Welcome to Francis Ford Coppola’s White House
Just seven weeks into his presidency, Barack “Corleone” Obama has gone to the mattresses. His administration has lunged ruthlessly for the jugulars of its critics. His cabinet has more tax cheats than McKellys in a Dublin phone book. Crackdown on lobbyists? Fahgettaboudit. Earmark reform? We don’t need no stinking earmark reform. “Today,” the new don pontificates, “I settle all family business” — e.g., nationalizing the energy industry, socializing the health care system, and federalizing American education.
Obama has parasitically used a correctable housing bubble burst and banking crises to power-grab and commit the country to more spending than at any other time in our history. That upcoming Roland Emmerich movie entitled 2012 is supposed to be about the impending end of the world. But Hollywood doomsday may not be necessary; if this keeps up until 2012, Tic Tacs will cost about $60.
In short, Obama is scaring the hell out of everyone. Every time he opens his mouth, the stock market nosedives. But he isn’t worrying about those “day-to-day gyrations” because the “stock market is sort of like a tracking poll in politics; it bobs up and down.” The country’s net worth is plummeting by the hour — largely due to the seeds of anxiety Obama sowed into the market when trying to pass his porkulus spending splurge — and he speaks about the relative insignificance of the market’s “day-to-day gyrations” as if millions of Americans losing their portfolios and life’s savings was a matter of Chubby Checker’s “The Twist.”
Rome is burning, but how does the godfather respond? By averting attention, of course. By bringing together his wartime consiglieres to go after the Tattaglias, Barzinis, and Moe Greens of his political universe. There’s Jimmy “Ragin’ Cajun” Carville, Paulie “Bag-a-Doughnuts” Begala, and “Rahm-bo” Emanuel — who knows all about making people sleep with the fishes — and Biden can be Fredo, I suppose.
And they’re mad. Oh boy, are they mad. You see, a handful of journalists, television commentators, radio personalities, and private citizens have the gumption to question President Corleone’s economic policies. And that’s a no-no. Never go against the family.
Rush Limbaugh is a mere broadcaster. For weeks we’ve been told it would be quite anti-egalitarian, the mother of all infra dignitatem acts, if we were to listen or give credence to such a bigoted, homophobic, racist, and cruel miscreant. Yet do Limbaugh’s most eccentric or controversial statements surpass anything uttered by senator-wannabe Al Franken?
What’s worse: Limbaugh mocking obnoxiously hardcore feminists on his radio program — we all know the type he’s talking about even if you don’t have the onions to admit it — or Sen. Dick Durbin comparing U.S. troops to Stalin, Hitler, and Pol Pot? Why are the masochistic rantings of old man Chomsky or the phony Ward Churchill considered intellectual brilliance — but Limbaugh’s politically incorrect tell-it-like-it-is take on society the most egregious things said this side of Mein Kampf?
The man has his opinions. He’s allowed to have them. And while his opinions have made him who he is — the country’s most successful radio personality — they are still just opinions, not sticks and stones. Limbaugh never threatened Obama’s safety and security, and therefore should be of no concern to the Obama White House or the Secret Service.
Limbaugh has, however, made it clear he wants Obama’s statism to fail — an entirely understandable position for a conservative to hold and, at last check, a totally legal opinion to have — and in response, President Obama first used Limbaugh as his own personal punchline and then sent out his henchmen, guns blazin’. Leave the capitalism; take the cannolis.
It is beneath the office of the presidency to go after a citizen on such a personal level, using political surrogates to mock a man’s weight and previous drug addiction all to align him with, and thus undermine, your political opponents. Is this what Obama meant when he invoked biblical scripture during his inaugural speech and proclaimed “the time has come to set aside childish things”?
Well, to borrow a word from Christian Toto, looks like o is turning into a celebutard. He always has been a Saul Alinsky educated, Chicago machine politician. Why is anyone surprised? Rahm is the “Darth Vader” to the “Emperor” in this movie; consigliere to Don Corleone if you prefer. Or, for the more cynically inclined of the readers, the other way around. The problem, of course, is that 35% of the people seem to love what o is bringing them; 35% hate it and are organizing against him; and, the rest are ….. you get to fill in the blank.
To steal the tagline from “Alien”:
I Obama’s America,No one will hear you scream.
“IN”
“From the get-go, Obama has had some trouble with moral clarity.”
Yes, let’s review the clues we had before electing President Corleone. 1) Idolized his absent father and was absent during his mother’s last days, 2) Was close to and defended the hateful language of his spiritual leader until he embarrassed him personally, and 3) Did not think it was important to verify where his campaign money was coming from or the background of his appointees.
There are many other examples but the less I think about The Won the better.
There is no question that if you cross this administration, you may be taking your life into your hands. Today a mob showed up at an AIG office.
He is running the White House like Mayor Daley does Chicago. Mayor Daley is a fascist. Cross him, and one of his thugs will find you.
What about Gibbs who actually carries out the “hit” on public TV. The latest victim is Chaney who went over the line for Obama by defending the Bush Administration against Obama’s repeated attacks.
Alinsky’s “rules” are clear about the importance of attacking your opponent and everything Obama does is right out of those rules. The Republicans need to review those tactics and use them against BO. He is wide open to them since he has already gone against so many of his own campaign commitments.
The one thing we can not do is fall for his diversions designed to distract us.
Considering how he treated ‘reporters’ (especially ordinary citizen Joe), who actually had the temerity to [gasp] “ask a question” that hadn’t been previously vetted and had more depth than “how was his run?”, is anyone surprised? Or how after even SNL made fun of the white glove treatment he was getting in the debates, so he was finally asked some hard questions, the furor and cries of “unfair” the next day? He thinks “white glove treatment” is his birthright. and he will burn the heretics.
Bill Clinton was right – he’s a thug. He will work under cover of darkness to get his way and destroy anyone who “dares” to disagree let alone stand in his way. That wasn’t hidden during the campaign, but was well apparent last summer. And totally obvious to anyone who investigated his previous political campaigns.
The scariest thing is the number of people who. didn’t. care. and. voted. for. him. anyway. Someday they will understand their blind support for zerO will not save them from what’s coming.
Whatta clown. I am so glad that I never considered Obama to be presidental caliber.
I never thought I’d witness a 21st century Gleichschaltung, but there it is, playing out right in front of our eyes.
1. Spinoneone: The remaining 30% are tuned to American Idol, completely clueless.
Excellent article…
“Obama has parasitically used a correctable housing bubble burst and banking crises to power-grab and commit the country to more spending than at any other time in our history.”
Right on target!
Hey, did you ever hear the Mark Levin episode where he talks about Emanuel and Obama with the Godfather theme playing in the background? Totally hilarious!
There is hope…
Recently I’ve noticed very obscene “Big O” scribbles on the big city 6th and 7th floor corporate office building restrooms and the same finger painted in the tailgate dirt of the brand new SUVs owned and driven by illegal Hispanics.
But, most encouraging has been to watch the fat, liberal, married school teachers that live across the street make their 43 year old still at home son take down the Vote for Obama campaign poster and the “Give Peace a Chance” flag. Now they can yell at each other like the good old days.
We were forewarned it would turn out like this. Bertold Brecht’s 1938 play, ‘The Resistible Rise of Adolf UI’ pretty well shows what the Chicago crowd is into. This play was performed at the Arena theatre in D.C. about 1981.
