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The Obama Watch
You’re Starting to Creep Me Out, First Family
Barack and Michelle, Joe and Dr. Jill — spammers or stalkers?
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To: Jeremy Lott
From: Michelle Obama
Re: Gray hairsTo: Jeremy Lott
From: Barack Obama
Re: FrustratedTo: Jeremy Lott
From: Barack Obama
Re: Sometime soon, can we meet for dinner?To: Jeremy Lott
From: Barack Obama
Re: If I don’t call youTo: Jeremy Lott
From: Barack Obama
Re: You, me and … ?To: Jeremy Lott
From: Barack Obama
Re: I’m bringing MichelleTo: Jeremy Lott
From: Michelle Obama
Re: Sometime soon, I want to meet you
About the Author
Jeremy Lott is editor of RealClearPolicy.com, RealClearBooks.com and RealClearReligion.org and associate editor of RealClearScience.com.
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Tenn Slim| 12.5.11 @ 6:40AM
Turn off the email Bubble Machine.
Semper Fi
The Clintidote| 12.6.11 @ 4:31PM
Or, reply with "Fcck Off, you parasites!"
Occam's Tool| 12.6.11 @ 4:46PM
"Feck Off!" Do it the Father Ted way.
Cosmo| 12.5.11 @ 6:58AM
Is this for real or some kind of a joke?
Drudge Ette Obama| 12.5.11 @ 7:21AM
It is for real.
I also signed up for emails (keep thy enemy close) and have gotten some pretty weird overly personal emails from Obama and Michelle.
It is right out of Move-On.org's email playbook. I wouldn't be surprised if the same people are writing these emails. The author is right on target.
Very unpresidential and very-Obama-like.
beebop2| 12.5.11 @ 5:33PM
Send them a response four or five times laced heavily with obscenities and they will stop. Worked for me!
Trish| 12.5.11 @ 10:12PM
I also signed up for the propaganda. Every so often I will send a snarky reply. Then I get back a computer generated 'way to get on the team' response. I think if the O's had dinner with me and 'my guest', they would lose their cookies. No, wait, I would probably lose mine.
Trish| 12.5.11 @ 10:14PM
BTW, I don't eat halal.
Doctor_X| 12.5.11 @ 7:16AM
For $25,000 Obama would meet with anyone!
he's truning the crank on the money-machine!
Appleby| 12.5.11 @ 7:17AM
Obviously there is something wrong with this post.
Drudge Ette Obama| 12.5.11 @ 7:23AM
No, really, he is copying the greetings you get from Obama and Michelle. Now it's down to $5 for a try. That's what MoveOn did in the 2008 election...lots of small donations from the little people.
Appleby| 12.5.11 @ 7:29AM
These people are still waiting for Barak to pay their mortgages off, pay their car notes off, and invite them to the White House.
beebop2| 12.5.11 @ 5:33PM
Are these the "little people" who bundled in China or in Saudi Arabia?
Timothy L. Pennell| 12.5.11 @ 7:56AM
How much does someone have to pay, for trying to lift the Wookie off the ground? And, do you win anything, if you actually do it?
JKS| 12.5.11 @ 8:01AM
Mr. Lott, please stop referring to our country as a democracy. We are a Representative Republic. There is a huge difference and our Founding Fathers warned against the folly of democracy.
Maddox| 12.5.11 @ 9:31AM
Actually I believe we were a Representative Republic that has become a democracy, leading to the mess we are in now.
Stefan Kristen| 12.5.11 @ 8:15AM
I got an E-mail the other day that offered a chance to have dinner with Barrack and Michelle for a donation of three dollars, or whatever I could afford. Smelled like desperation to me.
Manya Shochet| 12.6.11 @ 10:04AM
For a donation of $100, they can promise you an invitation NOT to have dinner with Barack and Michelle. Not to have him elected requires an even bigger donation.
Tina B| 12.5.11 @ 8:19AM
Help! are you serious, Drudge Ette? Is this true?
Drudge Ette Obama| 12.6.11 @ 6:43AM
Yes - it is true.
