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A Bad Case of the Bitters

By Andrew Cline on 5.27.10 @ 6:08AM

Obama reveals his heart in San Francisco.

With oil from the still-gushing, five-week-old Deepwater Horizon leak lapping unimpeded into the marshes of Louisiana, on Tuesday the President of the United States jetted past the oily Gulf to a San Francisco fund-raiser for Sen. Barbara Boxer, held, incredibly, at the home of the 350th richest person in America — Gordon Getty, inheritor of the Getty Oil fortune. Hollywood satirists couldn’t make this stuff up.

If nothing else, Barack Obama has his priorities. This was the president’s second trip to California to raise money for Sen. Boxer in two months. His first was the day before the Deepwater Horizon explosion. Then, he went to Los Angeles and held three fund-raisers that collected more than $3 million for Boxer and the DNC. His Tuesday haul, 35 days after the start of the as yet uncontained leak, was a reported $1.7 million for Boxer and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Extinguishing emergencies is not this president’s strong suit, but he is one fine raiser of cash.

Understandably, California is where the president goes to raise money for Democrats. Compared to the rest of America, it is a hotbed of vibrating passion for the Party of Big Government. (It also is on the verge of bankruptcy, but never mind.) In the last four years, Democratic registrations in California have risen from 42.7 percent of registered voters to 44.6 percent, while Republican registrations have fallen from 34.6 to 30.8. The especially friendly territory, though, is San Francisco, where this president retreats when it’s time to vent about those retrograde elements elsewhere in this country too backward and ignorant to support his far-sighted agenda.

The median household income in San Francisco is $72,000 — a mere $20,000 higher than the national average. Twenty-eight percent of San Franciscans age 25 or older have a bachelor’s degree, compared to 17 percent of Americans, and 16 percent have a post-graduate degree, compared to 10 percent of Americans. More than a quarter (27 percent) of all registered Democrats in California live in or around San Francisco, which hasn’t had a Republican mayor since 1964. If you want to mock the philistines of middle America, this is the place to do it.

On Tuesday, the president did just that, in his own, unique “what fools these mortals be” kind of way. Speaking to the adoring crowd of donors, the president mocked the mouth-breathers of the hinterlands, saying, “There are members of their base who think if somebody even smiles at me, they think, ‘You’re a traitor. You smiled at Obama.’”

I would venture to say that exactly no one in America thinks that. But it is a tasty morsel to toss to the Super-Rich Elitists Club of the Greater Bay Area. How many of them have ever met a Republican, after all? They probably gather at Masa’s and regale each other with stories of the time they saw some demented, poorly attired plebian hop the streetcar with a copy of Sarah Palin’s book protruding offensively from her cheap handbag.

It is no mystery why the president chooses to belittle his opposition from the enlightened hills of the city by the bay. The ideals that motivate average Americans to resist the president’s Great Remaking of American society — independence, self-reliance, individual liberty — are as foreign there as alien death rays. In San Francisco, he can let his guard down. They are his people.

Remember, it was in San Francisco — at a fund-raiser — that candidate Obama said, “they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

He wasn’t speaking of the locals who shop at Fillmore Street. He was talking about hick Pennsylvanians, safely out of sight 2,800 miles away.

When the president tells San Franciscans, as he did on Tuesday, that he just can’t work with Republicans because they are so intent on irrationally blocking his agenda, how are they to know any better? What context do they have? Who do they know who disagrees with the president on anything save the speed with which he has chosen to disassemble “don’t ask don’t tell”? How many of their friends listen to Rush Limbaugh, read the Wall Street Journal editorial page, or have ever held a hunting rifle?

After complaining to the roomful of wealthy donors that Republicans refuse to cooperate or work with him in a bipartisan manner, Obama, apparently without any awareness of contradiction, had the crowd chanting happily back at him when he said of Republicans, “if you want to get in, we’ll give you a ride. But we’re not going to let you drive.”

Because that is the spirit of bipartisanship on vivid display: you can sit helplessly in the back as we rocket this baby wherever our heavily Europhile sense of direction takes us, but you’d better keep your yap shut.

And although that is the attitude with which the administration governs, neither the president nor his friends can fathom why anyone would be upset with him. The philistines want to drive? Well isn’t that cute. Listen, they can hold on to those Bibles and guns — for now, anyway — but they are NOT clinging to the steering wheel.

About the Author

Andrew Cline is editorial page editor of the New Hampshire Union Leader. His Twitter ID is @Drewhampshire.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (160) | Leave a comment Leave a comment

drudge ette obama| 5.27.10 @ 6:12AM

I am beginning to enjoy the destruction of Obama. Just hope that it comes with increased velocity. Thin-skinned is perfect Obama.

Awan Bwooks| 5.27.10 @ 9:11AM

As a Maherian (Bill) Libertarian, it is my duty to yet again hijack another AmSpec thread in order to educate the dim-witted that generally comment here.

My catamite, Purpleboy, shall be along shortly to underscore my points.

Really, all told, I've only two points:
Barack Obama is smarter than you.
Those who see through your greed and racism and ignorance are smarter than you. And that is we Liberals and Maherian Libertarians -there's a bit of overlap- wink-wink.

Really, you've just got to accept this for your own good. Why do hate Barack, who really is America, you seditious buffoons?

Purpleboy| 5.27.10 @ 9:11AM

Coffee's ready, hon!

Miss FauxAlabama| 5.27.10 @ 9:23AM

I don't who the ignorantly smug parodist that has assaulted my two comrades is, but I will tell all of you... you... you... DUMMIES... and I will tell you in drippingly sarcastic - AND SUPERIOR- tones, that your HERO RONALD REAGAN was also gay.

And we would have secretly liked Alan and Purple. And I can prove it with quotes from Huffpo and other REPUTABLE sources!

Miss FauxAlabama| 5.27.10 @ 9:30AM

HE would have liked Alan and Purple -HE.

See, you've got me all flustered, you ignorant meanies.

Now, excuse me, I've got an evil banker's house to lay siege to with my union comrades!

