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A Further Perspective
Quentin Tarantino Stars in Obamaquences
Hollywood, medicine, taxes, guns, and Harry Reid: consequences and double standards.
(Page 4 of 6)
Suffice to say, the reaction of these three are a drop in the ocean compared to what’s coming.
Let’s be clear here. To say that there are consequences for one’s actions is one of the oldest, if frequently the most ignored, pieces of human wisdom. Anyone and everyone winds up dealing with the consequences of actions they have taken in their personal and professional lives. Everyone has heard of the drug addict who wishes they could rethink that first interlude with whatever drug led them down the path to addiction. Having that first date with the attractive woman/man who turned out to be a disaster as a spouse. Taking the great job that wound up as a sentence with the boss from hell. And so on.
The problem with these kind of mistakes when they are made on the macro-level in government is that millions wind up paying the price. Millions who inevitably think back years later and ruefully if not angrily wonder “why did I ever vote for so-and-so?” when the results of their earlier political decision comes home to roost like the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s proverbial chickens.
But is there one exception to the rule of Obamaquences?
The Rule of the Liberal Double Standard?
Wouldn’t you know that exception is wonderfully illustrated by none other than Harry Reid. And yes, Barack Obama.
The other day, Bob Tyrrell did a very astute column titled “What Crime Has Harry Reid Committed?”
Tyrrell points out the obvious: The law requires Congress to pass a budget. Reid has refused to do so. Consequences? None. Zip. Senator Reid can just willfully ignore the law — and no big deal.
The second glaring example?
The NRA has put out a commercial asking, “Are the President’s kids more important than your kids?” It points out the obvious. Here is President Obama scoffing at armed guards in schools — while his kids are protected by armed guards at their school.
No one is saying the Obama kids shouldn’t be protected — but what about the rest of America’s kids? Obviously, for liberals, one can only assume the safety of your kids is no big deal.
In other words: there will be no Obamaquensces for Harry Reid or Barack Obama. They can violate the law (the budget law, in Reid’s case) or flagrantly have one standard for the Obama kids while rejecting it for yours — and nothing happens.
Right?
Wrong.
At this moment one of the nation’s bestsellers is the final volume of William Manchester’s three-volume history of Winston Churchill. As the story goes, author Manchester, in failing health (and he eventually died), tapped a friend, journalist Paul Reid, to finish his book when it became impossible for Manchester to do so. Reid has done this in magnificent style, Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm 1940-1965 as was noted here by our own Bob Tyrrell as being a superb book. Manchester would be proud.
About the Author
Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
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Aristocat| 1.17.13 @ 6:38AM
Tarantino's film glorifies racist murder.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 11:07AM
I love it when this guy leads off, cause I know that nobody ever Replies to his comments - because he's a D*ck - (I saw what you wrote when I was Banned) so I can slip right in at the top.
Tarantino? Who's he? A Wigger who hates the colour of his own skin, and wishes he could trade that W in, for an N.
Think about it. What kind of a person Hates his own Race? I mean, besides Michael Moore. Has Robert DeNiro EVER had a White Girlfriend, bye the way? Not to my knowledge, and not that there's anything wrong with it.
If there are any Facial Experts out there? (And No, Purp, not that kind of Facial Expert, but we will keep your name on file, should the need ever arise.) Would you mind telling us how many Inner Demons you can detect as you look upon this Creature's Face? How many Deadly Sins can you find in his Twisted Expressions, that are just waiting to take Physical Form in one of his next Cinematic Self Flagellations?
Tell me that when you look at him, you don't see Dylan Klebold, and Adam Lanza. Jeffery Dahmer, and James Holmes. I see a Bomb with a lit fuse, thisclose to going off at the slightest provocation.
He's no different than anyone on MSNBC - The Home of "C*NT, SLUT, B*TCH, and WHORE, when it comes to Republican Women.
He's no different that the Thing in the White House. Only their Colour is different, and that's what makes Fright Face so angry.
RCV| 1.17.13 @ 11:56AM
Robert De Niro "hates his own race" because his girlfriend is Black? TLP hates his own race because his "smokin' hot wife" is Asian. The idiocy of your logic is breathtaking.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 12:42PM
Shouldn't you be watching MSNBC?
