Why Is Obama so Nasty and Vulgar?
It’s a continuation of a process that began with the first debate, in which Obama tip-toed out from behind the curtain on the central stage of Oz, and showed us who he really is. Not a great leader, certainly not a messianic figure. Indeed, as we now see, he’s a bum. It’s a shock to lots of Americans, who previously were willing to grant that the president had his faults but was basically a good man, a nice guy, and a cultured gentleman. He showed them he was none of those things.
I think that was a real shock to a meaningful chunk of the electorate, and it would not have been nearly so potent if it had come from a book or an oped. Its power comes from the fact that Obama showed it himself.
It shouldn’t have been hard to foresee the consequences of his self-revelation. So why did he do it? He’s certainly capable of dissimulation. The One who won the presidency four years ago did not present himself this way. He and his acolytes very carefully portrayed him as a transcendent figure, a new kind of leader, the incarnation of elegance and brilliance. And that succeeded. So what’s up?
I think he’s cracking, and the inner nastiness and vulgarity are on display. He’s losing, and he’s angry, and he can no longer sustain the pretense of elegance and coolness.
Nobody ever said he was disciplined, did they?
Moreover, he is the victim of his own myth, the “I have a special gift” legend that is the core doctrine of his powerful narcissism. He thinks he is so charismatic, and so wonderful, that if we see him in all his splendor, we will love him as he so loves himself.
I think that’s false, and I think the shifts in the polls–people suddenly like Romney, people suddenly turning away from Obama–demonstrate that. We’ll see for sure on the 6th of November.
Almost everything about Obama can be explained by him being a Chicago Machine politician.
Not quite. Many of those are mature. One can have a big ego without being clinically narcissistic.
Barack’s character goes back to his dreams ABOUT his father. (And a lot more in the same vein.)
So who is his REAL father, the State Department designated undesirable mooching womanizing alien a bigamous, alcoholic absentee part Black part ARAB Kenyan British Citizen Obama Snr or maybe the Bisexual, Communist , Pornographer Frank Marshall Davis or maybe the Black Racist Malcolm X . Quite a choice and all of them highly undesirable. But indicative of the sort of people his UNDERAGE, to bestow HER American citizenship on him, BBC loving mother and his Communist Grandparents associated with.
Where was Obama born?In Kenya like he said or in Hawaii as the little clique cohort,coterie says.Who is lying here?The organ grinder or the monkeys?May be the guy has got a split personnality,which would explain it as well as a lots of other things!
Where was Obama Born?
My money is on Hawaii, but with a catch….
His floozy mom blazed in from out of the country, shit him out on the Grandparents, and immediately (within 2 weeks?) spit to Seattle for some graduate courses…
She was such a nut-bar lefty skank, I’m sure he was an ‘Inconvenience” and an “emergency” SHE JUST COULD NOT DEAL WITH (and would have been aborted if it was after Roe?) so we have an emergency delivery, no Father present, no attending physician noted, spotty records, no SSN, that kind of stuff….
It was such a half-assed affair it was poorly documented, probably AFTER the fact, by his grandparents AFTER his mom left Hawaii.
Then later in his High School / College days, it becomes clear that a simple admin tweak on his already weak Provenance of Birth could make him a “non-citizen” in order to exploit some Foreign Exchange/Affirmative Action type programs and get him into places his GRADES would not otherwise allow.
But its is the LATER NECESSITY TO HIDE THAT PORTION OF HIS HISTORY AND OFFICIALLY RE-ESTABLISH HIS CITIZENSHIP that is the REAL scandal.
I think THAT scandal…his “back and forth” citizenship claims as a young man to play the system is what he’s hiding. It is in some ways an even larger “personal” liability than just being born in Kenya.
Because, Political Eligibility aside, one could possible sympathize with a newborn child having no control over their place of birth. But news that this cynical young man DENIED his US birth in order to manipulate Financial Aid and College Entrance quota’s as a “Two-fer” or even a “Three-fer” …Foreign, Black and Muslim, would be more difficult to forgive.
And THATS why his college records are so tightly sealed, because an inquisitive digger might find evidence of his “back and forth” birth pace claims
Believe me, he and I are about the same age: Quite a bit of “records and documentation” in the pre-computer age could be manipulated with an erasure and a typewriter. One form filled out and filed “here” never checked against another filed “there”. We changed the D.O.B.s on our paper, non-laminated Drivers licenses BY HAND in order to drink under age. There was no back-up data available to anyone to compare the document to… the physical document in your wallet WAS the record, and if it “looked good”, you were golden. It wasn’t till nearly a decade later when “renewing” your license that things got “databased” cross referenced and electronically “carved in stone”.
So I believe at some point, after supplying written forms and doctored paperwork to say what they “needed” to say to be “foreign”, he eventually had to “straighten out” those records and “re-confirm” his citizenship as they went electronic and his Political Aspiration grew….
And THAT’S where the scandal is.
That “phoney birth certificate” circus played right into his hands, and I’m sure some in the Media were knowingly cooperative in the distraction….Go ahead, bark up THAT tree…we’ll feign some resistance to make it appetizing, keep the Baggers interested, drag it out forever and make them look foolish….
Because the real scandal isn’t that he WASNT born here… He was…
The scandal is, he DENIED his US birth later to play the system, and THAT’S why all his records of that period are sealed….
I’m betting Obama doesn’t actually know. After all, it’s not like anyone remembers his own birth; we only have documents or what other people tell us to go on, and if those people don’t agree, who do we believe.
Root 83, That is exactly what I suspect.
“Communist , Pornographer Frank Marshall Davis” You got it!
The writer calling Obama a Bum is to gentle. He is and has always been a charlatan, but even that is to easy on this Charade that has been our President for 3+ years. He is a deplorable caricature of a decent and honest man.
Not quite.
Better explanation: a Chicago machine politician who was a b-tchy law school faculty member.
I was the accountant for a couple of Chicago Machine politicians. They were always polite and would never use bad language in a professional situation or with a lady present. Now if you left a $20 bill on the table and turned your back it probably would have vanished but they were not cruel or narcissistic. I don’t think either of them would have liked Obama.
“I don’t think either of them would have liked Obama”
Oh, they would have “liked” Obama if they saw him as a useful idiot to use for their own ends.
Which is one of the reasons I used to dissauge some of the smarter youngsters I know in 2008 to not embarass themselves by voting for Obama. Boy are they thanking me now.
I told them look Obama comes fron the Chicago political machine and its corrupt environment of straight down payola political dogma. I asked them to think rationally if they really believed that those old-time corrupt-o-crats would promote Obama because of his asinine “hope\change, going to lower the seas” spiel nonsense or something else? So why they would push Obama?
Because he was a good go-along\to-get-along TOADY for the machine who would get the swag and pass it to the “proper” cronies as he had done his entire career. They think I am “brilliant” for soothsaying the easily seeable, Obama raiding of the Treasury to pass along to all his Stimilus\Green Energy cronies and Rezkos.
It amazes me just what did people think the Chicago TOADY was going to do?
@ NC, A good point; Explaining Obama as merely the product of the Chicago Machine is superficial/naive at best; he is much worse than that; he is a pathological narcissist with a strong Islamic Bent. I am convinced that he is evil, and I don’t mean evil in the sense that all men are; I mean evil in the sense that perhaps I cannot describe in this venue. Was it not Saul Alinsky that praised Satan? Isn’t Obama a devoted Alinskyite?
No, sorry. I’ve known some Chicago (and downstate Illinois) machine types. I’ve even had the chance to observe some of the Outfit-connected crowd. I won’t say they were upstanding citizens, but they were decent guys in their own way. They had rules they had to live by.
Obama is a red-diaper baby, and does not, cannot admit that there are any rules that bind him–so long as he is true to the faith of his father.
And that will be his downfall, whether it comes on November 6, 2012, or at some later day.
RIGHT ANSWER!
Neil, not only is he a red-diaper baby(mostly via ‘Uncle Frank’s tutelage), but he is a radical green baby, an Islamic supremacist. The combination of the two is not only explosive, but mandates that he win at ALL costs.
It is entirely the case, since radicals people travel in like-minded packs – and the Radical/Islamist-in-Chief is the leader of the most vile pack of surrogates – that he is starting to let loose the dogs, so to speak.
Radical revolutionaries-regardless of their ideological stripes are the same – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/10/07/when-authentic-revolutionaries-hold-the-reins-of-american-power-centers-via-the-most-radical-regime-in-u-s-history-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
Revolutionaries are not only extreme in their methods, but they are bereft of a moral compass. And it is this out-sized loss of control which is on full display, now that they are terrified of losing their grip on power.
I am shocked that they haven’t gone farther, and they may yet do so. In a big way too.
…head on.
There is no doubt in my mind that Obama is clinically narcissistic. Narcissists often rise to positions of power, usually in religious cults. (Manson, Jones, and Koresh). Sometimes they rise to political power, (Nero, Hitler, Obama) and when they lose that power, they become a danger to themselves and others. Nero and Hitler committed suicide, it wouldn’t surprise me if Obama does the same when he loses the election.
I’ll pile on with others here that worked with Chicago Machine types. The president is an odd combination of both a Machine politician, a leftist ideologue. Which makes him a distasteful mix of cynical crony, and arrogant incompetent.
Most Chicago Machine politicians, a la Bill Clinton, know which way the wind blows and as a result make some good political decisions. Barack Obama is a beneficiary of Machine largesse, but never learned to take the pulse of his constituents–the American people–because he despises us.
*d’oh, ‘AND’ leftist ideologue.
His biggest issue is that there was never anyone around to knock him down a peg when he needed it. He just kept getting wafted higher and higher, beyond his true capability, until he started believing the hype. It’s a rhetorical question and one that most of us were asking four years ago, but what accomplishment(s) from Obama’s past suggested fitness for the office of the Presidency? That he went to Harvard? A lot of people have gone to Harvard. The fact is, he worked within a far-left fraction of the Chicago Democratic Machine to lift himself, however improbably, to the national spotlight. And the compliant media were incapable or, more likely, unwilling to vet him.
You just describe a balloon full of hot air which, when it reaches a certain, expands and explodes. One wonders: What the hell is this guy going to do post-President? What fools would pay the big bucks to hear him speak? And speak about just what, pray tell? Will his “library” contain all the stuff he promised to be transparent? Will it be in Hawaii? Or will it be in Chicago? This guy has more question marks than The Riddler’s body suit.
Oops. Make that “certain altitude”.
You white people wouldn’t understand, it’s in the genes to be vulgar and nasty. Listened to rap lately?
Given the number of black people I know / have known who consider rap to be Gawdawful, your argument for genetic determinism fails.
David, nice name, how should I know you were black? So am I white or black or Asian? That was a strange racist thing to say about black people. What is your point or are you white and saying nonsensical things to shake people up. Why do we have to be defined by skin color?
Either you’re trolling or you’re ignorant. Or possibly both.
You need to meet a lot of the black guys I’ve soldiered with. They don’t approve of this guy and they don’t approve of the lyrics you allude to. They’re men.
And men don’t tolerate that kind of thing, regardless of skin color or party.
JS,
Have had the 10 year pleasure of the friendship of a former Annapolis teammate of David Robinson (NBA Hall of Fame). This infantry officer fills a doorway when he stands in it and remains one of the unparallelled Christian gentlemen. It was more than 9 years into our friendship that this selfless husband, father and American patriot expressed his disdain for Barack Obama. Am sure it came to him with some discomfort as I know his basic optimism and cheer. Barack Obama will never know the harm he’s done to a fellow American.
I would say more a cross between the Chicago machine pol and Karl Marx, a toxic combo.
This goes back a long way, Jeremy. Chicago is historically known for its corrupt politicians. One day the truth will finally come out; and hopefully before unrepairable damage occurs.
Obama is a south side gutter black.
What do you expect from a comm. org. who’s only job in his life was hanging out with low life low rent ghetto scum .
Why is he vulgar and nasty, is very easily explained, as a comm. org. you hang out with low life low rent ghetto scum garbage, who no question use the lowest of low lingo know to man. The apple NEVER falls far from the tree
I don’t want to know what’s actually said, but I’d like to be a decibel meter-type fly-on-the-wall in the WH Residence at night right about now.
