Caleb at Redstate helps us usher in a new era of hopichanginess:
One day, I’ll be looking at my grandchildren. I’ll say to them “Kids, when Barack Obama spoke to the crowds at Invesco field as the nominee of the Democratic party … I was there.†I’ll pause for a moment, reflecting. Then I’ll go on, “And kids, when Obama stood on the capitol steps and took the oath of office as President of the United States … I was THERE.†And the grandkids will look up at me, wide eyes, a question waiting to be asked. “Go ahead,†I’ll say. What do you want to ask?â€Â
And, in their innocent little way, the young ones will say to me ….
“GRANDPA WHY DIDN’T YOU DO SOMETHING!!!!â€Â
Also, Jeff Emanuel on our activist journalists.
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Sorry, but I just can’t see the far left setting aside childish things. And I don’t think Obama has ever even mowed his own lawn. Government will be held to account under Obama’s administration? I’ll believe it when I see it. To paraphrase: our security depends on the expansion of opportunity, but not outside of the US. Obama just spoke about humility. And we have nothing to fear but the spectre of a warming planet. I take that back: we’re going to expand opportunity by shaming Islamists into wanting to be like us. We’re going to meet our challenges with new instruments, such as semi-NGOs devoted to The One. Our communities are going to be organized, and we must smile about it. I’ll be dining at Equinox tonight.
The poem is crap. “First fight, then fiddle,” it is not.
Dear God, please raise the marginal tax rate.
Where’s Blue Man Group?
CBS sounds like it’s covering the Macy’s Day Parade.
People who were complete strangers spoke to each other civilly on the Mall. It’s a miracle. “As a social studies teacher, I try to inspire kids to get politically active.”
Bush entering helicopter. What will he do, now? Well, I expect he’ll bitch and kvetch like Jhimmi. Not.
At times the line between celebrity and journalist seemed to vanish*. Sharon Stone began interviewing 11-year-old Adrian Kali Turner, one of a group of kids picked to sing with Will.i.am, on a reporter’s behalf. Why was she excited by Obama? “It’s a benchmark in history,” Turner said. Can we get past color? “We’re all the same inside,” Turner said.
Beaming at her journalistic handiwork, Stone declared: “It wasn’t Will.i.am who said that. It was a little girl who said that.”
* which may be why Kurtz looks like a nebbishy version of Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in his column photo
At what point does the recognition of Obama’s gifts and this juncture in history spill over into partisan adulation? Some journalists justify the ebullient tone by arguing that Obama is simply more fascinating than most politicians, as well as a trailblazer who is following 43 white presidents. Others say they are merely reflecting a public groundswell. Still others say Obama moves product when he’s on TV shows and magazine covers. Perhaps, more than one reporter says privately, Obama deserves the adulation, given the fact that he pulled off a political feat even harder than landing a crippled jet intact on the Hudson River.
As for liberal pundits who reflexively booed George W. Bush, are they now waving the pom-poms for Obama?
“We’re all wrestling with this,” [Bill] Press says. “In the ’80s, every night I could just slam Reagan. It’s tougher when your guy is in the White House, but it doesn’t mean you support everything he does. Your role shifts to holding his feet to the fire.”
A bit harder to do when you’re broadcasting for OBAMA 1260.
A message from Whitehouse.gov:
Just like your new government, WhiteHouse.gov and the rest of the Administration’s online programs will put citizens first. Our initial new media efforts will center around three priorities:
Communication — Americans are eager for information about the state of the economy, national security and a host of other issues. This site will feature timely and in-depth content meant to keep everyone up-to-date and educated. Check out the briefing room, keep tabs on the blog (RSS feed) and take a moment to sign up for e-mail updates from the President and his administration so you can be sure to know about major announcements and decisions.
Transparency — President Obama has committed to making his administration the most open and transparent in history, and WhiteHouse.gov will play a major role in delivering on that promise. The President’s executive orders and proclamations will be published for everyone to review, and that’s just the beginning of our efforts to provide a window for all Americans into the business of the government. You can also learn about some of the senior leadership in the new administration and about the President’s policy priorities.
