Barack Obama: A superhero, a joke or … both?

Good morning, y’all. Happy friday to you!

I took the day off, slept in and now I’m rarin’ to go. Mrs. Normal is having a “Girls night” tonight and I’m designated chef. Get to try new recipes out. Before that, though, we are going to finish the bedroom my Mama will use if she has to come here to stay for awhile. Have a great day, and I’ll try to check in for the music.

As to the troops…bring them home and let them be themselves. Life’s too short, especially in the Military…especially today.

Just makin’ sure I get heard

• Link
• Report this comment

Jay, I’m surprised you didn’t do a story on the jobless benefits not being extended.

• Link
• Report this comment

Here is the good news…

New poll shows Obama approval at all-time low
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl2821

• Link
• Report this comment

**understand the true greatness of the Bush Presidency**

Sorry wbh don’t you think its a little too early for your lsd tab?

• Link
• Report this comment

Wild Willie has either gone off his meds or rocker. Using greatness and Bush in the same sentence?

• Link
• Report this comment

Since surrealism is free of the conscious control of reason, I’d say surreal aptly describes Obama and the people who voted for his style over substance (lack thereof).

• Link
• Report this comment

Tamye Bobbye here folks, hi their Byll, I missed you at the last KKK rally. We had a hygh olde tyme. We could have used ole Wyld Byll though these partys aint as good without you.

Now I know you been down in South America chasin them Latyno gals with a glass of Jim Bean in one hand and your Viagra in the other, but next time your frat buddies decide to get together to reminisce about how just any old colored person can walk through our sacred halls just because he has a good brain on him, join us brother.

Remember, we gots lots of them waitresses and female prostitutes right here back in Georgia what with our high numbers of Mexicans and Black.

• Link
• Report this comment

Had to jump back in for this one time. I liked the story…Barack Obama for State Senate! Has a ring to it, don’t you think? Especially now…

• Link
• Report this comment

Obama better start educating people about the right to write-in vote if you think that would ever happen.

• Link
• Report this comment

“McCarthy/Helms 2012″…LOL!

• Link
• Report this comment

Barack H. Obama is the greatest president ever. He is working hard for the working people. People who hate him are just little haters and rascist, like the Bill Hylter, a**hole. They don’t have nthing good to say they are just little haters.

SUCK IT, WILD BYLL.

• Link
• Report this comment

I’ll wait for the next discussion.

• Link
• Report this comment

He’s a joke, and his tenure will allow another presidency like the “greatness” of W’s to happen.

So instead of change, we now have an empowered bunch of neocons and tea tards secure in thier illusions that they can do no wrong and thier delusions (like wild Bill’s) that there was nothing wrong with the Bush years. In other words, the “conservatives” that tried to destroy our country have learned absolutely NOTHING and will swing back into the power they crave above all and give us 4 or 8 more Bush years…

• Link
• Report this comment

Wyld Byll, Why don’t you just dive on in that Gulf with a knife in your teeth and swim on down there and plug that whole your own self. I know you can do it buddy.

• Link
• Report this comment

I dont think he is a superhero or a joke. He is a man who has stepped into one of the biggest messes in American history and trying hard to get us out. 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. They put out so called “compromises” that they know no one but them will vote for just to delay and still a bill that will help Americans.

And their newfound worry about the debt (11.8) trillion under Reagan , Bush 1, Bush 2 is laughable.

• Link
• Report this comment

As tony soprano would say, “what are you gonna do”? My advice is to tune out most of the noise about this president. Hopefully, the republicans in congress are in a death spiral that they can’t pull out of. They certainly are not interested in helping to get this country back on track.

• Link
• Report this comment

Ya…Reagan was a much better President than he was actor.

• Link
• Report this comment

Foxy Lady is #1
8:19 am

Now as everyone knows, my family and I have a long history with the coloured that goes all the way back to long before the War of Northern Agression. All my children have had coloured nannies, so I’m no racist. In fact, when I am at our country place and see a descendant of the colourded families that lived on our farm before the War of northern Aggression, they are always very happy and excited to see ol’ Mr. Byll.

How could I be racist when I have partaken of many of the attractive coloured women in Brazil and the Carribean. I treat those gals no differently than a South American gal who is of Gemanic descent.

It is because of my closeness to the coloured that I deeply understand those people. Now at the faerm, we’ve had to go wholly to using Salvadorans as help because they don’t have the drinking and drug problems of the coloured and they don’t want an advance on pay all the time. Used to be, when the coloureds went to church and got married, that you could count on some of them and there was some social fabric in the community, no that they all want to be like Porn Diddy, or whatever his name is, they are a shiftless bunch.

I’m not racist, just knowledgeable.

