William Hazlitt on Barack Obama, Or: Why the Ridiculous Is no Laughing Matter
I, too, snorted in disbelief when I first heard about this. What a tacky, indelicate thing to do! In one stroke, Obama has made himself a laughing stock, rendered himself ridiculous, and assured that he will be the butt of comedians for weeks if not months.
But here’s the thing to remember. We often assume that someone who is ridiculously contemptible is therefore not dangerous. History shows that, on the contrary, the ridiculous can easily cohabit with the malevolent. The fact that someone is a preening buffoon provides absolutely no assurance that he is not also a grasping egomaniac. The last few weeks have not been kind to Barack Obama. The skies are filled with chickens coming home to roost. The scent of panic among Democrats is palpable as the gaffes multiply, the economy lurches, and the money-machine dries up. We can expect greater and greater exhibitionist spectacles, orgies of moral browbeating, and Chicago-style gutter ad hominem attacks. Some of this will be simply preposterous, like the AttackWatch web site (remember that?) or the suggestion that we forgo Junior’s new bicycle and instead send the dough to the president’s reelection campaign. But don’t be lulled by the preposterousness of these gambits of desperation into thinking that their perpetrators, because ridiculous, are therefore harmless. It turns out that, in the world of politics, what is ridiculous is often no laughing matter.
Well, then…campaign needs funds – whose fault is that? Did he spread it around a bit too freely?
Another good cause: Elvis needs boats.
Now, how he spends his money is being challenged by the Town of Durham, NH. They are demanding he pay his own way for the added security the SS expects when his highness comes to town. Wonder if Mr. Spendthrift will be forced to cancel this campaign escapade?
Aside from the sheer vulgarity and tactlessness of this gesture, I am struck by the narcissistic assumption President Obama makes. He assumes that people wish to, and will, make personal sacrifices for him, and some of them will. He wants people to show a sign of allegiance to him, not to the country, or perhaps to the country through him.
In other words: Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what you can do for Obama.
You’re either with him, or you’re the Lumpenproletariat.
Inspired by Roger Simon’s piece President Weirdo, I wrote this piece focusing more on the electorate for BHO, and wondered if he could hold it together. Here is the link: http://clarespark.com/2010/04/05/is-potus-crazy/. It seems more timely than ever, especially since the flap over the pipeline that pitted (pseudo) environmentalists against workers. I am still scratching my head, trying to understand why he still has supporters. I am hoping that the wedding gift gambit has more impact than to reassure Republicans that their opponent is no gentleman.
“…the ridiculous can easily cohabit with the malevolent.” Yes. The emperor without clothes is still the emperor.
One good turn deserves another, Roger https://donate.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/obama-event-registry/ROMNEY2012
I don’t know how you managed it, but that is sweet. If I could be sure it wasn’t just a dodge to get more money into the Obama coffers by deceit, I would donate a bit right now.
Whoa. What is that?
The Obama-Biden website is asking for donations for Romney?
Don’t do it. It will donate money to Obama’s campaign, even though Romney is listed there.
I hope that won’t cause people to make a terrible mistake!
I’m still wondering how Obama’s campaign can burn through more than it raises every month. They should just shut it down until September-ish.
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Thanks Fausta!
If anyone wants to see the rest of the story it’s here at “The most arrogant man in the world invites himself to your wedding” http://www.michellesmirror.com/2012/06/most-arrogant-man-in-world-invites.html
I can’t wait until they start putting Michelle’s expensive clothes up for sale on Craig’s List or eBay
The “clothes” have already been rejected by Catholic Charities of the Sudan. They don’t even make a decent “lean-to”.
Just so.
I’ve been saying it since about spring of 2008. This guy may look and act like a 7th grader breaking through the school doors for summer vacation, but he is an exceptionally dangerous person. He has probably already done more damage to the world than any but a handful of despots in history…not because he has chopped people’s heads off (yet) but because undermining the US makes the world a playground for barbatians, not to speak of the 20 trillion he and his handlers sucked out of the US economy in Sept/Oct 2008 to get him elected.
But I also like the point about the proven liar Holder. Roger downplays it too much, describing it as a matter of indelicacies. Many of us have known from the beginning that these people have no civilized boundaries. Pathological Lying is the least of it. Tyrants never stop at anything. Leftists never stop at anything. With this crew, since they know there are a quarter billion firearms in private hands (and growing geometrically), they are smart enough to know that a direct confrontation won’t get them the power they crave; hence the probe, withdrown, reprobe, dissemble, obfuscate, con, propaganidize strategy that they have adopted by necessity.
