Gingrich a performance artist, not a politician
Last month, Newt Gingrich tried to explain that his presidential campaign must be understood as something different, in fact as the kind of campaign that the American people hadn’t seen in a long, long time.
“It’s going to take a while for the news media to realize that you’re covering something that happens once or twice in a century,” he warned us in a campaign swing in Iowa.
As a student of politics, I was intrigued by that claim. I started thinking back over the past century or so, trying to identify the historical antecedents of the Gingrich 2012 campaign. And I think I’ve finally found it:
Pat Paulsen for president, 1968.
The timing is certainly right. In 1968, Gingrich would have been an ambitious young man of 25, scanning the political landscape for a role model. The evidence is overwhelming that he found that model in Paulsen.
Paulsen, for example, used to describe himself on the campaign trail as “just a common, ordinary, simple savior of America’s destiny.” Can anyone seriously deny the echoes of the man in his protege Gingrich?
Some may try to take issue with my claim, perhaps by pointing out that the Paulsen ‘68 campaign was just an extended joke, and that Paulsen himself was merely a comedian pretending to run for president as a way to get attention.
And the difference would be?
Just yesterday, in an appearance on the Neal Boortz talk show, Gingrich tried to explain how his campaign had fallen on such hard times so quickly. The media, you see, understood that Gingrich could defeat President Obama, which makes him their “worst nightmare.” All of his campaign troubles — his decision to vacation in the Greek Isles, the departure of his entire campaign staff, the drying up of donations — were thus the result of a media effort to undermine him.
“I didn’t think they would realize this early just how dangerous this campaign is and go after it so hard,” Gingrich told Boortz.
That’s just damn funny. The timing, the absurdist exaggeration. Gingrich has mastered Paulsen’s trick of saying the most ridiculous things with an absolute deadpan expression and seeming sincerity. It’s all there, the echoes of Paulsen more than 40 years ago.
Gingrich 2012, in other words, is best understood not as a traditional campaign, but as performance art masquerading as politics. He is an actor, a satirist who has donned the familiar tropes and trappings of a campaign as a way to expose the self-absorbed excesses of the political world and to make the rest of us laugh.
Viewed that way, it’s genius. Pure genius. Viewed any other way, it’s just downright sad.
– Jay Bookman
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Bosch
June 23rd, 2011
10:25 am
It’s something he and Palin have in common — they blame the media for their own absurd character but can’t seem to stay out of it.
Bosch
June 23rd, 2011
10:25 am
FIRST!! Haha!
josef
June 23rd, 2011
10:29 am
Gingrich and Pat Paulsen…sorry, Bruin, can’t agree…Paulsen had far more substance…the man is a fool and one of the most self-absorbed fools I’ve seen in a lifetime…
josef
June 23rd, 2011
10:30 am
BOSCH
Shut up!
and good morning!
Bosch
June 23rd, 2011
10:31 am
josef and Jay,
I personally like the way Luckovich is drawing him with such a giant big head!
Bosch
June 23rd, 2011
10:31 am
josef,
YOU shut up!
And top of the morning to you too!!
USinUK
June 23rd, 2011
10:31 am
good gravy … had to leave the stupid downstairs … was making my eyes hurt.
Doggone/GA
June 23rd, 2011
10:31 am
And it didn’t help that Gingrich turns out to have a second line of credit at Tiffany’s for up to a million dollars – for a total between 2 accounts of up to 1.5 million. And it didn’t help a bit when he thought he didn’t even have to report that second account on his financial disclosure papers.
@@
June 23rd, 2011
10:31 am
It’s interesting to see Gingrich so lacking in political savvy.
Unfortunately, as a result, we’ll miss out on his innovative ideas…something that we, as a country, are in desperate need of.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
June 23rd, 2011
10:32 am
Newt’s solution is easy. He can hire some probationer’s to work on his staff. I am sure Deal can help and who knows, Deal may be on probation one day.
