The American Spectator : 'A New Way of Being on the Planet'

Kitty| 6.10.10 @ 6:27AM

Barry mentioned "standing in the rain" talking to "fishermen."

Which fishermen, Barry? I want names.

Brian Mc| 6.10.10 @ 6:41AM

That's not important. The really important thing is the fishermen were in his presence and so much the more better off for the experience. Gosh, I sure wish he'd come to my house; I could use a little hope and change right about now. My spiritual antennae just aren't picking up the progressive waves like they should. Then, again, I see that his old college room is up for grabs...might be some residual karma there. I'd better fill up and hit the road.

elephant4life| 6.11.10 @ 6:47PM

I submit that he doesn't even have sense enough to come in out of the rain, unless Rahm or the teleprompter instruct him to do so.

bmw ops | 6.13.10 @ 1:12AM

Is it always the bottom 10% who have all kinds of spare time for field trips when any fool could inform that teacher that immigration law is but a duplicate of the unenforced Federal Law.

Becky| 6.10.10 @ 6:51AM

Swimming (literally) in oil is a different way of experiencing life on this planet.

He's a few months away from experiencing a different way of being a president; a man without a country.

Patrick| 6.10.10 @ 9:23PM

Heaven forbid!

It is better to let this disease run its course, lest the host suffer a relapse in thirty two years.

bart| 6.12.10 @ 7:35PM

More like a country without a man.

Carol| 6.10.10 @ 7:09AM

Matt Lauer has admitted he is a dope by uttering "That seems strange to me."

Duh. Everything about Obama is strange. His actions, his talk, his bowing, his obvious ineptness written all over his face.

Sheila| 6.10.10 @ 2:28PM

Carol...did you notice Lauer said that "FEELS strange to me" ? Why is it everything with libs is feelings, never thoughts.

Patrick| 6.10.10 @ 9:25PM

Because liberalism is a religion, and feelings are their prayers. Not all religions are equal.

George| 6.11.10 @ 5:09PM

In the postmodern world, feelings are seen as the only dependable guide; things only exist if they stimulate an emotional response, and, the stronger the response, the more valid and important the thing. Nowadays, there's no such thing as a passionate lie or a disinterested truth.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 6.10.10 @ 7:12AM

The appropriate analogy here is that Obama has become like Br-er Rabbit, stuck to the tar baby by his lack of ideas and experience.

Grzmlyk| 6.10.10 @ 10:31AM

I agree, he is stuck. But a fairly obvious observation I haven't seen any pundit make yet is this:

Has anyone noticed that Obama's "solution" to every problem is retribution against evil-doers? Punishing the guilty? Wreaking vengeance on straw men he meticulously creates? Has he ever proposed anything that affirms human existence?

This monomania for vengeance betrays the mindset of the intellectually puerile activist/community organizer/run-of-the-mill leftist/environmentalist/feminist/union leader/Gay rights advocate, etc.

These people exist exclusively as reactionaries; they are constitutionally incapable of creating anything of value on their own. No, all they know how to do is break down the doors of the edifices of existing institutions and, in ritualistic acts of vengeance, exact revenge on the bastards who created the world as it is.

They build nothing, they create nothing, they improve nothing. They are all about punitive actions – obliteration, criminal charges, litigation, protests, etc. They are in fact nothing but nihilists.

That's why Obama and his merry band of vandals cannot put one foot in front of the other to create anything (at its bottom, the health care bill was not about building a better system but about cutting the insurance companies down to size).

These destructive, bitter, angry, envious, covetous, rapacious, avaricious felons have no interest in their vaunted ideal of "justice." They want first to destroy and second to collect THEIRS, and, like Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull, are only too happy to shatter a priceless championship belt in order to extract a few jewels of limited individual value for their immediate succor.

And this is always and everywhere the logical end of liberal policies: Destruction, corruption, nihilism, degradation, humiliation and abject servitude.

Mark Shepler- Jupiter FL| 6.10.10 @ 11:05AM

Well said, Grmzlyk. But I would add something. For all their blather about "progressivism" there is not a word or idea out this bunch that is newer than about 100 years old. It's all been said and tried before and found wanting and/or deadly. During the run up to the nationalization of health care they even boasted it was time to finally implement an idea overdue since Teddy Roosevelt's time. As though the last 100 years had never happened. And what this shows is they are ineducable and enthralled by faith or mendacious. Either they cannot even learn from experience or they know full well the outcome of their Big Ideas and that is exactly the point- to destroy and reign over the ruins in the hopes of ushering in the New Utopia. I would say the great mass of liberal minded people are the former and the zealots, like Obama, the latter.

