Jackass

President Obama, the wise one, the Messiah, trying to get away from the AIG bonus debacle he and his congress created (not inherited from somewhere) decides to leave Washington, DC and go to California and give lukewarm erratic speeches and appear on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno as the first sitting President to appear on a TV show and says this:

Towards the end of his approximately 40-minute appearance, the president talked about how he's gotten better at bowling and has been practicing in the White House bowling alley.

He bowled a 129, the president said.

"That's very good, Mr. President," Leno said sarcastically.

It's "like the Special Olympics or something," the president said.
When asked about the remark, the White House said the president did not intend to offend.

"The president made an off-hand remark making fun of his own bowling that was in no way intended to disparage the Special Olympics," White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton said. "He thinks the Special Olympics is a wonderful program that gives an opportunity for people with disabilities from around the world."

The man, the President, is an incompetant and unfeeling boob. In the midst of a badly mishandled financial crisis, the one he said was the worst since the great depression, he creates a firestorm over frankly meaningless AIG bonuses that he and his Congress approved and then jets to California to insult disabled children. And then he thinks its a great idea to tell everyone about his picks for March Madness. This guy is a frat brother - not a President. And he is a joke.

His performance on Leno shows that the man does not even understand how commerce works. And this is the President of the most free land of the world?

Meanwhile, while one UK paper lists the top 10 gaffes of this administration (after only 60 days) the previously insulted Great Britain (see below), has their journalists contemplating another unfortunate question: Is this is the end of America?

London's Calling

So it is now time in Obama's young presidency to welcome the United States greatest ally - Great Britain. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife come across the pond to meet the new leader they had heard so much about, and in which, Europe apparently sponsored for much of his election.

But unlike the response usually garnered by the Great Britain PM's first meeting with a new President there was no grand press conference with flags of both countries waving, no White House Dinner - just a lack luster Oval Office meet and greet which saw Obama tired and out of touch - and an address to Congress which was not telelvised or even covered by any of our 24/7 around the clock press.

But what really was alarming about the juxtaposition of an outgoing administration, that really knew foreign policy, and this new administration, that I am sure have trouble picking out Kansas on the map, was the exchange of ceremonial gifts. Gordon Brown had spend considerable time in crafting a pen and pencil set and other gifts out of timber from a 19th century British vessel that purportedly transported slaves. He also brought a 7-volume biography of Winston Churchill with him.

But, of course, we now understand that Obama has no use for Churchill at all. In one of his first executive actions after taking office he had the bust of Churchill that was given to Bush by Great Britain after 9/11 sent back to GB. Actually sent it back! And this is the man who is to somehow repair our purported damaged relations with nations?

So Obama follows this up with a great gift to the Prime Minister - 25 DVD's of America's greatest films (and the the US DVD format doesn't even work in GB). Might as well have given the guy a t-shirt. See here.

This frankly is boorish behavior that trumps any slight that any liberal can even attest to Bush. And the British press is up in arms. See here.

And now the White House response to this uproar (that somehow caught them blindsided) is that the poor President is just too tired nowadays with this economic stuff and being Pres and all. Seriously - this is what they told the Brits. And apparently this is all being also supported by a nameless source who says "he is just overwhelmed with the work that comes across the table. He never knew the amount of work that would be there - and the flaw in his character that I see is that he thinks he can manage that and do all of the other things". See here.

And who is this source? Colin Powell. Only took him 7 weeks to turn. Ladies and gentlemen this is pathetic.

Apocolypse Now

It is amazing that in a year that a black President can be inaugurated - which to its very core repuidates slavery and its entrappings and enboldens the very heartstrings that the Civil Rights movement of the 60's was made of - that even because of that - this new black President is now going to enlsave the American people and its economy by forcing massive and ill-advised spending programs along with increased taxation on virtually every slice of American life.

And this if freedom? The new President Obama wants to reshape America, a success story of a nation 200+ years young, into his own delusional vision and in its very thought crush the future of our country. By increasing taxes on an a ever-decreasing percentage of "super earners" - the so-called"two-percent solution" -he throws the entire burden of taxation on a small sliver of the population thus causing the other super majority of the population to appove of increasing spending programs since it does not impact them at all. And this, my friends, is the road to socialism. See here.