Dang media and all their gotcha questions.
USinUK
June 23rd, 2011
10:32 am
Bosch – speaking of St. Sarah of the Tundra … have you heard the latest? evidently now, she’s even quit her own bus tour!!
I mean … quitting a job is bad enough … quitting a VACATION – that’s taking lack of commitment to a whole new level
Jm
June 23rd, 2011
10:32 am
Gingrich = jay’s piñata /driveby
USinUK
June 23rd, 2011
10:33 am
oh, all right … since you brought up Newt and performance artist, I HAVE to post this classic
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/20/colbert-lithgow-give-newt_n_864580.html
Doggone/GA
June 23rd, 2011
10:34 am
“quitting a VACATION ”
Wasn’t it here – yesterday – that someone called her bus tour “IQUITAROD”? Wherever I saw it, it cracked me up!
Bosch
June 23rd, 2011
10:34 am
USinUK,
Didn’t you read the news this morning? She’s not quitting, she is just reporting for jury duty in Alaska. I think that’s akin to when a restaurant puts on it’s marquee: “Closed for renovations” — you know that’s just closed for they went out of business.
Bosch
June 23rd, 2011
10:35 am
make that “You know that’s just CODE for they went out of business.”
Bosch
June 23rd, 2011
10:36 am
” we’ll miss out on his innovative ideas…”
Like what? The only thing I’ve heard from any of the GOP candidates is to do away with Medicare and bash Obama.
The Leg Lamp is a “major award”….
June 23rd, 2011
10:38 am
“Gingrich a performance artist, not a politician”
Wow, you could replace “Gingrich” with “Obama” and you’d still be correct.
Jefferson
June 23rd, 2011
10:39 am
Many neo cons like newt, this is how they think.
kayaker 71
June 23rd, 2011
10:40 am
Bookman,
In a one on one debate, even if you are a “student of politics”, Newt would hand you your hat. He is the most educated, informed candidate in the mix and comparing him to Pat Paulson is like comparing you to Ronald Reagan. Both “jokes” are not funny.
USinUK
June 23rd, 2011
10:40 am
Bosch – I thought it was code for “the health department shut us down”
Doggone – “Wasn’t it here – yesterday – that someone called her bus tour “IQUITAROD”? ”
OH. MY. GAWD. that’s flipping BRILLIANT
The Leg Lamp is a “major award”….
June 23rd, 2011
10:40 am
Bosch
June 23rd, 2011
10:36 am
Unfortunately, it’s the new normal for both sides. Get used to it.
By the way, just what did the Dems do while Bush was in office? Pot, meet kettle.
getalife
June 23rd, 2011
10:40 am
-218.
Here we go again.
Oil prices dropping because the gop collapsed our economy again.
Doggone/GA
June 23rd, 2011
10:40 am
” we’ll miss out on his innovative ideas…”
Yep, especially his bashing of right wing social engineering. Personally, I thought that one was brilliant!
USinUK
June 23rd, 2011
10:41 am
“He is the most educated, informed candidate in the mix”
you forgot the most egotistical (and, in the world of politics, that says a lot)
Bosch
June 23rd, 2011
10:42 am
Leg,
The only thing Bush did while POTUS was invade the wrong country and collapse our economy. The Dems had every reason to scream their heads off. Too bad no one listened!!
Doggone/GA
June 23rd, 2011
10:42 am
“you forgot the most egotistical ”
And YOU forgot: money grubbing, self-centered, grasping, and hypocritcal
Doggone/GA
June 23rd, 2011
10:43 am
” The Dems had every reason to scream their heads off. Too bad no one listened!! ”
And too bad some DEMS didn’t listen either.
Bosch
June 23rd, 2011
10:44 am
“He is the most educated, informed candidate in the mix”
Considering that in it’s entirety is reason why the GOP is just plain sad these days.
The Leg Lamp is a “major award”….
