Looks like the Dems have decided it’s Obama’s time to take one for the team. And it ain’t pretty.*
Still. Couldn’t happen to a gooder man.
(h/t Doug Ross)
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yea failure is a plus
But he has a Nobel Peace Prize.
I don’t like anonymous hit jobs, but that was beautiful. Dennis Green …
I am not comforted…
Seriously, you fall for this anonymous fiction? Authoritative sources I’ll consider. This is Bridget Jones Diary shit.
Yeah. Put your name to it or keep it to yourself.
That having been said, this is Obama we’re talking about. And if any President would consider putting a hit out on someone, it’d be a toss up between this dude and Nixon.
That borders on being too good to be true, but damn, it was fun to read.
Cynn —
You don’t have to believe a word of it. The point is, it was put out there.
bush that dummy
Fake but accurate.
Well, more like a series of blatantly obvious inferences really. The interesting part will be to see how it plays, and what responses it generates.
I see William Yelverton quite beating off onto his KITTEH and resumed sockpuppeting and spamming links again.
mice/brain thing works for proggs
What? Baracky isn’t up to the job? You’re fucking kidding me. He was PERFECT!!!
It has an uncanny symmetrical beauty, this piece, like a bookend to the West Wing.
At Middle Tennessee State, where I’m a professor, I see the same kind of laziness and sense of entitlement among the Negroes.
Too bad, too. If they were more disciplined, they’d be able to do more than jazz or blues.
Honestly. The point of this post is not that what’s said about Obama has now been proven. It’s that former supporters are looking to excuse their former support — and to do so, they are going to run him down.
Love the tropes, though. Lazy and intellectually incurious, you say — with a victim mentality?
RACIST!
“…like a bookend to the West Wing.”
Agreed sdferr,
They just couldn’t get any Hollywood producer to buy the script, so to the blogosphere it is!
There isn’t really a discordant note in that column.
“Sure – we definitely had people in the media on our side. Absolutely. We went so far as to give them specific ideas for coverage. The ones who took that advice from the campaign were granted better access, and Obama was the biggest story in 2008, so yeah, that gave us a lot of leverage.”
My runner-up favorite of the aforementioned tropes.
I’m no big Obama apologist. But this source, and this obscure venue… isn’t that a wall-sticking attempt?
From the article’s comment thread:
Yep. And they are going with every manner of criticism that has some sort of semi-rational basis. Fire often being found in close proximity to smoke.
“Well, he takes his meetings just like any other president would, though even then, he seems to lack a certain focus and on a few occasions, actually leaves with the directive that be given a summary of the meeting at a later date. I hear he plays a lot of golf, and watches a lot of television – ESPN mainly. I’ll tell you this – if you want to see President Obama get excited about a conversation, turn it to sports. That gets him interested. You start talking about Congress, or some policy, and he just kinda turns off. It’s really very strange. I mean, we were all led to believe that this guy was some kind of intellectual giant, right? Ivy League and all that. Well, that is not what I saw. Barack Obama doesn’t have a whole lot of intellectual curiosity. When he is off script, he is what I call a real “slow talker”. Lots of ummms, and lots of time in between answers where you can almost see the little wheel in his head turning very slowly.”
Must’ve hit a lot of good maui-wowie back in the day, eh?
These are a few of my favorite tropes.
FORE!
yes i’m masturbating with elders
Austin Goolsbee?
Part 2 (added to the post, as well)
I don’t like his name. It’s too close to Haloween.
But cynn, this is how it’s done. Don’t you remember Hillary’s flow chart? Only now with the internet, we don’t need no stinkin’ Limey tabloids!
Rock the catbox, Willie.
Van Jones?
How fucking pathetic can you be, Yelverton?
about right
Will we let him off the hook?
The future owes no duty to the past, and it is entirely possible that the sun will not rise tomorrow.
But,
But I won’t be the last one from the current administration coming forward.
you can bet on that.
He already been let off the hook just by getting the job.
so glenn beck gets ratings @ 5 pm because he’s a kook?
William the plagiarist Yelverton is just lonely. He can only play yankie the wankie for the KITTEH so many times, and he hasn’t had a comment at his site full of his fevered rantings since August 28th. LOOK AT ME !!!!!!!!!!