Not to take anything away from your comments but they were condensed neatly seven decades ago. I've known some petty lefties but never I have I seen it on display on so prominent a "leader" as occupies the Presidency today. "Socialism is the grandiose rationalization of petty resentments." -Ludwig von Mises

GodsCountry| 6.11.10 @ 7:22PM

"There is nothing new under the sun..." and Conservatives have the patent on what works!

Dope and Chains| 6.12.10 @ 2:45PM

This is a marvelous enumeration of all the reasons why I refuse to call them anything other than Regressives. There is absolutely nothing liberal or progressive about them. Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot were all "progressives," too: Each was a trailblazer toward new depths of misery, atrocity and mass murder.

buckeyeman| 6.10.10 @ 11:19AM

"WRECKING havoc" is the phrase this illiterate, affirmative-action Harvard graduate typically uses. This clown is becoming SO predictable. Just figure out what the worst, most un-american thing to do in any situation would be and that's what he'll do.

PolishKnight| 6.10.10 @ 11:47AM

In exploring the leftist mind, I have tried to peel away the layers of their belief system simply to either come to an understanding and agreement (given that up) OR to attack them at their core.

Their stated goals are simply rationalizations and conequently, being a mere rationalization, the success or failure of which has nothing to do with their beliefs.

I then chose to debate or attack their stated rationalization: Supposedly "caring" about others. When I observed that the leftist didn't care about me and would easily toss me under the bus, he replied:

"You're letting your simple mindedness get to you. You're brainwashed."

And it was revealed. At least this layer of the onion. The average self-elitist leftist is in love with their own notion of superiority. It's not about them being better because they're more "caring", it's about them being BETTER. This is why it's then easy for them to toss out the non-believers and non-useful into a pit because such people have it coming. It's a religion where they go to heaven and others go to hell.

We are living in the midst of a culture war where the battle isn't really about ideology, that's a smokescreen, but survival based upon which group they fall into.

I think I can now "get" to them by observing that as far as their ideology is concerned, they're just as "stupid" and "bad" as I am. That Josef Stalin always kills the useful dupes first because they're the biggest threat. Or on a more practical level, that outside of their little cliques they're just a bunch of losers like us. That the European socialist elites they yearn to be more like regard them as just dumb, fat Americans. That if they were to go to Germany and ask to get in and collect welfare benefits, they'd say "Sorry, you're just not GOOD ENOUGH for us!"

Anthony| 6.10.10 @ 8:06PM

PolishKnight, This is as good an analysis as one could get. It is about their "superiority" and its relationship to their self worth. And yes, we are at war, cultural or not.

Martin Owens| 6.10.10 @ 12:24PM

V.S. Nailpul put it best in THE RETURN OF EVA PERON: " a child's vision of power and revenge".

Campy| 6.10.10 @ 1:31PM

Grz,
Have you also noticed how he's also stuck on the money?

'Every last dime'... who's going to pay... lifting the cap on liability... demands that BP cover salaries of laid-off workers because of the federal moratorium. A first-focus that, albeit will eventually need to be addressed, but bespeaks a simplistic, immature view that money will make it all better.

Grzmlyk| 6.10.10 @ 3:32PM

Yes, that's the classic liberal bromide. More money! More money! More money - for us!

For three generations we've heard that more money will solve the abysmal education situation in this country.

Remember when state lotteries were instituted across the country? THOSE were supposed to solve all of our educational funding needs in perpetuity. How long did that last before they were coming back to the taxpayer, hat in hand for more? You know, for the CHILDREN, nudge nudge, wink, wink.

Now we spend, what, $14k per student on average per year in this country? It's the highest per-student expenditure in the world.

And instead of learning how to be useful, productive Americans, our kids are illiterate pod people indoctrinated with Marxist propaganda and hypnotized into a false consciousness in which feeling good about themselves is the only moral imperative in the universe. We have made narcissism the apotheosis of human existence. And as long as you spend your adult life preening that person A really ought to give person B his hard-earned money, YOU shall be GOOD in the eyes of the zeitgeist's morality.

Meanwhile, incompetent teachers have their skids greased for life, union officials luxuriate in their mansions appointed with solid gold fixtures even as they rail against the greed of hapless taxpayers, and corrupt politicians fill their campaign coffers with this filthy lucre and fly their taxpayer-supplied jets to union-sponsored fundraisers to rake in more and more and more.

