Did Obama ‘borrow’ Voltaire’s prayer?
“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.”
— Voltaire
Somehow, I think Barack Obama must have been praying the same prayer. Otherwise, how could you explain things like this?
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getalife
April 27th, 2009
6:19 pm
They are scared to death.
Of everything.
Susan Myers
April 27th, 2009
6:27 pm
Erick Erickson?
A top commander of the 101st Chairborne? You wasted pixels on this idiot? Geez – now I did too.
booger
April 27th, 2009
6:32 pm
I assume you want people to infer that this one whacko article represents the conservative view in general. This is really low. Can we infer from Cynthia Mckinney.s outrageous comments in the past that this represents liberal thought?
I see from your first blog however, that it worked.
Paul
April 27th, 2009
6:33 pm
[[If your working premise is that they are going to attack anyway, get them incited quickly]]
These guys (writing this) really think AQ follows American domestic politics and that American politicians somehow have the ability to get them incited?
News flash. We’re Americans. Democrat, Republican, Independent, black, white, brown, yellow, male female, old person, child: they hate us all and would kill anyone if so doing would advance their cause.
Obama has, at most, seven and a half months. At that point it’s his. That’s all the time Bush had (Jan 20-Sep 11).
Nice to know God listens to the prayers of Democrats. ‘Course, the evangelical Republicans would say they’re just fulfilling prophecy, so I guess it all fits.
saywhat?
April 27th, 2009
6:34 pm
Had Obama announced to the world that he had prayed those words, the last 100 days would have seen the end of athism in the US.
saywhat?
April 27th, 2009
6:35 pm
atheism, sorry for the typo.
I Report/ You Whine
April 27th, 2009
6:38 pm
So who would Obozo be praying to?
~~~~~~
RUSH: You mean you filled out President Obama’s form on the website –
CALLER: Yes, sir.
RUSH: — that was set up to help you deal with a housing problem that you had.
CALLER: Yes, sir.
RUSH: And then the next thing you knew you were being solicited by law firms throughout the country who wanted $2,700 to renegotiate your mortgage?
CALLER: Yes, sir.
Never mind Obozo sending leads to his ambulance chasing buddies, what happened to the 75 Billion?
Hmmmm?
Kamchak
April 27th, 2009
6:40 pm
This is the same tool that twittered the other day about Maddow and Janet Reno’s vibrator. Ultra reactionary looking for more Frank Luntz inspired talking points.
Taxpayer
April 27th, 2009
6:41 pm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: OCTOBER 30, 1997
SPEAKER’S STATEMENT ON VISIT OF PRESIDENT JIANG
Washington, D.C. — House Speaker Newt Gingrich released the following statement today following his meeting with Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
“As I said in China this spring, there is no place for abuse in what must be considered the family of man. There is no place for torture and arbitrary detention. There is no place for forced confessions. There is no place for intolerance of dissent.” “While we walked through the Rotunda. I explained to President Jiang how the roots of American rule of law go back more than 700 years, to the signing of the Magna Carta. The foundation of American values, therefore, is not a passing priority or a temporary trend.
Now, that’s a real hoot.
TnGelding
April 27th, 2009
6:44 pm
They just don’t get it and can’t admit they were beaten fair and square by a superior candidate.
Obama might have to pardon Bush and Cheney, as well as all the others, to keep the torture issue from interfering with his agenda.
I’d recommend going on red alert. It’s not a coincidence that both attacks on the WTC occurred during the first year of new administrations.
Taxpayer
April 27th, 2009
6:51 pm
Paul,
The most effective methods available for terrorists to take credit for killing massive numbers of Americans would be for them to take ownership of some American company such as, Oh, I don’t know, R.J. Reynolds. Then, again, there are so many methods to choose from if you think outside the box and consider some of the more subtle approaches instead of bullets and bombs. Then again, such methods do lack pizazz.
getalife
April 27th, 2009
6:56 pm
They panicked in NY City today over a photo op.
Did obl win or what.
