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If Only Obama Would Abdicate
This man’s act is stale and counterproductive.
This boringly ineffective would-be demagogue in the Oval Office keeps trotting out the same tired, petty, counterfactual lines in every one of his pompous, detached-from-reality speeches — and he did so again in his Saturday radio address. So shopworn is his refrain, and so counterproductive are his policies (both enacted and proposed), that the markets tank just about every time he opens his mouth, and the economy suffers with each minute he continues to occupy the White House. His resignation from office, in abject embarrassment at his failures, would be a great first step toward economic recovery, not to mention a balm to the souls of tens of millions of Americans sick of his condescension, his prevarications, and his incompetence.
Of course this man’s ego won’t let him resign, but just think: Vice President Joe Biden, for all his blarney, is a naturally ebullient “people person,” a dealmaker, and more a conventional liberal politician than an ideologue. If he ascended to the presidency, the markets would immediately take heart that some sort of rough progress could be fashioned despite Washington’s bitter divide. His tone alone would improve the confidence of both consumers and investors and help unleash the “animal spirits” that are necessary for an economy to grow.
Let Barack The One Obama take his hectoring lecturing back to some university classroom somewhere, while the rest of us get about the business of reviving the country we so love. Ahh, we can only wish….
That aforementioned radio address, so beneath what should be the tone and message of an American president that it was downright tawdry, bears some analysis to demonstrate just how far this man has sunk.
His “blame-everybody-but-me” routine started in his first substantive paragraph after the usual opening niceties. “I think our country would be a whole lot better off,” said our national School Marm, “if our elected leaders showed the same kind of discipline and integrity and responsibility that most Americans demonstrate in their lives every day…. we need folks in Washington — the people whose job it is to deal with the country’s problems, the people who you elected to serve — we need them to put aside their differences to get things done.”
To which the obvious response is, Wait, isn’t Obama himself not only one of “our elected leaders” but the pre-eminent one, at least by title and responsibilities? Is he himself exempt from “putting aside differences”? The man speaks as if he’s still an outsider, an observer, rather than one of the most vociferous of all Washington’s ideological hard-liners and the absolute king of hardball, compromise-be-damned practitioners of black political arts. (Obamacare, anyone? Where was the compromise and good will in its legislative legerdemain and its bare, one-vote majority?)
As for discipline and responsibility, such bromides don’t carry much moral weight when they come from a guy who has yet to put forth a budget this year that earned even a single vote from his own party, who never put forth an actual plan on paper to solve the debt-ceiling crisis, and who vacations with the rich and famous in Martha’s Vineyard while asking taxpayers to pick up the tab for a second plane for the Obama family, which was just the latest in taxpayer-funded extravagances for the First Lady.
But back to his radio remarks: After then proposing some ineffectual policy prescriptions (about which, more in a moment), The One continued in this same vein (or was it this vain?). As in: “The only thing preventing us from passing these bills is the refusal by some in Congress to put country ahead of party. That’s the problem right now. That’s what’s holding this country back. That’s what we have to change.”
Now I get it. Why wasn’t it clear before now? If you don’t like Obama’s own ideas, you can’t possibly be motivated by any honorable considerations. The only thing that can motivate the supreme being’s opponents is politics of the crassest kind — so benighted, indeed, that it amounts to selling out one’s country. But if everybody would stop selling out their country for partisan gain, everything would suddenly be hunky-dory — because, you see, it is only this unpatriotic partisanship that is “the problem right now” and the only thing “holding this country back.”
I’m glad we cleared that up. I somehow thought the problem was overwhelming debt piled on by Obama, outrageous regulatory burdens imposed by Obama, and the bursting of an asset bubble caused by a combination of moronic Federal Reserve policies and horrendous housing policies pushed by mostly liberal politicians and by the Democratic profiteers who ran Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It’s nice to know we can fix things, instead, just by stifling and hamstringing the unpatriotic politicians who dare to tell Obama he can’t rule by oh-so-benevolent fiat.
It’s all so simple. For instance, Mr. “This Was the Moment” Obama says we should extend his temporary cut in payroll taxes. Hmm…. Fat lot of good that has done us so far. Cutting payroll taxes takes money dedicated to Social Security and replaces it in Social Security’s paper accounts with non-existent money from the general fund which then is chalked up to the overall deficit and debt, all while doing almost nothing to change the actual incentives for economic behavior. Every time we try one of these temporary tax cuts or “rebates,” the benefits for the overall economy prove as ephemeral as the supposedly shovel-ready jobs from the Obama “stimulus” package that Obama himself, ever-so-jocularly, finally admitted weren’t shovel-ready after all. We’re still waiting for those jobs, and we’re still waiting for any tangible macro-economic benefits from the current payroll-tax cut, yet Obama wants us to extend the ineffective cut again because, well, it’s like giving out free money.
Then Obama says, “And let’s pass trade deals to level the playing field for our businesses.” He is referring to long-ago-negotiated agreements with firm allies Colombia, Panama, and South Korea — with our stalwart friends in Colombia especially needing the agreements as they try to be a bulwark of freedom against the scourge of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and against vicious drug lords.
Great idea! Finally something we can all agree on! There’s just one problem: Obama himself ran on what Sean Goforth in World Policy Review called “a mildly protectionist platform,” then let the deals languish without any presidential impetus for two years, then insisted that they contain additional requirements as sops to labor bosses. Oh — and as Goforth notes, “most lingering objections come from the Democrats’ side of the aisle.”
But that’s the Obama way: Blame everybody but yourself. Question everybody’s motives but your own. Insist on renewing policies that haven’t worked. Demand responsibility but accept none for yourself. Then hit the links, or a boat tour of the beach where Spielberg filmed the great white tea party shark terrorizing ordinary American “folks” just trying to stay afloat in these trying times and tides.
The truth is, it’s a sad day in America when Joe Biden’s blarney would be a marked improvement in Oval Office leadership.
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Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom. Follow him on Twitter @QuinHillyer.
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Brian Mc| 8.22.11 @ 6:22AM
Well said, Quinn! If we were to ban half the 'liberal' work force (behind all the social programs) from ever entering another federal building, this Republic would balance its budget the very next day. Ah, what the heck, let's ban all of 'em!
Jack in Wi.| 8.22.11 @ 7:15AM
I suggeest that Mr. Obama do himself and everyone else in the world a huge favor and stay on Martha's Vineyard for the rest of his term in office. Perhaps he could get Mrs. Pelosi, Mr. Biden, the Clintons and the rest of the cabinet to join him him. I believe the country and the world will take it in a positive way.
Seriously: I have doubts about Obama running again. Right now he would be a serious drag on the ticket. I think he may be convinced not to run again. After all the office of ex president is extremly lucrative. all of them get huge speaking fees and accumulate large fortunes. Even Al Gore was supposed to have added 100 million to his net worth. If he does run I consider it a good possiblity someone will run against him from his left. There are several leftwing billlionares who could give a lot of trouble. Even a guy like Dennis Kuccinich could stir things up a lot with his base.
Mike D.| 8.22.11 @ 8:33AM
He didn't open the door for illegals last week if we wasn't going to run, make no mistake about it. This guy will bring this country to its knees before he gets booted or replaced. The farther this guy gets backed into corners, the more his dictator instincts will take over and the more desperate he will get.
W| 8.22.11 @ 10:03AM
I did not vote for Obama, but it is a mistake for a President to resign. It would set a bad precedent where a president with low poll numbers would be pressured by the media to resign. It sounds great now that Obama is president, but remeber Bush's low numbers, and if a conservative like Bachman wins, then expect low poll numbers and demands that she resign.
Remember when Nixon resigned? Jerry Ford was a weak president, Congress cut off all aid to South Vietnam resulting in the invasion in January 1975 by the North Vietnamese, the fall of Saigon in April 1975, the boat people, and the holocaust of two million Cambodians of a five million population in 1975-1976.
We have elections, not resignations.
Buck Ofama| 8.22.11 @ 2:01PM
And all that cambodia mess was somehow the fault of the USSA?
W| 8.23.11 @ 9:01AM
Decisions have consequences,especially when we isolate and retreat from an area where we were involved.
mzk1| 8.26.11 @ 5:13AM
It was the fault of Ted Kennedy and the ultra-left-wing congress, elected in the wake of the flagrantly biased MSM reporting on the Nixon scandals. And Gerald Ford agreeing to cut all aid, even non-military.
And I speak as one grew up expecting to fight there.
mzk1| 8.26.11 @ 5:13AM
It was the fault of Ted Kennedy and the ultra-left-wing congress, elected in the wake of the flagrantly biased MSM reporting on the Nixon scandals. And Gerald Ford agreeing to cut all aid, even non-military.
And I speak as one grew up expecting to fight there.
RCV| 8.22.11 @ 11:23AM
Only an adherent of DR Ron Paul, Gynecologist, could believe that Dennis Kuccinich could "stir things up" in the Democratic Party.
Listen, here's a news flash from the Democratic Party: Preisdent Obama is NOT resigning; he IS running for President; and those us actually in the party are feeling pretty confident about his reelection, especially when we spend time reading through the postings of the "united" GOP that we read every day on TAS.
Mike D.| 8.22.11 @ 11:35AM
Then what are you here reading them for? I got news for you bumpy, things in your party of lunatics are not peachy keen. You have the only man who could p!ss off his own black base and thats quite an accomplishment.
SpiralArchitect| 8.22.11 @ 12:23PM
Polls asking ' you disapprove of..." are not asking "would you (or not) vote for...".
They are certainly not one in the same. Don't be misled nor ignorant.
Jack in Wi.| 8.22.11 @ 1:37PM
I read a lot of Democrats who are disgusted and disappointed wwith Obama. Plenty I know want someone else to run. He ran as the peace candidate and got the Nobel Peace prize. You have to be blind if you think his leftwing and black base isn't disappointed.
RCV| 8.22.11 @ 3:57PM
They may be disappointed, given the high expectations they had -- I've been disappointed that he compromised so much with the right -- but if you think there is the slightest temptation to go for the likes of Perry, Bachmann, Palin or Paul, you are sorely mistaken.
Truth to Power| 8.22.11 @ 7:05PM
Of course not. We expect you to try and go down with the ship. We are not going with you though.
S| 8.22.11 @ 8:05PM
You know... what saddens me is that all the rednecks are complaining about the poor job the president is doing in office. Well an eight year old can tell you what the problem is..... The state that the country is in RIGHT NOW is a direct result of 8 years of George W. Bush.
GWB ran this country into the ground and this man has to unravel his mess! The bottom line is that if President Obama was not a black man, we would not be hearing all of this mess from so many of you egotistical individuals who believe that the anglosaxon male can do a better job regardless of the circumstances. This is the reason why congress is predominately Republican now, right. And the fact of the matter is that the Republican party consists of a bunch of toddler - like adults who throw temper tantrums when they cannot have their way! What does that say about THEIR ability to run this country. To protect their interests, they are depleting the middle class!
We complained when President Obama ran for president that we did not want a communist society or a dictatorship, but what exactly are we creating when we wipe the middle class out of this country? ARE YOU SERIOUS? GROW UP! IF YOU FEEL YOU CAN DO A BETTER JOB, THEN LET US HEAR YOUR STORY AND YOU ATTEMPT TO RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY! I AM GETTING SICK OF ALL YOU WHO CAN'T DO ANYTHING BETTER THAN TALK ABOUT WHAT THIS MAN ISN'T DOING WHEN YOU WON'T GIVE HIM A CHANCE.... SHUT UP!
The War Planner | 8.22.11 @ 8:23PM
..you seem a little shrill. However, I know how it is when your hero stubs his toes so badly. I suggest two aspirins and a nice lie-down.
But the way, I'd check out this refutation of your Blame "W" meme:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/.....shing-bush
..most of that compost just doesn't hang together, old son.
oldfart| 8.23.11 @ 5:58AM
I AGREE BIG TIME. When Irene hits the North Carolina as a CAT 4 I can't wait to hear the press saying - GEORGE BUSH DID IT.
Milpundit | 8.22.11 @ 8:36PM
S,
There's a platoon of shrinks waiting for you in Vienna.
Truth to Power| 8.22.11 @ 10:07PM
Stop saying we. You need to man up to what you've done. Remember "Dissent Is the Highest Form of Patriotism." Government programs didn't create the middle class, they created the ghetto.
Alan Brooks| 8.22.11 @ 10:53PM
S,
Bush was nothing but a head of cabbage; he will be forgotten someday-- as he should be..
Nick| 8.22.11 @ 11:56PM
I sure wish O'Bama would stop trying to turn this country into a communist society or a dictatorship.
