The President, that is.
The Powerline guys offer one set of explanations. Me, I have a slightly different take: as with everything else in his life, Obama views the Presidency as a mere stepping stone to the next even bigger thing over which he is entitled to take ownership. His entire existence is one long campaign push, and he has quite clearly built his identity around a belief in his own (manufactured and undeserved) hype.
Which is why more and more these days he appears to be campaigning overseas for the job of King of the World.
Sadly, his opponent seems to be the classical liberal ideals on which our country was founded. And let’s face it: classical liberalism doesn’t have the star appeal that Obama’s PR machine is able to gin up, nor is it willing to curry favor with continental elites in order to gain entry into their salons.
Perhaps if we all pitch in and buy it a new suit and a really expensive haircut, though…
Why does he bash us?
He’s shooting for “most unique President of all time, ever”!!!?
Me, I’m looking forward to not being a “world leader” anymore. It was always a pain.
Finally, America will be able to let it’s core values show through. Values of the common clay, the salt of the earth.
You know – assholes.
I think he’s aiming for Kim Jong-il’s slot. After all, Kim can launch a ballistic missile and the remaining world superpower does nothing. Barry sees that as a position of supreme license. Besides, North Korea is very green. Few cars and little electricity.
Falling star: Overexposed, underdeveloped.
That make his teleprompter the Totkotw. I smell a conspiracy.
he appears to be campaigning overseas for the job of King of the World
Leonardo DiCaprio?
Foreigners love that he slaps this country in the face. But they don’t need a leader. Guerrillas and tyrants want to use him… not hire him.
I fall in line with those that believe Obama holds that there is nothing special about America; it is just a squiggle of arbitrary lines that keeps all of humanity apart and from succeeding as one.
Oh, and he sucks.
At least, as King of the World, he can use real columns in Greece. Denver just didn’t have much Mycenaean period architecture to pool from.
Which was damn inconvienient of them, considering he blessed them with his self-annointing there.
“Why does he bash us?”
Habit.
I think Classical Liberalism needs a good uniform or shiny logo. Those U.S. Marines seem to recognize that it’s not enough to have a storied history & deep appreciation for tradition, force of arms, and freedom – you need some flash too. Perhaps a little Shield of Athena pin.
Funny I do not hear excerpts of his bashing except on right wing websites. Our main sources of information seem to be focusing on how good Michelle Obama looks and how presidential Obama is being.
A parable:
A chess-club nerd is invited to a bitchin’ party by the head cheerleader. He puts on his least nerdy outfit and attends the party. At the party, all the kids are a little bit to a lot toasted and engage in various forms of nerd-bashing. Feeling his groove, chess club engages in a bit of nerd-bashing, going along to get along, while reaching for a dixie cup of cheap beer and hoping for a bit of drunken groping. Head cheerleader stumbles over and stops him. “You’re not here to fit in, chess club,” she says with a bit of a tipsy slur. “You’re here to take people’s keys. You’re supposed to be responsible so we don’t have to be.”
Opie craves the approval of the press. It’s that simple. He has always shit all over those who have helped him.
His drunken philandering Muslim Daddy abandoned him and his mom, so naturally Opie wrote a book about Daddies dreams. Opie has never worked for anything in his life. He has had everything handed to him. He is exactly what is wrong with affirmative action. He doesn’t appreciate anything, and he craves more praise.
I’m with Jeff: this is just one more attempt to get some of that sweet narcissistic supply: adulation.
And there’s no better gig than being “bigger than America,” no better high.
It’s about him and him only.
JeffieG (his rap name) you simply cannot claim the Holy Mantle of Classic Liberalism while you advocate for mob-rule in a Republic.
Divorce yourself from the theocons and we’ll talk.
Eh, I think its pretty simple. Liberals bash America and will continue to do so, until America is changed (by them) into whatever form suits them best.
Divorce yourself from the theocons and we’ll talk.
You might want to have the exhaust on your car looked at, Nishi – I think it could be leaking dangerous fumes.
Let’s battle!