They are a college marxist bunch, and behave like one.
Let’s just set the record straight!
Why is the radio host the great Polarizer??
http://strongerthandeathhq.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/why-is-the-radio-host-the-great-polarizer/
He’s not, so now we refer to B. Hussein Obama as “President B. Hussein Obama who is a polarizing figure………..” Anytime his name is mentioned, or written about, it will start that way.
Rome is burning and President Alfred E. McDoom goes on Leno? WTF, is his campaign ever gonna hit the pause button? A shallow bunch for certain. Yoo-hoo, Mr. President, you can’t polish a turd – your policies will fail because of simple reason: they have always failed. Ask Chavez, Castro, Zedong, Jong Il, et al. Obama – just another in the chain of horrible tinpot dictators.
“Rush Hudson Limbaugh . . . casts himself as a working-class hero, yet drives his $450,000 Mercedes-Benz Maybach 57S home to a 24,000-square-foot Florida mansion every night (one of five houses on the property).”
It’s a good thing Saltonstall included a name; for a minute, I thought he was writing about Ted Kennedy and John Kerry.
LeighB
You forgot his support to his cousin who happens to lead an islamist party involved into anti-christian pogroms in Kenya.
Or Al Gore!
Anyone else?
This really doesn’t fit this blog but it’s a very important issue:
The production of the nation’s most advanced fighter aircraft, the F-22 Raptor, is in jeopardy–and along with it more than 95,000 American jobs and more than $12 billion in economic activity. I have signed an online petition urging the Obama Administration to release funds already authorized for ongoing Raptor production to preserve this important program. I hope you will join me in this effort!
Please join me in signing the online petition at http://www.PreserveRaptorJobs.com urging Congress and the Administration to continue F-22 Raptor production, protect American jobs and the economy, and strengthen our national security!
Obama is a delusional narcissist, classically. He believes he has ultimate power over people and the world, that he can make public statements on policy and then just change his mind if he wants to. He is totally unaccountable to anyone or anything other than his massive ego. His desire to “help” the working american is really just a method via which he imagines himself adored by the fawning masses, his incredible “transformative” powers recognized by all. Scary dude. He really is more suited for Cuba or Venezuela. I can only hope his ego does him in, that he follows in the footsteps of arrogant and deluded “leaders” littered throughout history. And to the voters in this country, must you be so f’in stupid? Is it that much trouble to educate yourselves on politics, even just a little bit?……
Nice to see a Dem President who isn’t about to take any crap from malicious idiots like “private citizen” Limbaugh and shameless publicity-hound Joe the Plumber. It’s also nice to see someone call out blithering lackwits like Santelli and Jim Cramer for hypocritically — or through laziness or sheer incompetence — using mass media to launch BS memes and inflame stupid people with irresponsible misstatements.
It’s not fascism — it just feels like it, since wingnut bullies have been unaccountable and free to flat-out lie, 24/7, on-air and in print for the last eight years. Scary when the worm finally turns, huh?
JFM #17–you are right, then there is his family. The cousin in Kenya, the “Auntie” living in the US illegally, the hut living brother, the angry wife who’s redeemed by her great biceps, the mother-in-law raising his kids, his “typical white person” grandmother…
R Gibbs on Cheney:: “I guess Rush Limbaugh was busy. So they trotted out the second most popular member of the Republican cabal.”
BEST LINE OF THE YEAR! (Don’t be offendedd, donttreatonme, we all like a good turd reference. but in the end I think it lacked a certain je ne se qua.)
As for El Douchebo, I know why you freaks give . . . how did the author put it . . . “such a bigoted, homophobic, racist, and cruel miscreant” a pass. You are so desperate to connect to something popular that you overlook his raging hypocrisy. You give him a pass because you agree with him, and you have no choice but to lie about his failings in order to accept his opinions. That’s the definition of a useful idiot. (Present company included.)
Speaking of which, does anybody know if Laura Ingraham has boobs? You know, after the cancer and all? Or did she have them removed? Does anybody know that? I’m not slamming Mzzz Ingraham. I’m simply asking a questionnnnnn relevant to her health and well being. FOLKS! Far be it from me, your humble servant, to suggest any sort of . . . any sort of . . . mammary envy on the part of Mzzzzz ING-RA-HAM in her exchange with the young McCain woman. No, no . . . THAT would be unSEEMly and not up to the standards of the glorious EIB network.
Stay with us, folks, Dick Cheney and the ghost of Lee Atwater compete for the title of Sickest Shadow, right here when we come back.
19. Ms. Attitude: “The production of the nation’s most advanced fighter aircraft, the F-22 Raptor, is in jeopardy–and along with it more than 95,000 American jobs and more than $12 billion in economic activity”
PORKULUS! You’re spending the country into oblivion! I guess you’re as selfish as you are stupid!!! I’m guessing it’s you or your husband or some other comrade in that circle of socialists you call a family that works on the F-22. You’ve signed a petition “urging Obama to release these funds” have you? How Gramscian! Why are you supporting this “spend and spend” administration? You have to learn to out your country first, not yourself first. This is straight out of Saul Alinsky, or is it Karl Marx? Whichever is worse, how’s that. Why don’t you just pack up your stuff and move to Venezuela to join your delusional narcissist best friend Hugo Chavez. I hear everybody is looking for a government handout down there, so you won’t feel alone.
Here’s an idea, instead of releasing those funds, why don’t we offer tax cuts to the top 1% of the population. That oughta do it.
Greedy, selfish, hypocritical, pathetic, situational . . . I could go on and on, but I’ll leave that to you.
YOU’RE DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY!
To go after private citizens, journalists, and people on radio and television with such vitriol is unprecedented in contemporary American politics.
From the liberal bible “Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinksky,” tactic rule #13 – Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it.
Rush Limbaugh, Jim Cramer, Rick Santelli, Joe the Plumber.. the list continues and will keep continuing.
Obama is being exactly who he has always been – a far-left, Saul-Alinsky-worshiping liberal, determined to completely change America into his radical beliefs.
He must be stopped.
A dare to Rotwang and one of my own:
Just for fun and to see how it turns out, why don’t you go to one of Obama’s little “campaign” meetings and ask him a hard question. I’m curious as to what skeletons you have in your closet. Questioning Obama will surely make your private business known to the world. And to think, you see nothing wrong with the government going after private citizens…let’s see how you feel when it’s YOU.
…three if by Washington D.C.
I wish someone would start a mock presidential recall vote so we could see how much buyers’ remorse there is.
23:
“I think it lacked a certain je ne se qua.” Since you don’t know what it lacked, possibly I can be of some assistance. The statement lacked truth, relevance, and propriety.
By the way, I just saw the excuse of the week from Biden. He said that Obama “has inherited the most difficult first 100 days of any president, I would argue, including Franklin Roosevelt.” Interesting point. Personally, I would argue that Lincoln may have had a more difficult first 100 days, what with the Civil War starting and all that, but, hey, I could be wrong.
26 Ms ‘tude . . .”And to think, you see nothing wrong with the government going after private citizens…let’s see how you feel when it’s YOU.”
We’ve been fighting that since the Patriot Act, back when you were saying, “If you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.” Civil liberties and privacy aren’t the strong suit of the Republicans, or did you forget that in your wailing self-righteousness?
