This would be downright hilarious, were it not this putz is the Commander in Chief and that highly touted Harvard grad brain trust.
But geeez….. pronouncing “Naval corpsman” … “corpse man”? Not once, but twice??
Embarrassing… makes you long for the more simple and common verbal faux pas, like Bush, Carter and Eisenhower’s more endearing, tongue rolling versions of “nuclear”.
BTW.. while we’re clearing up a few misconceptions about the brillance of the one hanging out in the Oval Office, TOTUS has cleared up that mystery of the mayoral bow that Mike’s A reported on a few days ago. He’s merely trying to do his part in balancing the budget, and hunting for revenue…
It’s not like Big Guy isn’t aware of the fiscal mess we are in. People have been noticing how he has been bowing when he meets even U.S. officials, like mayors or governors. But he’s not bowing. That’s just the way he walks so that he gets first dibs on dropped change.
A.C. Simply a play on bees/wasp Bad humor ok.Racist NO Actually it is the hatred shown by so many here that will send me on Much better things to do in SOCAL like walking the dogs on the beach.
@rich wheeler:
What a sad, weak tea attempt to explain away the obvious.
You obviously, and undoubtably, meant the traditional, well known meaning of the WASP acronym, hence the capitalization.
Ahh… I see.
You’re the one hurling about false accusations, then failing to apologize, implying we are racists, then failing to own up…
But we’re the hateful ones.
Yeah.
I’m sure that we will enjoy your time walking the dogs even more than you will.
A.C. Richard Wheeler Are you kidding? I’ m a WASP(Methodist) and don’t consider it a negative.As far as pure hatred here particularly towards the POTUS,imho it goes way too far and will come back to bite you in 2012.
If we could step back for a moment and get an overview, we would see that many people in this country, especially on the Left, cling tenaciously to a paradigm that is over a hundred years old. In this paradigm, “monied interests” continually conspire against the “common man,” with only the “progressives” to protect us hapless commoners.
Further, those wascally interests project power abroad, to find others whom they might exploit. I think it’s not such a bad paradigm. I surely gave it my best for nearly thirty years. It has just simply been dashed to smithereens on the rocks of reality.
Consider, the very nice people defending the “rights” of illegal immigrants to this country, as if they had been brought here for some humanitarian purpose, rather than to be exploited for their cheap labor. I have heard tender-hearted Liberal clergy, and business agents for unions (!!) defend the further importation of third- world workers. Who will benefit? The employers of said workers, of course, and other employers, as well, who think we need more cheap labor to keep costs down.
Just who are those dastardly capitalists, anyway? Well, if you mean the money men of Wall Street, they are Democrats. A quick look at the electoral maps of New York City and its wealthy Connecticut suburbs shows a very deep blue sea. The vile corporations that secretly rule Amerika? Eighty per cent of the CEO’s are Democrats.
These corps use regulation to stifle the entry of new competition, until their industries die of some sort of sclerosis, like our automobile, rail road, and steel industries have done. Who owns the stocks in corporations? Some of them are fat cats, like major Democrat bank roll George Soros. Some, indeed, a great deal, of stock is in the IRA’s of ordinary folk and in the pension plans of unions, who are defenders of the commoners.
Our troops around the world, supposedly enforcing our economic rape and pillage thereof, are mostly concentrated in some of the richest countries, like Japan and South Korea, and Germany, now moved on to Poland. Some pillage! I clearly remember when Japan and South Korea were third-world countries, who made cheap toys out of old beer cans and tissue paper, not highly technological automobiles and electronics.
We “bombed Iraq for oil,” and now the Chinese have outbid us for contracts to explore and sell that oil. Mexico, whose largest export is poverty, nationalized its oil industry in 1937, and now oil is its second export, behind that poverty. Remember those evil insurance companies opposing the beneficient health care takeover? Thank God, some of them did just that.
A number of others, however, supported nationalization, with lobbying and advertising funds. Corporations do, indeed, try to earn a profit. That is their duty to their shareholders, whether the shareholders are fat-cat Democrats or little old ladies’ pension plans.