Fear of a Secular Planet
(props to the immortal and superawesome Public Enemy)
I’ve been wonderin’ why
People livin’ in fear
Of science and technology
And wonder and discovery
Evolutions proven
Our morals are just human
And the biologic basis
doesn’t have to stay in stasis
But they got me on the run
Treat me like I have a gun
All I got is knowledge
All I got is data
And the promise of the future
So dont ‘chu be a hatah
Embrace the future
Dissmiss the past
Or the techno-singularity
will knock u on your ass
Consider me Scient to the bone
All I want is peace and love
On this planet
(Ain’t that how God planned it?)
Comment by Nishi_Jenkins on 4/6 @ 12:06 pm #
JeffieG (his rap name) you simply cannot claim the Holy Mantle of Classic Liberalism while you advocate for mob-rule in a Republic.
Divorce yourself from the theocons and we’ll talk.
Well I guess the rest of us will talk amongst ourselves because clearly Nishi is feeling verklempt. Does anyone have a topic? We could talk about theocons but you know the first rule about theocon club…
Verklempt, but never verhaftik, that’s our Nishi.
Kate just can’t give you up, Jeff. I don’t know what you have, but I’ll thank you if you can keep it to yourself.
heh.
Why does he bash us?
Maybe it’s because he’s a jackass. Of course, I could be reading more into it than that.
I long for the scientific breakthrough that identifies your type before you’re born Nishi.
“And let’s face it: classical liberalism doesn’t have the star appeal that Obama’s PR machine is able to gin up, nor is it willing to curry favor with continental elites in order to gain entry into their salons.”
‘Gin up’? You mean like a “jump down turn around pick a bale of cotton” gin? And we couldn’t contribute, we had to “pitch” (BLACK!!!) in?
RrrrrrrrrrRRRRACIST!!!
Would you abort meh?
Would you abort meh?
For the stem cells, of course.
“Embrace the future
Dissmiss the past”
Good old doublespeak. First the left took over “liberal”, as if more goverment could make you liberated. Now they seem to want to think they own “progressive”, when government never invented ANYTHING, and wealth redistribution has been a failed approach for the last hundred years. They tried painting republicans as the party of corruption, and look what a joke THAT’s become. Next time they fall in the polls they’ll call themselves conservatives, for wanting to conserve economic growth.
self-esteem whoring on an epic, global scale. i think. fwiw.
Yes. Just because.
Why does he bash us? I heard from Jamie Foxx last night that African Americans are doin’ country for the first time evah! (Huh? Well, fuck you Charlie Pride!), just like an African American is running the country for the first time evah! (“Hey everybody, give it up for Obama!”)So, maybe it’s some kinda convergence, and O! is going to replace Natalie Maines as front-running amerika-basher for the Dixie Chicks? That would be so cool! Cause he can tell jokes, and sing, and not be minstrel-ly at all.
Or, maybe because that’s what you learn to do to fit in with the cool chomskyites at the best and the the brightest ivy schools?
lol
pablow the stalker.
so far from the days on LGF when we united to strike down the schiavobots.
STFU you genocide lovin’ krazy woman.
“Would you abort me?”
–
AND sterilize yo momma…just to be sure.
The late, great Ray Charles did a country album back in the day. But if he wants to forget about Cowboy Troy, that’s fine with me, too.
“Why does he bash us?â€
It’s for our own good.
He really loves us.
He just wants us to be better.
It seems that Kate (nishi/matoko/whomever) is loved where ever she goes.
Boorish, genocidal, and bigoted is no way to go through life, Kate.
…you simply cannot claim the Holy Mantle of Classic Liberalism while you advocate for mob-rule in a Republic.
Advocate for mob rule? Jesus Christ, you really have gone off the deep end, Nishi.
And ignorant goes without saying, since that is what the site Pablo linked to said.
And we already knew that.
Stalker? Nah. That’d be you. You’re legend, psycho. Do fuck off, won’t you?
…you simply cannot claim the Holy Mantle of Classic Liberalism while you advocate for mob-rule in a Republic.
