Obama Bars Press from Press Award Ceremony

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You couldn’t make up stuff like this.

Barack Obama was elected commander in chief promising to run the most transparent presidential administration in American history.

This achievement and the overall promise of his historic administration caused the National Newspaper Publishers Assn. to name him “Newsmaker of the Year.”

The president is to receive the award from the federation of black community newspapers in a White House ceremony this afternoon.

The Obama White House has closed the press award ceremony to the press.

UPDATE at 3/20/09 11:25:09 am:

The National Newspaper Association, despite its innocuous name, is actually an association of far-left publications that includes “Final Call” — the paper published by Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam: NNPA - Article - member papers.

And that explains why Obama doesn’t want the mainstream press at this award ceremony.

(Hat tip: Zimriel.)

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382 comments
1 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:29:31am

THE MOST OPEN AND TRANSPARENT GOVERNMENT EVER!

2 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:29:54am

He demanded that no one question the teleprompter.

3 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:30:05am
4 Sharmuta  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:30:08am

Oh, the IRONY!

5 astronmr20  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:30:34am

…and that’s how irony works.

6 Jetpilot1101  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:30:47am

I’d call this bunch of nincompoops running the country circus clowns but that would be offensive to nincompoops and circus clowns.

7 Racer X  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:30:49am

ROFLMAO!

8 Sharmuta  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:30:56am

Hilarious!

9 soxfan4life  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:31:31am

After the San Francisco dinner and the bitter clingy remark, I wonder what gems will come out of his mouth today.

10 Sharmuta  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:32:07am

They made you, they can break you Mr Teleprompter.

pass the popcorn

11 Honorary Yooper  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:32:16am

What delightful irony.

12 simonml  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:32:18am

He’s going to speak without a teleprompter and knows he’s going to offend someone. And to think he made light of Bush’s gaffes. He’s a gaffe master if you ask me

13 thedopefishlives  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:32:38am

Hope. Change. TRANSPARENCY.

14 Desert Dog  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:32:39am

I can see right through him, no problem

15 Gella  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:32:41am

LOL

16 soxfan4life  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:33:29am

re: #12 simonml

He’s going to speak without a teleprompter and knows he’s going to offend someone. And to think he made light of Bush’s gaffes. He’s a gaffe master if you ask me

Without his teleprompter he makes Joe Biden seem well spoken.

17 livefreeor die  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:33:50am

Did they say why he closed the ceremony? I would love to hear the excuse.

18 x-wing  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:33:58am

Smiles everyone..Smiles.

Buyers remorse can be a m***erf***er…huh.

19 Spare O'Lake  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:33:59am

Impossible!
Improbable.
Really?

20 kansas  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:34:04am

Black Newspapers?

21 jcm  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:34:09am

Without the TOTUS the POTUS’s handlers are afraid he’ll speak his Marxist mind.

22 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:34:17am

I saw this, and thought to myself: Is this going to be the incident that causes the scales to fall from the eyes of Obama’s sychophants in the MSM? I see no difference between the blindness of the Obots, and the loveblindness of a teenager in an abusive, dangerous relationship.

I have known people who have allowed themselves to stay in abusive relationships and you just have to marvel at the continued Self-deception in the face of overwhelming evidence of the worst-case scenario unfolding.

Hey you media people: How does it feel to be lied to, and shut out, and dissed?

(Ignore their whining about the bruises.)

23 Soona'  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:34:23am

Gotta go. Later.

24 jcm  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:34:25am

re: #20 kansas

Black Newspapers?

White Text?

25 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:34:27am

After doing some dumpster diving, I’ve come across Obama’s backstage rider.

It includes the following:
Munchies for the teleprompter.
Masseuse on premises at all times for teleprompter - to alleviate and ameliorate tiredness.
Suitable electrical systems to power teleprompter and lighting that gives hero effect in all photos at all times.
Battery backup and WiFi.
Plaster columns, which can be fitted in traditional colonial styles. Doric and Ironic preferred.
Basketball court and regulation basketball.
Restraining order on Coach K.
Bowling experts are restricted from being within 500 yards.

26 Desert Dog  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:34:41am

re: #21 jcm

Without the TOTUS the POTUS’s handlers are afraid he’ll speak his Marxist mind.

He might call them retards….you know, in a joking way.

27 vxbush  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:34:51am

Next on Obama’s World:

Obama goes to a Mothers Against Drunk Drivers event with a beer in hand.

Obama goes to NRA association meeting with a “GUNS KILL” bumper sticker on his limousine.

Obama goes to a Special Olympics national event with his bowling ball.

/

28 Van Helsing  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:34:51am

I’m shocked! Shocked I ….

Hell, no surprise here. Can’t even feign it anymore.

29 HelloDare  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:35:04am

And this man makes fun of the disabled. Sheeesh!

30 Leonidas Hoplite  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:35:05am

Well, he doesn’t need them for another two years or so, and I’m sure he’s just trying to save money on the catering bill from Subway

31 horse  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:35:08am

Perhaps the TOTUS was not available to support the POTUS for this event.

32 soxfan4life  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:35:24am

re: #17 livefreeor die

Did they say why he closed the ceremony? I would love to hear the excuse.

Teleprompter called in sick today.

33 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:35:25am
34 realwest  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:35:55am

I am sorry to go OT this early, but I made this comment at the end of the thread on Obama/Iran after, I fear, everyone had left and wanted to repost it:
I’ve mentioned before out here how I had the distinct privilege of meeting one of the former Iranian hostages (I cannot reveal his name) in a group of six people all of whom he KNEW were friendly to him and would literally have done anything at all to help or protect him.
And yet, throughout the entire meeting - lasting over an hour, his entire body shook like a leaf in a light breeze. Every Single Day one of his captors would come in and put a pistol against the back of his blindfolded head and say “Is today the day?” and pull the trigger on the empty chamber so he just heard the metallic “click”.
I read the transcription above and couldn’t watch the video.
I can’t imagine how badly this fellow - and his surviving fellow hostages - feel this day. I’d guess
“let down” by the President of the United States and indeed their whole country for electing him would be too weak a description by far.
President Obama, you may have won the election, but I know you’re not that former hostage’s President, nor are you mine, in my heart.
And while I know it’s not my place to do so, I offer my heartfelt condolences and sympathies to all of those former hostages and to their families for the actions and words of Barack Hussein Obama this day.

35 Sharmuta  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:36:06am

It makes perfect sense, you see. Having the press around for a press award ceremony would give the press the idea they’re allowed to ask 0bama questions, and that just really dampens the mood of him winning awards and hanging out.

36 KenJen  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:36:16am

This is like a never ending SNL skit.

37 Erik The Red  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:36:40am

WTF. How can you ban the press from a press award?

38 Gella  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:36:44am

after re-reading this, it got me thinking, was it taken from weird news section?

39 simonml  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:36:52am

re: #18 x-wing

Smiles everyone..Smiles.

Buyers remorse can be a m***erf***er…huh.

It sucks even worse when you didn’t buy into him in the first place!

40 Ford_Prefect  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:37:01am

They are planning on showing the movie Network and Obama doesn’t want the media to get any ideas.

41 markx  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:37:07am

[deleted][deleted][deleted][deleted][deleted][deleted][deleted][deleted][deleted][deleted][deleted][deleted][deleted][deleted][deleted][deleted][deleted][deleted][deleted][deleted]


(I’m in full self censor mode today…you’re welcome, Charles)

42 Desert Dog  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:37:11am

re: #35 Sharmuta

It makes perfect sense, you see. Having the press around for a press award ceremony would give the press the idea they’re allowed to ask 0bama questions, and that just really dampens the mood of him winning awards and hanging out.

It’s “Casual Off the Record” Friday

43 CyanSnowHawk  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:37:12am

re: #19 Spare O’Lake

Impossible!
Improbable.
Really?

Inconceivable!

44 Gella  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:37:16am

re: #37 Erik The Red

WTF. How can you ban the press from a press award?

he probably doesn’t want to be compared to Britney Spears anymore, she is on tour

45 Ben Hur  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:37:17am

IT wasn’t a post-racial gathering.

46 soxfan4life  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:37:29am

re: #37 Erik The Red

WTF. How can you ban the press from a press award?


When you consider yourself King of the World you can do anything.

47 markx  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:37:43am

re: #36 KenJen

This is like a never ending SNL skit.


Yeah, but not funny… this is real life, not TV…

48 Gella  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:38:09am

re: #47 markx

Yeah, but not funny… this is real life, not TV…

cops?

49 livefreeor die  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:38:11am

re: #34 realwest

Thanks for reposting this. My heart goes out to him, his fellow hostages, and their families. Obama has no idea how much damage his naivete is doing.

50 markx  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:38:13am

re: #37 Erik The Red

WTF. How can you ban the press from a press award?


Yeah, isn’t the irony rich?

51 soxfan4life  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:38:16am

re: #47 markx

SNL hasn’t been funny for sometime.

52 markx  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:39:02am

re: #51 soxfan4life
Yeah… you got me there….

53 Ford_Prefect  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:39:12am

re: #34 realwest

I regret that I have but one upding to give.

And for you:

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.”
-Mark Twain

54 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:39:12am

re: #33 buzzsawmonkey

Obama knows how to give that old razzle dazzle.

Youtube Video
55 The Other Les  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:39:32am

re: #4 Sharmuta

Oh, the IRONY!

Irony can be pretty ironic.

56 Dar ul Harb  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:39:37am

Given the audience, he probably didn’t want coverage of his attempt at sounding “authentic.”

57 Spare O'Lake  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:39:40am
The president is to receive the award from the federation of black community newspapers
58 Desert Dog  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:40:20am

re: #34 realwest

It’s not just the former hostages. What about the families of the Marines in Beirut? Khobar Towers? Iran has been AT WAR with the USA since 1979 and we are either too stupid to notice, or, we just do not care. What Obama is doing is nothing short of obscene.

To this day, they end the official Friday prayers with a “Death to America” chant. They have vowed to wipe Israel off the map…and Obama wants to treat them like they are Switzerland or something?

59 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:40:22am

re: #25 lawhawk

After doing some dumpster diving, I’ve come across Obama’s backstage rider.

It includes the following:
Munchies for the teleprompter.
Masseuse on premises at all times for teleprompter - to alleviate and ameliorate tiredness.
Suitable electrical systems to power teleprompter and lighting that gives hero effect in all photos at all times.
Battery backup and WiFi.
Plaster columns, which can be fitted in traditional colonial styles. Doric and Ironic preferred.
Basketball court and regulation basketball.
Restraining order on Coach K.
Bowling experts are restricted from being within 500 yards.

All republicans are to be referred to as Onquenshee Ocho while in his presence.

/someone will get that.

60 Sharmuta  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:40:30am

re: #55 The Other Les

Irony can be pretty ironic.

The needle of my meter broke. Imagine that.

61 HelloDare  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:40:39am

Is Obama afraid that we’re going to find out about the secret handshake?

62 jcm  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:40:59am

re: #51 soxfan4life

SNL hasn’t been funny for sometime.

Since Belushi….. (dating myself)

63 Ford_Prefect  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:41:42am

re: #62 jcm

Since Belushi….. (dating myself)

Cheeseburger Cheeseburger Cheeseburger Cheeseburger Cheeseburger !

64 Sharmuta  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:41:42am

Well- if anyone tapes it, the LA Times is available for long term storage.

65 horse  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:41:50am
Barack Obama was elected commander in chief promising to run the most transparent presidential teleprompter administration in American history.

It’s so transparent you can only tell he isn’t using it when he speaks or bans the press.

66 pink freud  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:41:51am

Reaction from Dubai to Iran video (From Tapper’s blog):

“I spoke to Sadjadpour here in Dubai, where the significant Iranian population has been loudly cheering Obama’s message. Across the water, every ordinary Iranian I have spoken to has expressed warm excitement for Obama’s message. Karim and other Iranian analysts stress the important of the following significant points in Obama’s message:

” * Obama was smart to put it his message on the web, circumventing the potential censorship of a purely televised address. Iranians are heavy internet users and will have access to the message in full.

” * Past presidents have issued Nowruz messages, but only aimed at the Iranian people. Obama’s message addressed the people and the government, without drawing an antagonistic difference between the two.

” * Quoting the poet Saadi at the end of the address is hugely significant — invoking the wisdom Persian poetry is a powerful cultural symbol in Iran and an integral part of serious political dialogue. He quoted a poem that many Iranian children learn in school, one that deeply resonates.

” * As mentioned in Trita Parsi’s analysis, use of the term ‘Islamic Republic’ is a concrete sign that the U.S. is changing its approach to Iran. That is not necessarily supporting or legitimizing the regime, but he’s recognizing it and acknowledging it’s the regime he has to deal with.”

67 soxfan4life  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:41:51am

re: #62 jcm

Since Belushi….. (dating myself)

I was thinking the same thing, although Eddie Murphy was pretty funny back in the day.

68 Racer X  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:41:57am

How soon before the media turns on him? It has already started. Just wait until the media discontent gets more steam.

69 Erik The Red  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:41:59am

re: #61 HelloDare

Is Obama afraid that we’re going to find out about the secret handshake?

I hope 44 has not been given the secrets.

70 Spare O'Lake  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:42:13am
The president is to receive the award from the federation of black community newspapers

I’ve never seen a black newspaper - wouldn’t it be a bit hard on the eyes?/

71 livefreeor die  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:42:19am

re: #58 Desert Dog

It’s not just the former hostages. What about the families of the Marines in Beirut? Khobar Towers? Iran has been AT WAR with the USA since 1979 and we are either too stupid to notice, or, we just do not care. What Obama is doing is nothing short of obscene.

To this day, they end the official Friday prayers with a “Death to America” chant. They have vowed to wipe Israel off the map…and Obama wants to treat them like they are Switzerland or something?

I really fear how he is going to respond to Iran’s reply to his video message. Instead of “F— them. I tried.” I envision him groveling.

72 Sharmuta  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:42:25am

re: #68 Racer X

How soon before the media turns on him? It has already started. Just wait until the media discontent gets more steam.

We’re going to need lots of popcorn.

73 scottishbuzzsaw  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:42:29am

re: #64 Sharmuta

Well- if anyone tapes it, the LA Times is available for long term storage.

LOL! Brilliant!

