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The Spectacle Blog
Barack Obama has been quoted saying that Republicans threaten the “very core of what this country stands for.”
How the heck would he know? Oh, he might know about Republicans, all right — but does he know even the slightest thing about the core of this country?
Even needing to ask the question provides the answer. It matters not where he was born; this man is deeply and fiercely alien to the American tradition. He thinks ordinary Americans “cling” to Gods and guns because we are “bitter.” He believes we should “redistribute the wealth.” He thinks cops are “stupid” for politely asking a Harvard professor to show proof of residence when a neighbor reported a burglary in progress. He thinks that if Congress doesn’t immediately do his bidding, he can ignore the Constitution because he supposedly has a superceding need to”act.” He thinks government has a right to tell people when they have made “too much money.”
He is an alien menace.
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RJ| 1.10.12 @ 12:46PM
It is remarkable that a man with values as alien to historical American culture as Obama's (such as Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, spread the wealth, I believe America is exceptional as people in other countries believe their country is exceptional) and no record of accomplishment was elected president. I am afraid that America has crossed the Rubicon.
Hopefully, the 53% who put this man in office, didn't know what he really stood for and will correct their error in November.
emc| 1.11.12 @ 1:21PM
"Historical American culture" as you put it was once brutal to the lower classes, and before the 1940s there WAS no middle class.
"Historical American culture" burned and drowned witches.
"Historical American culture" shot first and asked questions later, and hung horse thieves.
"Historical American culture" owned slaves kidnapped from their ancestral homes in Kenya and other places in Africa (is THAT your problem with President Obama?)
"Historical American culture" brutalized and raped those slaves, sold the mixed-blood offspring with no regard for parental nurture, and continued the mistreatment well into the Civil Rights era.
"Historical American culture" from YOUR point of view has consciously ignored the many landmark accomplishments of this President. You certainly are on the wrong side of the Rubicon, but we are not.
http://pleasecutthecrap.typepa.....-2009.html
Dana| 1.11.12 @ 6:53PM
An angry old black man who has lived through the drastic racial changes in this country is about as American as it gets except, of course, for the angry old white man who's pissed he's not automatically top of the heap any more. They are the salt and pepper of classic male American types.
Kingofthenet| 1.10.12 @ 1:07PM
For the record the President didn't say the cop was stupid for asking for ID, but Stupid for ARRESTING him after he proved who he was.
Quin| 1.10.12 @ 1:15PM
Nope, he did NOT prove who he was. THAT's why he was arrested: Because he REFUSED to prove who he was. He refused to cooperate with the policeman, and loudly berated the policeman.
JimH| 1.10.12 @ 1:34PM
As a question of law than judgement, is one obliged to prove one's identity, particularly while inside one's own home?
alanstorm| 1.10.12 @ 2:28PM
When one is confronted by police in response to a burglary call, yes.
JimH| 1.10.12 @ 4:45PM
I guess you are right, but it does make one miss the days of the cop on the beat who knew who belonged and who didn't in his area.
emc| 1.11.12 @ 1:08PM
"Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., one of the nation's pre-eminent African-American scholars, was arrested Thursday afternoon at his home by Cambridge police investigating a possible break-in."
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Are you suggesting the Cambridge police were so ignorant of the staff at Harvard and where they lived that they didn't recognize the Professor on sight? If so, that was indeed "stupid".
Well, as it turned out, that was the case. Professor Gate ENTERED HIS HOUSE AT NOON, IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, NOT TRYING TO BE SNEAKY like you'd think a burgler would be...
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"Police arrived at Gates’s Ware Street home near Harvard Square at 12:44 p.m. to question him. Gates, director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard, had trouble unlocking his door after it became jammed.
He was booked for disorderly conduct after 'exhibiting loud and tumultuous behavior,' according to a police report. Gates accused the investigating officer of being a racist and told him he had 'no idea who he was messing with,' the report said."
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I've lived in my suburb for 10 years now, and my sister serves on the city planning commission. One of the cops lives about 3 blocks from our house. One of them drops a copy of the planning commission agenda by the house once a month.
If we had trouble opening our front door (as we sometimes do, because we recently changed the locks and the new keys stick), and a new or reclusive neighbor called the cops and we were confronted by the police despite being inside our own house, I might get mad and raise my voice too -- because I believed the cops should KNOW us and that we have a right to be in our own house.