June 23rd, 2011
10:44 am
getalife
June 23rd, 2011
10:40 am
The GOP? Geez, you might want to consider changing your post name to “getaclue”.
“WASHINGTON (AP) — Wary of a new surge in gas prices, the Obama administration has decided to release 30 million barrels of oil from the country’s emergency reserve as part of a broader international response to lost oil supplies caused by turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa, particularly Libya.
The administration said the uprising in Libya has resulted in a loss of about 1.5 million barrels of oil a day. The release comes as the United States approaches a period of high energy use in July and August.
High oil prices and the resulting increase in the cost of gasoline have contributed to an economic slowdown and have put increased political pressure on President Barack Obama.
Oil prices dropped Thursday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned that the U.S. economy was recovering more slowly than expected and after the International Energy Agency announced the release of 60 million barrels of oil.”
Lamestream
June 23rd, 2011
10:44 am
Now I get it. Thanks for the explanation, JayStream.
In this blame-the-media strategy that was obviously stolen from the Palin think-tank, Newt should incorporate Lamestream into every other phrase, just like Sarah.
After all, Lamestream is such an o-so-clever and drool play on words. Sarah should trademark Lamestream.
Newt should also consider using “that’s what she said” into his act. That would also be clever and original just like blame-the-media.
Bosch
June 23rd, 2011
10:44 am
“And too bad some DEMS didn’t listen either”
Yeah, well that too Doggone. Thanks for keeping me grounded.
Left wing management
June 23rd, 2011
10:44 am
Pat Paulsen quote via Wikipedia:
If either the right wing or the left wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Which is exactly what we’re seeing with the Right wing domination of our political discourse in the last 2 decades.
That Pat Paulsen was downright prophetic!
USinUK
June 23rd, 2011
10:44 am
Doggone – oooo … money-grubbing … exactly HOW much was he in debt to Tiffany’s for, again???
why I do believe it was $1 million
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43500870/ns/politics-decision_2012/
now, don’t get me wrong, I like Audrey Hepburn as much as the next girl … but come ON …
getalife
June 23rd, 2011
10:45 am
Oil reserves released.
Massive layoffs are coming again.
And we are talking about newt?
Seriously?
Bosch
June 23rd, 2011
10:46 am
Lamestream,
Funny how they both talk about how the media sucks, but won’t get off our TVs!!
Thomas
June 23rd, 2011
10:46 am
Really a shame as the guy really knows his stuff but cannot get his personal life and limited view agenda out of the way for greater good. Reminds me of the last 10 years of lack of leadership.
Jack
June 23rd, 2011
10:46 am
I’d like to see Newt debate Obama. Then we’d see the real artist.
Recon (2nd.and 3rd.)
June 23rd, 2011
10:46 am
I guess with this continued bad news Jay doesn’t have anything positive he can say about the direction of our country or the success of Obamanomics, so he can always divert attention to Newt Gingrich.
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/ap-poll-economic-worries-985121.html
USinUK
June 23rd, 2011
10:47 am
massive layoffs??? really???
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/summary-box-ceos-expect-hiring-spending-to-grow-but-forecast-slower-us-economic-growth/2011/06/14/AG6iYhUH_story.html
kayaker 71
June 23rd, 2011
10:47 am
USinUK,
There is no one on the planet that holds a candle to Bozo. Egotistical? That’s really pretty funny. He is the most narcissistic egomaniac that politics has ever produced. You should quit while you are ahead. And his numbers are tanking again, despite him leading the charge to get OBL. Seems like there is a little thing called the economy which just won’t seem to get better on his watch. You and he are the only ones who just won’t admit it. He doesn’t have a clue….. not so sure that you don’t either.
USinUK
June 23rd, 2011
10:48 am
“I’d like to see Newt debate Obama”
yeah! and then … and then … he’d like to see Godzilla take on Mothra! yeah!! and Superman take on Captain America!! and … and … and …
getalife
June 23rd, 2011
10:49 am
Leg,
Your party planned this derailing of our economy for the election.