Participation — President Obama started his career as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago, where he saw firsthand what people can do when they come together for a common cause. Citizen participation will be a priority for the Administration, and the internet will play an important role in that. One significant addition to WhiteHouse.gov reflects a campaign promise from the President: we will publish all non-emergency legislation to the website for five days, and allow the public to review and comment before the President signs it.
So, no need for investigative reporting. Also, erm.
Robert Byrd has left the inaugural banquet. Katie Couric promises to give us an update from the locker room as soon as one is available. If I were a hunting dog, I’d be nervous.
Ted Kennedy has had to leave, as well.
Oh man, their reprise of the famous commercial video, with the lightworker as “our Ford”, is just too deicious; especially since some of his electronic brownshirts used a version of it against Hillary during the campaign…
Oh the hopey-changiness of it all. Bring on the
apotheosistransfigurationtransubstantiationinauguration of the One!…All hail Chimperor ObaMussoliniSoros!
Bob, dude.
You can’t use “chimp” anymore.
Racist,ya know.
The morning paper had a sampling of Obama blogadulation, today. I threw up in my mouth, just a little. But I can’t find it online; it must just be in the print edition.
Fortunately, a little later on, I found this picture of datadave, which cheered me up quite a bit.
harrison,
I prefer to use species-blind snarkasm…
If Bush was the American Chimperor, well then Obama can be too!
Equality!, not only of opportunity, but of outcome too! under the lightworker!…
And when the failed cynicism of WingNut Nation finally farts out it’s
last bean and fried cheese burrito, WE WERE THERE.
Y’all better hope the change includes only forward looks, because
it’s gonna get nasty if your plastic super heroes face their golden years with the threat of federal prison. As much as I hate to see crimes (especially white-collar crimes) go unpunished, we don’t have the time, wherewithal or energy to waste on history’s shit-stained underwear.
madame cleo,
Shouldn’t you be enraptured somewhere..?
Get ready to own it all; you all are just lucky that most of us are far more civil than the poitical laft; the originators of the politics of personal destruction, making the political personal, and “Borking”…
Congratulations. Bask in it, prepare to own it; ‘cuz tomorrow it’ll be on like Donkey Kong…
I’d like to think the existing problem set would keep the Lightworker Who Has Been Sent To Us occupied for some time.
Unfortunately, as was demonstrated time and again in the last century, reality means nothing to collectivists.
Remember, throwing shoes is an epic stand against all that is wrong and evil in the world, plus is a valid means of political discourse.
Just saying…….
“throwing shoes is an epic stand against all that is wrong”
Ah, but at least we can rest assured that Bush is good at Dodgeball.
If you can dodge a wrench,you can dodge a ball.
“If you can dodge a wrench,you can dodge a ball.”
Is ‘wrench’ a metaphor for combat duty?
Actually, the metaphor is for the stunning ripples that rise from the seafoam green, ashen, fallow fields.
Hey Cleo what unit did you get your combat patch from?
I await release of The One’s DD-215 with some interest.
The crowd is booing Bush. The ‘silent treatment’ is more effective.
#Comment by Semanticleo on 1/20 @ 10:02 am #
Do you speak English?
I figured they would boo Bush. They have been doing it for 8 years why stop now.
#Comment by Semanticleo on 1/20 @ 10:36 am #
The overpriced fire hydrant indicates that a secretly overripe bullfrog gives lectures on morality to the salty chain saw. A gentle cloud formation sweeps the floor, and the CD from the support group competes with the CEO near a stovepipe. The fraction defined by a turkey flies into a rage, but a tuba player gives secret financial aid to a boiled roller coaster.
The Left has no class. A brainless stomach howling to be filled.
Oh, and BTW, am I allowed to mock The One for having shirked everything, including a regular job, until just now?
Working is for the common people.
Ace gives us poetry:
Po-TUS Obama
America the best
Bush goes to jail now
Trust in Obama
All your worries gone forever
Bush goes to jail now
Barack is dreamy
Sorry Iraq we leave soon
Bush goes to jail now
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/281415.php
Well actually it is Ace Flunky Drew, but what the heck!