What am I saying? You're probably watching it as you scribble down your Literary Crap Sandwiches.
Still waiting for you to explain to the rest of us, your Boy's Plan, for the next 4 Years.
Surely, you must know what his Plan is, as we grind to a Halt as a First World Nation, under his Stewardship.
I'll wait.
RCV| 1.17.13 @ 2:05PM
Let's see: Getting our troops out of the quagmire of Afghanistan; continuing the relentless attack on Al Qaeda; implementing the Health Care legislation passed by Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court; enacting sensible regulations and laws to insure adequate background checks on all gun purchasers, and toughening proscriptions against felons and the mentally disturbed in getting weapons; trying to persuade Republicans in Congress to stop damaging the US economy by palaying games ever time the debt ceiling issue comes up; enacting comprehensive immigration reform. That's part of the initial list. Don't you read any real newspapers, Tim. Or do you just run silly contests for people who think exactly like you? Or spend your day concocting vile theories about passages in the Bible?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.17.13 @ 2:55PM
“…continuing the relentless attack on Al Qaeda…”
…
continuingignoring the relentless attackonby Al Qaeda…Since you’ve apparently missed all of the stories about the Benghazi attack on 091112 which resulted in the death of the US ambassador to Libya, along with three other foreign service personnel, I thought I’d update this phrase for you, RCV.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 3:51PM
I was just gonna say the exact same thing: The relentless Attack on Al Qaeda?
He couldn't be Stupider, if he was Purp.
Yeah, let's Raise the Debt Ceiling.
MORE DEBT.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES.
MORE TRILLION $ DEFECITS, AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE.
DECIMATE THE MILITARY.
RAISE TAXES.
MORE REGULATIONS.
NO DRILLING.
NO JOBS, SO LET'S LET ALL OF SOUTH AMERICA IN TO THE COUNTRY.
Nice Plan, Idiot.
Pecos Pete| 1.17.13 @ 5:41PM
Tim, OldeFarte is gonna get you.
AlanKneeJerkLiberalBrooks | 1.17.13 @ 5:03PM
"Since you’ve apparently missed all of the stories about the Benghazi attack on 091112 which resulted in the death of the US ambassador to Libya, along with three other foreign service personnel"
Four Americans killed? that is NOTHING next to Ashcanistan and Iraq. Your priorities are warped, Constantine.
Drunken Sailor| 1.17.13 @ 5:45PM
So are you holding the Democrats that voted for both of those wars responsible or do you just bitch at the Republicans?
RCV| 1.17.13 @ 5:55PM
The attack on Afghanistan was righteous. But over the years, the memory of who were after -- Al Qaeda -- got lost, and we ended up on a long term mission to prop up Karzai. We've done what's feasible there.
The attack on Iraq was sheer idiocy, and is the single biggest reason that Iran is now a power broker in the region.
And yes, I hold responsible all who went along with that silly Bush-Cheney venture.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.17.13 @ 7:44PM
Brooks;
Since the discussion was about Al Qaeda and the relentless pursuit of them by Obama since he came to office, please list all Al Qaeda members killed in Iraq or Afghanistan since January of 2009. Please list them alphabetically using Roman letters (since the site won't let you post more than a couple of characters at a time in Arabic) starting with Ahmed.
RCV| 1.17.13 @ 10:16PM
Why would we limit them to Iraq and Afghanistan? Obama has gone after Al Qaeda's leaders wherever they hide, in Pakistan (where he had the guts to go into without tipping off the terrorist protectors in the Pakistani government), in Yemen, and in other locales in the region. Their killings have been reported regularly in the newspapers over the past four years, so you can compile your own list if you're that interested.
RCV| 1.17.13 @ 5:52PM
I guess if you choose to ignore the repeated take out of Al Qaeda leaders by drone attacks, and the capture of Bin Laden, there's not much I can do about your willful ignorance.
markenoff| 1.17.13 @ 7:09PM
You mean the execution without trial of suspected terorists and their families? War crimes when done by Bush. Talking points when done by Obama.
RCV| 1.17.13 @ 10:17PM
You bet. In a war, that's what you do on the battlefield.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.17.13 @ 7:39PM
I have a shampoo bottle, with instructions which read "Lather, Rinse, Repeat". As I retain minimal hair on the top of my head, I need very little of it, though, if I did, and followed the instructions more than once, would my use be Relentless merely because it was repeated?
