Barack Obama: A superhero, a joke or … both?
To start this Friday on a lighter note, this is pretty funny:
Back when I was in college (Carnegie Mellon class of 2000), a friend who was attending the University of Chicago gave me a placard that was posted hither and thither on Chicago’s South Side: a dorky-faced guy with a ridiculously toothy grin smiling out at us. It read
“Barack Obama
for State Senate”My buddy Josh and I thought this was hilarious. Over the years, we turned the guy on the placard into a superhero. We’d be studying for one hard exam or another and would say to one another: “You know who could ace the piss out of this test right now?” The other would respond, “Barack Obama!” to which the first would respond, inevitably, “… for state senate!”
Or we’d be at the gym: “Man, these weights are tough! … Know who could lift them without breaking a sweat?” “Barack Obama!” “… for state senate!”
The years go by. It’s 2004. There’s a dude up on the stage at the Democratic National Convention who’s making everyone ask, “Why do I have to vote for Kerry? Why can’t I vote for this guy?” Josh and I called one another: “Uh … dude, do you see who’s on stage right now?” It was surreal.
It’s still surreal. Every few months it occurs to me afresh that Josh and I were making this obscure local politician the punchline of a joke probably a decade before he became president of the United States. Bizarre.
You may now commence with the “He’s still the punchline of a joke” discussion.
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Sick of Repubs
June 25th, 2010
9:21 am
Bush MIGHT have been a great President but he did not have the COURAGE to lead. He had to depend on the mis-steps of Cheney.
Outhouse GoKart
June 25th, 2010
9:21 am
“Why is she worth feeding?”
She isnt, however, it would be worth the cost of an abortion and two retro-abortions.
Thinking positive
June 25th, 2010
9:22 am
What is the highlight of the Obama administration 18 months in? There are a lot of failures (economic stimulus, immigration enforcement, health care that nobody wanted, unlimited spending, gulf oil response, afghanistan, job growth, handling terrorists, poor leadership, etc) but is there anything positive?
stands for decibels
June 25th, 2010
9:22 am
people who say they strongly relate to Obama as president has gone from 50 percent on Inauguration Day to 29 percent today, while the number of people who say they don’t really relate to him
“Relate to?”
How is the “really dig him, daddy-O” metric polling?
neo-Carlinist
June 25th, 2010
9:22 am
Mayor McCheese, I beg to differ. We are not a “knowledge based economy”. We are a wealth based economy. Those (like the Bush family) born into wealth “screw around” as much as the “liberals” you disparage, but they can literally afford to do so. Some folks (Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Marcus/Blank, Warren Buffett, etc.) have successfully turned knowledge into wealth, but most of the “wealth” in this country has been inherited, not earned. Not saying it’s good or bad, but it’s no different than some schmuck winning the lottery – has nothing to do with “knowledge”.
Fletch
June 25th, 2010
9:23 am
Politicians from Chicago are always acting in the best interests of their constituents…OK I’m sorry, I tried to type that with a straight face but just couldn’t do it.
Wait – did I just win the Nobel Prize in literature for the previous sentence?
stands for decibels
June 25th, 2010
9:23 am
Enter your comments here
BADA BING
June 25th, 2010
9:24 am
Daddy, have you fixed the leak/kicked someone’s ass/won the war/ created some jobs/ yet?
Peadawg
June 25th, 2010
9:24 am
“Wait – did I just win the Nobel Prize in literature for the previous sentence?”
If Obama can get one after 2 weeks of being in office, anyone can!
stands for decibels
June 25th, 2010
9:25 am
ick. Teh Slanties AND an “Enter your comments here” Submit Comment gaffe in one thread.
must be my lucky day.
RW-(the original)
June 25th, 2010
9:25 am
Good morning day shift. I don’t have the time to dawdle here but I just wanted to remind you to get your supplies ready for the wonderous and spleniferous Full Strawberry Moon celebration tomorrow night.
And with that….I’m a bird…I’m a plane…I’m Barack Obama…FOR STATE SENATOR!!!
…and I’m out
Later
MAC
June 25th, 2010
9:26 am
Given your choices to the question, the answer is clearly “a joke”.
Scout
June 25th, 2010
9:26 am
Jay:
Neither ………….. how about SUPER-DANGEROUS JOKE ?