They would cut your genitals off in a second if they thought they could get away with it.
Judge them not by what they do, but by what they would do if given the opportunity.
I apologize for going off topic, but I want to thank you so very much for this quotation !
It is so deep, it is so important, it gives words to something I could never focus !
Thank you.
“Oath? tut, a breath
There’s no such thing in nature; a mere term
Invented to awe fools.”
—Corvino, in Ben Jonson’s Volpone (adapted).
“Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord, thy God in vain.”
“The skies are filled with chickens coming home to roost.”
Hah! One can almost imagine Obama adopting Les Nesman’s infamous defense.
“With G-d as my witness, I had no idea my social engineering schemes couldn’t fly.”
That was Mr. Carlson.
Oh, right you are. My mistake.
Don’t use Hazlitt as a text when scolding Obama. This was a man who wrote
an admiring biography of Napoleon, his country’s enemy for twenty years.
Slogan: “Your wedding pictures will be filed away and forgotten in a year. Your contribution to re-elect Obama* will change your life for many years to come and will be a memory which returns to you often throughout your life.”
[* and possibly later Michele ]
I sincerely hope he receives truckloads of used condoms.
Good one!
Obama is worshiped by his minion in the cult of progressivism.
This ploy is just about as creepy as the story where Julia volunteers to be turned into fertilizer for the community garden.
Only in America
1) Only in America could the President talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000 a plate campaign fund-raising event.
2) Only in America could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when we have a black President, a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the federal work force is black while 12% of the population is black.
3) Only in America could we have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee, BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.
4) Only in America can we have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the President and the media react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.
5) Only in America would we make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege while we discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just become American citizens.
6) Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country’s Constitution be mocked by the President and labeled “extremists” by the media.
7) Only in America are you required to present a driver’s license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.
8) Only in America could the President and the media blame oil companies for gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a most major oil companies is less than half that of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).
9) Only in America could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, but still spend over a trillion dollars more than it has per year while the President complain that there is not nearly enough money to do what he wants.
10) Only in America could the people who pay 86% of all income taxes be accused by the President of not paying their “fair share” on
behalf of the people who don’t pay any income taxes at all.
11) See this article by Robert Kimball.
12. Only in America could the government, through regulations (EPA, OSHA, etc) and union influences drive millions of jobs and billions in investments overseas and then blame the business owners as greedy
Only in America can we hear of those who work hard and produce condemned, but those who sit on their asses with their hands out seen as “deserving.”
Only in America can we hear of those who believe in the Almighty treated as delusional, but millions worship at the altar of Global Warming, and they’re “sane.”
Only in America can we have a political party who believes that intelligent political discourse is to sneer and call their opposition smarmy juvenile insults.
And in particular…only in America can we have a subset of a generation that believes that because they grew their hair long, did drugs, slept around, and refused to serve their nation during time of war, are inspired enough to try to change the very nature of America and it’s instutions into their bizarre version of Nirvana.
Only in Topsy Turvey moonbat ruled America could people who merely ask to see PROOF of what Barry Soetero claims and to see the HIDDEN Documents that shroud his life in mystery be labelled ‘Tin Foil Hat Conspiracy Theorists ‘ and ‘Birthers’ while those who are both providing risible FAKE Documents and continue HIDING the Documentation of his life story get a FREE PASS.
Only in America could the 10% of the population who pay over 95% of the Taxation be called UNFAIR by the 50% of the Population who pay NOTHING.
only in amerika could the fattest race of people in the world (by far) who on average have luxuries beyond comprehension for those in really poor countries, be considered poor and constantly in need of numerou$ handout$ by government, to the detriment of everyone else.
only in amerika could a person w/o one legitimate personal document …
i’m more and more starting to believe the mayans knew more about us than we know about them.
Only in America can you look at a dollar bill and see the signature of a tax cheat over “Secretary Of The Treasury”.
It’s a lucky break for children that the election is being held before Christmas otherwise Obama might try to snatch all their gifts.
Ah, yes — The Obama that stole Christmas!
No fear of his heart growing three sizes, though — more likely his ego, or thirst for power.
