The American Spectator

wmm| 12.20.10 @ 6:14AM

My mother-in-law is an author who does most of her writing while at her vacation home. If Dear Leader's following a similar formula, he would have had plenty of time to write ... "War and Peace."

Alan Brooks| 12.20.10 @ 10:30PM

Anything is better than Decision Points

Steve| 12.20.10 @ 10:48PM

Maybe your bloated autobiography for example? When's that coming out?

Alan Brooks| 12.20.10 @ 11:03PM

When your wife quits being a prostitute.

Alan Brooks| 12.20.10 @ 11:04PM

"Maybe your bloated autobiography for example"

So you admit anything is better than Decision Points?

Ron Hyatt| 12.21.10 @ 2:06AM

Fucking Commie Piece of Shit. Go Fuck yourself unlubed.

Christopher Holland| 12.21.10 @ 1:22AM

Impressing everybody with your rapier like wit and wisdom again, Alan.

Lexa| 12.21.10 @ 2:02PM

What a childish ass you are, Alan. Grow up.

drudge ette obama| 12.20.10 @ 6:21AM

The kids on the book can't be Obama's - their posture is good. Valerie Jarrett can give me a call - I have a few things to say to her. She may be in control, but you won't see her on t.v. too much. She's too hard to take - voice- and dress-wise. She reminds me of Barney Frank's sister-Anne Lewis.

June Calder| 12.20.10 @ 9:33AM

Our great leader couldn't have written this book. The family didn't have a dog when he supposedly was working on it during the campaign and I don't believe they even knew what kind of a dog they were going to get.

PaulD| 12.20.10 @ 10:24AM

Excellent point! And, Drudge, you're correct. That oldest kid's posture is slovenly ... just like her mother's.

RCV| 12.20.10 @ 12:21PM

It's one thing for you folks to criticize the President's politics, which you have every legitimate right and responsibility to do. But your personal attacks on the Obama family show how small you guys can really be. We're lucky to have such a great First Family - two devoted parents, devoted to raising their children properly, and devoted to each other. Don't continue to demean yourselves with such attacks.

Scratch| 12.20.10 @ 12:39PM

RCV - You're provong the point - exactly the kind of sycophantic, Kool-Aid drinker the Resident surrounds himself with. Were you this sensitive to the much more strident (downright mean at times) criticisms of the Bush family? Or the repugnant things said about the Palins & their kids? Somehow I doubt it...

Ken (Old Texican)| 12.20.10 @ 12:54PM

Scratch,
You nailed it. The RCVs of Soros' stable, simply cannot even see the sillyness of griping about family off-limits stuff after the rape of Cheny's girl and then
Palin's children.

Personally, I feel very sorry for Obama's daughters. I shall never abuse them.

Michelle? ehhhhh...I think she wears the communist/statist pants in the family if the truth were known.
Should we send family-services to the Whitehouse to check on communist child abuse?

Purpleguy| 12.20.10 @ 5:41PM

The difference, which seems to have escaped your oh so keen observation, is that the Obama's children are under 18, while that others you mention are all women, not girls. With the exception of Palin's kids, who were paraded around with their mother like stage props to prove her mother-worthiness. And, she still does it! Now on a political infomercial series on Alaskan life, as if anyone can't see through the antics. I don't know 'bout y'all, but I don't want no neighbor or drinking buddy of mine being President - they're not good enough.

beebop| 12.20.10 @ 5:50PM

"who were paraded around with their mother like stage props to prove her mother-worthiness ..."

Who the devil are YOU to judge? Where was this critque when Elizabeth Edwards -- who was DYING and so had so little time to be with hers -- left her two young ones at home to "parade" around for the two-timer she was married to? See how that works?

Purpleguy| 12.20.10 @ 10:20PM

I guess I'm just the same devil you are to pass judgement as you have so amazingly done while criticizing that I did so ... and you wickedly picked on a woman who just died recently (how Christian of you) , not on a former Alaskan Mayor who's a quitter, a Hollywood wannabe and gold-digger that Palin is.

beebop| 12.20.10 @ 10:29PM

I picked the late Mrs. Edwards with intent.

Indeed.

Who are any of us to judge?

But you are the "soul" who was so quick to opine: "Palin's kids, who were paraded around with their mother like stage props to prove her mother-worthiness." Does that include the "imperfect" child that the left feels would have been better off aborted?

Purpleguy| 12.20.10 @ 11:25PM

You said it, I didn't ... didn't even think of that come to think about it - but you did. So thank you for showing where your heart really is.

Negro X| 12.20.10 @ 7:28PM

Purpletroll,
Of course you don't want any of your buddies being the POTUS, it would reveal your leftist, islamocentric agenda.
BTW, Bush's daughter weren't adults when the left attacked them.

Purpleguy| 12.20.10 @ 10:23PM

What idiotic drivel - what is a "leftist, islamocentric agenda"? Is yours an ultraconservative, fascist, corporatist agenda? You don't know me, and I don't know you, but I can assure you we don't want any of your buddies to be POTUS either ...

Nick| 12.20.10 @ 8:21PM

Purplejackass, the epitome of liberal hypocrisy, folks.

It is evil to go after politicians kids!
(Unless, the politician is a Republican, of course.)

I'm with you Ken, I feel sorry for those two adorable girls. Especially for having to deal with Michelle. Yikes!
(That is, when she's there.)

