Yes the waters failed to part, the sun still sets in the West, the lion does not lay down with the lamb, teenagers still get blemishes right before prom night – and most shocking of all – our enemies still hate us, and yes as demonstrated by this past weekend they really do hate us (although now due too ur politically correct clumsiness – they also can laugh at us)! What a difference a year makes indeed! Well at least we here can say that the charlatan did not fool us. The question for me is not why the hard core ideologues voted for him – after all he was their ideal candidate, i.e. a true believing Socialist who made George McGovern seem moderate by comparison, but why did so many ordinary Americans choose to willfully ignore all the signs that were out there (despite a compliant media)?
► Hot Linksby Ed Lasky
The American Thinker
Almost a year has passed since January 20, 2009 — when the waters of the ocean no longer rose and America began to heal from the depredations of Republicans. Barack Obama has been our president for that long, and the people have started to wise up.
The light that shines on Barack Obama as president has reflected back an image that bears very little similarity to the iconic visage that floated above us all in 2008. Why has Barack Obama betrayed so many allies, broken so many promises, thrown so many pledges and people under the bus?
One simple aphorism (paraphrasing Winston Churchill) can explain it all. Barack Obama is no longer a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Much about his past remains murky, but faced with the need to govern, he has given the American people plenty of evidence of his nature…if only they will look.
Obama is a cynic wrapped in a hypocrite inside a bully.
This comes as a shock to many, who are dismayed to find that he is “just a politician,” as Reverend Wright, Jr. (who knows him so well) called him back in 2008. But Wright was being all too kind and generous to his future former parishioner (Wright followed a long and ever-growing line of people trampled by Barack Obama’s rise.)
But Barack Obama is far more than just a politician. We all swallow a lot from politicians; we know that many pander and narrowcast, changing their message to suit their audience. But Obama expressly campaigned as a man who would not do this. He was the candidate of hope and change — he would bring a big broom to sweep clean the Augean Stables known as Washington, D.C. He called forth the better angels of our nature (hat tip: Honest Abe Lincoln, one of the truly honest politicians from Illinois) and tapped into a deep yearning for the rarest of the real things: an honest leader.
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First of all I want to say this comment serves no other purpose than to say first, first.
What amazes me is the amount of support the Obamessiah continues to get among certain segments of the population. Sure, the luster is off for a lot of independents (I guess they suddenly figured out that he’s an ‘African American’, so it’s entirely due to racism), and some of the ‘hard left’ doesn’t think he’s left enough (good God!), but he’s still got good support in the black community and in a couple other areas too, if I remember right.
Good news. Many of the sheeple are seeing this fraud the way so many of saw him last year.
Gee I should stay OFF the computer. I just got an Email from my Commanding Officer saying as a “Drill” he is taking a survey of the Navy Dentists and who is A) Medically cleared to Mobilize? Yes B) Has a waiver not to mobilize? NO. And it did NOT go out to everyone but only a select few? And I am one of the lucky select??? Ugh
Obama is a loser.
@ Nevergiveup:
Get your sea bag ready. Maybe its just a TDY assignment.
As far as Obama’s sinking popularity , it seems like evry other day I hear “But I didn’t know”
But will the same people vote for him again?
Ann Coulter coming up on O’Reilly
Rodan wrote:
Unfortunately he is a winner. But loser status is in the cards.
snowcrash wrote:
No if I’m tagged, I’m gonna gone for a while.
@ Doppelganger:
From which side. She can be pretty sneaky.
Every time I see and hear him on TV I end up cursing.
Rodan wrote:
“Stick with this guy. He’s a loser.”
—George C. Scott, as Bert Gordon, to Jackie Gleason as Minnesota Fats, playing against Paul Newman as Fast Eddie, in “The Hustler.”
Urban Infidel wrote:
He makes my teeth itch. He lacks the appropriate allegiance to his country to be President.
His first impulse is always to blame America. I want the US President to believe in American Exceptionalism.
@ Nevergiveup:
Hmmm. Well dude you are going OCONUS. Kidding aside. Good luck and God bless you. Keep us posted.
@ Urban Infidel:
I plug my ears and do the “lalalalala” until I can hit the mute button!
It’s historic that a (half) black dude was elected POSUS. Does anything else matter?
snowcrash wrote:
If it is with the Seebees probably OCONUS. I phones one of the other Navy Dentist on the list. She was rather concerned with the news also. She had not looked at her E-mail yet. I will.