I'm sure glad that the 8 years of President Bush is not the reason the country is in the state it is in RIGHT NOW, directly.
Finally, I'm very glad that the bottom line we are hearing of all this mess is NOT because O'Bama is a black man.
I am sick and tired of giving this man all these chances and not saying anything about it!
Terry Ott| 8.25.11 @ 2:31PM
I don't aspire to be POTUS because I am not a decisive "tough love" type organizational leader with experience in actually running anything bigger than a dozen people focused on a common goal. And that's the criteria I have, regardless of a person's political views (which mean less to me than to many others, I might add).
Barack Obama was not ready to be President, is learning on the job at our expense and to his detriment. And it is painful, for all of us, with lots of adverse consequences, intended and unintended.
What you are hearing people say, if you turn off the megaphone and listen is: "We will stand in the way of you 'doing anything', because we don't like very much of what you're doing or talking about doing." So lying down on the road in front of his vehicle is perfectly appropriate, even if it frustrates the daylights out of you and causes you to go all CAPITAL LETTERS on us Mr/Ms "S".
You bet GWB made a mess. He would have gotten his butt handed to him in the next election had he been running. But that is NOT the point. We don't really need a fireman spraying flammable liquids on the smoldering dump, do we?
Ron Albers| 8.25.11 @ 4:38PM
Hey S how about you come up with something other than the worn out liberal talking points you spew. You people will never accept responsibility for your own actions. The fact that this idiot of a president is black has nothing to do with our dislike for him. We dislike him for his horrible policies that are destroying our country. You can not comment on any accomplishments your idiot president has made so you resort to personal attacks on those who oppose you. Grow up.
mzk1| 8.26.11 @ 5:18AM
And calling us racists is is supposed to convince us you are right HOW?
W kept this country safe. That's what he did. The only mistakes he made were when he went along with your sort of economics?
People like you and Obama partly caused the recession by refusing to reform Fannie and Freddy, while W pleaded with you to do so. This is blame the victim.
Robert| 8.28.11 @ 5:20AM
I believe those 8 yrs were the result of a Democrat controled House and Senate. And we are in the sh_t hole we are in because the Democrats blocked an investigation of Fannie and Freddie; Because their buddies ran them.
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 8.22.11 @ 2:47PM
I don't bother with silly being a boringly ineffective would-be demagogue in the cessp0ol that is California as I keep trotting out the same tired, petty, counterfactual lines from every one of my pompous, sanctimonious, detached-from-reality posts, so shop-worn is my refrain, and so counterproductive are the policies I espouse, that readers feel sick every time I sanctimoniously espouse my posts, and suffer with each word, as I continue to be a reprobate charlatan, consistently continuing to be an abject embarrassment and failure vomiting sanctimonious condescensions and prevarications incompetently, on ignoring the irony that Hillyer's awesome opening paragraph applies as equally to me as to the downgrade you can believe in idiotic liar in chief matters.
RCV| 8.22.11 @ 3:57PM
Man up, Skip. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 8.23.11 @ 11:47AM
I don't bother with silly hypocrisy of sanctimoniously calling for 'manning up', as the big bad he-man sanctimoniously espousing what a devout churchgoing Christian expert of real love and compassion I am, and what a lifelong scholar and expert with 35 years experience on the Constitution I am, while simultaneously espousing how manly it is to support the brutal murder of over 54 million innocent, defenseless Americans, on even more proof I am nothing but a pathetic, despicable, stupid, lying, idiotic douchebag asswipe of epic proportions, manning up, matters.
mzk1| 8.26.11 @ 5:19AM
Yes!
mzk1| 8.26.11 @ 5:19AM
Yes!
mzk1| 8.26.11 @ 5:20AM
Oops. Was agreeing with the last guy, not RCV.
Jack in Wi.| 8.22.11 @ 10:50PM
Ron Paul is statistically tied with Obama as are the other top Republicans running for the job. That is according to the latest Gallup poll. Obama is a definitve underdog as of today. However if the Republicans nominate their usual neocon turkey all bets are off. The present turkeys are Perry, Romney, and Mrs Bachman. But even those people should beat Obama. He is one the laziest, stupidist, and most inexperienced people to ever hold the job. I put him right up ther with G W Bush.
mzk1| 8.26.11 @ 5:21AM
Unless we nominate Paul. Then Obama will win 50 states and DC.
mzk1| 8.26.11 @ 5:21AM
Unless we nominate Paul. Then Obama will win 50 states and DC.
Occam's Tool| 8.22.11 @ 11:24PM
Kucinich=Paul on Foreign Policy. Check THOMAS.
Nick| 8.22.11 @ 12:01PM
Jack in Wi.,
"I suggeest that Mr. Obama do himself and everyone else in the world a huge favor and stay on Martha's Vineyard for the rest of his term in office."
Why? O'Bama is a Moslem jihadi apologist just like you. You two have the same agenda regarding Israel.
Margie| 8.22.11 @ 12:36PM
Jack claims he loves Israel and loves everybody. It's only the Christians that have hate in their souls.
See his post last night.
I say Jack isn't genuine in this regard.
Jack still needs to be regenerated from above. As in Jn. 3:3.
The he will understand what love means.
Clint| 8.22.11 @ 1:25PM
Margie the Catholic Hater Talks Love and Tea Partier Clint Calls Her On It.
Oldefarte| 8.22.11 @ 1:35PM
Uh, let's stick to the GD SUBJECT of this editorial, and take the kindergarden crap somewhere else!!!!!!!!!!
Buck Ofama| 8.22.11 @ 2:02PM
But, Jokebama IS kindergarten crap.
Margie| 8.22.11 @ 1:41PM
No, what I hate is false Religion, and false teachers, much like yourself.
"I hate the company of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked." Ps, 26:5.
Turbo Man| 8.23.11 @ 1:41AM
Beware ... of evildoers!
Occam's Tool| 8.22.11 @ 11:24PM
Clint the antisemitic pig is in no position to call anybody on anything.
Jack in Wi.| 8.22.11 @ 1:34PM
Margie: Hate is every man's soul. The Chrisian is supposed to cleanse his soul of hate as much as humanly possible. I suggest you get started now. I sense a lot of hate in your heart. I don't love what Israel is but that doesn't mean it can't become a place where there is peace and brotherhood.
Margie| 8.22.11 @ 1:43PM
"I suggest you get started now."
God suggests you get started now. You are a liar, and don't speak truthfully. Until you repent~ you're going to continue in this same way.
Liars cannot enter the Kingdom of God.
Clint| 8.22.11 @ 2:36PM
So Mullah Margie May Never Enter the Kingdom Of God If Liars Can't Go There.
Margie| 8.22.11 @ 2:47PM
"Mullah Margie."
Seems the anti-Christs love using that term.
Yes, if I am a liar, Hell awaits.
So I'd ask you to tell me where I've lied, but no one's interested, and you couldn't do it, anyway.
May God open the eyes of Clint/Tim* the anti-Christ (one of the many) of AmSpec.
mzk1| 8.26.11 @ 5:26AM
It appears that Clint is trying to give both my fellow Tea Partiers AND Catholics a bad name. I don't believe any of it.
Interestingly, I saw recently on Israeli TV (passing through the restaurant downstairs) some commentators comparing the current Israeli Parliament to the Tea Party.
Occam's Tool| 8.22.11 @ 11:23PM
Especially when the Palis make it Judenrein, Jack.
Twerp.
Nick| 8.22.11 @ 5:24PM
Margie,
Yes, just as God told Ezekiel:
"Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do [them]."
- Ezekiel 36:25-27
Confirmation is also needed to receive all seven gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Hope all is well with you and Victor.
God Bless!
Margie| 8.23.11 @ 12:00AM
Nick,
Greetings.
Yes, the confirmation comes when one is regenerated from above~ by the Holy Spirit~ and ther is no mistaking it!
"That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." Jn. 3:6.
God bless!
Nick| 8.23.11 @ 1:45AM
Margie,
Actually, Confirmation comes after the regeneration.
Regeneration from above, or, being born again, comes when the water and Spirit are poured forth and we receive our new circumcised hearts, as God told Ezekiel to prophesy.
Confirmation comes with the laying on of hands, as it is written in the Scriptures:
"Now, when the apostles, who were in Jerusalem, had heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John. Who, when they had come, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Ghost. For he was not as yet come upon any of them: but they were only baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid their hands upon them: and they received the Holy Ghost." (Emphasis mine.)
- Acts 8:14-17
"Having heard these things, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had imposed his hands on them, the Holy Ghost came upon them: and they spoke with tongues and prophesied." (Emphasis mine.)
- Acts 19:5-6
There is only one instance, in the Scriptures, when Confirmation was given before Baptism, but, this was a special situation where God was showing the Judaizers that the Gentiles were to be included in Christ's redemptive plan:
"While Peter was yet speaking these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them that heard the word. And the faithful of the circumcision, who came with Peter, were astonished for that the grace of the Holy Ghost was poured out upon the Gentiles also. For they heard them speaking with tongues and magnifying God. Then Peter answered: Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Ghost, as well as we? And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ." (Emphasis mine.)
- Acts 10:44-48
The Letter to the Hebrews confirms (little pun there, ha-ha!) that Baptism and Confirmation are separate Sacraments, that should not be repeated when we fall, when it lists the elementary teachings of the Christian faith:
"Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of Christ, let us go on to things more perfect: not laying again the foundation of penance from dead works and of faith towards God, of the doctrine of baptisms and imposition of hands, and of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment." (Emphasis mine.)
- Hebrews 6:1-2
Thus, Confirmation, i.e., the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit being poured out on the Christian initiate by the laying on of hands and anointing with oil, was different from the Sacrament of Baptism; which, through the power of the Holy Spirit, the stain of original sin is washed away and we are given our new, circumcised hearts.
It is through this anointing oil that we become a "royal priesthood" as Saint Peter states in 1 Peter 2:9. David was anointed king by Samuel and Aaron was anointed High Priest by Moses, but, we are anointed with the Holy Spirit at Confirmation, making us royal priests, in a priesthood we share with Christ, Who was a priest "according to the order of Melchisedech" (cf Hebrews 5).
I know you don't believe any of this, but that is okay.
Thanks for the kind words.
God Bless!
Margie| 8.23.11 @ 1:05PM
What you know, Nick, is exactly what I believe~ and preach~ and have been for a couple of years here~ which is the pure gospel of Jesus Christ.
You quoted Acts 10~ which shows that baptism by water was done after the receiving of the Holy Spirit.
And in Acts 8 & 19 you are actually proving the truth~ that being baptized with water only is not enough, and that there is a need to receive the Holy Spirit. The Bible shows that and you actually quote it, yet you insist that the baptism by water IS the receiving of the Spirit, and so you prove yourself wrong!
The rest of your post is Catholic gobilty-gook and is NOT the Bible.
"Confirmation" isn't in the Bible. It's a false teaching.
Nor is infant baptism.
Have you not read?
"Hence even the first covenant was not ratified without blood.
For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded you."
And in the same way He sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship.
Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
Thus it was necessary for the copies of the Heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the Heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
For Christ has entered, not into a sanctuary made with hands, a copy of the true one, but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
Nor was it to offer Himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the Holy Place yearly with blood not his own; for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, He has appeared once for all at the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for Him." Heb. 9:21-28.
And do you not know that the baptism with water is not the same thing as the baptism that saves? For Jesus Himself says:
"And while staying with them He charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, He said, "you heard from Me, for John baptized with water, but before many days you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit." Acts 1:4 & 5.
The promise of the Father! (Not the Pope).
That promise is spelled out by God, and you just read it. It has nothing to do with being baptized with water~ as you just read.
"And when He had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit." Jn. 20:22.
"You are already made clean by the Word which I have spoken to you." Jn. 15:3.
There's no water there!
There is God's Way~ as He states it in the Bible, and then there is Man's Religious ways~ and each person must decide just Whom they will serve.
Nick| 8.23.11 @ 4:30PM
Margie,
Please, re-read my reply again.
I clearly state that Acts 10 was a special circumstance where God wanted to show the Judaizers that the Gentiles were included in the redemptive plan of Christ.
I don't believe that I have ever stated that "baptism by water IS the receiving of the Spirit." If I have, I misstated the facts.
In my reply, above, I clearly state that it is during the Sacrament of Baptism, "through the power of the Holy Spirit, [that] the stain of original sin is washed away and we are given our new, circumcised hearts."
We receive the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit during the Sacrament of Confirmation, with the laying on of hands.