Christopher Holland| 12.21.10 @ 1:24AM

Isn't Obama the guy who had a beer summit and who took the Russian President out for a hamburger?

Hugh Folks| 12.20.10 @ 12:39PM

And BO the dog is neutered, black & white, and foreign, like his Slave Master, Obama.

Occam's Tool| 12.20.10 @ 1:16PM

OK, RCV, I'll bite and not stoop.

Barack Obama's clout got his wife her job at U of Chicago Hospitals as an administrator. Her major accomplishment there was denying poor people access to University of Chicago's hospital facilities.

Obama himself, as one of his first acts, stripped poor black kids of their scholarships to attend his kids' private school in Washington DC.

As human beings, they suck beyond belief. My job involves inpatient psychiatry in a catchment area that includes 3 povert stricken Native American reservations. I not only despise their political views, I despise their hypocrisy. They do not walk the walk; they simply talk their talk.

In short, they are scum.

Incidentally, RCV, you have a Merry Christmas. As you can see, I left the daughters out of it, and only criticized Michelle on her public record as a hospital administrator, which as a physician interested in indigent care, I tracked.

Occam's Tool| 12.20.10 @ 1:19PM

pover=poverty. Sorry.

And, RCV, I enjoy our disputes. You have always been civil, unlike our snowy car chasing friend, Tim*.

Babarky Obama | 12.20.10 @ 1:27PM

Tool Job, The Dog Humper Is In The Building.

Occam's Tool| 12.20.10 @ 1:34PM

Tim*, I know you are, but what am I?

Occam's Tool| 12.20.10 @ 1:47PM

Tim*, always be careful with punctuation, and learn how to diagram a sentence.

Tim*| 12.20.10 @ 2:26PM

You seem so confused today,Tool Job,The Dog Humper Firster.

Tim*| 12.20.10 @ 3:02PM

Comma Before Tool Job. (incorrect)

Comma Before Dog Humper Firster. (correct)

Caps For Punkin' Tool Job. (correct)

Occam's Tool| 12.20.10 @ 5:41PM

No, Tim*, the way your sentence read was "Tool Job"---you should know the Dog Humper is in the Building. Learn to diagram, you barely literate brain damaged Amalek.

No points for punkin' Tim*---his brain is to mine as that of an amoeba's---stealing candy from a crippled newsy doesn't count.

Tim*| 12.20.10 @ 7:08PM

Wrong pseudo-intellect Tool Job.
A comma precedes your title, The Dog Humper.

You're a phony mensa blowhard.

Nick| 12.20.10 @ 8:27PM

Occam's Tool,

Call Timmy* a CINO, Catholic In Name Only.

He really hates that!

Tim*| 12.20.10 @ 8:54PM

Call Nicky A Catholic In Name Only And He Can't Dispute It.

Occam's Tool| 12.20.10 @ 10:43PM

Dear Tim*:

I have found a song about you:

Islamic Rage Boy Sings "Baby What A Pack Of Lies" on You Tube, courtesy of The Nose On Your face. RCV, Margie, Victor, I think you'll particularly enjoy this, and agree that it describes our friend at his most emotive (and eloquent). Please do me the favor of watching it. This is Debbie Schlussel's favorite website. (The Nose on Your Face). We four may disagree at times, even passionately, but I think we keep our arguments more civil than IRB's pal Tim*/Clint. I LMAO on this one, and "Infidels."

Tim*| 12.20.10 @ 11:08PM

No, Creepy Israel Firster Tool Job.I don't do favors for Agendaboys like You.

Let's see, Israel Firsters Obamaboy RCV, Apocalyptic Crank Lady Victor-Margie-Sybil & Tool Job The Israel Firster.

That's drawin' to Three of a Kind.

Shove Off Creepy Dude.

Occam's Tool| 12.20.10 @ 10:13PM

Tim*!

The Nose On Your face website has good news about your boyfriend, Richard Reid the shoe bomber:

"Top 9 Ways Shoebomber’s Life Will Change For The Better
Alleged “shoebomber” Richard Reid recently told a reporter that although things have not been going very well for him, he sees a light at the end of the proverbial tunnel.

“I had a couple of good dreams about my situation changing for the better in the not too distant future so this is a blessing from Allah.”
TNOYF’s crack investigative team sat down with Mr. Reid and discovered the “Top 9 Ways Richard Reid Sees His Life Changing For The Better.”

9. Fun with food. The new prison menu was just released and- are you ready for this?- every other Tuesday is now “breakfast-for-dinner-night”. What a sheer delight! Think of the hilarity in the juxtaposition of these meals! Pancakes and syrup after dark? Priceless. As detestable as I find them, these infidels have a creative streak a mile wide.

8. State-funded eye-care program takes effect next month. If I were ever to have any sort of eye problems- Allah forbid- they would now be covered by the Great Satan’s ocular henchmen.

7. A young love blossoms (Part I). Darnae in Cell Block D passed a note via fishing line saying he thinks I am “cute.” I have not yet responded as I am loathe to look too eager.

6. More sanitary conditions. Delousing’s have been changed from a monthly to a weekly schedule.

5. Literary progress. More time to work on my latest book, The Enigmatic Shoe: A Treatise on the Ignition and Flammability of Everyday Footwear.