I have a hunch it gets kind of loud up there.
I feel for his daughters. They didn’t ask for this.
So this is the ultimate results of that grand experiment called Affirmative
Action?
Never again.
Ever!
JIm Whittaker
Hemet, CA
And to think, if he had only taken his debate prep seriously he could be cruising to re-election right now.
I doubt it.
I doubt it, more people see through him, some of us saw through him from the beginning.
I saw through from the start even before while he was a Senator and obeyed as a good party hack,to the machine.They groomed the right guy for the job.A mediocre,but an excellent charlatan that can be manipulated at will.
He took debate prep more seriously than embassy security.
only so much you can prepare when all you have are lies and obfuscations to cover your failed record
Yep TMG if only the Affirmative Action Teleprompter Kid was not so arrogant, so narcissistic, so incompetent, so lazy and so inefficient hey.
Obama has demonstrated remarkable skills and eloquence in at least one area. His 4-year audition proves that he is ready for his own late-night TV show.
I think it could be plausibly argued that Obama prefers to be a celebrity rather than the leader of the free world, accompanied by pressures & decisions that must be made. Akin to a stage actor after a bring-down-the-house performance, his goal is to be idolized, adored & cheered, with flowers thrown at his feet. He craves & basks in the adulation & attention that comes with campaigning, but abhors the day-to-day decision-making process that comes with governing. Hence, the excessive “present” IL Senate votes. Two exceptions: 1. he loves moving the U.S. to weakened positions of security & strength, and 2. he loves taking us farther to the left on energy, the environment, health care, et al.
There is strong support for your position in Obama’s record. It is simply a fact that our oil production is now higher than it has been in 17 years, and that the most-wanted man responsible for the deadliest attack in American history is now dead.
There is nothing that screams “weakness” and “anti-energy” more than that!
Factually correct, and both those things have come about in spite of der Leader’s every effort. That increase in oil production is on private land. Drilling in public lands and off coast fields have been cut more than in half. And the way I heard it Mr. Obama and his right hand babe Valerie J. stalled the Bin Laden raid for months before finally and reluctantly giving the go ahead, and then from all appearances only as a political stunt to garner credit from the public.
I hear ya. And the point you bring up is really the crux of this election. Are people going to vote on the results of the past 4 years? Or are they going to vote on rumor and innuendo?
That fate of our country is in the balance.
All the Stats are being manipulated by a corrupt Regime . Unemployment ,the sudden discovery of 500,000 workers no one ever heard of , Oil production UP on private property IN SPITE of the Govt and dramatically DOWN on Govt property, the GDP suddenly looking better but on closer scrutiny ALL due to huge increases of Government spending of Taxpayers and BORROWED money.
There’s LIES , there’s D*MN lies and then there’s Govt STATISTICS.
You are definitely underscoring the big question. Will the vote be based on the record of the past four years? Or will it be based on lies, innuendo and conspiracy theories?
You are of course referring to the USURPER and his Regimes slander, lies , innuendos and conspiracy theory claims against anyone even just asking questions about the USURPERS carefully document HIDDEN life history I presume. After all they are the only ones trying to win an election without mentioning their record and instead trying to destroy the reputation of the challenger.
You better hope it isn’t based on the former, General, or you might have to find another sugar daddy.
As odd as it may be, it seems that rumor and innuendo might be more accurate than facts on the ground. As “The Won” has said, there is more oil and gas production today than in a long while. But that surely is due to the loosening of regulation under Geo, W Bush. As most environmentalists will tell you, including “The Won”, it takes five or so years before discovery is turned into production. Right on schedule, no? As to the economy, given that the GDP growth rate is always compared to the previous year, doesn’t 2% annual growth indicate that we’re standing still if not moving backwards. After all, these 5 trillion in new debt, represents about a 30% deeper hole than four years ago. One really can’t call this progress.
You make a great point, that when measuring progress we have to compare where we are today to where we were before. GDP is a good place to do so, when Obama came into office our GDP was shrinking at a rate of -8.9% per year, the sharpest contraction since the Great Depression. Today it’s growing at +2.0% per year in real terms (after accounting for inflation).
Context is key, don’t let the media feed you numbers without context!
http://www.bea.gov/iTable/index_nipa.cfm (Table 1.1.1)
You mean the GDP which is only showing SLIGHT growth because of the USURPERS Govt spending of Taxpayers and BORROWED money and which has been the SLOWEST and most ANAEMIC recovery in recorded history.
Is that what you want to brag about General Tso?
Sorry General Tso, but that anemic 2.0% GDP growth figure from last quarter was even more anemic than Dems will admit: only 2/3 of it is private sector growth. 1/3 is from the administration’s ramped-up spending on military weapons and materiel procurement in the last quarter. Given this president’s attitude towards military spending, this is (a) suspiciously calculated to influence a key economic statistic before the election; (b) not likely to be repeated if Obama wins; and (c) even at 2.0% (versus 1.36%), it’s an abysmal performance directly attributable to Obama’s policies. General Tso, while you were the inventor of a delicious chicken dish and the scourge of China’s Muslims, your political acumen leaves much to be desired. The question is, where would we be today if we hadn’t elected a socialist president?
GT, I’m sorry. Did I forget to mention our Dear Leader has appeared on more powder-puff talk shows (The View, Letterman, Leno, Stewart) while President than any of his predecessors COMBINED . . . oh, did I also forget to mention he hasn’t held a press conference in months . . . I also forgot he’s played plenty of golf. . . and I also forgot to mention that the sequestration defense cuts (that he signed into law) scheduled to take effect will decimate military funding.
Yeah, perhaps you’re right Gt, he’s a responsible, caring leader and celebrity status without the burden of governing is not his goal. I have an idea though. Since he’s worked so, so very hard on our behalf, he really deserves a break, so let’s give him early retirement so he can play all the golf he wants!
Begone, stupid troll.
Those thkngs were done in spite of him.
Y’know, sooner or later the scan is DONE!
I know cons NEVER admit the con. Bernie Madoff still thinks his dog stole all that money.
I will be so happy when Soros stops paying all you idiots.
General Tso.
Another lying troll.
General Tso, glad to see you grasped the Dem convention slogans so well. Now see if you can go to the next level and understand why they are complete BS. Our energy policies and results are ridiculous and horrible. Al Qaeda is stronger than ever. The General Motors bailout was an end run to stick taxpayers with the bill for excessive union benefits and misguided green policies. Nothing good that Obama claims survives even the first level of scrutiny.
Wow, 4 years totally screwing up everything he touches and YOU applaud HIM for 2 things, which, by the way HE was NOT responsible for!! I guess you just read the headline and not the content of the “magnificent” (DUH) accomplishments of YOUR HERO OB. Are you even aware that the growth in oil production is land controlled by the individual states, In fact, Obama has denied most oil exploration on FEDERAL LANDS!! The rest of the “increase in oil production came under (OMG) George Bush !!!! Also, I don’t believe OB actually shot BIN LADEN in the head, Wasn’t it Seal Team 6. In fact, check it out, OB had to be called in from a game of golf to see what they were doing the day Bin Laden was killed!!!
Why is Obama so nasty and vulgar? WHY?
THAT’S WHO HE IS!
Hammer? Meet nail. On the head.
Exactly! While the article was well-written and a good read…it was way too long.
It could’ve been written in a single line: “Because it’s his nature.“
Alinsky’s son said this about Obama:
“Barack Obama’s training in Chicago by the great community organizers is showing its effectiveness. It is an amazingly powerful format, and the method of my late father always works to get the message out and get the supporters on board. When executed meticulously and thoughtfully, it is a powerful strategy for initiating change and making it really happen. Obama learned his lesson well.”
If communists are vulgare it definitely serves a purpose.
from potterwilliams.comhttp://potterwilliamsreport.com/2012/10/27/obama-regime-channels-totalitarians-alinsky-in-benghazi-moment.aspx
“This in-your-face strategy is classic Alinsky. In Reveille for Radicals Alinsky proposes the use of vulgarity as a tool to “shock” the enemy out of another “ride around the rhetorical ranch.” Or a ride around the Benghazi consulate or Peck Canyon, Arizona, the site of Border Agent Brian Terry’s murder.
Alinsky: On a lower level, actual verbal profanity becomes an effective tactic to defeating the sacred cow.
“Irreverence” is never gratuitous, says Alinsky, the radical must use it for specific ends. While others might see Obama’s attack word as classic Freudian projection, the real point is something quite different. Even in the absence of a mainstream media (there is no MSM anymore, only WH employees) word of a President who allows Americans and Mexican citizens to die and then covers it up still gets out. Always on the lookout for some poison pills, Team Obama led by Chicago communist David Axelrod, consults the playbook.
Obama’s crude “losing voter virginity ad” is vile considering it came from someone who thought it would be fun to dress up with her friends as a pair of killers who raped and murdered the wife’s sister. Just google “dunham and bernardo” for the disgusting details.
Look at the real pictures of the gal they used for the model: street meat for sure, tats and all.
Idiocracy was a documentary.
“He’s losing, and he’s angry, and he can no longer sustain the pretense of elegance and coolness.”
Of course Oblahblah’s angry: He was told by his handlers/puppet masters that they’d cover everything for him and that all he had to do was show up (occasionally) and look presidential and they’d have it in the bag for him.
I guess he figures they’ve lied and now the spotlight’s on him with his pants down. Where’s his cover? How come his handlers/puppet masters didn’t prevent this? He’s been exposed for all the world to see as the first-class liar, scumbag, and scam artist he’s always been; the curtain’s been pulled back — how come, he’s wondering; how did this happen? — and the Emperor is shown in all of his naked squalor.
This wasn’t supposed to happen. The charade was supposed to continue — and be airtight. Now that it hasn’t and isn’t, Obama has no place to run, no place to hide. The gig’s up.
Of course he’s angry.
“They” used to say that Ronald Reagan was a puppet. I think most admit now that it was incorrect.
But President Teleprompter actually IS a puppet. Who ever said he was smart?
“Whoever said he was smart?”
Someone who wasn’t.
The Emperor hath no clothes AND the clothes have no Emperor
The Affirmative Action Teleprompter Kid ‘USURPER’ is an ‘empty suit’ in an ‘empty chair’
The BS comment was for his base, who’s language skills for the most part are what we see on TV shows like cops.
The TV ad came from the same place as his latest slogan, Forward. Russian communists. Forward was from Stalin and the ad is based on one developed for Putin in his last election.
Remember, he is an accidental president. Everybody knew Hillary would get the nomination last time. He got in the race solely to get name-recognition so he could run for president in 2016. Then the media decided it would be ‘really cool’ to get a black man elected and the rest is sad history. The election was handed to him by an adoring media with an agenda. He didn’t have to put much effort into it, and he certainly hasn’t put much effort into the job.
Now, for the first time in his life, he is being required to put forth effort and earn the approval of the American electorate. That makes him very angry.
I have a hunch the most talented of his handlers from 2008 could see the handwriting on the wall several years ago and began quietly removing themselves from the scene. Consider, for example, Rahm Emanuel as just one example. With no one to protect him from his foolishness, Obama goes from one mistake to the next.
If he does squeak though to re-election the second term will see a truly mind-boggling series of self-inflicted disasters as even politicians nominally on his side routinely disrespect and disregard him…
Romer and Goolsby and a third ‘financial adviser’ left the administration in order to ‘spend more time with their families’ some time ago. I think it was right after it became apparent that the “Stimulus” and “Shovel Ready” projects were nothing but shoveling cash to Democrat supporters and unions. It became apparent that the unemployment numbers would not cooperate with the advisers, so they left to keep their reputations intact. Duh.
tom
The polls showed a slide in Obama’s approval rating right about the time that 1) the results from last debate would show up and 2) the Benghazi story began to really unravel.
What. a. big. surprise.
Wisdom can be dearly acquired. In this particular case it cost us 4 years of time, trillions of pointless debt, severe loss of respect on the global scene, countless wasted opportunities, hours of dividing rhetoric, and the destruction of a whole lot of good will at home. On Nov 6, we get to find if the lesson was learned, and how well.
It’s a sad fact that we have to let a Democrat into the White House every so often, to remind everyone why the Republicans are the LESSER evil.
