Reality Bites — Doesn’t It, Mr. President?
In short, it wasn’t all Bush’s fault. Many of Bush’s anti-terrorism decisions and national security architecture have proven to be entirely reasonable and politically popular to boot. He actually had the North Koreans and Iranians pegged pretty well (although he arguably hadn’t dealt effectively with either’s nuclear ambitions before he left office). By contrast, the rainbow and ice cream vision of the world which entails sitting down with mullahs and North Korean crackpot dictators is quite unreasonable and entirely ill-suited to the world in which the president finds himself.
Then there is domestic policy. On this front, Obama is confronted with Economics 101 and Politics 101.
Just as his economic advisor Christina Romer had researched, we see that Keynesian spending schemes rarely work. And sure enough, the trillion dollar (interest included) stimulus boondoggle has failed, unemployment is soaring, and all that spending has stoked inflationary fears.
And as for the politics, it turns out that the economic crisis did not permanently shift the electorate to the left. The public is no more predisposed to big government plans than they were before the collapse of the housing and financial sectors. Poll after poll show discomfort with government spending, huge deficits, and takeovers of car companies.
Meanwhile, on health care – Obama’s signature domestic policy priority — the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) broke the spell. Wow — it seems that covering millions and millions of uninsured people costs a huge amount of money. Liberal blogger Ezra Klein dubbed CBO’s report “fairly devastating.” Sen. Linday Graham calls it a “death blow,” while Democrats now suffer from “sticker shock” we are told. And then it turns out, not even moderates like Sens. Joe Lieberman and Kent Conrad think the “public option” is going to fly. What is the president’s plan? It seems he doesn’t have one — at least not one he is ready to unveil.
Whew! What happened? Well, that, no doubt, is what the Obama team must be wondering. It is not merely the president’s poll numbers which are crumbling; it is the premises which formed his world view and domestic agenda which are disintegrating. The world is a dangerous place with despots immune to even “smart diplomacy.” Governments really can’t spend their way to prosperity. And even in an economic recession America remains a right-of-center country.
Obama, it seems, never confronted a critical media or a viable political opponent who could effectively quiz him on his assumptions and policy prescriptions. He waltzed through an election on essentially a “not Bush” campaign and a cloud of feel-good messages ungrounded in the real world. But once in office he finds the world — filled with rogue states, recalcitrant laws of economics, squirrely citizens, and cold, hard budget numbers — is not so easily charmed. Facts are stubborn things, after all.
The challenge now is whether, as Bill Clinton did after the bruising 1994 mid-term elections, Obama makes a course correction or whether he plunges ahead unwilling to cast aside his ideological blinders. He is, of course, only six months into his term, and he enjoys a tremendous reservoir of goodwill. There is plenty of time to develop robust national security policies and moderate his far-left domestic agenda.
But if he does not perceive what is amiss and adjust accordingly, he may well join the list of failed, one-term presidents.
That is the price to be paid for ignoring reality when it knocks on your door.
“That is the price to be paid for ignoring reality when it knocks on your door.”
Barack Obama is too poorly educated to respond adequately to these challenges. He has never done any serious reading or put in any other sort of intellectual effort into these matters. Obama is essentially a pampered yuppie who never had to work hard for much of anything his entire life. He has always, since his teen years, relied on exploiting white guilt. This was also never any mystery for those paying attention long before the election. We now have to worry about Obama experiencing a nervous breakdown. Can Obama even begin to handle disappointment and declining poll numbers?
Far too many naive people think that all “men of color” had to overcome huge obstacles. This may have been somewhat true for those born in 1951—but Obama was born in 1961! The successes of the Civil Rights movement had already been accomplished by the time he reached his teens. This guy has enjoyed a free ride. Obama has much in common with all the other spoiled yuppies. These individuals have been raised with a silver spoon in their mouth. Do yourself a favor. Try to imagine that Obama is a white dude. That’s all it will take to help you to finally admit that he is an empty suit.
I hope Obama fails on all fronts – and fast!
Obama is using his personal popularity to quickly ram through his massive socialist agenda before the majority of Americans wake up and realize that he reconstructed their country into a look-alike of Belgium. Cap & Trade, bailouts benefiting the UAW, useless stimulus, multi-trillion-dollar deficits, fighting the weather (global warming), nationalized health-care (Canadians will have nowhere to go when they need top-quality care quickly), pandering to intolerant Muslims (including HAMAS) and abandoning Israel.
If the Iran riots show any lesson to Americans, it’s that our President doesn’t know anything about how the world works. The Mullahs are laughing at Obama and how he was afraid to “meddle” and show support for FREE elections because he wants to be able to talk to the Iranian government. Obama is way out of his league and everyone (especially Iran) but American liberals and Jews knows it.
The guy is insane, no, not insane but mendacious. And let’s discuss the cynicism of Obama’s sycophantic supporters in Congress. Barack Obama is aided and abetted by all the little Dem mice who are dancing to his tune because they fear him. They fear him because he’s popular and they don’t want to risk missing a ride on Obama’s coattails to reelection in 2010. The truth is that the majority of Dems who will be reelected will likely be the ones (some Blue-Dogs) who will have voted against Obama’s Grand Project.
All polls show Obama with personal approval down 10 points to the high 50’s. But the same polls show approval for his policies below 50 and falling, with his personal approval trending likewise. Bush’s approval was in the low 30’s at the end and he was paralyzed. I am certainly gleeful to see Obama’s approval tanking. He can’t fail fast enough because his failure will be benificial to America – and to Israel who Obama sees as an obstacle to his reconcilliation with the Muslim world.
The sooner Obama fails, the sooner America – and the world – recovers.
My perceptions are concerned that an incident will be provoked and consigned just so the US under Obama can respond brutally, or “strongly” against a “Rodney King” like abberrant like Kim Jong Il(that little dynamic I’ll throw out to the civil rights coalition) thus raising the value of the African nation at the expense of the African-American political insurgencey …Which is exactly what those G3 global corporate entities which are allied across the boards (China/Europe/UK/Canada..etc) would like to see…just as it was IBM’s interests in WWI with regards to the Nazis….take advantage of the outcome..irregardless of the morality being used..If the “invisible hand” of Adam Smith’s capitalisim is supposed to be “invisible”…How come it’s so damn obvious? Check-mate.
I doubt if Obama gives a damn. He said America is a great country, but he would fundamentally change it. “Ruin it” was his intention all along; but that is so beyond the pale we choose to ignore all the signals. The media will keep him convinced of his greatness, and it’s all somebody else’s fault, anyway. I don’t expect him to change course.