Dave
June 25th, 2010
9:28 am
House, Senate leaders finalize details of sweeping financial overhaul
“It’s a great moment. I’m proud to have been here,” said a teary-eyed Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), who as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee led the effort in the Senate. “No one will know until this is actually in place how it works. But we believe we’ve done something that has been needed for a long time. It took a crisis to bring us to the point where we could actually get this job done.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/25/AR2010062500675_pf.html
Sounds a lot like the “wonderful” healthcare bill
Fletch
June 25th, 2010
9:28 am
neo-Carlinist – just out of curiosity, do you think it is healthy to eliminate generational wealth? With Obama’s huge raise on the inheritance tax, that is the road we are going down. So every generation of a family living better than the one before is a bad thing now? And why do other people deserve what my parents worked their whole lives for? I just don’t get animosity towards fortunate people.
Contractor
June 25th, 2010
9:29 am
Foxy Lady is #1,
Yeah, he’s working so hard for the working people that his stimulus that will tax the hell out of the working people has failed, unemployment keeps rising along with foreclosures. You are a complete idiot that should have his/her voter privileges revoked because you obviously have blinders on and don’t have the intellect to vote for a worthy person to lead this fine country.
AmVet,
We already know the type of person you are, that shouldn’t be allowed sharp things to write with, or even a computer to spread the insanity that fills your brain. You don’t deserve a good bashing, because you aren’t worth the pile my dog left in the back yard this morning. Go ahead and call me a bigot. Wouldn’t be the first time you Donkey’s have done it, and won’t be the last time. Y’all use the word so often, it’s looking like a pair of underwear with holes all in them.
Peadawg
June 25th, 2010
9:29 am
“No one will know until this is actually in place how it works.”
LMAO!!! Here we go again…..
Sick of Kooks
June 25th, 2010
9:29 am
LOL!!! Surely you not implying Odumba has “courage” and is “leading?!?!?!?” Unless of course you mean leading us straight to hell in a handbasket, then yes, you would be correct.
Down in Albany
June 25th, 2010
9:30 am
Anyone who does not see Obama as totally incompetent is simply NOT paying attention. Since his first weeks in office, when he allowed a photo shoot of AirForce 1 over the skies of NYC, scaring the life of folks…it has been one gaffe after another. His answer for the photo shoot? “I didn’t know where AF1 was…” Now for his latest debacle…the RESPONSE to the gulf oil spill. He not only did not respond appropriately, he and his administration has stood in the way of folks who have a plan to mitigate damages to our shoreline.
He is ill-equipped to manage a freakin MacDonald’s, much less this nation. 2012 cannot come soon enough. Of course, if he grants amnesty to the illegals, we may NEVER get him out of office….
zeke
June 25th, 2010
9:30 am
he is an absurd, unqualified for any office, joke! Only, the joke is on the taxpayers, the culture and the Constitution of the usa!
J . Degrees
June 25th, 2010
9:32 am
Only on America do we have the freedom to belittle our Presidents. What a country. As for President Obama; thank God he is smart! Only a very smart man could survive the crap being thrown at him and still avoid another Great Depression. Assaults from the right, left and he still is keeping his head when all around are losing theirs. That is why he is President. Our country has been in a mess for at least 8 years and then a new natural disaster and ironically the tables were turned…God works in mysterious ways. Not those poor Black people in New Orleans who for the most part never made it back home, but the largely white population that benefits from tourism and the “fishing” industry. All those Republican Oil friends of Bush could have put up the money to help do something about that oil clean up. People would put on suits and masks to go on the beaches. I helped gut houses in New Orleans with a non profit. I hope Obama does not go for a second term. Give it back to the GOP and let Sarah lead us out of the wilderness. Is that honestly the best the GOP can do?
stands for decibels
June 25th, 2010
9:32 am
What hurts us as a country is he has one of the two major parties vowing to vote no on anything that is proposed , even if they agree with the bill , they are going to vote no.
What he said.
Or, put another way: I’m so old I can remember when a cap-and-trade approach to environmental cleansing, and a health insurance mandate, were market-based Republican ideas.
Now they’re radical lefty plots.
xyz
June 25th, 2010
9:33 am
I’m still amazed that the media isn’t demanding to see Obama’s college transcripts. This nut is so in love with himself and gets off on jabbing at Bush any chance he gets, surely he would have released his transcripts if his grades were better than Bush’s.