Dick Nome | 12.5.11 @ 8:20AM
Where does 'Moochelle my butt' find those horrendous ugly outfits. Ugh.
coal carrier| 12.5.11 @ 8:31AM
Especially the ones with empire belts.
loulou| 12.5.11 @ 10:59AM
Looks like she has a perpetual baby bump what with her belt riding above her belly.
The woman looks like a clown in her get up. She thinks she's fashionable and is trying to be the new Jackie O. Barf.
da monk| 12.5.11 @ 11:59AM
Loulou: Please submit photo of yourself so we can make snide comments.
SpiralArchitect| 12.5.11 @ 1:27PM
Is loulou the First Lady & a representative of America?
Yea, didn't think so.
Trish| 12.5.11 @ 10:18PM
Okay, I have to weigh in on this. For the most part I like her fashion when she dresses in tailored simplicity. However, when she goes in for the dirndle skirts they make her look like the broad side of a barn. I am not at all a fan, but I think she is quite lovely (until she speaks the neo-marxist crap).
Drudge Ette Obama| 12.6.11 @ 6:46AM
Personally, I have seen enough lotioned flesh of Michelle. She has an awkward gait and bad posture. Her silly too-small sweaters, dumpy skirts, loud colors, and flat shiny shoes bug me.
There have been a couple of outfits - usually black and simple, as you note, that flatter her. But her instinct/culture always brings her back to loud tacky.
She is no fashion maven. And neither is Hillary, who is starting to look like a bag woman.
Ecco La| 12.17.11 @ 2:52AM
Well, we knew when she showed up in Peter Pan collars when Hussein was a candidate that she was attempting to channel Jackie Kennedy. Who the hell over the age of 5 has worn a Peter Pan collar since 1965?! Right off you knew the woman was a phony and had no taste. The REAL Jackie would never had tried to be someone else because she was a woman of refined and exquisite personal taste. Miz YoMamma showed her true colours (not to mention her skills in geography) when she showed up for an event with the Spanish ambassador dressed like a Mexican pinata. But my hands-down favorite was the First Couple's visit to meet with British Royalty. Kate was dressed in a discrete and elegant tan sheath dress with simple black pumps, the Queen was in a simple cotton floral print frock with simple black pumps, and Their American Cuzin showed up wearing the curtains: electric pink and blue metallic silk satin outfit with metalic silver strappy fuck-me-pump stilletos!!
Jackie Kennedy was a woman of grace and elegance, and she was a lifelong Republican. Bet La Jackie was laughing her tiny little derriere off observing the First Wannabe from her perch in the clouds!
Occam's Tool| 12.6.11 @ 4:47PM
Loulou---you are magnifique! Never mind what the cloistered one says. His judgment of women is bound to be altered by his unslaked flesh.
russel| 12.5.11 @ 11:11AM
Rush had me ROTFLMAO when he played ' I Like Big Butt ' - his response to the slur Bachman got . Nary a photo exists of that caboose .
ncatty| 12.5.11 @ 2:10PM
Too wide for the lense.
Mike Hawk | 12.5.11 @ 6:38PM
Hildebeast, her thighness, aka The Arkansas Broadbeam has the others beat.
russel| 12.5.11 @ 8:55PM
LOL . And after that viewing you commit Arkancide .
Creepy Callers| 12.5.11 @ 8:31AM
Now, hey, hey, people. Let's be fair. I cannot now make it three nights during the week without getting at least four GOP, Conservative Caucus, RNC, U.S. Senate Republicans, GOP Freshmen United, or GOP Governors Fund telephone calls. All right at suppertime.
Saturday morning? Bam! From the moment the clock strikes 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. there's no goin' near the phone. Its the same Republican rascals calling up, hassling, wanting to steal more donation money from me.
All these whiny claims that "This time we're really going to take back Washington! This time we'll put the nation's house in order!"
(just like they been a pleadin' for 25 years now)
They said that when Trent Lott was in; Denny Hastert; they said the same when Bill Frist was there. As kids say, Yadayadayadyayada.
