So where’s Ring Lardner when you need him, like now?
“Are you lost daddy I arsked tenderly.
Shut up he explained.”
Thus Ring in The Young Immigrunts (1920).
Can’t someone get Obama to shut up? A few weeks ago, when the stock market was once again in Armageddon mode after S&P downgraded the US credit rating for the first time in history, Matt Drudge ran a piece under the headline, “It tanked while he talked.”
Last night, Obama took to the airwaves to explain his “jobs program.” Price tag: another $400 billion — for starters. I stopped listening to the Big-O some time ago — my blood pressure can’t take it — but I read what he said and, boy-oh-boy: what an obtuse, disingenuous speech. The markets must have thought so, too, for the Dow shed another 303 points today. How many billions (or is it trillions?) does that represent? Why can’t he just shut up? Can’t we pay him to go back on vacation? Leave Air Force One behind, Barack: just take your golf clubs and stroll around the links with the swells on Martha’s Vineyard. Please, please, keep your mouth shut. You and Michelle should just go away and spend a few more millions of the taxpayers dough: the only condition is that you stay out of Washington and you never, ever say saying anything publicly about matters of policy. Concentrate on that sand trap in the back nine. Leave world affairs, especially, leave the U.S. economy, to someone who understands where money comes from.
As many commentators have noted, there is an aroma of fear hovering about the White House these days: the stale, acrid scent of panic. Some of us have known all along that Obama, the community organizer miraculously elevated to the U.S. Senate for a few months before he erected some Greek columns and talked his way into the U.S. Presidency, some of us, I say, have known all along that he hadn’t a clue. Now it seems that even he is getting uncomfortable inklings. In the beginning Obama emitted an aura of that some identified as an aura of confidence; really, it was an aura of entitlement — along with what the President himself a while back identified as “bluff.” Are you the sort of person who likes empirical reminders? A friend sent me this handy score card today:
Sobering isn’t it? It’s an unmitigated litany of failure, evidence of economic illiteracy, political incompetence, and ideological extremism. What a legacy. No wonder that nearly everywhere one turns these days you hear echoing the same acronym: OMG: Obama must go.
Obama would look at that list and say:
- so what
- like I said, change is hard
- if you think any of it is actually bad, it’s not my fault
He is well on his way to permanently transforming the country.
His goal now is to pull off one last con in Nov 2012.
If Republicans keep piling on Social Security, he might just do it.
Yes. Because being reasonable with communists and anarchists has always worked so well, before. Next time you see the Romanovs, just ask them how that worked out.
New paradigm. When someone wants you to chop off your arm and give it to them, and you’d like to keep it, do you offer him half? Including the elbow, or not?
O’Blinkey hasn’t even spelled out which arm, yet you already want to compromise.
Next time you see Neville Chamberlain, ask him how that worked out, too. Maybe he and Nicholas can help you see the light.
Can’t tell if this guy is confused or stupid.
I’m thinking both.
The sad fact is, nobody except the usual MSM turds take his “jobs” program seriously. It’s the same junk that didn’t work three years ago, except only half as much money this time. There’s no appetite in Congress for more debt and everybody with half a brain knows that. Assuming Obama has half a brain (a risky proposition but bear with me here) then he only proposed the damn thing as a campaign ploy; when the Congress ignores his bill to death he can put on his Harry Truman hat and scream “It’s all the fault of that bunch of Do Nothings!” On the other hand, if Obama really expects the Congress to conjure up a bill and pass it based on his ramblings, he doesn’t even posess half a brain.
When someone points me to the first country which has survived it’s first black president, without becoming broke, unsafe, and unsustainable, I promise to act surprised.
It’s not that I’m racist. Someone who supports Ron Paul needs to give me a similar answer regarding MDs. Syria, anyone, among many others?
I think a black MD is the ultimate jackpot.
Although thinking clearly has become out of fashion, I intend to stick with it, to the end. I may not have long to wait.
i’m not sure what your antipathy to black MDs is all about, but your challenge seems to be tell you one good black MD. i suggest Charles R. Drew MD. look him up.