I can’t get the images of Navy Seals Woods and Doherty on the annex roof, waiting for the gun ship, or fighter-bomber, or Blackhawk filled with Delta Force that never came. Seven hours and help only two hours away. As Woods and Doherty and the others waited, in vain, what was Obama doing? What was he thinking? Were the Americans under attack in Benghazi his primary concern? They would have been for you and me.
And what about the VP and Defense and State and CIA? And how about the Joint Chiefs of Staff? Was nobody demanding that help be sent post haste to save our brave men?
Panetta says he couldn’t commit forces when the situation was unclear??? Video and voice communications were clear. Air support should have been overhead long before the mortar fire killed Woods and Doherty. This administration and the silent leaders at DOD, CIA, State, including the regional commanders, make me sick to my stomach.
A once proud Inf. Vet.
“As Woods and Doherty and the others waited, in vain, what was Obama doing? What was he thinking?”
Obama was standing in his pajamas in front of his bathroom mirror, brushing his teeth before going to bed, thinking, “I’m LeBron, baby. I am going to really shake down some fat cats in Las Vegas tomorrow.”
Don, also as a proud veteran infantryman, my rage includes what horrors and despair were the thoughts in their minds while laying on that goddamned roof taking hit after hit from mortar rounds. Getting weaker from loss of blood, doing what first aid they could on their own. As spec ops veterans, knowing their comms had been acknowledged, knowing what resources were in the area, knowing that help would come if they could just hang on a little longer, my God…when they realized help was not coming, but not because it couldn’t come, never guessing in their wildest dreams that they would call for help, and the answer would come back – “no”. It literally both breaks my damn heart and fully and completely enrages me.
I will never forgive the bastards that let this happen. Ever. God help THEM if I ever get a chance to put my hands on them.
Unfortunately “the bastards that let this happen” or at least enabled with their vote the entire Obama travesty are likely your neighbors. You know, the ones with the Obama/Biden signs that remain in their front yard. They have heard the same news as you about the tragedy in Libya and the pathetic and near-treasonous performance of their president and his cronies. And do they give a damn? No. What do we do about the voting morons among us? When did they lose their patriotic love for America? When did they quit being real Americans? That’s the bigger issue.
Nah; if they watch the alphabet networks they hear crickets. My disgust is now fully focused on them; they have information we don’t have, and choose to be press agent lackeys.
Sorry, but the electorate who voted in this unvetted, vapid, narcissistic POS, the electorate who believed hope was a plan and change was a strategy, who are so lazy that they can’t learn basic civics and so smugly self-absorbed that they can’t think of the other side of the political aisle in anything but the most juvenile terms, the electorate who STILL does not bother to do a cursory Google search about Benghazi because they “listen to NPR” and “watch the REAL news” ARE more to blame, IMO, than the corrupt officials in whom they put their faith.
As a Czech newspaper so eloquently put it: “The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their President.”
The gent that explains it well is Evan Sayet – google him and find his Heritage Foundation speech from 2007. It’s about refusing to think (make value judgments) and refusing to take responsibility.
15. Don O’Brien and BarocheDique – you have voiced my thoughts and the horror in my heart and mind for those two men, and who knows what thoughts went through the Ambassador’s mind in his last hours… Hurts my soul.
First let me thank you for your service. You have one of the best handles on this site! Your handle is the besst since RichardCranium!!
Here in this sober discussion my anger at this “administration” fails to abate but when I run across someone like you, a former infantryman, displaying the classic military humor causing me to laugh in the middle of this thread is invigorating.
Thank you and bless you,
m
You’re absolutely correct in your description. The tragedy beyond the tragedy of abandoning two guys who were fighting to their deaths is that this information is known to only a few people. Someone in the media–no, many in the media–get this story out. But a further worry is that there is a constituency out there who will refuse to see this abandonment of brave fighting men as anything bad. They are so hooked on Obama that they would vote for him if he had shot those two men himself. Do the Obama-zombies constitute a critical mass? This is what worries me.
Former 11Bravo 1968-71
I’ll tell ya what he was doing… he was sitting in his private study jerking off.
Just as the jerk-off he is.
Don Obrien
Had off and on experience calling in fire missions in I Corps, VN c 67-68, at least enough experience to understand what Tyrone Woods was attempting to do on the Annex roof the night he gave his life. Painting a target on opposing mortarmen lights up the target (and Tyrone Woods) for air assets already positioned to put ordinance on the painted target. The drone or gunship or jet aircraft that would have responded to Tyrone Woods targeting information was shortcircuited. Tyrone Woods was far better trained than a lowly Marine corporal in VN 45 years ago so the late SEAL would never have lit up the enemy mortarmen AND himself if the assets weren’t in place to act on his action. Someone pulled the plug in the middle of the final reel.
When a narcissist’s brilliantly puffed up souffle collapses, it really is a sad and pathetic drama filled event. No doubt it is very noisy at the Obama household. I suspect even presidents can be relegated to sleeping on the couch. But, Michelle cannot not have known her husband’s true nature.
The biggest come-down will be the dejected cadre of true believers who were induced to lift up Obama onto the foamy crested electoral wave of four years ago. Those disciples will rage and rage. We will be in for a rough several weeks between Romney’s landslide and Romney’s inauguration.
Our country’s burden, apart from clearing the rubble and building anew, will be enduring Obama’s ongoing rage. He will not go quietly into retirement. He will not respect the traditional convention of past presidents’ reticence. The question will be whether the mainstream media will rally behind the defeated and disgraced ex-light-worker. Or, will they abandon their messiah.
One wonders what kind of psychological skid row Obama will inhabit in his retirement. Can you imagine Obama’s reaction to his psychiatrist when at fifty-five minutes past the hour, the doctor cuts him off and says, “Our time today is up. Would you like to schedule another appointment for the same time next week?”
I have never met a narcissist who thinks they need professional help.
I absolutely agree with you the transition period will be a nightmare not only for Romney’s people but for Obama’s staff. Narcissists are always the most vicious to those they believe owe them complete and selfless loyalty.
I’ve had personal experience with three and agree; their specialness is entitled, whatever the cost to others. One’s girlfriend told me, in tears, that all he talks about is himself. His respone was what’s so special about her life?
The truly wicked aspect is the ease with which a connection to a conscience can be severed, and charm serves only personal ends.
“Our country’s burden, apart from clearing the rubble and building anew, will be enduring Obama’s ongoing rage. He will not go quietly into retirement. He will not respect the traditional convention of past presidents’ reticence.”
Retired Republican presidents retire go quietly into retirement. Witness Reagan and the Bushes. Retired Democrat presidents just keep yapping, at least that has been the case of Carter and Clinton.
Those are somewhat special circumstances, however. Reagan, while a great President, was entering Alzheimers in the years after his presidency. And nobody, most of all his party, wants to hear from Bush ever again.
Carter maybe should be in that group. But if Clinton was eligible to run again, he would wipe the floor with both of these guys with the voters.
Yeah…maybe punditry isn’t your thing. Your first mistake is using a sweeping generalization about Bush. Don’t presume to speak for everyone.
Your next mistake was a variable of the first in assuming that everyone loves Clinton and he would ride to our rescue in front of throngs of an adoring electorate if only it weren’t for that dangnabbit Constitution. He was disgraced, impeached and disbarred for a reason. He was a sleazeball who would very likely suffered horrific approval under under the bright lights of todays New Media.
It ain’t the 90′s anymore, and Billy Jeff isn’t getting better with age.
Sorry: “very likely suffered horrific approval”
should read “very likely suffer horrific approval ratings”
I would never presume to speak for everyone. I definitely do not speak for you.
But I do sometimes presume to speak for the “averageone”. And my statements about the average American were 100% true. Bush is roundly rejected by the average American and Clinton is quite frankly adored (66% favorability!!).
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77150.html
Well said!
There’s no way Blow Job Billy would get elected today.
“I do sometimes presume to speak for the ‘averageone’.”
You don’t speak for me, or any conservative I have ever met, you arrogant blowhard. That lying sack of Arkansas trailer trash sealed his fate with me years ago. I like Dennis Miller’s term: low rent grifter.
“…But if Clinton was eligible to run again, he would wipe the floor with both of these guys with the voters.”
Nah, more likely he’d bite their lips after promising only to bite his own.
A thought such as this and subsequent ‘voter booth’ action is exactly what put
the Nation in this mess to start.
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I wouldn’t include the military in your sweeping generalization. For sheer decency, many people still think highly of our former president, GW Bush. You can include me in that group.
I am old enough that I was also thinking of Eisenhower, Truman, Hoover, and Nixon. But, your point is well taken.
“When male Republican candidates make disgusting and ridiculous statements about rape, the faithful turn on them, properly so IMHO”.
While I agree what was said by these Senators were insensative at best and in Akins’ remark quite ignorant, I don’t think they were purposely stated to be nasty or insulting. They really are not equivilant to the more base aspects of the Democrat campaign–from lies, to suggestions of murder, to demonization, and finally to degradation of the opponent.
Those remarks were never uttered in that vain.
I thing there is a lot of truth in the remainer of Mr. Ledeen’s posting.
The leftist media set this little snare as often as possible, and once a conservative stumbles upon an inarticulately worded answer, they all ponce. We need to defuse this tactic as we did the nonsense that Gloria Allred tried.
It is not just Odummy, but the whole progressive left is cracking up. Bobblehead is just the window dressing. The left has been exposed and they are going after America tooth and nail. Their ugliness has been on display for three years but now it has been ratched up because of a sycophantic LSM. And it will get worse. They know we will never fight back.
Drudge has a couple items of just how bad they becoming and portent a worse future.
At some point we must consider breaking up America. Again we cannot live with the left together here in America. The left will never cease in their destruction of America. Electing Mitt will not stop them, and in fact, will cause them to get angier, nastier and more destructive.
Be careful what you wish for. In a crack-up, all of the donor states would end up in “Blue America” while “Red America” would take most of the welfare cases. There would necessarily be a precipitous decline in the standard-of-living across “Red America”.
http://taxfoundation.org/blog/why-do-some-states-feast-federal-spending-not-others
The solution to that would have to be that directly after the split there would need to be a period of some months, or years, during which people could choose which America to live in. All the people wanting free healthcare and other handouts would flock to California and new england, anybody with substantial wealth and income would flee to Texas. Even if this free exchange was not allowed to happen, the blue states would eventually need to put up a Berlin wall as anybody productive began to flee their 70%+ tax rates. Besides, the red states would encompass the vast majority of the farm land, oil, and other natural resources.
The biggest long term challenge the red states would face would not be poverty, but rather the slow grinding infiltration by the left that America as a whole as suffered.
“directly after the split there would need to be a period of some months, or years, during which people could choose which America to live in”
That sounds awfully like the freedom of movement that people have _as we speak_ within the United States. Each of us can move to the state of our choice, right now and with no questions asked.
The results of this freedom of habitation couldn’t be clearer, and truly are a major reason for the donor/blue, welfare/red divide between the states.
As I said… when contemplating the “split” be careful what you wish for, at least if you live in a welfare/red state. The reality of lower living standards would quickly overpower the perceived benefits. However, the dividend that would accrue to the donor blue states in such a scenario would be immense, and would put the “peace dividend” that helped balance the budget after the USSR fell to shame.
Having served my active duty years beginning in 1992, I can tell you that you have absolutely no clue what you’re yapping on about.
There never was any “Peace Dividend.” That was merely a cute little catch phrase used by the Clintonites to justify using the Military as their own little piggy bank to fund their social programs. And this nation’s readiness suffered for it.
9/11/2001 was a direct result of William Jefferson Clinton’s lack of seriousness towards national security.
All I’m gonna say is that were I in the Air Force I would rather be flying the F-22/F-35 fleet the donor states would be fielding than the F-15C/F-15D/F-16 fleet the welfare states would be stuck with after the split some people fantasize about.
General Tso the chicken wants to fly the F22/F35 fighters in the blue states. Unfortunately most military people come from patriotic Red states. The blue States would makes Joni Mitchell’s “Woodstock” their national anthem,
“I dreamed I saw the bombers flying shotgun in the sky
Turning into butterflies above our nation….