4. One-flush efficiency. Allah pulled some strings with the warden, and I just discovered that I will be getting a new cell complete with an old school, high-volume prison toilet instead of the Al Gore issued one-pint capacity model I currently have. Yes, a new day is dawning for Richard Reid.

3. A young love blossoms (Part II). New halal fifi-bags have received prison approval.

2. Media exposure. I recently made the final cut of Trading Spaces: Supermax Edition. Before long I will have the opportunity to redecorate the cell of a Jewish white-collar criminal named Moshi. Clearly Allah has smiled upon me.

1. Lower susceptibility to anal rape. With 23 out of 24 hours a day spent in solitary confinement, I have a much better chance- statistically speaking- of being struck by lightning then of having my haram-hole violated."

See, Tim*, things are looking up for your buddies! Merry Christmas!

Tim*| 12.20.10 @ 11:15PM

We America First Tea Party Rebels Trump Your RINO-CINO Israel Firster Agenda Tool Job.

You're all atwitter because many of Us Tea Party Rebels don't crawl to any Middle East Foreign Nation Agenda, including Your Foreign Nation Agenda Tool Job.

RCV| 12.21.10 @ 12:09PM

Very clever! Have a happy new year, my friend.

RCV| 12.21.10 @ 12:15PM

My wishes and compliments were to Occam.

Tim, I don't know what evil in your life has given you such hatred for Jews. But I have a hard time understanding it in someone who claims to be a Catholic. When I was growing up on Long Island in the 50s, as an altar boy I was greeted each morning when I opened up the doors to the rectory to begin preparation for Mass with a large graphic poster of a young Jewish face with the legend, "Anti-Semitic? Remember: Christ was a Jew." It was a lesson that the good Fathers and nuns at St. Bonifice never ceased to remind us of. I just don't understand how you could have missed that lesson as well.

Nonetheless, Tim, please have a joyous and merry Christmas, and may the New Year bring you peace and understanding and good will to others.

Publius| 12.22.10 @ 12:33AM

Amen - as a recent convert to Catholicism, I can say the anti-semitism of the past has been replaced by embracing and respecting the Judiasm of Jesus.

Catholics, like any large group, have their bigots. Tim - Check your heart, pray for guidance and leave the dark hatred behind you.

Occam's Tool| 12.20.10 @ 1:32PM

The Prowler: 7/27/09 TAS---

MICHELLE'S DUMPING DESIGNS
Republicans on Capitol Hill are taking a fresh look at one of the seedier Chicago stories from Barack and Michelle Obama's past in ratcheting up the debate on Obamacare: the University of Chicago Hospital's "Urban Health Initiative," which Michelle Obama ran prior to her taking a leave of absence to campaign with her husband in 2007.

Because of the medical center's location on the South Side of Chicago, a large number of indigent patients, without health insurance, were using the hospital's emergency room for care. The nonprofit hospital, which in 2007 made more than $100 million in profits, largely because its beds and facilities were used by paying patients and those fully insured, paid Mrs. Obama to oversee the Urban Health Initiative program that identified indigent patients and then steered them to other area medical facilities. In fact, some of those profits came from Canadian citizens who traveled to the U.S. for medical procedures they could not get due to Canada's restrictive national health care programs.

It wasn't just Obama's wife who was involved in creating the program. Senior White House adviser and political strategist, David Axelrod, and his PR firm in Chicago were retained to develop a media campaign to encourage area residents not to use University of Chicago as a medical facility. Senior White House official, and Obama friend, Valerie Jarrett served on the board of directors of the hospital and approved the plan for the Urban Health Initiative, and the hiring of Axelrod. And on the recommendation of then Senator Obama, Dr. Eric Whitaker, was named director of the Initiative in late 2007, after serving as the director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, a job he got after Obama recommended him to then Gov. Rod Blagojevich via another Obama crony, Tony Rezko, a fund-raiser for Obama and now a convicted felon on federal corruption charges.

Candidate Obama thought enough of the program to tout it as an example of how health care reform should be done. When asked about the program during the 2008 presidential campaign, Ben LaBolt, a campaign spokesman, said, "Senator Obama sees community health centers as a vital part of efforts to invest in prevention and reduce costs."

But as more reporters focused on Mrs. Obama's health care initiative, the campaign started to backtrack, particularly when local Chicago ward bosses started making claims that Mrs. Obama's program was nothing more than "patient dumping."

In February 2009, the program took another hit, when the president of the American College of Emergency Physicians, Dr. Nick Jouriles, said, "The medical center is reducing emergency care access to its local community, while at the same time, opening a 'side door' to a 'specialty intake area' to provide emergency care to medical center private patients. This is a dangerous precedent that could have catastrophic effects in poor neighborhoods across the country."

That statement came after local news reports highlighted the story of Dontae Adams, young Medicaid patient who was rushed to University of Chicago Hospital after a pit bull attack, was treated with painkillers and a tetanus shot, but then was refused admission for surgery. Adams' mother was forced to take him on an hour-long bus ride to another hospital for the facial surgery.

Then-Senator Obama took some flack back in 2007 for attempting to get a $1 million earmark cleared through the Senate for his wife's hospital. Ultimately, that earmark was not approved. "

Do I need to get the one on Barack, RCV, or shall we take it as read?

beebop| 12.20.10 @ 5:52PM

Her "position" was subsequently eliminated when she resigned.