I would heartily support a Presidency of Dr. Thomas Sowell. I know, he’s not an MD, but the black thing you reference is quite a bit too far. It’s not because Obama’s black, it’s because he’s a liberal academic.
Its not that he is black, its that he is a socialist. Nelson Mandella did pretty well for S Africa. They have their problems, but are miles ahead of other African nations. Interesting comparison between Mandella and Obama. Before his election most people thought that Mandella would be a socialist, but he turned out to be a moderate. Before his election, many people thought Obama would be a moderate, but he turned out to be a socialist.
President Oblather believes and disseminates the BS that passes for wisdom in the deteriorating halls of academe. He echoes especially those members of the junior and senior faculty who populate the humanities and social sciences departments across the country. Long ago Eric Hoffer warned against eggheads in government.
I just wish Republicans would stop waiting for BO to make the first move. They should propose a good plan and pass it in the House. A GOP presidential candidate needs to get behind the plan, warning what more Obamanation will bring.
Most of the GOP candidates are behind a very good plan that will bring the current depression to an end, thus bringing back economic activity and jobs.
It centers on reversing and nullifying and overturning all of the administrative actions that the various agencies – the EPA, the NLRB, etc. – have accomplished in Obama’s name (except, of course, that the lying Obama just looks blank and says “nope, that wasn’t me.”)
It includes reversing and cancelling ObamaCare. It involves searching for ways to retrieve all of the hundreds of billions handed out to Obama’s donors via “stimulus” checks. (Yeah, getting a few billion for helping raise money for Obama would stimulate the heck out of me, too.) Hopefully, it involves prison time for many of those thieves, as well as for the head thief.
But you think that the House ought to get started on this, and pass bills putting it into motion? Yeah, that would be a wise and efficient use of time. If any of those bills ever made it past Harry Reid, would they make it past the veto pen? Ha.
There are no little detailed steps that can be added on to what Obama has done that will cause all of this mess to work. Congress cannot just add a few small programs and hand out just a bit more money and – bingo! – see the economy run! All of what Obama has done needs to be erased, reversed, wiped out completely, disavowed, and ridiculed. All of it. The people still fighting for this disaster of a philosophy need to be whipped. Figuratively, of course. The cause of socialism, a/k/a crony capitalism, ought not receive any incremental gain from this abortion of an administration. Y’all tried your best to wreck it all, but you got caught before you could finish – don’t expect that your consolation prize will be that you only get to wreck part of it.
The term “racism” is thrown about like the ball on a midnight basketball court. If a major party wanted to run its first negro (or 1/4 negro in this case) candidate, why didn’t they pick someone who was qualified for the job? Like Cain, or like some democrat version of Cain.
If that had been the case, there would be no talk about criticism of the person because of his DNA.
My point is: apart from the few loonies of all shades that are always with us, there is no “racisim” behind criticism of Obama. The criticism is that he is incompetent to do the job. Plus, it requires more work than he expected.
And the people who vaulted him into this position – by the nature of their agenda – are incompetent also: the Jarrets, the Geithners (father was Ford Foundation mentor to Obama’s mother), Nippletaneo, Holder, Nancy Lugosi, Reid, you name it. Even Bernake (who slipped in as a Bush RINO, now turned “Jarrettista”, reappointed by Obamais damaging us structurally, along with the rest of them.
O was the most credentialed candidate the democrats could possibly have come up with. Schooled by Alinsky, trained as a community organizer, an ally of ACORN, surrounded by American-hating terrorist wannabes such as Ayer and Dorn, mentored by Rev. Wright, sheltered by the leftist press, the man was made to order as their leader. Name me one person more qualified.
Sadly, there is no democrat version of Cain. After sitting here and pondering which current democrat black (national/political) candidate might approach Cain’s level of intelligence and character I gave up. After thinking about it some more, the only person in (my) ‘recent’ history that I could come up with is Barbara Jordan. Even more sadly, I doubt the democrat party would support her. She was much more reasonable than radical.
