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Pres. Obama On DC Opponents: “They Talk About Me Like A Dog”

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President Barack Obama came out swinging in Wisconsin today in a speech that, while making clear references to policy and future plans, didn’t shy away from tackling the opposition. The day’s soundbite, however, wasn’t aimed at the Tea Party, the Republicans, or any political group in general, but at “powerful interests” who “talk about me like a dog.”

The comment was in reference to his accomplishments as president, specifically to financial reform and the hurdles he found while trying to get it passed in Congress:

“I wanted to be stronger than it was before. And over the past two years, that’s meant taking on some powerful interests. Some powerful interests that have been setting the agenda in Washington for a long time, and they’re not always happy with me. They talk about me like a dog. That’s not in my prepared remarks, but it’s true.”

A Barack Obama that says things that aren’t written in his prepared remarks? Who in 2008 would have expected that?

The clip below, and a full analysis of the speech here.



CNN also had post-game commentary with Wolf Blitzer‘s Situation Room panel:

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  • Azarkhan

    “They talk about me like a dog” Pres Obama

    Either stop whining or get out of politics.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Back to the campaign trail. Back to lying. Back to trying to fool people. 58 days to Rejection Day. He thinks we can’t stop him. YES WE CAN! Bye Bye Barry.

  • puck30

    Boo! Hoo! Hoo!

  • Chudi

    This guy is really losing his mind. It’s really getting to him…

  • TfT

    Yet again, a supposed “presidential speech” turns into a campaign rally.

    Man, this manchild has zip, zero, nada, zilch, no leadership skills.

    The first CINC, as in compaigner or complainer in chief, but hardly worthy of the Commander in Chief.

  • More Liberty

    Mediaite:
    “The comment was in reference to his accomplishments as president”

    LOL….hahahahahaha….OMG….that was a good one Frances.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Chudi said:
    This guy is really losing his mind.

    No, your side has lost it. Being out of power drives the Right rabid.

    The President is just finally pointing it out.

  • Big Eddie

    “They talk about me like a dog”. …No…People like dogs .

  • Pablo

    Everyday in the week I’m in a different city
    In my stay too long people try to pull me down
    They talk about me like a dog, talkin’ about the clothes I wear
    But they don’t realize they’re the ones who’s square

    Hey, and that’s why
    You can’t hold me down
    I don’t want to be down
    I gotta move on

    Stone free, do what I please
    Stone free, to ride the breeze
    Stone free, I can’t stay
    I got to, got to, got to get away

    Isn’t he due for Hawaii again? You go, Mr. President. It’s hard out here on a pimp.

  • FredCPA

    uh, scuse mr mr prez, i think you started it:

    President Obama waded into the national race debate in an unlikely setting and with an unusual choice of words: telling daytime talk show hosts that African-Americans are “sort of a mongrel people.”
    http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/111611-obama-calls-african-americans-a-mongrel-people-

    ok technically, that would make you HALF a dog. cause your “typical” white gramammy i assume you were not talking about. this dude is really getting freaky deaky. i am worried about his mental well being at this point……

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Antony-Dupuy/1194612935 Antony Dupuy

    God, what a whiny little baby. Grow up and grow a pair.

  • AntiHyperbole

    And after BHO and his fellow Democrats were always so kind and gracious when speaking of George W. Bush.

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    “They Talk About Me Like A Dog” My dog is insulted by that remark – he KNOWS he’s much, much better than hussein.

  • paul1149

    He never was going to be a uniter. It was all an Axelrod ruse. This guy doesn’t have one consensus-building bone in his body, only a radical agenda that he will inflict on the body politic at any cost. It’s all about Barry, and sadly there is no shortage of useful idiots who will go along for the ride.

  • BR

    The poor guy just needs a vacation. Its been almost a week since his last one.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gary-Chapman/1658327439 Gary Chapman

    The only people who would think that an insult are Muslims.

  • Civil Cold Warrior

    You mean the Nobel Prize he won wasn’t for best of breed? What the hell was it for then?