RCV| 12.20.10 @ 2:39PM

Thanks Occam. I stand by my views and respect yours. And for Ken's benefit, I admired W and his family as well. They were and are good and decent people, and GWB's conduct since leaving office speaks well of his character.

I hope you have a joyous holiday and a happy, prosperous and healthy new year.

RAMIII| 12.20.10 @ 5:02PM

Thanks Occam & RCV, I find your dialogue refreshing to read and it stays with the point of the article.

Occam's Tool| 12.20.10 @ 5:46PM

You know, I don't agree with RCV (usually), but I don't think he engages in ad hominem. Honestly, while I dislike Tim*, I prefer to stick to a discussion of arguments and not All-Cap name-calling. Any time Tim* would like to advance an argument that doesn't involve ad hominem or cribbing from StormFront, I'll be glad to respond in kind. My fear is that he can't.

Tim*| 12.20.10 @ 7:18PM

Tool Job is upset with Tim and other Tea Party Patriots, who don't Asskiss Tool Job's Israel Firster Agenda.

Occam's Tool| 12.20.10 @ 9:35PM

Tim*,

Boy. You don't mind me calling you boy, do you, boy?When you were wetting your didies and pulling your dogs' ears, I was a Conservative, voting and campaigning. There's nothing you do that upsets me, because you are an idiot.

Incidentally, no fake Mensa. ACT 33. Look up the criterion.

Incidentally, calling someone an asskisser does not constitute an argument. You add nothing to any discussion, Tim*. Your father did a piss poor job of raising you. No class, no argumentation skills, no grammar, complete scummitude.

Tim*| 12.20.10 @ 10:57PM

GirlieBoy. You don't mind me calling you An Israel Firster GirlieBoy, do you, Israel Firster GirlieBoy ?
When you were pullin' more than your dogs ears & sniffin' men's underwear & campaigning for the Likud Party in Tel Aviv, I was involved in serious lacrosse mayhem, criminal partyin' and bruisin' social register assemblies, not to mention, pulin'l all nighters in The Groves of Academe.
Incisently, you're a pseudo-intellectual bloviator with Ego Issues Shrink, Shrank & Now Shrunk.

Aaaaand redundantly,"Incidentally, bein' an Israel Firster Asskisser does not constitute bein' An American.
My Father would laugh at your BullCrapper Faux-elitism.
You're A Bloviatin' Windbag Twerp tryin' to Pump Up Your Ego, pretending you're not The Sorry-assed Little Creepy Dude, we see through.

Publius| 12.22.10 @ 12:35AM

OK, Tim is off the read list. What an ass.

JShizzle| 12.20.10 @ 2:44PM

Huh. RCV must have forgotten how the Bush family was treated. Oh wait, it's OK for liberals to trash an American family...but anyone else say two words against Dear Leader and now WE are the small ones.

Purpleguy| 12.20.10 @ 10:27PM

I don't recall any poor treatment of Laura Bush. The Bush twins did fare less well when caught drunk driving and such. They were near adults at the time, having been 16 when BushBaby was sworn in though. Not little girls.... And, W deserved and deserves all the criticism he ever got and more ... who trashed this country's economy, embroiled us in unproductive and unnecessary wars, and nearly made the United States a pariah in the world at large. Yep, he was a goodie ... have you read his book?

beebop| 12.20.10 @ 5:47PM

So. You never piled on when the Bush girls got caught in the bar in Austin? Right. There you have it. Typical lib double standards. No credibility. Zero. Just like zerobama. Dash right out and buy the book!

Steve-O| 12.20.10 @ 7:07PM

My problem is not how they raise their daughters, that is their business. It is that they want to tell me how to raise my children. That is the business of my wife and me, not the Obamas

Negro X| 12.20.10 @ 7:29PM

RCV,
Your obama anus groveling is too funny, you are a useful idiot.

RCV| 12.20.10 @ 9:15PM

Thank you, sir, for your usual comment, devoid of content, but usually containing some anal reference. Occam!

Occam's Tool| 12.20.10 @ 10:01PM

My Dear RCV,

As someone whose job involves temporarily taking people's freedom of movement away because they might kill themselves or others (and I've had this power in one form or another for about 20 years), I aim to use that power as sparingly as possible, because I am aware of Chaos theory and the likelihood of an unforseen result. What disturbs me about Obama is that he thinks this power is a positive good, rather than a necessary evil to prevent a greater one. The guy disturbs me, RCV.

Incidentally, I don't think Bush was a Great President. In fact, the only two great Presidents we've had since FDR are Reagan and Truman. We have a lot of badly flawed people in the White House. I fear Obama is another one.

You see folks, one can disagree with someone vehemently, but be polite. We are Conservatives. We need no ad hominem, as logic is on our side. RCV serves a useful purpose as a fellow who disagrees without attacking people for fun, unlike, say, Tim*/Clint or a bunch of others. I enjoy the arguments here, and, honestly, I'll do my best not to respond to Tim*, who really lowers the tone of the establishment.

For example, RCV, let me tell you a story about the Olive View Medical Center, where I trained in Psychiatry. Some kind people donated a washer and dryer (hereforth abbreviated W/D) to the adolescent unit, whereupon the problem started:

The administrator of this LA County psychiatric unit could not put the W/D in the clean linen room, because dirty clothes would be brought into it. He could not put the W/D into the dirty linen room, because after the clothes were washed they would be clean.

