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July 31, 2009
Must have been above his pay grade [Darleen Click]
Hmmm, this is going to harsh a few narratives …
(via Ace) As some AT commentators point out, this picture becomes a metaphor for ObamaCare. The elderly are left in the back, with only the kindness of the Crowleys of the world, the stand up guys, to depend on. The government has other priorities Yep. 74 Comments ::: Post a comment »RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI: http://proteinwisdom.com/wp-trackback.php?p=15178 Leave a commentIf you want to leave a feedback to this post or to some other user´s comment, simply fill out the form below. |
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Comment by newrouter on 7/31 @ 7:52 pm #
pep talk from the gipper here 45 mins of an attack on the proggs
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/31 @ 8:01 pm #
Don Surber had the same picture, but had juxtaposed it to one with the eeeeeevoll uncaring Boooooooosh!
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/2009/07/31/bush-vs-obama-4/
Dicentra linked it on another thread. Make sure to read all the comments to get the proper perspective on Obama’s arrogant, self-involved self, compared to Boooooosh!, who was always ready to extend his hand to a person in need-even if it was a political opponent…
Obama will NEVER, even in his best moments, approach the amount of class Bush displayed in his worst…
Comment by Spiny Norman on 7/31 @ 8:04 pm #
A caller to Rush this AM (I think that’s where I heard it) mentioned something his father told about judging someone’s character: look how they treat people who can’t do anything for them.
At newrouter’s link: interesting body language there, indeed.
Comment by Joe on 7/31 @ 8:07 pm #
And while I do not of course know this for sure, I suspect this is a completely genuine act on Crowley’s part. No theatrics, he just instictively went to help Gates who walks with a cane. It definitely says a lot.
Comment by happyfeet on 7/31 @ 8:09 pm #
I like how Barack Obama rolls up his sleeves like that. Just so. It’s very crisp. I’m going to start doing that. This weekend I’m going to start. It’s very elegant. When I roll up my sleeves like Barack Obama I’ll be elegant. Just like him. People will look at me and think now that’s an elegant man. And I’ll just give them a knowing look and maybe give a little nod and whisper it’s the sleeves. Well, also the glasses. They’re rectangular. If Barack Obama had glasses these would be his ones for sure. We’d be like brothers. That would be so great.
Comment by JD on 7/31 @ 8:16 pm #
But he cares more than that racist cop.
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/31 @ 8:17 pm #
happyfeet,
I hate to burst your bubble bro, but the reason it looks elegant is because it’s a dandy trying hard to look working man elegant…
As someone who’s actually rolled up his sleeves and worked on a few things, both exotic and mundane, I can attest to the fact that actual working men roll thier sleeves up a bit further…
‘Cuz it really suckes when that cuff, whether linen, silk, or sailcloth, gets stuck in a machine…
Maybe I’m h8tin’ on Obama too much these days; he’s such a dainty poseur though!
All that aside, I’ll bet your rectangular glasses do look real cool.
Comment by John Bradley on 7/31 @ 8:18 pm #
Barry’s just channeling Peter Norton… ’cause your hip young Fascist is a man of action!
Comment by Spiny Norman on 7/31 @ 8:31 pm #
A dandy. Yes, that is about as succinct a description of O! as I’ll ever see.
Good lord, we’ve elected Beau Brummell.
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/31 @ 8:39 pm #
“Beau Brummell.”
Great allegory Spiny Norman…
Comment by happyfeet on 7/31 @ 8:46 pm #
oh. I think maybe I’ve been in LA too long.
Comment by Joe on 7/31 @ 8:47 pm #
The Wisdom and Grace of Elizabeth Gates:
Elizabeth Gates: “As our family rounded the corner to the White House library and I first caught sight of Sgt. Crowley’s lovely daughter; she was wearing an appropriately heavy and charmingly untrained amount of green eyeliner on her lower lashes, and I saw my former self in her.”
Elizabeth Gates: “As we walked by a set of French doors that gave a clear view of this highly anticipated talk, I saw Mr. Obama’s lean body coolly draped over a lawn chair…”
Elizabeth Gates: “And while I might agree with the president’s initial statement that the “Cambridge Police Department acted stupidly,” my father is not the first nor will he be the last black man to be arrested for no reason—in his own home or elsewhere—and Sergeant Crowley isn’t the first officer to fudge a police report.”
Elizabeth Gates: “They are simply pawns in the rebirth of unfashionable intolerance in a world that likes to think our dashing brown-skinned 44th president has emerged to make nice with the past, present, and future.”