• Link
• Report this comment

He’s only a man….one that inherited one of the largest catastrophes that this country has ever faced…Lest we forget our previous President…George W. Bush….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU2fAnOWjqY

• Link
• Report this comment

Agreed Dawg…the entire Obama administration is “out to lunch”. Obama is so far in over his head it scares even himself.

• Link
• Report this comment

What will be will be OGK, Palin could get elected and, just like with the election of Obama, NOT a single thing will change in my day to day life.

I’d venture a guess that not one thing has changed in any of ya’lls day to day existence since Obama was elected, other than the fact that you teatards now have a new identity to cling to and a new target for your hate…

• Link
• Report this comment

Peadawg, we get it. It is a particularly sad refrain. You’d love to sweep the catastrophe called Bush/Cheney under the rug and just pretend his legacy and horrific results are no big deal. But he did such a spectacularly abysmal job, that he left the republic in a clusterf&ck of heretofore unseen proportions. The deadly damage those fake conservative buffoons left, ain’t gonna be cleaned up in a decade much less 18 months.

“History will confirm that President Bush, while faced with unprecedented challenges, was among our greatest Presidents.”

Greatest at what, saltine boy? Dreadfully mishandling virtually every one of those challenges?

Every single ranking of American Presidents I have ever looked at, has him in the bottom five. The shocker is how on gawd’s green earth did those other Republicans like Hoover get ranked lower than him?

And on this one, it’s not even close. George of the Bungle wins in a landslide!

“Which of these eleven presidents we have had since World War II would you consider the worst president — Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Senior, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush?”

1. George W. Bush (34%)
2. Richard Nixon (17%)
3. Bill Clinton (16%)
4. Jimmy Carter (13%)
5. Don’t Know/No Answer (5%)
6. Lyndon Johnson (4%)
7. George H. W. Bush (3%)
8. Ronald Reagan (3%)
9. Gerald Ford (2%)
10. Harry Truman (1%)
11. John Kennedy (1%)
12. Dwight Eisenhower (<1%)

• Link
• Report this comment

had an interesting discussion at the table last night with some friends.. their youngest is 16 and going to summer school so she can graduate early and go to college.. anywho.. the discussion came up regarding obama.. and more specifically..what has he done? hc was the first thing out of my mouth.. she said no.. went to her room brought back some papers she was working on.. starting citing all the times he said wanted it.. but when it came right down to it.. he let everyone else decide and more or less just signed it..
so i ask you.. is this accurate.. and if that is the case.. what exactly has he done?

oh.. and happy friday.. be getting on plane in a bit for my home commute

• Link
• Report this comment

AmVet, it’s not that I want to sweep it under the rug. It’s all Democrats have talked about for the past 2 years. It seems like the DEMOCRATS are wanting to forget about the equally abysmal job Obama is doing and sweep THAT under the rug.

• Link
• Report this comment

“You’re right peadawg,”

Thank you.

• Link
• Report this comment

“George W. Bush one of the Best Presidents Ever…how’s that!!”

I really hope that’s sarcasm!

• Link
• Report this comment

Obama,

the best big Agri could buy.

And BP.

• Link
• Report this comment

And big Defense.

• Link
• Report this comment

Trial Lawyers had a good return too.

• Link
• Report this comment

Jay,
Combine the following: the inheritance of a nightmare scenario resulting from 2 poorly prosecuted, unpaid for wars and a failing economy, a Congress where Republican members’ only interest is in seeing the President fail, constant negative, irrational propaganda from Right Wing media and commentators aimed at a vulnerable audience, and finally throw in some old fashioned, ingrained bigotry. If President Obama succeeds, and I believe he will, it will be in spite of the aforementioned factors. Thankfully, he is president and not McCain, and certainly not Palin.

• Link
• Report this comment

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.

• Link
• Report this comment

“Why do I have to vote for Kerry? Why can’t I vote for this guy?”

Oh, so it wasn’t just me, then?

.

.

(j/k, although BHO was certainly impressive in his national TeeVee debut.)

• Link
• Report this comment

“George W. Bush one of the Best Presidents Ever” – TAHT IS REALITY.

He was dealt a very difficult hand:

Had to fight a treacherous, cunning, immoral enemy at evry turn and, twhen he was done fighting Pelosi and Reid, he had to deal with Al Qaeda, too.

The Democrats created such a horrible Frankenstein at Fannie and Freddie that while President Bush had been warning about and fighting against the GSEs, the effects of Fannie and Freddie drug down the economy.

Taxes were too high and the economy way over regulated, but, unfortunately, the regulators were incompetent. For eample, look at the derivatives business, every player was heavily regulated and the regulaotrs reviewed evry book of business, but the regulaotrs never understood and never had an independant view of the risk inherent in derivative transactions. they were the only ones with a global view, albeit. interagency, of the derivatives market, but they weren’t smart enough to ask the right questions, so they kicked the can down the road to an economic meltdown.