Mimi| 5.27.10 @ 11:49AM

Boy you got on this article quick it must be you saw the author was the terrific writer: ANDREW CLINE! Boy's you need to check the POLLS.... in every area the DEMS are losing. Folks do not waste your energy on these kids go about and enjoy Andrew's writin. Happy SCROLLING!

alert1201| 5.27.10 @ 10:05AM

You really want to know why I had Obama? He is a weaselly, sniveling, arrogant, elitist, stupid jack-ass who is running our country into the ground.

That is why I hate him.

O' yea I forgot one more reason - he married Michelle.

Purpleboy| 5.27.10 @ 10:14AM

Hold me, Mr. Bwooks! I'm scared! That mean man is foaming at the mwouth!

Nate| 5.27.10 @ 9:54PM

That you, Bwarnie Fwanks?

A Real Republican| 5.27.10 @ 12:54PM

Seditious? And who might be the dimwit? Sedition is a call for the usurption of authority. Seditious? When you cannot defend your indefensible *and in this case, wholly unpopular* positions or proposals, you inevitably result to name calling. And often in doing so, you show great and staggering ignorance. Seditious? The Alien and Sedition Act of 1796 was the last hurrah of The Federalists. That act was so despised, so clearly seen as an attempt to thwart free speech, that in the election of 1800, every Federalist in office was booted by a People wiser than they. And there are many, many, many wiser than you.
Seditious? Rubbish, indeed. Might differences with Mr. Obama next be viewed as acts of treason? We elect Presidents, not Kings. *and those who in your manner protect Mr. Obama from differing views, would best live under a King, free of the freedoms you wrongly place in acts you don't understand or perhaps don't care to understand*
Seditious? Parroting of the worse kind as I have heard that misunderstood smear before over the past several months: it is the parroting of ignorance.

Wally| 5.27.10 @ 7:45PM

I guess you didn't get the memo--Obama has canceled future elections and has declared himself our Emperor; the Emperor without any clothes!

mikeames| 5.27.10 @ 4:01PM

what kind of libertarian finds Obama smart? He is the epitome of Marxist agitation all of which is designed to gut any libertarian of his liberty. BTW, who gives a rat's ass what color he is? Why hate a man because of the color of his skin when if you really get to know him there are so many more valid reasons to hate him, like, say, Marxism. :) Also - if there is any sedition to be seen look at Obama's recent refusal to protect our borders or taking orders from the depraved Calderone, or apologizing to the Chineese......

Ura Twit| 5.27.10 @ 4:47PM

Hey, Awan Brooks! Being smarter than someone is absolutely meaningless, like your president, when there is zero wisdom. A big difference.

mustang6| 5.27.10 @ 5:26PM

To Awan Bwooks,
Once again, typical socialist. You can't fight with facts, just name call, name call, name call, with bad humor. Boy you are really afraid of making a decision with your life. I guess you'd rather follow and blow Obama (Just using your tactics) than actually decide for yourself. Isn't nice for people like you, who never have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, you'd just rather be generous with others money, you're so damn selfish. Sacrifice to a socialist like you is letting a good looking girl get in front of you at the Starbucks line, so you can get to know her better.

HarryBalsonya| 5.27.10 @ 6:01PM

"As a Maherian (Bill) Libertarian"

Couldnt read past this without sharing it with some. Next I suppose we'll be hearing from a Hitlerian Pacifist.

Awan Bwooks| 5.27.10 @ 10:31PM

Dearest Harry,

Did not the Purpleboy and I meet you at the Folsom Street Fair this past year? Now THAT was how a TEABAGGER holds a soiree... cupped oh-just-so mon frere.

Alan Brooks| 5.27.10 @ 8:33PM

Purple, I did not write this unfunny comment above, it was a Southin' boy, probably. Age 35 or so, judging by the style.

Let's hope so. Shame if he was older than that.

Alan Brooks| 5.27.10 @ 8:36PM

"To Awan Bwooks,
Once again, typical socialist."

Mustang, I'm not a good writer, but not even Daphne Kenward would write anything so awful as the Awan Bwooks commenty above; if whomever wrote it is upset that I plab to vote for Obama and wants to write more imbecilic comments like that, what can anyone do?

Alan Brooks| 5.27.10 @ 8:41PM

I plan to vote for Obama because the alternative is worse:
another Bush, Dole, McCain, losing campaign.
If it bothers the guy hiding behind the childish moniker "Awan Bwooks", tough goddamn crap;
no one will vote to please him or anyone else.

So write your own name, coward.

PurpleTurd| 5.27.10 @ 9:50PM

If you can't take it, don't dish it, moron.

Waah, waah, waah! Too effing bad, Bwooks.

Alan Brooks| 5.27.10 @ 10:51PM

Pretending to be someone else, even if you spell the name different-- is the worst behavior. So I wont post here anymore unless other comments are posted in my name-- and then only to say I didn't write them.

BTW, how old are you? 32?
You write like a 15 year old, whomever you are..

Rowdy Boots| 5.27.10 @ 9:10PM

Dear DictionaryDingBat,

You are smarter then Obama.

Obama is not smarter then the average American.

Figure that one out elitist fool.

oh, by the way, we dim-wits rather like to listen to you cocktail sipping broken down socialist poverty riders.

Have a nice hand-out.

Rowdy Boots
lololololololololololol

ZerObama| 5.27.10 @ 9:48PM

Somewhere a rubber room is missing its inmate.

TexasTruBlu| 5.27.10 @ 11:25PM

I honestly don't know how anyone can gauge the inherent wisdom or the Ivy League educational pith given the reticence to release any and all of Obama's personal history. From his actions, or should I say reactions, he is behind the count at every turn. His vision of a nation run by powerful committees while Obama ran figurehead is crumbling because it seems the team isn't up to the job. He may have a fine veneer, but that stuff is pretty thin when it comes right down to it. Obama's dropped the ball by shoving programs to power down the throats of an unwilling and economically strapped population. And while he may still run the mainstream media, there are still those outlets that reveal such things as the real cost of the healthcare bill, the ineffectiveness of his immigration control and his lack of grasp of the realities of the economy. Remember in November.

