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The Obama Watch
Carrying Obama’s Bags
But role reversals are frequent in America’s party of bagmen.
With former President Clinton due to deliver tonight’s keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte on behalf of President Obama, Ryan Lizza dropped this bombshell from the 2008 campaign in an article in the New Yorker:
Tim Russert told me that, according to his sources, Bill Clinton, in an effort to secure an endorsement for Hillary from Ted Kennedy, said to Kennedy, “A few years ago, this guy would have been carrying our bags.”
Conservatives, of course, know all too well that if it had been reported that those words were uttered by a Republican there would be no effort spared in ostracizing that Republican from public life. Don’t forget that MSNBC personnel fell all over themselves telling us that words like anger, Chicago and golf are racial code words against Obama. But since Bill Clinton was “the first black President,” he gets their dispensation.
Yet let us put aside the racial overtones of Clinton’s statement (which, as if this writing, he has neither confirmed nor denied). The most interesting aspect of this revelation is that, four years later, it is Clinton who is set to carry Obama’s bags. (Meanwhile, Hillary was wise enough to pack her bags before the Labor Day Weekend. She is currently in China amidst six country, Asia-Pacific tour thus avoiding President Obama, her husband and the DNC altogether).
It should be noted here that the 42nd President isn’t the first person to have carried Obama’s bags nor will he be the last. Since Obama won the 2008 Iowa Caucus, the liberal media has been carrying his bags usually with great enthusiasm. Early on this was an easy task because Obama’s bags were light owing to his tendency to vote present. Matters of inconvenience such as Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers and Rashid Khalidi were simply cast aside like lost baggage. Or in the case of the Khalidi videotape, some baggage was put under lock and key, never to see the light of day.
However, over the past three and a half years, the liberal media has found Obama’s bags heavier to carry. They still haul them but not with the ease they did when hope and change danced off Obama’s tongue causing people to faint in his presence. You would think with the country accumulating nearly $5 trillion in debt, a stimulus with no spark, the albatross of Obamacare and an unemployment rate that hasn’t fallen below 8% would cause people to feel faint or at the very least feel faint hope in President Obama. No doubt this has played a big part in adding to the strain to the backs and shoulders of the liberal media’s heavy lifting for The Anointed One. Yet for the liberal media, carrying Obama’s bags is preferable to the prospect of a Romney presidency.
But even some of Obama’s surrogates are having trouble carrying his bags. When Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley was asked by Bob Schieffer on CBS’ Face the Nation over the weekend if we were better off now than we were four years ago, O’Malley replied in the negative. O’Malley has since changed his tune. But O’Malley, who has been touted by some as a future Democratic presidential nominee, is likely to be relegated to carrying Joe Biden’s bags for the next two months.
You know things are not going well when the best a surrogate like former New Mexico Governor and Ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson can do is say that the international community wants Obama to be re-elected. Unfortunately for Obama, UN General Assembly members like Iran and Venezuela do not have a vote in this election.
It wasn’t supposed to be this way. It was supposed to be “a new era of responsibility.” Instead, Obama has spent this new era of responsibility blaming his problems and shortcomings on the Bush Administration, Japanese tsunamis and the Arab Spring, thus passing his burdens onto us. In a sense, all of us have been carrying President Obama’s bags whether we want to or not.
There is a simple reason for this state of affairs. Barack Obama cannot handle the responsibility that comes with being President of the United States. President Obama cannot carry his own weight. Will the American people choose a President who can carry his own bags this time?
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Appleby| 9.5.12 @ 6:31AM
Jimmy Carter was a really big failure as a President, but at least he carried his own bags.
Skippy| 9.5.12 @ 4:08PM
Actually, no he did not.
He made it look as though he were, but the Secret Service agents assigned to Jimmah say he carried empty suitcases until out of camera range, then his actual bags were carried by SS agents.
Carter's schtick was BS then, as Prince Bambo's are today.
