It is supposed to be a holiday free of politics … a quintessential American celebration of gratitude, charity and family. From George Washington’s proclamation to George W. Bush’s Thanksgiving address in 2001, Presidents strive to keep politics out while touching on themes of American heritage and principle.
Not so the Obamas, where Barry is pushing his True Believers to be even more obnoxious at the dinner table and Michelle sends out this email:
Darleen —
Barack and I have so much to be grateful for this Thanksgiving, and that includes people like you who’ve been by our side, working for change right from the beginning.
Because of your hard work, passion, and dedication, we have accomplished so much over this past year. We’ve continued to create jobs and rebuild our economy. We’ve cut carbon pollution so we can preserve our environment. We’ve witnessed historic victories for equality across the country, all the way to the Supreme Court. And soon, millions of Americans will finally have access to quality, affordable health care — many for the first time.
Before we all celebrate with our personal traditions tomorrow, I want to start a new one — I’m hoping that you’ll take a moment to share what you’re thankful for this year:
http://my.barackobama.com/Give-Thanks
OFA will be gathering some of these notes and sharing them on BarackObama.com. I can’t wait to see what you have to say.
Thanks so much for everything you’re doing — and from our family to yours, happy Thanksgiving.
Michelle
P.S. — As you spend time with loved ones this holiday season, be sure to talk with them about what health care reform can mean for them — OFA has some tips to help get the ball rolling.
This despotic administration will not shut-up, even for one day. Fundamental transformation! Even to the turning of Thanksgiving into another Big Nanny Government propaganda opportunity.
However, I plan on enjoying today with family, food and football. And will leave you with a message from a truly great President:
more and more they trot out his hoochie cause nobody believes any of the shit what comes out of food stamp’s lying whore mouth anymore
but I seriously doubt his bitch has substantially more credibility when it comes to real life stuff like health care and job creation
her credibility is pretty much limited to discussions of low calorie snack choices for grotesquely obese food stamper children what go to public schools
9 kinds of pie does not sound like healthy snacks to me.
Dear Barack:
I, for one, am greatly thankful that we have one less year to put up with you.
The damage you’re doing, though? Much longer, just as it takes longer to repair a car after the guy at the wheel has driven into the neighbor’s living room. (Not to mention the neighbor’s house.)
9 kinds of pie is a sometimes food I guess… mostly for when buying fruit is just too
damn
hard
feel my truth?
I would eat nine kinds of pie. But it would take me many days.
I wonder if M’chelle’s brother with the White Person wife and darling children are invited?
you’d probably have to ask Valerie or someone else with decision-making authority
Thanksgiving dinner guest: “Let’s talk about Obamacare.”
Indulgent host: “Okay. How many times did you try to sign up before you quit trying?”
Thanksgiving dinner guest: “Uh, that’s not what I meant — ”
Indulgent host: “More and more people are saying Obama’s violating the Constitution by unilaterally delaying implementation.”
Thanksgiving dinner guest: “What I want to talk about is — ”
Indulgent host: “With all the exemptions he’s given out to his political cronies though, maybe we should just look at the delay as a blanket exemption. So now we’re all his political cronies. Don’t you feel special? I sure do.”
Thanksgiving dinner guest:
Thanksgiving dinner guest:
Thanksgiving dinner guest: “This is the best gravy I ever tasted.”
“We’ve witnessed historic victories for equality across the country, all the way to the Supreme Court.”
So true! Just like Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission! Historic! 9 – 0!
but I seriously doubt his bitch has substantially more credibility when it comes to real life stuff like health care and job creation
Well, she’s aces at setting up a Chicago hospital program in which uninsured poor and minority folks are helpfully guided to a bus that will take them across town to a county hospital or free clinic, freeing up the waiting room for the more affluent people with insurance. I believe the medical term for this procedure is “Patient-dumping”.
She was so good at it they paid her an annual $317,000 salary, right up until King Barack was elected and crowned… at which point they completely eliminated her important position. I suspect they did so because they knew that no one else on the planet could ever do that job as well as M’chelle, rather than the job and salary being a political favor in return for influence with Senator Obama. But I’m an optimist that way.
“her credibility is pretty much limited to discussions of low calorie snack choices”
How a woman with an ass the size of the Lesser Magellanic Cloud ever got credibility in the area of “fitness” remains a mystery.
