As Obama Offers "Don't Do Stupid Shit" Theory of Foreign Policy, His Dwindling Band of Disciple-Defenders Offer "Shit Happens" Theory of Geopolitics

Echoing Norma Desmond, Obama's SuperFans insist, "Obama is big. It's the United States that has gotten small."

Nobody's Fault

Liberals make excuses for Obama

BY NOEMIE EMERY
All of a sudden, people have noticed that we are in trouble, and many are saying it isn't the president's fault. All the bad news, from Iraq to Ukraine, from Libya and Syria to the Mexican border, just seems to have happened: Obama was standing there, golfing or shaking hands with donors, and, like a burst of bad weather, the winds blew, the skies opened, and things went to hell. Mysterious forces conspired against him, terrible setbacks occurred for no reason, and we were left with effects without a cause...

Of course, Obama's defenders note that he is currently beleaguered by something that no US president has ever contended with in all of US history: A divided Congress.

She looks at the minor little bother confronting Truman after WWII, to wit, the expansionist Soviet Empire, and notes that previous presidents have in fact faced "nuance-drenched problems," as one liberal defender of Obama calls his difficulties.

Here she gets to the heart of it:

...
When Republicans fail, it's always their fault, but when things fall apart under Democrats, larger forces are always at work. In the first volume of his work, Reagan biographer Steven F. Hayward took a stroll with us down memory lane to the last time this happened, under one James Earl Carter: "The job of President is too difficult for any single person because of the complexity of the problems and the size of government," pronounced the historian Barbara Tuchman. "As the country goes to the polls in the 47th national election, the Presidency as an institution is in serious trouble," wrote the columnist Joseph Kraft...
If liberals felt compelled to protect a peanut farmer from Georgia, what must they feel for an Ivy League-trained exotic from Hyde Park, a man of the world and messiah, a speaker and writer, but never a doer; themselves, in short, to the ultimate power; themselves as they dreamed they could be? And that is the problem: If he fails, then they fail, and that cannot happen. So the fault is in the stars, in the cards, in unfair expectations--anywhere but where it should be.

And why does the God fail?

Because he's not a god, of course.

I found this interesting:

His supporters argue that his approach has been consistent with his strategy of returning the United States -- after post-Sept. 11 wars -- to a foreign policy built around economic engagement rather than military intervention. The question, though, is whether he is contradicting the pledge embraced in his 2009 Nobel Prize lecture: "to face the world as it is," not as he would like it to be.
"He thought he could change the tenor more easily than he could, and I think he thought the world would be more responsive to his desires than the world has proven to be," said Jon B. Alterman, senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

This explains Obama's failures as well as anything else: He speaks his platitudes with the zest of a man who thinks his audience is hearing all this for the first time, and he thinks his Magic Words can move mountains.

And he has no Plan B for when this fails.

And this fails always.

And would-be gods are narcissistic things, and cannot admit their failures.

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Posted by: flounder at August 27, 2014 04:20 PM (sDapq)

2 My life is complete for the day.

Posted by: flounder at August 27, 2014 04:20 PM (sDapq)

3 Everything is shrinking into failure for this President except his ego.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2014 04:21 PM (lbpNx)

4 I particularly enjoyed the reception he got at the American Legion yesterday.

Posted by: George Tirebiter at August 27, 2014 04:21 PM (91kn2)

5 Speaking of a guy that's handled other men's penises...

Posted by: Insomniac at August 27, 2014 04:21 PM (mx5oN)

6 All kinds of bad news in the polls today. That's a Sell signal to us day traders.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 27, 2014 04:22 PM (Ec6wH)

7 Speaking of stupid shit, call Greg.

Posted by: Rosemary Lehmberg at August 27, 2014 04:22 PM (GgPam)

8 Why would God need a golf cart?

Posted by: James T. Kirk at August 27, 2014 04:22 PM (F26eZ)

9 >>"He thought he could change the tenor more easily than he could, and I think he thought the world would be more responsive to his desires than the world has proven to be,"

So we failed him again?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2014 04:22 PM (g1DWB)

10 It's the Bart Simpson foreign policy. "I didn't do it."

Posted by: Dang at August 27, 2014 04:22 PM (MNq6o)

11 I like to watch.

Posted by: President Chance Gardener at August 27, 2014 04:23 PM (JtwS4)

12 Because everything came easy to this clown. Handed everything, including the choom pipe.

Posted by: Feh at August 27, 2014 04:23 PM (BaakT)

13 This explains Obama's failures as well as anything else: He speaks his platitudes with the zest of a man who thinks his audience is hearing all this for the first time, and he thinks his Magic Words can move mountains.

And he has no Plan B for when this fails.

And this fails always.

All he has ever done is move in circles where facility with language is not merely everything, it is the only thing. He has no actual experience of his own with dealing with situations where words words words words words are useless.

That and I do not believe that prior to the Presidency he ever heard no from anyone who had anything he wanted.

Thrown in the malignant narcissism and here we are.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at August 27, 2014 04:23 PM (mf5HN)

14 economic engagement

Someone has mastered double speak. Unless it's just a code word for that thing he does with the chicken.

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at August 27, 2014 04:23 PM (jtgkZ)

15 As we speak this incompetent fraud is stacking the Judiciary and the Civil Service with left wing dolts like him.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2014 04:24 PM (nzKvP)

16 Obama is a 2nd level aristocrat who truly believes himself to be an epic level Wizard. He thinks he's casting Wish, but he's really just shouting eldritch-sounding nonsense while waving around a bag of salamander skin and horse dung.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at August 27, 2014 04:24 PM (3H4Zj)

17 All the bad news, from Iraq
to Ukraine, from Libya and Syria to the Mexican
border, just seems to have happened: Obama
was standing there, golfing or shaking hands
with donors, and, like a burst of bad weather,
the winds blew, the skies opened, and things
went to hell.

Precisely BECAUSE barky was just standing around grab assing.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2014 04:24 PM (9ROAW)

18
I read nothing but glowing reviews of President Boyfriends appearance at the American Legion in my local fishrag.

Their view is probably the same as I hear in my VFW post.

Posted by: Chupacabras at August 27, 2014 04:24 PM (F26eZ)

19 economic engagement

Someone has mastered double speak. Unless it's just a code word for that thing he does with the chicken.

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at August 27, 2014 04:24 PM (jtgkZ)

20 Obama is a 2nd level aristocrat who truly believes himself to be an epic level Wizard. He thinks he's casting Wish, but he's really just shouting eldritch-sounding nonsense while waving around a bag of salamander skin and horse dung.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at August 27, 2014 04:25 PM (3H4Zj)

21 Obama is a 2nd level aristocrat who truly believes himself to be an epic level Wizard. He thinks he's casting Wish, but he's really just shouting eldritch-sounding nonsense while waving around a bag of salamander skin and horse dung.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at August 27, 2014 04:25 PM (3H4Zj)

22 This explains Obama's failures as well as anything else: He speaks his platitudes with the zest of a man who thinks his audience is hearing all this for the first time, and he thinks his Magic Words can move mountains.

And he has no Plan B for when this fails.

And this fails always.

All he has ever done is move in circles where facility with language is not merely everything, it is the only thing. He has no actual experience of his own with dealing with situations where words words words words words are useless.

That and I do not believe that prior to the Presidency he ever heard no from anyone who had anything he wanted.

Thrown in the malignant narcissism and here we are.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at August 27, 2014 04:25 PM (mf5HN)

23 economic engagement

Someone has mastered double speak. Unless it's just a code word for that thing he does with the chicken.

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at August 27, 2014 04:26 PM (jtgkZ)

24 He is as arrogant as he is stupid.

Posted by: Darth Vader at August 27, 2014 04:26 PM (sDapq)

25 We've seen his plan B, one hole at a time.

Posted by: Dr Spank at August 27, 2014 04:26 PM (P1WNR)

26 And holy crap is this relevant here:

http://bit.ly/1lfGj4U

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at August 27, 2014 04:26 PM (mf5HN)

27
My local fishwrap said nothing but glowing things about President Boyfriend's American Legion appearance.

They probably feel about the same way towards him as the members of my VFW post do.

Posted by: Chupacabras at August 27, 2014 04:26 PM (F26eZ)

28 "He thought he could change the tenor more easily than he could, and I
think he thought the world would be more responsive to his desires than
the world has proven to be," said Jon B. Alterman, senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Hate to say we fucking told you so, but we fucking told you so.

Posted by: Dang at August 27, 2014 04:27 PM (MNq6o)

29 So is the vaunted "economic engagement" theory why Obama hasn't negotiated a single trade agreement while in office? Not one.

He allowed votes on a couple holdovers that Bush negotiated but which the Harry Reid in the Senate refused to allow votes on till after Bush left office. That's it.

Obama hasn't done jackshit to promote free trade and economic engagement while in office.

