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Band of Bumblers
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Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.’s
Obama’s Carrousel of Incompetence:
This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever read. How about you
move out of the country if you cannot support your president.
It’s obvious you use child-like tactics to bring him down. I’m
sorry, but having to criticize his golf game clearly shows your
ignorance and desperate need to find anything to bring him
down.
— Brandon Schaefer
Yes it’s true. This bunch running the country is full of bumblers, some of them freaks that bring to mind “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” At the same time, however, they are attacking America’s ability to wage the war on terror. The recent attack on the CIA has been described as throwing a bone to Obama’s Lefty base. But it is more than that: it is one prong of an all out assault on our ability to fight a war. The attack on the CIA, lawyers interference in military issues, withdrawal from Iraq and probably soon Afghanistan, reduced military spending, balking at our security guarantees with allies, and negotiating with enemies getting nothing in return all point to a proposed isolation. The Islamic Fascists have been at war with the West for 1400 years and won’t stop now because Obama does not want to play.
On the domestic front, they are spending money at a rate that will bankrupt the country, destroying its credit and debasing the currency and printing new money which when monetized will produce a hyper-inflation, higher interest rates and turn us into a banana republic. Yet under our feet and in the sea lie trillions of dollars of oil gas and coal enough to supply not only our needs but export to the rest of the world for at least the next several decades. If we build 100 nuclear plants, the resources could last centuries. All this can be done while maintaining clean air and water standards and land conservation. It would have the additional effect of lowering energy prices, oil in particular, which would reduce the amount of money available for Islamists to conduct terrorism.
But this band of clowns want to subsidize alternative energy sources that can’t make it to market on their own dime and deprive us of energy sources that need not be subsidized and that are cheaper. They say they are protecting us from climate change. Humbug! They have found a new tax and new industry for insiders using government money.
As clowns, misfits, bumblers and fools they cut a wide swath.
Unfortunately in the process they are ruining the country.
— Howard Lohmuller
In a perfect world the president would have some military experience, some executive experience, some business experience and some foreign policy experience.
Obama had no experience in any of those areas. None.
Any people on the left have the unmitigated gall to say GOVERNOR Palin was unqualified. Exactly what were Obama’s qualifications?
Like the saying goes, you reap what you sow. We hired a smooth
talker who had no experience. Now we are paying big
time….
— Garry
Gearhart, Oregon
SHHHHH…….
It was only this past Winter and Spring
That no one but Rush dared say a thing,
But now the folks are carrying signs.
They know that our president has designs
On their security, their cars, their health and their
money,
Their very existence, and they don’t think it’s funny.
Hope and change are so very yesterday.
A new kind of communism is on the way.
The transformation is coming apace.
But he shuns your objection and blames it on race.
None dare raise their voices and speak.
Yet the American people have never been weak.
The Reign of Terror will not be long.
Love of freedom makes us exceedingly strong.
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Brubaker| 8.28.09 @ 7:06AM
Brandon Schaefer, I can only wonder what sorts of things you were writing and saying during George W. Bush's eight years in the White House.
Did you "support your president" then? Or did you perhaps, just once in awhile, voice your displeasure?
Michael Dooley| 8.28.09 @ 8:18AM
That's right, Kristine. Let's go back to doing what we did before since we all know it worked so well to line the pockets of Liberal academics and policy wonks: Hold expensive conferrences in choice locals with fine wines and food. Present papers, have panel discussions, sell books, wring hands, and all repeat the mantra: "Violence BAD. Talk Talk Talk!!! Violence BAD. Defund the military. We're ready to lead---now you follow!"
yeswecan| 8.28.09 @ 8:19AM
I do not consider him as my president.He has yet to prove he is eligable, let alone capable.His golf game is the last thing to prove he is good for nothing.Flush him.
Crabby Apple Mick Lee| 8.28.09 @ 9:43AM
Kristine: I was in the 4th grade the day JFK was murdered in Dallas. I was a sophmore in high school when Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were cut down. You could say I "moved on" I suppose; but I've never forgotten how horrible those event were and how devistated the country became. I am a Conservative. JFK, Bobby and MLK were Liberals. It never occured to me to remember those days for anything other than what it were.
I take that back. Maybe I haven't "moved on". I get emotional whenever I think about each of those days just a little bit too long. For years I thought nothing would hurt so bad as losing those men. I was right. Until 9/11.
Big J| 8.28.09 @ 9:59AM
Brandon, what planet are you living on? If you do not see the marxist path your Dear Leader is dragging us down, I suggest it is YOU who packs up and chooses another country in which to reside.