Skip Gates: “The president and the vice president are great men, Liza…”
Skip Gates: “You know, Crowley’s not a bad guy. He’s not a Joe the Plumber who wants to represent the Right. He would be horrified to be considered a racist.”
Skip Gates: “[T]here are approximately 800,000 black men in prison and on July 16, 2009, I simply became one of them.”
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/31 @ 8:58 pm #
“oh. I think maybe I’ve been in LA too long.”
Hey happyfeet,
What do you mean man? LA’s a nice town, just full of some, er ,eccentric personality types. But there are a lot of lovely young ladies in California…
You can look upon this chapter of your life as kind of a socialogical experiment, or an adventure of sorts; takin’ a walk on the wild side, or doing opposition research…
And, just like when you spend a lot of time overseas, it’ll make you appreciate home even more when you get there; you’ll kiss the ground!
Man, I wasn’t insinuating anything by my comment. And I meant it when I said you probably look cool in the rectangular glasses. I can’t wear them, my Cherokee cheekbones are way too wide, and my jaw too square. But I see ‘em a lot in here in NYC, and on the right shaped head they look real good!
Comment by B Moe on 7/31 @ 9:20 pm #
I quoted this on another thread, but I like it so much I am going to do it again.
From the Surber comment thread:
I am afraid we are about to find that out big time, but maybe enough folks will figure it out before it is to late. I almost want to put it on a tee shirt.
Comment by happyfeet on 7/31 @ 9:26 pm #
oh – nonono – i was … I didn’t take any offense – not at all – but no… the glasses are sort of stupid-looking. Maybe when I get back to my pre-non-smoking weight. We’ll see. They’re the kind what turn into sunglasses, and that’s what I think is the cheesiest part really.
oh tangential but … someone sent me this in a messenger discussion today after I said I looked like him in my new glasses. Kooky, huh?
Comment by Abe Froman on 7/31 @ 9:45 pm #
Come on, haven’t you people learned anything?
Gibbsy: His work was done. The president wanted to give them some alone time after forging racial reconciliation between them by dint of his heavenly glow.
MSNBC: Oh sweet deity!
CNN: Well there you have it. Move along.
NY TIMES: Obama morphs racist into Boy Scout with magical Blue Moon elixir and force of his post-racial charm.
LGF: Third grader in Oklahoma believes Pterodactyls provided air cover for the Continental Army.
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/31 @ 9:48 pm #
OK, that picture is interesting; especially because I never knew that Drew Carey was a Marine…
So do you look like the picture, or Drew Carey these days? And the whole glasses that automatically darken are pretty utilitarian actually; unless your office is one of those natural spectrum flourescent light places, and they keep getting dark indoors! Of course, in LA that might be considered run-of-the-mill…
Anyway, I’m glad you didn’t get the wrong idea and all.
I wear the largest kind I can get. I mean, not all Elton John and everything, but big enough that they don’t look like the arms are going to explode off the side of my head at any moment. But they aren’t sunglasses too; for those, I wear the good ol’ Ray Bans like they used to issue us in the Navy…
Be Cool!
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/31 @ 9:49 pm #
That’s a pretty accurate round up Abe; especially the LGF lede…
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/31 @ 9:53 pm #
We can thank the media for this prissy pusillanimous popinjay of a President. The dying gasp of those suckers was to carry his sorry ass across the finish line…
Here’s some good pieces on that:
http://www.beaconstreetjournal.com/?p=260
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ZmJhMzlmZWFhOTQ3YjUxMDE2YWY4ZDMzZjZlYTVmZmU=
Those are both so good that they make me kinda pissed all over again; but then I saw this:
http://www.beaconstreetjournal.com/?p=435
And I felt a lot better…
Comment by happyfeet on 7/31 @ 9:57 pm #
I look more like the for real Mr. Carey these days. The sunglasses thing I just notice when I walk over to work. Reflected in store windows it looks kind of cheesy I think and NG thinks so too.
Comment by geoffb on 7/31 @ 10:00 pm #
Obama talks the talk but it is just words. Fluctuations is the air pressure, here one moment and then poof they are gone.
Crowley talks the talk and walks the walk. That walking stuff lasts, goes on for a long time, a lifetime.
Oh, actual working, grease under the nails and ground into the skin, guy here. If you are dumb enough to wear long sleeves and light colors at least roll them up tight and past the elbow. And either take the tie off or put the thing inside the shirt. That’s a noose dangling there. Damn pointy haired management idiot.
Comment by Blake on 7/31 @ 10:07 pm #
President Obama rolled up his sleeves so he could do the job ordinary American’s won’t do….
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/31 @ 10:15 pm #
That’s what I was tryin’ to point out upthread geoffb; but the tie part got by me completely!