JohnWV| 9.5.12 @ 6:50AM
To be elected or reelected, candidates must avoid disclosure of intentions considered unfavorable by Israeli or Jewish organizations. That's because American elections are so powerfully skewed by Netanyahu's Israel, organized Jewish Americans and enormous amounts of money. Affirmative Action has benefited both our American democracy and underachieving American Blacks. A new Affirmative Action is needed to rescue our American democracy. It would equitably restrain the monetary and Israel Firster excesses of overachieving Jewish Americans.
Appleby| 9.5.12 @ 6:57AM
John WV, you are clearly an Obama supporter. Head on over there and start yelling "Jews Out!" and you will be richly rewarded. Over here we take a different point of view.
DarkMan| 9.5.12 @ 7:10AM
This is the brother of JackWI. Correct?
Darin| 9.5.12 @ 9:19AM
You seem to hate the Jews and think blacks are so stupid they require affirmative action to succeed (judging them by the color of their skin and not the content of their character). Hard to tell where you're going with this except to say you seem to consciously hate Jews and subconsciously hate blacks.
The Avenger| 9.5.12 @ 10:32AM
Darin, that would make John a typical democrat.
The Avenger| 9.5.12 @ 10:31AM
Why are you an antisemitic racist?
Drunken Sailor| 9.5.12 @ 4:47PM
John stop running your shine through old radiationrs. You are drinking lead.
Drunken Sailor| 9.5.12 @ 4:47PM
Hell I must be too. That should be radiators.
Von Mises Jr| 9.5.12 @ 8:04AM
Who knew that four years later Bill Clinton would be picking up Obama's mess, wiping his chin and cleaning his red diaper?
TLP| 9.5.12 @ 9:17AM
You still don't get it. You're still Labouring under the misconception that he looks around, and doesn't like what he's seeing.
Obama's Economic Policies have not been a disaster, if what we're going through, is what was always The Plan.
We are where we are, because he Wishes it.
Gas Prices are what they are, because he Wishes it.
Iran will get its Nukes, because he wishes it.
People in the Gulf have Lost their Livelihoods, due to His Wish that we Stop Drilling.
The XL Pipeline wasn't built, cause he didn't want it built.
People in Coal States are Losing their Livlihoods, because of his PROMISE to Destroy the Coal Industry.
The $900 Billion was never gonna go for Shovel Ready Infrastructure Jobs. It was always meant to Bail Out his Public Union Allies, in his Blue State Strongholds. Even some guy standing in quicksand, while Vacationing in the Leper Colonies of Batswana, knows that.
The old Axium goes something like this: To defeat my Enemy, I must Become, my Enemy.
He's the end result of a mixing of Body Fluids between an Atheist Communist, and a Muslim Marxist. Raised in a Foreign Muslim Land. Taught in the Muslim Schools and Mosques of that land. Mentored by a Who's Who of White Hating, Jew Hating, America Haters, his entire Adult Life.
And yet, some of us still scratch their heads, in amazement, of his Lack of Understanding, when it comes to Job Creation, and Economics.
Oh, he knows.
And, from where he's sitting?
Things never looked so good.
Darin| 9.5.12 @ 9:21AM
I'm thinking you give Obama and his minions far too much credit. Yes, they do seem to hate this country and take actions to hurt it, but actually planning for the results of his actions? He doesn't strike me as smart enough to pull that off.
TLP| 9.5.12 @ 9:40AM
He's not smart enough?
We're thisclose to being over.
Thisclose to becoming a Failed State, with Trillion Dollar Deficits, for as far as the eye can see.
Thisclose to being Permanently Mexicanized.
I'm 55, and this is NOT the Country I was Born and Raised in.
He has accomplished more in 3 1/2 Years, than most men do in Two Terms.
He has done what no Foreign Enemy has ever done.
He has brought this Country to its knees.
And, people like you, still think that he's an Empty Suit.
He is an Evil Genius, the likes of which we haven't seen for a while.
Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Min, and Pol Pot.