TommyS| 5.28.10 @ 6:53AM

You'll wake up when Obama's ideology hits your paycheck!!

xcon| 5.31.10 @ 4:57PM

It's gonna happen this coming January.
All those libtwits that are crying "he lowered taxes for 95% of us" will get a rude awakening.

Jobe| 5.27.10 @ 12:00PM

While it is pleasurable. indeed, to see president Jughead hurtling headlong toward disaster, it is sobering to recognize that he is dragging the entire nation toward that disaster along with him, and that we are going to have to figure a way to save the country that he so cavalierly denigrates daily.

Bill Everett| 5.27.10 @ 5:37PM

After reading the crude, adolescent mentality of the comments on this page, I am ashamed to be associated with conservatives.

You posters are not clever enough to attempt humor, so don't do it. And please refrain from rudeness, name-calling, and obfuscation.

I ask you to reread your posts, and imagine what intelligent people would think of your shrill and confused ranting.

Seriously, reread the comments, and you will know what I am talking about.

Nate| 5.27.10 @ 7:42PM

Oh, stuff it, Leftist loser troll! Crawl back under the slimy, oil soaked rock you call home.

Go find someone new to bribe, Obamaphile.

Rowdy Boots| 5.27.10 @ 9:13PM

NO.

We will not conform to your so-called conservative dictates.

If you were a real conservative , you would realize that we have the right to say what we please with no liberal-like arrogance from such over educated derelicts.

Conservatives believe in free speech, goo-goo.

Rowdy Boots

ZerObama| 5.27.10 @ 9:46PM

Yes, Conservatives believe in free speech, unlike you Marxist knuckle-draggers. Deal with it, dumbtard.

goo-g00, check your diapers. You've crapped them good, Dowdy Poo Poo.

cats1cowboy| 5.27.10 @ 6:21AM

Conservatives are fleeing Kalifornica in droves, Obama supports another candidate. How many candidates that he has supported are still in the running? Go Obama./sarc

TexasJayde| 5.31.10 @ 9:36AM

even leftists are fleeing kalifornia in droves. it's sinking like the titanic.

Nobama| 6.1.10 @ 12:47AM

Could have fooled the hell out of me--the damned freeways still look like parking lots some times.

Kitty| 5.27.10 @ 6:27AM

"if you want to get in, we'll give you a ride. But we're not going to let you drive."

If only the Republicans could remember that when they are back in power. Instead, we get weasels like Juan McCain.

No more reaching across the aisle !! >:O

Tish | 5.27.10 @ 6:28AM

His Oneness invited himself to the Republican luncheon because he was looking for patsies, not bipartisanship. He must have been surprised when even eternal squish Lindsey Graham declined to sign up. He'll think of a new angle, because he must have a couple of RINOs sign on to tax increases to escape all the blame.

Tim*| 5.27.10 @ 7:17AM

" Fuhrer , Shut Up & Take Your Valium "

Carol| 5.27.10 @ 7:20AM

They call it San Fransicko for a reason. It's full of the kind of people Hedley Lamarr referred to in Blazing Saddles:

All the rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperadoes, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, @$$-kickers, $#it-kickers and Methodists.

brewpop| 5.27.10 @ 8:56AM

Carol, I'm a native-born San Franciscan but Hedley got it right. Nicely stated!

JS| 5.27.10 @ 1:07PM

"Badges? We don't need no stinkin badges!"

A.M. Mallett| 5.27.10 @ 4:10PM

e .. wrong movie

Carol| 5.27.10 @ 10:36PM

A.M. Mallet:

JS is correct. That line came from Blazing Saddles.

Nick| 5.28.10 @ 12:29AM

Carol,

A.M. Mallet might be referring to the movie that "Blazzing Saddles" was spoofing in that scene, "Treasure of the Sierra Madre."

Hank| 5.27.10 @ 6:18PM

Carol,

Wouldn't "nitwits, halfwits, dimwits" more accurately label your colleagues here at AmSpec?

Your comments and their comments certainly suggest this.

Truthyness| 5.27.10 @ 7:39PM

Better than the corrupt and incompetent CommieCrats that infect your useless party.

Spoonman| 5.27.10 @ 7:20AM

In all my life I would never have expected that the Amercian voters could elect a President like this one - a President who so enjoys talking down to his fellow citizens; who enjoys speaking ill of his opponents in every public forum he attends; who has nothing good to say about his fellow Americans; who never speaks optimistically; who continually tries to scare people; who never has a good thing to say about his country's businesses which are the backbone of the economy; and who is so intent on ramming his agenda down the throats of Americans - who will not work to convince people to support his position. Novemeber 2010 and November 2012 cannot come too soon!

Brian Mc| 5.27.10 @ 7:48AM

'His "Fellow-Americans" ?

That's a stretch

Spoonman| 5.27.10 @ 8:02AM

Good point.

DesertFox| 5.27.10 @ 4:48PM

"I can see November from my house".
Sarah the Baracuda

Louis Jenkins| 5.27.10 @ 8:20AM

So the Pretender n Chief goes out and speaks to his base. Big deal? Every Pres does that. The problem I have is his attendance of the Folsom Street Festival. Now that's a --it kicker. Follow the link:

http://www.folsomstreetfair.com/

Wonder if he was the dominant one?

Troy| 5.27.10 @ 8:45AM

How about an "ads are extremely NSFW" warning on that link? Plus, you need a little more precision on the link; it just goes to the main page (unless of course, you're deliberately misleading.)

Purpleboy| 5.27.10 @ 9:58AM

My dom, Mr. Bwooks, and I go every year! It's fabulous! Too bad you Rethugs can't accept reality!

SJC| 5.27.10 @ 8:27AM

Obozzo our clown president and all his lap dog minions truly hate this country - he is a tragic embarrassment.