Geez.
booger
April 27th, 2009
6:57 pm
Seems everyone is using the THEY word. Somehow this one obscure, whacko article has become conserative dogma. What a crafty piece of journalism.
getalife
April 27th, 2009
7:04 pm
Who wiped the booger on this blog?
Andy?
I Report/ You Whine
April 27th, 2009
7:05 pm
Yeah, getalife packed all his s&%$ up and moved to Dallas over ittle bitty storm off the shore of Louisiana, has the nerve to laugh at people smart enough to evacuate a skyscraper when they see a 747 coming up the Hudson.
Obozo robot, your mind is shot out.
Mrs. Godzilla
April 27th, 2009
7:06 pm
I saw this earlier and thought Erik Erikson = Sociopathic Barney Fife off his meds. (is he Norwegian?)
The American people are pretty smart and are paying more attention now. They realize this knucklehead does not represent the conservative
movement. He does however represent the 21% of Americans who now say they are Republican.
Until the GOP decides to get its act together, Erickson and Morrissey and Drudge and Limbaugh and Hannity are providing style life support to a comatose patient.
I Report/ You Whine
April 27th, 2009
7:09 pm
getalife has Stockholm Syndrome, Obozo took all the Klintoon klowns hostage and they punked out and fell in love with him.
Little bitches of his.
Mrs. Godzilla
April 27th, 2009
7:22 pm
I’m beginning to think Andy uses some weird neo-con madlib book.
getalife
April 27th, 2009
7:23 pm
Yup, another hurricane coming and I will visit my brother again.
Why sit around with no power when you can leave and enjoy the big D?
getalife
April 27th, 2009
7:24 pm
Mrs. G.
He is just plain mad.
cons are sick puppies.
I Report/ You Whine
April 27th, 2009
7:29 pm
Unreal, just last week a Cessna Cub Piper single prop skirted the edge of the White House no fly, Obozo dropped his government trillion dollar checkbook and fled into Cheney’s bunker, now here’s the talking points denigrating the heroes of New York.
Sycophant, robotic brainwashed toadies and dunce cap wearing bozos all.
POS
DebbieDoRight
April 27th, 2009
7:30 pm
My prayer would be, (and I saw this on an email once), “Dear Lord if you can’t make me more beautiful, please make my friends more ugly.”
Kamchak
April 27th, 2009
7:30 pm
“RedState is the leading blog for right of center online activists. Established in May 2004 by Ben Domenech, Mike Krempasky and Josh Trevino, RedState has played an integral role in the right’s fight online against the left.
RedState continues to be the most widely read right of center blog on capitol hill and is the most cited right of center blog in the media.
Redstate has a community of tens of thousands of readers.”
Erick Erickson is the editor in chief of RedState
“obscure and whacko” RedState doesn’t seem to think so. They seem to think they represent the right of center view point.
danjonglee
April 27th, 2009
7:32 pm
WHITE HOUSE CAUSES TERROR SCARE IN NYC…WAS UPDATING FILE PHOTO OF AIR FORCE ONE…Buildings evacuated in panic…New Yorkers Run Through Streets…Put City on Edge…
Good Grief….
danjonglee
April 27th, 2009
7:34 pm
Proponents of leftist ideologies around the world share one common trait: they always demand to be included, but once you let them in, they force everybody else out, while refusing to leave themselves.
Hillbilly Deluxe
April 27th, 2009
7:36 pm
We’re Americans. Democrat, Republican, Independent, black, white, brown, yellow, male female, old person, child: they hate us all and would kill anyone if so doing would advance their cause.
Good point.
Mrs. Godzilla
April 27th, 2009
7:40 pm
Forcing everybody else out?
Should I laugh at that or send the poor guy a bus ticket?
I Report/ You Whine
April 27th, 2009
7:40 pm
1) Why would the White House decide it needed an updated photo of Air Force One? Have they not seen it lately? Are they going to advertise it on the Home Shopping Network?