Your house leader left the debt limit talks because his work is done.
You will vote for them no matter what they do so lets hear you admit this fact.
Bosch
June 23rd, 2011
10:49 am
Kayaker calling Obama egotistical….color me shocked.
USinUK
June 23rd, 2011
10:49 am
“He is the most narcissistic egomaniac that politics has ever produced.”
really??
he shut down gummint because no one talked to him on the plane???
talk about quitting while you’re behind.
AmVet
June 23rd, 2011
10:49 am
Did the brown nosing Kneel lap it all up?
What a silly question; of course he did.
Ostriches of a feather.
As fort Newt’s supposed brilliance, he sure does say a ton of idiotic things for such a intellectual giant, huh?
Doggone/GA
June 23rd, 2011
10:50 am
“Doggone – oooo … money-grubbing … exactly HOW much was he in debt to Tiffany’s for, again???”
I believe the latest count is actually 1.5 mil, but I was thinking more about where a LOT of the money from his previous campaign went. Something about a consultanting firm, of which Gingrich was the consultant…or something like that.
Doggone/GA
June 23rd, 2011
10:51 am
“As fort Newt’s supposed brilliance, he sure does say a ton of idiotic things for such a intellectual giant, huh?”
He does indeed!
RAMBLE ON!!!
June 23rd, 2011
10:53 am
“That’s just damn funny. The timing, the absurdist exaggeration. Gingrich has mastered Paulsen’s trick of saying the most ridiculous things with an absolute deadpan expression and seeming sincerity. It’s all there, the echoes of Paulsen more than 40 years ago.
Gingrich 2012, in other words, is best understood not as a traditional campaign, but as performance art masquerading as politics. He is an actor, a satirist who has donned the familiar tropes and trappings of a campaign as a way to expose the self-absorbed excesses of the political world and to make the rest of us laugh.
Viewed that way, it’s genius. Pure genius. Viewed any other way, it’s just downright sad.”
…sounds more like King Obama.
Bosch
June 23rd, 2011
10:55 am
“As fort Newt’s supposed brilliance, he sure does say a ton of idiotic things for such a intellectual giant, huh?”
It’s very telling in a way — if Newt is the definition of “intelligent” to the cons. For one, it shows they don’t know what defintions mean (like you know, Socialism and such) and two if they think he equates to intelligent, then….okay…….
Joe The Plumber too.
June 23rd, 2011
10:56 am
I want to play, let me see how this works: Jay said Gingrich a preformance artist, not a politician… Ok, my turn… barry the boy blunder a puppet, not a President. OK, next.
Don't Tread
June 23rd, 2011
10:56 am
“as the kind of campaign that the American people hadn’t seen in a long, long time”
Having your entire campaign staff resign, then your whole financial team resign, en masse, is something I don’t ever recall seeing in my lifetime. He got that one right.
“All of his campaign troubles – his decision to vacation in the Greek Isles, the departure of his entire campaign staff, the drying up of donations – were thus the result of a media effort to undermine him.”
News flash: most media outlets undermine ANY Republican candidate. Comes with the territory. I fail to see how the media “forced” him to take a Greek vacation.
I could use a vacation – maybe a press release is in order.
ty webb
June 23rd, 2011
10:56 am
Jay,
I believe Newt’s campaign is comparable to Fred Thompson’s run in 2008. Thompson didn’t put much “heart” into his campaign, and simply went through the motions. Newt thinks he doesn’t have to do much but make a few lectures…He’s a politcal player, but not much of a candidate.
Doggone/GA
June 23rd, 2011
10:57 am
” if they think he equates to intelligent, then….okay…….”
As I see it, Newt is to “intelligent” that McCain is to “maverick”
Bosch
June 23rd, 2011
10:57 am
“most media outlets undermine ANY Republican candidate.”