Absolutely NOTHING this impostor has done to date is within the bounds of our founding document(s) (that would be THE CONSTITUTION, in case you are not aware), and he has violated his oath and the will and trust of the American people at every opportunity.
I recommend you promptly remove your head from the sand (or your backside, whichever is appropriate), wake up and smell the statism. I would even recommend taking a few moments to actually READ the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
At least then you might actually have a CLUE as to how far off base you really are.
David Govett| 8.28.09 @ 11:44AM
America has never learned how to respond to Asian mercantilism. Maybe after the last dollar is spent by the last American worker, America will get a clue.
Richard Roark | 8.28.09 @ 11:52AM
Crabby,
MLK was a rethuglican
http://tinyurl.com/kmezo9
IMKessel| 8.28.09 @ 3:36PM
The Obama Administration reminds you of the Rocky Horror Picture Show?!? As a former (and proud) RHPS “Regular”, I am stunned by the comparison. Frank N. Furter was an innovator; he created his own creature – and then seduced him Frank demonstrated competence. Who in The One’s circle jerk is competent? (Frank is cut more from a Clinton clothe than the Emperor’s clothing.) Maybe on a really great day Madam Speaker might look a bit like Magenta – but Magenta knew loyalty. On the other hand, Riff was a back stabber. Plenty of turncoats in the White House now. Still, a better comparison is Cabaret . The time, Weimar Republic and the people were without direction and full of desperation. The party in charge was completely overwhelmed. Morale and morality were at an all time low. The economy tanking. National defense weakening. Just saying…
Alan Brooks| 8.28.09 @ 7:40PM
We don't want to be apocalyptic, but Ted as any kind of bona fide role (outside of RHPS) model, is nothing short of shocking.
(If this is progress then we perhaps don't want to discover what devolution really is. Ted and Jacko beloved heroes? Positively dystopian).
BTW, If you drown or molest a liberal do you ever get a pass? can you obtain a Get Out of Jail Free Card? where does one apply for the card?
Ira, the brave new world singularity is arriving.
Sue| 8.28.09 @ 9:37PM
To Brandon Schaefer: Mr. Obama was the one who stated he was "transforming America" and changing it into something we've "never seen before." Also, he made the statement that with his election, "it will be a game changer."
He deserves absolutely no slack on anything. I didn't vote for him as I don't know what "transforming America" "change America" means, but I vote for someone who will uphold the Constitution. Mr. Obama is the one who has "changed the rules" on how the presidency is viewed in this Country.
He is the one who has hired a significant number of "advisors" who function solely outside of the Constitution with taxpayer monies, accountable to no one. Presidents have done this in the past, and I disagreed with them too. This man has exceeded all normal "actions" performed by the executive and if this is the "change" I'm not to be counted in and I will not bend or change my beliefs under some pretext that "I need to support our President."
He said he was "a game changer." Well, I'm in the game and I will be the one rooting for the underdog in this dog fight, and it will be for the Constitution.
No president in history that I know of has ever made the statement that he was going to "transform America" and the "transformation" would begin with his election.
He started it. Not the citizens.
Sue| 8.28.09 @ 9:42PM
If we were to build nuclear, where would all of the United Mine Workers work? Unions, once again mucking up "hope" and "change."
Darn them.
Sue| 8.28.09 @ 9:51PM
Steve McCann: There has always been a "world economy. I have a tea kettle from the 1920s made in Portugal. There were lots of recessions prior to 1930 involving world currencies and world markets. What are you talking about? If you want to make the connection that China and Japan buy most of our debt, where it used to be the Euopean nations that's reasonable, but trade and currency recessions have been around for centuries.
Alan Brooks| 8.29.09 @ 11:48PM
JFK's death was a tragedy, though he wasn't exactly Geo Washington. But Ted was just a senator, and a pretty wild guy considering all the potential that was bequeathed by his family. His eldest brother was war hero, so it wasn't all a bad legacy for Ted.
Ted blew it.
You do not get rewarded for blowing it no matter who-- or whom (Ira, I attended only publik skools)-- you are. We don't like it, but this is unfortunately a world of darwinist rewards and darwinist punishments.
Even Jacko's public adulation makes a little sense, he had some, rather imbecilic, talent. A fair dancer and singer. Plus, entertainers are supposed to be kooky, or why would they want to be in show biz?
But Ted as hero and role model? Unglaublich!