By the way, so who is it? Who in your brood works on the F-22? Neighbors maybe? Come on, who gives rise to that in-bred selfishness in your conservative soul?
27 Richard . . . four if by Crawford, Texas.
Since he made the statement “I WON” he has become more childish. For those of you that voted for him I hope tou go down in flames with him. If you don’t understand that, it’s called Freedom of Speach.
Not only has Obama no moral outrage or disdain for thugocrats, but he sympathizes with them, because he is one himself.
Everything that is referenced, illustrated and discussed in this piece has to do with Freedom of Speech and obama’s frustration with it.
obama will not tolerate Freedom of Speech for one moment longer than he is forced to.
As usual, the obama supporters who are posting are unable to express themselves without namecalling and personal insults. They have learned their lessons well.
So much for dissent being the highest form of patriotism!
As for going after private citizens. . guess that’s only wrong if a Republican president does it.
TO: All
RE: It….
…is my considered opinion that President Obama is an illegal-alien.
We’ve seen all the indicators, e.g., lack of a birth certificate, statements from his grandmother in Kenya, etc.
But our gutless wonder state Secretaries of State refused to do their duty. And the idiots taught by the vaunted American public education system on WHAT to think instead of HOW to think voted this cretin into office.
Now….
…all of US are going to suffer, accordingly. And this business of the cretin defending himself by going ‘gangsta’, i.e., ‘mafiosi’ is just an example of HOW that suffering is going to happen.
Welcome to the world of the real…..
Regards,
Chuck(le)
P.S. Meryl ‘nails’ it with that comment about….
“As usual, the obama supporters who are posting are unable to express themselves without namecalling and personal insults.” — Meryl
They have no logic. Because no one taught them such. All they have is attacks. They’ll be verbal for the time being…..guess what follows…..
one of my own,
Does the Unibomber know that you have his laptop? You are a metaphorical tornado of useless bile; the sound and the fury signifying nothing. I feel you on the Patriot Act – I mean, having to present ID when opening up a bank account is a clear violation of the Constitution, eh? BTW, if you copy and send post 24 to the Daily Show, you might get a gig. Just saying.
You republicans never cease to amaze… you speak out one side of your mouths (Obama is spending too much) and then cry about F22 raptors that havent been used active combat in quite some time being cut. Then you talk of civil liberties and how Obama ‘wants to stop freedom of speech’ (where do you people get this stuff?) when Bush’s regime was amongst the most intrusive and ignorant this country has ever seen.
Here is how the repubs are conducting business right now. Step 1) Watch what the president is doing while opposing everything he does in an effort to stop any productivity and delay the turnout (or prevent it if possible) so that they can look like they were right. Step 2) Take anything that the public doesn’t like (whether it will work or not) and attach themselves to it in an effort to regain votes. (Omnibus, anyone? Repubs were for that bill before they were against it). Step 3) Hoot and holler about all the spending that’s going on and how it’s going to ruin us. (When it was their spending that put us in the deficit we’re in now… not to mention it was their war that has cost us billions of dollars and thousands of lives… you know, the one McCain wanted us to stay in for another hundred years?)
Wish we had McCain in office right now… with his economic experience and the popularity he would have had around the globe to mend the ties that Bush had destroyed… oh wait, we would be royally screwed with no end in sight. And contrary what the repubs will have you think… whats being done IS working, and will work more as the stimulus money begins to dump into the economy. Not everything the administration is doing is pretty, I can’t remember an administration who the opposition thought was always doing an excellent job, it will never happen… but the junk that’s said on this website by conservative kool-aid swallowers is unbelievable.
Everyone should disregard “one of my own’s” posts. He’s obviously trolling from his parent’s basement somewhere in NJ. He’s baiting because he’s too ashamed to post on the lame boards over at the Huffington Post anymore. Everyone over there is on suicide watch. Seriously take “one of my own” at face value and take him/her/it for what it truly is. A bored, out of work loser who is trying to act like he has a job until it’s time to go upstairs for mummy’s meatloaf tonight.
President Obama is behaving like he was trained to in the Chicago politics system. The only problem is he should have checked the box for Soul Train dancer instead of politican. It would have suited him better.
one of my own, thanks for demonstrating the very best of leftist thought for us. You are a shining example.
“..Obama has expressed little interest in prosecuting those who cooked the books to make billions and undermined the financial system..” Not that Obama is any less cowardly, but having learned from JFK’s experience, he won’t mess with the financial world with notions like a gold-based dollar or deragulating and re-privatizing money, like before the 1870′s, when America’s stable, steadily, sustainably, equity-based growing economy had never experienced anything worse than a few months of economic ripples, versus the modern 20th and 21st century decade-long booms and decade long busts that arbitrarily printed fiat, funny money causes. More than anything, I just hope that Obama has learned enough from JFK and Reagan to deal with this generation’s upcoming missile crisis, say in about, 2012. If not, don’t be surprised if Washington experiences it first coup.
TO: Justin
RE: Would You Like to Play a Game?
How about a nice game of Civilization IV?
I’ll clean your clock and devour your civilization.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
P.S. There’s something of a difference in spending money in the omnibus ‘drive US to disaster’ spending bill on an advanced weapons system as opposed to on golf courses and canoe tours in Hawaii.
Don’t you think?
Well….
…in light of your ‘comment’, you probably don’t.
Let me guess. You graduated from high school sometime after 1980.
actually, I enjoy railing on morons like “one of my own.” The key is to get them so riled up that they violate the Olbermann Rule (The longer a debate lasts, the greater the odds that the liberal interlocuter will use something insignificant and/or mean to make a point).
P.P.S. If you don’t think advanced weapons systems are important. Wait til I show up on your national borders with the rifleman while you, with your golf courses, are still armed with the bow and arrow……three guesses as to what follows. First two don’t count…..
TO: All
RE: one on his own
He’s a twerp and a twit. The only think that helps him to remember he is alive is negative strokes.
He/She is not worth the electrons to blow their mind.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Ignore a fool and he'll go away.]
Justin,
“mend the ties that Bush broke?” You mean the ties with Bassad, Chavez, Jong Il, and Ahmadinijad(sp)? Or do you mean the ties with France, Germany, Australia, Britain, New Zealand, Japan, S Korea, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Estonia, Canada,et al which are ALL the same or closer than ever – note the right-leaning of the German, French, Czech, Canadian. and New Zealand govt’s. You know that guy that kept knocking you off your bike on the way to school and stole your lunch money? You are going to mend ties with him, yes?
Dude, get your head out of your sphincter before posting. Seriously.
But our gutless wonder state Secretaries of State refused to do their duty.
Once Obama became the official democratic candidate it was too late. Doing it would have meant riots. Riots squared because it would have been seen as racially motivated. Possibly civil war as Bush had been demonized by the MSM and since people expected a Republican defeat it would have been seen as election fixing. This could have been prevented if presenting documents proving birth in US soil had been a legal requiremnt for running. In turn this would have forced parties to make it a requirement for entering the whole primaries process (BTW, the riots could have been prevented if one of Democratic primary runners had challenged Obama before he picked up steam).
It is still possible to raise the issue alongside the illegal financing from dubious and even foreign sources and start an impeachment procedure but not before Obama’s popularity falls below Bush’s levels (or the initiative will bommerand) and GOP regains Senate.