I assume that’s Willie again. Pick a name and stick with it.
Well, that didn’t take long to disappear.
At Middle Tennessee State, where I’m a professor, we have a saying: once you go black, you never go back. To work!
It’s kind of an inside joke about welfare queens.
Just so you know, though, some of my best friends are black. And can tap dance like you wouldn’t believe.
That second part was particularly revealing. At Middle Tennessee State where I’m a professor, I see how affirmative action students have a sense of entitlement, most noticeable when they throw temper tantrums for my having offered them solid instruction. “You ain’t got the shizzle” I tell them. And BAM! — off they go to the administration to make a complaint.
Ok, now he seems to be going a bit over the top with this schtick.
He comes at it from the position of thinking he knows what we need because we don’t have the ability to know for ourselves.
The guy is trying to push every button possible. But you gotta be more subtle in order to slip the dagger in deep.
How would you know #15 was false Iska Hoole, unless, of course, you yourself are Willie the racists hilljack skin-flute player using yet another nom de clavier.
Are you drunk, or just not too bright?
Did’ja hear the one about the Shia dude taking a dump on the Sunni fellow’s Koran? heh
Now William the plagiarist Yelverton is sockpuppeting his girlfriend, live.
Good God, Willie, you are beyond pathetic.
I assume this was the news story she was jumbling up with cloning:
Not quite PIATOR level yet, but closing.
Willie’s girl’s name is Mott the Hoople? weird
It’s so over the top that I’m starting to wonder if the WH didn’t put it out themselves, in the hope that Beck or Hannity or somebody else would run with it and discredit themselves when the WH reveals its all right wing bullshit.
Are we certain that Willie isn’t actually mentally disabled?
I’m serious.
Any chance we could inject some of those cells into a certain MTSU guitar instructor? He needs ’em.
bh – THere is no evidence that he is not, and much evidence that he is.
The bit about the banks just doesn’t ring true. I believe he has a complete and complicit understanding with the money people.
Speaking of money: Ask yourself what is the one, very large and well-funded American business Obama has left alone? Not a peep. And they have more money than G_d.
Yeah, I thought the same thing.
But if you simply watch Obama — the way he talks about FOX, his problems with Limbaugh, the threats to companies who make him look bad by downtalking his policies — it rings true.
Of course, the goal here could be to release it and discredit it in order to take away public discussion of the very real flaws later on (by pointing out how the wingnuts had tried to say the same false things before).
asks John Holdren
I kind of doubt the false flag angle. Mainly because the stuff still contains an over-arching narrative of pettiness and peevishness. They can inoculate themselves from certain specifics, but would not attempt to do so at the expense of an overall negative general impression – that stuff lingers.
I lead a happy life, swear to god!
That I spend so much time here trolling under many names is not dispositive that I’m a lonely, sad, kitten fuckin’ guitar plucker who spends hours alone, wondering how it all went so horribly wrong…
NPR says socialism is just misunderstood cause Americans are stupid not that Obama is a socialist but if he was it would be ok cause there’s nothing wrong with being socialist and that is something you would know if you weren’t a stupid American which you obviously are cause you don’t know that
Meaningful comment on Obama and the Democrat party.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4PXMCCTMwM
It’s so funny to hear him express clear Willie-isms even as he declares he’s not Willie.
Tell us, moron, what happened to you? Was it genetic or environmental?
I’m not a big fan of drum solos but I found Kenny Jones’ effort meaningful.
One thing that rings true, and the more so because the “insider” doesn’t actually say it, is that Obama has skated out on his responsibility, as President, to help guide legislation through the Congress. Presidents don’t have any official role in proposing and passing regulation, but Presidents since George Washington have used the Bully Pulpit and their political muscle to influence the way things go.
Obama hasn’t done any of that. He’s turned on ESPN or grabbed his clubs and headed for the links, leaving Nancy Pelosi with a clear field — and Pelosi is, as the insider says, a loose cannon with a powerful agenda. It’s another case of voting “Present”, and all by itself it makes the two pieces more credible to me. Supposedly there’s another installment coming; I wait with interested anticipation.
Regards,
Ric
bh – It is truly delusional.
The White House wants the public to start using the term “global climate disruption” in place of “global warming” — fearing the latter term oversimplifies the problem and makes it sound less dangerous than it really is.
bah aaa haaa haaa …
This shit is all so very funny.
