The American Spectator : Barack Obama's Square Box

Brian Mc| 6.18.10 @ 6:28AM

Excellent, dead-on piece, but I would argue the reference to "FDR-progressive mold".

It's much more dangerous than that.

ENOUGH ROPE| 6.18.10 @ 12:36PM

OBAMA, THE SMILING COBRA

vtwin| 6.19.10 @ 1:17PM

On Jan. 7, 2009, two weeks before Obama took office, the Congressional Budget Office reported that the deficit for fiscal year 2009 was projected to be $1.2 trillion.

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99x.....earing.pdf

vtwin| 6.19.10 @ 1:40PM

Who do the conservatives think they're fooling?

In January 1981, when President Ronald Reagan took office the nation's debt was only $934.1 billion.

In January 1989, when President Ronald Reagan left office the nation's debt was over $2.7 trillion.

Ronald Reagan tripled the national debt!

vtwin| 6.19.10 @ 1:56PM

Who do the conservatives think they're fooling?

In January 2001, when President George W Bush took office the nation's debt was only $5 trillion.

In January 2009, when President George W Bush left office the nation's debt was over $11 trillion.

George W Bush more than doubled the national debt!

dd| 6.19.10 @ 3:16PM

vtwin,

So, you agree that more debt is bad, correct?

How does Bush & Reagan's increase in debt absolve Obama's?

It doesn't, or are you suggesting that it is ok for one person to commit muder since someone else has?

In ALL cases it is congress that spends the money. As a percentage of GDP how have all presidents done since Eisenhower?

vtwin| 6.19.10 @ 3:46PM

I was commenting on the hypocrisy of the conservative author comments concerning deficit spending not on the appropriateness of deficit spending.

Blackwatch| 6.19.10 @ 6:18PM

Nice try to re-direct the comments to a different topic Libtard troll!! The essay was all about Barry's lack of experience.

stay on topic: Barry Hussein Obama Sotero et al.---EPIC FAILURE AS A MAN!!!

Max Shapiro| 6.22.10 @ 3:16AM

Blackwatch... interesting choice for a name from someone who is obviously not a fan of President Obama. Libtard troll. Why did you choose not to capitalize Mr. Troll's last name? Perhaps you would like to share the name you have chosen for us Jews? Do you believe in the UN or in your modest opinion is it antiquated and it's time to dissolve them? Finally, you seem well informed, quite studious and given your mastery control of the English language I hesitate any debate so I will just listen. Tell us about Halliburton's precise timing of their spin-off company KBR. I would be so gracious if you would just offer a few highlights. I would also like to hear how KBR was chosen to perform most of the contract work in Iraq regarding the country's oil. Then how they handledall the negative publicity to defending their presence, motives and work ethics while undergoing USA government investigations. All this and the managed to garner up quite a bit of negative press for Halliburton, Yes, I am most curious about updates regarding the above mentioned. Thank you in advance Mr. Blackwitch

Tim Cox| 6.21.10 @ 8:42AM

Neither Presidents you mentioned were successful in controlling the reckless spending of Congress. What they did was decrease taxation, increase revenues, and move the economy in a positive direction. Congress was, and still is, the problem.

vtwin| 6.21.10 @ 2:59PM

So, you are arguing Ronald Reagan and George Bush were a couple of empty suits?

Max Shapiro| 6.22.10 @ 3:35AM

There is no argument there, between B&R. See, inorder to have an argument each side must be armed with words of wit, intellect and preparedness. George and Ronald both waved a white flag at one another even before battle was to begin. Then if this were not symbolically embarrassing enough they were then informed that they were on the same team. George questioned this and asked why they were fighting then. It was explained that it was an exorcise in part of preparing for debates. Both laughed but still did not quite understand what they were suppose to be doing. Ronald was always such a mediocre actor at best he couldn't move his lips unless someone wrote it for him. This is no surprise. There is no argument regarding their suits.

Blackwatch| 6.19.10 @ 6:19PM

Nice try to re-direct the comments to a different topic Libtard troll!! The essay was all about Barry's lack of experience.

stay on topic: Barry Hussein Obama Sotero et al.---EPIC FAILURE AS A MAN!!!

Dennis| 8.23.10 @ 9:36PM

Blackwatch...."EPIC FAILURE AS A MAN"
I SUSPECT YOUR FAILURE AS A MAN IS FAR MORE SIGNIFICANT. AS A MATTER OF FACT, I AM WILLING TO WAGER ANY AMOUNT YOU DEEM APPROPRIATE THAT YOU ARE FAR MORE A FAILURE THAN HE BY ANY OBJECTIOVE MEASURE. YOU ARE A COWARD TO BOOT! YOU CANT EVEN USE YOUR OWN NAME. THE LAST VESTIGE OF A COWARD...PATRIOTISM. IF YOU TRULY LOVED OUR COUNTRY YOU WOULD NOT CRITICIZE BEHIND A CURTAIN.....COWARD!

Alan Brooks| 6.19.10 @ 4:23PM

vtwin,
these masochists are determined to run another Bush-type in '12, they are beyond redemption.

Let them destroy themselves.

Blackwatch| 6.19.10 @ 6:18PM

Nice try to re-direct the comments to a different topic Libtard troll!! The essay was all about Barry's lack of experience.

stay on topic: Barry Hussein Obama Sotero et al.---EPIC FAILURE AS A MAN!!!

vtwin| 6.19.10 @ 11:52PM

I agree the main point of the commentary was Obama lack of executive experience.

But, quoting from about article:
“His [Obama] economic policy is straight from the FDR-progressive mold. And although, like Roosevelt's, it has failed miserably (skyrocketing deficits….”

The author is implying that Obama’s FDR like economics policies created the present deficit. But this ignores both the debt, the previous budget deficit of 1.2 trillion, and economic conditions Obama inherited from his predecessor(s).

So, I would argue, contrary to the author, the present budget, economic, and foreign policy problems facing our nation have more to do with the failures of the last administration than Obama lack of executive experience.

scotchieguy| 6.20.10 @ 5:03PM

Vtwin, I think you have just painted yourself into a corner. If Bush's spending led to increased debt (even though Congress spends, and has been under Pelosi's direction since '06 elections), O has more than doubled the deficit. How can that be Bush's fault? How has his stimulus plan worked? He has only spent one third of the money. Why not cut his losses, and just return the rest of the money. Maybe that will stimulate the economy. Instead, he talks about another stimulus bill. Re for. policy, he has inherited Bush's policies and continued them. Iraq, troops are still there. He hasn't closed Gitmo. And he increased troop levels by 30,000 in Afghanistan. Besides, he ran on the idea of fixing Bush's policies. Instead, he has continued them (for. policy), or made them worse (the economy).

Alan Brooks| 6.20.10 @ 9:28PM

"But, has the economy turned around? The voters will decide in November of 2012"

Will vote for Obama in '12 just to try to help prevent another second-rate GOP administration. Clinton was FAR better than either Bush-- perhaps Obama will do as well as Clinton did.

AMENBRO| 6.18.10 @ 4:12PM

SPOT ON.

FDR was born rich.

He did not need to ASSIST, PREVARICATE, FACILITATE & give LEGAL PRECEDENT to criminals to get his MILLIONS.

Unlike MICHELLE HIS BELL & SHOUT BAMMIE LAMMIE.

i heard a dipstick on TV describing the REPUBLICAN BASE as fired Up

WHAT AN IMBECILE

CAN YOU SAY THERMONUCLEAR FISSION YAWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tacho universal | 6.20.10 @ 2:26AM

f you are wondering how we got Obama, my guess is there are more Irma La Dunces and Purplegays and Diva Shakeys than we think - PG being the one who thinks Obama won in a landslide.

Glenn Koons | 6.18.10 @ 4:28PM

In my 71 yrs., I have never seen a more radical socialist pacifist as in this naif in the WH. I have been teaching political sci for nearly 50 yrs. and frankly, Obama makes FDR, Thomas, even Bernie Sanders, look like pikers with my tax, your tax monies and our public safety both on our borders and internationally. He is an Alinskyite, pure and simple. An anti-capitalist, American , corporation, profit professor who would rather be kow towing to Ayers' types than running a nation. He has no private sector experience except to dis it. He is as close to a Quisling in American history other than that guy Benedict!!!

Michael S| 6.20.10 @ 5:14PM

I do not believe that you teach Political Science at an accredited American university. As someone with a graduate degree in Political Science from a top-3 program, let me be the first to say: you are a moron.

Jason I| 6.20.10 @ 6:32PM

Congratulations on your degree. Perhaps instead of name-calling, you can summon your giant intellect and enlighten us as to how Mr. Koons is incorrect. Please tell us how Obama is NOT an Alinskyite. Please tell us about Obama's love for the country he now leads, and his love for America's traditions and history. And by the way, I don't think people who were comparing Obama to Lincoln during the '08 campaign and bragging about how "smart" they were has any business calling someone else a "moron".

Max Shapiro| 6.22.10 @ 3:40AM

I applaud you. Simply put, very well said!

wholesale | 9.8.11 @ 10:16PM

Yes, I agree with you.
xk3y

JD Williams| 6.19.10 @ 1:57PM

argue the reference to "FDR-progressive mold"???
Obama's every move is like a plagiaristic steal from FDR's progressive playbook. What's to argue about?

Marc Jeric| 6.19.10 @ 6:33PM

Yes, Brian - you are on the right track. But still!
Abu Hussein al-Nairobi (or whichever Kenyan hellhole this Muslim was born in) is a dedicated revolutionary marxist. His program of nationalizing private enterprise is in full swing: automobile companies, insurance and mortgage companies, student loans, health industries; then shortly coming up through the global warming scam are oil & gas companies, coal mines, electricity companies, energy-intensive industries like aluminum smelters, glass factories, trucking companies, steel mills (the few still existing). His system of local soviets (ala Lenin) is in place to agitate, demonstrate, provide phony votes (ACORN, SEIU, AFL-CIO, AFSME, teacher unions). I think we are too late - before the 2012 elections we will have become the United Soviet Socialist States of America. Already 47% of us pay no taxes or are on the dole; the coming amnesty of 20 million Mexican Indians will assure him a permanet majority. By 2016 he will declare himself President for life.

Appleby| 6.18.10 @ 6:36AM

Obama is the first of what will be a long line of ignorant tweetheads who spend all their time with their heads buried in two inch screens. Mr. Reagan was a great communicator because he met people face to face, and even the people who disagreed with him realized that he was looking at them personally and talking to them. Obama is talking to a screen; there are no human beings behind it, just avatars.

The really sad part about it is that he is screwing things up for the capable and qualified Black men that want the job. *We voted for one of those once,* people will say, *and look what happened.*

neo-libertarian| 6.18.10 @ 11:30AM

Be careful here Appleby, we know what you are saying but do not utter the words “one of those” in the context of race. You simply open the door to baiting. Despite the polarization of partisan politics I doubt that anyone here will make any such superficial selection, or ethnic disqualifications. It is the Alinsky playbook that resorts to such tactics.
I do not like Obama, and while a small part of it is what I “see” when I look at him, it certainly is not skin tone. The posturing, the false bravado, and the contemptible narcissism are objectionable, but as with most here it is the stealth progressive “dishonesty” of his campaign that rankles, not race; ironically what separates us from our progressive oppressors is our colorblindness and the ability to differentiate. We were not fooled by “the one,” and are blind to anything physiological except his demeanor.
I personally do not care for the man because he is a democrat/progressive; I am a libertarian/conservative, my ideology is diametrically opposed to everything he represents. I disparage him because I feel he is destroying our personal freedoms, our economic prosperity, rewriting our unique origins and destroying our Constitution. My feelings for him are no more virulent than that which I reserve for either Clinton. Is this due to the fact that I am a chauvinistic pig or harbor antagonism to convicted perjurers? If they wish to condemn me for this then I hope they to offer an explanation for my other prejudicial foibles, the ones that include an equal and virulent dislike of Gingrich, Romney, McCain, Specter, Christ, Reid, Powell, Frank, either Bush or Pelosy? Am I also prejudicial toward Mormons, Catholics, war heroes, legislative leaders, Democrats, Republicans, or gays?
There certainly exists in political discourse for a “them” but it has nothing to do with ethnicity, sexual preference, gender or age. This is an emotionally charged political environment; I fully appreciate the elimination of certain derogatory terms from our language. What we must focus on is preserving our freedom of speech, our right to input the body politic to influence the selection our leaders, or any impediment to our casting a ballot.
Let the left be the source of insults, in most instances it is their only recourse but they are wasting their breath. All we really need to worry about is three things; we must restore personal freedoms, work to reduce the size of government, and lower taxes.

Ned| 6.18.10 @ 12:01PM

VERY well put... did you copywrite this? and if you did can I use it, word-for-frickin-word...?

I do agree with Appleby though, in the context that he is anticipating the thoughts and actions of others...

neo-libertarian| 6.18.10 @ 1:33PM

Wow, quite a compliment. Do with it as you wish but please corrct some of the syntax. Ned all I am is an old retired guy, my only real window to the world is the internet.

chuck| 6.18.10 @ 8:24PM

Neo-,

You remind me of a retired gentleman I did some work for last year. His health was declining, so he didn't get out much, but his mind was wonderful. We had many long conversations about where this country came from, and where we were headed.

If at all possible, find some way to reach out to young people in your community to spread your knowledge. You never know, you might just make the right impression on the right youngster, who may someday become a great leader.

neo-libertarian| 6.18.10 @ 10:11PM

Amazingly perceptive of you Chuck, by fall I should my comps and verbals done for the degree needed to "on-line" instruct at one of the local community colleges. I miss teaching terribly, but until this summer have never had the "social science" credentials or the “remote” capability.

Taxpayer| 6.19.10 @ 1:23PM

Kudos to you for that, but don't just do it online--young people need to see a REAL teacher!!!

Genera| 6.20.10 @ 12:36PM

I agree Chuck - we need to reach out and clear the fog of liberalism from these young minds. Good for you Neo-Libertarian.

Chalkdust| 6.19.10 @ 3:08PM

Here, here.

Jason I| 6.20.10 @ 6:42PM

Agreed, and I think Appleby has a point, even if he used a poor choice of words, because the Left and the media attached so much importance to Obama's race. Those of us who are individualists don't care about color, but if the Left chooses to emphasize it, then it is they who have taken the risk in damaging people's perceptions when the man fails.

James| 6.21.10 @ 12:59AM

Three more things to worry about: Borders, Language, and Culture

Occam's Tool| 6.21.10 @ 1:10PM

Nicely done, neo...

The problem with Obama is NOT that he's our worst President (Until the first WMD hits an American city, that dishonor still belongs to James Buchanan), but that he is an incompetent Progressive who fundamentally does not like his country. He's not a patriot. He has given evidence of that in his speeches, over and over again.

Very sad. However, he will be a one-termer, as even he realizes.

Kelly79| 6.19.10 @ 10:29PM

I agree. I said it the night he got elected that he'll be the first and last black president.

Chuck Brewman| 6.20.10 @ 2:38PM

Never say never. But you're right that it'll be a damn long time.
All candidates will be examined more closely. That might make all the cow poop worth it. The empty suits need not apply. Chuck

IrmaLaDuce| 6.18.10 @ 6:52AM

Sarah Palin spent her young adulthood dropping out of school and competing in beauty pageants. Barack Obama spent his helping low income communities better advocate for their needs.

Like community organizer, the job description of a civil rights attorney is so obvious. To feign ignorance is laughable.

he taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School. It's hard enough getting as a student there, let alone a teaching position. His time there marks him as an expert in Constitutional Law, which I would think all you so called originalist could appreciate.

His present votes on abortion bill in the state house where the execution of the strategy laid out by pro choice groups. Obama has always been clear on his pro choice position. Thankfully, he has always been more focused on actually accomplishing his goals, rather than grandstanding.

I love watching you people declare his presidency a failure over and over again. It's a nice counterpoint to all the dismay, outrage & confusion expressed in this same arena every time he racks up another progressive victory.

Filofox| 6.18.10 @ 6:56AM

Message to Planet X, you forgot to take Irma back with you...

Kitty| 6.18.10 @ 6:57AM

You certainly are living up to your name.

cab404| 6.18.10 @ 7:30AM

"It's hard enough getting as a student there" ? "You people" ? This could have been written by Obama himself. Artificially entitled, arrogant know-nothings. J.C. Watts, please run for president.

bull-gator| 6.18.10 @ 10:16AM

Chrisite/Ryan in 2012!

JayDick| 6.18.10 @ 11:21AM

I would vote for that ticket!

Jocon307| 6.19.10 @ 9:21AM

Stop with the Christie for pres stuff. JUST STOP IT!

The nation cannot have him until he has finished his work here in Jersey. It is that simple.

Find somebody else to run the free world, we need Chris here at home.

The gov. of Jersey is limited to 2 terms, so he'll be available (God willing) for the race in 2020.

That'll give him 2 years off to campaign and make money for his family.

Fair enough?

Taxpayer| 6.19.10 @ 1:29PM

I agree; Christie needs to finish his job for NJ first. And I bet he'd be the first to say so. It's obvious how much he loves his home state, and I doubt any amount of political fawning would get him to jump ship.

We luv your guv and wish him total success for NJ!

Jeff Lee| 6.18.10 @ 7:38AM

That oil in the Gulf is a fine progressive victory. Keep up the good work Barry!

Patrick| 6.20.10 @ 4:51PM

Barry's still jealous that he hasn't had a nuclear accident like Jimmy

Tom| 6.18.10 @ 7:59AM

If everyone who teaches Constitutional Law is an expert we have an awful lot of experts. Obama was never a full time tenured professor so even this claim is weak.

What exactly did Obama accomplish in his time advocating for low income neighborhoods? How were their lives changed for the better? I find it interesting that for all the efforts of 'community organizers' to better people's lives things seldom seem to actually get done.

If the best you can do is compare Obama against Palin as young adults you are woefully short of ammunition to support any claim he was well prepared for the job of President.

Ryan| 6.18.10 @ 8:20AM

How does this prepare a man to be President?