We are stardust, we are golden
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden”
Dude you’re quick with all the leftist talking points, but nobody’s listening or buying it. In the red/blue divide, the red states will end up with much of the food and energy production while the blue states will have overpaid elitists and university geniuses , Maybe California can run their cars on the obnoxious blather coming out of Hollywood.
I don’t want to get all “university genius” on you here, but you do know that California is the top agricultural state in the US, right? And has been for over 50 years?
California’s credit rating is 49th out of 50; only Illinois’ is worse, and California has 1/3 of the nation’s welfare cases, plus multi-billion debt and one of the highest unemployment rates in the country.
Other than that it’s a social justice utopia.
BLUE
STATE
EXODUS
This is all well and good, and you are absolutely right that California’s budget has been, and continues to be, a mess. Let no one ever again suggest that allowing the citizens to budget by proposition is a good idea.
However, in terms of productivity by any metric – GDP per capita, entrepeneurship, capital formation – California is still comfortably in the productive/donor class of blue states, rather than the laggard/welfare class of red states, and would bring it’s first-in-the-nation agricultural output with it in any “split” fantasy.
Having lived in California my entire 68 years and having lived on a farm for that entire time, I can assure you California’s agricultural standing is INSPITE of liberal governmental “help”, not because of it. You do realize that the magnificent canal system that was supposed to suppy farmers with water sponsored in part by Edmund G. Brown has been all but disassembled by “tree huggers” and Jerry Brown? California may be a “blue state” but I can guarantee you that almost all involved in farming are conservative or “red” for the sake of this discussion.
It’s great to hear from a long-term Californian, and your example is well-taken and very appropriate. The public works projects undertaken by the California government have indeed been a tremendous benefit to the state, and in the case of agricultural it is those public works projects that transformed the central valley from non-productive desert into the agricultural engine it is now.
This highlights one of the differences between the donor/blue states and the welfare/red states – the willingness to invest for the long-term, a strategy which paid off many-many-many times over in the very example you have brought up.
“THE GREAT CALIFORNIA EXODUS:
A Closer Look”
Manhattan Institute
September 2012
Tom Gray & Robert Scardamalia
http://tinyurl.com/cqehxez
You’ve completely missed the point. Yes, California did some beneficial public works projects in the 50′s and 60′s. The current trend, however, has been to dismantle some of the “magnificent public works projects” in favor of some mouse or insignificant fish in the delta. The fact that we in agriculture have been able to maintain our place is due entirely to the creative efforts and hard work of the farmers and most certainly NOT because of our government. Now, California seems to concentrate on giving taxpayer money to those that don’t produce and/or those that are here illegally, and “pie in the sky” projects like high speed rail that have at the very least, doubled their budgets since they were originally proposed. Yes, California is a good example of what this country will become if obama is reelected. Massive debt and continually unbalanced budgets.
Lefty idiot, “intellectuals” and “head workers” are overhead; wealth comes out of the ground. The Red States will happily give you all our Democrat voting parasites and keep our natural resources while we watch you useless bastards eat each other, and not in any sexual way.
I can see it now, the United Red/Petro States. Will the result be different from every other petro-state? Because, make no mistake, every other state that has been built on welfare and oil has not turned out very well.
The moonbat TROLL General Tso suffers from what all left wing moonbats suffer from an overwhelming and totally undeserved superiority complex. I suppose that if you have the sort of mind that has swallowed all the Socialist nonsense then thinking yourself to be so much smarter than everyone else comes easy.
Go away, idiot. We’ve heard the talking points a million times, and we’re all aware of their flaws.
GENERAL TSOD:Trying to compare Red states in the US, to Middle East Petro states is economically illiterate, which explains why you think California is economically vibrant.You probably think Cuba and Venezuela are gardens of prosperity.Are you,by any chance,Paul Krugman’s long-lost Maoist cousin?
Are you talking about another trail of tears?
Wouldn’t have to force them, Dee-white. It might take them awhile to get off the sofa but they’d follow the welfare checks. Just put up some realistic residency requirements for givamint benefits, require work for welfare, insist on ID for voting, limit political activity of public employees and unions, and before long Democrats would be as rare as dodo birds.
Does that include your native populations?
Your stats are 8 years old. I think you’d see a different set of stats now.
No man who was truly as good, nice, cultured, elegant, cool, charismatic, special, wonderful and downright splendid as Barack Obama thinks he is (or pretends to be) would have married such an angry and forbidding woman as Michelle Robinson.
What has Obama ever done to make anyone think he was cultured? Cultured men discuss and view examples of culture, like great literature, art galleries, and performances of ballet and drama. How does Obama spend his free time? Appearing on The View and other talk shows, hanging out with Beyonce and other entertainers, shooting hoops, playing golf. None of those suggest culture to me.
I heard once that Obama’s favorite TV show was The Wire and his favorite character on that show was Omar, the homosexual who robbed drug dealers of their drugs so that he could resell them for his own profit. (You might say that Omar was a redistributionist, just like Obama and his Marxist friends.)
Evidently you have never heard or read about “Rev” Wright’s “down low club.” Look it up and you’ll understand how and why the two of them ended up together.
This is disconcerting. More and more of these articles are being written talking down the legitimacy of Obama’s second term. Such articles are never written unless the second term is expected.
The pre-spinning of the coming election is gathering, with “Faster, please!” himself adding to the pace.
I doubt that’s the case, especially with Obama. His admistration, his campaign, as well as his foreign policy are all unravelling before our eyes.
Perhaps, I’m just commenting on the huge difference that I have seen in the past week between the pre-gaming of a defeat on the R blogs, and the pre-gaming of a victory on the D blogs. The only poll that matters is on Nov. 6, but it’s pretty clear that the folks on both sides that are writing for these blogs are having difficulty seeing past the polls of today, and are preparing their readership accordingly.
Your tears will be delicious next week.
Axelrod has already started suggesting that if Obama loses it will be because of Hurricane Sandy. “Obviously we want unfettered access to the polls because we believe that the more people that come out, the better we’ll do,” top Obama adviser David Axelrod said on CNN Sunday. “And so, to the extent that it makes it harder, that’s a source of concern.”
“I hope that it all clears out and by the next weekend, we’ll be free of it,” Axelrod added.
Gen. Tso… re: ” Such articles are never written unless the second term is expected.”
Where on earth did you ever get an idea like that? It’s my experience that a given writer writes what he/she wants to express, whatever that idea happens to be. You’re reading too much Psych 101 into it. Not everyone who writes a political article is a campaign staffer (or other connection) with inside dope on the strategy sessions.
The simple fact is that we’ve been expecting Romney to win for some time now, given that the polling data was not matching what we have been anecdotally seeing on the ground out here in the real world. Obama has been having to move to smaller venues, while Romney has been drawing massive crowds. No Obama signs can be seen anywhere outside liberal strongholds.
Then there’s the fact that the media have been oversampling Democrats on polling all year long. They are only now starting to tighten the samples up to more realistic demographics. When a poll shows up in a state that was Democrats +5 in 2008 and samples Democrats +9, they’re deliberately cheating in Obama’s favor. They thought we wouldn’t notice, but we did. We’ve KNOWN the polls are bad from the get-go, which meant that Romney was polling much better than they expected him to. The fact that he is now ahead of Obama IN SPITE OF THE CHEATING says a lot more than Obama supporters want to admit.
The Romney groundswell was here all along, in the works, waiting for the right moment to surface.
I like your enthusiasm, but you don’t need to convince me of anything. I’m just commenting on the prevailing wisdom amongst those in-the-know, at least to some degree, such as the authors here at PJM.
Their defeat pre-game is in full effect, and this article is an obvious part of the narrative they are planning for. You don’t write this article if you think you are winning, so I urge you to focus your encouragement on Mr. Ledeen.
Please… you’re General Tso, not Sun Tsu. Leave the strategizing to others.
I really don’t see what you’re trying to argue about this article here. The message I took away from it is that Obama’s getting steadily more nasty and vulgar because he knows he’s losing. The behavior described in this article is not that of a campaign that’s confident that it’s winning.
Tso obviously works for Ostupidhead’s campaign.
You can tell because reason never enters into his thinking, just more waves of stupid lib talking points, hot off the fax.
It certainly is a waste of Obama’s scant resources to pay a stupid troll to troll PJM.
Keep on, Chicken Tso. I wonder if your last check will clear?
Obama has always been nasty and vulgar. The press did not cover it. He used an obscene gesture in a debate in the 2008 primary. He is always snide and hectoring and only condescending when in a good mood. He prefers to be entertained by the performers with the most obscene repertory. His own wife has made remarks that he smells bad. Supercilious, stupid, and thin skinned and those are his good qualities.
I don’t believe it’s about ‘Chicago politics’ or his ‘thug background’ or his frustration because he’s loosing.
Rather, I think it’s the Democrat party’s way of dehumanizing the population that they wish to administer. It’s a common tactic used by such nefarious entities; despots and the like. In my opinion they are waging war on the population of the country and this is one of the weapons in their arsenal. No matter that it affects those on their side equally – after all, to a ‘big government’ all of the peasants are the enemy no matter their political leanings.
I have three wishes about this.
1. May it be so. May he crack more and more and more and more.
2. May the public at large see it. Clearly. Especially the ‘undecideds’.
3. May they care.
What is cracking is the Shield wall of the Media. The Obumbler has always been a nasty bit of work. The Media is no longer going out of their way to hide it.
Remember what happens when the shield wall breaks? ROUT. IN another week, the smart ones will be jumping ship.
“The Media is no longer going out of their way to hide it.”
I wish that were the case. Benghazi says otherwise. I was at my local CVS tonight. While waiting to be checked out, I scanned the front page of “The Gray Lady” (aka the NYT); not a sentence about Benghazi. When the front page becomes the op-ed page you know it’s not journalism; it’s press agents circling the wagons.
I don’t, by any stretch of the imagination, think the Left isn’t capable of stealing this election; if they can get enough phony votes they will. What pisses me off more is that, if we had an honest media and, as a consequence, a reasonably informed electorate, this race wouldn’t be within HAILING distance of close.
I share your frustration. We would only need ONE decent news network to turn this thing around. Just ONE.
No, that ain’t Fox. They have not earned America’s respect as a “Fair and Balanced” news source.
If they had not allowed the conservative and faux-conservative (O’Reilly) talking heads to dominate their programming, if they had rigorously insisted on being dispassionate, accurate, thorough, and ruthlessly fair, they could made many enemies in Washington on BOTH sides of the aisle, and they’d have earned America’s respect and made a HUGE impact. (And gotten really, really rich in the process.)
They didn’t.
What is a CVS? The solution to the New York Slimes problem is to not read it, even on the rack or in the box. Don’t click on any article marked as a NY Times article. They start losing a few mill per day and they will cease being a problem.
I seriously think Obama has gone off his rocker. The Lena Dunham ad is tje absolute pits. There was another disgusting ad asking new brides to ask their friends to contribute to Obama instead of buying presents. A woman losing her virginty or getting married are two of her most nerve-wracking decisions. To trivialise them requires a special kind of repugnant character.
Obama is banking on a large segment of unmarried working women to vote for him. But he seems to have no clue the struggle and sacrifice women had to go through (incl getting run over by horses at a race-track suffragette protest)to get to where they are. And all Obama wants if for them to vote their lady-parts.
If there is a suicidal political strategy, this is it. There was nothing like this 2008. In all likelihood, the women’s vote is lost to him.
Thinking American adults are on to him. As Rush says, now he’s going for the moron vote.
And if Republicans had put kids in front of a camera, singing about the failures of Obama, like he has them singing about the world being destroyed…
They have decided to go full commie in a lot of aspects, as stated above by Voice Of Reason (11).
As communist-inspired is also the new video using children choir to “blame their parents” of a possible Romney victory.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/28/new-pro-obama-ad-has-children-blaming-parents-for-aftermath-romney-win/
Turning the children against their parents, a la Pol Pot.
Because he is nasty and vulgar. He is also an insane, commie, criminal muslim. He has no redeeming qualities at all. In fact, he’s downright evil.
Why? On account of personal experience and heredity.
“I think he’s cracking”
We’re in waters that can only have been traversed a few times in human history, if ever.
How many human beings have walked the earth? Humans emerged 50 to 200 thousand years ago, in large number only since the time of the gospels. Maybe 100 Billion total human beings.