“. . . ever got credibility in the area of “fitness” remains a mystery.”
At a guess, the mere appearance of vouching to be “working at it”, just as the mere appearance of vouching “good intentions” in public policy, has displaced distinctions of competence formerly necessary for creditability. Word has overcome deed as the measuring stick.
it started with america’s propaganda slut media creaming themselves over the silly bitch’s uber-toned upper arms if i remember right
Her Thanksgiving photo shoot has been photoshopped within an inch of its life. Natch, she is sitting so you don’t see her enormous caboose.
“but I seriously doubt his bitch has substantially more credibility when it comes to real life stuff like health care and job creation ”
Oddly enough, considering how I think she is the lefts version of the church lady, I don’t enjoy happyfeets misogyny against Michelle any more than I did against Sarah.
What are ya dumbass, an Eminem wannabe?
leave Sarah out of this bitch be saving the christmas
Speaking of which, I wish all you people of faith would join me in boycotting black Friday.
I think it very unbecoming…
do it on thanksgiving too
COMMUNIST PARTY CHAIR: SAVE OBAMACARE BY CALLING DETRACTORS RACIST
I’m becoming comfortable with my racism as defined by commies.
Kinda like my bigotry as defined by happyfeet.
@LBascom: I usually do, though I noticed Steam is offering X-COM: Enemy Unknown at 75% off so I might grab that without leaving my apartment.
McG, you’re much more charitable than I am. I’d invite anyone who showed up and tried to promote Obamacare to leave ASAP.
people who want to shop should shop and people who do not want to shop should do other things, and I predict that is exactly what will happen
as seen tv in texas today
Thank You Ted Cruz – TV Ad by Conservative Campaign Committee
We have a table to which children can be exiled, but fortunately none of our guests today wants to risk it.
Thanksgiving dinner guest: “Let’s talk about Obamacare.”
Indulgent host: “Okay….Is the site still down today? I tried for 3 hours yesterday just to sign in and….”
Thanksgiving dinner guest: “President Obama, the first post racial black president in history, says that everything will be up and working by the end of this month and — ”
Indulgent host: “….I finally just gave up…its very frustrating to just keep re-entering the same stuff over and over and getting 404 error screens…you just……”
Thanksgiving dinner guest: “All the experts say that the ACA will be the most successful legislation ever, and you will be thanking president Obama, the first post racial black president in American history for his unbelievable intelligence and benevolence in doing this for the American people — ”
Indulgent host: “…I don’t understand…..doesn’t it bother you at all that the whole thing is such a disaster….Millions of prople are losing their existing policies with no options for replacements, and when they can find something its generally as much as three times more expensive….what are they supposed to —”
Thanksgiving dinner guest: “President Obama will make any adjustmenst that may be needed so the ACA will be the most successful legislation ever by the first post racial black president in history —”
Indulgent host: “….. are you even listening to me?”
Thanksgiving dinner guest: ——-
Thanksgiving dinner guest: ——-
Thanksgiving dinner guest: ——-
Thanksgiving dinner guest: “So will you be recycling the plastic shopping bags I saw you unloading in the kitchen today, because you know, we all have to think about being green for the sake of Gaia….”
Indulgent host: “???……fuck……”
How to get your ass beat by your elders.
“If the best news the media can muster for Obama is a 44% approval rating on something, it tells you just how bad of shape he is in.”
– 38% now….At this rate Bumblefuck will be tied with J.R.Ewing by christmas.
baracky make history by being the most disliked prezident in polling history
Republican Uncle: Heh. You sound just like that lefty talking points website I saw with a few cherry picked “facts” and sloppy to ridiculous use of the word “myth”to pre-discredit any possible criticism of the mess Obama’s made. What kind of asshole would seriously believe that shit? Heh. Oh. (shakes head). Well…go on and get a plate I guess. I was going to watch football anyway.
“fake” injun news
Navajo code talker: “Redskins” isn’t derogatory
happy thanksgiving – baracky
Cancer Patient Who Spoke Out Against O-Care – Gets Audited by IRS (Video)
Republican uncle: “I brought this fine, aged single malt to share with anyone intelligent enough not to repeat politicians’ lies to me at the dinner table.”
Thanksgiving dinner guest: “Cheater.”