It is still beyond me why his approval ratings are as high as they are, actually above 52% and they are dropping as time passes and more and more are willing to criticize his policies, and are starting to figure that hey his view is leftist at best and Marxist at worst.
I believe had GM been able to go ahead and file bankruptcy and the same with Chrysler that not only would the country be better off but the companies would have had a chance to actually stay in business with a complete re organization. However with the outcome of billions spent and then basically giving the two companies to the UAW and screwing the, they seem doomed to fail.
Like stated in the article you can not spend your country into prosperity and it is not something to try from someone with little to no experience in running anything that needs a profit to survive.
Hopefully what has happened over the past six months and if he continues to attempt to pass the cap and trade, and health care “reform” and inflation takes hold as well as rising unemployment and higher taxes for all the 2010 election will see a congress and hopefully senate much different that will refuse to cooperate with Obama and he becomes a lame duck president. Enough damage has already been done to this country and it is now clearly his own fault. The days of blaming everything on Bush are now over.
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My perceptions are concerned that an incident will be provoked and consigned just so the US under Obama can respond brutally, or “strongly” against a “Rodney King” like aberrant like Kim Jong Il(that little dynamic I’ll throw out to the civil rights coalition) thus raising the value of the African nation at the expense of the African-American political insurgency …Which is exactly what those G3 global corporate entities which are allied across the boards (China/Europe/UK/Canada/US…etc) would like to see…just as it was IBM’s interests in WWII with regards to the Nazis….take advantage of the outcome…regardless of the morality being used…If the “invisible hand” of Adam Smith’s capitalism is supposed to be “invisible”…How come it’s so damn obvious? Check-mate.
Barak Hussein Obama is killing our great country. Like sheep we follow blindly.
The US will pay a horrible price for this bozo. Its form and scope to follow.
1. David Thomson:Barack Obama is too poorly educated to respond adequately to these challenges.
That isn’t his problem. Obama is as book smart as he needs to be. The problem is he picks the calculated, ‘reasonable’ decision with consequences he can accept. (that is usually doing nothing)
The problem is that he’s trying to be smart instead of trying to do what’s right. One better option would have been to be less neutral and make real consequences for the regime’s brutal actions. Maybe the right answer is just talk, but its talk that delegitimizes these ruling thugs in Iran.
I’m afraid Mr. Obama does not love his country, nor does he respect it. He goes about the world pointing out the faults of the country he leads, makes apologies as if it is a wayward child in the internatioal community. He wants to fundamentally change things and seems to want to knock America down a peg or two for what he perceives as arrogance. Yet, here he is. The product of a single mother who enjoyed every advantage of private schooling and an ivy leage education? How in the world did this guy make it through to become president? Thank God we have elections every four years…….
I think people have to be careful how they go forward. yes reality bites.
I am no apologist for the POTUS …I think he is the MOST dangerous thing to ever happen anywhere (well unless you were a freedom fighter in Stalin’s russia or a few other such places)
my point is he …Obama doesn’t care if this bill or that bill passes (yes he wants them to but it is all that imortant too him) …there is time. he will maybe change tack but is destination will be the same.
that destination is socialism/marxism …and he will be the one at the controls.
(the funny thing will be that those who enabled him are dispensible. the only pleasure I will get is seeing him throw Pelosi and Ried under the bus) Stalin, Castro, Chavez. it’s interesting how the bodies of their right hand men/persons(gender nuetral for her highness Pelosi) are still useful giving traction to the bus
“That isn’t his problem. Obama is as book smart as he needs to be.”
You apparently have been conned into believing that someone who graduated from Harvard University is well educated. The reality is that Barack Obama was allowed to fool around for a few years and learn just enough to pass a state law exam. There are countless books and ideas that he completely ignored. He is grossly shallow—and now does not have the time to get his act together. A Harvard hard science degree is still worthy of respect. Obama, however, obtained a soft science credential. That’s often worth what one throws into the garbage.
At least the threats Obama is facing are real.
President Obama will never face reality since he lives in his own self-created bubble where his real world is a distorted version of the real thing; however, the real world will keep knocking on Obama’s bubble until it shatters. Once Obama’s popularity crumbles, the man will have to deal with the severe consequences of his own creation such as the boondoggle “stimulus,” his lust for power, & international threats such as Iran, North Korea, & possibly Russia. President Obama will blame a subordinate for his own deeds & try to move on when something becomes too large to ignore. The Obama Administration looks to be more corrupt than any other administration to date.
good morning sheesh
if you are running away from threats (real or not) how are you facing them
couldn’t resist that one. but on a more serious note can you explain your statement. …”the threats Obama is facing are real” ???
of course they are real ! but are you inferring that the threats others have faced are not ??
I think I know what you are sayng but I would prefer you explain it so that I can confirm my take on what you wrote.
thanks
Steve, Obama’s approval ratings are inflated much like the man himself thanks to the media propping him up as the Golden One. Obama’s approval ratings are falling fast back down to Earth & he will not be able to put himself back together since he lacks the leadership skills to do so. Reading speeches off teleprompters does not make a leader. The media has distorted Obama’s approval ratings & are not be trusted.
For those that couldn’t grasp why it was so important to point out how many times senator boobama voted “present” perhaps now it’s getting clearer.
Sheesh: these dangers didn’t pop up overnight.
Obama has worked fast because he wants to cram all this socialist agenda into law while the public was scared witless and brainless because of economic upheavel. But, Americans have regained some sense of realism and sensibility, knowing that the economy often takes care of itself if we just deal with it in a sane manner. Now that Americans are waking up, Obama is running scared that his agenda will not get passed, that Congress and the public are waking up to the fact that he’s not who is says he is. God help us all that it’s not too late to see the light of day.
Let’s just hope the mainstream media wakes from dreamland and realizes it has backed a nightmare. Maybe MSM will start asking some hard questions and reporting what’s really true.
15. homero:
I’ll leave the inferring to you. What I am implying is that Obama has no need to manufacture fear around WMDs or “smoking guns that turn out to be mushroom clouds” or terrorist bombs in baby strollers on the New York subways.
And what is Obama running away from? Just because he hasn’t invaded any countries doesn’t mean he’s not dealing with the issues. You folks on the right have to make up your minds – is he doing too much or doing too little?
Very good article, as usual, Ms. Rubin.
The problem is that he’s trying to be smart instead of trying to do what’s right.
There’s something in this comment that is key to understanding the mindset of a self-anointed élitist understanding statements like one of Obama’s more recent ones…”(oh, Iran doesn’t matter) A’jad & Mousavi aren’t that different…”
As last week progressed, I wonder if Obama felt any chagrin at all that this particular lofty “analysis” was seen as increasingly irrelevant to facts on the ground.