I suppose that the most direct way The One could raise campaign funds would be to, by executive order, mandate a special tax on all Americans, but of course, that. would be wrong. Not that the wrongness would disuade The Anointed One, rather that a new tax would only be met by tax avoidance. Better to encourage voluntary contributions. Accordingly, I submit for presidential review, my recommendation for a BUCK-a-F**K surcharge. Put simply, every joint adventure (pun intended) would generate two dollars for the Pres.. I suspect that many self proclaimed studs would voluntarily inflate their frequency count, and therefore the amount due, just for bragging rights. This might be partially offset by the female Saturday night ‘I have a headache’ ploy. Sandra Fluke by herself would bountifully augment the presidential coffers. The Occupy Wall Street mob certainly would generate gobs of green, except that they pretty much don’t have a pot to piss in. I’m not sure how this would work in the gay/lesbian/transexual community, but that’s why we have accountants and lawyers. And if all else fails, a levy could be placed on masturbation. The Left certainly would accept this, as their continued enthusiastic support for Obama clearly represents a penchant for self abuse.
My dear Carla: You have captured my heart? You may have the finest sense of humor on the internet. Certainly it is the sharpest. Poor obama! It’s a good thing that he spends his time with the fair Michelle, and not with you. May God have mercy on his soul.
But God forgives only the repentant, Acts 17.30.
The Creature From The Oval Office is absolutely unrepentant, and thus will receive zero mercy. One of the fatal fallacies of much “religion” is the false notion that may be saved by faith alone or grace alone. “Alone” means just that; all by its lonesome, ie, with nothing else. Repentance is neither faith nor grace. It includes a cessation of evil, ie, sin. If Obama repented of lying, he would stop lying. But he lies all day every day and is, ergo, not repentant. Repentance is a condition of salvation and one that Obama seems most unlikely to meet.
First I laughed, and then I cried!
OldTimer is an octagenerian, on his most recent annual physical he responded to the physician’s query on ‘love life’ as ‘memorable’. New Rx was for 50mg Testosterone daily. General price range for the Big T is about $400 a month, not covered by most drug insurance plans. Add in your proposed (or Proposition Tax) tax and the ‘Last Hurrah’ will be on the way to the poorhouse. And Obummer will still get his kicks, sticking it to the elders once again.
At grams funeral, ” in lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the Obama campaign”!
“Now, Eric Holder may well be headed for a contempt of Congress citation. What would happen then is anyone’s guess. We know what would happen if you or I lied to Congress. But we’re just the little people.”
This is what drives me nuts about Fast and Furious. If you or I blatantly perjured ourselves in front of Congress, odds are we’d be going to jail. But for some reason perjury isn’t a big deal to our ATTORNEY GENERAL! Think about it. Holder met with Congress the other day and offered to give them more documents if they would drop the contempt citation. Um, excuse me, I always thought that when you were given a subpoena to hand over all of your documents, you HAD to hand over all your documents. Silly me. I didn’t know that only us poor folks had to follow the law and not the ATTORNEY GENERAL!
Well, if I were Holder I would start reading up on a fellow by the name of John Mitchell, who was the Attorney General under Nixon. On February 21, 1975, Mitchell was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury and sentenced to two and a half to eight years in prison for his role in the Watergate break-in and cover-up. Hmmm, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury. Sounds like all the things Holder will go to jail for, or at least should go to jail for. And I think he will.
Maybe they could tap some of the ‘big gulp’ money freed up in New York city?
A fund-raising scheme like this could only be birthed as the unholy offspring of narcissism and entitlement and conceived in rank desperation.
I am counting every one of the 135 days until I can pull a lever to vote the current regime out of power.
All your gift are now belong to us.
“Ask not what Obama can do for you – ask what you can do for Obama”
“Let them not eat cake”
“And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to weddings, anniversaries, or birthday gifts.”
Obama Campaign 2012 – We Accept Food Stamps
Ridiculum non semper ridendum.
I’m having trouble believing that any couple could be so collectivized that they would do something like this. I wish the site had a “thank you” page listing the names of people who actually thought a political campaign contribution was the perfect alternative gift for someone they loved.
On the other hand, a $0.05 donation might be the perfect present for friends or family members who are fanatical Obama supporters. “I didn’t buy you a present this year; instead, I donated a nickel to Obama in your name. I figured you couldn’t enjoy your birthday knowing that He is hard up for cash.”
