Why Does Obama Bow?
This is a topic rife with psychological and political implications, most of which will not be welcomed in the liberal world of Obama supporters. This supposedly most confident man we elected to lead our country to greatness back in 2008 seems to have some inherent tendency to show deference to foreign leaders of countries of far lesser global importance and strength than our own.
Why is this, the average American might ask?
My immediate assessment is that this is simply a manifestation of the huge fraud perpetrated against the American people in 2008 when we elected an inexperienced, first-term senator, whose major life accomplishment had been as a former community organizer, to be the president of the United States. He didn’t deserve the position nor the honor. Nor did he deserve the phony Nobel Prize for Peace bestowed for nothing more than being Europe’s loudest, leading, liberal barking dog. He well knew he didn’t deserve the office or the honor and now, in moments of meeting more intelligent, more accomplished and more deserving politicians in the world, men and women of actual accomplishment in their own countries, he simply can’t restrain himself from displaying his own acknowledgement of the fact that he is undeserving of being where he is. Call it Affirmative Action Induced Inferiority Syndrome, or AAIIS.
We did not become the most wealthy, the most powerful, the most influential nation in the world by accident, as it appears this affirmative action president appears to believe. That achievement came through hard work and sacrifice and a willingness to show the world through our always determined and, yes, even sometimes belligerent, posture that we, the people of America, believe that we have found the path to freedom and prosperity for humanity through our capitalistic economy and our republican form of government. A president who had come up the hard way, without the preferential treatment Obama received because he was half-black, might better understand the truth of that. He might have a better sense of why his country leads the world in prosperity for our citizens and realize the fact that most Americans would love to lead all the other citizens of the world to the same levels of freedom and prosperity.
But this guy, supposedly the most powerful man in the world, bows down? I’m of two minds here, the first being that he’s suffering from AAIIS and is simply insecure and unsure of himself. That would seem to be borne out by his wimpy acquiescence to the horrid disrespect shown him by the Russians on repeated occasions. The other, more sinister, view I must consider is that he intentionally seeks to debase our nation in the theater of world politics for purposes of advancing his socialist agenda. Remember the basic tenet of socialism: it is a leveling of all things, including nations.
What more graphic demonstration of the leveling of geopolitical power could there be than the leader of the world’s most powerful nation-state bowing to third world tyrants?
Crossposted at American Thinker
June 22nd, 2012 at 11:44 am
Absolutely nothing to add, Poetrooper. Spot on.
June 22nd, 2012 at 12:20 pm
“. . . supposedly most confident man . . .” —
exposing the aura of a Confidence “man.”
What is the word, the concept naming — millions voting for HUGE FRAUD ??
“. . . can’t restrain himself . . .” —
Out-Of-Control “Feelings” can be dangerous, especially when beneath the surface of a Make Believe “president.”
Incapable of Saluting Up — bowing down is all that remains.
Socialism’s nature — leveling by lowering
“Intentional Debasement” — The paw prints are everywhere .
Trenchant analysis, Mr. Poetrooper .
June 22nd, 2012 at 12:39 pm
Outstanding analysis, can’t add anything to that.
June 22nd, 2012 at 12:48 pm
Perfect
June 22nd, 2012 at 12:54 pm
Hey! He has a bad back. He has a lot to carry on his shoulders. You think it’s easy? He has a burden. And… SHUT UP, RACIST!
June 22nd, 2012 at 1:13 pm
No. 5:
Hey! I have a bad back. I have a lot to carry on MY shoulders — like BO, for instance .
June 22nd, 2012 at 1:14 pm
Ther’s a third possibility: He could be just an ordinary, dyed-in-the wool, garden variety, run-of-the-mill asshole.
June 22nd, 2012 at 1:16 pm
No 6. BO and all his handout loving followers! My back is HURTING!
June 22nd, 2012 at 1:24 pm
Outstanding analysis of very weak man with a ego bigger than life itself. Well put PT!!
June 22nd, 2012 at 1:25 pm
We don’t dip the US flag to anyone or for anything… but this president decides to bow (kowtow?).
June 22nd, 2012 at 1:31 pm
I am pretty sure No 5 was intended to be read with a heavy dose of sarcasm.
June 22nd, 2012 at 1:43 pm
I’m probably more cynical than most, but since this premise is being predictably framed as unique to the current administration ……….and the body language of a POTUS doesn’t alter my opinion of my country or my values………it’s failing to move the needle much on my give-a-damn-o-meter.
June 22nd, 2012 at 2:17 pm
I’m suspicious of sales pitches, which is all I got out of those campaign speeches. And then he gets the job, and he’s still making sales pitches. Why didn’t he just shut up and get to work? He’s been coming off like this for 3.5 years: “Hey, I’m Earl Scheib! I can sign that bill for $29.95!”
Didn’t vote for him last time. Won’t vote for him this time.
My cat Mikey is smarter than either candidate running for the WH now. He keeps his mouth shut.
June 22nd, 2012 at 2:17 pm
Affirmative Action Induced Inferiority Syndrome –AAIIS.
Next time, please start with a spew alert. Almost had to clean my Kindle.
Other then that, spot on. Thank you for the insight.
June 22nd, 2012 at 2:38 pm
Maybe Obama used to be a dancing boy on Thursday nights back in Indonesia and he’s used to bending over for anyone of high standing.
June 22nd, 2012 at 2:40 pm
@13 Ex-PH2: If you keep talking about your cat Mikey, you may be required to provide photographic evidence of said animal.
June 22nd, 2012 at 3:14 pm
With or without his ribbons and medals?
June 22nd, 2012 at 3:20 pm
Without, please. Don’t think we really need to know all that much about what he did the last time he was in the “sandbox”. (smile)
June 22nd, 2012 at 3:40 pm
Oh, now, I only asked because he had a good career (now retired) showing in Household Pet classes at cat shows. He does have a nice collection of ribbons and medals that he won in return for schmoozing and headbutting judges shamelessly.
Just tell me how to post a photo. And I will not divulge his miscreances in the sandbox.
June 22nd, 2012 at 3:48 pm
Used to be shocked at the bowing thing. Don’t really care any more.
My advive would be that he keep doing it. And often because each time he does he drops in the polls.
June 22nd, 2012 at 3:53 pm
I think he’s a fag. Why else would he marry an amazon with bigger ‘nads than his own. Assuming he has ‘nads.
June 22nd, 2012 at 4:25 pm
Its funny because when GW allegedly bowed to the same guy, it was on every news channel for weeks. Obama does it and I haven’t seen anything yet…
Maybe he was just in Japan, that was like a 90 degree angle bow, sheesh. What the heck is he doing down there?
June 22nd, 2012 at 4:34 pm
When most of us were of young and tender years and figured the US of A was The Shit, we signed up and served according to our belief.
When Obama was of young and tender years, he figured the US of A was shit, and was a regular protestor against Reagan, foreign policy that eventually destroyed the USSR, nukes and Star Wars.
Now that we’re older, we stand as straight and tall as we physically can, and salute the flag, and bow to no man or woman.
Now that Obama’s older, and has seen the USSR fall, trillions in wealth created and distributed, working Star Wars, he dips his head in apology to other world leaders – embarrassed that there are still men and women like us who kicked the ass of anydamnbody who fucked with us. He’s actively worked for a surrender that we, our children, and grandchildren, just won’t give him.
June 22nd, 2012 at 4:39 pm
@23 Absodamnlutely!
June 22nd, 2012 at 5:55 pm
I can’t believe someone really took my last comment seriously! Holy shit!
June 22nd, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Hell, he even bows to the mayor of Tampa Bay. Of course, maybe he just lost a football bet? http://youtu.be/hWHzM-wo5aU
June 22nd, 2012 at 8:48 pm
Still the racist piece of shit. Trying desperately to hide your racist shit behind the veil of “analysis”.
Since the peanut gallery inevitably makes the same tired points, I’ll rebut them in advance. Before anyone chimes in please read the points.
1. Not every criticism of Barack Obama is racist. It is wrong to accuse someone of racism simply because they are criticising President Obama. But it is also wrong to hide your racism behind political criticism and then to try and tar anyone who points out the racism with the “He’s playing the race card!” card.
Calling Barack Obama an affirmative action President is racist. For anyone who doesn’t believe it try this little experiment. Go to your work site walk up to your black boss or co-worker and call them an “affirmative action” (fill in their title). Then take out your stop watch and time how long it will take you till your speaking with someone from human resources. My guess is that it will be within the hour. Why? Because calling a black boss or co-worker “affirmative action” is racist.