It would seem a lot of today’s self-anointed smart crowd (looking, above all, to control the dialogue and be looked up to) are dumber than boxes of rocks when it comes to common sense.
You’re right Sheesh. Those planes slamming into buildings on 9-11 were just our imagination.
Here’s a mental exercise that will give you the heeby geebies. Suppose The One was the Pres on 9-11. I’m sure he would not ask, but demand talks with the Taliban and OBL.
President Obama’s budget is still in Congress as is the Cap & Trade, Health Care, Amnesty, etc al; all have run into road blocks thanks to the upcoming 2010 mid-term elections. Many of the Democrats who voted for Porkulus remains with a target on themselves, particularly the Conservative Blue Dog Democrats. They are providing the firewall between making these bills into law & fulfilling Obama’s radical agenda. Unfortunately, it has little to do with honor, but more with self-preservation. Porkulus will still haunt the Democrats for many years thanks to rising unemployment & inflation. President Obama will have to look elsewhere instead of President Bush to blame for these problems since these problems have been worsened with the Democrats plans in an attempt to completely restructure America. Obama is doing too much too fast & this will be his downfall.
22. Spider79: . . . “Those planes slamming into buildings on 9-11 were just our imagination.”
Here’s a mental exercise that will give you the heeby geebies. What did Iraq have to do with 9/11?
Then there’s this:
“But let us be clear: al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 people on that day. The victims were innocent men, women and children from America and many other nations who had done nothing to harm anybody. And yet Al Qaeda chose to ruthlessly murder these people, claimed credit for the attack, and even now states their determination to kill on a massive scale. They have affiliates in many countries and are trying to expand their reach. These are not opinions to be debated; these are facts to be dealt with.
Make no mistake: we do not want to keep our troops in Afghanistan. We seek no military bases there. It is agonizing for America to lose our young men and women. It is costly and politically difficult to continue this conflict. We would gladly bring every single one of our troops home if we could be confident that there were not violent extremists in Afghanistan and Pakistan determined to kill as many Americans as they possibly can. But that is not yet the case.”
Clearly the rantings of a madman bent on destroying America.
The symbol of the Democratic Party could be changed from the donkey to the jackal. The symbol of the Republican Party could be changed from the elephant to the crocodile. Both are scavengers of sorts who would not fail to take advantage of an opportunity.
The donkey was loyal, hardworking, and clever. The jackal is sneaky, works in packs, and robs the game of others. The elephant was loyal, wise, and family oriented. The crocodile lays in the sun and mud and snaps out at the unsuspecting to drag that food to it lair. Both smell bad in fact and in politics.
The bite of reality comes when those symbolic beasties strike only to get their share and the protection and providence of the greater tribe is not a real issue to them. The survival of the herd and the young is a far second issue to the ‘Me First” predators of Washington.
He will be known as the most polarizing figure in history!
If your automobile breaks down do you call a plumber to repair it? The “plumber” in the White House hasn’t a clue as to how to fix the economy, healthcare, or ensure national security.
Mr. President, remove the dunce cap and get to work.
SOCIALISM ALWAYS DOES IN FACT BITE THE BIG ONE.
sheesh-y (against my better judgment…)
A week after 911, Barack Obama was bemoaning Mohammed Atta & friends’ lack of “empathy.
Presumably, when our affirmative action gal makes it onto the supreme court, America’s own empathy index will shoot skywards and all will, finally, be well in the world.
(the hope & change guy, however, didn’t demonstrate much empathy for the people of Iran, since their revolution interferes with his determination to yak with Iran’s despots)
Barack Obama speaks words of convenience to the moment, or attempts to. He has violated some of his own principles in attempting to appear empathetic & patriotic (in the conventional sense), wearing the flag pin, paying homage to, for example, Ronald Reagan and those who fought so hard in previous wars in the name of freedom.
You should view any of his avowals with great skepticism.
Deficits are stimulative. So is cocaine. Wonder where he got the notion that that was a good idea?
I can’t hear you! I have skittles in my ears.
I do that, and I come up with John Edwards. Same basic populist politics without the race obsession, plus some of Clinton’s idiosyncrasies. But at least he was, at one point in his life, a successful shyster.
IMPEACH THE OBASTARD IMPOSTER NOW!!!!
Isn’t insanity popularly defined as trying to solve a problem the same way time, after time, after time, after time…… So it involves pretending that your way is the only way without really consulting anyone else except people who think like you. So the lunatics are now in charge of the asylum.
Yes Mr. President, reality is tough to handle. The thugs that control Chicago can not help you here, nor will your pals in the main street media. You seem incapable of making the tough decisions because right versus wrong in not in your mind. Everything is a political calculation, with this being a process that has led us to where we are.
Your time in ofice is beginning to generate the stench of failure. Country in financial ruin, war everywhere on the horizon, and no problems solved, only made worse.
Please stay off the TV for a day or two and get to work. We are ready for the sacrifices needed to fix some of these messes. Cancell the stimulus, put the money back in the treasury, forget about additional programs until the ones we have are fixed etc etc.
“he enjoys a tremendous reservoir of goodwill”
When can we stop having this obligatory statement thrown in our faces just before every discussion of what an obnoxious, destructive fraud and failure he is?
I do not know a single person who can even speak of him without gagging.
Neither do I know anyone who willingly listens to or looks at him any more.
I read transcripts of what he says and follow events, but I absolutely cannot stomach sight or sound of him.
We are not yet to the point where our children or grandchildren are reporting us for turning off the TV when he comes on, but that’s out there in our future somewhere if our kneejerk press can’t stop parroting nonexistent approval.
In spite of “the bite of reality”, it’s still plainly reported this morning that the REASON for his falling support among Democrats (on the health care front) is “because of their vulnerability” in conservative-leaning districts.
This country will not be safe until political and national decisions can be made on some basis other than personal political survival. What a pile.
Clean sweep in 2010.
I did and saw this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/20/Totallymad.jpg
36. Meryl astutely observes:
“When can we stop having this obligatory statement thrown in our faces just before every discussion of what an obnoxious, destructive fraud and failure he is?”
Meryl, be of good cheer. I am one of those whom describe. Like so many have noted above, his numbers are very, very “hollow”. As observed above and by Dick Morris and other commentators who would make the pathetic sheesh and other trolls cringe, the reason he is at (a fading) 58% and ZERO PERCENT as of today’s Rasmussen tracking number is because of the clueless, American Idol Public and the “leg tinglers” who thinks the sun rises out of his rectum. The reason his programs and policy numbers are flagging below 50% are because those are the people like you and me who earn the money, pay the bills, and undertsand the effect that those programs — if enacted — would have on our economy, our jobs, and our nation’s security.
