AN ERA OF MATURITY…. Adam Serwer had an interesting take on Obama’s inaugural address, arguing that the speech was, at its core, about maturity.
“We remain a young nation,” Obama said, “but in the words of scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things.” After September 11, 2001 there was a lot of commentary to the effect that America had “entered adulthood” as we were introduced to the kind of harsh realities that other countries live with every day.
But we didn’t react like adults. We lashed out like adolescents. We sought to banish our anxieties by making those who attacked us suffer, but when we couldn’t find them, those who shared their language or religion would do. We played at adulthood, eschewing the hard choices that freedom and the rule of law demanded that we make. We were too grown for courts and trials, the pursuit and promise of those rights and ideals that make us who we are. Instead of putting away childish things, we embraced our least sophisticated, fearful impulses.
Today, Obama sought to provide a vision of our adulthood; an attitude that rejects the impulsiveness, painted as toughness, of the Bush years.
Re-reading the speech, Adam’s critique rings true.
Heh. And a stroll down memory lane.
Carter’s really pissed that Clinton’s horned in on his hot Middle Eastern action. Maturity!
Private jets for Obama inauguration eclipse Bush mark by 2/3.
“I want to thank Congresswoman Feinstein.” Of course, Katrina would have been an entirely different story.
Of course, committing suicide is the ultimate adult act.
Maturity.
This coming from the party that followed Joe Liberman around with a paper maiche puppet float.
Didn’t listen to the speech, and you can see why. This is just the sort of vacuous drivel I expected Baracky-Boy to spew. If he actually believes this crap, he’s even dumber than I thought.
I choose fear over hope.
I think Baracky is going to be sorely disappointed that his minions just don’t have the energy to do much more than attend his inauguration and wait for their coming LARGESSE!!!!eleventy!!!
It’s been an easy eight years for liberals who got to claim that Americans don’t sacrifice enough.
There’s just not enough espresso to get your average pony-tailed professor off his ass on a Saturday morning to clean up blight.
Feet:
I choose my natural stubborn resistance…to change.
“But we didn’t react like adults. We lashed out like adolescents”
Go live in Spain shithead.
I thought it was mature when Newt Gingrich took over congress he gave more power to the minority. Benen prolly thought lobbing eggs at Bush was mature.
Didn’t see or hear it. I was at work trying to answer questions “Will this language (in a proposed rule) do what we want it to do?” “Ummm, what do you want it to do?”
And people say that lawyers are deliberately vague…
I don’t choose fear. I think this nation has a rendezvous with destiny, and that rendezvous hasn’t been met yet.
WTF do liberal/progressives know about maturity? They’re the most infantile wads on earth.
My company rented an auditorium where you could go take your lunch and commune with your coworkers in the glory of televised Baracky. I wasn’t able to go because it was too gay, but it was nice they did that I thought.
I am with happyfeet.
People are getting brainwashed with this neverending flow of propaganda. I choose fear over being a braindead blind cultist shouting O! Mumshebba and getting my heart ripped out while it is still beating.
I managed to avoid Barky all day. hat’s up with the mortgage and gas thing?
I just checked and my mortgage is still due on the first.
That’s not the kind of service I was led to expect.
Spies – I have been waiting for my gas tank to get filled all day long. Broken promises are not a good way to start off Day 1.
Do these tranzis ever have an original thought or is it constant recycling of tired cliches? Maybe they could get a job in Hollyweird.
They’re NOT broken promises! They’re revised estimates.
But now, happyfeet, JD, I leave you to commute home where I will sit with some right-leaning friends at a ribs joint, drink a beer or two, and play a meaningless trivia game.
I swear, however, if any of the questions even hint at his “one-ness,” I will walk out.
‘Cause like feets said–that’s just too gay.
It’s a pity that Reagan, Bush 41 and Clinton all had to “lash out” immaturely at the poor automatons in the Mid-East. You know, the ones incapable of independent action, but doomed to eternally react to the moves of The Other?
For Chrissakes, we are not a “young nation!” Is Mexico an infant nation? Is Canada a toddler nation? Is Australia a fetal nation? How about the various African nations? Young or ancient? Pubescent or doddering?