And it is grossly impolite when they call up and use my first name.
Mrs. Vito| 12.5.11 @ 2:40PM
Try 'donotcall.gov'. Your tax dollars are paying for it, you might as well use it.
C. Callers| 12.5.11 @ 11:09PM
Okay. I will check it out. I did not know about this. Thank you, Mrs. Vito. Does it really work? I guess I'll find out.
I am tired of these phonecallin rascals messin' with the comfort zone I call my personal time, my late mornin' Saturday breakfast.
Tells the Truth| 12.6.11 @ 6:21PM
Unfortunately, donotcall.gov doesn't apply to political campaign calls.
Roy| 4.16.12 @ 4:58PM
True true, however I think his point was not the money spam but the overly personal nature of the emails.
PJ| 12.5.11 @ 8:52AM
After reading this essay & the postings so far I am still amazed that this is not a gag.
The email headings are creepy & scary. Scary that these persons represent us to the rest of the world. This is another example of why liberalism is a mental disorder.
rd| 12.5.11 @ 9:28AM
PJ, go easy. This is a slow news day at ASO. They have little to do until we get something breaking like a Bernie Madoff-Newt Hedge Fund for Hospitals Charity story.
So...something like this piece works on a slow Monday. Don't be so "creeped out." If we used just anyone's latest three dozen email subject lines and tried to discern & judge content, could we?
Biden's "My wife" could be a note praising her as he talks about her efforts on behalf of troops and veterans or her lending name and time for an upcoming cancer gala (while inviting you to chip in, too).
The "I've been there" email could focus on how we all must now man up and face the challenges of our day.
No, I am not a Biden fan. I wish an Atlantic shoreline shark had gobbled him for lunch years ago. But this is shallow journalism. If these "blast" messages to 398,000 people are truly so creepy, then show us the whole content of the email messages. Then we'll judge.
Can't judge from subject lines.
Don't read too much into this.
sotto voce| 4.25.12 @ 2:42PM
I receive these emails too, and believe me the content matches the vacuous subject lines. One of my favorites, for example, came from "Barack", the subject line was "Hey" and the content consisted of the profound question "Are you in?". That was it. Disturbing on many levels: What kind of people write things like this? How can the President of the United States and his minions think this is OK? What does it say about how the President and his campaign view his constituents?
Louis Jenkins| 12.5.11 @ 8:53AM
Maybe you'll be invited to a beer summit, or 18 holes of golf. You're nothing but a source of money for these people, and to heck with you opinion.
skedaddle| 12.5.11 @ 9:21AM
They know their target market - it's the same people who think a Nigerian prince has specifically chosen them to help him cash his $1,000,000 check. And I think the plea for even tiny donations is a ploy to get more credit card numbers for real-money donation laundering. I also signed up and can vouch that the emails have a very creepy familiarity but that's because I'm not a needy idiot.
Buck Ofama| 12.5.11 @ 9:36AM
>a Nigerian prince...
As much an oxymoron as "president" ovomit!
Tina B| 12.5.11 @ 9:28AM
oh. my. gosh.
Buck Ofama| 12.5.11 @ 9:35AM
I like to get these phony emails from Ovomit and Sheboon Ovomit. I get to reply with appropriate directives on what to shove, and where. I know that no one but a keyword scanning script reads them, but still, it's a minor catharsis.
The Bishop| 12.5.11 @ 9:37AM
Jeremy, I wouldn't worry too much unless Joe or Barack (or Michelle, for that matter) start sending you text messages a la Anthony Wiener. Then you'll have a problem.
The American Spectator | 12.5.11 @ 9:39AM
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da monk| 12.5.11 @ 12:07PM
American Spectator: I suppose you wouldn't mind it if Jeremy Lott did a similar article about your fund raising. Seems like you don't mind cheap shots about the your opposition fund raising, but consider your continous fund raising inserts sacrosanct. You have to agree its a bit hypocritucal on your part.
deudle| 12.5.11 @ 1:01PM
lighten up, fella, it's a joke
SpiralArchitect| 12.5.11 @ 1:33PM
My back is quite sore still & I'm a bit pissy too, da monk. I understand why you're being short, it's OK.