Yeah, cause they are so “Lamestream” — isn’t that the catch phrase for you guys now. Of course it has nothing at all to do with…you know, stuff they do.
Bosch
June 23rd, 2011
10:58 am
Doggone,
Yeah, and we see where that got McCain.
Finn McCool
June 23rd, 2011
10:58 am
attention seeker, that be the Newt’s name
USinUK
June 23rd, 2011
10:58 am
Ty – While Fred’s wife does look like she should be the President of the Stepford Wives association, she doesn’t hold a candle to Newt’s.
SCARE. EEEEEE.
Mick
June 23rd, 2011
10:59 am
scout
Pat paulsen was funny as hell as a presidential candidate. Unfortunately, for all the clowns the repubs are throwing up at us, he would have fit right in…
Scout
Luckovitch is great and an editorial satirist using political cartoons, that is his profession, he bothers me not one bit. He actually changes topics day to day. You, on the other hand give us the same pablum day after day about all your fears and that obama is nothing less than the devil incarnate. Yet the reality is he’s just the president trying to do the job, not bring about the end of civilization as we know it. You are certainly entitled to your opinions – go for it…
Bosch
June 23rd, 2011
10:59 am
As far as Obama’s chances in 2012 — if the GOP puts up Huntsman or Romney, I think Obama is a one-termer, any of the others — he’s a shoe in for a second term. Maybe even a landslide.
Finn McCool
June 23rd, 2011
10:59 am
In good news,
GM is hiring at $14 an hour to work on it’s new 2nd and 3rd shift auto line (Volt and Impala shared line)
Good for them. And they’ve never run a 3rd shift at that plant.
@@
June 23rd, 2011
11:00 am
Urbanites are gonna need a bigger boat…lest theirs sinks.
Meyer-Lindenberg’s findings, published June 23 in Nature, are a neurological investigation into the underpinnings of a disturbing social trend: As a rule, city life seems to generate mental illness.
Me? I need to get as far away from the nut jobs as is possible.
Goffer
June 23rd, 2011
11:01 am
waist of time and money for gingrich! what an insult to the american people if he gets elected!
Granny Godzilla
June 23rd, 2011
11:02 am
Newt like Pat Paulsen?
It really is bad form to speak so ill of the dead.
Pat is rolling in his grave over that!
Normal
June 23rd, 2011
11:02 am
Pat Paulson…forgot about him…what a character.
USinUK,
On Sister Sarah…
http://news.icanhascheezburger.com/2011/06/20/political-pictures-sarah-palin-the-chosen-one/
—————————
Newt? Newt is a scam artist and will do only what fills his pockets.
Wait! Has anybody ever seen Newt ans Sarah together at the same time? You don’t suppose…
Bosch
June 23rd, 2011
11:02 am
To add to my 10:59 — I feel that way because the economy is slow to recover and our hurry up ADD society wants things to be back to the glory days of the 90s or even early 2000s, but that ain’t gonna happen. And if Obama wins a second term, we’ll see more drastic things like taxes raised and the such — I think he’s holding back on that for re-election purposes. It’s what any candidate with sense would do and why I think we should change the term limit of the POTUS, to one term, 6 years.
Left wing management
June 23rd, 2011
11:02 am
Tread: “News flash: most media outlets undermine ANY Republican candidate. ”
Biggest fraud ever put over, this faux right wing victimization.
If most media outlets give a Republican candidate a hard time, it’s because they deserve it.
Joe The Plumber too.
June 23rd, 2011
11:03 am
mick can you see barry’s kidneys or did you forget to take a flashlight in with you again?
Finn McCool
June 23rd, 2011
11:03 am
Bosch,
Huntsman maybe, but not Romney.
I’ll vote for whoever doesn’t sign a silly little pledge.
What is this, kindergarten?
