HotAir’s Ed Morrissey seems gobsmacked over Barack Obama’s defense of chief Veep vetter James Johnson, who got a number of loans from subprime lender Countrywide Financial Corp. by being a “friend of Angelo†Mozilo — whose lavish bonuses Obama has bashed in his campaign speeches. Specifically, Cap’n Ed is stunned that Obama would dismiss the issue by saying that Johnson is a “volunteer” who is “tangentially related” to Obama’s campaign.
He should not be surprised. Economic Adviser of Mystery Austan Goolsbee was demoted from chief economic adviser to “volunteer” the moment he caused Obama embarassment over trade issues — but resurfaced yesterday. Moreover, the fact that the co-director of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in Puerto Rico was a Washington-based federal lobbyist was dismissed by Team Obama on the ground that he was a “volunteer.” Indeed, any lobbyist is free to “volunteer,” to give “policy†and “campaign support,†and so on.
Remember, Barack Obama will require you to work, but no one promised you would get paid for it.
Update: As Topsecretk9 notes in the comments, Obama’s former senior policy adviser and close friend Samantha Power was also unpaid. There are more being posted in the comments. Of course, some advisers really are more important than others — but that’s what Obama seems to be denying when he dismisses any issue related to any of his advisers by tagging them as “volunteers.”
He will make you wear ugly gray jumpsuits and smoke Victory Cigarettes too.
Barack Obama represents all that is good, and pure, and peaceful, and honest in this world. He will bridge the racist and partisan divides and bring peace to the world just as he caused the seas to quit rising. Global warming will be a thing of the past. Submit, and enjoy the coming workers paradise.
Wasn’t Samantha Power downgraded to tangental volunteer too? And I know the Obama campaign said Rockefeller was a doufus no one cared about when he said something about Hillary not reading the NIE like he did or some such.
JD
Don’t forget that sick people will FINALLY get care.
#2: JD is correct!!
I am all atwitter with excitement!
(PS: I never found any sugartit videos – I failed.)
Here is one more for those keeping score at home.
#4: They will be healed. And no one will ever get sick again.
Sighs in ecstasy.
He probably has an advisor who can be linked to the Chicago Fire. But it will not stop the Ofabulous.
And another one over here to mark on our scorecards.
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– Yeh. ecstasy. That will be made free to the poor also, at walk in clinics across the country. Strong>~O~!
I dunno, Lisa. I think I’d prefer a red jumpsuit.
BECAUSE OF THE MST!!!
#11: Why should only the wealthy enjoy the pleasures of drug induced all-night dancing to electronica followed up by sex with some androgynous freak that you thought was “deeply beautiful” under the influence of the combination of strobe lights, ecstasy, and a several lines of Peruvian flake?
#12: Hee.
#13 For the last time, stop following me around.
Obviously he is going to have to do a purge. Then perhaps float out there that these people were plants sent by the imperialist, capitalist enemy.
I will totally beleive it. Fuck it, I already do.
Evil, racist bastards.
There are no bad liberals, only conservative infiltrators.
#15: Ha ha! That was you?!
But you said your name was Ladytron!! Those sparkly booty shorts turned me on though.
#17: Exactly, Education Guy. Keep up the good work and I will take your name off of the Re-education Camp list.
Yeah, they’re all infiltrators.
Volunteer infiltrators.
I distance myself!
The Hope and Change has blinded my wits!
There’s definitely a comment about the Chicago Fire and the lack of soccer fans floating around somewhere. I…just…cannot…reach…it…
The Lightbringer obscures all other vision!!
I am going to pre-emptively denounce myself … just in case. But you all are racists.
Manchurian Volunteers!!
This is all just a distraction from how old McCain is. All except my sparkly booty shorts, which are just teh sexy.
This is the perfect defense for all kinds of things!
Sexual harassment? I was a volunteer!
Driving without a license? I was a volunteer!