Anastasia Mather| 12.5.11 @ 9:59AM
You're much braver than I am.
Geez!
Anthony| 12.5.11 @ 10:42AM
If I give $5, will I get a copy of Rules for Radicals, which I have, a Muslim prayer rug, a chicken wing fling with Michelle Antoinette, and 18 holes with the duffer-in- chief?
rd| 12.5.11 @ 6:27PM
Anthony, er, no not exactly. BUT! For your $5.00 donation you WILL get: Barack's first autobiography, er book (a used and returned paperback copy), a balloon (color blue), a bag of stale popcorn from corn harvested in the White House garden, two free-throws from the foul line on the Rose Garden b-ball court, and 9 holes of putt-putt with Bo the First Hound.
What a deal, eh?!
Pat| 12.5.11 @ 1:10PM
What creeps me out is imagining what our system of government must look like from afar – say through the eyes of a sane person residing within a Tibetan monastery. This author is trying to make a point about Obama and Biden, that part we definitely got, but what is his point exactly and what does it have to do with our government? Americans and their “best system of government on earth” – a strange and slightly psychotic love-hate relationship.
Today, for example, we celebrate “Eric Holder is a Big Fat Liar” Day. According to the NY Post, Attorney General Holder knew all about guns being shipped to Mexican drug cartels courtesy of the American taxpayers, even though he has vehemently denied knowing anything about his own authorized operation. Which in and of itself is bizarre to the point of voluntarily watching “The Rocky Horror Show” at least 57 times and then planning to see it again in the near future. We’re shipping guns to Mexican drug cartels – what on earth for? And what sane adult would ever sanction such an action?
Congress currently is and has been diligently investigating this particular operation among others, which Congress seems to do every day they’re in session – apparently a lot of what our government does requires constant investigation. Strangely enough, nothing ever comes out of these investigations – no improvements, no one in government is punished or can be punished under our existing laws.
We’re supposed to be angry that Mexican and American citizens were killed with guns purchased by our government utilizing taxpayer funds so as to emphasize how lax our American gun laws are. But for those Americans who hate the thought that anyone is allowed to own a firearm, our government’s actions seem perfectly reasonable, albeit a little clumsy in execution. So, as a people, we’re divided over the question of whether Mexican and American citizens should be arbitrarily killed to support a political agenda? Maybe this author’s point is that we really are mildly insane relative to how we view our government and just don’t realize it.
SpiralArchitect| 12.5.11 @ 1:40PM
Pat re: your comment:
We’re shipping guns to Mexican drug cartels – what on earth for? And what sane adult would ever sanction such an action?
The subversion of a nation can be done without violence. However it is much quicker & provides a great distraction for other subversive (and fraudulent) activities.
Forget not Alinksy & Marx. One needs to create an issue then isolate it as a means to control the proltariate. Think of the onset of OWS and how wonderful cover ( re: distraction) it has provided for what has been transpiring since it's inception in this nation - yes, that includes Solydra & Fast & Furious Congressional investigations.
Have a nice day. :/
David| 12.5.11 @ 2:09PM
Very much like the spam I get in my hotmail.
bluecollarbytes| 12.5.11 @ 2:10PM
To: Jeremy Lott
From: Barack Obama
Re: my recently deceased cousin, Kenyan prince Obu Wabu
To: Jeremy Lott
From: Barack Obama
Re: need bank routing numbers to transfer Kenyan govt-embezzled monies
To: Jeremy Lott
From: Barack Obama
Re: feel free to call my cell for verification
To: Jeremy Lott
From: Barack Obama
Re: do you want this free money or not?
To: Jeremy Lott
From: Barack Obama
Re: most humbly request response...