You Spectator fans seem to enjoy the "police state" aspect of this situation, but aren't you also criticizing the NDAA (see SpiralArchitect's remark below) for its presumed police-power overreach? And NOT criticizing the "police state" brutality towards the Occupy peaceful protestors?
You're hypocrites.
Caroline| 1.10.12 @ 5:28PM
Before he knew anything about the situation, he said, the "Cop acted stupidly." He doesn't like cops. Especially white cops.
emc| 1.11.12 @ 12:47PM
How do you know President Obama didn't know anything about the situation? Do you think he read it in the newspapers or heard about it from Rush Limbaugh on the radio, or read online at The Spectator about it -- as you probably did?
Did it ever occur to people like you that the Executive Branch of our government is privy to information that precedes our own knowledge of a matter, sometimes for our nation's security?
Did it ever occur to you that President Obama was thoroughly briefed on all details of the trespass of the cops on the professor's property before he gave his opinion?
Leon| 1.12.12 @ 9:41PM
Your ignorance is showing again... you may want to zip it up.
Pete| 1.10.12 @ 1:10PM
I read that the biggest fear that most American have is Obama winning in 2012.
Al Adab| 1.10.12 @ 1:53PM
Pete:
Sadly some 40+% think Obie-one is doing a good job. Obviously they are the ones getting the government money, not the ones paying it in.
SpiralArchitect| 1.10.12 @ 3:24PM
People on the Gov dole - living large (for them anyway) with Gov freebies will never vote against a (D).
At best they will jsut not vote.
Unfortunately the corruption machine will cover them with the votes from the dead and unsuspecting people that either intended to not vote or vote for some one else.
What will the populace do if this is a terribly bogus election & the ineligable candidate wins again??
Will they be deemed terrorists in the spirit of the NDAA and taken down?
There are multiple states that are requiring verification to be legitimatly on the ballot in '12.
emc| 1.11.12 @ 12:41PM
Let's assume you're a real architect. The economy is bad enough that not much construction is going on, and there isn't much demand for architects' designs.
What are you going to do when you get your pink slip, or if you're self-employed, your business goes belly-up?
Going to "live large" (for you) on food stamps and the Gov dole?
If we're lucky, YOU live in a state that has enacted voter restriction laws and/or verification to legitimately be on the ballot, and if they aren't declared unconstitutional (as they should be), a nitwit like you won't be able to vote.
bob smith| 1.11.12 @ 2:19PM
There's a flaw in your logic that is a mile wide. Let's take my father-in-law, a devout limbaugh republican with a seething hatred of Obama and his big guberment. He has a railroad pension (govt subsidized) and he has huge medical bills because he is grossly overweight and has heart issues and diabetes that are a direct result of his super fatness. His medicare is, of course, an entitlement. Or maybe his bills are paid by his govt subsidized railroad medical insurance.
He is exactly the kind of 'on the dole' person that he rails against.
My sister is on disability for 'bipolar disorder', when actually she is just a freeloader. Another one on the dole who loves glenn beck and all things anti-obama.
There are millions of people like this out there -- the dolers are not nearly as partisan as you think . At least t he democrat dolers aren't hypocrites.
Lesser Weevil| 1.10.12 @ 5:36PM
We should be so lucky. I work with prosperous, educated people who pay tons of money to Leviathan, and almost all of them will vote again for his 0-ness. There is a large segment of the population who "aren't really interested in politics" and just want to cast a "nice," respectable vote. Most of them have been conditioned so that going for the Dem is automatic; it would never even occur to them to vote Republican. That's the world we live in, sadly.
Claypoole | 1.10.12 @ 5:48PM
And don't discount those prosperous, educated people (in my own family) who believe wholeheartedly in abortion at any time during a pregnancy, for any reason. They ignore any of the warning signals that BO sends out; they are devoted congregants in the church of death.
youhaveitallfiguredout| 1.11.12 @ 11:31AM
hail satan
Reader | 1.11.12 @ 12:46PM
Pete, you read a misleading headline on World News Daily. The poll referred to says that 16% fear Obama won't win reelection, while 33% fear he will. Clearly, 33% is not "most Americans." Here's a link, so you can read for yourself: http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/pol.....-election/
PattyMor| 1.10.12 @ 1:35PM
Amen, Pete and there is a poll to back up that fear.
But, what values does Obama ascribe to? The redistribution of wealth upward and downward.