I think we’re making too much of this. The effort was probably launched by a low level staffer without sufficient review from the management. If the president did know and approve, it only supports the contention that he’s so desperate for re-election that he’s lost all perspective. This could very well be the case anyway, but I wouldn’t put too much significance on one, lame, amateurish, fund-raising effort.
The problem with that excuse is, “low-level staffers” seem to keep pulling off these astonishingly lame gaffes. That sort of speaks to the competence of management, don’t you think?
Yes, it does. It makes you want to ask, “where are the adults in the room?”
That presupposes that there are any adults in the room.
I can’t take credit for this observation (I wish I could!), but some wag over at Protein Wisdom, regarding this in-lieu of fund raising plea, remarked that he “always thought that the screwing was to begin AFTER the reception.”
Yea and/or verily this has been done.
But Voltaires enemies were all those who loved and served our Lord, Jesus Christ. One suspects that God did not answer his prayer affirmatively.
Honestly, the first time I saw the “Obama Event Registry” I thought it was a parody.
So what’s next – an “Obama Birth Registry”? For a fee “Obama” can be your newborn’s middle name; for a larger fee the child’s first name.
Hitler got rich by requiring that his likeness appear on all German postage stamps and then getting paid a royalty for each and every stamp. Good thing US postage stamps are self-stick because otherwise most people would spit on the wrong side of an Obama stamp.
Good thing you have to be dead before you appear on an official US postage stamp or Obama wouldn’t be able to resist the temptation.
The Beggar in Chief
o0o
There once was a liar in chief
Who was also a number-one thief.
When the usual offers did not fill his coffers,
He turned to the people in grief.
o0o
“I once had my eye on a billion,
But I can “make do” with a million.
Your nickels and dimes will add up over time,
Who knows, they may get us a trillion.”
His popularity is at 47% and has not budged in three years.
Maybe America deserves four more years of Obama?
Even extremely slow learners eventually learn if enough pain is applied.
When I saw this last night, I thought it was a joke. Having lived through 3 years 5 months (since January 20, 2009) of this individuals pathetic attempts at being a statesman and representative of this country……. I simply don’t know what to say. I didn’t think I could still be surprised by this inept amateur…. but he has managed it. Anyone that can still say they are proud they voted for him is beyond help.
I need a drink.
And those who are proud they voted for Obama will be the ones who will answer his call. They may be beyond help but they’ll vote for him again. How many small donors gave to him in 2008? They’ll do it again. We will be lucky if he loses. The problem is, he is still viable. I don’t see states like CA, NY or NJ going red anytime soon. Obama doesn’t have to wow the country, just get enough votes in enough states to garner 270 electoral votes. Romney has his work cut out for him.
I am curious if those behind the scenes, who helped orchestrate the rise of Barry Soetero from a humble Indonesian Muslim classroom into the West’s most powerful office, had a hand in this? From a cool billion (some from anonymous sources) campaign cash back in 2008– now Forward with Hope to Change one’s wedding present plans?
Actually? How many vacations has The Won taken…didn’t Air Force One fly to a Chicago wedding just last week, and did O give a gift to Val’s daughter? Or to set an example; make a contribution into their own registry on behalf of saving the planet from bitter clingers and 1 percenters?
Over the last three+ years, it’s interesting how Middle East Haters of all things Israeli are now in control, thanks to mysteriously funded uprisings and take-overs by the Muslim Brotherhood. Were they among the beneficiaries of the huge ‘stimulous’ windfall?
Just who has been keeping the books of the billions extracted from American taxpayers for all those “not so shovel ready” jobs promised from The Ones We Were Waiting For? Inquiring minds want to know. At least today, I want to know.
Tomorrow I’ll muse over who’s on America’s Idols Dancing With The Stars Who Think They Can Sing or whether You’re The Next Big Winner For AWholeLottoCash collected mostly from people who buy groceries with foodstamps.
#27, I’m with you. I too thought it was a parody. Sad to say it is not. This is the most ridiculous, narcissistic thing that has come out of this administration I have seen yet. Even Bill Clinton didn’t stoop this low. If the Romney campaign can’t find a way to use this they deserve to lose.
“The skies are filled with chickens coming home to roost.”
Favorite line in the entire post. LOLOLOLOLOL!
For all the laughing and scorn we heap upon Obama over this, consider how much harder he laughs at the suckers he calls “supporters” who actually fall for it and send him money. He who laughs last laughs loudest, and that is the realization of the Hazlitt quote. Why does Obama DO this ridiculous thing? Because it works on the ‘geniuses’ that support him. There is no insult too egregious for his ignorant supporters. They’re too willing to pass off anything questionable he does as having been done by someone else… low level staffers … or such.