Obviously he is a product of Affirmative Action and probably got D’s all through college.
Jack
June 25th, 2010
9:33 am
We’d all be better off if Obama spent the rest of his term on the golf course.
Nothing is Free
June 25th, 2010
9:33 am
He turned away the world’s experts on oil spills and brought on a film director, James Cameron.
He is like a child.
We will be lucky for the country to survive until he is gone.
Southern Comfort (متعة الجنوبي)
June 25th, 2010
9:34 am
“B” grade movies with the likes of Will *Puke* Smith
If “B” grade movies make money like he does, sign me up too!!
kayaker 71
June 25th, 2010
9:34 am
stands for decibels,
Looking at your USA Today charts, it appears that not in the last 40 or so years has a president of this country started with such a high approval rating and after 18mos, ended up lower than anyone since the 50s. As to your Reagan hate, you might remember that he won a second term against McGovern and carried 49 of the 50 states. Think that Bozo could pull that off? Not to mention the fact that when Reagan died, the nation had a two day period of national mourning with untold people paying their respects to him at the nation’s capital. As to the only 27% of the electorate who strongly approve of Bozo….. the truth hurts, doesn’t it?
J . Degrees
June 25th, 2010
9:34 am
Ok already…only “in” America!
DreamsMaterialize
June 25th, 2010
9:34 am
Barack Obama: A superhero, a joke
This is a false dichotomy. I am, however, not surprised to see this since most of our politics are characterized by false dichotomies and other logical fallacies. You are categorized as either one extreme or the other, as if life, people, or our problems are really that simplistic. Just because politicians, the media, and this article’s author present us with false dichotomies doesn’t mean we have embrace the false logic.
hmmm....
June 25th, 2010
9:35 am
J. Degrees
Thanks for the laugh. You clearly haven’t taken your meds for the past few days. And fyi, the Gulf is NOT a “natural disaster,” Einstein.
Nothing is Free
June 25th, 2010
9:35 am
J. Degres
thank God he is smart!
The man that exposed his children to the rantings of a racist madman is smart?
My God. How dumb are you?
AmVet
June 25th, 2010
9:35 am
Matti, you have to understand this is the third “iteration” in the past few months.
And if you think this one has some repulsive things to say, you should have read the hate-filled, bigoted, practically deranged rantings of the previous two! This is, in comparison, the compassionate conservative persona.
RwT brings up the most salient point of this debate in his 8:21.
The fake conservatives, ala Byll and way too many others in their Pup Tent, have not only failed to learn a damn thing from the serially impeachable disaster of 2000 – 2008, THEY WANT MORE OF IT.
No way in hell, conned. You get to spend more time at the children’s table until you can learn to behave and do your homework…
Rightwing Troll
June 25th, 2010
9:36 am
Obama will release his transcripts when W releases his miltary records and explains to the soldiers dying in the field why he got to skate and go AWOL while his peers were adding thier names to the Vietnam wall…
cliff
June 25th, 2010
9:37 am
At the rate the entire world is laughing at us, it’s pretty obvious Obama is one MASSIVE, never ending joke.
Scout
June 25th, 2010
9:37 am
…………………. and a closet Muslim.
Scooter
June 25th, 2010
9:38 am
if your party purists keep nominating schmidiots like Palin, you’ll be crying
USinUK,a short while back you admonished someone for saying something about Kagan and admonished me to a certain point for thinking it was funny. now you say something like this about Palin. I think I am seeing a double standard here. Please correct me if I am wrong. And,good morn!
Hmmmmmmm
June 25th, 2010
9:39 am
wild byll
These people are illiterate drones, or robots. Especially USINUK and a few others. They would not have a clue as to a good leader if it smacked them in the face. Hence, the despicable and clueless joke of a President we have in office. As I have said from the beginning we get what we vote for……. The sad thing is that some of the most stanch supporters of Obama will be his greatest adversary in due time….
veil
June 25th, 2010
9:39 am
Bush released every type of record he had, including his military records. You think your slimy, corrupt, anti-America media would have allowed Bush to have kept half of what Obama is, secret?
Try again there numbnuts.
Wishman
June 25th, 2010
9:39 am
Obama is a self serving egomaniac and should be impeached immediately.
baker
June 25th, 2010
9:41 am
Just looking at Obama makes you more stupid. He is simply a darker version of the big eared goofball on the MAD Magazine covers.