President Bush won the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and know Obama has snatched (possible) defeat from the jaws of victory in Afghanistan. Our efforts to establish democracy in the middle east, is the second most noble human endeavor, trailing only the perfect sacrifice of our Lord and Saviour.

The American public already views the Bush Presidency more favorably that the Obama Presidency. History will confirm President Bush as a great leader and a remarkable Christian man.

• Link
• Report this comment

I have to post a correction, one of my lines should read as follows:

“These lowlives, if forced to work in the private sector, wouldn’t be qualified to clean out the spackle of a McDonalds TOILET on Buford Highway.”

I apologize if the original version of this sentence offended anyone.

• Link
• Report this comment

From the linked blog:

Sadly, I no longer have the photo. Golly gee, I wish I did.

Comment by Josh Wretzel — June 23, 2010 @ 11:57 am

yeah, I’d be curious to see it too, although it’s probably funnier to imagine what must have been the aura of proto-dorkiness that sparked this running joke.

• Link
• Report this comment

“George W. Bush one of the Best Presidents Ever” – TAHT IS REALITY.

i COUDL NTO HAEV WRITTNE TI BETTRE MYSEFL!!!11!!

• Link
• Report this comment

Bush cut taxes and multiple times sent extra money back to us during his 8 years.
Obama just wants more of our money, more power and more dependence on government. I hope we can all think about Independence in the coming weeks and months.

• Link
• Report this comment

AmVet

June 25th, 2010
8:36 am
Peadawg, we get it. It is a particularly sad refrain. You’d love to sweep the catastrophe called Bush/Cheney under the rug and just pretend his legacy and horrific results are no big deal. But he did such a spectacularly abysmal job, that he left the republic in a clusterf&ck of heretofore unseen proportions. The deadly damage those fake conservative buffoons left, ain’t gonna be cleaned up in a decade much less 18 months.
++++++++++++++++++++
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.

Plus the Democrats were in control of congress since Jan 2007.

I have seen allot of people take over jobs and blamed their predeccors for their problems but at some point people grow tired of the exsuses. All presidents who come after a president of another party blame their predessor. Reagan did it. Bush did it. Clinton did it.

But at some point people get tired of it.

At some point things will have to turn around or he will be out.

• Link
• Report this comment

There certainly seems to be a lot of cracks in Wyld Bulls wyld assertions….crack has to be the explanation. He’s got to be the unfunny Stephen Colbert doppelganer. Sure he tries to sound sincere but its sooo absurd you just have to shake your head.

But then when you have a blog heading like this you expect the trolls to flock…..

• Link
• Report this comment

“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”

yay!!!

(speaking of “can’t fend for himself” … someone needs to point Mr. McFrommage towards one David Jungerman … )

• Link
• Report this comment

From DC Examiner:

The number of 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 has gone from 8 percent then to 30 percent now

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obama-and-Dems-heading-for-electoral-disaster-97115119.html#ixzz0rrzVvwuc

• Link
• Report this comment

Too bad the joke is on us when it comes to Barack Obama

• Link
• Report this comment

“Tell me it ain’t so”

tell you? no, but you might want to have a chat with your psychiatrist … I’m sure he can recommend something that might help …

• Link
• Report this comment

“Why is she worth feeding? ”

well, gosh … too bad you guys don’t like Death Panels – I’m sure they’d be mighty handy in that type of situation …

• Link
• Report this comment

BTW Normal, 1 democrat voted no and 2 others didn’t vote. Quit blaming the republicans for everything.

• Link
• Report this comment

Certainly no superhero, and possibly a clown, but more importantly, a real threat to the freedoms and liberties our forefathers wished for, our service men and women have died for, and every hard-working, tax-paying American has the right to expect as fruits of their labors. His socialist policies have the potential to ruin, for generations to come, the way of life that we have worked for, prayed for, and died for.

• Link
• Report this comment

joan: “She is just a brood sow.”

The more mean, nasty, ugly things you say about other women, the more beautiful and desirable you become.

• Link
• Report this comment

I am not for or against obama, my problem with him is one of perception. He doesn’t seem like a real person, but a comp generated image much like Max Headroom (?) of the 80’s. I think that it is because of the media hype/histeria that created him. All of the op-art, Che posters and Tshirts you see everywhere. Does anyone else feel like this?

• Link
• Report this comment

“what can YOU die hard republicans do to make things better?”

I’ve said it before. Bring the troops home. Cut SS/Medicare/Medicare/Food stamps abuse/fraud. That’d be a good starting point to balance the f’ing checkbook.

