Look at the pic above. See the guy wearing the white suit with the blue shirt? Now see the blond with the white dress? See The Zero™ in the middle?
This picture was taken 6/9/05. It seems Obama has known these two phoneys for awhile, at least when he was a Senator.
They were getting all this press as being uninvited “party crashers” and the Secret Service is taking heat.
No wonder the couple who crashed Obama’s State dinner last week keep insisting they were invited guests…they know Barry from way back when he was still an Illinois Senator. Is Obama trying to throw the Secret Service under the bus?
Tareq and Michaele Salahi snapped the pic above with Obama at a “Rock The Vote” event on June 9, 2005 (also attended by John McCain, whom the Salahi’s also took a pic with).
McCain won an award for his work on campaign finance reform”. “Just call me Funk Master McCain,” he told the audience of 1,000 in accepting his award. Obama won an award for “forming a multiracial coalition in winning his seat”.
Michaele Salahi is getting quite a ribbing in the press for lying about being a Redskins cheerleader, but Tareq is the more interesting of the two to me. He has ties to Palestinian terrorists.
Tareq is a board member of the ATFP- American Task Force on Palestine, which has quickly scrubbed its site of the fact.
Today there is no mention of Tariq. Now why is that? And just who are the ATFP?
The ATFP has ties to Chicago, ties to Muslim radicals, ties to Hamas, and ties to Saudi Wahhabists. It is arguably the American wing of Hamas. The group’s co-founder is Rashid Khalidi, the guy purported to have helped finance Obama’s Harvard education and who was also instrumental in getting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at Columbia University.
During the Beruit war, Khalidi was a PLO spokesperson. After the war, he came back to teach at the University of Chicago. He is a virulent critic of Israel, and was a strong supporter of Fatah terrorist Yassar Arafat. Obama has referred to Khalidi as someone who challenges his “own biases.”
Why do the same dubious tentacles seem to continually surround Obama? The fact that the ATFP is scrubbing information on Salahi from their website suggests possible damage control coordination between the ATFP and the White House. If the ATFP was acting independently, there would be no reason to scrub Salahi’s name from their site.
It looks like Salahi was an invited guest to the dinner, that he was “outed” and the administration had to come up with a rational excuse for his presence.
Now the Salahis want to sell their story since they’re a little broke these days and are being sued for fraud and other crimes they allegedly committed in Virginia, but they still live very high on the hog.
The Secret Service has already apologized for the incident, but they may clear their names if the Salahis start singing. If someone with ties to the American wing of Hamas can get face to face with the President without the Secret Service realizing it, that is a major security lapse. However, if Obama’s people knowingly allowed Salahi in and are now throwing the Secret Service under the bus to cover themselves, that would be a major scandal.
Some Republicans in Congress are calling for an investigation, but as usual, the libtards are covering for The Zero™ and his wife. Funny how this has not come out in the state-controlled media, isn’t it? Something is VERY fishy in the White House, if you axe me…
Tags: Part Crashers
Does anybody know what these Salahis do for a living? Seems like they are professional moochers and wannabees
nice friends there, barry,
Shazam
If I have this right, BHO has the Black Eyed Peas in the photo with him
For a Rock the Vote Award that make sense, but why would the salahi’s
be posing?
I doubt that he will ever have to answer.
Does it ever end with this clown?
@ tunnelrat:
I believe something in horses, or wine. But they are having major money issues.
I want to know why the MSM goes on silent mode whenever discussing Rashid Khalidi.
Remember the LA Times going full quiet mode on his behalf?
It looks like Zero is eyeing the sun baked blond.
Gross OT/ Police hunt supermarket bottom sniffer
@ chickadee:
With all the talk in society about the connection between Government and Corporations, I would like an investigation into the connection between Government and “Hollywood”.
WrathofG-d wrote:
The Obamas used to consort with reglarity in Chicago with Khalidi & other terrorist financiers.
It was a vry hip University of Chicago circle that included Islamist supporters & generic radicals.
The MSM covers for him.
WrathofG-d wrote:
I wonder when they will quit protecting Zero. They are starting to look really bad by not covering stories that are getting out to the public through other means. It is obvious that the msm is comprised of shills and parasites.