    Obama hasn’t quite figured out that he has attained his station in life based solely on the support of leftist racists who promote him no matter how badly he fails. He has never actually succeeded at anything based on his own merits and thus he governs like that is how reality works for everyone else. It isn’t. That is why there is such a big disconnect between what he thinks America is and what it actually is. All of his policies reward failure and punish success. Leftists have petted him on the head and told him he was a good boy his entire life. It must come as quite a shock to him now that he is expected not to make a mess of the rug on the Oval Office floor.

    If he had only been treated like the fool he is all along we could have avoided all of this and saved several trillion dollars to boot.

  • More Liberty

    This guy is trying to play the “victim.” It’s disgusting. If one person on this planet shouldn’t be able to play the victim card it is the POTUS.

  • OxyCon

    Check out my avatar.
    How apropos can you get?

    Do you think the first Black President whining about being treated like a dog is going to be good for race relations?
    You know the preofessional race baiters like Sharpton, Clyburn, Jackson and Dyson are going to be screaming “Whitey treated the Black President like a dog”. Bank on it. It you’re stupid enough to watch CNN or MSNBC, you’ll be hearing lots of this crap.

  • da-wdc

    Jeez you guys, don’t get all upset. He’s joking around in front of a friendly crowd.

  • kit9

    He really is so very thin-skinned. And, this is a perfect example of his awfulness when going off prompter. Without that magic word machine, Mr. Eloquent is embarrassing. Seriously, talk about me like a dog? Wtf does that even mean? And, what kind of man has such a low opinion of dogs? Dog hater!

  • mikepower

    “They Talk About Me Like A Dog”
    =====================

    Which reminds me of that song “Who Let the Dogs Out”. Stay in the White House Barrack.

  • mikepower

    He should change his middle name again.

    How do you say Pu$$y in Farsi?

  • mikepower

    By the way who is that young kid sleeping behind him. Must have been a stirring speech.

  • Smeg

    Let’s face it, dingleBarry. You named your own dog, BO, after your own initials, so how the hell are we supposed to talk about you since you equated yourself to a dog after months of deliberation about a dog.

    And Barry, how about the feelings of that poor dog Bo, who has to go thru life knowing that is will forever be associated with a traitorous idiot POSident like you?

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  • Some_Dude

    He should have been more specific, and plainly pointed out that Republicans (including Tea Baggers) show him a level of disrespect unheard of for a president – regardless of his accomplishments or the merit of their (his oppositions) claims.

    We all knew that the right would respond to the first black president in a very negative manner. I don’t think anyone expected it to get this out of hand though.

  • Rescuedog

    It won’t be long before he cries on camera to try to get some last minute sympathy, a la Hillary the night before the New Hampshire primary.

    All kidding aside, I love it when Obama’s calm and cool mask slips off, even if only for a second or two. Remember “you’re likable enough, Hillary”? Or scratching his face with his middle finger? And now this. He thought he could get a little sympathy from his most loyal followers – the unions – and instead gave us a glimpse into the real Obama: an over-praised nincompoop bewildered and enraged that the unwashed masses who elected him are daring to tun against him.

  • Rescuedog

    Some_Dude said:
    He should have been more specific, and plainly pointed out that Republicans (including Tea Baggers) show him a level of disrespect unheard of for a president – regardless of his accomplishments or the merit of their (his oppositions) claims.

    I know. Can you believe that people have actually compared this president to a chimp? Or wrote op-ed pieces and made movies fantasizing about his assassination? Or claimed on the floor of the senate that he had foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks? Or alleged he not only had foreknowledge, but secretly ordered the attacks for provide a causus belli for a war in the Middle East? Or drew political cartoons depicting his secretary of state with exaggerated racial features? Or called the secretary of state and then-national security adviser “house negroes”? Oh wait. Democrats, liberal commentators, journalists and demonstrators did all those things to George W. Bush, not Obama! Never mind. Because Bush was the target, those things don’t count as “disrespect”. Instead, they were “dissent”, and at the time, “dissent [was] the highest form of patriotism.” But because Obama is in office instead of Bush, that isn’t true anymore. Now, dissenters are “disrespectful” and “racist”.