• Link
• Report this comment

Obama is not a joke. He, and the Democrats who march to his music, are doing an excellent job. It is just too bad that Obama’s job is the total and complete destruction of America.

• Link
• Report this comment

“Why is she worth feeding?”

She isnt, however, it would be worth the cost of an abortion and two retro-abortions.

• Link
• Report this comment

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

How is the “really dig him, daddy-O” metric polling?

• Link
• Report this comment

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?

• Link
• Report this comment

Daddy, have you fixed the leak/kicked someone’s ass/won the war/ created some jobs/ yet?

• Link
• Report this comment

ick. Teh Slanties AND an “Enter your comments here” Submit Comment gaffe in one thread.

must be my lucky day.

• Link
• Report this comment

Given your choices to the question, the answer is clearly “a joke”.

• Link
• Report this comment

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

• Link
• Report this comment

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.

• Link
• Report this comment

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.

• Link
• Report this comment

he is an absurd, unqualified for any office, joke! Only, the joke is on the taxpayers, the culture and the Constitution of the usa!

• Link
• Report this comment

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.

• Link
• Report this comment

We’d all be better off if Obama spent the rest of his term on the golf course.

• Link
• Report this comment

“B” grade movies with the likes of Will *Puke* Smith

If “B” grade movies make money like he does, sign me up too!!

• Link
• Report this comment

Ok already…only “in” America!

• Link
• Report this comment

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.

• Link
• Report this comment

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…

• Link
• Report this comment

At the rate the entire world is laughing at us, it’s pretty obvious Obama is one MASSIVE, never ending joke.

• Link
• Report this comment

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!

• Link
• Report this comment

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.

• Link
• Report this comment

Just looking at Obama makes you more stupid. He is simply a darker version of the big eared goofball on the MAD Magazine covers.

• Link
• Report this comment

Ooops! Good afternoon USinUK!

• Link
• Report this comment

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.

• Link
• Report this comment

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.

• Link
• Report this comment

Hey…just a darn minute.

“What, me worry”

• Link
• Report this comment

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…

• Link
• Report this comment

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!

• Link
• Report this comment

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.

• Link
• Report this comment

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.

• Link
• Report this comment

Wishman…go ahead and start the impeachment process!

• Link
• Report this comment

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.

• Link
• Report this comment

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?

• Link
• Report this comment

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.

• Link
• Report this comment

If an IQ test was mandatory for voting, the Dems would never hold another public office at any level of government.

• Link
• Report this comment

“…Healthcare for everyone is affordable. I ve just received these latest numbers from the CBO and they prove what Ive been saying.”

• Link
• Report this comment

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.

• Link
• Report this comment

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.

• Link
• Report this comment

“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.

• Link
• Report this comment

Obama is a BAD, BAD, BAD joke.

• Link
• Report this comment

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.

• Link
• Report this comment

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.

• Link
• Report this comment

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.

• Link
• Report this comment

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…

• Link
• Report this comment

BAILOUT replaces ROBBERY.

GRAND THEFT,,,,,,,,see TARP.

References to The CONSTITUTION can be found under TOILET PAPER.

• Link
• Report this comment

Certainly are a lot of screamers today…I bet President Obama has ticked them off with the new Wall Street Reform Bill…Ya think?

• Link
• Report this comment

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.

?????

Where in Neptune’s name did you come up with that one? But an excellent try at speaking for me.
__________

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.

• Link
• Report this comment

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?

• Link
• Report this comment

“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” James Madison, November 23, 1787

• Link
• Report this comment

Scooter

June 25th, 2010
10:01 am

• Link
• Report this comment

And no wonder, given that we let people vote who not only cannot think, but cannot even write an error-free sentence.

• Link
• Report this comment

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.

• Link
• Report this comment

Scooter – “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”

sorry for the delayed response …

I admonished people for criticizing LOOKS, not intellect – (something some of the men-folk here do with alarming regularity) –

hope that cleared things up ..

and g’morning right back at ya!

• Link
• Report this comment

I saw Scout’s post….. closet Muslim.
Have to dissagree with you. He is out of the closet when he said “We (US) are not a Christian Nation” This muslim is a JOKE! We are now the laughing stock of the entire world!

• Link
• Report this comment

AmVet

June 25th, 2010
9:19 am
At some point things will have to turn around or he will be out.

Agreed, and at least you ended up with a cogent point.
++++++++++
Typically an insult reveals more about the person insulting than the person being insulted. My basic point is blaming Bush will work for so long. Every president does it so what Obama is doing is not unusual. However, It won’t work forever.

It also loses points with moderates because Obama proclaimed or his supporters proclaim he was different than all those Washington politicians. However,
I still believe that two years is to short of a time to evaluate his performance but 10 years is way to long.

