pulling it off in the current environment are slim to none and would only play to the progressives cause. Sorry but it is truly a fools errand.
And believe me I agree that Obama is an incompetent amateur fool and have thought that since day one.
Let Obama stew in his juices for a couple of more years. The harm to him and his ideaology has been done. The conservative movement should actually grow with this buffoon in office for two more years. Let’s ride the wave into 2012 and get the job done after he is gone.
Albeit, it is regretful that he will continue to be in charge of foreign policy.
What a mess this character and his minions have created here and abroad.
The only reason the Democrats didn’t try impeaching Bush/Cheney is that they knew the trouble it caused the Republicans when they tried it on Clinton. It wasn’t for a lack of desire to do so that held their hand. I was opposed to the Clinton impeachment for the same reason – it is a no-win situation. Unless Barry does something really outrageous he’s safe.
Besides – he bought an insurance policy at the start of his term – it’s called the Biden Policy.
Now they are getting it-wow, Nader comes out and calls the One a con man-oh really.
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/09/04/obamas-young-voters-finding-out-theyve-been-hustled/
I’ll bet FOX and CNBC will have a replay. This is unprecedented, I’ve never seen anything like it. I must say it’s an improvement from calling one party “hostage takers” and the other “sanctimonious”. BHO has come unglued, he is a danger to himself (politically) and our democratic institutions. Those who have sworn to uphold The Constitution must fulfill their oath.
““I don’t want to make her mad, just go”
That’s the way I feel about him, too. And I’d add, don’t let the door hit you in your transformative ass on the way out. Zero possumus.
This is truly unbelievable. Obama ceded his role and stature as President. I can’t imagine another President doing this.
Here it is: http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/11/obama-names-bill-clinton-to-president-post.html
Good job Snork.
“This was the third press appearance President Obama has made this week, and it was far and away the weirdest presidential press briefing I’ve ever seen.”
I keep looking for an Onion logo, and it’s still not there.
That is just bizarre, even surreal. I’m starting to believe he will resign – he clearly doesn’t care about the job at all!
From your mouth to God’s ear that he resigns!
President Biden??!!! =:-o
At least this was better than barry’s previous excuse for ducking out early, at a Massachussetts fund-raiser: “…I have to go home and scoop some poop”. Although not by much. Guess ol’ barry feels that the mere sight, and being in the exalted presence of, his royal highness is enough to satisfy the ladies and gentlemen of the press.
Er, LBJ was elected president only once.
True, but he did win election to the post he already occupied in 1964. If you’d prefer “since Truman” I won’t quibble.
Make that “since FDR.” Like LBJ, Truman succeeded a deceased president, then was elected in his own right.
And then he resigned, he was a joke but not as bad a one as we now have! I want to see more history either by impeachment and conviction or resignation and might I add the worst Black or any race president ever to hold the office!
You know and he does also that he is in way over his head!
Maybe Michelle was threatening to sit on him.
Aha! That’s why ‘Slick Willy’ is so excited!
Back in the heady days of 2007 and 2008 when Barack Hussein Obama was the press’s guilded lily, there were those of us who warned this nation about the shallowness and narcissism of this man. I was one of them. I was called “racist” and “hater” and many other things because I looked at this man and saw what most of you are only now seeing for the first time.
I have liberal friends who will look me dead in the eye as their image of Obama has been shattered and say “Who could have known?” “ME! I DID! AND I FRICKIN WARNED YOU! YOU CALLED ME A RACIST!!!”
We have become a nation of touchy-feely politically correct “wanna make a vote for history” pansies. Why should it be any surprise that is exactly what we elected?
Wikileaks did a DDOS on them. Even wikileaks doesn’t like those trolls and that is bad.
Hey trolls stay at home tonight and the rest of the week cause you are in trouble and your mama says it is time to go to bed!
When I was a kid politeness meant not telling someone they were stupid. Now, in a monstrously distorted version of this “politeness”, political correctness dictates that it is rude to even think that anyone in the world is stupid let alone say it.
Where’s the usual lefty suspects to defend The One?
BC?
Sensei?
Matthew?
(sound of crickets)
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how embarrassing The One is to the left now.
Well observed! Thank you!
They don’t want to give the ruse away.
they still haven’t been told how to attack it. Soros must not have done up the talking points
Here’s Matthews from RCP:
Matthews: Obama & Clinton “An Alliance Between God And The Democratic Party”
Thanks, INC, but I meant the lefty commenter that goes by “Matthew” here… the one that thinks that Wikipedia is a credible primary source.
Hey, that’s where he is… creating the Wikipedia article on Current Presidents Who Let Former Presidents Take Over Press Conferences. Betcha the article will say it’s all Bush’s fault.
Not just younger George Bush but also his father and Ronald Reagan and might even throw in Micheal Reagan as well or Nancy Reagan!
And yet, the trolls will indeed defend him. Just give them time. They have too much invested in the moron not to.
I certainly hope they do! I always enjoy a good laugh.