  • Some_Dude

    Caricatures and the attraction of conspiracy theorists – yes, those are things all presidents experience. Much of the heat Obama has come under is directly related to his race.

    Accused of being Kenyan and portrayed as an African witch doctor because you’re black? Having elected officials question your place of birth because you’re black, and further your legitimacy? Would a white president ever be asked to produce a birth certificate? Was it an issue that McCain was born outside of the US? Being called “a welfare thug” – thug is the new word for “black male” amongst closeted racists, by the way.

    People literally rising to arms and making veiled threats to his life?

    I could go on, but it’s obvious and really needs no elaboration. This is isn’t a Republican/Democrat or Right/Left issue. Is has to do with existing racial tensions our country still has, and that should concern all of us.

  • BR

    Some_Dude said:
    Caricatures and the attraction of conspiracy theorists – yes, those are things all presidents experience. Much of the heat Obama has come under is directly related to his race. Accused of being Kenyan and portrayed as an African witch doctor because you’re black? Having elected officials question your place of birth because you’re black, and further your legitimacy? Would a white president ever be asked to produce a birth certificate? Was it an issue that McCain was born outside of the US? Being called “a welfare thug” – thug is the new word for “black male” amongst closeted racists, by the way. People literally rising to arms and making veiled threats to his life? I could go on, but it’s obvious and really needs no elaboration. This is isn’t a Republican/Democrat or Right/Left issue. Is has to do with existing racial tensions our country still has, and that should concern all of us.

    Not all blacks are racist. But most racists are black.

  • Lamp of Diogenes

    Hey, Some Dude.

    Are you TRYING to beclown yourself????? ‘Cause, if so, you are doing a bang up job.

    The level of vitriol aimed at your thin-skinned pResident is NOTHING compared to the bile heaped upon W, and to pretend otherwise is to make yourself look foolish.

    ‘Course, that IS what you lefties are best at, innit?

    Barry, and clowns like you, need to GET THE F*** OVER YOURSELVES. He is an incompetent, thin-skinned, arrogant, ignorant, economically and historically illiterate twit – and you are a moron for defending the indefensible. But go ahead on with that – we can see November coming, and it’s gonna be SWEEEEEEEET.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

    President Barack Obama came out swinging in Wisconsin today in a speech that, while making clear references to policy and future plans, didn’t shy away from tackling the opposition.

    What planet are you on?

    A Barack Obama that says things that aren’t written in his prepared remarks? Who in 2008 would have expected that?

    Anybody who’s heard of Joe the Plumber.

  • juan

    Some_Dude said:
    Accused of being Kenyan and portrayed as an African witch doctor because you’re black? Having elected officials question your place of birth because you’re black, and further your legitimacy? Would a white president ever be asked to produce a birth certificate? Was it an issue that McCain was born outside of the US? Being called “a welfare thug” – thug is the new word for “black male” amongst closeted racists, by the way.

    Playing that old Race-Card has backfired and isn’t working anymore!

    McCain provided his birth certificate and Congress declared him eligilible!

    What is Obama hiding and why?

  • Patrick Henry

    Some_Dude said:
    He should have been more specific, and plainly pointed out that Republicans (including Tea Partiers) show him a level of disrespect unheard of for a president – regardless of his accomplishments or the merit of their (his oppositions) claims.

    We all knew that the right would respond to the first leftist president in a very negative manner. I don’t think anyone expected it to get this out of hand though.

    Fixed that for you!

  • Patrick Henry

    Some_Dude said:
    Much of the heat Obama has come under is directly related to his race.

    Absolute BS. Will you ever stop the phony race crap. He has given conservatives plenty of reasons to be against him, regardless of race.

  • the real john t

    juan said:
    McCain provided his birth certificate and Congress declared him eligilible!
    What is Obama hiding and why?

    Obama supplied his birth certificate too. It was the same kind McCain supplied. But no, you moron RWers demanded more of Obama.

  • greg454

    Hey Obama, you want to be treated like George W. Bush? Stop whining then!