"you heard from Me, for John baptized with water, but before many days you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit."
You a partly correct. Saint John's baptism was for the penance of the Jews, to prepare the way for Christ. Therefore, John's baptism did not save, as Saint Peter says their baptism does, in 1 Peter 3:21.
But, Acts 1:5 only states that they would be baptized with the Holy Spirit in a few days. It doesn't say that they were not baptized with water. The Scriptures are silent on how, precisely, the Apostles were baptized.
It was only after the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ that the Apostles were told to baptize in the "name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
Baptism was prefigured in the Old Testament by circumcision. (Which was performed on infants, by the way.) Confirmation was prefigured by the anointing of the priests and the kings in the Old Testament.
Christ is Greek for Messiah, which means anointed one. When we call ourselves Christians we are calling ourselves anointed ones.
When we are Baptized and Confirmed, we are "sealed with the promised Holy Spirit." - Ephesians 1:13 (cf 2 Cor. 1:22)
The Catechism explains this far better than I can in this restricted space. If you are interested, here are the links:
http://www.vatican.va/archive/.....s2c1a1.htm
http://www.vatican.va/archive/.....s2c1a1.htm
Hope that helps.
God Bless!
Margie| 8.24.11 @ 2:29PM
Nick,
Actually, the "Confirmation" you are talking about, (a Catholic teaching, and not in the Bible), was not the confirmation I was talking about~ but then.. I think you knew that already, didn't you?
When I said .."the confirmation" I meant the type of confirming whereby one becomes aware that he has been regenerated from above as in Jn. 3:3.
There is no such teaching as yours done by Jesus in the Bible, just as there is no such thing as "Sacraments", nor is there prayer to the dead, nor is there such a vile teaching as Transubstantiation, and I could go on, but what's the point?
You keep quoting from the Catholic Bible, which isn't from the Greek~ and has added its own teachings~ and you already know what God says about people who do this, yet you persist.
People will choose to believe a man who poses as Christ instead of Christ Himself as they are destined to do, sadly.
And you seem to be one of them.
I pray God opens your eyes.
God bless.
Nick| 8.25.11 @ 3:35PM
Margie,
Yes, I will continue to defend my beliefs, you will continue to defend your beliefs. And, this is a good thing.
It doesn't make either of us scumbags, in my opinion.
Also, the Revised Standard Version - Catholic Edition and the Douay-Rheims are both translations from the Greek.
Thank you for the prayers, I appreciate them, as I need all the prayers I can get!
God Bless!
Margie| 8.25.11 @ 7:30PM
A scumbag is someone who believes and so treats a Bible believing Christian as a heretic~ and tries to make them look like a liar and twists their words, and the Words of God.
You have said many things in opposition to the Word of God, and adhere to the teachings of a false Religion.
You have tried to make me out to be a liar as well.
You have also said that "I've been lied to" concerning the history of your Religion and its murderous past.
You have agreed with the murderers that Wyklffe and other Martyrs were heretical.
Now doesn't that make you exactly just like them? Just like Clint, who believes the same things?
And exactly like the Papists whom you agree with?
Just asking!
Nick| 8.25.11 @ 11:28PM
Margie,
"Now doesn't that make you exactly just like them? "
No, it does not. I'm sorry you can't see the difference. Also, I'm unfamiliar with that definition of scumbag! Ha-ha!
I have never tried to make you "look like a liar" or twist your words. I have pointed out the times when you have misstated a teaching of the Catholic Church, but, I have ascribed no malice on your part.
Many falsehoods about the Catholic Church were spread centuries ago. Now, they are just assumed as fact. This is not the fault of unsuspecting, good intentioned folks, like yourself and others. I'm just trying to set the record straight.
Again, Wycliff was not "murdered." He died of a stroke. Some of his teachings were heretical. But, he was not declared a heretic because he translated the Bible into English. This is simply not true.
William Tyndale, on the other hand, was burned at the stake for heresy. I do not condone this act. But, as I've explained to you previously, the secular rulers of that time thought this was the appropriate punishment for heresy.
Condemning them for it, as someone living in the 21st century, is like condemning the Founding Fathers for owning slaves. I did not live in their time, so it is not right for me to judge them. That is God's job.
Also, like Wycliff, Tyndale was not convicted of heresy because he translated the Bible into English. His Bible was unauthorized, but, he was charged with heresy because some of his teachings were heretical.
Did that clear this up? I hope it did.
God Bless!
Jack in Wi.| 8.22.11 @ 1:30PM
Nick: You are supposedly Mr. Catholic. Who never heard of the fact that Jesus' whole messsage was about peace, brotherhood, and love of neighbor. The Muslims are your neighbor. You are supposed to love them and try to live in peace with them. But your no Catholic. That is quite obvious.
RCV| 8.22.11 @ 3:59PM
Nick is indeed a devout Catholic, as much as I disagree with his politics. Unlike you, Jack, he is an honorable soul.
Nick| 8.22.11 @ 6:18PM
Thanks for the encouraging words, RCV.
You, also, are an honorable man. Even though we disagree on many things.
God Bless!
Occam's Tool| 8.22.11 @ 11:25PM
Nick, one good man balances out many evil-doers. G-d Bless, pal.
Nick| 8.22.11 @ 11:45PM
Occam's Tool,
You flatter me, sir.
Shalom, and be well, my friend.
Nick| 8.22.11 @ 6:13PM
Jack in Wi.,
I am far from "Mr. Catholic". I'm just a poor sinner. And, I certainly agree with Christ's message of peace. But, His message is meant for the individual, primarily, not nation states.
States have the right to defend themselves. Also, Saint John Chrysostom writes about the virtue of serving in the military and defending one's country. Have you ever read about the Crusades, by chance?
And, yes, the Moslems are my neighbors, and, I love them, as I love everyone on the planet.
You can love someone, and simultaneously send them to meet God. I guess according to you, Jack, Catholics couldn't have served during WWII, because they would've been killing fellow Catholics?
Being a Catholic doesn't mean being a pacifist.
I don't question your membership in the Catholic Church, Jack. I question your knowledge of Her teachings. If you support Hamas or the missile attack over the weekend, or, try to rationalize such evil acts; you are not in communion with the Church.
W| 8.22.11 @ 6:41PM
Nick, my DEEETROIT friend, isn't there a large Iraqi population in Dearborn, are they Christian or Muslim ?
I remember two restaurants, Penne and Roma hall, still there?
Nick| 8.22.11 @ 7:34PM
W,
Sorry, I'm not an expert on Dearborn. In fact, I don't think that I have been there in a few years. Dearborn is where many Arabs (i.e., Moslems) have congregated.
It is in the other suburbs, like where I live, that the Chaldeans have chosen live. They are Catholics, with their own rite. We have many in my neighborhood. In fact, my last next-door-neighbor was from Iraq, and I assume Chaldean, because they left the statue of Mary in their front yard.
He didn't speak English, so I don't know what his family went through. But, they were very nice.
You can easily tell the feast days of their patron saints, as the women get dressed in very colorful gowns of purple, orange, red, etc. The first time that I saw this, I did a quick internet search and found out that it was the feast day of some Eastern Church saint.
Sorry that I couldn't have been of more help.
God Bless!
Jack in Wi.| 8.22.11 @ 11:10PM
Dearborn has many Catholic Iraqi's Nick. You know the ones who have been killed and chased from the country in your beloved Iraqi Freedom. Did you ever study the Catholc Just War doctrine Nick? What Israel does isn't close to being just.
Occam's Tool| 8.22.11 @ 11:27PM
Actually, what Israel does is quite just, and shows significant forbearance NO OTHER COUNTRY in the world would show, Jack. Please name one.
Nick| 8.22.11 @ 11:42PM
Jack in Wi.,
"Dearborn has many Catholic Iraqi's Nick."
How would you know?
"You know the ones who have been killed and chased from the country in your beloved Iraqi Freedom."
Umm, if they were killed, um, how did they make it to Dearborn, Jack?
"Did you ever study the Catholc Just War doctrine Nick?"
Yes, I have. When are you going start studying it and stop promoting falsehoods?
"What Israel does isn't close to being just."
In every war Israel has fought with other nation-states, she has followed all criterion of the Just War Theory. When Israel has dealt terrorists, she has dealt with unlawful combatants and treated them as they deserve to be treated.
Perhaps you could state how exactly Israel has violated Just War Theory, instead of just falsely asserting it?
W| 8.23.11 @ 10:53AM
Jack, I believe most left Iraq before the first Gulf War. I remember they were interviewing them on TV during the first war.
The left because they were persecuted by the Religon of Peace.
They could have emigrated to the Islamic Republic of Iran and enjoyed the true democracy way of life in Iran, but they chose the USA, imagine that.
Michael Tomlinson| 8.22.11 @ 2:53PM
Nick if only he and Biden would resign things would be better, but don't hold your breath for that miracle.
As for the Muslim jihadists once they renounce worldwide jihad and their imperialist ambitions to force our submission to their false prophet and god, establish the caliphate (Sunnis) or bring on the Mahdi (Shia), acknowledge freedom of religion is a human right for all peoples, treat females with dignity & respect, quit torturing and abusing dogs and accept Israel then they want be jihadist anymore and want needed killing.
Nick| 8.22.11 @ 6:16PM
Mr. Tomlinson,
Agreed.
And the best way to accomplish this is to defeat them by letting them meet Allah.
Occam's Tool| 8.22.11 @ 10:59PM
Well, Nick and Mike, I must agree with you. After all, consider what it took to defeat Germany and Japan in WWII, who were well under 200 million in population---2 nukes and saturation bombing.
What is it going to take to beat 1.6 Billion? How much of a beatdown before they become more pacifistic as opposed to fascistic? Kratman (who is not me, and from whom I have NO financial incentive) has an answer in CALIPHATE, and it ain't pretty. He thinks over 1 billion.
By the way, I love both of you guys' posts. Great work!
Nick| 8.23.11 @ 11:25AM
Thanks, Occam. Back at ya'!
Shalom.
The Undertaker| 8.25.11 @ 4:46PM
Several salts of mercury and/or lead, deposited into drinking water feed sources, should do the trick.
No deaths, just ... no future muslims....
Occam's Tool| 8.22.11 @ 10:55PM
Al made his money through the Global warming scam. Clinton did well. Nixon did well through his writing, Carter through donations by Jihadists.
The last fellow who did the Presidency right was Truman.
Alan Brooks| 8.22.11 @ 9:29PM
Obama is still much better a POTUS than McCain would have been.
Occam's Tool| 8.22.11 @ 11:00PM
No, no he isn't. McCain might have been subpar, but Obama is the worst President of the last 100 years. HOOVER didn't get our credit reduced.
RCV| 8.23.11 @ 12:39AM
Nor did Obama. It was the theatrics of the GOP in Congress that did that. Which is why the latest Gallup survey shows voters now favoring Democrats in the general Congressional poll.
W| 8.23.11 @ 10:56AM
Disagree. The rating was dropped because the rating agency wanted at least 3 to 4 trillion in cuts.
The bottom line is the numbers, not the theatrics, which were entertaining on both sides.
RCV| 8.23.11 @ 11:24AM
The agency said it had lost confidence of the ability of Congress to work constructively together to address America's financial crisis.
W| 8.23.11 @ 1:19PM
I agree that the entire Congress is part of the reason. They said "Congress" and not the tea party or conservative members. Remember Obama had a Dem House and Dem Senate for two years,and nothing was done about the deficit.
Can't wait to see the recommendations of the super committee.
Thomas Paine| 8.25.11 @ 4:48PM
Occam ... excellent analogy.
Hoover responded to the downturn by:
1. Expanding government
2. Increasing spending (dramatically)
3. Scaring the heck out of capital
4. Signing a trade-restriction bill
With the exception of #4 (so far) -- OBAMA IS HOOVER.
Southern_Comment| 8.22.11 @ 6:29AM
If Obama were to step down, that would be a bad thing - He's the worst excuse for a president in all of American history, but at least for him his celebrity has died with the liberals (THEIR lack of attn span has killed him off - same thing he accused us of) . He's yesterday's gadget. Although his being in the WH will make the job harder for the next person that's in there (STILL have not heard jack about illegal immigration from Perry - the one thing holding back 100% support), for the most part Obama has been rendered useless, but if he abdicates then who runs in his place? Nope, keep him there it's an almost guaranteed loss for the progressives and GOOD RIDDANCE TO THEM!
Alan Brooks| 8.22.11 @ 9:54PM
"STILL have not heard jack about illegal immigration from Perry"
Perry wants to wait-and-see which way the wind might blow on Latino votes for him.