74 markx  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:42:31am

re: #61 HelloDare

Is Obama afraid that we’re going to find out about the secret handshake?

No, it’s because [deleted][deleted][deleted]. And there will be a lot of [deleted][deleted][deleted] going on too. LOL.

Just a bunch of [deleted][deleted][deleted][deleted]!

75 KenJen  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:42:35am

re: #47 markx

Yeah, but not funny… this is real life, not TV…

Not funny? Obama is laughing stock. Besides I’m tired of being pissed off all the time. Gotta laugh at him.

76 HelloDare  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:42:56am

re: #70 Spare O’Lake

I’ve never seen a black newspaper - wouldn’t it be a bit hard on the eyes?/

White type.

77 Pupdawg  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:43:01am

re: #10 Sharmuta

They made you, they can break you Mr Teleprompter.

pass the popcorn

First, from experience he knows they will not, second, from a historical perspective he knows they cannot and last, he sometimes subtly warns they better not. They will never.

78 Kosh's Shadow  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:43:02am

re: #46 soxfan4life

When you consider yourself King of the World you can do anything.

Of course, Steely Dan’s song King of the World was about the end of the world:

Hello one and all
Was it you I used to know
Cant you hear me call
On this old ham radio
All I got to say
Im alive and feeling fine
If you come my way
You can share my poison wine
Chorus:
No marigolds in the promised land
There’s a hole in the ground
Where they used to grow
Any man left on the Rio Grande
Is the king of the world
As far as I know

I don’t want your bread
I don’t need your helping hand
I can’t be no savage
I can’t be no highwayman
Show me where you are
You and I will spend this day
Driving in my car
Through the ruins of Santa Fe

Chorus

Im reading last years papers
Although I don’t know why
Assassins cons and rapers
Might as well die

If you come around
No more pain and no regrets
Watch the sun go brown
Smoking cobalt cigarettes
There’s no need to hide
Taking things the easy way
If I stay inside
I might live til Saturday

Chorus

79 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:43:11am

Time to go on offense. I propose:

Members of Congress whose networth is over $1 million dollars, should take a salary of $1 per year, just like the head of AIG, who is also subsisting on taxpayer money.

80 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:43:22am
81 markx  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:43:27am

re: #76 HelloDare
RACIST!

82 Kosh's Shadow  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:44:08am

re: #62 jcm

Since Belushi….. (dating myself)

There were some funny parts when Eddie Murphy and Dennis Miller were on.

83 Ford_Prefect  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:44:10am

re: #76 HelloDare

White type.

Racist!

84 Ford_Prefect  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:44:30am

re: #81 markx

RACIST!

Doh! Beat me to it.

85 The Other Les  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:44:38am

re: #62 jcm

Since Belushi….. (dating myself)

You should go out with other people more.

86 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:44:40am

re: #79 DistantThunder

Those poor AIG executives.
/A-boo-hoo-hoo!

87 Cato the Elder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:44:42am

Yawn…

Who cares? It’s probably a five-ten minute presentation. Getting press in and out, making a speech, taking questions, posing for photographs, all that would take a lot more time.

Why should the president waste more time than necessary on something this trivial?

It’s a good decision. And we need to lighten up.

88 markx  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:45:04am

re: #83 Ford_Prefect
Beat you by 43 seconds….LOL…

89 Spare O'Lake  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:45:10am

re: #76 HelloDare

White type.

Now don’t let’s be negative.

90 Dustyvet  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:45:18am

re: #63 Ford_Prefect

Cheeseburger Cheeseburger Cheeseburger Cheeseburger Cheeseburger !


Ever hear of the “Curse of the Billy Goat,” also known as the Cubs Curse?

Do you recall the Saturday Night Live sketch in which a short order cook would yell out to incoming patrons:

“Cheezborger! Cheezborger!
No fries, cheeps! No Pepsi, Coke!”?

All of the above have one thing in common: the World Famous Billy Goat Tavern, a Chicago legend since 1934


billygoattavern.com

91 vxbush  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:46:07am

re: #90 Dustyvet

Ever hear of the “Curse of the Billy Goat,” also known as the Cubs Curse?

Do you recall the Saturday Night Live sketch in which a short order cook would yell out to incoming patrons:

“Cheezborger! Cheezborger!
No fries, cheeps! No Pepsi, Coke!”?

All of the above have one thing in common: the World Famous Billy Goat Tavern, a Chicago legend since 1934

[Link: www.billygoattavern.com…]

Ah! I remember that skit well. But I thought it was “No Coke, No Coke, Pepsi, Pepsi!”

92 Racer X  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:46:12am

re: #87 Cato the Elder

You forgot your /sarc tag.

93 kansas  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:46:21am

re: #87 Cato the Elder

Why should the president waste more time than necessary on something this trivial?

.

So he doesn’t have time to fuck up other things.

94 Erik The Red  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:46:36am

re: #87 Cato the Elder

Yawn…

Who cares? It’s probably a five-ten minute presentation. Getting press in and out, making a speech, taking questions, posing for photographs, all that would take a lot more time.

Why should the president waste more time than necessary on something this trivial?

It’s a good decision. And we need to lighten up.

Did you forget something? Like a sarc tag.

96 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:46:56am

re: #87 Cato the Elder

Yawn…

Who cares? It’s probably a five-ten minute presentation. Getting press in and out, making a speech, taking questions, posing for photographs, all that would take a lot more time.

Why should the president waste more time than necessary on something this trivial?

It’s a good decision. And we need to lighten up.

Why include only black reporters? So he can have a friendly suck-up audience and not face any hostile questions. It is a supremely racist decision.

97 The Other Les  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:47:24am

re: #74 markx

No, it’s because [deleted][deleted][deleted]. And there will be a lot of [deleted][deleted][deleted] going on too. LOL.

Just a bunch of [deleted][deleted][deleted][deleted]!

You left out the [fnord]’s.

98 Gretchen  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:47:30am

I believe only the African American press is allowed. It is a segregated post-racial event.

99 UberInfidel67  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:47:34am

re: #95 Unakite Gee, Obi seems to have forgotten that point when discussing it with Leno last night.

100 vxbush  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:47:35am

re: #87 Cato the Elder

Yawn…

Who cares? It’s probably a five-ten minute presentation. Getting press in and out, making a speech, taking questions, posing for photographs, all that would take a lot more time.

Why should the president waste more time than necessary on something this trivial?

It’s a good decision. And we need to lighten up.

I agree in a sense that it is rather trivial and silly, but the irony in this is too good not to enjoy.

101 Catttt  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:47:47am

I think President O has an Onion mole on his staff.

102 keeping it simple  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:48:05am

A message to The Teleprompter.

Dear TOTUS,

Please put something really really awful on your screen the next time the POTUS reads you. (Be honest though.) Put something you know he believes but doesn’t want to say. Something so far out that even the MSM can’t ignore it.

Thanking you in advance,

Disgruntled tax payer.

103 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:48:05am

re: #50 markx

Yeah, isn’t the irony rich?

tax it!

104 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:48:15am

re: #58 Desert Dog

It’s not just the former hostages. What about the families of the Marines in Beirut? Khobar Towers? Iran has been AT WAR with the USA since 1979 and we are either too stupid to notice, or, we just do not care. What Obama is doing is nothing short of obscene.

To this day, they end the official Friday prayers with a “Death to America” chant. They have vowed to wipe Israel off the map…and Obama wants to treat them like they are Switzerland or something?

I heard that he has just sent the President of Switzerland a Whitman’s Sampler.

105 kansas  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:48:17am

re: #101 Catttt

I think President O has an Onion mole on his staff.

He should see a doctor.

106 The Other Les  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:48:21am

re: #75 KenJen

Not funny? Obama is laughing stock. Besides I’m tired of being pissed off all the time. Gotta laugh at him.

That would be funny if it were a TV series: That Darn President!

107 Erik The Red  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:48:28am

re: #98 Gretchen

I believe only the African American press is allowed. It is a segregated post-racial event.

Link please.

108 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:48:47am

Obama’s racism is sickening. I don’t know any racist people.

109 markx  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:48:55am

re: #103 DisturbedEma


…good one!

110 HelloDare  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:48:57am

re: #101 Catttt

I think President O has an Onion mole on his staff.

They’re worried he’s going to put The Onion out of business.

111 Jetpilot1101  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:49:02am

re: #105 kansas

He should see a doctor.

He should be locked up in a padded room with Frank, Pelosi, Reid, and Dodd.

112 Desert Dog  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:49:05am

re: #80 MandyManners

The Meida Research Center has its own awards.

Bill Maher “Wins” the “Quote of the Year”

I nominate Bill Maher for A**hole of the Century..what a complete and utter putz

113 Ford_Prefect  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:49:08am

re: #98 Gretchen

I believe only the African American press is allowed. It is a segregated post-racial event.

The European American press event will be the next night.

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114 The Other Les  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:49:23am

re: #76 HelloDare

White type.

Several people have complained about my use of white letters on a black background of my blog.

115 markx  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:49:30am

re: #106 The Other Les

That would be funny if it were a TV series: That Darn President!


The new F Troop?

116 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:49:39am
117 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:49:52am

re: #109 markx

…good one!

I have my moments…

118 Dustyvet  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:49:52am

Obama’s 129

Not to beat this one to death, but it appears that President Obama’s high bowling score of 129 wouldn’t get him a medal in the Special Olympics.

According to a quick scan of Google results, one well-known Special Olympian, Loretta Claiborne, reportedly bowled a high of 178 in 1995. Rachel Register of Virginia bowled a 212 in 2006. Team Kentucky’s top bowler, Keith Cotrell, boasts a 150 average.

Tim Shriver also noted on GMA this morning that a Detroit Special Olympian has bowled three perfect games.

rpc.blogrolling.com

119 ilzito guacamolito  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:50:16am

re: #112 Desert Dog

I nominate Bill Maher for A**hole of the Century..what a complete and utter putz

I think Dolbermann would give him a run for his money.

120 soxfan4life  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:50:19am

re: #102 keeping it simple

A message to The Teleprompter.

Dear TOTUS,

Please put something really really awful on your screen the next time the POTUS reads you. (Be honest though.) Put something you know he believes but doesn’t want to say. Something so far out that even the MSM can’t ignore it.

Thanking you in advance,

Disgruntled tax payer.

Doesn’t that happen every time he says he loves America?

121 Roses  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:50:46am

This is insane - and someone needs to be keeping track - The Huffington Post admitted to the White House Press Corps. Tells you all you need to know. Media banned and submitted (staged) photos given out on his first day in office? At his Leno appearance? Now this. How many other times, and how long will the Press play ball?

122 lance  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:50:49am

He doesn’t want people asking him about his “Special Olympics” crack, that ought to be obvious. It wouldn’t surprise me is several more “open” events in the coming days suddenly become private.

123 vxbush  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:51:09am

re: #118 Dustyvet

Obama’s 129

Not to beat this one to death, but it appears that President Obama’s high bowling score of 129 wouldn’t get him a medal in the Special Olympics.

According to a quick scan of Google results, one well-known Special Olympian, Loretta Claiborne, reportedly bowled a high of 178 in 1995. Rachel Register of Virginia bowled a 212 in 2006. Team Kentucky’s top bowler, Keith Cotrell, boasts a 150 average.

Tim Shriver also noted on GMA this morning that a Detroit Special Olympian has bowled three perfect games.

[Link: rpc.blogrolling.com…]

While my son doesn’t bowl in Special Olympics, when we take him he is really good. And he loves getting a strike and getting a higher score than me.

124 Gretchen  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:51:23am

re: #104 Alouette

I heard that he has just sent the President of Switzerland a Whitman’s Sampler.


Unfortunately there were indentations on the bottoms of all the chocolates, and a few of the good ones were missing and replaced with mentos. Obama’s foreign policy team is so dumb they can’t even read the little map that is included in the Whitman’s sampler.

125 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:51:57am
126 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:52:01am

CNN’s rating have collapsed. They come in 4th in cable news for March.


Through March 17, CNN trailed not only Fox News and MSNBC but also its own sister network, Headline News, on nine out of 17 days. On one day, March 13, CNN even drew fewer 25-to-54 viewers than CNBC — the first time that’s happened since November 2007. And of the eight days it finished higher than fourth in the demo, five were either Saturdays or Sundays, typically the lowest rated nights for the news networks.
127 Cato the Elder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:53:01am

re: #96 DistantThunder

Why include only black reporters? So he can have a friendly suck-up audience and not face any hostile questions. It is a supremely racist decision.

The award is being presented by a black newspaper group. Since no press is invited, it’s between the presenters and the president. There’s nothing “racist” about it. If it were being given by an Iceland newspaper group, you wouldn’t say boo.

re: #94 Erik The Red

Did you forget something? Like a sarc tag.

re: #92 Racer X

You forgot your /sarc tag.

I don’t do “sarc tags”. When I’m being sarcastic, you’ll damn well know it.

Not here.

128 Catttt  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:53:08am

From the article:

Maybe they’ll let the newspaper people pass the award through the fence.

Heh.

129 soxfan4life  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:53:11am

re: #126 DistantThunder

Hopefully Ted Turner still owns it.

130 Aviator  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:53:23am

The Onion should consider suing Obama for ruining their business model.

131 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:53:54am

re: #127 Cato the Elder

I don’t do “sarc tags”. When I’m being sarcastic, you’ll damn well know it.

Not here.

The existence of a black newspaper group is racist.

132 pat  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:53:57am

Teleprompter and Obama’s brain are still in the repair shop , I see.

133 UberInfidel67  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:53:57am

In reference to the “waterhead” comment from Leno last night, I give you Urban Dictionary. NOTE* Some of these apply to Obi himself.

1. waterhead
a retarded person without the mental capacity to ever do more in the working world than push shopping carts badly. usually loved by the managers cuz they feel sorry for him.
The waterhead usually thinks he is the best worker and that he has a really nice smile. He drools a lot. He will try to get his nonretarded coworkers fired.

waterhead
someone who lacks common sense and intelligence

waterhead
THe entire kennedy klan
although they are rich and don’t have to play the same rule as the common people those kennedy’ies are inbread waterheads
waterhead
Originaly slang for someone who is Hydrocephalic , but which has now come to refer to any severe idiot or retarded individual

a blundering idiot. a dork who knows everything and still only makes 9 dollars an hour at age 34. a retard who guns it after every stop, every time no matter what. buys everything from a 7-11. has a beacon score of 2. never loses an argument.