  • Sunnyr

    What goes around, comes around, Barry. You trash-talk Tea Party Patriots, Republicans, Fox News, Cops, etc. etc. When they bite back, you start squealing like a little stuck pig. Suck it up, El Presidente, you deserve it.

  • nrgetick

    tea baggin teatards you get what you deserve. when the cock suckers from the right get back in office get ready for hell. Were not as nice as your fat grandparents with the teabags hanging from their love handles.

  • gar

    How much buy-in do you get from the other party after that kind of speech? Talk about being the dog. He kicks the Republicans every chance he gets and then expects them to fetch his newspaper. It’s comical that the president thinks he can lower the debate to this level. Almost 2 years in service and these are his positive talking points. I think the public is looking for encouragement, not this blame game politics.

  • nrgetick

    I hope you guys win this november. Im sick of having to defend these fake corporatist democrats. I want the system to fail. Rethugs will get us there alot quicker.

  • kairos

    Honestly…..this child has been kicking the right since his campaign and hasn’t stopped since….what kind of response does he expect?

    He is the most divisive president I’ve ever seen.

  • nrgetick

    “I think the public is looking for encouragement, not this blame game politics.”

    ha ha why does fox news get such good ratings then

  • roadmouth

    What a chump.

  • C.Moore

    Civil Cold Warrior said:
    You mean the Nobel Prize he won wasn’t for best of breed? What the hell was it for then? Obama hasn’t quite figured out that he has attained his station in life based solely on the support of leftist racists who promote him no matter how badly he fails. He has never actually succeeded at anything based on his own merits and thus he governs like that is how reality works for everyone else. It isn’t. That is why there is such a big disconnect between what he thinks America is and what it actually is. All of his policies reward failure and punish success. Leftists have petted him on the head and told him he was a good boy his entire life. It must come as quite a shock to him now that he is expected not to make a mess of the rug on the Oval Office floor. If he had only been treated like the fool he is all along we could have avoided all of this and saved several trillion dollars to boot.

    Yeah! since it was the the people on the left who said obama hates white people and carried signs that says “White Slavery” it was also the people on the left who posted pics of obama as a monkey. and it’s also a radio host from the left who once said “get the bone out your nose”! right?

    what an ignorant jackass you are for many reasons:
    1. repeating that crap that obama got everything handed to him. had it occured to you that he worked for what he got? he worked to get to school, he worked to get to Harvard. only right-wing jackasses believe everything was just handed to him.

    2. “All of his policies reward failure and punish success.”? typical right-wing bullshit. and i suppose you consider republicans blocking help for small businesses “rewarding success”? leave to idiots to claim unbaised economic experts CONFIRMED that Obama’s policies help this country and economic anaylists that the stimulus helped. but instead repeat crap from that uneducated jackass, Larry Kudlow believing that Mythical reagan “saved the economy” crap with his bullshit “Reaganomics” and raising taxes 11 times.

    http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/aug/25/mark-tapscott/did-stimulus-cost-more-war-iraq/
    http://www.politifact.com/rhode-island/statements/2010/sep/05/john-loughlin/loughlin-says-reagans-1981-tax-cuts-led-exponentia/

  • the real john t

    Did you RWers scream when Bush blamed not only Clinton but also Reagan and Carter for 9/11? Interesting how he left out the terrorist attacks on his daddy’s watch.

    http://thinkprogress.org/2005/08/30/bush-blames/

  • C.Moore

    kairos said:
    Honestly…..this child has been kicking the right since his campaign and hasn’t stopped since….what kind of response does he expect? He is the most divisive president I’ve ever seen.

    maybe Obama should accept that lies and racist, bigoted rants spewed by the right.

    NEWS FLASH!! IF THE RIGHT DOESN’T WANT TO GET BASHED, THEN MAYBE THEY SHOULD START TELLING THE TRUTH, STOP SPREADING RACISM AND BIGOTRY, OR SHUT UP!

    what a idiot you are.

  • kairos

    C.Moore said:

    what a idiot you are.

    Ironic

  • nrgetick

    @KAIROS…….oh snap! nice comeback

  • injest

    the real john t says:
    “Obama supplied his birth certificate too. It was the same kind McCain supplied. But no, you moron RWers demanded more of Obama.”