I think the ‘Collective’ (Star Trek “BORG” anyone?) is still trying to digest the latest act from this fool of a President. Once they’ve set on a course of explanation look for the key words in news stories and editorials commenting on it. Which key word(s) will they use to explain away Messiah’s fumbling/bumbling way? Lets hope Hannity or Beck run a montage of The Enablers attempts to excuse once again the shortcomings of this idiot. Should prove an interesting week in news – if they even cover it.
Obama is desperately trying to prove to skeptics like me that he’s not a closet Muslim. As he prematurely left the nation’s stage to obey the demands of his overbearing wife, he finally provided some evidence that he may not be a Muslim, after all.
Would you also add pussy whipped or a pansy?
Steve DeMarcus:
How about all three? He’s a pussy, whipped, and a pansy.
Btw, when he said the wife was waiting and bolted, I knew then and there Omuslim was finished. The useful idiots will still support him since they have a shared vision of a broken and smoldering America, but the man-boy and his presidency are officially on life support. Let’s pull the damn plug.
His own religion is irrelevant. His main problem is an appalling weakness towards governments who scream for the death of Jews, Infidels, Americans, Capitalists, etc. He’s ignorant of recent history; it shows that governments who loudly proclaim evil intentions always try to kill us, and often succeed.
(Ahem) Pardon my interruption of this Schadenfreude-fest. But Obama is merely demonstrating his comfort in the job, his supreme self-confidence and control of the situation: sharing the stage with Bill and all. I may have even heard that Doris Kearns Goodwin will discuss this in the preface to the next printing of her book “Team of Rivals” – a sort of case study, you see.
That all of you can’t see this merely shows how shallow – nay racist! – you all are. So, there!
Just thought someone should get this out of the way.
Carry on.
Nothing to say by “OMG”…
Obama has capitulated. He’s done, toast, bye bye MoFk’r. Nothing left but choosing the 2012 Republican candidate for Prez… if the SOB’s don’t blow it.
Vote Libertarian…..
YEAH ! !! !! !
Rubio! Rubio!
Hey, let’s give the man-child a break. His stimulous plan got jobs for 63 Republicans.
(Got that in an e-mail today)
and if they don’t “tow the line” there will be hell in 2012. the ones in there now seem to think they are powerless and act it.
I’m beginning to think there was a master strategy on the part of the Republicans in dealing directly with the Resident Fool. They could wait another 20 days and have control of the House & check book and get what they wanted – but this path has seemed to cause the left massive pain.
Not planned you say? Maybe – maybe not. But it sure makes for an interesting show.
Nice article, but quick clarification. You’re absolutely right that LBJ and Clinton both won re-election, but did you know that…
LBJ did not serve two full terms. He completed John F. Kennedy’s first term, won re-election, and served a term. Since his first term was less than two years, he could have served a second full term but chose not to (he was trailing badly in his own primary).
Harry Truman also served two terms… but again one of them was not a complete term but the time left by FDR. The 22nd amendment didn’t apply to him; he could have run again but chose not to.
Of course we know that FDR served three full terms and part of a fourth. Woodrow Wilson served two terms. Andrew Jackson, the father of the Democratic Party, was the only other democrat to serve two full terms.
And there you have it. Four democrats in history have served at least two complete terms. Two more have a partial term they inherited. And of all these people, only one is alive today.
With the presidency in meltdown, who can blame the President for turning to a man with experience and a proven track record? I applaud the president for showing some rare humility and seeking out someone with traits that the typical Democrat primary voter obviously doesn’t value.
(BTW: Jefferson, Madison and Monroe were “Democratic Republicans” and it is arguable that there is a link of continuity from them to the modern Democrats.)
And not only that, but neither Wilson nor Clinton were able to make 50% of the popular vote in *either* their initial election or their re-election. Which means only Jackson and FDR could get a majority of the nation to re-endorse their Presidencies. Two. In nearly 200 years of the party’s existence.
Never thought I’d say this, but – can we keep Slick Willy there now? He had some inkling of how the economy and the world worked.
@Over50. I’ll second that motion – he’d be a great improvement over the current POTUS.
Jimmah would be a great improvement over the current occuptant.
I’m with you… both on never thinking I’d say this, and with keeping Billy Boy Clinton there… especially with a Republican House to keep him under control.
Alas, as has been pointed out, it ain’t Constitutional.
Just imagine what Putin thinks of this. Or Jiabau. Or any other head of state of any serious nation.
Our President is quite literally a joke on the geopolitical scene. Actual world leaders laugh at him. They routinely make him look like a fool. They use his weakness and incompetence to weaken the world’s greatest nation.
Glenn Reynolds long ago predicted for Obama that a “Jimmy Carter Presidency would be a best case scenario.” He was absolutely right.
Or…maybe Schelling’s Madman Theory comes into play….
Kim Jong-il: Whoa! WTF?! He did what?! That’s crazy sh*t! Didn’t Clinton say he’d turn us into a parking lot? Who’s Obama listening to these days?