Dad used to say about people like Obama (and his supporters) “You know, that guy is really dangerous. He’s dumb and he thinks he’s smart.”
Ignorance coupled with arrogance is a bad combination. A great many people mistook it for confidence.
As they say: “Confidence does not imply competence.”
Edits:
Line 1: “when you need,” s/b “when you need him,”
Line 4: “Immigrunts” s/b “Immigrants”
Line 12: “just talk” s/b “just take”
Line 20 “talked his way in” s/b “talked his way into”
Win The Future. Obama Must Go. WTF, OMG.
Very good, will remember that.
My contribution:
Just Obama’s BS: JOBS
While the racist idiot above posits that Obama is failing because he is black, and goes on to rail against Medical Doctors as well, I could equally point out that Obama is as white as he is black, and complain that he is a failing white chief executive, just like all those whites in power just before say, World War II – but I won’t say that, because I am not a racist idiot, who for some reason also has a gripe against doctors.
President Obama, and his supporters, present the person Obama as a Black person. His supporters gushed at electing the First Black President. Black people voted for him because he was Black, while deriding Whites who opposed him for any reason as being racists. Go ahead, try to deny his being Black is an important part of the persona he is trying to project. Do you think for one second he would have gone as far as he has if his wife had been White?
I’m convinced Barack is simply a pretty face that had all three of his elections fixed for him, that is told what to say (nothing), and usher in the hundreds of apparatchiks (that none dare call by name)and sign the bills and take the hits. He doesn’t care, cause his work is done. As far as the man himself is concerned, “there’s nothing there, there”.
Obama has to have a scapegoat, and blaming Bush doesn’t work anymore. Hello, Congress.
KSmith, well said. But you forget that the GOP leadership in Congress is part of the problem and not part of the solution. They’ve “gone along to get along” for so long…they don’t know anything else. Passing a solid jobs proposal will get nowhere because they want “bipartisan” support….something that’s a thing of the past with the current leadership on BOTH SIDES of the aisle today.
Congess won’t do anything because they (collectively) are afraid that they’ll be blamed for it…as they should be. Mr. Obama is clueless because, well, he’s never actually had to work for a living. He’s never met a payroll, and neither have ANY of his academic, economic advisors. All they possess is “theoretical knowledge” and that in $10 will get you a cup of coffee and some conversation. He’s trying the same ol’same’ol’ so he can use it as a political weapon next year. “ITS THE GOP’s FAULT, they wouldn’t pass my jobs bill.”
That’s it.
Rich Vail
Pikesville, Maryland
The Vail Spot dot Blogspot dot Com
I love the oxymoron: “ideological extremism.”
Almost as funny as Obama’s non-idologial ideology.
To quote Dr. Harry Binswanger:
“Nothing is more dogmatically ideological than branding your opponents as “ideologues.” Ideology is inescapable. Everyone has an ideology—i.e., a set of abstract principles regarding how the world works and what is right. Some ideologies are true, some are false. But that’s not how second-handers see things. They feel, “I merely report the self-evident; those other guys are denying the self-evident; they must be in the grip of some prejudice to be so blind to what’s self-evident.” By “self-evident” they means: “printed right there in Paul Krugman’s column.”
‘Extreme’–”being in or attaining the greatest or highest degree” (AHD)–would in this context mean, ‘most consistent.’
You know, like the ideology of Jefferson, Washington, Henry, Madison and Adams: extreme liberty–extreme individualism–an extreme recognition of the inviolate nature of individual rights.
Or, if you’d rather, like Goldwater: “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice…”
We are witnessing an age borne of dogmatic uncertainty and of the absolutism of relativism–a world permeated by Hume’s moral agnosticism, defined only by Kant’s ethics of self-sacrificing duty and Hegel’s world collectivism.
So to, ‘Shut up, he explained,’ please add: ‘And stop trying to think objectively.’
Or, to put it bluntly: “Brothers, you *all*–right, left, Libertarian and in-between–asked for it.”