At the same time he told most of the nation that they would all get a tax cut - that is now a lie - and a further greater lie, or truth, will be that after it is determined the top 2% cannot pay for his increasing irresponsible spending programs then the middle class will have to take up the burden (here).

Meanwhile in just seven weeks his announced plans of 1) inaction to the banking crisis, 2) ridiculous rushing through of a stimulus package (a trillion dollars y'all) that won't stimulate anything, and 3) his clear denuciation of all that is capitalism in the year 2009 are all wrecking the market and everyone's economic hopes. And Obama can't blame anyone else anymore - his own actions have just deflated the market and the short-term investment and retirement aspirations for many (here).

Here's to hoping he has "relations with an intern" soon so impeachment procedings can commence. Unfortunately such an admittedly playful (and wishful) situation will not solve the problem because that will leave Joe 'gaffe a day" Biden in the way, and then after that Nancy Pelosi. George Washington is certainly rolling over in his grave. More attestment to this embarassment can be found here, here, Lies here.
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Stealing Through the Night

WASHINGTON – Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele today released the following statement concerning the executive order quietly signed by President Barack Obama on Friday ordering the use of union labor for federal construction projects:

“President Obama’s executive order will drive up the cost of government at a time when we should be doing everything possible to save taxpayer dollars. Federal contracts should go to the businesses that can offer taxpayers the best value – not just the unions who supported the Democrats’ campaigns last year. Quietly signing executive orders to payback campaign backers undermines Obama promise to change Washington. It is a disappointment for Americans hoping for more transparency and less politics as usual in Washington.”

Barring many of the new contracts that are supposed to improve employment from open (non-union) shops is not "putting American back to work again". It is paying off campaign promises. And it doesn't promote growth at all. This is tantamount to censorship - he is saying who can do what and when with who. Again -More change we can believe in? Talk about absolute cronyism - and it's still the first month! The new President doesn't seem to care (or understand) how any one of his hastily passed new policies affect the nation - just how it affects his campaign backers.

Elegantly Wasted...

Evening - Feb 5th: The man is unwraveling before us in such a short time. Why he feels he needs to pass a trillion dollar pork barrel bill - and rush it through Congress - is beyond any reasonable man's thinking. And the more and more he presses his point (which is none - except "Obey me, because I won") - he looks more and more foolish, clueless and ignorant. He doesn't, even to this day, understand what is in the bill and what any component will do. Let's look for where those puppet strings are leading to right now.

All he does is campaign, campaign and campaign (it's all he knows what to do, but someone should remind him that he "won" as he so insultingly told the same Republicans last week he was trying to court for their vote, what arrogance!) - and he is now swinging wildly and missing - and just after two weeks and sailing aboard a tusnami of initial good will and hoopla, he is frankly just talking gibberish - and frankly insulting the intelligence of the American people. (see here).

And just tonight, before a throng of Democrats at a posh resort, he did not posture himself as the President of the United States, but as a singular Democrat. After again jousting with veiled threats at conservative radio (the only people who dare analyze anything on this bill) and saying that whatever he thinks must be right because he won the election (thank you for reminding us again and again "O") - he then ended with a flourish of rhetorical platitudes and with the statement that "that is what the Democratic Party is all about".

You might be able to win elections through vacuous and vague speeches but you cannot legislate nor lead that way.

(Please see here for an excellent article on Obama's fondness for campaigning and not leading and his awkward duplicitness on the "I won" argument.)

Batman Blows Up

Why does anyone care about actor Christian Bale (the latest Batman as in last summer's Dark Knight) blowing up on another movie set at a lighting technician who stumbled on to his scene? Did anyone see American Psycho? Do you really think actors are "that far off" what they play? Puh-leeeese.

Just a minute. "Let me tell you about the artistic stylings of Mr. Phil Collins."

You sort of need to see that movie to get it - and that is one terrific movie by the way.

Actually, I think Christian was just pissed off at the pathetic stimulus package Obama continues to peddle. Sounds like me yelling at Chris Mathews.

Two Weeks Notice

The first two weeks have certainly not been pretty. Despite the deluge of magazines clogging my mailbox that extoll the virtues of a new day there has been little evidence of that - and more strikingly - many instances of incredible naivete and chief executive bungling.