As an attorney, you should understand that words have meanings. While there have been drone attacks, and some have killed Al Qaeda members or leaders, it is false to characterize these as relentless. This is particularly demonstrated by the campaign of falsehoods to blame spontaneous attacks following protests over "The Innocence of Muslims", when it was known that it was a planned attack by an Al Qaeda affiliate, who had hardly relented from their aggression against our interests.
Also, I must have missed the news about the capture of Bin Laden, and, presumably his upcoming trial in New York City. I had heard a rumor he was killed and dumped in the Indian Ocean (I think I heard it from Biden at the Democrat Convention, about five days before our Libyan compound was attacked, the ambassador raped and murdered, and three others killed).
Any other boasts you wish to make?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.17.13 @ 7:40PM
The above is in response to RCV's 5:52 pm post.
RCV| 1.17.13 @ 10:18PM
You're so clever, Albert. And so tiresome.
Occam's Tool| 1.18.13 @ 9:35PM
We killed Bin Laden without squeezing data. Our drone attacks are done without corresponsing increase in HUMINT, making our ability to stop future attacks more problematic.
You know I totally agree with you on killing scum wherever possible, RCV. My concern is that he is doing showy things for as little true opposition as possible, while our true antiterrorism policy is being undermined.
In short, I think you, a decent fellow, are being duped.
But this whole criminal safeguards crap being directed at illegal combatants on foreign soil is ridiculous. I do note that while many Liberal commentators savaged Bush on this when he did it, you did not.
Alice Moore| 1.18.13 @ 8:26AM
Relentless attack on Al Qaeda? What about Benghazi and the American hostages in Algeria? What's your zero doing about that? Oh he and his buddies in the LSM are braying about the punk'd football player and the non existent girlfriend.
Occam's Tool| 1.18.13 @ 9:30PM
ObamaCare is conducting a murderous attack on the medical device industry that even Al Franken opposes; Al Quaeda is attacking us more and more and harder and harder; Afghanistan's ROE are insanely ridiculous, not cutting back on easily cut government spending, thus increasing the deficit in a way that makes W out as a piker; and backstabbing our allies and encouraging our enemies at every turn.
Oh, and letting our Ambassador get SODOMIZED and MURDERED without repurcussions. Did I mention giving every taxpayer making under $110,000 a year a 2% tax increase?
Yeah, he's doing real good. Real Good. For the best take on this, the 1/21/13 The Weekly Standard Parody page has it pegged:
L' Inaugurazione di Obama: An Opera in Two Acts:
Written by: (La Bomba) Ayerro.
Directed by: Carlo Marx.
SC| 1.19.13 @ 8:43AM
I would love to have the actual REAL PROOF and confirmation , by a LEGITIMATE source, that the Ambassador was "Sodomized"-as this site has been the only one to make that rather scurrilous "claim"
Then again, the usual suspects who post here seem to have an unusually strong interest/obsession with butt-fucking, while making sure to "protest too much" about their "revulsion" of the same...
AlanKneeJerkLiberalBrooks | 1.17.13 @ 5:01PM
"Aristocat| 1.17.13 @ 6:38AM
Tarantino's film glorifies racist murder."
I'll answer you: American violence is wholesome; foreign violence is dirty. If Peckinpah wanted blood (tomato juice) poured all over the set, that was his right as a an American. Violence is the American Way.
AlanKneeJerkLiberalBrooks | 1.17.13 @ 5:05PM
Good clean wholesome American violence!
bileklik | 1.18.13 @ 2:55PM
i agree with you
Appleby| 1.17.13 @ 6:40AM
I been tellin' ya. Ain't I been tellin' ya?
How many people will actually admit that we been tellin' em?
One of the things your Mama taught you, if you had the right kind of Mama, was that actions have consequences. She told you in advance what those consequences would be, and what do you know, she was right...
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 11:21AM
Why am I, all of a sudden, thinking that you'll be comin around the Mountain, when you come?
Conservative Bob| 1.17.13 @ 3:26PM
No Tim that line is from Independence Day, Randy Quaid raight after the invasion begins. ;>)
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 3:54PM
I still hear: Comin around the Mountain.