Thomas Paine| 8.25.11 @ 4:49PM
Fine with me. Get elected ... start deporting.
Occam's Tool| 8.22.11 @ 11:00PM
Southern: I still have Buchanan ahead---until the first WMD.
Gasman| 8.22.11 @ 6:30AM
I think Obama knows he through,he will now go into his Hamlet mode. He will be clobbered in 2012 and blame America for not being ready for his greatness.
Mike D.| 8.22.11 @ 7:39AM
ALA Carter!
Michael Tomlinson| 8.22.11 @ 2:54PM
Exactly. The Obama double dip recession will insure his defeat if we play our cards smart.
RCV| 8.23.11 @ 12:40AM
Fat chance of that!
The Bishop| 8.22.11 @ 6:30AM
"...Generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth."
What? You mean none of that has happened? Whoa! I'm dumbstruck!
Pecos Pete| 8.22.11 @ 6:35AM
Quin, protect your back. The IRS will be knocking on your door. Or maybe the SEIU.
Michael Tomlinson| 8.22.11 @ 6:39AM
He and Biden should both resign and who knows we may get lucky as Obama's double dip recession gets messier and worse. Supposedly, their are rumor in the Chicago mob (Democrat party) that if he thinks he's going to lose he'll leave the Dems high and dry. Probably wishful thinking, but wouldn't it be nice for this wish to come true.
Carol| 8.22.11 @ 7:00AM
The Mooch would never let her puppet resign.
Her lifestyle has become that of a queen and she ain't gonna give that up until they are stopped from their continued assault against America that few pundits on air - other than Rush and Beck - point out are doing all their destruction on purpose.
Until more are doing it because a POTUS could never be a Communist now could he, Hugh Hewitt and Bill Kristol and others still yakking like he is a NORMAL president?
Obama ain't too black - he's too red but until those talking heads on the air quit treating him like he's deserved of respect, he is staying put.
On a side note - he has assured himself of a 2nd team by granting amnesty to the country of Mexico and other Latin and Central American countries.
Other than Lamar Smith and Bachmann calling him a dictator about his illegal act - not a peep from Boehner or GOP members.
Jack von Bauer| 8.22.11 @ 7:02AM
"Now I get it. Why wasn't it clear before now? If you don't like Obama's own ideas, you can't possibly be motivated by any honorable considerations."
But that's what every miserable liberal/leftist/socialist/Marxist/Leninist/Trotskyist, et al... whoever drew breath thinks. ALL THE TIME.
Which is why the step from hatred to suppression is so easy for them.
saleboter| 8.22.11 @ 7:03AM
"counterfactual lines" - fancy name for a lie
Stuart Koehl| 8.22.11 @ 7:09AM
That would make Joe Biden our new President--is that really progress?
It reminds me of a story concerning King Charles II, when his brother, James Duke of York (and future King James II) warned him to beware of assassins. "Fie, James. No one is going to kill me to make you King".
In that sense, maybe Biden is Obama's life insurance policy.
Occam's Tool| 8.22.11 @ 11:01PM
Yup, Stuart, that's what I thought.But Biden may not be so doctrinaire.
Stuart Koehl| 8.23.11 @ 10:16AM
He's certain to be more entertaining.
Timothy L. Pennell| 8.22.11 @ 7:33AM
I agree with Hillyer.
Every day, he says the SAME THINGS.
"We've got to come together." (And do what I want to do) "We have to stop bickering, and do what is Necessary, for the Country." (I want to RAISE TAXES, so I can SPEND MORE MONEY) "We need people to set aside their differences to get things done." (Republicans need to STFU, and DO WHAT I SAY. So let it be written. So let it be done)
Surprised?
He's a BULLSH*T ARTIST. If you've ever known any Bullsh*t Artists, you know that they don't know how to DO anything. They just RUN THEIR MOUTHS. And, they can't take any BLAME, because they're not really MEN.
He's never had a REAL JOB, in his life. Never got his hands dirty, broke a sweat, or got a callous, in his life. He is NOT a Professor of the Constitution. He did NOT teach any classes. He was a Guest Speaker. He came in and RAN HIS MOUTH. That's what Bullsh*tters do. They run their mouths.
They LIE.
And, in this sense, he is the KING of the Bullsh*tters.
His list of LIES is too long to go in to, again. Let's just say that, he hasn't told THE TRUTH, once. From PROMISING to take Public Financing for his Campaign, if McCain agreed to do, also (McCain DID go the Public Finance Route. B.S. Boy did not) to being oh so Transparent (He is just the OPPOSITE) to not having Lobbyists in his Administration, and Putting Legislation up on the Internet for 72 hours before a vote. CSPAN, Guantanamo, Renditions, The Patriot Act.............
You get the picture.
But, this is different. This one is BIG. The swagger is gone. I see FEAR in his eyes. I see DESPERATION. He's tried all of the Liberal Solutions. He has recited the Progressive Bible by heart. MORE TAXES. TAX THE RICH. Support the UNIONS. REWARD our Friends and PUNISH our Enemies. STOP Drilling for Oil. DESTROY the Coal Industry. Curb the Fishing Industry.
REGULATE Business, til they do your bidding.
You know: Paul Krugman 101.
He's used Keynesian Stimulus, to REWARD his friends. No Roads. No Bridges. No new Electrical Grids. No New Infrastructure. NO JOBS.
He used the HUNDREDS OF BILLION$ to shore up his Core Support. Funneling the money to the States, for their PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS.
That would be: Robert Reich 101, I believe.
Now, he's got nothing. He ignores his Oath of Office, and THE LAW, by going around Congress, at every turn. He is willing to FLOOD THIS COUNTRY with ILLEGALS, to hold on to power.
He's not that different from Khaddafi. He's not that different from Assad. In fact, he's just like GOEBELS.
He's out there, now, REPEATING THE SAME LIES, over and over and over, again. That's how The BIG LIE is done. You have to repeat it, over and over and over, again. And it has to be a WHOPPER! Something like....Oh, I don't know....."I've been the President for almost 3 Years, but, I'm not responsible for anything that's happened, during that time. George Bush did it. The Republicans in the House are to blame. And, if only people would do what I say, we'd be sitting pretty. There's nothing wrong with America. There's something wrong with everyone in Washington EXCEPT, ME."
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to Martha's Vineyard, for 10 days at a 28 Acre, Ocean Front, Estate, where I can enjoy the beach, listen to the waves, eat Lobster and Caviar, the Finest Steaks your money can buy, drink some Fine Wines, maybe some Champagne, and smoke Cigars, as I continue to FOCUS ON JOBS like a Laser Beam, and contemplate the SHARED SACRIFICE, that we must ALL endure, if we're gonna get back on our feet, again."
Ned Bender| 8.22.11 @ 7:36AM
When Obama was elected, I predicted he wouldn't be living in the US twenty years later. I'd like to ammend that prediction to ten years.
RustyG| 8.22.11 @ 8:16AM
I'm with you Ned. I keep wondering what will become of him after he gets shellacked next year. With the mess he's made, my guess is an extremely low profile.
Larry| 8.22.11 @ 9:27AM
Ned, would you please tell me where you're going. I'd like to join you. Let's keep it our secret though. We don't want too many people joining us, especially libs.
I'm considering Singapore myself where there are much more freedoms than here in the land of the free.
JimH| 8.22.11 @ 9:54AM
Do you mean he will leave or that there will be no US to live in?
Petronius| 8.22.11 @ 10:40AM
Could be on to something Ned
We don't know how much "stimulus" is sitting in a safe deposit box in Zug waiting for "the One " to decamp and buy hisself a condo in Monaco.
Ned Bender| 8.22.11 @ 8:33PM
Petronius, we are in agreement as to his destination.
Thomas Paine| 8.25.11 @ 4:52PM
Can't wait to cross his path in an airport, following his ouster.
FREE SPEECH, we call it.
coal carrier| 8.22.11 @ 7:36AM
As you stated, “this man's ego won't let him resign”.
How about this, Joe “make it up as you go” Biden resigns, takes one for the team, and in comes Madam Hillary to take Joe’s place.
Mimi| 8.22.11 @ 7:44AM
Quin...At this point in time, MOST of us , are at the end of our rope.! Any NEWS and RUMOR of a resignation is GOOD and we would be glad to TRADE the "O" for some good old BIDEN BLATENT BLARNEY. I'm more inclined to believe ...It will come as a " LEAVE OF ABSCENCE"...related to stress.
Biden will clip the edges off the worst of the damage done....If some decent Democrats rise to the fore..they might save the Party....OTHERWISE IT WILL BE OVER....AS IT SHOULD !!
WRTolkas| 8.22.11 @ 7:57AM
What really scares me this this poor excuse for a leader is pulling in bags of money from some people. With the money obama has in his pocket and the MSM on his side this still will be a sizable fight. And naturally, the black vote will be for the messiah. Folks, we have one fight on our hands we can't afford to loose. Like Admiral Spruence and Fletcher confronting Fleet Admiral Yamamoto at Midway, this is a fight we can't afford to loose and I am scared for the outcome.
bull-gator| 8.22.11 @ 8:09AM
he's a facilitator, community agitator, and a bully, but not a leader. Never has been, never will be. It's not in his DNA.
Pecos| 8.22.11 @ 8:12AM
Resignation is not good enough. I want him impeached for Fast and Furious.
F & F isn't merely a screw up. It was designed to undercut our 2nd amendment rights. Then there is the trail of corpses and drugs.
Jeamar37| 8.22.11 @ 1:11PM
Amen. This man is dangerous to our national security, our body politic, and what's left of our moral fiber. But it is a sad commentary and the state of our citizenry that a man that was a proven liar (Wright, Ayers, etc.) was elected in the first place.
Occam's Tool| 8.22.11 @ 11:04PM
Jeamar37: When I told my idiot parents and sister what a schmuck this guy was, they didn't believe me. Now that a mega-mosque has opened up a few blocks from my mom's Condo and RE prices are dropping like stones, may be they will believe me.
Michael Tomlinson| 8.22.11 @ 2:56PM
Pecos how about a compromise we humiliate him in the election and send him and Holder to Mexico to stand trial for muder? We could try him in the US so long as it is Texas (we use the death penalty) or Arizona (they could learn to use the death penalty more like Texas).
Paevo| 8.22.11 @ 8:24AM
Fas and Furious would have gotten the AG fired months ago had he not been black...
Larry| 8.22.11 @ 9:24AM
It's racist to point out when black people violate the law. You bad boy.
Arch| 8.22.11 @ 8:38AM
Having Obama resign would be terrible. Joe Biden as VP is a huge deterrent. There is little chance Obama would resign anyway; it would be an admission of failure. When he is crushed at the polls and the Senate is culled of another class of radicals and RINOs, Obama will accuse Americans of racism, but we will be rid of him forever.
We should put the pressure on the democrats in the Senate to pass a set of real budgets based on the Ryan bill. Publicly threaten to stop all authorizations and appropriations without it - No continuing resolutions beyond defense, medicare and social security. Pick a date. Beside being on the wrong end of public opinion, the democrat Senate is violating the Congressional Budget Act of 1975. Continuing to spend without a plan is the definition of fiscal irresponsibility.
da monk| 8.22.11 @ 8:41AM
Mr Hillyer, isn't great to be able to preach to the choir? Tell us, what were your comments when George W. sat in the Executive Office?
Quin| 8.22.11 @ 10:03AM
I repeatedly criticized Bush for his big-government proclivities, even when he was riding high in the polls and fellow conservatives were blasting me for being a turncoat. In fact, at Conservative Battleline for the American Conservative Union and in the San Francisco Chronicle I wrote a column whose key line was this (think of a much younger teen diva, when she was still semi-pretending to be a "good girl"):
"George W. Bush is a conservative the same way Britney Spears is a virgin: only when it suits his marketing."
RCV| 8.22.11 @ 4:00PM
Great line!
Skippy| 8.22.11 @ 6:24PM
I heard Oscar Levant once said "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin."
Ouch!
vira | 8.22.11 @ 8:45AM
I think Obama knows coz he will be clobbered in 2012 and blame America for not being ready for his greatness.
Larry| 8.22.11 @ 9:25AM
No, he's going to blame racism on not recognizing his greatness IF he doesn't get re-elected. Don't get lazy. This is by no means a slam dunk.
RCV| 8.22.11 @ 4:00PM
He will be re-elected.
Mary Mayes | 8.22.11 @ 5:25PM
If he is re-elected, it will be because of widespread voter fraud by the left.
