Archive for March, 2009
How are you spending Crazy Cult Saturday?
How are you spending Crazy Cult Saturday?
That’s not what Obama and his followers are calling it, but an Oprah by any other name doth still smell like sweat.
Instead of the obvious, aptly named Crazy Cult Saturday, Obamians dub today Pledge Project Canvass Day, where they will supposedly be out in force roaming the streets demanding brains Americans pledge allegiance to Obama and his reckless spending plans.
Americans are a funny bunch.
Often, they make incredibly bad decisions and embrace the most ridiculous things, like rollerdiscos. Legwarmers and cutoff shorts also come to mind. Mass hysteria ebbs and flows. People get caught up in something ridiculous, lose all reason, and propel bands like the Electric Light Orchestra to the dizzying top of the charts.
And then, people come to their senses and realize how stupidly they’ve been acting (and how impractical rollerskates actually are).
The Obama campaign tactics, propelled largely by the MSM, are wearing very thin. The hysteria and well-marketed delusion of his seemingly endless run for the White House has a decidedly un-American taint when packaged in Crazy Cult Saturday terms. Americans want to go see I Love You, Man or Watchmen this weekend. They want to go outside and enjoy the beginning of springtime with their friends and family. Perhaps there’ll be a barbeque somewhere (somewhere…delicious, that is).
People do not want to walk the streets being crazy and forcing others to pledge things.
That’s damn skippy.
And soooooooooooo 2008.
Us? We’re going to see Xanadu again here in Chicago before it closes next weekend, because we can’t get enough legwarmers and Cheyenne Jackson in cutoff shorts, and never turn down a free ticket to anything, but especially not a ROLLLLLLLLERDISCO.
Why does the White House lie so much?
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner lied all this week about when he knew about the AIG bonuses: he says he found out on March 10th, but there’s footage of Geithner appearing before Congress on March 3rd talking about the AIG bonuses.
White House Press Secretary Gibbs (Secret Service codename: Matrix) continues to lie about when Geithner knew what he knew, and why everyone has such a hard time telling the truth about it.
At one point, Gibbs offers a reporter a dollar to get him to stop talking about this.
A dollar.
As if he was at the Lucky Horseshoe on Halsted on a Tuesday night, and had no concept that it takes at least a $5 to get the attention of anyone as moderately hot as Mr. Brown-Haired NBC Reporter Man.
A dollar.
And the Treasury Secretary not only lies about deliberately not paying his taxes, but also about when he and others in the Obama Administration asked willing accomplice Chris Dodd to sneak an amendment into Obama’s Trillion Dollar Spending Bill to guarantee AIG execs kept their bonuses.
Dodd, it must be noted, didn’t ask for a single dollar for his complicity. Instead, he was paid in Raisinettes.
Still no word on whether it was Harry Reid, Daniel Inouye, or Max Baucus who ACTUALLY had the final say on slipping that amendment in, though, as Dodd was not allowed in the room when that happened (he was, instead, apparently holed up in a third floor janitor’s closet with previously-mentioned Raisinettes and the daunting challenge to, at last, cram an entire glutton-sized bag into his mouth in one go, thus breaking his personal record and tying his previous accomplishments with Skittles, back in 1985).
Hope!
Change!
Lies!
Raisinettes!
Day Two: Obama-Special Olympics Bowl-Off Challenge Watch
On March 20th, 2009, Special Olympian Kolan McConiughey bravely stood up and called Obama out for making fun of the Special Olympics and Americans with special needs (whom he “jokingly” referenced as “Waterheads”) on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno; Coniughey, a talented bowler, challenged Obama to an Obama-Special Olympics Bowl-Off in the White House.
Obama, in his rush to escape an unfavorable news cycle for seclusion at Camp David, has thus far refused comment on the Bowl-Off. The Special Olympics, founded by the extended Kennedy family, has called for Obama to hire a Special Olympian to work in Obama’s Administration. We believe the first thing Obama needs to do is to be a man and accept McConiughey’s Bowl-Off Challenge.
We will continue to call for an Obama-Special Olympics Bowl-Off until it happens. Whatever you can do to add your voice to this, and to elicit the help of the national media and elected officials to convince Obama to do the right thing and accept the Bowl-Off Challenge (perhaps as a televised fundraiser for the Special Olympics), would be a great help.
The White House is unusually suited for such a Bowl-Off, currently possessing not one, but TWO bowling lanes.