Snorting coke while getting my jimmy squeezed? I was a volunteer!
Comment by Lisa on 6/10 @ 1:51 pm #
“Obviously he is going to have to do a purge. Then perhaps float out there that these people were plants sent by the imperialist, capitalist enemy.”
Another, ‘he is not the person I knew’….
This raises an interesting question about campaign financing.
These “volunteers” are contributing labor. Which, depending on how they’re used, may well tread on spots of campaign finance, under donations. (Think about it: a printer can’t just ‘volunteer’ his company’s service ‘for free.’)
So, claiming that they’re “volunteers” raises questions about the worth of their “volunteered” time and effort. If the Obama campaign isn’t careful, it’s quite possible that they’re in violation of FEC regulations.
Obama will insert massive government program here?
woooo. Good enough for me!
Pay no attention to my wife.
Michelle is only a volunteer.. A tangental one at that…
We’ve been married for 16 years but I’ve never listened to her views or heard anything she’s said.. I cant be held responsible.
He’d better buy me dinner first.
#24: LOL!
#25: Damned skippy. Clinton could have avoided pushing us into a constitutional crisis:
Kenn Star (during sworn deposition): Mr. President, were you getting your pimp-cane polished by a Miss Monica Lewinsky?
Bill Clinton: She is a volunteer.
Kenn Starr): Oh. Carry on then.
“Remember, Barack Obama will require you to work, but no one promised you would get paid for it.”
First JFK tells me what I can and cannot ask. And now this new messiah comes along and says this? when will it end?
#30: LMAO!!!
#22: I denounce you for pre-emptive denouncing. Always this rush to denounce without a plan. Damn conservatives and their denouncemongering.
“….shes not the wife I knew”
You are denouncing with the stars, Lisa.
Just be prepared to share your dessert, McGehee. Give up a little of that pie.
Kelly!!! I wish I’d thought of that.
– I will bitterly cling to my self-denouncement….
– Stricklands no-nonsense flat turndown of the proffered VP slot by Obama….The first shoot heard from the HillBots?
Good afternoon Maybee and Saras.
:-)
– genniferandpaula.com – Two of Bubba’s “chics” come home to roost…Videos for sale….ten cents a pail.
De noche, todos los gatos son pardos.”
At night, all cats are gray. Maybe the reason Obama can’t tell that he’s surrounded by crooks is that…
Oh, I can’t say it. Not in front of Lisa. It would break her heart.
De noche, todos los gatos son pardos.
At night, all cats are gray. Maybe the reason Obama can’t tell that he’s surrounded by crooks is that…
Oh, I can’t say it. Not in front of Lisa. It would break her heart.
Stupid close tag.
– Ha! … See what happens with evil thoughts!
– Denounce yourself forthwirh or be shuuuuuunnnned….
TAGGIST!!!!1111oneleventy11!!!
I’m as hopey and changeous as the next guy, but Bill Bradley’s political axiom is damn near…axiomatic: Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
Or cellulite out of Hillary’s thighs.
I’m trying my hardest to walk towards the light but I keep tripping over these volunteersa stuck under busses.
LEGGO! LEGGO OF ME! BARACKY!
Lisa- I found- I mean someone found- JD a photo but he hasn’t expressed his appreciation yet.
– McCains camp: “What difference does it make if they are payed or not, they work for Obama, and they’re actions are very in question, so what does that change?….nothing. Obama needs to stop making excuses and take responsibility for the sorts of people he surrounds himself with.”
That’s because we keep trying to take it out of the wrong end, SI.
– kelly, consider yourself Uber-denounced for that one….go to your room.
Lisa: If you start to see little guys in beanie caps and collarless jackets waving little red books and singing some hideous revolutionary song, then you need to take a break from recieving the light.
If not, you end like thor, permanently impaled in The Hope Shaft™.
I condemn and denounce everybody else but not me because, well, I rise above it all. ON THE WINGS OF THE LIGHTBRINGER!!!