Austen describes this best – “a villain is a person who gets everything he wants at great cost to others, but at no cost to himself”.
Marxist dictators did this kind of thing – saying ridiculous things and expecting their subjects to go along – all the time. Here’s one example. In Romania, Ceaucescu tried to pass his wife off as an intellectual, a world-class chemist who the world’s top chemists looked to for inspiration. In reality, she had only had good marks in one class – sewing – and had dropped out before finishing public school. Yet the regime treated her like a genius and expected Romanians to do the same. And, sadly, most of them did go along, although it was mostly for fear of their lives.
Luckily we are free to ridicule our politicians without risking a bullet to the brain or a long trip to the Gulag. At least until Obama gets re-elected.
What’s next? Perhaps an assertion of “The right of the first night” a la El Cid.
Aside from the President’s other faults, he clearly needs a better crew of editors and style checkers. His grandiose solicitation for funds carries the gauche lapse in diction of confusing “further” and “farther.” The closing comment of the registry request ends with “—and goes a lot further than a gravy bowl.”
A competent style checker should have caught this lapse. But, clearly, competency is a custom more honored in the breach by the Obama administration and political machine.
And it is a “gravy boat” not a “gravy bowl”. He’s utterly clueless.
All affirmative action products have an inflated sense of entitlement.
I said in 1998 to my local leftist rag of a paper, there could never be a more classless, shameless, vulgar couple than Bill and Hillary Clinton to be deemed first couple of our country.
I was so wrong.
Dude.
“We often assume that someone who is ridiculously contemptible is therefore not dangerous. History shows that, on the contrary, the ridiculous can easily cohabit with the malevolent.”
Witness Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Moamar Qadaffi, and Robert Mugabe, to name just a few. Barry Hussein Soetero will soon join this crowd.
Had enough of the Borat Presidency? If the fake Greek Columns, the fake Prezy Seal were’nt sufficient clues, how about the comment to Joe the Plumber about spreading the wealth. He’s spread about one generation’s wealth in only three years of this Presidency. And seniors, he’s redistributed your Medicare Advantage, too.
Let’s look at the record:
Mr. Peace Prize drops bombs on Al Qaeda via drones. Neat, clean, so maybe he takes out a few family members too, but what the heck.
He or his staff leak state secrets to the world. But all of Obama’s records, including high school, college, work, and long form birth certificate are firmly locked away.
Bill Ayres, B. Dohrn are not just “guys from the neighborhood”. These are domestic terrorists who Obama has a long relationship with. They worked together on boards and Obama opened his political career in Ayres home with a fund raiser.
Obama sat in on Rev. Wright’s bigoted, hated filled sermons for 20 years. Yet Obama claimed he heard nothing. More unbeleivable than Sgt. Schultz.
No word fromt he “press” how Obama got into elite colleges in spite of spending much of high school chooming dope with his friends. Who gets into Harvard without good grades? Plz.
No word from the “press” on why Obama travelled to Pakistan while a student. Who paid for the trip, who did he visit, and who paid for the trip? This is not a location a typical, poor student would visit.
No word from the “press” about what was said at Rashid Kahlidi’s going away party. And why does the LA Times still have the tape safely locked away. Maybe if we reclassified it as a state secret, the contents could be leaked to the NYT.
You can Goggle Obama in his own words on how he sought out the marxist professors in college. His own “bio” referred to “Frank” as in Frank Marshall Davis the communist who mentored Obama. Frank had a FBI file a mile thick and he has his very own communist party ID number.
This is a man who has defied a federal judge and continues to withhold drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico. At the same time, he gives money to Brazil and Mexico for their drilling programs.
Obama has made appointments, even though the congress was not in recess. He didn’t care, he did it anyway.
If the Supremes shoot down Obamacare, what guarantees are there they Obama will stop implementing it? I mean he been ruling, not governing.
Mr. Obama is the food stamp and welfare president. He’s also the “green jobs” investors. Only strangely, the “green Jobs” largess seems to go the large Obama donors. Pay to play, anyone? And while Obama goes around excoriating millionaires and billionaires, why do these “fat cats” need out money to run their green hobbies? Really doesn’t Robert Kennedy have enough of his own moola to fund green energy if he wants to pursue it.