• Link
• Report this comment

JAY…..You mean it has taken this WIZARD of Smarts to figure out OBAMA is a confidence artist…Talking points on the left: “OBAMA pulled off a stroke of genius in his selection of this GENERAL…THEN—”OBAMA didn’t have any other choice other than the general he chose-”"
IS AMUSING TO LISTEN TO THE LIBERAL TALKING POINTs.

• Link
• Report this comment

I’d say Jay didn’t feel much like working today.

• Link
• Report this comment

JAY…ARE YOU still undecided which OBAMA is…”OBAMA IS A JOKE” PLAYED ON AMERICA ….by a socialists Media..inclusing the Obama-Atlanta-Urnal..

• Link
• Report this comment

You seem to be excusing the problems or performance so far of the country during Obama administations (sic) (You may want to consider proof reading or getting a spell checker) on the problems of Bush and before you said it would take at least 10 years to clean it up.

And you seem to have a very difficult time with standard written English. Just this morning, I gave Obama a grade of C-. And inferred he deserved worse. Is this, to a “reasonable person”, a ringing endorsement? I have excoriated him on this very blog on a wide variety of topics form HCR to his dreadful continuation of much of the idiotic “War on Terror”.

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.

I don’t know what “reasonable person” you are alluding to, but pray tell, it is not you. Nor your fellow apologists.

• Link
• Report this comment

Normal

June 25th, 2010
10:03 am

I thought it was funny too Normal. Top of the morn to ya Sir!

• Link
• Report this comment

neoCarlinist,

I stand corrected. My bad.

• Link
• Report this comment

no comment.

• Link
• Report this comment

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
……
++++++++++++++
The Dems actual took the House and Senate in Jan 2007. The problems in the housing market started prior to 2007. Bush was also in favor of expanding home ownership plus Greenspan keep interest rates low fueling the housing bubble. Also, there was resistance by both Bush and Clinton administration to regulate parts of the financial industry that contributed to the downfall of the economy. The financial industry is a heavy contributir to both parties.

Unfortunely, for both conservative and liberal, democrats and republicans their is blame all around. I wish one party was at fault that would make correcting the problem easy.

• Link
• Report this comment

This is my first visit to this blog and I am not really surprised at the amount of “hatred” whites feel for Black Americans. After living 63 years, nothing has really changed. However, we have many enemies in the world that would like to destroy our great country and the type of “racial” hatred being carried around in people’s hearts and minds can only make us weaker as a nation………………..Just a thought!!

• Link
• Report this comment

OTPVol, very good post. I think the difference between Carter and Obama lies somewhere between Carter’s humility and Obama’s hubris. Of course, this is as much due to the eras (1970’s vs. 2000’s) and their cultural/ethnic values (white, Christian, southern Democrat from two-parent home, born and raised in same hometown vs. black, hybrid indoctrination, northern – CHICAGO – Democrat from single family home, who moved often). and, I am not some “he’s a Muslim” birther. They were born and raised in different environments and different eras, but I think they were both, as you note “idealists” who for whatever reason did not demonstrate the ability to lead a nation. As a sidebar, I think Carter had some decent “ideas” – he was the first to warn of the geo-political and economic consequences of our consumerist gluttony and dependence on oil, but again, perhaps the dream that things could be played out any other way, prevented effected his leadership. I think Obama is, as was noted (Bada Bing, I think) like a hologram or some “post-Bush” fabrication. Very much form over substance, which unfortunately is the nature of the beast in contemporary politics. You gotta sell the sizzle, not the steak, right?

• Link
• Report this comment

Come round 2 Barack could well loose the democratic nomination for Presidency
I agree that this is a possibility.

• Link
• Report this comment

You can bash Bush and Obama all you want to. But,the one that made a complete mockery of the Office of the POTUS was Clinton.And I’m not talking about his policies. You all know what I am talking about!

• Link
• Report this comment

kayaker71, the only reason I noted this is I collected political buttons as a kid and I still have 1 McGovern-Shriver button. By ‘84 I had stopped collecting political buttons, in favor of political nightmares. I sold my McGovern-Eagleton buttons on eBay, and some Nixon-Agnew buttons at a yard sale. I also had a Communist Party button with Angela Davis (VP) – don’t remember who her running mate was.

• Link
• Report this comment

This is my first visit to this blog and I am not really surprised at the amount of “hatred” whites feel for Black Americans. After living 63 years,

That hatred works in both directions dude,you opinion is proof of that!
Too bad we are both too old to see an end to it.