Geez, not even Glenn Beck advocates mob rule.
classical liberalism also doesn’t help pave the road to hell with “good intentions” because it’s too busy rambling on about such antiquated notions as personal responsibility and action…how ’90s. and i don’t mean clinton!
whine, whine, losers. Bernie Madoff is the face of Classical Liberalism. Alan Greenspan too. Obama and ‘liberals’ reject your corruption. All that crony capitalism has its roots in Reagan who gave us this Depression. And you did too, thank you, jeffo. NOW stop ur whining and sell your gold and buy some Irish banks and stop the whining. Don’t forget that SWHC stock either..you wingers (ala Glenn Beck) are making investors money!
“First the left took over “liberalâ€, as if more goverment could make you liberated. Now they seem to want to think they own “progressiveâ€, when government never invented ANYTHING, and wealth redistribution has been a failed approach for the last hundred years.”
totally not true: Conservatives attacked Liberals and claimed they were Leftists even though it was the Liberal Establishment that defeated communism…Long Before Reagan’s fawning fans claimed HE did.
Obama never has tried to portray himself as the anointed “ONE” unlike the egomaniac Ronald Reagan and his millions of fawning adorers.
Wow pablow….that old LIFE!4Terri site aka DL is still functional?
I thot the terribots were pretty much extinct.
That was an interesting discussion at Talk Islam, however.
It was really about capital punishment and apostasy in an Islamic state like Iraq where Islam is the state religion.
in an Islamic state apostasy is isomorphic with treason in a secular state like the US.
So now Iraq can constitutionally execute apostates and heretics just like Pakistan.
Nice, huh?
Only cost us 800 billion dollars and 4,000 military lives to accomplish that.
Victory! Freedom!
lol
Can anyone here translate crazy?
dicentra…imposing socio-religious mores via legislation in a Republic is mob rule.
“Federalism” is just localized mob-rule.
See wildly popular anti-miscegenation laws and segregation academies.
Unless there a secular reason to oppose SSM, anti-SSM laws will eventually be struck down.
Because America doesn’t have a state religion, like Iraq does.
dissociativedisorderdave is back.
America could have a state religion if Christians would get off their ass and kill some nonbelievers.
Little known fact: datalessdave’s newsletter is written in Sanskrit using four colors of crayon.
Holy shit. Who left the door open on the loon door? Whose turn is it to lead DD back to safety and stability?
“So now Iraq can constitutionally execute apostates and heretics just like Pakistan.
Nice, huh?”
While, agreeing with this statement, to a degree, I think the Iraq population is just a little better off now than when Saddam was in charge. Any honest person would agree. But, again, was it worth it?
Bernie Madoff is the face of Classical Liberalism.
Go on Dave, I know you are dying to. Show us all, with footnotes and stuff. References, graphs, that kind of thing. Big words.
Wow! It’s like flashback day at PW! Datadumb Dave and the Nishi-bot in one thread!
Can I pretend it’s really 2004 and I’m not yet married, too?
Can I pretend it’s really 2004 and I’m not yet married, too?
And can I say, AFS, how good you look in those size 32 jeans?
When you stand for nothing, you’ll bow to anything.
datadave and nishi made bail?
Thanks, SW! And, if I may say so, your dark hair is looking thick and lustrous.
Oh, AFS, that would have to be considerably before 2004. Lets say 1974, but thanks anyway!
“I think the Iraq population is just a little better off now than when Saddam was in charge”
I agree with that, much better off.
But it is also true that in an Islamic State the state can simply execute whoever it defines as a criminal.
Apostates are isomorphic with traiters, and apostasy is treason, when shari’a law is a part of the state’s constitution.
Resurgent proof that you cannot fix either stupid or willfully ignorant – that is the DD and matoko – no matter what moniker they dress in.
SORRY FOR THE CAPS BUT YOU WANT TO SEE BASHING WATCH THE FIRST 10 SECONDS OF THIS SHIT.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxydsjtdVFA&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fgatewaypundit%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F&feature=player_embedded
You know how hard it is to out stupid datadave?
…imposing socio-religious mores via legislation in a Republic is mob rule.
Yet Nishi makes it look easy!
“Federalism†is just localized mob-rule.
World Class, Olympic level dumb ass with every keystroke.
We are fucked.