Not exactly ,Mr Guariglia.Comparing Corleone with Obama,is like comparing a petty guido nickel bag selling thug,to an accomplished mafia don.Obama is a bottom feeder:strictly peeny ante. look what Putin just did to him!
I got to get moving on my day. First though, I have to go take a “one of my own.”
one of my own: What private citizen was harassed and had all of his personal business spewed all over the news because of the Patriot Act? And while you are condemning the Patriot Act you should realize that Obama is not getting rid of it. Change? Not!
I like the way you call me in-bred, what’s with that? You don’t have a good argument against national defense so you attack me personally with a false accusation? I’ll answer your question after you answer mine….what makes you hate the United States so much that you are willing to do away with our national defense?
Like we used to say ‘In country’-
“Just sit back and (expletive deleted) on it”
AIG will always get more attention than wounded Grunts-
They might make payoffs.
We also said-
“We are killing the wrong people!”
Let’s see. Patriot Act enacted to protect American citizens and our country. Obama’s hit squads sent to suppress free speech against anyone who disagrees with him.
I am already tired of Chicago on the Potomac.
Personally directed character assassination. These are sad little people.
Thank You:
THAT’S WHAT GRUNTS USED TO SAY.
“IT IS BLOWING BACK ON OBAMA.”
LOL-LOL
Personally directed character assassination…exactly!! What is up with Gibbs? Not sure how he gets away with the stand-up routine at every press conference. Shows how ignorant he is on the esteem the office once held.
TO: JFM
RE: Do You Suggest…
….that an illegal-alien as president is better?
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. - Thomas Jefferson]
P.S. Wasn’t he the First Democrat?
“It is beneath the office of the presidency to go after a citizen on such a personal level, using political surrogates to mock a man’s weight and previous drug addiction all to align him with, and thus undermine, your political opponents.”
could someone PLEASE tell me i’m not nuts and that i really saw this same person vehemently, openly threaten anyone who da-HARED cross him in any of his policies?
it was flashed on the screen about two weeks ago on a televised blurb grabbed from one of his recent saturday (?) talks with the country. right before they started saying he wouldn’t be doing youtube anymore, maybe?
never in this lifetime has a person so offensively, publicly abused the office of president.
The only issue I have is the part where “Rome is burning, but how does the godfather respond? By averting attention, of course.” I think if you look more closely you will see the flame thrower on his back.
Justin, here’s something for you to read…and it’s from Harvard. I know you Dems love Harvard!!!
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=526205
It’s pretty funny (or rather, pretty pathetic) the focus and obsession that Obama (and, by extension, the inept spokesperson Gibbs, Emanuel, Carville etc.) have on those who find them full of crapola, uh, those who criticize the administration. Yesterday, the near brain dead Gibbs’ attempted take down of Dick Cheney was especially pathetic.
Obama has in the past shown his completely thin skinned-ness in obsessing on Hannity or telling Congress it better stop listening to Limbaugh if anything is to get “done” in DC. (the last time something worthwhile got “done” in DC was around 1952, I think…)
The world is going to hell in a handbasket and the President and his minions obsess on AIG bonuses (to conceal AIG government assisted perfidy ?) and radio and tee vee personalities.
Mr Petto
I don’t say that. I just say that you should wait before you express openly your views. As long as Obama remains popular questioning the legality of his rule will not hasten but postpone the moment it will be possible to unseat him: you will just be called a wingnut or an election stealer. Once people are discontent with him they will begin to listen. You must not in fact you should not wait until they are absolutely mad with him (it would give him more time to do harm). Ideally the “impeach Obama movement ” should start at discontent phase and get such force at “mad with him” phase that Democratic senators would be the most enthousiast impeachers out of fear for their own seats.
Watch gonna do about it, Chucky boy? I won. I don’t need no stinkin’ birth certificate.
And you just wait till you have to get a driver’s license or a passport, or open a bank account. We’re going to get your pound of flesh.
Criticize the Teh One, you’ll know what for. Remember who you’re dealing with. We’re from Chicago.
TO: JFM
RE: Wait?
Until when? The Secret Service want to toss my house because of a bumper sticker on my car? Or something I posted here?
Get a grip. You can wait TOO LONG. Just like the kulaks of Russia in the late 1920s. They should have put their oar into the water during the Russian Civil War, instead of WAITING until Stalin rounded them up and sent them off to ‘re-education’ camps. From which few, if any, returned alive.
And to think that Ayers, Obama’s polisci mentor, was suggesting the same technique be applied here with US.
Wait, indeed…..
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.]
TO: Teleprompter Jesus
RE: What?
Aaahhhh…..
…that would be ‘telling’. And, if you’ve been around here as long as I think you have, you know my background.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards. -- Proverbs]
P.S. Over some fine scotch and cigars, perhaps?
P.P.S. Too Funny….
“Criticize the Teh One, you’ll know what for. Remember who you’re dealing with. We’re from Chicago.” — Teleprompter Jesus
Not that I have to do much of anything. The REAL One is probably going to do something that will make every man’s ears ‘tingle’.
But, all that aside, I’m from the the jungles, swamps, mountains, forests, icefields and deserts, wherever our rich Uncle Sam sent me. And Chicago don’t mean squat.
I doubt if our friends from Chicago can make bombs out of Bisquick. But I can…..
#23OneOfMyOwn: that was callow, detestable, reprehensible and other things I can’t think of right now. With remarks like that, you’ve become what you detest. There’s a stain on you now, even with those that might have secretly laughed at your duels with OscarThe Grump.
TO: All
RE: TJ
I have to wonder if TJ is actually an agent provocateur.
Not that it matters to me. But just for those others here.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. -- Auric Goldfinger]
Ked@7
Bill Clinton was right – he’s a thug.
Is that a thief w/o portfolio? A criminal who does his own enforcement? A kamp kommandant w/o nuance? A politician on a mission to destroy US? So rich and pithy that term “thug.”
Kulaks didn’t wait. If you had read the Gulag archipielago you would know they revolted and were mowed down with machineguns. Also Lenin’s regime was illegitimate from day 1 and totally illegitimate from the day the Lettonian riflemen dissolved national assembly. So it was ever a question of force with the anti-communists lacking it (and NKVD agents shooting in the backs of Red army soldiers when they didn’t advance).
In Obama’s case people think he is legitimate and you have to convince them. That requires to wait. The alternative is bypassing the law and Constitution. That means confronting the US Armed Forces whose oath tells of “defending the Constititution and Laws of the United States against all of their enemies”. Good luck then.
Hugo@13
They are a college marxist bunch, and behave like one.
Looks to be true. Kapo-wannabes. But they’re untrained as yet. In recent African civilizational takeovers, the Left has no problem arming 10-14 year olds, using them as cannon-fodder and promoting the survivors to executioner rank.
So, it’s not like moralty-challenged adolescent mobs can’t be dangerous, and college age more so.
TO: JFM
RE: Yeah?
“Kulaks didn’t wait.” — JFM
Tell us how they supported the White Russians in the Civil War of 1917-1923.