And, now we can add the name Obama to the list of Leftist Leaders who took their Countries down the Road to Ruin.
I'm thinking that, maybe I wouldn't be running around calling other people Stupid, if I were you. Or calling the Kettle - Black. (If you get my drift)
Just because YOU don't like his Policies, doesn't mean they're not working.
billinlv| 9.5.12 @ 11:02AM
Everyone wants to kid themselves that this is all somehow "business as usual". For proof, simply look at the behavior of the cowards who occupy those exclusive congressional seats in Washington DC, once known as a co-equal branch of the federal government but now simply a corrupt body of creeps, frauds, enablers and traitors. The criminal marxist obama regime has been extraordinarily successful in putting the final nail in the coffin of the consititutional republic of the United States of America. None of this is an accident. Nor is it a coincidence. It is all very real and very deliberate. Time for the essayists here at TAS and all of us to face the Truth. It is getting very very late. It may even be too late.
TLP| 9.5.12 @ 11:29AM
Go look what Ferrera wrote, today.
He actually said that "The Obama Administration TRIED to plant American Guns In Mexico to use as a talking point in favour of Gun Control."
These guys are the Quintessential ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS.
They're about as close to being MEN, as Chaz Bono is.
ansonheath| 9.5.12 @ 11:07AM
TLP - you are dead on! Most folks on our side are in denial that we ELECTED an enemy of the state.
MK48| 9.5.12 @ 3:16PM
Sir.....WE didn't elect an enemy of the state THEY did.
TLP.....get's it red or blue pill make the choice.
TLP| 9.5.12 @ 3:53PM
Listen to MK.
He knows what he's talking about.
I do get it.
The Avenger| 9.5.12 @ 10:38AM
Dari, don't underestimate the man. If he is smart enough to dupe over 50% of the electorate, he is smart enough to collapse the country. Remember it was he who claimed he was going to fundamentally transform America. Our media NEVER asked him what that meant and the electorate was too mesmerized to worry about it. They better wake up, and soon.
MK48| 9.5.12 @ 3:33PM
Avenger......the 50% you talk about were at the convention last night. The camera panned the glazed eyes and the tears of the electorate that were bused in.
We will see if the establishment rebubs catch the lies of the wookie. Let's see if the libs defend HER lies.
1. Shoes 1/2 size to small
2. Coffiee table from the trash
3. Riding in a car with a rusted out floor
4. Student loans for college
Just a few lies....... if anyone does the research they both got in to college on afermative action - no grades. Both worked at a law firm making over 300K. Both went to a private elite grade school.
On and on and on the lies keep comming and no one calls them out.......we deserve to loose.
Who Knows?| 9.5.12 @ 10:45AM
Bags? We don’t need no stinking bags!
Furthermore, when I am unable to avoid TV showing Obama and his ilk, I see bag ladies, male or female. They are ALL like kids on Halloween, traipsing around with sacks trying to get freebies.
However, my favorite “bag” riff comes from a music tape from Morris Day, a minor pre-rapper of the “Prince” mold.
His group, The Time, had a song that include the following---
“Who me, I wear baggies. Zip, snap and drop. Besides, Ronald likes his freedom. You know that’s right!” Ronald, of course, hangs between the legs.
Yup, that’s Obama’s gang---bangers, baggers, takers!
Anti-Statist| 9.5.12 @ 10:48AM
Dog-gone those Joos!
Cpm| 9.5.12 @ 1:37PM
I remember this comment very well from the 2008 campaign, it was out there, but like everything else that year which might have detracted from Obama's ascension to the throne it was ignored by the press until it died of loneliness.
Mike G| 9.5.12 @ 2:33PM
"Unfortunately for Obama, UN General Assembly members like Iran and Venezuela do not have a vote in this election."
If there are no voter ID laws, then anyone can vote, even President nut job in Iran and the Che wannabe in Venezuela.
Occam's Tool| 9.19.12 @ 8:55PM
Hillary was Literally on the other end of the earth. As in go to Antipodes.com and check it out.