Upward: Millions and billions to solar, wind mill, and bioenergy scams all run by rich men who are Obama donors. TARP for the monied class who made bad bets, then got the taxpayers to bail them out.
And the welfare class who have enough benefits to squarely place them in the middle class. They do not have a poverty of "stuff" or food, but a poverity of spirit. They sleep around, do drugs, refuse to get educated, or are just plain slackers.
And the insider dealers who sell their clients bad assets, then take the opposite position against them. Inside dealers from Congress and Warren Buffoon, and the 20 hedge fund mangers that got information on the financial crisis before it was made public.
Kingofthenet| 1.10.12 @ 1:51PM
Yeah, like Cheney NEVER would thing about Halliburton or Oil Companies?
JohnD| 1.10.12 @ 2:49PM
Halliburton actually provided a valuable service for the money, whereas Solyndra just pocketed the money and went belly up.
And Patty, as to redistributing wealth upward and downward you are spot on, and the goal is the destruction of the (Republican) middle class. A thriving Middle class is essential to a democratic republic - destroy it, and you destroy the nation.
Swibbie| 1.10.12 @ 3:38PM
Sigh...I get really, really tired of the stupid "yeah, but they do it to" argument. It identifies the poster (in this case you, Kingof..) as a mindless drone incapable of logical thought. This discussion has NOTHING to do with Dick Cheney or Haliburton. How you can bring that up and give yourself a high-five in the process shows how shallow, superficial and empty you are. Good grief man, get a new schtick. If you can't think of one, ask your mommy. She may be able to help.
Controse| 1.10.12 @ 2:21PM
So when are you going to start calling for his impeachment?
SpiralArchitect| 1.10.12 @ 3:26PM
Me, I have for the past few years.
Quinn? He is too busy devoting his attention toward being a hater of gingrich.
Oldefarte| 1.10.12 @ 2:30PM
'...He is an alien menace....' THAT WAS ALLOWED TO BE ELECTED BY THE TAXPAYER-VOTERS OF THIS NATION ON 11/4/08 [that should have known better but sadly did not, and allowed themsleves to vote STUPIDLY ON THAT DATE]!!!!!!!!
Stan Redmond| 1.10.12 @ 3:30PM
In fact the republicans DO pose a threat to the core of the country, as he knows it. He's not an America (not in the birther sense). He wasn't raised here. He had EVERYTHING given to him his entire life, he never worked for anything he got. His political life started with terrorists in the most corrupt city in the nation.
Of course anyone who respects the constitution threatens the core of the America Obama knows.
Caroline| 1.10.12 @ 5:35PM
There's a very strong possibility that he is not an American in the "birther sense," and is also lying about his biological father. Born in Kenya, and Obama Sr. not his father. His mother may have lied to Obama Sr. about his paternity.
The current Gov. of Hawaii said two years after Obama Sr.'s divorce from his mother, he went to visit him in Kenya. He said he was a bitter man, and was shocked Obama Sr. never asked about his son. It wouldn't be shocking if he wasn't really his son.
Barack Hussein Obama and Malcolm X Like Father Like Son?
http://octaman.com/comments/MalcolmO.html
Sheriff Joe Arpaio's report will be out in February. He's had a team of investigators looking into this. He said the report is devastating. This is why Zero's DOJ is going after him. He's not being deterred though.
People have lied about their identity before. He ignores the Constitution in other situations, it wouldn't be shocking to learn at this point, he ignored the Natural Born Citizen or in his case because of his adoption by an Indonesian even an American citizen, clause.
TStacy| 1.11.12 @ 11:34AM
Is this serious, or is this a parody? I can't tell which one would be funnier. Please elaborate.
Reader | 1.11.12 @ 12:50PM
If you really believe that Obama had everything given to him, you obviously never went to law school. No one is handed entry to Harvard Law School; no one is handed a position on the law review at any law school; and no one is handed the position of editor in chief of the law review. Nor is anyone handed a position on a law school faculty (you'll recall Obama taught at the University of Chicago Law School, one of the most respected -- and most conservative -- law schools in the nation).
I also think Sarah Palin would be quite insulted to read that you think she and McCain "handed" the presidency to Obama.
Ty| 1.11.12 @ 10:36AM
You guys sound angry, bitter, and insane.
Robert| 1.11.12 @ 12:15PM
Drivel like Quin's piece makes me confident OF President Obama's election.
S.Marie| 1.11.12 @ 12:49PM
No kidding. Disagree with Obama all you want, but "alien menace"? Seriously?