THE TRUTH
June 23rd, 2011
11:03 am
With such an idiot in the White House how can anyone talk about someone else ?
ty webb
June 23rd, 2011
11:04 am
“While Fred’s wife does look like she should be the President of the Stepford Wives association, she doesn’t hold a candle to Newt’s.”
UsinUk,
Classy…maybe they have kids you can say something about next.
kayaker 71
June 23rd, 2011
11:04 am
Hey libs, admit it. What has worked for this social experiment that we have occupying government housing in DC. Unemployment? Home foreclosures? Business confidence in their government? Ease of getting finance for new ventures? Foreign relations? Success in Iraq and Afghanistan? Better race relations in this country? Hope and change?
This socialistic experiment with our economy has stunned business in this country. More people on the dole. Absolutely no stand on illegal immigration except to open our borders to everyone. A November election that should tell him that the country is not satisfied with what he is doing. Planning the draw down in Afghanistan to coincide with the 2012 elections, playing politics with our military commitment.
Are you liberals just blind or just stupid. It’s your country too. Sometimes you would never know it.
Bosch
June 23rd, 2011
11:04 am
“Biggest fraud ever put over, this faux right wing victimization”
Kind of like how white Christian men have things sooooo bad.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
June 23rd, 2011
11:04 am
Surviving Gingrich staffer: We’re going to ‘duct-tape’ our supporters together
Stand by for a kidnapping alert. Wonder if duct tape will quit his campaign.
Finn McCool
June 23rd, 2011
11:04 am
Interesting to note that the CIC is a home brewer and is actively brewing beer in the White House.
Now how can you not like that?
THE TRUTH
June 23rd, 2011
11:06 am
ECONOMY…ECONOMY…ECONOMY, When will Obozo get it ?
getalife
June 23rd, 2011
11:06 am
Looks like Roubini is right again.
I have not seen this amount of uncertainty in the markets since the collapse.
Wall Street and the chamber of commerce need to stand up and force a deal soon.
USinUK
June 23rd, 2011
11:08 am
ty – dude. seriously???
http://www.ptgustan.com/mar07/fred_jeri_thompson.jpg
http://travonfree.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/gal-newt-gingrich.jpg
Normal
June 23rd, 2011
11:09 am
Truth,
Tell me again exactly what the President can do about the economy?
Goffer
June 23rd, 2011
11:09 am
who is obozo?
josef
June 23rd, 2011
11:10 am
For the life of me, I don’t see how anybody of any political stripe, even the most partisan amongst us, could take that clown seriously. Even if he weren’t stupid as sixteen trash cans with an ego as big as West Texas, he’s got enough scurrilous personal baggage to sink the Titanic. The man is the walking, blabbering personification of a two-toed moraless cretin by any definition of the term. In an age besot with scumbag political hacks the others are not even in the same camp with him…
stands for decibels
June 23rd, 2011
11:11 am
Good comparison, Jay.
Both Neal’s show and the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour were scripted entertainment forums in which a fake political candidate pretended to run for President.
Difference is, most of Neal’s audience probably isn’t in on the joke.
Hey kids, for extra credit, without looking–can you tell me what Pat Paulson’s campaign slogan was, in ‘68?
(I was just a wee lad at the time and I had to have it explained to me…)
THE TRUTH
June 23rd, 2011
11:11 am
I have always felt that we should stay in Afganistan until we have finished the job, but, with a spineless Comander in Chief in Obama, I would bring them home. Oblunders decision to bring 30,000 troops home right before the 2012 elections only proves he does not care about anyone but Obozo.
Joe The Plumber too.
June 23rd, 2011
11:11 am
@ goffer: The clown who gave a speech last night from the White House.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
June 23rd, 2011
11:12 am
I love it when josef bites his tongue.
USinUK
June 23rd, 2011
11:13 am
“Even if he weren’t stupid as sixteen trash cans”
josef, I’m so stealing that.
let me know where I need to send the royalty checks.