WrathofG-d wrote:
How salacious that would be. We could start with Clinton.
@ chickadee:
I wonder when they will quit protecting Zero. They are starting to look really bad by not covering stories that are getting out to the public through other means. It is obvious that the msm is comprised of shills and parasites.
The MSM is heavily invested in Obama. They portrayed him as nothing less than a demi-god.
They are not about to concede their mistake to a rube like, well me.
If they had just provided honest coverage , without the spin of the Rev Wright connection, we would probably be discussing President McCain right now.
I tell Jews who should know better, again and again, about Obama’s domestic-terrorist and radical-Islam connections, but they refuse to hear it.
The same people who cling desperately to the belief that Rahm Emmanuel is talismanic proof Obama is “pro-Israel” refuse to consider the possibility that sharing dinners and babysitting with the Khalidis for a decade might just possibly have affected Obama’s outlook.
From the beginning having found out they were the pali supporters that surfaced during the election days, it seemed to me it wouldn’t have looked good to have them on the guest list? That perhaps their entertainment secretary chick, let them in on her own with Michelle’s help? Why the couple decided to make it public is really the mystery to me.
@ teacake:
OOPS, deleted the part that he was in a picture with them that surfaced during the election, that had some video tape from the event that the LA Times would not reveal.
Over at the sewer Chuckie is ripping into anybody who is offended by the Chairman Mao ornaments on the White house Christmas tree. He does not think it is a big deal and everybody should just forget about it, it’s not as if that is an endorsement of communism you know…
Is this the same CJ who wigs out at the sight of a Celtic cross, then labels everybody near it a white supremacist? What a f’n hypocrite!!
God, that man is weird. LGF is a cult which requires complete obedience of the leader, and absolutely NO fun is allowed. It must really suck to be posting on that blog nowadays.
@ teacake:
Why the couple decided to make it public is really the mystery to me
They’re looking for a payday. Salahi has unsavory connections , but he is a Social Elite wannabe & cash is tight.
RIX wrote:
THen they don’t seem too very bright. I doubt the Secret Service people are going to put up with taking the flak for those flakes. Someone I imagine is going to loose it and blow the whistle.
tunnelrat wrote:
He really doesn’t have much of a life.
@ tunnelrat:
Is this the same CJ who wigs out at the sight of a Celtic cross, then labels everybody near it a white supremacist? What a f’n hypocrite!!
I disagreed with him about that. He says that the Cross of Odin & the Celtic Cross are the same.
I even posted a definition debunking the two as one.
He never responded & in retrospect I am surprised that I wasn’t banned right then.
Salahi looks like the porn king in The Big Labouski
@ teacake:
Yeah, they don’t seem bright & they are kind of like loose cannons.
@ teacake:
He’s an ass.
See ya!
@ WrathofG-d:
Remember the LA Times going full quiet mode on his behalf?
The Salahis are tied to him. Notice nobody’s follows the links
@ tunnelrat:
I am doing a thread on that later.
teacake wrote:
These kind of people are self serving grifters. Scammers and opportunists. Much like Zero himself.
How are these lowlifes making a living? Fraud and deceit. Just like Zero. It is so disgraceful that the White House is occupied by this ilk of con artists and they allow in others like themselves. These ‘crashers’ went public because they craved their 15 seconds. It never occurred to them how it would look for anyone else. There is no honor among thieves.
@ Rodan:
I have heard of the PLO using threats, and mob tactics against Journalists in the past, and although it is completely speculation if this is why the MSM refuses to discuss Rasheed, I do find their refusal to even discuss him interesting.
I point as well to the extreme measures the LA Times took not to discuss him even before the presidential election.
tunnelrat wrote:
How about Osama Bin Laden ornaments? Would that be no big deal?
@ WrathofG-d:
Yup, It’s very shady. It’s funny that except for here and the Rightwing blogs, nobody has discussed the Slahi’s knew Obama. That’s why when they were at his party, he knew them.
Hey next thread is Osama’s family in Iran.
Rodan wrote:
NOW that is a story! Make me proud.
This is old news, yet it is important that people who care about the story are informed about this element of it.