• Obviously the latest news is that many of Obama's cabinet nominations have come under fire - we have the new Treasury secretary (who will run the IRS?) admitting he didn't pay all of his taxes - and apparently he is the brain that can get us out of the economic mess. He got approved by Congress anyway. Then on top of that - Daschle and Killefer have no recused themselves from their appointments (Health Secretary and some new "performance czar" post) because they had tax trouble also. Bad form for "the change we can believe in". Frankly pathetic. Obama said he greatly supported Daschle yesterday. Today he pulled his name.
• The much ballyhoooed "stimulus" package is nothing but a Nancy Pelosi gussied up massive pork barrel spending zeppelin of a bill that will do nothing to create one job. It is not a stimulus at all. And Obama was telling us as early as two weeks ago (and actually before he got inaugurated) that this had to pass. What has to pass? A bill that will do nothing but cripple the nation? There is nothing here to stimulate anything. And with every new statement he makes about it he appears further detached from what he was even promoting. This is very alarming. (And as of Feb 3 Obama still said "we cannot wait" to pass this bloated non-constructive bill!!!!!) Please explain this oh great one. (A concise analysis of this "stimulus" bill can be found here.)


• Obama's first week showed him closing down the prison camp in Cuba know as Guantanomo Bay (or "Gitmo") where we have terrorists encamped - and in doing so has no place to put them. On the same day he said the US should provide money for abortions abroad. So in one stroke he gave more rights and freedom to people who want to kill us and less (or zero) freedom to unborn innocents. I'm so glad he wasted little time to do this. More change we can believe in - again. Kill the babies. Free the terrorists.
  
• He then signs another executive order saying that lobbyists cannot serve within the administration - then goes right out and hires a former lobbyist for Raytheon.

And on top of that it is apparent this is the thinnest skinned man to be in the White House for some time. For all of the incredible stress the past President had to bear during 9/11 and the all of the unbearabel heat he had to endure later he never cracked or waivered. Just last night Obama sniped at Chris Wallace during an interview. During the campaign this looked like sparring. Now it looks like - well it doesn't look pretty. In fact it just looks plain incompetant.

And the polls have shown in just a short time that the "people" (who wanted change) now oppose this ill-advised and stupidly proposed stimulus plan! But somehow the party and adoration goes on. Steve Martin hosted "Saturday Night Live" this weekend and proclaimed in his monologue "wow how about Barack Obama? If you had told me 8 years ago we would have a smart guy in the White House, I would have been surprised". Or something like that.

Steve, look around. I'm not having happy feet. And neither should you.

See here. This was some of the reasons that helped cause 9.11 in the first place - and he is now taking steps to undo things. Meanwhile the vaunted "stimulus" plan is a joke with only 3% of the estimated $800 billion going to the much trumpeted infrastructure projects that are supposed to create jobs.

Not On The Ball.....

Again our new President-to-be commented on the college football championship situation in light of Florida winning the National Championship over Okahoma this Thursday night. Upon receiving a question about the game while introducing his joke of an "national intelligence" team, he commented that "Texas, Utah and USC may have quibbles with the outcome - that's why we need a playoff".

While I disagree with his assessment (we don't need a playoff) it does show a general knowledge for what is going on in sports and the collegiate game. Unfortunately this man cannot even remotely make similar comments about anything else going on in this country. He has yet to utter a sentence which shows he has facilities regarding any major issue - and most specifically the economy and the war on terror. He now wants to chat with terrorists, undo our laws which have kept us safe, release the terrorists from their prison and irresponsibly spend our way out of the recession. And in fact since our economic situation is so dire I don't even understand why he is commenting on this at all. In fact if you were to poll the nation this is the one thing people would understand where the new President stands.

Reporter: "Where do you think the new President-Elect stands on the college football debate?"

Man on the Street: "He wants a playoff - that's for sure."

Reporter: "How is Obama going to help the economy?"

Man on the Street: "Fuck if I know".

There is your audacity of hope. What a load.

Knute Rockne is Rolling Over....

There is nothing in American life that the new President-elect won't hesitate to alter and interfere in. Not only will he wreak havoc on a sputtering economy by bailing out every company known to man - and also increase the tax burden on every American - he will also destroy college football by "throwing his weight around" and creating an unneccesary 8 team playoff (see here) Note how he says its okay to trim the regular season schedule - what? Why don't we just outlaw apple pie as well and make our paper money pink, for pete sakes.