Well, in my experience, work *is* much overrated. Better to attach yourself to a public teat of some sort and suck mightily.
That, to me at least, is the clearest lesson of the last few months.
If Obama stays true to his history then on Jan 21st he will start his campaign for the next, and higher, position. Isn’t there an opening for Emperor of the Earth?
Well, he’ll have a Klin-ton before him, and a Klin-ton behind him.
I don’t give him good odds on his next, higher, appointment.
So when The One arrives, will He cross the Potomac after parting the waters, or descend on a ray of sunlight?
Hey, I just got a mortgage payment bill in the mail. Wasn’t this supposed to be taken care of?
“Congratulations. Bask in it, prepare to own it; ‘cuz tomorrow it’ll be on like Donkey Kong”
Racist! Primatist! Assist!?
You know, I have to admit. On one level, I am proud. I am proud that a black person has reached the level of President of the United States. We are not rabid racists like Western Europe. This is good. My only complaint is it was this black person.
I expect that to become a more and more common sentiment.
Well, it coulda been Cindy McKinney. Of course, that would have been four years of uninterrupted hilarity, followed by the collapse of the nation. Now we just have the collapse and no comic relief.
If Crazy McKinney ever sniffs the white house, a change of address will be needed.
At least, the music is good.
Speaking as one formerly lorded over by Cynthia McKinney, I am hoping for some collateral damage in the Med.
Not likely to see it, however. The Devil takes care of his own, and the Israelis are a lot more forgiving than me.
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Comment by Patrick Carroll on 1/20 @ 10:43 am #
Oh, and BTW, am I allowed to mock The One for having shirked everything, including a regular job, until just now?
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Comment by Mr. Pink on 1/20 @ 10:44 am #
Working is for the common people.
Obama: The ‘shiftless’One.
My only complaint is it was this black person.
Yeah, I understand your favorite stereotype would be preferable. Easier to shuck and jive your mental picture, ain’t it?
Yeah, cause Colin Powell, Clarance Thomas, Michael Steele, etc. are total walking stereotypes.
Hope is here!
Shoot, the threads over already. I”m always late.
Whatchoo talkin’ bout, cleo?
“Comment by Ward Connerly on 1/20 @ 11:12 am #
Whatchoo talkin’ bout, cleo?”
He doesn’t know.
Empty suit spouting empty rhetoric to millions of empty people.
My brothers and sisters, I have seen the light! The Messiah has entered my heart! I am joyful to embrace change! I am filled with hope! I am rolling my sleeves up! I am ready to take your money and pass it around, you fucking racists!
Is that why my comments won’t post, Dan? Because of the censorship? Or did I just rub the spam filter the wrong way?
The new beginning of all recorded history is off to an inauspicious start.
OK, Obama’s been Prez for 17 minutes now. WHY IS GITMO STILL OPEN!??!?!?! WHY DOES AL QAEDA STILL HATE US??!?/!?!/1//1/1/1??
Those stale political arguments we’ve had all this time? Like the ones I made the last two years? Those no longer apply. Now shut up and get in line.
Summary: This time it’s different.
Except it is never different, and when you hear someone say that, go the other way.
so our workers are the most productive in the world and we still make the best products in the world, but we cannot consume resources in order to make the former true.
This guy is scary. Very scary.
For those who see to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that out spirit is stronger and cannot be broken. You cannot outlast us and we will defeat you. Unless you’re in Iraq because we need to get the fuck out of there. So maybe you can just chill out for a while and we’ll pack up and leave it to you.
Obama is POTUS? How come I had to pay fer my gas today?
I am right in the middle of refusing to be forced to watch the inauguration at my school.
OUTLAW!!!
Bob Owens brings the heat with an extra helping of snark.
Hope. Change. Foie Gras.
Hail to the Chief,
he’s the Chief we all say hail to
I won’t be disappointed by this guy, because I expect the worst. If he’d toss Geithner under the bus, I might think he gets it. Tax cheat for Treasury. How do you top that? Commie spy for CIA? Pacifist for Defense? Ayers for Justice?