@ wolfie:
Not if it was done in the style of Andy Warhol.
(according to “them”)
tunnelrat wrote:
Why do you think I referred to him as Internet Manson?
wolfie wrote:
Actually, that’s a very good question. Because what’s the difference btw these monsters. In time, obl’s ugly mug on a Christmas ornament will be acceptable, to libs. . . if it isn’t already.
@ chickadee:
Find me a difference between the Leftist outlook on World events, and Obama’s public pronouncements.
no really…….try it……
chickadee wrote:
I was thinking about Osama bin Laden garden gnomes, but maybe the ObL North Pole elves will come first.
WrathofG-d wrote:
Only when he lied to get elected. Trying to sound like Reagan and Lincoln.
@ WrathofG-d:
It’s in queue and scheduled.
393 Charles
Wed, Dec 23, 2009 2:03:19pm replyquote 0downupreport
re: #346 avanti
I missed the part about destroying historic artifacts, I thought they were plain, store bought bulbs.
One of the stories I read about this said they were ornaments from previous administrations — I don’t remember which website this was at.
Well come on Mr. “I’ll fact check your ass”!
@ chickadee:
that was supposed to be Osama’s public pronouncements.
Charles
Wed, Dec 23, 2009 2:07:38pm replyquote 2downupreport
Here it is: Remarks by The First Lady at Holiday Press Preview | The White House
MRS. OBAMA: Hello. Good afternoon. Welcome to the White House and Happy Holidays! Thanks to all of you for joining us here today as we preview how we will mark the holidays here at the White House.
Now, like many years past, we’ve actually been planning this day, and the holiday season, since the summer. And our starting point was a very simple idea: that we include as many people, in as many places, in as many ways as we can.
So we decided to do something just a little different. We took about 800 ornaments left over from previous administrations, we sent them to 60 local community groups throughout the country, and asked them to decorate them to pay tribute to a favorite local landmark and then send them back to us for display here at the White House.
And Mao qualified????
chickadee wrote:
About 70 million people.
But Mao meant well. It was to promote the “general welfare.” It was for the children.
As you say, give them just a little more time and Osama will be soooo kewl! Trangressive!
wolfie wrote:
Osama the tree’s bin laden
With ornaments made of glass
In China they’ve all been made, ‘n’
Some people might think it crass
That some of the delicate globes were cast
In the form of Chairman Mao
But the order was sent to the East so fast
Time change molds they didn’t allow…
Obama has historically surrounded himself with people that genuinely hate America, yet somehow he has managed to avoid being tainted by association. This confounds me because I was always told that you are a product of the environment you are in, and you become like the people you associate with (much like Tiger Woods).
So somehow Obama is never, ever considered as having an inkling of the radicalism he has made his environment and the people he has associated with, some as long as 20 years or more (hello Rev. Wright).
It is absolutely high comedy to me that you have CJ, who loves to play the Kevin Bacon game of dubious evidence based on relationships, defending Obama tooth and nail despite obvious direct connections to all kinds of shadiness and outright hatred of America. Oh no people, we cannot judge here because that would be unfair and RAAAAACIST! However, if you’ve got a link to a link that mentions even tepid support of creationism or some other sordid and cretinous creeds, you are to be thrown in the lake as a witch, or summarily banned without warning, whichever is deemed easier.
The other thing that I simply cannot stand about our “present”dent is that he is an out and out liar of a pathological bent. Whatever he tells you, you can be assured that the exact opposite is true (if not now, in the extremely near future). Yet the only people that ever seem to notice this are conservatives. One simple question: why?
Oh and let me just say that Charles Johnson is a complete hypocrite, particularly when he attempts to portray himself as the voice of reason when he’s made it clear he’s running on hatred of Hot Air, hatred of Michelle Malkin, Pajamas Media, this site, and others who have enjoyed more success than he has and therefore they must be put in their place as he would have you believe.
Not to mention I find it absolutely hilarious that a self-proclaimed atheist has adopted “global warming” as his religion. Because you are not to question it. Anyone who does is NOT A BELIEVER and you will PERISH in a PIT OF FLAMES if you do not DROWN IN A BOILING SEA first.