Yes, a good phlegmatic, liberal, juvenile Marxist, Obama and his classless piece of shit of a wife are all about money - public redistribution for the citizens and a craven, avaricious, conspicuous consumption of it for themselves, maintaining a crass and self-flattering nuveau riche lifestyle at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue that makes the court of Louis XVI look positively miserly by comparison.

As more than one pundit has alluded to the apocryphal Marie Antoinette quote, I think Obama's presidential shield should read, "Let them eat shit."

Because that's what he really thinks.

Mark| 6.10.10 @ 4:51PM

Michelle also does an excellent Imelda Marcos impersonation.

SuzyQ| 6.11.10 @ 2:23PM

Wow! You really said it well. Thank you!

Grzmlyk| 6.10.10 @ 3:51PM

BTW, Hi, Campy. :-)

JP| 6.10.10 @ 2:18PM

"Has anyone noticed that Obama's "solution" to every problem is retribution against evil-doers? Punishing the guilty? Wreaking vengeance on straw men he meticulously creates? Has he ever proposed anything that affirms human existence?"

It appears Original Sin exists, afterall. And the last time some deep thinker pondered Being things didn't turn out that well (see Martin Heidegeer circa 1924-1938, esp his famous Rektorsrade).

Rich| 6.10.10 @ 7:23PM

Very well stated my friend

JOHNG1| 6.11.10 @ 10:09AM

Yo, GRZMLYK:

That's an excellent working hypotheis about BHO and the people that he has surrounded himself with, both now and in the past.

That said, if that hypothesis proves out (and I think it might in the next several months) there appears to be no stopping them.

Desperation on their part appears to be setting in, and it's only being held in check by their ego's - "can't be happening to me/ us and it will come out our way in the end". When it occurs to them that what their ego's are hiding from them right now is actually happening we are all in trouble.

Desperate people, especially desperate people with power, will miscalulate and do terrible things.

Typical Whitey| 6.11.10 @ 2:05PM

great comments!!! Thanks.

old white guy| 6.11.10 @ 4:32PM

too bad the people of the u.s. couldn't get their heads out and fix this very serious problem.

RCV| 6.10.10 @ 1:58PM

Why am I not surprised that you used that analogy?

Alert1201| 6.10.10 @ 7:33AM

One of the things that always disgusted me about Obama, far more then his policies - although they are disgusting, was how he sucked up all this "lightworker" nonsense. It shows how utterly arrogant he really was. Considering myself to be of a somewhat normal mindset if someone called me a "lightworker", "spiritually advanced", or said I was ushering "a new way of being on the planet." I would be thoroughly appalled and tell the person making the claim they need to have their head examined. Yet Obama appeared to love this stuff and actually believed it was true. I'm convinced this type of thinking demonstrates how deceptive and destructive Obama is. He is deluded not only about the reality of the world, but he is deceived about his own importance and greatness. In my limited study of history the only other people I have seen this type of thinking in are totalitarians.

Honestly, I do not think I would vote for a conservative who had as high an opinion of his own importance as Obama does of himself.

Bydand76| 6.10.10 @ 8:15AM

Seriously!

All of you people need to quit complaining and wake up because EVERYTHING is George W. Bush's fault!
I do mean everything as well
BP Oil Spill, Afghanistan, Iraq, National debt, belly button lint, hemmerhoids, Purpleguys bad case of shingles...........

Seriously folks, wake up and smell the low fat double mocha latte!

Michelle Obama gets preggers? Bush's fault!

Chris Matthews stubs his little toe on Keith Olbermans zipper? Bush's fault!

Matt Lauer has a bad hair day and forgets his comb on Jeneane Garrafolos dresser ? Bush's fault!

Al Franken speaking like a half-wit mongoloid? ...........(I am not to sure how that is Bush's Fault but I am positive Rachel Mad-cow would spin it that way).....which would also be Bush's fault as well!

Alvin Greene getting elected to face Jim DeMint in South Carolina? Oh yeah! That's for sure George Bush's fault!

Silly Conservatives!

Pro Libertate!

Kitty| 6.10.10 @ 9:42AM

"Michelle Obama gets preggers? Bush's fault!"

Does that mean you are you confirming all those rumors we hear about Barry? (NTTAWWT)

Doug| 6.10.10 @ 11:56AM

That's still just a RUMOR? I thought once there was a "consensus" on something it then became a "known fact."