Go on. I defy you.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
Now I read that well known Irish trouble maker Paddy O’Bama has plans to meddle in Northern Ireland. The province is obviously too quiet for his liking after the terrorists on both sides settled their differences almost a decade ago. There have been a few recent problems but apparently this is not enough for Obama. The President Of The While Universe And Everything Else obviously wants the whole thing to kick off again
I am not alone. When Obama started calling out private citizens by name, I was appalled. This behavior is beneath the office of the POTUS. I’ve never seen anything like it before in any other administration. In my eyes, it makes the man look petty. That’s not a good thing for the POTUS. If he were not so scary in his views, this whole circus might be amusing. However, I believe that Obama threatens all that is good about the USA way of life. He used our problems to advance his despicable agenda. I wish he and Michelle just moved to France instead of trying to make America into France. His foreign policy is not looking too good, either. He disrespects Gordon Brown and wife, then Brazil, and Hillary gets the wrong Russian word on her gag gift. That’s pretty pathetic with all the supposedly smart people they have around them. He looks like a thug who is in way over his head.
Check the latest polls.
Bill Clinton was right – he’s a thug.
Actually, what Bill Clinton said (while his wife was still a contender) was that Barack Obama has “…the instincts of a Chicago thug.”
Which seems to be accurate in “Chicago on the Potomac”.
“Leave the capitalism; take the cannolis.”
That is absolutely hilarious !
Thank you for the laugh.
And for the excellent column of course.
sub@20
Obama is a delusional narcissist, classically. He believes he has ultimate power over people and the world, that he can make public statements on policy and then just change his mind if he wants to. He is totally unaccountable to anyone or anything other than his massive ego.
The same was said about both Adolph H. and Joseph S. 75 years, ago. Most who said it out loud were exterminated. Accurately describing the psychological symptoms of your murderer, while it’s underway, seldom keeps you alive.
I can only hope his ego does him in, that he follows in the footsteps of arrogant and deluded “leaders” littered throughout history.
Well, Hitler’s ego did him in; after only 20 million died. And Stalin’s didn’t; so the world suffered another 50 million lost.
From my vantage point, the time to quit the outraged chatter is over. The time to start ramping up the plan is now. What will US be, if we can reverse direction away from totalitarianism?
If the loss of individual freedom is not inevitable now, then what action(s) must be undertaken to insure it won’t be, given the obvious trends?
How do we signal our elected representatives to stop and reverse direction, given 70% of them see themselves in secure seats? Protest marches? I sincerely wish they’ll work. If they don’t, we better have the next plan ready, whatever that will be, or won’t.
I can see the mayor of DC declining to permit a Memorial Day rally, because there’s no money in the city budget for enough portapottys. Public safety considerations, ya know.
In four years there will be so little to take back, it won’t be worth the bloody effort.
I despise Obama, but the one I really want to see bite the dust and grovel in repentence is Lady Michelle. Can you imagine what those two little girls are going to grow up into?
The only reason Obama and company wanted to get elected president was so they could use their position to deliberately run America into the ground. They hate America, they hate freedom, they always have, and their plan from the beginning was its destruction
In the interests of accuracy, apparently Bill Clinton’s full comment was that Obama has “…the political instincts of a Chicago thug.”
And made that observation after Obama had the nomination.
This article expresses a lot of the frustration and disgust and even dare I say fear and dismay that we’ve all been feeling.
Then I read all of the comments and some great points are made [in between the tit for tats and spastic lefty drivel]…
…until I got to Teleprompter Jesus’ post and giggled out loud [GOL?]. Ha-ha! Thanks, TJ… I needed that. You is funnyyyyyyyy!
-And, Happy St. Patty’s Day. I’m one third Irish… Keesh meeeeeeee! I forgot to wear green today yaknow.
Perhaps the Democrats who appear on this web-site will wise up when martial law is imposed on all of us. I wonder what their comments will be when the 2nd Amendment is suspended? It could be that the Democrats who post here prefer a Communist style government. I am sure they know what it is After all, it is what they were taught in the Marxist indoctrinational system in America for the last 60 years.
That’s a neat trick. Two daddies, or two mommies?
/Careful what you say around a math nerd…
64. Chuck Pelto,
ROTFL! Sir, I’m never going to look at a box of Bisquick the same again thanks to you.
I didn’t know about that Bill Clinton comment. Very intense.
82. Pee Wee Herman, Community Organizer,
LOL! Well, it’s my own ‘blonde’ deduction of sorts [he-he]… My mother was half English and Half Irish and my father was 100% Finnish. How would you break that down for me? I’m no math whiz like my daughter. 50% Finn/25% Irish/25% English? Oh fine. QUARTER Irish. Now KEESH ME ANYWAY! *giggles*
NahnCee Can you imagine what those two little girls are going to grow up into?
saw a picture recently of the three. unmistakably the elder was already a spittin’ image of her mother. the youngest appeared angelic, momentarily untouched, still joyful to be around others.
speaking of retaliations echoing through several comments above, a day and a half after the election was over, a debt collector called from a suburb of chicago. i find it no small coincidence.
#77 Nahncee: “Can you imagine what those two little girls are going to grow up into?”
They could grow up to be bitter old people, crabbing about the First Lady and her kids. But more likely well-mannered, nice kids, which is just what they look like now.
Patricia@72
He looks like a thug who is in way over his head.
The only thug ever to be shown to be “in over his heads” is incarcerated, or dead.
Delia…you can’t add and I can’t spell!!! LOL
77. NahnCee:
I just hope their daddy starts thinking about their future!
The Obama daughters are absolutely precious and I refuse to ‘go there’ even though I can understand some of the concerns I really don’t think it’s my business to judge any child because of their parents. I had horrid parents and I overcame a lot of abuse and pain both mentally and physically. IMHO the girls or any child of any figure political or movie star or otherwise ‘famouse’ should be left alone.
I wish people in this country had been more inquiring of the bush administration. I personally did not support obama. But with only 2 months in office how in the heck do you expect them to turn the mess the previous administration allowed. If the MSM had held their feet to the fire they might not have been able to do what they did. I’m for America not the administrations and if the administration is doing it’s job be it republican or democratic than that’s what I want them to do.
TO: Delia
RE: Wait….
….until you see what I can do with bacon drippings.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Bacon. Is there anything it can't do?]
90. Ms. Attitude:
“Delia…you can’t add and I can’t spell!!! LOL”
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HA! Who said I could spell either for that matter? I just spelled ‘famous’ as ‘famouse’… I am the typoooooooo queeeeeeeeeen.
Thank the good Lord I can COOK! *phew*
1. Spinoneone:
Well, to borrow a word from Christian Toto, looks like o is turning into a celebutard
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Sean Phlegm gave us this one:
“Let’s just blanket Zero with ubertard.”
LOL!
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P.S. Halt the presses! My sister just informed me my maternal grandmother was 3/4 English and 1/4 Irish and my maternal grandfather was 100% irish. Great!-Now my temporal lobes hurt. *twitches*
93. Marge: You are right, it’s only been two months. But look at what he’s done already. At least it took the previous administration 8 years to do this much damage. Look at Obama’s plans….he will hurt us even more.
TO: Marge
RE: Yeah?
What ‘mess’ are you talking about? Stopping the production of bullets? Or maybe trying to shut down criticism? Maybe increasing the national debt within 2 months to twice the level Bush did in his entire term? On GOLF COURSES!!!!!?!?!
Oh. Yeah. Lest I forget….AIG. And why was it reported they were shipping billions of the money Obama gave them to overseas banks?
Tell us, dearie….