Joe Panolelli| 1.11.12 @ 10:45AM
It's amazing to me that the guidelines below the submission box in which I currently type asks people to "be respectful," and yet there is so much gross disrespect both in this post and its comments section. That Obama has been a bad president doesn't seem to be enough for people in here; he has to be a hate-filled anti-American for you all to really get your rocks off. It's sickening. More to the point, it completely undermines the cause of actually defeating Obama.
We've tried it your way for years. We've had Newt Gingrich go nuclear on Bill Clinton -- who won that one? We've had Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and countless other stooges for this faux-conservative movement spew bile about the other side rather than talking up our own and its superiority. And why? Because, well, this movement really does embrace the same hate-filled rhetoric the left has long used against us.
I, for one, am done. Obama is a bad president, but I don't see how anyone can think he's a bad guy. More importantly, I don't see why anyone HAS to think he's a bad guy. If we start treating the other side with the respect that they so rarely show us, don't you see how our arguments would seem sounder and saner? Instead of getting apoplectic about Obama's anti-American views (they're not, even if we disagree with him), try defeating his arguments with logic and grace. For example, we can say, "No, Mr. President, the government shouldn't be bailing out anyone in a free-market economy, because maybe some people don't want to finance banks, or car companies, or failed mortgage lenders." We then go on to defeat him, soundly, in the election.
But no. People would rather throw hissy fits about how Obama hates America. Any movement more obsessed with the other side than with promoting its own ideas deserves a fate like the one this cult masquerading as a conservative movement currently is.
Jonathan| 1.11.12 @ 1:10PM
well said.
Dave| 1.11.12 @ 7:52PM
Amen, Joe. Obama seems to me to be a fine man. Strong family with good children. Clearly values education. A hard worker. Not a philanderer. Definitely not stupid. And yet there is a segment of our country that HATES him for all of that. I have a hard time understanding it. It just seems so ignorant and resentful.
X| 1.11.12 @ 10:47AM
Sounds like Quin is a bit bitter. She must be upset that this "alien" has turned around the cratering economy that he inherited from Bush and the GOP. An economy that in the last 6 months of Bush was losing an estimated 500000 jobs. Worse still, this alien socialist has overseen continued job losses in the public sector while private job growth has increased. Worse, this alien is still liked and has better likability than any of the supposed real American Republicans Quin has a crush for. Lastly, I'm betting more Americans find the Obamas a more American family than that opportunistic chameleon Mitt Romney.
proterozoic| 1.11.12 @ 10:48AM
And what kind of name is "Quin Hillyer," hmm? Don't sound right to me. You sure you're 'Merican, son?
oddjob| 1.11.12 @ 10:49AM
Actually the menace is your bitter paranoia.
It was no accident President Eisenhower dismissed folks like you as fringe, extreme, and stupid.
"Alien" Supporter| 1.11.12 @ 10:54AM
So what is the end-game if you really think that 50+ percent of your fellow Americans are basically traitors for supporting and voting for an "alien menace"? And what when this happens twice in a row with Obama's re-election?
murray| 1.11.12 @ 10:55AM
Obama derangement syndrome is alive and well.
Spewing hatred based on misinformation won't get Obama out of the WH.
X| 1.11.12 @ 11:04AM
Yeah I see Quins point. I mean how a black man raised by a single white mother and who pulled himself up by his bootstraps to become President can be understood by the Republican establishment who constantly support old white, rich since birth candidates is very difficult. Worse, he's been married to the same woman and their children have been scandal free. It is alien to him. And I'm sure calling other Americans anti-American and alien is a winning strategy especially when you call the other party the divisive one. What a joke of an old man.
David| 1.11.12 @ 11:14AM
The Republican presidential candidates most likely to win their party's nomination stand for torturing the enemy, waging a preemptive war against Iran, breaking apart state-sanctioned marriages, and changing our legal system to comply with God's law.
And Obama is alien to the American tradition? Today's Republicans are alien to the Republican tradition, never mind the American one. Meanwhile Obama's passed a Republican healthcare reform plan, overseen the deaths of swathes of terrorists, and CUT taxes.