NTTAWWT....

Bydand76| 6.10.10 @ 2:46PM

Kitty,

You would have to ask RCV for confirmation on "that".

He would know.

NTTAWWT................

Pro Libertate!

Matt Lauer Is Gay| 6.10.10 @ 9:31AM

Did Matty Lauer get a thrill up his leg when Obama said a$$? "Ooh, me first, Mister Pwesident! May I have another?"

Sowell Disciple| 6.10.10 @ 11:08AM

Why don't you find a different blog, where crudity and bigotry pass for wit? A lot of thoughtful people comment here, only to have it all tainted by an idiot like the "Matt Lauer" commenter.

Doug| 6.10.10 @ 11:59AM

I have to agree. Calling Matt Lauer "gay" is an insult to all gay people (except Rosie O'Donnell, who technically does not qualify as "people").

RCV| 6.14.10 @ 10:27PM

Thanks for the comment. Thomas Sowell would be proud of you. Although I am a liberal Democrat who rarely agrees with Sowell's politics, I admire him for his civility, his intelligent and thoughtful approach to issues, and his decency. It would be really nice if people who want to call names as if they were still in junior high school would stay off the grown-up sites.

Pete| 6.10.10 @ 9:44AM

Oilbama lied, the Gulf died.

Angry American| 6.11.10 @ 11:55AM

Oilbama: an excellent moniker for the c0c|

Angry American| 6.11.10 @ 11:56AM

My earlier post got cut short.

Oilbama: excellent moniker.
I also think these are appropriate:
O'Icarus
O'Clueless
O'Vomit

elephant4life| 6.11.10 @ 6:53PM

Should be, "Oilbama SIGHED, the Gulf died." Sorta reflects his "leadership" style for all those weeks waiting for the oil to hit the coast.

chester arthur| 6.10.10 @ 9:48AM

To the Obamarama and his geek(not greek) chorus of supporters:As Batman said about Jill St. John after she fell into his nuclear reactor in the Batcave:'Poor deluded child'.

Petronius| 6.10.10 @ 11:31AM

c a
I recall Adam West's rejoinder upon that occasion to have been, "what a way to go-go."
Take heart and pour the mediasaurs more grape koolaid.

Cindy G.| 6.10.10 @ 9:56AM

Obama is our number one crisis.

loulou| 6.10.10 @ 10:51AM

Amen, Cindy G.

Anthony| 6.10.10 @ 9:58AM

To paraphrase Forest Gump; Clueless is as clueless does. If the elite Left weren't so damn dangerous, they'd be funny as all Hell.
Unfortunately, for real Americans, their joke has gone too far. Come November, we begin to wipe the smiles off of some faces.

ojo grande| 6.10.10 @ 10:01AM

Matt Lauer gives ME a royal pain in the a**, as does Obama...everytime I see his mug on TV.

I use to use all kinds of descriptions for Obama...Messiah, The One...but Obama only needs to be called Obama now....his name is now the personification of arrogance and failure.

Rocin| 6.10.10 @ 11:10AM

Lord Byron said it all, many years ago in the opening of his epic poem, Don Juan:
"I want a hero: an uncommon want,
When every year and month sends forth a new one,
Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant,
The age discovers he is not the true one;"

Tim| 6.10.10 @ 11:43AM

Let us hope that there is no mass casualty terror attack , especially if the response here is any indication.

Doug| 6.10.10 @ 12:01PM

"I'm not a leader, but I play one on TV." That's Obama in a nutshell.

DonDuke | 6.10.10 @ 12:34PM

OMG Doug.... so damn funny.... you hit it right on the head!

Ron| 6.11.10 @ 9:26AM

Bingo

George S| 6.10.10 @ 12:47PM

I guess Lightworkers can't walk on water with oil on it.

JJ| 6.10.10 @ 1:15PM

If Matt Lauer was a real reporter and not a cheerleader he would have asked Obama "wow, ok, whose ass would you like to kick?" -- but no.

Someone tell Obama IT'S THE CLEAN UP STUPID!

Where is the federal effort to get the oil before it gets to the beaches. Soak it up, sponge it up, suck it up, wipe it up -- hire an army of people and get the hell out there and get the damn oil!

Where is that green technology? for cleaning up oil spills?

He sat on his aloof butt and the thought never occured to him that he could lead the clean up while we all hope and pray that BP caps the well.