TENCONN 231| 6.18.10 @ 8:22AM

After having the way paved for this "manchurian candidate" he does have one talent---obeying the puppetmasters manipulations!

mickeymat| 6.18.10 @ 8:35AM

Sarah Palin was not funded by Muslim sheiks and unrepentant domestic terrorists like Bill Ayers and his parents. She was not admitted to Ivey league schools based on the color of her skin. She had to work to gain admittance and to pay tuition. In between dropping out of school, she worked her butt off producing things. Community organizing produces nothing. Even Obama's spending of millions trying to convert Chicago students into Communists at the behest of the Annenberg Foundation produced little. Obama is an agitator. Agitators produce nothing. They are not problem solvers. if Obama was confident of his achievement he would not have gone to such great efforts to hide his record. He is a nothing-a product of affirmative action which is the antithesis of Americanism.

Grzmlyk| 6.18.10 @ 9:00AM

Mickeymat - great points.

Not only that, but I would rather have Sarah Palin running this country blindfolded than see Barack Obama directing my kid across the street with the help of his cadre of Keystone Communists, which would no doubt result in my child's death (reduce that carbon footprint to zero!) and cost my local municipality millions of dollars.

The man is an empty, angry suit. But of course Irma's a kindred spirit, and that's why Irma LOVES our worthless piece of shit president.

Michael L. Hauschild| 6.18.10 @ 9:34AM

"Keystone Communists," my hat is off to you on that one!

Mojo Risin| 6.18.10 @ 1:37PM

“If the position of president was a street, someone would have to hold Obama’s hand while he crossed it.” Clemmet Shofnick----

This column is spot-on and I hope the melodious smiler resigns in the near future, we're dying here...

Genera| 6.20.10 @ 12:48PM

Hear Hear!
Obama is the type who, after he gets a job, focuses on getting his resume ready for the next one versus gaining experience on the current one. He is a collector of titles.

Patrick| 6.20.10 @ 4:58PM

And now he has POTUS as a title, and for two and a half more years, he's stuck as POTUS.

Then comes the question, what does he do next? It's not like he's going to be satisfied with Habitat for Humanity and defrauding elections in Venezuela.

Even so, there are plenty of retirement benefits to corrupt Democrats who destroy the lives and fortunes of their constituents.

Chris| 6.20.10 @ 5:33PM

Now now, Obama has been successful! in fanning his people's anger and hatred for the percieved injustice - they don't get to buy a house, they don't make lots of money, they are cheated by the productive people who work hard and won't share their wealth with them......in short, they deserve to share everything others earn without having to work for themselves, so they go around demanding the banks give them money to buy houses, gov to give them money for anything they want, everybody helping to raise their babies.............that much we have Obama to thank for ! And his mission continues....

della street| 6.18.10 @ 8:48AM

It has been reported by staff members at the U.of Chicago, that Obama only was given a teaching position, after a few "phone calls" were made on his behalf..That he never attended staff meetings and was lazy. He was never given the title of professor..Obama and his wife were well connected with the Chicago machine, they did not achieve much on their own merits.

Grzmlyk| 6.18.10 @ 8:53AM

My question is, who dresses you in the morning, and how do you like the short bus?

Gosh, it'd be nice to be so insulated in my own little NPR-spun liberal cocoon that no ray of reality's light coul penetrate my fantasy world.

And if our desultory adolescent in chief issued a fiat declaring the law of gravity null and void, I'm sure you'd jump off a cliff secure in the knowledge that the Great One had made it so.

Go ahead, Irma. Give it a shot.

Roy Tucker| 6.18.10 @ 8:56AM

The only thing Obama has run is his mouth. He published nothing as a professor at the U of Chicago. His was as political appointment as they make.

HotPat| 6.18.10 @ 2:58PM

Not true. He's also run a couple of stop signs.

Taxpayer| 6.19.10 @ 1:32PM

He wasn't a professor. He was an adjunct instructor, which is academia's version of the temp worker.

Scott| 6.20.10 @ 11:46PM

It's even worse than that, Taxpayer. He was an adjunct lecturer, which is even lower on the totem pole than an instructor. My guess is that when it comes to interpreting the Constitution that Thomas Sowell (an economist, not a lawyer) could run circle's around Irma's expert in Constitutional Law. Without someone putting the directions on his teleprompter Obama couldn't pour pi$$ out of a boot.

Grzmlyk| 6.18.10 @ 9:08AM

Irma, Irma, Irma:

He is a failure. Get over it.

And his "progressive victories" are causing America to fail. Let me ask you a question: If everybody is in the cart, who's pulling?

Sam Deakins| 6.18.10 @ 9:10AM

Obamao was a "lecturer" not a teacher .. not a professor. And again how could he "teach" the constitution when he does not even understand it.
Obamao at the UofC was simple an "Affirmitive Lecturer".

Curtis Rasmussen| 6.18.10 @ 3:10PM

I disagree. He understands the Constitution.

He has to understand it or he could not formulate a plan to destroy it.

Genera| 6.20.10 @ 12:50PM

He is a puppet of the Sorus crowd. He does not need to know the constitution. He does as he is 'told'. He has survived so far with this approach.

Patrick| 6.20.10 @ 5:36PM

Curtis, ah...no.

Liberalism is an incoherent philosophy. Theoretically, it seeks to develop a society of free and equal over-men, who live in blissful freedom from the wicked social obligations of Christendom and Western Civilization.

In practice, it is madness given form. All that is old must be destroyed, that their dream may be realized. In the end, all that is left is anarchistic tyranny.

It is nearly impossible to build something great, difficult to sustain it, but as simple as negligence to destroy. As such, liberals prefer to get on with the work of destroying all that is around them, and simply fantasize on what they would build if they weren't so lazy.

Husarz| 6.18.10 @ 9:39AM

He was never a law school professor but was invited in as a guest lecturer. Why have his education credentials and grades never been released? Any law review articles out there? No.

Petronius| 6.18.10 @ 9:53AM

And now he is your extortionist in chief. You will deserve what is to come when we who oppose you have nothing left to lose.

Blackwatch| 6.19.10 @ 6:28PM

aim small --miss small

PolishKnight| 6.18.10 @ 9:54AM

Palin may have been an off and on again student, but she graduated college.

Regarding Obama "accomplishing his goals". Did those goals include cleaning up the oil spill as quickly as possible to benefit the (former) Democrat voters in the region or HIS goals to lie about oil reserves in this country and raise gasoline prices through the roof? If "his goal" was to pass a lousy healthcare plan everyone hates to save face, he's accomplished that.

I chuckle about "community organizers" helping the poor. It reminds me of the film Election where the rebellious student says to the assembly: "Who will really benefit from this election? Not us, the students. Just whoever wins and gets to put it down as credit towards going to college." Here's a simple way for "low income" people to move forward: Wait until adulthood to have babies, study in school, and then marry and build wealth with a spouse.

Anthony| 6.18.10 @ 10:37AM

Gov.Palin received her college degree the way many of us did, "SHE EARNED IT". She and her family paid full freight, a big reason for her interupted education path.
Obama "left" Occidential College in his widely admitted mediocre drug induced haze, and ended up at Columbia. Gee, didn't that happen to the rest of us as well??
Irma, you are indeed a duche. The empty suit, aka Obama, was an invited lecturer at the Uof C; a gig given to him by fawning, leftist, politically correct morons.
You Irma are one as well. You stand for my proposition about leftists, with fools like you, beliving is seeing. And what you are "seeing", ain't real girl.

bull-gator | 6.18.10 @ 10:29AM

Paragraph one: You mean he was an agitator like Jesse Jackson, et. al., only a little more polished.

Paragrah two: you mean a "community "agitator" that pretended to practice law. Plleas present his legal briefs.

Paragraph three: Almost every institution of higher learning has diversity and affirmative action as their #1 priority. Yeah, right, a constitutional law professor methodically destroying the document he was hired to teach? Gimme a break.

Paragraph four: How many times did he vote present on abortion issues vs the number of times he voted present on other issues ? He's the definition of a grandstander.

Paragraph five: His presidency is a failure for this who love this country. Pretty soon all those progressive victories are gonna result in the destruction of this great nation.

Have yourself a nice little trip back to LaLa land.

The Big E| 6.18.10 @ 10:53AM

After fifteen years of both civil and criminal practice in the Courts of two States and in the Federal Courts, I can honestly say that I have encountered no lawyer or Judge who knew less about the Constitution than the professors who supposedly taught it in law school.

RCV| 6.18.10 @ 11:11AM

Beautifully said, Irma. These folks are living in their own little dream world, talking to themselves, and convinced that the outside world thinks as they do. They live in a universe of their own imagination.

Anthony| 6.18.10 @ 12:37PM

RCV, Truer words were never spoken; problem is, fool, you got it ass backwards as to who lives in their bubble world
But don't you worry, the community organizer has all 57 states well under control.

Jeff Lee| 6.18.10 @ 2:18PM

Sadly for you, they'll be at the polls in November.

Anthony| 6.18.10 @ 3:22PM

No, sadly for America.

GavInTucson| 6.20.10 @ 2:13PM

Aww, you poor lamb. Didn't get all your free stuff yet?

Patrick| 6.20.10 @ 5:39PM

Well, to be Democrat is to be a freeloader.

JayDick| 6.18.10 @ 11:23AM

Still don't see any executive training or experience in there. That WAS the point of the article.

A Real Republican| 6.18.10 @ 11:42AM

Before two weeks into the most basic course in US Government, most, if not all students know the difference between The Declaration of Independence and The Constitutution. Yet in one of his stop-me-if-I've-heard-this-before speeches, he placed part of The Declaration into The Constitution. A professor perhaps, an expert? Not only questionable on the expert bit but that fundamental and inexplicable slip up would earn a first semester student an F.
Of course to the 'binded by Obama' bunch, the same mistakes repeat themselves. Gov. Palin did earn her degree. And while she might not have the questionable pedigree of the highly overrated and questionably intellectual Mr. Obama, she is who she is, not the pretender playing poorly the role of President.
One last comment on Professor Obama: at least an originalist knows what is contained within The Constitution and what is found in The Declaration. Looks like the nutty Professor would be more like it.
And of the almost 140 PRESENT votes cast while in the Illinois Senate, the only NO vote: on the right to life ammendment should an unborn child survive an abortion. His rationale *and oh boy, talk about radical* he did not want to further burden the mother who had decided to have an abortion. Hey, we're talking a live child. By his logic, a mother can abort her child post-delivery and thereby undo any, ahem, 'burden'. We are told that Mr. Obama cast that vote and the PRESENT votes over concerns with procedures. Odd, but why the one definitive NO vote when 'concerned' as in PRESENT votes? Radical on life, radical on the role of Government and clueless on two Documents that formed this Nation.

DanBronx71| 6.18.10 @ 11:43AM

"Barack Obama spent his helping low income communities better advocate for their needs." What was the net effect of that? I don't think the parents of Derrion Albert or the whole of Chicago's South Side would agree with you.

On Obama's credentials as a civil rights attorney, you must be referring to the Buycks-Roberson case. Let's clarify that: in '94, He was a junior to a lead lawyer for a woman who charged her mortgage application was denied by Citibank because of her race. The suit made unsubstantiated claims that white applicants with similar poor credits were approved. Citibank made the mistake of settling out of court rather than win the suit. They also agreed to 'community demands' to relax their lending rules setting a consequential industry trend which precipitated the crash. I doubt if that woman still has her house today. But Obama got to bill for his mere 30 mins. before the judge. That's quite an achievement.

Nick in Virginia| 6.18.10 @ 12:26PM

To IrmaLaDouche (which in French means "shower", so don't get agitated):

If she hadn't already died, I would have said that this post was written by 0bama's mother.

Irma's Mom| 6.18.10 @ 1:01PM

Honey, step away from the computer and come over here. Time for your medication.

Charles R. Williams| 6.18.10 @ 2:37PM

To my shame, I was once an Alinsky style community organizer. These people do not help low income communities advocate for their needs. They exploit the desires of low income communities in order to demonize the powerful for their own ideologically driven and/or self-interested goals.

As a civil rights attorney, what cases did he argue in court? What did he ever do that bears the mark of his name? How does this prepare him for the presidency?

He was an adjunct faculty member at the UofC Law School and he was shoved down their throats by some powerful person. There is no legal scholarship that bears his name. He showed up, taught an introductory course, and left.

Yes, Obama has always been pro-choice, even to the point of protecting the absolute, unqualified right of a mother to kill her own (and someone else's) child in the womb by denying protection to babies who survive abortion.

There is no doubt that Obama is a man of above average intelligence - probably smarter than John Kerry, maybe as smart as GWBush. But this man has accomplished nothing in this life except to get himself elected president. He's pretty good at commencement speeches too.

blackwatch| 6.19.10 @ 6:31PM

Barry Hussein Obama Sotero et al.---EPIC FAILURE AS A MAN!!!

Patrick| 6.20.10 @ 5:52PM

There is only one epic failure for a man, and I will reserve such Judgment, as I too will stand trial.

I can say that he is a pitiful president, and an object lesson as to why the Democratic Party is all wrong.

Ranger| 6.18.10 @ 2:50PM

Irma: Barry is in 'way over his head. Smart enough to chart an affirmative-action path through some nice schools, but otherwise far too small to fit the suit he struggles to wear. I love watching you liberals fawn over yet another of your inept heroes. Reality sucks.

Nancy| 6.18.10 @ 3:45PM

Yeah, love that killing babies days before they would be born...such love and concern.

Obama has done nothing noteworthy. He will surely go down in history as the best Marxist president of all time.

Jeff Perren | 6.18.10 @ 4:54PM

Every "progressive victory" is by its nature a defeat for innocent human beings because it always involves violating one individual's rights to grant the unearned to another.

LadyVet| 6.18.10 @ 5:03PM

Irma, Irma, Irma... all that rock solid experience of Barrys you highlighted here just makes Mr. Oliver's point for him. The man has NO experience running anything, NO experience managing a budget, NO experience creating jobs, NO experience handling a crisis, NO experience being a leader. The only experience he does have is as a dictator/teacher and spending money stolen from taxpayers on those who choose not to work, community organizer/ACORN supporter. As far as being an expert in Constitutional law, I guess that means he know he is destroying it with every piece of legislation he shoves down the throats of America.

I can only hope that he soon becomes so embarrassed at his own incompetence he resigns, and then I will win the lottery.

Carl G| 6.19.10 @ 3:44PM

sounds exactly like you are describing Bush.

Shamus| 6.20.10 @ 7:37AM

It's sad when Bill Clinton winds up being the best president in the last 20 years.

Cpm| 6.21.10 @ 3:16PM

Please explain how that describes Bush. Your post doesn't make sense. Like it would anyway.

tailgunner| 6.18.10 @ 5:34PM

"Obama has always been clear on his pro choice position. "

Right. Obama supports abortion in the FOURTH trimester.

"Thankfully, he has always been more focused on actually accomplishing his goals, rather than grandstanding. "

Is this a sick joke? 'Grandstanding' is ALL Obama does.

Obama's EPA REJECTED equipment and expertise from European oil companies offered to them on the THIRD DAY of the spill.

After two months of fruitless requests from Gulf states for aid and permission to divert the oil, they begin their own cleanup operations...which are quickly STOPPED by Obama's Coast Guard.

Why? To check for LIFE VESTS.

There's a strong case to be made that Obama allowed this crisis to develop so he could exploit it for his 'cap-and-tax' agenda.

chester arthur| 6.18.10 @ 9:51PM

It's about time a more descriptive term was used for the modern'progressive' movement of free-thinkers-in-lockstep.They are regressive,they look back to a failed ideology and wish to revive it.This current loon lecturer9who apparently only read the book to his class(Alinski's,not a law book) is no exception.They are simply Regressives.

MikeyR| 6.18.10 @ 10:43PM

How do you explain his less than poor performance thus far in his presidency? All of the things you list as his supposed qualifications do not prepare him for the position of President. You can list them with as much conviction as you want. It doesn't change the fact that he is unqualified and the progress of his presidency and our country are the result. He is leading our country off of a cliff in foreign policy and economically. The fact that you fail to see that is symptomatic of modern liberals. Congratulations.You live in a world of your own making. Literally.

Tom in Michigan| 6.18.10 @ 11:51PM

Being a guest lecturer in an academic field without one word published in the literature of that field does not make one an "expert" on constitutional law. It makes one a "lecturer." Your failure to understand this distinction qualifies you to defend Barack Obama.

Christopher Holland| 6.19.10 @ 12:22AM

Sounds like the inspiration behind Lincoln's comment that you can fool some people all the time.

Osamas Pajamas| 6.19.10 @ 12:28AM

OhBummer is a boob and a fool for attacking the American Tea Partiers. He is annoyed that they’re not grateful to him for hijacking the American healthcare system --- the greatest act of vandalism perpetrated upon the American people since a gang of jihadi frootloops and loonytoons hijacked some planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center towers, and the Pentagon, and made a failed attempt to crash into the White House and instead drilled a hole in a Pennsylvania farm thanks to some very courageous American passengers.

And --- now widely seen for what he is --- the president presents a problem for the Democrat-captured media. They pump out his propaganda for him --- and, like the opinion monitors in Ayn Rand’s novel, “Atlas Shrugged” --- they are dodging brickbats and rotten vegetables.

He’s pompous, pampered, and pretentious --- a pseudo-intellectual fop. He’s a glorified, smooth-lyin’ dandy, and slicker than Sick Willie Clinton. He’s a dictator-on-the-make, a bloodsxcking, predatory humanitarian thug, and a low-down skunk.

He’s a fraud and a swindler. He lies when he inhales and he lies when he exhales; his oxygen is the falsification of reality. He lies, placidly and laconically, as if deception were a soporific drug.

He’s a friend of the poor and the downtrodden --- indeed, you can hear the milk of human kindness sloshing around inside of him when he walks.

He declares himself the post-racial leader --- “Let me be clear!” he intones --- and he hides behind his race, daring his critics to put their reputation for fairness at risk.

He pauses to ponder the portent of his propaganda --- and it is fakery; he smiles and his mendacity comes shining through. Shake hands with Barak Hushpuppy OhBummer --- “The Mistake of ‘08” --- the illegal alien squatter in the White House --- and America’s first and last Arab president. Now count your fingers.

Patrick| 6.20.10 @ 6:11PM

Ah, Obama is not as slick as Slick Willy. He rode a wave on affirmative action, and nothing more.

As bad as things are, I would expect Clinton to still have a few tricks up his sleeve. Obama has yet to show one since inauguration.