Rightwing Troll
June 25th, 2010
9:41 am
So why is there no record of his stint defending the skys of Alabam while his peers were overseas fighting?
Scooter
June 25th, 2010
9:42 am
Ooops! Good afternoon USinUK!
Sally
June 25th, 2010
9:43 am
Your original instinct was correct. He is a joke. A VERY BAD JOKE.
Outhouse GoKart
June 25th, 2010
9:43 am
Will *Puke* Smith may make money but his acting skills are at best, mediocre and just further evidence at how easy it is to dupe the public.
This Guy
June 25th, 2010
9:43 am
Mayor McCheese
June 25th, 2010
8:53 am
Liberals rely on government because they can’t fend for themselves given the fact that they screwed around during their K-12 years and now don’t understand why a knowledge-based economy has left them behind. It’s your own darn fault so stop blaming GWB.
This Lib obtained a few degrees beyond K-12. Your stereotypes are typical conservative bull.
jt
June 25th, 2010
9:44 am
Big DICTIONARY has experienced a windfall too.
Remember, the word DEPRESSION is a no no.
It is a JOB-LESS RECOVERY.
Kinda like MAN MADE DISASTER.
Like CORRUPTION is no longer accepted. It is to be called CAPTURED.
BRIBES are CAMPAIGN DONATIONS. GRAFT is GREEN.
It goes on and on.
rylie
June 25th, 2010
9:44 am
Can you imagine if Bush had tried to bribe two different Congressional candidates with White House jobs and also been smack in the middle of Senate seat auction? The media would be beside themselves!!! Each day that passes with the Blago trial the more we learn how deep Obama was in on it. This fool should be Impeached and criminally charged immediately.
Alfred E Neuman
June 25th, 2010
9:44 am
Hey…just a darn minute.
“What, me worry”
Chris
June 25th, 2010
9:45 am
Never seen so many mean and hateful comments before. Can’t understand why people expect him to take one year to clean up a mess that took eight years to create? Republicans have caused more damage and threatened more freedoms in this country in those eight years than Obama could ever do. I believe history will be kind to Obama, years from now people will realize that he was a good leader.
AmVet
June 25th, 2010
9:45 am
He is simply a darker version of the big eared goofball on the MAD Magazine covers.
I completely agree. But not having picked one up in ages, I did not realize that George Walker Bush adorned the cover of that wonderful publication.
RwT, forget it. The conned apparatchiks love their cowards who puff up their chests and scream for war…
Bret
June 25th, 2010
9:46 am
Bush released his military records. Stop being an idiot troll and face the facts. Your Messiah is really nothing more than a Muslim Kenyan that made barely passing grades in college and was only accepted because of the color of his skin. It must suck to be a liberal.
J . Degrees
June 25th, 2010
9:46 am
Oh by the way, if you’ve got some real answers, try to be President yourself. Right! Obama and possibly Palin, but not poor ole you… Get a grip!
Russ555
June 25th, 2010
9:47 am
When I saw him running as a candidate as the democratic party primaries I could not believe it either. then people were voting for him. Could not see why. I voted for Hillary in the primary. Then voted for Obama in the general election.
Politics is a strange business.
Southern Comfort (متعة الجنوبي)
June 25th, 2010
9:47 am
Will *Puke* Smith may make money but his acting skills are at best, mediocre and just further evidence at how easy it is to dupe the public.
Further evidence is our current political system. When you have people in office who care more about making money than making policy, you end up in the crap-hole we’re currently in.
Barack Obama
June 25th, 2010
9:47 am
“…let me say this, at some point you have made enough money”.
Dave R.
June 25th, 2010
9:47 am
Jay, . . Duh!
Even those who voted for this joke no longer see him as a superhero, and those that see him as a joke are increasing daily.
stands for decibels
June 25th, 2010
9:48 am
it appears that not in the last 40 or so years has a president of this country started with such a high approval rating and after 18mos, ended up lower than anyone since the 50s.
Golly, ya think maybe for a little while there the nation that fought a Civil War over slavery, more-or-less united in its pleasure over finally, FINALLY, overcoming this particular color barrier? Yes, it was symbolic and it came back down to a few points of the 2008 popular-vote margins, but in those heady pre-”I hope he fails” > “it will break him” days, we didn’t have the entire political opposition goose-stepping in unison, and of course BHO benefited.