Timothy L. Pennell| 5.27.10 @ 8:36AM

Let's not forget, that this THING, who began his March to rule the Fatherland in the home of a Couple who KILLED Police, and BOMBED Recruiting Offices and the Pentagon, is BLOWING OFF Memorial Day Commemorations in Washington. His HATRED for this Country, and the Men and Women who keep it safe, is DISGUSTING.
SIC SEMPER TYRANNUS!

Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 5.27.10 @ 8:44AM

This car that the President is talking about, is this the same car that the Democratic Party first bought for us after the Great Depression. The one that they never got a tune up on, or changed the oil on, or put new tires on, and had 5,300,987 miles on it, after driving it around in circles not getting anywhere for decades (but she sure did have a nice Kraco Stereo System)? Is this the same car that he won't give the keys back to the Republicans for? You know what Mr President, you can keep the car, it's dead anyway, and has been for a long time, it's not worth repairing, it's always been a Lemon anyway, and it's in a giant ditch by the way, just in case you didn't notice that!! Now for the rest of us, we're going to climb out of this ditch, walk away from you with the keys still in your hand, and anyone else who wants to stay with you, as fast as we can, and never look back, or talk about it again. You just stay here with the car, and your friends, and we're going to go get help, and we'll come back with a Tow Truck as soon as we can. We swear, we'll send help!! And Lord in Heaven above, if you're listening to me, I swear we'll never drink and drive again!! Never!!

Jack Olson| 5.27.10 @ 8:45AM

And what politician, whether Democrat or Republican, doesn't flatter wealthy campaign donors and congratulate them on being mentally, morally and patriotically superior to people they dislike?

Streetfighter| 5.27.10 @ 10:22AM

There in lies the difference between a politician and a statesman. We have too many of the former and not enough of the latter.

coal carrier| 5.27.10 @ 9:19AM

We, conservatives, don’t want to drive this bus. What we need to do is make sure it runs out of gas.

Thorvald| 5.27.10 @ 11:53AM

Then we tow it away, and auction it off on eBay like Alaska's governor's jet.

RCV| 5.27.10 @ 6:20PM

And you did a great job at that from 2000 through 2008

Nate| 5.27.10 @ 7:37PM

At least we weren't responsible for turning the Gulf Coast into an oil filled sludge pool.

That would be you, Leftist loser.

RCV| 5.28.10 @ 7:25PM

No, that would be BP (Bayou Polluters), Halliburton, et al., you facist ignoramus.

ZerObama| 6.1.10 @ 12:52AM

Yeah sure. Typical POS Leftist pussboy. You gave BP (Barack's Problem) a pass and your corruption came back and bit you on the ass!

Oilbama will pay the price and so will you Corruptocrats. REMEMBER NOVEMBER!

CLP| 5.27.10 @ 9:27AM

I vote we use SF as a nuclear-weapons test range. That would be a great way to cauterize that festering chancre of liberalism known as "the Bay area."

Stephanie| 5.27.10 @ 10:16AM

WOOPEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rowdy Boots| 5.27.10 @ 9:16PM

We can't do it!

We might hurt an illegal alien and go to jail.

Rowdy Boots

Jack Olson| 5.27.10 @ 9:35AM

Can't do it, CLP. The San Francisco city council has long since declared San Francisco a "nuclear free zone." They didn't explain how they would enforce that against Soviet missiles, but, hey, a gesture is a gesture.

Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 5.27.10 @ 10:16AM

Jack: So San Francisco is a "nuclear free zone"? I didn't know that!! But that's great for CLP's idea of making it into a test range anyway, it means they won't fire back on us once we start. And on top of that, we'll save lots of money in the future too, by not having to rebuild this City again, after the "Big One" finally hits them, and it turns out, that all those Earthquake proof buildings they've been building out there, really aren't Earthquake proof at all. Old San Francisco will be in total ruins, just like we planned it to be, as we started firing ICBM's at them. So there will be nothing to fix after the "Big One" does hit, it'll already be a perfect hole in the ground by then. We can call it the Great Former City of San Francisco Nuclear Water Reservoir (my early name for it?). But please, no boating, no fishing, no swimming within a 300 mile radius of it, until further notice (and that'll be awhile)!!

Dean from Ohio| 5.28.10 @ 11:45PM

Brings back a great memory...

Astoria, Oregon had declared itself a nuclear free zone. About the same time, the U.S. Navy wanted to test a concept of reprovisioning a Trident nuclear missile submarine at a location other than its home base. They picked Astoria to bring in the boomer sub for three days, with an escort of Coast Guard patrol boats and machine gun nests from the National Guard, right in downtown Astoria. When the city woke up that morning in 1989, there was this Trident submarine. They must've choked on their granola.

That was when the Navy leadership still had enough testosterone to "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead." Although I wish ADM Mullen well, I can't see him making the same sort of decision. He's too tied up in repealing DADT.

Oh well, we'll always have Astoria.

Anthony| 5.27.10 @ 9:58AM

Even if the clueless wonders of San Francisco were so inclined towards a modicum of intellectual curiosity, it wouldn't matter. They, like their fellow leftists are hopelessly around the bend. We are at a complete impass with the Left and no amount of reason, dialogue or debate will change things.
As far as the pretender-in-chief offering rides, I'd remind this jerk, that the last time a pompous, clueless, screwup of a D offered rides, an innocent woman drowned.
By all means Obama, take the wheel, with all your fellow leftists in the backseat, we'll do a Ted Kennedy and not report it for 10 hours. Bon Voyage

Passing Thru| 5.27.10 @ 10:50AM

Just thinking about cleaning up the oil mess in the gulf,or the mess of humanity in San Fran Sicko. I'd rather clean up the Gulf with a tooth brush and cup. Oil will eventually break down, stupid grows.

RCV| 5.27.10 @ 6:19PM

No, stupid eventaully retires to Midland, Texas.

Jamie| 5.27.10 @ 7:35PM

Or crawls back under his rock at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

ray bob| 5.27.10 @ 10:53AM

and this president will not even take an hour or two out of his day to honor our fallen at Arlington this monday ..