134 HelloDare  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:54:03am

re: #115 markx

The new F Troop?

This does sort of remind me of Obama’s cabinet.

135 keeping it simple  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:54:26am

re: #120 soxfan4life

Doesn’t that happen every time he says he loves America?

That is something he likes to say. I’m looking for something he believes but doesn’t want to say out loud. I’m counting on TOTUS to help with this.
/

136 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:54:32am
137 Catttt  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:54:35am

re: #129 soxfan4life

Hopefully Ted Turner still owns it.

Time-Warner, IIRC.

138 Desert Dog  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:54:59am

re: #87 Cato the Elder

Yawn…

Who cares? It’s probably a five-ten minute presentation. Getting press in and out, making a speech, taking questions, posing for photographs, all that would take a lot more time.

Why should the president waste more time than necessary on something this trivial?

It’s a good decision. And we need to lighten up.

I think we are just reveling in the thick irony everytime Obama does something like this. Is this “award ceremony” a big deal? Of course it is not. But, it seems to be a pattern of Obama to say one thing and then do the opposite. This is just one more example to add to his list.

If you run on a platform that boasts how transparent your administration will be, and then once you’re in, cloak things in secrecy, that is not only not right, it’s dishonest. All politicians promise the moon and the stars, but Obama laid it on so thick and with such passion, that when he does stuff like this, it tells you a great deal about his character. He would have said anything to get elected it appears….and that is pathetic.

139 Erik The Red  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:55:04am

re: #127 Cato the Elder

I don’t do “sarc tags”. When I’m being sarcastic, you’ll damn well know it.

Not here.

If Fox news sent a white reporter to cover the event would they be let in?

140 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:55:12am

Obama wants to give citizenship to ‘law abiding’ illegal aliens


On his very full plate, immigration was one issue that President Obama had yet to take on - until yesterday, when he discussed it with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

At a town hall meeting in southern California yesterday, Obama renewed his support for comprehensive reform, including a possible path to citizenship for law-abiding people who entered the country illegally, along the lines of the bill that stalled in Congress in 2007.

According to the White House account of yesterday’s one-hour closed session, it was “a robust and strategic meeting” in which Obama announced he will go to Mexico next month to meet President Calderón and discuss, among other issues, effective, comprehensive immigration reform.

What is a law abiding illegal alien?

141 LGoPs  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:55:26am

I don’t know what all the fuss is about. The important thing to remember here is that President Bush was stupid……..
/

142 Ford_Prefect  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:55:38am

I think we are getting worked up over nothing. The only reason he doesn’t want the press there is because he wants to be able to watch the basketball games. With the press there wanting to actually ask him questions and stuff, he won’t be able to pay attention. I mean the man has a bracket sheet that he needs to keep track of. Get off his back!

/

143 realwest  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:55:40am

re: #58 Desert Dog

It’s not just the former hostages. What about the families of the Marines in Beirut? Khobar Towers? Iran has been AT WAR with the USA since 1979 and we are either too stupid to notice, or, we just do not care. What Obama is doing is nothing short of obscene.

To this day, they end the official Friday prayers with a “Death to America” chant. They have vowed to wipe Israel off the map…and Obama wants to treat them like they are Switzerland or something?


I realize that my comment #34 did not include those other unforgiveable hostilities by Iran; I was simply passing along, fwiw, my personal experiences with one of the hostages and my heart is breaking for him, the other hostages and their families now.

144 Desert Dog  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:55:41am

re: #119 ilzito guacamolito

I think Dolbermann would give him a run for his money.

They could be “Co-A**holes of the Century”

145 Diamond Bullet  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:55:47am

Well, closing the ceremony did generate more news. Another triumph! (Too bad the award wasn’t for “Good Newsmaker of the Year”).

146 IgofAntioch  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:55:53am

BHO and the teleprompter reminds me of “Putting on the Ritz” in the movie “Young Frankenstein” Which one do you think is the teleprompter?

147 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:56:30am

re: #140 NJDhockeyfan

Obama wants to give citizenship to ‘law abiding’ illegal aliens

What is a law abiding illegal alien?

Straight to re-education camp for you.

148 HelloDare  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:56:32am

re: #140 NJDhockeyfan

Obama wants to give citizenship to ‘law abiding’ illegal aliens

What is a law abiding illegal alien?

It’s like a law-abiding released gitmo detainee.

149 Nevergiveup  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:56:39am

Why would he close it?

150 soxfan4life  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:56:44am

re: #140 NJDhockeyfan

Obama wants to give citizenship to ‘law abiding’ illegal aliens


What is a law abiding illegal alien?

Future Lifelong Democrat Voter

151 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:56:45am
152 Erik The Red  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:57:01am

re: #140 NJDhockeyfan

Obama wants to give citizenship to ‘law abiding’ illegal aliens

What is a law abiding illegal alien?

Great question.

153 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:57:22am

That would be the “National Newspaper Publisher Association”. On the list: Amsterdam News, Carolina Peacemaker, (Michigan) Take Pride Community, (Alabama) Speakin’ Out News, (Connecticut) Omoja News, and of course (Illinois) Final Call. Final Call would be Farrakhan’s sockpuppet.

This is a rabble of far-Left and racist ‘zines, not a newspapers’ association (even a black-oriented association) as we know it.

154 livefreeor die  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:57:34am

re: #142 Ford_Prefect

I think we are getting worked up over nothing. The only reason he doesn’t want the press there is because he wants to be able to watch the basketball games. With the press there wanting to actually ask him questions and stuff, he won’t be able to pay attention. I mean the man has a bracket sheet that he needs to keep track of. Get off his back!

/

And as it is, it’s going to be hard for him to keep track of his bracket sheet and eat his waffle. Let’s not pile it on, people.
/

155 Spare O'Lake  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:57:41am

Pardon my ignorance, but WTF are “black community newspapers”, and WTF does their “federation” do?
I am probably dead wrong, but this all sounds like a steamy pile of “community organizer” and “Acorn” stuff.

156 Nevergiveup  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:57:42am

re: #140 NJDhockeyfan

Obama wants to give citizenship to ‘law abiding’ illegal aliens

What is a law abiding illegal alien?

What is a honest politician?

157 HelloDare  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:57:48am

re: #140 NJDhockeyfan

Obama wants to give citizenship to ‘law abiding’ illegal aliens

What is a law abiding illegal alien?

An oxymoron.

158 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:57:53am

re: #98 Gretchen

I believe only the African American press is allowed. It is a segregated post-racial event.

SegregationIST event, with Final Call on the roster

159 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:58:05am

re: #118 Dustyvet

Obama’s 129

Not to beat this one to death, but it appears that President Obama’s high bowling score of 129 wouldn’t get him a medal in the Special Olympics.

According to a quick scan of Google results, one well-known Special Olympian, Loretta Claiborne, reportedly bowled a high of 178 in 1995. Rachel Register of Virginia bowled a 212 in 2006. Team Kentucky’s top bowler, Keith Cotrell, boasts a 150 average.

Tim Shriver also noted on GMA this morning that a Detroit Special Olympian has bowled three perfect games.

[Link: rpc.blogrolling.com…]

Beat the dead horse, even though Obama’s dumb comments regarding the bowling wasn’t even his dumbest comment of the last 24 hours. That’s a tossup between saying that Geithner was doing a good job and his love note to Iran.

160 Lee Coller  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:58:10am

Anybody checked Obama’s schedule lately?

6AM work out in WH gym.
8AM breakfast
9AM bowling in WH Bowling Alley
11AM elevensies
12PM Lunch
1PM Deal with Economy
1:15PM security briefing
1:20PM Test teleprompter
2:00PM tape “Can’t we all get along” message for the Iranians
3:00PM Prepare for Leno
4:00PM Receive Award
6PM Dinner
7PM WH Cocktail Party

161 KenJen  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:58:12am

re: #140 NJDhockeyfan


What is a law abiding illegal alien?

Im guessing it’s someone who gets his/her ass out of the U.S. and back home where they belong.

162 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:58:17am

re: #133 UberInfidel67

In reference to the “waterhead” comment from Leno last night, I give you Urban Dictionary. NOTE* Some of these apply to Obi himself.

a blundering idiot. a dork who knows everything and still only makes 9 dollars an hour at age 34. a retard who guns it after every stop, every time no matter what. buys everything from a 7-11. has a beacon score of 2. never loses an argument.

Describes spacejesus to a T.

163 formercorpsman  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:58:31am

re: #127 Cato the Elder

Do you infer Icelandic is inherently white?

164 Sharmuta  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:59:03am

Poor Teleprompter probably needed a break. It is the hardest working member of the team, after all.

165 Bloodnok  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:59:07am

re: #64 Sharmuta

Well- if anyone tapes it, the LA Times is available for long term storage.

You are on a roll today.

166 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:59:11am

re: #155 Spare O’Lake

Pardon my ignorance, but WTF are “black community newspapers”, and WTF does their “federation” do?
I am probably dead wrong, but this all sounds like a steamy pile of “community organizer” and “Acorn” stuff.

You are looking with your “reality” eyes. Time to put on the rainbow colored classes.

167 Nevergiveup  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 10:59:19am

re: #159 lawhawk

Beat the dead horse, even though Obama’s dumb comments regarding the bowling wasn’t even his dumbest comment of the last 24 hours. That’s a tossup between saying that Geithner was doing a good job and his love note to Iran.

Maybe he just screwed up and mixed up the notes? Ya know the love note was suppose go to Geithner and Iran is doing a great job?

168 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:00:12am

re: #159 lawhawk

Beat the dead horse, even though Obama’s dumb comments regarding the bowling wasn’t even his dumbest comment of the last 24 hours. That’s a tossup between saying that Geithner was doing a good job and his love note to Iran.

I nominate this quote for his dumbest comment in the last 24 hours:

“The same is true with AIG,” he said. “It was the right thing to do to step in. Here’s the problem. It’s almost like they’ve got — they’ve got a bomb strapped to them and they’ve got their hand on the trigger. You don’t want them to blow up. But you’ve got to kind of talk them, ease that finger off the trigger.”

169 CyanSnowHawk  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:00:29am

re: #86 Killgore Trout

Those poor AIG executives.
/A-boo-hoo-hoo!

Don’t care about executives.
Do care about blatant violations of 4th and 5th Amendments.

/Rorschach off.

170 Ford_Prefect  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:00:36am

re: #164 Sharmuta

Poor Teleprompter probably needed a break. It is the hardest working member of the team, after all.

I hear it’s cousin, Telephone, is getting jealous.

171 HelloDare  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:00:42am

re: #160 Lee Coller

Anybody checked Obama’s schedule lately?

6AM work out in WH gym.
8AM breakfast
9AM bowling in WH Bowling Alley
11AM elevensies
12PM Lunch
1PM Deal with Economy
1:15PM security briefing
1:20PM Test teleprompter
2:00PM tape “Can’t we all get along” message for the Iranians
3:00PM Prepare for Leno
4:00PM Receive Award
6PM Dinner
7PM WH Cocktail Party

You forgot about 2:30. He tripped over the new puppy and the secret service men wrestled it to the ground and put it in handcuffs.

172 ilzito guacamolito  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:01:05am

re: #140 NJDhockeyfan

law-abiding people who entered the country illegally

An oxymoron uttered by a moron.

173 Ford_Prefect  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:01:18am

re: #171 HelloDare

You forgot about 2:30. He tripped over the new puppy and the secret service men wrestled it to the ground and put it in handpawcuffs.

FIFY

174 pat  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:01:44am

re: #160 Lee Coller

I suggest the Leno prep was more like 10 min, then a little “pick me upper”.

175 Nevergiveup  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:01:47am

Hamas: We’ll nab more soldiers if Israel doesn’t show flexibility

haaretz.com

Do ya feel the love yet?

176 jorline  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:01:58am

Sounds like the MSM got blackballed from the award ceremonies.

177 kansas  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:02:04am

Image: judge_03202009_700.jpgre: #111 Jetpilot1101

He should be locked up in a padded room with Frank, Pelosi, Reid, and Dodd.

I meant he should see a doctor for the mole on his staff.
Check out this cartoon.
Image: judge_03202009_700.jpg

178 ErnieG  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:02:20am

re: #140 NJDhockeyfan

Obama wants to give citizenship to ‘law abiding’ illegal aliens

What is a law abiding illegal alien?

Kind of like a vegetarian cannibal.

179 Ford_Prefect  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:02:35am

re: #172 ilzito guacamolito

law-abiding people who entered the country illegally

An oxymoron uttered by a moron.

Irony, thy name is Obama.

180 GCPSteve  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:02:49am

NOBAMAS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH

I….uhhh… want to thank you…ummmm…. very much for this …..uuhhhhh….well deserved award. And by the way….ummmmm….thanks also for …uhhhh…leaving those….ummmmmm…. pesky and uhhhhh….troublesome microphones and cameras behind. Much appreciated guys.

181 Nevergiveup  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:02:55am

re: #176 jorline

Sounds like the MSM got blackballed from the award ceremonies.

I think in this context the term is “whiteballed” but what do I know?

182 eschew_obfuscation  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:03:10am

re: #159 lawhawk

Beat the dead horse, even though Obama’s dumb comments regarding the bowling wasn’t even his dumbest comment of the last 24 hours. That’s a tossup between saying that Geithner was doing a good job and his love note to Iran.

I find it ironic that Obama is now communicating with Iran using the same methods as Osama Bin Laden uses to communicate with the U.S.!

183 LGoPs  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:03:19am

re: #168 NJDhockeyfan

I nominate this quote for his dumbest comment in the last 24 hours:

“The same is true with AIG,” he said. “It was the right thing to do to step in. Here’s the problem. It’s almost like they’ve got — they’ve got a bomb strapped to them and they’ve got their hand on the trigger. You don’t want them to blow up. But you’ve got to kind of talk them, ease that finger off the trigger.”

I agree. Talk about a non sequitur………

184 Dustyvet  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:03:35am

re: #159 lawhawk

Iran’s Leadership Ignores Obama Outreach, Says World Powers Cannot Block Nuclear Program


foxnews.com

185 jcm  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:03:39am

re: #140 NJDhockeyfan

Obama wants to give citizenship to ‘law abiding’ illegal aliens

What is a law abiding illegal alien?

