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How can you tell a dead skunk in the middle of the road from a dead democrat in the middle of the road?
There are skid marks in front of the skunk.
Aqua
14 years ago
As I said in the Weekly Open Thread, this was the single saddest day in the history of the White House Press Corps and the press in general. Those asking what could barely be deemed tough questions seemed almost apologetic asking them. The rest of the questions couldn’t even be called softballs. I think they were more like whiffle balls.
bill-tb
14 years ago
when you talk in lies, it’s hard to remember what your last lie was. In this case, even in the same speech.
Got to be a downer for all those jopey changey types waiting for their freebies.
Aleric
14 years ago
Total Fail. He gets worse as each lie is revealed. Pretty soon he will make the bad image of Richard Nixon seem trivial compared to his lying administration.
luva the scissors
14 years ago
obama is floundering badly and i think he is realizing that this is a grown up world with real people and not a popularity contest. the american public can be very fickle and the hard core obots may end up being his only supporters left. the public is starting to see just how badly they were duped and they are getting pissed.
FedUp
14 years ago
bill-tb – it doesn’t really matter if he lies out loud. The press gives him a pass and no one wants to be called a racist if they call BO a liar!
BO doesn’t ‘govern’ according to principles and values… he ‘leads’ according to the polls. What a fool he is. And, he has no spine. If anyone contradicts him, he brings our the Chicago thuggery to demean his critics. Fortunately, people like Bill Cristal and Sen. Jim DeMint – they are adults and consider the source. BO throws a temper tantrum.
3 1/2 more years…. sigh~
Buffalobob
14 years ago
Ref Obama’s stupid police remark.
A community agitator never misses the chance at race baiting. It was the cops fault not the Napoleonic self important race hustler professor.
Unfortunately the cops keep their cool. I would have liked to have seen them taser the little ba—- and watch him flop on the porch like a carp out of water. But that’s just me.
Let’s not forget Nixon’s motives were to keep the Leftist scum from doing what they are now. His methods may have been wrong, but his goal was at least honorable. AND HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT THEM!
And as to racism and sexism…
“While Presidents Kennedy and Johnson had employed the term ‘affirmative action’, it ‘did not have much bite’ until the Nixon administration announced a revised ‘Philadelphia Plan’ in 1969 requiring federal contractors in the construction industry to hire minority workers. Secretary of Labor George Shultz later extended this plan to nine other cities. Shultz also issued the first guidelines requiring businesses with federal contracts to draw up ‘action plans’ for hiring and promoting women.27 In other words, not until the Nixon administration did ‘affirmative action’ begin to become synonymous with ‘civil rights’.” http://www.nixonera.com/library/domestic.asp
Nixon screwed up, but he was one hell of a lot better person than the Zero will EVER be.
Oh, and please someone get my other comment out of spam filter. It doesn’t seem to like Debbie Schlussel for some reason, as it’s always snagging my comments when I put in a link to her material.
Philly_PA
14 years ago
Global warming aside, I feel the chill of an early fall at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. 🙂
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Excuse me Mr Prez, but what da heck was the last question all about? I thought your press conference was about health care, not about some homie for chi-town.
How to tell when he is lying? Use the presser from last night to learn his “tells.” Then apply these tells — when you see him speak. Also, watch when he speaks on air — at times he experiments with Grecian Formula – or maybe has gray aribrushed on — the patterns change — he shows gray on certain speeches. Similar to the faint mustache worn when “speaking to the Arab World.”
Last night, the difference in his whole facial expression, overall vitality, and vocal tones when he felt convicted to accuse the Cambridge police of acting “stupid” was when he was telling his truths…at least in his mind. VERSUS his manner when he was answering questions earlier in the presser…sounded rehearsed, rambling, and notice his demeanor….he was not convicted in the details — only in the bumper sticker campaign slogan phrases.
Watch him — the next time he tells us the stimulus has worked exactly as he planned — or other such spin…
—————————————
I have a solution for BHO’s passion as an on air performer…..ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN and CBS love him so much…they should give him his own tv show and he could rant for hours like his buddy Hugo. I believe Hugo’s weekly show runs about 5 hours at a time…it would be interesting to see them compete for best ratings.
John Blake
14 years ago
From 1961 through 2012, we will have had ten Presidential incumbents spread over thirteen terms. Absent detailed criteria, per economic prosperity, societal betterment, contributions to national defense, we rate these ten accordingly:
Kennedy, 1961 – ’63 (3 years): Negative– Berlin Wall, Cuba, Vietnam outweigh tax-cuts. Authorizing Public Employee Unions by Executive Order was among the most destructive acts in U.S. history.