RCV| 8.22.11 @ 7:55PM
That's what you guys say every time you lose.
Mike D.| 8.22.11 @ 6:37PM
I think not. This country going to be a disaster area by 2012.
Occam's Tool| 8.22.11 @ 11:05PM
RCV, I like my steak medium, pal. It's the ONLY thing I'm middle of the road on.
Occam's Tool| 8.22.11 @ 11:05PM
On a more personal note---any good intros to the Constitution for grade schoolers?
RCV| 8.23.11 @ 12:41AM
I gave you a list of books last time you asked.
Jack in Wi.| 8.22.11 @ 11:13PM
He isn't going to be re-elected unless the Republicans put up another Bush clone. Then he will be re elected.
Anthony| 8.22.11 @ 8:53AM
So Quin, this is your idea of a good article, a man who is raising $ One Billion for his re-election campaign, which is going full tilt, and you muse about his abdication, is this all you could think of to write about?
Perhaps as I and other posters have mentioned, getting to the bottom of "Operation Fast and Furious" will accomplish more of what we need than wishful thinking.
Who knows, your Peabody Award, (only kidding, that's only for lefty journalists) for bringing about the impeachment of Obozo and the resignation of Holder might lead to bigger and better things, like becoming President Biteme's press spokesperson. That should keep you busy!!
winterhawk| 8.22.11 @ 9:02AM
He truly is a worthless piece of trash where he is. His calling is flash mob organizing.
Margie| 8.22.11 @ 12:40PM
Flash mob organizing~ good one!
Sadly it is true, though. And the sooner this current occupant of the people's House is hounded out of office (through the voting booth) the better.
2012 can't get here soon enough.
Bob| 8.22.11 @ 9:04AM
Ineffective? Obama's war in Libya is won unlike the two disasters left him by you know who. A world map was presented to Ms. Bachmann and she was asked to find Libya. Two hours later she pointed to Liberia. Well she got the right continent this time. Who knows maybe she can pass a third grade geography test yet.
Mike D.| 8.22.11 @ 9:50AM
And maybe that @sshole in the white house can count stars on the US flag next time he mentions 57 states!
Drunken Sailor| 8.22.11 @ 9:52AM
Bob,
I knew it was only a matter of time before you liberals, jumped on the "Obama won a war" theme but explain something to me. Obama himself said he did not need Congressional approval because we were not going to provide any "Kinetic Action" but only provide support. So if he did not need Congress to go to war how in the hell can he win a war we never went into??
If he wants to say he won the war, fine. Then we should proceed with impeachment hearings for getting involved in a war without Congressional Approval. If he didn't need approval because we were not in the war, then stop giving him credit for it. For once NATO got something done.
Diana| 8.22.11 @ 10:18AM
Who is the dominant power in NATO? Who is the leader of this dominant power?
Drunken Sailor| 8.22.11 @ 10:23AM
Silly question and a false argument.
We are the dominant power, but even then our constitution says the president can not declare war or commit troops without Congressional approval. So which is it Diana? Obama sent us into a war, without Congressional approval, and declares victory, or as Obama said, he did not need Congressional approval to provide support and a non-kinetic role? I've been in a combat zone. You do not win a war without kinetic action. Your either in the game or a spectator..
Drunken Sailor| 8.22.11 @ 10:28AM
Diana,
I almost forgot to mention as well. In Libya, France is calling the shot, not the US. If anyone can claim victory in Libya, it would be a rare French victory.
Diana| 8.22.11 @ 11:00AM
France doesn't intervene without a green light from the US. Also why didn't the GOP led House of Representatives stop the President. As usual a lot of bluster and no action from Republicans. At least the President took the iniative, didn't micromanage, left it to others and won the war.
Drunken Sailor| 8.22.11 @ 11:17AM
Your delusional sweetheart. France did lead on this. And once again if the President took action without Congressional approval then you agree he committed a impeachable defense. As usual a lot of bluster from the Liberals.
I give Obama credit for getting Osama (even though he had to sleep on the decision) but as for Lybia, the credit goes to the Rebels, France, and Britain, in that order.
John Navratil| 8.22.11 @ 11:20AM
Drunken Sailor,
Aren't you being a little harsh on the man? After all, he got this one half-right! It's the first time he's played both sides and one side won.
Drunken Sailor| 8.22.11 @ 11:49AM
Good Point! Most times he plays both sides and still manages to lose his base.
Buck Ofama| 8.22.11 @ 11:59AM
>I give Obama credit for getting Osama
WAKE UP! The clown had NOTHING to do with killing the rag head, and deserves no credit for it.
Drunken Sailor| 8.22.11 @ 12:20PM
Breath Buck,
In my view he only gets credit for being the one in charge when it happend. In all military actions, those that don't directly participate still get credit as they were part of the process.
Michael Tomlinson| 8.22.11 @ 3:03PM
Here is how a real Commander-in-Chief responds to a successful mission.
George W. Bush speech after the capture of Saddam:
The success of yesterday's mission is a tribute to our men and women now serving in Iraq . The operation was based on the superb work of intelligence analysts who found the dictator's footprints in a vast country. The operation was carried out with skill and precision by a brave fighting force. Our servicemen and women and our coalition allies have faced many dangers in the hunt for members of the fallen regime, and in their effort to bring hope and freedom to the Iraqi people. Their work continues, and so do the risks. Today, on behalf of the nation, I thank the members of our Armed Forces and I congratulate 'em.
Here is how a user and abuser of special operators and the military talks after a successful (not the number of I's and emphasis on the speaker).
Barack Obama speech after the killing of bin Laden:
And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda, even as we continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat his network. Then, last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground. I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan. And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice. Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad , Pakistan.
Thomas Paine| 8.25.11 @ 4:58PM
I count 4 I's and 2 my's ... in 6 sentences.
Barack Hussein Axelrod, speechwriter.
Michael Tomlinson| 8.22.11 @ 3:00PM
Hooyah! USN SEALS!
Drunken Sailor| 8.22.11 @ 7:08PM
No argument there.
RCV| 8.22.11 @ 4:02PM
You might read the article on the Bin Laden operation in last week's New Yorker, and then you'd learn differently.
Mary Mayes | 8.22.11 @ 5:30PM
I use the New Yorker to line the bottom of my canary cage.
RCV| 8.22.11 @ 5:51PM
Not surprised. It's way too literate for the likes of you.
Mike D.| 8.22.11 @ 6:40PM
So literate in fact that it ranks right up there with the best of fiction like green eggs and ham by Dr. Suess @sshole.
Margie| 8.23.11 @ 12:09AM
Hey, Green Eggs and Ham is way more interesting~ and fun to read!
In fact, anything by Dr. Suess is preferable to that mag.
Skippy| 8.22.11 @ 7:01PM
I read it.
Where in it did Prince Bambo's actions vary from "he slept on it, then said OK"?
The point is not that he is some great Warrior RambObama, just that he likes to take credit for things others do.
His personal accomplishments are nil.
Truth to Power| 8.22.11 @ 10:15PM
GI O got bin Laden, didn't he? Wasn't he flying the helicopter or something? He is now a shoe in for reelection, bin Laden and Libya, he is now unstoppable. What economy? The American people don't care about their jobs do they? More regulation, more pyramid schemes, more tax payer money for Democratic doners as long as Libya is free. Great strategy.
Margie| 8.22.11 @ 1:06PM
Thank God for Drunken Sailors!!
Michael Tomlinson| 8.22.11 @ 2:58PM
Diana we were leading from behind and Obama only got onboard (illegally) once he was thoroughly humiliated by Britain and France.
This military vicotry belongs to the British SAS. "He Who Dares Wins!"
Boar Hunter| 8.22.11 @ 12:38PM
This is the way Obama positions himself on everything. He claims he didn't violate the war powers act because America is not in a war, NATO is. If NATO's war is won, Obama takes all the credit for the war he was never in.
Mike Hawk| 8.22.11 @ 10:06AM
Aren't there 2 'o's in your name??
Anthony| 8.22.11 @ 12:34PM
Dream on fool, besides, get your lefty nomenclature right, it's not war in Libya, it's kinetic military action, led by NATO, or don't you listen to your pretender-in-chief?
Bachman was shown a map and identified all 57 states, just like Obozo, so there!!!
Anthony| 8.22.11 @ 12:50PM
P.S. Obozo was shown a world map and when asked to identify the U.S., he pointed to China.
RCV| 8.22.11 @ 4:03PM
He handled Libya exactly the way it should have been handled, to his great credit.
Anthony| 8.22.11 @ 7:01PM
Oh my, how the left loves war when an incompetent D is running the show!! Or is it NATO, I get confused, as does Obozo, who can't make up his mind, depending on how things are going. Haven't seen congressional authorization yet, have you RCV??
Obozo's trolls call it leading from behind; I call it rump leadership from an ass.
RCV| 8.22.11 @ 8:00PM
Congressional authorization was not needed, and should not have been sought. The Constitution didn't envision 535 Commanders in Chief. Every President has rightly viewed the War Powers Act as unconstitutional since it was enacted, and most legal scholars concur.
We've been harping for years for our European allies to bear a greater share of the NATO burden, and this time Obama made them step up to the plate. Europe has a more immediate interest in Libya and should have borne the brunt of military burden.
I did notice a number of American flags being waved by the Libyans in Martyrs Square in Tripoli last night.
Anthony| 8.22.11 @ 8:48PM
Really, no congressional authorization was necessary eh, what section of the Saul Alinsky Rules for the Constitution can I find that?
Didn't that moron Biteme threaten Bush with impeachment if Bush didn't seek congressional authority?
BTW, was this NATO group part of the bribed and the coerced, or did that only apply to Bush ???
How is it that Obozo is the only president in the last century that didn't have to seek congressional authority?
It must be next to the same clause in the Alinsky Constitution that allows Obozo to suspend a congressional act on alien deportation by executive ORDER!!
You lefties are sickening, I for one can't wait for 2012 RCV, when we start to kick some lefty ass, like yours!!!
RCV| 8.22.11 @ 10:23PM
There were no US troops on the ground in Libya -- unlike Grenada, BTW, where Reagan went without Congressional authorization -- and properly so, because it was not a "war".
Occam's Tool| 8.22.11 @ 11:08PM
Dear RCV:
Islamic Republic hostile to the USA in 12 months. Next.
Nick| 8.23.11 @ 12:05AM
Occam's Tool,
"Oh, I hope not."
- José Jiménez
RCV| 8.23.11 @ 12:45AM
Well if they blow up a US airliner full of Americans, murder US soldiers, and fund every terrorist cell in the world from the IRA to Islamic Jihad, then they'll be the equal of Ghaddaffi.
Nick| 8.23.11 @ 2:43AM
RCV,
I missed Pan Am Flight 103 by only SIX days. By the grace of God, I picked December 15th as the day I would come home on leave, since I was serving in the Army in 1988, stationed in West Germany.
I flew the same route home, Frankfurt to London to the U.S, on Pan Am Airlines. I wasn't on the Flight 103, as my flight wasn't a 747.
I only had a limited number of leave days accrued, and I remember debating with myself about when I should come home. Should I leave close to Christmas, so that I could be home for couple of days after New Year's Day? Or, should I leave earlier, so that I would have more time to Christmas shop?
I could have easily picked the 21st as my date of departure. I bought my ticket sometime in October, and could easily have been stuck with that flight, on that day. I'm sure the terrorists had finalized the date when I purchased my ticket, so, God knew the day and flight. The day it happened, when I found out, I thanked God and my guardian angel for guiding my choice.
21 years later, on Christmas day 2009, the terrorist Abdulmutallab tried to repeat Lockerbie, over the Detroit area, as I celebrated the Birth of Our Savior at my sister's house. When I found out the details of this attempt, I thanked God again for not only saving my life, and my family's, but also the people on the plane.
I don't know if I was ever in any danger because I don't think they have ever released where the plane was when he tried to set-off the bomb, but I might have been. Certainly hundreds of lives were in danger that day.
By the grace of God, we will not have to remember Northwest Flight 253 as we do Pan Am Flight 103, today.
It's funny how close we all come to death during our lives, but never become aware of how close we really came. I, on the other hand, can recite many instances of when I could have, or should have, died, but did not. I give all credit to God Almighty.
RCV| 8.23.11 @ 11:26AM
Amazing story Nick. But I'm greateful He was looking out for you.
Nick| 8.23.11 @ 4:36PM
Thanks, RCV.
I appreciate it, very much.
God Bless!
W| 8.23.11 @ 9:22PM
Nick, obviously God has plans for you.