JP| 5.27.10 @ 10:56AM

Speaking of California: it isn't the fabulously wealthy, nor is it the working poor or destitute who are leaving the state. For the last decade there has been a steady exodus leaving the Golden State for friendlier climes. Those leaving are small to medium sized business owners, skilled craftsmen, and professionals, as well as those who have lost thier jobs in areospace, automotive, IT, engineering, and technology. The loss of Republican membership is a reflection of this exodus.

California is becoming a two class state. At the top are the Trust Fund Babies, financiers, movies stars, entertainers, and the idle rich. At the bottom are the illegals, working poor and destitute. With the exception of the pampered state workers, the middle is quickly leaving. This a microsm of what the Left has intended all along.

Pete| 5.27.10 @ 11:40AM

You nailed it, JP. CA really highlights the contrast in thinking between liberals and conservatives. That liberals desire the CA model for the entire country is all you need to know about them.

JmsA| 5.27.10 @ 1:50PM

Don't forget the politicians in the top tier.

PolishKnight| 6.1.10 @ 5:03PM

Indeed, the left likes to brag about how they care about the middle class when the reality is that they only really care about the middle class when they're loyal government workers or the remaining (shrinking) union workers in private industry. Non-unionized middle class are The Enemy to be taxed to fund their loyalists. Kind of like a general paying his army by allowing them to rape and pillage.

jwm| 5.27.10 @ 11:35AM

I've been working in downtown San Francisco and have been cheerfully offending the uber liberals since 1984. For my own sanity, I live in a small town a 40 minute train ride away. In 15 minutes, I can drive to an outdoor range and fire rounds from my rifle or pistol. My closest friend is a retired SFPD Inspector who lives nearby. The author is right, people like me rarely go to Masa's, the clubs on the South of Market or other trendy places. But, we are here, working, doing the jobs (I also work in law enforcement) that the uber liberals are unwilling and more to the point, unqualified to perform. We are the thin blue line that the uber liberals can't see, but, is the difference between life and death for us and our loved ones and in the case of the uber liberals, not so loved ones.

Thorvald| 5.27.10 @ 11:57AM

Thanks for all you do!
http://oathkeepers.org/oath/

SoCon| 5.27.10 @ 2:42PM

God bless you, jwm; you're a stronger person than I. I live in a Conservative county in SoCal and I can barely stand to live in the liberal nuthouse that California has become!

Honestly, I don't know how you do it. Stay safe!

PolishKnight| 6.1.10 @ 5:06PM

In the last episode of The Simpsons, Moe Szislak was asked to sum up L.A.: Step on New York and scrape off your shoe at the beach.

Louis Jenkins| 5.27.10 @ 11:39AM

And if that's not enough, SF councilmen want the illegal immigrants voting on issues that involve the school board. Imagine that. Not a US citizen, but you can partially vote in matters concerning the local schools. Only in San Fran.

rdman| 5.27.10 @ 11:58AM

Obami in Overview:

Behind the facade, Obami is completely ruthless, despotic and tyrannical, oppressing people, taking away their constitutional rights, their freedoms and their dignity.

The law of the Chicago ghetto jungles gives Obami the perverted rationale for using intimidation and force when it suits his ends. He believes he is a law unto himself, cynically living in the world of realpolitik where what matters is having the might to prevail, regardless of right or wrong.

It is impossible to be intimate with and dangerous to trust a person like Obami, since he takes every sign of friendliness or cooperation as a sign of weakness and therefore as an invitation to take advantage of others. Treacherous and immoral, Obami has absolutely no compunction about lying, cheating, stealing or reneging on his promises. He will resort to any unconstitutional illegality or ruse to get what he wants. He will blatantly and outrageously lie repeatedly so endlessly and vehemently that it begins to be accepted as the truth. The smallest hint of opposition from others will bring an avalanche of retaliation from him.

Obami is able to destroy because he does not identify with anyone else. His egocentricity allows him to see only himself in the country, and if the country does not reflect him, he will eventually hate the country so much that he will attempt to destroy it.

To quote the philosopher Hillel, “If you are not for yourself, who will be? But if you are for yourself alone, what are you?”

Jobe| 5.27.10 @ 12:16PM

You realize, Rdman, that you are giving a perfect description of: Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and most other despots who have inflicted their personalities on the people of their nations. I am sick at heart to find that you are 100% correct in your portrait of president Jughead. Sadder than the fact that this moral coward is president is the fact that so many unseeing Americans support his vile persona and would vote for him again. I fear that this portends the end of our country.

rdman| 5.27.10 @ 4:01PM

The perfect description should also include the MSM...

BerlGoetz| 5.27.10 @ 12:22PM

Would somebody please post something here that is neither smug, sarcastic, nor stupid? (Aha, I can't either.)

GENE HAUBER| 5.27.10 @ 12:36PM

HEY AWAN,

I KNOW YOU.....WE ALL KNOW YOU.
YOU'RE ANTOINE BROOKS, BUT YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO SPELL IT, YOUR OWN NAME....STILL,

gene hauber| 5.27.10 @ 12:37PM

HEY ANTOINE..............YOU PLAY B BALL??

Oldefarte| 5.27.10 @ 3:36PM

This should bring brack fond memories for him of his early childhood, when his grandfather's homosexual friends would gather around him in Seattle. Ah yes, as another of TAS's writers might want to proclaim, HE IS A WHOREMONGER of sorts for spreading his political legs apart for his unfamiliar wealthy friends of SF. As the old saying goes, WE KNOW WHAT HE IS, WE'RE JUST NOT SURE OF WHAT PRICE HE CHARGES!!!!!