As the Chinese curse goes, we live in interesting times.
As the Chinese curse goes, we live in fucked up times.
FTFY
Cleo is his speech writer?
Barack Obama: He’s from the Government, and he’s here to help.
They usually add that they are smarter and better than all those losers who said “This time it’s different” before.
Lucy, Charlie, football, forever and ever.
It’s not different at all, is it, Steve?
Has He fixed anything yet?
Commiserations folks; we’ve just been through 12 years of that sort of rhetoric here in the UK, from Tony Blair and his usurper; you’ll get used to it; but don’t make the same mistake as the vast army of the credulous here and start believing it: it will all end of tears unless you rectify it after a short trial period, ending in about two years, with the coup de grace in four years. You would have thought that he could have taken the oath without fucking it up twice. Did the autocue splutter or something? Why didn’t you choose a guy to lead you country like the one who safely brought down the US Air kite into the Hudson? In 90 seconds that did more for the reputation of Uncle Sam than 20 minutes of unadulterated b/s on the steps of the Capitol today.
Hey, maybe O!bama will bestow semantic[HAH!]leo with the gift of tounges.
Frank P, Captain Sullenberger is the real America.
And, Frank, could you send an emergency shipment of jelly babies, Jaffa cakes and Bisto?
So help me, I went out a few minutes ago, and lo and behold, the ocean HAD RECEDED by several inches since a few hours prior to the Ascension. Praise be to The Lightworker, who is also The One.
Actually, Chief Justice Roberts got it wrong. Try viewing it again.
I just heard part of the oath on the radio, and laughed my ass off. Apparently the Obambi didn’t know that when you take the oath of office for President, you give your FULL name. And the moron choked when Roberts said “I, Barack Hussein Obama”. Then he choked again a little later on.
I guess that’s what happens when The Lightbringer has to talk in public without a teleprompter.
Actually, I think that Obama got ahead of himself and said the line that comes after the one that Roberts said.
Gasp, The Lightworker must be kept clean of all sin.
Not that I really care, just some touchy-feely types might take that as a sort of omen.
“Rare bumbling from two guys not known for it. The One stepped on the first line but it was the Chief who completely botched the next. Good thing Obama paused and nudged him to try again; god only knows how many lawsuits we would have seen from birth-certificate Truthers claiming he’s not really president because he never said the magic words.”
link
Obama got his first line off a little early. Then Roberts said: that I will execute the office to the President of the United States faithfully, and that’s where Obama balked. Obama was no doubt expecting the more correct that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States.
Again, I say: please, let’s wait for an important fuckup before going Category IV on it, ok?
I got a new job today, all hail the One!
I’m going to be an unemployment statistic. Change!!!!!!!!!!11111!!eleventy!!! I start the 31st.
Probably both. If I thought the Chief Justice was a petty man, I’d be laughing thinking that he’d be going “Vote against MY confirmation will you?”
Even with BUsh on the way out, retarded libs like Cleo are still throwing dirt and looking backwards.
Hopey changyness cleo. The future belongs to you and your party. Don’t fuck it up. Because we are ALL watching.
“Comment by Techie on 1/20 @ 12:21 pm #
So help me, I went out a few minutes ago, and lo and behold, the ocean HAD RECEDED by several inches since a few hours prior to the Ascension. Praise be to The Lightworker, who is also The One.”
Um, dude, that’s the tide.
My e-crack is patching.
I cannot hide from the TV on OBAMA 24/7 next to my computer.
Jaffa Cakes!!! Jesus! It’s been years! And those chocolate cone things with cream inside and nuts on top! And Flakes! And Golden Syrup!
You know, with the right products, the UK could take back the US.
Oh. Right. Gordon Browne.
Crunchies! Sherbet Fountains!
“An empty suit
barrelmakes the most noise.”It’s interesting to watch Semanticleo’s sophomoric attempts at claiming equivalence between her (it’s a “her”, right?) unhinged rants, and the much more reserved comments for those on the other side.