So he dithered. And in the meantime, the dryer was stolen. So, as you can see,I have a problem with Governemnt running all of medical care, even indirectly.

I've worked for a lot of State agencies: The State of Minnesota, The State of California, The State of Alabama, and indirectly the State of New Mexico, as a subcontractor. I've also worked for the VA and the Government of New Zealand. I've also worked for the County of Los Angeles, two Community Mental Health centers, and the Ojibwe tribe.

Honestly, RCV, this makes me a bit of a cynic. But you string sentences together and I note you refrain from ad hominem. I respect and like that, even when I disagree. Against the whetstone of your argument, mine grows sharper. One can disagree without being disagreeable, or using terms like "asskisser." Sorry, Asskisser. I do totally agree, RCV, that there are entirely too many references to aNuses and assEs on this site, and inAppropriate cAPs as well.

(As a complete non-sequitor, everyone, do check out The People's Cube and The Nose on Your Face. Two great Conservative websites for comedy.)

Tim*| 12.20.10 @ 11:27PM

Israel Firster Tool Job writes his Dear ObamaBoy RCV.

Obviously, another More Than Neurotic Self-help Pill Pushhin' Ruling Elitist Shrink, who thinks he's superior to We,The Great Unwashed of The Tea Party Country Class.

Get Lost Creepy Dude

RCV| 12.21.10 @ 12:30PM

Thanks, Occam, both for the compliments and the comments. I genuinely enjoy exchanging views with you and JohnII and Nick and Margie and Victor, and a number of other fine people on this site. Yes, we disagree politically. And sometimes I even learn things and get persuaded on an issue or two, although generally I just agree to disagree. I have never claimed to have any monopoly on wisdom.

But the reason I come to this site, rather than spending all my time on HuffPo, which I read daily but almost never participate in the discussion boards, is that I have never understood the phenomenon of people who restrict their intellectual discourse and readings to those with whom they already agree. How do we ever learn if we do that? How can we be sure about the logic of what we're expousing if its never tested by arguments from those with whom we disagree.

And another thing this process teaches you is that people of good will can disagree, and about profoundly important things. I have over the years developed very close and long-lasting friendships with people very different than me in background, outlook and perspective: conservatives, European royalists, marxists, bhuddists, moslems and anarchists. I sometimes scratch my heads at what I see as blatant flaws in their thinking. But I have also come to learn a lot about their inner humanity and desire to seek what they see as justice. Believe me, I don't have pollyannish views about human nature. There is real evil in the world, and very evil people are out and about doing everything to destroy what is good in this world. I avoid them whenever I cannot do something positive by confronting them.

Anyway, apologies for the ramblings. Thanks for being a wise and civil debater and I wish you all the best in the coming year.

RCV| 12.21.10 @ 4:55PM

Occam - thanks for the tip on The People's Cube and The Nose on Your Face. I've bookmarked them already, as I am a big fan of political humor, and longtime Onion enthusiast. (One of my favorite Onion stories was the headline the day after election day, 2008: "Black Man Given Worst Job in the Country".)

Steve| 12.20.10 @ 10:53PM

May I direct your scattered attention to the 8 years of the Bush Administration and the warped, hate mongering that spewed forth from the mouths of unhinged Liberals? Nasty, very nasty, much of which had nothing to do with the President's politics. At least in those days we didn't have a White House (First Lady included) telling us what to eat. How about you Liberals so convinced about the evils of smoking? Better find out which brand our beloved Chief smokes so you can promote how they reduce global warming and increase tolerance.

kenneth | 12.22.10 @ 10:13PM

you have got to be kidding!!!! you wonderful libs are certainly a high class bunch with you're attacks on the palin family.what a bunch of hypocrites.

p-squared| 12.20.10 @ 6:38AM

All of the truly great people I have known in my life were modest and knew they served something bigger than themselves. This idiot is so wrapped up in himself that he believes the class requested he read from the book. In all likelihood, it was the teacher, principal, and probably their union representatives that requested the reading. The kids don't have a clue about this book or who he is except what their programmers drill into their skulls; they'd rather be home with the X-Box or Facebook. The fact that profits from this no-doubt weighty tome go to military families is a nice touch, but the book gives him and the progressives another way to connect with America's youth.

Karl Lucifer Marx| 12.20.10 @ 6:38AM

Twas the night before healthcare
and all through the House
bribes were being paid
turning members into mice

The wallets were stuffed
with trepedious care
in the hopes that their
retirements
would soon be here

The money was nestled
all snug in their hands
while visions of riches
danced in their heads

with Obama in his
hiijab
and michelle in her garden
we all settled in for a lenghty
death camp

when out in the public
there rose such a clatter
the politicians simply
ignored the public and their chatter

and soon to their wondering eyes did
appear
a bill full of nothing, not health care, but fear

Spoonman| 12.20.10 @ 8:02AM

Karl, I think you should have written "The money was nestled all smug in their freezers"; this seems to be the storage media of choice for demoncrat politicians.

Curly Smith| 12.20.10 @ 8:12AM

Shouldn't that be "Our money was nestled in their hands/freezers"? It is, after all, our money that they're stealing.

coal carrier| 12.20.10 @ 8:09AM

....And when two years have passed,
To the peoples delight,
Obama will be gone,
And so will his fright.