Of that number, how many have reached the age of 50 without ever being asked to do anything, yet to rise to the highest position of authority achievable in their times. How many besides barack obama that is. Hitler was an abject failure for 20+ years, a bum. He knew adversity. Stalin was a bully, a nobody who clawed and killed his way to the top. He knew adversity. Maybe there have been some Neros, some inherited kings, who lived lives and achieved power without having to lift a finger. But even for that tiny number, it’s hard to imagine anybody who lived until the last few decades who among even that rare group could have risen to the very upper echelons of power without making enemies and always always, without putting eveything on the line, including their lives, their fortures, their families, and their reputations.
But obama did. He achieved the presidency of the most powerful country in history with the life experience of a teenager, the work experience of an actor who never had to audition for a role, the ego of a Babe Ruth playing in a Little League, the wisdom of a man who had every word he ever said written for him.
You’re damned right he could crack up. In fact, there is no way to predict what he will do. For the simple fact that probably no other human has ever been handed every single thing in life, with no payment asked, and with no effort required. Who in the world can predict what a one in a hundred billion person will do when it finally dawns on him that he reached his postion through uninterrupted decades of affirmative action, and worse, that the tiny sliver of people he knows despise him and everything he stands for aren’t a tiny sliver at all; they are the overwhelming majority of the country he was handed on a silver platter and didn’t have a clue what to do with.
Your post is precisely why public schools avoid teaching history except for handpicked, PC-approved subjects. A ‘graduate’ who has spent over a decade in classrooms may not even know the names of Charlemagne, Napoleon, Newton, Julius Caesar, Galileo, Henry VIII, Cromwell, James Watt, or Louis XIV. However, they are guaranteed to know the names and causes (such as they were) of Cesar Chavez, Malcolm X, Ryan White, and Susan B. Anthony.
If I had my way I’d make history a mandatory class from first grade through senior year of high school. And I’d excise the leftist textbooks. An ignorant or miseducated people are dangerous in the extreme, and that’s why we got this malevolent guy in office in the first place.
Vile chicago style thug politician, and a testimony that Chicago produces three things :
Great pizza
Criminals
political thug politicians
Last I looked he wasn’t a pizza.
How about we look as obozo as the scorpion, in the story of the frog and the scorpion.
The scorpion wants to go across the river and the frog is the only animal that can get him across.
But the frog is worried about the scorpion and the scorpion puts on his best face and says he will be good.
Frog agrees and is taking the scorpion across the river when the scorpion stings him and the frog realizing that he is going to be dead and the scorpion dead, asks why he did that. Scorpion says that he did it because that is his nature.
So be it here. The vile, vulgarities and smallness of the this person is on display for all to see.
“When only EIGHT PERCENT of Americans have a positive view of the media, it tells you something, after all.”
But don’t you admire the insouciance with which the MSM greet such revelations? In character it’s the same as that with which Obama greets sound advice from people who aren’t Val or ‘Chelle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSxDE1QCHA4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Easy! Because he’s a democrat.
…..”Breeding tells.”
Frankly Obama and the people who support him are hard to figure out. Both seem to operate based on the most absurd fantasies and cheap psychology about racism and the “poor.” To me, liberals generally live in a world of unreality and political correctness where it’s hard to tell how much of their own.
When people like Andrew Sullivan and Chris Matthews make the most hysterical statements about the “confederacy” and a GOP nostalgia for Jim Crow, it’s hard to say if they’re simple ignorant morons, starved for actual content, cynical liars or what’s going on.
Liberals have mainstreamed vulgarity so I’m not surprised they follow up their efforts in the public arena. Li’l Wayne sang Take Me Out To the Ballgame in SF at the World Series so go figure why that sick li’l racist is okay at America’s past time, which is apparently equal parts players cheating on steroids and acting like they never sleep and drink a thousand cups of coffee during games. One gets the impression they fist-pump and scream “Yeah!” when they do their laundry.
So Obama wants to bang his chest and show his street cred and when things don’t go well there’s really no where for Obama to go since there was really nothing there in the first place. We’re all waiting for rain while Starbuck diddles himself for 4 years of a self-congratulation and campaigning sandwich with a side of curing white racism.
Obama’s cure for everything basically seems to consist of waiting for windmills to stop acting like dragons and dragons to start windmilling. One will get a little testy waiting for something that’ll never happen.
“Obama and the people who support him are hard to figure out.”
Having lived in San Francisco since 1970, I find them easy to figure out; their lives are driven by belief, fueled by emotion. Honest, critical thinkers acknowledge what works, and what doesn’t.
I disagree….. It’s more fundamental than that. Many people adopt (or just make themselves believe, contrary to any opposing evidence) any ideology provided that they derive some personal interest from it. Wanna be a slut without financial or moral consequence to yourself? Wanna make other people take responsibility for your needs? Wanna have a handy portfolio of ready made excuses for any failure? Can’t compete well? Well, do I have political party for you! All you have to is cherry pick your facts, listen to approved sources of information (or disinformation), and collapse in the warm embrace of coolness, belonging, and hedonism.
Because he’s a cornered rat!
This must be the lies and innuendo this General Tso keeps referencing with pretentious smile. Take one month of panic and normalize it as eight years of Bush. Like the debt downgrade had nothing to do with debt, but the Tea Party’s lack of cooperation.
The same kind of smiling rank propagandist who spoon feeds the leftist talking points like “trickle down” doesn’t work, never understanding his referenced patron saint and serial philanderer Slick Willy Clinton embraced “trickle down.”
What is insulting to me from these leftist toadies is not that they’re spinning, but that they assume I’m not intelligent enough to determine the rev of the motor is their mouth and not Obama’s smoking economic engine.
Sandy is barreling down on the Northeast. I’ll be without power over this week for a few days anyway. I couldn’t sleep. If my dog is ill, I can’t sleep. If something is going on, I’m too wound up to relax and sleep is out of the question. What if I was needed? It’s an “emergency”.
This president has 4 people headed for death, an international crisis in progress and he falls right to sleep.
There is something seriously psychologically dead in him.
Or major pharmaceuticals.
This isn’t normal behavior.
Look up Psychologist Dr. Paul Fick Says Obama Psychologically Damaged ‘Beyond Narcissism,’ Offers Details to Press. It explains everything!
Obama’s facade is an elaborate pretense; a carefully constructed shell enclosing a Chicago street thug. As for his vaunted intellect, an assessment manufactured by our esteemed MSM, it’s a sham; off-teleprompter he exhibits a mediocre mind. Joe Biden is a buffoon; a third rate circus clown who totally lacks self-knowledge. This pair of fools will be long remembered for setting a new low water mark for the Executive branch. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are fitting pendants to this Democrat debacle.
The Unqualified, Incompetent, Inefficient, Inexperienced Gay, Celebrity USURPER Barry HUSSEIN Soetero Kardashian has never been a nice guy he has won every political contest by the dirtiest tricks imaginable His so called ‘likability’ is a myth a Lame Stream EneMedia wishful invention and bought in to hook line and sinker by naive gullible fools such as General Tso.
The puerile and filthy rhetoric deployed by Obama and Biden in the past few weeks belongs to that special category of things that are (as my ex-wife would often say) Shocking Wihout Being Surprising.
Yes, it does shock the system a bit when one hears the VP ask a slain soldier’s father about the size of his son’s testes. (A shock which is amplified a great deal by the geography of the question: the dead soldier’s memorial service.) But in the age of Sarah Palin and Ed Schultz, is such vulgar talk really surprising? I think all serious persons know the answer to this question.
Again, it does shock one to hear the President of the United States use a school yard taunt like “the 1980s called, and they want their foreign policy back.” And yet one reminds oneself that this very same man was once mocked for not being a “real American” by his previous general election opponents running mate, so his resort to the pathetically immature language of ten year olds is in no way surprising.
Our political culture (much like our culture at-large) has become so degraded and trashy that none of the garbage lately spewed forth by Team Obama should surprise anyone. And if you are shocked by this stuff, than you can at least console yourself with the knowledge that you are still human, unlike the vapid knuckle draggers who think Lena Dunham’s “First Time” ad clever and hip.
Based on a quick scan, nobody seems to have said what a fine article this is. Generalizing convincingly on this scale is hard to do, yet most will agree with nearly all. It’s more than just preaching to the converted, since there are countless points of view. We’ll soon find out if we’re right.
” What a fine article this is”. I had the exact same feeling after reading Mr. Ledeen’s
article. One of his better one’s IMHO. But then we have come to expept nothing from a truly great person.
“he’s a bum.” Yes. Three letters say it all. Or, in the case of Joe Biden – four. For all the words written in disparagement of this man and his character, when all is said, distilled to its lowest form, he is an abject filthy bum. Scum tarted up as being what he could never have been. The downward slide started under Bill Clinton. He became the first outwardly vulgar, corrupt, and deceitful president and got away with it because of the media. It’s gotten so bad that even Billy has morphed into the adult in the room. The children of this country were affected by the immorality of Clinton. And the Choom Gangbanger surely has followed.
The left suffers from arrested development at the level of sophomores. Every thing they do, say, write, make films, etc., are sophomoric. Most of the time, it seems, a lot of us think it’s ok. For example, that horrible show on morality, Two and a Half Men, is nothing but treating women as conquests to mark up on the locker room wall. In a nation of 300 million we’ll always have a few million that think sophomoric logic and actions are great. Check out the numbers of viewers of shows like Letterman.
It would be nice if someone did step up and do a McCarthy moment by asking these juveniles if they have no shame. We already know they have no cognitive or critical analysis skills – just look at the economy.
“It would be nice if someone did step up and do a McCarthy moment by asking these juveniles if they have no shame.”
That only tends to work when someone of unimpeachable moral integrity asks the question. Who would you suggest for the role? I fear that the MSM has caused just about everyone who might once have fit that description to be seen as an irrelevant dinosaur who isn’t cool enough to “get” the obvious brilliance of the Democratic Plan for Utopia in America.
Those of us old enough to actually remember Watergate will recall the shock at hearing Nixon speaking in private on the WH tapes. It may be that his vulgarity and obscenity did more to turn people against him than any details about the break in or the coverup. It isn’t that people object to a crude vulgarian per se, but they do object when they find out that one has fooled them into thinking him a civil gentleman.
As for Obama’s supposed cultured demeanor? Anyone remember him flipping off an opponent – twice – during the 2008 campaign? Gave a chuckle to the netroots and others in the far left fever swamps, but would not have played well to the electorate in general. Fortunately the press was covering for him and most missed it.
This. I was going to remark on it, too. The videos of both incidents are on YouTube, of course. Obama clearly knew what he was doing, and thought it was cute and clever. Forget that it was highly inappropriate – the very fact he thought it clever was enought to prove him unfit for the office.
In his first election, Obama was in the unenviable position of saying 99% of things he fundamentally disagreed with. That stuff about red, state, blue state; United States was pure BS, and everybody in the Obama inner circle knew it.
It was speechwriter BS designed to get elected.
During Obama’s four years in office, his extreme left reactionary self pretty much came out and it was pretty, whether he was insulting the Supreme Court members in a speech or trying to intimidate them to judge ObamaCare legal, or saying Fox wasn’t a news station, or letting voter intimidating Black Panthers go scot free or encouraging them to put a bounty on George Zimmerman’s head, which is against the Fed law but not Obama’s law; the law that is congruent with Obama’s political objectives.
Obama is a bum which I’ve been saying since day one of his Presidency. I thank some blogs for letting me say it. But nobody ever wanted to cross the line and agree with me. Which was okay I guess.
If they want to jump on the “what a miscreant guy obama is” band wagon late in the game, that’s fine.
The real Obama isn’t someone you’d like to have a beer with; it’s someone who would go to the length of letting four Americans get murdered because it doesn’t agree with your made up narrative about a video that directs the blame away from Obama.
He’s worse than a liar. He’s a traitor. Someone you like to beat the hell out of in a bar fight.
“During Obama’s four years in office, his extreme left reactionary self pretty much came out and it was pretty….”
Did you mean to include a “not” in there, as in “it was NOT pretty”?
Barack Obama is a vulgar and nasty person. No surprise that, as President, he is nasty and vulgar. A person’s true character usually emerges under pressure.
