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Those two sentences from Michael Barone have stuck hard in my head since I first saw them. We’ve something awful askew here and not just in Barry’s case.
During the Egypt briefing right now, a reporter just asked Gibbs, “Why isn’t the President standing where you are right now?”
He replied, “Because he’s an unprepared child you all helped elect so you could feel good about yourselves.”
It’s worse than that, sdferr.
Consider the crap that a political candidate has to endure. Baby-kissing, shaking hands with potential voters by the tens of thousands, attention from the Press regarding every aspect of life with strong focus on whether you’re pretty enough, the continual bombardment of messages and requests and advice and… you’d have to be nuts to put yourself through that, right?
And they are. Only it’s a particular kind of nuts — politicians, today, are people whose “fire in the belly” to achieve the office blots out all other considerations, most assuredly including any notion of what they’ll do when they get there. They are circus performers, showing off in spangles and tights (or whiteface and floppy shoes) to the oohs and aahs of the crowd. The difference is, nobody expects the lion tamer to keep the books, the trapeze artist to erect and maintain the tent, or the clown to deal with the Authorities to get permission to set up.
It is not particularly comforting to know that other systems tend to work less well when this one is sputtering, popping, and missing the rings with no net underneath.
Regards,
Ric
Don’t know about Muslim outreach, but it seems Obama gave yet another shitty gift to a foreign leader. Hu Jintao apparently went home with an autographed Top Gun DVD…
…which he then gave to China Central Television…
…CCT then promptly aired portions claiming the footage was from a Chi-Com Airforce training exercise last week.
Swear.
I’rr hit the blakes and he’rr fry right by.
Thank gaia that we elected Obama-the-messiah. No telling what would be going on right now in the world had he not “restored America’s standing”…
Doesn’t it figure though, in a “we’re sooooooo boned” kind of way, that perhaps of all Obama and his Obami cultist’s collective weaknesses is in the area of foreign policy?
And everyone, I mean everyone, adversary and ally alike, realizes that weakness and the concomitant, dangerous, power vacuum that is a function of it.
it is 3 am did you hear something?
Lamont,
Hiiii Wray to da Danega Zoonn!
OK, yeah, I stole that from a Gizmodo commenter. Shamelessly.
newrouter,
Will Michelle tell that caller where he can shove that phone?
Doesn’t it figure though, in a “we’re sooooooo boned” kind of way, that perhaps of all Obama and his Obami cultist’s collective weaknesses is in the area of foreign policy?
It’s called “smart power”, Bob. Mean time, leave off and just let the USA eat it’s waffle.
Jeff, heads up on the Amazon affiliate situation:
Colorado ‘Amazon tax’ unconstitutional?
That’s the preliminary ruling by a US District Court judge, at least: he’s ruled that the law is unconstitutional on Commerce Clause grounds, and has issued a preliminary injunction to prevent the state of Colorado to enforce the disclosure rules on out-of-state vendors before the deadline. I am not a lawyer, but the short version is that the judge ruled that the Amazon tax law violated the Commerce Clause by putting regulatory and disclosure burdens on out-of-state vendors that were not present on in-state ones; that the plaintiffs (including the Direct Marketing Association) had a valid chance to prevail in the broader case; and that until the issue was involved it would be inappropriate for the State of Colorado to collect information as per the Amazon tax law
http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/01/28/colorado-amazon-tax-unconstitutional/
Spiny, the comments at Gizmodo had me rolling. Especially the screen cap of a fat Val Kilmer compared to
ChastityChaz (new & improved, now with penis!) Bono.In all seriousness, as far as China goes, I think we can remain at DefCon5 for a bit.
1.) If you owe a bank $1 million dollars, you have a big problem. If you owe a bank $1 trillion dollars, the bank has a big problem.
2.) If we find ourselves in a future war with China, they will apparently launch our own movies from the 80’s at us from their submarines.
#2 is still a bit dangerous because one of those movies might have Madonna in it. Otherwise? Yeah, we’re fine.
I wonder if they’ve seen Red Dawn over there yet?
Desperately seeking Shenzhen?
Sdferr, my new iPhone is growling at you.
I, I, I.
community organizer not happy with community organizers
Obama is quite the moron. We’ll have to lower our expectations apace.
the islamocommie plan:
The Coming Insurrection
Is swimming allowed?
I thought under sharia law it was a stoning…
Thanks to 9th century middle eastern scientific advances we now know that, obviously, drowning is superior.. particularly for the women.
Oh, so that’s what you were doing jamming that trash down our throats? Responding to the overwhelming shouting of the American people yelling for over a year “NO! We don’t want your ObamaCare bill”? Trying to help us preserve our voices from overstrain, no doubt.
“Around the world governments have an obligation to respond to their citizens. That’s true here in the United States.”
was that potus or totus or memorex
“I, I, I.”
Wow. Just, wow.
No jokes. ‘Cause it just ain’t funny anymore. This fucker. This slimy, slippery, petulant, vote present, hyper-inflated egotistical narcissist makes me want to invade and conquer a completely friendly western foreign country just so they have to deal with his ass for a while too.
Doing the whole paragraph.
What is quite prominently missing? South America? Central America? In fact all of this hemisphere outside of the USA.
Desperately seeking Shenzhen?
Hell, it could get inspirational.
They got a billion people. There’s gotta be a Chinese John Hughes in that woodpile somewhere.