I’m of a scientific bent. I love science. I am all for technology and the advancement of science and mankind’s knowledge.
So with that said, one must call into question methodologies and data manipulation employed by a group of scientists that viewed themselves as EVANGELISTS. So by their own admissions in the FORBIDDEN EMAILS THOU SHALT NOT READ NOR POST BECAUSE THEY WERE “ILLEGALLY OBTAINED” (and as an aside let’s just talk about that for a sec, because much the guy that hung himself and scrawled FED across his chest was absolutely MURDERED BY RIGHT WING EXTREMISTS – yeah right, suicide – there’s absolutely no chance that this data wasn’t placed there by a whistleblower. No, there’s absolutely no way that someone would do that, at all.) SO THEREFORE ANYTHING YOU READ IN THEM IS SUSPECT, DESPITE THE ADMISSION FROM THE CRU THAT THE EMAILS WERE ummm legit. Yeah.
How about this for scientific honesty: the cornerstone of the scientific process is replication and open exchange of information and data. If you can’t replicated results, odds are your hypothesis is wrong. So why don’t we do this?
Set up a group of scientists to start from ground zero with absolutely no assumptions made about anything. Set up a website where this processes and findings of this group will be posted and made 100% transparent. Ensure that this group will not have an agenda. Since so much money and policy is riding on decisions made on this group’s findings, it is of highest importance that the findings be accurate. The world’s economy should not hang in the balance on the whims of a group so influential they can steer the course we all follow.
The problem with the CRU models is they don’t accurately predict past weather patterns, much less accurately predict the future.
And exactly what is the value in homogenizing data? Care to explain that one CJ? If you can? Because I don’t think you can.
You do have to admit that at the very least actively attempting to thwart legitimate freedom of information requests are behavior that don’t garner trust or build goodwill in any way. In fact it would seem to cast doubt on just about anything they did. Creating an air of exclusivity and an unwillingness to share data for the purpose of independently confirming results is a spit in the eye to traditional standing principles of legitimate science.
And that’s what blows my mind. You have the preeminent group in this field employing all kinds of questionable methodology and behavior not to mention the cultivation of a cult-like allegiance. A belief system so strong it rivals that of religion, to the point that if one questions it in any way one becomes a “denier” or more aptly put a HERETIC.
Science is no religion buddy. Science is not founded on belief but rather a principle that ensures that assertions can be proven or struck down by repeated experimentation and comparison of data, something of which we really didn’t have out of the CRU group. In the interest of determining the truth I believe that a truly impartial group should be founded to determine in a scientific manner the facts of climate change. If we can separate facts from propaganda we’ll all be better off as a result.
That Mao ornament is a slap in the face to every patriotic American in this country. It is what Zero and sasquatch intended as a Christmas wish to us.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
ROFL! Now that’s funny!
@ wolfie:
I still think they’d sell. He looks like one, dammit.
@ MightyConservative:
Great post.
NoThreat2U wrote:
Ok, well that debunks the “left over” and thus were made to commemorate the Nixon / Mao thing because Mrs. Obama states that the left over ornaments were sent out to be decorated. THUS, they most likely were plain when sent and thus came back decorated with Mao.
This leads us to your question about how then did one with the face of Mao (which only matters since the Obama administration has already shown an interest and admiration of Communist murderers in the past) get past the censors?
Are we to presume then that if one of the “local community groups” sent back one with a Klansman, or Hitler, or Osama Bin Laden that it would have also qualified?
Lastly, if it was a “mistake”, WHO IS ON QUALITY CONTROL OVER THERE? First the gate crashers, then this? (plus the Administrations Communist admiration, and the pre-election Che flag… How many “just coincidences” are we supposed to swallow?)
@ MightyConservative:
making up for lost posts?
nice
@ MightyConservative:
Amen! Preach it!
@ WrathofG-d:
He started out by saying that they were leftovers and MAYBE someone asked a question about Nixon…and THAT lead to someone actually knowing about Mao AND Andy Warhol’s style. I would really like to know what organizations these were sent to!
Then he changes gears and claims they were PLAIN ornaments. Well hell, there goes your theory about someone asking about Nixon’s visit to China! I would really really like to know what organizations these were sent to!
Does not compute.