If your neighbor is hedging on who vote for, just ask him/her about having four more years of this? How much in taxes is he willing to pay to fund these Democrat politican schemes?
America’s first “shinking” Pres is now the first gift-grubber in chief.
Unpresidented!
Is Obama not satisfied with the many millions of dollars from Leftist Hollywood elites, that he now asks for wedding, anniversary, or birthday gift from Americans in order to contribute to his campaign. People are struggling to survive and Obama wants people’s gifts? Does Obama EVER think of anyone else except himself?
Let’s hope he won’t start asking children to donate their lunch money.
He won’t ask, he’ll just have his ‘community organizers’ take it.
I thought most public schoolchildren ate free lunch (and breakfast, and snack, and in some schools supper), thanks to His largesse.
Oh boy ! How could I forget that ?
Mussolini at some point organized a large campaign called “Gold for the Motherland”, and all married persons were required to give their wedding rings to the regime.
Same minds. Same ideas.
Poor minds think wrong alike ?
– have returned and reside in the White House. Thought they were supposed to give to the People.
There is a reason that “gauche” is associated with “left”, as leftists have now descended into the receiving lines of brides to obtain their “jus primae noctis” (although more along the lines of Charlie Manson at Spahn Ranch than Edward Longshanks at Westminster.)
As for ridiculousness, leftists bathe in it.
Nancy Sillyosi beclowns herself with regularity. Harry Reid is the Emmett Kelly of the Senate. Eric Holder and Jay Carney are Obama’s daily court jesters.
Leftism in the Fabian Socialist (aka “small c communist”)model is nothing, if not abject ridiculousness on display.
What makes Emmett Kelly and all the others piling out of the leftist clown car so sad, is that Republicans play the perfect foil time after time after ridiculous time.
Let’s take for instance, this Fest of Spurious claims regarding the ridiculous program to run guns to drug cartels. Leftists cooked up this scheme in order to …well, do what exactly?
1)They NOW say…that “George Bush started it”…a ridiculous playground taunt that they spray across ANY failure they have created, like a dog passing a fire hydrant.
But…is this true or accurate? Is Wide Receiver the same program as the Fest of Spurious claims?
Of course not. Yet watch the “loyal opposition” …the Washington Generals of Globetrotting fame…butcher the defense of this position time after time after ridiculous time. Emmett Kelly isn’t sad enough after watching this display of butchered debate.
2)The Small C Communists and their sniveling toadies in the Propaganda and Lies Ministry move on from the outright fraud that this is a “continuation” of Wide Receiver, to suggest that Eric Holder HALTED the operation.
Uh…no. The death of Brian Terry and the need to crawl back under the leftist rocks to avoid getting caught HALTED the operation.
3)The Fest of Spurious claims continues to suggest that having the unmitigated gall to ask the Red Guard how this clown car became filled to the brim with bumbling imbeciles, who sponsored, devised, ruled and permitted this festival of idiocy…is based solely on politics.
OF COURSE IT IS. It is not going to get vetted by the insiders of the Red Guard themselves. It is going to get covered up by the Fabian/Small C Communists, so it HAS TO be investigated by people who oppose them. That is axiomatic.
However, that doesn’t make the investigation LESS worthy. Trying to unveil a Fabian Socialist, to tear off the mask that hides him…is not an unworthy goal. AND…when the Fabian acts in stealth…those acts…seeking to tear down the free market by deceit, are SUPPOSED TO BE INVESTIGATED AND UNCOVERED in order to protect the Constitution and prevent the overthrow.
Why Republicans are apologizing and denying the reality of that is the height of absurdity and each time they deny it, they throw another log on the funeral pyre of our liberties and freedoms.
4)Obama and Holder want to invoke the “Royal Bubble” protection. “You may not ask us what we are doing, what we have done, or what we intend to do in the future. We invoke the “Royal Red Privilege”, as well as our race card defense against answering ANY inquiries, of ANY type, that may unveil what we Fabian Socialists/Small C Communists are up to.
If you DO ask, in order to unveil us…you are racist. You are playing politics and we are not, we are not going to give you anything, we have already given you everything, you deserve nothing by way of answer, we have already answered.
Oxymoronic? Laughable? Ridiculous?
Of course. And there will be NO accountability from the conspiratorial Rear Guard Ministry of Propaganda and Lies. Only more cover up.
So, what do the Republicans do from here?