Right next to all the other law abiding criminals.

186 Ben Hur  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:03:41am

re: #133 UberInfidel67

In reference to the “waterhead” comment from Leno last night, I give you Urban Dictionary. NOTE* Some of these apply to Obi himself.

1. waterhead
a retarded person without the mental capacity to ever do more in the working world than push shopping carts badly. usually loved by the managers cuz they feel sorry for him.
The waterhead usually thinks he is the best worker and that he has a really nice smile. He drools a lot. He will try to get his nonretarded coworkers fired.

waterhead
someone who lacks common sense and intelligence

waterhead
THe entire kennedy klan
although they are rich and don’t have to play the same rule as the common people those kennedy’ies are inbread waterheads
waterhead
Originaly slang for someone who is Hydrocephalic , but which has now come to refer to any severe idiot or retarded individual

a blundering idiot. a dork who knows everything and still only makes 9 dollars an hour at age 34. a retard who guns it after every stop, every time no matter what. buys everything from a 7-11. has a beacon score of 2. never loses an argument.


I’m sure there are more people that know what “Waterhead” means than people who what “Macaca” means. Even after the fake macaca outrage publicized the word.

187 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:03:54am

re: #178 ErnieG

Kind of like a vegetarian cannibal.

and a chocoholic who eats that bastardized version…white chocolate

188 Gus  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:03:57am

White House bars press ceremony from the press.

Makes you wonder what will be going on in the White House.

Perhaps Barack Obama is just ashamed of his African blood.

189 Cato the Elder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:04:30am

re: #131 DistantThunder

The existence of a black newspaper group is racist.

whatevs, dude

190 jorline  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:05:08am

re: #181 Nevergiveup

I think in this context the term is “whiteballed” but what do I know?

lol…I think PBO turned to the MSM, cupped his balls and smirked.

191 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:05:10am

Which explains why Obama doesn’t want the press here. This is going to be an occasion full of black-power salutes, and fists pumping in the air. AntiSemitic cracks will be flying around the tables. It will be an orgy of triumphant hate that would shame a 1920s Munich beer hall.

192 Dustyvet  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:05:22am

re: #170 Ford_Prefect

I hear it’s cousin, Telephone, is getting jealous.

Poor little guy…:(


Image: phonegreen23378067.jpg

193 Desert Dog  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:05:33am

re: #143 realwest

I realize that my comment #34 did not include those other unforgiveable hostilities by Iran; I was simply passing along, fwiw, my personal experiences with one of the hostages and my heart is breaking for him, the other hostages and their families now.

Amen to that brother. I could not imagine being held like that for 444 days….it must have scared him for life….

194 Cato the Elder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:06:24am

re: #138 Desert Dog

I think we are just reveling in the thick irony everytime Obama does something like this. Is this “award ceremony” a big deal? Of course it is not. But, it seems to be a pattern of Obama to say one thing and then do the opposite. This is just one more example to add to his list.

If you run on a platform that boasts how transparent your administration will be, and then once you’re in, cloak things in secrecy, that is not only not right, it’s dishonest. All politicians promise the moon and the stars, but Obama laid it on so thick and with such passion, that when he does stuff like this, it tells you a great deal about his character. He would have said anything to get elected it appears….and that is pathetic.

Crap. What’s “secret” about it? He’s getting an award and anyone can read about it. So he’s not making it into an “event” with Helen Thomas! Be grateful.

195 Cato the Elder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:07:38am

re: #139 Erik The Red

If Fox news sent a white reporter to cover the event would they be let in?

Since no reporters are covering the event, the question is moot. If they were, the answer is obviously yes.

196 Cato the Elder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:08:04am

re: #163 formercorpsman

Do you infer Icelandic is inherently white?

Do you know what the word “infer” means?

197 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:08:12am

Rhode Island strip club to host job fair

Anyone need a job?

198 Mad Al-Jaffee  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:08:15am

re: #51 soxfan4life

SNL hasn’t been funny for sometime.

I think it’s still pretty funny, but they have too many recurring sketches that are prety much have the same jokes every week. And they’re very left wing.

I usually tape it on Saturday and watch it on Sunday, so I can fast forward through the crappy sketches.

199 Gus  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:08:42am

re: #197 NJDhockeyfan

Rhode Island strip club to host job fair

Anyone need a job?

Is it open to the press?

//

200 Spider Mensch  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:09:24am

re: #191 Zimriel

Which explains why Obama doesn’t want the press here. This is going to be an occasion full of black-power salutes, and fists pumping in the air. AntiSemitic cracks will be flying around the tables. It will be an orgy of triumphant hate that would shame a 1920s Munich beer hall.

and don’t forget the always good for a laugh…” hey? did you ever watch white guys dance?…” jokes…those are a real hoot!

201 kansas  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:09:43am

Image: judge_03202009_700.jpg

202 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:10:55am
203 kansas  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:11:12am

So Obama doesn’t want the press at a press event?

204 Mad Al-Jaffee  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:11:48am

re: #202 buzzsawmonkey

Don’t be a boob.

205 ilzito guacamolito  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:13:01am

re: #204 Mad Al-Jaffee

Don’t be a boob.

If mammary serves, this is third thread that degrades this way in as many days.

206 Catttt  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:13:05am

re: #163 formercorpsman

Do you infer Icelandic is inherently white?

There is an interesting story behind this cover

Google Fjallkonan or ShebaWanjiku to read about it. Long story short, the photog had a dickens of a time finding a costume for the model - no one wanted to rent a Lady of the Mountain costume to him, when they saw that the model was black.

207 GCPSteve  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:14:12am

re: #204 Mad Al-Jaffee

Don’t be a boob.

Alright guys stop going tit-for-tat and Knockers it off already.

208 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:14:42am

re: #199 Gus 802

Is it open to the press?

//

Some parts are…

check out the last paragraph in particular…

209 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:14:47am
210 Ford_Prefect  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:14:51am

re: #197 NJDhockeyfan

Rhode Island strip club to host job fair

Anyone need a job?

Charles, I will volunteer to go and cover this for you. Or rather, uncover this for you.

211 Erik The Red  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:15:39am

re: #189 Cato the Elder

whatevs, dude

Fuck off. If there was a paper that was marketed to whites it would be called racist. I see now difference.

212 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:15:45am

Final Call has prominently displayed a 2004 speech by Farrakhan:

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to us, “One day, you will see the rich lighting their cigars with $1,000 bills because the currency will have no more value.” When the currency goes down, the government goes down behind the currency.

You may think that all of the construction on highways is to build the city’s infrastructure, and it is. But as I travel in cities across America, and as you do too, you may notice the great Highway Construction Program. You may notice, especially around the major cities, they are digging up asphalt roads and putting up concrete and steel.

If you follow the construction, you will see an armory nearby, filled with tanks and anti-personnel carriers. You may think that what we see happening in Gaza and on the West Bank in Palestine and Israel is something just happening over there. My poor, poor, poor foolish brothers and sisters.

When we were coming up, we never carried guns. The best we could get was a switchblade. We would threaten people like we were going to do something, but we didn’t want to cut anybody. We just wanted to hold them off from whipping us, so we would pull out the blade. Today, the switchblade is gone and my young brothers and sisters are carrying weapons.

The Seattle Skanner has this, supporting the Irish Republican Army:

Here, we have a fact-based bio-pic recounting the suicide by fasting of Bobby Sands (1965-1981), a latter-day revolutionary who led an Irish Republican Army (IRA) hunger strike at Long Kesh Prison located in Northern Ireland.

I forgot to mention Illinois’s Muslim Journal, but their site is down.

Atlanta Daily World, which I also didn’t mention, is calling for mass collective action:

Just as in the campaign, our president needs our long-term assistance now. He needs millions of supporters to actively push for the legislative agenda we voted for just a few short months ago.

He needs active engagement on the state level to force governors to not sabotage a plan that our citizens need, not only for their own personal survival today, but for this nation’s economy to finally turn the corner towards a better tomorrow. He needs phone calls, e-mails, and letters to Congress to remind legislators that voters are watching and will remember who helps and who stands in the way of the new direction that this nation so urgently requires.

Unity!

213 Gretchen  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:15:45am

re: #183 LGoPs

I nominate this quote for his dumbest comment in the last 24 hours:

“The same is true with AIG,” he said. “It was the right thing to do to step in. Here’s the problem. It’s almost like they’ve got — they’ve got a bomb strapped to them and they’ve got their hand on the trigger. You don’t want them to blow up. But you’ve got to kind of talk them, ease that finger off the trigger.”

I agree. Talk about a non sequitur………

Not really. You are just framing this from your viewpoint. AIG is pulling the trigger on His whole economic plan. He could care less about the human carnage. The plan is at risk, He’s got to stop the AIG blowup.

214 Lee Coller  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:15:46am

re: #197 NJDhockeyfan

Rhode Island strip club to host job fair

Anyone need a job?

You know Fox News will be there, they can’t resist stuff like this.

215 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:15:48am

re: #205 ilzito guacamolito

If mammary serves, this is third thread that degrades this way in as many days.

my, you do stay abreast of things lately…

216 jcm  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:15:52am

re: #210 Ford_Prefect

Charles, I will volunteer to go and cover this for you. Or rather, uncover this for you.

Helen Thomas is looking for work, still want to go?

217 lifeofthemind  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:16:11am

Next:
Children to be banned from school event
Poor banned from soup kitchen
Congress banned from prison.

218 Ford_Prefect  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:17:33am

re: #216 jcm

Helen Thomas is looking for work, still want to go?

Ahhhh! Brain Bleach Stat!

219 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:17:36am

re: #216 jcm

Helen Thomas is looking for work, still want to go?

OH. MY G-D. That’s gonna leave a mark- and I hear she is getting a lift from Pelosi on Air Boxtox…

220 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:17:59am

re: #217 lifeofthemind

Next:
Children to be banned from school event
Poor banned from soup kitchen
Congress banned from prison.

Jews banned from Israel…

221 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:18:17am

re: #87 Cato the Elder

Yawn…

Who cares? It’s probably a five-ten minute presentation. Getting press in and out, making a speech, taking questions, posing for photographs, all that would take a lot more time.

Why should the president waste more time than necessary on something this trivial?

It’s a good decision. And we need to lighten up.

And now that we know (see Zimriel’s link above) that in fact this is an association of radical, hatemongering “newspapers”, including that of the Nation of Islam, now’s a perfect time to retract your poorly-thought-out post.

222 Cato the Elder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:18:23am

re: #211 Erik The Red

Fuck off. If there was a paper that was marketed to whites it would be called racist. I see now difference.

You just went in my scroll-by file. Bye, sweets.

223 lifeofthemind  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:18:27am

Obama promoted Joe Biden, he is immune to criticism regarding the intellectually ungifted.

224 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:18:54am
225 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:19:13am

re: #221 Occasional Reader

And now that we know (see Zimriel’s link above) that in fact this is an association of radical, hatemongering “newspapers”, including that of the Nation of Islam, now’s a perfect time to retract your poorly-thought-out post.

This is how dear leader got elected- give him a pass, what do we care…it is nothing- and that guy behind the curtain? Ignore him…

226 Cato the Elder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:19:28am

re: #221 Occasional Reader

And now that we know (see Zimriel’s link above) that in fact this is an association of radical, hatemongering “newspapers”, including that of the Nation of Islam, now’s a perfect time to retract your poorly-thought-out post.

Yes, sir!

Not.

227 Gus  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:19:34am

re: #217 lifeofthemind

Next:
Children to be banned from school event
Poor banned from soup kitchen
Congress banned from prison.

Cameraless photography.

228 Erik The Red  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:19:42am

re: #222 Cato the Elder

You just went in my scroll-by file. Bye, sweets.

No Problem.

229 abolitionist  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:20:06am

Black Press Week to Celebrate, Salute Obama Family, Civil Rights Champions
Excerpt:

The Lifetime Achievement Award will go to civil rights icon the Rev. Joseph Lowery, co-founder and former president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who recently rendered the benedictory prayer at the presidential inauguration.

Two Outstanding Community Service Awards will go to Xernona Clayton, president and CEO of The Trumpet Foundation, and the Rev. Al Sharpton, president and CEO of the National Action Network, and radio talk show host.

A special Political Leadership Award will be given to U. S. Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), who, as House majority whip, is an example of the “wisdom and influence that has been so closely intertwined with the Black Press over centuries of activism and accomplishment,” says Leavell.
America’s first Black newspaper, Freedom’s Journal, was founded by Samuel Cornish and John B. Russwurm in 1827 in New York City.

During the Black Press Week celebration, held this year March 18-20, publishers from around the nation also visit with congressional leaders - Democrats and Republicans - in the spirit of the first editorial printed on the front page of the journal.

230 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:21:11am

re: #226 Cato the Elder

Yes, sir!

Not.

So you have no problem with the President of the United States accepting an award from (inter alia) the Nation of Islam.

231 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:21:46am

I wonder if Cash Michaels was in the audience? Maybe someone should asked him if he’s altered his views on the Duke lacrosse case from a couple years back…

232 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:22:26am

I am now pretty much interested in EVERYTHING dear leader wants to keep private…like this, wonder how the leg tingling, teat sucking sycophants MSM feel after this 1 2 punch- he skips their shindig and closes them out of another…

233 P-DEX  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:23:02am

OK, Libs…

Can we now retire the “argument” that the Bamster “needs to be given more time?” Can I PLEASE put my thoroughly dirtied rose-colored glasses passed out to me by Obama supporters during his campaign? Cause they ain’t working anymore. PLEASE! Haven’t we all truly seen enough? With our OWN eyes?

No? Still “too soon”?

Dammit….

234 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:23:13am

re: #230 Occasional Reader

So you have no problem with the President of the United States accepting an award from (inter alia) the Nation of Islam.

apparently not.… .

235 formercorpsman  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:25:06am

Cato, if I mispelled or mispoke, shame on me, I am getingin here in quickly when I have a chance.

Do you fail to see the irony in any of this?

The contradiction is what matters.

236 Gus  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:26:41am

Let’s have a look at what I found at the National Newspapers and Publishers Association web site:

Rights Group Protests U.S. Pullout of Durban

(Special to the NNPA)-A top civil rights organization expressed its anger and disappointment over the United States’ pullout of the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, which ended last week.