The reverse actually.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at August 27, 2014 04:27 PM (zwdxl)

30 President Affirmative Action.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 27, 2014 04:27 PM (eGmvn)

31 Urgh. I'll jump into the half-barrel for that triple (?) post. Fucking internet gnomes.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at August 27, 2014 04:27 PM (3H4Zj)

32 Ummm what the fucking fuck Pixy.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at August 27, 2014 04:27 PM (mf5HN)

33 "Why would God need a golf cart?"

(James T. Kirk)

He doesn't.
It's for the mortals who attend him.
Ours is a thoughtful god..

(VIA)

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 27, 2014 04:27 PM (IOKzp)

34 This sounds interesting - he thought the world would be more responsive to his desires. Kind of explains quite a bit there, he desired and the crowds gave to him in 2008. He desired and Congressional Democrats gave to him in 2009. He desired and foreigners decided "Nah. We have our own plans." And he stands there perplexed because he never had to do anything but articulate his desires.

Second interesting point - I remeber all of those "the country is ungovernable" articles back in the Carter years and how it evaporated when Carter was gane. and how the liberals really stopped talking about Carter. I wonder if Obama will suddenly find the liberals aren't talking to him or returning his calls in 2017?

Posted by: Mikey NTH -Get a Dudgeon for Your Curmudgeon at the Outrage Outlet! at August 27, 2014 04:27 PM (hLRSq)

35 Whoa. Delayed double and triple comments...

Posted by: Brother Cavil at August 27, 2014 04:28 PM (rt3TY)

36 His supporters argue that his approach has been consistent with his
strategy of returning the United States -- after post-Sept. 11 wars --
to a foreign policy built around economic engagement rather than
military intervention.

I disagree. His foreign policy, what the little has, is help our enemies in the Mideast and shit on our allies.

But even that is not totally accurate. What we see is him (or who ever actually runs the WH) blunder from one screw up to the next. He and his staff are totally encompetent at what they do, either foreign policy or US policy.

This is a result of elected an idiot who has never even ran a boy scout troupe to the Presidency.

Posted by: Vic at August 27, 2014 04:28 PM (T2V/1)

37 Oh pixy, you so crazy!

Posted by: Chupacabras at August 27, 2014 04:28 PM (F26eZ)

38 A triple! All I have to do now is steal home.

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at August 27, 2014 04:28 PM (jtgkZ)

39 President Affirmative Action.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 27, 2014 04:27 PM (eGmvn)

That's not a joke. That is the ONLY reason that SOB is in the White House. And excuse me, it is a joke: But the joke is on us

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2014 04:28 PM (nzKvP)

40 No doubt ready and excited about voting Libertarian! People skills!!!

National Review @NRO 2m
110 million: that's how many Americans now live in household that receive some form of welfare benefits. http://natl.re/1C2Nhzt

Posted by: Costanza Defense at August 27, 2014 04:28 PM (zwdxl)

41 "Hate to say we fucking told you so, but we fucking told you so.
Posted by: Dang at August 27, 2014 04:27 PM (MNq6o)"

I've never understood that expression. Who hates to say "I told you so"? I love saying "I told you so." It's fantastic.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at August 27, 2014 04:29 PM (3H4Zj)

42 His actions are purposeful and filled with malice toward the USA. Has he even attempted anything that might be construed as good for this country?

And don't say Ocare. That was nothing but a gigantic power grab.

Posted by: Soona at August 27, 2014 04:29 PM (nrZl8)

43 Short version: SCOAMF is gonna be SCOAMF'y.

Posted by: tcn at August 27, 2014 04:30 PM (J4q/W)

44 How about his ego does not enable him to operate within the boundaries of our democratic republic, because it is at odds with his personal philosophy.

Which makes one wonder why he ran for president in the first place.

Maybe he thought the job was for dictator and part-time golf pro?

Posted by: Marcus T` at August 27, 2014 04:30 PM (GGCsk)

45 Urgh. I'll jump into the half-barrel for that
triple (?) post. Fucking internet gnomes.
Posted by: broseidon

Get out of jail card. That wasn't you.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2014 04:31 PM (9ROAW)

46 Yeah. The big man in the W.H. is finally finding out that those A's and B's he got in school were not really what he thought they were....they were really C's and D's.....

Posted by: Andrew at August 27, 2014 04:31 PM (ADhya)

47 "Get out of jail card. That wasn't you.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2014 04:31 PM (9ROAW)"

Yeah, I just saw that I wasn't the only one. I escape the barrel...for now.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at August 27, 2014 04:32 PM (3H4Zj)

48 Broseidon, will hopefully be playing with this program this weekend.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/274920/

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2014 04:32 PM (lbpNx)

49 Past downturns have often brought nations to the table to make trade deals in an attempt to get the economy growing again. Obama isn't having any of that.

Tons of countries out there want a trade deal with America. Obama has torpoedoed all of them.

Obama doesn't believe in economic growth as a good thing.

Eco-nazis that run the Democrats believe economic growth=earth raping.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at August 27, 2014 04:32 PM (zwdxl)

50 Obama Admin To Sue Minnesota Town For Religious Discrimination After Rejecting Proposed New Mosque

Weasel Zippers

Now that's the way fight ISIS!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2014 04:32 PM (nzKvP)

51 Obama is so powerful, even mention of him effs up the blog!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 27, 2014 04:33 PM (JO9+V)

52 Obama Admin To Sue Minnesota Town For Religious Discrimination After Rejecting Proposed New Mosque

Weasel Zippers

Now that's the way fight ISIS!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2014 04:33 PM (nzKvP)

53 Obama Admin To Sue Minnesota Town For Religious Discrimination After Rejecting Proposed New Mosque

Weasel Zippers

Now that's the way fight ISIS!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2014 04:33 PM (nzKvP)

54 His incessant lying ain't helping matters either.

Oh, and the wisest thing he has said during his preezyship - "Don't call my bluff."

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 27, 2014 04:33 PM (/OuIN)

55 "46 Yeah. The big man in the W.H. is finally finding out that those A's and B's he got in school were not really what he thought they were....they were really C's and D's.....
Posted by: Andrew at August 27, 2014 04:31 PM (ADhya)"

Well, according to rumors, Obama has always been a big fan of the D, even in his college days.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at August 27, 2014 04:33 PM (3H4Zj)

56 No boxes?

FREEDOM!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2014 04:33 PM (9ROAW)

57 Obama Admin To Sue Minnesota Town For Religious Discrimination After Rejecting Proposed New Mosque

Weasel Zippers

Now that's the way fight ISIS!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2014 04:33 PM (nzKvP)

58 Obama believes we have to learn to make do with less. We have to learn to accept our reduced role in the world and on the planet.

He won't say that. But it's what he believes.

He's purposefully trying to "humble" America and Americans. Like training a rowdy dog.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at August 27, 2014 04:34 PM (zwdxl)

59 He is also learning that quite a large number of foreigners do not suffer from white liberal guilt and do not care that he is an historic first. It must take a bit of work to run into that lack of giving a whoop-de-do about the one thing that got him where he is and rationalize it away.

Posted by: Mikey NTH -Get a Dudgeon for Your Curmudgeon at the Outrage Outlet! at August 27, 2014 04:35 PM (hLRSq)

60 cue Howard Jones

Posted by: Bigby's Nut Punch at August 27, 2014 04:35 PM (3ZtZW)

61 Nevergiveup demonstrates the inherent truthiness of his nic!

Posted by: Mikey NTH -Get a Dudgeon for Your Curmudgeon at the Outrage Outlet! at August 27, 2014 04:36 PM (hLRSq)

62 The incompetent fool is a failure because he never really had a good understanding of anything but how to speak jive.

At bullshit he is good. At all else he is bullshit.

Posted by: D-Lamp at August 27, 2014 04:37 PM (txvbW)

63 To paraphrase Reagan, it's not that leftard imbeciles don't know anything, it's just that everything they "know" is utter horse shit.

Posted by: EBOLA commin' for YOUR ass at August 27, 2014 04:37 PM (xWW96)

64 Plenty of triples in this thread.

Posted by: dantesed at August 27, 2014 04:37 PM (88xKn)

65 "48 Broseidon, will hopefully be playing with this program this weekend.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/274920/
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2014 04:32 PM (lbpNx)"

Ooh, looks fun. Now I wish I had some sort of important CEO position, so that I could Skype into conference calls as Gendo doing his evil finger pyramid of contemplation.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at August 27, 2014 04:37 PM (3H4Zj)

66 The blog is on full automatic today.

Posted by: Soona at August 27, 2014 04:37 PM (nrZl8)

67 He's lazy and doesn't understand the world as it is.

Posted by: Dr Spank at August 27, 2014 04:37 PM (P1WNR)

68 He's purposefully trying to "humble" America
and Americans.

Like training a rowdy dog.