“When male Republican candidates make disgusting and ridiculous statements about rape, the faithful turn on them, properly so IMHO, but neither Obama nor Biden has come in for punishment for their use of obscenities and vulgarities.”
I don’t disagree with the bulk of your thesis, but there’s a difference between making offensive fact statements about human biology or theology, and breaking a taboo about certain words. Everyone recognizes that the latter is a purely arbitrary rule, and almost everyone would be OK with their use in other settings, such as at a men’s poker game, whereas the offensive rape comments would have been just as offensive had they come out from a tape made at a men’s meeting.
Great point, but probably not what is desired on a thread that is almost pure venting. But what the hell, at least half of our political blather has to be psychumolgical catharsis. We give these guys potential power and influence so they can be our punching bags. The level of invective against Obama and Romney would be amazing, save for the explanation that kicking our dogs and beating our wives (or husbands) can now land us in real trouble.
I for one wasn’t “venting.” The fact is that Barack Obama is a vulgar and nasty person. The same cannot be said of Mitt Romney. Or sput another way, if Mitt Romney is vulgar and nasty, he hides those flaws very well.
I agree that Obama is quite vulgar: 1) for a President; 2) for anyone speaking in public outside of a Rawdog performance; and 3) compared to Mitt Romney. One thing people looking for moral equivalence often miss is that Mitt Romney isn’t Todd Akin, or Richard Mourdock, let alone (on different issues) George W. Bush.
Pascal:
“Only the pedant says “pedant”.”
Only the bull******* says bull*******.
What ought to be screamed from the highest height is the absolute complicity of the media as it assists the fallen messiah Obama in personally attack Romney with typical vicious Chicago street-trash.
They need to have their big faux show of “Negative ads are evil” when they chose that line of BS as aaweapon to use against the right, but the second Obama is reduced to negative/trash talk ads and comments, suddenly the words “negative ads” have slipped completley out of their hypocritical changing lexicon of word/weaponry.
What diabolical minds they have. Nothing is beneath them…except maybe their final resting place.
On the local news there was a very basic segment on the campaign with brief clips from the gentlemen’s appearances yesterday. Romney looked pretty ordinary, podium, shirtsleeves, yappin’ and wavin’. Obama had his 20 pg brochure which he was waving around like Charlie Chaplin in The Dictator, hunched, glowering. Much more Gollum than Smeagol. There was no audio but the disparity was glaring. If this is the kind of information the Kardashian-type voters are getting O is definitely on the far side of the slope.
Stanley Kurtz’s article on NR seems to indicate the vulgarity is intentional as a atrategy to bypass themiddle and build a LEftist Coalition
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/331865/obamas-big-reason-going-small-stanley-kurtz#
I greatly admire Stanley Kurtz, but I still think there’s a significant change in language. McGovern was certainly not vulgar…for example.
WHY is Obama so nasty and vulgar? Rhetorical question?
As a star student at the foot of the masters the Kennedys, Clintons, the “Rev”. Wright, his special tutor Bill Ayers, and special star status via affirmative action law graduate from Harvard what else could he be?
Is he more vulgar than the Clintons, or the entire Kennedy clan? More vulgar than for example those “honourables” Maxine Waters, Barney Frank, and Jesse Jackson or the “Rev”. Al Sharpton snd their like? More vulgar but excusable because she’s clinically irrational Nancy Pelosi? Or Harry Reid and John Kerry? All quasi-royals as members in that most exclusive “gentlemens club” the US Congress. And we all know don’t we that royals do not bother with rules made to keep commoners the bourgeoisie in line.
Obama – Sun King with Consort Antoinette/Michelle – finally royal, to live life-long on the creativity, enterprise and labours of commoners, the citizens who actually pay the danegeld. The royals who go under the name democrat and liberal of whatever colouration.
And so many of the commoners worship and adore them, falling at their feet in their presence.
Obamas are following the leads of their masters and their masters servant/slaves/serfs. What does nasty and vulgar mean in this context?
When you referred to “… male Republican candidates [who} make disgusting and ridiculous statements about rape…”, I’m not sure I know to what you were referring. Please clarify.
http://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2012/08/26/using_semantics_to_take_down_conservative_representative_todd_akin
The left has used ad hominem attack since Marx could not defend his theories. Now the stakes are so high and the dialogue so course from the left because the conservatives now understand PC cannot intimidate us from speaking out.
The more the conservatives use the same tactics on the left as they have used on us for fifty years, the more the left becomes unhinged and flailing.
In short; How do you expect a recalcitrant juvenile to act? Especially after he has been given dispensation and accommodation for so many offenses for so many years.
Getting back to basics with a miscreant like this, and giving him a spanking, would be a good start.
Where’s the adult supervision anywhere anymore?
not only is he vulgar, he is also a ‘RETARD’
PS: ffuucckk yyoouu
PPS: the only leftist in Washington is Bernie Sanders
Rush summed this loser up most appropriately, ‘Barack Kardashian’. He’s like a spoiled Rock star, throwing a tantrum over the color of his M&M’s.
Being president is like putting ore into a pressurized container, adding the required solvents and heating it up.
The guy better be experienced, and have principles!
For Obama, who was a foolish and extreme Narcissist from the get go, being at the 24/7 point where all the vital decisions must be considered and made, along with the added new situations, and the heat provided by an observing public, well—the truth is being purified.
Instead of 99.999% gold, though, in his case we’re getting to the essence—a hard-core socialistic dictator.
I was pondering on the amazing subhuman, Mao, and how he actively used his ideology to force 45 million of his FELLOW Chinese to die. What an animal!
The paradox is that so-called humanists, like an Obama, who are supposed to “feel your pain”, in truth are almost totally lacking in empathy. It’s THE idea, man!
Yes, Obama and Clinton, et al, are ideas, in action. In their case, it’s the idea of socialism that matters, and people’s literal feelings be damned. They are stuck in the head, in mind, and as for the body—well, hello Monica.
How is sitting whatching in real time & not sending in anyone to help, even though they had immediate wire communication & pix from drones – in real time- any different than straping bombs on children?
It seems to be so gutless, so something that muslims would do and (Americans would never do)not give a damn about either the people being blown up or the children who carried the bombs.
Short form, Obama is psychotic, in the early grip of a breakdown, unable to control himself and finally showinf all the pent up hate that was always there. Remember, 20 years in a screaming racist church. It will be a very tough four years if he gets reelected, revenge is sweet & better believe he won’t forget.
“Psychologist Dr. Paul Fick Says Obama Psychologically Damaged ‘Beyond Narcissism,’ Offers Details to Press”
Democrats ooze contempt disguised as folksy compassion for the common man.
Give me a break. What a bunch of puritans (or at least, “pretend to be’s”). Besides, as I understand, Obama was actually describing Romney’s flip-flopping as ‘bull-shift’.
The actual term was “bullshitter”, not as I understand it but as it was said. It must be a word Obama picked up in the Chicago streets.
Miller introduced Romney at a rally and when Romney finished speaking he came down the stairs, where Miller was standing and put his hand on his shoulder and said, “Gosh, that was a really nice introduction, thanks.”
Miller was telling O’Reilly andf said, “You know I think it’s time we had a Gosh President!”
I guess by way of saying Romney will never bring the level of discourse down to the level it has descended to. He will be someone we can tell our children to look up to and would never be afraid he would have anyone in the white house who would use the left’s kind of language.
I think this is one of the reasons 0 loathes him so much. He can’t believe someone can be a good person. Who has 0 been around all of his life – communists, socialists, molesters, chicago thugs, liers! No wonder he can’t believe that someone can honestly be good.
Sad when you think about a wasted life. Yes, even if he is the president, he has such a negative view of America & Americans and yet he is supposed to protect this country & it’s people.
A young married woman was just on Beck’s show said her husband is in the military and she always knew he was in danger, but now she believes no one has his back and he could just be left behind. She said there will be such a hole in the military because men are talking about getting out.
The long range consequences of Benghazi will be felt for years to come and we will not be protected.
VOTE this person out for the protection of this country and the brave men/women who protect us.
Oh, he’s cracking all right. Just like Jimmy Carter cracked after losing. He couldn’t take the rejection, and neither will Mr. Magical-Thinking Narcissist Obama. It will be ugly before Inauguration Day, and that’s a constitutional amendment we probably ought to think about — making that day much closer to Election Day. Hopefully there won’t be blood.
Does anyone actually bother to think about what kind of person, other than a native from the place, would deliberately pick *Chicago* in order to get involved in politics? Would people also happily choose a doctor who told them that they chose to go to Tijuana to learn medicine doing black market surgery without any concern about what they might tell them about the doctor’s character and intentions?
We don’t like Obama, because of what he does.
Liberals hate the right, because of who they are.
So any amount of bile and invective is justifiable against the evil.
It’s Russell Crowe that upsets me though!
Can’t a right-wing film lover have just one actor to admire?
See “Et Tu Brute?” at:
http://john-moloney.blogspot.com/
Robert Duvall. I’m always left with Robert Duvall – and I guess to a lesser degree, Clint Eastwood now.
I was really disappointed in old Russell. I figured at best he was just uninterested enough to have the smarts to not comment about politics.
And I really liked Gladiator.
I’d pay to go see Argo. But there’s the Ben Affleck part of the equation. Not going to do it.
It is possible that a “Harvard Man” might speak that way because he believes it will endear him to his audience; much like you don’t use four syllable words to talk to a four-year-old. (This goes for Biden speaking to a father of a Seal as well as any other circumstance). You saw the Yale girl Hillary adopt a southern accent when speaking in the South.
So what does that say about what the leadership of the Democratic Party think of the general population of the country?? Basically that we are too stupid to possibly understand what they so ‘wisely’ know; so best not to even try to confuse us with what they really think. Condesention and insults; welcome to the Democratic Party.
It irked me when Palin’s accent grew more folksy as time went on. Fortunately, though, she can’t fool YOU!
Might surprise you that I agree with you on that. However, since Sarah did not attend Harvard or Yale I would submit she was acting closer to her actual self than Hillary was.
Good article by Stanley Kurtz over at NRO:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/331865/obamas-big-reason-going-small-stanley-kurtz
Obama has quite purposefully given up on the squishy middle of America and wants to take the country further left. He wants to win a large portion of the potential 10 million new voters (young, Hispanic, single women, etc.) in order to blow off the stodgy middle that wants the country to move back to the right.
For once, Oboo-boo was right. We know a BSer. And hopefully the election will prove it WHEN WE THROW HIS ASS OUT OF OUR WHITE HOUSE.
There is no surprize here. The “0″ and the Dem Party have been dumbing down their core constituent useful-idiots for years by appealing to their course and basest inclinations, women are victims if they don’t get free abortions and contraceptives, blacks are victims because they’re black, gays because they do what they do, mexicans because they all have illegal relatives, muslims because they want to destroy Israel, porno for everyone, drugs for everyone, phones for everyone, welfare for everyone, something for everyone, EXCEPT the bulsh***s, the BSers want to take all of that away and put you back in chains, take away your contraceptives and make you have babies, counsel you against taking it up the ***, close the border and protect themselves against jihadists…..
……is that a world you want to live in….? vote for the “0″ and he’ll spread his BS across the land on everyone……….
On another subject, I wonder if the muslems had to have a lot of security at Mecca for their journey. Can you imagine if that was a christian meeting?
Voting For Obama While Female IS like losing your virginity:
1) About halfway through — or, if you’re REALLY slow on the uptake, after it’s all over — you realize that “the screwing you’re getting isn’t worth the screwing you’re gonna get”
2) You’re “sore” about it afterwards
3) You hate to admit it, but it really wasn’t all it was cracked up to be in the so-called Mainstream Media
4) You start to wonder if your mama wasn’t right when she urged you to “save it for someone who deserves it”
5) Years later, you’re ashamed to even admit it — let alone deeply regretful about having bragged about it to all your friends
I could go on for days, but you get the idea.
Addendum in the spirit of full disclosure: I did not vote for Obama — in fact, I was SCREAMING about the danger he represented from the moment he began his campaign for U.S. Senate. I was in a position to notice him at that time because my husband’s military career had just stationed him in Chicagoland for just over a year; does anyone else here remember that Obama only won that race because of a manufactured, COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT “sex scandal” trumped up against his Repub opponent, the brilliant, politically gifted, and charming Jack Ryan?