Or horrible. I get the two confuzzeled sometimes.
I honestly want to run brain scans on him, JD.
Greece, the country that is on fire, Portugal is probably next, what goes beyond epic facepalm
this is both funny and … potentially kinda inflationary I’d guess
If the climate gets disrupted what on Earth will take it’s place?
probably lady gaga
#66 – Electron Microscope?
Heh.
Tweezers and a magnifying glass.
Not surprising, a real animal doodle whackjob Soros, Fenton dront group is involved:
http://activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/o/11-center-for-food-safety
That jumped out at me as too good to be true. Abortion, unions and welfare are the best parts of America? That’s a characature of the Franks characature of what conservatives think Democrats think. (If that makes sense).
I’m confused by the “Yelverton” comments. I can’t tell if they’re a truly shitty stab at humor by someone or if Willie actually has Propecia Poisoning.
There is nothing shitty about that humor. They were edited as he was sock puppeting under multipe names again, and restated to state his actual thoughts more clearly than he ever could.
“don’t speak”, if that wasn’t obvious.
I guess I have to hope that this isn’t true, because if thing are that out of control, we’re in more trouble than even happyfeet thinks we are.
I changed the comments Yelverton left under several phony names and replaced them with new comments under his name. After letting them first appear as originally written, so there was no mistaking what was going on.
He’s been asked to leave. He’s been banned under several names and several IP addresses. This is my next tack.
So the answer to your question, I suppose, is “a truly shitty stab at humor by someone.”
And I actually thought they were quite amusing, truth be told.
But then, sometimes they’re just for me.
Ah. Screwing with his comments is different. I thought maybe it was a variant on the geniuses who try to be funny by leaving comments as Charles Johnson, and they didn’t make sense in that respect.
Abe – The originals were so far beyond parody as to make the earth stop spinning.
The bit where he claimed to be a first time visitor, yet somehow knew someone was sockpuppetting as ‘William Yelverton’ was pricelss for it’s naked stupidity.
He did the same thing on that Tennessee Free blog that he drove the blogger to shut down. All these new names would drop by to express their outrage at how jealous people were of Yelverton. He’s certifiable.
He’s more ridiculous than anything.
Seriously. It’s almost sad to watch.
ThomasD – Not only that, but he was posting that drivel you pointed out under the name of his “girlfriend”.
he was posting that drivel you pointed out under the name of his “girlfriend”
I suppose that makes his other hand his “boyfriend”.
happyfeet – Doesn’t that run risks almost as big, if not bigger, than just leaving them alone?
I’m not sure I understand it at all… if it takes normal oil drilling equipment to cap them then it will a lot raise costs of actual drilling that’s for sure as resources what could be used for drilling are devoted to capping and testing… but yeah I would think this is probably inherently risky
kinda digging the saucy lesbian she reminds me a lot of this shiny shiny legend
where’s geoff?
Olivia Wilde and Ines Sainz would make a saucy lesbian duo, no?
saucy with sprinkles
Yes, the articles certainly ring true. My first thought was that this was a Clintonista of some stripe doing a little prep work for 2012. Read in that light, rings mo’ truer. ;)
Actually I don’t find anything in this anonymous account surprising in the least. It just confirms any number of predictions based on Obama’s past.
The man is, essentially, a narcissist. Most very good actors and showman-type politicians are. Billy Jeff wanted more than anything to be loved, so he engaged in enough policy to get that love. Barry only wants to be worshipped and feels he really doesn’t have to do more than show up to events with unquestioning crowds of syphocants, razzledazzle a bit, then go off and do what he wants to do.
When a group of Republicans were finally offered a chance to bask in his glory in the White House and had the audacity to question why their input wasn’t even allowed a serious hearing from him, he snapped “I won” and ended the royal audience.
Since it’s come up before, and it ties in with the theme of he is who we thought he was:
And so is he
Barry … feels he really doesn’t have to do more than show up [and] then go off and do what he wants to do.
In fairness Darleen, why shouldn’t he? He’s lived his whole adult life that way.
I still think it’s too good to be true, so I’m going to resist the temptation to go all Fox Mulder over Ulsterman, whoever the hell he is, and his anonymous source.