Adam
June 23rd, 2011
11:14 am
You can always tell who the LIBRULS fear!!!! FEAR!!! Fear I say! You must FEAR Gingrich…. SVENGALIIIIII….
Just thought I would get that one out as early as possible.
Seriously though, Jay nailed it with this one.
Joe The Plumber too.
June 23rd, 2011
11:14 am
josef: For the life of me, I don’t see how anybody of any political stripe, even the most partisan amongst us, could take that clown seriously. Even if he weren’t stupid as sixteen trash cans with an ego as big as West Texas, he’s got enough scurrilous personal baggage to sink the Titanic. The man is the walking, blabbering personification of a two-toed moraless cretin by any definition of the term. In an age besot with scumbag political hacks the others are not even in the same camp with him…
Good to see you have finally seen the truth about barry the boy blunder. There is hope for you after all.
Doggone/GA
June 23rd, 2011
11:15 am
Josef – but other than THAT, he’s not such a bad guy when you get to know him, right?
ty webb
June 23rd, 2011
11:15 am
UsinUK,
I resist jumping into the gutter with you, and I will not go after anyone’s wife…Therefore I refuse to make any references of how our honorable first lady trundles with all the grace and posture of a NBA power forward(disclaimer: not all references to any member of the obama family and basketball is meant to be bigoted)…I repeat, I wiil not “go there”, no matter how hard you “twist my arm”.
AmVet
June 23rd, 2011
11:15 am
“I have always felt that we should stay in Afganistan (sic) until we have finished the job, but…”
HAHAHAHAHA!
Finished the job???
Holy cow! What, pray tell is that???
Talk about parroting some bizarre nonsense, truthless. Jeez…
Goffer
June 23rd, 2011
11:17 am
@ Joe The Plumber. Didn’t see any clown last night.. but I see everyday lots of clowns trying to get the republican nomination.
AmVet
June 23rd, 2011
11:17 am
Looks like Joe is a big Newt Nut…
THE TRUTH
June 23rd, 2011
11:17 am
Goffer
June 23rd, 2011
11:09 am
Come on get it right, It’s Obozo, capital B, after all he is the president.
Adam
June 23rd, 2011
11:18 am
Joe the Plumber, and anyone else who likes to paint Obama as stupid:
1) You’re obviously wrong. He is a very intelligent man and it’s obvious and his educational background is well documented.
2) I’m pretty sure you are just lobbing this on at him because of how offended you were that people called Bush that. Bush isn’t president anymore. Please stop trying to “get back” at the “liberals” for this perceived slight. You already did crap like that when Clinton was president. We’re EVEN already. Quit it.
USinUK
June 23rd, 2011
11:19 am
Ty – say what you want about Michelle – she wasn’t doing the nasty with someone else’s husband.
ty webb
June 23rd, 2011
11:21 am
UsinUk,
okay, fine, but she’s not on the ballot. I take it you wouldn’t vote for newt, and I’m okay with that.
josef
June 23rd, 2011
11:22 am
Okay, obviously I’m not too keen on Gingrich…I just think he ought to join Helen Thomas and go back where he came from…
Oh, and the stupid as sixteen trash cans? Our Little Bit came up with that one when she was about six and was talking about one of her disfavored beaux…
JOE the PLUMBER…
Just when I was about to come around and say maybe I was wrong about him, here comes Ima Gonna Fierce Advocate doing that two-step on gay things once again…he’s down to 69% support in the gay community these days, the only of his demographics in which he is showing a loss…he’s got a problem here, all right, may not be the largest bloc of voters but one with fat checkbooks and generous donations…which does he need most?
USinUK
June 23rd, 2011
11:23 am
Ty – would you?
Adam
June 23rd, 2011
11:24 am
kayaker: He is the most narcissistic egomaniac that politics has ever produced
Not Intended to be a Factual Statement