Comment by happyfeet on 7/31 @ 10:22 pm #
looking at the picture of Bush with Byrd at the AT link made me feel sad.
Comment by geoffb on 7/31 @ 10:35 pm #
Bob, the stuff you worked around would suck up a person whole if they were in the wrong place, tie or no tie.
My envy is showing.
Comment by serr8d on 7/31 @ 10:46 pm #
That’s a great pic; I posted it too (I found at American Power).
Has anyone read Skip Gate’s own post, on the afterglow of the Kzin Kaffee Klatch?
Someone, somewhere, spanked him a little. Not enough, mind you, but someone left a mark.
Comment by Cahrles Jsnoshn on 7/31 @ 10:55 pm #
16.Comment by Abe Froman on 7/31 @ 9:45 pm “LGF: Third grader in Oklahoma believes Pterodactyls provided air cover for the Continental Army.”
That is neither funny nor accurate. Therefore, you are banned. See ya, idiotarian.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 7/31 @ 11:09 pm #
I am about to commit two double internet fouls. Double posting and quoting another commentator.
“I’m down. Gimme some dirty socialist government health care and I’ll abuse the shit out of it and then go take a shower and come back and abuse the shit out of it some more.
Bitch better have my money I think.”
ht hf
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/31 @ 11:28 pm #
geoffb,
That actually happened to a airdale, P.O. Briggs, on the T.R. while I served; the guy was sucked into the intake of an A-6…And lived through it! I didn’t witness the incident personally, but believe me when I say that the scuttlebut about it spread quickly…
But actually I was referring to working on other “stuff”, after my squadron was disestablished and I transferred to missle systems…
That is all
Comment by dicentra on 8/1 @ 12:33 am #
From Bob’s NRO link, the following scary thing:
By contrast, the question whether Obama ever was an Indonesian citizen is still unresolved, as are such related matters as whether the foreign citizenship (if he had it) ever lapsed, and whether he ever held or used an Indonesian passport — for example, during a mysterious trip to Pakistan he took in 1981, after Zia’s coup, when advisories warned Americans against traveling there. By the way, many details about that journey, too, remain unknown. Obama strangely neglected to mention it in his 850 pages of autobiography, even though the 20-year-old’s adventure included a stay at the home of prominent Pakistani politicians.
I am not happy about that. Maybe nothing happened. Maybe nothing at all. Maybe he just drank chai and smiled a lot and felt all authentic by rebelling against the wishes of the U.S. and hanging out with his multiculti friends.
But McCarthy is right: Obama is not at all interested in telling the truth about his own past, because narcissists only say what is self-aggrandizing in a particular context. And they’re so screwed up, they can’t tell the difference between the truth and the convenient lie.
Boy, I hope he is neutralized by the defeat of his many Precioussssses. Maybe he’ll be so crushed by being thwarted that he’ll just check out for the rest of his term, doing nothing but holding beer bashes from now on.
Maybe I’ll flap my arms and fly to the moon.
Comment by COB Speicher Dewclaw on 8/1 @ 4:31 am #
“Boy, I hope he is neutralized by the defeat of his many Precioussssses.”
I hadn’t really realized until I read this line… but that goofball DOES look like Gollum.
Comment by MathMom on 8/1 @ 6:00 am #
Joe #12 -
I followed your link to read the article by The Precious Elizabeth Gates. Gotta say, she’s one nasty brat. You know all you need to know about her when you get to the “green eyeliner” remark. She should follow the advice given to Thumper: “If you can’t say sumthin’ nice, don’t say nuthin’ at all.”
Comment by B Moe on 8/1 @ 6:41 am #
God help us, even His mistakes are perfect.
This really is getting surreal.
Comment by Joe on 8/1 @ 8:59 am #
MathMom and B Moe, I am not sure who has the biggest crush on Obama, Elizabeth Gates or Michael Kinsley.
Comment by Darleen on 8/1 @ 9:00 am #
B Moe
Gawwagh …. I outta beat you with a stick for making me read that tripe. GW’s gaffe’s were “empty-headed” but Obama’s come from just “incomplete thinking” and that Obama has “important things to say.”
Wanna bet Kinsley has a little O! shrine at home in the living room where he lights candles and genuflects to it every morning?
Comment by B Moe on 8/1 @ 9:09 am #
I didn’t think Elizabeth Gates piece was all that bad, she showed a bit of self awareness and wasn’t nearly as one-sided as it could have been. She is also not a professional political journalist.
Kinsley is a drooling moron with no excuses.