(Anyway, you want to watch someone piss away high approvals, look at the last guy in the White House.)
As to your Reagan hate, you might remember that he won a second term against McGovern and carried 49 of the 50 states. Think that [President Obama] could pull that off?
1) Run Sarah Palin against BHO and it might happen.
2) I didn’t/don’t hate Reagan, I do hate the idolatry some have for him.
3) I know you didn’t really mean to type “McGovern,” so I’ll refrain from having fun with that. Although the 1972 election ought to give everyone pause before they imagine that anyone’s past political performance is an accurate indicator of future earnings, so to speak.
one other thing:
As to the only 27% of the electorate who strongly approve of [President Obama]….. the truth hurts, doesn’t it?
If you’re really interested in what I think of Rassmussen I’ll share. Otherwise, just go on believing what you like of their stupid “Presidential Approval Index.”
Sick of Repubs
June 25th, 2010
9:48 am
Wishman…go ahead and start the impeachment process!
AmVet
June 25th, 2010
9:48 am
jt, I call it politispeak. It is a corollary of legalese and pyschobabble.
But the bumper sticker, sloganeering Mission Accomplished conned certainly have NO place whatsoever indicting others for using it.
555
June 25th, 2010
9:49 am
So where are the kook anti-war protesters with Obama? He has had how many innocent American troops killed in Afghanistan now? Obama has as much military experience and knowledge as Bo the dog. This is why no one takes the Commies seriously. You reek of hypocrisy.
Barack Obama
June 25th, 2010
9:49 am
“…I dont want to redistribute the wealth, I just want to spread it around a little bit”.
OTPVol
June 25th, 2010
9:49 am
Obama will be a one-term elected official for the same reason Jimmy Carter was a one term elected official. They are bad leaders who surround themselves with a bad cabinet. Nothing to do with race, nothing to do with their character, nothing to do with anything other than the times and their abilities. The ones to blame are the idealists who voted them in. Where are the centrists when you need them?
hahaha!!!!
June 25th, 2010
9:50 am
Now the crazies are playing the “well if you can do it better then run for President” card!! I love it!!!!
Chris
June 25th, 2010
9:50 am
Oh Yeah. Sarah Palin would have been a much better choice. LOL Then we’d all be thanking BP for destroying the gulf and begging them to keep drilling. WTF? You conservatives disgust me. John McCain would be threatening nuclear action against Mexico if they did not stop sending people over here. Boener and his crew would have allowed Wall street to keep bleeding us dry.
Dave
June 25th, 2010
9:50 am
Confidence Waning in Obama, U.S. Outlook
“Americans are more pessimistic about the state of the country and less confident in President Barack Obama’s leadership than at any point since Mr. Obama entered the White House, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.
Sixty-two percent of adults in the survey feel the country is on the wrong track, the highest level since before the 2008 election. Just one-third think the economy will get better over the next year, a 7-point drop from a month ago and the low point of Mr. Obama’s tenure.
Amid anxiety over the nation’s course, support for Mr. Obama and other incumbents is eroding. For the first time, more people disapprove of Mr. Obama’s job performance than approve. And 57% of voters would prefer to elect a new person to Congress than re-elect their local representatives, the highest share in 18 years.”
quincy
June 25th, 2010
9:51 am
If an IQ test was mandatory for voting, the Dems would never hold another public office at any level of government.
Midori
June 25th, 2010
9:51 am
I’m not racist, just knowledgeable.
your use of the term “coloured” pretty much destroys what shred of credibility you had left……
Barack Obama
June 25th, 2010
9:52 am
“…Healthcare for everyone is affordable. I ve just received these latest numbers from the CBO and they prove what Ive been saying.”
dw
June 25th, 2010
9:52 am
To Foxy Lady is #1
at June 25th, 2010
8:19 am
You yourself are so severly color blinded. You write about how you dislike the very thing you do and are.
Give it more than 1 year before you start calling BHO the greatest. Way to early to make that statement.
wow
June 25th, 2010
9:52 am
Hey Nazis, Sarah Palin didn’t run for President. I know you people have the mental capacity of a squirrel, but I can’t believe your memories are that short.
dw
June 25th, 2010
9:52 am
sorry. severely
DreamsMaterialize
June 25th, 2010
9:52 am
Obviously he is a product of Affirmative Action and probably got D’s all through college.