We’re a bit livelier than, say Lichtenstein, yes, but who the hell isn’t?
Morons.
What “hard choices”? These guy were what, going to put Osama Bin Laden on the stand? And then try to get a judge to throw the case out because the Ranger squad that brought him in didn’t read him his Miranda warnings?
Their “hard choices” entailed putting their fingers in their ears, going “Root Causes. Root Causes. Why do they hate us? Why do they hate us?” over and over again. That’s real “mature”.
I keep hearing about how Baracky is reaching out to everyone. Any evidence of this yet?
Cowboy – YOu will pretty much had to turn off all forms of external information delivery systems to avoid the Baracky bukakke.
ushie, it’s clear that we’re going to be more like Europeans, now: senile.
I just enjoy being lectured about “maturity” by the side that thinks the sine qua non of political discussion includes paper-maiche puppets, “die-ins”, and doggerel poetry/street theater.
Democrat Maturity today
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=M2JiNzBmOWVjMzQ4M2MwZGYyZTBhNmU2NTdhM2RiZTA=
I choose the uncritical love of a parent over the cool rationality of a profit-seeking citizen.
Guide us, Obama-boo!
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Spies – I have been waiting for my gas tank to get filled all day long. Broken promises are not a good way to start off Day 1.
Plus, no unicorn.
2001: President Bush’s inaugural parade derailed by egg throwers.
http://doubleplusundead.mee.nu/will_mccain-palin_supporters_act_the_same_way
They’ve always had the “maturity” angle, I take it.
JD, maybe we should try sending the bills to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?
When I think democrats, the first word that comes to mind is “mature”. This will be a more “mature” government.
Just like the 2006 Congress would be a more “Ethical” Congress. We see how that worked out for them.
From Ace. The below passage is from the WH website. Post partisan? Get ready for a 4 year campaign.
Under the “agenda†portion of the site regarding Katrina, it reads: “President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. He and Vice President Biden will take steps to ensure that the federal government will never again allow such catastrophic failures in emergency planning and response to occur.â€Â
“President Obama swiftly responded to Hurricane Katrina,†the statement on the site continues. “Citing the Bush Administration’s ‘unconscionable ineptitude’ in responding to Hurricane Katrina, then-Senator Obama introduced legislation requiring disaster planners to take into account the specific needs of low-income hurricane victims.â€Â
“I choose the uncritical love of a parent over the cool rationality of a profit-seeking citizen.”
So vegetable you work for free right?
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
“ushie, it’s clear that we’re going to be more like Europeans, now: senile.”
My Uncle was a guy who lied about his age to fight in WWI and then lied about it again to fight in WWII. At the age of 78, he took me on my first rollercoaster ride. That’s the kind of OLD DAMN AMERICAN I plan to be.
Fuck the continent’s incontinence. And I’m insisting that English be my only official language.
“We sought to banish our anxieties by making those who attacked us suffer, but when we couldn’t find them, those who shared their language or religion would do.”
Correction, oh Chimperor mine. When we couldn’t find them, those who had aided and abetted them would do; especially when one of them had a prediliction for possessing, and using, nasty chemical weapons and had no compunction about sheltering and supplying those who would do us harm…
Remember, in the Arab world one of the guiding paradigms is, “The enemy of my enemy, is my friend…”.
“But we didn’t react like adults. We lashed out like adolescents.”
Kind of like flipping you’re opponents off in the most transparent, childish manner, or holding one’s fingers in one’s ears and simply repeating the same tired lines over and over again, in an adolescent “I can’t hear you, La-La-La-La-La” fashion…
Yeah Mr. President, lecture us all about adult behavior…
What’s the point of working if America is doomed, doomed I say!
I think y’all are just afraid Obama’s going to be one of the best Presidents in American history, doggie.
Is there any room left of Mt. Rushmore?
I think we’re gonna need it.
And we all know what a powerful thinker ole tuberhead is.