Those sometimes bite.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2014 04:38 PM (9ROAW)

69 Four?

Pixy go home, you're drunk

Posted by: Brother Cavil at August 27, 2014 04:38 PM (rt3TY)

70 One word defines this administration: Unexpectedly.

Posted by: Theodore Rex at August 27, 2014 04:38 PM (H1SkR)

71 "Judiciary and the Civil Service with left wing dolts "

er, this dates back to the 70s. Hardly new.

Posted by: anon a mouse at August 27, 2014 04:38 PM (gXRIG)

72 There are three reasons why right-wing extremist criticism of the job President Obama is doing is completely unfair and inapplicable to today's world.

1. The world is a far more complex place than it was when Harry Truman became president. Unlike Republicans, President Obama is comfortable with nuance and ambiguity--that's why you won't see him using nuclear weapons against other citizens of the world as a distraction from an iffy domestic economy. Obama recognizes that diplomacy without aspirational aspirations becomes merely a workout on the exercise cycle of violence and despair.

2. Ronald Reagan had things easy. When he was shot and rushed to the hospital, did you ever hear any Tea Party wackos complaining that the federal government shouldn't be providing taxpayer-funded healthcare?

3. Jimmy Carter's so-called "failures" were actually the result of Republicans controlling both houses of Congress by overwhelming majorities during his presidency. Senate Majority Leader Harold Stassen consistently blocked legislation proposed by the Carter administration, solely for partisan gain. By making President Carter appear to be ineffective, the Republicans were able to elect a majority of the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1980 elections.

These are the three facts to know when you hear lies about President Obama.

Posted by: Matt Yglesias, Voxsplainer at August 27, 2014 04:39 PM (UlJ3l)

73 Lots of triples, but Nevergiveup trumped us all with an inside-the-park HR.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at August 27, 2014 04:39 PM (3H4Zj)

74 Plenty of triples in this thread.

Texas Rangers pitching......

Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2014 04:39 PM (9ROAW)

75
Precisely BECAUSE barky was just standing around grab assing.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2014 04:24 PM (9ROAW)

Don't knock it. Any sort of effort by him is likely to only make things worse because his instincts are all wrong, and he has no knowledge base upon which to call.

Posted by: D-Lamp at August 27, 2014 04:39 PM (txvbW)

76 >>>"He thought he could change the tenor more easily than he could, and I think he thought the world would be more responsive to his desires than the world has proven to be," said Jon B. Alterman, senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

---------

Affirmative action doesn't open every door, it seems.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 27, 2014 04:39 PM (EYhhH)

77 You really think he doesn't have a plan? The man with a university degree from Harvard and Columbia is NOT a genius? Obama is the world's community organizer, in order to get to the new order you must break up the old order.

You have to break the old order so that everyone will want a new order. Obama is breaking the old order and you think his plan failed? I am disappointed in your lack of vision.

Posted by: dscott at August 27, 2014 04:39 PM (z1cFM)

78
I read the other blog post and find it disconcerting many conservatives say such mean and ignorant things about me. I have served the sports industry for many years honorable, and take great exception to most of the comments, especially those that call me a fag.

Posted by: Bob Costas at August 27, 2014 04:39 PM (3/wAJ)

79 Don't have a good thread to put this on but at least one Brit finally understand immigration:

http://tinyurl.com/clejdqe

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 27, 2014 04:39 PM (Lqy/e)

80 "I think he thought the world would be more responsive to his desires than the world has proven to be," said Jon B. Alterman, senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

----

Increasingly, I see the titles and credentials these parasites have awarded themselves, and the letters run together, and all I can see is "Sucks Cock by Choice."

Posted by: Edgar Allen Schmoe at August 27, 2014 04:39 PM (1Btdd)

81 Why are the morons smart enough to know the full measure of TFG by fall 2007 but 40% of the population still denies the utter failure he has wrought?

I'm starting to turn toward the "scatter the stones" theory.

Posted by: Nom de Blog at August 27, 2014 04:40 PM (yjPMc)

82 Urgh. I'll jump into the half-barrel for that
triple (?) post. Fucking internet gnomes.
Posted by: broseidon

You didn't build that triple post.

Posted by: Bronco Bama at August 27, 2014 04:40 PM (sDapq)

83 I love you Bob! Big old man hug?

Posted by: EBOLA commin' for YOUR ass at August 27, 2014 04:40 PM (xWW96)

84 Was that a quad post? Nice.

and I think he thought the world would be more responsive to his desires than the world has proven to be

Most of us get disabused fairly early in life of the notion that the world will just hand us whatever we want. Maybe that's a "white privilege", I don't know.

Posted by: HR at August 27, 2014 04:40 PM (/kI1Q)

85 Lots of triples, but Nevergiveup trumped us all with an inside-the-park HR.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at August 27, 2014 04:39 PM (3H4Zj)

Anything worth doing is worth doing right

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2014 04:41 PM (nzKvP)

86 The Home Version right now costs $10. Just for fun use like Skype.

Pro version will allow you to export your videos and make money with. Anime reviews as a magical anime princess anyone?

But this is still the Beta. So it just be like Gendou and his dates with Ayanami Rei.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2014 04:41 PM (lbpNx)

87
Its not just his dwindling disciple-defenders, notice the quality of people who remain in the administration. You're downto the Marie Larfs and Jen Psaki's, after the rest of the prog machine learned it was time to get out of this man's dodge.

Pity us that we have speechwriters posing as nat security advisors, and fantasy camp counselors posing as president

Posted by: Pedro at August 27, 2014 04:42 PM (wKKdQ)

88 30
President Affirmative Action.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 27, 2014 04:27 PM (eGmvn)

And that is the ugly unpleasant truth. His sole credential for being the media darling is that he is Black. He has no history of any worth, no work experience of any worth, he is a great big bag of nothing who's only qualification is that he's black.

White Racists got him elected. They chose him based on the color of his skin, and not for the content of his character.

Posted by: D-Lamp at August 27, 2014 04:42 PM (txvbW)

89 I loved it last night on O'Reilly when Kraut called obama a preening narcissist...

Posted by: helloit's me Donna and I know nuthink! at August 27, 2014 04:43 PM (9+ccr)

90 "Judiciary and the Civil Service with left wing dolts "

er, this dates back to the 70s. Hardly new.
Posted by: anon a mouse at August 27, 2014 04:38 PM (gXRIG)

The difference with Fedo is how far to the left they are and the absolute political dogma of his appointments. And the sheer number

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2014 04:43 PM (nzKvP)

91 Had Obama been in office in 1948, the entirety of western Europe would have fallen under communist control.

The Obamaphile's response to this would be a shrilly shouted, " WOULD NOT!.... " , because shrill shouts are all that they have.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 27, 2014 04:43 PM (1Mxs7)

92
Behold, a sod who screeds!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2014 04:43 PM (CMkNk)

93 Posted by: Bob Costas at August 27, 2014 04:39 PM (3/wAJ)

Have you lit yourself on fire for charity yet, because "flaming" should be the word used to describe you.

Think of it: "Noted flamer Bob Costas...." Or "...Bob Costas was flaming today...."

Posted by: Mikey NTH -Get a Dudgeon for Your Curmudgeon at the Outrage Outlet! at August 27, 2014 04:43 PM (hLRSq)

94 Posted by: Nom de Blog at August 27, 2014 04:40 PM (yjPMc)

Because Idiocracy is coming true, and there's not much we can do about it. Simply put, most people operate on feelings now, instead of reason. Feelings get people to do really, really stupid things.

Posted by: Cato at August 27, 2014 04:44 PM (3HxZe)

95 Simpler premise...

He is an academic... ie... all theory, no practical application.

So when Theory comes up against cold hard reality.... Theories often Fail.

But Academics, because they never feel the consequence of failure... because they are insulated from those effects... then double down on the same theory.

Which is why so many academics are Socialists, or Communists IF they are in the West... where they never FELT the failure of those systems.

Thus, Global Warming... which is a Religion in Academic circles... because they never have to PRODUCE anything... which their regulations make difficult...

Thus.... the Fed Reserve and Treasury and their embrace, and then double down on Keynes theory of economics.... (although they WILL feel that one when the whole damn system crashes).

Add in the entire Obama Administration? NONE of whom have any real foreign Policy experience? and most of whom have no MILITARY experience?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 27, 2014 04:44 PM (f0pWu)

96 How dare you try to fathom the depths of understanding our dear leader has for multi-level international politics, Ace.

I mean, he plays 11 dimensional chess just to keep his mind sharp!