At which institution of higher learning does a D-average qualify for graduation? Certainly not an Ivy League one. It’s this type of hyperbole that permeates and ruins any meaningful, informative, problem-solving dialogue to take place.
Democrat Supporter
June 25th, 2010
9:53 am
Joke.
Dave R.
June 25th, 2010
9:53 am
“Can’t understand why people expect him to take one year to clean up a mess that took eight years to create?”
Because he had all the answers, Chris! He told us daily what he’d do, and more importantly, what the results of what he did would be.
Guess what? He’s FAILED at everything he’s tried. INCREASED the deficit. Hasn’t reduced unemployment, and in fact, his plan wasn’t supposed to allow unemployment to go above 8%. How’s THAT workin’ fer ya? Health care reform is going to ADD to the deficit, not lower it despite his assurances. It’s going to COST businesses despite his assurances. It’s going to force low income people to drop their low cost plans, despite what he said it would do. Gitmo still open. Afghanistan ESCALATED.
Joke – big time.
Axil
June 25th, 2010
9:53 am
So we can’t say “coloured” but Obama can make fun of mentally retarded children and the Special Olympics? Ehhhh…..
King Ray Roy
June 25th, 2010
9:53 am
Obama is a BAD, BAD, BAD joke.
Billy T.
June 25th, 2010
9:55 am
Pass the stimulus or unemployment may exceed 8%….
how has that worked out?
JOKE!
trees
June 25th, 2010
9:55 am
Yep, if Obama had better grades than Bush he would have most certainly have released his transcripts. This just further illustrates how much of a false illusion this nutcase is. The media made him out of thin air and now they are stuck with him.
Union and Big Government Supporter
June 25th, 2010
9:56 am
Neither…he is a complete failure.
Peachtree St.
June 25th, 2010
9:57 am
Obama has already set his place in history as the worst President of all-time, which Jimmy Carter is secretly celebrating. Now the question is just how low will this limp-wrist manchild lower the bar.
Chris
June 25th, 2010
9:57 am
It’s a shame that we have one political party who gets its cues from a radio talk show host who has never held public office. (Limbaugh is the DEVIL, and Sean Klan-nitty is his lap dog)
kayaker 71
June 25th, 2010
9:57 am
You can make all the excuses for this clown that you want and the truth still prevails. The electorate is not happy with his performance, his ideas, his plan for our future and his leadership. He screws up everything he touches and then blames the result on someone else. It is never his fault. His narcissistic, chin in the air arrogance is disgusting. He dismisses the military as an annoyance, the opinion of the majority as uninformed and disagreement as not being loyal. He characterizes those with a distaff opinion as barriers to his grand plan to “transform” this country in his own image. Everyone who doesn’t buy his Marxist ideas or has other solutions is ignored. All in all, the mark of a real leader, wouldn’t you say? And we have two and a half more years of this mess.
Southern Comfort (متعة الجنوبي)
June 25th, 2010
9:58 am
Midori
What credibility? Redneck has more credibility.
Normal
June 25th, 2010
9:58 am
I think everybody knows that the Peace prize was a barb at the Bush Administration, but it’s like “closet Muslim”, hyperbole and non- productive.
I like President Obama. He has smarts, savvy, and he’s a “rags to riches” guy., The model of a GOP poster child. The one other thing he has is the ability to see the “bigger picture”. He is not just for political gain. He DOES let it hang out there. I jerk his chain, too.
I’m not happy with some of the things he’s doing, but overall…
I think it was Larry earlier who had it nailed. He stepped into this job with more on his plate since FDR. Given the hostility he has faced at every turn, I’m amazed he has been as successful as he has.
I’ve also learned that the more his detractors scream, the more he is doing to help us. My opinion, for what it’s worth, is he is a leader and will be a great President.
If the GOP would start helping…yeah, I’m a dreamer…
GeorgeDawg
June 25th, 2010
9:59 am
The economy was doing well until the democrats took back over the house and senate in 2008. The housing crisis was a big factor in bringing down the economy. Fannie and ginnae and the gov’t involvement in the mortgage industry were big factors collapse. Bush sounded the alarm and expressed concern over these areas. Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, both democrats said all was well. It wasn’t. For all you Bush haters, probably progressive liberals, unions, people on gov’t assistense, etc your democratic constituency let me say many people disapproved of Bush from the republican party. For much different reasons that you. At least we are intellectually honest. You folks will mostly likely never realize the damage that is being done to our economy, military and country by this president, his appointees and the democrats in the house and senate. Look at the liberal, democratic state like California, New York, etc they are drowning in entitlements and union abuse
11/2/2010 all that starts to change. There is a war going on for the heart and soul of America. The productive people have woken up and we are ready to fight for our freedom and liberty and capitalism.
jt
June 25th, 2010
9:59 am
BAILOUT replaces ROBBERY.