“Yet it may come as a surprise that at a time of financial crisis and Green correctness, many of the wealthy are choosing to arrive by private jet…
Of course, flying private to a celebration of a populist, pro-environment President is a bit like the Detroit execs jetting to Washington for bailout money. How do you call for social responsibility after touching down in a $40 million, gas-guzzling Gulfstream? (Maybe travelers will buy carbon credits)…
Many of the jets are probably filled with lobbyist-funded junkets, corporate groups and wealthy politicos taking along their friends. It is a chance for that Boca Raton, Fla., health-care entrepreneur who bundled donations for Barack to impress his friends and clients with an all-expense paid trip to the real party of change. It is a chance for that Hollywood producer to fly in some actor friends and bask in true celebrity, or the trial lawyer from Texas to get his “Barack-and-me†photo…”
I don’t think I need to add anything to the exposure of this hypocrisy-fest. Kinda like Al Gore’s luxury houseboat yacht that could double as an auto-ferry should the need arise…
‘Cuz they’re green like that!…
I followed all the signs, I went to the appointed spot. . . and what? There was almost no one who had a clue of what was to happen next. Some people who seemed to know what they were talking about stood on the back of a garbage truck and shouted–sans any amplification–so that all anyone could make out was that they were pointing in a certain direction. Most of us followed.
ROFLMAO!
That firedoglake link is hilarious.
Doesn’t take a great thinker to see you guys will feel better after a bottle, a diaper change, a good cry and a nap, B Moe.
“What’s the point of working if America is doomed, doomed I say!”
That’s the leftist narrative but the question was: Veg do you work for free?
“I think”
Bwahahahaha. Good one alphie.
I am hoping The One! increases my taxes for he good of the collective, doggie.
If, in his wisdom, he increase them to 100%, I will indeed be working for free.
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need (or needs
-Milton Friedman
‘nip doesn’t know the meaning of the word work, among others.
just because the next president has vowed to raise their taxes doesn’t mean the wealthy can’t join the fun.
The WSJ doesn’t understand the difference between wealth and income. I am telling you, we are fucked.
Many of the jets are probably filled with lobbyist-funded junkets, corporate groups and wealthy politicos taking along their friends. It is a chance for that Boca Raton, Fla., health-care entrepreneur who bundled donations for Barack to impress his friends and clients….
Yes sir. Obama’s Big Health Care buddies are going to lower the cost of health care just like Bush’s Big Oil buddies lowered the price of gasoline. Ain’t that right, tuber?
Why haven’t you been sending extra in on your own, ‘nip?
Why haven’t you been sending extra in on your own, ‘nip?
Back in the bin you go, snippy.
Because of the Twofer Tuesday.
Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.
We can spend our way out of recession!
That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood.
We can spend our way out of recession!
What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility…
We can spend our way out of recession!
In this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words…
WE CAN SPEND OUR WAY OUT OF RECESSION!!!!
Shame on you, parsnip, for putting Milton Friedman’s name to that. What’s the matter, you don’t have the guts to name the monsters you embrace?
In this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words…
Valley forgery?
But look at my hopes, look at my dreams…
The currency we’ve spent.
I love you.
You pay my rent.
From President Obama’s Inaugural Address:
I’ll believe that when I see it. So far, it’s just not true.
Anyone get their unicorn yet? I mean it’s been what, 8 hours and no unicorn? This grill’s not gonna wait forever.
I don’t know about you guys, but I had to pay cash-money for gas today. $20 bucks barely filled that bitch half-way.
well, there’s your problem… most people fill tanks.
I know Ashton and Demi wanted us to make promises for our Baracky future.
Lemme go first:
I promise to be at least as classy and respectful as the liberals have been for the past 8 years.
I mean it. They’ve set a bar, and I will not go beneath it.
I’m talking like an outlaw now, Maggie.
Pres. Lincoln: “…that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion…”
Pres. Obama: “…all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.”
Wha?
O!chimphitler does the PelosiStag.
outlaw
.
Blast.
I see the markets are full of hope and change, too.
Al-Reuters and the Associated With Terrorists Press are blaming it on “fresh worries about banks”.
Not even trying any more, are they?