Regards,
Chuck(le)
P.S. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that other such ‘financial’ institutions are doing the same.
Marge, Bush is out of office. This is O’Bama’s job now. I wish the press told us more about this thug, Obambi, before he ended up as POTUS. He is sending $900 million to Gaza and wants service men and women to use their private insurance to pay for service related illnesses and injuries. He hopes to make about $500 million doing this. Why don’t we just keep the $900 million instead? He is paying to play. He is a disaster and will ruin this country.
Funny… Some people claim our country has become more polarized than ever but I beg to differ… There was plenty of BDS from the Left [sometimes rightfully] and now the political pendulum has swung and the Right and even some of the middle left [often rightfully] have mild to severe cases of ODS.
There is no panacea in this or ANY adminstration and that is why we must be especially careful of anyone with too much power grabbing potential and keep our scrutiny goggles on no matter how painful the truth is.
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94. Chuck Pelto,
Bacon drippings? Hmmmmm. Funny you mentioned that…I cooked up a bunch of maple bacon for my crust-free quiche yesterday and the whole house still smells like bacon! Sometimes I save the grease for biscuits and such if I’m so inclined but my husband could lose a few pounds so I’ve cut that out [much to his chagrin].
94, the beauty of a bacon bomb is that it’s haram. One of those things will keep a ‘splodydope in the torments of the grave for eternity.
Of course, and bacon and bisquick bomb would be an even yummier way to send a ‘splody to his just deserts.
Love to all the wonderful Irish. Barak Obama is ruining my joy, though. Some more for Marge -The democratic congress took two years to double Bush’s deficit and Obama took two months to double the whole darn thing. He does not want to clean up the problems. He wants to push socialism on America even further. We do not need nationalized health care, for one thing. This will not stimulate the economy regardless of what the dems tell you. Someone once said that if you think health care is expensive now, wait till it’s free. He hid an agenda in the $787 Billion “stimulus” bill. He doesn’t care that he is bankrupting the country and our children. These tiny $165 million bonuses don’t even compare to the pork that was in the stimulus. Pelosi got about $130 mil for a salt marsh beach rat. I bet she knows the owner of the property that the government will purchase with your tax money to “protect” the habitat of the beach rat. There’s so much this guy has in store for us, it is impossible to list all of his destructive policies and explain why they are destructive. You have to research yourself without falling for Obambi’s rhetoric.
#93: Marge:
you are quite right: the Bush Administration set the course: deficits, corruption, lobbyists swarming over capitol hill, the SEC and FDIC asleep wile federally insured banks played “let’s make a deal” (with taxpayer money), Madoff swindling millions.
Howling that Obama hasn’t “fixed” things in 60 days that took 12 or more years to grow is one reason the republicans lost. Many are bitter partisians just like those loons over at the Daily Kos. Their views are no better than the people who insisted that Bush should have prevented 9-11 after 8 months in office as opposed to Clinton’s 8 years. Obama is making things worse–but the people that sat by for 12 years as things worened have forfeited a lot of cred. Like Neville Chanberlain giving armaments advice.
And Chuck Pelto: AIG pays banks abroad to avoid a catastrophic international banking collapse. AIG has international obligations built up in the Bush years, and its default would trigger a disaster. Some of those banks loaned to US companies. What a BUSHwhacking.
#103Blackwell: The economy was destroyed by vote-buying democrats raping the banks by forcing them to give away welfare mortages to the indigent. The Messiah claimed in a speech that the seas would stop rising when he was elected,you’d think that with such amazing magical powers, he could do something very quickly about America’s tanking401k’s BTW: Do you know that Madoff,Geithner,Paulson, Rubin, and the other principal tumors involved in the baking debacle,are all liberal democrats.These are the very people running a president who is little better than a prompter dependent cretin. As for the idiot Bush,yes, he should shares partial guilt for 9/:he let the clintonista appeasers,and their restrictive intelligence rules alone instead of dumping them;he called it the “new tone” I call it new stupidity.
TO: Blackwell
RE: The Flow of Cash to Oveseas Banks
Show me the cash-flow data and documentation.
Otherwise, the other scenario is they’re moving the money to those banks for more nefarious reasons.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
P.S. I blame the Republicrats as much as I do the Demicans for the fiscal fiasco up to January 20, 2009. After that, I blame the latter. After all, they ARE in ‘control’ of Congress AND the White House.
I just keep on wondering…HOW was this guy elected. Then I remember…”Oh yeah, the main stream media”. It is absolutely amazing that we, The American people, have allowed this to happen. Patrica, you are so right….it was the dems that doubled the deficit and then again in just a couple of weeks… we became “Obamafied” and again now it is quadrupled. I just feel sorry for our grandchildren who will eventually be paying for this fiasco and be asking “why the heck did my grandparents allow this to happen”? the thing is, it is only 2 quick months and look at how much damage the man has done already. Imagine 4 years of this! he has an extremely aggressive agenda and is absolutely “using” the financial mess to “steam roll” all the other socialist programs in. Once they are in place we are going to find it almost impossible to undue. He knows this and is willing to be a one term president and watch our country go bankrupt as long as socialism prevails in the end.
…the SEC and FDIC asleep wile federally insured banks played “let’s make a deal” (with taxpayer money)
Financial debacles and longstanding disastrous lending practices have roots in democrat policies and committees, most specifically…
The Fannie and Freddie testimony that will make you scream
AIG has international obligations built up in the Bush years, and its default would trigger a disaster. Some of those banks loaned to US companies. What a BUSHwhacking.
And…an AIG heads up in today’s WSJ. Reportedly, that inestimable (ha) chairman of Senate banking comm., Chris Dodd, was a personal primary recipient of AIG largesse.
The Real AIG Outrage
Just trying to keep the hyperbole in bounds, Blackwell.
Anyone got a bass boat for Biden…I mean Fredo (Joking of course)? The paragraph contrasting Obama with Bush is outstanding observation (class vs trash):
Author says: “Did the purportedly fascistic Texan ogre George Bush behave like this? Did his administration go after Bill Maher, for instance? Or Maureen Dowd or Keith Olbermann? What about that guy who called Bush a tyrannical murderer at a town hall meeting? As the crowd booed, Bush implored his supporters to let the man speak and then answered the man’s grievances. Was this private citizen’s life uprooted by administration officials and media investigative research? Does he owe any taxes? Does he tip well at restaurants? Does he have an ex-wife and does she hate him?”
went to the ammo store today, and most of it was gone, i wonder where, mexico? 85 million firearms owners. we win. thats change to beleive in.
Blackwell, I do wish I had followed Bush a lot closer during his years in office but I didn’t; I didn’t have internet and had a lot going on in my life and I barely had the time to watch the MSM. I did see Fahrenheit 9/11 and it raised many questions for me about both Bush I and Bush II. What I see is that we keep electing wealthy men as President who have their own agendas and it’s up to us to keep an eye on them. I’m glad I have found PJM where I can discuss issues and learn from others. I’ve gone on very liberal websites and when I voice my opinion about Obama I get personally attacked instead of logical explanations. There are a few on here who refuse to see that Obama’s agenda is really going to harm our country if he isn’t stopped and instead of reasoning the resort to attacks. A part of me believes that they are instigators instead of conversationalist.