GRAND THEFT,,,,,,,,see TARP.
References to The CONSTITUTION can be found under TOILET PAPER.
Dr. J
June 25th, 2010
9:59 am
Even Chris Matthews is struggling to defend Obama.
Normal
June 25th, 2010
10:00 am
Certainly are a lot of screamers today…I bet President Obama has ticked them off with the new Wall Street Reform Bill…Ya think?
Scooter
June 25th, 2010
10:01 am
Just remember folks,only in America can we trash our Presidents like we do on this blob!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acBoT8XMKQY
Moderate Line
June 25th, 2010
10:01 am
AmVet
June 25th, 2010
9:19 am
So from your perspective he gets pass on job performance for ten years because things were so missed up. I don’think the American people will buy that one.
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Where in Neptune’s name did you come up with that one? But an excellent try at speaking for me.
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The deadly damage those fake conservative buffoons left, ain’t gonna be cleaned up in a decade much less 18 months.
You seem to be excusing the problems or performance so far of the country during Obama administations on the problems of Bush and before you said it would take at least 10 years to clean it up.
I believe a reasonable person would conclude your blaming the performance of the country so far under Obama on Bush and that much of what is negative for the next ten years will be Bush’s fault.
Jay
June 25th, 2010
10:02 am
“haha,” if you want to post under a single name, do so.
What you’re doing now is just spam.
Chris
June 25th, 2010
10:02 am
Well Dave R., If those conservative idiots in Congress had any balls and climbed out of the pockets of special interest, then we could see some improvement. This is their fault hands down. What solutions have they come up with, besides voting no on every bill?
neo-Carlinist
June 25th, 2010
10:02 am
Fletch, I have not stated an opinion on eliminating generational wealth – because my opinion means nothing. I simply stated that most of the wealth in this coountry is inherited and not the result of “knowledge”. If you have the chance, find a copy of a documentary called “Born Rich” – it was directed and produced by one of the Johnson & Johnson heirs. I am amused by your use of the word “fortunate”. Mr. Webster describes fortune as; “…something good and unforseen…” I’d say inheriting a trust fund is not exactly “unforseen” (unless you’re Warren Buffet’s kids, but he didn’t inherit his wealth).
Andy
June 25th, 2010
10:02 am
“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” James Madison, November 23, 1787
TRUTH
June 25th, 2010
10:03 am
The unemployed will certainly vote for ANYONE BUT A REPUBLICAN. (and there are a lot of us). I will be employed by then but I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN AGAIN…NO MATTER WHAT!!!
Normal
June 25th, 2010
10:03 am
Scooter
June 25th, 2010
10:01 am
Chris
June 25th, 2010
10:03 am
GeorgeDawg, how do you figure the economy was doing well in ‘08? We were in a deficit then.
Andy
June 25th, 2010
10:04 am
And no wonder, given that we let people vote who not only cannot think, but cannot even write an error-free sentence.
hahahahhaha!!!!!!
June 25th, 2010
10:04 am
Ok Jay, I want my blog name to be “xoxo,” fair enough?
Del
June 25th, 2010
10:04 am
Obama, certainly is no super hero but neither is he a joke. He came to office as a far-left candidate, however, the independents who got him elected didn’t perceive him to be on the far left. They perceived him to be center left. America is pretty much a centrist country. A few steps to the right is okay and a few steps to the left is okay. An elected president that goes as far right as Obama has gone to the left typically find themselves with the low approval ratings that Obama owns now and in all likely hood he’ll be a one term president. He’s not a joke because he pursues his unpopular agenda regardless of what Americans think in a reckless pompous manner that will leave us in even a greater mess than what we had before he took office. I must give him some credit though for pissing off the left as well as the right. He’s mired down now in a war that really can’t be won that’s very unpopular with most Americans regardless of political ideology and he now finds himself getting deeper and deeper.