Truman did not win re-election either.
Oh… and one more thing to think about.
If you think President Obama has been a disappointment, remember what happens if he gives up and resigns. As bad as he’s been, he’s nothing compared to the lunacy and incompetence we can expect from a President Biden.
Joe Biden would start gibbering the second he was told he had the job.
Pray that if this happens, it’s not until the new congress is sworn in. If we get President Pelosi (and that’s what we’d get if Obama resigned before the end of the month), I’m going to re-read John Ringo’s “Last Centurion” and head for the hills.
Biden wouldn’t be the only one gibbering–count me in a few picoseconds after that.
One has to presume, as does asdf, that a detached incompetent like Obama is better than an overactive and incompetent lunatic like Biden.
I don’t think so, Dianna. The new prez gets to pick his veep. Isn’t that what happened when Nixon resigned, Ford became prez, and Nelson Rockefeller became veep? Didn’t Ford choose Rockefeller? Or was Rockefeller the Speaker of the House? (Lazy history student here.)
I thought the Speaker only became an “automatic” when the entire Executive was disappeared at once.
Sorry – I thought Biden would begin gibbering before being sworn in, never mind naming a Veep. So picture him being led gently away by compassionate medical personnel, and – whoops! – it’s President Nancy!
I should have made that clear.
The Speaker of The House would only be appointed POTUS and only in rare circumstances — the death of POTUS and VPOTUS simultaneously. The Speaker would be appointed to VPOTUS only by direct appointment from POTUS.
Ford chose the former NY Governor Nelson Rockefeller – a very liberal Republican – what I like to think of as the original RINO. He never served in Congress. Either Ford dropped him or Rockefeller decided not to run for VEEP for the 76 campaign – Bob Dole stepped into the running after the 76 convention.
Sorry to correct you but unless Joe (Bite me) Biden were to take the position of President then he would appoint a new Vice President and unless it is Nancy then no matter what if he lives until January 3. Then if the new Congress impeaches him and the Senate through some miracle throws him out of office along with all the perks and pension!
I see no scenario where that witch would ever be the president.
WHEWWW!!!!!!!
Joe Biden is an idiot and a clown, but I do not think he hates this country.
I would not be surprised to see Bill run for President again. Constitutionally he can. After today I would say it is 50/50.
No, he can’t. He gets two terms max, whether consecutive or not.
To be really nitpicky, it can be 2.5 terms, minus a day. That usually means if a VP succeeds to the office with less than half a term remaining, she or he can serve two full terms after that.
But I do wonder if this hypothetical would work… On January 21 (that’s two years plus one day into President Obama’s term, correct?), Vice-President Biden resigns. The Constitution allows President Obama to nominate as a replacement anyone Constitutionally eligible to serve as President for the remaining balance of his term; and since the remainder is less than half a term, I believe President Clinton is eligible. So he gets nominated and approved; and then President Obama resigns, and President Clinton gets not quite two more years. (Naturally, he nominates Hillary as his VP.)
I think this all works out in theory. Ain’t gonna happen in reality. It depends on way too many improbable, even unprecedented events to all fall in line. But you have to know there are some out there wishing for it to happen. And if it did happen, a good chunk of the country would cry foul at the shenanigans. The idea that the man who argues over the meaning of “is” would sneak into office on a technicality would break the country wide open.
Really do you think a little word or two in the Constitution would stop Bubba. I absolutely loath the man but I am sure I am not the only one that looked at he and Obama today and thought….yes….if given the choice I’d choose Bubba.
I can hear it, “an emergency constitutional change, to save the country” don’t you know. There are a lot of people right, left and center that would take that trade. Kind of makes you wonder if this wasn’t the plan all along. Ummmm
[I'm sorry, but that was the funniest news conference I have ever seen. Could not believe my eyes. The man actually turned his Presidency over to Bill...and then left so Michelle wouldn't get mad.]
I think lady macbeth was an excuse. (though I do think he’s a henpecked husband.) Honestly, I think he just can’t stand the heat now that’s he’s starting to notice this job get’s heat. He just wanted out of the limelight since people were being mean to him.
That would be something to see, Bill debating his own wife in a primary clash while she sternly looks over at him being drunk in public like in this video with “Gotta go” Obama.
Well then there is always
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Y6UKMp8Qw&feature=related
Please, please Sensei & BC, please inform us, the great unwashed, how you can defend this press briefing. I am looking for a hardy laugh to lead me into the weekend.
I can’t wait to see Saturday Night Live parody this one! This will have a place in history of it’s own unique category!
the question the reporter asked in the video was about capital and entrepreneurs. we had posted this at pointsandfigures.com before the presser. But, the post answers his question.
ione,
No, constitutionally, he cannot. 2 term limit, 2.5 terms in special circumstances. Those circumstances (i.e., filling less than half of a predecessor’s term) don’t apply here.