The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, a coalition of civil and human rights organizations, said America “squandered an opportunity to participate in important issues facing the country and the world.”

“The government’s withdrawal deprives advocates from the United States of formal representation and makes it extremely difficult to advance our aims for equal justice,” it added.

The United States and Israel left mid-way in the meeting when negotiations over removing resolution language branding Israel an apartheid-like state failed.

Many African American leaders said they believe the United States used the Israeli-Palestinian issue as a way to back out of discussions dealing with reparations for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.

This is in reference to DURBAN.

If you click on the link below you can see other news articles from this organization.

nnpa.org

237 grahamski  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:27:44am

re: #87 Cato the Elder

Yawn…

Who cares? It’s probably a five-ten minute presentation. Getting press in and out, making a speech, taking questions, posing for photographs, all that would take a lot more time.

Why should the president waste more time than necessary on something this trivial?

It’s a good decision. And we need to lighten up.

Why would he waste time on bowling, flying across the country to be on Leno, and filling out an NCAA bracket ?

238 formercorpsman  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:28:11am

It is pure double standard.

239 Gus  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:28:29am

More from NNPA:

Commentary

NNPA Op-Ed Spotlight

The Disturbing U.S. Absence At Durban

By Jesse Jackson

When the World Conference Against Racism convened in Durban on Aug. 31, 15 heads of state and leaders from around the world were there-but not U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. Powell was ordered to stay home as President Bush decided to send a low-level delegation instead. The Bush administration didn’t want to discuss reparations for slavery and didn’t approve of the anti-Israeli statements and sentiments in the documents leading up to the conference. But the U.S. shouldn’t spurn the conference just because it disagrees with part of an international program or with many of the participants. The U.S. should lead-and Powell should have gone to Durban.

The U.S. has a story to tell about racism and, as Secretary of State, Powell is the right man to tell it. Think of the past of the nation. Founded in slavery that it took the bloodiest war in our history to end. Scarred by legal apartheid-segregation-that took another 100 years and too many martyrs to end. Still burdened by unequal treatment, racially biased profiling and sentencing, mortgage lending and more. Yet we have come a long way-and we have an experience with a multi-racial society that others should hear…

nnpa.org

240 nyc redneck  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:28:36am

re: #191 Zimriel

Which explains why Obama doesn’t want the press here. This is going to be an occasion full of black-power salutes, and fists pumping in the air. AntiSemitic cracks will be flying around the tables. It will be an orgy of triumphant hate that would shame a 1920s Munich beer hall.

like being back in the rev wright hate church.
*good times*

241 Gus  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:28:59am

I think I’m beginning to understand why the press is barred from this event.

242 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:30:36am

re: #240 nyc redneck

like being back in the rev wright hate church.
*good times*

Next up: Obama explains how he wasn’t actually attending the award ceremony in the White House at which he was receiving and award, and if he did, he wasn’t actually listening. Then, a reference to how his grandma got awards from white supremacists all the time, so what’s the big deal?

243 Boxy_brown  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:31:04am

re: #34 realwest

I am sorry to go OT this early, but I made this comment at the end of the thread on Obama/Iran after, I fear, everyone had left and wanted to repost it:
I’ve mentioned before out here how I had the distinct privilege of meeting one of the former Iranian hostages (I cannot reveal his name) in a group of six people all of whom he KNEW were friendly to him and would literally have done anything at all to help or protect him.
And yet, throughout the entire meeting - lasting over an hour, his entire body shook like a leaf in a light breeze. Every Single Day one of his captors would come in and put a pistol against the back of his blindfolded head and say “Is today the day?” and pull the trigger on the empty chamber so he just heard the metallic “click”.
I read the transcription above and couldn’t watch the video.
I can’t imagine how badly this fellow - and his surviving fellow hostages - feel this day. I’d guess
“let down” by the President of the United States and indeed their whole country for electing him would be too weak a description by far.
President Obama, you may have won the election, but I know you’re not that former hostage’s President, nor are you mine, in my heart.
And while I know it’s not my place to do so, I offer my heartfelt condolences and sympathies to all of those former hostages and to their families for the actions and words of Barack Hussein Obama this day.

We need to get some of them on video stating how stupid Obama’s policy is.

244 Gus  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:31:30am

More Leftist propaganda from NNPA:

American ‘Arrogance’ Could Prompt New Attacks
by George E. Curry and Benjamin Todd Jealous

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A prominent African-American lawyer who has recently represented an Islamic former terrorist says United States arrogance has caused the nation to be hated by many people around the world, hatred that could lead to more violent incidents like those that shocked the nation this week.

“We, as Americans, know that these people, these groups hate us and we are so arrogant that we don’t even worry why,” states David Baugh, a criminal lawyer who once represented convicted terrorist Muhammed Al-Owhali in connection with bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa. “We just assume they are crazies and we don’t even spend one minute wondering why they hate us.”
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, says she observed anti-American sentiment at the recently concluded international conference in Durban, South Africa.

Read more:

nnpa.org

245 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:32:52am

I’m done with trolling the archives of the NNPA and its associated ‘zines. I believe I’ve made my point. When the sites were up at all, they featured pro-terrorist material and Alinskyite agitprop. On to analysis: what does Obama hope to gain by showing up?

Obama is, I think, here to rile up his base, that base being the far Left and various black nationalist groups. His plan is to progagate the (socialist) economic programme he’s laid out via community action (i.e. Mao through Alinsky). That is why the Atlanta Daily World’s article which I excerpted is so important.

I expect a number of loud street demonstrations coming up demanding “responsibility” of the government, that is us being responsible for their government pensions and paychecks. I also expect most major cities to buckle, and for the cities to demand their state governments not stand in their way (from the Daily World, again). State taxes are going to skyrocket in the purple states; income taxes will be introduced in states like Texas; and the feds will try pillaging the more rural states like Alaska.

246 Cato the Elder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:34:02am

re: #230 Occasional Reader

So you have no problem with the President of the United States accepting an award from (inter alia) the Nation of Islam.

I wasn’t commenting on the people he’s getting the award from, but on the way he’s handling the presentation. So there is no need to retract that comment.

For the record, he should not accept the award at all.

247 Gus  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:34:30am

re: #245 Zimriel

I just started looking through some NNPA articles and found some alarming stuff. Considering this event is closed to the press and it involves the POTUS I hope others are taking note of what NNPA puts out as news.

248 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:34:41am

Thanks for having my back, Gus.

249 capitalist piglet  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:34:46am

re: #246 Cato the Elder

I wasn’t commenting on the people he’s getting the award from, but on the way he’s handling the presentation. So there is no need to retract that comment.

For the record, he should not accept the award at all.

How are you feeling about your vote these days? Sincere question.

250 Cato the Elder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:35:32am

re: #235 formercorpsman

Cato, if I mispelled or mispoke, shame on me, I am getingin here in quickly when I have a chance.

Do you fail to see the irony in any of this?

The contradiction is what matters.

I see the irony, I just don’t think it’s worth 250+ comments on a blog. So I’ll shut up now!

;^)

251 ErnieG  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:37:53am

If word gets out, NNPA might get thrown under the bus.

253 Gus  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:38:34am

re: #251 ErnieG

If word gets out, NNPA might get thrown under the bus.

Time to get the word out! :)

254 Adrenalyn  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:38:57am

I have a little transparency list I would like to submit for him

1. Occidental College records
2. Columbia College records
3. Columbia Thesis paper
4. Harvard College records
5. Selective Service Registration
6. Medical records
7. Illinois State Senate schedule
8. Your Illinois State Senate records
9. Law practice client list
10. Certified Copy of original (deleted)
11. Passport used to enter Pakistan in 1980
12. Record of your baptism

255 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:39:22am

re: #250 Cato the Elder

I see the irony, I just don’t think it’s worth 250+ comments on a blog. So I’ll shut up now!

;^)

What, you think investigating the NNPA isn’t worth our time? They presented the award and Obama was there, giving his seal of approval to what they do. We do exactly the same thing to “anti-jihad” conferences which European politicians attend. But Obama gets a pass from accepting an award from what is basically a hate-media convention?

No. Thanks.

257 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:44:26am

re: #246 Cato the Elder

I wasn’t commenting on the people he’s getting the award from, but on the way he’s handling the presentation.

And now that we know that the reason he’s handling the presentation that way is because he’s getting an award from a group of hard left and/or bigoted “newspapers”.

Does that make it more of a scandal, or less?

258 Voyska PVO  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:44:31am

The press is banned from a black press award because Eric Holder said that non-black press people were all cowards..

..ah jes’ needs some ‘un ta ‘splains dis ta me..

259 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:44:35am

Yay! I got a hattip. I can call myself a “LGF Operative” today. Thanks Charles. :^)

260 MarineMomSue  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:44:35am

re: #58 Desert Dog

It’s not just the former hostages. What about the families of the Marines in Beirut? Khobar Towers? Iran has been AT WAR with the USA since 1979 and we are either too stupid to notice, or, we just do not care. What Obama is doing is nothing short of obscene.

To this day, they end the official Friday prayers with a “Death to America” chant. They have vowed to wipe Israel off the map…and Obama wants to treat them like they are Switzerland or something?

I help to manage an online group of about 1000 Marine Moms. This message was posted to our group about an hour ago… It seems a fitting place to share it with LGF. (it was originally posted on Sgt Grit’s newsletter)

Sgt. Grit:

I just finished reading your most recent news letter. In response to “Taking Chance,” I did watch it…..I shouldn’t have, but I did. I thought it was exceptionally well done, as they made the main focus of this piece about the respect that both young Chance was given, as well as his escort. I really did fine until the last half hour and then had to sit next to a box of Kleenex!

My son is currently serving over in Iraq and I would suggest that anyone who has a loved one currently deployed to wait until they are safely home to watch this extremely moving film.

I’d like to tell you of an experience I had a little while back. I was at work and as I was looking out the window when I noticed a car pull into our parking lot. A Marine stepped out of the car, dressed in his blues, very crisp looking.
At that moment, I thought, why is he here…is he here to see me; to tell me that something happened to my son. My heart sank into my stomach, I felt all the blood rush from my face and I couldn’t move from my chair (I couldn’t feel my legs at that point). I don’t even know if my phone rang or if anybody came up to me, all I could do was stare out at this Marine.

As I watched him, he lit up a cigarette, and all I could think of is he needed one before he had to tell me some bad news. He finished his cigarette and got back into his car and drove away——THANK GOD.
It took me a minute to regain my focus and realized it was Veteran’s Day and they were having a parade down Main St., which was right around the corner from my office.

I simply got up from my chair and went to the ladies room and cried my eyes out…in relief. I then
realized that, if something did happen to my son, I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t come to my place of employment to deliver such news, but I was hardly thinking clearly at that time.

Who would’ve thought…why my parking lot? He just wanted a cigarette…..he just wanted a cigarette.

I just want to let everyone know that to all that have served and are serving, you have my deepest thanks and prayers. To those families who have had a loved one make the ultimate sacrifice, God Bless you for they did not die in vain!

Semper Fi
New England Marine Mom
____________________________________

“Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.” — Thomas Jefferson

261 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:45:52am

re: #236 Gus 802

Let’s have a look at what I found at the National Newspapers and Publishers Association web site:


This is in reference to DURBAN.

If you click on the link below you can see other news articles from this organization.

[Link: www.nnpa.org…]


More chickens coming home to roost on the TOTUS?

262 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:46:46am

re: #259 Zimriel

Yay! I got a hattip. I can call myself a “LGF Operative” today. Thanks Charles. :^)

Lucky! I am so wanting to get that someday…an operative lizard! mazel tov!

263 Gus  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:47:28am

re: #261 DisturbedEma

More chickens coming home to roost on the TOTUS?

Possibly. Here’s more that I found:

Photo Gallery for the Week of Septrember 3, 2001

NNPA Editors: We are rec’ing. a few b/w images from Durban. These are US protestors—all kinds of people—demonstrating against the US policies at WCAR. Please caption them accordingly but you can use:
Throughout the week in demonstrations such as this one, demonstrators took to the streets of Durban to voice their frustration over US policy at the World Conference Against Racism held there.

The “durban why not” pix: A protestor at the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa wears a t-shirt which reads US NGO here, “US Gov not, why not?” while another demonstrator holds placard targeting the U.S. Anti-U.S. sentiment continued to grow at the conference when it was perceived by many attending delegates that the U.S. did not want to discuss issues of racism at a world conference.

264 Boxy_brown  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:48:08am

re: #249 capitalist piglet

How are you feeling about your vote these days? Sincere question.

Sometimes the grudging recognition that you screwed up makes a fellow cranky. I hope we see more of it in the coming months as it becomes inescapable that Barack Obama is a dangerous f- up.

265 alegrias  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:51:12am

re: #259 Zimriel

Yay! I got a hattip. I can call myself a “LGF Operative” today. Thanks Charles. :^)

* * * *
Thank YOU Zimriel for decoding exactly which unnacceptable haters were selected—- exclusively by ideology & race— to the White House to trashtalk America and Israel.

Yukking it up like Clinton & Arafat in the Lincoln Bedroom for 8 years.

266 nobs  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:54:00am

re: #250 Cato the Elder

I see the irony, I just don’t think it’s worth 250+ comments on a blog. So I’ll shut up now!

;^)

That’s first thing you’ve said that I agree with!

267 capitalist piglet  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:54:02am

re: #260 MarineMomSue

Very powerful.

My dad was a Navy corpsman on Iwo Jima, attached to the Fourth Marine Division; he always considered himself a Marine, in part, so I just wanted to send you a Semper Fi, and thank you for your contribution here and elsewhere.

268 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:54:53am

re: #259 Zimriel

Yay! I got a hattip. I can call myself a “LGF Operative” today. Thanks Charles. :^)

You definitely earned it on this one. Nice work.

269 NoizeNinja  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:55:20am

Lesser of two evils for Obama. His handlers see the potential for foot-in-mouth syndrome and this time act preemptively. It’s the right call from that perspective.

270 capitalist piglet  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:55:42am

re: #264 Boxy_brown

Sometimes the grudging recognition that you screwed up makes a fellow cranky. I hope we see more of it in the coming months as it becomes inescapable that Barack Obama is a dangerous f- up.