Trish| 12.5.11 @ 11:07PM
lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Purpleguy| 12.5.11 @ 5:12PM
This is complete hogwash. I get those emails, and this Lott guy is lying. But then again - he did sign up for any email that might come his way. Perhaps they discovered his spy status and he really did get crap emails? Either way, this whole AS article is creepy.
skip| 12.5.11 @ 8:04PM
Speaking of 'complete hogwash' and 'lying':
~
"Republicant presidents were as guilty or more so than any democrat, including Obama"
(Pimplepus | 12.2.11 @ 4:11PM)
"This is just a typical ordinary example of why you are an idiot.
And pathetic.
And despicable.
And stupid.
And a liar.
The Office of Management and Budget, at whitehouse.gov/omb/, which I've only cited here slightly less times than dollars the nation is in debt, shows the information.
Presidents take office with that existing year's budget already established by the preceding year's House of Representatives, as the House of Representatives are constitutionally tasked with establishing spending and taxes, and the budget showing an accounting of them.
I've broken each president into two terms, the years they actually served their term, and the years they served offset the one year to account for the budgets when they served, the budgets determined by the House of Representatives, which I've referred to as budget term.
Reagan term 1981-1989:
$1.338557 trillion deficit
Reagan budget term 1982-1990:
$1.412228 trillion deficit
Bush I term 1989-1993:
$0.933234 trillion deficit
Bush I budget term 1990-1994:
$1.035646 trillion deficit
Bush II term 2001-2009:
$2.005615 trillion deficit
Bush II budget term 2002-2010:
$3.546539 trillion deficit
The House of Representatives, who are responsible for the budget, was democrat all 8 years of the Reagan term.
The House of Representatives was democrat all 4 years of the Bush I term.
The House of Representatives was democrat the last 2 years of the 8 years of the Bush II term.
52.8% of the Bush II term deficit was the last 2 years of the democrat controlled House of Representatives.
47.2 % of the Bush II term deficit was the first 6 years of the republican controlled House of Representatives.
I've broken each president into two terms, one actual years and one offset a year for the budget, because Obama added his stimulus to the last year of the Bush II budget term in 2010, which even a stupid lying idiot such as Pimplepus can admit is Obama's deficit even though it is in Bush II's last year.
Reagan, Bush I, Bush II terms 20 years:
$4.277406 trillion deficit
Reagan, Bush I, Bush II budget terms 20 years:
$5.994413 trillion deficit
This under $6 trillion total deficit for all 20 years of Reagan, Bush I, Bush II includes Obama stimulus deficit included in the last Bush II year.
Obama term 2009-2011:
$4.351296 trillion deficit
Obama budget term 2010-2011:
$2.938608 trillion deficit
Reagan, Bush I, Bush II terms 20 year average per year:
$0.213870 trillion deficit
Reagan, Bush I, Bush II budget terms 20 year average per year:
$0.299721 trillion deficit
Obama term 3 year average per year:
$1.450432 trillion deficit
Obama budget term 2 year average per year:
$1.469304 trillion deficit
The Obama $1.469304 trillion average deficit per year over 2 years is more than 490% higher than the Reagan, Bush I, Bush II $0.299721 trillion aveage deficit per year over 20 years.
The Obama $4.351296 trillion 3 year deficit is higher than the Reagan, Bush I, Bush II $4.277406 trillion 20 year deficit.
2007, the last Bush II year with a republican controlled House of Representatives:
$0.160701 trillion deficit
2011, the last Obama year with a democrat controlled House of Representatives:
$1.645119 trillion deficit
The Obama $1.645119 trillion deficit in the last year of the democrat controlled House in 2011 is more than 1,023% higher than the Bush II $0.160701 trillion deficit in the last year of the republican controlled House in 2007.
Clinton term 1993-2001:
$0.320383 trillion deficit
Clinton budget term 1994-2002:
$0.062904 trillion surplus
The House of Representatives, who are responsible for determining the budget, was republican controlled the last 6 of the 8 years of the Clinton term.
The first 2 years of the democrat controlled House of Representatives of the Clinton term was a $0.367138 trillion deficit.
The last 6 years of the republican controlled House of Representatives of the Clinton term was a $0.430042 trillion surplus.
Idiot."