RCV| 12.20.10 @ 12:22PM

Don't count on it!

Helen Donnelly| 12.20.10 @ 1:42PM

I pray everyday that we'll never see his likes again...if we do, we are done as the land of the free and the home of the brave.

RCV| 12.20.10 @ 2:40PM

Oh, our great Republic will endure just fine.

blackknights1802| 12.20.10 @ 4:51PM

Not with a socialist at the helm and communists supporting him. Don’t be so naive.

Occam's Tool| 12.20.10 @ 5:51PM

I happen to agree with you, RCV. I think the Genius of our system is that it can wielded effectively by a chief executive of gifts (Reagan, Lincoln, FDR, Washington), while minimizing the damage done by a dimwit (Hoover, Obama, Harding, Carter---I tried to keep it balanced. The all time grand champion idiot is, of course, Buchanan---James, although Pat would have been equally bad.)

That being said, we might disagree on the candidates for dimwit, although I am pretty sure we agree on at least 3 out of the 4 I've noted. I will try not to respond to Tim*, although it's soooo tempting.

But again, Obama, although I dislike him intensely, is not the worst. Yet.

Tim*| 12.20.10 @ 7:53PM

Occam Tool Job is upset because Tim & other Tea Party Patriots don't crawl to his Israel Firster Agenda.
America Firsters Trump Israel Firsters.

Occam's Tool| 12.20.10 @ 10:45PM

Tim*--can't you even spell your own name in your own posts correctly?

Tim*| 12.20.10 @ 11:19PM

Tool Job-Can't stop attempting to attack We,Tea Party Patriots,who don't Asskiss His Obsessional Israel Firster Agenda.

RCV| 12.21.10 @ 12:56PM

Indeed I agree with everyone on both your lists, save Obama. To the former list of gifted Presidents, I would have added Jefferson and TR, and to the list of disasters, Wilson.

beebop| 12.20.10 @ 5:55PM

Speaking for myself "endure" is not exactly what I am looking for in the CIC of this nation. When do we return to thriving, growing, distinguishing, advancing?

I guess after he's gone?! :)

Purpleguy| 12.20.10 @ 10:30PM

Oh, there will now be many, many minority Presidents to follow - including dare I say a Gay President and his spouse, the first husband to boot. Your world is shrinking no matter how loud the shrieking, and I feel sad for those who cannot make the adjustment ... but you will all die off and take your bitter, racial attitudes with you.

beebop| 12.21.10 @ 5:17AM

I guess by your reckoning there will either never be a female president or women are now grouped in your "minority" presidents?

I am always astounded how the liberal left gives women such scant attention, expects women to vote as a bloc for dimocratic candidates and insults them to boot .... and justifies attacking conservative women purely on the basis of "conservative" while only defending the Pelousies of this world ....

RCV| 12.21.10 @ 12:59PM

Huh? The President's only two Supreme Court nominations were women, as was his secretary of state, he pushed for and got the equal-pay-for-eqaul-work act, and Emily's List constantly promotes the advancement and election of women candidates.

beebop| 12.21.10 @ 4:04PM

"bros b4 ho's" .... and he never asked any of his "supporters" to stop it. Never. I guess you missed Geraldine Ferraro being called a racist?

I guess when you're a guy, none of this is that serious?

RCV| 12.21.10 @ 4:43PM

Beebop: There are stupid folk on all sides of the divide. The name calling at Geraldine Ferraro -- whom I greatly respect (I still have a signed Ferraro poster in my den) -- was disgraceful. But there are hundreds of disgraceful signs at tea party rallies. That doesn't mean that all tea party supporters agree with them.

Appleby| 12.20.10 @ 6:53AM

Where is General Honore when we need him? Talk about Stuck on Stupid.

John Daniel| 12.20.10 @ 7:13AM

His prior two literary works are autobiographies. A world class narcissist.

SuzyQue| 12.20.10 @ 2:19PM

Not are they autobiographies, they're autobiographies ostensibly written by someone else!* Can't get much more narcissistic than that!

*At least one was written by someone else.

John Navratil| 12.20.10 @ 5:49PM

Mr. Daniel,

Would it surprise you to know that our illustrious President has not one, but two Grammy awards for "Best Spoken Word" albums for reading from his memoirs?

I was quite surprised to hear it. Upon further research, it appears that Hillary won in the same category in 1997, and that Bill upstaged her by winning in 2004 and 2005.

Who'da thunk it?

NHLibertarian| 12.20.10 @ 8:16AM

It should also be mentioned that he turned down a request for an autograph from one the kids - with the comment by saying that 'if he did for one, he'd have to do it for all' - like that would of taken soooo much of his precious time!

Chalkdust| 12.20.10 @ 8:52AM

When he snubs a kid for an autograph, it should be mentioned that his signature will become a valuable commodity, so signing for free, copies of "Of Thee I Sing" and undercutting his main source of income in 2013 and beyond is not good business. So if anyone thinks he can squeeze out "another" book to bronze, try visiting a local bookstores in Chi-town about 2015.

Occam's Tool| 12.20.10 @ 5:53PM

And the problem with taking 5 minutes out "to do it" for all the kids would have been? This is what I mean, RCV---the man is a schmuck on many levels.