In fact, if you start calling the President an “Affirmative Action” President in just about any office in the country they’ll haul your ass in for that. I had a co-worker that was hauled into human resources for saying “Why isn’t there a white history month”.
I guarantee you that if there was a poll done outside of this site the vast majority of people would recognize calling President Obama an “Affirmative Action” as fundamentally racist.
Which is why you’ll NEVER hear the Romney campaign- nor any of his surrogates- using the term “Affirmative Action” President. Why? Because they didn’t think of it? Racist Rush Limbaugh has been using the term for years now, plus it doesn’t take all that much brain-power to come up with the ad-homonym. They won’t use it because it’s racist, they know it’s racist and they know the public will recognize it as racist.
Which is why poetrooper is not only a racist but he’s also a pussy because he won’t take this swill behind his safe blog. He knows he’ll get a lot of attaboys from his fellow racists, or racist apologists here.
Not only is poetrooper a racist piece of shit, but he’s also about the dumbest fuck that ever committed to a blog.
You REALLY believe that Barack Obama is the one who had it “easy”? Other than in your fevered imagination WHERE is it an advantage to be black? If being black is such a huge electoral advantage then why is there NO black Senators and ONE black governor? If being black is such a huge advantage in electoral politics why is it that the few black Congressmen/women that have been elected are from areas that are mostly black?
And if common sense didn’t tell you that being black is a disadvantage in seeking elected office, here’s a study that shows it:
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~sstephen/papers/RacialAnimusAndVotingSethStephensDavidowitz.pdf
Money quote:”The results imply that, relative to the most racially tolerant areas in the United States, prejudice cost Obama between 3.1 percentage points and 5 percentage points of the national popular vote. This implies racial animus gave Obama’s opponent roughly the equivalent of a home-state advantage country-wide.”
While i admit that google searches are not conclusive it beats the hell out of your “Samuel L. Jackson admitted it!” idiocy.
But what bothers you Poetrooper is not that Barack Obama is a person who had it easy. If you didn’t want a President who had it easy you’d certainly support President Obama over Mitt Romney. What bothers you is the fact that he’s been successful despite having it hard. He was not just a Community Organizer, he was a U.S. Senator, a State Senator, a law professor, a community organizer, a Magna Cum Laude Harvard graduate and the editor of the Harvard Law review. In short, he’s FAR more successful then you, poetrooper, you racist piece of shit. Thus you’re desperately trying to minimize his election and to explain it away behind idiocy like “affirmative action”. Not only was he successful before his Presidency, but his Presidency is certainly the most successful since Reagan, probably sicne Johnson. You just can’t handle the truth.
But here’s Louis CK Stating the truth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4f9zR5yzY
“If you can’t admit being white is an advantage, you’re an asshole”. So true.
Oh and as far as your theory that you pulled right from your ass as to what Preident Obama’s bowing means, why don’t you fill the vacuum in your ass by shoving this right back up it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLWN0fubQaA
June 22nd, 2012 at 8:56 pm
TRDR…I don’t see anything racist here, is calling out someone for bowing considered racist now? I hardly think so.
June 22nd, 2012 at 9:00 pm
No, but that’s not the part that I called racist. it was calling him an “Affirmative Action President” that was racist. It was claiming that he had it easy because he was half black that made him racist. It was his racist statements that made him racist.
June 22nd, 2012 at 9:04 pm
I think he was leaning more towards the poser in cheif being incompetent. BUT that’s what happens when you drop the race card as often and freely as you do. People stop taking you seriously. Well, they would have to take you seriously to begin with, and I don’t think anyone ever has.
June 22nd, 2012 at 9:07 pm
Ahem.
On another front,
“PARAGUAY — Legislature impeaches, removes President”
(Headline summarized)
I like Paraguay .
June 22nd, 2012 at 9:17 pm
If you would bother to read my post before you commented, you wouldn’t look like such a dumb-fuck. I’m not dropping the “race card” i’m pointing out racism. The reason why i do it often, is because Poetrooper is often racist. If he stops being racist, i’ll stop pointing it out.
Why don’t you make the argument? Are you incapable of it? I’ll even begin the sentence for you:
Calling Barack Obama or any black man of any prominence “affirmative action” is not racist because…
Or stating that he had it easy because he is half black is not racist because….
But you won’t make that argument, so instead you regurgitate the same “no one takes you seriously” post that you always make. I don’t care what you think of me, i’m here to call a racist pieceo of shit a racist piece of shit.
June 22nd, 2012 at 9:18 pm
Whoa – now there’s an authority I just have to respect! Louis CK. Yeah, he’s MKL Jr and WEB DuBois all in one.
insipid you crazy cunt, you forgot the key, legal definition of ‘racist.’ It’s effect. Racism is whatever anyone defines it to be.
Now, calling Obama an affirmative action Prez isn’t like calling him an oreo, right? Affirmative action = bad. Oreo = acceptable discourse. After all, Colin Powell, Michael Steele, and Alan West were called oreos by leftists, and that was totally cool with you.
There’s only 52 cards in a deck, and the racist card gets played 104 times a hand. So fuck you insipid – but feel happy – even Eric Holder calls you a coward for failing to have a conversation on race.
June 22nd, 2012 at 9:28 pm
Look i’ve been on a LOT of liberal sites, go to Crooks and liars, huff po and Democratic underground and you’ll see my name there. I’ve NEVER heard anyone on any site calling any black Republican and Oreo. But yes, if someone on the left called Colin Powell an oreo or an “Affirmative Action Joint Chief’s Chairman” or an “Affirmative Action Secretary of State” i would absolutely call them a racist piece of shit. In fact i’ve called folks at Firedoglake racist on a few occaisions. I’ve never called them racist pieces of shit, because they’re not as overt as poetrooper. But here is a blog post where I did, actually call liberals racist:
http://firedogfakes.blogspot.com/2012/03/open-challenge-to-taylor-marsh-and-rest.html
So now that i’ve dealt with that strawman, are you going to deal with the substance of what i said and defend the term? Or are you going to make up more bullshit about what i’d do in some imaginary situation?
June 22nd, 2012 at 9:37 pm
Dave-O i’ll say it again because you’re obviously learning impaired. Criticizing PBO is not racist. A picture of him with a bone through his nose is racist. Doubting his birth certificate is racist, A white house with Watermellons lining the front is racist. Calling him an affirmative action President is racist. Saying that he got to where he is because he is half black is racist. Pointing these things out is not playing the race card it’s stating.
Also, racism DOES have a definition. Here it is right from Meriam webster:
“a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race ”
If dismissinc all of President Obama’s accomplishments to some racial ADVANTAGE(!) isnt’ racism, then i don’t know what is.
June 22nd, 2012 at 10:52 pm
I’ve NEVER heard anyone on any site calling any black Republican and Oreo
I don”t frequent leftist sites much, but I have to say I haven’t seen this either.
Uncle Tom? Sure.
House Nigger? Of course.
But not “Oreo”.
June 22nd, 2012 at 10:54 pm
Also, racism DOES have a definition. Here it is right from Meriam webster:
“a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race ”
So, for example, all those people in 2008 saying that Obama should be elected because he would be “the first black president”, or the ones saying people should vote against just another “old white man” for president… those are racists.
June 22nd, 2012 at 11:41 pm
I wonder, then, if pictures of Obama bowing to various and sundry heads of state, and the occasional mayor, are racist? OR, is it just pointing out the obvious, he’s in over his head?
“Go to Crooks and liars, huff po and Democratic underground and you’ll see my name there”. No thanks, rational people usually demand pay to go anywhere near an open septic tank. Oh, and pointing out what you think is racism, is, in fact, playing the race card.
June 23rd, 2012 at 12:08 am
Insipid always says the same thing. Tells us we are stupid or just don’t understand or rascist. He does not have actual conversation but his same old rant.
A black man voting for a half black man to be president because he is half black is rascist in my book. A white man voting for a half black man to be president because he is afraid to be rascist is rascist in my book.
All the slurs said about Cain recently or former Pres Bush were so blatently racist and numerous and widely used it made me sick. I remember one mainstream Tv channel talking about how repubs were rascist because they backed cain.
I do not understand the race card. I grew up in a diverse community where I was white boy or pinchy whetto. I was also told as a small boy that those words aren’t rascist because I am white. The most persecuted person in this country or more accurately California (since I cant speak for other areas) is a vet. Since white male vets cant say they are being discriminated against I would further that by saying a white male combat vet.