As a resident of NE Illinois, I apologize for the douchebags in our state who voted him into office in the first place. (Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife were also elected in our fine state – absolutely no standards apply in Daleyville)
He’s a POS, and I’ve known it all along. We must find a way to get average Americans to stop voting for Dhimmicrats.
Gotta go watch my Bears get thumped. Oy!
@ Abu Bin Squid:
Does the game have any playoff implications?
I guess that I am just a cynic, but I am amazed that anyone was taken in by Zero. On just about any issue as soon as you scratched deeper then he surface, problems appeared that should have started alarm bells ringing.
snork wrote:
No, no ,no, he rejected his “White blood, just like Malcom”
Dude is all Black cause he said so.
@ Nevergiveup:
None. Minnesota is in, the Bears are crap-on-a-stick for a few more years due to bad drafting/trading. Oy, again.
The Bears are, in the words of former Packer Tyrell Buckley, “I’m suck”.
@ citizen_q:
You weren’t “in love” with the candidate. That is the difference. Many people had an emotional investment in Obama. Strange to me, too.
RIX
Aren’t you a Chicagoland resident? Bears?
I need a TUMS.
But…but….but, we are the ones we’ve been waiting for!
The oceans aren’t rising, there are no extinctions, Iraq is almost peaceful (I blame Bush) and we won a Nobel for only 12 days of work!
/”0″ and nuthin’ but…………
Abu Bin Squid wrote:
Yup, I am watching them right now & it is already ugly.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
I hope you’ve gotten that out of your system.
I am not proud to say this, but I am a Jet fan. As bad as they are at times, they are lucky. Finishing up against 2 locked teams. But if they win they’r in!
New Memberships at the Heritage Foundation are up 65%.
CHANGE!
I win my fantasy football league if Ryan Longwell gets 5 points.
1 FG
2 PAT
or
2 FG
or
5 PAT
Go Ryan!
Had the media just did its job, there is no way this fraud would be the commander-in-chief.
I hate these IBM “Smarter Planet” Commercials
“Food is talking to store shelves”
Fuck you
citizen_q wrote:
Me too, cq. My sister and BIL, both highly intelligent people, think Obama’s just great. They worked hard to get him elected and were absolutely thrilled when he took our state (VA.)
But they knew little about him and dismissed anything unsavory as exaggerated or a right-wing ‘smear.’ You know the routine. I remember one instance when I asked my sister what she thought about a passage in Dreams From My Father and she gave me a blank stare. She hadn’t read it.
There is none so blind as he who will not see.
@ RIX:
Damn! I thought it started at 8 central.
Scoreless. Later all!
RIX wrote:
And because Daddy matters and Mommy doesn’t. But don’t mention that to any feministas.
Doppelganger wrote:
And don’t EVEN get me started about the stupid “smart grid”…
@ snowcrash:
TDY= Temporary Duty Y… What’s the ‘Y’ stand for?
I had the dubious pleasure of having dinner last night with a bunch of nice people who happened to be Obamabots. Pure torture.
wolfie wrote:
I dare say anyone here is likely banned from the place that dismisses all scrutiny as smear, so we’d better know the routine.
Speranza wrote:
Howzat Hopenchange working out for them?
Rodan wrote:
He really is a loser.
Amazing how his puppet masters, the parasitical msm and foolish Americans projected so much on this worthless nobody.
mfhorn wrote:
Yonder
@ snork:
Agreed! Smarter planet? Personification. Makes me puke!
People can be smarter. Earth (Gaia /) is not capable of these characteristics.
The ever-changing of the language by the left. Am I paranoid?….
“People think I’m insane,
Cause I’m frowning all the time.”
@ snork:
It is not a smear to point out his associates and what they stand for and say. Chaz Johnson likes to throw that term “smear” around quite a lot which is rich considering the smear jobs he does on Palin, Bachmann and Hot Air.
waltzing way off topic and into a domain and area I have no real love for. chuck
Avatar is a good flick.
@ snork:
“We can’t drive our SUVs and, you know, eat as much as we want and keep our homes on, you know, 72 degrees at all times, whether we’re living in the desert or we’re living in the tundra, and then just expect every other country is going to say OK, you know, you guys go ahead keep on using 25 percent of the world’s energy, even though you only account for 3 percent of the population, and we’ll be fine. Don’t worry about us. That’s not leadership.” ~~ Barack Obama
@ Nevergiveup:
That’s what I thought. Odd word, that.