(skip | 12.4.11 @ 2:56AM)
"[silence]"
(Pimplepus | [never @ never])
~
"Fascism, Naziism are all 'isms' of the right, not the left"
(Pimplepus | 11.29.11 @ 2:12PM)
"An individual has unalienable rights.
An individual's unalienable rights cannot violate the unalienable rights of any other individual or group of individuals, the collective's unalienable rights.
The line between the individual and his unalienable rights and the collective and their unalienable rights is extremely thin.
The conservative errs on the side of this extremely thin line toward the 'right', the individual's unalienable rights.
The liberal errs on the side of this extremely thin line toward the 'left', the collective's unalienable rights.
Social rights relate to the interaction of the individual and the collective.
Political rights relate to the government and the conduct of government.
Economic rights relate to the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
Liberty is freedom to enjoy social, political, and economic rights without arbitrary control.
Tyranny is arbitrary control oppressing the freedom to enjoy social, political, and economic rights.
Tyranny, oppressing liberty, through the conservative 'right' side of the extremely thin line, erring toward the individual's unalienable rights, is the absence of government arbitrary control.
Tyranny, oppressing liberty, through the liberal 'left' side of the extremely thin line, erring toward the collective's unalienable rights, is excessive government arbitrary control.
Anarchy is the absence of government arbitrary control of social, political, and economic rights.
Totalitarianism is excessive government arbitrary control of social, political, and economic rights.
Socialism is a totalitarian form of government with excessive arbitrary control of social, political, and economic rights.
Communism is a totalitarian form of government with excessive arbitrary control of social, political, and economic rights.
Fascism is a totalitarian form of government with excessive arbitrary control of social, political, and economic rights.
Naziism is a totalitarian form of government with excessive arbitrary control of social, political, and economic rights.
Tyranny, oppressing liberty, in the form of anarchy occurs when individual rights are absolute, when the extremely thin line is as far 'right' as possible.
Tyranny, oppressing liberty, in the form of totalitarianism, including socialism, communism, fascism, and naziism occurs when collective rights are absolute, when the extemely thin line is as far 'left' as possible.
Purpleguy specifically, and liberals generally, consistently reveal they lack the reason and experience to determine what social, political, and economic rights are.
Purpleguy specifically, and liberals generally, consistently reveal they lack the intelligence and honesty to even differentiate between liberty and tyranny.
Purpleguy specifically, and liberals generally, consistently reveal they base their words and actions on emotional prattle and completely ignore reality itself.
Purpleguy specifically, and liberals generally, consistently reveal they lack integrity.
Purpleguy specifically, and liberals generally, consistently reveal they are idiots.
(skip | 11.30.11 @ 12:58PM)
"[silence]"
(Pimplepus | [never @ never])
Purpleguy| 12.6.11 @ 11:03AM
Hahaha ....
YEAH....THAT DARN OBAMA SPENDING...
National Debt Increased by 75% under Bush:
2001 - $5.871 trillion
2008 - $10.640 trillion
National Debt Increased 25% Under Obama:
Jan 31st 2009 = $10.569-Trillion
Jan 31st 2011 = $14.131-Trillion
But of the $3.56-trillion increase, 98% was carry over from Bush programs:
Bush: $910-billion = Interest on Debt 2009/2011
Bush: $360-billion = Iraq War Spending 2009/2011
Bush: $319-billion = TARP/Bailout Balance from 2008 (as of May 2010)
Bush: $419-billion = Bush Recession Caused Drop in taxes
Bush: $190-billion = Bush Medicare Drug Program 2009/2011
Bush: $211-billion = Bush Medicare Part-D 2009/2011
Bush: $771-billion = Bush Tax Cuts 2009/2011
Bush's contributions:
2001 to 2008: $4.769-trillion
2009 to 2010: $3.181-trillion
Total: $7.950-trillion
Increase Since 2001 = $14.131 - $5.871 = $8.26-Trillion
Bush's contribution: $7.950-trillion / $8.26-Trillion = 96%
Obama contribution: $580-billion= Stimulus Spending (as of Dec 2010).