O! (canada)
Soon, you’ll achieve the stability you strive for
in the only way that it’s granted:
A place among the fossils of our time.
— Jefferson Airplane
My wildest dream achieved! Uber-denunciation!
– Curses. How do you punish a brat when she likes it?
– Uber-denunciationâ„¢ – The Lefts new flog of shun.
Mcgehee – and watch out for MIchelle Cat.
Yuck!
Just fuckin’ Yuck.
Yuck Obama.
Keep up the good work and I will take your name off of the Re-education Camp list.
A goddess. A cheerleader. A forgiver. Lisa, you’re a great American.
MayBee @ 50 – Alright. I will look at the link if you tell me where it is. If it is another one of Rosie and the hairshirt cornholing Michael Moore with the rubber donger, I will have no choice but to denounce and condemn myself.
What was that about Lisa in the cheerleader outfit?
[…] Protein Wisdom – Barack Obama’s “volunteer†dodge [Karl] […]
“What was that about Lisa in the cheerleader outfit?”
– Watch the skies…Just keep watching the skies….
#43: I would denounce you. But I don’t do preemptive strikes. Let’s sit down, without conditions and talk about it.
#50: Ooooh. I wanna see!!
#53: Impaled Upon the Hope Shaft? That sounds like something written by Harold Robbins. I am oddly aroused.
#62: Gimme an O!
B!
OK, here we are sitting down across the table.
Lisa: Oona goota Solo?
Dicentra: ::pulls out blaster, shoots Lisa under the table:
See why it’s not a good idea to sit down with psychopaths? They’ll make mincemeat out of you, because they’re more brutal, bigger liars, and downright evil.
Maybee, I looked at the picture at the link posted by “Sugartits.” Then I gouged my eyes out with a spork.
But I got better. Eventually.
Oddly aroused? Women seem to say that fairly often around me.
cranky – I tried to warn you guys.
Really, cranky-d? Huh. I have such a hard time figuring out what guys like. I’ll keep trying.
– JD – I checked your party folder. you’ve had the requisite re-education processing, so you’re covered all the way up to Uber-denounciationsâ„¢ level, but you don’t have a high enough rating for condemnations yet.
– You can bring your shun card up to speed by watching the special Video “Hot Melting Pig Flesh 2008”, starring Rosie and Moore, which shows the two of them nude, going stomach to stomach, in a giant pizza eating contest.
– 20% off coupons for the CD are available in the LightRider lounge, between the O! eZglide lubricants, and the Obamassiah prayer beads. You want to take care of this so you don’t get caught with your condemnations down.
Dangnabbit.
SugarTits for President 2008
Two Good Things for America!
#72: A lowly proletariat such as yourself had no business in the Party folders. Proceed to Room 101 for questioning. Someone get me an orange jumpsuit and the Official Wiener Humiliation Camera.
Big Bang, again’ “These goggles they do nothin’
nothin'” There’s a reason they put preview on these comment blocs. So you borrow 7 million from the company, you’re buying and you can afford to ‘volunteer’
If those were sugartits, the bag is leaking. Keep an eye out for ants.
Someone has Sockpuppet Confusion Disorder.
– #75
– Yes, yes, of course Comrad droog Lisa. As you say….of course….However you should stand perfectly still while I take a moment to flash my O! Golden Guards card…just so…and give you thes secret greeting, “I am as the angel of death, destroyer of nations.”
– Now if you would be so kind….there are a few questions the Party Obamaburro is interested in asking you, however that must wait as I am on my way to a high level conference…So
– Your bra did not explode, and I was never here….Do we understand each other Comrad?
Ok. I’m back now.
#79: Ah. The Golden Card. An Inner Party Member. Allow me to offer my most profuse apologies, comrade sir.
– Your bra did not explode, and I was never here….Do we understand each other Comrad?
Understood. (Fans smoke).