Lyndon Johnson, 1964 – ’68 (5 years): Negative– taxation destroyed one-earner families; politicized Vietnam War; reverse-racist Civil Rights, Immigration, “welfare” bills fragmented U.S. demographics (“divide and rule”) while fostering a permanently dependent ghetto underclass.
Richard Nixon, 1969 – ’74 (6 years): Negative– abandoned SE Asia, renounced Bretton Woods’ gold standard; abusive public-sector apparat preferred academic, legal, medical etc. lobbies to productive private-sector. Resigned rather than face partisan impeachment (note opposite of WJC in 1998).
Gerald Ford, 1975 – ’76 (2 years): Neutral– an unelected non-entity who traded Nixon’s pardon for appointment.
Jimmy Carter, 1977 – ’80 (4 years): Incompetent– a delusive radical, anti-Semite, naive and foolish in face of America’s sworn enemies in Soviet Union and Iran. Fuel crises, 21% Prime Rate exacerbated “Decade of Stagnation.”
Ronald Reagan, 1981 – ’88 (8 years): Near-great (first since Harry Truman)– executive strategist; resolved Carter’s 18-month hostage crisis, destroyed Soviet Union’s “evil empire,” blasted Cuban and Nicaraguan dictators. Deregulation and tax-reduction sparked major economic rebound. Betrayed by politicized Supreme Court appointees.
GHW Bush, 1989 – ’92 (4 years): Incompetent– feckless and irresponsible. Snatching defeat in Gulf War required later 5-year operation; rescinded tax-cut pledges to tip U.S. to recession; “strange passivity” reflected decades of extraneous “public service” resembling James Buchanan’s (1857 – ’60).
Clinton, 1993 – 2000 (8 years): Corrupt– purely a media creation; extortionate perjurer, a philandering wastrel who permanently demeaned his Presidential office. Lost half-century Congressional majority, impeachment failed only due to ultra-extreme partisanship. Reformist legislation originated solely with Congressional opponents.
GW Bush, 2001 – ’08 (8 years): Positive– like Truman, determined and effective foreign policy outweighed neutral-to-negative domestic issues. “Reckless passivity” reflected father GHWB’s– continuous media vilification, even vicious fraud, provoked no response. Preserved U.S. from terrorist attack post-9/11, but never confronted Iron Triangle of academic, bureaucratic, hyper-fraudulent Climate Cultists or hidden-agenda agitators of all stripes. Two serious Court appointees infuriated leftist ideologues.
Obama/Soetoro, 2009 – 20(12): Corrupt– a demagogic media creation, anti-Semite and Black Supremacist, quota-baby and entitlement poseur; quite possibly illegitimate, neither “native born” nor even a U.S. citizen. (Burden-of-proof lies on BHO/S to supply independently verifiable credentials sufficient to obtain a driver’s license, which despite repeated promises –like Kerry’s notorious Service Form 180– he has conspicuously failed to do). Trillion-dollar partisan giveaways, ruinous cap-and-trade taxation, a vicious medical-rationing program (as if advocating abortion, euthanasia, infanticide were not enough) are this political gangster’s stock-in-trade. “I am the Law,” said Frank Hague of Jersey City, channeling Tammany Hall’s definitive Boss Tweed: “What are you going to do about it?”
Over fifty years, then, a fifth of U.S. history, eight of ten U.S. Chief Executives have rated Neutral (1), Negative (3), Incompetent (2), or Corrupt (2). Of the remaining pair, only one (Reagan) functioned domestically as well as overseas. Should our next generation follow such a pattern, America’s transcendent Experiment will be one with Nineveh and Tyre.
Disturber
14 years ago
I found it very interesting that he couldn’t find a single positive element in the existing health care system, not one. His description of what he was going to change was cast in negative tones. The facts are that the system is excellent, but needs some reform around the edges. In the miasma of the discussion thus far, it is hard for anyone to separate the spin from the reality of what should be changed. The fact remains that anyone that needs healthcare appears to get it although trips to the ER are expensive and there should be better ways.
I also found it interesting that in his discussion of preventive care, which he really brushed over as if it were simply a talking point, he didn’t mention individual responsibility at all. How about the obese, the smokers, the drug users, the motorcycle riders who forego helmets, the MickyD habituates, etc. The medical costs of rectifying these issues are huge.
