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"Obama defies base, hires Wall Street lobbyist for re-election campaign"

Aw. And here many of the Occupy Wall Street kids thought Obama the populist champion of the Working Man, leader of the 99% in their battle against the evils of rich people, Jews (but I repeat myself), and corporate Amerikkka.

Although in Obama’s favor is this: they live in tents or on tarps and use stationary bicycles connected to dynamos to generate power. And they’re mostly very very dumb. So there’s a good chance they’ll never find out — and that, even if they do, they won’t understand what any of it means, anyway.

Yes they can!

19 Replies to “"Obama defies base, hires Wall Street lobbyist for re-election campaign"”

  1. newrouter says:

    ot some bad news for mittens

    WELLESLEY – While the sparring over universal health care continues in the courts and on the presidential campaign trial, a new front in the battle recently opened outside the Roche Bros. store in this tranquil suburb.

    “Will you sign our petition to repeal the individual mandate?’’ Bridget Fay asked shoppers wheeling grocery carts past a stack of pumpkins in front of the supermarket.

    Fay, a young lawyer, is the spokeswoman for a new group called Massachusetts Against Individual Mandate. If she and other petitioners can collect 69,000 valid signatures of registered voters by Nov. 23, they will clear a major hurdle toward getting a question on the November 2012 state election ballot to repeal the part of the state health care law that requires Massachusetts residents to buy medical insurance.

    In the first week of their campaign, they collected more than 5,000 names, according to Fay.

    The proposed referendum, coinciding with elections for president and US senator, would be certain to attract attention because the mandate is considered a linchpin of the state’s health care overhaul.

    Link

  2. mojo says:

    Yeah, well, idiots will believe most anything. It’s their defining characteristic.

  3. B. Moe says:

    It’s like a bunch of urban Gilligan’s Islands almost.

  4. Abe Froman says:

    In a sane world, this would be akin to a social conservative senator trolling for blowjobs in restrooms.

  5. Squid says:

    It’s like a bunch of urban Gilligan’s Islands almost.

    Man! Just imagine if The Professor had his doctorate in Angry Studies. How screwed would they have been?

  6. cranky-d says:

    OT: Huntsman is on the FauxNewz panel, and he says we should be listening to scientists about AGW, as if they are never politically motivated.

    That’s enough for me. Huntsman 2012!

  7. newrouter says:

    “and he says we should be listening to scientists about AGW”

    like dr roy spencer?

  8. Dave in SoCal says:

    Newsflash (to me, at least)! Romney locks up the crucial Meghan McCain endorsement.

    Does this mean that conservatives can finally stick a fork in his campaign? Please?

  9. Pablo says:

    Although in Obama’s favor is this: they live in tents or on tarps and use stationary bicycles connected to dynamos to generate power. And they’re mostly very very dumb.

    Funny you should mention that.

    In a hilarious vignette that illustrates in miniature the absurd unfeasibility of the whole “green energy” scam, the Occupiers had set up a bicycle connected to a dynamo so that the computer in the media center would be powered by renewable and sustainable energy! Yeah!

    Except…well, it’s really really hard to pedal day and night to keep the computer running, so the media center is in reality powered by an extension cord connected to the evil carbon-belching power grid. Note the feeble and ineffectual greenish wire running from the dynamo to the computers. Oh the shame!

    Multiply this problem by a billion and you have modern civilization.

  10. Dave in SoCal says:

    #8 Never mind. I see that newrouter beat me to it in the other thread.

    Day late, dollar short and all that.

  11. newrouter says:

    mr. dave

    its like mittens is imploding daily and nobody says anything.

  12. McGehee says:

    its like mittens is imploding daily and nobody says anything.

    I’ve only referred to him as “His Inevitableness” a couple of times but it’s already working.

    I must use this power only for good. Or my own amusement, whichever.

  13. leigh says:

    McGehee, you’re a regular Captain Chaos. I’m glad you’re on our side.

  14. newrouter says:

    someone else noticed

    Herman Cain won my support when he was asked what role the teacher’s unions played in out current school mess. He said that, as far as he was concerned, teachers’ unions were responsible for the school troubles. Would Romney say that ? He would be dreaming if he concluded that going easy on teacher’s unions would earn him any votes. Ditto for public employee unions.

    Why then would he disclaim supports for a budget bill that affects public employee unions?

    Why is he such a squish ?

    Link

  15. Trashman Peden says:

    and that, even if they do, they won’t understand what any of it means, anyway.

    But since it took a Black man to free the OWS mob, at last, whatever happens or they notice must be something like “Selma”, “Kent State”, Whoopie Goldberg, or maybe Charlie Sheen? Although, last I heard it was being ballyhooed as just an “experiment in communal living”.

  16. Yackums says:

    McGehee, you’re a regular Captain Chaos. I’m glad you’re on our side.

    Dunh-dunh-DUUUUUNNNHHH!!!

  17. MissFixit says:

    I just can’t get over how white they all are. :)

  18. LTC John says:

    #12 – “I must use this power only for good. Or my own amusement, whichever.”

    As long as those two lines intersect…

    Kind of like hoping to only observe, but never be on the receiving end of Jeff’s wrath.

  19. McGehee says:

    Okay, now I’m not so sure leigh was being complimentary.

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