Archive for March, 2009
Dreams from his telemprompter
h/t Ace of Spades and MockBarack for this
Alaskans will chart their own course. Washington will not engineer it for them.
We. Love. This. Woman.
No, Mr. President, it is most certainly not like the Special Olympics
Tonight on Jay Leno, Obama embarrassed himself again, making a lame joke about his painfully low bowling score of 129 in Pennsylvania last March, claiming his performance in that bowling alley was “like the Special Olympics“.
Har, har, har.
The thing most Americans don’t realize, that we in Chicago who have seen Obama up close and personal for years know very well, is that this whole business about him being a “great communicator” is all a lot of apocryphal hype. Obama is no such thing. He is clumsy and awkward when not in front of a teleprompter and, because he’s never felt like he fits in anywhere, he very often makes painfully bad jokes in attempts to fit in.
He’s Steve Urkel in the lunch room, trying to sit at the table with all the popular kids, so he tells gross jokes and demeans others so he’s not the focus of the joking. He hits others so he doesn’t get hit, and deflects the awkwardness he feels on others.
In Springfield, state senators had regular poker games, at which Obama was notorious for telling gross, excrutiatingly vulgar jokes, or railing against the termagant he married. The things he used to say about Michelle at those poker games, while largely accurate by all accounts, are things husbands don’t say in public about their wives — no matter how much they want to get in good with all the other guys sitting around the table. Men don’t even talk like that in a locker room, or sitting together along a latrine. But, there he was, Obama the state senator, reveling in the same sexism and misogyny his campaign would gleefully employ to great success throughout 2008.
So, making jokes about the mentally and physically disabled, like he did on Jay Leno, doesn’t surprise us about Obama. This is who he is.
The media claims he’s something else. His campaign convinced many of you he’s something else.
But, this is who he is.
We’ve known a lot of men like this, unfortunately. To compensate for their own smallness, in whatever way they feel awkward and Urkelesque, they mock those weaker than them. And those with special needs are always a favorite target of these bullies.
All we can say is, John McCain wouldn’t be making jokes about the Special Olympics right now.
Hillary Clinton wouldn’t be making jokes about the Special Olympics right now.
Sarah Palin wouldn’t be making jokes about the Special Olympics right now.
George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, John Kennedy…Franklin Roosevelt…James K. Polk…Abraham Lincoln…Thomas Jefferson…George Washington never made jokes about the Special Olympics (or, before they existed, people with special needs in general).
Obama’s behavior on Jay Leno was, once again, very unpresidential.
One day, maybe the rest of the country will see him for who he truly is, and see him the way those of us in Chicago who’ve watched him for years know he truly is.
Steve Urkel with a teleprompter sums it up pretty well.
He is, and will always be, the guy on a bike, in a helmet, with his polo shirt tucked tightly into acid washed jeans, where each pump of the pedal reveals white socks in impossibly clean tennis shoes, the kind the kid picked last in gym class always wore.
And that kid, always picked on by others, became a man who picks on others whenever he needs to deflect attention from himself.
Hope!
Change!
Painful Predictability!
For people who still don't know what Facebook is
Patrick Duffy and some sort of Muppet explain Facebook.
Seriously.
Bailout money now going to send people to watch cartoons
Nicki Finke’s site, Deadline Hollywood Daily, is a must-read around here because it doesn’t really cover the entertainment world as much as it lifts up the rocks around Hollywood and examines in fine detail all the various insects and vermin scurrying behind the scenes– many of whom have strong political connections (such as Hollywood super agent Ari Emanuel, brother of former ballet dancer turned White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Secret Service code-named “Strawberry”).
Today, Finke uncovered a scheme to take part of the $45 billion in bailout money handed to Bank of America and funnel it into Dreamworks studios.
Specifically, this involves sending people to watch Monsters v. Aliens in 3-D by way of a Bank of America provided voucher, for the clear and expressed purpose of bumping up Dreamworks’ box office (and, thus, by extension stock price) for its opening day weekend.
Monsters v. Aliens? Sounds like a game of Scrabble between the Kennedys of Massachusetts and Pelosis of San Francisco (where HRH Princess Caroline proudly spells Armani or Prada for a triple word score, to great toasts of chilled chardonnay by all).
Here’s how the Bank of America scheme works:
(1) Dreamworks Animation President Lew Coleman = former Bank of America Vice Chairman and CFO Lew Coleman
(2) Bank of America received $45 billion in taxpayer bailout
(3) Bank of America is paying for upgrades to 3D viewings of Monsters v. Aliens
(4) In Chicago, 3D movie tickets cost about $5 more than seeing films at regular 2D screenings
(5) Bank of America is offering anyone with an email address an upgrade to 3D via its website
(6) Bank of America is subsidizing the 3D upgrade on opening weekend for Monsters v. Aliens, which helps Dreamworks’ box office take, and affects Dreamworks’ stock price as a publicly traded company
(7) Lew Coleman is using his former company, and taxpayer money, to make himself richer via increased value of his Dreamworks stock options after a large opening for Monsters v. Aliens
The reason we harp on Congress for not reading the Obama Trillion Dollar Spending Bill and not keeping a close eye on all the bailout billions floating around is because crooks like Lew Coleman are using all of that taxpayer money not to stimulate the economy, but to enrich themselves.