Finally, he has this notion that if he says it, it will be. Even if his plan were taken at face, it would be a monumental task to implement and it would take a considerable period of time to get up and running. I can’t imagine that any of the cost estimates are other than WAGs, as it will surely take an army of bureaucrats to implement and manage. Maybe that is where the new jobs will be!
All in all, an uninspired performance, heavy on generalities and adding little of substance. I predict that his numbers will continue to decline and when this comes up for a vote in the fall (according to Harry Reid), it will be a whole lot less than Obama describes.
Disturber
Rides A Pale Horse
14 years ago
Re: The black Harvard professor arrest.
If you don’t have all the facts……..STFU.
@John Blake: Interesting analysis but I wouldn’t put the first Bush in the same boat as Carter.
@Disturber: Thanks for bringing up the fact that Obama and the Dems haven’t found ONE good thing to say about American health care. That’s a point we should drive home since most people are satisfied with theirs.
Palmetto Mike
14 years ago
There are lies, damned lies and terminological inexactitudes. Obama excells in all of these.
@SBSmith: Snicker away SBS. It would be more funny if the issues weren’t so serious.
SBSmith
14 years ago
Hey Mike……
It’s just that the news is Sooo infuriating and disgusting….that once in awhile something just strikes me funny and it stays in my head…..the description so (unfortunately) perfect…..
obama is inept enough when he Isn’t speaking…it’s just that much more obvious when he tries talking w/out the TOTUS.
I don’t mean to give the impression I’m minimizing the seriousness of this debacle the libtards have us in…..the person in the Oval Office is a Marxist and a Liar……not to mention his servile minions.
My own anger and disgust are Beyond description.
I’ve always been wired to find humor in the most unlikely places…..it’s a good occasional stress buster.
ditto
14 years ago
@ John Drake #15
You left out the technology transfers that Clinton outright gave to the Chinese. With which: they are now the nation launching our communications satellites, and which also happens to be the same technology required to make precision strikes with atomic warheads anywhere in the US. The same technology with which they are using to advance their military systems, all funded by the trade imbalance dollars.
@ Palmetto Mike
You left outright political confidence scams: manipulations created solely to trick people into going along with and supporting you, while knowing full well that you are going to betray their trust.
How can you tell a dead skunk in the middle of the road from a dead democrat in the middle of the road?
There are skid marks in front of the skunk.
As I said in the Weekly Open Thread, this was the single saddest day in the history of the White House Press Corps and the press in general. Those asking what could barely be deemed tough questions seemed almost apologetic asking them. The rest of the questions couldn’t even be called softballs. I think they were more like whiffle balls.
when you talk in lies, it’s hard to remember what your last lie was. In this case, even in the same speech.
Got to be a downer for all those jopey changey types waiting for their freebies.
Total Fail. He gets worse as each lie is revealed. Pretty soon he will make the bad image of Richard Nixon seem trivial compared to his lying administration.
obama is floundering badly and i think he is realizing that this is a grown up world with real people and not a popularity contest. the american public can be very fickle and the hard core obots may end up being his only supporters left. the public is starting to see just how badly they were duped and they are getting pissed.
bill-tb – it doesn’t really matter if he lies out loud. The press gives him a pass and no one wants to be called a racist if they call BO a liar!
BO doesn’t ‘govern’ according to principles and values… he ‘leads’ according to the polls. What a fool he is. And, he has no spine. If anyone contradicts him, he brings our the Chicago thuggery to demean his critics. Fortunately, people like Bill Cristal and Sen. Jim DeMint – they are adults and consider the source. BO throws a temper tantrum.
3 1/2 more years…. sigh~
Ref Obama’s stupid police remark.
A community agitator never misses the chance at race baiting. It was the cops fault not the Napoleonic self important race hustler professor.
Unfortunately the cops keep their cool. I would have liked to have seen them taser the little ba—- and watch him flop on the porch like a carp out of water. But that’s just me.
@Aleric:
Let’s not forget Nixon’s motives were to keep the Leftist scum from doing what they are now. His methods may have been wrong, but his goal was at least honorable. AND HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT THEM!
And as to racism and sexism…
Nixon screwed up, but he was one hell of a lot better person than the Zero will EVER be.
Oh, and please someone get my other comment out of spam filter. It doesn’t seem to like Debbie Schlussel for some reason, as it’s always snagging my comments when I put in a link to her material.