I am sure typing my rational and very much my version of truth makes me a huge rascist
June 23rd, 2012 at 12:14 am
Insipid, I have one thing to ask you you insipid little twerp. What would you say if I told you my wife is a very lovely black woman I met and married while stationed at Fort Jackson South Carolina 45 years ago when such marriages were uniformly despised? Or that we have four lovely, mix-raced children who are all college graduates and professionally engaged with their mixed-race spouses in making this a better country in spite of ignorant know-it-all panty-waist white liberals like yourself?
Before I post anything to this site, my wife reads it and suggests changes. She believes that Obama is an unprepared and incompetent disgrace to their race. She had hoped for the first black at the presidential level to be someone of true competence. Because liberal white twits like you, eager to prove your phony, lame-ass liberalism, and who didn’t know the difference between an accomplished black and a poseur, voted for this ignorant, unaccomplished disgrace to his race, you have set back the cause of black accomplishment by decades.
You are a simple fool as your username implies; nothing more, nothing less than a too-loud fool with a moderate intellect and vocabulary and a foul mouth, a wimpy keyboard king. I would have loved to have had you in my platoon for just a short while tough guy. I had a couple of mouthy libs like you; let’s just say they decided very quickly not to be career paratroopers. Heh…
I would suggest to other readers here that this one-note (racist, racist, we’re all racists) moron be ignored henceforth. I apologize to the rest of you for even responding to this wimp.
June 23rd, 2012 at 12:25 am
Russ, good advice, but on a slow night, it’s so much fun to whack-a-troll.
But, you’re right, the “you’re nothing but a racist” rant does get old in the first 15 or 20 seconds. It’s much like the 4-car fatal accident on the freeway, you know you shouldn’t look, but you can’t help yourself. Same with the occasional troll, one knows you shouldn’t respond, but sometimes, you can’t help it.
June 23rd, 2012 at 12:36 am
“I dream of the day when men are judged by the content of their heart, not the color of their skin” MLK
A person that rises to their position, due to their skin color, or their sex, not their abilities, is the beneficiary of racism. Stating that they are an “affirmative action …” is a statement inferring that they don’t have the requisite qualities of their position. Judging their worthiness of their position based on their record or lack thereof is in full keeping with MLK’s dream.
Was Obama elected to the Senate? Yes. That means he was more popular than the other guy. It doesn’t mean he was the best choice. It doesn’t mean he performed well in the Senate. As Chairman of the Subcommittee on Afghanistan, his first trip to the country was as a Presidential candidate. His record of sponsored/initiated bills reveals little of substance. His voting record is lackluster. Hell, he didn’t even serve a full term, so he didn’t even get “re-elected” by his constituency.
His “successes” as President? He has failed to get Congress to do much of anything since he lost his party’s absolute majority in Congress in 2010, and even with it, he couldn’t pass a budget. He tripled the record budget deficit of 2008, and has maintained that new record, while cutting the military. He has sped up the bankruptcy of Social Security, by cutting the FICA rate, so that it wouldn’t go on his official deficit record.
He fought a war in Libya, without authorization of Congress, and sent Panetta to the Senate to say he’d do the same or more in Syria if he sees fit. He has alienated the reluctant ally of Pakistan, and the elected President of a formerly strong ally of Afghanistan. He ordered the elected President of Egypt, a stong ally in the most democratic Nation short of Israel and Iraq, in Arabia to abdicate, and for the interim government to hold elections favoring the Muslim Brotherhood (an enemy of America) before other political parties could organize.
He utterly failed when the Iranian people put their lives on the line to overthrow their Islamist (and enemy) government in 2009. He issued his “last chance” for the Iranian government to negotiate their way out of Nuclear weaponss, 4 “negotiations” ago.
He has committed US Troops to hunting down a has been rebel leader (Kony) while ignoring the rising Islamist (al-Qaeda affiliated) threat in Nigeria, Boko Haram, and as-Sahab as it expands its threat from Somalia into Kenya.
His signature piece of “legislation,” Obamacare, is in flagrant disregard of the US Constitution.
When he asked his party’s absolute majority to pass “stimulus” packages, he explained that without it, the Nation would experience unemployment above 8%, and for years we wished we had only 8% unemployment. Today, unemployment is dropping, ONLY because people are falling off the rolls, with no hope of getting a job and fewer Americans are working today than when he took office.
He has ordered the US Attorney General’s Office to stop enforcing US Law (Immigration, DOMA, etc.) and sued US States, in conjunction with Venezueala.
Successes? If by success you mean a tattered economy, alienated allies, emboldened enemies, long unemployment lines, and undermining and ignoring the US Constitution and Laws, then yes, he has been successful in that. If you mean the export of weapons for use by violent gangs that undermine the government and standard of living in our Southern Neighbor, then yes, he has been successful. If you mean increased violence in Afghanistan, then yes, he has managed to do that. If you mean wasting DoD money subsidizing “green energy” for 10x (+) the cost, he has done that.
There is a time limit on “Blame Bush,” and that time limit is over. It is time that he own up to his epic failures. And no, overtime isn’t “Blame Boehner,” either. Compromise doesn’t mean demanding the other side give in to your demands. Gingrich & Clinton passed budgets. O’Neil & Reagan passed budgets. Even Pelosi & W passed budgets, but not even Pelosi-Obama-Reid passed one, so we went from POR to OR. It may BOR you, but Obama and Reid are the constants in the lack of budgets since Jan09, and only Obama is the new player in all of that.
June 23rd, 2012 at 1:01 am
President Kenyan Obama has plenty of “experience” bowing down on people. Barry recently invited his gay activist buddies to the White House for fruit cake & to practice the reach around. These f**kin maroons decided it would be so stylish to flip off the portrait of President Reagan. Why? Because their fragile psyche couldn’t tolerate the fact that Reagan had very little use for gay pride movement & should not receive any special consideration. Click on link if you want to be repulsed by such selfish idiocy.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/activists-take-out-frustration-ronald-reagan_647733.html
June 23rd, 2012 at 2:58 am
I will start with your last point first. THERE IS NO “TIME LIMIT” ON BLAMING BUSH!!!” As long as it remains his fault,I will blame Bush. Since when the fuck is there a time limit on blame anyway? People still blame Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Genghis Khan for a lot of shit. Are they wrong? If someone is at fault they’re at fault. George bush was the guy who put the national body in the hospital, Barack Obama is the surgeon doing the repair.
Barack Obama DID get in through his character. He’s FAR more successful in any real measurement then Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney is the son of a millionaire politiician who grew up to be a Millionaire politician. Barack Obama is the son of a single mother who was on food-stamps who grew up to the the First Black American President.
His voting record in the Senate was lackluster towards the end because he was running for President. But before that he did manage to sponsor the Lugar-Obama nuclear proliferation act.
The reason the Deficit went up had very little to do with Obama. It had mostly to do with The Bush Recession. It had to do with us losing 750,000 jobs a month when he got in office, it had to do with the economy contracting at 9%, it had to do with us losing a greater percentage of our wealth then we did in the FIRST Repubblican great depression. Make no mistake about it, if President Obama did not come in when he did, we’d be experiencing now economic turmoil to make the first Republican Great depression seem like the good old days.
The deficit has to do with massive unemployment, caused by Bush’s policies so there’s more payouts to unemployment, and also less revenue coming in. It also has to do with President Obama putting the wars on the books. Here’s a rundown of where are debt comes from, most of it is from Bush policies:
http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac143/ThisIsMyTime_2010/BushDeficitsVsObama.jpg
He’s sent about 100 advisers to aid in capturing Kony and Libya was a success. It showed that dictators can be deposed without spending a trillion dollars and killing 100s of thousands of innocents.
The stimulus WAS a success, along with the auto-bailout and together the two saved millions of jobs. In fact the reason why we’re losing teachers and firefighters and cops right now is because the stimulus ran out. And the unemployment numbers are counted the same way they’ve always been counted. If they didn’t count those “off the doles” when Bush was President (or clinton or Reagan) it’s unfair to count them now.
The 8% kinnard came from a speech by Biden Adviser Jared Bernstein and it was based on erroneous numbers given to him by GWB.
Obama himself never promised that the stimulus
Reagan, Clinton and Bush have ALL elected to not enforce laws regarding immigration and laws they felt were unconstitutional. It’s called putting your resources into areas where you think they’ll matter.
The health care law is most certainly Contstitutional. In fact it was originally a Heritage foundation idea! And it’s already helped millions of people, including me.