On that note, I’m really tired of hearing that Obama inherited the economy. He ran for office, he WON the economy. I’m also tired of hearing people say that it’s all Bush’s fault. Obama is in the White House now, the problems are his and he’s only making them worse. If anyone else would’ve won and started pulling the crap Obama is pulling I’d be just as angry. But Obama told America that he was going to screw us through his past statements and the company he keeps, yet, he was still elected.
TO: Ms. Attitude
RE: Indeed
“But Obama told America that he was going to screw us through his past statements and the company he keeps, yet, he was still elected.” — Ms. Attitude
As I said earlier, the public has been told WHAT to think as opposed to HOW to think by our ‘educators’. And now we all learn the REAL lessons of life…..
….the hard way.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Birds....Feathers.....and Flocks.....]
sorry; believe
Pravda has a two part series titled Obama the only US President to be sued. The author makes very good points that not only is the US in danger, but the entire world when the leader of the only super power is an unknown. It sounds to me as if Russia may ask a few questions about Obama’s eligibility to be POTUS.
TO: merry
RE: Another Take….
….on this would be that they (1) building their case for not cooperating with him and (2) are planning to openly oppose him as an ‘enemy of the planet’.
Both of which would put them in a better position with the rest of the world if they could make the arguments ‘stick’.
Savor the irony….
….and the cretins who voted for the One thought the world would love US.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[The world will never love us. It will respect us. Some of it will even fear us. But it will never love us. -- Teddy Roosevelt]
“and the breaking winds all whispered his name…”
Delia: “50% Finn/25% Irish/25% English?” ….and of course a bit of Norwegian Viking. And all because when the Viking longboats paid a call to Irish villages, the Irish men ran for the hills while their women ran to the beaches. And I should know, as I’m married to an Irish girl.
“There’s Jimmy “Ragin’ Cajun” Carville, Paulie “Bag-a-Doughnuts” Begala, and “Rahm-bo” Emanuel — who knows all about making people sleep with the fishes — and Biden can be Fredo, I suppose.”
Don’t forget that the Corleones had some press guys on their payroll; that’s how they take care of that no-good Capt. McCluskey. But I digress.
George “Snuffalapagus” Stephanopoulos needs to be included in this nefarious group.
114. Chuck Pelto,
“The world will never love us. It will respect us. Some of it will even fear us. But it will never love us. — Teddy Roosevelt”
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That’s something Dems can’t wrap their minds around——that we HAVE to remain a force to be reckoned with to remain the powerful country we are. Sometimes we have to do things we don’t like before our enemy does something that we REALLY won’t like. Singing “Kumbaya” and holding hands in unity is all well and good as long as the hand you’re holding doesn’t have a detonator to a full body dirty bomb.
116. Saltherring,
LOL! My Italian/German husband often calls me the crazy, blonde Viking [jokingly of course]! I call him the big, burly ogre… It evens out.
Indeed. Russia and China may end up saving America from the communist in the white house.
50. Ms. Attitude: . . . “What private citizen was harassed and had all of his personal business spewed all over the news because of the Patriot Act?”
Brandon Mayfield. Anyting else I can set you straight on?
i assumed that when Obama said we should spread the wealth, that it would be in the confines of Americans playing with our tax dollars, he meant it on a global scale. we have those campaign contributions going back out to the world from were they came. the bank loans going to Dubai and other countries, yea right, Bush borrowed the money.
C Pelto: bacon and bisquick, better save those for when we get hungry. self reliance is what is going to get us through this, and i think Americans still have plenty of it.
Who the hell is Brandon Mayfield and what happened to him?
120. Self-hating Boomer:
“Savor the irony…
Indeed. Russia and China may end up saving America from the communist in the white house.”
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Ugh! How spooky and freakishly surreal is THAT?
I feel like i walked into the USC bar with a UCLA sweatshirt on. Beer bottles, french fries coming at me…
Deguello: its a joint product going back at least to Johnson’s Vietnam deficit, Nixon’s pumping up the money supply for the ’72 elections, Reagan’s deficits, and the fed’s loosening of the money supply (M3) in 1995: they’re all guilty.
Yes the Democrats spend more on worse things; but the man on the spot for the last 8 years was Bush. I vote GOP to control spending and have “adults” decide budgets. But the adults went on holiday: the artificial housing booom, collateralized mortgage obligations based on thin air…this is all from 2000 forward.
We stopped being a nation of savers so our savings were gone. We don’t manufacture much, so that couldn’t keep the economy going. The equity in the houses was all tapped. If the market hadn’t crashed, they’d have loosened the rules so we could spend our 401K’s. Anything to keep consumers buying stuff made by foreigners so they can buy our debt. The FDIC and SEC should have stopped it. They were Bush appointees. Yes Fannie and Freddie existed before then: but probably 70% of the current market was made in the last 8 years. I don’t like admitting it; but its a fact.
Ms. Attitude: yes, O is making it worse: too bad we didn’t have a republican the voters would trust. But lets be honest: you can’t solve a trillion dollar meltdown after 8 years in 60 days. You and I know it; the voters know it. The Chinese know it. Thats why no one holds Obama responsible for current conditions. What’s bad is that Obama is going the wrong way domestically. Really wrong: but that’s what we get with a democratic congress and white house.
Its what we get with schools dumping economics for ebonics, mandatory study of useless civilizations and politicians that never are accountable anymore. Now the prodigal kids have the credit cards.
Chuck Pelto: Fair enough: i haven’t seen obligations to pay: but it makes sense that AIG would have international obligations. It is unbelievably bad that we are flaying the taxpayers to help foreign banks. Just great, huh?
Once again, I am feeling alone. Is it just me or is this outrage over the AIG $165m bonuses contrived? I did not hear the roar from the halls of congress over the crap stimulus and all the pork. The deceptive spending in the stimulus can not be called earmarks because the amounts were just way too high. The deceptive spending were huge pork packages to pay off dem operatives. One of my own- glad you could find one name out of the millions of bits of information being monitored. As you may now know, Obama has kept FISA intact. He got a clue bat that the program may be helpful in exposing terrorist attacks. He does not want to get caught with his pants down on this one. He basically affirmed that Bush was right. He will never give his perceived enemies credit where it is due, however. Have you noticed that he is more critical of his fellow citizens who do not agree with him than he is of tyrants around the world. He lives in bizarro world. Guess that crack got to his brain in addition to the communist manifesto.
125. Blackwell:
“I feel like i walked into the USC bar with a UCLA sweatshirt on. Beer bottles, french fries coming at me…”
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Oh cut it out with the victim crap. *throws one fry at you* Okay, now you’re vindicated. Pfft!
-And, you had some good points. The problem is we have corruption up to our ying yangs on BOTH sides of the isle. It’s frustrating and frightening to watch the meltdown of our country happen and not voice/yell/scream aloud.
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126. Patricia,
You are NOT alone and I feel pretty much the same as you. I’m angry at Bush for doing the “Tarp” which seemed to have a snowball effect and now Obama is taking that snowball and turning it into a third world snowball.
The Obama ‘Administration’ [I use the term loosely] is clueless, unprepared, inept and careless, selfish, self-serving, evil, vile and pathetic. The UN-American scumbag in office is a flim-flam sham and a travesty. The fact this peon Chicago thug got where he is makes me re-think everything about the veracity of “Affirmative Action”…
Pathetic.