Increase caused By Bush's Programs: 96%
Increase caused by Obama's Programs: 4%
And, if you are capable of reading a chart, you can see that the whole National Debt Debacle started with Ronald "Deficits Don't Matter" Reagan... http://nation.foxnews.com/us-d...../chart-day ... for added measure from a news source you trust - Fox News.
See, I can do it too, and your numbers mean as much as mine ... but you should check out the chart from Fox News ... Since Reagan, Republicants haven't cared about deficits or deficit spending and the National Debt has gone almost straight up. The only surplus we've had in 30 years was during the Democratic President Clinton years.
Now, if you know how a bill (or budget) moves through Congress, then you know that although originating in the House, the Senate can modify and the President can veto any bill or budget they choose. So, when a President signs the budget, it is HIS budget, regardless of who is in Congress. Otherwise, by your line of mis-guided thinking, John Boehner is producing a huge budget deficit this year and next, now isn't he?
Collective bargaining leads to Totalitarianism and Tyranny? Where'd you pick up that garbage? Collective bargaining is the right of of the workers to bargain with their employers as a unit, rather than separately for wages and benefits - which gave this country the great middle class, paid vacations, sick leave, good salaries, etc. How is that tyranny exactly again?
Seems you need do some homework Sunshine...
skip| 12.6.11 @ 12:41PM
"Did you also know that Fixed News viewers are dumber than people who don't watch it?"
(Pimplepus | 11.29.11 @ 6:36PM)
"Fixed News lies to you."
(Pimplepus | 12.2.11 @ 11:32AM)
"your numbers mean as much as mine ... but you should check out the chart from Fox News ..."
(Pimplepus | 12.6.11 @ 11:03AM)
You mean, check out a chart from a news source that lies to the public, whose viewers are dumber than nonviewers, but whose numbers mean as much as the numbers I provided from the Office of Management and Budget, which is the largest office within the executive branch and whose primary mission is the budget itself, these numbers at whitehouse.gov/omb/, which is the official web site for both Obama and for the White House? Another pathetic and despicable post based on lying stupidly, like an idiot? Really?
Reagan (1981-1989), Bush I (1989-1993), Bush II (2001-2009) combined 20 year budget deficit:
$4.277406 trillion deficit
Obama (2009-2011) 3 year deficit:
$4.351296 trillion deficit
Bush II (2007) last republican controlled House budget deficit:
$0.160701 trillion deficit
Obama (2011) last democrat controlled House budget deficit:
$1.645119 trillion deficit
"Fascism, Naziism, are all 'isms' of the right, not the left."
(Pimplepus | 11.29.11 @ 2:12PM)
You mean, you have no rebuttal, not even one pathetically and despicably based on stupid lies, like you constantly post, like an idiot? Really?
Purpleguy| 12.6.11 @ 1:26PM
I didn't say that I trust Fixed News - but YOU do .. so look at the chart they provided ... even it tells the story of the Republicant disregard for fiscal responsibility, regardless of all your chatter and blather. Republicants never worried about paying for anything, until a Democrat was in the White House and the American people know it. It is interesting that you trust the government numbers - are you supposed to do that? I'm surprised your head didn't explode.
Not sure what kind of rebuttal you expect to your bloviating, but no need to rebut the facts I've already stated. True to Fixed News form, you extract snippets out of context and go off half-cocked ranting and raving ... I really get to you, don't I? Have a nice day ...
skip| 12.6.11 @ 2:28PM
I know you are a pathetic despicable stupid lying idiot.
Every reader with any intelligence or any honesty whatsoever knows you are a pathetic despicable stupid lying idiot.
Even the most rabid emotionally prattling liberal posters here at AmSpec don't defend or support your posts, but instead ignore them, likely because even they admit, to themselves at least, that you are a pathetic despicable stupid lying idiot.
This is documentation of what a pathetic despicable stupid lying idiot you are, even for a liberal.
Idiot - albeit seemingly incompatible with reason and experience itself - useful idiot.