RCV| 12.21.10 @ 4:50PM

Oh, Occam, give the guy a break. BY pre-arrangement with the school, he presented a signed copy ahead of time to the school library. I think it's great that he took the time out and did this for the kids. I think you're letting your dislike for the man color your reading of everything he does.

Ken (Old Texican)| 12.20.10 @ 8:23AM

Speaking of Predident's writing, I am jst finishing up Dubyah's bok "Decision Points".

It is absolutely fascinating in its honesty and wit, and not one instance of ducking responsibility.

Occam's Tool| 12.20.10 @ 1:39PM

It's on my Kindle, and I look forward to buying the limited signed copies, when they become available.

He screwed up a bit on domestic policy initiatives, but his foreign policy was nicely done, very nicely indeed. We had grown-ups running things for 8 years.

RAMIII| 12.20.10 @ 5:06PM

Yes, and at the time, the children in the "MSM" were apoplectic in their temper tantrums and manipulations.

The Bishop| 12.20.10 @ 8:33AM

When is his image going to be placed on the $3 bill, as in "phony as a"?

Ned the Red| 12.20.10 @ 8:40AM

I am a quarter of the way through it Ken. It's a good read and confirms that President Bush was an excellent president, not a pretend one.
It is a good thing I have it to read. My computer is under attack from what I believe to be the conflicker worm. I have done all the doctoring I know how and today it goes to the hospital for sick and assaulted computers.

David W| 12.20.10 @ 8:56AM

Gee, when I wrote my book I took over a year from the time I decided to until it was ready for the publisher. This short time is only because the book was based mostly upon speeches and tall tales I had created over the past 2 decades. I can't imagine how Mr. President would have had time to come up with an original idea, put it down on computer/paper, done the writing and editing and so forth and had time to run a campaign (though perhaps, given the success he enjoyed maybe he wasn't running the campaign but had been told to stay out of the way and let the adults do the hard work).

SonOfSam| 12.20.10 @ 8:57AM

The TelePrompter In Chief lived in a bubble long before he got to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and he will continue to do so as long the fossil media and the so-called "elites" continue to kiss his ass. Case in point: I just finished reading "Three Cups of Tea" a book about the efforts of Craig Mortenson to found schools in Pakistan so that girls there could learn to read. He did so at great personal risk to himself, and he was often separated from his wife and child when he went overseas. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, but alas, that was the same year the Nobel committee decided to give it His Holiness, Barack Obama because of....well, NOTHING, really. He got elected President, and he's black, and he makes some really cool speeches, and he's not George Bush. In other words, he TALKS a good game, while men far better than he actually DO something to help make a better world.

Intolerable

PS Others may complain when our President goes on one of his countless vacations...I am not one of them. Other than stringing together empty phrases, and living large at taxpayer expense, its about all he's really good at.

butterfly| 12.20.10 @ 9:55AM

He isn't black, he's HALF black. Which means, he's half WHITE. Does his whiteness not mean anything to the race baiters?

SonOfSam| 12.20.10 @ 12:16PM

His "whiteness" didn't get him elected. It also didn't get him the Nobel Prize, nor did it get him a total pass on ANY kind of criticism from mindless knee jerk liberals. His whiteness was thrown out as a campaign slogan, and completely forgotten after he won the election, just like his promises of "transparent" governing, and changing the tone in Washington.

next!!!

beebop| 12.20.10 @ 6:01PM

Greg's book was a joint effort with David Oliver Relin -- whose name appears prominently on the cover of the book. It is a wonderful story about the sacrifices one person made initially to honor the memory of his dead sister and then to make sure that women (I know some of you think I beat this issue to death) are well educated. The rationale being that women raise the children and that instilling a value in education in young girls is passed on to the following generations.

Ken (Old Texican)| 12.20.10 @ 8:57AM

Ned,
I don't want to spoil it for you, but watch for the phrase"...I later refined my opinion..."

Heh...it will sneak up on you.

KyMouse| 12.20.10 @ 9:23AM

I'm surprised he didn't entitle it "Of Me I Sing."

wodiej| 12.20.10 @ 2:42PM

lol....good one.

russel| 12.20.10 @ 9:33AM

Did he take ol' TOTUS to that childrens class too ? ( a colossal one for the records ) . That way he can read and keep his nose up in the air simultaneously .

Stan Redmond| 12.20.10 @ 9:44AM

"Letter, about me, to my daughters."

Really, who's going to buy that garbage? I would suspect any grand sales figures will be pumped up by the 2012 Obama campaign buying all the books to give away.

Can you imagine the content?

Son OfSam| 12.20.10 @ 12:17PM

the same amount of content you'd find in an empty suit propped up by a TelePrompter

Boomerbabe| 12.21.10 @ 2:19AM

"My letter to my daughters"...there, he gets in twice in the title. Perfect!

Cuffs| 12.20.10 @ 9:58AM

Obama is a dangerous joke.
May God deliver us from
this corrupt & amoral
president.

Brian Mc| 12.20.10 @ 10:02AM

...and the Germans bought pictures of the Fuhrer to hang on their walls for all to see, until the Russians came calling a few years later.

A. C. Santore| 12.20.10 @ 10:03AM

Had he asked me what book about himself he should read to that captive audience, I'd have recommended "The Emperor's New Clothes."

FLCracker| 12.20.10 @ 11:48AM

"...he goes into and comes out of these events with a warped perspective of how people view him..."