If one peruses the troll responses — particularly the fatuous sheesh — you will find them ungrounded in reality with no little or common sense. Sadly, it’s din we must tolerate.
But, if they want to believe that their Golden One is the bee’s knees, then let them wander along in a dream world, appendages tingling. Maybe they’ll sleep walk into 2010 and 2012, refusing the ACORN cigarettes, hooch, and free rides to the voting booth[es] and we can sweep the TOTUS out into the streets with the rest of the garbage.
To Spider79
we would be much better off if Obama, Gore, Clinton (ha), Dole (Libby), Alexander or pretty much anyone else were President through 9/11. Notwithstanding the fact that the Bush administration fumbled pre-9/11 intelligence, they ended up taking the bait. Reducing America’s moral status by authorizing torture. Stripping citizens of rights and shredding the constitution. Moving inexorably towards fascism.
I keep my copies of Federalist Papers and the constitution nearby. True Patriots are delighted to have Obama as president, we can move this country back to its core strengths.
There have been many Obamas in public life. Whatever their ideology; whatever their education; whatever their upbringing; they are all accurately labelled by one old fashioned word – POPINJAY.
A POPINJAY is a person given to vain, pretentious displays and empty chatter.
For example, popinjay’s have been known to claim that after their ascendance to the US Presidency, the level of the oceans surrounding the 57 states (whose constitution was created 2000 years ago), will fall.
I don’t think that reality can bite Mr Obama’s personal space, because he never leaves Obama land. That’s a real problem.
-But, was it chocolate chip mint, rocky road, or jamoca® almond fudge? These are the ‘real’ events that I need to know about.
sarc/
sheesh 20
I was expecting a valid argument. my mistake.
I hope Obama will stand up and move forward and stop blaming the Bush administration for everything bad in the world.
Your words are just like the talking points for the Obama administration. it isn’t insight, it is evasion.
just listen to a press briefing by Gibb’s ..and tell me if he actually answers a question. he talks a lot but if you pay attention he doesn’t give many answers …if you don’t count when he says “I doubt know” …or ” I haven’t been briefed on that” or my favorite. “I wasn’t aware of that”
of course I am tired of hearing “I will be perfectly honest” (does that infer that he was lying when he didn’t say that)
and the other one ..”let me be perfectly clear” ..again does that infer he was lying on other occasions or evasive.
that is why I didn’t want to infer your intent.
“Then there is domestic policy. On this front, Obama is confronted with Economics 101 and Politics 101.”
There is also “The American Form of Government” 101
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXTiMLSYXF0
Jennifer Rubin writes: “Obama’s own director of national intelligence fessed up that George W. Bush’s administration got lifesaving information from enhanced interrogation techniques.”
Yeah, nice try, but, as always, you’re full of crap.
Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair, a retired Navy admiral, said in a memo to his employees that the enhanced techniques had led to “high-value information” and “provided a deeper understanding of the al Qaeda organization that was attacking this country”.
He never said anything about lifesaving information. And he didn’t even provide what that information was. And I’ll bet your flimsy journalism credentials that if there actually was any information that had actually saved lives, it would have been leaked already by the Bush administration and would have been trumpeted on Fox News forever as proof that torture worked.
But there is no such information, and there is no such proof.
All there is here is an e-mail from a boss to his subordinates basically saying “torture works!” but conveniently offers absolutely no details.
And like the good little talentless right-wing stooge of a writer you are, you just unquestioningly accept that as proof that torture worked.
It’d be nice if for once you could write something that 1) isn’t total garbage, and 2) is honest.
One,even without Obama’s college records,it is obvious that he flunked Econ 101 and American and world history.
Two,Barack Obama is America’s punishment for not learning from the Bill and Hill warning.
What’s the difference between Jesus Christ and Obama? Nothing but a few inconvenient Constitutional constraints; But, even those are evaporating, so, the Obama worshippers may get their unique religion very soon.
When you see comments like this “Barack Obama is too poorly educated to respond adequately to these challenges. He has never done any serious reading or put in any other sort of intellectual effort into these matters. Obama is essentially a pampered yuppie who never had to work hard for much of anything his entire life. He has always, since his teen years, relied on exploiting white guilt. This was also never any mystery for those paying attention long before the election. We now have to worry about Obama experiencing a nervous breakdown. Can Obama even begin to handle disappointment and declining poll numbers?” you know we are in fantasy land where facts and the truth do not matter.
Kathy[19] “hope the mainstream media wakes up from dreamland”
Kathy,you are missing the obvious cobra in your face. The media and the One are one. Obama is finally a president who is as radically left as the former mainstream media. He is them,and they love themselves. They do no wrong. So Obama is the One.
“Here’s a mental exercise that will give you the heeby geebies. What did Iraq have to do with 9/11? ”
Nothing, until you understand that it lured AQ into a humiliating defeat. AQ was hugely popular in the muslim world after 9/11. They would have stayed that way and remained defiant and undefeated in the impossible terrain of Pakistan and Afghanistan, as they are now, had it not been for Iraq. They are now seen with scorn and loathing nearly everywhere in the muslim world.
Straight out of sun-tzu ‘uproar east, attack west’. You remember the old movies where the calvery would charge the enemy lines, and retreat back with the enemy in hot pursuit only to lead them into an ambush? Something like that happened here.
Is that what was intended? Who knows. It is what happened that is certain. Our apparent weakness in Iraq caused AQ to adapt bolder and more brutal tactics, thinking that victory was near. Then came with the surge.
They chased our calvery in disorder, burning and slashing everything and everyone in sight. Then the infantry, whom they thought was in retreat (thanks to the excellent ‘cover’ provided by Obama and the house democrats-heh) came down from their conceled positions on the flanks and destroyed them. They destroyed them militarily morally, politically, economicaly…
AQ can never reclaim its leadership position even among the Islamic radicals after Iraq.
Think about what actually happened, not individual “reasons” or “justifications” and it makes more sense. It doesnt even matter if Bush or anyone else understood it at the time. Maybe they just blundered into it.
If we ended up delivering a punishing defeat to AQ in Iraq, how could it be the wrong country? It was the battfield of our chosing where we were already set up to use our main advantage, overwhelming firepower, impossible in the mountains of Afghanistan.
Spindok
To Meryl:
I wish I lived in the city you live in– or could at least visit to experience what you describe–here in Seattle, the infatuation with BHO is still nearly intact! Mind boggling!