Why bow, scrape and negotiate, of course. Allow the leftist messaging to dominate. Surrender.
How much more ridiculous can it get than that?
In addition to Fabian Socialists/Small C Communists, the US has had the Progressive movement for more than a century. The goals of Fabian Socialists, Small C Communists, and the Progressives are basically the same and their devious means vary little. Throughout the last century (including now), Progressives have been/are common in the membership and leadership of both the Democrat and Republican Parties.
[blockquote]So, what do the Republicans do from here?
Why bow, scrape and negotiate, of course. Allow the leftist messaging to dominate. Surrender.
How much more ridiculous can it get than that?[/blockquote]
This is true and Republican Progressivism might partially explain the blockquoted bit above.
He’s so vile, so gross, so petulant, childish, selfish, disgusting…nothing really shocks me any longer about this POS.
I agree with everyone that this is tacky. It is also a part of a pattern in which Obama has politicized nearly everything. It seems he can’t make a holiday proclamation without including some political twist. Recall when his campaign urged young people to argue with family members at holiday dinners? And wasn’t it the prayer breakfast where he invoked Jesus’ support for his redistributive agenda? The Obama designer clothes, Obama accessories, on and on. All politics all the time with this guy. The nanny state controls part of your life and the rest is infiltrated by marketing.
It’s more than just politicizing everything. He’s made his campaign into something more than mere politics – it’s a crusade. It’s a cause that is so holy, that nothing else matters. It’s a jihad. How can you enjoy weddings and such trivia when there’s jihad to be fought?
It seems like the Obama campaign is so worried about appearing like Jimmy Carter, they decided to try and look more like Nixon.
Furthermore, Hazilett was not the one to lamemt the weakness of delicacy when he produced a pathetically foolish account, Liber Amoris, of his attempt to
drop his wife for his indifferent landlord’s daughter. New Criterion
should stop its bad-tempered showing-off and stick to its main subject.
Instead of sending Obama the cash you would have otherwise spent on a present, send him the present. Gift wrapped and all. Of course you can go a little more down-market than what you originally planned, maybe some thoughtful gift from the Dollar Store.
How about let’s all send him a cat/dog turd gift-wrapped? lolz
If he paid the actual cost for he and his spouse to fly around in Air Force One, he would need even more money.
Perhaps someone can tell me why AG Holder is allowed to withdraw his lies with no repercusions and Scooter Libby was sent to jail when it was determined that he lied.
I will say this for the man, he makes Richard Nixon look honest, Bill Clinton look classy, and Jimmy Carter look wise in comparison.
It would be difficult to do worse.
I’ve wondered why, from the very beginning of Obama as standard bearer for the Democratic Party, Left or whatever, WHY Obama with his gangs of marauders? If the Democratic Left wanted a post-racial or other black American as flag-bearer WHY Obama snd his army of vandals?
From beginning to the present this management by experts in showbiz, advertising, Nuremburg Rally type propaganda, people management, social engineering, intelligentsia, politics and of course psychology of mass behaviour the underlying theme is contempt.
The upshot of all that expertise is the sheer unambiguous, and sneering contempt for the people – white, black, purple, yellow, green … – to whom they wanted to sell their goods/Gods.
Contempt apparently warranted because they succeeded in selling their shoddy materials. Obama and his flunkeys selected by the hierarchy of the Democratic Party despite availability of worthy models proved respectful of, trustworthy and successful within the bounds of the principles, customs and laws of the USA. Some who were business men, not professional politicians or film or TV stars.
Independent, learned and wise American blacks. NOT Black Americans. There IS a difference.
In choosing Obama and his thugs these feel your pain compassionates and liberals have sent the most racist message possible. As if to have “the first American black President” requires selection from the bottom of the barrel.
Obama and his troupes/troops are THE WORST possible model OR role model even with extensive air-brushing- for Americans of any age, place or genesis. Strongarm thugs, in your face law-breaker, contemptuous of decency and truth, working the premise that everybody can be bought. The price immaterial when it’s other peoples’ money and always more where that comes from with the “stroke” of a pen. Lying, narcissist psycho/sociopaths running in menacing gangs who despise the people who buy their shoddy goods. OR ELSE.
Absolutely consistent with the known history of the Democratic Party.
“Low Level” would be desciptive of the entire staff from Holder on down. If truth ever wills out, the AG will be remembered as the ‘Holder of the Bag” successor to “Holder, the Bag Man”.