While there are many people who clamor for a playoff system in college football (for a number of hackneyed and ill-advised reasons) there are probably not many other things I would vigorously defend more - next to 1) the protection of our country, 2) to keep our fiscal policy conservative, and 3) let our citizens hold on to their hard earned money - than maintaining the pristine sanctity of the college football season. It should not be cheapened with a come one, come all shootout at the end where anybody can win - and especially if a team has gone undefeated and now has to go through a gauntlet of undeserving teams to satisfy gluttoness sportscasters - and apparently now, an equally clueless and unappreciative President-elect. At least a few sports columnists agree with me on how a "play-off" would just ruin one of the greatest autumn aspects of Americana (here and here).

I guess this is what "change" is. Glad his priorities are all in line with what the country really needs right now. And thanks 60 Minutes for doing your deep down investigative reporting (here).

Be Careful What You Wish For

And then there was light - and a new dawn emerged.

What a load - of whatever. The good news here is that a black man was elected President and an important civil rights hurdle has been...uh, er... hurdled. No one can ever say again it can't happen here - the "man" didn't hold you down, it happened. But the problem here is Barack didn't run as a black candidate - race was never an issue here - there were almost universally 99% white faces in that crowd in Grant Park on election night. So can we get over that please? Race is not an issue in this country - its whether you can work hard and communicate and make your case - as with anyone else in any position - that matters. And apparently Obama made his case better than John McCain - and Hillary Clinton, for that matter.

The reality is in presidential elections I think most people elect an "idea" of a person. Some of us can argue the exact details of some of the campaign promises (like Obama pretty much just lied about his tax plan so it could sail over anyone's head who doesn't have a college education) but that usually seems to get washed by the board. Why, in fact, would most people who make over $250K vote for a tax increase they will most undoubtedly receive - and just not a minor one, because with the repeal of the Bush tax cuts (which made the economy move on very well even after the disastorous economic conditions that we had to deal with after 9/11) will be gone and then Obama will raise them even more. It doesn't make sense. What were they thinking? Maybe they were hypnotized after all (see here).

Obama conveys a natural cool which I guess is appealing, and his campaign had one of the best technical and internet setups ever to be seen in modern elections (did you know that they had everyone on each campaign stop take out there cell phones and asked everyone to call their friends so that they could build their database of people to call later?) but he is vastly inexperienced and he was financed by the far left loons who will want to lurch our great country into a balkan gulag. And it is very evident that he pretty much just bought the election - $600 million to McCain's $85 million - and a bunch of it which sounds like it was illegally obtained - through accepting unverified internet credit card contributions which are illegal under the federal campaigning guidelines.

Of course you won't hear that from the main stream media who ignored every horrible connection with terrorists or unsavory characters this man (this President of the United States) had had over the past several years. But now that the election is over it will slowly come - and then you will ask yourself "why didn't I hear about all this stuff in the news?"

Because they were in the tank, Darling. And they admit it! (here)

And as for Sarah Palin and the rest of the media losing its mind, my favorite lesbian feminist Camile Paligia says it best and proudly here. Seriously, be careful for what you wish for - because it is going to be alot different than what you thought.

George Orwell - your table is waiting.

Paint It Black

Election Eve and all was quiet...

A couple of weeks ago I said it would be tighter than anyone could imagine at the time. I stick to that. I don't know enough to call underdog elections or anything like that but I do believe several things about this certain election:

• The mainstream media has been in the bag for Obama from Day 1.

• Obama has said absolutely nothing about what he really "can" do and has no accomplishment to even show to prove what he can do except for writing two BS books and hanging out with Chicago power players to get himself noticed.

• And, I'm sorry, but he's just a liar.... he will raise everyone's taxes and he doesn't care if it doesn't really bring in new revenue (as Charlie Gibson told him in one of the debates) - he just wants it to be fair - it begins with an "s" people.


• Obama surrounds himself with bad people who all hate America. And he's married to one.


• Obama wants to take money away from Joe the Plumber and give it to Samir the lavish non-working neighbor of Obama in Chicago.


• And he wants to investigate Joe the Plumber further for even daring to ask him a question that wasn't previously vetted the MainStream Media.


• And he has asked the Ohio government to investigate him. New politics my ass.


• McCain is a patriot.