Don’t forget to put this “leak” into context with the “we tried to warn her not to go to Spain” leak and the leaks about Rahm getting pissy cause O is being lead around in circles by others and the leaks that dem staffers are shopping their resumes around K street and the leaks that the dems are suddenly all gratuitous and wanting to spruce up the minority offices for some committees which if they lose the house they will then be occupying…
The leaks will only increase and after 11/2 the exodus will make the jews look like slackers.
I wonder if Riehl has amnesty, Ernst.
Oh. And Malkin doesn’t return my emails anymore. I have a feeling I know why that is.
Maybe she’ll realize at some point she backed the wrong horse. Maybe they all will.
But I doubt it.
If the FROTUS admin were going to perpetrate a hoax about Obama’s shortcomings, I would think it would lean mostly toward “he loves this country so much and when he saw what Bush did to it, he just………sniff………..he just rushed in to help……….and…….sniff…….maybe he hasn’t done everything perfectly but………sniff………he just loves this country so much…….blubber…..blubber”
For the 10,675th time.
The Party is all that matters to Dems in DC. It’s not personal mind you, it’s just business.
Obama does not pay for their Audis and their 10,000 sq. ft. house in Potomac, The Party spoils system does.
the problem is that Obama is so bad he threatens the very survival of The Party, ergo, Obama threatens them, ergo, Obama has to go.
The professional left in DC is now terrified that it may already be too late.
He’s gone, possibly taking The Party with him and he’s probably the only one who doesn’t know it.
– While it’s fun to try to anticipate the form and words the Left will use to effect whatever damage control they can mount in the coming days in reaction to the stark reversal they face, it will most assuredly be based on the usual saw that “it wasn’t done right”. In the short term what you’ll see is a lot of fumbling around, poking it with a stick, because Proggs like a stacked deck where ever possible, so its too soon to see a trend. The only thing that’s sure is they’ll sound like the whiny bitches they truly are, whatever approach they take.
– In the mean time, the latest Hillery “leak” is right on time, about her leaving the cabinet, so she’s rounding 1st headed for 2nd.
#85
Which one?
Yelverton or Obama.
Nevermind.
I’m less bothered about whether the comments in the linked pieces are genuine, than about the fact we have a President about whom such comments ring true.
“He is who we thought he was?”
Didn’t he already have his a$$ crowned? Man, I love Dennis Green’s rant…
Oh, and I rather like Jeff’s modification of Professor Guitar Hero’s multiple personalty commenting. Please keep it up, Mr. G.
Comment by cynn on 9/16 @ 8:11 pm #
I’m no big Obama apologist. But this source, and this obscure venue… isn’t that a wall-sticking attempt?
But.but. You were more than willing to believe anything derogatory about Bush no matter what the source. Why all ethical all of a sudden.
Goolsby?
Isn’t that a charachter in a Dashiel Hammett novel?
Sounds like it doesn’t it?
On the name thing: How ’bout Iron Oxide?
It doesn’t matter if any of this is true or not. Because:
1) It will irritate Obama
2) it sounds truthy
3) If it IS true, time will only be Obama’s undoing. We’ve just got to wait and watch the implosion.
I know it’s been a constant complaint of mine, but my (low readership) blog had 3 folks in 2008 constantly arguing/debating for the Dems. One disappeared shortly after the immaculation, and the other two slowly faded away.
I honestly think these fockers should be FORCED to answer for their man. No mercy. Every one of those people – they’re pitiful jokes. Man-up and respond.
And the few news stories that did come out against him were the only things he seemed to care about. He absolutely obsesses over Fox News
Roger Ailes must be lovin this.
What about Hillary Clinton? Obama is scared to death of Hillary. He doesn’t trust her – obsesses over her almost as much as he does Fox News.
Ha!
So, this was from a former official that left around a month ago, allegedly? Who fits in those parameters? Roemer? Orszag?
Who is this former official?
He left about a month before he and the “reporter” started chatting. They’ve been chatting for a month or so (that’s in the second piece). He was an advisor to the transition team and has worked on previous failed compaigns. I didn’t get the impression that he had any kind of formal position within the White House after the transition?