Global warming aside, I feel the chill of an early fall at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. 🙂
.
Other comment, second attempt…
OBUNGLER IS A RACE BAITING @$$
Obama.
Punk. Liar. Jackass.
Excuse me Mr Prez, but what da heck was the last question all about? I thought your press conference was about health care, not about some homie for chi-town.
EPIC FAIL
How to tell when he is lying? Use the presser from last night to learn his “tells.” Then apply these tells — when you see him speak. Also, watch when he speaks on air — at times he experiments with Grecian Formula – or maybe has gray aribrushed on — the patterns change — he shows gray on certain speeches. Similar to the faint mustache worn when “speaking to the Arab World.”
Last night, the difference in his whole facial expression, overall vitality, and vocal tones when he felt convicted to accuse the Cambridge police of acting “stupid” was when he was telling his truths…at least in his mind. VERSUS his manner when he was answering questions earlier in the presser…sounded rehearsed, rambling, and notice his demeanor….he was not convicted in the details — only in the bumper sticker campaign slogan phrases.
Watch him — the next time he tells us the stimulus has worked exactly as he planned — or other such spin…
—————————————
I have a solution for BHO’s passion as an on air performer…..ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN and CBS love him so much…they should give him his own tv show and he could rant for hours like his buddy Hugo. I believe Hugo’s weekly show runs about 5 hours at a time…it would be interesting to see them compete for best ratings.
From 1961 through 2012, we will have had ten Presidential incumbents spread over thirteen terms. Absent detailed criteria, per economic prosperity, societal betterment, contributions to national defense, we rate these ten accordingly:
Kennedy, 1961 – ’63 (3 years): Negative– Berlin Wall, Cuba, Vietnam outweigh tax-cuts. Authorizing Public Employee Unions by Executive Order was among the most destructive acts in U.S. history.
Lyndon Johnson, 1964 – ’68 (5 years): Negative– taxation destroyed one-earner families; politicized Vietnam War; reverse-racist Civil Rights, Immigration, “welfare” bills fragmented U.S. demographics (“divide and rule”) while fostering a permanently dependent ghetto underclass.
Richard Nixon, 1969 – ’74 (6 years): Negative– abandoned SE Asia, renounced Bretton Woods’ gold standard; abusive public-sector apparat preferred academic, legal, medical etc. lobbies to productive private-sector. Resigned rather than face partisan impeachment (note opposite of WJC in 1998).
Gerald Ford, 1975 – ’76 (2 years): Neutral– an unelected non-entity who traded Nixon’s pardon for appointment.
Jimmy Carter, 1977 – ’80 (4 years): Incompetent– a delusive radical, anti-Semite, naive and foolish in face of America’s sworn enemies in Soviet Union and Iran. Fuel crises, 21% Prime Rate exacerbated “Decade of Stagnation.”
Ronald Reagan, 1981 – ’88 (8 years): Near-great (first since Harry Truman)– executive strategist; resolved Carter’s 18-month hostage crisis, destroyed Soviet Union’s “evil empire,” blasted Cuban and Nicaraguan dictators. Deregulation and tax-reduction sparked major economic rebound. Betrayed by politicized Supreme Court appointees.
GHW Bush, 1989 – ’92 (4 years): Incompetent– feckless and irresponsible. Snatching defeat in Gulf War required later 5-year operation; rescinded tax-cut pledges to tip U.S. to recession; “strange passivity” reflected decades of extraneous “public service” resembling James Buchanan’s (1857 – ’60).
Clinton, 1993 – 2000 (8 years): Corrupt– purely a media creation; extortionate perjurer, a philandering wastrel who permanently demeaned his Presidential office. Lost half-century Congressional majority, impeachment failed only due to ultra-extreme partisanship. Reformist legislation originated solely with Congressional opponents.
GW Bush, 2001 – ’08 (8 years): Positive– like Truman, determined and effective foreign policy outweighed neutral-to-negative domestic issues. “Reckless passivity” reflected father GHWB’s– continuous media vilification, even vicious fraud, provoked no response. Preserved U.S. from terrorist attack post-9/11, but never confronted Iron Triangle of academic, bureaucratic, hyper-fraudulent Climate Cultists or hidden-agenda agitators of all stripes. Two serious Court appointees infuriated leftist ideologues.