I’m getting that too. (I think it’s already pretty inescapable.)

271 Gus  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:56:29am

re: #248 Zimriel

Thanks for having my back, Gus.

Thank you!

272 Caboose  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:56:42am

re: #78 Kosh’s Shadow

Let’s not forget the tune that follows (if I remember the tape running order correctly, which was different from the LP/CD)

Show Business Kids by Steely Dan

You’re goin’ to lost wages, lost wages
You’re goin’ to lost wages, lost wages
You’re goin’ to lost wages, lost wages
You’re goin’ to lost wages, lost wages
You’re goin’ to lost wages, lost wages
You’re goin’ to lost wages, lost wages

While the poor people sleepin’
With the shade on the light
While the poor people sleepin’
All the stars come out at night

While the poor people sleepin’
With the shade on the light
While the poor people sleepin’
All the stars come out at night

After closing time
At the Guernsey Fair
I detect the El Supremo
From the room at the top of the stairs
Well, I’ve been around the world
And I’ve been in the Washington Zoo
And in all my travels
As the facts unravel
I’ve found this to be true

While the poor people sleepin’
With the shade on the light
While the poor people sleepin’
All the stars come out at night

While the poor people sleepin’
With the shade on the light
While the poor people sleepin’
All the stars come out at night

They got the house on the corner
With the rug inside
They got the booze they need
All that money can buy
They got the shapely bods
They got the Steely Dan t-shirts
And for the coup de grace
They’re outrageous
So honey let me tell you

While the poor people sleepin’
With the shade on the light
While the poor people sleepin’
All the stars come out at night

While the poor people sleepin’
With the shade on the light
While the poor people sleepin’
All the stars come out at night

Show business kids making movies
Of themselves you know they
Don’t give a fuck about anybody else
You know you’re gonna

While the poor people sleepin’
With the shade on the light
While the poor people sleepin’
With the shade on the light
While the poor people sleepin’
All the stars come out at night

While the poor people sleepin’
With the shade on the light
While the poor people sleepin’
All the stars come out at night

You’re goin’ to lost wages, lost wages
You’re goin’ to lost wages, lost wages
You’re goin’ to lost wages, lost wages

273 capitalist piglet  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:56:46am

re: #259 LGF Operative

Yay! I got a hattip. I can call myself a “LGF Operative” today. Thanks Charles. :^)

I changed your name. Part of the ceremony and all that. Congratulations!

274 Cato the Elder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:58:16am

re: #249 capitalist piglet

How are you feeling about your vote these days? Sincere question.

Just fine. If you think McCain would be doing anything different with regard to bailouts and spending (it’s the Congress that does those things anyway) or that I’d want freakin’ PALIN in high office, I’m afraid I must disappoint you.

275 Cato the Elder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:59:49am

re: #255 Zimriel

What, you think investigating the NNPA isn’t worth our time? They presented the award and Obama was there, giving his seal of approval to what they do. We do exactly the same thing to “anti-jihad” conferences which European politicians attend. But Obama gets a pass from accepting an award from what is basically a hate-media convention?

No. Thanks.

Investigate away. I’m all for that.

276 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:00:28pm

re: #274 Cato the Elder

Just fine. If you think McCain would be doing anything different with regard to bailouts and spending (it’s the Congress that does those things anyway) or that I’d want freakin’ PALIN in high office, I’m afraid I must disappoint you.

Oh. My. Such spite you have serious priority issues…

277 MarineMomSue  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:00:40pm

re: #267 capitalist piglet

Thanks for the kind words but I never for a second forget that I’m just a ‘cheerleader’. I’ve never worn the uniform. My sons and the countless other sons’ and daughters’ have and will always do the heavy lifting for our country.

278 AZDave  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:01:35pm

re: #12 simonml

He’s going to speak without a teleprompter and knows he’s going to offend someone. And to think he made light of Bush’s gaffes. He’s a gaffe master if you ask me

Obama is a gaffe! And the whole world is laughing at us.

279 Cato the Elder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:02:34pm

re: #257 Occasional Reader

And now that we know that the reason he’s handling the presentation that way is because he’s getting an award from a group of hard left and/or bigoted “newspapers”.

Does that make it more of a scandal, or less?

How do you know that’s the reason? He might have handled an award from Publisher’s Weekly the same way.

280 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:02:48pm

re: #275 Cato the Elder

Investigate away. I’m all for that.

Bully for you- while we are at it, can I get a refresher on the Freakin Palin rant you have surely posted numerous times?

Lack of shiney university degree? Too religious? Pregnant aughter, too stupid (did you really believe she said the Russia from my door thing)

I wait to hear how they could possibly be worse in the long run…enlighten me

281 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:03:54pm

re: #278 AZDave

Obama is a gaffe! And the whole world is laughing at us.

his gaffes are his authentic statements about his beliefs, THAT is why his handlers fear letting TOTUS speak…

282 capitalist piglet  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:04:50pm

re: #274 Cato the Elder

Just fine. If you think McCain would be doing anything different with regard to bailouts and spending (it’s the Congress that does those things anyway) or that I’d want freakin’ PALIN in high office, I’m afraid I must disappoint you.

Yeah, McCain and “freakin PALIN” would have been a real mistake. We might be kissing Iran’s ass, or talking about releasing Gitmo detainees into the United States.

Oh, wait.

Yes, I am a little disappointed that you don’t regret your vote for Obama. I thought you might feel like it was a mistake at this point, but obviously not.

283 Boxy_brown  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:05:19pm

re: #274 Cato the Elder

If you think McCain would be doing anything different with regard to bailouts and spending….

He spoke out against them and voted against them….. But don’t let facts stand in the way or anything.

or that I’d want freakin’ PALIN in high office, I’m afraid I must disappoint you.

“Palin”, Whether it be Sarah or Trig wouldn’t be STUPID enough to suck up to the Iranian mullahs and give one of the most despicable regimes on earth the legitimacy that it wholly doesn’t deserve. Whether it be the DVD’s or the Nation of Islam press award.. You voted for a classless, dangerous, America resenting creep.

284 capitalist piglet  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:05:45pm

re: #277 MarineMomSue

Thanks for the kind words but I never for a second forget that I’m just a ‘cheerleader’. I’ve never worn the uniform. My sons and the countless other sons’ and daughters’ have and will always do the heavy lifting for our country.

They need all the cheerleaders they can get. The humble ones are best.

You rock.

285 Cato the Elder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:07:45pm

re: #276 DisturbedEma

Oh. My. Such spite you have serious priority issues…

My priorities are my own. If you think that I’m a part of the overall partisan groupthink around here, you’ve not read many of my posts.

But then, I generally don’t post on the Obama threads, because, first, I find them tedious and, second, referring to him as anything other than “0bama” or “the Zero” or [pick your epithet] gets you bitch-slapped. You guys already have one Avanti.

286 vagabond trader  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:12:51pm

To all the Jews who voted for this guy, he supports, reveres, and protects LOUIS FARRAKHAN. That is all.

287 Boxy_brown  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:14:29pm

re: #285 Cato the Elder

My priorities are my own.


So, selling out the country and enabling those who want to destroy us… not high on the list. Certainly under the hype and change bullshit.

If you think that I’m a part of the overall partisan groupthink around here, you’ve not read many of my posts.

Not wanting to legitimize the Iranian mullahs who chant death to America on a daily basis and have killed our troops = “partisan groupthink”….

You guys already have one Avanti.

Even he is starting to wise up… that’s a hell of a learning curve to be behind Cato.

288 oh_dude  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:16:03pm

I heard on a morning radio sports show that some bowler from the Special Olympics has challenged O to a tournament.

Anyone know if that’s true or were these guys just joking?

289 formercorpsman  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:16:28pm

re: #279 Cato the Elder

Cato, your distaste for Palin is obvious. Her associations have been cited as problematic, & out of touch.

The one aspect in all of this, and I truly can’t get it out of my head at all, is the palpable disdain for her not just by the left, but some people here as well.

Fair enough.

But to pull the lever for a guy who did more than just pal around with another guy who was the head of a domestic terror organization, unrepentant to this day, and in black and white (thank you Zombie) was contemplating the potential need for culling 25 million people who might not fall in line with the groups aspirations, I can’t fathom that.

How in the hell do you rationalize one, but not the other?

Good lord. We call out guilt by association here all the time, as we should. There is no room for nazis, fascists, or communists.

Seriously? How do you give that a pass, but hate someone like Palin?

290 Cato the Elder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:18:20pm

re: #280 DisturbedEma

Bully for you- while we are at it, can I get a refresher on the Freakin Palin rant you have surely posted numerous times?

Lack of shiney university degree? Too religious? Pregnant aughter, too stupid (did you really believe she said the Russia from my door thing)

I wait to hear how they could possibly be worse in the long run…enlighten me

Russia quote:

PALIN: And, Charlie, you’re in Alaska. We have that very narrow maritime border between the United States, and the 49th state, Alaska, and Russia. They are our next door neighbors.We need to have a good relationship with them. They’re very, very important to us and they are our next door neighbor.

GIBSON: What insight into Russian actions, particularly in the last couple of weeks, does the proximity of the state give you?

PALIN: They’re our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.

That’s what she said. Tina Fey’s parody was only a little bit more idiotic.

Here’s the video:

Youtube Video

If the Republicans want to lose again in 1012, please, please, please nominate Palin. Obama is praying for it.

And that’s all I have to say about it.

291 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:18:40pm

re: #285 Cato the Elder

My priorities are my own. If you think that I’m a part of the overall partisan groupthink around here, you’ve not read many of my posts.

But then, I generally don’t post on the Obama threads, because, first, I find them tedious and, second, referring to him as anything other than “0bama” or “the Zero” or [pick your epithet] gets you bitch-slapped. You guys already have one Avanti.

Yep- your own- I however, think GLOBALLY beyond my own little world, and believe that you and the others who voted for this prick have dragged us all into an arena that you do not understand, or even accept as being a priority-

selfish gratification driven spoiled brats now rule, mazel tov…

292 Cato the Elder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:20:33pm

re: #289 formercorpsman

Cato, your distaste for Palin is obvious. Her associations have been cited as problematic, & out of touch.

The one aspect in all of this, and I truly can’t get it out of my head at all, is the palpable disdain for her not just by the left, but some people here as well.

Fair enough.

But to pull the lever for a guy who did more than just pal around with another guy who was the head of a domestic terror organization, unrepentant to this day, and in black and white (thank you Zombie) was contemplating the potential need for culling 25 million people who might not fall in line with the groups aspirations, I can’t fathom that.

How in the hell do you rationalize one, but not the other?

Good lord. We call out guilt by association here all the time, as we should. There is no room for nazis, fascists, or communists.

Seriously? How do you give that a pass, but hate someone like Palin?

Ayers was not running for office. Palin was. End of story.

293 capitalist piglet  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:20:49pm

re: #285 Cato the Elder

My priorities are my own. If you think that I’m a part of the overall partisan groupthink around here, you’ve not read many of my posts.

But then, I generally don’t post on the Obama threads, because, first, I find them tedious and, second, referring to him as anything other than “0bama” or “the Zero” or [pick your epithet] gets you bitch-slapped. You guys already have one Avanti.

Bottom line: You’ll call out Robert Spencer (and well you should) for his Facebook associations, but Barack Obama gets a big fat “MEH” (with a slam on Sarah Palin as a garnish).

I’d ask you if you have trouble reconciling that, but I already know your answer.

294 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:21:52pm

re: #285 Cato the Elder

My priorities are my own. If you think that I’m a part of the overall partisan groupthink around here, you’ve not read many of my posts.

But then, I generally don’t post on the Obama threads, because, first, I find them tedious and, second, referring to him as anything other than “0bama” or “the Zero” or [pick your epithet] gets you bitch-slapped. You guys already have one Avanti.


I use dear leader quite a bit- though TOTUS is catching on with me

and no, it is not because you refuse to call obama names, it is because you are really quite obtuse when it comes to the true meat of the opposition to this person you helped to elect.

That being said- I am waiting for your rational logical support for the assertion that somehow, this person is more qualified to govern than Palin…

crickets?

295 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:22:38pm

re: #292 Cato the Elder

Ayers was not running for office. Palin was. End of story.

George Bush was not running for office- dear leaderless was- end of story

296 Cato the Elder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:22:42pm

re: #291 DisturbedEma

[…]selfish gratification driven spoiled brats now rule, mazel tov…

As opposed to the unselfish, self-sacrificing Republicans? Give me a break.

297 CharlieBravo  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:22:50pm

Keep on hoping for change, kids. What the heck is ‘the federation of black community newspapers’? Is there a ‘federation of white community newspaper’?

298 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:23:22pm

re: #293 capitalist piglet

Bottom line: You’ll call out Robert Spencer (and well you should) for his Facebook associations, but Barack Obama gets a big fat “MEH” (with a slam on Sarah Palin as a garnish).

I’d ask you if you have trouble reconciling that, but I already know your answer.

yeah, it sounds something like “I won”

299 ErnieG  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:24:02pm

re: #297 CharlieBravo

Keep on hoping for change, kids. What the heck is ‘the federation of black community newspapers’? Is there a ‘federation of white community newspaper’?

The wouldn’t even think of it. That would be racist.

300 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:25:08pm

re: #296 Cato the Elder

As opposed to the unselfish, self-sacrificing Republicans? Give me a break.

nope- not at all- but I have yet to see any sort of “olive branch” to those your pick must rule with to the betterment of the US- those same ‘republicans’ where is their message of welcome into his administration?

ps- your evil republican crap will not work on me- I am not one, nor have I ever supported one…until this election

301 Cato the Elder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:26:03pm

re: #294 DisturbedEma

I use dear leader quite a bit- though TOTUS is catching on with me

and no, it is not because you refuse to call obama names, it is because you are really quite obtuse when it comes to the true meat of the opposition to this person you helped to elect.

That being said- I am waiting for your rational logical support for the assertion that somehow, this person is more qualified to govern than Palin…

crickets?

Actually, the state I live in is and always has been safely blue, so I had the luxury of voting against the ticket that was going to lose here anyway.

For the rest - sure thing, crickets…

302 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:26:50pm

re: #297 CharlieBravo

Keep on hoping for change, kids. What the heck is ‘the federation of black community newspapers’? Is there a ‘federation of white community newspaper’?