2) What sort of klown would decide they needed a shot of a low flying jumbo jet over a city that was attacked by two low flying jumbo jets?
3) You’re in your office, 80 stories over Manhattan, you look out your window and here is Osama bin Laden coming up the Hudson for all you know, do you close the blinds and go back to sleep?
Now, listen to the goon democrats worship and defend their golden idol.
sick
AmVet
April 27th, 2009
7:42 pm
Mrs. G, you hit the nail squarely on the head with that 7:06.
The GOP – hijacked and hemorrhaging. And potentially mortally wounded.
Kamchak, the Republiconned cling to that “C” word desperately, but most Americans see through the charade. Finally!
It only took eight years of an unmitigated neo-con disaster, but most reasoned and reasonable mainstream Americans now know that the name, ideology and people are all frauds.
And worse, inept and deadly frauds.
What I find funny is how some are apparently so embarrassed by the faux conservative track record, and the fact that they voted for Less than Curious George, they are now “right of center” or “libertarians” or as one nut here calls himself, a “Constitutionalist”.
If the center were at the far reaches of the right-wing, then yes, I agree they are right of center. Otherwise, another inane GOP slogan gone awry.
A dumba$$ by any other name…
Mike
April 27th, 2009
7:43 pm
Yes, Jay and the same could very easily said about many of Bush’s critics like yourself, Daily Kos, Huff Post etc.
You see Jay, you are pretty much the same as Obama’s most absurd critic in that your mindless partisanship makes you an easy target for ridicule. Of course, you are too wrapped up in your own self-righteousness to see that you are no different than the mindless partisans that you sneer at. That’s OK, you have a lot of company with all of the rest of the mindless partisans out there of both stripes.
Taxpayer
April 27th, 2009
7:43 pm
We’re Americans. Democrat, Republican, Independent, black, white, brown, yellow, male female, old person, child: they hate us all and would kill anyone if so doing would advance their cause.
As I said earlier, the same thing can be said about companies such as R.J. Reynolds in their lust for money. Terrorist nut jobs get all the attention though because they do something more shockingly awesome. Of course, one also has to consider how one goes about getting attention. First, one needs easy access to a news media….there are some things that money most certainly can buy.
getalife
April 27th, 2009
7:45 pm
Perhaps he was sending the bankers a message:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn0tMMYEkQU&feature=player_embedded
DB, Gwinnettian
April 27th, 2009
7:57 pm
101st Chairborne?
oooh, good one. hadn’t heard that one.
John Galt Jr.
April 27th, 2009
7:57 pm
White House approved a “photo op” of low flying Air Force 1 tailed by fighter. Scared all of New York into a panic. These are the same idiots running our country. Who’s on first? Whoop Whoop Whoop.
DB, Gwinnettian
April 27th, 2009
7:58 pm
You see Mike, you are pretty much the same as Bush’s most absurd critic in that your mindless partisanship makes you an easy target for ridicule. Of course, you are too wrapped up in your own self-righteousness to see that you are no different than the mindless partisans that you sneer at.
Hey, this is fun!
Kamchak
April 27th, 2009
8:21 pm
AmVet
I was merely quoting them from their “about” page. I believe that they do speak for the neo-conned.
TW
April 27th, 2009
8:37 pm
Red State is kinda like the rightwing’s AirAmerica. In much the same way that the left just doesn’t get off on AM radio blowhards, the majority of the rightwing abondoned reading after 8th grade.
Ray
April 27th, 2009
8:46 pm
DB and Susan,
101st Chairborne? Tell that to all of those brave Americans who jumped into Normandy. Many are buried on the Normandy coast, never to come home. Tell that to the 101st unit north of us in Viet Nam who came by the 100s to our hospital in Da Nang as casualties. Tell that to the units who secured the DMC in Korea suffering some of the worst conditions we can imagine and asking for little to nothing.
You must he misinformed or just plain stupid to make comments like this. I would opt for liberal ignorance which is alive and well.