How expensive can mental health care get?
There is am experimental answer to this theoretical question: Put a delusional man in the White House, and you will promptly find out.
We can’t hear you. We’ve stuffed unicorn poop (skittles) in our ears, we’re juking and jiving and shadow-boxing and besides we are modelling our asses as hats! Na na na boo boo. Barack Obama is just the dreamiest! 2+2=5!
“he enjoys a tremendous reservoir of goodwill”
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since he hasn’t actually *accomplished* anything of positive note in his ENTIRE life, him being competent at *anything* (well, okay, he’s good at agitating) is pure illusion. One thing about illusion, it will burn off and people will see it’s just the mirage on the horizon. It doesn’t exist.
50. Susan (capital S):
To Meryl:
I wish I lived in the city you live in– or could at least visit to experience what you describe–here in Seattle, the infatuation with BHO is still nearly intact! Mind boggling!
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Go to Bothell. I hear the number of confederate bumper stickers has increased.
“I keep my copies of Federalist Papers and the constitution nearby. True Patriots are delighted to have Obama as president, we can move this country back to its core strengths.”
Hey Lil’D – how did you keep from snickering after you wrote that?
You should develop better comprehension skills, and reread your constitution. Start with Section 8, about how it’s the duty of congress to regulate commerce, and then tell us how it’s legal for the executive branch to take over private companies.
Patriots, in reality, should be outlining the case for striking down this dictatorial act. Remember that FDR tried this crap and was eventually repudiated by the Supreme court.
And that’s just for starters.
45. “progressive”watch:
One,even without Obama’s college records,it is obvious that he flunked Econ 101 and American and world history.
Two,Barack Obama is America’s punishment for not learning from the Bill and Hill warning.
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He can’t flunk what he never took. (my husband considers econ a basic course requirement, colleges don’t.)
America obviously didn’t learn from CARTER. (and the world is still living with his messes.)
Spindok is correct.
Anyone with pretty much an inkling of military history knows that Afghanistan would have been a VERY bad place to try and fight AQ in an extended conflict. In fact we’re likely to fail miserably there anyway, and that is likely another reason NATO and the EU haven’t contributed more combat troops to the region. What will win the war there (as it did in Iraq and in the Philippines) is money and local safety/security. Money to reimburse the populace for property damage, money to build infrastructure, money for training local government and police forces.
Then again I don’t expect liberals to read, let alone comprehend, Sun Tzu.
That Obama is such an idiot. Remember how he played the guitar while New Orleans drowned?
Obama is really, really dumb, but his rabid supporters are even dumber. He knows minimal history and only from the perspective of a Red Doper-diaper baby. He was spoiled as a child and managed through Occidental and slipped into Columbia and then Harvard Law never distinquishing himself except for his historic EEO awarded Law Review President. We must assume he was academically below average since most records have been destroyed or hidden. He has been addicted to drugs, possibly homosexually abused and has no discernable accompolishments as Community Org., Attorney, State & US Senator….and yet there were enough brain dead voters to elect this cipher. He is failing quickly and will likely blowup in his 1st year or 2 in office. Obama has been doomed to fail from the get go. Beware of the consequences of his collapse.
Anyone with a degree of honesty on either side could agree on one thing.
===> Obama’s promise of lifting us out of the bitter divide failed miserably.
No, no, no. Don’t point fingers at the other side. Just acknowledge the truthfulness of such fact.
50. Susan (capital S):
“To Meryl:
I wish I lived in the city you live in– or could at least visit to experience what you describe–here in Seattle, the infatuation with BHO is still nearly intact! Mind boggling!”
Yeah…that has to be an amazingly frustrating experience:( Our son and his family live in the Portland, OR area and breathe the same kind of air you describe. Hang in there, ok?
Also just talked this hour with an elderly friend who lives in Spokane. Similar there, I guess. She and her husband have their stresses as well.
Rubin has this characature of Obama that does not square with reality. Like most wingnuts she keeps on trying to make the evidence fit her fantasy. Fortunately the majority of Americans have a clearer view of reality. Looks like she spent too much time in the law library briefing cases and not enough talking to her fellow citizens
Amen…They may be slow but they are coming around…Obama is dropping in the Mr. Popular Contest.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/obama_approval_index_history
Jennifer, who I respect and revere, and I, appear to view Obama from different perspectives.
She thinks Obama’s naivete, gullibility and inexperience has lead him into disasterous nation-damaging decisions and actions while I think just about everything that’s been done since that black January oath-taking day by the boy blunder has been cold and calculated.
Basically, done with two overriding objectives in mind.
One, paying back with greenbacks (stimulus money) millions of large donors to his campaign (foreign and domistic). Making them multi, mucho zillionaires.
Two, weakening America as the world’s beacon of freedom and liberty; removing our where-with-all to protect the American people and fight enslavement of the world’s population. Sending us down the slippery path of Socialism.
(Today in the news read about the spy satellites Barack had his minions kill in Congress with the help of Janet
Napolitano, the same socialist puke who directed the FBI to investigate any returning veterans from Iraq who demonstrated any sympathy for right wing conservative causes. Of course, Napo the nincumpuke apologized for this attack on returning GI’s, but with a wink and a nod encouraged her lackiers to have the FBI “Watch them like hawks.” What a nice way to thank the brave men and women who fight for this country.)
Getting back to black Tuesday, Jan. 20th.
After bungling the oath of office, Barack’s screwed up everything since then that he’s touched, from dealing a death blow to our future economy by putting us catostrophically into debt, by attacking capitalism itself and by dropping our guard everywhere from South America to Iran while letting the Russian navy run hog wildly; unchecked especially in the waters surrounding South America, an obvious violation of the Monroe Doctrine.
I perceive the Barack administration as a slow motion train wreck, but, unfortunately, all of us are along for the ride.
One aspect of this mess, however, Barack and his booty of legal eagles haven’t allowed for. And just might turn out to be his Waterloo.
Contributed Money.
Most of Blunderboy’s 5 million contributors expected a bang for their buck. Yet, the billions the B-boy has squandered has gone right into the pockets of his big shot supporters.
The small donation, internet idiot Barack supporters have pretty much been left penniless.
Because these people believed somehow they’d profit from Barack’s election, they’re starting to complain loudly as to where all that green is going that the brown eyed handsome man covertly promised them. The NAACP said Barack would cloak reparations in various spending packages.
These small donation Odrama supporters comprise a good percentage of his overall support and if they value money as much as I think they do, in 2008, many are going to disbelieve Barack’s promises and, worse, for Barack, stay home from the polls. (Maybe because they can no longer afford the trip.)