Entire press conference can be seen here:
http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2010/12/10/HP/A/41800/Pres+Obama+and+Fmr+Pres+Clinton+Remarks+on+Tax+Cuts.aspx
Did Jimmy Carter decline the invitation? He has seniority, after all.
LOL
Carter probably thinks it would be too Jewish to stand up and talk about taxes and money and stuff.
Just think!
Wasn’t but about 30 months ago, Bill Clinton was being called by a racist from the same folks crying, “Save us Slick! Save us!”
I knew it was going to fall apart for these stooges once asked to perform. But never in my wildest dreams did I once think they could be so grossly incompetent and desperate to beg the serial philanderer to save the party!
Next thing you know, Jimmy Carter will be giving the State of the Union!
…from North Korea.
Well, I guess this answers a few questions:
1)Would Obama move to the center like Bill Clinton did after taking a shellacking in the midterms?
Answer: Obama cut out the middle man and moved directly to Bill Clinton, who moved to the center after the shellacking in the midterms.
2)Obama left Bibi Netanyahu to dine alone and he left Bill Clinton to opine alone so as to not make Michele mad, so is Obama more afraid of Michele or Pelosi?
Answer: Carville miscounted …and overestimated.
3)In the battle of Malignant Narcissists, it seems that the the throne has been abdicated to its rightful king.
Answer: “The Ego has landed”.
4)Where does this leave Dick Morris?
Answer: You mean where does this leave Hillary? She can’t run, she can’t hide and she can’t get out from under the guy who appears to be running the country. Either of them.
I found it interesting that the press addressed Mr. Clinton as “Mr. President.” Was this merely a result of the press being sadly ignorant of proper etiquette (unlike former senators, retired judges or retired military officers, former presidents are always Mr. So-and-so), or was this a Freudian slip by the press corps, revealing its inner fears about President Obama?
I was taught that the Presidency is an emeritus position.
My teacher could have been incorrect, I’ll grant you; but that’s the usage I follow. Once the position is held, the title remains.
No, there can be only one president, so former presidents go back to being “Mr.” (or, I suppose, if there is a female former president, Mrs., Miss or Ms.).
See: http://www.emilypost.com/forms-of-address/titles/118-addressing-a-former-us-president
As a matter of political theory, one could also argue that former presidents do not keep the title the way that former senators, military officers, ambassadors or judges do to assert the republican principle that the presidency is not a kingship, and that the occupant of the highest office in the land reverts back to private citizen after his term is over(in contrast, British prime ministers become peers after they leave No. 10), thereby asserting that this Republic is led by a simple citizen chosen by citizens from amongst themselves for a period of time and not by some special class of persons distinct from the People.
#11 Snork – loved the Iowahawk link.
At this presser did we see Narcissus turn the mirror to the wall?
This was a failing Project Leader being helped out by an old hand. The rookie at least had the sense or was told, to get help. In my small business world, if the rookie continues to be overwhelmed by the job then he is off the project long before he runs it into the ditch.
Since the US isn’t a parliamentary system the President can’t be fired in mid term. All that’s left for Obama is a slow-motion slip ‘n slide into the mud pit.
Mr. Preston; I commend you for this incisive article. Don’t loose your momentum.
Good grief…
Even Sarah Palin had the common sense and decency to leave office before she actually quit…you know…doing the actual job!
What’s next for this disaster-in-progress?
A trol has finally arrived.
If you attempt to compare Sarah Palin with that piece of human refuse, you must have a blob of fermenting excrements instead of brain in your head.
Have a good read of Palin’s “Going Rogue” or at least pay a visit to http://www.conservatives4palin.com before making any ignorant comment on the circumstances surrounding Palin’s resignation.
A comment made by a trol resembles a fart. It takes a few second to poison the air but it takes sometimes hal an hour for the air to recirculate and clean up.
It is exactly with the rational and exchaustive response to a trol’s silly remark.
Remember this article a month ago? Newsweek gave Obama cover with an armful of excuses, and he has embraced them all:
Hail to the Chiefs: Is the presidency too big a job? Can any single person fully meet the demands of the 21st-century presidency?
Not only has our Commander-in-Chief given the impression that he’s weak and indecisive in the job, now he’s confirmed to everyone that he’s totally henpecked in his personal life. I was never as embarrassed for Bill Clinton in his worst horndog days as I am for this president. 2012 can’t come fast enough.
Obama left – to go to a party and photo-op. He likes those; just as he likes golf, basketball, cheering campaign crowds and holidays. What’s common about all these situations – apart from the cheers? None of them require thought. All of them set him up as ‘special’ and in the limelight.
Obama is a shallow, ill-read, and ignorant individual. He has no interest in or ability to develop – policies and programs. He delegates everything. Everything. He’s a community organizer, where he exhorts his minions to ‘go out and activate’. But he doesn’t develop the policy.
Obama acted as a Community Organizer today, exhorting his minion, Bill Clinton, to ‘go out and activate’ the hoi polloi, who are misbehaving, to do as they are told. Obama doesn’t feel threatened by Clinton, because Obama is the one going to the photo-op and the White House party as The President. Bill Clinton is left to explain dull policies to the nerdy press reporters who ask dull questions rather than just accepting what The Boss Obama says.