• Link
• Report this comment

Is this column a clown oro a joke. Boy you better be glad that this isn’t a socialist or communist country because you will be locked for such a title.Where are all of these daily/minute by minute polls coming from because no one had contacted myself for my friends YET. The Republicans are complaining about his policies but they have not come up with any solutions. Why wasn’t Haliburton mentioned in the oil spill along with BP, when they had some employees on the rig as well. Makes you wanna go hmmmmmm. I have never in my life seen a politcal party hell bent on destroying a man on purpose. They are acting like gangsters or sore losers who lost their ponies. The Republicans are not working they are campainging for 2012 in 2010 and you folks are toooo stupid to see it. They have been pissed since the election, they have been pissed since the healthcare reform got pissed, they are really pissed becuase he got 20Billion out of BP since they were saying he was doing nothing since the oil spill. Was I the only one who saw his first trip to the Gulf Coast as soon as it happened while they were screaming he went a month later.. They are going to roll over and die when he gets Bin Laden. I can’t wait and it is gonna happen soon.

Let’s talk about Sarah Palin getting together with Drug pusher and Iran Contra, Oliver North. I am like wow he will be getting a pension the whole 9 yards for pushing drugs. Only in America.

• Link
• Report this comment

what’s sad is we have a President who takes his cues from the foaming-at-the-mouth liberal media. Even holding meetings with them. You’d think if he’s going to do that, he’d at least take advice from the ratings champ FOX News.

• Link
• Report this comment

That hatred works in both directions dude,you opinion is proof of that!
Too bad we are both too old to see an end to it.

Scooter, you’re usually a pretty level headed guy, but what in tarnation is “hateful” about Concerned Black American’s opinion as expressed above?

• Link
• Report this comment

i say joke…best thing ever for for Jimmy Carter..now he will be called the 2nd worst president in 50 years…

• Link
• Report this comment

Scooter

June 25th, 2010
10:27 am

My only problem with Clinton was that after Monica did him, he didn’t
call a press conference to brag about it. Any time a 53 year old gets a BJ from a 25 year old is Head(get it?)line news!!!

• Link
• Report this comment

Of the 244 comments that are on this blog, 144 were made by the same xoxo and haha fool!

• Link
• Report this comment

“What solutions have they come up with, besides voting no on every bill?”

Chris, THAT dog don’t hunt. Your Hopey-Changey guy had majorities in both houses that would have ensured passage of every bill without a single GOP vote. Blaming the GOP for his failures is intellectually dishonest on every level.

• Link
• Report this comment

AmVet, how do you give Hope & Change a C-, then in the same breath infer he deserves worse?

Are you grading on a curve?

• Link
• Report this comment

xoxo

June 25th, 2010
10:42 am
Moderate line,

Yes, the housing crisis did start before 2007. It started in the 90’s with Clinton, Frank and Dodd. Bush tried to strengthen regulation but was denied every time by the liberal Congress, as well you know
++++++++++++++++++++++
I don’t disagree that Bush tried to strengthen the regulations of Freddie and Fannie but blaming it on a liberal congress is hard to accept when Repbublicans had constrol of the Senate and the House from 2005 to 2007. The same congress which passed two war resolutions and a few tax cuts.

Plus did he try to regulate the financial markets. I have yet to see where he did.

• Link
• Report this comment

Moderate, you have a fatal flaw.

Which is to speak for me: …your blaming the performance of the country so far under Obama on Bush…

And you are eminently unqualified to do so.

When I have demonstrated repeatedly to “reasonable” people that I have not. And in fact, have held BHO accountable for HIS mistakes.

I simply find your sophomoric tactic of trying to put words in my mouth less than cogent.

Consider that an insult if it makes you feel better…

• Link
• Report this comment

No…he is a complete MORON !

• Link
• Report this comment

Contractor June 25th, 2010
10:38 am
“What have the Democrats given you?”

For as many who would say “nothing”, there are many who would say “opportunity”! In MY life and time, the best opportunities for success have occurred when Democrats were in the White House. The ATMOSPHERE for advancement and prosperity have better occurred when a Democrat was in the White House; the ability to find employment was better for me when a Democrat was in the White House….for the length of unemployment was less than 90 days….whereas when a epublican was in the White House, I was unemployed for up to TWO YEARS! I also know of many who could not find employment during Republican Administrations.

For you, the opposite may hold true…..but that dooes not mitigate what others have experienced……

• Link
• Report this comment

Pearlx2: surely you are making a joke. “…pulled economy out of the ditch…won a Nobel Peace Prize…” You’ve got to be kidding me! You must have been smoking the “Peace” pipe. You are absolutely delutional!

• Link
• Report this comment

stands for decibels,

I was born in 1984, and too young to critique anything.

• Link
• Report this comment

Well, congrats to Bookman. He gets the Puppy Pulitzer Prize for throwing the best bone to the snarling liberals. They jumped right on that college cutie comment. Rushed to the bulwarks to protect their beloved beseiged and bewildered Obama . Stoked up their anti-Bush paranoia and loaded their water pistols.