Contest tomorrow, at Monday's Story: The Noble Savage.
Join us.
You won't be disappointed.
R Martin| 1.17.13 @ 7:45AM
We have rule here, Mr. Lord--you can't submit an entry to the Analogy Contest until the day it is announced.
Tina B| 1.17.13 @ 8:07AM
Speaking of which. . .Ricky? Timmy?
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 3:56PM
Contest at Monday's Story: The Noble Savage.
Since I like you so much?
You can come now, if you wanna, Tina B.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.17.13 @ 8:16AM
Yes, my "Bataan" entry hangs in limbo...
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 10:28AM
I can hardly wait.
I love Batman.
Occam's Tool| 1.18.13 @ 9:45PM
Albert: if you ever get a chance, you should go to Las Cruces, NM. late March is a good time, as The Nuclear Trinity Site is open for a tour on April 1 and October 1 each year.
In one of the parks there, you will see the Bataan Death March memorial (NM National Guard were major victims). It is an incredibly emotional experience. The sculpture has footprints in metal trailing behind the soldiers painfully walking that comprise the bulk of the sculpture: the footprints are based on casts of actual death march survivors' feet.
I drove past it each day when going to work there.
Occam's Tool| 1.18.13 @ 9:46PM
White Sands is close to Las Cruces. I worked at a Community MH center in that city.
Von Mises Jr| 1.17.13 @ 8:27AM
This is the problem when stupid and naive people believe government is the answer to all their needs. Chamberlin returned from a meeting with Hitler with a signature in 1938 claiming he had secured "peace in our time." They had peace until they were murdered in their beds.
As Obama and Pelosi taunted conservative Americans with ObamaCare passage, liberals swooned with delight. But soon they will discover that they will pay fines, be denied care and cost for those whom can afford care will skyrocket.
Liberals are clearly an ignorant bunch as Obama surrounded him with young children yesterday pronouncing decrees. But each of those kids already owes $52K for goodies liberals already showered on them without paying for them, and if the trend continues at this pace they will owe $1M by the time they retire.
In the meantime, Obama spends $1.4B per year on his entertainment and travel, all the Congress will retire with several million dollar pensions and benefits and public employees across the board will have over a million dollar retirement package. All while they get free health coverage that eliminates the need to purchase health care, avoid the fines and in the case of many are exempted.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 3:57PM
Contest at Monday's Story: The Noble Savage.
Tina B| 1.17.13 @ 8:33AM
Mr. Lord, I am so glad you reminded me of the 180 over Winston Churchill. My Brit Mom always spoke so highly of Churchill, as did my Polish Dad. Papa's only beef with him was agreeing to the division of Poland with half going to Stalin. Papa met Mom in
England after the War, and never went home again. It no longer existed for him. But he understood Churchill had done far greater good for the world than harm at Yalta. He really blamed Roosevelt for his politically expedient gift of a nation that wasn't
his to give. Churchill was against this but could see he was the only one out of three and went along. Churchill was one of my heroes growing up.
It is good to remember how he went from reject to hero in the Spanish of a few years. Perspective, eh? But the Brits just as quickly ousted him post war, and the fickleness of the public is never-ending.
As a Christian who believes that we are living in the end times, and more so now that o has been reelected for 4 more years, I don't believe that there will be a complete 180 on the POTUS. Not before the tribulation period anyway. Maybe during, halfway through in fact looks likely. But I am a Pre-trib believer and feel that I might not be around to see that turnaround in public support. I hope, I hope, I hope. No foil hat, just a Christian who looks for the signs, like Christ recommended, and is seeing them everywhere. Working hard to serve Him as I await His Coming. God bless, Mr. Lord, and thanks for the (true) history lesson.
mfeder| 1.17.13 @ 8:42AM
One problem. Where is our Churchill?
CJW| 1.17.13 @ 9:06AM
The problem is our Churchill is Professor Ward Churchill, who made the treasonous comments after sept 11.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 11:25AM
And, the other Churchill we have, is a Dirt Track covered in Horse Sh*t. Which, when you think about it, is just like the Churchill that CJW was talking about.
Occam's Tool| 1.18.13 @ 9:36PM
Allen West is our Churchill. Currently out in the Wilderness.