Where is the sense of urgency that he had when we had to pass 'stimulus' before the weekend was over or we were in for the worst economic collapse in the history of mankind.

Well, here we are with the worst environmental disaster in US history. And he's bragging about talking to experts. Ship the experts down to the gulf and tell them to bring a shovel.

Campy| 6.10.10 @ 1:28PM

JJ,
Then you're really gonna 'love' this:
http://www.chron.com/disp/stor.....43272.html

Jack Burton| 6.11.10 @ 11:47AM

This is borderline criminal at this point.

CtBob| 6.11.10 @ 3:27PM

For all the Obama posturing, I get the straaaange feeling there's nothing there. Mussolini did the same...

megapotamus | 6.10.10 @ 1:53PM

By all means, let Barry have his life back. Maybe we can get ours back then. It is humorous to say the least to hear Lauer use the term, "With all due respect" which of course means that the object has lost the speakers respect, at least in some regard, and therefore none is due.

PaulD| 6.10.10 @ 2:03PM

Obama doesn't know how to do anything because he's never done anything. He's really pitiful. All he can do is run his motor mouth, and I for one am fed up with this windbag!

OBSP| 6.10.10 @ 3:45PM

I am from Chicago and he was my State Senator for years and I tried to tell anyone who would listen that he did not know what he was doing. He was a average state senator and terrible us senator and of course an even worse President.

moron| 6.10.10 @ 2:20PM

"Standing in the rain talking to fisherman." John Kerry didn't have it that bad "earning" his Purple Hearts!!

Margie| 6.10.10 @ 3:01PM

Gryzmlk for President!

Ron| 6.11.10 @ 9:32AM

He's got my vote. You can tell by reading his posts he's many IQ points above the anointed one.

John Mc| 6.10.10 @ 3:03PM

When I read all that "new age" crap, why do I think of the Heaven's Gate cult? I only wish that the perpetrators of that bile would follow their lead!

John II| 6.10.10 @ 3:09PM

Not being much into "spirituality" as apparently conceived by our celebrity culture, I hadn't heard the expression "lightworker" before. But I do think it fits the Professor rather well.

In fact, this past academic quarter, I had several light workers among my students, and am I ever glad the quarter's over, despite a fair showing of heavy workers. Anyhow, the light workers am0ng my students are the ones who exhibit the "what-do-I-need-to-do-to-get-a-C" work ethic. They include the student government types and social science activists as well as the party animals, and despite all their very light work, they seem to have become stunningly good at gaming the system--or at least any system that doesn't require much knowledge or discipline to manipulate.

What can better describe our President and his relation to the intricacies of the Americano political system, notwithstanding his ignorance of and contempt for the origins and underpinnings of that system.

Professor Obama may go down in the history of the Presidency as the lightest worker of them all. One cannot help being awed by such spirituality, reducing one as it does to feeling light as a feather.

aelfgyva| 6.10.10 @ 3:15PM

Walking with a friend at the mall last night, we passed a young man (mid-20's) preening in a shop window, for all to see. My friend said, "Look, he's doing an Obama." Self-love and arrogance.

sub| 6.10.10 @ 3:25PM

obama is a sad joke, and the idiots on the left, like oprah's guy and the SF chronicle loon should be exposed for what they are: silly children with over-developed vocabularies. this president is a charlatan, a delusional narcissist who has spent his entire life in the pursuit of self-aggrenadizement. he hasn't LEAD anyone or substantively done anything. he's great at his own hot-air balloon, but now that that job is completed, witness the empty suit standing in the rain....

Gretchen| 6.10.10 @ 3:29PM

"[D]isfunctional karmic antennae," "Lightworker," "a new way of being...?"
Cue "Twilight Zone!" ( DOO dee dee doo, DOO dee dee doo.)

Bob Grant| 6.10.10 @ 3:43PM

Hillary Clinton's campaign criticisms of Obama as a wimp and cocky dullard hold up fairly well. It turns out that he is not very good at taking tricky calls at 3 AM or 3 PM.

Pure Gold!!

htr| 6.10.10 @ 3:49PM

George Neumayr writes:

"The most obnoxiously self-conscious environmentalist president ever stands dumb before America's worst environmental disaster."

Question: exactly, specifically what should the president be doing?