@ snork:
And because Daddy matters and Mommy doesn’t. But don’t mention that to any feministas.
Yeakh & PaPa was a Rollin Stone, desrting the famuily when Barack Hussein Jr was two years old. Mom tossed him on Grandma & went back to Indonesia.
Grandma loved & nurtured him & sacraficed to give him the best.
Barry of course repayed it by wrting an homage to his good for nothing father & tossing Grandam off of the sled for a cheap political reasons.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Glad you asked that – they are very nice people (in fact quite wonderful, kind people) and are all upper or solidly middle class – yet ideology trumps all and they still support him.
@ mfhorn:
No idea.
Yonder. Very interesting, learn something new everyday.
mfhorn wrote:
tradition
snowcrash wrote:
That’s it!
I could no more convince my 55 yr old sister that Obama is a scoundrel than I could convince my 13 yr old daughter that the neighborhood boy all the girls loooooooove is a worthless twit.
They’ve got feeeeeeelings on their side. All I have is reality.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Avatar is left wing propaganda just as Dances With Wolves (which it is somewhat based on) was. Almost three hours of oyour life that conservatives will regret giving up.
Speranza wrote:
Yeah, I’m convinced. I have not been to a movie in years
Speranza wrote:
Great visuals , but a disgraceful script.
I just love hearing abt. all these snow storms moving through the south and midwest. LOL
I hear a big one is abt. to hit Texas.
I bet it is causing sleepless nights for Gorebull. Isn’t it sad when crooked pols and operatives get upset by Mother Nature and take it too personally.
@ mfhorn:
Ok, we use 25% of the world’s energy. But what percentage of the total global economy do we account for?
Do I think we can conserve? Sure. Absolutely. If I was still single, I’d have my thermostat set at about 80 in the summer and 60 in the winter, not because I give a rats @ss what the Euroweenies think, but because I’m comfortable there. I recycle. I try not to burn through a lot of gas in my car. But I do it by choice. I have the freedom to conserve, or not to conserve. I don’t need some screwball like AlGore forcing me to do what they want, any more than I need some leftist forcing me to buy a car with ANY features or to throw more & more of my hard earned money at their latest pipe-dream scheme to redistribute wealth.
I’m nowhere near the magical $250k income level Obama promised wouldn’t see a tax increase, but I don’t believe that statement any more than I believe in unicorns.
Pink slips for congress!
Later all. Gotta watch da Bears. We just missed the Super Bowl. So close.
@ Nevergiveup:
Just read the the wikipedia article about it.
RIX wrote:
Gramma was a typical white person too, so that’s ok.
chickadee wrote:
It’s freezing out there!
Speranza wrote:
I feel for you. Been there many times. Mostly when I am in a social setting with my wife’s friends. Usually I can opt out of the conversation with a joke along the lines of, “How do you know when obama is lying? His lips are moving!”. Which is usually better then my usual urge to refute point by point each of the regurgitated talking points.
Even my brother is one. Can’t discuss any current events with him.
@ chickadee:
‘Global warming’ became ‘climate change’ so that no matter what, we need government control of our lives.
snork wrote:
Actually based on actual crime statistics (and not the bullshit you see on Law & Order) – Gramma was smart.
citizen_q wrote:
It did not bother me as much because I was expecting it. However I have become an expert at steering the conversation over to other topics.
Wow, I just heard on the John Batchelor Show that the explosive the crotch bomber had was powerful enough to blow a hole in the plane. i hope it blew his junk off.
@ chickadee:
There is a picture of his underwear on Drudge right now.
@ chickadee:
He deliberately sat near the wing for greater effect for the explosion.
chickadee wrote:
I think it misfired, but i got a hunch this “prick” was used to that?
Just out of curiosity, will there be an open thread tonight?
Speranza wrote:
Yeah and with no passport of luggage, that was a great idea for the airline to let him ha?
Karl Rove just said “This is a guy who won the Nobel Peace Prize but could not be interrupted for three hours because he was on vacation.”
I hope Max Bacchus’ opponent in the next election just plays that youtube clip of that drunken fool on the floor of the senate.
MADD
Montanans Against Drunken Democrats
wolfie wrote:
I understand completely.
Good analysis.
LOVE IS BLIND
Morgan wrote:
Just about every thread eventually becomes an open thread.
Speranza wrote:
Have you seen it? It concludes with the Pandora right winning. If anything that is pushed politically in the flick the left are the enemy.
Speranza wrote:
Ain’t it true?