Her main tool is the out-of-context, partial quote, gotcha. This works for the monbat left, mindless howling bag of want that it is, but pretty much fails on those able to reflect.
I doubt Semanticleo can be either a candid friend or an honorable enemy. Pity, that.
The Ocean is still RECEDING!!!!
Now, I have some racist report from THE MAN that tells me that it’ll start coming back up in a few hours, but that’s just them trying to stop the HOPE AND CHANGE.
Are those howls of P.M.S. suffering that are coming out of the ruby ridge mud bunkers?
Please, President Barack Obama is eating his lunch; let the President finish his goddamned waffle!
“Are those howls of P.M.S. suffering that are coming out of the ruby ridge mud bunkers?”
No the giggles of watching deluded fools making an ass of themselves.
thor, PO has only just begun to waffle.
The giggle more quietly until President Obama finishes his syrupy waffle, Homer.
Then
Restaurant Reviewer couldn’t circumnavigate the oath, thor. The freaking oath.
PO took the oaf of office.
imean PO!
JHoward, he was just attempting to repeat after Chief Justice Roberts, while Chief Justice Roberts mucked it up. I wonder how much more graceful it might have been if Obama had corrected him, publicly?
As I said: save it for the times when it’s real. If you just bitch whenever the opportunity for lazy bitching presents itself, who’s going to take you seriously?
Are you fucking kidding me?
ALL HAIL THE OBAMACRON!!!
Where’s my free money and shit?
They will lie to us.
They will lie about lying to us.
It will be mandatory that we believe the lies and actively participate in spreading them so as to change the world to the one envisioned by “The One”.
Utopia, it smells like a dead fish in a Chicago whorehouse.
Comment by thor on 1/20 @ 1:05 pm #
That’s nice, hor.
Roland, you may have the free shit, I’ll stick with the free money…er, assuming anyone finds any laying about.
“Utopia, it smells like a dead fish in a Chicago whorehouse.”
The Chcago-Little Rock Axis of Corruption should be revving up realllll soon.
I’ve a feeling we’ll be using this quote in the not too distant future:
“He is a man of splendid abilities, but utterly corrupt. He shines and stinks like rotten mackerel by moonlight.”
– Senator John Randolph of Virginia, commenting on fellow lawmaker Edward Livingston.
MAJ P,
It’s like gas and ganga. You know, ethnospeak.
Also, I want better bandwidth in Shanghai, is that asking too much?
Chronic and cornflakes!
Forty acres and a forty oz!
Its been 4 hours. I’m losing hope for change.
okay, so my favorite headline so far? “Obama raises hand, lifts a nation” but when I click through, they keep changing it. hmmmmm.
CHANGE: DJIA down 332 points today. I HOPE tomorrow is better.
The dow is still dropping? But where is the magic unicorn that the savior promised?
Next thing, you will tell us that the wars is still going on!
SHIT, SHIT SHIT
The oceans have started rising again. Up about 2 inches in the last 45 minutes.
This is it, people. We’re DOOMED. Next thing you know, we’re going to see Dennis Quaid running from wolves in a frozen Central Park. Not even The Lightworker can save us from this one.
@91 – Gotta excuse our resident sex-assault fantasists, N’Obrain. When they’re selling BHO commemorative thongs of you, there’s nowhere to go but down, and Teleprompter-Jesus’s enablers know it. Let them enjoy their big moment for now. Personally, I’m loving this hype. It’s going to make what’s coming that much sweeter…
Strike “of you” from #102.
I have a head cold, shouldn’t I be feeling better by now?
We wuz ROBBED!
Sorry, but I just can’t see the far left setting aside childish things.
Can’t imagine why not.
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/20/stay-classy-obama-cultists-jeer-departing-bush/
I have tried so hard to avoid anything “Obama-naugurish” all day. On my commute, I tried listening to ESPN and the host was doing a “If I was the President of sports, who would I pardon”!!
So, I switched over to the Catholic Channel and the host there (seriously depressed though he was!) recommended listeners say a prayer for Obama’s conversion to good sense on issues (pick’em). He suggested listeners should stick to this program for the first 100 days of Baracky’s term: one Our Father, a Hail Mary, and a Glory Be.