@ WrathofG-d:
How many “just coincidences” are we supposed to swallow?)
As many as they tell us!
@ chickadee:
Thank you and sorry I got really off topic. I’ve been reading with great interest the ClimateGate story which according to CJ was going to go away within 72 hours or so of it breaking (LMAO).
coldwarrior wrote:
Yeah again I got started and once I got started … I couldn’t stop nor stay on topic, apologies to Bob for steering this one way off course.
chickadee wrote:
Yes it is.
And a double slap to my Chinese-American SIL, whose father was the only one of eight children to escape Mao’s China. Over half of her extended family died in the purges, ‘leaps,’ and camps.
@ NoThreat2U:
They were probably sent out to the same “community organizations” through the NEA (national endowment for the arts) which were commissioned earlier this year by the Obama administration to produce propaganda advancing their policies.
I think this fits in perfectly..
@ MightyConservative:
It’s nice to see you!
By the way – just wanted to ask if you’ve considered adding the AJAX Comment Preview plugin to Blogmocracy.
It doesn’t have a running clock or anything so it probably wouldn’t bog the server down. It gives people the chance to see their reply before they post it.
Preview Is My/Our Friend?
Thanks!
OT:
rep slaughter says senate bill is not worthy of consideration by congress.
WrathofG-d wrote:
They didn’t know who Mao was most likely. This is, by far, the most incompetent administration to ever serve at the helm of America.
Again this is the same administration that gave DVDs to Gordon Brown that he couldn’t even watch as a gift. This administration didn’t even know about the Office of Protocol six months into the job, and by the bowing incidents that have transpired since, seems to not have found that office yet.
I think it is a bit of malice but I think general incompetence is to blame here. You have people promoted way past their ability to perform their job well, and the country as a whole is going to suffer dearly.
@ MightyConservative:
Isn’t that the truth.
The notion that the Mao ornament was something that “came back” after farming out a bunch of ornaments to others to decorate is an obvious, on-its-face crock of shit.
First: the three ornaments which were pictured, the Warhol Mao, the drag queen, and the “Rushmore Obama,” are all done in the same style—and all very New York, not “Washington.”
Second: if these ornaments were going to be sent out and done by a bunch of well-wishers, that could be coordinated by a minor staffer. It does not require the services, paid or volunteered as they may be, of the head designer of Barney’s windows.
Both of these things point to the ornaments having been made at, or at least under, the direction of the designer. They were probably approved pro forma as being “hip and happening,” and the nature of the content—and the thought that people might actually think it reflected the President’s and First Lady’s own taste, or lack thereof—probably never occurred to them.
@ WrathofG-d:
Also saw something “over there” about the window decorator at Barney’s who directed the designing of said ornaments.
wolfie wrote:
Oh my. I’m so sorry to hear that. That is so sad. Mao is responsible for so much heartache and death.
It is nothing short of evil that this communist atheist murderer’s imagine would grace a Christmas tree in the Zero White House.
Eliana wrote:
I’ll try to get that installed in the morning for you.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Ok I’ll ask it: In the type of recession that we are in is a over done Xmas celebration, and decoration of the White House really necessary?
In a time of “cutting back” wouldn’t one tree and a few lights have done? (if not nothing at all?)
Next year I am gonna decorate my tree with little ovens. Ya know, Hitler WAS a right winger!!! I will call it “Art” and that will be just fine. Right?? Right???
MightyConservative wrote:
Yes, and it’s the kind of incompetence that is accompanied by supreme arrogance.
Let’s say I were suddenly POTUS and the British PM were coming to town. I wouldn’t know what to do, so I would ask. I’d make sure I had the protocol correct.
But Obama has acted as if “proper” ways of doing things are unimportant compared to his gut feeeelings. He doesn’t concede that there is a standard. And even if he does, he won’t admit that he does not know it.
@ WrathofG-d:
No. Christmas covers tons of people. If he wants to cut back, cut back on date nights and AF1 flyovers.
Or are you referring to his seder(?)and how they cut back on that?
White House tree decorator, Simon Doonan famous for creating naughty yuletide window displays
That says it all.