What Obama is interested in, is ‘feeling in power’. Over people. So, he likes campaigns where he can pontificate his ambiguous and abstract rhetoric, contradicting his promises audience by audience. He likes parties and photo-ops where he is introduced as The President.
So – he told Clinton to go out and deal with the boring press and the boring policies. He, the Boss, had already told the Congress what to do..
This does NOT, NOT, NOT mean that Obama is moving, ideologically, to the centre, as some are claiming. Obama has no ideology. He has only one focus; his own feeling of power to control and shine over others. Period.
The facts are, that the GOP won the House – because, Obama feels, the ignorance of the electorate and the bad campaigns of the Democrats – The GOP now control the House. Obama, the man-who-must-feel-in-control, can’t isolate himself in the White House, and allow the GOP to control the agenda! That would set him up as isolate, powerless….He, Obama, has to be seen to CONTROL THE GOP! And the policies they come up with!
The GOP are in power, and Obama aligns himself with them…and thus feels that HE is in control of them. That HE is in charge. The fact that the GOP now develop the policies is, to Obama, similar to the situation before where the Democrats developed the policies. Again, Obama doesn’t develop policies; he just ‘sells’ them. He’s not interested in policies or programs.
Before, Obama aligned himself with George Soros – whose billions got him elected and who got Obama to put through a statist infrastructure, the health care act, which is not about health but about big government statism. And, he aligned himself with Pelosi and Reid, who controlled the House…these two wanted money for their payoffs and states. That was the stimulus act.
Obama himself didn’t develop these policies. He just, golden boy, pushed them through. Obama is bored with issues; he can’t analyze, can’t think through a situation and come up with a policy or program.
Now, the GOP control the House. So, Obama aligns himself with them.
Again- Obama is NOT an idealogue; he hasn’t a policy thought in his brain. His biases, indoctrinated in him since childhood by the Women who Dominate him, his mother, grandmother and wife – of anti-white, anti-capitalism, anti-wealth, anti-American…are deeply embedded and affect his perspective. But they are not policies. He leaves the development of policies to others, and he simply goes with the people in power.
It sounds strange, but that’s how I see him.
one explanation is that Bill Clinton is the only person who can claim leadership (today) of the fracturing-before-our-eyes Democratic Party. Obama had a frost-fest with Schumer. Pelosi had a raucous caucus and then flew to Oslo. Durbin and Tom Coburn agreed on the Bowles-Simpson plan. Anyone really think Harry Reid will still be Senate Majority Leader on January 5?
I would not read anything more into it, although, what a precedent for a sitting president to make.
Um, before anyone gloats over the dominance of Republican presidents, please be reminded that every Republican president before Reagan would be
called a RINO today, especially Lincoln, but excluding Calvin Coolidge, who was actually fairly liberal on “social issues”. The Coolidge family dog was named “Rob Roy” as a dig against Prohibition.
I’m not sure that being against prohibition could be considered “socially liberal.” The crusade against ethanol, after all, was one of the major platforms of the Progressive movement.
The most intriguing piece just came out that says that Democrats should be backing Clinton (of the Bill variety) if they want the presidency in 2012. It is called “The Clinton-Obama Presidency” and suggests that Bill is now the de-facto President of the United States. A lot of consequences follow this original thought at http://www.robbingamerica.com
This is about an image Obama wants to project. Perhaps Obama realizes his leftist ways are a dead end street. What better way to show America Obama is becoming a centrist than having Clinton OK his plan. You have to give Obama credit for altering course. Now if the economy improves Obama has set himself up for reelection. Washington is all about survival.
clinton had figures and details at his fingertips…and he’s not even involved in these negotiations! of course, neither is barack..but he can’t answer a question unless it’s written out for him on his teleprompter. besides, there was a party to get to..who needs all this boring president stuff when the spotlight is beckoning?
I found it interesting that the press addressed Mr. Clinton as “Mr. President.” Was this merely a result of the press being sadly ignorant of proper etiquette…
Yes. He should have been addressed as “Mr. Clinton.” The press likes to think of themselves as knowledgeable, but their ignorance shines through often.
GAG, RETCH, HURL.
That goes for bubba and the kenyan.
In Obama, the USA elected a person who had never before supervised accomplished professionals nor was he an accomplished professional. Electing a president who has not demonstrated an ability to bang heads together, get results, and have everybody moving forward that afternoon is so fundamentally stupid that it should frighten all of us. A huge portion of the electorate consists of idiots or, more likely, people so protected from the actual world that they have no basis in experience to evaluate what they hear on television. Our electorate cannot get us out of this mess. It will require superior leaders who make heroic efforts. Right now, they are not on the horizon. If we get moving again we should ensure that everyone gets back to work, including teenagers through graduate students, that everyone plans to have a family, just so they will be forced to grow up, and we should teach American Exceptionalism in all schools and colleges.