Nick| 8.24.11 @ 1:09PM
W,
Thanks!
God has a plan for all of us, I believe.
Back then, I wasn't really following God's plan very well. So, I guess He made sure that I'd be around long enough to choose His way, rather than my way.
God Bless!
Larry| 8.22.11 @ 9:24AM
My my. He looks so presidential in that picture, doesn't he? As always.
Louis Jenkins| 8.22.11 @ 9:39AM
Fast and Furious? The administration is (heaven help me for using the term) Stonewalling, the District Attorney declares he knows nothing, and Obama says "Not me!" The BATF and the FBI say they're not involved, the liberal Congressmen keep on with the mantra to ban guns, and the gun lobby keeps up the pressure. So who is to blame? There's bullsh-- somewhere, even the Mexican government and us too can smell it!
The government will not admit to anything, regardless of the jest of their argument. We're in a situation were Obama tries this or that, as long as it is Kenyesian, and when it falls flat he tries it again and again. The government is full of lies, to the point it spills over.
Boar Hunter| 8.22.11 @ 12:59PM
The picture is a misrepresentation. Sorry, I wish I could direct you to the site, but I can't recall where I saw it. A few weeks back there was one (Maybe Moonbattery?) who posted a bunch of photo's showing Obama's feet up on every piece of furniture in the white house. Why does Russia get Putin and we get this effeminate, no baseball throwin, sandal wearing, no flag saluting, girly bike ridin liar and lover of lies?
Reagan always wore a jacket in the oval office as a sign of respect. Obama has no respect for anyone other than himself. Mrs Obama was just photographed in a limo with her baseball cap and headphones on and they have the gall to compare her to other first ladies in a positive way. These people have no class and no amount of money will but it for them.
They referred to Bush as a cowboy, thinking this was an insult. How ironic that they sent the black Beverly Hillbillies to the white house.
Von Mises Jr.| 8.22.11 @ 9:53AM
The Democrat machine would never replace Obama with Biden. The only strategy they have is calling Republicans, the TEA Party and Coinstitutionalist "Racist."
Occassionally they throw in a "stupid," but Biden takes that off the table.
Drunken Sailor| 8.22.11 @ 9:56AM
Quinn,
Small disagreement here. Obama can not abdicate. He can (and should) resign. Only monarchs, kings, and emperors can abdicate and while I know Obama thinks he is all three he is sadly mistaken.
I agree, let him resign and put Bumbling Biden in his place in the interem. Biden is to dim to do more damage then Obama. He would be a poster boy for a puppet master and we can still use Obama's record to win the election. Win-Win
John Navratil| 8.22.11 @ 11:04AM
Drunken Sailor,
We realize that Obama won't resign, but if he did....
(1) Biden, half the term having elapsed, would be eligible to run in '12 and '16.
(2) The dispirited Dems would certainly rally around Biden who would also not draw as many negatives from the Independents.
Perhaps lose-lose.
Drunken Sailor| 8.22.11 @ 11:48AM
I see your point but do you honestly think "Bite me Biden" could run a national campaign? Even if he could, he would be another Gerald Ford and provide late night comics with a ton of material.
Bill Diebold| 8.22.11 @ 10:12AM
POTUS J Biden?!?! get serious....besides who would play Marge Simpson's husband on Sunday evenings.?
Sam Vaughn| 8.22.11 @ 10:25AM
What I want to know Quinn is who is behind Obama? If you wanted to wreck this country you'd implement the strategies he's implementing, not a "shot fired" and we're undone. I've never been a conspiracy guy but I do wonder, too many coincidences. Are we asking the right questions?
Appleby| 8.22.11 @ 10:35AM
I blame Tom Hayden. I listened to him spout the same gibberish in 1968 or so. If only he'd been at Kent State.....
Nancy in NC| 8.22.11 @ 10:50AM
Who's behind Obama? The Federal Reserve...they control the money and control everything else.
When the Federal Reserve was created the Constitution was effectively destroyed and our Country as well. All the rest is just window dressing.
Pete| 8.22.11 @ 10:33AM
He is already working on a new book: "The World Wasn't Ready for How Great I Am."
Mike D.| 8.22.11 @ 11:39AM
His second work will be: How to sound like your not using a teleprompter while making dynamic speechs.
Pete| 8.22.11 @ 11:52AM
"Striking the Right Tone: The balance between lecturing and condescension."
Mike D.| 8.22.11 @ 12:06PM
"How to hold your nose higher than anybody and still breath"
Pete| 8.22.11 @ 12:21PM
"I Know You are But What Am I? - How to Accuse Your Opponents of Doing What You Are"
Margie| 8.22.11 @ 12:46PM
"The Pretend President~Nightmares of My Father in Living Color."
Pete| 8.22.11 @ 2:56PM
"False Hope: How to Bully your Way into a Position of Power with Charges of Racism"
Deborah D | 8.22.11 @ 4:10PM
"How I (Along with Political Correctness) Destroyed a Country with No Bad Press"
Skippy| 8.22.11 @ 7:28PM
"Moody Dick"
"Citizen Kaneya"
"The Boy Who Cried 'Bush' "
"Blame Change"
"Give Putz a Chance"
"Band of Birthers"
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 8.23.11 @ 12:54PM
"Patriotic Duties Of My Founding Fathers:
Saving The Constitutional Republic From Abhorrible Tea Party Conservatism, Wholly Lacking In Intelligence, Real Christian Love, Compassion, And Education, At Least After They're Born"
- Barrack Hussein Obama
(Author, President, and The Anointed One, The Master Communicator, The Ocean Level Receder, and Who We've Been Waiting For)
"I have spent much of my life reading and studying the Bible as well as Bible scholarship on it's history, origins, transmissions, and translations; this book puts the Bible to shame and will supplant it as the all-time best seller. I am a life-long student of the founding fathers and in my 64 years I have read every word published on and by them. I practiced constitutional law for 35 years and revere our Constitution, which is the most brilliant document of political organization ever devised by man, until through the fundamental transformation of hope and change, Obama exponentially improved upon it. I am proud to say I supported Obama from the beginning."
- Robespierre Che VonDouchebagge
(Christian Expert, Bible Expert, and Constitution Expert, and the author of "The Tree Of American Liberty Will Continue To Be Refreshed: As It Has Been For More Than 200 Years, With The Water Of Sanctimonious Hypocrisy Of Democracy")
NYMPH| 8.22.11 @ 12:21PM
No, that would be his 4th book, unless you count ghost writers, then it would be zero books, he won't write the next two either.....but of course, he will take the credit and the royalties.
Mary Mayes | 8.22.11 @ 5:39PM
I've always wondered how much of a cut Bill Ayres (Ayers?) got.
RCV| 8.22.11 @ 8:01PM
You right-wingers have Bill Ayers on the brain.
Truth to Power| 8.22.11 @ 8:31PM
You left wingers have your brain turned off. Maybe it was never on.
Occam's Tool| 8.22.11 @ 11:12PM
Well, he did get his political start in Bill Ayers' home, and no decent human being would have done that, RCV.
I'm not boasting about kicking blank---I'll leave that for my shots at Ron Paul, who is worse than O---but I think you are entirely too sanguine. Minnesota elected a Republican legislature, and most of the State Workers blame the lockdown on the Dem Governor. You don't find a more Dem group of people than State Employees (except me).
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 8.23.11 @ 9:10PM
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Bill S| 8.22.11 @ 10:38AM
Why do people assume he's made mistakes trying to make the country better? He's trying to destroy the economy. The Fed is monetizing the debt. Eventually we'll have hyperinflation like Germany did in the 1920s. That will create an economic disaster big enough to form the one-world government prophesied in Revelation.
simon templar| 8.22.11 @ 11:13AM
Good question, Bill. I believe it is difficult for many people to accept that there is evil in the world for one and that there are people who seek to destroy their cherished values, traditions, and institutions on purpose.
Margie| 8.22.11 @ 12:51PM
Sadly, the reason is because people refuse to love the truth.. and so be saved.
It's easier to believe a lie, and be led along by it~ than to face reality.
But by the Grace of God, it looks like many are waking up to the reality that is Barak Hussien Obama~ and they will not be casting their votes for him this time around.
That dark cloud has a silver lining & get ready for a Republican and conservative President, folks!
RCV| 8.22.11 @ 4:06PM
The polls don't back up your blustery optimism, Margie. Obama beats every one of the sorry lot of "conservatives" who've thrown their hats into the ring, and trounces your favorite, Diva Sarah, should she commit to the race and actually stick it out, which her track record doesn't suggest is one of her strengths.
Margie| 8.22.11 @ 4:42PM
RCV,
My optimism is based in reality, not the polls.
and we shall see, shant we?
LOL.
RCV| 8.22.11 @ 5:54PM
We shall, indeed! Looking forward to it!
Truth to Power| 8.22.11 @ 10:18PM
Spin the cylinder, point it at your head and play hope and change one more time.
Buck Ofama| 8.22.11 @ 10:54AM
>The truth is, it's a sad day in America when Joe Biden's blarney would be a marked improvement in Oval Office leadership.
It's been a sad day in the U.S.S.A. ever since this stinking pile of failure- O'Icarus- was stupidly elected.
simon templar| 8.22.11 @ 11:08AM
Criminal and impeachable as well, Quin.
How about some coverage and an article on his 'Fast and Furious' program which seems to be bigger than Watergate by ten times. It is odd how this story is being largely ignored by conservative media particularly that out of the DC beltway.
Now, that is a scoop that could make someone's career.
Rmm| 8.22.11 @ 11:23AM
I'm not so sure that Obama's tone deafness is strictly by accident, but rather a calculated strategy to subvert the best interests of the USA. This guy listens to no one , except that little devil sitting atop his shoulder.
RJ| 8.22.11 @ 12:23PM
What a wonderful idea. The sooner our petulant, condescending, hypocritical empty-suit leaves the Presidency the better. Joe doesn't have much on the ball, but even he would be an improvement.
Mistral| 8.22.11 @ 12:27PM
Ave! The failed messiah of the morally and politically Democrats (the looney liberal left).
Mistral| 8.22.11 @ 12:29PM
Ave! The failed messiah of the morally and politically bankrupt Democrats (the looney liberal left).
Apologies hit the wrong key first time
diviz| 8.22.11 @ 12:32PM
Resignation (or recall) rather defeats the point of elections having consequences. A candidate is elected to accomplish various goals that appeal to the majority of the electorate as determined by an election. Obama was elected to increase socialism, hinder various buisnesses and show that a black man can be president; Bush was elected to increase cronyism and prove that a being drunk doesn't prevent performance of presidential functions.
Sure neither are remotely fit to run for even 5th grade class president, but they won so deal with it
AgentRose| 8.22.11 @ 12:38PM
No. He's NOT detached-from-reality. No he knows exaclty what he's doing. It takes a lot of reading and studying to go from "this is a mess--he doesn't know what he's doing" to---"he knows exactly what he is doing and this is deliberate." We need more Americans to become informed and more than "sound bite" passive listeners.
I do think, however, it is a mistake to put so much emphasis on the financial aspects of his regime. It is our liberties which are waning. What about de facto illegal alien citizenship? What about gun rights? What about Obamacare? What about Libya without Congressional approval? What about free speech? What about his administration's "selective" enforcement of U.S. laws or are we completely under the thumb of the United Nations? His latest hit is on farmers.
And while we are on it where the hell are the leaders in the Republican Party? With few exceptions liks Paul, Ryan and Bachman they have abdicated their responsibilities. It is almost like the Czar of Russia before the Russian Revolution. But this time there are no guns (except on the border) just regulations..... You could almost call it, which I believe someone did, Marxism through regulations! (a variant of Gramsci Marxism--which is why American citizens don't recognize it for what it is)
Citizens of this once great country are not yet speaking in whispers but it is getting mighty close!!!
Margie| 8.22.11 @ 1:00PM
With the exception of R. Paul as being someone who is capable of righting our great ship America~ what a great post!
Thanks, especially the last sentence.
For some good and true reading on the subject of how Communism works (which is of the same spirit as Socialism and Marxism), especially for those who don't know much about it, let me suggest this:
"Tortured for Christ." by Richard Wurmbrand.