Matthew Quigley| 12.5.11 @ 5:18PM
Dude, it's YOUR OWN DAMN FAULT BECAUSE YOU REQUESTED THEIR SPAM!
Dingbat.
Niniane| 12.5.11 @ 6:00PM
I used to get those emails from Barack and Michelle at least twice a week, asking for me to throw money at them -- and this was two years ago. I simply blocked them and haven't had a peep clogging my inbox.
POST American| 12.5.11 @ 11:04PM
----Joe BIDE---in?
------------ME--shall and BAR-rock O-Bamma?
ASIDE from our oft posted hunch Obama's,
IN FACT, a direct bloodline relation of
ROT-child front man, and China sellout
artist supreme, Aver--ill Hairy-man,
what more is there to say?
FAR MORE IMPORTANT is to be
doing a quality take in of the spectacle,
just days ago, of mind CON-troll slave
John Mc--CAIN putting forward measures
to authorize the 'disappearance' of American
citizens and others BOTH abroad ---and at home.
DON'T be taken in by the glaosses.
CHECK OUT the fine print and subsections.
"Is everyone getting this? ---the Magna Carta,
the bedrock of ALLL common law, is,
from London to North America,
to Sydney, being overthrown.
----Is every body CLEAR about this?
-ALEX JONES
(yesterday)
Hence America joins a very X-clusive club
of nations authorizing, ON RECORD, the
disappearance of its citizens.
The ONLY other nation to do so in ALLLLL
history?
-------------------NORTH KOREA-----------------------
"Did you just hear me?
-----------------THIS IS TREASON."
---------Globalist RED China TREASON that is.
----------------HUAC/ Nuremberg 2012---------------
wedding dresses | 12.6.11 @ 3:30AM
Tyranny, oppressing liberty, in the form of totalitarianism, including socialism, communism, fascism, and naziism occurs when collective rights are absolute, when the extemely thin line is as far 'left' as possible.
Purpleguy specifically, and liberals generally, consistently reveal they lack the reason and experience to determine what social, political, and economic rights are.
Purpleguy| 12.6.11 @ 1:29PM
"Tyranny, oppressing liberty, in the form of totalitarianism, including socialism, communism, fascism, and naziism occurs when collective rights are absolute, when the extemely thin line is as far 'left' as possible." - What kind of drivel is that? Hitler, Stalin, even General Tojo totalitarians, but who had any rights under their regimes? Left or Right, totalitarianism is a dictatorship - no one but the dictator has any rights. Who wrote that hogwash anyway? Was that Hayek? That fool... or maybe more foolish is those that believe that crap. And, "I" lack reason? Pfft...
Reprobate Charlatan Pimplepus| 12.6.11 @ 9:33PM
(. . . maybe no readers will notice I'm such a pathetic despicable stupid lying idiot I've rebutted marital apparel on the content of a post I've refused to rebut earlier this thread and week with a rebuttal that is nothing but emotional prattle with even more pathetic despicable stupid lying idiocy . . . )
POST American| 12.8.11 @ 3:50AM
-----And even now learning:
'GOV'T Activates FEMA CAMPS Across the Nation'
-Kurt Nimmo
INFOWARS
(hours ago)
NDAA 'disappearances' of American citizens
abroad ---AND here and now this? ALLLL in
just the last few days?
The Globalist RED China sellout and TREASON
OP is not simply CON-solidating ---BUT! the
RED China 'world model' ----IS HERE.
WE tirelessly warned you for years.
YOU REFUSED TO TAKE HEED
--------------------"And NOW, what will you do?"
--------------------------------'IKIRU'
(movie trailor online)
-------------------------WHAT ?---------------------------
johnd2| 4.10.12 @ 12:52PM
Both Obamas have an overwhelming desire to be everybody's momma and daddy. They can not conceive that a lot of people consider themselves grown up already and they are NOT needed. But their electoral base wants the freebies and they will go along to get them. Wildly corrupt.
Anya| 5.15.12 @ 1:38PM
I can't stand how all of a sudden Michelle is smiling all the time after 3+years of subway face, eg, looking pissed.