I based my comments above on the fact that a good many of my female friends, acquaintances, and colleagues DID vote for Obama…and most are now feeling “sticky and ill-used” (kinda like when the charmer who talked you home from the bar not only leaves you to lie in the wet spot but doesn’t even throw you the damp washcloth on his way out the door after HE’s through with it).
Obama is a sociopath, probably comorbid narcissistic personality disorder and paranoid or schizoid personality disorder. He was born broken. His life from birth to early adulthood only worsened his pathology. He’s dangerous and must be removed from our government. He belongs in prison with his cohorts, including Hillary Clinton, Valerie Jarrett and Eric Holder. We need to win back the Senate and keep the House, so we can do what needs to be done. Otherwise, he’ll do more harm, possibly irreparable, until someone has the courage to imprison him. Like any dangerous animal, he needs to caged for the duration of his natural life.
Obama simply showed his ass in all 3 debates, particularly the third. Of course, for those of us who were not “seeing the emperor’s new clothes” for the last 4 years, none of this surprises. Not one single thing. He could eat his own children live on TV and it would not surprise us.
Obama may not be as smart as the MSM has tried to portray him, but he’s not stupid. He is trying to rally his base, and what his base responds to is crude and vulgar behavior. He’s acting like a rap star or a Hollywood celebrity because these are the role models that his core voters believe are “cool.”
Obviously few of you have ever dealt with lefty apparatchiks in their natural habitat. Comrade Obama’s increasing vulgarity isn’t a sign of a crack up; it is his letting his “passing” mask slip a bit so he can firm up the support of his lefty base. The Ds have given up on the normal people in the middle that they scammed in ’08 and have accepted that they must have the young, the poor, the stupid, and the committed left and they must have them in droves, living or dead, in order to get elected.
Obscenities and profanity have been the lingua franca of the Left since at least the ’60s and of the unions since long before that. You couldn’t be a ’60s “radical” if the F-word or the M-F word didn’t fall trippingly off your tongue without regard to the company or circumstance. In their natural habitat of Blue states and big Blue cities, lefties are generally a nasty, foul-mouthed lot. They work hard at a rough-edged, tough guy persona full of menace, threat, and foul language. SEIU’s Andy Stern was lying when he said they preferred the power of pursuasion: they don’t; they prefer the pursuasion of power and intimidation and vilification are their primary tools. They openly talk about mau-mauing supervisors and managers or opposing politicians.
What most of the apparatchik level of the left is composed of is society’s losers. You won’t find many of the “beautiful people” at an AFL-CIO convention (The high-level goons keep their former Vegas “showgirls” out of sight.) or a Sierra Club rally unless you’re in Hollywood. Janis Ian’s ’75 paean to losers “At Seventeen” aptly describes most of the left when she sings of “Those whose names were never called/when choosing sides at basketball.” Understand that inside that sunken chested, lank haired, bespectacled, lefty “student” is a wannabe Strelnikov dreaming of cruising flyover country in an armored train with a brigade of cossacks helping him extract his revenge against the guys who got the beauty queens. Throw in some guilty rich, some stupid celebrities, and some committed ideological communists and communist environmentalists and you have the activist level of the Left and the Democrat Party; all the rest are either clients or useful idiots.
Comrade Obama is just like every other union goon, community organizer, or environmental activist; an arrogant, sneering, condescending asshole. Comrade Obama is better than most of them, and that’s why he’s a front man, at hiding it but from the beginning his true inner asshole has slipped out from time to time. You who live in the Red states rarely see these creatures; they have cadres of well-mannered, well-dressed, and well-spoken lobbyists and front people that the send to do union business or testify in hearings and such in Republican controlled areas. In the Blue places they can be themselves. I understand them better than most on our side of the ditch because I’ve dealt with them in one of the very few states that consistently has a Republican government but which also is heavily unionized and I learned to close my office door and talk to them in language they could understand clearly and which was so vile they’d never complain about it because they didn’t want to admit that they’d been talked to like that. Choose your enemies well!
Whew! That’s a relief, because I was beginning to think that maybe the left had a monopoly on vile language. It is true that the right generally maintains a patina of public decorum, at least when it comes to four-letter words more than the left, but in private, things may be different. Anyway, I don’t believe that use of bad words, or lack thereof, has all that much to do with nastiness. There may be somewhat different dynamics of inducing guilt and intimidation on the left and on the right, but this thread proves that the level of bluster on the right is alive and well, another source of deep relief to me.
so that I got chosen high on the list. There are a lot of geeky righties, by the way, in case you never noticed.
And as for being chosen for teams, I was never a varsity athlete, but always enough of a rough, if undersized gamer (it must be the centrism in me
Well, Dwight, having been both something of a loser in my college days and a lefty, I learned from the best of them. I especially learned well in my days when I was still young and dumb and in organized labor. If I could do a highlight film, one of the things that would be on it would be the opening statement in a discipline arbitration I did long ago. I was representing the employer and my old boss and mentor from my union days was representing the union; there wasn’t a lot of love in the room. I’ll admit I was doing an improperly argumentative trending inflammatory opening statement; knew it, did it on purpose. A sharp advocate would have simply said, “Objection, the State is being argumentative,” the arbitrator would have sustained, and I would have had to behave better. My old boss and mentor, union man to the core, wasn’t going to do anything sissy like that, though he knew how; he simply screamed at me, “shut the f**k up!” I replied, “name, you old motherf**ker, I don’t work for you anymore so don’t tell me to shut up.” The arbitrator, a somewhat delicate older labor law professor is yelling, “Gentlemen, gentlemen!” To which I replied, “Sir, there are no gentlemen here, so it will be up to you to control this proceeding.” I lived rent free in his head from there on out. Union lost and I learned from that. I always exemplified and insisted that those who worked for me exemplified an impeccably polite public presence unless somebody attacked us and then the rule was counterattack with viciousness that astounds them. Just tactics, nothing personal.
The right has insisted on a fairly high level of public decorum at all times and usually won’t tolerate private bad behavior either. The left glorifies private bad behavior and will tolerate bad behavior in pubic by those who hold the left’s pet beliefs. The most useful thing in dealing with lefties is the fact that they believe that they have exclusive rights to nastiness and they have NO CLUE how to deal with anyone being nasty to them. It is an advantage one can exploit.
“The right has insisted on a fairly high level of public decorum at all times and usually won’t tolerate private bad behavior either.”
Hm… I think you might need to let the commenters in this thread in on that piece of information. My favorite example of your mythical “high level of public decorum” is right up at the top:
“Where was Obama Born?
My money is on Hawaii, but with a catch….
His floozy mom blazed in from out of the country, shit him out on the Grandparents, and immediately (within 2 weeks?) spit to Seattle for some graduate courses…
She was such a nut-bar lefty skank, I’m sure he was an ‘Inconvenience” and an “emergency” SHE JUST COULD NOT DEAL WITH”
What a charming piece of prose, and so appropriate in a thread blaming the other guy for being nasty and vulgar!
I generally don’t condone that either, but have you taken any tours of the far left-wing sites and their comment threads. They make the one you quoted above sound like Emily Post.
Don’t use the Semper Fi to peddle lefty BS, troll! Or maybe you’re just an idiot. I don’t follow that public decorum rule because I’m not an elected or appointed official anymore. I treat all of the left equally; like sh*t.
I’m sorry that Semper Fi is vulgar language to you.
Art, although I don’t have as much experience as you, I do have the misfortune of living in one of the few old blue democrat counties in Texas. I’m sure it is not the same as Chicago but they import help regularly from Chicago when needed. Let’s just say Al Sharpton is here at least twice a year and Bill Clinton was here just last week. Pretty good for a town less than 200,000 population.
However, I do believe this, there are less of them than there are of us. The vitriol and general bad manners, when they go too far, turn off those decent people that are generally a-political. When that happens the sleeping giant awakes and an election is won by conservatives. Unfortunately the giant always goes back to sleep and we have to fight the same fight over and over again. Each time things have to get worse than the time before before the giant wakes up. One of these days it will be too late and we won’t be able to turn the ship around. Frankly, Romney win or not, I worry about that this time. I just believe we have a better chance to turn it one more time with Romney. The other road ia a two or three generation trip to Babylon for all of us; democrat and republican.
What you have to do is give them the opportunity to be themselves; they can’t keep that mask in place for long, so you have to provoke them and get those F-bombs launched. And you don’t have to really be nasty to provoke them, though I’ll confess I liked to be nasty to them – still do; all you have to do is NOT do what they’ve convinced themselves you’re supposed to do. If you don’t act like they expected you to, they’re clueless as to what to do next and they start vibrating and sometimes explode.
Stand in stone and read the rule book is also helpful advice. And by rule book I mean everything from the Constitution to Robert’s Rules to the Bylaws of whatever organization you are fighting for. You don’t even have to raise your voice. Oh and pray, that they get so aggrivated that they hit you, not so you can hit back, so you can press charges and delegitimize anything else they have to say. Since I’m a woman this works better than yelling or yelling with curses. Drives them absolutely crazy.
Jeb Bush does a disservice to all 10 year olds, by saying that the president is campaiging as if he is a 10 year old, why disparage 10 year olds by bringing them down to the sewer of the campaign that this unpatriotic failure is conducting.
10 year olds have class, and are honest, two things that this man doesn’t have
Remember the froq who asked the frog carry him across the pond? The frog, no fool, was afraid the scorpion might sting him. ‘Of course not’, the frog asserted, ‘if I did that we both would drown.’ So the pair set off across the pond. Halfway across, the scorpion stung the froq. As they both began to sink the incredulous frog cried ‘why did you do that?’. ‘It’s my nature’ replied the scorpion. Why is Obam so nasty? It’s his nature.
I hope you are right Michael, because the mistakes that too many Americans are making are repeats made by others. In other words, there are no original mistakes.
* It’s the Chicago Way to disrespect and destroy your competition.
* Being crude is allowed, though not required, normally some desire to be seen as above it all restrains even the candidate, or especially the candidate.
* But Obama is always a pretender, he’s not sure who he is, or who you are, he just knows he has to destroy the competition because he will probably lose anything like an honest competition. This is the core of the Chicago Way – that, and bribery.
* Obama’s use of the crude is for him a form of sanctimony – he knows that even his supporters are not as good as he is, so he has to speak in a language they understand.
* He comes across as removed and “academic” when he does not. The problem is those are his *good* qualities!
* He has found that the MSM ignore it, feature it, and the Republicans do not respond to it, at least not where it is visible to him.
* I suppose it is even focus-group tested and found the best of a bunch of bad alternatives.
Isn’t this the nature of the parties, and not just Obama?
Read blogs, comments, tweets etc. Liberal’s rarely use reason or arguments, it’s emotional, anecdotes, sometimes vile (obviously I’m generalizing, both sides can do this, but it is the bulk of the left). The crude, simpleton, small nature is the left, conservatism requires intellectual comprehension, you HAVE to think to agree with it, and to implement it.
It’s like the Rush Limbaugh axiom, the left says “results don’t matter as long as you meant well”
Obama employed childish sarcasm during the 3rd debate — subs are ships that go under the ocean.
He reminded me of the “smart’ kids on the debating team that I hated so much back in High School.
I was frightened that the left thinks so little of the electorate that they would employ such lowball sarcasm.
“The vice president asking a bereaved parent about the size of his murdered son’s testicles. It’s quite a spectacle.”
THAT is being kind, to say the least. I will NEVER forgive Biden for saying that. Never. If that was my son in that coffin and the Vice President made such a stupid comment like that to me, I’d probably spit on him. How DARE he say a thing like that to a grieving parent? Just shows you what little class both Obama and especially Biden have. They both disgust me.
It would have been apropos if the dude had slapped Biden’s teeth clean down his throat for saying such a despicable thing.
the beginning of the end of civilized behavior and the irreversible vulgarization of the office took place when a democratic president (Clinton) answered a question concerning his underwear. The age that followed lacks all grace
Obama is a Democrat. Most Democrats tend to be vulgar and ignorant. It is them who key cars that have Republican stickers on them. It is them who use profane language on talk radio.