Welch on the money your supporters believe is due them and you’re in for some mean looks and cold shoulders.
Remember, these are the same people who buy the most lottery tickets. Barack winning to many of them was almost the equivalent of winning the big one. And he’s leaving them out in the cold.
In John McCain, the Republicans ran someone with terrible conservative credentials and a great military record. Which might have worked expect for the fact McCain campaigned like it was a nerf ball/paddycake game, refusing to play hardball when it was necessary to drag Obama in the political mud that Obama lives in, playing buddy boy with everyone from domestic terrorists to clerical American bashers, women haters and socialist water boys.
I trust the Republicans won’t make the same mistake in 2012.
And believe that Barack’s mistakes, conspiracies and schemes, not to mention his ignoring our need for energy independence and his nominating for supreme court a bill-of-rights destroyerbot in Sotomayor, a girl out to greatly deminish and tarnish the power of the NRA by denying the right of gun owners to own guns;
by doing all this, Barack will create the kind of ill will among loyal, patriotic Americans that hopefully result in his ignominious defeat.
While I can’t promise you this, I believe there are enough clear thinking Americans left that in 2012 we can starting cleaning up Blunderboy’s colossal mess he’s gotten 290 million Americans into.
Epilogue:
I just returned from a week’s vacation, just my dad and I to Schroon Lake, NY.
Well,last Friday evening, out for dinner with fifteen or so of his old friends, somebody started talking up Barack, and Dad gave me the look that meant, “Go ahead Rachel, chew em’ up.”
So I did.
And it felt good. I have a great Dad. We have a lousy President. It’s time we all spoke up. Time we sent him packing.
To all your fathers. A belated but heartfelt. Happy Father’s day. Love, Rachel
“Fortunately the majority of Americans have a clearer view of reality.”
The majority of Americans personally like Barack Obama—while disagreeing with his policies! I am unaware of anytime in American history that this has occurred to such an extent.
IT took 40 yrs for communism to infect there rot into LAW,ACADEMIA,MEDIA,and POLITICS. It likely will take until the next generation to undo the damage 40 years of laziness,blissful ignorance, and an outright lack of leadership since Ronald Reagan.Obama is the culmiantion of all those years of political correctness bs, of not punishing for crimes(ala Clinton) and the fact that the american public has accepted second rate scum in leadership positions, often electing leaders who promised them something for nothing or just because “oh Hes handsome” or “hope and change”. Communists have NEVER relinquished power easily(eg Solidarity/Tiannamen Square) and islam is no different and Obama has sympathies with not one but BOTH. Im afraid we may have to keep our guns close folks, this guy has no clue and is more likely to lash out rather than be reasoned with. Its just not in his makeup, this guy actually does think hes some sort of God.
Re #64 David Thomson: Unfortunately liberals like “The Shadow” are only interested in Obama’s polling numbers that show a “personal” like of Obama and disregard the polls that show his polling numbers on the issues dropping like a rock. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
I’m always amazed at how the liberals don’t care about issues. I guess it proves they DID vote on personality and forgot to look behind the curtain. Shame we all have to pay the price for their ineptitude.
AND OH BY THE WAY-the idiot complaining about “torture”-pouring a little water on SHEIK KHALID MO HAM HEADS FACE TO SIMULATE DROWNING. It it were me, Id shoot the pigs nads off and ship him back to OBL in several different pieces along the lines of the Texas chainsaw massacre. Then id bring in the Saudi ambassador with a short, curt message-one american citizen dies in a terror attack on our homeland, my first 2 minuteman 3 missles destroy Mecca and Medinah, no questions asked. These scum, like the commie pukes before them UNDERSTAND ONLY POWER.
DopeyPerson – dropping like a rock to 63% – As for talking about issues here – for the most part it would be like casting pearls before swine. To discuss issue both people have to admit reality and not engage in fantasy like birth ciertificates and both have to be able to articulate their basic philosophy. Absent only one of these and there is no basis for discussion. Sometimes there are interesting columns here like the one on gay marriage, but mostly it is just wingnuts getting off on their hatred of the first black president.
Why is it that the people who think ‘They WON’ come here to bitch and moan every damned day? Did the kool-aid turn sour?
“I guess it proves they DID vote on personality and forgot to look behind the curtain.”
The polling data shows clearly that the typical Obama supporter is ignorant. They have virtually no understanding of the issues. The elites, however, rightfully saw that Obama would guilt trip a lot of whites—and this opened the door to their own power grab. They jumped on the race card bandwagon, and rode it all the way home to victory.
Re #69 The Shadow: “DopeyPerson”…LOL! Don’t stretch your linguistic skills there bub.
Typical that you’d point out Obama’s 63% approval rating. What you FAILED to point out was the all important poll numbers from the Independent crowd (you know…the one that elected Dear Leader?). Yes, those voters Shadow, the all important Independent voters. Since you’re a bit shy about either reading the all important poll numbers from that group or just too inept to read the numbers yourself, let me encapsulate them for you….election day they were above 60% for Obama…..TODAY….less than 45%.
Yeppers there “The Shadow”….dropping like a rock.
No hatred of the first black President there Shadow, just a little bit of that reality creeping in (although that racist argument sure comes in handy when polling numbers are dropping in your liberal mindset I’m guessing). Breath in a bit o’reality there Shadow. Why don’t you scamper back to the HuffPo now and tell them the cat’s out of the bag…WE KNOW HE’S FAILING. (ahhh….I can hear the teeth gnashing now…Please, give Ariana my regards won’t you?).
Delia:
Why is it that the people who think ‘They WON’ come here to bitch and moan every damned day? Did the kool-aid turn sour?
I’ve wondered that myself. The Obamabots are soooo angry! Why? They won. What are they like when they lose? Oh yeah, ‘Bushitler’.
And they think we hate.
I just noticed something: Obama seems to have aged five years in the last five months. He seems much older since the election. I think I’m even noticing a few grey hairs on his head. Take a look at this video:
http://tinyurl.com/ls7ouc
Those of you who don’t think that Obama is shrewd are wrong. Here he is faced with one of the most important events of history the voting riots of Iran. He doesn’t know what to do. Anything he does would invalidate what he previously said. Because he is incapable of doing anything, he creates another front to take the heat off of him. He brings up his vision of healthcare. All of a sudden our media and the right wing turn on that subject. Its just a smoke screen to take the heat off the international situation and its working. For once his feet have to be held to the fire. Iran is pivotal.
sheesh
Come on buddy, you can do better than that. Get in there and get their a*s.