Ray
April 27th, 2009
8:52 pm
DB and Susan,
101st Cairborne? Tell that to the men who jumped into Normandy, many of whom lie buried on the Normandy coast, never to come home. One of the most decorated military units ever to protect the interests of the people of the US. And you post stupid, ignorant comments like this. I can only assume that you know little to nothing about the military history of this country or just plain don’t give a damn. Crawl back under your rock.
Ray
April 27th, 2009
8:53 pm
Double post. Sorry
maxwell
April 27th, 2009
8:53 pm
Whiner .. There is NO such thing as a Cessna Cub Piper! Also, 767’s which attacked the twin towers are not jumbo jets!
Better keep on cuttin’ and pasting…It seems when you try posting something on your own your wrong!
jon
April 27th, 2009
8:55 pm
How much deadly CO2 was released into the atmosphere of our delicate planet with this photo-op? If they needed a pic of AFOne over NYC I could have photoshopped one for them.
Hell, why didn’t they just get some photos next time ObyOne loads the family up to take them to a basketball game in Chicago?
And how much carbon did the chosen one spew going to make his Earth Day speech?
Will the Obamanistas ever recognize his arrogance and hypocrisy?
MAC
April 27th, 2009
9:00 pm
AJC is down another 20% from last year’s sales. Go figure…..
AmVet
April 27th, 2009
9:03 pm
Kamchak,
It would seem that one of the MANY problems with the modern day Republican Party, albeit perhaps their largest one, is that it seems as though there is very little, if any room, for moderates. Certainly at the top.
The Reagan/Newt/BushCo gang are the Republican apparatchiks. Complete fealty to the party is required. And Party First, Party Last, Party Always is what has gotten them in their current abysmal situation.
Just look at the reaction to John McCain. He was absolutely vilified by the oracles of the right-wing – Coulter and Limbaugh, among numerous others. His record was perverted by the perverse. He was maligned for “amnesty”. (Which of course, it was not. It just sounded good to the brain-dead and uninformed.) He was even said to be against “free speech” for his attempts to reign in campaign corruption.
And I was personally thrilled to see him best every one of those knuckle-draggers and BushCo acolytes in the campaign.
That man, in my opinion, has more honor than virtually the entire GOP “leadership” (and I use that word loosely) combined.
What a moral victory for America, that the now-polluted GOP could not even get one of their flat-earth darlings and chickenhawks nominated.
And apparently all northeastern Republicans, such as Snowe, Warner, Chaffee and Collins are traitors.
And if they think the arse-whippings of the past three years or so have been bad, I’m guessing there are plenty more ahead for the Party of No…
getalife
April 27th, 2009
9:08 pm
“When President Obama was told about the incident, he was “furious,” a White House official says.
Caldera was called into a meeting with White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and deputy chief of staff Jim Messina.
“It didn’t sound like a fun meeting,” the White House official says.”
Somebody is in trouble.
I Report/ You Whine
April 27th, 2009
9:12 pm
There, there, maxwell, no need to get hysterical.
Your president will f up again, many, many more times, so save it, k?
TW
April 27th, 2009
9:13 pm
Great stuff, AmVet. Yes, they are being feasted upon by the very ego that made them.
Lose – lose…
I Report/ You Whine
April 27th, 2009
9:15 pm
Oh good, getalife blamed the victims of 9/11 and when that dog didn’t hunt, he threw Emanual under the bus.
Chant for the golden calf, getalife, sing, rejoice, sacrifice the humans, whatever it takes, disciple.
Kamchak
April 27th, 2009
9:18 pm
AmVet
Before the late 70’s, the power struggle in Washington was between the Executive and Legislative branches of this government, and the checks and balances worked–not always well–but worked. Then came Regan and the evangelicals, and republicans became united by God. Thirty years later this is the result.
pat
April 27th, 2009
9:23 pm
Perhaps, but with freinds like this, who needs enemies.
http://blog.peta.org/archives/2009/04/the_embryo_vs_t.php