Live long and prosper!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 27, 2014 04:44 PM (b/lt+)

97 Interesting article over on Breitbart about how Rand Paul is already tying Hillary to Obama's foreign policy failures, including Libya and Syria, which can sink her. Hillary of course has already started to try and distance herself. Her spin is that if we had only followed her plan to give more support to the moderate rebels in Syria, all would be well. Truth is that the USA was arming Syrian rebels without distinction until ISIS broke out. Holy Shit Headline waiting to happen is that the USA funneled arms through Benghazi to the Syrian rebels, including ISIS, in a CIA operation that used the State Dept as cover. Hillary also has exposure for going along with Obama's "blame the video" spin for the Benghazi attack before his 2012 re-election. For Rand Paul, it's an interesting stratagem.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 27, 2014 04:44 PM (EPEqj)

98 Like Obama, I'm pretty disappointed in this planet.

Posted by: jwest at August 27, 2014 04:44 PM (u2a4R)

99 And back on topic, most Presidents have hired with a bias towards competency. They were more interested in having advisors that were knowledgable, than being surrounded by yes men. In this administration, the most important qualifications are working on Barack's campaigns and hopefully acting as a chauffeur. (And I think we can now stop talking about the incompetence of Boomers. At least we know how to find things on a map).

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 27, 2014 04:44 PM (Lqy/e)

100 I loved it last night on O'Reilly when Kraut called obama a preening narcissist...

Posted by: helloit's me Donna and I know nuthink! at August 27, 2014 04:44 PM (9+ccr)

101
This is a result of elected an idiot who has never even ran a boy scout troupe to the Presidency.

Posted by: Vic at August 27, 2014 04:28 PM (T2V/1)

And if we didn't have a media system utterly controlled by Democrats, this would have been pointed out so many times in the Primary that he never would have even been selected.

Again I say the greatest threat to this nation lies in the fact that we have one party control of the information stream.

Posted by: D-Lamp at August 27, 2014 04:44 PM (txvbW)

102 BTW - that is exactly how the Daily Kooks kids explain it...

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 27, 2014 04:44 PM (b/lt+)

103 I'm still on the fence about Marie Harf...
Her rhetoric is to larf
If I had the chance
To assume the right stance
I might tie her up with a scarf.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 27, 2014 04:45 PM (Ec6wH)

104 89 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 27, 2014 04:43 PM (1Mxs7)

Considering what Harry Hopkins, Henry Wallace and the State Dept. gave away at Yalta, it's amazing it didn't.

Then again, my mother thought we should've just let the Russians take all of Europe in '45. She was right. We might have had a continent of people more appreciative of Reagan tearing down the wall instead of just the Eastern Bloc.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2014 04:46 PM (CMkNk)

105 Too big to fail?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 27, 2014 04:46 PM (HVff2)

106 His failures were always explainable.

He lived and continues to live in a world of theory. Not reality.

In theory Communism is wonderful. In reality it is a power grab that keeps the masses down.

Kinda like Islam, in theory its a peaceful religion. In reality it is a excuse for barbarians to pretend its the 12th century.

Just in case Big brother is watching.

Posted by: Fox at August 27, 2014 04:46 PM (DVC2D)

107 Too big to fail?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 27, 2014 04:46 PM (HVff2)

108 ...from the article "
"He thought he could change the tenor more easily than he could, and I think he thought the world would be more responsive to his desires than the world has proven to be," said Jon B. Alterman, senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
And that, people, is Obama, and why we inexorably a re down the Rabbit Hole into Wonderland. Which was a dystopian nightmare, incidentally. For the literary minded, read Peter Pan, another dark tale. Obama stars in that one.

Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2014 04:46 PM (YEQ2h)

109 I read nothing but glowing reviews of President Boyfriends appearance at the American Legion in my local fishrag

He talked like a fag and his shit was all retarded.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 27, 2014 04:47 PM (mx5oN)

110 Too big to fail?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 27, 2014 04:47 PM (HVff2)

111 Too big to fail?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 27, 2014 04:47 PM (HVff2)

112 ...from the article "
"He thought he could change the tenor more easily than he could, and I think he thought the world would be more responsive to his desires than the world has proven to be," said Jon B. Alterman, senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
And that, people, is Obama, and why we inexorably a re down the Rabbit Hole into Wonderland. Which was a dystopian nightmare, incidentally. For the literary minded, read Peter Pan, another dark tale. Obama stars in that one.

Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2014 04:47 PM (YEQ2h)

113 You know, the Bubonic plague was such a piker as a scurge. Up to 75% fatality rate. I believe I can and am doing better at around 90%. Get primed baby. I am coming and you have fucking Elmer Fudd as President.

Posted by: EBOLA commin' for YOUR ass at August 27, 2014 04:47 PM (xWW96)

114 >>He is an academic... ie... all theory, no practical application.

This.

Posted by: Dr Spank at August 27, 2014 04:47 PM (P1WNR)

115 For Rand Paul, it's an interesting stratagem.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 27, 2014 04:44 PM (EPEqj)

Rand Paul is positioning himself so far to the left on Foreign Policy he may as well run as a Democratic on an Isolationist platform. He is a trouble maker and no help to the "cause"

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2014 04:47 PM (nzKvP)

116 I don't know how to take this
I don't see why he moves me
He's a
man
He's just a man
And I've had so many
Men before
In very many
ways
He's just one more

Posted by: MSM Magdalene at August 27, 2014 04:47 PM (3ZtZW)

117 Nevergiveup,
I was hoping that was a joke but knowing you it's not.

Republicans better get their act together if they win senate majority & Jeff Sessions should be Senate Leader.

Posted by: Carol at August 27, 2014 04:48 PM (sj3Ax)

118 105 Posted by: Insomniac at August 27, 2014 04:47 PM (mx5oN)

Walk like a fag,
Putt like a fag - - -

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2014 04:48 PM (CMkNk)

119 Obama is not, and never was, an academic.

He was a lecturer. Briefly. When Chicago was ordered from on high to give him a lecturer gig.

Obama is not a clever or deep thinker. He's never done a bit of original academic scholarship.

He likes to think of himself as an academic. The way former high school athletes like to think of themselves as having been one step from going pro if it hadn't been for that injury.

He's not an academic. He just likes to imagine he was. And everybody plays pretend with him and goes along.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at August 27, 2014 04:48 PM (zwdxl)

120 All this President knows is the axiom of "Jaw, jaw, jaw"

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2014 04:48 PM (lbpNx)

121 64 Plenty of triples in this thread.
Posted by: dantesed at August 27, 2014 04:37 PM (88xKn)

The judge from Australia gives a solid 5.5 out of 6.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 27, 2014 04:48 PM (mx5oN)

122 Two years and three and a half months. I shudder at the evil these people have planned for us in that time.

Posted by: Soona at August 27, 2014 04:49 PM (nrZl8)

123 Posted by: Carol at August 27, 2014 04:48 PM (sj3Ax)

Not sure what you are referring to. Ya gotta give some reference. If your taking about Paul- not one bit- he is a menace

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2014 04:49 PM (nzKvP)

124 Most of us get disabused fairly early in life of the notion that the world will just hand us whatever we want. Maybe that's a "white privilege", I don't know.

Posted by: HR at August 27, 2014 04:40 PM (/kI1Q)

You didn't build that?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 27, 2014 04:49 PM (HVff2)

125
I had a feeling way back when that Rand was too much influence by Papa Luap.

I had hoped not, but he's done/said some dumbass shit of late.

And supporting McConnel and Susan Collins did not help his cause in my eyes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2014 04:49 PM (CMkNk)

126 Ebola has 60% fatality rate in this outbreak.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 27, 2014 04:50 PM (b/lt+)

127
I had a feeling way back when that Rand was too much influence by Papa Luap.

I had hoped not, but he's done/said some dumbass shit of late.

And supporting McConnel and Susan Collins did not help his cause in my eyes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2014 04:50 PM (CMkNk)

128
I had a feeling way back when that Rand was too much influence by Papa Luap.

I had hoped not, but he's done/said some dumbass shit of late.

And supporting McConnel and Susan Collins did not help his cause in my eyes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2014 04:50 PM (CMkNk)

129 I am now potentially involved, peripherally, in my co-worker's somewhat dire legal circumstances. He asked that I call his lawyer in the morning, tell her nothing but the truth about the circumstances of interest. I told him flat out that I would not lie, and he said he knew that. I tested him, asking if he wanted me to skip/add parts, and he responded correctly. Poor bastard ended up hooking up with crazy, 20 years younger than him, alcoholic, ex-besties with his daughter, it's killing him.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 27, 2014 04:50 PM (2cS/G)

130 I am now potentially involved, peripherally, in my co-worker's somewhat dire legal circumstances. He asked that I call his lawyer in the morning, tell her nothing but the truth about the circumstances of interest. I told him flat out that I would not lie, and he said he knew that. I tested him, asking if he wanted me to skip/add parts, and he responded correctly. Poor bastard ended up hooking up with crazy, 20 years younger than him, alcoholic, ex-besties with his daughter, it's killing him.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 27, 2014 04:51 PM (2cS/G)

131 The King has no Clothes and instead of admitting it when the little boy catastrophe dares exclaim it for all to hear, his syphocants try to change the fashion style to nouveau nude.