RCV| 1.19.13 @ 5:11PM
I don't even know how to respond to such a nonsensical statement, my friend Occam. Allen west isn't fit to tie Churchill's shoes.
CJW| 1.17.13 @ 8:43AM
Tarantino is not defending the First Amendment. He is defending the First Rule of Hollywood and Show Biz. Make money. Then play the limo liberal to soothe your guilty conscience because you make so much money producing trashy violent movies and violent songs praising cop killers
Who believes that making violent movies violent "songs" has no effect on the viewers? The same people who say we have a gun culture and guns kill people, not criminals.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 12:46PM
He is defending the First Amendment.
You're confused because, instead of Crapping on the Flag, or a Cop Car, he's Crapping on the Big Screen.
fredstat| 1.17.13 @ 8:50AM
Everything you say is right. Everyone will be mad.
Then they'll look to some new government policy to fix it. A solution of course, which will lead to more problems. Then people will be mad again. That'll lead to another government solution. Then that will make it worse. . . .
No? Social Security begat medicare begat obamacare begat whatever's next.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.17.13 @ 8:51AM
I recall watching an appearance by Tarantino on “Politically Incorrect” (when the show was still on Comedy Central) in the mid 1990s, shortly after the success of Pulp Fiction helped raise his profile as a successful filmmaker (before he almost derailed that description with “Destiny Turns On the Radio”). He gives the impression of a socially awkward film geek who suddenly became popular when the cool crowd found the issue of his talent and obsession entertaining.
While I admire his talent and have enjoyed the artistry of a lot of his work, much of his success has been achieved by recycling the violent revenge fantasy. Ironically, while Tarantino did not invent the violent bloodbath climax as a literary or cinematic device, he has helped perfect it. If anyone could have peered into the twisted prism that was the mind and soul of Adam Lanza, it would likely come as no surprise if in his warped world he saw himself as Black Mamba, and his victims as the Crazy 88s.
Like many others, I imagine Mr. Tarantino fears becoming again the ignored or mocked kid without any friends toiling away at the video rental store. While I don’t think that is likely (or desirable) to happen, were he to be faced with such a fate, it would not surprise me if Mr. Tarantino would also erupt in some violent spree that might resemble the carnage he enshrines in his films (though without the excellent theme music).
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 11:19AM
For a minute there, in the first sentence of the last paragraph? I thought you were talking about Kaminsky, cause that would really explain a lot, considering last week's - shall we say - weak effort, on his part.
Go back and Reread that sentence, while looking at Ross' picture, and tell me he wasn't that Kid in the Video Store, and maybe still is.
It feels like Friday.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.17.13 @ 12:11PM
Hey, a bunch of us showed up on his thread last week anyway just to make sure he didn't lose his mojo here (such as it is).
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 3:59PM
(Such as it is).
Kwan| 1.17.13 @ 8:59AM
It's as plain to see as the jug-ears on the side of Obama's head that due to the fact that leftist ideology is divorced from reality, that failure must always be the ultimate outcome. Does the left actually believe that they can run trillion-plus dollar deficits for ever and ever? If you're connected to reality you know you can't, if you're not connected to reality you believe you can.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 12:49PM
Contest, tomorrow, at Monday's "The Noble Savage".
I think it was written by Walter Matthau.
Jacob McCandles| 1.17.13 @ 4:35PM
The left has no intention of decreasing the spending or ending the trillion dollar deficits. They know that when the dollar goes on life support, the hungry citizens will fall into the arms of the federal govt, and cede all control over their lives.
WaffenSS| 1.17.13 @ 9:04AM
The "Brits" like their liberal American counter parts are not interested in the consequences, These people are not about tomorrow. In the movie about Maggie Thatcher, PM Thatcher laments that it is about "feelings" how do you "feel". An emotional response to to a crisis is a hit and miss solution. Missing more than solving the problem. To those that understand, there will be no excuse for your inability to deal with what's coming. You know what's coming so shut up and get with the program. There is a preponderence(majority) of people, both in Britian and the U.S.(and elsewhere in the world), who drink the kool-aid and believe in the tooth fairy.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 4:00PM
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Klabautermann| 1.17.13 @ 9:05AM
Films have no consequences? How many people will die as a result of Tarantino's film?