@ wolfie:
He prefers “HIS” standard to be “THE” standard. Didn’t you get the memo? He Won!!
@ MightyConservative:
Awesome!!
Thanks!
NoThreat2U wrote:
No, I’m saying that he should cut back on everything. I don’t think spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to decorate the White House (or have a Seder, or Chanukkah) is a good way to spend our tax money.
I think it is cute when the White House is decorated for Xmas, and glad that the Goys in charge
throw me a bit of a bone over Chanuakkah but none of that is necessary, and overall a horrible waste of money which could be spend on many other things.
Why do I need to give my money to the POTUS so he can have a nice Chanukkah party when I have enough trouble paying for my own Chanukkah party? Same goes for Xmas decorations.
@ Beltfed:
WOW! The Obamas are just so hip and happening! Peace, not war everyone!!!
WrathofG-d wrote:
I don’t really feel competent to say whether there should or shouldn’t be a “cut-back Christmas,” since Christmas is not my holiday.
However, I think that it would have been graceful for the President to say “We are doing a cut-back Christmas in recognition that there are many people going through hard times.” It might well have been a rallying cry for those who are not doing well, and it certainly would have been a formidable grace note.
Which is precisely why it does not surprise me that no such thing was done, on two counts: first, I suspect the President does not want to discourage people from spending, because every dollar spent this month will be hyped next month as evidence of recovery as we settle into the cold slog until spring.
Second, this is a Presidency with no grace and no class whatever. They bring DVDs as state gifts, fer cryin’ out loud. They get the design director of Barney’s to decorate their tree for them. In every act, the Obamas behave like the crassest of nouveau riche wallowing in a late-teen idea of luxury with the air that they will be yanked out and told to go home any second.
@ WrathofG-d:
I thought you were being a tad snarky there…about the seder incident. My misunderstanding. He doesn’t have to cut back….he’s in charge. The rest of us do however, for the benefit of others. I think it is called a double standard???
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I believe the term you are looking for is Ghetto Fabulous.
@ WrathofG-d:
This quote from “Beltfed” only adds credence to my complaint:
Let me get this straight, I have to slave to put together some freak’n latkas for my family at my own home, but I have to pony up a majority of my cash to the POTUS so they can hire Ralph Lauren, and the decorator from Barney’s New York?
Y’all might enjoy paying up to your elected Kings but is pisses me off.
@ wolfie:
Obama believes his own hype (that he is “The One” and can do no wrong) and he’s become a prisoner of it.
Imagine waking up thinking that every word you will utter on that day will be called “GENIUS” no matter what you ever say (or do).
So he throws protocol and etiquette to the winds. How could these things possibly be better than carelessness, rudeness, and downright snubs from “The One and Only One.”
He thinks everything he touches turns to gold and he’s expecting everyone else to believe it, too.
Some moonbats do, of course, but the rest of the world is asking, “WTH?”
@ NoThreat2U:
A day or two ago, I mentioned in a thread here at this blog about the Andy Warhol connection, that whomever chose the ornament with Mao’s image on it could’ve chose it not because they are a Mao fan but because they’re a Warhol fan.
@ WrathofG-d:
Heh. I ran out of flour to bake more cookies, and I can’t buy more. Seriously! But that tree with Mao sure looks good.
@ WrathofG-d:
Neo-Feudalism!
WrathofG-d wrote:
Insofar as the White House is the National Residence, and can be the scene of official receptions during the holiday season, the notion of having someone who knows what they’re doing decorating the place so that it does the nation some credit does not bother me.
Of course, there is quite a space between that sort of thing being planned for as a yearly event and getting The Most Fabulous Name to decorate the place on the taxpayer’s dime.
@ CloudyDay:
Again, that leads me to wonder: What groups were these ornaments sent to for decoration?
@ CloudyDay:
Also, Marilyn Monroe is more of an American icon than Mao. Thay should have chosen her.
CloudyDay wrote:
Or, because they’re an Ashol.
@ CloudyDay:
i kinda said something similar…didnt go over real well
@ NoThreat2U:
Or the damn soup can.
@ NoThreat2U:
Thank you for understanding my point then. This stuff really does piss me off, and what lead to the Revolution.