Every day, some new scheme like this is exposed.
And we haven’t even gotten into the boring, run of the mill, quid pro quo, mob-connected infrastructure and construction graft and corruption inherent in any pork project — of which Obama’s spending spree has tens of thousands of examples. None of which are as interesting as Bank of America diverting taxpayer dollars to subsidize cartoons, but they are as inventive as they are rampant, no doubt.
This is the change Obama brought to Washington, people.
Government subsidized 3D cartoons.
Hope!
Change!
Monsters!
Aliens!
Is Tim Geithner an orc?
We all know Tim Geithner is a lying, tax-cheating, incompetent, bumbling, toadying, national embarrassment, which is quite the feat considering this IS the country where Claire McCaskill, Bill Richardson, Chris Dodd, Ted and Caroline Kennedy, Tom Daschle, and Kathleen Sebelius live, forever raising the bar on what it means to be truly embarrassing.
But, is Tim Geithner more than just a lie-obsessed, truth-averse, tax cheat?
Is he also an orc?
The ears sort of give it away.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner admits he lied to Americans: now says he told Dodd to put bonus provision into spending bill
Less than two months into the job, Tim Geithner has proved to be the worst Treasury Secretary this nation has ever had.
He’s also a terribly inept liar.
For several days now, Geithner has been insisting he knew nothing about the AIG bonuses until just a short time ago, and was SHOCKED!, SHOCKED!, SHOCKED! by them. He had various excuses for not knowing what was going on with something he actually brokered back when he was head of the New York Federal Reserve, but the most unnerving was the dog-ate-my-homework line about being “overwhelmed and understaffed”, so the bonus issue didn’t make it to his desk in time for a proper response.
Then, when scrutiny finally fell on Chris Dodd yesterday for inserting an amendment into the Obama Trillion Dollar Spending Bill Democrats rushed through Congress without ever reading, Dodd came forward and admitted Geithner and the White House pressured him to shove the AIG bonus protection measure into the bill (more likely, someone just offered Dodd a glutton-sized bag of Raisinettes and the little porker squealed with delight).
Today, Geithner admits he’s been lying all week, and that he actually was the one who told Dodd to protect AIG’s bonuses.
Remember, Geithner is the man who lied about not paying taxes all those years, despite repeatedly signing legal documents acknowledging he needed to pay taxes on self-employment income while working for various financial institutions. But, Democrats forced his confirmation through the Senate, claiming only he could save us from economic ruin. Dodd was one of the loudest voices calling for Geithner’s smooth confirmation.
Repeatedly, Geithner proves himself to be an unstrustworthy liar. A tax cheat in charge of the IRS. A buffoon who changes his story every day.
He needs to resign. Immediately.
You need to call your Senators and Representatives and tell them to put pressure on the White House to make this happen.
Eric Holder plans on releasing Guantanamo detainees on US soil. Can they come live with you?
Attorney General Eric Holder plans on releasing Guantanamo detainees on US soil – apparently because he knows repatriating them to Bahrain, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Afghanistan means they will ultimately just sneak across our borders by way of England, Canada, or Mexico in a few years anyway, so this merely cuts to the chase.
Holder also believes Americans are cowards if they do not believe releasing terrorists on US soil is a good idea.
And you are all cowards if you don’t want to invite these terrorists to come and live with you.
There’s no word on how many terrorists will be living with Holder himself, but we assume, based on his comments about cowardice, that Holder should set a good example and invite at least a dozen terrorists to live with him.
Holder could engage these men in mustache-growing contests, of which he would surely win, or at least place second or third. Every morning before he leaves for work, they could all assemble in his bathroom and compare mustaches to see who has the best one. And then, while Holder’s hard at work at the Justice Department thinking of new ways to insult and belittle Americans while endangering national security by releasing terrorists into our midst, the detainees living with him will plot and scheme together just as they were taught to do in Al Queda training camps.
You are all cowards and racists if you don’t want to hold morning mustache growing contests with terrorists in your bathrooms too.
What's Hillary Clinton Doing Today? March 19th
230pm – Bilateral with Her Excellency Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Africa
8pm – 2009 Global Leadership Awards Events hosted by Vital Voices Global Leadership at the Kennedy Center
Go, Hillary, Go!
Kenya declares Obama's grandfather's land in Kogelo Nyang'omo a "national historic site"
Kenya has declared the land once owned by Obama’s grandfather to be a “national historic site”. Either a museum or a “cultural village” will be built there.
Chances are, it will be extra, extra crazy too and will most likely take on a theme park-esque atmosphere. This is what happens whenever anything American is translated into entertainment venues overseas, or when anything Western is turned into a profit center somewhere else in the world.
More likely than not, whatever’s built in Kenya to “honor” Obama will end up embarrassing him in some way – especially if Obama’s cousin, Raila Odinga, ever succeeds in overthrowing the US-backed secular government of Kenya and installing Shari’ah law there (as he tried to do in 2006). It is not hard to imagine “The Obama Historic Site” being used as anti-American propaganda by an Odinga government, which would certainly underscore the Alinsky methods and other incoveniently Marxist leanings of Obama in Chicago that the MSM decidedly ignored during the 2008 campaign.