The End of Racism, Dinesh D'Souza, The Free Press, New York, 1995, p. 403
In October 1989 a group of young black men in Wisconsin saw the movie Mississippi Burning, after which one of them, Todd Mitchell, chased down a fourteen-year-old white youth named Gregory Riddick. "Do you all feel hyped up to move on some white people? Mitchell asked his friends. "There goes a white boy. Go get him." The gang beat up Riddick so badly that he suffered permanent brain damage.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 4:01PM
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squalis| 1.17.13 @ 9:23AM
Call me a pessimist, call me a realist, I just don't buy it. I do not expect that a majority of the electorate would recognize the 20 trillion ton brick wall for what it is when it crushes them into oblivion.
And if they do, GWB will still get the blame.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 4:02PM
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Dave Williams| 1.17.13 @ 9:27AM
SUFFER, you damned fool lefty bastards, SUFFER SUFFER SUFFER for what you've inflicted upon REAL Americans!!!!
Occam's Tool| 1.18.13 @ 9:41PM
Dave: yup.
I do hope you have many, many children. One, because you have a lot to teach kids, and two, because you would be a highly unusual atheist if you did. Have a great weekend, sir.
Doctor Right| 1.17.13 @ 10:14AM
I don't really see Tarantino's response as being a defense of his First Amendment rights; the interviewer was not asking him to stop making his movies the way he wants. Additionally, to my knowledge no one in the Government has leaned on Tarantino to stop, either. Far from it, Obama will NEVER pressure Hollywood about anything lest he sacrifice untold millions of "donations."
I consider Tarantino's response as a childish rant. He wants to make the kinds of movies that appeal to him BUT remain completely free of criticism, critique, or inquiry regarding personal responsibility. That's how children behave.
Make note: Whenever Hollywood makes an "issues" movie (Like "China Syndrome," or any movie dealing with racism, the Holocaust, or one of the left's heroes like Harvey Milk or Che Guevara) they sing it's praises and recommend everybody see it because of "the important message" it communicates.
Conversely, whenever Hollywood produces an absolute piece of trash full of gratuitous violence (like most of Tarantino's highly over-rated movies), we are told "What's the problem?!?! It's JUST a movie!!!"
Occam's Tool| 1.18.13 @ 9:40PM
Dr Right: yup.
The only Hollywood Film that I have heard of that took Islamism straight on was "An American Carol," which was savaged by the MSM.
Tarantino may be BOHICA'ed by the very people he supports, which amuses me greatly. I must admit, I did like "Pulp Fiction."
However, I watch very few new Hollywood films nowadays.
Stormy| 1.17.13 @ 10:23AM
Barack Obama is no Neville Chamberlain. Mr. Chamberlain likely did the things he did, because he thought it would be best for his country. Barack Obama does not do that. The things he does, he does with malice and intent. He knows the consequences of what he does. In this regard, he is more like Hitler, Stalin, or Mao.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 12:52PM
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Drunken Sailor| 1.17.13 @ 2:04PM
He reminds me of a younger Idi Amin.
"Amin's rule was characterised by human rights abuse, political repression, ethnic persecution, extrajudicial killings, nepotism, corruption, and gross economic mismanagement."
Now tell me there are not similarities.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.17.13 @ 3:02PM
When he appoints Michelle to the Supreme Court, it will be difficult to refute your comparison.
Drunken Sailor| 1.17.13 @ 3:33PM
You might want to rethink that Al, look at all the "Brothers from other Mothers" he surrounds himself with now.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.17.13 @ 3:51PM
I think that you are on the right track, but that her appointment to SCOTUS would be the final piece of the puzzle.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 4:05PM
Drunken Sailor.
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cicero| 1.17.13 @ 11:46AM
The ironic thing about all of this is that it is the 51% who votedd for more of the same who will be the first to feel the consequences. They will then cry and complain that they didn't think it was them that O was talking about when he said we had to raise taxes. They will feel the greatest impact, as any rise in taxes hurts the lower classes more that the upper income earners. As for our limousine liberal friends of the so called creative class, they never thought that government controls meant controlling them. How do you spell "USEFUL IDIOTS"?