Grzmlyk| 6.10.10 @ 4:41PM

1) Receive a briefing directly from BP CEO tony Hayward every day and give his lickspittle Gibbs a daily update from that for the press
2) assemble ad-hoc crisis team of industry experts from academe, business and government to take 2 weeks to study alternatives, disseminating the results of this information at the end of that time, and to provide Obama daily with face-to-face updates on their progress;
3) Make himself available for weekly Q&A specifically regarding the spill to white house reporters;
4) Visibly make this his top priority by devoting some time to it every day and laying off the white house celebrations;
5) Cutting through red tape himself to provide Jindahl and other people on the ground with the support and equipment they are asking for.
6) Make federal funds immediately available to affected areas;
7) Assemble a team of environmental experts to coordinate the clean-up, both in terms of saving wildlife and sopping up the oil.
8) Stop talking about rounding up the guilty and start focusing on rounding up the oil.

Got it?

Ron| 6.11.10 @ 9:39AM

Grzmlyk - I like your style, no BS, straight to the point. Fact is this guy could'nt lead a group of kindergarteners to the first grade

Angry American| 6.11.10 @ 11:59AM

He would have to have a moving teleprompter to help lead the kindergarteners.

JT| 6.11.10 @ 10:31AM

I would respectfully add:

9) Issue an executive order exempting vessels engaged in clean up activities from the Jones Act (which is being used as an excuse to keep only US flagged ships engaged in this effort - surely crewed by UNION workers).

CindyE| 6.11.10 @ 3:38PM

10) Stop playing golf long enough to do something other then have another party.

Greg| 6.10.10 @ 4:48PM

George, if you don't know, then you are probably one of those who voted for Obama based on his nice sounding rhetoric without stopping to think about what actual track record and resumé of proven abilities a President should have. As Commander in Chief, his primary responsibility is to respond swiftly and effectively to any and all threats to our country. Here's just one example: per the link Campy provided, help was offered immediately by the Dutch. But Obama is not a doer, he's a talker -- it's too risky to be the guy who actually takes action. Leaders and doers mobilize effective responses to situations. Academic-minded do-nothings just try to figure out "whose ass to kick" several weeks too late, while also trying to cover their own. Never works though.

Brent| 6.10.10 @ 5:42PM

How about starting by talking the the BP president
and others for a joint effort, allowing Jindal to build the sandbar berms when he asked, 40 days ago and not now to allow 2% of what is required,
while this would intrude on his speaking and PR schedule, the Presidency is or was a real job.
talking to fishermen has precedent as Jesus
did walk on water therafter, and Farrahkhan has indicated the messiahship......question....at what point does oil coaculate sufficiently to be walked on... thus validating at least some actual participation beyond rhetoric and blame......
maybe a third teleprompter for the narcissist in chief?

Jack Burton| 6.11.10 @ 11:51AM

It's really quite simple. We do not have the technology to deal with the leak at it's source. BP is going to have to solve that one. But what we can do is clean and contain the oil that is leaking. And we did absolutely nothing for weeks.

It's amazing that the only "crisis" he's reacted quickly to as president is when his good buddy Gates got arrested for being an ass.

Annoyed| 6.11.10 @ 12:04PM

Pick any choice of action:

1) O'Icarus should step down from his ivory tower and Roman columns, admit he's devoid of substance, and defer to a more qualified leader: Biden.

2) O'Icarus should just step aside, admit he's devoid of substance, and defer to a real leader: Mr. Thad Allen.

3) The "president" should busy himself with more important tasks like polishing his many shrines, and planning more entertainment events with myopic, conceited, elitist musicians and actors.

4) This pile of shlt should join the Hemlock society.

Lou Hall| 6.14.10 @ 11:34AM

How about physically heading up a group and cleaning it himself.

Todd | 6.10.10 @ 3:57PM

I wouldn't want Hillary answering that phone either. Keeping your mouth shut while your lying husband is impeached doesn't qualify you for higher office no matter what the Democrats think.

Flatdog | 6.10.10 @ 5:31PM

Jaysus! That Jug-Eared piece of sh1te that is your President just now makes Jimmy "The Peanut" Carter look good! FFS! What is wrong with the US and Britain that in the most dangerous age the world has ever experienced, they've elected the most mentally deficient retards to take charge? The latest UK election hasn't really answered the problem - instead of Red retards, we've got pale blue and yellow ones instead!

grumpy| 6.10.10 @ 5:59PM

Obama and Governor Jindal will meet again in four years, and THEN we'll see whose ass gets kicked!

grumpy| 6.10.10 @ 6:02PM

Pardon, I should have said "two years". God, how the time flies when your having such a good time.

grumpy| 6.10.10 @ 6:02PM

Pardon, I should have said "two years". God, how the time flies when your having such a good time.

