Which means either 1) that we’re witnessing an unfortunate rhetorical and iconographic oversight by dullards unversed in political history who, in hoping to see a Good Man re-elected, inadvertently coopted a favorite slogan of the Marxists; or 2) fuck it, may as well just lift the veil and expose the angry red face of Utopian socialism and it’s vision of a goose-stepping historical inevitability, and let the liberal fascist chips fall where they may.
Either way, I hope it fails. Forward.
I’m going with 2, but those involved will claim it’s 1.
My first thought was “Great Leap Forward”. Gateway Pundit points out that it’s also the title of a rousing Hitler Youth marching song.
Are these people on drugs?
Occupy Terrorism? You betcha. Of course, they’re not Occupy Occupy. They must be part of some other 99%.
Coincidentally, Obama himself also has long ties to Marxism, socialism.
Yes, bh, but he’s a good father and he loves his country every bit as much as we do. So.
Stop being unhelpful.
He is the personification of the Peter Principle as he is certainly the most highly incompetent being to ever hold elective office. “Forward” is what Caligula said when he had his armies attack the sea. At least Caligula had the decency to be bat-shit crazy.
And, of course, he flew a Blackhawk into Pakistan from Iran, landed it in Osama’s bedroom, and killed him by speechifying at him.
At least I think that’s the story they’ve decided to go with.
Well, incompetent if you disregard his success in stifling energy, vastly expanding government, depressing capitalism, seizing control over the auto industry, healthcare industry, banking industry, insurance industry, spending vast sums of money, degrading the military, weaken ties to traditional international allies, destabilize the entire Middle-East, and even drop some bombs where it would do the least good in Lybia, all as planned, all while taking quarterly vacations and three rounds of golf a week. He TOLD us that was the plan before he got elected for God’s sake.
I think the guys a fucking dynamo myself.
Good point.
“What part of ‘Fundamentally changing America’ did you not understand, bitches?”
” Jeff G. says May 1, 2012 at 1:30 pm
Yes, bh, but he’s a good father and he loves his country every bit as much as we do. So.
Stop being unhelpful.”
Can’t he love his country back in Chicago?
” L. Eric says May 1, 2012 at 1:37 pm
He is the personification of the Peter Principle as he is certainly the most highly incompetent being to ever hold elective office. “Forward” is what Caligula said when he had his armies attack the sea. At least Caligula had the decency to be bat-shit crazy.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzW-649ndGQ
Heh, Lee.
“My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the word. I hope you’ll join me as we try to change it.”
Pretty sure you and Mark Steyn would get along.
Obama still strikes me as an empty suit. That doesn’t mean he hasn’t been effective. Train a dog to bark twice for yes when he hears a bad idea and we’d have the same outcome.
The guy uses a teleprompter to address small groups in private. I personally don’t know anyone that incompetent.
I think we have to recognize the fact that a stuttering moron (with the help of noted geniuses like Reid and Pelosi) was actually able to achieve this.
Because it makes a difference whether a brilliant man or an utter joke was able to pull it off. One version speaks to his historic abilities. The other version speaks to the country’s long accumulated weaknesses.
I’m voting for the version that recognizes how all our terrible decisions going back generations have so crippled us that even a soft-headed, demagogue-by-numbers fool like Obama was seen as a viable political actor in state government.
It’s important, that distinction bh, so a hearty well done to you from my view. The causes we should look to are ourselves and our choices, we Americans in general, and perhaps to some extent our immediate forebears and their choices. We have not done well.
farrickity-farrackitin’ errant apostrophe. Sorry cranky-d.
This formulation is quite nonspecific. Needs a noun used somewhere to which it can point. All those pronouns just hanging out by themselves, leaderless and twinkly, like an Occupy encampment.
Maybe the universe just figured it was our time to be “Bambozzled, and run amok”?
Gaia pr’olly had something to do with it too.
But I can’t prove it.
Jeff was talking about Charles Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie, Geoff. I understand the confusion though. You could almost read that sentence as referring to Obama. Ha!
Campaign speech from Bagram. Totus and Potus.
My mistake then.
Li’l House is reputed to be in my pop’s hometown.
To tie two separate ideas from this thread together I give you the strange phenomenon that occurs when someone says “the honorable gentlewoman from California” and then Maxine Waters starts talking.
It’s a bit confusing.
It sounded like a Chrissyism to me.
Obama on Osama, “I gentled his condition.”
This is not exactly Jack Handy…but do you think Totus has an SS Detail?
didn’t it get stolened once?
Yeah, ‘feets. It appears Virginian criminals have the Nation’s best at heart.
Is Matthews back on the sauce again?
Again?
Wait, wasn’t that Clinton?
Is Matthews back on the sauce again?
Which sauce? Cuz I was under the impression he just sat in make-up, shotgunned tarter sauce, waiting to go on the air to call us all klan members.
“Forward!” is a check.
Just like Holder casually labeling us a “nation of cowards” and publicly letting the Panthers walk on voter intimidation charges. “Fast and Furious” under a Republican would have been impeachment fuel; under the Won… not so much.
The first tax enacted under Obamacare was the Tanning Bed Tax. That’s a big check, too – to see if any of those white folks will dare to notice the narrow target of that particular levy… and say anything.
Nope.
So, announce “Forward!” and chuckle waiting for The Conservative Establishment to rationalize away the motive.
Team O will lean to the tape distributing belt buckles stamped with “Gott mitt Uns” . And they’ll be all done chuckling. It will be laugh out loud time down on the old collective.
Sometimes
Forward, to the 1890s and the beginnings of progressive-ism.
Still working on securing the base.
TmjUtah,
The tanning bed tax. Obama puts a tax on white people trying to get brown.
This is why I threw my irony meter out the truck window years ago.
Only way to stay sane.
I used to use my mom’s tanning bed. It was called working in the flower-bed and doing yard work.
The thing that gets me about Obama is that the entire Left has all of a sudden forgotten such messy things as body counts. No longer are they obsessed with getting photos of the dead in their coffins returning from Afghanistan. No longer are they racking up near-daily tallies of the dead, displaying their names publicly, and hand-wringing.
Even though, in less than 3.5 years of his term, about 1600 US troops have died. Maybe there’s some threshold of concern; more than 800 is cause for rending of clothing and gnashing of teeth; a mere 500 a year is not really worth talking about.
There are almost twice as many Afghanistan casualties in 3.5 years of Obama than there were in 7 years under Bush. They don’t care. They only hate who they hate. Their concerns are lies.
Professional conservatives like Jonah Goldberg formulate something like this every other week for our amateur consumption. Fortunately, as non-professional conservatives, we’re allowed to just note that left wingers are filthy cock-sucking infants made of excrement.
Note: Removed a trackback from Lawyers, Guns, and Money, who has managed to find at least one instance of the word “forward” being used by non communists, therefore negating the force of this post, or else proving that non-communists using the word must, too, be communists, even if they didn’t, you know, add in the extra stuff about redistributing wealth, Alinsky worship, Ayers and Dohrne as mentors, Van Jones, et al.
Still, it’s a very very persuasive argument, and one that I hope going forward can — aw, fuck! Now I’m a communist, too!
This never ends!
LGM are a bunch of lying liars what lie.
I’ll bet none of them are lawyers, own guns or have much money.
I’m looking unbackwards to the weekend.
Me, too McGehee, but apprehensively. Youngest son starts driver’s ed on Saturday.
I think we’re also supposed to ignore the meaning that the Occupiers find in May Day.