He certainly is doing himself no good by unmasking the person he really is.
The reason Biden and Obama use filthy language in public is that they use filthy language in private — and when a person is upset, angry or ill at ease, his private manners come to the forefront. Jimmy Carter used to make fun of Hubert Horatio Humphrey as Hubert Horatio Hornblower — and then one day in front of millions of people Carter actually introduced him as Hornblower. What you say to your friends is what you’re going to say to the world when you think you’re among friends.
As for Biden’s filthy little query, I suppose that it was his way of being “Masculine” with a Real Man. Same thing as made him use Black Patois when speaking to a Black audience.
Did youn consider the possibility that Jimmy Carter, a naval officer, might be a fan of the novels of C.S. Forester?
No one reads the Horatio Hornblower books today (which is a huge shame), but they were popular 75 years ago, and were even widely read up until the 1970s. Hemingway once said that he recommended them to every literate person he knew.
The fact is the Obamas have no class; both are nothing but lowlife grifters.
Once you’ve had this black you’ll never go back !
An acquaintance told me of the time a few years ago when his aunt, a big time Hillary supporter, gave a big enough check to Hillary that she was invited to a weekend a the private estate of a rich supporter in Florida. For her contribution, my friend’s aunt got to be in the presence of Hillary for a couple of days in a private setting. My aquaintance said that the aunt returned with tales of surprise at how often and how naturally Hillary used the f-word in every kind of discourse–in anger or in normal commentary. I would have been surprised if she’d spent the weekend and not heard Hillary spouting the f-word even once. Part of progressives’ disdain for tradition and traditional values, I guess. I guess even conservatives will let fly with the f-word at times (but gosh darn it, I bet Mitt never does…). But the left crowd thinks the f-word and other vulgarisms are acceptable and they seem to claim them almost exclusively for their own. It’s no big f-ing deal. And Whoppi’s comment before the assembled Dem movers and shakers some years ago making word play on GWB’s family name and its homophone referring to a woman’s nether regions. I hadn’t heard that word used like that since that once year I tried hanging around with a fraternity in a college, or perhaps in the barracks when I was in the army.
Class shows.
LACK OF class shows a helluva lot more!
His handlers have tried to make a silk purse out of the wrong material.
His civilized persona is nothing more than creation of Madison avenue/
Hollywood production. Underneath of the facade The real Obama always has been a bitter, angry, underachieving, vulgar individual who never appreciate anything that was given to him. I’m happy that his mask finally is being pulled off.
It is not suprasing to hear vulgarity coming out of this Marxist president. This is the radical left – their usual motto – anger, disinformation, spread of fears and lies, excessive promisses of better life under his failing regime. I knew that he would crash eventually! And that it would happen before his term was out!
What do you expect from a white-hating,half-educated, ghetto rabblerouser,raised by a marxoid granola-headed mother, and a commie “father”? The hatred and vulgarity was always there for anyone to see. You don’t sit at “Rev” Wright’s feet for 20 years, unless you have a soul as demagoguic,vulgar,and hateful, and a mind as limited,as his.He is a creature of affirmative action and the average american’s moronic racial guilt,and he is demonstrating in his hatred, and criminal incompetence,that America got conned.Obama is nothing but Al Sharpton with diction lessons,a diet,better hair,and a phony Harvard degree.
I’ve noticed a coarsening on TV, particularly NBC where is seems every comedy during the “family hour” manages to work the word “penis” into the discussion. A couple shows have almost dwelled on the the subject. Perhaps I’m a prude, but I must wonder why the extra effort. I wonder which body part will be the next target of opportunity. Then there’s the extreme effort attempting through comedy to “normalize” homosexuality. Modern family stands out as the model as it incorporates more and more of the two daddies. Then there’s Glee and the New Normal. Will and Grace may have opened the door for this type of broadcasting.
I am not personally opposed to homosexuality, but such blatant exposure does them no favor, especially when all you have to do is watch a “Pride” parade. Talk about debauchery. Nothing I want to see more than some skinny guys hairy butt.
Adversity reveals character. When Romney was behind in the polls, he grimly and decorously soldiered on, and worked hard enough to turn it around in the debate. This is the first time Obama has ever faced the prospect of a big defeat, and his true character is showing.
Everything about Obummer is crude, vulgar and vile.
Did nobody in the Democratic party read Obama’s “Dreams From My Father” before considering him as a presidential candidate? His character was on display with his blatant pride in using drugs and marijuana, and his own frequent use of the “Nigger” in the book. The N-word is in his book, so why can’t I use it here? Because I’m not black?
Why is Obama so nasty and vulgar? What? Is this a trick question?
It’s because he’s a Democrat, that’s why. Silly rabbit.
What puzzles me to no end is the way Obama and Biden can speak lies with no one in the media but Fox News Channel calling them down on it. The Fourth Estate has become the Tenth Estate, for failing to search for the truth.
If the corrupt Fourth Estate does not fall with their Dear Leader, the Lies will continue with a life of their own.
…. Why Is Obama so Nasty and Vulgar …?
1) He’s a “Democrat;”
(Remember the the Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu of America Politics: Missus & William Jefferson Blythe “Cli’ton?”)
2) As my Grandma always said about that untermenschen pair of representatives of the wider lumpenproletariat:
AKA as the base “Democrats” or is it the “Democrats” base, I forget)
“No matter how well he cuts it up, not even a “Democrat” can make strawberry jam from pig poop”
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/331865/obamas-big-reason-going-small-stanley-kurtz#
“Yet the truth is, Obama and his advisors never abandoned their quest to shape a permanent leftist majority, a coalition that would forever put an end to Clintonian triangulation and usher in unfettered leftist Obamaism instead. Obama’s frantic efforts to gin up the women’s vote and the youth vote aren’t only desperate attempts to secure his base. They flow from a deliberate decision not to fight for the center, but to build an independent majority on what is supposedly the “demographically ascendent” left.”
He is speaking to HIS electorate
Unfortunately though, a lot of people liked his tone (and that’s what I hear). They though it was spontaneous, real and Obama connected with them. Maybe one’s got to get low, get “basic” and stir up what’s on the bottom, to liven things up.
He has certainly lost his messianic character, maybe he’s even cracking a bit, but I think he’s certainly capable of a calculated loosening of language and demeanor.
This is the same narcissist who told the girls on the View (spew) that he was “eye candy”… he has a horrid personality disorder where he CANNOT take criticism and his own esteem of his self is corrupted by the “yes people” he has surrounded himself with to prop him up! He is on the same order as Hitler, Mao, Che… the list ever growing, now we will be able to add our own dear leader to that list of miscreants!
The democratic party is similar to a cesspool; the really big chunks rise to the top.
I am so glad Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have not resorted to the demeanor and/or the language of a middle schooler, in public anyway.
I think America is finally seeing the REAL Barry. Over the past four years, he has continually demeaned the office of POTUS. Now, it is out in the open, for all to see. This man does NOT deserve to be President. He insults us all.
An astounding compilation of facts. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this article and applaud the writer for his genius.
I am re-posting on my site and every other one I am subscribed to.
I never thought he was cool or elegant and always knew he was a bum. Obama fooled a lot of people thanks to the MSN Democrat propaganda machine.
I think you got this wrong. He a NASTY and CRUDE MAN at ALL TIMES. Sometime he just acts more like it!
In 2009 the people of my fatherland rose up against the barbaric ayatollahs asking for nothing more than the chance to live in peace without fear of oppression. Many of them gave their lives for that cause. President Obama decided that it was better to appease the Islamic fundamentalists and therefore ignored this cry for freedom and by doing so the bloodsuckers were given carte blanche to clamp down on their innocent throats and murder them by the thousands. That act of indifference by President Obama was vulgar.
After his inauguration to the highest office of this land President Obama embarked on a trip to foreign lands apologizing to whomever would listen for the behavior of these United States in its pre socialist days. That was vulgar.
In that very trip as he trotted the globe he refused to go to Israel, our closest ally in the region and the only country in that region that shares the same values as ours. In fact, he has always found a reason to denigrate Israel and hasn’t even had the courage to call Jerusalem its rightful capital. That was and is vulgar.
During the so called Arab Spring President Obama encouraged the downfall of our allies in the region in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood. The results of these actions by him are clearly evident today in Egypt as this once ancient and glorious culture is sinking deeper everyday into the hell hole of Islamic fundamentalism. That policy was vulgar.
As tens of thousands of innocent Syrians are being murdered by Assad and his masters in the Islamic Republic President Obama stands by watching and only paying lip service by uselessly saying that Assad must go. Assad is still here. That is vulgar.
As the undeniable result of President Obama’s policy more Americans have been forced into poverty and have become wards of the state dependent on SSI and Food Stamps. That is vulgar.
So, my dear Dr. Ledeen, I hope you are gracious enough to pardon me for not being as offended by his use of verbal vulgarity as I am by his vulgar actions.
Give me a leader who believes in American exceptionalism and the values that made this country a great power and if he has the mouth of a sailor stationed on an aircraft carrier, a ship on which airplanes can land, and a pair of testicles as big as those that our bayonet donning Marines are blessed with and it will be just fine with me.
snarky,
yes, I meant to say, “wasn’t pretty”. Typos are driving me crazy. But nothing like Obama’s refusal to send a rescue team in to save Smith, Stevens, Doherty and woods drove their loved one’s crazy. And, in effect, were the orders that killed all of them.
Guilt by association is all one needs to know about this man. What other logic is there? I’m sure any psychiatrist could tell you what kind of impressions would linger deep in Obama’s mind with his associations throughout his life. The ideology of these people he has been in contact with his entire life had to be absorbed in this man’s mind.Who could deny this line of logic?
Still a fourteen year-old spoiled brat between his ears.
I think Obama is just a very spoiled brat who will have an enormous tantrum if he loses. He grew up in a very dysfunctional family which had values totally opposite the values of most families. He was always praised for his intelligence although there was little contact with other kids his age so his grandparents probably thought his wise-a88 comments were the nth degree in astuteness. He and his wife by virtue of quotas were propelled into social circles far above their own economic and achievement level and they expect that to continue throughout life. They make no connection between ability and economics because they have never had to do so. I don’t know if we will ever be rid of OBama and Michelle. They have encouraged many of the “lower class” to have expectations far above their achievement level.
His push for everyone to go to college may result in lowering the stadards for many professions. We may have physicians who never learned the parts of the body or the metric system. Who knows what will result.
Profanity is the attempt of a weak mind to express itself forcefully
I’m so glad someone said he’s a bum. I feel the same way. I read also that his GPA is 2.6. That came from someone in the Silicon Valley, who’s a wealthy donor to Columbia. I’m assuming it’s probably true, since he won’t release his transcripts for insepction.
According to wikipedia:
“Borderline personality disorder (BPD) (called emotionally unstable personality disorder, borderline type in the ICD-10) is a personality disorder marked by a prolonged disturbance of personality function, characterized by unusual variability and depth of moods. These moods may secondarily affect cognition and interpersonal relations.
“The disorder typically involves an unusual degree of instability in mood and black-and-white thinking, or splitting. BPD often manifests itself in idealization and devaluation episodes and chaotic and unstable interpersonal relationships, issues with self-image, identity, and behavior; as well as a disturbance in the individual’s sense of self. In extreme cases, this disturbance in the sense of self can lead to periods of dissociation. It is only recognized by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) in individuals over the age of 18; however, symptoms necessary to establish the disorder can also be found in adolescents.
“Splitting in BPD includes a switch between idealizing and demonizing others (absolute good/love vs absolute evil/hate with no “grey area”). This, combined with mood disturbances, can undermine relationships with family, friends, and co-workers. BPD disturbances may also include harm to oneself.[2] Without treatment, symptoms may worsen, leading (in extreme cases) to suicide attempts.”
Well, the shoe certainly seems to fit, eh?
You people claim to see through Obama so much that you have to invent things to nit pick about. If you had any true insight, you could see that Romney is the exact same. So what if he has lots of family and is a Mormon. Since when are those people sane with their invented religion. They are on par with Scientology.
Everything Obama has said is accurate. You mouth breathers lost the election, so don’t cry about it now. People saw through Mitt and his Stepford wife, and all his lies and flip flopping, and wen’t with the lesser evil. Period.