Obama/Soetoro, 2009 – 20(12): Corrupt– a demagogic media creation, anti-Semite and Black Supremacist, quota-baby and entitlement poseur; quite possibly illegitimate, neither “native born” nor even a U.S. citizen. (Burden-of-proof lies on BHO/S to supply independently verifiable credentials sufficient to obtain a driver’s license, which despite repeated promises –like Kerry’s notorious Service Form 180– he has conspicuously failed to do). Trillion-dollar partisan giveaways, ruinous cap-and-trade taxation, a vicious medical-rationing program (as if advocating abortion, euthanasia, infanticide were not enough) are this political gangster’s stock-in-trade. “I am the Law,” said Frank Hague of Jersey City, channeling Tammany Hall’s definitive Boss Tweed: “What are you going to do about it?”
Over fifty years, then, a fifth of U.S. history, eight of ten U.S. Chief Executives have rated Neutral (1), Negative (3), Incompetent (2), or Corrupt (2). Of the remaining pair, only one (Reagan) functioned domestically as well as overseas. Should our next generation follow such a pattern, America’s transcendent Experiment will be one with Nineveh and Tyre.
I found it very interesting that he couldn’t find a single positive element in the existing health care system, not one. His description of what he was going to change was cast in negative tones. The facts are that the system is excellent, but needs some reform around the edges. In the miasma of the discussion thus far, it is hard for anyone to separate the spin from the reality of what should be changed. The fact remains that anyone that needs healthcare appears to get it although trips to the ER are expensive and there should be better ways.
I also found it interesting that in his discussion of preventive care, which he really brushed over as if it were simply a talking point, he didn’t mention individual responsibility at all. How about the obese, the smokers, the drug users, the motorcycle riders who forego helmets, the MickyD habituates, etc. The medical costs of rectifying these issues are huge.
Finally, he has this notion that if he says it, it will be. Even if his plan were taken at face, it would be a monumental task to implement and it would take a considerable period of time to get up and running. I can’t imagine that any of the cost estimates are other than WAGs, as it will surely take an army of bureaucrats to implement and manage. Maybe that is where the new jobs will be!
All in all, an uninspired performance, heavy on generalities and adding little of substance. I predict that his numbers will continue to decline and when this comes up for a vote in the fall (according to Harry Reid), it will be a whole lot less than Obama describes.
Disturber
Re: The black Harvard professor arrest.
If you don’t have all the facts……..STFU.
Re: “Obamacare”
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w222/RidesAPaleHorse/Obamination/obamacare.jpg
[courtesy embed by Mike]
Re: “How do you know Obama’s lying?”
His lips are moving………(thought y’all already knew that)
@John Blake: Interesting analysis but I wouldn’t put the first Bush in the same boat as Carter.
@Disturber: Thanks for bringing up the fact that Obama and the Dems haven’t found ONE good thing to say about American health care. That’s a point we should drive home since most people are satisfied with theirs.
There are lies, damned lies and terminological inexactitudes. Obama excells in all of these.
“Big Brother” IS watching! H/T – Commenter, Rose, at Yid With Lid
Well, I have only one thing to say to the Zero, and his hench goons, and that’s WATCH THIS, JERKS!
ANOTHER “MY MUSLIM FAITH” MOMENT…
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25165.html
Freudian “slip,” or slam dunk?
DO HE SPEAK GOOD, OR WHAT?!
I’m sorry…I just can’t stop snickering at “rambling incoherently in search of a thought”.
(snorfle)
@SBSmith: Snicker away SBS. It would be more funny if the issues weren’t so serious.
Hey Mike……
It’s just that the news is Sooo infuriating and disgusting….that once in awhile something just strikes me funny and it stays in my head…..the description so (unfortunately) perfect…..
obama is inept enough when he Isn’t speaking…it’s just that much more obvious when he tries talking w/out the TOTUS.
I don’t mean to give the impression I’m minimizing the seriousness of this debacle the libtards have us in…..the person in the Oval Office is a Marxist and a Liar……not to mention his servile minions.
My own anger and disgust are Beyond description.
I’ve always been wired to find humor in the most unlikely places…..it’s a good occasional stress buster.
@ John Drake #15
You left out the technology transfers that Clinton outright gave to the Chinese. With which: they are now the nation launching our communications satellites, and which also happens to be the same technology required to make precision strikes with atomic warheads anywhere in the US. The same technology with which they are using to advance their military systems, all funded by the trade imbalance dollars.
@ Palmetto Mike
You left outright political confidence scams: manipulations created solely to trick people into going along with and supporting you, while knowing full well that you are going to betray their trust.