Morgan wrote:
As soon as m wants to release the hounds.
@ chickadee:
We are paying for his burn treatment right now.
Any thoughts about the executive order granting INTERPOL diplomatic immunity?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-amending-executive-order-12425
Open season on political enemies, such as Bush or Cheney?
chickadee wrote:
And deaf and dumb. Heavy on the dumb.
snowcrash wrote:
Just like the treatment for that paralyzed (now wearing adult diapers) bastard Nidal Hassan,
To the Arizonans here – please explain to me how that turd Janet Napolitano was elected governor of your state? Whom did the GOP run against her – Mortimer Snerd?
citizen_q wrote:
Not my field of expertise, but if Bush did not do it and Obama did, then I’m agen it!
Nevergiveup wrote:
The very nature of blog posting lends itself to going off topic.
snork wrote:
VERY Heavy
Speranza wrote:
I love “Dances with Wolves” I love Kevin Kostner. He was awesome in “Water World”
I didn’t understand how the white squaw gal combed her hair. She never combed it, actually. Just sort of patted it. Anyway she got a great Indian name. “Girl who knocks a rude other squaw down until she couldn’t get up”. Something like that. Because she finally got tired of being beat up because she was white. That was something good. I still don’t know why “Water World” was such a flop.
@ Speranza:
Well, in that case: I’ve just seen the standings for the NFL after Week 15. The NFC have the six teams who are going to the playoffs, with the Cowboys (yaaaahhhhh!) and the Packers advancing. The only thing that needs to be decided is who gets the NFC East title, the Cowboys or the Eagles (and they face off against each other in Week 16; interesting).
In the AFC, the Patriots and the Bengals clinched their division titles, so in addition to the Colts and the Chargers, there are four playoff bound teams from the AFC right now. The two wild card spots are up for grabs with 5 teams in contention (the Jets, Ravens, Steelers, Texans (wow!) and Broncos). This will be an interesting end to the season alright.
Speranza wrote:
what’s wrong with old Mortimer?
@ Speranza:
At least Hasan is a US citizen.
The crotch bomber should never have even seen an attorney. He should be sitting in a CIA detention facility right this minute, being leaned on until he gives up every bit of information he has about what his pals in Yemen are planning.
And then shot.
chickadee wrote:
Oh I don’t know, maybe because it sucked? But that’s just my opinion
@ chickadee:
Dances With Wolves was shite. Kevin Costner has the weakest voice out there and it was pure historical bullshit. Mary McDonnell had some big hair in that flick! By the way the Sioux were never the peace loving tribe that they were portrayed as. They were aggressive warriors through and through and they brutalized the Pawnees, Arikaras and the Crow tribes. I know my history on that.
tatonka
@ Speranza:
by the way -as a woman you would not want to be taken captive by the Sioux.
@ Nevergiveup:
Nevergiveup, just curious, but how long have you been a Navel dentist and whereabouts (if you feel like sharing that)?
@ Nevergiveup:
One of the greats there.
Nevergiveup wrote:
The best review of Waterworld I ever read by some film critic was this “It did not suck as much as I thought it would.”
lobo91 wrote:
See if we had him at Gitmo, I’d be more charitable. After beating the crap out of him so he bleeds profusely, I’d give him a small raft and see if he could make it to miami before the sharks got him?
@ Morgan:
Cowboys are starting to peak.
KGB wrote:
With the KGB? I am sure somewhere in my manual of Navy Dentistry that is a no no?
@ chickadee:
On the end of the late night thread about Iran Exploding, somone had a hilarious Indian nicname for iceweasel.
Speranza wrote:
That’s what I was thinking. He was trying to crash the Plane on landing which is the most dangerous part of the flight anyway. Imagine how a hole above the wing would destabilize a plane as it tried to land.
There aren’t that many Mr.’ Sully’s’ out there who can perform miracles and land a plane on the Hudson River and not lose a passenger.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Send him to a Dentist like Laurence Oliver was in Marathon Man.
@ snork:
He is also historically incompetant. I don’t think one has anything to do with the other, but everytime I hear “historic” I just think “incompetant”.
Nevergiveup wrote:
I have to agree. A default position opposite the chosen one’s is probably in the right ball park.
snowcrash wrote:
I believe it was “She with head up her ass”.
Oh, gawd. He didn’t. I guess he did.
Iowahawk: Man, Do I Hate Holiday Travel
Ummm…
@ KGB:
Why would he share with the KGB? Who do you think he is? Teddy Kennedy?