There’s this one, a single lane, that’s tucked under the driveway of the North Portico in the basement:
And then there’s a second, two-lane bowling alley in the Old Executive Office Building (which was moved from the White House proper in 1955 to make way for a cutting edge, state-of-the-art, miracle of science Mimeograph Room):
President Truman had the original two-lane White House bowling alley installed in 1947, so visiting veterans to the White House could have somewhere to relax and have a good time while visiting the Commander-in-Chief.
During the 2008 Democratic primaries, Obama embarrassed himself in Pennsylvania by bowling a meager 129. Ellen Degeneres set up a bowling alley on her eponymous daily gabfest, which Hillary Clinton took a roll at, after ribbing Obama about his bowling prowess in a memorable April Fool’s “bowling for delegates” bit:
DNC and RNC Fundraising Totals Released for February
February fundraising totals have been released for both parties.
Michael Steele is doing a successful job as RNC Chair. People we know here in Chicago have had the chance to meet Steele, and tell us he’s a terrific guy. He’ll be in Chicago in April, and hopefully we’ll have the chance to meet him too, and will let you know what we think as well. Some here feel Steele could very well end up being the GOP VP pick in 2012 (something we, personally, would love to see on a Palin/Steele ticket).
The GOP raised $5.1 million in February, for a cash-on-hand total of $24 million, with no debt.
The DNC, under Tim Kaine, raised just $3.26 million, for a cash-on-hand total, after debt, of $1.7 million.
Kaine’s offering many excuses for his performance, including “being busy”, and not yet using Obama’s campaign email list to solicit funds (which sounds borderline unconstitutional, as the “Organizing for America” business Obama talks about is the first time in history a sitting US President has maintained a perpetual campaign organization loyal only to himself, operating in concert with the White House as a cult of personality. By law, the DNC and White House must be separate identities, so when, if ever, Kaine does utilize Obama’s de facto campaign apparatus to raise funds, we hope legal challenges are made, since there MUST be a valid reason why no president in history, and no DNC Chair in history, as ever handled things like this before).
Obama's profound ignorance offers "teachable moment" for us all
The people at Special Olympics are asking that we all take a moment and learn from what Obama did on The Tonight Show last night.
Obama’s profound ignorance and insensitivity to others offers a “teachable moment” for all Americans.
As we read the reaction to families of special needs Americans, and many who have participated in the Special Olympics, one of the biggest things they talk about is eliminating the use of the ‘R-word’ from casual conversation. That’s one thing we can all do to make some good come from what Obama did. If you ever hear people use the ‘R-word’ (as a synonym for stupid, usually), talk to the person who used it and try to get them to understand why it’s not the best way to express themselves.
This can be touchy, and you don’t want to come off as a school marm, but in a positive and not offputting way just explain to the person how charged this word is, and how it’s best not to use it.
The other thing we want to encourage people to do, besides thinking of every way possible to convince the White House to host the Presidential Special Olympics Bowl Off, is to consider volunteering with Special Olympics near you.
Here’s a link to the Special Olympics page for North America, so you can checkout what opportunities are available for you in whatever state you live in. Next week, we’re going to see how we can get involved in Illinois, and will add this to the USO as an organization we support on a voluteer basis going forward.
Hillary Clinton inspired us to get involved with reading tutoring years ago, which some of us here have done since high school. John McCain inspired us to volunteer with the USO, which we have been doing since November. Today, Sarah Palin inspired us to make the Special Olympics a cause we’ll support from here on out as well.
The thing you always have to remember, is that when it comes to bullies and people like Obama, you can’t let their ignorance and complete disregard for others win. You really do have to use their insensitivity as a “teachable moment”, and make some good come from it to cancel all the bad they created.
So, the more we can all do to help the Special Olympics, the less Obama’s unfunny jokes will matter.
That’s the only way to ever make up for something like what Obama did yesterday.
The Official Seal of the Teleprompter of the United States
Here’s another good one here, via The Teleprompter’s official blog:
ACTION ITEM: All Hands On Deck! Your help needed to publicize Special Olympics Bowling Challenge to Obama!
People, Special Olympians everywhere need your help. Pick up the phone and start calling, or start faxing, every elected official you can think of to stand up for the men, women, and children Obama demeaned on Jay Leno last night.
For the next few weeks, we are going to drive this story with everything we have got — and we ask you to activate all of your friends, neighbors, family, message boards, and everyone else you know to help with this. All of us, from both sides of the aisle, need to come running when ANYONE with special needs is attacked by anyone in power, ESPECIALLY the President of the United States.