A.M Mallett| 5.27.10 @ 4:11PM

2012 is the year we throw Obie Mao under the bus.

sligunner| 5.27.10 @ 4:29PM

In English; I used to live in Illinois (2002-2005); Obama is a typical socialist of the sort that Margaret Thatcher once said: "Eventually they run out of spending other people's money." You guys better get control of the House and Senate in November or, just like the UK, you'll find that "we've run out of money."

lance sjogren| 5.27.10 @ 5:19PM

Awan Brooks:

Maherian Libertarian is an oxymoron.

valwayne| 5.27.10 @ 5:31PM

9.9% UNEMPLOYMENT, Trillions and trillions in corrupt spending and debt, a foreign policy of bows, apologies, and appeassement that is leading us to disaster, but Obama and the Arrogant Left Wing Elites with their trust funds and superior attitudes go right on driving our nation into a ditch. A vote for any Democrat in Nov is a vote for Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the conntinued reign of power for the Arrogant Left Wing Elites.

martin j smith| 5.27.10 @ 5:33PM

BHO showed us during the so called campaign of 2008 exactly who he was--thing is many ignored it totally. We got here a President of the United States who hates this country and a majority of its people.As they say: How cool is that ?
Well as for me the only benefit I get out of this is to tell anyone who complains: Where were you ?
One really other cool thing about BHO is that he is EXCELLENT at lying,defaming, and projecting.
He rates excellent at being a hypocrite . This is our president. You know for the first time in my adult life I am ashamed and embarrassed to have a this president. I recall when GWB was president the LEFTIES had some kind of button saying: are we in fascism yet ? Boy speaking of calling the kettle black. BHO surpasses the fascism standards. So, I would say there are certainly trolls out there who take right after their dear leader: they. lie,impune,project,defame,smear, and are very often uncivil in their discourse.
With regard to trolls the best and only response is to ridicule and dismiss their banter as nothing more than those who drink the cool aid and are now puppets and nothing more.

fred james| 5.27.10 @ 6:01PM

"The law of the Chicago ghetto jungles gives Obami the perverted rationale for using intimidation and force when it suits his ends."

Hey, that's quite racist. And thanks for calling in.

Truthyness| 5.27.10 @ 6:17PM

It's a metaphor, dumbtard. Try again.

rdman| 5.27.10 @ 7:21PM

Try again??? That's all the dumbtard has... the race card...

Truthyness| 5.27.10 @ 7:33PM

True enough, but it's amusing to see if the dumbtard can come up with any other BS.

RCV| 5.27.10 @ 6:15PM

Unfortunately, Andrew, many in your camp do think someone's a "traitor" for smiling at Obama. Have you seen the unbridled rage on the faces of those at recent rallies? And no, we don't want your hands on the steering wheel - that's why we elected President Obama. You're welcome to get in the car and make some suggestions, but you guys lost.

Nate| 5.27.10 @ 6:28PM

Tea Partiers' rage? It doesn't come close to the hatred and rage that contorted the faces of 500 SEIU thugs who terrorized a 14 year old boy hiding alone in his own home's bathroom.
PurpleShirts = BrownShirts.

Everyone lost when Maobama was elected.
See you on November 2.

RCV| 5.27.10 @ 6:35PM

Looking forward to it! The more people learn about the Rand Pauls on the right, the better we'll do.

Nate| 5.27.10 @ 6:53PM

Sure, if you incompetent losers can wipe the oil off your faces in time to vote. Almost 6! weeks after the oil rig blew, and finally Obama shows concern for the oil spill; he was too busy partying and holding fancy dinners for political friends.

Who is Obama going to bribe next? He'll "get back to us" about that later.
Thank God the liar, Blumenthal, has finally shut up. The sucker begged for FIVE deferments and then lied about fighting in the Vietnam war. Guilty much, Blumenthal?
Skeezy Democrats; liars, cheats and thieves.

The more people learn about the incompetence and corruption of you Leftists, the better WE WILL DO!

RCV| 5.27.10 @ 7:06PM

The uncontrolled oil spill is the forseeable result of the "drill-baby-drill" crowd. The government isn't in the oil business and doesn't have expertise to control spills. And until the industry does, we're not going to let them rape the environment again. As for Blumenthal, the poll just out shows Connecticut voters still prefer him by 20% over his GOP opponent. That says more about your party than about Blumenthal, whom I have little respect for. We are reaping in the Gulf the excesses of the Cheney-Bush-Saudi oil barons' control of our government for decades. If there is any silver lining to that oil slick, it's that the American people will now start to rein them in. It's not soon enough.

Nate| 5.27.10 @ 7:26PM

No, the 'uncontrollable' oil spill is the result of you "spill-baby-spill" losers on the Left. You've forced oil companies to drill in deep waters where it's riskier to drill.
Obama's corrupt (mis)administration allowed BP to drill without proper permits, did not send inspectors to the well platform for routine inspections and did NOTHING to protect the Gulf Coast from the oil washing ashore. Nothing, until nearly 6 weeks later after Democrats started screaming at him for his dereliction of duty.

The Gulf oil spill disaster will be placed firmly at the feet of the incompetent and uncaring Obama and his Leftist loser followers.

The Gulf Coast disaster is YOUR fault and the American people know it.

Liberal Reader| 5.27.10 @ 8:01PM

Nate has it exactly right. Obama's people let BP go ahead without following the normal safety process. One might speculate that it was a tit for tat for BP's nice campaign donation to Obama. Now a dummy like RCV shows up with the usual nonsense. RCV should vote for Nader next time. We are still in Iraq, still in Afghanistan, still operating Gitmo, we are conducting an overseas assassination operation in Pakistan after saying that it is not a war, we are listening in on terrorist phone calls, the health care plan was far short of what lefties want, Cap and Trade is not going anywhere, don't ask don't tell is still in place, nothing on getting more illegals to vote and now he has committed an environmental crime for a campaign donation. This is not what the over whelming victory was supposed to be about. This is what happens when you are part of a dishonest shake down operation that is the Democratic Party. Shame on you RCV.

Jeremiah| 5.27.10 @ 10:01PM

Dayum, Liberal Reader! Welcome to the Light, so glad to see you've rejected the demonic dark side.

Fabien| 5.28.10 @ 3:26PM

I know what you like to be like, Living in a hole in the ground rubbing sticks together, and eating bugs. Ohhhh no can't eat bugs... leaves? ohhhh no can't do that either. ummm with you we would be up shits creak.... now thats sounds like you

RCV| 5.27.10 @ 7:04PM

Nate| 5.27.10 @ 7:30PM

Only losers double-post. Who wants to read your Progressive Marxist Propaganda BS twice?