@ Speranza:
Two Cats Fucking…
@ Nevergiveup:
I’m surprised no one “stomped out” the fire in his crotch. LOL
On topic, I have to report that my opinion of 0bama has not gone down a bit. He is still the same lying Marxist shallow groveling snake that I figured him to be in the beginning.
Too much?
@ Nevergiveup:
You are starting to sound like me, except I’d cut him good and see if he could swim the distance…
@ Iron Fist:
And why should he give out the secrets of our Navel (sic) Dentistry program?
@ snowcrash:
Speaking Bull
My husband and I were talking about 0 today (okay, more like ranting…). I said that I think he’s so wedded to his liberal ideology that he really thought all his big plans would work and that the only reason they hadn’t been tried before was because no one has been as awesome as he is. Sure, there was some manipulation involved in his promises but I think he really thought his stupid ideas would bring us candy canes and unicorns. I think he has no clue what to do when they don’t work and since he’s surrounded by morons with the same ideology…
@ Speranza:
We’ll see what happens. Go Cowboys!
LOL. Its like the frat names given in Animal House. LOL
lobo91 wrote:
Zero believes that these Islamic monsters who have declared war on us deserve the same constitutional rights as American citizens. BTW, I find this odd since this sob wasn’t even a human being . . . he was a weapon. He needs to be detonated.
snowcrash wrote:
No points for guessing who “Flounder” is.
Speranza wrote:
Oh.
chickadee wrote:
It didn’t detonate. Look at PETN clips on YouTube. It looks like there is smoke, fire, then detonation. Looks like it has to hit a flash point. Richard Reid had 50 grams I think, FBI did a test on an old plane with that amount and it blew the front off the plane, no fuel in the tanks. 80 grams would have done more.
Me personally, I think thats what happened to TWA 800 some years ago and suspect that several accidents were not accidents. If this one would have been sucessful, my bet is it would have been weather related or pilot error.
Vikings + Playoffs = 1 and done
@ snork:
I’m not sure if this paragraph was satire or not:
Speranza wrote:
Don’t you think it would be fun to zip around on his crazy catamaran. And I love the outfit Jeanne Triplehorn wore. I could wear that everyday.
@ kansas:
Like that air france jet earlier this year?
@ snork:
Hilarious.
KGB wrote:
My bellybutton teeth have just been set on edge.
//
Doppelganger wrote:
Two dogs f*****g?
@ kansas:
Remember that EgyptAir Jihadi that ditched his plane in the Atlantic? At the time they said that no “devoute Muslim” would commit suicide. We now know that no devoute Mohammedan woudl call such an act “suicide”. It is a Divine Martyrdom in Mohammedan-speak, and is considered foreplay for celestial groupsex.
Iron Fist wrote:
That guy was a dirty pervert peeping Tom who was busted being a dirty peeper, and was set for discipline on return to Egypt.
so rather than man up he killed his passengers
Throwing chips?
@ kansas:
IIRC, PETN is the stuff in primacord. Real high-velocity shit. I don’t know what the weight of PETN per foot of primacord is, but 80g sounds like a lot.
Speranza wrote:
scrunt reviled on a blog by many
@ kansas:
Have you read ‘First Strike’ by Jack Cashill & James Sanders?
@ Doppelganger:
That fits the pattern. More than once I’ve heard martyrdom as a cure for dishonor among the barbarian hoard.
@ Iron Fist:
Usually women, though.
After they’ve done something heinous like been raped.
livefreeor die wrote:
I agree. I think that’s exactly what is happening. He is profoundly confused that his golden rhetoric is NOT working. He has so bought into the msm hype that he is like a god. How could it be that his shallow platitudes are not bringing the masses to their knees.
@ Nevergiveup:
A close cousin of mine retired as a naval dentist, endodontist, last year (as a Captain). He left full-time service a decade ago to open a private practice but did reserves for many years, mostly training other naval dentists in the Great Lakes region.
Just curious if you might have crossed paths.
chickadee wrote:
Kevin Costner is a quintessential girlie man.
Picture @ Drudge: the actual fruit of the boom.
kansas wrote:
I heard a caller on the radio today, who said, the intense powerful explosive can’t detonate easily. It needs a lower level explosive to set it off. So the event was a two pronged explosion. Apparently the first fire did not do it’s job.
I agree abt. flight 800. All that these scum need is a hole blown in the side of a plane.