Comment by Joe on 8/1 @ 9:19 am #
And Elizabeth Gates is defending her dad, which (right or wrong) is always a loaded issue.
But Michael Kinsley is defneind his love.
Comment by geoffb on 8/1 @ 9:32 am #
At least Kinsley admits that the gaffes are not mistakes but are the real thoughts of Obama.
Comment by geoffb on 8/1 @ 9:47 am #
This kind of thing has cropped up before. Bill Clinton’s “40-day train trip through Sweden, Finland, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia.” A trip which would have cost twice what he received yearly from his Oxford Scholarship. One that when asked to open the FBI files that covered his anti-war activities he declined.
Democrats always seem to have many things to hide.
Comment by sdferr on 8/1 @ 9:48 am #
Heh, speaking of hiding things.
Comment by donald on 8/1 @ 9:55 am #
Kinsley beats off by well, just grabbing and holding on.
Comment by Joe on 8/1 @ 10:00 am #
geoffb, just imagine all the ass Clinton would have gotten on that trip if they thought he was going to be president. My guess is all it talkes to turn Bill on any issue is a good looking woman (or even not so good looking).
Comment by Darleen on 8/1 @ 10:15 am #
they start by speaking their minds and gradually learn that it’s safer and easier to live by the Teleprompter
When has O! ever lived without a teleprompter?
Comment by geoffb on 8/1 @ 10:22 am #
Perhaps the ones who feed the words to the Teleprompter need their own Teleprompter to guide them, and so on ad infinitum. Instead of the “wilderness of mirrors” we shall have a wilderness of Teleprompters.
Comment by Joe on 8/1 @ 10:24 am #
Stossel goes off the reservation again…
Comment by Joe on 8/1 @ 10:26 am #
How to resolve pundit disputes…
It only works when there is a boss to order a resolution. Otherwise, mortal combat.
Comment by Joe on 8/1 @ 11:15 am #
And Obama works hard to kill the golden goose…
Remember people got that profit motives for drug and medical treatments was important for future inovations? Do you think it is by accident that most medical treatment improvements take place in the United States? There is no incentive for government run system to take on new expensive treatment options because the system is primarily concerned with its own burocracy rather than its patients’ health. Insurance companies are no different in that regard, but when you have competition and insured customers who can complain it is a damn sight better than a government run system that really answers to no one. A patient driven system puts the individual patient first.
Comment by geoffb on 8/1 @ 11:20 am #
How to treat your constituents.
Comment by Salt Lick on 8/1 @ 11:32 am #
Who gives a f*ck what Michael Kinsley, total f*cking moron thinks?
But from what has leaked out, it seems that Jenna and Barbara are party girls who like to drink and dance until the wee hours with aristocrats and frat boys… So it would appear that George Bush’s daughters are not Amy Carter or Chelsea Clinton or Karenna Gore. So what? Are you surprised?
Nevertheless, there is a war on. It’s a war that has killed 3,000 Americans, most about Jenna and Barbara’s age or younger, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis of all ages. Bush can be quite eloquent in talking about the sacrifices of American soldiers and – he always adds – their families. …
No one thinks that the president should have to give up a child to prove that his family is as serious about freedom as these other families he praises. But it would be reassuring to see a little struggle here: some sign that the Bush family truly believes that American soldiers are dying for our freedom, and that it’s worth it.
Comment by maggie k. on 8/1 @ 11:34 am #
“…but when you have competition and insured customers who can complain it is a damn sight better than a government run system that really answers to no one. A patient driven system puts the individual patient first.”
This is why Republicans use good faith arguments in pressing for the privatization of Medicare and Medicaid, instead of relying on fear tactics… like telling seniors the govt. wants to adopt a program of euthanasia.
Comment by SBP on 8/1 @ 11:38 am #
like telling seniors the govt. wants to adopt a program of euthanasia
Do you deny that under Obamacare the criteria used to make “end of life decisions” (read: deciding when a patient should die) will be controlled by bureaucrats?
If you have something to bring besides snark, bring it.
BTW, impersonating maggie is sleazy even for a witless troll like yourself.
Comment by maggie k. on 8/1 @ 11:49 am #
it’s kuhn, not katzen.
Let’s try to imagine today’s seniors without Medicare or Medicaid, relying solely on private insurers for their health care. Tell me that a corporate bureaucrat would not be making cost analysis decisions on 90 year old folks willing to go through major surgery for a 20% chance of another 5 years of life.
Comment by SBP on 8/1 @ 11:58 am #
Tell me that a corporate bureaucrat would not be making cost analysis decisions
Under private insurance, the level of coverage is a personal choice. You decide what you want to pay for, not some communist in a government agency.