JD Williams| 6.19.10 @ 2:07PM

Pro-Choice=pro-abortion. Simple as that. Obama was a "guest lecturer at UC, not a professor. BTW, getting into the University of Chicago is much more of a fiscal issue that an intellectual one. Add to the fact that Michelle Obama was paid nearly 1million per year for a position that was so very important that it has remained vacant since her departure...(can you smell it now?). The POTUS is a media invention. He has accomplished NOTHING before, during and most likely, after his term. He has transformed America alright...into a soon to be third world socialist state.

carl| 6.19.10 @ 3:42PM

One of the most cogent and coherent commetaries I have ever read. Simple but to the point. Kudos to you.

Flash| 6.19.10 @ 5:04PM

Obama didn't "teach" constitutional law. He was a "guest lecturer!" Big difference.

Stuart Koehl| 6.19.10 @ 5:14PM

"Sarah Palin spent her young adulthood dropping out of school and competing in beauty pageants. Barack Obama spent his helping low income communities better advocate for their needs."

In the great scheme of things, Palin's activities were far more benevolent. She minded her own business, and did not hurt anyone. Barack, not so much.

"Like community organizer, the job description of a civil rights attorney is so obvious. To feign ignorance is laughable."

Indeed, it is to fight racism by upholding racist policies.

"he taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School. It's hard enough getting as a student there, let alone a teaching position."

If you put all the Constitutional Law professors on a train and drove it off a cliff, it would be. . . a good beginning. As for getting into Chicago Law, much easier if you happen to fit into one of their quotas. Sometimes as much as twenty or thirty times easier, than a similarly qualified applicant not in a quota category. Not that University of Chicago has quotas--that would be illegal. But they do like to look at the "whole student" in order to promote diversity.

"Obama has always been clear on his pro choice position"

More fool he!

"Thankfully, he has always been more focused on actually accomplishing his goals, rather than grandstanding."

Now that he has accomplished his goal, I guess he feels free to grandstand to his heart's content.

"It's a nice counterpoint to all the dismay, outrage & confusion expressed in this same arena every time he racks up another progressive victory."

Another such victory, and the Progressive are undone. Bring on President Pyhrrus!

Gary| 6.20.10 @ 11:34AM

"he taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School."

Actually he was a guest lecturer who was forced on the school, facts are pesky things eh?

Occam's Tool| 6.21.10 @ 1:12PM

Irma, apparently one can get to be Dean of HLS with fewer than 10 publications to one's name.

Law school faculty appointments are a hell of a lot easier than Medical school appointments. Sorry. Not impressive.

Kitty| 6.18.10 @ 6:59AM

Rush Limbaugh pegged Barry perfectly: "He's the most unqualified guy in any room he walks into."

RCV| 6.18.10 @ 11:12AM

As only a drug-addicted serial philanderer could put it!

Kitty| 6.18.10 @ 11:31AM

And yet Barry is STILL "the most unqualified guy in any room he walks into."

The Big E| 6.18.10 @ 2:15PM

So even a, "drug addicted serial philanderer" can see how unqualified Obama is, but you can't? Gee, what does that say about your level of intellectual functioning?

Blackwatch| 6.19.10 @ 6:35PM

Well said. But I don't think he/she will understand your point.

chemman| 6.18.10 @ 6:53PM

You really shouldn't be speaking ill of the dead. Teddy can't defend himself.

Osamas Pajamas| 6.19.10 @ 12:29AM

OhBummer is a boob and a fool for attacking the American Tea Partiers. He is annoyed that they’re not grateful to him for hijacking the American healthcare system --- the greatest act of vandalism perpetrated upon the American people since a gang of jihadi frootloops and loonytoons hijacked some planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center towers, and the Pentagon, and made a failed attempt to crash into the White House and instead drilled a hole in a Pennsylvania farm thanks to some very courageous American passengers.

And --- now widely seen for what he is --- the president presents a problem for the Democrat-captured media. They pump out his propaganda for him --- and, like the opinion monitors in Ayn Rand’s novel, “Atlas Shrugged” --- they are dodging brickbats and rotten vegetables.

He’s pompous, pampered, and pretentious --- a pseudo-intellectual fop. He’s a glorified, smooth-lyin’ dandy, and slicker than Sick Willie Clinton. He’s a dictator-on-the-make, a bloodsxcking, predatory humanitarian thug, and a low-down skunk.

He’s a fraud and a swindler. He lies when he inhales and he lies when he exhales; his oxygen is the falsification of reality. He lies, placidly and laconically, as if deception were a soporific drug.

He’s a friend of the poor and the downtrodden --- indeed, you can hear the milk of human kindness sloshing around inside of him when he walks.

He declares himself the post-racial leader --- “Let me be clear!” he intones --- and he hides behind his race, daring his critics to put their reputation for fairness at risk.

He pauses to ponder the portent of his propaganda --- and it is fakery; he smiles and his mendacity comes shining through. Shake hands with Barak Hushpuppy OhBummer --- “The Mistake of ‘08” --- the illegal alien squatter in the White House --- and America’s first and last Arab president. Now count your fingers.

Flash| 6.19.10 @ 5:06PM

RCV. You must be a liberal. They're the ones who typically resort to name-calling since they can't win arguments on substance.

RCV| 6.20.10 @ 1:07AM

Get real - just read the posts from the rational conservatives on TAS every day!

Patrick| 6.20.10 @ 6:15PM

In no defense to Rush's personal behavior...

Ah, seriously, do you _really_ want to go there?

Hershel Krustovski| 6.18.10 @ 9:37PM

My advice to Rush would be to update that observation to " Least experienced guy in any room in any building in Anytown, USA."

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 6.18.10 @ 7:06AM

This article talks about Obama's inexperience but glosses over the fact that his inexperience in managing is offset by his actual experience as a Saul Alinsky community organizer.

Obama simply refers to the Saul Alinsky handbook Rules for Radicals whenever he needs a publicity stunt to pull out of his hat.

For instance, after the health care debate he went right to Rule 5: Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. Example: After the health care debate he came up with a simple allegory, after signing the bill, he cracked that he looked around to "see if there were any asteroids falling," only to discover a nice day with "birds chirping."

This and the BP shakedown is prime Obama, operating under the rules of Alinsky.

That's his experience and he uses it every day.

It's simply the bad choice of the American public they put a radical ideologue in a position of responsibility. Now they will have to pay the price.

Mike D.| 6.18.10 @ 8:01AM

Saul must have left out the chapter in his manual for Marxists about what to do when you get there. This clown is so predictable along with his merry band of marxist/socialist academic pinheads he surrounds himself with. So we will have to deal with the inevitable trail of destruction when he is finally booted out and hopefully some kind of reconstruction takes place if its not already too late.

FTM| 6.18.10 @ 9:50AM

But Alinsky did say what to do and what was to happen "when you get there." the agititor when arriving in a position of political power is in turn to become the target of all the other agitators. Trust me on this one, I read the book. Alinsky style agitation isn't about achieving a political nirvana or agenda, it's about the process of agitation.

President Obama is an apparent expert at the art of agitition but appears to be short on the application of any kind of coherent agenda. Seems to me that he is trying to appease the Socialist, Political and enviro-mental activists/agititors that he's surrounded himself with but doesn't seem to be having any particular luck with any of them.

Patrick| 6.20.10 @ 6:17PM

I suppose that happens when a man builds his life around the lessons of a book dedicated to Satan.

FTM| 6.21.10 @ 6:52AM

"Dedicated to Satan?" ???!

Lookit, I do a little freelance penetration testing, internet hacking if you will. Nothing illegal, only with the computer system and/or website owners express written permission. The object being for me to break into their system and then explain to the customer how I got in. The owner then has the opportunity to correct the vulnerability in the system. The end result being more secure and more robust, hardened if you will, web applications, computers and servers.

Google the term "Monkeywrenching" for a more esoteric explanation for gooning up systems. The Monkeywrencher does for real world systems and organizations what the hacker does for computer systems.

Now, what Alinsky has done is to outline a system for "Monkeywrenching" political systems. Now, wether or not Alinsky meant to or not the end result will be political systems that are harder to compromise.

The conservitive can, using Alinsky's system, do for the liberal political system what liberals have done for conservitave political systems. For example, liberals own the main stream media. Who is it that owns a big portion of the blogosphere on the internet? Who is it that for sure owns AM radio band talk radio? Look at what is happening to the MSM, falling sales, less profitability, less viewer/readership.

Get you a copy of "Rules for Radicals" from Amazon.com or down to the local library and read it. Learn to shoot.

The system described by Saul Alinsky is no more a tool of Satan than is a gun. The gun serves whoever picks it up.

Ret. Marine| 6.18.10 @ 7:12AM

What was described here in this article is nothing more than "another ivy league tower topper" Some say all brains and no common sense, my father called these types educated idiots. I must agree. But this is worst by a long shot. I have worked with such types and by far am willing to work with the average Joe because at the least he knows his limits and cannot go any futher with what the Good Lord provided him with, and he also knows it.
This pretender-n-theif, the theif pretending to be our president is nothing more than an over hyped over educated idiot. No real world experience, no work history, no experience whatsoever, at least none that can be verified anyway, and we are stuck with a pretender with no imagination. He is as fonie as a three dollar bill and everyone knows it, very few will admit it. I voted for the American even though he would have led us down the same path, maybe even in a slower fashion but, at least the courts decided he was in fact an American. Can't say this with the pretender lieing and stealing from the executive office. We are truely living in interesting times. Some of get it some of the others do not. And someone please explain to me why the word "impeachment" is such a dirty word these days. This admin. is full of unprincipled, over educated, know nothings pretending to lead a Nation in ruin by there miserable hands, I hope they are proud of themselves because from what I have gathered, We the People are not impressed one bit. They have made their beds and now they must pay the piper for their foolishness and sleep in it. Time will tell if the real Americans will either revolt in full or ly down and play stoopid. As for myself, I'm one of those bitter clingers of my Bible, my black rifle and my faith in the fact that I am more experienced to run this Country without czars or pretending to know what the Constitution actually says, I actually read it every time this pretender opens his mouth.

Mark MacInnis| 6.18.10 @ 8:47AM

Mr. Ret. Marine....Oo-rah! and thank you for your service. Your day to day commentary is inspiring. Obama is a cypher, but he is not the real enemy...the enemy is the complacency and ignorance of the greater mass of Americans. You said it right: Bible, rifle and faith. Americans patriots must always be prepared to defend our country from our own government!

AMENBRO| 6.18.10 @ 4:20PM

WHO LUVS YA SIR

GOD BLESS
SEMPER FI YAWL

Kenny| 6.18.10 @ 7:14AM

The name 'Barack Hussein Obama' says it all.

Melvin| 6.18.10 @ 7:14AM

"Tremedously brilliant," A dog learns to fetch, does that make him brilliant.? He learns to do one trick and one trick only, but the owner still tells everyone that he's such a smart dog.

Tim*| 6.18.10 @ 7:43AM

Ozero is The Poster Boy for The Peter Principle.

Ozero Go Home.

Scot Z.| 6.18.10 @ 3:50PM

Obozo is the Peter Principle on steroids.

Shamus| 6.18.10 @ 7:58AM

Obama is a post turtle.

chuck| 6.18.10 @ 8:41PM

Well put!

Jim O'Brien| 6.18.10 @ 8:01AM

We should have 50,000 troops stationed along the Mexican border, with instructions to shoot to kill any and all infiltrators. What's more important, our own border or some village in Afghanistan? Obama should resign or be impeached. November 2010 and 2012 can't get here soon enough.

Anthony| 6.18.10 @ 3:32PM

We should have 50,000 troops stationed around the White House and Congress with orders to detain, then perhaps America has a chance.
Ooooh, the lefties will love this one, right Pppppurpleguy?

Lazy Jack | 6.18.10 @ 8:13AM

Please add the the growing number of adjectives used to describe this president the word unoriginal. It is eminiently clear that the main engine of ideas in the white house is a gigantic recycling operation of largely toxic ideas imagined by petty socialists and charlatans (Lord Keynes, for all his intellect, among them - Demonstrating that that smart people can indeed act stupidly).

Lazy Jack
www.thanksforthelaughs.wordpress.com

jaydick| 6.18.10 @ 11:28AM

As evidenced by Jimmy Carter and now Barack Obama!

DeJa| 6.18.10 @ 4:12PM

Thank you all for this thread. Though not as eloquent and educated as all of you, I can spot an incompetent liar when I see him. Thanks to all of you, I now have the ammunition necessary for liberal friends.

And, thank you Ret. Marine and all others who have proudly served, for fighting for our freedoms. Now, let's be sure to keep them!

Curly Smith| 6.18.10 @ 8:21AM

Maybe it's not about Obama. The article notes "His supporters say he is tremendously brilliant" but his supporters also said that Reagan was an "amiable dunce". Obama's life experience is that success is obtained by reflecting back what his mentors say, he's a completely unimaginative mirror, he's the perfect student. So perhaps the problem isn't so much with Obama, it's with his teachers who never learn. If you look at the Democratic Party strongholds, otherwise known as crime-filled illiterate debt-bombs, you see Obama in all his unimaginative glory. Of course his supporters think him "brilliant", he's says exactly what they "think".

Rebecca| 6.18.10 @ 8:22AM

The closest he has had to executive experience is the Annenberg Challenge, which he chaired, which spent millions and did not produce any measurable differences in the lives of the children who's lives it was intended to improve. It was also a social engineering project, similar to community organizing.

He is convinced of the value of formal, government directed social management (education for all, no fat kids, live in a city and walk to work because of global warming) and I find it offputting because it smacks of a religious organization. The emotional fevor of his campaign and supporters are evidence of a movement with the famous "believe" as important as "hope and change". It is classic mass movement language and imagery.

You can either have liberty or religion. He is choosing religion.

Louis Jenkins| 6.18.10 @ 8:31AM

To say the least the Pretender n Chief has got himself in a box. Surrounded by fog he does not know if he's flying upside down or sideways, or right side up. A predictament if there was one. But don't worry, he's got lots of help. Of course, they're pressing their faces up against the windows and screaming silently for help too. It's going to be a glorious crash.

PJ| 6.18.10 @ 8:33AM

I agree w/everything written in this article except for one major item. I don't think Obama's handlers are going to let this failure leave the presidential office w/out a major fight. Soros & ilk have alot of money.

Shamus| 6.20.10 @ 7:41AM

Democrats are already talking about running Hillary Clinton in 2012 rather than Obama. If his numbers continue to drop (or oil continues to spew) then he'll draw a primary opponent.

JP| 6.18.10 @ 8:59AM

With the exception of the oil spill, most of the problems approaching this nation were just over the horizon ( a danger of federal default on the debt, terrorism, Iranian nukes, EU meltdown, etc...). The President's handling of the BP oil spill is a huge unforced error. And as most people here agree, his lack of executive experience finally came home to roost. He took up the bait of this MSM handlers and went nuts. Everything from his faux anger to his extorting $20 billion from BP has backfired. He had the perfect oppurtunity to show off his cool, rational self to the nation. Instead of telling the people the truth (that it will be September before BP will have new wells online to divert the gushing oil from the damaged well), and deploying worldwide resources to clean up the mess, the President played golf, threw parties, and conducted fundraisers. He and his handlers learnt nothing from Katrina, Clinton, or the Gipper.

No one blames Obama for the well explosion. And even at this late date, the majority of voters want the President to succeed. They still want the President to proof his detractors (like those of us here) wrong. The BP disaster will eventually come under control. But, the damage to his reputation and the political fall-out will not go away. To most voters this is not what they bargained or voted for. For us, we can always say "we told you so".

The cynic in me fully expects the WH to concoct a fauc crisis sometime in the near future that will be engineered to make Obama look Presidential. But like Clinton's Wag the Dog stunt, no one will be fooled.

FTM| 6.18.10 @ 10:05AM

Complements to you JP. Concise, articulate, honest and free of denigrating language.

A+ with a star.

JayDickB| 6.18.10 @ 11:34AM

Dick Morris had an interesting column on the government policies that contributed to the well explosion and consequent spill (http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2010/06/10/clinton-catalyzed-gulf-oil-drilling-boom/#more-1080). Obviously, BP is the main culprit, but government policies and lack of effective oversight are important factors.

Erchamion| 6.19.10 @ 7:09PM

Mr. Morris' comments, while partially accurate, leave a number of items pertaining to this crisis left unanswered.

Yes, the law was passed to alleviate the revenue burden, but this is offset by the sheer weight of the capital expenditure needed to accomplish the task.

Secondly, this was done to "remove" drilling from sight in a method very similar to the horror at the thought of windmills within view of Martha's Vineyard. Part of this was part of the capitulation to the environmentalists in not allowing drilling in much easier environments.

Thirdly, these activities have been accomplished safely huge numbers of times all over the world, in much less stringent (and more stringent) regulatory areas. BP screwed the pooch big time on this one.

Having worked in Exxon and Shell's drilling programs, this incident DOES NOT happen for one of those companies. It's not a matter of luck or fail safes...it's a matter of following standard common sense rules...which BP did not do...in this case.

Many are at fault for this incident, and while I'd love to be able to whack at Clinton one more time, this line of thought, while a contributing factor, is inconsequential to the event as a whole.

Darragh| 6.18.10 @ 9:03AM

I just hope we make it through the next few years. I'm sure not alone in being afraid for the country and the world. On top of everything else, feeling like we have no one competent at the wheel is frightening. More than competence--someone who stands up for this great country that my brother died for.

Granny Jan| 6.18.10 @ 9:17AM

I've listened to hours of BHO's unscripted moments. I've never heard him tell a clever joke or same anything clever for that matter.

I think in time you'll change your mind and call him the worst person to ever occupy the office.

Shamus| 6.20.10 @ 7:45AM

I'd have to go with Woodrow Wilson as the worst president ever. Hopefully Obama won't be able to top him, as we'd be in very deep trouble.

Chuck Brewman| 6.20.10 @ 3:01PM

Granny Jan:
Regrettably you're right. He makes Jimmy Carter look only a little better now than when he was POTUS.

MG| 6.18.10 @ 9:33AM

Its just to bad that Colin Powell could not have been our first black president instead of this dolt. Or with Condoleezza Rice the first black and first woman president. The Bamster has run his course and should just step down. At least Biden has some experience.

Petronius| 6.18.10 @ 10:16AM

The late Stephen Ambrose expressed the same on one of his book tours after he exhorted us to write to the general in desire of his candidacy. Powell would have been a clone of Eisenhower; a master of inter service politics and a tower of passivity otherwise. He's already in the beltway clique. Why would he want any of the sturm und drang of that Office when he sits with the other king makers around the tables of Sans Soucie who command the pols on the Hill and the (Justices?) to do their bidding? The real government of this country is not in the congress or the white house or the supreme court. It's the beltway horsie set who control the lobbies, media, and cultural institutions. And we cannot vote them out!!