Posted by: Bob Belcher at August 27, 2014 04:51 PM (I8E0O)

132
I had a feeling way back when that Rand was too much influence by Papa Luap.

I had hoped not, but he's done/said some dumbass shit of late.

And supporting McConnel and Susan Collins did not help his cause in my eyes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2014 04:51 PM (CMkNk)

133 He's not an academic. He just likes to imagine he was. And everybody plays pretend with him and goes along.

^ this

And they invested, so they're invested in maintaining the charade. Their ego is bound up with propping up his. Potemkin villages all the way.

Posted by: Feh at August 27, 2014 04:51 PM (BaakT)

134 Why won't the world judge him using affirmative action standards? Isn't that how he got through Columbia?

Posted by: Dave at August 27, 2014 04:51 PM (7Bxvx)

135 Nevergiveup,
I was hoping that was a joke but knowing you it's not.

Republicans better get their act together if they win senate majority & Jeff Sessions should be Senate Leader.
Posted by: Carol at August 27, 2014 04:48 PM (sj3Ax)

Not sure what you are referencing? but if it is Paul, I am dead serious, he is a menace

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2014 04:52 PM (nzKvP)

136 Most of us get disabused fairly early in life of the notion that the world will just hand us whatever we want. Maybe that's a "white privilege", I don't know.

The world is more prone to kick the living shit out of you, laugh, piss on your broken body, then kick you some more.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 27, 2014 04:52 PM (mx5oN)

137 113 Posted by: EBOLA commin' for YOUR ass at August 27, 2014 04:47 PM (xWW96)

2008 = Elmer Gantry

2014 = Elmer Fudd

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2014 04:52 PM (CMkNk)

138 Oops, double post on wrong thread, that can't be good.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 27, 2014 04:53 PM (2cS/G)

139 Gimme a break, all this "after five years his failures are becoming evident.." BS. So, so many on the left (and to a lesser extent on the right, but Bill O is one) sound like the guy in the 53rd car of a 53 car pileup, waxing quixotic and mildly puzzled that someone in the 52nd car knew something bad was happening before they did. Most of us saw this guy coming from a mile away. Pfft.

Posted by: Daisy Cutter at August 27, 2014 04:53 PM (WS+CW)

140
Poor bastard ended up hooking up with crazy, 20 years younger than him, alcoholic, ex-besties with his daughter, it's killing him.

The Moron Way!

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 27, 2014 04:53 PM (JtwS4)

141 I'm having a difficult time determining who's the larger cock sucker, Obama or Boehner.

Posted by: Thin Veneer Of Civility at August 27, 2014 04:53 PM (XzRw1)

142 I've been cheating on you all day, ace. I feel so..........unclean

also I can't find my underwear. Maybe a new poem will smooth things out

Posted by: T. S. Elliot, alve and lecherous and frisky at August 27, 2014 04:53 PM (8CdUx)

143 @137

2016 = Elmer's Glue

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2014 04:53 PM (CMkNk)

144 129 I am now potentially involved, peripherally, in my co-worker's somewhat dire legal circumstances. He asked that I call his lawyer in the morning, tell her nothing but the truth about the circumstances of interest. I told him flat out that I would not lie, and he said he knew that. I tested him, asking if he wanted me to skip/add parts, and he responded correctly. Poor bastard ended up hooking up with crazy, 20 years younger than him, alcoholic, ex-besties with his daughter, it's killing him.
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 27, 2014 04:50 PM (2cS/G)

Holy fuck. He's not married to her is he?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 27, 2014 04:53 PM (mx5oN)

145 40 No doubt ready and excited about voting Libertarian! People skills!!!

National Review @NRO 2m
110 million: that's how many Americans now live in household that receive some form of welfare benefits. http://natl.re/1C2Nhzt

So if you you're libertarian you're the wrong type of conservative? Good to know. For the record, if iI'm say, Greek Orthodox, am I the wrong type of Christian? If say I am "other than white" am I the wrong race? The Dems are ALL going to vote for totalitarian bullshit without batting an eye, they don't give a shit. Why are so many of you folks bound and determined to run off people who share your same goals and beliefs? Does the "L" offend you? We vote R, -in what world does D= more personal freedom?

Posted by: Zhytamyr at August 27, 2014 04:54 PM (91nzM)

146 The blog is just fucking with us, or gone sentient.

Posted by: Dr Spank at August 27, 2014 04:54 PM (P1WNR)

147

Sh*t happens to dumbsh*ts who follow the maxim "Don't do stupid sh*t!"

Who woulda thunk?!?

Posted by: Beorn at August 27, 2014 04:54 PM (dGF4J)

148 No, not married.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 27, 2014 04:54 PM (2cS/G)

149 We're gonna need a bigger barrel.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 27, 2014 04:55 PM (D9/4G)

150 Remember when Obama honestly thought he was better than his staff at everything?

To continue the DND analogy, he thinks he's a Batman Wizard who can skillmonkey better than the Rogue, melee better than the Fighter, tank better than the Barbarian and be a better party face than the Bard. In application, though, he's the worst min-max'er ever. He wasted half his feats on Spring Attack. He has maxed out skill ranks in three kinds of Professions and Knowledge (Architecture). He took fucking Weapon Focus (Rays) because hey, +1!

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at August 27, 2014 04:55 PM (3H4Zj)

151 141 Posted by: Thin Veneer Of Civility at August 27, 2014 04:53 PM (XzRw1)

Don't know whose cock is bigger, but Boehner is definitely the sucker.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2014 04:55 PM (CMkNk)

152 Lace Wigs is now majority owner of Pixy?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2014 04:55 PM (lbpNx)

153 2010==the lesser of two evils

2014==the lesser of two weevils

Posted by: T. S. Elliot, alive and lecherous and frisky at August 27, 2014 04:55 PM (8CdUx)

154 Posted by: D-Lamp at August 27, 2014 04:42 PM (txvbW)

-----

yes

Posted by: Seems legit at August 27, 2014 04:55 PM (A98Xu)

155 also I can't find my underwear.

Fucking gnomes again.

Posted by: HR at August 27, 2014 04:56 PM (/kI1Q)

156 He's not an academic. He just likes to imagine he was. And everybody plays pretend with him and goes along.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at August 27, 2014 04:48 PM (zwdxl)

To me? An Academic is someone who produces nothing, not even original thoughts or theories... but parrots what others have said, to 'educate' others.

They have learned the theories... but often do not really understand the theories, or their consequences.

Had a Calculus teacher in College who was an academic... she could DO the math... but when asked what you would use this FOR... she could not answer.... even though Calc is designed as a shortcut for Newtonian Physics...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 27, 2014 04:56 PM (f0pWu)

157 Anyone else having trouble loading the web page.

Posted by: dantesed at August 27, 2014 04:56 PM (88xKn)

158
He's not an academic. He just likes to imagine he was. And everybody plays pretend with him and goes along.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at August 27, 2014 04:48 PM (zwdxl)

That is exactly what I was going to say. He's a pretend academic. He has never done a fucking bit of actual work in his whole sorry life.

Well, except perhaps for that gig he had back at Baskin Robbins in the 1970s.

Posted by: D-Lamp at August 27, 2014 04:56 PM (txvbW)

159 130 I am now potentially involved, peripherally, in my co-worker's somewhat dire legal circumstances. He asked that I call his lawyer in the morning, tell her nothing but the truth about the circumstances of interest.

This having you call his lawyer stuff is not ideal. Is co-worker a threat to himself?

Posted by: Furious George, not minding his own business at August 27, 2014 04:56 PM (UlJ3l)

160 yes.. trouble loading after commenting.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 27, 2014 04:56 PM (b/lt+)

161 I am Ziaire ebolvirus, and I average 90%. Only the best for Chicago.

Posted by: EBOLA commin' for YOUR ass at August 27, 2014 04:56 PM (xWW96)

162 This is the death of democracy
Welcome to the idiocracy
A new and modern society
A clusterfuck of catastrophe
Common sense down the drain
Madness is the new sane
Some pot to numb your brain
Thought control by blocking pain
Cameras everywhere all in the sky
Hatchetman taxman telling lie
Politicians' fingers in cronies' pie
And for you, submit or die.

Posted by: Cato at August 27, 2014 04:56 PM (3HxZe)

163 Obama is like a decent high school player who's well-connected Dad pulled strings and got him a tryout with the Yankees. So the Yankees humored his Dad and let the kid have a few at bats during spring training.

And now it's 30 years later and the grown up kid won't shut up about his "time in the bigs" and "here's how we did it at the Yankees" and "as a former pro player myself".