    Now this is how stupid conspiracy theories start.

    Dude, you are now claiming, as fact, that Obama birth certificate was issued by the US Navy?

    McCain’s Birth Abroad Stirs Legal Debate – washingtonpost.com
    May 2, 2008 … John McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee, was born on a U.S. military … who was born nearly 72 years ago in a military hospital in the

    Meet McCain ‘birthers’: ABC, CBS, NBC, FactCheck, N.Y. Times, more
    Mar 8, 2010 … John McCain, R-Ariz. Many of the same news organizations and research … of McCain’s birth certificate issued by the Canal Zone hospital – something the … “[McCain] was born in Panama in 1936, at a time when the State …

    Democratic Underground – John McCain was NOT born in the Panama …
    Jul 25, 2009 … US Navy documentation has surfaced that refutes John McCains supposition that he was born in a US Military Hospital on the Coco

    McCain not eligible to be President! Not born here!
    Feb 7, 2008 … McCain is not a natural born citizen inasmuch as he was born in the U.S. Navy Hospital in the Panama Canal Zone, which was never part of the

    You really shouldn’t be calling anyone a moron.

  • the real john t

    injest said:
    You really shouldn’t be calling anyone a moron.

    Let’s see your link showing McCains birth certificate. Before you start spouting off some more.

  • injest

    the real john t says:
    “After September the 11th, 2001, we’ve taught the terrorists a very different lesson: America will not run in defeat and we will not forget our responsibilities.”

    Strange, I read what you linked,
    Bush didn’t blame anyone but the terrorist.
    If he had whined “I inherited” whatever then you would have a point, but he didn’t.

    BTW did you happen to notice the date of that article? Aug 30th, 2005

    This is the best example of Bush “whining” about anything? 10 months into his 2nd term and this is the only example of a so-called “I inherited whine”?
    4 years and 10 months.
    Obama, 19 months and 839 “I inherited whines”, do you really want that as a comparison?

    It kinda reinforces the Obama’s a whiner image, ya think

  • the real john t

    injest said:
    injest says:
    September 7, 2010 at 12:35 am

    So I guess you gave up on your link to McCains birth certificate. I don’t blame you. Because it says he was born in Colon R.P and in the Colon hospital. It never says a word about a Naval Hospital.

    http://media.photobucket.com/image/mccain%20birth%20certificate/rsmidt/McCain_Certificate_1_1936x2.jpg?o=3

  • shootfromthehip

    “He is the most divisive President in history”

    Yes, sure. That is why he appointed several Republicans and kept on Secretary Gates.

    You rethugs don’t even KNOW history.

    All you know is hatred for Obama and hyperbole.

  • the real john t

    injest said:
    Strange, I read what you linked,
    Bush didn’t blame anyone but the terrorist.

    Maybe you should read it again.

    “They looked at our response after the hostage crisis in Iran, the bombings of the Marine barracks in Lebanon, the first World Trade Center attack, the killing of American soldiers in Somalia, the destruction of two U.S. embassies in Africa, and the attack on the USS Cole. They concluded that free societies lacked the courage and character to defend themselves against a determined enemy”

  • VRWC Destruction Machine

    What does Obama expect? Every time he makes a speech, the left wing pundits have to follow him with a pooper scooper.

  • the real john t

    VRWC Destruction Machine said:
    What does Obama expect? Every time he makes a speech, the left wing pundits have to follow him with a pooper scooper.

    OH! So now Obama is turning the tables on the RWers and getting aggressive on offense and the RWers don’t like it. Well suck it up little man, I think there’s more to come before Nov.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gary-Chapman/1658327439 Gary Chapman

    All the hate spewed by the left is nothing more than a juvenile, emotional outburst. They have been in control of Congress for 4 years and were in complete control of the government from Jan 2009 until Scott Brown was elected. Then, they only had to moderate just enough to get 1 Republican vote.