Say what you want about Billy Jeff, but at least he was actually President. You know, Chief Officer. Of the national government. Even if you hated him – which I did not – you could sleep very soundly knowing that someone who actually wished for the nation to succeed was in charge, and the country would not be at war the next morning unless we started it.
Most of you babble on here and come across as extremely dense because of your hatred for Obama. The guy has just worked out a centrist deal that greatly strengthens HIS chances for re-election. He has Bill Clinton singing the praises of the deal. Obama just steps back and lets Bill be Bill.
Of course the whole lower the deficit commission findings have been completely thrown under the bus, but none of the players, left right, and center, here seem to care. I will grant you that it was a wierd press conference, but alas, you guys are blinded to how skillfully Obama is playing this.
You keep telling yourselves that the guy is too doctrinaire, weak, unhinged, discouraged, incompetent to work from the center. Er, I think you may have to be rethinking that one.
Your reading comprehension needs some work, Dwight. We’re teeing off on Obama because yesterday afternoon he abdicated his office, temporarily and de facto, in favor of a predecessor with more wit and experience in dealing with criticism. No president before Obama has ever done such a thing. His disregard for the gravity of his office and its responsibilities is monumental.
No one here wishes Obama personal harm. (Compare that to all the assassination fantasies your sort had about George W. Bush.) We just want him out of the White House where he’s been doing the country great political and economic harm. But go ahead, keep accusing us of “hating” Obama. That often seems to be the only balm available to the left-liberal soul: “We’re not like those ‘haters,’” you chant to one another, as you do everything in your power to destroy conservatives of demonstrable decency and integrity. You know, folks like George W. Bush and Sarah Palin.
I become ever more convinced that history will regard 20th / 21st century American left-liberalism as an inexplicable epidemic of mental disease.
Interesting. There are two distinct theories out there about this fellow’s intentionality. Some, like you, think he is plenty smart but playing a different game than the one people think he should be playing. Others see him as an incompetent elevated beyond his capabilities, riddled with neuroses which will surely unhinge him as the pressure ratchets up.
It is just possible both are right. Clearly, he doesn’t care what people think of him or his conduct in office. It is just a platform from which to launch his agenda. If he damages it or the nation in the process, big deal. The nation had it coming anyway.
The agenda that fits both theories is revenge.
There’s a 3rd view as well. That he’s a front man, and egomaniacal actor, doing the bidding of others. That view may not explain everything about him, but it is almost certainly at least partially true. Someone without any notable accomplisments in his life aside from being carried on a silk pillow from one role to another doesn’t suddenly transform into a fully formed consequential figure. It would be like your 17 year-old suddenly becoming president. Others have had to direct him.
Unfortunately his roots are steeped in radical leftism, and the people controlling him are enemies of this country.
It’s a miracle we are still standing after 2 years of this crew.
Dwight,
I think the question you need to answer is why did Obama even bring Bill into the presser in the first place? Why is he content to let Bill be Bill? Why can’t he stand up and be Barack?
When someone attempts to “triangulate” or move to the center, one usually does so by praising both sides, albeit for different factors, that came together to complete a bipartisan compromise. In doing so one builds trust and credibility with both sides.
Obama did precisely the opposite, he attacked and insulted both the right and left. That’s not triangulation, that’s not moving to the center, that’s not wisdom; that’s an immature person lashing out because he didn’t get his way.
LBJ was not re-elected, he was elected once, while serving the remainder of JFK’s term.
Before Clinton, the last Democrat to win 2 Pres. elections was FDR in 1944; before that, FDR in 1940, then FDR in 1936, then Wilson in 1916, then Cleveland in 1892, non-consecutively. Before that, I think we’re back to Andrew Jackson in 1832.
You keep telling yourselves that the guy is too doctrinaire, weak, unhinged, discouraged, incompetent to work from the center. Er, I think you may have to be rethinking that one.
@Dwight,
I dont know if you are some kind of a sales rep – but every one here knows that Obama is ALL ABOUT Obama.He could not take the risk of following his doctrinaire beliefs that higher tax rates means greater prosperity… after all, his strong belief that the stimulus payola package would bring unemployment down to 8% now lies in total tatters.What makes you think that he is now willing to risk his Presidency on increasing the tax rates for those who..can “afford” to pay higher taxes ?
Obama is no “centrist”. If he truly was anything remotely close to being a centrist he would not have shoved a massive Government boondoggle down the the throats of ordinary Americans even after Scott Brown’s victory. He would not have talked about “I won” and proceeded to spend 1 Trillion dollars of other people’s money on saving Government jobs, teacher’s unions and other rent seeking environMENTAL plans.
He would not have waited until a couple of weeks before Christmas to lay out his “plan” to keep Bush tax cuts for two more years. He is doing this just to save his sorry and lame a*s*s after the buttkicking he received in the just concluded elections. Make no mistake, Obama was the single biggest reason for historic Democrat party losses….Clinton should be really laughing out loud deep within.