No, asshole, you never were a pro. You never had a real at-bat. You were just a smug little well-connected prick that other people called in favors for. Go fuck yourself.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at August 27, 2014 04:57 PM (zwdxl)

164 Now that the bloom is off the rose, I'm also hearing from the left, "We thought Obama was a true progressive but it turns out he's just another conservative phony."

Posted by: The Great White Snark at August 27, 2014 04:57 PM (sNHGC)

165 148 No, not married.
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 27, 2014 04:54 PM (2cS/G)

Thank God for that. What's the legal situation, if you don't mind my asking?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 27, 2014 04:57 PM (mx5oN)

166 Anyone else having trouble loading the web page.
Posted by: dantesed at August 27, 2014 04:56 PM (88xKn)

*****

Oh, yeah. Pixy must have gone on a bender. Bad today.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 27, 2014 04:57 PM (ojnk6)

167 Walk like a fag,
Putt like a fag - - -

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2014 04:48 PM (CMkNk)

----

Haaaaaayyyyyy...... THAT'S not how the song goes...

Posted by: Frankie Vali at August 27, 2014 04:57 PM (NaV4z)

168 Poor bastard ended up hooking up with crazy, 20 years younger than him, alcoholic, ex-besties with his daughter, it's killing him.

Definitely wear gloves.

Posted by: Theodore Rex at August 27, 2014 04:57 PM (H1SkR)

169
Again, stupid shit didn't just happen. Obama *caused* ISIS.

It wasn't just because we didn't arm the right ragheads early enough, either.

He refused to negotiate a status of forces agreement so that he could keep his campaign promise of "ending the war in Iraq". The war didn't care about his campaign promise and kept warring. He left a vacuum. Realpolitik abhors a vacuum.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 27, 2014 04:57 PM (JtwS4)

170 157 Anyone else having trouble loading the web page.
Posted by: dantesed at August 27, 2014 04:56 PM (88xKn)

Doesn't begin to describe the crap on this end.

Posted by: tubal at August 27, 2014 04:58 PM (YEQ2h)

171 Whoa! JJ bangs an in the park home run!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2014 04:58 PM (9ROAW)

172 If Obama isn't an academic why is every policy and action he pushes simpatico with academia?

Posted by: Dr Spank at August 27, 2014 04:58 PM (P1WNR)

173 "Remember when Obama honestly thought he was better than his staff at everything?"

This clinched it for me. From that point, I'd just tell people I thought Obama was an ass.

Posted by: Feh at August 27, 2014 04:58 PM (BaakT)

174 Posted by: Lincolntf at August 27, 2014 04:50 PM (2cS/G)

----

Yikes.

Can you say generally why there would be a lawsuit?

Posted by: Seems legit at August 27, 2014 04:58 PM (A98Xu)

175 "He thought he could change the tenor more easily than he could, and I think he thought the world would be more responsive to his desires than the world has proven to be,"

... what ? He thought the World would be easier than dealing with the Republicans ?

I pity the fool

Posted by: Islamic Rage Dude at August 27, 2014 04:58 PM (q2b5x)

176 O/T: There's a Marquette poll out showing Walker down by two points (among likely voters, but he's up among registered voters). Any Wisconsin morons know WT actual F is up with their state? Too much Leinenkuegel's?

Posted by: The Lost Dutchman at August 27, 2014 04:59 PM (WDCYi)

177 He speaks his platitudes with the zest of a man who thinks his audience is hearing all this for the first time, and he thinks his Magic Words can move mountains.

I have an idea for the title of his post-Presidential biography: The 50-year-old Sophomore. It can star Steve Carrell in blackface.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 27, 2014 04:59 PM (J0IP0)

178 This explains Obama's failures as well as anything else: He speaks his platitudes with the zest of a man who thinks his audience is hearing all this for the first time, and he thinks his Magic Words can move mountains.

And he has no Plan B for when this fails.

And this fails always.

Yep.

Obama's thinking is micron deep.

These are the "self-evident truths" of the subtard lib.

His thinking probably hasn't changed since he first tried choom and got...uh, an alternative experience from Uncle Frank.

He's never engaged the real world of working men and women because as an Affirmative Action dahling he's never had to.

So, people nod and smile at his stupid blandishments and he mistakes this for recognition of his genius.

And yet, people actually voted for this nothing, so -

we're here because we're here because we're here because we're here...

Posted by: naturalfake at August 27, 2014 04:59 PM (0cMkb)

179 I'll go with what Rush said awhile back. This country can survive the Baraka preznitsey. What it can't survive is a population that elected him....twice.

Posted by: Soona at August 27, 2014 04:59 PM (nrZl8)

180 Internet acting wonky. Aliens using our communications net to coordinate their countdown to . . . checkmate?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 27, 2014 04:59 PM (JO9+V)

181 "Posted by: Lincolntf at August 27, 2014 04:51 PM (2cS/G)"

Maybe he'll get lucky and it was all in his head, like Patrick Bateman after he makes that tearful yet hilarious phone confession to his lawyer.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at August 27, 2014 04:59 PM (3H4Zj)

182 This having you call his lawyer stuff is not ideal. Is co-worker a threat to himself?

Posted by: Furious George, not minding his own business at August 27, 2014 04:56 PM (UlJ3l)

Posted by: flounder at August 27, 2014 04:59 PM (sDapq)

183
Actually, Lincolntf, lawyer might be the wrong call.

All that advice you got about shovels, a tarp and some lime earlier?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 27, 2014 04:59 PM (JtwS4)

184 But the key is attacking Obama's fake academic story hurts him. Cause it's important to his self___.

Harvard Law Professor. That's what he told the world. That's what he tells himself. Even though every word is bullshit. And somewhere, deep inside, he knows it. And so do his media backers.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at August 27, 2014 05:00 PM (zwdxl)

185 This having you call his lawyer stuff is not ideal. Is co-worker a threat to himself?

Posted by: Furious George, not minding his own business at August 27, 2014 04:56 PM (UlJ3l)
Incarcerated?

Posted by: flounder at August 27, 2014 05:00 PM (sDapq)

186 I understand Zero's inaction. Since all he knows is stupid shit, he is pretty well limited in what he can do without violating his own policy.

Posted by: maddogg at August 27, 2014 05:00 PM (xWW96)

187 Spank, they're not simpatico. All the lefty profs I know now think Obama is a crony capitalist opportunistic war monger who is far too kind to those pesky Joos.

They are beyond hope, in every sense.

Posted by: Feh at August 27, 2014 05:00 PM (BaakT)

188 Poor bastard ended up hooking up with crazy, 20
years younger than him, alcoholic, ex-besties with his daughter, it's
killing him.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 27, 2014 04:50 PM (2cS/G)

But I bet the sex was good, but expensive (in the long run) I bet.

Posted by: D-Lamp at August 27, 2014 05:01 PM (txvbW)

189 "And he has no Plan B for when this fails."

Except to build a Police State and tell everyone to STFU at the point of a gun; Figuratively and literally.

Posted by: Daybrother at August 27, 2014 05:01 PM (1pKn9)

190 Bill Clintern was right. The guy is only qualified to fetch coffee for the adults in the room.

Posted by: Schwalbe: The Me-262 at August 27, 2014 05:01 PM (9Bdcz)

191 "No, asshole, you never were a pro. You never had a real at-bat. You were just a smug little well-connected prick that other people called in favors for. Go fuck yourself.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at August 27, 2014 04:57 PM (zwdxl)"

You mean like how every gym teacher in the country was *this* close to making the Steelers roster, but he blew out his knee in the preseason?

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at August 27, 2014 05:01 PM (3H4Zj)

192 So your friend did a Lolita? Actually call a lawyer you know first. Get their advice.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2014 05:01 PM (lbpNx)

193
180 Internet acting wonky. Aliens using our communications net to coordinate their countdown to . . . checkmate?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 27, 2014 04:59 PM (JO9+V)

Nah... they just found the Alien Porn sites...

Posted by: NSA at August 27, 2014 05:02 PM (f0pWu)

194 No, he's cool, but he's got an, ahem, unlucky streak with law enforcement throughout his 60 years. They're looking for a Prayer of Judgment, or something like that, by which this can all go away with a fine. My statement would bolster his claims as to why he hadn't disposed of the disassembled pistol found in his house when the cops had to come pick up psycho girlfriend. And they found a pot plant. And he's a felon. With pot and a "pistol".

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 27, 2014 05:02 PM (2cS/G)

195 171 Whoa! JJ bangs an in the park home run!
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2014 04:58 PM (9ROAW)

What? Where?

(**rounds the bases**)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2014 05:02 PM (CMkNk)

196 Usually I have to drink a lot to see double and quadruple -- but not today.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 27, 2014 05:02 PM (/OuIN)

197 119 Obama is not, and never was, an academic.

He was a lecturer. Briefly. When Chicago was ordered from on high to give him a lecturer gig.

Obama is not a clever or deep thinker. He's never done a bit of original academic scholarship.