Obama is one of the great Presidents. He’s rescued the economy from the disasters of Bush economics, provided health care for millions of people, ended to big to fail, rescued the auto industry, ended DADT, Killed Osama Bid Laden (no, Bush and Romney would NOT of done it), greatly improved our image abroad From 2008 to 2011, favorable opinion toward the United States rose in ten of fifteen countries surveyed by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, with an average increase of 26 percent. cut out the costly “middle man” in student loans, tightened sanctions in Iran, passed credit card and overdraft fee reform, passed the start treaty, expanded health care for children, closed the donut hole for millions of seniors and worked with car companies to improve fuel efficiency standars. And he’s done all this with a Republican party whose made it their sole goal to destroy him rather than serving the country.
He’s shown the content of his character and it is indeed great. The Republicans, on the other hand, showed that their character is extremely small.
June 23rd, 2012 at 4:44 am
Instupid!!! Where you’ve been?!? We haven’t had the pleasure of your retarded logic in a while! It’s good to see some things never change.
June 23rd, 2012 at 6:41 am
#32: No, dumb fuck, you ARE dropping the race card. Like you do every single time. I could make an arguement against you, but i’d get the same result conversing with a brick fucking wall, except i’d have less of a headache.
June 23rd, 2012 at 7:07 am
Leave it to Insipid to take an already irrelevant topic……and make it more irrelevant .
June 23rd, 2012 at 7:18 am
Ex-PH2: images that are already on-line can be included by using standard html image tags. You have to know the full URL of the image, though.
June 23rd, 2012 at 7:19 am
@ #46: With you there! Am personally willing to converse with those whose ideas are very different from mine, but when someone starts the conversation with calling me, or anyone else, a racist, there is little if anything further that they can say of value. It certainly isn’t worth my time to attempt civility with those who have no concept what it means especially after they demonstrate an unwillingness to attempt any sane exchange of ideas.
June 23rd, 2012 at 7:19 am
Well, I see that one of our resident 2-trick ponies (“you’re all racists” and “guns are bad and need to be taken away from the masses, 2nd amendment be damned”) is back.
Yeah, we know you’re fixated on racism insipid. You think everyone who has a different opinion than you do is racist. Keep on living in dreamland, fella.
June 23rd, 2012 at 7:23 am
Oh, and regarding blaming Bush: he deserves blame for any errors made by his administration. But he’s been out of office for nearly 3 1/2 years by my count. If it’s happened since then, the current Administration owns it now.
Alternatively, you can keep blaming Bush after you publicly ‘fess up that Clinton – not Bush – is to blame for 9/11. Your choice.
June 23rd, 2012 at 7:47 am
“Which is why poetrooper is not only a racist but he’s also a pussy because he won’t take this swill behind his safe blog. He knows he’ll get a lot of attaboys from his fellow racists, or racist apologists here.” -Insipid, post #27
“Crossposted at American Thinker” -Poetrooper, in the very article Insipid was commenting on.
You see dickbreath? This is one reason why nobody here takes you seriously. This, and that dumbass pie chart from that idiot Pelosi’s office that you take as gospel, still pretending that even if it wasn’t wrong at the start (it was), that it still holds relevance two years later (it doesn’t). Why don’t you tell us why Obama’s $1 trillion stimulus package, the second round of bailouts, or that 400 billion dollar omnibus bill that Obama signed into law fall under “Bush’s ’09 budget” or are taken as “Bush spending”, even though Obama’s signature is on them, and they were all passed after Bush left office? Maybe you’d be interested in telling us why senate democrats haven’t passed a budget since then? Would you like to tell us about baseline budgeting, how that works when there’s no official budget to follow, and why we keep having to rise the debt cieling if Obama is oh so awesome at economics?
June 23rd, 2012 at 9:26 am
#44:
OK, first I want to start with the fact that I don’t know where you get your facts, but I highly doubt that HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of innocent people were killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. Sorry, but I have been to both places, and I’m certain that US military exercise a lot of caution on this, if for no other reason than to avoid the “Death by Powerpoint” shit that would come down from shooting an actual innocent civilian.
Secondly, innocents that were killed probably would not have been that way if they had (a) not been around a gun fight or (b) ratted on the insurgents instead of trying to hide them, because they are “Aka” (Pashto for uncle).
And I’m certain that if the bad guys would stop hiding amongst the “innocents” then we would have far fewer civilian deaths.
NOW, moving on from that, I don’t recall ever hearing people anywhere blaming Ghengis Khan for anything still, or Hitler, or Stalin, hmmm…In fact, I am fairly certain that they are not being blamed for anything (legitimately, I know there are your fringe whack-jobs that still blame them, years after their deaths)…in fact, it’s the idiots that cling to their ideals still, you know the leftist socialist, the POS white supremesist, ect.
As far as it being racist, for calling the President an “affermative action” president…finding it hard to follow your logic. I know plenty of people (blacks) who voted for him because of his skin color (racists), and I know plenty of whites that did not want to be viewed as racists so they voted for the black man (racists still).
Sounds to me like it’s an affermative action thing…but then what do I know. I’m just a young (relatively) white male conservative, guess now you will proceed to tell me that I’m stupid (I beg to differ), racist (just because I’m from Arkansas doesn’t make me KKK), or out of touch with reality (hardly).
But you go right ahead, fire away. I’m gonna continue to laugh at your pathetic drivel, because from you, it’s always the same words…it’s almost like you have diareha of the mouth…you open it up and shit just falls out.
TTM, out.
June 23rd, 2012 at 10:33 am
insipid is lying, once again. Standard practice to call black conservatives oreos: black on the outside, white on the inside.
If, in fact, insipid reads the Puffho, he’d have read this post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/15/allen-west-primary-florida-district_n_1278900.html. From the comments: “Why would any black listen to this Oreo?” Referring to Rep Alan West.
A single simple Google search of “black republican oreo” returns 90,000 results.
A more complicated Google search of “black republicans oreo + huffington post” returns 15,600 results.
June 23rd, 2012 at 11:28 am
Colonel West isn’t an “Oreo”. He is a Rino. He has voted
with the Congressional Black Caucus on [3] key pieces of legislation; talking the talk, but not walking the walk.
In fact, after apologizing disingenuously to some of his
constituents, saying that he voted that way because he got
misinformation from his staff, he voted w/ the CBC [again].
Are you naive enough to believe that he’ll repeal Obamacare?
June 23rd, 2012 at 11:37 am
Um. Let me rephrase that: Are you naive enough
to beleve that he [wants] to repeal Obamacare?
June 23rd, 2012 at 2:41 pm
Along with the Pigford II scam, for which West voted, also,
Obamacare is, in effect, redistribution of wealth from the
whites to people of color and reparations for blacks, also.
(Also known as theft by blacks on a massive scale, imho.)
June 23rd, 2012 at 2:52 pm
Funny thing about Obame: He has expressed disdain
for colonialists, when, in fact, if it wasn’t for
those dastardly colonialists, it is very likely
that he wouldn’t have lived past the age of 30,
and he would have lived in a grass hut in Kenya,
instead of now imagining himself to be royalty.
June 23rd, 2012 at 4:01 pm
According to Allen West:
“Allen West says that he didn’t do enough due diligence on the Pigford amendment and says he may have to take this one ‘in the shorts’”
h/t therightscoop.
A lot of people failed to perform due diligence, and had it not been for Breitbart’s ‘oopsy’ almost no one would ever have know of it. The nice thing about Pigford is that the IRS has the list of recipients, and they’d better have had a farm.
June 23rd, 2012 at 4:09 pm
That’s a whole lotta hate you’re spewing there, Brian. Sounds like you are once again trying to prove that your name is actually spelled “troll.” You are certainly not showing much in common with the majority of us here.
Whatever.
June 23rd, 2012 at 4:37 pm
Um, explain to me again, OWB, why I should
give a rat’s ass what you think? From what
I’ve seen, you don’t contribute squat here.
June 23rd, 2012 at 4:57 pm
OWB,
The only question in my mind is whether Brian is a paid member of the trolletariat, or an independent. The Vast Leftwing Conspiracy of funding and controlling the trolletariat is being exposed on other sites.
June 23rd, 2012 at 5:06 pm
Dave @ #59, 4th pp -Thats interesting. I didn’t know that.
Trouble is, unscrupulous attorneys got lots of that money,
and they will get to keep it, even if their clients lied.
Who would be surpised to learn that unscrupulous attorneys
put their clients up it. (Nothing to lose, a lot to gain.)
June 23rd, 2012 at 5:11 pm
Dave @ #62 – Asshole. I haven’t given you
any reason to have made such a snotty remark.