Shame on him.
On Thursday March 19th, Obama ridiculed the Special Olympics, then later made a derogatory reference that’s street slang for people with Down’s Syndrome. On The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Obama first compared his March 2008 bowling peformance in Pennsylvania to “something out of the Special Olympics”. Later, when Leno asked him about the dog he promised his daughters (but still hasn’t given them), Leno mistakenly called the dog a Portuguese Waterhead, instead of a Portuguese Waterdog. ”Waterhead” is urban slang for someone with a developmental disability, most usually Down’s Syndrome. Obama, always quick to inject urban slang in his press ops and other appearances, knew exactly what “waterhead” means in slang circles, laughed, then made another joke about the dog running around, looking ridiculous, bumping into things — which clearly implied a Portuguese Waterhead, as Leno called it, would be a dog with developmental disabilities that made it behave that way.
This was the absolute height of hilarity to Mr. Hope & Change.
On Friday March 20th, 2009, Special Olympians stood up demanding the respect from Obama they deserve. Colin McConiughey, a Special Olympian who has bowled THREE PERFECT 300 GAMES (!!!!) has challenged Obama to a bowling match.
There are actually two bowling alleys readily available to Obama just steps away from the Oval Office: a two-lane setup from the Truman days, and a private single lane Nixon installed.
Obama needs to accept McConiughey’s challenge and invite him and other Special Olympians to the White House for A SPECIAL OLYMPICS PRESIDENTIAL BOWL OFF.
Obama has flown to Camp David for yet another restful weekend. When he returns to Washington on Sunday or Monday, he will pretend like the slam against special needs Americans on Leno never happened. The Obama enabling media will refuse to report this story, and will not call for Obama to accept McConiughey’s challenge.
WE IMPLORE YOU to stand up for McCaoniughey, Special Olympians, and all Americans with special needs and make as much noise as you can to force Obama to accept this Bowl-Off Challenge.
Today, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the mother of a special needs son, called Obama out for his tasteless and insensitive jokes. We are inspired by Palin, who told the Emperor he has no clothes and spoke such truth to hubris. Start calling your Senators, Representatives, and Governors and tell them you are outraged Obama has not accepted McConiughey’s Bowl-Off Challenge.
Do whatever you can to encourage Rush, Greta, Joe Scarborugh, Hannity, Dennis Miller, Lou Dobbs, Michelle Malkin, Tammy Bruce, and others in the media to SPEAK OUT and demand Obama accept this Bowl-Off.
It’s something he doesn’t want to do, to be sure.
It’s something MSNBC, CNN, and the rest of his media enablers will refuse to report on.
But, it’s something that strikes a chord here with us — because, Heaven help anyone who picks on someone with special needs in our presence here in Chicago. One of us gladly took a punch for Trig Palin days before the election last year, standing up to a pack of arrogant pricks who were making fun of Trig’s Down’s Syndrome. We’ll take a punch for standing up for people with special needs any day of the week, and twice on Sundays.
This is personal, folks.
Some of us have special needs relatives. All of us have friends with special needs in their families. Kolan McConiughey is a brave, brave man to stand up and challenge the President of the United States to make amends for his gross, unpresidential insenstivitiy on national television by raising awareness of the Special Olympics with a PRESIDENTIAL BOWL OFF.
This should become an annual White House tradition from here on out.
What can you do to put heat on the White House, Congress, Governors, and the media to make this challenge a reality?
Battle Stations, Folks! For a cause coming straight from our hearts, to teach Obama the bully a sorely needed lesson in sensitivity, goodwill, manners, and sportsmanship.
Someone who goes to Camp David every weekend and hosts lavish dance parties in the White House every Wednesday certainly has time to bowl a game with Special Olympians in the convenience of the Executive Mansion.
The PEOPLE’S HOUSE…including those Obama mocks on The Tonight Show.