Unless it was a “Joan Hughes”…and she was aborted before she got around to writing screenplays.
Her fault for attempting to live outside the womb a female in China. Like Jingess, splittin’ that greenie atom with murder galore. Ka-Boom!
China’s the bomb!
Right Tommy Friedman? Right? Do they hi-five @ the NYT?
Fuck it. I’ll just fist bump Krugman.
Ajami speaks.
“That does not lessen my commitment, however, to governments that reflect the will of the people”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-cairo-university-6-04-09
fuck you barry soetoro
I found myself wondering when Obama is going to take his own advice to Mubarak and start turning his words into concrete action.
I found myself wondering when Obama is going to take his own advice to Mubarak and start turning his words into concrete action
You obviously haven’t read his many biographies. You know, the ghost written ones, before he did anything of any merit.
Expiration dates from a self deluded glory hole whore…
There’s a better chance of Bert proposing marriage to Ernie right out on on Sesame Street than Obama keeping a promise, or taking his own fucking advice.
“That does not lessen my commitment, however, to governments that reflect the will of the people”
The key point to remember here is that Barry IS reflecting the will of the people. You know. The people who count. Those others forming tea parties and such, not so much. He doesn’t hear them. He told them to shut up and then he tuned them out. Remember when he said he hadn’t heard anything about any big protest that took place practically on his front lawn? He had spoken and to his mind, they have complied. So it is spoken, so it was done.
The Obama’s of the world blame america for everything. How can Obama fight Islamic extremest in Egypt anymore than Carter fought them in Iran. I was in college during Iran. The shouts of American Imperialism rang through the classrooms. Obama will side with the most anti-american group that takes over.
Yeah, Stephanie…if I remember my [non-Simpson] Homer, self proclaimed, self indulgent gods are kinda assholes that way.
Even the make-shift wannabees like fancy “O”.
Around the world governments have an obligation to respond to their citizens.
You remember how all last year there were three words on everyones lips; the subject of countless rallies, protests, bar-room debates, and op-eds in every newspaper:
High Speed Rail
Thank the lord we have such a responsive government!
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OT: Here’s a Beck video from his radio show of some righteous smacking-around of Chris Matthews for saying some really stupid shit regarding Michelle Bachman. Very much in the “That’s a fucking lie, and you sir are a fucking liar” vein that we’ve been looking for in responses-to-lefties.
To all the numbskulls that thought the presidential race was the same as American Idol – The world is more than Palin and Obama and even isolated killings. It would serve us all well to see what the world really is and not as we want it to be.
Oh jeez, I’m going Glenn Beck.
Playing long ball here.
The best way to de-legitimize fundamentalist politics, is to let run the government. Give yourselves between 5 to 20 years before they kill each other off, piss off the populace and are run out of town.
12. A whole lot of China’s vaunted liquidity is in reality the terminus of our little structured credit bender. They were the end buyer for a lot of the paper we made out of some of the most amusing debt instruments ever issued. The numbers are astronomical, utterly so.
it doesn’t absolve us from financial perfidy under POTUS’ Bush and Obama, but it should put things in perspective. Oh, and their bubble? When it pops, and it will, wow…..
Now let me say that I believe that this is true but also a lie. True in that what is reported happened. A lie in the implication that this young activist was important and knowledgeable enough to know 3 years in advance what would happen now.
What this really does is give Obama a way to position himself as behind the rebels if they prevail and an easily deniable way to still be with Mubarak if he should remain in power. He can either scoff at this activist (as I do) or since the activist traveled here while Bush was in office fob the whole thing off on the Bush administrations “failed” Mid-east policies.
Win for the O-man no matter which side takes power. It is all about him after all. Right?
Mr. Boyd – I never much believed in the destruction of end times that so many preach. We have deceived ourselves into 14 trillion of debt and the piper wants to play. Meh – I have no children and my father made it through the depression. God help those of you who think the land of the midnight debt raising will save you.
My father and I are happy in 400 sq. ft. I pity the fool that tries to bluff his way through this.
Stanley Kurtz on the planting of Democracy in hard barren soil.
I had to go through this in the 80’s – Japan is not going to buy the United States. China has problems much worse than ours.
Do we want to lead?
Do we want to sit back and watch the world destroy itself?
It is a rotten job but we are the only nation on Earth that can do it. Let’s go for broke. – I say ——
Let’s go for broke. – I say ——
We’re there and the world’s problems haven’t stopped. Now what?
Personally, I’d send em all a bill for the money we spent rebuilding their countries and add in the difference between what their military budget is now as a % of their GDP to what it was at the height of each conflict they were involved in where we had to bail their asses out or bomb em back into civilization (adjusted for inflation, natch).
If they want to ride the American Victory Parade Ride, they can pay for their fucking ticket. Maintenance and upgrades are ‘spensive.
We have to all get aboard the Liberty train or the free riders will pull us down. It is a risk to be sure, and there is no certain chance of prosperity for all. I still would rather go out trying than to hold on to illusions of what might have been. We (western thought) have laid the path and now must ride the rails. It’s a crapshoot to say the least, but I like our odds. I say prosperity, freedom, and liberty will win out, although I admit it’s 50/50.
Prepping the battlefield. No not Egypt, for the progressive left the only real enemies are domestic and on the right. That is the “true war”. Egypt is simply a crisis to not be wasted in their pursuit of power.
And more prep.