“White community” news ‘zines are all around various sites to which we won’t link. I’m sure you can find a few. But no US President since Woodrow Wilson would have graced a confab of such with his presence.

303 capitalist piglet  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:26:54pm

re: #290 Cato the Elder

That’s what she said. Tina Fey’s parody was only a little bit more idiotic.

Here’s the video:

Youtube Video

If the Republicans want to lose again in 1012, please, please, please nominate Palin. Obama is praying for it.

And that’s all I have to say about it.

Gary Tuchman %P% BIO
AC360 Correspondent

When talking about what she says is her foreign policy experience, Sarah Palin told ABC news “…you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.”

That quote made us want to go to that island.

So we did.

The island is called Little Diomede. It looks like a rock plopped into the Bering Strait. Only about 150 Alaskans live on the whole island. And just about two miles away; in full view of every single house on the island is the nation of Russia. Specifically, it is the Russian Island of Big Diomede which sits about 25 miles from the Russian Siberian mainland (which you can also see from the American island.) Most everybody on Little Diomede had relatives who lived on Big Diomede.

304 MJBrutus  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:27:49pm

Now let me see if I got this straight. President Teleprompter is getting an award from the newspapers for, well for just being wonderful him, and the newspapers are barred from covering it?

What did I miss?

305 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:28:03pm

re: #290 Cato the Elder

That’s what she said. Tina Fey’s parody was only a little bit more idiotic.

Here’s the video:

Youtube Video

If the Republicans want to lose again in 1012, please, please, please nominate Palin. Obama is praying for it.

And that’s all I have to say about it.

Is that the edited one? And again, what does this have to do with how you run a government? I mean the freakin Palin remark- this is where it starts and ends for you…what flavor kool aid did YOU choose…

306 formercorpsman  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:28:04pm

re: #292 Cato the Elder


Bullshit end of story.

This guy served on a board, had very intimate ties with, and proposed legislation with Ayres.

I bet we could go through previous posts, and find where she was held in contempt for her church, creationist ties, or some other unsavory association.

There is no way you can be intellectually honest, and say somehow just because Ayres was not running on a ticket, this information is not relevant.

That has got to be one of the weakest arguments I think I have ever heard.

Again, you can’t see this contradiction. He is close to a guy who was willing to commit murder against our own police departments, official buildings, and espoused efforts similar to Stalin’s trains to Siberia?

Come on man.

Acorn.

308 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:29:20pm

re: #301 Cato the Elder

Actually, the state I live in is and always has been safely blue, so I had the luxury of voting against the ticket that was going to lose here anyway.

For the rest - sure thing, crickets…

ah, got it- you are one of those knee jerk reactionary types…scroll by for sure-

309 capitalist piglet  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:29:25pm

re: #301 Cato the Elder

Actually, the state I live in is and always has been safely blue, so I had the luxury of voting against the ticket that was going to lose here anyway.

For the rest - sure thing, crickets…

You voted for Obama because you wanted to be on the winning side?

310 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:29:41pm

re: #303 capitalist piglet

Well done, operative! :^)

Cato, you still think that what every Alaskan has learnt in kindergarten (“there’s a place in Alaska where you can see RUSSIA from!”) is “idiotic”?

It’s getting a little… gamey in here, folks

311 GCPSteve  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:30:30pm

re: #279 Cato the Elder

How do you know that’s the reason? He might have handled an award from Publisher’s Weekly the same way.

Hey Cato……..

I thought you said you were going to shut up.

312 Gus  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:31:28pm

re: #290 Cato the Elder

That’s what she said. Tina Fey’s parody was only a little bit more idiotic.

Here’s the video:


[Video]

If the Republicans want to lose again in 1012, please, please, please nominate Palin. Obama is praying for it.

And that’s all I have to say about it.

1012? We’ll have to build a time machine first.

//

313 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:31:31pm

re: #305 DisturbedEma

Is that the edited one? And again, what does this have to do with how you run a government? I mean the freakin Palin remark- this is where it starts and ends for you…what flavor kool aid did YOU choose…

Oh, you are still drinking it- my bad, I will not trouble you again for rational thought and cogent thoughts,- rock on its all hope and change baby- enjoy the unicorn

314 Boxy_brown  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:32:06pm

re: #305 DisturbedEma

I mean the freakin Palin remark- this is where it starts and ends for you…what flavor kool aid did YOU choose…

Even if she HAD stated that she could see Russia from her house it would have been positively Shakespearean compared to the crap that comes out of Obama.

Good lord, an off the cuff remark that was factually correct to a hostile interviewer… Digging deep for the excuses at this point.

316 Cato the Elder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:34:22pm

re: #309 capitalist piglet

You voted for Obama because you wanted to be on the winning side?

I voted for Obama because I was against McCain.

317 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:34:42pm

re: #314 Boxy_brown

Even if she HAD stated that she could see Russia from her house it would have been positively Shakespearean compared to the crap that comes out of Obama.

Good lord, an off the cuff remark that was factually correct to a hostile interviewer… Digging deep for the excuses at this point.

You betcha!

318 hihoherman  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:34:45pm

Gee, why make this such a hard call? Obama doesn’t have you “in” for a mostly Black event; because he doesn’t want a “photo-op” to rip into his popularity.

Now, if Dubya had been this smart? He’d have gone to see Maliki. But he would never have given Maliki the control needed, to see to it that a journalist toss two shoes at Bush. Where this guy got to “shoot the shoes” as if he was put into position to toss a basketball straight into the basket. You could call them, “two free throws.”

Yes, there’s a lot of anger “out there.” Reminds me of Barry Goldwater; (who couldn’t stand Reagan). And, who actually lost in 1964 for being such a negative guy. Oh, yeah. He was good at licking his own wounds, too.

While Obama is getting much smarter about the press than Bill Clinton ever was. So there must be “lessons” imbedded there, somewhere.

319 formercorpsman  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:35:02pm

re: #314 Boxy_brown

Listen, she is a politician. I am fine with pointing out idiotic statements. It is fair game.

But I think Cato was just recently stating how it is idiotic to roast Obama on his special olympics remark, or this post topic.

If you can cite “Seeing Russia” as something so terrible, but give this shit a pass, thou doth protesteth too much.

320 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:35:16pm

re: #316 Cato the Elder

I voted for Obama because I was against McCain.

MANDY! Here is ONE…

321 capitalist piglet  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:35:53pm

re: #310 Zimriel

Well done, operative! :^)

Cato, you still think that what every Alaskan has learnt in kindergarten (“there’s a place in Alaska where you can see RUSSIA from!”) is “idiotic”?

It’s getting a little… gamey in here, folks

I used to go up to Alaska to play gigs, ‘cause you could make triple the cash up there that you could in Seattle. There are villages in Alaska where people actually speak Russian, and the landscape is sprinkled with Russian Orthodox churches. And I have known for many years that you could see Russia from Alaska.

Palin isn’t the idiot.

322 MJBrutus  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:36:13pm

re: #314 Boxy_brown

Even if she HAD stated that she could see Russia from her house it would have been positively Shakespearean compared to the crap that comes out of Obama.

Good lord, an off the cuff remark that was factually correct to a hostile interviewer… Digging deep for the excuses at this point.

Hey everyone, what in the world are we doing, arguing about from where Sarah Palin said she could see Russia? Aren’t we above this?

Personally, I find Palin to be extremely likable and capable, but she was a horrible choice for Veep. Her selection took away the extremely relevant fact of the Messiah’s complete lack of credentials. Her strengths were many for the ticket, but that one drawback swamped any advantage she could have lent McLame even if she were the 2nd coming of Reagan.

323 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:37:14pm

re: #318 hihoherman

was goldwater the one who told the ZOA that he was gonna let the UN figure out the Israeli “problems” and was called out by their leaders for meeting with them in the first place without, paraphrasing, doing his homework?

324 Boxy_brown  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:37:46pm

re: #315 DisturbedEma

Now now- please do not confuse Cato with FACTS.

Indeed, I saw this for months… Simple, documentable, irrefutable facts don’t mean anything in the face of hope and change and unicorns and kumbyah… What is it going to take? With the media on his side and so many apologists, combined with voters who only see what they want to see we might never get out of this disaster.

325 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:38:29pm

re: #322 MJBrutus

Hey everyone, what in the world are we doing, arguing about from where Sarah Palin said she could see Russia? Aren’t we above this?

Personally, I find Palin to be extremely likable and capable, but she was a horrible choice for Veep. Her selection took away the extremely relevant fact of the Messiah’s complete lack of credentials. Her strengths were many for the ticket, but that one drawback swamped any advantage she could have lent McLame even if she were the 2nd coming of Reagan.

out of curiosity who did you want?

326 MJBrutus  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:38:51pm

re: #325 DisturbedEma

out of curiosity who did you want?

Romney.

327 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:39:29pm

re: #324 Boxy_brown

Indeed, I saw this for months… Simple, documentable, irrefutable facts don’t mean anything in the face of hope and change and unicorns and kumbyah… What is it going to take? With the media on his side and so many apologists, combined with voters who only see what they want to see we might never get out of this disaster.

What will it take? I think you know the answer to that…and it will be a harsh and ass breaking wake up call, to say the least…

328 Cato the Elder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:39:54pm

re: #321 capitalist piglet

I used to go up to Alaska to play gigs, ‘cause you could make triple the cash up there that you could in Seattle. There are villages in Alaska where people actually speak Russian, and the landscape is sprinkled with Russian Orthodox churches. And I have known for many years that you could see Russia from Alaska.

Palin isn’t the idiot.

The point is not that you can’t see Russia from Alaska. Of course you can.

The point is that Palin the Dim thought that was a qualification for dealing with Putin on foreign policy.

Enjoy your Obama Derangement Syndrome, folks. After being unemployed for a year (mostly under Bush) I’ve got a job to do.

Cheers!

329 Gus  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:40:16pm

re: #316 Cato the Elder

I voted for Obama because I was against McCain.

That’s like marrying your mother because you can’t find a wife.

330 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:40:33pm

re: #326 MJBrutus

Romney.

Ahhh- I was amazed at the anti Mormon thing myself- not realizing that there was such diversity in the Christian faith…

331 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:41:13pm

re: #329 Gus 802

That’s like marrying your mother because you can’t find a wife.

or voting for a zero because the hero pissed you off…

332 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:41:47pm

re: #328 Cato the Elder

The point is not that you can’t see Russia from Alaska. Of course you can.

The point is that Palin the Dim thought that was a qualification for dealing with Putin on foreign policy.

Enjoy your Obama Derangement Syndrome, folks. After being unemployed for a year (mostly under Bush) I’ve got a job to do.

Cheers!

for now…good luck with that

333 formercorpsman  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:42:38pm

Listen, if you are willing to give a pass on someone who did not have better judgment than befriending domestic terrorists who to this day are still not ashamed of what they did, or were trying to do, but have trouble digesting Palin, I can’t wrap my brain around that.

I just can’t.

Bill Ayres should be in jail, never, ever in any type of proximity to one of our Presidents.

334 MJBrutus  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:42:39pm

re: #330 DisturbedEma

Ahhh- I was amazed at the anti Mormon thing myself- not realizing that there was such diversity in the Christian faith…

Yeah, I found it disgusting. Huckleberry played it to the hilt and I will never forgive him. More importantly, that was the final straw that convinced me that the religious right can no longer be considered friends or allies of the cause of Conservatism.

335 Gus  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:42:40pm

re: #331 DisturbedEma

or voting for a zero because the hero pissed you off…

Or being in the Army and hating your commander and then defecting to the enemy side.

336 Boxy_brown  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:43:08pm

re: #319 formercorpsman


Listen, she is a politician. I am fine with pointing out idiotic statements. It is fair game.

Sure, but in this case it wasn’t even wrong, stretching it maybe but not incorrect. (I am not a Palin zombie, in full disclosure, I would not have nominated her for VP. But come on as VP… compared to Joe Biden she is a rocket-scientist.)

337 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:43:18pm

re: #328 Cato the Elder

The point is not that you can’t see Russia from Alaska. Of course you can.

The point is that Palin the Dim thought that was a qualification for dealing with Putin on foreign policy.

Enjoy your Obama Derangement Syndrome, folks. After being unemployed for a year (mostly under Bush) I’ve got a job to do.

Cheers!

Or like Cato the Dimmer- believing that one can feel better about dear leader because of hating McCain…what kind of job could such a person get? Community orgainzer? Wait…

338 Mad Mullah  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:44:31pm

I think that many of his supporters must be flat out stupid, his broken promises and lies already began surfacing already before he got elected.

There is a whole list of issues now on which Obama has done the exact opposite of what he promised. I never trusted the man, so it’s no surprise to me that he’s gone against his own word numerous times.

339 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:44:31pm

re: #334 MJBrutus

Yeah, I found it disgusting. Huckleberry played it to the hilt and I will never forgive him. More importantly, that was the final straw that convinced me that the religious right can no longer be considered friends or allies of the cause of Conservatism.

HE has really gone off the rails hasn’t he? No middle ground and he will have a REALLY hard time getting me if he gets near the nom…

340 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:45:32pm

For a trip down memory lane, google “Hitchens” and “Galloway”.

341 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:46:04pm

oops, wrong thread. ignore 340

342 Boxy_brown  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:48:17pm

re: #328 Cato the Elder

Enjoy your Obama Derangement Syndrome, folks. After being unemployed for a year (mostly under Bush) I’ve got a job to do.

Acorn pay well?

343 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:48:42pm

re: #336 Boxy_brown

Sure, but in this case it wasn’t even wrong, stretching it maybe but not incorrect. (I am not a Palin zombie, in full disclosure, I would not have nominated her for VP. But come on as VP… compared to Joe Biden she is a rocket-scientist.)

Ok- I admit it- I was more vested in this election because while I have always been proud of being an American, I never really felt represented in any election. I never ONCE believed in Clinton and his “feel your pain” and time after time after time I voted by party and well, that was that- then this election of the perfect storm broke- and there was a MOM with a kid with special needs, one who had scrapped her way through school I did it waiting tables, I am not ugly, but not beauty pagent material, she got through too- and I finaly felt represented.

She told the truth, as far as I knew, during the debate, and she said what I was thinking about government, Israel, and well a lot of things I believed in…so yeah, I idenitfied with her, which was a far cry from the usual.