UPDATE: Maria Shriver, one of Obama’s early supporters in the primaries, has also called him out for his insensitivity today. Shriver, by way of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, may just be the key to making this Presidential Bowl Off Happen. Call the Governor’s office in Sacramento and tell everyone who answers the phone that Obama needs to accept the Special Olympics Bowl Off Challenge to make amends to all families with disabilities for his insensitivity on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. And, since Leno is so important to Obama, call NBC and the Tonight Show while you are at it and ask for their help in making this Presidential Bowl Off happen. Since Leno was involved in this, he should referee the Bowl Off, in addition to contributing a large donation to the Special Olympics and making the Bowl Off a fundraiser for the cause where all of Obama’s Hollywood supporters could write checks to make up for his insensitivity:
Governor Schwarzenegger’s Office: (916) 445-2841 FAX: (916) 445-4633
Jay Leno’s Booking Agent: (865) 546-0000
NBC Corporate Offices:
UPDATE: Special Olympics asks Obama to make amends by hiring at least one Special Olympian to work for the White House. We think this is a phenomenal idea — in addition to, not instead of, the Presidential Bowl Off. Two months into this Administration, many positions remain unfilled, and a Special Olympian in a visible position in the Administration would do wonders for showing the public what people with special needs can accomplish if given the chance. This needs to happen, ASAP. Right after the Bowl-Off.
Sarah Palin tells the Emperor he has no clothes; call her office and thank her for speaking truth to hubris
2012 can’t get here soon enough, because Sarah Palin without McCain’s handlers is a FORCE OF NATURE to be reckoned with.
“I was shocked to learn of the comment made by President Obama about Special Olympics. This was a degrading remark about our world’s most precious and unique people, coming from the most powerful position in the world. These athletes overcome more challenges, discrimination and adversity than most of us ever will. By the way, these athletes can outperform many of us and we should be proud of them. I hope President Obama’s comments do not reflect how he truly feels about the special needs community,” – Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, March 20th 2009
NOTE: We just called the Governor’s office in Anchorage to thank her for standing up for special needs families once again, and for not letting Obama get away with making jokes against participants of the Special Olympics. We continue to be proud supporters of Governor Palin. In fact, we’re more proud of her every day, and told her office that. We also told them, and we are dead serious about this, that we will be looking for ways here in Chicago in which we can volunteer to help the Special Olympics and its participants. And when we do, we’re going to wear buttons that say, SARAH SENT US.
God bless you, Sarah Palin. You make a bunch of snarky, jaded guys in Boystown tear up with gratitude that we’re so blessed in this world to have TWO amazing women with servant’s hearts we admire. You challenge us every day to be better men, and to stand up the way you do for people who deserve our love, respect, and support.
Go, Sarah Go!
We. Love. This. Woman.
If you do too, get on that phone and call Alaska and tell her office how much her strength and leadership means to you. Go ahead and tell them a bunch of gay, Hillary-loving, moderate Democrats in Boystown, Chicago think she’s the greatest and are willing to quit our jobs and campaign for her in 3 years if she’d run for national office. The second time in our lives that we’d vote Republican would be for SARAH PALIN. And that’s a promise, folks.
Anchorage Office (the one she works out of most days):
(907) 269-7450
What Obama's "I won" attitude looks like in relation to the performance of his administration
Serendipitously, the ping pong player in this clip reminds us of Obama and the “I won” attitude he carries himself with, especially when considering the performance of his administration thus far.
Watch the clip…and wait for it…wait for it…PRICELESS.
Just a quick question, but do you miss President Bush yet?
Do any of you miss President Bush, yet?
Either Dubya, or Poppy Bush, it doesn’t really matter at this point. Obama has a way of making us miss Nixon.
For all of his faults — which, we note, the man always admitted and took personal ownership of — George W. Bush never allowed anyone in his Cabinet to lie as shamelessly and poorly as Tim Geithner has been doing all week.
In 8 years, we cannot honestly recall a single instance of anyone claiming they were personally mistreated by Bush or offended by something he said. We also don’t remember him having to apologize for making fun of the mentally and physically disabled by telling insensitive jokes about the Special Olympics (or anything similar).
Can you remember Bush ever doing anything like that?
Yes, Bush did some bizarre, jokey things in office, especially at the beginning of his first term (like nicknaming everyone who came in contact with him, frat house style, and often jumbling his own nicknames so few in a room, including himself, knew who he was talking about after awhile).
But, he never made jokes about the disabled. He didn’t tolerate talentless liars in his administration.
And the man, for better or worse, could in fact interact well with people when TelePrompTers were nowhere in sight.
A flawed man, to be sure.
A complicated and controversial presidency, definitely.
But, a good man, who spoke in his own words, from his heart, who believed in and loved America and truly seemed to make everyone in a room with him feel relaxed and at ease — by poking fun at himself, and never at others, if he wanted to get a laugh.
We, as moderate Democrats, might have disagreed with 70-80% of what Bush did while in office, but Obama certainly makes us miss Dubya on days like yesterday.