June 23rd, 2012 at 5:41 pm
@ #62: Yep. There is one other possibility. The extremes of political philosophy do finally bend and meld together on the back side of sanity.
Which brings us back to the actual topic.
June 23rd, 2012 at 8:16 pm
You’re one slimy and creepy little sick freak.
June 23rd, 2012 at 9:23 pm
Does anyone else see the hypocrisy in the following, “ended to big to fail, rescued the auto industry”? Wasn’t the whole thing about Government Motors and Fiat West(Chrysler) that they were, in the vernacular, too big to fail?
I remember the anchors practically weeping over the suppliers, the delivery drivers and everyone else that had to be bailed out, along with the base, the UAW. So, if the “auto industry” had to be helped, to mitigate the horrible losses to the unions, would that not be “Too big to fail”?
June 23rd, 2012 at 10:51 pm
Hondo, thanks for the info on posting pix, but I only have the e-mail/web sized jpeg images, so unless I can find a way to drop in a pic of my large-and-in-charge Michael (the Magnificent), I’ll have to settle for saying that he takes up 75% of four 12×12 inch piles on kitchen floor, weighs 22 pounds, is very hairy, snores when he’s asleep and likes KFC and girls.
June 23rd, 2012 at 10:56 pm
Oh, and this one is for the nitwits who think a law that includes punishing someone for refusing to buy a product is constitutional (which it ain’t – “no cruel or unusual punishment”):
The day I get thrown into jail for refusing to buy health insurance that I don’t need or want is the day I can get every free-thinking American to show up and bail me out. And I sincerely doubt that the cops will even arrest me or fine me.
Rattle on, you simian probocis.
June 24th, 2012 at 1:21 pm
Don’t you think that you were being a little too harsh when you
called insipid a liar. I don’t think that he lied intentionally.
June 24th, 2012 at 9:57 pm
@40- Russ Vaugh-I do no give a flying fuck what color your wife is or what color your kids are. Nor do i really care what your wife thinks. The fact that she married you is a good indication that she is as dumb as a sack of hammers.
Calling Barack Obama an “Affirmative Action President” is racist. It doesn’t matter if the person making the statement is black, if he is related to black people or if “some of his best friends are black”. It’s a racist statement. It just is. And as far as our relative bravery is concerned, your statements would be a lot more impressive if you weren’t hiding behind your wife’s apron. Furthermore, there is not a single solitary statement that I made that i would not make anywhere, including calling you a racist piece of shit. Though if i were on “Meet The Press” I’d probably substitute the word “excrement”.
But the fact is that you would not go on MTP and use a term like “Affirmative Action President” because you KNOW it’s racist. Nor would the Romney campaign let you use such a term and if you did use such a term as a surrogate of theirs, you’d soon stop being a surrogate.
Which is the genius, and the cowardice of Republican media. They can say all the racist things they want on blogs such as this and others, blow all the dog whistles they want on talk radio and Mitt Romney gets to throw up his hands and say “Hey, I have nothing to do with those folks!” Of course the moment some gay activist is caught flipping the bird to the Sainted Reagan then you all get on your feinting couches and demand that Obama personally condemn her, and possibly audit here.
I’m sorry, but you’re a racist because you use racist terms. I don’t care who you’re married to, i don’t care what your kids look like. I don’t care what YOU look like. Stop doing it and i’ll stop calling you that.
June 24th, 2012 at 10:00 pm
@69- You should study the actual law. It does not hae an criminal penalty for not buying health insurance. You are merely denied the tax credit. Just like you’e not put in jail for not owning home, you just don’t get a homeowners deduction.
June 24th, 2012 at 10:17 pm
Allow me, an indigenous little red chick, to call you a flaming fucking idiot, Insipid. It would appear that you’ve not the intellect necessary to comprehend what you’ve been told repeatedly. To that end, I won’t explain what others have told you to the point of redundancy, I’ll simply say that just as you espouse that you couldn’t give less of a flying fuck (obviously another lie since you continue to post novellas of ad hominem attacks with very poor structure), we really don’t give a fat rat monkey’s ass as to the irrelevance of your obviously-misguided juvenile rants.
Have a lovely day. Or not, whichever
June 24th, 2012 at 10:26 pm
insipid [in-sip-id] ?
Example Sentences Origin
in·sip·id? ?[in-sip-id] Show IPA
adjective
1.
without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality.
2.
without sufficient taste to be pleasing, as food or drink; bland: a rather insipid soup.
Origin:
1610–20; < Latin insipidus, equivalent to in- in-3 + -sipidus, combining form of sapidus sapid
Related forms
in·si·pid·i·ty, in·sip·id·ness, noun
in·sip·id·ly, adverb
Can be confused: ?incipient, insipid, insipient.
Synonyms
1, 2. flat, dull, uninteresting. 2. tasteless, bland.
June 24th, 2012 at 10:30 pm
“NOW, moving on from that, I don’t recall ever hearing people anywhere blaming Ghengis Khan for anything still, or Hitler, or Stalin, hmmm…In fact, I am fairly certain that they are not being blamed for anything (legitimately, I know there are your fringe whack-jobs that still blame them, years after their deaths)…in fact, it’s the idiots that cling to their ideals still, you know the leftist socialist, the POS white supremesist, ect.”
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I’m pretty sure people are stll blaming Hitler for the Hollocaust, Stalin for his purges, and Genghis Kahn for the Mongul invasions. If it’s someones fault,it is someone’s fault. The passage of time does not render them blameless. Bush got us into an unecessary war and tanked the world economy. He was to blame last year, he’s to blame now,he will be to blame ten and 100 years from now.
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“As far as it being racist, for calling the President an “affermative action” president…finding it hard to follow your logic. I know plenty of people (blacks) who voted for him because of his skin color (racists), and I know plenty of whites that did not want to be viewed as racists so they voted for the black man (racists still).
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Fist off,where the fuck other than the institute of “I know plenty of people” are you getting this shit from? Blacks were voting overwhelmingly Democratic LONG before PBO got on the ballot. Did it excite some blacks to go out and vote? Probably. Did it excite some racist whites to also come out and vote? Again, probably. In case you didn’t notice, 2008 was the biggest turn-out in history. But of course you’re certain that the first was determinative and discount the latter because you’re desperate for some explanation as to how you got beat.
There’s been 44 Presidents and ONE has been black. Furthermore there are NO Black Senators and ONE black governor. There is no rationality other than sheer desperation to explain your loss to suppose that President Obama’s skin color was an advantage. Furthermore there is evidence that it is a disadvantage here:
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~sstephen/papers/RacialAnimusAndVotingSethStephensDavidowitz.pdf
I’m pretty sure Harvard is a much more prestegious university than “I know a lot of people.”
June 24th, 2012 at 10:35 pm
Correction Ros, I didn’t say I couldn’t give a flying fuck, about everything. I said I couldn’t give a flying fuck as to what color his wife is. Calling Barack Obama an Affirmative Action President is racist, regardless of the color of the person making the statement or the color of the people who are apologizing for the statement.
June 24th, 2012 at 10:39 pm
The definiion of insipid hasn’t changed since the last time you posted it, Russ. I knew the definition when i picked it as my nickname. Here’s a definition YOU may consider:
1.
the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.
2.
Literature .
a.
a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated.
b.
(especially in contemporary writing) a manner of organizing a work so as to give full expression to contradictory or complementary impulses, attitudes, etc., especially as a means of indicating detachment from a subject, theme, or emotion.
June 24th, 2012 at 10:40 pm
I hear no one apologizing for the statement, not one. Why? Because it’s accurate.
Are you saying that there wasn’t a rather large (huge) voting bloc who wanted him in office just so they COULD have a “black” President, not because he was qualified?
June 24th, 2012 at 10:40 pm
The word is irony. I didn’t cut and paste far enough.
June 24th, 2012 at 10:45 pm
Here’s a study that says you wrong:
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~sstephen/papers/RacialAnimusAndVotingSethStephensDavidowitz.pdf
Plus, again, are you naieve enough to think that there was not a huge segment of people who wouldn’t vote for PBO because he was black? Accordig to the study, that number exceeds the number of people rushng out to vote for the black man. Plus, again,where are all the black governors and Senators?
June 24th, 2012 at 10:46 pm
Apparently, ars bubulum stercus, you didn’t read the section that is currently under consideration by the Supreme Court, which is to wit: anyone who does not buy health care insurance will be fined.