They usually give it for free here:
http://www.persecution.com/
Kent Lyon| 8.22.11 @ 12:59PM
Actually, if Darrel Issa would pay a little more attention to his Congressional job, and spend a little less time on his business empire (which seems far more important to him, and is likely a disincentive for more aggressive pursuit of his Congressional investigations), he might have already gotten deeper in to the Fast and Furious fiasco and provided solid grounds for impeachment, and we wouldn't have to wait for abdication. Of course, the Republican leadership in the House and Senate would have to get behind this investigation, and so far they have shown no stomach for it. Issa should be issuing subpoenas for documents and for testimony, not accept the White House delays, obfuscations, and refusals to respond. He should be demanding documents, litigating refusals, pushing against any "executive privilege" claims the White House might hide behind, and fight a decent fight on the Fast and Furious issue. He doesn't look like he's going to do that, though, and Republican leadership appears to be AWOL on this fight. If this isn't a high crime or at least a misdemeanor, then we have no law worth the term. What about it, Mr. Issa? Why don't you step up? What are you waiting for?
Boar Hunter| 8.22.11 @ 1:17PM
I can answer that, Issa is a coward. I don't know if it's just in his political nature or if someone has dirt over his head he does not want to see the light of day.
Did you happen to notice how Issa expressed more outrage about his smear in the times than he has about any of the illegal activities he is supposedly investigating.
Another cowardly lion on the Republican side. He will growl and and make noise, but is easily deterred by a small girls punch to the nose.
Occam's Tool| 8.22.11 @ 11:13PM
Darrell DOES have a history of violent crimes, by the way.
Occam's Tool| 8.22.11 @ 11:19PM
From Debbie Schlussel:
"And then there’s his long criminal record. During his life–he stole at least three cars, stole his multi-million dollar business, stole patents, fired an employee at gunpoint, committed arson and insurance fraud, at a plant (and then the detective investigating it mysteriously “died”), lied about his military record, was caught carrying a concealed weapon and ammunition including tear gas (believed to be for the purpose of committing armed robbery), and even stealing one of his fellow soldier’s cars."
RCV| 8.23.11 @ 12:48AM
Darrell Issa is a thug, pure and simple, and corrupt as he'll.
RCV| 8.23.11 @ 12:48AM
Thank you spell check
Boar Hunter| 8.22.11 @ 1:06PM
Impeach Obama
And then find and support the strongest “conservative" Republican we can to stand up to the liberals on both the Democrat and Republican sides. These cowardly appeasers like John Boehner who try and sate the appetite of these bullies sickens me to my core. A bully will never be appeased, but Boehner and his hapless ilk refuse to learn this lesson.
Our society has devolved into one where people too stupid to feed themselves are protected from literally everything and everyone, either real or imagined. Sorry, but I for one have lost my tolerance for these people. We share no common ground! They are pillaging America into oblivion and they must be defeated. They are using our names to borrow money from the communist Chinese who are gleefully selling us the rope to hang ourselves with.
I am tired of this outlaw regime picking and choosing which laws they feel like enforcing and breaking every law they dislike. Obama "swore" to uphold the constitution, but violated his oath of office by ramming this Obama (doesn’t) care down the throats of the American people despite the percentage of those who openly opposed it. They don't like the defense of marriage act so they don't enforce it. Obama needs the illegal alien vote so he refuses to deport ILLEGAL aliens.
The list goes on and on. Operation Gun Runner, Holder resign? are you kidding me? Holder needs to be in prison. Holder is a racist, terrorist supporting liar and a lover of lies who has broken the law and obstructed justice. This has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt by anyone who reviews the publicly available record of Holder’s own lies. The Obama administration is full of these scurrilous totalitarian vermin. Impeach Obama, Holder in prison Palin beats Joe “OMG I can’t believe he said that” Biden in the next election and I will die a happy man.
Peggy Betzer| 8.25.11 @ 2:26PM
Tea anyone?
Bob| 8.22.11 @ 1:07PM
Since the stupid party keeps nominating stupid people, no not Michele Bachmann, nobody can be that stupid, liberal establishment Romney will receive the booby prize. It will be fascinating to see the reaction of the reactionaries/tea bags. My guess is a quick formation of Bull Moose II one century after the original Bull Moose. History does repeat itself and once again the Democrats will triumph.
Drunken Sailor| 8.22.11 @ 2:53PM
You are so right!
Carter 1976,
Obama 2008
They will triumph in infamy as two of the worst presidents in our lifetime. Maybe they can team up later in life. One can build low income houses and the other can community organize to complain about the substandard housing. It's a perputual cycle.
cuban pete| 8.22.11 @ 8:44PM
D S,
That is very funny. I'm going to use it.
I will give you credit.
Best,
cp
Peggy Betzer| 8.25.11 @ 2:28PM
President Barack Hussein Obama is and will be remembered as the GREATEST AMERICAN PRESIDENT ever elected.
Christopher Riddle| 8.22.11 @ 1:18PM
I thought I REALLY HATED"Bubba"!I'd have him back in The White House in a HEARTBEAT and bring bus-loads of interns for him!!!!!!!!!!!
james wilson| 8.22.11 @ 1:20PM
His arguments are not boringly counter-factual, they are brilliantly twisted.
Pat| 8.22.11 @ 1:36PM
Lately, we Americans are getting a feeling of ‘deja-Bush’, eerie thoughts that this has somehow all happened before. We elected a man smarter than most of us and even if he wasn’t always that smart, during the swearing in ceremony and immediately after he said “I promise to ….”, his IQ increased by 75 points and all our petty problems would soon be solved, thanks be to the Obama.
Bush had his military challenge early in his presidency, wild eyed fanatics bent on our destruction. Obama, too, had his challenge early in his presidency, wild eyed Wall St. bankers bent on our destruction. And in the beginning we were optimistic, at least over 50% of us were - our new president rode into Washington D. C. on an ass, with Americans of all creeds and tax brackets laying palm branches at his feet. Our hearts were lodged in our throats and we couldn’t wait for that promised Hope to become a reality.
But now it feels eerily familiar to those waning days of 2008, our President is surely a putz, everybody says so, he can’t do anything right. America has become an international joke, we owe foreign loan sharks more money than even Bill Gates and Warren Buffet possess, the Albanians are undecided over whether they should risk buying an additional $100,000 in Treasury Bills , the Chinese are all secretly laughing at the sly insults being inserted into Joe Biden’s fortune cookies and those Swiss gold brokers are praying we’ll give Obama four more years. Another failed presidency, maybe there’s something wrong with us Americans. Nah, that can’t be it, there’s nothing wrong with us, maybe next time we should just elect a woman or perhaps an Eskimo.
Oldefarte| 8.22.11 @ 1:45PM
What happened to all of that HOPE&CHANGE;? The morons/imbeciles/dummies of this country who voted for him on 11/4/08 should have the guts to admit their stupidity in doing so. All this excrement about Bush/Republicans this, that and the other makes me want to puke. Any five year old child would kiss the ground if Bush/McCain/any Republican was POTUS at this point. McCain has his faults, but this country would on the economic/fiscal/monetary mend if he had been elected instead of this incompetitent radical boob with his worthless Harvard law degree. It's obvious some [gladly not all and not the intelligent ones] of the tea party people here obviously voted for Mr. H&C and now are too ashamed to admit same hypocritically. WAKE UP AND VOTE RESPONSIBLY.....IT'S THE DEMOCRATS, STUPIDS [did I use up too much space here, is the Blog Police going to come after me?]!!!!!!!!!!
Boar Hunter| 8.22.11 @ 2:45PM
Im not slammin you for your use of space, but Tea partier's voting for Obama? Im not certain that is correct. Remember the Paul people claim Tea Party affiliation.
Oldefarte| 8.22.11 @ 4:24PM
BH, sadly I think it's possible. Many are Johnny-Come-Laties whose sole concentration has been upon a combination of Obama/Democrats/RINOS/CINOS etc. This political struggle has been going only way longer than that, since this economic/financial governmental buildup cascading into the current defecit/debt can easily be traced back to Kennedy-Johnson's Great Society and War On Poverty programs [which are still being funding by the federal government and taxpayers], yet these subjects are insanely ignored within tea partiers' rants [either they are too young to remember same are too ignorant to do so]!!!!
cowgirl| 8.22.11 @ 1:52PM
Mr. Hillyer - although I tend to agree whole-heartedly with your analysis in this well-written article, I for one would like to see Obama not leave office on a resignation, but that of impeachment. With issues like Fast & Furious and the complete disregard to the laws of this country - recently his take on immigration policies - it would be much better for him to be impeached in disgrace and send the message to other "would be Marxists like Obama" that "messing with our Constitution and the Judeo-Christian principles that this country was built upon" are not tolerated. We believe in the ideas of capitalism, free markets and the value of individuals, not elitist, academic, Marxists, statist principles. And Mr. Obama, if you don't like the United States and the principles that we stand for, we will be more than happy to buy you a one-way ticked to Cuba.
Boar Hunter| 8.22.11 @ 2:46PM
Yipee-Ki-Yeah!
Margie| 8.22.11 @ 2:57PM
"And Mr. Obama, if you don't like the United States and the principles that we stand for, we will be more than happy to buy you a one-way ticked to Cuba."
~Or to Libya or Egypt.~ since that is where the Muslims are overtaking that country, if I am not mistaken. Isn't that the real reason he's "vacationing" right now? He knows he's allowing his "brethren" to do the will of "Allah" in yet another place= guilt & avoidance.
Isn't it interesting how Obama and the Leftists love seeing other countries overtaken by Islam, yet wouldn't want to live there?
~Or maybe I'm just imagining things< heh.
Oldefarte| 8.22.11 @ 4:40PM
No Marg, you're completely accurate. This guy's subversive trojun-horsed coronation on 11/4/08 signaled to the Muslim [terrorist] world of the middle east that this country would become hancuffed if/when they decided to overthrow their secularized governments. Everybody that jumping up and down for joy over these Arab Spring uprisings will futuristically regret their doing so. Israel will become surrounded by numerous Iran's when this all shakes out!!!!
Margie| 8.22.11 @ 4:45PM
Thank you, Oldefarte & God bless you.
As the good Lord says,
"Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! "May they prosper who love you!" Ps. 122:6.
RCV| 8.22.11 @ 5:58PM
Every one of the Arab nations that attacked Israel over the 50 years of it's proud existence was led by a secular autocratic government. Even Bibi Netanyahu has praised NATO's operation in Libya to overthrow Ghaddaffi.
Drunken Sailor| 8.22.11 @ 7:11PM
Never said it didn't need doing. Just don't agree with the underhanded way Obama tried to do it without Congressional Approval. You know, that little thing many on the left keep forgetting Bush had when they scream about the "Illegal War".
Oldefarte| 8.24.11 @ 12:48PM
Regardless of what Israel/Bibi proclaims, I still maintain that when this all finalizes, that the Muslim Brotherhood etc takeover of these Arab countries will not be a good thing for either Israel or the entire western world. Let's delay this disagreement for a year and see what the outcome is then. Speaking of Bibi, you'll remember that he also diplomatically kept silent after Obama asininely treated him rudely at a recent white house meeting, and thereafter stormed out of same disrespectfully [so I would not put too much stock in public appearances regarding worldly political matters; its what's said in private afterwards that is of critical concern]. Remember also that Obama's administration is subversively in favor of the UN's grant of statehood to Palistine, which is highly irritating to Israel and Bibi. Don't think for a minute that there's any love lost between Netanyahu and the Obama administration, because there is not!!!!!!!
Oldefarte| 8.22.11 @ 4:33PM
I agree with your impeachment sentiments 150%, but politically speaking this would become a disaster since the leftist radicals would immediately scream propaganda of RACISM, DISENFRANCHISEMENT, DISCRIMINATION, GNETRIFICATION etc and discount any political headwinds successfully accompolished by the tea party movement [and possible to the extent of re-electing him next year]. IMO, the best political strategy would be for the Republicans holding 1/3 of government to continue to destroy any political spending initiatives that he and Democrats put forward [ie stimulation/spending] until next November and then for the American voters to vote for whichever Republican is nominated for POTUS!!!!
cowgirl| 8.23.11 @ 8:58AM
Of course the liberals, leftists would scream and pitch a fit. This was most toddlers do when they don't get their way. However, legalize drugs just before the impeachment hearings and while the leftist radicals are smoking weed, popping pills and shooting up we can slip by with the impeachment.
Peggy Betzer| 8.25.11 @ 2:30PM
Have you lost your mind?
Purpleguy| 8.22.11 @ 4:24PM
Wow - a AM writer that doesn't like President Obama - now that's a real surprise ... sour grapes
Oldefarte| 8.22.11 @ 4:35PM
Nah Purple, it's simply called.....THE TRUTH/FACT!!!!!!!
Uli Kunkel| 8.22.11 @ 5:33PM
Everyday is a consummate "Groundhog Day" for Obonehead, there's no previous day for him, no memory, no ethics, just jive!!!