The Bishop| 6.18.10 @ 10:46AM

Petronius makes a profound observation. There are multiple Wizards of Oz behind the curtain pulling the levers. POTUS, Congress, and the Supreme Court are simply the stages where we get to observe the playing out of the scripts.

RCV| 6.18.10 @ 11:15AM

Tell you what, I'll be happy to have Colin Powell as President after Obama. Can we really sign you up?

Blackwatch| 6.19.10 @ 6:43PM

yes but is he authentic enough?

RCV| 6.20.10 @ 1:11AM

Not only that, but he's the brightest republican around.

Stuart Koehl| 6.19.10 @ 5:18PM

Colin the Weasel, the dissembler, the Hedger, the Backstabber, the Chronically Disloyal? No thanks.

JmsA| 6.21.10 @ 3:50PM

Mr. Koehl,

Spot on, Mr. Koehl!

Carol| 6.18.10 @ 9:33AM

Obama is the worst man to become president. I keep hearing how great a guy he is - he seems like your "typical" thug to me. Not nice, but nasty.

Obama, faced with a crisis, is doing one thing. Telling his comrades in the House and Senate to vote for crap and tax. He cares not one iota about the people, the animals, the environment, etc., especially down in the south where millions of blacks live.

His teleprompter allowed him to be a brilliant guy for George Soros' agenda. The teleprompter isn't working any more.

Matt Morehouse| 6.18.10 @ 9:35AM

It's been said before but is worth repeating, "The greatest danger to this once great country is not BHO but the utter stupidity of those who voted for this zero".

They are likely to do the same in 2012.

CopyKatnj| 6.18.10 @ 10:22AM

Your comment reminded me of this quote.

"Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. ... Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome's, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'" --Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

NavyBrat | 6.18.10 @ 2:34PM

CopyKatnj. Glad to see I'm not the only Cicero fan here. I wrote a blog post about the exact time in Roman history to which you quote refers. Click my name above, & it'll link you to my blog. Enjoy!

Stuart Koehl| 6.19.10 @ 5:21PM

No Ciceronean, I! If you want a man who talked his way into the Consulship and then displayed amazing lack of competence, hard to beat Ol' Marcus Tullius. A "homo novus" desperate to be accepted by the ruling establishment ("boni", or "best men"), he was a laughing stock among his peers, redeemed only by his foresight in having his slave Tiro record all of his speeches in the courts and Senate, so that he could "revise and extend" his remarks and publish them for posterity.

Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 12:12PM

Count on it... and not because they are stupid. But you knew that, didn't you?

Maddox| 6.18.10 @ 2:18PM

It seems you have gotten yourself into your own square box. To admit you were wrong about the brilliance of the "One" would be admitting you are not so either. When all with open minds can see this disaster, it really is quite a dilemma. What to do? Do you think he issued that declaration mentioned above and that gravity does not exist? You are following him off the cliff until the bitter end. The crash cannot be avoided.

Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 7:02PM

Naw, just misread "voted" as "vote".. .no biggie.

I don't follow anyone off a cliff... you all are as wrong as could be. Spending high, yes, emergency spending needed, yes, deficit a concern, yes. But, please, this is coming from the bunch that elected Bush that squandered $5 Trillion between his giveaways and ill conceived wars and created more debt than all other Presidents before him combined.

Do ya think that might be part of the problem here? If you don't, you aren't paying attention to any economist for the last 2 years.

In addition, he and his cronies ignored regulations or eliminated them altogether .. in the interest of business. At the expense of us all, I might add. If he didn't create the downfall he sure added to it and hastened it along. I know he wasn't alone in that, but shit, you can't be seriously thinking that this all was created by Obama? 750,000 jobs lost/month when he was inaugurated, and now varying numbers of jobs GAINED/month. Who gets the credit for reversing the trend? Fate? The business cycle? Yo mama?

As far as the oil spill is concerned, remember Georgie Boy complaining that you go to war with the Army you have, and he had Clinton's Army? Well Obama is fighting the Oil disaster with Dubya's disaster crews. Difference is Bush could choose the time of engagement and WAR. Obama could not with the oil spill.

Liberal Reader| 6.18.10 @ 11:28PM

Pathetic excuses. Get help. I know you don't believe anything you say. Troll rehab will put your meaningless life back together. A minimum wage job is better than what you are doing now.

Osamas Pajamas| 6.19.10 @ 12:32AM

OhBummer is a boob and a fool for attacking the American Tea Partiers. He is annoyed that they’re not grateful to him for hijacking the American healthcare system --- the greatest act of vandalism perpetrated upon the American people since a gang of jihadi frootloops and loonytoons hijacked some planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center towers, and the Pentagon, and made a failed attempt to crash into the White House and instead drilled a hole in a Pennsylvania farm thanks to some very courageous American passengers.

And --- now widely seen for what he is --- the president presents a problem for the Democrat-captured media. They pump out his propaganda for him --- and, like the opinion monitors in Ayn Rand’s novel, “Atlas Shrugged” --- they are dodging brickbats and rotten vegetables.

He’s pompous, pampered, and pretentious --- a pseudo-intellectual fop. He’s a glorified, smooth-lyin’ dandy, and slicker than Sick Willie Clinton. He’s a dictator-on-the-make, a bloodsxcking, predatory humanitarian thug, and a low-down skunk.

He’s a fraud and a swindler. He lies when he inhales and he lies when he exhales; his oxygen is the falsification of reality. He lies, placidly and laconically, as if deception were a soporific drug.

He’s a friend of the poor and the downtrodden --- indeed, you can hear the milk of human kindness sloshing around inside of him when he walks.

He declares himself the post-racial leader --- “Let me be clear!” he intones --- and he hides behind his race, daring his critics to put their reputation for fairness at risk.

He pauses to ponder the portent of his propaganda --- and it is fakery; he smiles and his mendacity comes shining through. Shake hands with Barak Hushpuppy OhBummer --- “The Mistake of ‘08” --- the illegal alien squatter in the White House --- and America’s first and last Arab president. Now count your fingers.

davelnaf| 6.18.10 @ 9:45AM

Good article; describes Obama to a tee. It also describes the problems we have and will have.

While it is true that most American now believe he is unqualified to be president they also suspect that he might not even understand the job, which is even more troubling, if not scary. His outreach to dictators and thugs should have ended when their reaction appeared to be more akin to the suspicions of a disturbed person than appreciation of the gesture. But his outreach has continued, not directly, but indirectly through his idiotic foreign policy decisions. By now our friends overseas must understand what and who Obama is and that they will just have to wait out this ingénue’s time in office.

Domestically it is pretty much the same thing, but Americans will also be treated to the spectacle of seeing his party brought down around him before he leaves office. It is only a matter of time before democrats start trying to save themselves by turning on thus guy. And will they ever stop ignoring the fact that Carter was our worse president to date? Not if they still want the black vote and perhaps more besides that. The dems will be put in the unenviable position of pedaling the oxymoron that Obama was a successful one-term president or they will have to pretend as hard as they can that he never existed.

All of this was Bush's fault, of course.

Jeffry Pages| 6.18.10 @ 9:58AM

This is nothing more than another "Sarah Palin" political hackjob against Barack Obama, our Greatest President! Obama IS the most brilliant man to ever sit in the Oval Office. His insight, his vision for a New America most certainly supercedes the oil crisis, which is really a result of Bush and Cheney's corrupt administration. Had Bush and Cheney, not been in bed with oil buddies like this British twit at BP, the oil leak would never had happened! No, you can't blame Obama when idiots like Jindall and Barber get in the way of Federal Emergency Management Agency specialists and attempt to use unproven and non-approved methods to clean up oil. It's sad to see Jindall self-destruct on TV everyday as well as that numskull Barber from the racist state of Mississippi. Both are bigots and fools.

Nick| 6.18.10 @ 10:08AM

Jeffry,

I see you have finished your shift pulling "Lewinsky duty" under O'Bama's desk, huh?

Your mama's so stupid, she didn't know how to spell your name! Bam!

Anthony| 6.18.10 @ 10:47AM

Wow, so they discovered a "Kool Aide" you can drink yet live to remain a fool for another day. What will they think of next?

Bydand76| 6.18.10 @ 11:03AM

Jeffery,

I have to say that you write the best damn comedy posts here on AmSpec!

Pro Libertate!

Blackwatch| 6.19.10 @ 6:49PM

Bingo. You nailed it. That was soo over the top it had to be sarcasm or a comedy routine in the making.

tonypal| 6.18.10 @ 11:06AM

Let's consider the possibility that Jeffry Pages post is tongue-in-cheek. For his sake, I sure hope it is. If he's serious, then he needs to be kept far away from small children and sharp objects.

JayDick| 6.18.10 @ 11:38AM

Has to be. But just in case, see http://www.dickmorris.com/blog.....more-1080.

Nick in Virginia| 6.18.10 @ 12:41PM

Convenient how you ignore the facts that the Deepwater Horizon was ALL in 0bama's court; that BP contributed more to 0bama than any other candidate; and how BP is so wired in to the 0bama vision of "cap and trade" that they will be major benificiaries if it gets passed.

And on what do you base your opinion that 0bama is the most brilliant person ever to be President? Chris Matthews said the same thing at one point in time (while his pants leg was wet; he's not talking the same way now, must have decided the cleaning bill for all his dirty slacks was getting too high). But whether 0bama is intelligent or not is not pertinent to his performance as President. What IS important is his leadership instinct, and he has none of that.

So I think it is about time you got your head out of that place where the sun don't shine.

Unless your post is, indeed, a tongue-in-cheek satire, in which case I think you have hit the nail on the head here (how's that for hedging your bets).

Scot Z| 6.18.10 @ 4:01PM

If I were to parody a post by a libtard troll, it would look almost EXACTLY like yours.

Osamas Pajamas| 6.19.10 @ 12:33AM

OhBummer is a boob and a fool for attacking the American Tea Partiers. He is annoyed that they’re not grateful to him for hijacking the American healthcare system --- the greatest act of vandalism perpetrated upon the American people since a gang of jihadi frootloops and loonytoons hijacked some planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center towers, and the Pentagon, and made a failed attempt to crash into the White House and instead drilled a hole in a Pennsylvania farm thanks to some very courageous American passengers.

And --- now widely seen for what he is --- the president presents a problem for the Democrat-captured media. They pump out his propaganda for him --- and, like the opinion monitors in Ayn Rand’s novel, “Atlas Shrugged” --- they are dodging brickbats and rotten vegetables.

He’s pompous, pampered, and pretentious --- a pseudo-intellectual fop. He’s a glorified, smooth-lyin’ dandy, and slicker than Sick Willie Clinton. He’s a dictator-on-the-make, a bloodsxcking, predatory humanitarian thug, and a low-down skunk.

He’s a fraud and a swindler. He lies when he inhales and he lies when he exhales; his oxygen is the falsification of reality. He lies, placidly and laconically, as if deception were a soporific drug.

He’s a friend of the poor and the downtrodden --- indeed, you can hear the milk of human kindness sloshing around inside of him when he walks.

He declares himself the post-racial leader --- “Let me be clear!” he intones --- and he hides behind his race, daring his critics to put their reputation for fairness at risk.

He pauses to ponder the portent of his propaganda --- and it is fakery; he smiles and his mendacity comes shining through. Shake hands with Barak Hushpuppy OhBummer --- “The Mistake of ‘08” --- the illegal alien squatter in the White House --- and America’s first and last Arab president. Now count your fingers.

FTM| 6.18.10 @ 10:08AM

You're joking, right?

FTM| 6.18.10 @ 10:41AM

Please forgive my fumple-fingered attempt at responding to a post. Thsi was to be in response to Jeffry Pages' post.

Yes we Can| 6.18.10 @ 10:10AM

One thing he has absolutely and brilliantly executed has been to secure his rightfull place in the number one spot on the list for : WORST PRESIDENT - EVER!

For those who don't believe he has quite achieved that distiction, just wait, he isn't done yet.

Ned| 6.18.10 @ 12:21PM

hence my conviction that Obozo is merely a pawn in a neferious plot by Jummy Carter to rehabilitate himself, and no longer bear the label of "Worst President Ever"... how much better to only be "Second Worst President". Ever.

Joe| 6.18.10 @ 10:13AM

Thank you Mr. Oliver for putting into words what many of us fervently believe:

"we are entitled to assume he may have been an affirmative-action admittee. As he was to the White House".

Best line I've seen in a while.

Anthony| 6.18.10 @ 10:16AM

When JFK Jr's plane went down, many of us did not use the "square box" analogy. Lack of experience and imagination were really not his biggest problems.
Rather, we said this was inevitable given the reckless, indulgent and pamper life led by the next generations male scion of the Kennedy clan.
Obama has led the same life without the Camelot glitter. Although he shares the same lack of experience and imagination, still, like JFK Jr, those are not Obama's biggest foibles.
Obama's massive ego, the easy glide path that has been the hallmark of his life thus far, along with his Marxist upbringing, is what will cause America to crash and burn.
Unfortunately, unlike JFK Jr, who took two innocent lives with him, Obama intends the crash of an entire nation. However, unlike JFK Jr., his plans don't include going down with the plane.
We need to take the keys away from this arrogant fool before it's too late.
If Obama insists on this flight plan, we need to send just him and his fellow Ds up in Air Folly One. Bon Voyage!

Stuart Koehl| 6.19.10 @ 5:25PM

All pilots would recognize JFK, Jr.'s situation as something much worse--a classic death spiral, resulting from trusting his feelings instead of the objective input of his instruments. Airspeed, attitude, altimeter. Center the needle, then the ball. Every tyro knows that. They also know that there are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots. Which would make a good epitaph for Obama's presidency.

John Navratil| 6.20.10 @ 5:56PM

And the last thirty seconds with the plane on its back and a completely disoriented pilot had to have been pure horror. I say a prayer every time I think about it.

Angelo | 6.18.10 @ 10:29AM

community organizer=Rabble rouser

Scot Z| 6.18.10 @ 4:03PM

I think "communist agitator" is also an appropriate synonym.

Stuart Koehl| 6.19.10 @ 5:29PM

As they say on South Park:

Rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble!

FTM| 6.18.10 @ 10:36AM

I don't entirely agree with the author. President Obama has a list of stellar accomplishments to his credit. He has proven explicitly, beyond any reasonable doubt exactly how politically and ethically corrupt the Democrat party is. (This isn't to say that the Republicans are in any way much better.)

President Obama has successfully pulled off the heist of the century in extorting twenty billion dollars from BP. One of the Republican congresscritters called the pot black and was immediately shot down by his own party leadership. Hint, hint, get rid of these people! They just punished a member of their own party for telling the truth, there's a problem here.

President Obama's administration of the United States has already gone so far bad that he makes the Carter Administration look competant. Making the Carter Administration look competant so far has taken a lot of hard work, dedication and perseverence. Obama had a hell of a hill to climb to eclipse Carter.

President Obama has proven explicitly how not to hijack the healthcare system. I understand that twelve or so states have already filed lawsuits in the Supreme Court as to the constitutionality of the Federal Government requiring private citizens to buy anything. President Obama's hijacking of the American healthcare system is DOA.

President Obama has demonstrated by example how to take a severe economic recession and make it worse.

President Obama has demonstrated a long time theory of mine in regards to the intellect of the average in-duh-vidual out running around loose. President Obama was elected to the Office of the President of the United States based on two criteria first that he wasn't President Bush and second that he was/is/kinda-sorta black. A Republican candidate with President Obama's credentials wouldn't have made the ballot in a primary election in all fifty-seven states let alone winning a primary.

President Obama has proven that if you focus your attention on the project that you can indeed piss away four trillion dollars on nothing at all. This in my most humble opinion is President Obama's most compelling accomplishment. Imagine that you were to win ten million dollars (tax free) in the lottery and that you decided to spend only the intrest generated by this sum and never touch the principle. Simple interest calculation with a 3.o% rate of return, you'd have a little over $800.00 to spend a day. What are you going to spend $800.00 a day on? Do you honestly think that you could spend $800.00 a day for eighteen months?

The Obama administration has been a spectacular success so far. In order to capitalize on this success the Republican/Conservitaves need to do two things, first and most importantly fire all as in every one of their current leadership and replace them with people smart enogh to know better than to punish people for truthsaying. Secondly thay need to keep always and forever all of these accomplishments of President Obama's administration before the public in order to assure that there is never, ever again so successful a Democrat elected to a political office.

t. Poole| 6.19.10 @ 5:36PM

Great post, you covered most of the bases. In Hawaii (1964) Obama would have been a "happahaole" of a roundheeled mainlander overcome by the beauty of the islanders. I have no idea when she an d his fater married, it doesn't matter, since his father was NOT a U. S. Citizen (not resident) Obamais not eligible to be the POTUS. Art.II section 1 is quite clear "no person except a natural born citizen.." you cannot be a "natural born citizen" UNLESS both parents are citizens. This among other things is why there is a need to get rid of borderbabies of illegal immigrants.

Papa Sparky| 6.18.10 @ 10:38AM

An intelligent reader has to wonder if Jeffry's middle name isn't "Blank".

People of his mental acuity put the lawn jockey in charge at Churchill Downs and now we have the thoroughbreds running around the track in the wrong direction without a rider.

jon| 6.18.10 @ 10:59AM

I love the smell of toast in the morning!

Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 11:01AM

The simple truth no matter what you say now, is that he has 17 months Executive experience in the most difficult and important Executive job in the world. And only Bush I, Bush II and Clinton can claim that today, period. No one else can say that.

No one else will be able to match that experience come 2012 - so if experience is what you're after, he wins hands down. If accomplishment is what you're after - There are few people in history that have had to face all the problems he's tackled. Many were just too much for previous Presidents. Only FDR faced the Financial Regulatory issues that Obama faced. Only Nixon faced inheritance of a long drawn out war not started under him. 100 years of Presidents faced the Healthcare crisis in this country - Obama did something about it. Only GW Bush faced Terrorism like Obama does. No one has faced the Oil Spill in the Gulf, ever, the worst environmental disaster in history. Exxon Valdez is a blip comparatively. The list goes on and on...

So you want an experienced Chief Executive - you have one now. Prior to the election, okay, but that ship has sailed - he now is THE most experienced President in years.

tonypal| 6.18.10 @ 11:09AM

Every president enters office facing tremendous challenges. As for your comment that he will be the most experienced person running in 2012, we will also have had the experience of his performance as president. Up until this point, that doesn't speak well for his re-election chances.

Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 12:15PM

"The only poll that counts is on election day." The cake's not baked yet .. we'll see.

Troll Watch| 6.18.10 @ 12:51PM

Purpleguy is right. Obama hasn't hit bottom yet. This death by 1000 cuts is painful to watch and to experience I might add. After November more brakes will be added. Obama is too much of an ideologue to make that stop cutting himself. He is trying to turn our country into Detroit or maybe worse Greece or Spain. Yikes.

Petronius| 6.18.10 @ 4:47PM

T W
You left out Zimbabwe and Uganda.

Maddox| 6.18.10 @ 2:23PM

You can get a fork, he's done.
Unfortunately, the country will be too if we don't reverse course soon.

Tim*| 6.19.10 @ 7:44AM

Yeah Right Clown !

Aaaand then , " We don't need a weatherman to see which way the wind blows ."

The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.

Remember In November.

Curly Smith| 6.18.10 @ 11:28AM

It was only a matter of time before Jimmy Carter was rewritten out of history. It's a sad day when even liberals won't claim Jimmy Carter as a President. Or, are you suggesting that Obama is serving Carter's second term?

Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 12:17PM

Well, ya got me there. He is still alive after all.

Troll Watch| 6.18.10 @ 11:31AM

Obama has same experience he has always had. He primps in front his adoring mob. He promised he would lower the oceans and he can't even stop and oil leak. What kind of idiots voted for this guy?

Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 12:19PM

The real question is what idiots voted for Grandpa McCain who thought our "fundamentals were strong" while the country was going over the cliff, and who picked a completely unprepared pol for VP?

Troll Watch| 6.18.10 @ 12:53PM

I guess Purpleguy answered the question the best he is able. I knew he was an idiot already. I was looking for other volunteers.

Purpleguy| 6.20.10 @ 10:34PM

And, you wouldn't call McCain voters idiots? Really?

Liberal Reader| 6.20.10 @ 10:49PM

One must pick the lesser of two evils. With Obama that is not saying much.

Bydand76| 6.18.10 @ 1:39PM

Whatever Purple!

As you are so fond of saying "that ship has sailed"! McCain has absolutly nothing to do with the equation any longer because he was not elected. (As a side not: Maybe you should try showing a little bit more respect to "Grandpa McCain" as well. At least he has the stones to actually serve his country. What the hell did Obama ever do before he went into public life?)

Please stop with the redundant rejoinders simply because your an Obama knee-biting supporter!
The country was and still is going over a cliff because of jack-asses such as yourself! Barney Frank? Chris Dodd? Nancy Pelosi?

"You reap what you sow" as the old saying goes and because of all of the idiots who did vote for Obama (such as yourself) we now have an ineffectual blowhard who excels at doing nothing more than posturing and speaking behind a bully pulpit! Not to mention a government that can do nothing but spend more of the money that we simply do not have.
I blame you and all of your ilk directly! Hopefully, someday soon, you will be held to account for your actions!

Get your rocks off while you can you little turd because your time is short and I for one will enjoy watching you socialist bastards squirm in your discomfort!

As far as the "unprepared pol for VP" I would have to say she has pretty much made all of the detractors eat crow. She keeps getting bigger and bigger (Despite what you say about her) and almost every single candidate that she has backed has fared pretty well. (you can say what you want about Sharon Angle but she is horse whipping your boy Harry Reid right now!)
What the hell has Obama done except accelerate us deeper into debt?

Oh wait. I forgot. All you will be able to say in response is how great Obama is and that "ship has sailed". Yeah, right into an oil slick!

Pro Libertate!

Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 6:50PM

A little sensitive there, eh, Chuckles?

McCain simply followed his daddy, Admiral McCain III, into the Navy. It was a long family tradition, and while it is worth respect that he served our country, he is hardly the only one who has served and gave much for his country, and his service was then, not now. He's not as sharp as he needed to be to win the Presidency, altho I do like him as a person.

Ms. Sarah "I can see Russia from my house" Palin is a wet dream for all you Republican males. That is clear with here little winky doo trick .. stiffened a lot of "spines" in the Republican Locker Rooms that's fer sure. Just ask Rich Lowery. You betcha... but get past a few one liners meant to thrill the base, an there's an empty skirt/blouse whatever the correct term is for a woman. Being a good campaigner is no prediction of good governance ... Bush proved that, and you all remind me so often that Obama proved that too. Did you see her responses to O'Reilly about what she, as Governor of Alaska, an Oil State would do ... she mumbled and fumbled and stumbled through some unintelligible answer. It was hilarious .. yep banner poster baby for the Republican Cause. Now, when it came to what Obama should do, oh she had plenty of advice for him ... ditz.

Over the cliff, maybe, but unemployment has stopped growing, the trend has been reversed, albeit mildly, so you should stop talking out of your ass ... you know nothing apparently about it.

I'm no socialist, so you can throw that bogeyman down your toilet. And, well, I'm not sure why you're concerned with me getting my rocks off, but thanks, I'll take that privately, you needn't help out (even tho I know you secretly want to).

Liberal Reader| 6.18.10 @ 11:36PM

Troll rehab can help you with your Sarah Palin fetish and your feelings towards male authority. These are probably a result of bitterness towards your parents who enable you. This causes you to strike out at responsible adults and make friends with losers like yourself. They may also help with your inappropriate expression of your latent feelings towards men. You are suffering from almost all of the pathologies of being a left wing troll. I don't believe I have seen such a case before. Don't be afraid. Troll rehab can help.

Bydand76| 6.20.10 @ 8:09AM

Yawn,,,ok.

Keep on squirming Purple-worm,

Come Nov. 2012 your silly love-fest with Obama will be an even bigger joke than it is right now.

Like I said, say what you want about Sarah Palin. She just keeps proving you wrong time and time again. The woman has more substance and real world experience than President "lets go golfing" Obama could ever hope for!

The plain simple fact of the matter is Barack Obama is exactly what his detractors said about him and you can't handle that.Boo freakin hoo!

Sorry Purp. but you're a Socialist. You talk like one and you advocate for one.
Your a socialist. Why deny it when it is so true?
Maybe you can join a club or something?

Oh Hey? Did you catch those latest figures on the economy and unemployment?

Yeah. How is that Keynesian principle working out for ya Bozo?

Keep talking Purple-worm. You just illustrate my point every time you do

Pro Libertate!

Indiana Alex| 6.18.10 @ 11:34AM

When you have to reach this far you know the wheels are comming off.

JayDick| 6.18.10 @ 11:46AM

Obama did something about the health care crisis? Yeh, he made it worse. In the near future, instead of a few people being unable to get quality health care, no one but the very rich will be able to get quality health care.

Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 12:21PM

If you believe that, then I suggest you pull yourself up by the bootstraps and make thee rich. Otherwise stop whining about what hasn't happened. The rich ARE the only ones that get a private hospital room and THE highest quality care. No insurance provides that, period. And, that won't change.

JayDick| 6.18.10 @ 4:49PM

You may be right about the "hasn't happened" part. When the Repubs take over congress this year and the presidency in 2012, the Obamacare monstrosity will be repealed and we will have real health care reform, not just a government takeover that would only make things worse. If you prefer to have government health care, I suggest you go to Canada or Great Britain. I'd rather have things the way they are here now, with a few tweaks that are badly needed.

Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 6:24PM

Real HCR, under Republicans... don't make me laugh. They had all the levers of power for years, and did not one thing while healthcare costs skyrocketed. You might not like the solution coming from Washington, but it is change and something has been done. And, it's the height of stupidity to call it a Government Takeover of HC. The Government already regulates insurance, this will just make it more uniform, with the insurance companies still in charge.. You want to know what a Government takeover of HC looks like - look to Medicare; and this ain't it.

Liberal Reader| 6.18.10 @ 11:38PM

Democrats were the inventors of these unstable ponzi schemes and creating more of them will make things worse. You seem deluded. Troll rehab can help.

Purpleguy| 6.20.10 @ 10:21PM

Assuming I agree with your premise about Democrats, letting the Corporations set the agenda really has been fabulous for us, huh? Wall Street, Big Banks, Big Oil, Big Mining... yep, they sure got American's benefit at heart, don't they? Please - "The almighty buck speaks and if you're not on the right side of making the money - it's your own fault" = Republican Creed.

We saw it viciously, and stupidly on display this week with Joe Barton, John Cornyn and Rand Paul with their varying degrees of sympathy for BP. Thank you for keeping America in the hands of the Democrats, by reminding them what the Republicans stand for. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, a Blue Christmas that is... Have a nice day!

Liberal Reader| 6.20.10 @ 10:51PM

When compared to Obama, the tamer of oceans they all can be excused. Get help please.

JayDick| 6.19.10 @ 11:18AM

Let's see. Under Obamacare, the government will determine what organizations can sell insurance, what they can charge in premiums, who they will insure, which insured people will get what services paid for, how much the service providers will be paid for each service, when they will be paid (i.e., how late), how much profit (if any) insurance providers can make, and who can provide medical services. Insurance not approved by the government will not be available. Oh, and the much-liked Medicare advantage program will be gutted to the point it will probably disappear. Current state regulation will be replaced, so the rules will be uniformly bad throughout the country; there will be no opportunity to avoid a bad situation by moving to another state.

If that's not a government takeover, it sure is pretty close to one, much closer than most Americans want, based on the polls.

Purpleguy| 6.20.10 @ 10:30PM

Okay - let me take a crack at this list of "government takeovers" ......

"Let's see. Under Obamacare, the government will determine what organizations can sell insurance "what they can charge in premiums, who they will insure, which insured people will get what services paid for, how much the service providers will be paid for each service, when they will be paid (i.e., how late)" - all already regulated by the STATES, so what's your point?

"how much profit (if any) insurance providers can make, and who can provide medical services." - Okay, I'll give you that, but since insurance isn't market based, this is good.

"Insurance not approved by the government will not be available" - it isn't prior to HCR, so?

"Oh, and the much-liked Medicare advantage program will be gutted to the point it will probably disappear." - It's liked because a large cost is underwritten as handouts to the insurance companies... didn't you hear them moan about having to return their subsidies. This reduces cost, not increase it.

"Current state regulation will be replaced, so the rules will be uniformly bad throughout the country; there will be no opportunity to avoid a bad situation by moving to another state." - come on, as if anyone moves because they don't like their insurance? Are you kidding?

Nice list of talking points, but thinking people see through this...

What you're really worried about it Medicare for all (which would be great btw) ... not this HCR. But you think this starts us in that direction. The fallacy is that's being upset about tomorrow while it's still today.

Liberal Reader| 6.20.10 @ 10:55PM

What a fascist stooge.

Petronius| 6.18.10 @ 5:15PM

P
You and every economically illiterate vindictive s.o.b. elected B O to prevent the rest of us who are industrious from accumulating wealth and getting out from under the heels of Your Government. 44 cents of every dollar earned by middle America gets confiscated by government at all levels. at the federal level more than half is transfer payments to people who are nonproductive. You don't want anybody to be rich. Neither does Obama and his politburo, or we would be allowed to Keep the Money WE make.
As to medicine. No leading physician would want a C.U.N.T. like you for a patient. And no civilized patient would want you in the same room with him because YOU Cannot Understand Normal Thinking. Pay your own bills like we do or move to another country that will subsidize your ignorant ass.

Tim*| 6.18.10 @ 11:48AM

That's like braggin' that Frank Robinson was the most experienced Washington Nats Manager.

You're An Idiot.

Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 12:22PM

Have you always been this dim, Tim? Facts, baby, facts. where are they?

Tim*| 6.18.10 @ 12:51PM

Foist , ya look at The Nats Record Mo Job.

Then , ya look at The Unemployment Rate And The Economy Stupid.

Apparently, you are here for your daily attention fix.

NavyBrat | 6.18.10 @ 11:59AM

"Only GW Bush faced Terrorism like Obama does."

Yeah, Obama "faces" terrorism by refusing to even admit that the perpetrators of terror are jihadi MUSLIM assholes. He faces terror by placing ROE on our troops in Afghanistan that are so restrictive that I'm surprised they aren't court martialed for cursing at the bad guys. He's facing terror by talking about when we're gonna leave Afghanistan in public, as if to say, "we're leaving on X date, so just bide your time until then." He's "faced" by his blundering responses to the Arkansas recruiting murder, which he barely talked about, the Ft. Hood massacre, & the whitey tightey bomber. He "faces" terror by directing the US gov't. to give money to HAMAS!. Yeah, he's "facing" terror. He's facing it with his head up his arse. Kinda like how you go through life, Purple Puke.

BTW, idiot. You missed the point. The point is that he had no executive experience BEFORE his debacle of a Presidency.

Please, do continue to impress us all with your lack of mental acumen, Purple Puke. It IS really quite amusing.

Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 12:25PM

He's kept us safe for 17 months, and since that beats GW Bush's record of 8 months prior to 9/11, I guess he's better'n Bush, don't you agree!

I also noticed you missed my admission that prior to being President, the argument is okay, but now after, it's stupid. You ought to try mental acuity sometime.. it might brighten your day. Your writing doesn't.

NavyBrat | 6.18.10 @ 12:40PM

"He's kept us safe for 17 months, and since that beats GW Bush's record of 8 months prior to 9/11, I guess he's better'n Bush, don't you agree!"

"Kept us safe" huh? The dead & wounded at Ft. Hood & in Arkansas & their families would beg to differ. Tell me how that "beats Bush's record." Yeah, they weren't mass casualty attacks, but successful attacks nonetheless. So no, I don't agree with you at all.

"You ought to try mental acuity sometime.. it might brighten your day. Your writing doesn't."

Ok, so I missed your admission. But for the likes of you to preach about "mental acuity" & then write such a nonsensical sentence is quite funny. Maybe you should go back to 5th grade grammar. I don't write to brighten my own day, retard. Care to try again, junior?

Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 6:20PM

The shoe bomber was stopped by the passengers on the plane, under Bush's watch, so what? He was stopped.
Oh, and as for the Ft Hood disaster, the enemy came from within and from our own military. How much more insidious can it get?

It's likely the big, showy, huge casualty attacks are over, but the smaller, targeted attacks takes a change in tactics to discover I would guestimate. I believe that's why the Director of National Intelligence was replaced.

Oh, and when you throw out "your lack of mental acumen, Purple Puke" - what do you think you're going to get back? A "thank you kind sir" ? Not a chance - you'll get back what you give. If you can't take it, then don't dish it out. It's simple that anyone with a semblance of mental acuity can understand.

Liberal Reader| 6.18.10 @ 11:42PM

This is another symptom of your problem. People destroy you in debate but you always think you are winning. Admit you were never good at this and still aren't. Troll rehab can help. With appropriate placement (maybe working the fry machine at McDonalds) you will begin to feel better about yourself.

Purpleguy| 6.20.10 @ 10:15PM

Somehow I think the people that debate win every time in your eyes, dont' they? And, you want me to take you seriously? Really?

Liberal Reader| 6.20.10 @ 10:57PM

Some on the left argue better than others but you should not expect much from dimwitted trolls.

Nancy| 6.18.10 @ 4:01PM

Purple...I wouldn't brag much on that keeping us safe thingy. We were just lucky that the latest run of terrorist happened to be inept...about like Obama.

Toolbag| 6.18.10 @ 4:32PM

The President doesn't keep anyone safe. The intelligence community and law enforcment do. There was no noticable change in standard operating procedures or policies when President Obama came into office. So just as blame is placed on these organizations so should credit.

Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 4:56PM

Actually, I agree with you there, on the law enforcement and the intelligence community.
But, your key phrase "no noticeable change" -- I don't agree with. The ending of torture is a pretty big change, don't you think? Some policies are probably still in place, but being classified, we probably won't really know for 50 years.

But, ya know, I heard for 7 years how Bush kept us safe, so I was using your own conservative Bush-defending pronouncements, figuring there wouldn't be any argument, since it is the same.

Nick| 6.18.10 @ 6:02PM

Are you finished with your "Lewinsky duty" so soon, PurpleJackass?

Liberal Reader| 6.18.10 @ 11:44PM

I wanted to say something but I think Nick covered it. You don't need to service the alpha males of the Democratic Party. Seek help.

Liberal Reader| 6.18.10 @ 11:44PM

I wanted to say something but I think Nick covered it. You don't need to service the alpha males of the Democratic Party. Seek help.

Anthony| 6.18.10 @ 3:43PM

Say what you will about W, the one thing he didn't do was face terrorism like Obama. That is, W never bowed to anybody, especially Saudi terrorists disguised as world leaders.
Oh wait, those are Purpleguys favorites. He loves men in one piece robes.

Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 11:06PM

Right, Bush didn't bow, he just held hands with them and kissed them and danced with them. What a turd. Okay, so he was a party animal, but is he gay too? What an embarrassment to America.

Barney From Congress| 6.18.10 @ 11:36PM

Yoo Hoo Purpleguy , come back to bed .

RCV| 6.20.10 @ 1:16AM

No, Bush only kissed and held hands with them, and flew the Bin Laden family out of the US right after 9/11 on a US jet so they wouldn't be troubled by press questions. The Bushes and the Saudis are kissin' cousins.

A Real Republican| 6.18.10 @ 12:02PM

Uh? First, he wasn't in office long enough to be criticized *which is pure BS...there is no grace period or a waiver for criticizing ANY President* and now, less than two years in, he is THE most experienced President in years. Uh? Reagan, 8 years, Clinton 8, Bush 43, 8. In years you say? More dysfunctional math from Liberals, the same folks who thought they could trick others into believing in imaginary Congressional Districts complete with a Congressional District # and the same folks who said the stimulus would hold unemployment at or under 8%. Democrats and their allies would be better served if they avoided math, even at its most basic and elementary.

Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 12:31PM

Since we only have 1 President at a time, that was a little joke, meaning Bush wasn't really a President.. but you didn't get it did ya? The rest of your response is nonsense.

Liberal Reader| 6.18.10 @ 11:45PM

Yet another symptom. You think your funny when others can see that you are sick. Get help.

JP| 6.18.10 @ 12:04PM

"So you want an experienced Chief Executive - you have one now."

On the Job Training doesn't count. Besides, any decent executive knows that it is important to put skilled subordinates in key roles. Apparently Obama never considered that.

"So you want an experienced Chief Executive - you have one now."