He likes to think of himself as an academic. The way former high
school athletes like to think of themselves as having been one step from
going pro if it hadn't been for that injury.

He's not an academic. He just likes to imagine he was. And everybody plays pretend with him and goes along.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at August 27, 2014 04:48 PM (zwdxl)

Well said. I've made that point many times myself. He was no more a professor because he gave a few guest lectures (on how to use disparate impact to gouge special treatment for our dusky friends) than he is an MLB pitcher because he "threw" (sorta) out the first ball at the All-Star game.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 27, 2014 05:02 PM (SLea8)

198 "We thought Obama was a true progressive but it turns out he's just another conservative phony."

That one really annoys the fuck out of me.

Too much Leinenkuegel's?

Such a thing cannot be possible.

Posted by: HR at August 27, 2014 05:03 PM (/kI1Q)

199 Twoweeks, bitch.

Posted by: maddogg at August 27, 2014 05:03 PM (xWW96)

200 As Obama Offers "Don't Do Stupid Shit" Theory of Foreign Policy, His
Dwindling Band of Disciple-Defenders Offer "Shit Happens" Theory of
Geopolitics

The Obama Administration: in charge of everything, responsible for nothing.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 27, 2014 05:03 PM (SLea8)

201 Usually I have to drink a lot to see double and quadruple -- but not today.
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 27, 2014 05:02 PM (/OuIN)

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heh.... thought my scrollwheel on the mouse was busted....

Posted by: fixerupper at August 27, 2014 05:03 PM (NaV4z)

202 What? Where?

(**rounds the bases**)

Run Forrest, run!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2014 05:03 PM (9ROAW)

203 Twoweeks, bitch.

Posted by: maddogg at August 27, 2014 05:03 PM (xWW96)

204 More than 2 years to go, folks.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 27, 2014 05:04 PM (l3vZN)

205 162
This is the death of democracy

Welcome to the idiocracy

A new and modern society

A clusterfuck of catastrophe

Common sense down the drain

Madness is the new sane

Some pot to numb your brain

Thought control by blocking pain

Cameras everywhere all in the sky

Hatchetman taxman telling lie

Politicians' fingers in cronies' pie

And for you, submit or die.

Posted by: Cato at August 27, 2014 04:56 PM (3HxZe)

Excellent. I'm going to borrow that.

Posted by: D-Lamp at August 27, 2014 05:04 PM (txvbW)

206
Jesse Jackson should've cut his nuts off.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2014 05:04 PM (CMkNk)

207 Andrew Johnson @AndrewE_Johnson 11m
Before I could watch one of Russell Brand's videos where he rants about evils of corporations, I had to watch a Taco Bell commercial

Posted by: Tweet the Tweets at August 27, 2014 05:04 PM (zwdxl)

208
Jesse Jackson should've cut his nuts off.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2014 05:04 PM (CMkNk)

209 Yeah, it's acting wonky for me too. Taking forever to load...

Posted by: helloit's me Donna and I know nuthink! at August 27, 2014 05:04 PM (9+ccr)

210 180 Internet acting wonky. Aliens using our communications net to coordinate their countdown to . . . checkmate?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 27, 2014 04:59 PM (JO9+V)

There isn't a full eclipse today is there?

Posted by: /Referencing "The Strain" at August 27, 2014 05:04 PM (0cMkb)

211 Broseidon, *points at Lincolntf's story*

This is why writers hate reality, reality can come up with plots that are just pure gold or so over the top no one would believe it happened.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2014 05:04 PM (lbpNx)

212 194 No, he's cool, but he's got an, ahem, unlucky streak with law enforcement throughout his 60 years. They're looking for a Prayer of Judgment, or something like that, by which this can all go away with a fine. My statement would bolster his claims as to why he hadn't disposed of the disassembled pistol found in his house when the cops had to come pick up psycho girlfriend. And they found a pot plant. And he's a felon. With pot and a "pistol".
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 27, 2014 05:02 PM (2cS/G)

I agree with AnnaPuma. This sounds pretty touchy. You should talk to your own lawyer to avoid stepping on your dick.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 27, 2014 05:05 PM (mx5oN)

213 When I think of the the crying, the fainting, the Nobel Prize, the pants creases, Bechloss saying "the smartest President ever!"It's truly a mass hysteria. Does anyone know what it's called when a large mass of people go ape shit?

http://tinyurl.com/ykao869

Posted by: Seems legit at August 27, 2014 05:05 PM (A98Xu)

214 "Rand Paul is positioning himself so far to the left on Foreign Policy he may as well run as a Democratic on an Isolationist platform. He is a trouble maker and no help to the "cause"" I'm not so sure. He may be closer to the middle of American public opinion than you think, and foreign policy may turn out to be Hillary's biggest vulnerability. I'm a fan of Sarah's, who said about Syria way back, that we should butt out, not pick a side, and let Allah sort it out. We also should have kept a residual force in Iraq like we have in South Korea. To pull out prematurely was boneheaded. We should never have invaded Iraq, but once we broke it we owned it. Don't do stupid shit can be a strategy.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 27, 2014 05:05 PM (EPEqj)

215 205 Posted by: D-Lamp at August 27, 2014 05:04 PM (txvbW)

To the tune of "Highway to Hell."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2014 05:05 PM (CMkNk)

216 Goodbye for a while, pixels. Off to sleep outdoors for a few days.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 27, 2014 05:05 PM (JtwS4)

217 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2014 05:01 PM (lbpNx)

Agree, I think the general rule is never call lawyers unless you personally need one, and then call the best one you can find!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 27, 2014 05:06 PM (o3MSL)

218 Posted by: D-Lamp at August 27, 2014 05:04 PM (txvbW)

Thanks, and feel free.

Posted by: Cato at August 27, 2014 05:06 PM (3HxZe)

219 Who could have guess a FP led by the clowns from CAP would be a disaster?

Posted by: Jean at August 27, 2014 05:06 PM (TETYm)

220
I thought my computer was coughing up a hairball too.

Ace, please, for the love of Mike, get a new format.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2014 05:06 PM (CMkNk)

221 Well, at least he's been able to get the earths fever to break and temperatures decline.

There's tha, at leastt, even if every other thing is seriously fucked up: war, poverty, disease, government management debacle after management debacle, social compact smashed to smithereens...

Posted by: MTF at August 27, 2014 05:06 PM (6um35)

222 "211 Broseidon, *points at Lincolntf's story*

This is why writers hate reality, reality can come up with plots that are just pure gold or so over the top no one would believe it happened.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2014 05:04 PM (lbpNx)"

If a time-traveler told me back in 2000 what would have happened during the next 14 years, I'd have thought he was feeding me a bad Tom Clancy novel.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at August 27, 2014 05:07 PM (3H4Zj)

223

*twoweeks*

Posted by: maddogg at August 27, 2014 05:07 PM (xWW96)

224 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2014 05:05 PM (CMkNk)

I didn't even consider that when I wrote it. Brilliant.

Posted by: Cato at August 27, 2014 05:08 PM (3HxZe)

225 Does anyone know what it's called when a large mass of people go ape shit?

Spring Break?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2014 05:08 PM (U9iRr)

226 You mean like how every gym teacher in the country was *this* close to making the Steelers roster, but he blew out his knee in the preseason?

--

Exactly. Obama's the academic version of the aging high-school jock still wearing his Letterman jacked in his 50s and talking about his Glory Days.

Except in his case he has a media-industrial complex repeating his delusions.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at August 27, 2014 05:09 PM (zwdxl)

227 When I think of the the crying, the fainting, the Nobel Prize, the pants
creases, Bechloss saying "the smartest President ever!"It's truly a
mass hysteria. Does anyone know what it's called when a large mass of
people go ape shit?
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And how many of them know that he ate a dog?

Posted by: mrp at August 27, 2014 05:09 PM (JBggj)

228 I'm dropping my screen name tonight on the ONT. Be there suckas

Posted by: Truman North, Moron Emeritus at August 27, 2014 05:09 PM (afFs2)

229 I wonder if Obama will suddenly find the liberals aren't talking to him or returning his calls in 2017?

Yes. It will start happening with black leaders. When they don't have to defend him anymore, he'll be a joke.

I could be wrong, but then he'd destroy the Democrat party, where all of their energy would be spent trying to defend a man long out of office. I just think they have too much discipline for that.

By the way, the Clintons avoided some of this by keeping Hillary in office.

Posted by: AmishDude at August 27, 2014 05:09 PM (L2xDv)

230 So, people nod and smile at his stupid blandishments and he mistakes this for recognition of his genius.

And yet, people actually voted for this nothing, so -

we're here because we're here because we're here because we're here...

Posted by: naturalfake at August 27, 2014 04:59 PM (0cMkb)

I've been saying for years that he's Chance Gardner. He's Mr. Magoo. He's Agent Double aught Jethro Bodine. He's Inspector Clousea. He's Maxwell Smart. He's Forest Gump.