Why haven’t you been sending extra in on your own, ‘nip?
I only do what I’m told, guis.
Maturity???? You mean when the crowd was laughing at Cheney when he was shown on the screen and then the derogitory comments by the crowd when Bush appeared on stage? Oh yeah and the ultimate in maturity when BO decided to deride Bush in his speech, lot’s of class BO. And how do all these rich white people who voted for BO feel after Reverand Lowery’s glowing words and calling all white people racists! I got one word for you democrats – no class! Sorry I was using that briliant oraters personal dictionary, the Joe Biden version. There’s another peice of work.
Now come on dg. Biden is the most qualified guy to be vp EVA!
Barack is my daddy and he’s going to give me a pony and you can’t ride on it.
Foreign funerals are going to be very interesting with VP Biden there. And by ‘interesting’ I mean the funeral will be held on Monday and we will be at war with half the world by Friday.
No federal response to hurricane Katrina?
The US Coast Guard begs to differ.
http://www.uscg.mil/History/katrina/katrinaindex.asp
Firedoglake:
“I know because this was how I felt. And then I felt selfish for feeling that way. But the disappointment, amplified by the cold, and the overall expenditure of energy over not just this election cycle, but the eight years of Bush misrule, really made it hard not to feel utterly crestfallen.”
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
What?! Politics isn’t personally redemptive and trancendent!? What?! The Messiah didn’t part the sea of jerk-off and exalt you on High!?
You lefty assholes need to stop trying for secular redemption through politics and just go to fucking church. Mmmmkay?
A little boy says, “I’m a big boy!” An adult has no need to proclaim his or her maturity.
I only do what I’m told, guis.
All except “stay off the other guy’s property.”
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need (or needs
-Milton Friedman.”
parsnip you mendacious knuclehead, that quote is from another one of your idols, Karl Marx…
Who, incidentally, wrote about the plight of the industrial era workers from the saftey of the college library, without ever actually setting foot in a factory…
Alright! A great start. Abolishing the Democrats right from the get go. Yes!!!
*sniff-sniff*
There’s got to be a pony around here somewhere.
*sniff-sniff*
Oops, sorry ‘nip.
parsnip you mendacious knuclehead, that quote is from another one of your idols, Karl Marx…
Marx, Friedman, what’s the difference?
They both came up with failed economic systems.
Who, incidentally, wrote about the plight of the industrial era workers from the saftey of the college library, without ever actually setting foot in a factory
While mooching from his buddy Engels, whose money came from those self-same factories.*
A true hero of the working class, that Karlie. Almost as much so as Noam Chomsky of two-luxury-homes-and-a-yacht fame.
* Technically, they were both mooching from Engels’ daddy. Remind you of anyone else we know?
Does everyone on the left live in their parent’s basement? Or is it just the slackers too lazy to get that government welfare check.
Holy Shit!
It is the end of days.
I always wondered how Hitler gained power, and now I am beginning to understand. “The Light Giver” has come!”
We don’t have politicians and parties anymore, we have finally arrived at a ruling class.
SBP,
Sounds like another famous revolutionary, and revolutionary thinker, to me…
Billy Ayers maybe..?
Bob, actually it sounds like all of them.
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What’s the point of working if America is doomed, doomed I say!
I think y’all are just afraid Obama’s going to be one of the best Presidents in American history, doggie.
Is there any room left of Mt. Rushmore?
I think we’re gonna need it.”
Yeah, I can see Ronald Reagan up there now.
Lost Dog,
I always wondered the same myself, how an educated and rational populace could have fallen for Hitlers hooey…
But as one German witness to that era commented, “His emotional style and soaring rhetoric caused them to suspend disbelief about just what it was he was saying…”.
I still never got it, until this past election cycle…
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parsnip you mendacious knuclehead, that quote is from another one of your idols, Karl Marx…
Marx, Friedman, what’s the difference?
They both came up with failed economic systems.”
You are mind-numbingly stupid, alpo.
You are fucking intellectual novacain.