What a crowd! What bravery! Don Quixote couldn’t have done it better. So many real windmills! So little time! So many Sanchos from Chicago!!

• Link
• Report this comment

HBD,

You can not sit there and honestly propose that your job skills and advancement in this country has been a roller coaster ride based on the political powers in office. Maybe you should polish up your skills and hold a job for more than a political term. If you’re incapable of doing so, then that sounds like a personal problem, not a political party problem. If you want to believe that Republicans target you and fire you from a job when they are in power, then you sir are crazy, and there is no need in defending my claims. This country is the greatest place on Earth where anyone can make something of their selves no matter of their race, background, people in power, or anything, so it is very short sided of you to blame a political party for your ups and downs in life. And I have experienced a few ups and downs in my life as well, but don’t point the finger at the President, especially when the finger always ends up pointing back at me when the storm clears and I realize the real reason.

• Link
• Report this comment

HDB,

Economic Spiral? It’s people exactly like you that denounce George W. and call him the worst ever. It’s not his fault that you and others like yourself can’t hold jobs. Go ahead and blame him for all of your troubles, it’s exactly what Liberals do. You know, point the finger at someone else and divert any question that may hurt your stance on a topic. Yeah, the wars have cost this country, but Obama doubled the deficit in less than a year with something that hasn’t done a damn thing to help America’s situation. George W. lowered your taxes, and allowed you to keep more of your pay check, but I guess that point is moot since he was a Republican and you couldn’t find a job or hold one as you put it. Luckily Obama is a Democrat and you have companies beating down your door for you to be an employee of theirs in this hard economic time, right?

• Link
• Report this comment

Contractor, I have long maintained there is little difference between Bush and Obama, save a few ideological trademarks. But let’s be honest about W. His “tax cuts” increased the deficit, which has not “helped” America. You issue him a hall pass on the wars; the cost of which was not added to the deficit until Obama took office. Ditto the TARP tab, which was opened within weeks of Obama’s election, and handed to him when he was sworn in. Make no mistake, Bush’s wars were a “stimulus package” for oil companies and defense contractors, just as TARP was a “stimulus” package for Wall Street, and very little of Obama’s “stimulus” fund ever filtered down to Main Street. This whole he said/she said nonsense reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Elaine and Puddy are talking to the priest about heaven and hell and he considers their situation as says; “…it’s easy – you’re both going to hell.” I could care less if Obama is a Marxist, or a Muslim, or black, or white, or mixed-race. He campaigned on the promise of “transparency” in DC and a “change” to the status quo inside the Beltway. Any President’s policies are mere window dressing to keep his party’s base happy, but ALL presidents are beholden to special interests and not any base. Obama has failed to fulfill his state promise(s) and has lost his “vision”. I guess this makes him neither a “joke” or a “clown” but simply a failure. Bush, on the other hand, was a “success” in terms of funneling money – what some like to refer to as the “redistribution of wealth” – to his corporate benefactors, so in that regard he was a great president, if you accept he never really made any promises to the American people to begin with.

• Link
• Report this comment

I’m sick of people saying if you don’t like Obama then you are racist. I’m not racist..Obama is an idiot and has caused extensive damage to the US….If the President was a competent black person like Condaleesa Rice or Herman Cain then I think that would be a great direction for this country

• Link
• Report this comment

Contractor June 25th, 2010
11:27 am/11:34 am

Since our experiences differ, you may not be able to understand my experiences. Administrations set the ENVIRONMENT for opportunity….and under Republicans, for me, that environment did not exist!! I have PERSONALLY been told that certain employment laws..i.e., Affirmative Action, equal opportuinty….would NOT be enforced under the Reagan Administration!! Unemployment periods were extended for upwards of TWO years…and that paradigm continued under Republican rule. When Democrats were in power, my salary almost quadrupled in a four-year period…working in private industry!! When 9/11 hit, my company (United Airlines) LAID OFF 25,000 people in a two-week period…and many of us have YET to recover from that!! Under Obama, I was able to return to the industry I loved being in….and that happened in LESS than six months!!

It doesn’t happen that way for everyone….but that’s what happened to me!!

To assume that I had no skill set is a mistake….for I was college educated and experienced.

• Link
• Report this comment

neo-Carlinist,

I know the episode you’re talking about, and it’s a good one. Puttey is a funny dude, ha ha. “Hey, you stole my Jesus fish”.

I can agree with you on what you said. I was still a tad young when George W ran for his first term, so I can’t recall exactly what his campaigning was like, but if you said he didn’t promise anything, then he is not held to anything is how I see it. NOW, I don’t see that as letting him off the hook to do what he wants and ruin America, but I think he gets a ‘B’ average from me as far as what he did in his tenure. I believe he was un-fairly criticized for 9/11, and then Katrina, so the flood gates were open for the war and everything else once people sank their teeth in. I just know Katrina was a natural disaster that no one could have stopped.