– Ah…..very good Comrad droog Lisa…
– Your proper response will not go un-noticed or unrewarded…Before I get to my appointment, theres something you might do that the most Excellent high Aquisitor would no doubt be appriciative of…
– Simply keep your eyes open for the incursion of any of those “evil neocon others” if you wouldn’t mind, and keep myself 1st class Endencommer Hunter appraised if should see anyone of that nature….
– Now I really must be going….Most pleasurable to have met your….Erm….. distinguised and faithful self….by the way… I understand honey butter is good for scorch marks…. dosvidonia Comrad….
In case you are not aware, MayBee’s links are pure unadulterated evil. They are thw visual version of a horrific earworm.
In case you are not aware, MayBee’s links are pure unadulterated evil. They are thw visual version of a horrific earworm.
You are all lucky and fortunate that I can never do links right, or it would be a race to the bottom.
You guys are really sick. Why don’t you go back to clinging to your guns and religion and leave poor little Barry and Michelle alone. This isn’t good for their kids you know. And it may detract Michelle from figuring out how to pay for piano lessons and summer camp on a couple of million a year in salaries.
– Rushing to climb abord the party Volga sedan, idling at the curb, Kgt. Hunter overhears the mumbled comments of the Comrad JD and chuckles to himself, commenting under his breath..”Ahhhhh,the unifying is proceeding apace…heh…the Secretariot will be pleased”….”Driver, the Great Obama Summer Palace, and step on it”…..
Comment by katablog on 6/10 @ 9:15 pm #
It sure as shit doesn’t put fresh fruit on their table, I can tell you that. And what about arugula?
The theme music has already been done, circa 1969.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=I_0sg0XDfmg
I luvs me the ‘volunteer’ dodge
One of my cops told me of arresting a prostitute during a sweep – she protested saying “Hey, I’m not a whore! I just give blowjobs for donations!”
– As the black sedan circles the large Grecian fountain spread out across the expanse of the Party headquarters building, moving down the winding driveway toward the guard station and high steel gates straddling the entrance to the grounds, Kgt
Hunter turns and glances out the rear window of the sedan, spotting Comrad Lisa and Comrad JD standing dangerously close to each other at the curb, talking quietly….
– He watches for a minute and then leans back in the soft plush calves leather seats, pondering for a few moments….”Hmmmm…..that Comrad Lisa would be a valuable addition to the inner circle…..she has obvious assets….and she responds with professionalism….I suppose we can overlook the fact she missed my intentional mistake when I gave her the secret greeting…..she can be given higher authority and the necessary tools…..yes….I think Comrad droog Lisa has a bright future in the Obamaburro inner circle Secretariot”…
– Leaning back again Hunter relaxes for the 2 hour drive ahead, lost in his thoughts of that small fiery twin detonation, and the quick flash of two lovely orbs of feminine flesh within the veil of smoke….Summer in the Steeps was looking up…..
Here you go, boys:
http://tinyurl.com/omvvk
Tits of every sweetness level.
geoffb,
This was in recurring rotation in the record store I hung out in at college. Once on the radio I played “Wooden Ships” back to back with “Ballad of the Green Berets.” Got some phone calls, I did. Oddly, someone who claimed to work for NPR dug it.
B Moe
Thanks for that link. I’m actually a runner and I had no idea the danger I was in ::wink::
Moe. What can I say. Thanks bro.
B Moe is a great American
My experience of it was my 60s “hippie” college daze. All the talk about Obama “Volunteers” simply brought it to my mind.
“Revolution” and “Volunteers of America”, seemed to fit and the cover looks like some of the leftist events that Zombie covers and the Dem convention will look like too.
I think we should consider the possibility that Barack himself is an infiltrator.
I mean, come on, do you think anyone could be that buffoonish by accident?
Come to think of it, has anyone seen Obama and Rowan Atkinson in the same place at the same time?
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