Of course, the economic situation leading up to Hitler’s Germany was devastating. I can’t imagine – if I were having trouble (as everyone was) feeding my family – what rhetoric I might fall prey to. What’s amazing to me is how easily so many folks have followed behind President Obama when the country is not in dire straits. (Not that you could tell by his speech today…) It does make me able to have some tiny perspective on how far folks would go if we were having huge economic troubles.
Cynics? This is the way you end “…the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics…”, by calling people who disagree with you on principle as to the fundamental intent of the Federal Constitution cynics? Claim that their memories are too short? Dismiss their questions before they have a chance to even raise them in open debate?
That, it seems to me, will not work. It appears better designed to belittle and to insult. Do you want to engender seriousness in governance and government? To be taken seriously by serious people? Then be serious yourself from the beginning.
Mature? Aren’t these the same people who were pelting Bush’s presidential limo with eggs 8 years ago today?
As for Katrina, I think we have heard enough about that by now. It is really getting old. Especially considering the fact that people just went through a couple of really bad hurricanes a few months ago without anywhere near the hysterionics and media frenzy.
Now, we all know that I do not like the dirty little socialist, but this speech today was petty even for him. I usually do not pay attention to inaugural addresses, but do they usually spend as much time as Teh One taking shots at the prior Administration and their political opponents?
How does the amount of coverage of Teh One’s coronation compare to the prior inaugurations?
Well you know Hitler had that whole charismatic thing going. He was also a lover of spectacle. He demonized his opponents. He enlisted the youth and used them to spy upon their parents and their parents associates.
Line of the day, firedoglackey.
“Dismiss their questions before they have a chance to even raise them in open debate?”
But Sdferr,
That’s the left and the Democrat’s M.O., man! It’s their culture…
And we all now how tolerant and multi-cultural we’re all supposed to be…
Dissent will not be…Tolerated!
“How does the amount of coverage of Teh One’s coronation compare to the prior inaugurations?”
Well, I’ve been following politics closely since 1976, and I can tell you I NEVER! recall the amount of televised coverage…
I mean, no inauguration coverage has ever televised the brunch in statuary hall; you know, the one where Teddy the K suffered his seizure…
And events? The last inaugural to have a similar number of events was Clinton’s first…
I mean, talk about a disproportionate response…
This speech is ripe for some inventive video person to take the soundtrack and then use images like the ones Zombie has and others as a slide show illustrating how every thing actually applies fully to the left.
A speech like that can only be made because they believe they have the media in the bag. So much satire awaits in the next long four years.
“Well you know Hitler had that whole charismatic thing going. He was also a lover of spectacle. He demonized his opponents. He enlisted the youth and used them to spy upon their parents and their parents associates.”
Yeah Terrye,
Sounds hauntingly familiar, doesn’t it? At the risk of sounding Straussian, I’d say it sounds a lot
the contemporary Democratic Ideology and our new Chimperor…
Is that Richard or Johan the younger you’re alluding to there Bob? ;-)
Doesn’t matter, Sdferr. It’s all a waltz.
Hey, this ain’t no stinking waltz! For that matter, neither is this!
I know there are only so many patriotic thing one can say, but I just caught Jon Stewart (The Daily Show) doing a ChangeFest 09 piece where he intermixes Obama’s Inaugural speech with segments of Bush speeches where Bush is saying nearly the identical thing.
Obviously Obama has been hanging with Joe Biden too much.
What’s the meter, Sdferr?
the Johan would be cut time. Richard, I think, likes to change things up a bit… sorry, I’m not really paying attention…
Winner, the New Age of Maturity®.
Iowahawk does it again. Bravo!
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I hope you all wake up before it’s too late. What a pitty.
I’ve got a pretty good alarm clock…
oh, are you saying we’re Brazilian rock stars?
Wow, it’s like I walked into sad Conservative convention.
Maybe next time, guys!
What I see here are a lot of delusional people who choose ignorance over truth. Maybe your neo-conservative bullshit will comfort you in these hard times your leaders created. The rest of us will carry on and help fix the mess, as our new president has asked us to do. Not to worry. We’ve done it before, after every other Republican administration in the last 80 years.
tell me, Reality. What exactly is it that you are going to do?