RCV| 5.28.10 @ 12:09AM

I thought you did, Nate. Come on, you know you love it!

Nate| 5.28.10 @ 2:20AM

Delusional dummocrat.

rdman| 5.27.10 @ 7:34PM

The irony Obami and his ilk face is that they unwittingly bring about what they most fear… REJECTION when their narcissism, exploitativeness, malice, deception, vindictiveness is realized by their followers and voters.

Obami and his ilk, who were so desirous of being affirmed are now exposed and despised as liars, subversive frauds and worse. So much of what their followers admired turned out to be false fronts, thin facades that are now collapsing, revealing Obami as a despotic thug.

More and more of his followers and voters are finally realizing that they were so seduced by the slick package that the package becomes the message. They did not realize that the package contained only covert ulterior motives and deceitful intentions.

Interloper| 5.27.10 @ 7:47PM

The "slick package" who is responsible for the Gulf Coast slick!

Host ile Knowledge| 5.27.10 @ 8:02PM

Listening to the distorted logic of “progressives” (socialists-Marxists) is like listening to the tortured howls of straitjacketed lunatics escaping the padded rooms of an insane asylum.

They don’t have cranial spaces. Instead, they have echo chambers which are filled with sound bites retrieved from such crepuscular institutes of lower learning as HuffPo, Daily Kos and DU. The existence of any cogent thinking, if there is any, is being held in solitary confinement.

Instead of rapidly calling in the brightest deepwater drilling engineers from around the world, the feds, led by Obama, sat on their hands and said, “It’s BP’s responsibility.”

Gov. Bobby Jindal asked the feds for emergency approval to lay berms around sensitive areas of the Louisiana coastline. The feds are still “studying” his request as we speak – 3 weeks after his emergency request was made.

This is just a taste of things to come. This is going to become far worse than “Bush’s Karina.”

The federal response to Katrina was governed by the Stafford Act. In short, the Stafford Act mandates all power to the hands of state officials to go to the feds to ask for and receive help. Conversely, the BP disaster is not covered by the Stafford Act. It’s on fed land and the responsibility of the feds – not BP.

When the timeline and the facts of the massive incompetence finally emerges for everyone to see, and they will, Obama and his Marxist morons will shown for the incompetent fools that they are.

Hostile Knowledge| 5.27.10 @ 8:42PM

And BTW, where is Rahm Emmanuel? You know, that’s the one that said, “You never let a serious crisis go to waste.” Actually, Rahm is lurking in Israel, insulting and undermining Israelis. You see, he and Obama are up to their eyeballs trying to figure how to answer the charges that the WH has committed felonies in attempting to bribe Joe Sestak.

But Obama, true to the chaos doctrine, has suspended drilling in the Gulf and many places elsewhere – while 12 other foreign nations are drilling like crazy in the Gulf. The drilling leases that Obama has canceled are going to costs tens of thousands of American jobs. And get your wallet ready for rapidly escalating energy prices.

And now Obama is now pounding his fist on the table over “Clean Energy.” Clean Energy? Yeah, that’s the plan that has been a spectacular economic Armageddon for every nation that tried it.

YES WE CAN!!!

The Pied Piper of Marxist Malevolence marches on...

politicalpost| 5.27.10 @ 9:38PM

Negligence from the culture of "drill, baby, drill" who hurriedly drilled this well in Mexico Gulf, when evidence shows that safety procedures were marginalized over profits that murdered the 9 rig workers and biggest spill in history. Your article does no justice for not blaming the original culprits. President Obama or government agencies are not in the Oil business or have the expertise to take care of such incidents. So, his inaction to seal the oil leak is justified. However, they are in the business of regulations for common good and that's where his action will now follow. But the party of "no" will object to his stringent precondition for drilling safely.

Liberal Reader| 5.27.10 @ 10:13PM

It would be nice to let the existing process work. Obama let BP around this for sake of a nice campaign contribution. Politicalpost is part of the problem not part of the solution.

Nate| 5.27.10 @ 10:15PM

Nice try, dumbtard, but your braindead ECO-NAZI LIBERAL party of "SPILL, BABY, SPILL" is TOTALLY responsible for the worst ecological disaster in American history.
Obama admitted as much at his presser in front of millions of Americans earlier today. Nice try, though, bonehead.

Too bad Corruptocrat Obama waited almost 6 WEEKS to apply those "...regulations for the common good." Democrats are incapable of governing.

See you November 2!

Hostile Knowledge| 5.27.10 @ 10:29PM

You are in way over your head. You should consider shutting up before you trip over your tongue and injure yourself.

MaObama| 5.27.10 @ 10:26PM

I still think it's very possible Eco-Nazis blew this well. Wouldn't surprise me one damn bit. Nothing is beneath these human pieces of excrement.

The ends justify the means.

RCV| 5.28.10 @ 12:06AM

Of course it wouldn't surprise you. You're perfectly blind to to the utter devastation caused by the oil oligarchs and would rather spin conspiracies than face the truth.

MaObama| 5.28.10 @ 2:29AM

"Never waste a good crisis." Rahmbo's ugly, gut-wrenching words are proof that you vile Marxists would do ANYTHING to get what you want.

The truth is that Obama was derelict in his duty and allowed one of his campaign donors to break the rules and despoil the Gulf Coast's beauty.

I have contempt for people like you, you're unAmerican.

RCV| 5.28.10 @ 12:33PM

You don't have the foggiest idea of what "Marxism" even means. I understand they don't get to that by 8th Grade, but really...

Nick| 5.28.10 @ 5:07PM

Why don't you explain marxism to us, RCV, if you are so smart?

RCV| 5.28.10 @ 7:38PM

Nick, you could start with a dictionary (it's that thick book with all the words in it). Marxism is the political theory that the means of production ought to be owned by the producer class rather than the capitalist class, and that the way to achieve that transfer is through revolutionary power rather than gradual evolution. Try reading to broaden your horizons.