It is true, you and I cannot afford to put together our own homes, but the POTUS, and the Congress etc., can spend this money they steal from me on frivolous nonsense. They can have 12 parties on my dime, but I won’t be able to afford one.
It isn’t so much that the ornament was “chosen” for the tree, but who the hell thought it was appropriate to put the Chairman on it.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Really? LOL They look like 1st grade kids made them.
@ WrathofG-d:
Why not do a Christmas decoration? We won’t not do a New Year’s Day football extravaganza. We’ll celebrate New Years. Why not Christmas?
NoThreat2U wrote:
the chairman’s followers that decorated it.
do we have a pick of the mt rushmore decoration with barry’s mug on it?
Rodan wrote:
How this doesn’t infuriate everyone I just don’t understand. Forget the handouts, this sort of attitude is the greatest offense to the American people.
Down with the King!
wolfie wrote:
I think Zero knew exactly what he was doing in showing disrespect to the Brits. He shipped back the bust of Churchill. He gave the Queen of England an ipod . And he gave CD’s to Gordon Brown that wouldn’t even play on equipment in Britain. There was purpose behind his actions.
I do think Zero is incompetent but he is conniving enough to get his message of disrespect, across in devious underhanded ways.
#86 @ NoThreat2U:
I like Marilyn. Warhol also did some nifty portraits of Liz Taylor, Elvis, and a bunch of other famous folks.
#88 cold warrior
Yeah, after I left that remark in the old thread about the ornament story, I didn’t have the courage to go back and see what, if any, comments it got, as I figured some folks might misconstrue it as being support for Obama or Mao, which it wasn’t, per se, and flame me for it.
buzzsawmonkey, #87
Aw, nobody commented on my gross news story in #9.
@ WrathofG-d:
I agree with you!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
This is the guy who spends hundreds of thousands of dollars taking his wife, his airplanes, his entourage and the Secret Service for an evening in NYC as a “Date Night” with his wife (at our expense).
My parents had a “Date Night” when I was a kid. They stopped hiring a sitter when the oldest kid was 12 and they dressed up for dinner at a local restaurant without spending hundreds of thousands of dollars.
These people in the White House are living high on the hog at the taxpayers’ expense and rubbing it in our faces (as if we’re just so thrilled to get to see what OUR MONEY is doing to maintain the lifestyles of the rich and famous who are supposed to be our public servants instead of movie stars).
They’re doing this while unemployment is high and almost everyone is feeling a little nervous about the future.
No kidding!
Their next “Date Night” will probably be in Paris and we’ll be expected to be thrilled over the dinner “doggy bag” that Michelle carries away with her (as she did on their “Date Weekend” in Chicago awhile back).
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Well if it is acting on behalf of the nation I say – “separation of church and state”.
If it is acting as Obama’s home I say – Take it out of his 100,000+ per year.
Beyond all of that I don’t believe that it is necessary to spend the amount of money they do either way. As you are well aware, the Government has no money…they steal if from shmucks like you and I.
teacake wrote:
You haven’t been following art and design lately.
Art is increasingly crude and amateurish, concepts such as “skill,” “beauty,” “grace,” etc. having been jettisoned by the cognoscenti years ago. At the same time, however, there is a hunger for the “authentic” or “handmade”—or at least its simulation. So you can now buy “handmade” furniture from China or Mexico or other lower-paid venues which have rough finishes, or crudely-gouged decorations, or which have the marks of the chisel still upon them.
Never mind that in those days when things were actually handmade because handmade was what there was, artisans would have scorned to produce such crudeness; today, when smooth and finished are the marks of the machine, clumsy and amateur are meant to provide the hallmark of Honest Craftsmanship.
These frauds converge on the White House Christmas tree, where inappropriate ornaments, crudely made, are meant to provide, simultaneously, the sophistication of art and the simulation of homey handmade-ness—and merely succeed in showing the empty arrogance of the one and the phoniness of the other.
@ Iron Fist:
I don’t really understand your question, but my point is that the Government should not be wasting OUR money on such extravagant Xmas or Chanukkah, or Kwanaza, or Thanksgiving, or …… decorations.