I think I’ll give it a try, but I have to start tomorrow. My heart just wouldn’t have been in it today :(
Took my two year old grandson to toddler time in hopes of escaping the Obamaslaught and was forced to listen to people gush about how proud they now are of the country. Usually they play stuff like “I’m a Little Teapot” over their sound system but not today. The chai tea drinkers had tears in their eyes. I did too but for a different reason.
I can haz someone else’s stuff ?!
No, JD, you are not on the list for “haz’n,” you’s on the list for “tak’n from.”
Oh, and I denounce you in anticipation of your response, which I am assured will be . . .
RACIST!!!!!!111
So bitter people. Such sore losers. It is funny to watch as you slide further into irrelevancy.
Not as much fun as watching you, “Palooza”.
Or not watching you, actually.
Buh-bye.
Ha – Palooza. We’re sore losers? And, what is your learned opinion of those assholes who sang that sophmoric “hey hey hey, Goodbye” chant as Bush left.
Believe me … we could NEVER EVER in a million years sink to the depths that the classless, tasteless, cluessless idiots who have occupied the left for the last seven years.
I look through that crystal glass and find out that Obama is not black. I was just looking at his wife.
Still bitterly clinging to your weenie as you reflect on my words? I’m vain enough to take that as a compliment.
What’s my message board name? Thor, yes. When I called myself a White God in Russia it wasn’t because Russians are white. The same rings true for Jamaica. Thor, see, is a God. A white one. Whoosh, right over your head, eh.
And if the phrase “untamed virgin pussy” sends you into an illiterate little tizzy then your tizzies will be coming hard and fast here on PW, ya pre-pubescent LaRRy reKKrrAigliKKKan fag. Daauuuey!
Comment by thor on 1/20 @ 8:29 pm #
I’m vain enough to take that as a compliment.
Nah, you’re just an unrepentant dickhead.
You keep hanging around those Russian tranny prostitutes, you may catch something.
Or, maybe you did already. Those poetry reciting ladyboys done gave you the clap son, and it’s continually eating away at whatever you once had for a brain. You’re plumb eatup wit the dumbass.
@Roland – What do you expect? It is a bittersweet day for the local Teleprompter-Jesus contingent. As I mentioned earlier, today was the apotheosis of the Magic Negro – this necessarily means that there will be a decline. Now’s the time for O! to put up or shut up, and the O!cialists themselves are feeling performance anxiety. For some, fantasies about sex assaults or rants about fags are welcome distractions…
Hi Magic-Faggot-of-Diamonds. Please show your spine by posting what you’re mumbling when you type Magic Negro, namely – Nigger!
We literary types have seen the n-word in print and have accepted its contextualization.
Derek Walcott uses the word and so can you.
“So bitter people. Such sore losers. It is funny to watch as you slide further into irrelevancy.”
Unbelievable projection. I can guarantee that’s what this moron was worrying about in 2000 and 2004.
LULZ. I was bettin’ I could score me another “fag”. This is even BETTER! Sometimes ya just gotta pick up a stick & rattle the cage a little bit. :)
“Goldstein’s law: As a conservative debates a proglodyte on a blog, the probability that the latter will be the first and only one to use racial slurs approaches one.”
Daauuuey!
Seriously – I’m just messin’ around. No needs for the Teleprompter Messi-uhh contingent here (Norse & otherwise) to melt down. Life’s too short to spaz like that.
Enjoy your man’s day, progs. In all seriousness, you guys wanted the brass ring more than Maverick-McMoron or Caribou Barbie, and you earned it, fair & square. I doubt O’s competent, but for our own sake I hope he is.
Have a beer. Give a toast of thanks for your Hot Russian Girlfwiend (A.K.A. yer left hand), and the Literary Degree/Investment Banking Job you ain’t never gonna have.
Oh, and the MiG-29 Flying skillz.
Who can forget the MiG-29 flyin’ skillz…?
Peace out. Daauuuey!