I suspect that your reality needs more…um…reality.
Wow, it’s like I walked into sad Conservative convention.
Wow, it like you just… disappeared.
Buh-bye.
What I see here are a lot of delusional people
Funny, I don’t see you any more.
Buh-bye.
(Community-Based) Reality must be looking in one of them funhouse mirrors.
I get the feeling that for those of a rightist bent, this inauguration is no different than the 43 before it — a change in stewardship, but not a change in the nature of the government.
I don’t get that feeling from the left.
I agree with Dan. The U.S. response to terror was childish and immature. Surely the western world has progressed beyond physical fighting. Diplomacy is so much better, and cheaper.
I don’t think people realize that getting drawn into expensive wars is exactly what the terrorists want you to do. A weak economy make a country vulnerable, and the U.S has fallen for the trap, hook ,line, and sinker!!!
Grow up and live in the real world, child.
The most important news story today is this story: “US reaches deal on Afghan supply routes to troops”. This is what the adults have been doing for the last six months.
your blog sucks monkey balls!
Thanks, chris. I’ll take it under advisement.
Chris must have not gotten his unicorn.
Shouldn’t the monkey be happier?
So when are our major cities going to get those building-size Commie-style Obama posters installed? I’ll feel loadz better once Dear Leader is watching my every move. It’s for my own good!
Obama Administration: Day 2
The lender claims that I still owe a payment on the first.
I went ahead and scheduled the autopay thingie, but I am extremely displeased.
Which White House office is responsible for this, anyway?
Joan: have fun practicing “diplomacy” with the jihadi who’s hacking off your head with a machete.
Make sure to tell him you voted for Obama. That’ll fix things right up, I’m sure.
SBP, doesn’t have to be a jihadi doing the machete-hacking. Could be one o’ them Meh-hee-cann drug lords, too.
Gotta distinguish nowadays.
Funny, the Jaish al Mahdi dudes didn’t seem to interested in hearing what anyone had to say when I was around Basrah – they sure did smartedn up, however, when the IA shot them out of town…
Funny, now that I think about it, the HIG and Talib weren’t too receptive to jaw-jaw either.
I agree with Dan. The U.S. response to terror was childish and immature. Surely the western world has progressed beyond physical fighting. Diplomacy is so much better, and cheaper.
Sure, Joan, WE have progressed. Sadly, too many parts of the world have not progressed with us.
Honestly, how come we aren’t encouraging our policemen to use diplomacy when dealing with criminals? That physical violence and guns and etc is so backward.
Well, Joan, when your family is at the next Ground Zero, let me know how that works out.
What on Earth gave you that idea?
Here’s another interlocutor for Joan to talk with: [JPost]
Since when do negotiations take place on the grunt-to-grunt level, John?
The U.S. military struck deals with many terrorist groups, but it happened above your pay grade.
David Harsanyi* seems to have caught the same bug I did yesterday:
Oh Good Allah, the trolls are idiots. Especially turnip.
I was the S-5 of a three province task force. I talked with everyone out in the countryside. Nobody from the HIG or Talib had wanted to talk to anyone, except to threaten them. Hamid Karzai had offered to talk to Mr. Hekmatyar himself – to no avail.
You get some sort of e-mail from Mullah Omar or Hekmatyar you aren’t sharing with anyone.
You really do need to study up a bit more.
Mookie of the JAM has been quite public enough about his preference for “resistance” rather than peace.
I think he’s just killing time until he finishes his schooling so he can take over from Sistani.
Wow, you really are a moron aren’t you? But hey, why not celebrate it!
“I think he’s just killing time until he finishes his schooling so he can take over from Sistani.”
Sigh. Different branches, different power bases – and Sistani’s family might have a bit of a say in that. You have no conception of the anger Mookie has generated by hiding amongst the “Persians” do you?
You really do need to learn a whole lot more before commenting on these things…
And I really need to stop trying to reason with the block of wood/alphie.
“The Globe and Mail’s John Ibbitson gave it away when he declared at the weekend in a leading news piece that “a bond has formed between Barack Obama and Americans unlike any we have seen between a new president and the peopleâ€Â.