Your head should be dizzy from all the spin that you are doing for Obama.May be you could apply for Robert Gibb’s post – you do have the essential qualification to do that job.
Hmmmm, remind me how Clinton got the reputation as a “centrist.” As I recall, it was after he LOST on getting healthcare and then lost big-time to Newt and Contract with America people at the mid-terms. My point was that Obama seems to be able to work from the center when he HAS to. Most people here have predicted that he would NOT be able to, and when you get direct evidence that he can, you simply refuse to acknowledge it. God grant us enemeies who are blind, eh?
The larger question of the deficit vs jobs creation is still very much up in the air. By the way, it’s not just my spin here, Krauthammer said much the same thing yesterday.
No, he can’t; he can only make Bill Clinton, who really can work from the center when he has to, the public face of what’s left of his administration.
This clip has been shown very widely in Australia.
It is disturbing. It shows a US President who is clearly not in control.
You may ask, ‘what business is it of yours’, and noone could blame you for that. But the fact is that the US and Australia have been the closest of allies for 100 years. Every war you have fought in, we have fought on your side. On (almost) every important political issue of the last 50 years, we have supported you. Our young people are, for some reason, almost inextricably combined in sport.
For some very strange reason we treat you, like the Brits and the Canadians and the Kiwis, as our cousins.
It is therefore very disturbing to us to watch this sort of thing happening to you. What your President just did in that clip is weird. Honestly weird.
I wish you well – but with that bloke I wonder whether you can even survive.
Greg, Melbourne OZ.
Thanks for the good thoughts, Greg. Prayer would be appreciated, too.
Speaking for at least one American, I’ve always considered Canadians, Brits, Aussies, and New Zealanders cousins too… probably because of our shared origin in the British Empire.
Have a merry Christmas downunder!
I have no problem with folks on the other side of the world commenting on our country’s affairs; after all, we do air our dirty laundry! That’s what the free press is about.
I do take issue however with folks tainting our election process with funds and at the same time begging in their press for us to vote for the most ideologically left man in our history.
We as Americans must stay vigilant at teaching our own children and our country’s citizens WHY things were set up the way they are, without being concerned with what other countries want us to do. We seem to have gotten back to that recently with folks reading the constitution and other founding documents. And if we can be an example to others in different parts of the world (whether to do or not do something), that is a good thing. So, I say welcome to the discussion! Read on and comment all you want!
“Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. “
Is this Obama’s Kanye West moment?
“Im’ma let you finish, Bill…but I got this par-tay to get to so I’m just gonna fly.”
stunning
PRESIDENT CLINTON: MENTOR IN CHIEF
As of yesterday William Jefferson Clinton started a new chapter in his politically active post-presidency as Mentor-in-Chief to the blundering, desperate, unfit to command, rudderless amateur in the White House.
The question now is: Can Obama become the new Bubba? He tried to be the new Abe Lincoln and failed. The new JFK and failed. The new FDR and failed with a new New Deal for America. But can Bubba rescue Obama’s failing presidency…….
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OBPama was late for prayers – he heard the call of the muzzein -
Try this clip – feeds right in – nobody shakes the POTUS outstretched hand – OBPama is snubbed last week – you can not make this stuff up!! go to link and scroll down to the video/YouTube:
http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/saudi-arabia-to-obama-screw-your-sanctions-on-iran-were-getting-our-own-nukes/
SO that’s it. Obama’s presidency has officially jumped the shark. Nuked the fridge. We officially have a part-time president.
Well, at least the 22nd amendment limits presidents to two terms total and not two consecutive terms. Otherwise Clinton would be a frontrunner in ’12.
President Obama did his best to transform our nation into one of his liking…. but the voter’s have said “NO!” Since that didn’t work he is left with feeding his absolute need for approval and preparing for the scrutiny he and his administration are going to receive at the hands of Rep. Issa and the House Oversight Committee. These 2 things are at odds with one another.
Since the adoring crowds have largely disappeared, the POTUS doesn’t like the look of being President and having to answer to the Oversight Committee. Perhaps he and Michelle are busy shredding documents and deleting e-mails… but does he really want the job anymore? It doesn’t appear so. So, what will he do? Ignore us and party like it’s 1999? If he tries to ignore the Oversight Committee, will the Repubs have the guts to impeach the man for treason or other high crimes and misdemeanors? Would he really give up the position willingly and resign?
Junior voted “present”, again.
He is a weak man. He cannot take negative feedback. He cannot take pressure. He cannot learn and adapt. He is lazy. He is incurious. He just wants what he wants and expects to get it, with accolades of his brilliance.
He is intellectually and emotionally incompetent for this job. If he had more guts and honor, he would resign.
He is a classic case of self-esteem way out of line with real skills and accomplishment, and he feels very threatened, I think, that he is going to be forced to face up to this gap, that he will be found out.
Because he is so incurious, he doesn’t realize he has been found out, and this ludicrous, insulting maneuver of avoidance seals the deal.