Free Hat
May I remind you there is no “Bush Administration”, it’s all on President Pantywaist now.
Rachel Peepers
People keep making the mistake of calling the WON naive. I agree with the cold and calculating moves he made before and after the election. He isn’t naive, just a cold and unmoved Ayatollah.
Iraq didn’t have much to do with Al Qaeda (although there was some contact), but its cruel oppression at the hands of Saddam Hussein (and similar states) had everything to do with Islamic terrorism. The Mullahs are now facing what happens when people are inspired by example to freedom…envy of liberty so to speak.
And don’t give me that Obama Cairo speech bullshit. It meant nothing in the scheme of things…other than the Iranian people realized they wouldn’t get any help from us.
#64 Rachel Peepers – Tearing an Obama supporter a new one must have been fun. In that environment, he couldn’t just walk away, but had to politely listen. Must have been agonizing for him. Wish I could’ve seen it.
Shadowofaman,
Sometimes there are interesting columns here like the one on gay marriage, but mostly it is just wingnuts getting off on their hatred of the first black president.
Boo-f*cking-hoo. Cry me a river. Preferably someplace else.
both have to be able to articulate their basic philosophy
Free markets and free minds. What’s yours?
13. sheesh:
At least the threats Obama is facing are real.
sheesh the self-proclaimed super-genius seems to think world history began in January 2009. Every threat Obama faces is the continuation, and in some cases the intensification (because he’s such a damn p*ssy) of threats Bush faced.
Oh, and no one’s even mentioned the next shoe to drop which will be the end of the bear market rally in the stock market. Goodbye to 50% of what’s left of your 401(k) due to this idiot’s economic policies.
Why is it that the people who think ‘They WON’ come here to bitch and moan every damned day? Did the kool-aid turn sour?
I was wondering the same thing. If conservatism in general and the GOP in particular have gone the way of the dinosaur, why even bother?
For the average liberal Obama voter, the answer is because they don’t like it that anybody who disagees with them even exists — it damages their narcissistic sensibilities, and narcissism is a notoriously fragile state of mind. If they could live and let live they wouldn’t be liberals.
Obama himself, however — the Narcissist-in-Chief — knows the Democrats are probably going to lose seats in 2010 if the electoral system is left unmolested, which is to say The Messiah himself does not believe he’s guaranteed to continue winning, daily fellatio from the legacy media notwithstanding. He needs to hurry his programs through while he has the votes in Congress, and during a honeymoon that has been extended due to his race. He will then spend all of 2010 in campaign mode trying to stanch as much bleeding of support for the Donks as possible, then use a 2010 census managed directly from the White House to gerrymander the states like the dickens. By then the tax increases will be unavoidable and the economic malaise permanent and clearly of the Donks’ making, so in 2012 he’ll use his (renamed) ACORN thugs and brownshirt mandatory ‘volunteers’ to ensure a ‘fair’ election, aided and abetted by ABC-CBS-NBC-etc, who by that time really will be taking orders directly from the White House* (a-la ABC as of tomorrow). And that’s to say nothing of partial amnesty engineered through weasely ‘amendments’ inserted in conference committee, and Department of Justice investigations, ‘inquiries’, and phone calls designed to intimdate GOP donors and conservative activists.
Ain’t oligarchy grand?
And all this because a bunch of TV-watching nose-pickers would rather sponge a few bucks off of others via government rather than get off their butts and update their job skills.
*I believe they already are. The planted HuffPo question at today’s ‘news’ conference is just the beginning.
58. Blarty Blarckleblart:
That Obama is such an idiot. Remember how he played the guitar while New Orleans drowned?
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Yeah, yobamba paaarrrtaaaaayed while Kentucky froze. ‘course those are just those bitter clingers . . .
I think Obama is a lot like Clinton, in that he ran for president basically to just be President. The trappings, the power, the media adulation, etc. The rest of the job, he is finding, is very difficult.
And to me, it seems Obama and his staff are in over their heads. Look at their response to the Iran episode. WINGING IT. They really had no clue how to react, so they reacted to others’ reactions. Pathetic and amateurish.
I think Obama wants to be a celebrity as much as a President. He’ll be like Bubba- he will hold the chair down with his ass for however long he serves, with the added bonus of running the entire economy into the ground.
Ricky Peepers . . . “Getting back to black Tuesday, Jan. 20th. After bungling the oath of office, Barack’s screwed up everything since then that he’s touched . . . ”
You DO realize that it was Justice John Roberts who screwed it up, right? He felt compelled to deliver the oath from memory,but alas he wasn’t up to the task. Read the oath, then watch the video. You can see Obama giving Roberts a chance to recover, but Roberts bungles that, too.
Here are your choices – are you ignorant or just a liar?
Does it bite, or does it just gum?
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/06/23/sanford-disappears-to-hike-appalachian-trail-on-naked-hiking-day/
And sure enough, the trillion dollar (interest included) stimulus boondoggle has failed, unemployment is soaring, and all that spending has stoked inflationary fears.
Objection, your Honor. The Chicago crooks who run Obama’s White House managed to get together with Congresscritters, and they crafted a ‘stimulus’ bill which will start lavishing its desired constituencies with vast wealth – our grandchildren’s wealth, rather – just in time to buy the 2010 election. The ‘stimulus’ hasn’t even begun yet, and it’s cynically calculated to ‘stimulate’ Democratic voting.
Obama, it seems, never confronted a critical media or a viable political opponent who could effectively quiz him on his assumptions and policy prescriptions. He waltzed through an election on essentially a “not Bush” campaign and a cloud of feel-good messages ungrounded in the real world.
That’s wholly the fault of our national media, who had so well demolished the Bush reputation by its six-year negative campaign that it felt that Mr. Teleprompter would be better because he was the opposite of Bush.
The MSM bears full responsibility for its failure to probe or question or do any due diligence on this inexperienced, slick-talking candidate. Instead the MSM went into full-propaganda mode to promote him, and maintains to this day the see-hear-speak-no-evil relationship with him. He’s their baby, and it will be a year or so yet before they figure out that the Presidency is the wrong job for on-the-job training for executives. We shall pay a heavy price for media malfeasance this time.
I just saw the President on the evening news. He looked like a deer in the headlights. Sheepishly, he condemned the Iranian leaders for the killing and intimidation they are inflicting on their people. He even admitted that the only reason he’s giving this speech was that the Republicans made him do it.
sheesh (24):
Sheesh, now I know that you’re an idiot. The background behind the UN invastion of Iraq is well documented, as is our part in it. Go do your research, then you can comment.