Winston Smith | 1.11.12 @ 11:21AM
You are a crazy person. I was born on a farm in the Missouri Ozarks, and grew up as American as you can get, passionately interested in the history and philosophy of this country. I may be wrong about innumerable things, but there is no sense in which I am not in tune with and dedicated to the idea of America. And in my judgment President Obama "gets" America and its ideals at least as well as any president in my lifetime, and better than most of them. If you think he is unAmerican or an "alien menace," then you are, quite simply, deranged. The truly alien, truly destructive and non-American thing in play here is the current right-wing tendency to claim that anyone who is not a fire-and-brimstone reactionary is an America-hating menace...possibly the Antichrist...hell-bent on destroying the country. It is, apparently, not possible to disagree with rabidly reactionary politics without hating the United States... You and your ilk have simply lost touch with reality, and you are helping to rot the core of rationality and mutual respect on which our democracy depends.
John| 1.11.12 @ 11:38AM
You are a very disturbed person.
Egypt Steve| 1.11.12 @ 11:41AM
You're a liar, Quin, on two counts at least. Obama called the Cambridge cops "stupid" for arresting a man in his own home, after he had proved who he was. He used his recess appointment power to fill vacant offices when Congress was in fact not meeting -- and using its "pro forma" fiction to violate the Constitution itself, and prevent the President from exercising his legitimate powers.
Byo| 1.11.12 @ 11:42AM
This was the plan in 2008, and it did not work. What with Palin calling parts of the country the "real america". You dredged up Wright, foreign- born, unamerican, etc then too.
Did I hear you call Cheney and his ilk unamerican for bankrupting the country, torturing people, etc?
Anyone may not agree with this president, but this spiel is beyond hyperbole. Does this have anything to do with his race, and not policy? This is beyond hate. This is madness.
TurkWendell| 1.11.12 @ 12:06PM
Because of people like you Barack Obama will be reelected president. And from reading the comments at the top, I'm not sure you don't deserve it.
emc| 1.11.12 @ 12:27PM
Bullshit. You tweaked every one of those utterances, every circumstance, placing emphasis on certain words as if to imply something "other" (as I just did), to skew the message in a peculiarly Faustian machination.
What you wrote is exactly why progressive Americans think neocons are the dregs of American society.
homer| 1.11.12 @ 12:32PM
I'm gay. Does that make me an "alien menace" too?
Or are only straight, white, rich men "real Americans"?
Charles Swann| 1.11.12 @ 12:33PM
Does the presumptive Republican nominee for president have any more insight into the American experience than Obama? All of this fury and bile, and the best the GOP can come up with is Romney, who has never had to earn a living and doesn't appear to have any core principles.
Mac| 1.11.12 @ 12:34PM
Isn't this a bountiful collection of slack jawed half witted troglodytes...
Glad to see the Obama Derangement Syndrome is alive and well.
Burt| 1.11.12 @ 1:52PM
Alien Menace? My gods, you people still cannot get over the fact that the black guy won, can you?
I love it. Obama's election once and for all ripped off the KKK hood that every slobbering idiot wingnut wore in private. Now you people just don't care how insane or racist you sound.
Get this through your ugly little head, Quin, Obama will be re-elected and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.
kindness| 1.11.12 @ 2:26PM
I was struck by Romney's victory speech last night in New Hampshire. In it he appealed to many of the posters on this thread I would imagine. But what he said was mostly a bunch of lies. I'm not talking opinion lies. I'm talking factual statements that are false and have been proven as such previously. Some of them (the one about Obama apologizing for America) proven false repeatedly.
Yet the man who is going to win the Republican nomination for president still chooses to use lies as the reason people should vote for him. How well do you all think that is going to work come the general election? Do you really think that President Obama's team won't wipe the floor with such stuff? Those here who say no....you have a Rush/Fox problem. You need to listen to or read something else because you've got yourselves all deluded.
jmaharry| 1.11.12 @ 3:20PM
My thoughts, exactly. I have a hard time understanding why the far white right is so resistant to basic truth, and so accepting of the lies to which you're referring. (Another common, widely discredited lie: President Obama believes in "equality of outcome.") Along the way, I think something deep down in the psyche was irreparably twisted, broken or damaged.