WAKE UP| 6.10.10 @ 6:37PM

From out here, Obama looks like a Man Without A Country.

Cosmic Armadillo | 6.10.10 @ 6:55PM

I agree with Kitty, can' find one picture of Prez Urkel talking to any fishermen, in the rain, on the Gulf Coast.

Where are the pictures?

Or is this just another lie from someone whose whole life appears to be a lie?

kissufim| 6.10.10 @ 7:45PM

John II told what I live everyday listening to social-scientist grads in my classes. Gaming the system is the first order of business. Its no wonder that Alvin Green (a man who nobody in the party knew or endorsed and faces a felony charge among his other credentials) was elected as the senatorial Dem. nominated candidate for the state of South Carolina. Wow, how did he do it?

davelnaf| 6.10.10 @ 7:45PM

Back in the sixties the MSM used to offer up certain prescient observations on the state of the world and whenever the subject of the Soviet Union came up a network taking head might offer the observation that “the Russian people deserved a government as good as they are.” This little flashoid from the past came to mind as I contemplated Obama’s near incompetence in doing anything right about the Gulf oil spill, and just about anything else he has touched. Yet, in all fairness, the Bamster did run a campaign that was good enough to bamboozle enough Americans into voting for him—no small accomplishment. Seriously, though, we American deserve far better than this imposter in the WH and if there is a silver lining to the cloud that is the Gulf oil spill it is that Obama will now definitely not be running the country beyond Inauguration Day 2012. That is, at least, some comfort.

John II| 6.10.10 @ 9:28PM

What's got me worried is that the Bamster's successful campaign wasn't all that imposing an accomplishment.

The culture was already being kneaded into this kind of imbecility for almost two generations before the Bamster was even born. Dewey's colossally baleful influence on the public education system, for example, really got cracking by the 1920's. The Catholic education system started following suit at just about the time the Bamster was a toddler.

He wouldn't acknowledge it, of course, because like most people of his generation, he has only a deracinated attitude, without any sense of history. But the fact is, his political achievement can be plausibly written off as nothing more than instinct responding to fortuitous opportunity.

Professor Obama is preeminently a child of his times. That's his only strength--and it's his fatal weakness.

rayburke| 6.10.10 @ 8:44PM

Our mulatto pied piper is perched precariously on the edge of a seaside cliff. How many of our mindless lemmings are willing to follow him to eternity?

John II| 6.10.10 @ 9:32PM

Pied piper perched precariously? That's pretty good. How about this one: Titania the titmouse toppled ten towers tentatively?

And regarding the mindless lemmings, please refer back to my previous post, a few rolls above.

JT| 6.10.10 @ 9:46PM

Look guys, Obama started out looking like the GREAT WHITE HOPE or, possibly the GREAT BLACK HOPE. However, he certainly isn't a HEAVYWEIGHT and, you can't even call him a LIGHTWEIGHT without being overly generous.
He IS a BUFFOON.
He said he was looking for someone's A$$ to kick well, he also has said that the BUCK STOPS WITH HIM so, I guess we just might be able to get some entertainment value out of him IF HE WERE TO ACTUALLY KICK HIS OWN A$$ but, I don't believe we should have paid several TRILLION DOLLARS to get to watch him do this ... do you ??
Further, his posturing definitely reminds me of another SOCIALIST, LIBERAL, PROGRESSIVE from days gone by and, I am NOT talking about HITLER. Hitler had the ability to threaten simply by speaking and, everyone knew he meant it. Obama simply can't do this. This IS why NO ONE around the world takes him seriously. So, you're asking yourself then, just who are you talking about ??
Well, why none other than " IL DUCE " himself, Benito Mussoliini who behaved like a thug, talked big, just like some maffia Don but, when it came time to REALLY do something, he simply didn't have what it takes to play with the BIG BOYS and OBAMA, just like MUSSOLINI, DOESN'T HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO PLAY WITH THE BIG BOYS.
Sheesh, I could do a much better job as President than OBAMA. And, I can PROOVE I WAS BORN HERE IN THE U.S. and, I WON'T BE BEHOLDEN TO ARAB MONEY MEN FOR MY CONTRIBUTIONS ! ---------- JT ----------

MattZ| 6.10.10 @ 11:35PM

"more hackish, dishonest, and feeble by the day"

That's hilarous! I was about to apply this label to the American Spectator!
MZ

Yosemeti Sam| 6.11.10 @ 2:05AM

" ... Hayward had said that he "wants his life back" ...."