And he has failed in almost every area he is responsible for. TARP and other short term stabilization measures were enacted by Bush prior to Jan 2009. The Stimulus has been one expensive mistake, as have his first 2 budgets (combined $2.5 trillion of debt. Bush's worst year was his last -$450 billion defecit). Foreign affairs has been one mis-step after another (just ask the UK, Poland, Germany, Czech, Hounderas, and Columbia). His securities policies will get some innocent killed (luck cannot run for ever); and his HCR is a social and fiscal time bomb.

"Only FDR faced the Financial Regulatory issues that Obama faced. Only Nixon faced inheritance of a long drawn out war not started under him. 100 years of Presidents faced the Healthcare crisis in this country - Obama did something about it."

And Obama's financial reforms will only strengthen the banks that got us into this mess to begin with. Goldman and JP will come out stronger than ever -thanks to the taxpayer set asides. Fannie and Freddie have a potential debt load of over $1 tirllion (that TARP failed to address). Obama ran on a platform that boasted he could do better. But he is making things worse (10% unemployment, $3 trillion of new debt, and a potential capital strike). And there was no healthcare crisis; but, there will certainly be one once Obama's HCR kicks in.

Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 2:15PM

"On the Job Training doesn't count. " - and what job did you ever have the OJT didn't count the MOST?

Interesting - Bush passed the TARP of 700Billion, but you charge that albatross to Obama. Okay ... The Federal Budget is done a year in advance, which makes this year's budget Bush's not Obama's .. okay .. Your little diatribe on foreign affairs is your and perhaps some conservadumb commentators opinions - okay. All of it's okay - because all of it is seen through the eyes of the conservative, and are just your opinion of events. It all stems from the Big Bad Government, huh? We'll all see, and then you can complain. Anything else is just political rhetoric, not facts.

Then why are you all so clamoring for the Federal Government to do something in the Gulf? You can't have smaller government at the same time is does whatever YOU think is important. The government has to serve ALL the people.

And, if you think having a Republican Congress will help, think again. It will be gridlock again.

JP| 6.18.10 @ 3:12PM

Purple.
Have you ever heard of supplemental appropiration bills? the 2009-2010 bill had an additional $1.5 trillion added to it by Obama and co (along with another $785 billion Stimulus). The largest defecit Bush ran was in his final year ($485 billion). Obama has run more debt in 18 months than Bush did in 8 years. QED.

AMENBRO| 6.18.10 @ 4:29PM

DA PURPLE HAID.

Just like with KATRINA the Federal Gov was there to ASS_IST. You fellers expected BUSH to ride to the recue IMMEDIATELY

Federal Territorial Waters CLINTON MANDATED offshore DRILLIN is where OBAMAS boys are DOG PADDLIN.

THESE ARRROGANT beyond even their stupidity, FELLERS & FILLIES CREATED THIS DISASTER epso facto FACILLITATED its expanse in the CRASSS CRUDE EXPLICABLE AIM of furthering the ENSURED CASH PAYOFF of their CRIMINAL ALLIES' invested BILLIONS IN THE FALLACY OF CRIMINAL CARBON TRADING & GREEN ECONOMIC CONTROL OVER ALL OF US.

WAKE THE @@#%!$^@$$#@$^@ UP you indomitable ARSE.

Thank fer the comedic relief and reminder jst how GD clueless you liberal really are.

RCV| 6.18.10 @ 4:41PM

Writing something in all caps cannot transform nonsense into coherent thoughts.

Vollowitz lives| 6.18.10 @ 5:20PM

You are an Obama supporter. You are the ones you have been waiting for. You shouldn't lecture anybody on being coherent.

Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 11:04PM

Somebody needs to lecture you ... your arrogant superior attitude with your condescending words work against you every time.

Liberal Reader| 6.18.10 @ 11:48PM

Leave RCV alone. Sure he is arrogant but not as bad as you.

Tom| 6.18.10 @ 1:22PM

Your point would be valid if he was facing any of those challenges in productive ways. In my opnion, and you are certainly welcome to disagree, he is not.

" 100 years of Presidents faced the Healthcare crisis in this country - Obama did something about it."
Even accepting Obama's healthcare reform is a good thing - and I do not - isn't that just a wee bit overblown? Come on, Obama is the first president to do anything?

The Big E| 6.18.10 @ 4:00PM

Of course, re-electing him would like keeping the basketball coach whose record over the last four years is 2 - 98.

(he's only half-way through - I'm assuming he'll get something right eventually - even a blind hog finds and acorn now and then)

Scot Z| 6.18.10 @ 4:10PM

Hopefully the thing he'll get right will be realizing he has no business being President and deciding not to seek reelection. Or, better yet, stepping down.

Even Carter's presidency didn't melt down this quickly.

chester arthur| 6.18.10 @ 10:07PM

Well,gee whiz,Mussolini had a lot of experience,and the people finally got really tired of the experience of 'benefitting' from his experience.For all his experience,Stalin was just a little less than a stellar leader.I guess for the lefties,Castro is a long running example of an experienced politician doing what they want for this country,but I don't think it translates to a free republic very well.Papa Doc Duvalier gave Baby Doc duties to enhance his experience,and that didn't work out either.Romanians weren't real thrilled with their longtime leader,and changed course with a bang,but durned if I can remember how to spell that leftist's name(Nicolai Chou-chess-que,phonetically)The Presidency shouldn't be your first real job.2012 will be the 2nd election year with big changes in store for the political class,courtesy of their betters in the voting booths.

Osamas Pajamas| 6.19.10 @ 12:35AM

OhBummer is a boob and a fool for attacking the American Tea Partiers. He is annoyed that they’re not grateful to him for hijacking the American healthcare system --- the greatest act of vandalism perpetrated upon the American people since a gang of jihadi frootloops and loonytoons hijacked some planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center towers, and the Pentagon, and made a failed attempt to crash into the White House and instead drilled a hole in a Pennsylvania farm thanks to some very courageous American passengers.

And --- now widely seen for what he is --- the president presents a problem for the Democrat-captured media. They pump out his propaganda for him --- and, like the opinion monitors in Ayn Rand’s novel, “Atlas Shrugged” --- they are dodging brickbats and rotten vegetables.

He’s pompous, pampered, and pretentious --- a pseudo-intellectual fop. He’s a glorified, smooth-lyin’ dandy, and slicker than Sick Willie Clinton. He’s a dictator-on-the-make, a bloodsxcking, predatory humanitarian thug, and a low-down skunk.

He’s a fraud and a swindler. He lies when he inhales and he lies when he exhales; his oxygen is the falsification of reality. He lies, placidly and laconically, as if deception were a soporific drug.

He’s a friend of the poor and the downtrodden --- indeed, you can hear the milk of human kindness sloshing around inside of him when he walks.

He declares himself the post-racial leader --- “Let me be clear!” he intones --- and he hides behind his race, daring his critics to put their reputation for fairness at risk.

He pauses to ponder the portent of his propaganda --- and it is fakery; he smiles and his mendacity comes shining through. Shake hands with Barak Hushpuppy OhBummer --- “The Mistake of ‘08” --- the illegal alien squatter in the White House --- and America’s first and last Arab president. Now count your fingers.

Stuart Koehl| 6.19.10 @ 5:32PM

"No one has faced the Oil Spill in the Gulf, ever, the worst environmental disaster in history. "

Not by a long shot. Every hear of the Dust Bowl? Even if we stick to oil slicks, this isn't the worst one ever (nor will it ever become so): the spill deliberately created by Saddam Hussein in the Persian Gulf in 1991 was an order of magnitude or more greater than this spill. And guess what? by 1993, there was no evidence that any lasting damage had been done to the ecosystem of the Persian Gulf--just as no lasting damage was done to Prince William Sound by the Exxon Valdez spill.

It's typical hubris to believe that human beings have the capacity to do lasting damage to the planet, especially when compared to the power of nature itself.

Tim| 6.18.10 @ 11:04AM

The Political House of Cards.

Ever wonder why 50 years of Jesse Jackson type community organizing in the poorest areas of the USA have produced very little improvement for the folks living in that generational poverty?

What you are seeing crumbling in the White House is "Exactly" why all of this empowerment has been a joke from day one in the early Sixties.

The power hungry harvard type fanatics far outnumber the few true believers of real empowerment and improvement of the poor individual.

It's so simple, even a caveman would understand this at this point.

Obama has set the clock back for True Believers 50 years at best.....the poor will get poorer and the middle class is getting hosed....

Heck, I didn't even have to consult with a Harvard focus group to figure this out.

Nick| 6.18.10 @ 11:34AM

President Dither is our first, and hopefully last, affirmative-action president.

O'Bama is the guy in those old war flicks, who freezes under enemy fire, and gets half the squad killed in the process.

Except in this case, WE are the squad he is going to get killed.

Troll Watch| 6.18.10 @ 11:40AM

It is time to call in the first stringers. Second and third string trolls like RCV, Purpleguy, Irma or Jeffry Pages can no longer come up with a line of crap that even convinces them. These mentally limited trolls are actually helping build moral on this web site since they are so uniformly mind numbingly dim. There has to be better doesn't there? They can't all be so stupid can they? There must be one of average intelligence someplace.

Liberal Reader| 6.19.10 @ 12:03AM

Your referring to this like it is not a pretty serious mental disease. These people are to be pitied not laughed at. With help some of them will be able to achieve a pretty much normal life. Remember half of the population is of below average intelligence. Well maybe not as bad as these guys but show some compassion.

Paul UK| 6.18.10 @ 11:52AM

Purpleguy, re:

I'm sorry to keep coming back to this point (from previous threads), but Bhopal was infinitely worse than your Gulf oil spill. That USA inflicted environmental disaster in India killed 25K people and the poison is still there (look it up on Wiki if you don't believe me). Then there's the USA inflicted oil disasters and spills round the UK coast which we just efficiently sorted out. Get a life - it's an oil spill. Bad I'll grant you, but on a scale of 0 to 10 it's a 2 in terms of a disaster. Try an Aceh Tsunami to calibrate the scale as a 10 and then please just pull yourselves together and help clean it up instead of this endless, pointless and ultimately fruitless blame game. There is a world beyond the USA out there and BHO is upsetting pretty much all of us one way or another, but the rank hypocrisy is by far the worst issue as far as us Brits are concerned.

Cheers from the rainy UK.

A Real Republican| 6.18.10 @ 12:09PM

Please understand that the Kool-Aid drinkers are blinded by catchy phrases and will follow Mr. Obama off a cliff.
And please understand my British Cousin, that despite the endless insults Mr. Obama throws at the UK and its citizens, the overwhelming majority of us Yanks still keep you guys on the very top of the list of BEST ALLIES AND FRIENDS. Pay no attention to the angry man behind the curtain. He does not speak for most of us, especially when he seeks to kiss his enemies and diss his friends. The UK will always be the best damn and most reliable ally the US will ever have. And most of us are thankful for that.
Salutations from a letter perfect sunny day in the US near the world's greatest source of hot air: Washington, D.C.

Tim*| 6.18.10 @ 12:26PM

Blimey ,The Limey just blew off again.

Paul UK| 6.18.10 @ 1:28PM

Many thanks for the kind words from 'Real Rupublican. I am minded to recall a caption which used to appear in the days when television production and technology was not as reliable as it is today. The caption read: 'We are sorry for the interruption to your programme. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible'. Perhaps this is where we are with the Obama years . . .

As for 'blowing off' from Tim*, well, what do you expect? The over reaction from the US on this is just staggering as well as hypocritical.

Cheers.

Tim*| 6.18.10 @ 2:17PM

Do your homework Limey .

Obviously Brit , you don't realize that BP created Cap & Trade with Enron back in The Mid 90's and now Ozero lectures them on the one hand ,while attempting to get Cap & Trade passed in The United States , rewarding BP , who poured big money into Ozero's Campaign War Chest.

Aaaand , BP may be British, but Americans own half its stock.

Tom| 6.18.10 @ 1:27PM

The USA no more caused Bhopal than the UK caused the Gulf oil spill. In both causes it was private entities, Union Carbide and BP respectively, that caused the damages.

Paul UK| 6.18.10 @ 1:34PM

In reply to Tom:

The difference is in the scale of the disaster, the government resposnses and the shielding of corporate figures. The American executive in charge of Bhopal was smuggled out of India and escaped examination and trial. What would have happened if the UK government had done the same for BP's CEO? Britain would never have allowed a UK company to walk away from such a disaster - the USA did and the problems still exist. QED.

Cheers, again . . .

Tim*| 6.18.10 @ 2:30PM

Hey Limey ,
Read Steven Grasse's : The Evil Empire :101 Ways That England Ruined The World , And get back us.

JP| 6.18.10 @ 3:17PM

The President will reap what he's sown. I cannot imagine the UK not withdrawing its 10,000 troops from Afghanistan. Or if they keep thier soldier's, they will bill the US for the costs. If I were Cameron this is what I would do. BP will now pay all of its future dividends through the next 6-8 financial quarters to Obama. This is assuming BP has the profits to do so. Obama is getting his slush fund on the backs of British retirees.

RCV| 6.18.10 @ 4:43PM

Wait a moment. Are you seriously suggesting that BP should NOT be responsible for the damage caused by its spill?

Paul UK| 6.18.10 @ 7:53PM

Am I being blocked from this site?

Three replies don't seem to have made it . . .

Cheers from the UK.

Tom| 6.18.10 @ 3:27PM

Paul,
Anderseon flew out of India in a plane owned and operated by the Indian government. He stopped in New Delhi on his way out. His departure from India hardly constitutes being smuggled out and even if it did the party doing the smuggling would have been the government of India.

Stuart Koehl| 6.19.10 @ 5:37PM

"That USA inflicted environmental disaster in India killed 25K people and the poison is still there (look it up on Wiki if you don't believe me). "

Not to pour cold water on your pity party, but Bhopal was mainly the fault of the Indian government, which insisted that unqualified Indian personnel be employed in critical safety positions at the Union Carbide plant. And it was one of those Indian workers who, through his personal negligence, caused the explosion that released the chemicals that killed all the people. Because the Indian government, corrupt, bureaucratic and wedded to the idea of a centrally managed economy, chose to pursue protectionism over competence. Sound familiar?

As for the Tsunami, there is that, plus several typhoons that killed more than 100,000 people in Bangladesh, and a couple of volcanic eruptions that make Mount Saint Helens look like a damp squib.

Ken (Old Texican)| 6.18.10 @ 12:05PM

Ladies and gentlemen,

Please forgive my copy/paste from another thread.

I for one, am thankful to God that Mr. Obama is a weak, inept man.

Yes, I believe he is at heart a communist agitator, with a sizeable dollop of Islamism thrown in, but think about this for a moment.

If Ronald Reagan had been secretly committed to driving our country off the cliff into the abyss, he would have accomplished it in less than a year.

This weak inept man is also not very good at lying and misdirecting. He has shown us his cards, and his deepest motives. (He has always telegraphed his punches as he timidly ooches ever closer to the "showdown" with the American patriots...of every stripe.)
Folks,
A would-be dictator has to be willing to take ............personal.........life and death risks at some point. I don't think this man has the stomach for it.

Finally then,
We have a CHANCE to salvage our country...if WE have the stomach for it.

He has taken the "gradualist" approach as opposed to the Bolshevik "All out assault" approach, but as his backers see we patriots swelling in numbers and commitment, that could change...over night. Be yee a boy-scout...and "be prepared".
God bless America

Ret. Marine| 6.20.10 @ 6:40AM

Treuly a gentleman and scholar in these times. I read, read, and read some more. By the day it is apparent that there are a few of us with our heads squarely upon our shoulders, we must be because of this insanity, some of us must remind others of their own limited developement in the "maturity" dept. Thanks again for some sound advise. Semper Fi.

bill carson| 6.18.10 @ 12:20PM

Wow! Criticizing Obama! Isn't that supposed to racist? But how can it be racism if even many Obama lover criticized his BP speech?

Anthony| 6.18.10 @ 3:47PM

Silly boy, liberals can say and do anything without any racist tag. They're special people. Rules only apply to the rest of us.

CallMeIshael| 6.18.10 @ 12:22PM

You'll know Obama is serious about cleaning up this oil spill when he announces a FATWA declaring JIHAD on the oil spill.

Persy Istence| 6.18.10 @ 1:03PM

The good news is you don't need to undo that which was never legally done.
Native Born is Not Natural Born and Native Born is Irrefutably Ineligible.
Who else is going down with him is the only question that remains.

John II| 6.18.10 @ 1:04PM

Does anyone remember back near the end of the Carter administration (thanks be to Allah!) when President Carter's daughter (Amy?) held forth on the release of the second Star Wars movie ("The Empire Strikes Back")? She said that Yoda's ears were cute. It may have been the most intelligent statement ever to issue from the Carter administration, but I tarry.

I would like to grant a few square centimeters of ground to the brain-challenged Purpleguy and his associates. Professor Obama may be a punch-drunk Lefty loser, a new-age narcissist, a bilious know-it-all, a shallow child of his times, and the least qualified man ever to occupy the White House--but I believe it should be conceded to the conceited oaf that, among all his predecessors, Professor Obama has the cutest ears.

I really like the way they stick out when he's looking down his nose in his Il Duce pose. We mean ol' Spectator readers must give credit where it is due. Think of the joy the Professor brings to the hearts of the world's caricaturists.

Two John II| 6.18.10 @ 3:12PM

Larry Sinclair and Frank Marshall Davis referred to his ears as "Love Handles". . .

Pukin' just a little.. .hkhm, ahgug

Stuart Koehl| 6.19.10 @ 5:38PM

"Professor Obama has the cutest ears."

This side of Radar O'Reilly, of course.

John II| 6.20.10 @ 7:21PM

Oh. Yes, of course. But I also forgot Stan Laurel. It seems, then , that Professor Obama does NOT have the cutest ears. So he is without any talent, knowledge, personal integrity, or saving redemption whatsoever. As certain kinds of academic liberals are prone to say when they don't have anything to say in response to a critical response: "I am saddened."

russel| 6.18.10 @ 1:06PM

Who cares why Zero is what he is , the problem at hand is getting rid of him . Ret Marine is right on , the Impeach word should be floating everywhere . His treasonous joke punned as foreign policy , removing missile defenses , et al . A commander in chief not . Time for mutiny and toss this unqualified and dangerous captain over the side .