Actually this is another problem with the piece. There’s way to much potentially identifying information in it. But then Ulsterman is a citizen journalist (at least I presume so) and not a journalist journalist, so maybe he’s not so hot at protecting sources.
I would be curious to know what to get Stacy McCain’s take on this “exposé” is.
edit fail! Jeez where’s my coffee.
Oh, and I rather like Jeff’s modification of Professor Guitar Hero’s multiple personalty commenting. Please keep it up, Mr. G.
Me, too. The improved comments are not only funny, insulting and revealing, but also serve a more subtle purpose, and one that I hope the good professor lives to regret.
They are who we thought they were.
Squid, when you say, “good”, do you mean deranged? BTW, I third the sentiment. Jeff’s rewrites are fantastic. Batshit crazy is one thing, but willie really combines that trait with being a fucking moron in a way that few have managed to capture. It’s embarrasing.
Who he is:
Reading, pondering,then sleeping.
I wonder if this is a start of an attempt to get a very public meltdown in order to invoke Amendment 25 section 4. Getting some section of the Right in a position to be blamed would make it ideal.
I’ve said before, for major offices especially the Presidency, the Parties are in the role of employment agencies. They have, by putting him up for election and then supporting him afterward, vouched to the public that they find him to be qualified for the office. They are in a lose-lose situation now.
He must be removed quickly, without an impeachment/trial which takes too long and is too public, before he destroys the brand but it must be seen as being done because of, and blamed on, his political enemies on the Right not the ones in his own Party. Tricksey-tricksey deal.
I see it is going down the road in comments of “we shall decide what you meant not you” and that dalyrocks has now weighed in.
Comment by bh on 9/16 @ 8:41 pm
Are we certain that Willie isn’t actually mentally disabled?
Would a sane person spend the time, effort, and money required to obtain a phd. in guitar?
#108
Too long.
Has to be short and catchy, like the clap.
Dadgummit Rusty, cut that out with the lack of spaces man, just put one or two and we’re good to go.
Rusty’s awesome and less confusing new name broke the blog.
Bump, to move Rusty’s lackofspaces off the front page…
It is anonymous, and that is cause for pause, however the things that are in its favor are teh little details, such as Obama is great campaigning and on teleprompter and he really enjoys that, and not so hot off the cuff; that he spends a little too much time with the fun part of the presidency, and doesn’t like the work; that the chief of staff despises everyone and that is cordially returned; that the media was a good part of the 2008 campaign.
Let’s look at this:
(1) Obama was much better on the stump with the set speech, and you take him off of TOTUS and he flounders.
(2) The BP spill and all of the golf and vacations – it took him how long to prod himself into gear.
(3) Rahm Emanual is Rahm Emanual.
(4) JournoList.
So yes, some things do ring true here.
Comment by Abe Froman on 9/16 @ 10:19 pm #
He did the same thing on that Tennessee Free blog that he drove the blogger to shut down. All these new names would drop by to express their outrage at how jealous people were of Yelverton. He’s certifiable.
I think Jeff needs to add a trophy room where he can mount the remains insane academics and self-annointed intellectuals that have wandered into his kill zone.
Unfortunately, this tale of disinterest fits the pattern. One report is a data point. Two data points can represent a coincidence or a trend.
Comment by Jeff G. on 9/16 @ 7:58 pm #
Cynn –
“You don’t have to believe a word of it. The point is, it was put out there.”
That’s all I need to know.
Just run it, cynn-a-bun, past his performance, and see if, as Yankee Sage put it, the assesments hit the data points.
For one – can you see Rahm Emanual having cordial relations with anyone? And he is chief of staff? And the COS is supposed to coordinate things for the boss, not get into pissing contests with others. Qualities for a COS? Firm, but very tactful. The COS is supposed to put out internal fights that would waste the boss’ time – not be party to them.
OK.
Happy now?
Cool. huh.
Around here they, the media pundits, are already acting like Rahm Emanuel is going to be mayaor of Chicago. Like it’s a foregone conclusion.
I really hate this state.
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Comment by cynn on 9/16 @ 8:11 pm #
I’m no big Obama apologist. But this source, and this obscure venue… isn’t that a wall-sticking attempt?
I took “wall-sticking” to mean, “throw it against the wall to see if it sticks,” but just to be sure, I googled it: One of the links was to the problem of vaginal prolapse.
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