My reoccurring theme: Demand Obuckethead's immediate resignation!!!
beebop| 8.22.11 @ 6:32PM
I think we are more likely to see translantic service from Air Porcine ...
Jim Hlavac | 8.22.11 @ 7:03PM
Ah, don't worry Dear Spectator, and Spectators, it's the gays! That's what every Republican running (well, 'cept Karger and Johnson) is saying -- it's the Gays! Why, the GAYS! are demanding marriage by any name, aye, there's the threat. We need a Constitutional Amendment against Sissy Smooching! Immediately! Ah, pfft. Give us a National Commission on Gay Americans, slice us out of the friggin' debate, save the nation, and stop making me wake up every morning to listen to the poseurs for power scream it's about my piano playing tuckus being a threat to it all. Got it? Good.
Why one party would immolate itself and the nation over us ridiculous few I cannot grasp, I cannot.
Egad, folks, quit with the "gays are wrecking heteros" crap from the hustings, and you might pick up another 20% or 35% of the people (um, my mom and dad, brother and sister? Hmm,) and vote the 20% of the nation which is crazed socialists out of power forever.
But noooooooooooo, we got to worry about the gays! Egad, and people wonder why I'm cranky. My nation destroyed by socialists, and I'm accused of causing it all. Blah. Blah. Blah.
Simon Templar| 8.23.11 @ 1:42AM
"Why one party would immolate itself and the nation over us ridiculous few I cannot grasp, I cannot."
Oh, you are speaking of the Democratic Party?
Yes, they are a nasty lot. Yes, they would exploit anybody and anything to get and keep power including your ridiculous few. They and the Left will continue to destroy anything that will stand in their way..family, traditional values, patriotism, masculinity, gender, judeo-christian values, the boy scouts, fatherhood, and yes, the institution of marriage. Sorry Jimmy, it does not wash. Drop the victim baloney. No one cares what you do? You do not need to force the majority of society to accept your behavior nor celebrate it nor give it special rights. You need to learn and be more tolerant of people who are different from you and respect their values and traditions as they live and let live with yours. When you back off of your intolerance and forceful agendas that attack others, smear them, and spit on their cherished values, they will stop feeling the need to defend themselves.
Peggy Betzer| 8.25.11 @ 2:32PM
Yes, I'm quite sure now, you have lost your minds. Conservatives are such misinformed hipocrytes! Does reality enter your worlds in any form at any time? Just asking.
Jon Shelley| 8.22.11 @ 7:22PM
Time and time again Obama bends over for the right only to take it in the rear and be called to task for it by his own party. At no time does the other party acknowledge his compromises that make it possible for them to (get 98% of what they asked for). And the markets took their dive after the R's got their 98%. Now they are against their own plan to extend the payroll tax break into next year because he suggested it.
The R's got in the the house in 2010 by campaigning on Jobs but have offered no jobs bill and obstructed everything put forth by the Dems. then they changed our focus from jobs to debt reduction and said that is what they were elected to do.
You probably are that stupid. Good thing the American people are not.
Peggy Betzer| 8.25.11 @ 2:35PM
AMEN Brother! Oops Sorry Conservatives, did you think you owned religious connotations? Democrats most certainly cannot believe in Jesus Christ can they?
Patricia Leath| 8.22.11 @ 7:51PM
The tragedy of the election of 2008 is that good people of America believed that Obama was the Messiah. The inconvenient truth is that he was and is Lucifer.
Wayne | 8.22.11 @ 8:08PM
But we have American Spectator's Ben Stein telling us that Obama is a positive force for the economy and that we need to raise taxes on the "rich" - as he defines wealthy.
Good to see the conservative fraud showing his true colors.
The War Planner | 8.22.11 @ 8:12PM
Mr Hillier, et al,
..doncha like the symmetry of all this? Back in 2008, after the dung-carrying light-bringer was elected, his flock started this chant calling for two-and-one-half centuries of law, tradition, and constitutionality to be flushed and insisting that “W” step down early to allow the Enlightened One assume the mantle of leadership and guide us out from under the BLACK SHADOW hanging over our beloved country.
Now, without even a replacement prospect being so much as anointed, there are cries and murmurings that this festering blob of mindless pond scum get gone lest he do EVEN MORE damage.
(Sorry for the imagery, but I had a really rotten day at work.)
Nite| 8.22.11 @ 10:40PM
The US is a laughing stock among the nations of the world. The Democrats excoriated Bush during his two terms. Bush however, did not bow to foreign Prime Ministers or Kings nor did he apologize for perceived wrongs of the US. We are far worse off since Obama was elected. Please let him be ousted soon. The country will not survive much longer under his stupidity.
Controse| 8.22.11 @ 10:43PM
Join me in popping the pimple in 2012.
albert constantine jr| 8.22.11 @ 10:46PM
I disagree with the premise that Biden would make a superior president. Biden was brought on board by Obama's handlers to make Obama look good by comparison (So you think Obama is inexperienced? This is what 6 terms in the Senate gets you-a bloviating bumbling panderer who does not possess a filter between his impulsive brain and his never closed mouth. Even Obama, when off the teleprompter, has the good judgment to draw out his "Uhhhhh"s, rather than blurt out "this is a big f&@%in deal).
John II| 8.22.11 @ 11:03PM
This is all so negative, as opposed to positive. I believe it's only right that I say a few words on the Professor's behalf.
Few words: Every time he opens his big mouth, the Professor reminds Americans of the smug stupidity and destructiveness of the Left. Given a culture that's pretty far gone already, Americans need that kind of reminding. Constantly.
And now back to "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938), in which Claude Rains plays the wicked Prince John to much better effect than the Professor plays at being President.
Occam's Tool| 8.22.11 @ 11:21PM
John II---
You are fairly awesome on a consitent basis, sir. And thanks for the movie picks.
Occam's Tool| 8.22.11 @ 11:21PM
I, on the other hand, should learn to spell "consistent."
RMR| 8.22.11 @ 11:24PM
Right on!
Rick| 8.22.11 @ 11:47PM
Your a bigget and a rasist!
POST American| 8.22.11 @ 11:52PM
-------------------BOTTOM LINE-----------------------
IF ONLY someone, anyone, would have the
nerve to call out, dismantle and prosecute the
people behind Bush/Clinton/Obama Inc.
----the ULTRA RICH, 'benny violent', TAX
FREE foundation cabal.
------------------------------------IF ONLY
IF ONLY------------------------------------
-----------------------IF ONLY---------------------------
Tenn Slim| 8.23.11 @ 5:34AM
Abdication, Impeachment, all pipe dreams.
The Leftist Czars, the CS appointees, AKA Lind Jackson for example, all remain in control. Obama for all his rhetoric is simply guiding the movement machine. While the Electorate defended their fiscal bulwarks, the regulatory entrails ensnared the USA to a point of near GNP stagnation. EXACTLY the Center for American progress plan of 2008. A quick review of thier white papers clearly show the Movement is alive and well.
Abdication by Obama would be nice, admittedly, but the problem would and does remain.
end
Semper Fi
Farhan | 8.23.11 @ 7:15AM
i agree
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JungleCogs| 8.25.11 @ 1:38PM
Face it, the man is a bum. The sooner we get rid of him, the sooner this country gets back on track. How anyone could have voted for him is beyond me. If you voted for this slob, you "s***-heads" owe America one big apology!
Richard Davis| 8.25.11 @ 2:04PM
How about this deal - if all of the Republicans in Congress go a week without lying Obama resigns???
Mrs. du Toit| 8.25.11 @ 2:20PM
Wonderful article Mr. Hillyer. Don't be discouraged if some of the commenters don't recognize the differences between hyperbole and policy recommendations.
Your writing flows lyrically off the tongue. Can't say that about many writers these days. In fact, I can't think of anyone who reads so well aloud.
My husband and I have shouted many of the same things at the TV or radio, after hearing the President's speaking engagements, where he tells us what he's told us, and then tells us again what's wrong with us, instead of what's wrong with him. Hyperbole is the way we remain sane too. We shall dream with you while we wait semi-patiently for November, and then watch the results with our fingers and toes crossed.
Peggy Betzer| 8.25.11 @ 2:24PM
What a biased propagandated piece of blarney!
HELEN PARIZA| 8.25.11 @ 2:26PM
Barack Obama, along with all liberals, exquisitely play us nall with their intellectual gymnastics but those in the know understand full well that their minds are actually poverty stricken! It is just a matter of time before they are all removed from office....it's called voting!
Inventor| 8.25.11 @ 4:40PM
If the voting still works.
amsron| 8.25.11 @ 2:47PM
If only Hell would open "Don Juan" style and drag all the idiot Neo-Cons and Religious Conservative who put us in this latest Great Depression.
--Remember that the last time we had religious conservative in charge of government we got Prohibiton and the Great Depression...anonymous
Bob Edmunson| 8.25.11 @ 3:10PM
Let’s see; replacing Obama with Biden . . . Uh wouldn’t that be like replacing Moe with Curly?
Richard Hilger| 8.25.11 @ 3:20PM
It's high time that we on the Right refuse to accept any more left-wing inanity. It's time to get angry and take back this country while we still can. I honestly believe that we cannot survive four more years of leftist/marxist persecution and an Obama re-election would most probably be the end of the U.S. as we have known it. Adams, Jefferson, Monroe, Lincoln and Coolidge are screaming at us from their graves. Wake up, people and eliminate this Chicago fraud and his socialist party from our lives.
The Epicure| 8.25.11 @ 4:12PM
I love this idea.
Obama can, with one action, raise the stock market by 5000 points, add 4 million jobs, double the GDP growth rate and end the recession.
Love how the title calls for him to abdicate rather than just resign ... because he really believes we elected him King (or Emperor).
Inventor| 8.25.11 @ 4:39PM
King Obama for Life, don't you know!!!
Joe Six-Pack | 8.25.11 @ 5:49PM
No way in hell is President Obama going to resign. He is convinced that we are a greedy culture and need 'fundamental' change. And he is doing just that, to the best of his ability.
The thing that really gets me: "We need to pass this bill so that you can find out what is in it."
This is a direct threat to the republic. The next time Republicans get majorities, why don't they pass a bill that gets rid of Social Security? Then they can figure out what is in it. Or better yet, a bill that makes all property owners votes count as five votes. After the bill becomes law, they can figure out what is in it. How can anyone work with that?
No wonder our country is so badly divided. And I thought that President Obama was supposed to bring us all together as he 'reached across the aisle'. It looks as if he is accomplishing this about as well as how well the stimulus package is working out.
Pamela T| 8.25.11 @ 7:00PM
The last thing I want is for Obama to resign. That would only set up Hillary Clinton to run, and there are two many disillusioned liberals who would vote for Hillary to redeem themselves for voting for Obama. Twisted, but true.
Elizabeth Violette| 8.25.11 @ 7:20PM
I only object to the author's calling Joe Biden's blather blarney. An insult to all the Irish.
Rich Matarese | 8.25.11 @ 9:13PM
When he is defeated in November 2012, I predict that "Harrison J. Bounel" (or whatever in hell his name really is) will resign so that Hairplug Joe Biden can serve out the "lame duck" remainder of the Obama Infestation.
This will enable our first certifiably brain-damaged POTUS to provide Barry Soebarkah with a blanket presidential pardon so that our Mombasa Messiah won't have to spend the rest of his life in an isolation cell in Leavenworth with nothing but his weekly shower to look forward to.
tom oczkowski| 8.26.11 @ 12:15PM
The republican party is a joke now and will never win with the extremist they are running. Obama may not be the perfect president,but he will win in 2012 because the alternative ie: Bachmann,Perry, et al , are so divorced from reality.Bachmann claims she will bring $2/gal. gas back if elected,what a nut!! Nobody will vote for a Texan after experiencing the stupidity of GWB. The Reagan doctrine has been shown to be an unsustainable ideology, yet the GOP still worship his bankrupted philosophy. They are a sideshow and a joke who will ally with anyone to further their goals,party over country is their motto. The voting public will remember their obstructionism in rebuilding the economy, and their denial of any culpability in the current economy.
rich| 8.26.11 @ 7:13PM
waaaaah! waaaah! obamaaaaah! aaaaaaah!
you tools crack me up. i'm stoked for 4 more years of right wing gnashing of teeth and pulling out of hair. i used to get disgusted with you cranks but now it's just amusing.
Kenny King| 8.27.11 @ 11:26AM
Wonderfully written and readable essay.
How To Be Vegetarian | 10.25.11 @ 6:15AM
i like this article :D