NavyBrat | 6.18.10 @ 1:13PM

The fact of the matter is that the Sail Eared Simpleton (nods to a buddy on TownHall.com for that one) has no more BS to pitch. His own minions like Purple Puke may be too engaged in their fellatious love of him to notice it, but the minions in the media can sure see it. The rest of the country just doesn't believe a single word that comes out of his mouth.

There's NO DOUBT in my mind that this oil spill has been allowed to progress to the point it has BY DESIGN. It is, yet again, an illustration of THE core principle of this admin., which was explained so well by Rahm, "never let a crisis go to waste." Why not accept the assistance offered by 13 other countries to help out with the cleanup? Why not suspend the Jones Act, as other Presidents have done in similar situations? So he can repay his union goon butt buddies.

So now we have shaken down BP. 40% of BP stockholders are Americans. The rest are British pensioners. Since BP is suspending its dividend, now Obama has managed to screw them too, a la Chrysler bond holders. And this shakedown isn't finished. Just like the mob, this is a case of "once in, never out." And its a damned travesty that our country has come to this.

Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 10:57PM

Yep, that's good ol' conservative logic... when the guy you don't like does something you typically would cheer, you must do a 180, as ridiculous as it looks and you sound. Ask Joe Barton if he made a big impression today with his apology to BP ... He has now branded all Republicans with the defense of BP while calling the President's agreement with BP a "shakedown". In case you doubt that, over 100 Republican lawmakers belong to the Republican Study Committee, which was the first place "shakedown" was used. Don't kid yourself if you think this isn't going viral and has handed Democrats a wonderful gift to hit Republicans over the head this fall. Joe Barton might be responsible for 20 seats that Republicans might have won in the House, but now could lose this fall. Thank you, Joe. And, with nut case Sharron Angle and Libertarian Rand Paul running in what should have been easy R wins, but likely to lose to D's, it's gonna be a bluer country in November.

Even your own Republican leadership gets it... they made him apologize, twice, or lose his position in Congress as Ranking member on the Energy committee.

By taking the side of the bad actor BP, that took shortcuts in safety and disaster planning, you're betraying the conservative principle of holding the wrongdoer to account, holding them responsible for their actions. Why would you do that? Are you a hypocrite?

And, with nut case Sharron Angle and Libertarian Rand Paul running in what should have been easy R wins, but likely to lose to D's, it's gonna be a bluer country in November. 11/02/2010

BlewBoy| 6.18.10 @ 11:47PM

Ooooh , I love it when you say it's gonna be a blewer country in November 11/02/2010. Let's show these Bad Boy Conservatives how we make the country blewer .

Purpleguy| 6.20.10 @ 10:07PM

You first .. you seem to know the technique pretty well.

Liberal Reader| 6.18.10 @ 11:52PM

This is worse than I thought. You need to get to troll rehab right away.

Osamas Pajamas| 6.19.10 @ 12:37AM

OhBummer is a boob and a fool for attacking the American Tea Partiers. He is annoyed that they’re not grateful to him for hijacking the American healthcare system --- the greatest act of vandalism perpetrated upon the American people since a gang of jihadi frootloops and loonytoons hijacked some planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center towers, and the Pentagon, and made a failed attempt to crash into the White House and instead drilled a hole in a Pennsylvania farm thanks to some very courageous American passengers.

And --- now widely seen for what he is --- the president presents a problem for the Democrat-captured media. They pump out his propaganda for him --- and, like the opinion monitors in Ayn Rand’s novel, “Atlas Shrugged” --- they are dodging brickbats and rotten vegetables.

He’s pompous, pampered, and pretentious --- a pseudo-intellectual fop. He’s a glorified, smooth-lyin’ dandy, and slicker than Sick Willie Clinton. He’s a dictator-on-the-make, a bloodsxcking, predatory humanitarian thug, and a low-down skunk.

He’s a fraud and a swindler. He lies when he inhales and he lies when he exhales; his oxygen is the falsification of reality. He lies, placidly and laconically, as if deception were a soporific drug.

He’s a friend of the poor and the downtrodden --- indeed, you can hear the milk of human kindness sloshing around inside of him when he walks.

He declares himself the post-racial leader --- “Let me be clear!” he intones --- and he hides behind his race, daring his critics to put their reputation for fairness at risk.

He pauses to ponder the portent of his propaganda --- and it is fakery; he smiles and his mendacity comes shining through. Shake hands with Barak Hushpuppy OhBummer --- “The Mistake of ‘08” --- the illegal alien squatter in the White House --- and America’s first and last Arab president. Now count your fingers.

Purpleguy| 6.20.10 @ 10:08PM

Spoken like a true ideologue ...

Liberal Reader| 6.20.10 @ 10:59PM

He is not a troll. That is the ultimate ideologue. Get help.

Purple Guy| 6.18.10 @ 1:31PM

Ahh, I'm back. I had to see my boyfriends, Jeffry Pages & Bawney Fwank back off to work after they stopped home for their "nooners." And no, this isn't toothpaste at the corners of my mouth.

Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 7:05PM

How intelligent, use someone else's handle ... Hooray for President Obama! He is the best thing to happen to this country this century! One day, you will all be glad he was here, right now, at this time.

John II| 6.18.10 @ 8:25PM

"One day, you will all be glad he was here, right now, at this time."

That's probably true. One could make a case for the proposition that the abysmal Carter presidency was a necessary condition for the landslide victory of Reagan in 1980.

As the Romans used to say, Videbimus quod videbimus.

(In case you don't recognize it, that's Classical Latin, Purp. Roughly translated, it means "Thank God that Obama sucks.")

Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 10:32PM

Of course it was ... the doddering old fool could not get elected until after the Carter disaster, but 2 weeks from the election Carter led Reagan. I'm not sure what changed, but an October surprise comes to mind. Anybody know why Reagan surged in the last weeks of the 1980 campaign?

Liberal Reader| 6.18.10 @ 11:54PM

Now you have turned into a racist nut. Obama behaves exactly as Carter but you think it is different. It is good that you at least see Carter as a disaster. Troll rehab can help with your race obsession.

John II| 6.18.10 @ 11:57PM

You're right again, Purp. I completely forgot about the special deal made between the Reagan Machiavellians and the legitimate Iranian revolutionaries whom you otherwise admire.

But the doddering old fool did the same thing, only more so, in 1984. Memory fails, as I get older. I can't recall what THAT landslide was about. All I can remember is that it was unprecedented.

Tom| 6.19.10 @ 8:19AM

That October suprise was Reagan handing Carter his head in the second presidental debate in the last week of October. Anyone with even a casual knowledge of that election would be aware of this. It is pretty devastating when a President is seen on national TV admitting he asks his young daughter for advice. The political cartoonists had a field day with that.

John II| 6.19.10 @ 2:18PM

Purp on Reagan reminds me of Major Strasser in "Casablanca" commenting broadly on the "blundering Americans." To which comment the flexible Renault replies: "I wouldn't be too sure--I was with the Americans when they blundered into Berlin during the last war."

Boy, those were the good ol' days, when liberals were still patriots.

Anyhow, there's something reassuring about Purp's cocksure manner as applied to his/her degenerate lefty politics. Even Professor Obama--he than whom there can be none more cocksure--has said, in a recent interview, that he may be a one-term president. If he calculates so, and is even now starting to go for broke, throwing all political caution to the winds over the next two and a half years, his presidency may turn out to be even a greater boon than Carter's.

Imagine the Professor taking down with him into flames the whole nutwing American Left. Imagine.

Ret. Marine| 6.20.10 @ 6:44AM

Yeah the adults awoke to find another commie trying to slip an adult in his place.

Purpleguy| 6.20.10 @ 10:06PM

Well, thank you all for showing me you don't know why Reagan beat Carter in the last 2 weeks of the 1980 election. I thought you might know more about the history of your own One, your Dear Leader.

I'll do some research, not from Fixed News of course, and get back to you on why he won.

Liberal Reader| 6.20.10 @ 11:01PM

You live in a total fantasy land. You make up the past, present and future. Get help.

Osamas Pajamas| 6.19.10 @ 12:38AM

OhBummer is a boob and a fool for attacking the American Tea Partiers. He is annoyed that they’re not grateful to him for hijacking the American healthcare system --- the greatest act of vandalism perpetrated upon the American people since a gang of jihadi frootloops and loonytoons hijacked some planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center towers, and the Pentagon, and made a failed attempt to crash into the White House and instead drilled a hole in a Pennsylvania farm thanks to some very courageous American passengers.

And --- now widely seen for what he is --- the president presents a problem for the Democrat-captured media. They pump out his propaganda for him --- and, like the opinion monitors in Ayn Rand’s novel, “Atlas Shrugged” --- they are dodging brickbats and rotten vegetables.

He’s pompous, pampered, and pretentious --- a pseudo-intellectual fop. He’s a glorified, smooth-lyin’ dandy, and slicker than Sick Willie Clinton. He’s a dictator-on-the-make, a bloodsxcking, predatory humanitarian thug, and a low-down skunk.

He’s a fraud and a swindler. He lies when he inhales and he lies when he exhales; his oxygen is the falsification of reality. He lies, placidly and laconically, as if deception were a soporific drug.

He’s a friend of the poor and the downtrodden --- indeed, you can hear the milk of human kindness sloshing around inside of him when he walks.

He declares himself the post-racial leader --- “Let me be clear!” he intones --- and he hides behind his race, daring his critics to put their reputation for fairness at risk.

He pauses to ponder the portent of his propaganda --- and it is fakery; he smiles and his mendacity comes shining through. Shake hands with Barak Hushpuppy OhBummer --- “The Mistake of ‘08” --- the illegal alien squatter in the White House --- and America’s first and last Arab president. Now count your fingers.

NoZero| 6.18.10 @ 1:43PM

Purple LIPS , who cares here what is around your mouth , go to KOS and leave us alone .

Purpleguy| 6.18.10 @ 7:04PM

No .. it's good for you ... I might be working on someone's behalf and copying all your commentary. You know, Ve have Vays of finding out who you are .. Achtung!

Liberal Reader| 6.18.10 @ 11:57PM

Unless a troll goes to a lock down facility he will not be able to help himself. In some strange way he likes being knocked around by conservatives and can't stop himself.

Sheila| 6.18.10 @ 1:45PM

Excellent comment, CopyKatnj (surely you've heard that the best indicator of someone's intelligence is how much he agrees with you? In my books, you're brilliant!). Dear Leader was elected by the "people" and he will be re-elected by the same - and then we will have no more "stinkin" elections. Everyone else: ignore all the comment thread after CopyKatnj's Cicero quote; it degenerates to pattycake with a troll - why people can't learn not to poke sticks at roadkill I will never understand. Decline and fall.

Ken (Old Texican)| 6.18.10 @ 4:11PM

Sheila,
...and other doomsters, Decline and fall my butt!

I for one refuse...to "recline and whine"!

God bless America

dw| 6.18.10 @ 1:49PM

Obamanation's square box is our country. The same square box that over 300 million of us have to try and survive in while he gains experience by trail and error. (all error unfortunately) When his ideology and the far left drive his actions his actions will be counter productive and inconsistent as a result.
It is why he can never be a true leader. His responce is always measured by the answer to the question of what is politically expiedient to his base and his marxist philosophy. That base relies on class warfare and feel good at the moment reaction to guide there aversion to free markets and free people. He is both the worst character and the worst president.

ojo grande| 6.18.10 @ 3:18PM

Sorry,
I disagree with the author when he implys that Obama is a better man than Clinton, just more incompetent.

Obama is a lying fraud....He is a Muslim Marxist who is intent on destroying the country that I love....the only reason he is failing...is that the American people are finally waking up to the fact of what and who he really is.

joan| 6.18.10 @ 5:29PM

I guess Dear Leader is finally making sure that the old South will indeed NEVER rise again. Let the gulf and the South go to hell, then send in the carpetbaggers.

jrjr| 6.18.10 @ 5:33PM

Daniel Oliver (author) -- you shook the cage, stirred up the hornet nest -- good one! Lots of good comments here. Clinton vesus the Savior? The difference - Clinton had females on his mind and was able to dismiss Hillary's version of the New World. Obama was trained well - to do whatever he can to destroy the "old" U.S. and make it new - in the Alinsky mold. And just about now - the mold is overtaking everything.

Bob Grant| 6.18.10 @ 7:57PM

The Mort Zuckerman piece today supports Mr. Oliver's article... My worry is when/if the second depression hits (an even bet at this point) in the not-too-distant-future, how will this lack of experience affect all of us? Say what you will about FDR, he at least had SOME background to indicate he was qualified to handle that crisis, albeit misguided. Also, what happens when a real international crisis crops up? These questions contribute to my insomnia.

Stan Allen | 6.18.10 @ 8:24PM

Thank you!
It's that constant assurance of how brilliant Obama is that I find most annoying of all - the elites at the New York Times always gush about him along the lines of how he asks a million questions, or consults a ton of experts, or reads voluminously, or, or, or - except that there's never any tangible display of all this brilliance; if he's so dang smart, why is this country is in such poor shape??

It seems that his genius, if you want to call it that, is merely to get others to believe in his genius - and that seems to be good enough for the elites.

Bob Grant| 6.18.10 @ 8:35PM

If you haven't already, read the Mort Zuckerman article. The link's on Drudge. It's absolutely devastating!! THIS, coming from a supporter during the 2008 campaign. I think the cracks are forming with pieces beginning to crumble.

genera| 6.20.10 @ 12:51PM

That's called a CON-man,

Blakeney| 6.18.10 @ 8:31PM

See Obama’s star sink down in the sky
Every dream he has spun is a lie
Here’s the one bitter lesson of Obama’s history
His soul should no longer remain a mystery
His many faces change
What you thought you knew grows ever more strange
And he has so many faces
His real self erases
With all those lies dancing in his empty eyes!

FeralCat| 6.18.10 @ 8:35PM

You can send an idiot to Harvard but that doesn't train him out of being an idiot, it just turns him into a Harvard trained idiot, 100 times as dangerous.

FeralCat| 6.18.10 @ 8:38PM

Don't know much about history
Don't know much about producing energy
Don't know much about an economics book
Don't know much about the constitutional law I took

But I do know that I would love imposing Marxism on you
And I know that if you would just love Lenin too
What a wonderful socialist country this would be

La ta ta ta ta ta ta
(History)
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
(Producing energy)
La ta ta ta ta ta ta
(Economics book)
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
(Constitutional law I took)

But I do know that I would love imposing Marxism on you
And I know that if you would just love Lenin too
What a wonderful socialist country this would be
- The Child Emperor

John II| 6.18.10 @ 9:10PM

I sat down feeling desolated,
Bowed my head and crossed my knees:
Is Fortune really predicated
Upon such tiny turns as these?
Then Fate's a thing without a head--
A puzzled never understood!
And man proceeds where he is led,
Unguaranteed of bad or good!

FATE! Fate is the election of Obama--
A rather weird diorama!
And all we say against the day
Of Obama, a nightmare drama,
Is FATE!

Bob Grant| 6.18.10 @ 9:20PM

Lets face it. His only known leadership skills are when he advised/encouraged/led disgruntled tenants in Chicago how to shake down building owners and city officials. Other than that >>>> zip!

Fionnagh| 6.18.10 @ 10:20PM

LaDuce, I had a really long day at work. Just got home and read your post. LOL funny. Thanks so much for reminding me why I - a lifelong, diehard Dem - voted the McCain/Palin ticket!. And thanks for the laugh!

Osamas Pajamas| 6.19.10 @ 12:39AM

OhBummer is a boob and a fool for attacking the American Tea Partiers. He is annoyed that they’re not grateful to him for hijacking the American healthcare system --- the greatest act of vandalism perpetrated upon the American people since a gang of jihadi frootloops and loonytoons hijacked some planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center towers, and the Pentagon, and made a failed attempt to crash into the White House and instead drilled a hole in a Pennsylvania farm thanks to some very courageous American passengers.

And --- now widely seen for what he is --- the president presents a problem for the Democrat-captured media. They pump out his propaganda for him --- and, like the opinion monitors in Ayn Rand’s novel, “Atlas Shrugged” --- they are dodging brickbats and rotten vegetables.

He’s pompous, pampered, and pretentious --- a pseudo-intellectual fop. He’s a glorified, smooth-lyin’ dandy, and slicker than Sick Willie Clinton. He’s a dictator-on-the-make, a bloodsxcking, predatory humanitarian thug, and a low-down skunk.

He’s a fraud and a swindler. He lies when he inhales and he lies when he exhales; his oxygen is the falsification of reality. He lies, placidly and laconically, as if deception were a soporific drug.

He’s a friend of the poor and the downtrodden --- indeed, you can hear the milk of human kindness sloshing around inside of him when he walks.

He declares himself the post-racial leader --- “Let me be clear!” he intones --- and he hides behind his race, daring his critics to put their reputation for fairness at risk.

He pauses to ponder the portent of his propaganda --- and it is fakery; he smiles and his mendacity comes shining through. Shake hands with Barak Hushpuppy OhBummer --- “The Mistake of ‘08” --- the illegal alien squatter in the White House --- and America’s first and last Arab president. Now count your fingers.

digi| 6.19.10 @ 2:29PM

"Now count your fingers."
I got two fingers for you. Guess which ones they are.

WAKE UP | 6.19.10 @ 1:12AM

"...he may have been an affirmative-action admittee. As he was to the White House. "

Nicely put.

Jim O'Brien| 6.19.10 @ 8:49AM

There is a clear message coming out of the White House and Congressional Democrats, addressed to the people of Arizona, the people of the Gulf Coast, everyone who needs medical care, and all the thousands of victims of Islamism - both civilians and soldiers. The message is this: People of the United States, Go To Hell, we will dictate what's best for you. OH YEAH?