He is an ignorant dumbass that happened to be in the right place at the right time, and that stupid people think of as a genius.

Posted by: D-Lamp at August 27, 2014 05:09 PM (txvbW)

231 Has the media come up with a plan to divide the Presidency in two like they did in the late 70's?

The President to focus on foreign affairs and a "Prime Minister" type that would be all about domestic policy.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper formerly MrCaniac at August 27, 2014 05:09 PM (+Fae7)

232 >>""He thought he could change the tenor more easily than he could, and I
think he thought the world would be more responsive to his desires than
the world has proven to be,"

Um, pretty sure that's also the result of him intentionally making us not a super power, just another country.

You want us to no longer be the world police, just keep our imperialist noses (and military) out of everyone's business?

Great! Don't expect anyone to actually listen to your advice then,

Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2014 05:10 PM (D/504)

233 If a time-traveler told me back in 2000 what would have happened during the next 14 years, I'd have thought he was feeding me a bad Tom Clancy novel.

----------

The very idea that the first new president after 9/11 would have the middle name Hussein is still utterly mind-boggling to me.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 27, 2014 05:10 PM (EYhhH)

234 I'm sorry Nevergiveup,
I was commenting on SCOAMF suing city about mosque.

Posted by: Carol at August 27, 2014 05:10 PM (sj3Ax)

235
215 205 Posted by: D-Lamp at August 27, 2014 05:04 PM (txvbW)

To the tune of "Highway to Hell."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August

That would mean paying copyright fees to possibly a leftie and we couldn't have that.

I know, I know, let it go

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 27, 2014 05:10 PM (HVff2)

236
Just scrolled back up a bit.

FUCKING PIXY!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2014 05:10 PM (CMkNk)

237 "Exactly. Obama's the academic version of the aging high-school jock still wearing his Letterman jacked in his 50s and talking about his Glory Days.

Except in his case he has a media-industrial complex repeating his delusions.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at August 27, 2014 05:09 PM (zwdxl)"

He's Al Bundy, except without any of the humor or pathos. And the saddest part? He's lying about his 4 TD game in High School. He was really just the waterboy.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at August 27, 2014 05:11 PM (3H4Zj)

238 235 That would mean paying copyright fees to possibly a leftie and we couldn't have that.

I know, I know, let it go
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 27, 2014 05:10 PM (HVff2)

In show biz, you steal shit. It's the Hollywood way.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 27, 2014 05:11 PM (CMkNk)

239 Does anyone know what it's called when a large mass of people go ape shit?

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#Ferguson

Posted by: fixerupper at August 27, 2014 05:11 PM (NaV4z)

240 Does anyone know what it's called when a large mass of people go ape shit?

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#Ferguson

Posted by: fixerupper at August 27, 2014 05:12 PM (NaV4z)

241 Does anyone know what it's called when a large mass of people go ape shit?

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#Ferguson

Posted by: fixerupper at August 27, 2014 05:12 PM (NaV4z)

242 "the smartest President ever!"

Notwithstanding that his transcripts are much more secret than A-bomb plans, and are buried deeper than whale shit, we know he's not particularly bright. We know the results of the National Merit program back when in the relevant period for our Messiah. Not only was he not a National Merit Finalist, he wasn't a Semi-Finalist, nor even did he get an Honorable Mention. He just got "Another Shithead Who Took Exam and Got Reamed Out On It" award.

I have no doubt that many on this site are considerably brighter than our dusky Lord and Master.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 27, 2014 05:12 PM (SLea8)

243 "Mysterious forces conspired against [Obama], terrible setbacks occurred for no reason"

There was a wonderful, but sadly since removed, video on YouTube.

Someone had taken Obama's list of lame excuses for his failed policies, and intercut it with John Belushi as Jake Blues from _The Blues Brothers_, "explaining" why he hadn't shown up for his wedding to Carrie Fisher.

Now, whenever I hear the Obama excuse blather starting up, what I hear in my head is, "Someone stole my car! There was an earthquake! A terrible flood! LOCUSTS!!!"

Posted by: torquewrench at August 27, 2014 05:12 PM (noWW6)

244 Does anyone know what it's called when a large mass of people go ape shit?

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#Ferguson

Posted by: fixerupper at August 27, 2014 05:12 PM (NaV4z)

245 Not me did it!

Posted by: Family Circus at August 27, 2014 05:12 PM (yn6XZ)

246 192
So your friend did a Lolita? Actually call a lawyer you know first. Get their advice.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2014 05:01 PM (lbpNx)

You figured that 20 years younger meant a Lolita, while I merely assumed his friend was old enough that a 20 year old could be 20 years younger.

Posted by: D-Lamp at August 27, 2014 05:12 PM (txvbW)

247 Has the media come up with a plan to divide the Presidency in two like they did in the late 70's?

The President to focus on foreign affairs and a "Prime Minister" type that would be all about domestic policy.

Kinda like a Vice President?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2014 05:12 PM (U9iRr)

248 Broseidon, yeah. We even have the Ebola running loose.

And this lagging of the Internets. Good reason to go write.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2014 05:12 PM (lbpNx)

249 Does sound like Lincolntf's friends has fully broken in his pair of Bad Idea Jeans

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 27, 2014 05:12 PM (D9/4G)

250 I don't hire lawyers, I PM them, and I just did. The truth of the matter is that he DID keep it because of me, on some level. He found it, realized it was made by Harrington Richardson in Worcester, Ma and offered it to me. He even brought it, disassembled, to my house. I told him I didn't want him to leave it quite yet, until I'd figured out the marital/legal ins and outs of explaining it's presence. We discussed sending it to a gunsmith and me paying for it, but never did anything about it. I'm sure I've talked about this gun on the gun head, probably a year ago. The cops found it, still disassembled, in a bag, stuck between his bookshelves, after gf pointed it out to them. Heh ad spent all morning trying to talk her into going to the hospital/psych ward, she called the cops to be committed right after he left. December 26th last year.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 27, 2014 05:13 PM (2cS/G)

251 "Mysterious forces conspired against [Obama], terrible setbacks occurred for no reason"

There was a wonderful, but sadly since removed, video posted on YouTube.

Someone had taken Obama's list of lame excuses for his failed policies, and intercut it with John Belushi as Jake Blues from _The Blues Brothers_, "explaining" why he hadn't shown up for his wedding to Carrie Fisher.

Now, whenever I hear the Obama excuse blather starting up, what I hear in my head is, "Someone stole my car! There was an earthquake! A terrible flood! LOCUSTS!!!"

Posted by: torquewrench at August 27, 2014 05:13 PM (noWW6)

252 What's the line about high school jocks -- the older we get, the better we were.

At least most of the Al Bundy's of the world actually had some glory days. Obama wasn't even a high school star. He just was well-connected as shit.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at August 27, 2014 05:14 PM (zwdxl)

253 You really think he doesn't have a plan? The man with a university degree from Harvard and Columbia is NOT a genius?

He went to law school and majored in political science.

There is a reason why these fields exist and it is not to flunk out privileged prep-school kids.

Posted by: AmishDude at August 27, 2014 05:15 PM (L2xDv)

254 Smart diplomacy, the hallmark of Obama's foreign policy, basically called for the US to drop trou and grab its ankles. He also embraced the liberal concept that the US is responsible for the world's ills and so all would be better if we abandoned our traditional role as leader of the free world. So in the vacuum thus created various factions took advantage of the situation and now our dumbass in chief and his minions are startled this all happened. Liberals always think they are smarter than everyone else and when it is proven that the opposite is true they always try to blame powers beyond their control.

Posted by: Thresherman at August 27, 2014 05:15 PM (PzqoL)

255
First double comment since I don't know when.

Darn you pixy!!! Darn you to heck!

::: shakes fist, trudges morosely off to Barrel :::

Posted by: torquewrench at August 27, 2014 05:15 PM (noWW6)

256 The man rode the pine on a HS basketball team of asians. Anyone who could claim to have game after than is totally delusional.

Posted by: Theodore Rex at August 27, 2014 05:15 PM (H1SkR)

257 Why is everyone stuttering today?

KNOCK IT OFF!!

Posted by: Seems legit at August 27, 2014 05:15 PM (A98Xu)

258 Posted by: Ignoramus at August 27, 2014 05:05 PM (EPEqj)

I have a big problem with the "You broke it you own it!" theory, because as applied, it is more like "You sort of impaired it, so now you are responsible for the entire future of civilization!"

If you are going to break it, really break it so if the miscreants get feisty again, you have ample warning and can easily move in and break the s##t out of it again until they get the message"!

Of course, the kinder gentler thing makes this realistic approach a non-starter.

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 27, 2014 05:15 PM (o3MSL)

259 Why is everyone stuttering today?

KNOCK IT OFF!!