Sort of like the dog in the animated feature, "Bolt."

Oldefarte| 12.20.10 @ 12:10PM

Someone [maybe Denish D'Souza] that claimed Bill Ayers was the author of DREAMS, so maybe Ayers wrote this one also. Or maybe the same ghost writer who penned the JFK book....can't be Schleshinger, since he's dead. Can't believe those school children really requested that he read his own book.......was Holder threatening to have Justice sue the school if he didn't? Maybe Wright wrote it........naw, couldn't be since it'd be laced with GOD DAMN THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER THING!!!!!!!!!!!!

gypsy| 12.20.10 @ 12:20PM

yeah right, the KIDS asked him to read his own book. And Amy Carter was worried about "Nuclear proliferation". And Michelle's students were willing participants in that completely real, none of it faked "garden" on the White House lawn.

Icebox| 12.20.10 @ 12:31PM

I'm old enough to remember when Freezers were gift to Truman as well as Mink Coats. Nixon"wife had "a good republican cloth coat if I remember but he wouldn't return checkers.

Granny Jan| 12.20.10 @ 1:14PM

I guess that makes 3 books he didn't write.

My video: An American Idiot- President Obama Tells Second Graders that He Scoops the Poop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzzdKTuzKoc

wodiej| 12.20.10 @ 2:45PM

Obama is his own worst enemy and that narcissism seems to be his closest friend. A leader should be humble and he is not.

Emma| 12.20.10 @ 3:49PM

He is such a complete fool.

Caught unawares in the presidency.

It is so embarrassing to watch adults making fools of themselves in trying to cover up for another adult who's a liar. Sort of reminds me of the mafia...the Don is peeing on the floor, and his security guards are busting any camera within in 50 yards to prevent the photo. They have gotten used to the Don peeing on the floor. What they will not risk is the Don finding out they know he pees on the floor, so they hurt other people to make sure the news doesn't get out--to the Don.

Sid Vicious| 12.20.10 @ 4:32PM

That One already has one of the toughest jobs in the world. After just 23 months, the evidence is writ large all over his strained face and throughout his graying hair. So where exactly does he find the time to be an author?

Occam's Tool| 12.20.10 @ 5:56PM

Sid, he found time because he is great---like a "god he bestrides the globe" or whatever that moron reporter from Slime or Noodlespeak said to describe him.

By the way, Johnny Rotten is a personal hero of mine, although Tim* would hate him.

Tim*| 12.20.10 @ 7:32PM

Occam's Tool Job is a Kayne West Groupie.

Tim*| 12.20.10 @ 7:45PM

Whack Job Occam Tool Job is a Johnny Rotten Groupie.
"I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hates."
Johnny Rotten

Occam's Tool| 12.20.10 @ 10:04PM

Tim*,

I didn't say that Rotten was always correct, or mostly correct. But unlike you and Elvis Costello, your hero, Rotten recently showed significant moral fiber. Look it up, if you can.

Tim*| 12.20.10 @ 11:34PM

I'm way ahead of Ya Israel Firster.

America First Trumps Your Israel Firster Obsessional Agenda.

You're A Creep.

FastJohnny| 12.20.10 @ 6:01PM

Of course he has had time to write it. Think about all those vacations, taxpayer funded mind you, that he has taken. More than adequate time to pump out some bilge water.

LindaF| 12.20.10 @ 8:13PM

Don't pick on the kids - yes, I know that the other side does it. That doesn't make it right.

That posture thing? Has it occurred to you that the eldest is QUITE tall for her age, and those early in sprouting often slump, as they are self-conscious about their height being so different from their peers.

Yosemeti Sam| 12.20.10 @ 10:11PM

Yo, Leftoids - what's up with that Mao Zoo Dung White House Christmas tree ornament.

Has it found a place again on the White House Christmas tree?

ejp| 12.20.10 @ 10:14PM

The President writes a book called "Of Thee I Sing"? Does this mean Obama is going to prove his birth in this country by changing his name to John P. Wintergreen? :) (Of course Biden is *already* Alexander Throttlebottom).

GavInTucson| 12.21.10 @ 3:14AM

Oh, I'm sure it actually wasn't the school children requesting a reading of Obama's book. No doubt the request came from a taxpayer subsidized, heavily unionized member of the Teacher's Union -- sorry, I meant teacher.

Perhaps Marx was right (paraphrasing)... "Give me your 5-year olds and, in a generation, I'll give you Socialism." Unfortunately, it's true. Just look at all of the under-thirty-somethings that have bought into the propaganda of the left that have posted here.

Ever since the 1960s, most of us have been sucked into this propaganda. It's kinda hard not to when you've been indoctrinated from K-12 and higher.

Thankfully, some of us rise above the subversion and use our minds, unlike the nonthinking robots of the leftist educational system.

They live under the delusion that if they wag their tails correctly, they'll be rewarded with treats designed to reaffirm to them how "smart" they are.

Pathetic.

Perhaps one day schools can resume teaching student, not what to think, but on HOW to think. Let them arrive on their own conclusions, based on the facts at hand.

Of course, this sort of thinking flies in the face of liberal (leftist) methodology.

Yesterday's Liberal is today's Libertarian. Too bad most liberals don't get that fact.

They're too busy shape-shifting and name-changing to understand the difference, apparently.

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