Phil| 6.21.10 @ 3:10AM

Jim, Good to hear you favor universal healthcare.

michigander_sandusky| 6.19.10 @ 9:37AM

Think about it...Obama is the finest affirmative action can produce.

vtwin| 6.19.10 @ 4:17PM

Was George Bush is the “finest” a wealthy politically connected politician with friends on the supreme court could produce?

martin j smith| 6.19.10 @ 9:50AM

Examining BHO's behavior I will describe my personal thinking and why some of it though perhaps even true, would not fly in our country--yet.
Here is the deal. Why would president, any president--continue to trample on the majority of voters abd so continuously destructive as BHO has done. And, not overtly even care. Oh I know--I am not the fly on the wall and gee I wish I were.
BHO--real or an act get angry and hostile to any who disagree with him its as if only HE knows what to do and how to do it. But this is completely dilusional on his part because even LEFTIES to some to degree see the light--or should I say storm clouds on the horizon. Is it incompetence or is it something more sinister ?
I say more sinister. JKust looking how the government is mishadling the Gulf oil disaster, how it contiues to overspend,how it sabotages any enforcement of immigration laws, how it throws our allies under the bus. It all adds to to a piece. This therefore is the conclusion I draw.
BHO is a terrorist supporter in the white house. He is purposefully destroying this nation both its economy and in the military and foreign affairs realms. He does not care if he is impeached or does not get re-elected. his job and motive is simple: destroy as much as possible in as short a time as possible. I believe this is where he has been and where he is going. But, many even republicans are afraid of articulating there thoughts. Gd willing Republicans win the house and set up investigations of BHO as they have stated. ,Then, perhaps the evidence will fall into place to for all to see.

So first win the election then there is chance the truth can come dout.

Jenny| 6.19.10 @ 12:20PM

The best thing I can say about Obama is that he seems to be a good husband and father.

digi| 6.19.10 @ 2:22PM

this article is complete BS. Reagan didn't save the economy in fact he tripled the deficit but you two faced rat bastards disregard deficits when republican are in office then cry about them when dems are elected. FDR created the middle class and won WW2. Reagan just gave handed over america's prosperity to China on a silver plater.

Tim*| 6.19.10 @ 2:41PM

You're BS Sport .

Ronald Reagan increased the deficit by 35 percent in eight years, whereas Barack Obama has increased the deficit by 450 percent in eight weeks. Reagan created an extra $37 billion in annual deficit. Mr. Obama has already created an extra $1.4 trillion in annual deficit.

vtwin| 6.19.10 @ 3:20PM

Who do the conservatives think they're fooling?

In January 1981, when President Ronald Reagan took office the nation's debt was only $934.1 billion.

In January 1989, when President Ronald Reagan left office the nation's debt was over $2.7 trillion.

Ronald Reagan tripled the national debt!

Tim*| 6.19.10 @ 4:10PM

I was answering Lib Dude there about " The Deficit " and you're talkin' The National Debt .

Apparently ,you Libs don't know the difference.

vtwin| 6.19.10 @ 3:57PM

On Jan. 7, 2009, two weeks BEFORE Obama took office, the Congressional Budget Office reported that the deficit for fiscal year 2009 was projected to be $1.2 trillion.

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99x.....earing.pdf

450 persent of $1.2 trillion is $5.4 trillion. So, think Obama has spend $5.4 trillion in eight weeks?

Tim*| 6.19.10 @ 4:16PM

Again , The Deficit is Not The National Debt.

Here,read the article :http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/04/08/commentary/op-eds/doc49dc346

Tim*| 6.19.10 @ 4:25PM

" Deficit " Vs. " Debt "

This may help :http://www.federalbudget.com/

vtwin| 6.19.10 @ 4:43PM

“Again, The Deficit is Not The National Debt.”
Agreed, the national debt is to cumulative total of all the annual [budget] deficits since the founding of our nation.
Ronald Reagan ran budget deficits for each and EVERY year of his administrations totaling $1.7 trillion. Three times the cumulative total of $900 billion for all previous presidents.
George W Bush also ran budget deficits for each and EVERY year of his administrations totaling $6 trillion. More than two times the cumulative total of all his predecessors of $5 trillion.

Tim*| 6.20.10 @ 1:22AM

Wrong. You didn't include Surpluses.

The National Debt is the total amount of money owed by the government; the federal budget deficit is the yearly amount by which spending exceeds revenue. Add up all the deficits (and subtract those few budget surpluses we've had) for the past 200+ years and you'll get the current National Debt.

Tim*| 6.20.10 @ 1:33AM

Now look at Obama's staggering Debt.
The federal government is now $13 trillion in the red ( National Debt ) .
At $13 trillion, that figure has risen by $2.4 trillion in about 500 days since President Obama took office, or an average of $4.9 billion a day. That's almost three times the daily average of $1.7 billion under the previous administration.

vtwin| 6.20.10 @ 6:19PM

I don’t include “Surpluses” when referring to Reagan tripling or Bush doubling the national debt because neither had any “Surpluses”.

Putting that point aside, Reagan tripled (3x) and Bush double (2x) the “National Debt” during their respective terms in office.

vtwin| 6.19.10 @ 3:27PM

The military run the country? When, before or after they finish the jobs in Iraq and Afghanistan?

T. Poole| 6.19.10 @ 6:00PM

VT, the military, if left to itself and even with the lousy, politically correct, leadership it now has could clean up the wars in shortorder; but there is no way they will turn loose the "warfighters" so long as we have liberal patsies in charge.
Unfortunately, I doubt that they would take on the job of "running America". First because it goes totally against the traing they have received that Civilians control their missions. Second most, if not all, military below the grade of Brigadier General/Rear Admiral are, or were in my time 'apolitical'. We may have hated the guy issuing the order (Carter for one) but our Oath is/was to the Constitution of the United States. My biggest problem with ther Constitution is that it is too vague as to what constitutes "high crimes and misdemeanors" or how many misdemeanors does it take to escalate to high crime. I frankly feel Obama has committed high crimes by giving aid and comfort to the enemy (militant Islam/Iran), and certainly by the number of 'bows' to tinpots around the globe he has demeaned the United States (misdemeaners). And so I would suggest we need a Constitutional Convention to clear up some of the vague spots, not to throw out the Constitution as Obama is doing. It takes 34 States to force one, I believe there are around 17 right now who would sign on, maybe the others will come around soon.

Phil| 6.21.10 @ 3:04AM

good luck with that.

Phil| 6.21.10 @ 3:09AM

Where were you when Bush passed "No Child Left Behind" which is step one the federalisation of the school system? Where were you when Bush passed "the Department of Faith Based Initiatives" which is step one in the federalization of religion.

You need to take a long look in the mirror and figure out where your true colors lie.

mainspring| 6.19.10 @ 9:11PM

Since it is a foregone conclusion that most politicians are congenital liars about their education, military records, and now birthplace, why don't we have a Constitutioal amendment requiring that anyone wishing to be a candidate for office produce all that up front and then submit to psychological testing to rule out such quirks as megolomania, paranoia, narcissism, delusions of adequacy (oh, damn, there goes half the Senate, right there)

Bill Clinton, who was paraded before us as the Rhodes Scholar - did not complete his degree at Oxford - spent it protesting Vietnam - -hailed by an adoring press as the "smartest" President we have ever had. By whose standards? Has anyone ever seen a valid IQ test of Bubba's? A transcript of his grades? No, and in fact, there's another guy whose birth certificate you have not seen. Oh, we know where he was born, we just don't know who his Daddy was. Virginia may not have, either. The story goes that Daddy was killed in an automobile accident a little too soon for him to have been Bill's Daddy. (See book by David Marinus) In fact, when Bill was elected President does anyone remember the outcropping of all ex-wives of Bill's alleged father and all of Bill's unknown half-siblings? One a week there for awhile and all pretty low-rent types! It was documented that when Virginia married Bill's father, he was still married to someone else.

Obama is not the first shadowy figure we have had in the White House At least we know Clinton was born in Arkansas to a bar-fly anesthesiologist who had a claim of malpractice against her for letting a patient die on the operating table. At least we know Bill's brother was not in a hut in Kenya - even if our alternative knowledge was that Roger had done hard time for cocaine dealing..

Did we know about Billy Carter before we elected Jimmy? Would it have made a difference? Would we have tolerated Billy Beer and Biilly urinating on the tarmac of a Libyan airport? And making shady deals with foreign governments?

I think we will tolerate just about everything with a big "D" after it.

Al Gore was touted as being so much smarter than George Bush. Only later did it come out that Bush's grades were better than Gore's. What? You didn't know that? I am not surprised. We never heard during the campaign about Gore's flunking out of divinity school, I beleive it was - I don't recall exactly - but he did.

Without the veterans of the Swift Boats we would never have known the truth of John Kerry's 3 months' tour of duty in Vietnam. Whatever happened to the threatened lawsuit John Kerry was going to bring against them?

And what came of that? Well, besides Kerry's defeat, he Dems now use "swift-boating" to mean some kind of underhanded dealing.

OK, so now we have Mr. Green in So. Carolina - there is a prime example of vetting the candidate. How would you like his to be the deciding vote someday?

If you are wondering how we got Obama, my guess is there are more Irma La Dunces and Purplegays and Diva Shakeys than we think - PG being the one who thinks Obama won in a landslide.

Airline pilots have to have comprehensive psychological screening in order to fly 350 souls from SFO to JFK and this guy, who could not keep a Greyhound Bus on the road from Peoria to Elk Grove gets to decide everything in every facet of the lives of 320,000,000 because "it was time for a change".

In order to be hired in a non-security position at a major airline, every job I ever held was verified,
plus every level of my education, birthplace, etc.

No one ever asked Obama where he came from - even though he is on record as saying when he was running for US Senator, some smart-ass retort, "OK, so I wasn't born in the US, I am running for Senator, not President . . ." that was on open mike - and I am pararphrasng, but it was said.

And now, thanks to the UN-inquiring minds of the press and electorate, we are on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride - out of control.

Phil| 6.21.10 @ 3:03AM

And George Bush?

Anyone such as yourself who is so involved in party politics that you can't see and talk about the errors and ineptitudes of both sides is not a smart person.

Elle| 6.19.10 @ 11:54PM

T Poole "I frankly feel Obama has committed high crimes by giving aid and comfort to the enemy (militant Islam/Iran)".
You are exactly right. He should be impeached for betraying the United States to its avowed enemies. But where are the courageous politicians who are needed to make that happen?

martin j smith| 6.20.10 @ 8:24AM

This article points to BHO --the innexperienced, the incompetent. I do not buy thiss argument alone anymore. Again you must ask yourself this question why would a President in light free fall of approval, the threat of a political disaster--even to his own party-continue to persue destructive policies ? Dilusional-yes. This definitley part of the character of a dictator--the feelings of omnipotence. BHO is not kool, but detached--on a mission that he will will not stop. In whose pocket is BHO ? Who is really calling the shots ? What foreign governments are involved ?( as an aside, the same questions should have been asked about GWB on many issues BTW ). It is if we are to survive as a nation to get of this guy and his party from power ASAP. About 5 more months--practice your voting skills early and often !!!!!!!!!!!

Bob Grant| 6.20.10 @ 10:02AM

If you read his two autobiographies and other analysis of his life you will discover he passed through, or by-passed, all the filters that normally determine an individuals path in life. He was raised by a very intelligent mother and grandparents who told him how great and special he was. His grandfather, out of guilt I suppose, provided baby obama with grandiose stories of his great and noble father. In his two auto-bios, obama likes to give the impression that he was always smarter than his peers and a natural leader as the person people inevitably turned to him to "set things right". This pattern repeated itself throughout his life: the radical leader in college, the Chicago community organizer in Chicago sent by some unknown entity; the golden-child treatment from his tribe and community when he visited Kenya (he was treated almost like a god as soon as his plane touched ground in Nairobi); the push by unknown entities for him to pursue a political career; and most dangerous of all, the 24/7 fawning of all things obama by the fourth estate (the media). Is it any wonder why he turned out the way he has when he's never been told no or of his limits?...this guy had a very small square box to begin with and approached his limit several weeks into his presidency.

Zorro| 6.20.10 @ 11:07AM

Does anyone think that maybe Obama should hire Rove, Cheney, and Woofowitz? (intended)

Phil| 6.21.10 @ 2:58AM

Those warmongers would be at home with the current guy, but no, that would be a bad idea.

Zorro| 6.20.10 @ 1:19PM

Who built the square box?

Pete| 6.20.10 @ 2:17PM

Let not us forget our forefathers and all the men and women who made the supreme sacrifice in all our Nation's wars to protect our liberty and freedom and our way of life.
It is so hard to believe that this inept , unaccountable teleprompter puppet who is directed on what to say and do by "The Regime" would be permitted to walk all over their graves.
With his resume he wouldn't be hired to run a small company no less OUR COUNTRY.
If allowed to go unchecked "THE REGIME" WILL BE A BIGGER SURPRISE THEN PEARL HARBOR AND 9/11 PUT TOGETHER !
It appears our only chance is the Mid-term elections if they occur on time with an absolute control on all "hidden" fraud and corruption.
Pete

Phil| 6.21.10 @ 2:57AM

Our forefathers owned slaved and didn't count women as people.

Much like his predecessor, he was hired by the people of the US to do the job. Apparently you believe anyone who doesn't vote for the person you want is an idiot?

Ahab| 6.20.10 @ 5:43PM

Obummer advocates keep extolling his "brilliance." Will someone please tell me about this "brilliance," as in, a light so bright it outshines all others? Where is this "brilliance" demonstrated? Are there any "papers" he's written while matriculating through the several colleges he attended that exemplify original thought on ANY subject?

Isn't it appropriate for a student to submit a "Thesis Paper" in order to graduate? What was it on, if he's submitted one? Aren't you supposed to have published, even in college, papers to your course instructor to prove you've reached the level of competence necessary to pass that course?

The Obummer has "Editor, Harvard Law Review" on his resume'! Where are the reviews of court cases, judicial decisions, constitutional law, or even precedents established in federal courts that are supposed to be the hallmark of the Harvard Law Review with his name on it? Was this an honorary post, and was he actually there? Where are all the proofs that demonstrate this "brilliance?"

I keep reading it, and hearing it; but, I don't see it shown anywhere, especially not from the Obummer himself. If he's so brilliant, then what has he accomplished that demonstrates brilliance?

We've bought into that premise hook, line, and sinker, and it's a lie. I'm not from Missouri, but do it anyhow. Show me!

John II| 6.20.10 @ 7:41PM

Ahab, allow me to explain. After more than 40 years in academe, I think I know how it works.

There are two kinds of "brilliance": (a) the kind that enlightens and (b) the kind that dazzles. But there are also two kinds of people who are called "brilliant": (a) those who are pretty smart but baffled by all the fuss, and (b) those who aren't very smart at all, but bask smugly in the unwarranted praise.

Professor Obama is a b-man. I know all this because I happen to be an a-man. In other words, I've been call "brilliant" and a "genius," but all I can do is wonder what the hell the people who say so (mostly students and a few passing teachers) are talking about.

Academia is a very weird place, with only intermittent connection to the real world. Professor Obama is of the academic world--he really believes the nonsense that nervous white people, academics and journalists, have said about him. And he's not even bright enough to wonder why they would say things so transparently preposterous. He simply believes what they say.

Because he's morally dumb.

Does that help?

Phil| 6.21.10 @ 2:53AM

Which are you? What qualifies you to make this statement? You appear to be neither A nor B.

John II| 6.21.10 @ 9:37AM

Which statement? I made several.

Long experience among the morally and politically deranged was offered in the first paragraph as my qualification, and I answered your first question already.

Are you a b? You certainly sound like one.

Ahab| 6.20.10 @ 11:25PM

Well, alrighty then, John II. I think I have the picture. And, indeed, what they do say is incredibly preposterous! The "empty suit" analogy is truly apt. He is there, but he's not.

The libs have bought a pig in a poke, and since the chips are now on the table, they're beginning to see they bought nothing at all, there is no substance, he's all smoke and mirrors. The problem, as I see it, is we're stuck with a CEO

Ahab| 6.20.10 @ 11:29PM

Fat fingered the keys and lost the connection. Here 'tis again.

Well, alrighty then, John II. I think I have the picture. And, indeed, what they do say is incredibly preposterous! The "empty suit" analogy is truly apt. He is there, but he's not.

The libs have bought a pig in a poke, and since the chips are now on the table, they're beginning to see they bought nothing at all, there is no substance, he's all smoke and mirrors. The problem, as I see it, is we're stuck with a CEO that is unable to execute his office because of incompetence; and, unless something comes of the Daryl Issa investigation into the Sestak affair produces some results, i.e., impeachment charges to this president, there's nothing we can do about it until 2012.

Phil| 6.21.10 @ 1:52AM

Mr. Obama is a black man that managed to get elected in the United States. To count him out at any point now or in the future is just silly.

Ahab| 6.21.10 @ 3:30AM

Well, then, color me silly because this is a one term president, unless we can be rid of him before his term expires. That he is a black man is totally irrelevant to the issue. When are you idiots going to get it through your thick heads we don't care that he's a black man? We care that he is competent ya dope!

Tenn Slim| 6.21.10 @ 7:38AM

Opine
1. Pres O is a Manchurian President. Run by and for the Leftist Czars he has at his beck and call.
Competence is not needed. He does what he is told to do, says what and when he is directed. A complete puppet. Obvious to even his Press Secry Gibbs.
2. FP and our allies, & our enemies, are kept either with us or at bay via the good efforts of Mrs Hillary. Note her appearance at the latest DOD hearings. She looked horrible, wan, worn out. I sincerely believe, if not for her on scene efforts, this OBNA would have had us laid low long ago.
Hillary will never get the credit due her, for her efforts. Secry of States, labor on, unseen, unknown but they are the point of the Admin's FP Spear. Likewise the DOD secry. He is paying heavy dues for his efforts. Little or no support for any meaningful effort, constant derision, and no end in sight.
Bt
Article is clear, we, in our euphoria state, clearly elected a longstanding, angst driven, motivated, Leftist Organization. It is this Organization that is in fact running the show. Just as inept as Pres O, but FAR more determined, FAR more motivated, FAR more willing to re group, re do, press hard, even tho it is obvious they are failing. This group continues to make HUGE strides in undoing our Republic, most of it hidden.
We reap what we sow.
Semper Fi
end

Woody McBreairty| 6.21.10 @ 1:54PM

As a Democrat, Obama campaigner, supporter, voter, et al, I am approaching a feeling of doom & gloom when it comes to the Obama Presidency. I was for Hillary, but when Obama was nominated, I went with the flow - I cannot believe Obama is the same man who campaigned for President. He seems to be timid, lacking in leadership skills, egotistical & thin skinned. Noone cares about his personal ego or image, this is about our country and the good of it's people. So far Obama is beyond disappointing, it is becoming devastating to watch as he disintigrates before our eyes.

Bob Grant| 6.21.10 @ 6:11PM

Woody. I agree with your assessment of Barak Hussein Obama, except that he is timid. D0 you have any substantive criticisms? His policies? Is he more liberal than you hoped?

Rita| 6.27.10 @ 9:05AM

Fine article. But which president was worse?

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