If that is not punitive, then what is it? Peanut butter? Refusal to pay a fine can get you put in jail. Got that?
You really did not read that piece of legislation, did you? I did, start to finish. 2600++ pages of gobbledygook legislation, a compleat effort (no, not complete) by the Democratic party to displace common sense with confusing verbiage.
June 24th, 2012 at 11:05 pm
Well, you’re just wrong. You did not read the legislation and if you did you didn’t understand it. Politifact rated that “You can go to jail” line “pants on fire:
http://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2010/dec/20/bob-marshall/del-bob-marshall-says-violators-obama-health-care-/
June 24th, 2012 at 11:07 pm
From the above article:
As plainly stated on page 111 of the law, “In the case of any failure by a taxpayer to timely pay any penalty imposed by this section, such taxpayer shall not be subject to any criminal prosecution or penalty with respect to such failure.” There would also be no liens or levies placed on property for failure to pay.
Instead, the law would allow the government to collect the tax by deducting it from any IRS tax-refund checks or other government payments.
Just to be certain we weren’t missing anything, we asked Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s office for their take on the issue.
“The law does not send people to jail for not paying the fine,” confirmed Brian Gottstein, Cuccinelli’s director of communication.
June 25th, 2012 at 12:07 am
Here’s the penalty clause:
`SEC. 5000A. REQUIREMENT TO MAINTAIN MINIMUM ESSENTIAL COVERAGE.
`(a) Requirement To Maintain Minimum Essential Coverage- An applicable individual shall for each month beginning
after 2013 ensure that the individual, and any dependent of the individual who is an applicable individual, is covered
under minimum essential coverage for such month.
`(b) Shared Responsibility Payment-
`(1) IN GENERAL- If an applicable individual fails to meet the requirement of subsection (a) for 1 or more months during
any calendar year beginning after 2013, then, except as provided in subsection (d), there is hereby imposed a penalty
with respect to the individual in the amount determined under subsection (c).
Oh, and it’s not a tax. It’s a fine. A fine, as a penalty, is not a tax. A fine is, for example, what you pay for a parking ticket.
June 25th, 2012 at 12:51 am
It doesn’t matter what you call it, it’s a tax. It raises revenue, it’s reported on our tax returns and it is enforced by the IRS. It is calculated based on a percentage of adjusted gross income or a fixed amount, whichever is larger. It is long standing law that we judge things by what they do, not by what it is called. The Constitution itslelf uses several synonyms for tax, duties, imposts, excises, and — in Article I, section 7 — “revenue.” The mandate is revenue, it is a tax.
June 25th, 2012 at 1:05 am
Synonym Discussion of INSIPID
insipid, vapid, flat, jejune, banal, inane mean devoid of qualities that make for spirit and character. insipid implies a lack of sufficient taste or savor to please or interest . vapid suggests a lack of liveliness, force, or spirit . flat applies to things that have lost their sparkle or zest . jejune suggests a lack of rewarding or satisfying substance . banal stresses the complete absence of freshness, novelty, or immediacy . inane implies a lack of any significant or convincing quality .
June 25th, 2012 at 1:39 am
I’m very glad i expanded your vocabulary, Russ. Would you suddenly agree with me if i called myself omniscient?
June 25th, 2012 at 2:22 am
Obama may not have been successful in delivering a lot of what he promised, but he has helped the country maintain a slow but steady course out of the mess created by the Bush presidencies – the wars and the economic crisis. And as for bowing – Bush policies have made America the biggest debtor country in the world, so we better start getting used to the idea of bowing to the Chinese, Indians, Japanese, Arabs – whoever will bankroll our bankrupt economy.
June 25th, 2012 at 5:52 am
Actually, insipid, if you were to call yourself omniscient we’d think you deluded. And we’d all have a good belly-laugh about how arrogantly deluded you were.
June 25th, 2012 at 7:45 am
Calling Barack Obama an “Affirmative Action President” is racist.
And if he was 100 percent white as opposed to 50/50, he’d have sailed to victory in 2008. Yeah, I almost kept a straight face typing that.
June 25th, 2012 at 8:24 am
@ #88 – Whoa, was that ever revisionist history.
At the time of the 2008 election, unemployment was at 4.7%, and it didn’t begin to skyrocket up to 9.2% (16% realistically) until after Obama was inaugurated, a vote of no confidence in that empty suit, street hustler and pretentious, decadent dilletante.
The economy didn’t tank until a year and a half after Democrats regained control of both houses of Congress, and inflation didn’t begin to skyrocket upward until a year after Obama was inaugurated.
When the Bush Administration left office, the Middle East was stabilised. Since the chronic screw-ups in the Obama Administration came into office, the entire Middle East has become completely destabilized.
Under Obama and control of Congress by the Democrats between 2009 and 2010, the Debt increased to more than it was under all previous presidents combined.
The incompetent Obama Administration has been an unmitigated disaster, both overseas and domestically.
June 25th, 2012 at 8:43 am
(Never mind that it is unprecedented, I repeat, UNPRECEDENTED that Obama has now shirked all of his responsibilities to spend the entire 4th year of his disasterous presidency in full campaign mode, not trying to save the jobs of other people, but trying to save only his own job, so that he can continue to live like royalty at the expense of the rest of us. He is an embarrassmment and a disgrace to this country. Even other world leaders think that he is a putz without any qualifications whatsoever to be POTUS. Only a fool or an imbecile or a psycho would vote to reelect that empty suit, of which there aren’t any shortages in the Democrat Party.))
June 25th, 2012 at 9:06 am
Calling Obama the ‘affirmative action president” is no more racist than saying that about anyone else who got their job through the affirmative action program. And if pointing out affirmative action hires is racist, then isn’t the whole affirmative action program racist?
June 25th, 2012 at 9:14 am
Stop it Jonn, you’re going to make his head explode from all them thar facts and logic thingies you’re using on him.
And I’m sure his head is still sore enough from those weekend slap fights he’s been in lately.
June 25th, 2012 at 9:41 am
Here’s another way of looking at it.
Although it isn’t politically correct to recognize this fact, because it offends ditzy, bleeding-heart liberals, sensible people might say that “racism”, per se, is inherently natural and ingrained in all of us. It goes to the issue of survival of the fittest, which has been going on ever since cro magnon man attained supremacy over the Neanderthals, who subsequently went extinct, because they could not adapt. Because of the screwy ideas of liberals, such people are no longer allowed to become extinct through natural processes. They become a protected species and wards of the state, for reasons too controvercial to mention here.
Just a thought.
June 26th, 2012 at 10:21 am
They become a protected species and wards of the state and a burden on the rest of us, for reasons too controvercial to mention here.
June 26th, 2012 at 1:39 pm
I guess being president of the United States means that you can’t be respectful.
June 26th, 2012 at 11:11 pm
Who has ever been more courteous, more gracious and more respectful than GHWBush and GWBush were, even with their
nastiest and most vile critics. The Bushs are a class act.
July 9th, 2012 at 6:33 pm
Could it possibly be that he was taught manners, and to show deference to his elders? To all you assholes with negative comments above, and to the writer of this piece — you certainly have too much time on your hands. They would be put to better use trying to find your tiny penises (with a magnifying glass and tweezers) in your grey and funky granny panties. Do me a favor: Kiss my large, round, brown and pleasantly scented ASS. It will give you something else to do for the next 6 months. Peace nstuff.
July 9th, 2012 at 6:58 pm
The Make-Believe President has too much time on HIS hands — wrapped around golf (and other) CLUBS .
don’t know if you’ve ever been US FORCES, but I suggest you read more comments here — your cursing is clearly inadequate .
July 9th, 2012 at 7:23 pm
John Lilyea wrote at 93.
“Calling Obama the ‘affirmative action president” is no more racist than saying that about anyone else who got their job through the affirmative action program. And if pointing out affirmative action hires is racist, then isn’t the whole affirmative action program racist?”
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President Obama did not get his job through the affirmative action program, he got his job by getting over 7 million more votes than the other guy. The fact that you attribute this all, without evidence (the hearsay you’ve been quoting couldn’t be sold as evidence in any court if you had satan as an attorney. In fact the only one who has presented evidence that MIGHT be used in a court was me, the NY Times study).
The fact that, in your heart, you believe that a black man can’t possibly beat a white man unless if there is some kind of trickery or imagined white guilt says more about you then Barack Obama. It shows that you have a steadfast belief that a black man, even if he wins by the biggest majority in decades, can’t have legitimately won. That, no matter what he has accomplished, he’s ALWAYS going to be a no account nigger in your eyes, or an “Affirmative Action” President.