MT from CC| 1.11.12 @ 4:33PM
A lot of delusional thinking here. The Obama I have witnessed for the last 3 -4 years is nothing like the ugly charicature of him that the right wing perpetrates as fact, but which is really the most hate-filled, offensive form of fiction that exists. He is the epitomy of true "family values"; almost nothing was "given" to him (unlike the son of megawealthy George Romney, the son of Admiral McCain, the son of former President GHW Bush, and so on. Unlike most of his GOP competitors, his is actually an authentic American success story. Given the opportunity as editor of the Harvard Law Review to become a big shot lawyer with the most prestigious law firms in America, he passed it up in favor of a life in public service. He rose to become President, won in a near landslide -- by over 9 Million votes -- and has been treated as illegitimate and reviled by the right wiong since before he took the oath of office. What is wrong with you people?
I am in the top 1% of American income earners. I pay more each year in income taxes than most people here likely make in a year. My company employs 17 people. 95% or more of my annual income is all taxed as "ordinary income" in the highest tax bracket. While I have an excellent income, and am really much better off than most financially, I do not consider myself rich - I can't just cash out and walk away a rich man. But many truly wealthy people I know -- people who would fit in the top 5,000 families in the US in wealth, and a few in the top 400) make 2 or 3 times as much money as I do, and yet pay considerably less in taxes than I am paying on 1/2 or 1/3 the annual income . Why? Because they are being taxed at long term capital gains rates, and have all sorts of ways to shelter income that are unavailable to the 99%, all of the working stiffs out there. The middle class is having a very rough go of it, and the GOP's answer? No to stimulating the economy, even though private investment is still not there to provide non-governmental stimulus. No to putting people back to work repairing and building bridges, highways, mass transit and other infrastructure that has never been more desperately needed. No to investing in alternatiev (non-fossil fuel) energy for the sake of national security and the environment. No to anything that might help the economu, because Obama might get credit for it. No, just cut takes for the rich, gut regulations, and ban gay marriage, and all will be well.
I repeat: What is wrong with you people? There's a reason why Obama will be reelected by 10 million votes, and, seemingly, it will only make you hate him more. Sad.
ice9| 1.11.12 @ 4:55PM
The post is ugly in a variety of ways, not least in the reflexive, impulsive barking it provokes among the commenters above. The writer and his people don't mind the ugliness; they take a perverse, preening pride in the form. Yet they are above any actual consideration of their words, especially of the essential character of all words: the relationship between their words and their acts. No, writers such as this are the lowest form of scribbler, unhinged and gleefully disconnected from any notion that they are accountable to action. The mark of a man is his willingness to act; this writer would growl and snap but would never go Poplawski or Loughner and do what such rhetoric should require of the speaker: save the nation by action. How cowardly to sit in your bath, stinking in your peeling skin, and formulate new clever arguments that drive the faithful berserk enough to seize and behead tumbrils full of regular citizens who are guilty of nothing. Anyone who talks thus and does nothing is the worst kind of man: an instigator with bowels of water. A least Stack and Poplawski and Loughner got out of the house; what have you done, sir? How bold to call for impeachment! how admirable to incite the next Loughner yet in the same breath disavow any influence over him? How strong to make a case in one-word quotes, quilting together a nonsense argument of nonsense logic for the consumption of nonsense men of your own construction? Nonsense men who, by the way, you will discard instantly if they ever do more than vote, donate, and amplify through uncomprehending repetition your most easily remembered verses--then deny you ever did it, deny you ever knew him. How did we get to the point where a sedentary poltroon of this caliber can make a sequence of objectively false statements and yet be treated as something other than a lunatic--and, by the way, I'm no longer referring only to the pipsqueak author of the post, but also to the entire field of Republican candidates (except perhaps Ron Paul, who has left his psychopathic ranting phase far behind and approaches something like honor in the consistency of his positions despite the fact that they are all unworkable and loathsome recipes for disaster.)
A man, indeed!
ice9
Dana| 1.11.12 @ 6:48PM
Are you arguing a cherry picked pastiche of out of context comments because you are an "expert" on being America? I like my fellow citizens best when they don't froth at the mouth about nonsense but address themselves to something substantive to our common concerns. Let move on from the "alien menace" and get to some nuts and bolts about what you really don't like about his Presidency. Otherwise you sound like a crank and a slightly unhinged one at that. An expert American needs to have a broader reach to claim the title.
MG| 1.12.12 @ 5:00AM
The word is superseding, Quin, not "superceding".
daniel rotter| 1.15.12 @ 3:18AM
He thinks cops are "stupid" for politely asking a Harvard professor to show proof of residence when a neighbor reported a burglary in progress.
Uh, no. Obama called the cops "stupid" for arresting Gates AFTER the latter individual had ALREADY SHOWED "proof of residence."