The legitimate police power of the government must enforce the laws against fraud and coercion. Occasionally, they get around to doing just that, as when, at the beginning of the past decade, Enron was finally called to account for the money entrusted to it, after years of madcap highjinks.
How, you must be asking, does this connect to BHO’s malapropisms? Well, it’s actually quite simple. Although he appears to be reading things from a teleprompter that he does not understand, and did not even have the initiative to read beforehand and ask for a few footnotes, he is being defended, counter to all reason, by people who insist that he is their champion, their standard bearer in the “struggle” against evil corporate skulduggery.
No doubt, these same defenders will assail me, too, for “shilling for the corporations,” (Please send the check via FA.) They will drag out some anecdote or several that “prove” the existence of the evil capitalist conspiracy. However, again taking the larger view, the average worker in Western Europe has a standard of living roughly equivalent to our welfare recipients, if we measure in things like square feet of living space, daily grams of protein consumed, etc.
There is more opportunity here to move from one socioeconomic stratum to another. Instead of trying to glue back together the shards of the shattered paradigm, one does, indeed, benefit from looking at the real world, and the real people in it.
Michael… excellent point of debate, and welcome to FA. Try not not lurk further and speak out more often.
@rich wheeler:… busted, sir. You may be able to pull the wool over Bee’s eyes as a non-US citizen, and the guise of distancing yourself from commonly known acronynms. However a few of us here were born before yesterday.
Your intent came thru loud and clear, thank you. And while it may have initially sailed over the head of a non-US citizen, it do not over the rest of us. But I will say it’s a stellar attempt at a last minute “save”. Too bad that what Aye correctly points out….. your capitalization, which belies your last minute attempts to dodge your less than “open mind and heart”…. nullifies your cover alibi.
Can we take that as a promise? Nope. Can’t raise my hopes. Alas, I see that as yet another talking point, and am quite sure you need an outlet for your juvenile fraternal humor.
But then, truly I would be sad to see you move on. I’m so looking forward to you being OT’s “main course” over the campfire while you think of yourself as a “guest”.
But then, OT’s patient to a point. As an ex-warrior, he’s apt to give you some leeway for redemption. But he’s also known to take no quarter, and issue no miranda rights. And I’ll give you fair warning… you are out strategized at every exit. At that point, you will find yourself in the middle of nowhere – OT’s neck of the woods when not in the Stans – dependent only on those that surround you, and their mercy.
Suggest you leave your family at home until you discern whether you’re a guest, or an appetizer.
Okay okay…. I’m a racist…. been a fan of NASCAR for years now.
And I’m really missing Lynne Dee’s non-stop snark. I was hoping to gather enough for some snark soup later. Granted it is rather bitter but that’s too be expected… I believe it’s the fear of 2010 that taints the flavor.
M.H. Had no idea O.T.’S kind invite to my family so ruffled your feathers. Suspect it’s a respect between veterans that trumps politics.
Bees I apologize to you and anyone else that was offended by my WASP comment.
Ruffled?? LOL, rich wheeler. Since I have the privilege to know OT reasonably well, you have no idea how I’d love to be present at that one. I think I was being kind to give you warning. heh
RICH every time you came you where here to have entertain yourself and you forgot to realyse that here it’s serious with every one pushing the same goal i respect all who work herethey are smarts and kind enough to accept thoses who come and insist to play with their feeling i like that kindness that you don’t find in other blogs the love for the country is genuine here so when someone enter this house be very graytfull that their door is open to treat the newcommer as a guest and if the guest say i want to change your mind while i here because i think your convictions are wrong even if they give the guest a polite no that is not right i like this places and they alloud me to come back and i join the cause it is the best of the best i am not angry at you i know you wanted to play but dont step on good people’s feelings thoses are my friends,bye
Ah yes, the just kiding then I didn’t mean that defense as demonstrated by RW.
Hard Right: hi, YOUR on FEBRUARY 9th 2010, I came back and read the comments,
Interesting, to take a few steps back sometimes, but you haven’t change a bit,
SMART and poise still, on OCTOBER 31st 2010. bye what a good group at FA,
AND I love my blog.