83. Jones:
“I think Obama is a lot like Clinton, in that he ran for president basically to just be President. The trappings, the power, the media adulation, etc. The rest of the job, he is finding, is very difficult.”
I agree. And like someone else had said, he never intended to govern; he intended to rule. Maybe he’s beginning to experience that in a representative Republic such as we have, we have no intention of being ruled over.
I still say he’s like the very surprised and stupid dog who catches the car he’s been chasing for 10 years and then doesn’t know what to do with it.
Sheesh
You’re right only a Republican can do anything preverse. Please explain something to me how would you describe the morals of the three Kennedy brothers re. Marilyn Monroe and Capaquitic, Hart and his love, Clinton and his amores. Both sides can dig in sh*t.
91. Oscar the Grump:
Sheesh
You’re right only a Republican can do anything preverse. Please explain something to me how would you describe the morals of the three Kennedy brothers re. Marilyn Monroe and Capaquitic, Hart and his love, Clinton and his amores. Both sides can dig in sh*t.
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Just in case sheeshie boy has to look it up, it’s Chappaquiddick.
at the time, someone put together a VW bug ad. (pity it wasn’t actually real). It shows a picture of a Bug floating (or at least up to it’s threshold in water) “If teddy drove a volkswagon, he’d be president today”.
Hey, the skakel cousin eventually went to jail for murder. The same group that did teddy’s damage control, did skakel’s.
Dick Morris has he was *physically assaulted* by clinton when he was governor.
Re #89: You have a flaw in your post. You put Sheesh + research in the same sentence. Those words never go together Paul!
Oscar . . . Oscar, Oscar, Oscar . . . Don’t flinch when a punch comes your way. It makes you look like a pussy.
Barack Obama, “The death of the Iranian people is totally unacceptable. I want the Iranian people to know that they don’t stand alone.”
“Mr. President, what are you going to do about it.”
Barack Obama, “Nothing.”
“Have you seen what the Iranian press is saying about American involvement?”
Barack Obama, “No, I don’t read Arabic.”
“But Mr. President, the Iranians don’t speak Arabic.”
Barak Obama, “Neither do I. Wait I know the answer to this one. They speak Austrian. Right?”
“No, Mr. President they don’t speak Austrian.”
Barak Obama, “I knew that. I was just seeing if you were paying attention. They speak Iranian.”
#34 Andrew: “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.” Albert Einstein
More news from the Central Committee
It was brought up that American landfills create an inordinate amount of methane gas. Samantha Powers came up with the idea that we could reduce methane emissions simply by reducing the size of our landfills. Noam Chomsky came up with the idea that if each house had a pig it would eat up a sizable amount of the garbage produced there by reducing the need for landfills or at least their size. Barak Obama objected in requiring each family to have a pig because it would harm Moslem household sensitivities. That’s when Samantha Powers suggested that those households that didn’t want to have a pig could have a goat instead. Furthermore, households that had both a pig and a goat could get a tax credit. Somebody brought up the fact that the animals in question were both farm animals and that many local ordinances wouldn’t allow farm animals as household pets. Obama came up with an instant answer. Let’s make these animals part of the family that way they won’t be considered pets. There was total agreement on the subject. To further prove that these animals are household members, they are to be given their own bedroom within the house.
Thank God for the Central Committee’s wisdom and that of our esteemed President Barak Obama.
Sleep well tonight, the Central Committee and Barak Obama have solved yet another problem.
95. Oscar the Grump:
Who needs Conan & Letterman?
74. David Thomson:
“I just noticed something: Obama seems to have aged five years in the last five months.”
Yes, he has.
64. Rachel Peepers:
“Getting back to black Tuesday, Jan. 20th.”
Get over it, Bush woman.
92. ked5: . . . Wanna have some fun? Google “Dick Morris + hooker”
#62 SHADOW(of a brain)The only citizens you seem talk to, are welfare dependent dopeheads, libtard journalists,vote fraud enthusiasts,left wing plutocrats,and other human excrement comprising Obama’s psychotic,and increasingly marginalized, coalition.No wonder you find Rubin’s arguments confusing.
If it’s ever proven that Obama was not elegible to be President, will everything he signed into law become null and void?
Sheesh
Did I flinch? I didn’t mean to. I hope it didn’t hurt.
39. Lil’D:
I keep my copies of Federalist Papers and the constitution nearby. True Patriots are delighted to have Obama as president, we can move this country back to its core strengths.
Jun 23, 2009 – 9:23 am
A true patriot never has his nose up any politician’s arse. If you really kept your Federalist Papers and Constitution nearby you’d know that freedom is the number one objective. Not government interference in every and any aspect of life today’s polls will support.
SHEESH#99 Want to have even more fun? Google Barney Frank+gay brothel,Bill Clinton+semen stained dress,Obama+terrorism,Obama+inflation.Obama+Goldman Sachs.I’d gopogle Sheesh+libtard too,but for obvious reasons, that’s impossible,though everyone on this board knows,from reading your posts, that you are an unusually diturbed lib;maybe if I try Hash+Sheesh,I’d get a better idea of what deformed your mind.
Poor Paul – Indiana – has his head down the birth certificate rabbit holw too
deguello – Me an 63% of my fellow citizens -
#105. Shadow, do you have a spelling/grammar checker? It’s still a valid question. If Obambi was not truly eligible for the presidency, would any bill he signed become null and void?
PI – Since your premise is fantasy, why deal with the onsequence.
SHADOW: Let’s see how that 63 % holds up, when inflation hits 20%,as does the interest rate,and after the first terrorist nuke goes off.I also seem to recall that LBJ won in a giant landslide;didn’t seem to help him much later did it?
deguello – That is what I call wishfull thinking. I fear for your sanity in 2012 and Obama wins another four years
The Shadow: So, what is it about Obama that has you so much in love? The man boobs?
degwello . . . Why trot out hackneyed Hannityian talking points when you can dig into something really juicy . . . here you go:
President of the United States George W. Bush, was accused in a criminal complaint and lawsuit of raping Margie Schoedinger, who later died in a questionable case of suicide. Bush was also accused by Tammy Phillips, a former stripper, who was quoted in the National Enquirer in 2000 saying she had an affair with Bush that had ended in 1999. Another serious question involves statements from the wife of Red Blount, whom Bush campaigned for, while possibly A.W.O.L from the Air National Guard at age 26. She stated that he was “all over their 14 year old daughter.”
Believe me, you don’t want to start the “list game” when it comes to Republican vs Democrat sex scandals.
Ms Attitude – Intersting comment – perhaps more revealing about you – Do you obsess about sex a lot?