Yo, Hayward, ya think BHO and his carnival administration have singled YOU out personally?

Hasn't BP gotten its' moneys worth from
campaign contributions to BHO yet? Doesn't the boot fit?

Yo, not so fast Mr. Hayward - when millions of Americans who've lost jobs during BHOs' watch have their lives back, then moan and groan about paying through the nose!

Richard V | 6.11.10 @ 3:51AM

To sum up Oilbama performance as TOTUS: "The Unbearing Lightness of Being Obama", coming to a theater in your neighborhood!

Tenn Slim| 6.11.10 @ 5:31AM

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My take on this article is simple. A good, fluff read. Substance = < 1 on a scale of 1-10.
Folks. While it may be fun to castigate the OBNA ineptness, our wallets are being emptied, our souls scorching, our enviornment destroyed and the Czar Agencies march on. Obama is NOT the problem. He is the Manchurian President. We all know this. The Czars, the appointees, the Networking Socialistic Agencies are the problem. We have a Socialistic Cancer in DC. Focus, Focus, Focus. Get rid of the problem, not the fluff.
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Semper Fi
We WILL Prevail.
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black saint | 6.11.10 @ 9:27AM

Barrack—I am the One we have been waiting for!

As everyone but politicians, Liberals & the Media knows, Action talks, Bull Sh-t walks!

Barrack sit at the feet of his friend and Mentor for 20 years, supported him with his money, his family, subjected his children to his hate filled rants and listened to hate venom spewed out against whites, Jews, American, & everyone with the exception of Blacks and Muslims!

Barrack & his wife are Socialist, American hating, Black Power Racist proven by 20 years of attending & supporting the Church of Hate and backed up by Barracks words in Dreams of my Father!

All the pundits, talking heads, Liberal drivel and warm tingling feeling below their waist, cannot change the facts.

Now, he says it was repugnant to him and he does not endorse it or agree! Anyone that drinks that Barrack Cool-Aid should seriously consider an head transplant! It is 20 years too late for anyone with an brain to accept. Either Barrack is lying or he has an serious mental problem! No one in their right mind would sit in the Church of Hate for 20 years and support it every way possible, unless they agreed with the message or they were crazy!

What if an White Republican politician had sit at the feet of his Friend and Mentor in an Baptist Church for 20 years and listened to him preach, rant and spew out racist hate bile against everyone and everything except Whites and Baptists.

Oh, The Outrage, the Moral Condemnation, The Media, Blacks leaders, all the Black Rev's would be popping out of every cracker jack box to get in on the action & check out the possibilities for Liberal white guilt and Blackmail. While all Blacks, Liberals and Democrats would be squealing like pigs caught under the gate!

Republican politicians Major and Minor would be shoving and pushing to get in front of the TV cameras and join in the condemnation, often & loudly, to show the world how politically correct they are.

Every one of the known and unknown in the universe would be calling for his head, no punishment would be enough, resigning from office would not be enough, the poor follow would have to change his name, travel incognito, flee the country! The IRS and FBI would be investigating the church, the church closed and all its members disbanded and scattered to the four winds!

What does Barrack, the Magnificent (May Peace be upon Him) have to do? Why just make an nice little speech blaming it all on his little old white typical grandmother, just throw her under the bus of his racist prejudice and if that is not enough, just whites in general!

But Wait, that speech was for the Rev. Wright and his hate rants, Not why Barrack the Chosen one, the scion of the Muslim goat herder, the deserted son of the typical black father, I am the One We have been waiting on, Barrack the Great, sit in the church for 20 years and listened to his Friend and Mentor spew out venom. That He, the Supreme One, found repugnant and disgusting but with just one little speech and never answer why the Magnificent One and his Affirmative action Wife (may Peace be upon them) have so much hate and sit in church applauding the Rev. Weight for 20 years and all is right in the Barrack cult land.

If nothing else this campaign has Exposed the racism of Blacks and the total Blinding, Unbelievable Hypocrisy, the like of any Balance or Morals that the Liberals, Democrats, and Media have! They have been exposed as Lying, Deceitful, Bigoted Hypocrites, Unable or Unwilling to face or to tell the truth!