I’m thankful our insurance hasn’t been cancelled.
YET
bastard.
Well, thank goodness you at least were able to rise above cheap politics on this one day!
If only it were cheap…alas it is quite expensive.
Of course, but surely integrity is worth more.
Don’t pretend like you really believe Thanksgiving is meaningful if you just wanted to take your own digs.
Hubris is especially ugly today, and Happy Thanksgiving would have been awesome, along with mentioning the ways we are still blessed and lucky.
It’s fine to make a political post on Thanksgiving, but not in the same post that criticizes our political nemesis for doing the same.
Ugly.
yeah you have to only say certain things on thanky thanky day or else you’re doing it wrong
for example you have to say thank you, fucking piece of shit oval office food stamp slut – thank you for not nuking the jews with our own nuclear bomb thingers
that would be so awkward
thanks so much for setting it up to where the irans do it so we don’t have to feel all nazi and shit – you know, as a nation
that was very thoughtful don’t let nobody tell you different
peace out
“Of course, but surely integrity is worth more.”
Says the blatant moby.
IMAGINE, FUCKERS
JUST FUCKING IMAGINE
“Imagine a room full of desks, that look like … those curved desks [at] a NASA control center,” says John Engates, chief technology officer for the server and software company Rackspace. He was one of half-dozen technologists invited by the White House to go inside the command center this week, get a briefing on how the tech surge is operating and talk out ways to improve government IT in the future.
“On the walls you have these giant flat-panel monitors [showing] metrics of how the site’s doing. Uptime metrics, performance metrics, graphs that show how different aspects of the website are performing in real time,” Engates says.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/11/29/247341657/healthcare-gov-team-working-through-holiday-to-meet-deadline
curvy desks! and – on the walls –
uptime fucking metrics!
we’re coming to the edge running on the water coming through the fog your sons and daughters
You’ll notice that this is neither in the presence of our relatives, nor is it the Thanksgiving dinner table and that none of us is ostensibly the Leader of the Free World. Or not. Whichever.
This one is good too.
Too proud to fight steelbud? Thinking of your integrity whilst taking it lying down?
Happy (belated) Thanksgiving to our host, and to all pw’ers!
Now: Black Friday. Let the Trample Games begin. And may all your goodies stay unmolested in your buggy!
Fuck that noise.
Thanksgiving dinner guest: Don’t pretend like you really believe Thanksgiving is meaningful…
The gravy-boat: Quite. Madam President should be ashamed of herself.
With a two-headed snapping turtle.
Let me see if I have this straight: Jeff posted on his blog about an organized effort TO BRING POLITICS TO THE THANKSGIVING DINNER TABLE — and gets concern-trolled because he posted it on Thanksgiving Day.
Fuck you, concern troll.
What was proposed to be brought by ClownDisaster and co.? Not exactly politics, but a narrow policy, and a nasty turd of a policy at that. But politics as a whole was always a part of the thanksgiving holiday, since politics as a whole was what it was to be thankful for.
It was nice the Wan to come out and scold us on Thanksgiving, too.
Wotta guy.
Teh Won pretends to care about us, and really, what more could you possibly want from a president?
Maybe to be left alone?
“To be left alone is the beginning of all freedoms.” — Mark Cunha
Oh, no, we cannot be left alone. The next thing you know we would figure out how to think for ourselves.
We can’t have that.
Worse yet, McGehee, it was Darleen which means that steelbud was concern trolling somebody’s Grandma on Thanksgiving Day.
Fucker.
You’re right, Pablo. Apologies to Darleen.
You guys crack me up.
I saw the Wans chilling (literally) with a bunch of self-proclaimed illegal aliens in folding chairs in a gazebo thing with plastic curtains. M’chelle kept scooting her boots away and leaning forward like she didn’t want to touch anyone and wanted to GTFO.
Just what is a “steelbud?” I know what “Rosebud” is, but this steelbud thing escapes me. Well, other than I recognize that steelbud is a your typical lefty sanctimonious prick. Altough, steelbud does seem to be channeling a bit of the old Frumster.
Probably Slaphead under another hame.
*name.
“It’s fine to make a political post on Thanksgiving, but not in the same post that criticizes our political nemesis for doing the same.”
That’s pretty much ridiculous.
Hence the ridicule.