344 capitalist piglet  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:48:59pm

re: #328 Cato the Elder

The point is not that you can’t see Russia from Alaska. Of course you can.

The point is that Palin the Dim thought that was a qualification for dealing with Putin on foreign policy.

Enjoy your Obama Derangement Syndrome, folks. After being unemployed for a year (mostly under Bush) I’ve got a job to do.

Cheers!

Oh, please. It was a point of interest, a factoid, something most people don’t realize about her state. And it was true. You implied that there was something wrong with the statement in your post comparing her remarks to Tina Fey’s.

And Joe Biden didn’t know who was POTUS when the stock market crashed, or that it was ten years before television was a vehicle with which to communicate with the American people - and yet, you pulled the lever for him.

There’s a big-assed disconnect there. Sorry. Call it whatever name you want.

345 Davida  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:49:10pm

Unflippinbelivable.

346 DisturbedEma  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:49:25pm

re: #342 Boxy_brown

Acorn pay well?

Maybe…better in a little while…

347 Cato the Elder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:53:29pm

re: #337 DisturbedEma

Or like Cato the Dimmer- believing that one can feel better about dear leader because of hating McCain…what kind of job could such a person get? Community orgainzer? Wait…

Your nick really explains a lot.

Personal attacks always play well.

Enjoy the hive mind.

348 tjseagrove  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:54:36pm

We should only show shock if something intelligent happens. As we always said in the Navy, if it doesn’t make any sense, don’t worry about it. It is when things make sense that you need to worry.

Have we even hit the 100 day point yet?

349 Boxy_brown  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:57:18pm

re: #343 DisturbedEma

I never really felt represented in any election.

I think that every election since the beginning of democracy people have had to look at who they were OK with, rather than getting every last thing that they want. I’m no different, however, at the moment I have never felt LESS represented by my government than I have in my life.


…and there was a MOM with a kid with special needs, one who had scrapped her way through school I did it waiting tables, I am not ugly, but not beauty pagent material, she got through too- and I finaly felt represented.


I’m glad, you might have a chance to feel that way again. I just didn’t think she was ready at the time. (You need to be able to put away Katie Couric before you are ready for Putin) Again though, she was miles ahead of the alternative.

350 formercorpsman  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:57:52pm

re: #336 Boxy_brown

Don’t get me wrong, I agree.

I think one aspect in all of this anymore, illustrated profusely by someone like Pelosi who thinks she is entitled to transport via military aircraft, is the concept these damn politicians are untouchable.

I don’t think the framers ever had the idea in mind of what we see now.

The freakin lot of them are just crooks. If it were up to me, I would demand they all go through the same initiation as those aspiring to become citizens from a foreign country.

I am tired of the pedestals.

351 MJBrutus  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:58:35pm

Speaking of ACORN, it reminded me of the upcoming census (which it seems they will get more of OUR money to “help” conduct). Now as I understand it, there is no legal definition of our various ethnic categories or even sexual preferences. That is to say, that anyone can claim to be African-American or Hispanic or whatever and one’s declaration cannot be legally challenged.

So, how about, as a form of protest against race-based laws, preferences, whatever, that all of us declare ourselves to be African American. For myself, I heard my Dad say once that his great-great-grand dad had some African blood in his veins. So I guess I’m black. How about the you folks? Let’s all step in to the light and acknowledge the racial background that in the past we may have felt reluctant to disclose!

352 formercorpsman  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 12:59:18pm

re: #343 DisturbedEma

Thank you. Intellectual honesty.

353 formercorpsman  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 1:00:21pm

re: #344 capitalist piglet

Yes, you said the one word that has escaped me in all of this, but qualifies it best.

Disconnect.

354 nyc redneck  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 1:02:40pm

re: #316 Cato the Elder

I voted for Obama because I was against McCain.

lol, that is the strangest thing i have ever heard.
are you happy now?

355 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 1:03:38pm

re: #351 MJBrutus


So, how about, as a form of protest against race-based laws, preferences, whatever, that all of us declare ourselves to be African American. For myself, I heard my Dad say once that his great-great-grand dad had some African blood in his veins. So I guess I’m black. How about the you folks? Let’s all step in to the light and acknowledge the racial background that in the past we may have felt reluctant to disclose!

Everyone is descended from Africans.

356 MJBrutus  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 1:04:51pm

re: #355 Zimriel

Everyone is descended from Africans.

Exactly right. We’re all descended from mitochondrial Eve. The “one drop” rule applies. I say we organize a mass declaration of our African-American roots!

357 capitalist piglet  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 1:05:10pm

re: #354 nyc redneck

lol, that is the strangest thing i have ever heard.
are you happy now?

Apparently he is, yes. But he hates “groupthink”. How’s that for irony? As we all know, there’s no “groupthink” among Obama supporters.

/////////////////////////////////

358 Boxy_brown  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 1:05:57pm

re: #350 formercorpsman

I think one aspect in all of this anymore, illustrated profusely by someone like Pelosi who thinks she is entitled to transport via military aircraft, is the concept these damn politicians are untouchable.

They have every reason to believe that they are untouchable, unfortunately. (Can you imagine being the airman who has to carry her bags and bring her stretched ass an in flight snack?)
The truly enraging thing is that they routinely break the laws that they swear to defend and uphold. They treat the whole concept with contempt. Yet they get reelected. The blessing/curse of a democracy is that people get the government they deserve.

359 Querent  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 1:05:59pm

re: #277 MarineMomSue

Thanks for the kind words but I never for a second forget that I’m just a ‘cheerleader’. I’ve never worn the uniform. My sons and the countless other sons’ and daughters’ have and will always do the heavy lifting for our country.

Yes, but “they also serve who sit and wait”.

Cupcakes in your sons’ honor, all around the Lizard Bar!

360 MJBrutus  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 1:06:52pm

re: #357 capitalist piglet

Apparently he is, yes. But he hates “groupthink”. How’s that for irony? As we all know, there’s no “groupthink” among Obama supporters.

/////////////////////////////////

They’re all the extras from, “The Life of Brian.”

We are all individuals

361 Boxy_brown  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 1:07:53pm

re: #354 nyc redneck

lol, that is the strangest thing i have ever heard.
are you happy now?

20 years in the USN +30 years as a public servant doesn’t add up to 20 years in the damn America church and 143 days in the senate. Yeah, strange.

362 Roses  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 1:09:14pm

re: #182 eschew_obfuscation

Well, I think it is safe to assume that Osama was just emulating the American Left - the sewer from which Obama, the ‘community organizer’ emerged. So it is fitting.

363 formercorpsman  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 1:19:18pm

re: #358 Boxy_brown

Sad, but true. They do, because they have. I think the media has gone to great lengths to foster this problem as well.

You are totally right. Take the illegal immigration. They are sworn to uphold the laws of our nation, but now they are sound bites for other legislation, and hammers to slander people who want them to do their job.

Funny thing for someone like me. If someone would just freakin level with me as an honest voter deciding on the issues, and made the case that we needed mass “legal” immigration for fiscal, or competitive purposes, I could buy that, and you would garner my serious consideration.

I can’t stand any of them anymore.

364 abolitionist  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 1:43:45pm

re: #292 Cato the Elder

Ayers was not running for office. Palin was. End of story.

So you’re saying Ayers’ politics and education-oriented agenda are of no significance, compared to Palin’s, since “Ayers was not running for office” ?

News flash: ‘Down with capitalism’ Ayers currently holds a significant national office - vice president for curriculum of the American Education Research Association. He’s just not accountable to a national electorate.
Ayers Is No Education ‘Reformer’

365 funky chicken  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 2:03:32pm

re: #333 formercorpsman

Listen, if you are willing to give a pass on someone who did not have better judgment than befriending domestic terrorists who to this day are still not ashamed of what they did, or were trying to do, but have trouble digesting Palin, I can’t wrap my brain around that.

I just can’t.

Bill Ayres should be in jail, never, ever in any type of proximity to one of our Presidents.

+ 1000

366 rollingdivision  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 2:34:23pm

Thought this was from the Onion when I first saw it. Hey, maybe it wasn’t a byot event. (bring your own teleprompter)

367 funky chicken  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 2:48:31pm

Obama’s church gives Farrakhan and award, so now Farrakhan’s newspaper gives Obama an award. How sweet!

/

368 Render  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 3:01:57pm

Damn Cato you really stepped in it this time.

Whatever Palins faults may or may not be, they are utterly insignificant to the wholesale destruction of the ability of the US military to defend this nation, that you voted for.

Yes, you did.

OWN
IT,
R

369 mardukhai  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 3:08:58pm

The list appears to be mostly mainstream black ethnic press.

I used to work in the Jewish ethnic press — it can be provincial. Some black press is radical, some is actually conservative.

370 Sifty  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 3:28:06pm

I wonder what the reaction would be if George W. had had an awards ceremony that only Jewish newspapers or Evangelical Christian publications.

371 XENONIAN  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 3:28:46pm

ha ha What a list of papers:

New York
Afro American Times
Buffalo Criterion
Challenge Group
Hudson Valley Press
Jersey City Daily Challenge
New American
New York Amsterdam News
New York Beacon
New York Carib News
New York Daily Challenge
The New York Voice
Westchester County Pres
========================

Well we know what happened the last time some unfriendly press made it into their inner sanctums >

We got :

Americans clinging to their guns and religion with antipathy towards others


I can only imagine what America’s most racist contemporary POTUS couple will have to say at this shindig of the left bottom feeders

372 Sifty  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 3:28:59pm

re: #6 Jetpilot1101

Clowns have better colleges.

373 Sifty  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 3:30:35pm

re: #16 soxfan4life

Obama without his ‘prompter is a balloon with no hot air.

374 Sheepdogess  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 4:49:46pm

The religion of pus.

375 hazzyday  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 6:38:30pm

It’s closed because they need the space to go all Rev. Wright on themselves.

376 hazzyday  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 6:40:23pm

re: #368 Render

Damn Cato you really stepped in it this time.

Whatever Palins faults may or may not be, they are utterly insignificant to the wholesale destruction of the ability of the US military to defend this nation, that you voted for.

Yes, you did.

OWN
IT,
R

Cato of Palin. It puzzles me this Palin hate when mirrored to the Obama love. Palin’s integrity index is higher.

377 Tarheel  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 6:51:40pm

re: #22 DistantThunder

I saw this, and thought to myself: Is this going to be the incident that causes the scales to fall from the eyes of Obama’s sychophants in the MSM? I see no difference between the blindness of the Obots, and the loveblindness of a teenager in an abusive, dangerous relationship.
SNIP

MSM = The Ministry of Truth
QED

378 Cato the Elder  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 8:29:35pm

re: #368 Render

Damn Cato you really stepped in it this time.

Whatever Palins faults may or may not be, they are utterly insignificant to the wholesale destruction of the ability of the US military to defend this nation, that you voted for.

Yes, you did.

OWN
IT,
R

You mean we’re doomed, doomed, I say, if we can no longer waterboard people?

Crap.

379 capitalist piglet  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 9:12:40pm

re: #378 Cato the Elder

You mean we’re doomed, doomed, I say, if we can no longer waterboard people?

Crap.

It’s far more complex than that, as I’m sure you’re aware.

380 Render  Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:11:51pm

re: #378 Cato the Elder

183 F-22’s are going to replace over 600 aging F-15’s? Cutting the F-35 budget by one third even as almost half of the F-16’s are reaching their service life expectancy? Canceling both the DDG-1000 (so much for the off-shore fire support law) and the new production DDG-51 at the same time? Floating plans to cancel the Ford class carriers even as they’re already reducing the active carrier fleet? Canceling the Virginia class SSBN. Halting the LCS (too weak for littorals, too unarmed for combat, and almost too small to qualify as a ship) at just two ships. Canceling ballistic missile defense. Failure to fully re-open the Lima tank plant to full production capacity. Canceling the Marines EFV. Slowing production of the V-22. Failure to fund a replacement for tens of thousands of worn out Humvees, large numbers of which are literally being given away.

Increasing the military manpower authorization while not increasing the military budget to match. Insisting on a surge into landlocked Afghanistan in spite of knowing full well that there is no MSR into Afghanistan and the logistical system is strained to its maximum just to resupply the troops that are already there. Threatening to invade Pakistan. A four week lull in Predator strikes on al-Q/Talib leadership targets, during which the Shadow Army came out in broad daylight in Swat province, where it defeated a Pakistani Army column that had tanks, artillery support, helicopter gunship support and jet fighter bomber support, and it did so in full view of al-Jazeera’s cameras…

The list just goes on and on.

Not many seem to have noticed outside of a few blogs, but the US Navy just recently announced that it will not venture within 25 nautical miles of an enemy coast. Which pretty much rules out the concept of amphibious landings - which rules out the need for off shore fire support - which pretty much rules out the entire Marine Corp, doesn’t it? The Ayers/Alinsky plan rolls on…

===

Water boarding? It was used three whole times in the five years it was authorized, on three people who deserve to have far worse done to them, on a regular basis. You deserve only mockery for even mentioning it here (among other things).

So, now that Barry Big Ears has been royally punked by the Persian Nuclear Midget, what’s the plan? And who came up with the bright idea to ask the Iranians for permission to move US supplies for Afghanistan through Iran? Izzat why Barry Big Ears was bending over and gripping his cheeks for the Persian Nuclear Midget? Somebody up there not get the “Big Satan” memo? Somebody you voted for?

It’s the war, stupid.

PZKWVIII,
R

381 baslimthecripple  Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:26:50am

re: #26 Desert Dog
Speaking his mind wouild take all of about thiry seconds.

382 DisturbedEma  Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:01:49pm

re: #347 Cato the Elder

Your nick really explains a lot.

Personal attacks always play well.

Enjoy the hive mind.

re: #328 Cato the Elder

The point is not that you can’t see Russia from Alaska. Of course you can.

The point is that Palin the Dim thought that was a qualification for dealing with Putin on foreign policy.

Enjoy your Obama Derangement Syndrome, folks. After being unemployed for a year (mostly under Bush) I’ve got a job to do.

Cheers!

Ummm, and these comments about Palin were NOT personal…there is a word…goodness what was it now, oh, yes

HYPOCRITE! Own it…it is what you are…


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