@ Eliana:
I’m just thankful that Michelle has—so far, at any rate—managed to resist making a dress out of the White House drapes the way Scarlett O’Hara does in the second half of “Gone With the Wind.”
So trading carbon credits is already a commodity?
@ chickadee:
China treated Obama the same way in Copenhagen, too.
Obama was snubbed and insulted repeatedly by the Chinese government who sent underlings to speak to him (and then make phone calls to get additional instructions) while “The One” sat there waiting.
The Chinese learned quickly how to out-Obama Obama when it comes to being inappropriate and downright rude.
I have such mixed feelings about this because it could be construed as an insult to America, but China also prevented Obama and the Dems from giving our money away to third world countries and losing our sovereignty for the sake of the fake AGW nonsense.
So China saved us from Obama in this instance and spit in his face.
America didn’t deserve this treatment but Obama did (and China saved us from Obama in this instance).
I have no idea how to feel about this.
Can’t wait what surprises they have for us come Easter.
Eliana wrote:
Please tell me they sent him a Drinky Bird Obama as a state gift.
Please.
Breaking News!
Nosy Possum uncovers the Christmas Ornament Scandal!
Charles Johnson could not fact check his ass even if you gave him a map and a flashlight.
and,
Decorated by Children?
http://heddalettuce.com/?p=2250
Charles “Fact Check” Johnson steps on his dick yet again.
wolfie wrote:
Not only that they would make great range targets!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
What an image!
If she did this, the fashion critics would name her Best Dressed Woman of the Year, though.
@ Possum:
My, my, my!
Just that they picked Simon Dooan at all shows they were out to have a very “nontraditional” Christmas.
Certainly not what most people in this country would want. Too avant garde and irreverent.
I think this was Zero’s way to make Christmas as secular as possible. It is insulting to religious people. It’s bull shit, in my opinion. Like jacking up the Brits with worthless trinket gifts to make a statement.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Well, I don’t know, but they might be as tired of watching Obama bow as we are – so probably not.
Possum @ 108:
Nice, just freeking nice. maybe CJ can go over and tongue wash them blue balls
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Good one
Eliana wrote:
I feel fine about it. He has invited the disrespect he is getting from countries around the world. He alone is responsible for how he is treated. It is infuriating that there is blowback on our nation because of this pos.
We must guard against feeling sympathy for him as he implodes on the world stage. We must not forget that he is an enemy of America. Oddly, more so than China, as you pointed out, when it comes to our way of life. Zero would destroy it if he could.
I remember that the Clintons had a rather classless Christmass too, but I don’t think it celebrated a murderer.
The error may be in believing that the Obamas are celebrating Christmas.
They may be merely celebrating Charismas.
NoThreat2U wrote:
He’s going to be getting another memo in 2010.
@ chickadee:
Absolutely right.
Thanks!
Now this is what I’m talking about.
From the moment the original story broke, and seeing the name of these folks, something just did not sit right with me.
Yes, there is more to this story. Notice some of the other folks in the picture with them.
It certainly dovetails with a post I made earlier, as it relates to mainstreaming the supposed Palestinian cause. “Peace” scarves being worn by our idiotic youth, latching on to some absurd cause they feel to be noble.
I don’t like what I’m seeing. I don’t like what I see in this picture, and I am damn well convinced there is more to this.
teacake wrote:
bingo
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
The whole thing is embarrassing…
NoThreat2U wrote:
Yeah I know. I can’t do Christmas this year. Whoopee. So glad to see Mao there.
pbird wrote:
Well, certainly you can expect the traditional secret police sliding down your chimney!
NoThreat2U wrote:
Yeah I know. I can’t do Christmas this year. Whoopee. So glad to see Mao there.Eliana wrote:
Sometimes it seems like a huge case of Get Whitey. Boy am I bad.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Ha. Just wait.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Can I light a bucket of something nasty in the fireplace?
chickadee wrote:
Point made there and yes, I do agree with you in that I think Obama has a deep disrespect and disdain for the Brits and he lets it bubble to the surface at any time. The DVDs were probably a bad example to point to for general incompetence. The bowing incidents would be far better.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Good point and well said. The Obamas like to think they are trendsetters when in reality they are just trendwhores. Great art and design is timeless.