• McCain spent more time in a POW camp than Obama has spent in the Senate - much less than run for President.


• McCain has fought within his own party and is the furthest thing from George Bush - if that is something you care about.


• Joe Biden is a doofus - who was only selected because Obama couldn't stomach picking Hillary.


• Sarah Palin is a patriot and a bulldog (anyone see her on the stump the past two days?)

Barack Obama will turn this county into a balkan gulag. Here is one man's opinion of what the future may hold (here.)

Yesterday afternoon the Rasmussen poll which has been shown on the Fox network for months showed major gains for McCain in the battleground states as pointed out by others on certain blogs. While the MSM has told you all weekend long that it is over, there are no undecided voters and that Barack will deport his illegal alien Aunt living in a projects in Boston, this baby is closer than you think. There will be surprises.

Finally, the hopefull secret weapon, that curiously is not talked about on the MSM are the PUMAs. PUMA stands for Party Unity My Ass and represents all of the Hillary campaigners who feel Obama just railroaded them with typical Chicago-type election thuggary (get ready for that in the White House you McPalin-haters). And they despise Obama such that they have gone house to house in PA and OH to campaign for McCain/Palin! They believe they represent up to 4 million of the 18 million who voted for Hillary in the primaries - and even if the only bring in 25% of that then that could swing those states. And, thus in all of the exhaustive polling that has gone on showing these massive Obama leads it is going to show that many "poll-ees" were not telling people that they were going to vote for McCain and ot telling anybody anthing especially after how they saw Obama run the caucus states and bus in Chicago thugs. But pollsters have already assumed Hillary voters to Barack. You can read a bunch of the story right here - and why no one network has caught on to this with all of their polling and investigative journalism and as they stand in the mega-studios amongst their big electronic maps.....

But the bottom line is that Pinnochio, yea That One, can win the popular vote easy (he will win CA and NY by 4 million votes if not more) but can seriously lose the electoral college.

I'm looking forward to a heck of a day. You betcha.

Try our Obama Tax Quiz

Okay, it's only three days before the election and Barack Obama has been campaigning for 2 years. Can you tell us exactly what his tax plan is for the country - you know, the one he keeps talking about but seems to change all the time - I guess that's what they mean by a Change We Can Believe.

(By the way - on Bart's chalkboard up there it says "I will not question my liberal puppetmasters". That is an Obama classroom. You might have to get used to it.)

Question 1: How much do you have to make (or not make) to receive a dead lead pipe cinch tax break as a middle class American under Mr. Obama's "Share the Wealth" plan. Is it for all those who make less than:

a) $250K? - which is what Obama has said as late as earlier this month

b) $200K - which is what Obama said on his infomercial this week

c) $150K - which is what doofus Joe Biden said this week (where is he now anyway?)

d) $120K - which is what prospective Obama cabinet member (not anymore) Bill Richardson said on radio this week, and

e) $42.6K - what Obama voted for in Congress.

Yeah - he's a real decisive decision maker all right - or so said soothsayer Joe Klein in his pap piece on Obama in the last week's Time magazine. My god - why does Time and Newsweek treat Obama like he is Jesus Christ? Just look at the fawning pictures. Has he bought you all out? Seriously has the whole world just lost their ability to add and multiply? The tax quiz above only talks about income taxes but Obama will increase social security taxes and capital gains taxes as well - all of which have shown not to provide anymore revenue at all. But he wants to be "fair". Why would nearly 50% of the country say - yes tax me more - I will like it - I don't care if you don't make sense Obama - but I like a man with a lot of vowels in his name. And of course his tax plan actually will just give checks to a slew of voters who don't pay taxes anyway - there is nothing more presidential than buying an election. Again, Change.

The bottomline is nobody knows who this guy is - and why does he want to tax us into oblivion when it is proven it will not produce more revenue for the national coffers. Well, more is described by a former classmate here.

God help us.

Footnote: It's 9:30 AM EDT Saturday November 1st. Fox is showing the most spirited speech from John McCain I have ever seen (which was after Sarah Palin was letting it rip at another site). On CBS? Jugglers. CNN? A roundtable of nobodys discussing the financial crisis - 3 days before the election? NBC? A consultant talking about food addiction. MSNBC? Wow. There actually showing it. Maybe Keith Olberman finally lost it. Or they ran out of prison documentaries.