Of course, the idea of personal freedom and responsibility is a total mystery to you, isn’t it?
And I notice that you didn’t deny that these decisions will be placed in the hands of the government, not the patient or his doctors.
Comment by SBP on 8/1 @ 12:00 pm #
it’s (maggie) kuhn, not katzen.
Liar.
Comment by cranky-d on 8/1 @ 12:01 pm #
Maggie K? trollhammered
Comment by SBP on 8/1 @ 12:01 pm #
BTW, “maggie”, what makes you think that all (or even most) of the people here are “Republicans”?
Comment by Aresay on 8/1 @ 12:01 pm #
Obama’s poll numbers are in the toilet. Can Biden pull him up? He’ll certainly try, http://stopthepresses2.blogspot.com/search/label/Plunger
Comment by maggie k. on 8/1 @ 12:06 pm #
Under private insurance, the level of coverage is a personal choice. You decide what you want to pay for, not some communist in a government agency.
Fair enough. You go ahead and get some quotes on what CIGNA would cover for those 90 year old folks. Come back and show me what the free market offers them.
My Communist agencies, Medicare and Medicaid, would cover them.
Comment by Joe on 8/1 @ 12:12 pm #
cranky, makes sense it is maggie kuhn, because maggie katzen has more sense.
Comment by Darleen on 8/1 @ 12:33 pm #
“maggie k” = c. begnaud = J. Bynum = 66.191.122.17 Twin Lakes, WI
WARNING to you, troll — any more name changes and I delete your comments.
Comment by SBP on 8/1 @ 12:34 pm #
You go ahead and get some quotes on what CIGNA would cover for those 90 year old folks.
Translation: you’re going to continue to dodge the point.
Buh-bye, “maggie”.
‘Hammered.
Comment by Darleen on 8/1 @ 12:37 pm #
My Communist agencies, Medicare and Medicaid, would cover them
Which only goes so far as doctors willing to even take those patients.
What are you going to do to the doctors that won’t? Not every doctor takes all insurance and since Medicate reimbursements have dramatically been CUT to doctors (especially specialists, like anesthesiologists who get about 20 cents on the dollar) over the last 2 decades with promises from Pelosi and gang to have them cut even MORE, what are you going to do with the looming doctor shortage?
Comment by SBP on 8/1 @ 12:37 pm #
I suspect Bynum just wants to get out of having to pay health benefits for his minimum wage employees.
Comment by Darleen on 8/1 @ 12:49 pm #
SBP
Notice how the financial incentive of the “cash for clunkers” was too successful?
And Lefties are ostensibly denying that a taxpayer-subsidized “government option” that will be much cheaper than any private insurance will incentivize employers to dump their employees into the government option in a New York minute????
I’m going to see if any local Democrat congresscritter has the balls to hold a townhall meeting over the August recess, because I want to go and ask some pointed questions. You know, like “have you even read the bill?”
Comment by sdferr on 8/1 @ 1:02 pm #
In re cash-for-clunkers, how about asking “Have you ever read Frederic Bastiat Congressman?” too?
Comment by SBP on 8/1 @ 1:12 pm #
What’s up with this name switching, Bynum?
Are you really stupid enough to think that eventually you’re going to hit on the perfect name, i.e., the one that will cause people to fail to notice that you are a clumsy liar?
I don’t think it’s going to happen.
Sorry!
Comment by Veeshir on 8/1 @ 1:16 pm #
Geez are you guys all wet.
That picture is of Crowley keeping the black man back.
I bet the Secret Service kept him away from Obama or he would have made sure he was first out of the door.
Comment by Swen Swenson on 8/1 @ 2:49 pm #
Althouse had the best take on the photo: O! couldn’t help Gates down the stairs or he’d be accused of checking out his butt.
Comment by Nimrod Gently on 8/1 @ 3:12 pm #
This post is the single most retarded thing I have ever seen, and I’ve seen the ytmnd wiki.
Comment by mare on 8/1 @ 3:21 pm #
I think Ace’s Headline for the picture was brilliant, “Some were born to help, some were born to pose.”
Comment by Carin on 8/1 @ 3:23 pm #
This picture doesn’t make me hate Obama.
But it certainly doesn’t help matters.
Comment by Carin on 8/1 @ 3:25 pm #
Oh come ON Nimrod. You’ve seen tub-girl, right?
Comment by B Moe on 8/1 @ 5:48 pm #
Still not letting you have any mirrors in the ward, Nimrod?
Comment by maggie katzen on 8/3 @ 11:01 pm #
huh, the things I miss on the weekends…