It seems churlish to ask for evidence of that proposition, and none was given. The media can feel the vibe and that is enough for them. In fact, the real bond is between Obama and the media.”
So regardless of what people may think about President the One!s policies, they’ll be told they love it by the sycophantic MSM. Because projection works for both bad and good emotions…
http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/janetalbrechtsen/index.php/theaustralian/comments/seduced_by_the_saint/
You got it, Maj. John. It’s a fruitless endeavor.
“I hope you all wake up before it’s too late.”
Is this a threat? We have only so many days to assimilate or something?
OI – They could condense their message to 2 words … Submit, bitches. It would save us all a lot of time and reading.
“After four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war….humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities…â€Â
-Democratic Party platform for 1864
Pretty good alarm clock huh Maggie?! U sure its not a time bomb?
well, I made to work relatively on time today.
and it’s never blown up on me in, what? ten years.
Infidel… it might jus be, or not. Go figure!!
Zeek, you people are spineless. So, the threat is pretty weak, but then again I suspect you know this. I was just laughing at the thought of spineless turds possibly threatening anything.
In my experience, anyone who’s too lazy and/or stupid to type out the word “you” isn’t worth paying attention to.
Just sayin’.
Wake up to what?
Hey, Ace has an audio clip where this lady says that now Obama is president, she’s gonna be rich soon.
Someone needs to wake up. It aint us.
I would have commented on it over there, but I’m banned. AGAIN.
That waking up bit reminds me of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.”
DON’T GO TO SLEEP, GUYS!
That waking up bit reminds me of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.”
DON’T GO TO SLEEP, GUYS!
How did that happen? I swears I didn’t do it.
Gee Carin, after some of the comment threads I’ve read I didn’t think there was anything that could possibly be said that Ace would invoke banishment for…
What in the world did you say that got to him so..?
Just curious…
OMG, carin you’re pod is already awake!!!! look out behind you!
I didn’t do nothing. I’m innocent, I say.
But, I really am. For some reason my IP gets banned (rather often) at Ace’s because of some weird anti-spam Pixa has. I’ve been unable to comment there for months at a time. That’s pretty much why I’ve settled mostly here.
Well, that explains it, Carin. I can’t imagine you were banned for content at Ace’s place. Any content.
Hey Carin, ya ever walk through the lawn and get some dog-doo on the bottom of your shoe? And you can’t get it off, and it seems to follow you everywhere?
Sorry, I digress. I shared that voicemail message you mentioned with a few people here. Chuckles aplenty.
#158 Carin:
Your IP may have been used by some little spam-bot to send out his messages. Imagine my surprise one day when my work e-mail got an e-mail from my work e-mail. IT was able to clean it up (so far it hasn’t happened again, so I guess whatever they did worked), but it was funny in the ‘isn’t that odd’ sense.
Hmmm. It’s like a mini-tsunami of trollshit. As usual, their brand of “argument” fails on every level. I can’t believe that there is anyone left who would say, in all seriousness, what Joan did. The level of education in the West has taken a significant, not to say fatal, downturn. Talk about your basic, black-hole stupid bunch of irredeemable pantloads…
Actually, whenever Ace looks it up, it is either NOT on the banned list or acknowledges it wasn’t from my location.
Yes, and that voicemail is too funny.
This assumes that the trolling hasn’t been outsourced overseas in order to have more letters typed per dollar spent. They seem to believe in quantity more than quality.
I hope someone will make our new president grow up a bit, but I doubt anyone near him has the balls.
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Not even Michelle?
Julle is amal n klomp ongeleerde sotte wat nie maniere het nie. Die dag van julle vergelding is naby. Die hand van die HERE het sy swaard in sy hand om te verdelg die vyand van sy gunsgenoot.
” you people are spineless”
Your heartlessness does make for a level playing field.
like you know from heartless, Mr. Alarmclock.
It all shall be soon forgotten madam katzenburger, soon… it’s written in sand. I rest my case, but you have been told.
um, what?