That is a great list. Obama can run as the candidate of More in 2012. More unemployment, more debt, more government, and more guns for the Mexican gun cartels.
I love the oxymoron: “ideological extremism.”
Almost as funny as Obama’s non-ideologial ideology.
To quote Dr. Harry Binswanger:
“Nothing is more dogmatically ideological than branding your opponents as “ideologues.” Ideology is inescapable. Everyone has an ideology—i.e., a set of abstract principles regarding how the world works and what is right. Some ideologies are true, some are false. But that’s not how second-handers see things. They feel, “I merely report the self-evident; those other guys are denying the self-evident; they must be in the grip of some prejudice to be so blind to what’s self-evident.” By “self-evident” they means: “printed right there in Paul Krugman’s column.”
‘Extreme’–”being in or attaining the greatest or highest degree” (AHD)–would in this context mean, ‘most consistent.’
You know, like the ideology of Jefferson, Washington, Henry, Madison and Adams: extreme liberty–extreme individualism–an extreme recognition of the inviolate nature of individual rights.
Or, if you’d rather, like Goldwater: “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice…”
We are witnessing an age borne of dogmatic uncertainty and of the absolutism of relativism–a world permeated by Hume’s moral agnosticism, defined only by Kant’s ethics of self-sacrificing duty and Hegel’s world collectivism.
So to, ‘Shut up, he explained,’ please add: ‘And stop trying to think objectively.’
Or, to put it bluntly: “Brothers, you *all*–right, left, Libertarian and in-between–asked for it.”
Wow, it feels like a white hooded pajama party! We couldn’t lay any responsibility on GW, after all, he only took us from surpluses to the largest yearly deficits the country has seen in just 8 years. And lest we forget, 9/11 happened on his watch.
Seven
Obama has made it clear that his many agendas, union, envioro, regulatory, and social justice are not negotiable. He made this very clear in his speech. So we are left with fiscal accommodation to get us out of the problem…tax cuts, spending.
His hard line no negotiation approach is not helping the business climate and is probably one of the major drivers of the recession….which means that his speechifying is largely a diversion from what he’s really after. Just like years ago when Charlie Gibson asked about the cap gains tax, O said it is all about fairness…whatever economic impact there is is secondary. That is his philosophy
There are other, big, issues too. The lack of skilled workers.
http://www.jsonline.com/business/129200543.html
so we may have reached the point that the dumbing down of America has manifested itself both in the lack of skills and in the high need to be taken care of by the government.
Don’t agree at all to let Obama loose on the taxpayer dime. Impeach him and strip him of his government pension at once. Not one more dime to this incompetent fraud who’s fluted away trillions in taxpayer wealth. We jail bank robbers for stealing fractions of what Obama’s blown.
“What an obtuse, disingenuous speech.” — You said a mouthful.
Obama doesn’t really TALK to the “folks.” (And if I hear him call us that one more time, in that oily, insinuating manner of his, I’m going to puke.) Anyway,he doesn’t simply talk, he manipulates. He’s always calculated, deceptive, duplicitous. A huckster.
And not too bright. A Mussolini for nitwits.
RK, the lack of skilled workers stems from the imbecillic emphasis on “college degree” ANY college degree as a requirement for employment. Most people who’ve attained the wonderful psychology degree aren’t really useful for anything except flippin’ burgers at the fast food place down the road. We’ve forgotten how to make things and it’s beginning to show in our manufacturing sector.
Rich Vail
Pikesville, Maryland
The Vail Spot dot Blogspot dot Com
lol GOPers are so ruined by a black man in office.
“GOPers are so ruined by a black man in office.”
Jeezuz. If Stalin had been black, you’d be defending his twenty million murders by calling his detractors racist. You are – excuse the impoliteness here – a moron.
You think you can buy BO more looting time by saying “racist” every five minutes and then scurrying in and stealing more from people while they look shocked and try to explain to you that it’s not the race, it’s the fact that he’s a lying effing thief?