Using affirmative action as a pejorative to demean and belittle a justly earned position or rank is racist. This spin that your putting on it is simply pathetic.
July 9th, 2012 at 7:24 pm
It took you a month to come up with that?
July 9th, 2012 at 7:25 pm
The fact that you believe that he can’t win, without evidence says more about you than it does about President Obama.
July 9th, 2012 at 7:27 pm
No, it took me five minutes. Just someone else put the thread to the top. I just read your pathetic justification five minutes ago.
July 9th, 2012 at 7:44 pm
The “make believe” President?
Different planes of reality?
July 9th, 2012 at 8:49 pm
“In fact the only one who has presented evidence that MIGHT be used in a court was me. My, aren’t we proud of our delusional self?
Farther upthread, there was this little nugget of
wisdoman advocacy for quotas, “There’s been 44 Presidents and ONE has been black”. The implication is that there should have been at least, what, six? Eight? Ten?July 9th, 2012 at 8:57 pm
Interesting. I thought the “N-word” was such a racist term that it was unconditionally verboten, insipid. Since you just “went there” above, does that mean it’s back in vogue? Can the rest of us now use that word without fear pf being called “racist”? Or does your use mean you’re actually a closet racist?
Think about what you just did, fool. By example, you just gave your personal endorsement to the use of foul racist slurs in discourse here. Is that really where you want to go?
Oh, and the example you gave is also bogus as hell. No one here – well, except for maybe our current resident ignorant assclown, Wittgenfeld – objects to the current POTUS on account of his race. The objections are due to the fact that he often acts like a socialist idiot.
July 9th, 2012 at 8:59 pm
No. 105:
No. It’s from COL GEORGE “BUD” DAY, Medal Of Honor, Vietnam War —
COL DAY gets the credit; I use HIS characterization .
July 9th, 2012 at 9:18 pm
To Whom It May Concern (or Interest):
“George Everett “Bud” Day (born February 24, 1925) is a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and Command Pilot who served during the Vietnam War. He is often cited as being the most decorated U.S. Service member since GEN DOUGLAS MacARTHUR, having received some seventy decorations, a majority for actions in combat. Day is a recipient of the Medal of Honor.”
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If you request it, I will attempt to find computer addresses and substantiations for all the quotations, but for now, here are, some quotations:
“Now, the point of this is that our make-believe president has declared to the world that we ( U.S.) are a bunch of torturers.. Thus it will be OK to torture us next time when they catch us….because that is what the U.S. does. Our make-believe president is a know nothing fool who thinks that pouring a little water on some one’s face, or hanging a pair of womens pants over an Arabs head is TORTURE. He is a meathead.
Our president and those fools around him who keep bad mouthing our great country are a disgrace to the United States. Please pass this info on to Sean Hannity. He is free to use it to point out the stupidity of the claims that water boarding …which has no after effect… Is torture. If it got the Arab to cough up the story about how he planned the attack on the twin towers in NYC … Hurrah for the guy who poured the water.
BUD DAY, MOH”
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“I just talked to MOH holder Leo Thorsness who was also in my SQ in jail … As was John McCain … And we agree that McCain DOES NOT SPEAK FOR the POW group when he claims that Al Gharib was torture .. Or that “water boarding” is torture.”
– (COL DAY)
July 9th, 2012 at 9:26 pm
Using the “N” word as an example of racism is not the same as using it as a pejorative, just as using affirmative action as a pejorative is different then describing it or implimenting it. Would you advocate changing the word to Slave in Huck finn? I believe that the term “affirmative action President is every bit as offensive as the phrase i used. And the reason why i used it was not to “ok” the use of the term but to show the visceral shock that i felt when i read it. Affirmative Action President is every bit as offensive as “no account nigger”. It’s meant for the same effect and to evoke the same imagery: that he’s a lazy good-for-nothing that got everything handed to him on account of his color.
And you’re fooling yourself if you think that the exhibited on this thread is isolated to one man. The blog itself is not a dog whistle, it’s a siren. John Lilyea just described the election of 2008 as an “affimative action program”.
Another dismissed ALL the reasons that Colin Powell made for supporting Barack Obama here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs43RR7IiNU
And decided that it’s just because he’s black.
Plus there’s the outright defense of a pejorative that would certainly get you fired if directed at a black man in almost any office in the country.
July 9th, 2012 at 9:37 pm
@106 The implication is that if you’re going to make the argument that it’s an advantage to be black in National Politics you ought to be able to point to more than ONE successful candidacy in the 143 years between the ending of slavery in 1865 and the election of President Obama in 2008. Furthermore if you’re going to make their should be more than 10 Black people elected to state-wide offices in those 143 years.
Generously including the VP as a national Ticket there’s been about 56 Possibilities to pick a black person as either a President of VP in 143 years and so far it has happened only once.
Furthermore in that same 143 years counting governorships and Senate seats there has been probably thousands of oportunities to elect a black person to state-wide offices and that feat has probably been accomplished less than two dozen times since reconstruction (not counting the period where the North forced in black legislatures in Southern States).
Even if you want to argue that somehow in all that time blacks werent’ qualified or they didn’t want to run or whatever it is hard to look at any REAL facts or election wins or any kind of data other than “i know some folks” to show that being black is an advantage in running for national and state-wide offices. Barack Obama won because he was an exceptional candidate. He won despite being black, not because of it.
July 9th, 2012 at 9:43 pm
insipid: even a fool like yourself should be able to figure out that Huckleberry Finn was written some 125 years ago. Acceptable language then was far different than it is today. But I digress and belabor the obvious. Well, it’s obvious to the rest of us, anyway.
What I was doing was merely pointing out your hypocrisy in using a pejorative term for effect, while standing ready to crucify anyone else here who did the same. Obviously you missed that fact.
And don’t even attempt to deny that’s the case. You’ve already done exactly what I noted above. You did so by castigating the author of this article – who was not Lilyea, by the way – for using the term “affirmative action” in what you consider to be a “racist” manner. Yet you yourself use a blatantly racist and pejorative term and now claim it was done “for effect”. Ever stop to think that maybe that’s exactly why the article’s author used the term “affirmative action president” – e.g., for effect, in order to make people stop and think about the issue? Much like Lennie Bruce and George Carlin used foul language, or Richard Pryor used the N-word, in their comedy in the 1960s and 1970s?
Go ahead and hypocritically impute your own subconscious racial issues to us while maintaining your “innocence”, insipid. It’s fascinating observing your repressed demons on parade.
July 9th, 2012 at 10:13 pm
You seem to forget, idiot, we disagree with his white half, too.
You’ve seriously outdone your regular level of absolute ignorance with your above comment. I can think of only one commenter who’s disgusted me more with their comments, and that takes a lot.
I also honestly hope that the things you’ve stated here are merely said in an effort to be an effective troll and that you truly don’t say these things in real life. If that isn’t the case, I’m buying beers for the first person to jack you in your dirty little mouth.
July 9th, 2012 at 11:37 pm
Let’s see what we get when we spell out insipid:
I’m
Not
Subtle
In
Publicizing
I’m
Dipshit
July 9th, 2012 at 11:57 pm
I’m sick and tired of the false equivelency. Someone pointing out racism is not the same as someone being a racist. The term “Affirmative Action President” is a dog whistle that means precisely the same thing as the term I used. He meant it for the same effect. He wasn’t trying to use the term to make people think about the issue- that’s actually what I was doing. He was using the term to bellitle and to minimize his accomplishment. As a means of saying to anyone and everyone that will read his trashy columns that it does not matter how far a black man advances- even to the Presidency of the United States- he will ALWAYS be dismissed by some racists like John Lilyea and the author of this piece as an “Affirmative Action” President. The phrase is dog-whistle for “No account n***er” and you can take those pearls that you’re cluthching right now and shove them up your ass.
The truth is that the author of this piece uses blatantly racist language and imagery and you’re too cowardly to go after one of your own for doing so. Instead, you’re assaulting the messenger for not being genteel in pointing out his obvious racism. Well, sorry to be uncouth. But the use of the term, and the pathetic appologies of the term makes me pretty pissed. My characterization of the term is an extremely accurate determination of what he meant when he used it. If my re-phrasing shocked you then hopefully that will give you an inkling of how i felt when i first read the term “Affirmative Action President”.
July 10th, 2012 at 12:04 am
Your boy is a fraud and a failure, deal with it.