Pay no attention to the trillions of future debt, people. LOOK at these millions being spent on bonuses!! The outrage! The mendacity! What’s that? Oh, the billions in flushed money down the crap-bank rabbit hole? Nothing to see here, move along people. Did I mention the ridiculous bonuses?
FYI, populous morons – there are many companies within AIG who are profitable and have done things right, and the value of these pieces is the only thing we taxpayers have in “collateral.” So it might be a good idea to pay these folks their contractually specified bonuses. Now, as for the clowns in their capital markets/investment portfolio area, hellllloooo Seppuku!
I have enjoyed reading the opinions expressed here – with the odd exception or three. The only thing that I wanted to add is that most people – especially Dem politicians – talk about the “eight years of dissasterous fiscal policies” under President Bush. How conveniently the politicians and liberals who parrot their elected leaders(?) forget that for the last two years of the Bush administration, the Dems were in the majority in the House and the Senate. This means that the Dems were as much to blame for two years of budgets and spending – including, or especially during the TARP fiasco.
Of course, the Dems will try to distance themselves from any of that – and, of course, their parrots will continue chanting about the Bush administration’s eight years. Keep in mind however, that McCain suspended his campaign to deal with the TARP issue because he wanted to ensure that there would be accountability. Obama, on the other hand, did not see a need for those assurances because he didn’t want to be away from his worshippers for too long, so he took the quick, easy path. Now he whines about there being no accountability, and that he “inherited” this problem from President Bush, when the reality is that his fingerprints are all over the TARP bill.
Sorry, I just had to vent about this.
#81
He doesn’t need to suspend the 2nd amendment. he’s a devious guy, with devious methods.
This was posted this weekend, and I stumbled across it yesterday. This will skyrocket ammo costs, both for private citizens and police forces. guns aren’t any good if you don’t have bullets.
http://www.theshootist.net/2009/03/dod-ends-sale-of-expended-military.html
This is all contrived. Do you realize that the goverment owns 80% of AIG. Now lets take a look at this.
If ten people own a company and those ten people hire a man named Bob Andweave
to run their company. After years of running this company, it is tanking. And eight of those company owners (80%) are in a finacial mess. In comes big O, who buys up their share. Then Big O, the majority, at the board meeting would take control of the situation. The goverment owns AIG! They are the majority.
Where is the outrage towards this president. We are giving money to a company who Mr Obama is running. He can give money to AIG. Then AIG can give that money to whomever it wants.
This president is far worse than Bush!
The Democratic party has gone BONKERS!
They are acting like a kindergarden class with 20 kids whos teacher left a big freakin box of chocolate bars on her desk and said, ” Boys and girls, I have to step out of the room for an hour. I left a candy bar for each of you on my desk. After your done your work little Barak will give you one” The only problem is, there were a trillion freakin candy bars in the box.
Later the teacher comes back to find all the kids high on surgar euphoria. They are laughing at excitment over their full bellies.
The teacher becomes enraged and asks Barak what he was thinking. Little Barak says
” Whats the big deal, you can just buy more” and then says, “look at them. They are so happy!”
AMERICA THE SUGAR HIGH IS ABOUT TO WEAR OFF!
The faux indignation about the AIG bonuses begs the question, what do you need to see to accept the fact that legislators are out of touch with reality and lacking in common sense? Come on, how hard could it have it been to say: ‘So you want to allow all bonuses set up before Feb. ‘whatever’, well how much money are we talking about here?
TO: Blackwell
RE: The Bankers
“It is unbelievably bad that we are flaying the taxpayers to help foreign banks. Just great, huh?” — Blackwell
Yeah. Great.
And people scoff at ‘conspiracy theory’. I tell you the truth. All businesses and governments ‘conspire’.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[All professions are a conspiracy against the laity. -- George Bernard Shaw]
P.S. What you want to wager that these AIG exec types ‘retire’ to Germany and/or France?
#125 Blackwell: Thanks for the reasoned response, and the historical background. I could tell you things about the schools(from personal experience), that could curl your hair!Nice post! Regards!
#125 Blackwell: Thanks for the reasoned response, and the historical background. I could tell you things about the schools(from personal experience), that could curl your hair!Nice post! Regards!
TO: Blackwell
RE: It’s All Part of the….
“What’s bad is that Obama is going the wrong way domestically. Really wrong: but that’s what we get with a democratic congress and white house.” — Blackwell
….Plan. If you ask me. And the plan is coming together rather quickly and well.
If you are paying attention, you’ll see indicators showing up all over the place.
• Weaken the military: reduce funding, manpower, force veterans to pay for their war-wound treatment
• Weaken the middle class: what’s this I hear about eliminating Farmers’ Markets?
• Weaken the ability of people to resist: US Military will no longer sell expended brass to munitions manufacturers
• Weaken the voice of critics: Can you say “Attack Rush Limbaugh, et al.”?
• Create a national debt that causes many more people to rely on the government for their source of revenue.
As I stated somewhere around here, Obama has only two years in which he has free-rein to put his plan into effect. After that, there’s an election that could well turn the Congress to Republican majority. So he has to work fast and furiously.
These indicators keep cropping up. Almost on a daily basis now. And each one is another piece of the puzzle of what is being built.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Pay attention. You just might learn something. Something important.....]
TO: Blackwell, et al.
RE: Ahem….As I Was Saying (Above)
Todays ‘indicator’ IS….
ACORN to Play Role in 2010 Census.
• Cooking the ‘books’ so that the Obama-nuts can retain control by lying about how many Democrats there are across the country.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
P.S. I wonder if Obama got this idea from Chavez or from Hussein.
#72 Patricia, that is as smart as they get. Too bad so many voters are no better.
Since the government (in the form of chuck-you Schumer) is threatening AIG that all bonuses will be 100% taxable, I sure hope this crowd of recipients of AIG largesse (including Schumer and the President) will give back those contributions.
(Corleone would be hugely embarrassed by such obvious shenanigans. Beneath The Mob, even)
Of all the companies making headlines this week, AIG has been the most nonpartisan in its contributions, splitting evenly the $9.7 million it has contributed over time. Sen. Chris Dodd, chair of the Senate banking committee, has racked up the most from AIG, with a total of $281,400, while Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), a member of both the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee and the Senate Finance Committee, takes second with $116,400. Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama collected $103,000 and $82,600 from AIG, respectively.
AIG: Government Bails Out a Heavy Hitter
Its all so simple people. Facts are that Obama/Geithner knew about bonus money, even set it up long ago as part of the Cloward-Piven, Alinsky rules for radical strategy. Last week they “isolated” Limbaugh, this week they “isolated” execs at AIG. To destroy capitalism requires you hate capitalists.
Obama should put a hitman on anybody that disagrees with him. Hey, we gotta clean up this town. Too many Republican assholes running around like loose cannons, making negative comments about “the man”. Now we can’t have that can we?
TO: All
RE: Another Indicator….
….here.
Based on my experience with Military Assistance to Civil Authorities…..
….this looks like a violation of Posse Commitatus.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
P.S. You can’t make this stuff up…..
142. Chuck Pelto,
You CAN’T make that stuff up.
Ugh.
*gulp*
TO: JackT
RE: Aaaaahhhhh….
….you’re just trying to cheer me up.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
P.S. Lord knows I’m tired of stationary targets at the pistol range.
[You haven't lived until you've almost died.]