Well, to your credit, it has worked that way for a couple of years. What you’ve accomplished, though, is to beat out of us conservatives any notion that we need to respond to you with respect – that you deserve a dignified response, that you’re just another valuable person with different ideas. Now, three years later, we’ve finally figured out that what you deserve is a quick kick in the butt and a dismissal from society. So, call me racist if you’d like. No one cares anymore, little buddy.
I don’t hate blacks. I hate morons and thieves. Go grab BO and the two of you go far away. You’ll live longer.
lol 2010 elections.
Obama delenda est.
The real cause of those “records” is “none of the above”. No conservative dares face the truth. Conservative govt was a failure in *every* sense of that word.
There were almost 70-million man-years of income, taxes, and spending LOST between 2001-2008. The US economy needed to add 2-million ADDITIONAL jobs to the workforce every year–which it had done 1971-2001 (go ahead–graph employment 1971-2008). It is virtually a straight line headed UP for the years 1971-2001–and it suddenly goes “flat” in 2001. More importantly, it NEVER really recovers. Fact, not opinion. Official BLS numbers (BLS, Table B-1).
That is a massive ONGOING loss to the economy year after year after year. The loss is about $20-trillion in economic activity–or $2.5T/year in LOST GDP. Now you get an idea of the scale of the loss–approaching/exceeding 20% of total GDP every year.
With a 14+million unemployed worker “hangover” of the workforce, employers can be as picky as they desire–but ONLY for a while. Starting in 2012, the Boomers begin to hit Full Retirement Age–and that will start to “eat away” at the number of unemployed workers. About 2.5 to 2.75 MILLION workers will begin leaving the workforce EVERY year by 2015. Sure, some of those jobs will be automated or re-configured out of existence. But the numbers are inexorable. Do not be surprised to see *worker* shortages in the 2015-2020 range and beyond.
Baloney. We had at or near full employment through the years of 2001-2007. Accounting for the tech bubble and 9/11, we had at or near full employment for 80% of Bush’s two terms, with a budget deficit 1/10 of what it is this year in 2007 – the year before a real estate collapse. Corporate profits reached record levels in mid 2007, and the S&P 500 reached its height during Oct. 2007.
You libs can spin this financial fiasco all you want around Bush’s neck, but the fact of the matter is, the real estate collapse was set in stone years before Bush even became President.
Fannie and Freddie are tied to the hip of the Democratic party. And let’s not forget, your man Obama campaigned promised to halve the deficit during his first term. How’s that working for you lying sacks?
Saw your friend’s list via Insty. I hope it’s okay that I ccp’d it and will be giving copies to friends. I mean, really, aren’t we all excited to tout the “unprecedented” nature of this “historic” Presidency? Let’s get the word out about these accomplishments.
“It’s not because Obama’s black, it’s because he’s a liberal academic.”
Academic? Only in the most casual sense. Just another part of the cover story.
Jerry,
Leave the liberal talking points at home.
Rick Vail:
RK, the lack of skilled workers stems from the imbecillic emphasis on “college degree” ANY college degree as a requirement for employment. Most people who’ve attained the wonderful psychology degree aren’t really useful for anything except flippin’ burgers at the fast food place down the road. We’ve forgotten how to make things and it’s beginning to show in our manufacturing sector.
yeah. And, right on time to further screw up the situation, we have things like
this PHIL BOWERMASTER: JOBSOLESCENCE? at Transparency Revolution. So our friends on the left like some jobs (white collar, professorial, IT is nice) and eeverything else is chump jobs. You know, those drilling jobs that insult Gaia and Barry, coal mining, all that dirty stuff. Let’s fund solar stuff…that sound like fun
Fundamentally transform indeed
Many people are saying that Obama is another Jimmy Carter, but your litany of 10 epic failure records set on Obamas watch makes it clear that Obama is much worse than Carter. And another point to add, despite Carters stupidity, his administration was fairly honest and reasonably free of cronyism, while Obamas is rife with it. By the time Obama is done with us, we will be looking back on Carter as the good old days.