July 10th, 2012 at 12:10 am
@113 Oh get off your damn feinting couch, Ros. You and i both know full well what he meant when he wrote “affirmative action President”. He wasn’t going after his policies, he was saying that his position is an un-earned gift based upon Barack Obama’s skin color. It’s not my harshly-worded charecterization of his position that is shocking, it is his position.
While he can’t use the term i used, it’s certainly the term he’d like to use. At least he’d be honest. His black wife and mullato children would be so proud of him.
July 10th, 2012 at 12:32 am
You can go fuck yourself. Don’t tell me what I do and don’t know when I very clearly stated the contrary. Your own feigned shock at a person’s use of the term “affirmative action” and your subsequent attempts to characterize him as a bigot have been repeatedly disproven so you’ve used the only term available for its shock value.
Guess what, you worthless fuck, the obly racist here is you, and you’ve proven that beyond a shadow of a doubt. I’ve no use for ignorant bigots such as yourself and , frankly, I don’t believe there’s any place in this world for your ilk. You may now go congratulate yourself on surviving with such a severe lack of oxygen. Or don’t, I really don’t care.
July 10th, 2012 at 12:36 am
THIS of course did not offend Ros or Hondo because the horrible N-word was not uttered:
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Here’s another way of looking at it.
Although it isn’t politically correct to recognize this fact, because it offends ditzy, bleeding-heart liberals, sensible people might say that “racism”, per se, is inherently natural and ingrained in all of us. It goes to the issue of survival of the fittest, which has been going on ever since cro magnon man attained supremacy over the Neanderthals, who subsequently went extinct, because they could not adapt. Because of the screwy ideas of liberals, such people are no longer allowed to become extinct through natural processes. They become a protected species and wards of the state, for reasons too controvercial to mention here.
Just a thought.
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That “thought” is not unique. It’s Hitlers Eugenics argument (including his disdain for liberals). It’s EXACTLY what Hitler was arguing. That there are some inherently “inferior” humans and that it is time bleeding heart liberals stop coddling them. Here’s Hitler if you don’t believe me:
At one time the Spartans were capable of such a wise measure, but not our present, mendaciously sentimental, bourgeois patriotic nonsense. The rule of six thousand Spartans over three hundred and fifty thousand Helots was only thinkable in consequence of the high racial value of the Spartans. But this was the result of a systematic race preservation; thus Sparta must be regarded as the first Völkisch State. The exposure of sick, weak, deformed children, in short their destruction, was more decent and in truth a thousand times more humane than the wretched insanity of our day which preserves the most pathological subject, and indeed at any price, and yet takes the life of a hundred thousand healthy children in consequence of birth control or through abortions, in order subsequently to breed a race of degenerates burdened with illnesses.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler
But I’m sure Ros will be quick to defend Brian’s audaciously “politically incorrect” statement and Hondo will very quickly demonstrate how i am the “real” racist.
July 10th, 2012 at 12:39 am
Nope, insipid, you can trot out any BS you want, but, what you’re crying about is numbers. There’s only been one black President, boo-hoo.
But, again, reading your rant in #111, it’s quite obvious that you have no computer issues, you just can’t construct coherent thoughts or string words together in coherent sentences.
So, run along, the fries are ready.
July 10th, 2012 at 12:42 am
Nos. 108, 109: Here’s the backup — computer address:
http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2011/10/18/medal-of-honor-winner-col-bud-day-american-hero/
July 10th, 2012 at 12:47 am
The only think you’ve “demonstrated” Ros is your quick defense of the indefensible. Your attempts to turn being black into an ADVANTAGE in national politics is laughable. And if you had any class or intelectual honesty you’d admit that the argument is dumb. There has not been ONE decent defense of the statement, not one. You’re all resorting to “i heard some guy said” or i know a guy” or “No, YOU’RE the racist!” but you really can’t make a coherent argument. But you KNOW in your heart that he is an “affirmative action President” because you know deep down there is no way a black man can beat you in a fair fight. That’s why you cling so desperately to that notion. There had to be some other explanation. Well, i’m sorry the explanation is that he beat your guy, fair and square and “affirmative action” had nothing to do with. Your defense of the temr is laughable as well as pathetic.
July 10th, 2012 at 12:54 am
Hey insipid did you see the post about the guys getting their citizenship in Kandahar? I love seeing my brothers and sisters becoming Americans. Also, who do you have in the Ballduster McSoulpatch Memorial Stolen Valor tournament? I think Dallas could take it this year…
July 10th, 2012 at 12:56 am
And you can’t come up with an original joke, upnorth. Now why don’t you go chug another six pack. You might have a few brain-cells left.
The argument was that it is an advantage to be black and be in elected office. The fact that there has only been one black president and hardly any elected to state-wide black offices proves that argument is full of shit. The fact that you can’t undestand that fairly simple concept proves that you’re quite a dumb-fuck.
July 10th, 2012 at 1:38 am
And, you’re still the failed fry cook from Mickie D’s, who tries to keep up with the adults in the room, and fails spectacularly. But, like the little spoiled child you are, you throw yourself on the floor and kick and scream because no one will agree with you.
And, speaking of racism, wasn’t it you who assumed in a thread, when I referred to Escalades and Expeditions, that I was referring to blacks? Why, yes it was, you racist. Go ahead now, tell us how you worked in the inner city and some of your best friends are black.
Weren’t we told that blacks voted for Barack and that was OK, because they were voting for someone “who looked like them”? Maybe that’s why blacks have a tough time winning state wide office? It’s OK for blacks to vote for a black, but for whites to vote for whites is racist. You don’t even know how stupid your posts are.
July 10th, 2012 at 2:26 am
Instupid, my college advisor told me a little story that details you perfectly.
A person with an A.A. can take a 100 page report, do an analysis of it and reduce it to a 20 summary eliminating all the extraneous information.
A person with a B.A. can can take that 20 page sumary and do an analysis of the summary and reduce it to a 10 page summary eliminating all the extraneous information.
A person with a Masters can can take that 10 page sumary and do an analysis of the summary and reduce it to a five page summary eliminating all the extraneous information.
A person with a PhD can can take that 5 page sumary and do an analysis of the summary and reduce it to a one page summary eliminating all the extraneous information.
YOU are the extraneous information. The only reason some of our member’s posts run so long is answering all your inane points. Don’t you realize you have NO credibility here and we read you posts just to laugh at you?
Sad, very, very sad.
July 10th, 2012 at 5:19 am
Shakespeare, insipid: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” Those who complain continuously about a particular type of misconduct often do so because they see in others their own suppressed guilt. And your history here shows – clearly – a tendency to label those who disagree with you racist, and to assume racist intent where none likely exists. In your world, only those who disagree with you are racist. None who agree with you are.
In short: your view of the world is distorted by the lens of your own inner demons; you impute your own prejudices to others. And you don’t even realize it. Sad.
It’s true that a few fools have posted racist or misogynistic idiocy and/or language here at TAH hin the past. That falls in the “true but irrelevant” category. Jonn runs a generally open forum; his house, his rules. In an open forum, such idiocy is thus inevitable from time to time. Those who post content egregiously out of line often end up getting their subsequent comments moderated – or deleted outright. Otherwise, Jonn lets people say what they want within pretty broad limits. Again: his house, his rules.
Don’t like that? Fine. It’s a free country, and no one is forcing you to come here and interact with the rest of us. But how about you refrain from making unfounded accusations of “racism” based on your own inaccurate and hypocritical perceptions of the world while you’re here. Just because you see a “racist behind every tree” doesn’t mean they’re really there.
Oh, and you just engaged in reductio ad Hitlerum in comment 119 above – again. That’s getting to be fairly predictable behavior on your part.
July 10th, 2012 at 6:24 am
@121 – Thanks for the attribution, though it doesn’t lend any rational definition to the label used.
It’s sort of sad to see a man of great deeds stoop to such lazy rhetoric.
July 10th, 2012 at 9:27 am
There’s nothing lazy about it — you must catch the implication, in the context of the complete statement, which you now have — I won’t SPELL IT OUT, that’s your job; figure it out for yourself .
July 10th, 2012 at 9:33 am
You are correct….you don’t have to spell it out….it’s quite plain to see.
July 10th, 2012 at 9:34 am
No. 123 Just Plain Jason:
Nice job with your comment to Mr. “i.”
July 10th, 2012 at 9:40 am
he was saying that his position is an un-earned gift based upon Barack Obama’s skin color.
I’ll say it–considering that any white presidential candidate in recent memory who ran on the same issues and rhetoric was polling in the asterisk range, and dropped out before the South Carolina primary.