Nick| 5.28.10 @ 8:27PM

I know what marxism is, RCV.

You forgot to use words like "prolitariat" and "bourgeoisie", and phrases like "class struggle."

All the forms of socialism-marxism-fascism-liberalism-progressivism look the same, to people like me, way over here on the right-wing of the political spectrum.

RCV| 5.29.10 @ 1:24AM

Apparently they do. Many of us understand those differences, as we do those between libertarians, social conservatives, statist Republicans, objectivists, old progresssive Republicans (Teddy Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Everett Dirksen, Nelson Rockefeller, et al. The world isn't black and white, except in the movies.

Jeremiah| 6.1.10 @ 1:00AM

The world isn't black and white? Then why do you Marxist aholes practice identity politics?

That's all you racists think about is skin color. Loser. The dead and dying inner cities are today's DEMOCRAT plantations.

Unsung| 5.27.10 @ 10:26PM

Re A.M. Mallett's hollow threat - "we gonna throw Obama under the bus in 2012. . ." We and what 400,ooo newly converted Conservative illegal immigrants and S.E I..U. voters?

And with what white-hatted Republican candidate? Every time I hear some political panty-waist claim he is a Reagan Republican , I think, "Yeah, without the spine."

Besides, isn't "throw under the bus" a term that implies you are sacrificing one of your own for personal gain? Wouldn't throwing him in front of the bus and then "gunning it" be more effective?

Federico| 5.28.10 @ 2:31AM

Unsung? More like Unhung, wussie.

Grow a pair please.

Hostile Knowledge| 5.27.10 @ 11:00PM

Obama’s political liabilities are accumulating.

He just sent 1200 UNARMED National Guardsmen to the border. Not long after arriving, one forward post of Guardsmen was overrun by a band of heavily armed Mexican drug runners and these Guardsmen had to flee for their lives. See http://www.spike.com/video/una.....l/2811323.

The Guardsman are not there to stop illegal immigration. They are there to stop guns from flowing into Mexico – an urban legend that has been thoroughly debunked. The fact is that only about 17% of the arms going into Mexico are from the U.S. The overwhelming majority of arms are flowing in from Central & South America.

It’s a documented fact that Islamic terrorists are flowing over the Mexican border into the U.S. This was documented by a TV station in Atlanta. See http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438021/index.html. How long will it take before these jihadists murder Americans?

Joe Sestak has confirmed and reaffirmed that the White House tried to bribe him. Now, the WH is stalling for time. Either Sestak is lying or the WH is guilty of committing felonies. Sestak has no motive to lie about something like this.

Soon, a timeline containing the hard facts will emerge of how grossly incompetent this administration was in the oil spill.

Obama is a malevolent narcissist. Fortunately, he’s rapidly digging himself into a hole he won’t be able to climb out of.

Marc Jeric| 5.27.10 @ 11:59PM

The article is good, but far from the real truth. Abu Hussein al-Nairobi, our Community Organizer-in-Chief, is much more dangerous than the article implies. His language, his 35 White House komissars, his laws, his plans, his system of local soviets (ACORN, SEIU, AFL-CIO, teachers unions, government employees unions) - remind me mightily of the communist hell from which I escaped lo many years ago. It is reall pathetic to see people in 2010 mouthing Karl Marx from 150 years ago - a deadly philosophy that murdered some 200 million innocents.

Truthyness| 5.28.10 @ 2:38AM

No one can understand it like you, Marc, you lived it. However, I think most of us here know we're in great danger.

God help us.

tacho universal | 5.28.10 @ 1:57AM

we would have secretly liked Alan and Purple. And I can prove it with quotes from Huffpo and other REPUTABLE sources!

Gloria Walker | 5.28.10 @ 2:02AM

YES WE (MUST) CAN!

Tenn Slim| 5.28.10 @ 9:30AM

All
bt
From the Green Trees, fields of harvest that feed the Left and Right Coast. We WILL Prevail come November 2010.
The Die is cast.
Semper Fi
End

Jeremiah| 6.1.10 @ 1:04AM

Lots and lots of farms in fertile California valleys, Tennessee. Lots of good American farming families live here. We feed America, too.

We stand shoulder to shoulder with our fellow American patriots from sea to shining sea.

WAKE UP| 5.29.10 @ 1:05AM

AWAN BROOKS (way back at the top of the comments): READ MY LIPS. If there's one thing that would deter me from becoming an American (should I ever be so fortunate), it's the knowledge that someday, somewhere, that appalling piece of sick ungrateful scum named Bill Maher might appear. It is astounding how, when most of the world is relying on America to get it right (if America goes, the world goes), dangerous, media-freak, clueless idiots like Maher STILL DON"T GET IT. Treason is too dignified a word. And if you can't see this, you're a bigger fool.

Emma| 5.29.10 @ 11:47PM

If I were to ever have second thoughts about my confidence that Americans will take back power in America; that common sense will regain its place in the public arena; that valid ideas will triumph over mindless liberalism; and, that our Constitution will regain its place of reference and respect among our elected leaders, that momentary wavering is always quickly dissolved by a quick read of the crackpot nonsense spewed by those who persist in worshipping the fraud who is the POTUS at the moment. Seeing that his primary support comes from such, added to his vividly displayed incompetence at everything he puts his hand to, I can only anticipate good things for America. Exposure to light is a great purifier of pus-filled infections, so I am grateful for the self-exposure of the obama worshippers. Thanks, guys. You encourage me every time I waste a moment reading what you say.

Richard Baker| 5.30.10 @ 9:17AM

The Kenyan is a bitter, clinger to failed liberal nostrums. Poor baby. He's upset because his subjects disagree.

One Citizen| 6.1.10 @ 6:16PM

The vision of you GOP folks chastising Obama for attending a fundraiser at which oil money (*gasp*) is present is just too much fun.

As someone said, you can't make this stuff up.

Drill baby drill!

fjk| 7.1.10 @ 3:57AM

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