I recommend that all go back and reread "The Gathering Storm", by Sir Winston. You only need change thee names and dates to see that we are entering a replay of the Twilight Zone.
squalis| 1.17.13 @ 12:08PM
The 51% ( with help from the MSM) feeling the consequences will blame Bain Capital, Mitt Romney, GWB, Dick Cheney, Ronald Regan, all Republicans, Conservatives and "teabaggers", banks and corporations, but, never, never, never those primarily responsible.
snipelee25| 1.17.13 @ 12:51PM
And unfortunately, the next liberal twat that runs for the presidency will decry all that has been wrought by o's 8 years - and offer to fix everything - and wait - there's MORE. Yes good voter-person, bigger checks each month, easier voting options, endless "unemployment" benefits, "free" education, "free" health care, and a new world without worries...
Buck Ofama| 1.17.13 @ 1:21PM
Hey!!!! You said "twat", so i am now personally OFFENDED.
I'm gonna call Ovomit on your fvckin' ass, to clamp down on your self-indulgent right to use words like twat, you fvckin' cvnt.
;-)
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 4:03PM
Contest, tomorrow, at Monday's "The Noble Savage".
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Buck Ofama| 1.17.13 @ 1:15PM
From "England Alone", a chapter in a WWII history text:
"Winston Churchill once complained that democracy is the worst system of government-
except for all the others.
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"Even before France collapsed, an irate House of Commons had summoned the irresolute and gullibile Neville Chamberlain to defend the conduct of the Norwegian debacle. It was no longer a party matter; the nation's live was evidently at stake. Clement Attlee, the Labor leader said: "We cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures." Arthur Greenwood added: "Wars are not won by masterly withdrawals." The retired Fleet Admiral, Sir Roger Keyes, appearing in full uniform, thundered that the Norwegian disaster was "a shocking story of ineptitude which I assure the House ought never to have happened." And spry little Leopold Amery, a staunch Conservative, told the Government, in Cromwell's famous words: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!"
Our demand of OVOMIT the clown excuse for a president: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!"
Stan Redmond| 1.17.13 @ 1:41PM
I believe these people were called useful idiots back in the days of the glorious red revolution. They were also the first ones purged once they helped usher in the glorious red revolution.
In response to Django Unchained. I really don't see what the hubbub is about. Jamie Foxx made it an issue with his stupid "I get to kill all the white people" comment but the movie really wasn't about hunting down white people. For cryin' out loud, it's a movie.
TLP| 1.17.13 @ 4:04PM
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Third Army| 1.17.13 @ 3:26PM
I wish I could believe the last few lines of this fine column. However, there is a large majority of people now in this country that want it dragged down and like having no rights. They don't mind having their freedom taken away if they get "free stuff" in return. I think Obama is getting more popular as time rolls on. I can't believe that people will trust the government to help them out during a riot, since they don't think they need guns. And riots are coming.
Jacob McCandles| 1.17.13 @ 5:04PM
I think so too. Katrina on a grand scale, except the national guard will be spread too thin to do anything about it. When the food runs out, the guns will be very valuable. We are only a civilized nation until we run out of sh--. Then it's wild kingdom time.
E B | 1.17.13 @ 6:43PM
It certainly is encouraging that people are learning when the consequences hit them directly, but what of those who refuse to see, like Shadowfax of yore? The consequences were still readily apparent if you were looking for them, but easily brushed aside for the indoctrinated. How do we reach the indoctrinated who will not be touched by Obamanomics because they're already dependents of the state or so wealthy they live in the consequence-free-zone of Obama donors including unions and Wall Street and Hollywood at large? Obama is doing EVERYTHING he can to make sure the number of dependents crosses 50%. Now, I know full well not all those people are liberals, but I think you see well what I mean.
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hrgfue | 1.17.13 @ 7:56PM
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J.C.Eaton| 1.17.13 @ 10:51PM
I have to laugh at the fools who voted for our burlesque of a president and now suffer the unhappiness that ineluctably flows from that decision. I'd laugh 'til it hurt save for the fact that their witless move is now hurting me like hell too.
soljerblue| 1.18.13 @ 3:08AM
The useful idiots who voted for this would-be tin pot dictator now own him, and the consequences that follow. And that is the only consolation the rest of us have.