He walks out to go to a partay? No, he ran from a fight, from real work and real engagement. Just like the last time and just like the next time. Cowards do die many times.
This is what happens when the only skill and experience you have is to talk. When it doesn’t work, you get someone else to carry the ball and hide.
Remember how the WH kept saying they weren’t getting “the message” explained right? That is the rationalization of a talker, a one-trick pony who has done nothing else.
Add to that, an incurious pony who can’t imagine any other reason for their self-approved brilliance to be rejected. It can’t be anything else, nothing else means anything but TALK.
This may be the single cameo that states this disastrous presidency clearly, not just the bumble of the week.
what he said
The biggest danger here is that this makes Hillary Clinton look good. And the fact is, she is not much different than Obama. They voted almost identical in the Senate on 69 total votes. They differed only on one, and no it was not the Iraq war. If Hillary decides she will run, you can bet on it that the media will try to put her in. If that happens, the independents, you know, those without a political philosophy, or convictions, will all stick their collective heads up their but (again) and pull the D lever. And she will drag a lot of other Dems in with her. Beware of what you’re gloating about here, folks.
Vech – you may be on to something. Don’t ever underestimate the power of the Clinton machine. This could all very well be a stage set up to usher Hillary in – tada- here come the Clintons to save the day……scary thought
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You would have had to see the look of pride on Obama’s face..it was like a little kid meeting his football hero and not being able to stand still..
Please tell me that was satire. OMG! LMFAO! Dude/Dudette, a President doesn’t leave his ‘hero’ who is there to save his @ss at the podium to “take off” for his wife who is ‘waiting impatiently’ to go to a f*cking party. Please.
Get a g-damned grip, you Leftist morons.
Obama – PINO from day one.
Mr. President! Mr. President….Iranian missiles are approaching Washington and New York…what should be done?
Sorry Guys, have to go, first lady is waiting, dinner is getting cold….
It’s 3AM…the phone is ringing in the White House. A disaster is happening in a part of the world…then another phone rings at Bill Clinton’s house, It’s the man-child in the White House calling for advice.
vech, #67, you’re onto something.
‘Never thought there’d come a day when Bill Clinton would actually look exemplary.
He showed the Obamessiah up real good in this clip, to the point where Obambam simply came across as an extraneous prop in the scene. “I’ve been keeping the First Lady waiting for half and hour”???? Yeah, Michelle’s whims trump the President’s concern for a nation of 300,000,000 that’s in BIG trouble.
It’s clear that underneath Michelle’s designer dresses she wears the pants in that family.
Pathetic.
Hmmm….let’s see what really happened:
1) Lots of dumb, confused people voted Republican this last election.
2) This emboldened the current group of Republicans in office to be even bigger obstructive and useless a-holes than they’ve been so far.
3) Since congressional Republicans tend to act like remote controlled zombies in voting as a single unit, as even the minority party they can block pretty much anything without the Democrats having a super majority.
4) Obama wants to get things done, so he has to deal with these Republicans, even though they have no desire to be useful and just want to do stuff like reward rich people for being rich and punish poor people for being poor as has been one of their sacred duties for ages.
5) Since Democrats and liberals in general, and with considerable justification, consider Republicans to be always wrong and up to no good, they got P.O.’d over Obama’s wheeling and dealing with Republicans over extending the Bush tax cuts (which admittedly never accomplished anything aside from making the rich richer at the expense of expanding the deficit.)
6) Faced with having to sell the compromise to reluctant and unhappy fellow Democrats, he brought in someone well-versed in wheeling and dealing to help make the pitch.
7) Anything else you may have read or heard is most likely total BS.
Hope this clarifies.
Well done minion! You forgot to add, however, WE WON!
The headline for this story is the best I have seen – but is there anyone out there who thinks Bill will not try to get Hillary into the White House in 2012 ??? His only goal is to be right back where he was at this ‘news briefing’, or whatever this spectacle can be called. This has to be one for the history books . . .
Just remember how Hillary was shoved aside by o-bum-uh in 2008 . .keep an eye on her and Bubba . .
And so by his own hand obummer shows the world he has no clothes.
What’s the problem? The POTUS turned things over to … his sensei.
Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, Dick Cheney, John Bolton, John McCain, Geroge H. W. Bush, George P. Schultz, James A. Baker, Zbigniew Brezinski, Henry Kissinger & Co. have been in charge all along; and they all have the same agenda. Oh — and I forgot George Soros, who largely bankrolled Obama’s campaign. All of the above and many more of the Oval Office crowd are in the Council on Foreign Relations, dedicated to replacing American sovereignty with a World Government ruled by themselves. Soros dumped Obama a few weeks ago, and did not back any Democratic candidates. Paraphrasing his own words, they were all “losers, not worth the money.” Now Biden and Clinton are helping Barack hobble along with a caretaker government until they can put their own man (or woman) in power in 2012. Meanwhile, the Great Grope goes on; and they’re not just after your junk.