Obama like you said promised the world to everyone. Low class people were singing his praises thinking their mortgage was gonna get paid and that they were never have to worry about money ever again. He said he was bringing troops home, hasn’t happened, said the economy would flourish under his time, it has only sunken lower. I understand it’s not like a light switch, but I believe a year and a half is enough time to get the ball rolling. And personally, I absolutely hate his stance on immigration, and how he tries to put that in the very back of his agenda, unless it’s fighting to knock down a law he doesn’t see eye to eye with. He has forced Healthcare on this country.

Obviously you see how I feel about him, and I definitely respect the post that you directed towards me, cause it was civil, so thank you.

• Link
• Report this comment

Joke, clown, divider, narcissist, thug mentality, does not understand America, knows nothing about business etc.,

• Link
• Report this comment

HBD,

Affirmative action is a mistake in itself. You bark against the same people you claim that are against you, but you sit there and use your skin color to advance yourself to a level that you may not deserve. Don’t get me wrong, if you deserve it, then, you deserve all good things that come to you. But getting a job, admission to a college solely based on color is completely racist and shouldn’t be allowed in this country.

Your income quadrupled? How did that happen? So you’re saying that Republicans were using that money you weren’t making and giving it to something else, but the Democrats are just handing over more money to your industry to put in your pocket? You can not sit there and blame the Republicans because you were laid off, and were for two years. Did you ever think of going out and finding another job instead of sitting on your tail for two years? It’s a filthy lie if you tell me you continued to looked for work, and turned over every rock, looked in every nook and cranny, and couldn’t find anything for two years. Obama did not give you your job back, as much as you would like to think so.

“During President George W. Bush’s terms, which included a mild economic downturn in 2001, the unemployment rate actually averaged 5.53 percent, which compares very favorably with the average since Harry Truman’s second term in 1948 of 5.67 percent.”

Guess those were hard times for you and others like you huh, full-employment.

• Link
• Report this comment

Obviously Republican’s here are basically prejudice, and small thinkers.

• Link
• Report this comment

I’m sick of people saying if you don’t like Obama then you are racist.

ok, I’ll ask–who actually says this?

• Link
• Report this comment

Joan: usually you are a little harsh for me but today, yes, I agree. If you are on welfare you do need to make dam* sure you do not get pregnant.

As for me, today, I will go with JOKE.

• Link
• Report this comment

HBD,

Your symptomatic of what’s wrong with Dem voters. You think your fortunes in life are all tied to powers beyond your control and especially to what part is in power. That is incredibly shortsighted. Its hard to fathom someone being unemployed for 2 whole years just because a different party is in power. Its absurd in fact. George Bush doesn’t sit up there with levers or buttons that he pushes that automatically push black employment numbers up or down. The idea in and of itself is preposterous that you can’t get a job because Bush was president. Do you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds?

Are you going to sit there with a straight face and tell me that people from 3,000 miles away in Honduras who don’t even speak our language can travel 3,000 miles, get a job, make enough money to support themselves, and make enough money to support a family back in Honduras? And you can’t?

• Link
• Report this comment

stands for decibels,

Don’t forget. That lady who was crying in happiness because she said her mortgage was going to get paid now that Obama was elected was also crying in delight over the fact that her car was also going to get filled with gas. We see how that turned out. Especially with gas inching back towards $3 again.

• Link
• Report this comment

That lady who was crying in happiness because she said her mortgage was going to get paid

Really burns you up when—what was Contractor’s term?—those “type people” actually get motivated to exercise their right to vote, doesn’t it?

• Link
• Report this comment

A superhero pol who learned earlier than most to never underestimate the stupidity of the
american people-if you don’t believe we’re stupid simply walk the halls of the georgia
legislature, the halls of the US Congress,the white house,Georgia governor’s mansion or
read the AJC opinion columns..

• Link
• Report this comment

“….likes of Will *Puke* Smith and Keanu “cant act” Reeves. ”
A Keanu fan here, pointing out that just because he underacts or has a subtle acting style doesn’t mean he “cant-act”. http://whoaisnotme.net/anr/under.htm

• Link
• Report this comment

So I think most conservatives like me have had about enough of the Fox News tea-party paranoia and thinks its scaring people away. People have wised up to the fear spread around by the gun shops that Obama was taken over everything.

2 years later, he’s supported the military, put more money for road construction, and cut taxes. AND I still have my weapons (plus a little more ammo). Don’t know ’bout you, but everyone I’m talking to thinks this whole “Obama is like hitler thing” is a false alarm.

• Link
• Report this comment