    This total control of 2/3rds of the government has allowed them to get their precious health insurance racket, trillion dollar stimulus, financial control bill, and 26 billion teachers vote buyout has led to 17.5 U6 unemployment, record teen unemployment, record minority unemployment, record foreclosures, and record food stamps.

    What does0bama do in the face of being a total failure? Whine and cry like a victim. We didn’t elect the first African American president, we elected the first diva president. Do us a favor 0, go play golf until you are retired in 2013.

  • shootfromthehip

    Hey Gary, what are you talking about? “Hatred from the left?” Are you even reading the comments above? Here let me help you out: the hatred comes FROM THE RIGHT. SEE QUOTE FROM THIS THREAD BELOW:

    “He should change his middle name again. How do you say Pu$$y in Farsi?”

    “what a whiny little baby.”

    “He is an incompetent, thin-skinned, arrogant, ignorant, economically and historically illiterate twit”

    “most racists are black.”

    And Barry, how about the feelings of that poor dog Bo, who has to go thru life knowing that is will forever be associated with a traitorous idiot piece of shit President like you?”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Timsah/1113150152 Robert Timsah

    Some_Dude said:
    He should have been more specific, and plainly pointed out that Republicans (including Tea Baggers) show him a level of disrespect unheard of for a president – regardless of his accomplishments or the merit of their (his oppositions) claims.

    We all knew that the right would respond to the first black president in a very negative manner. I don’t think anyone expected it to get this out of hand though.

    Have you looked up Keynesian economics yet?

  • Some_Dude

    Robert Timsah said:
    Have you looked up Keynesian economics yet?

    I know what it means, as I would imagine anyone that attended college for a year or more does. I was accusing you of resorting to the usual meta tactics of other Tea Baggers that use words that sound like something else as pejoratives. Or foreign words without understanding their meanings or how they’re used elsewhere. Like “czars”. “Keynesian sounds a lot like Kenyan to me! Whoo lets hate on the black guy some more yee haaa!”.

    Looking back on the past remarks of Tea Baggers on this site and others, I hope you can forgive me if I reached while “calling you out”. And if I was indeed mistaken, then I apologize.

  • sarainitaly

    Some_Dude said:
    Accused of being Kenyan and portrayed as an African witch doctor because you’re black? Having elected officials question your place of birth because you’re black, and further your legitimacy? Would a white president ever be asked to produce a birth certificate? Was it an issue that McCain was born outside of the US? Being called “a welfare thug” – thug is the new word for “black male” amongst closeted racists, by the way.

    Accused of being Kenyan – what is wrong with being Kenyan? Do you wonder why people think he is Kenyan?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=proi6NFdKVs
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGKecfnokiM

    Bush was portrayed as a witch doctor too. And a monkey, and Hitler…

    McCain was questioned about his birth and eligibility, see above.
    http://www.scribd.com/doc/9934044/John-McCain-Birth-Certificate

    Welfare thug? Thug is code word for black people? Maybe to you.

    Jim Treacher said:
    Anybody who’s heard of Joe the Plumber.

    LOL!

    the real john t said:
    Obama supplied his birth certificate too. It was the same kind McCain supplied.

    Not quite…
    http://www.scribd.com/doc/9934044/John-McCain-Birth-Certificate

  • sarainitaly

    “They talk about me like a dog.”

    So now they’re caninists? haha

    They talk about me like I am a dog? They talk about me like they’re dogs? They bark at me? They tell me to sit, stay and roll over?

    Aren’t dogs a mans best friend? Why is he dissing dogs?

    “They talk about me like a dog.”

    He doesn’t even make sense….

    Self-described mutt Barack Obama: Don’t ‘talk about me like a dog’

    “Just when it seemed that Barack Obama couldn’t dig himself any deeper into the political hole he’s in, he does something really stupid. “Some powerful interests who had been dominating the agenda in Washington for a very long time and they’re not always happy with me,” he told a union crowd in Milwaukee. “They talk about me like a dog. That’s not in my prepared remarks, but it’s true.”

    The comment makes him look ridiculous. First off, there are inevitable racial overtones to it. To be treated “like a dog” is to be treated as something less than human. In the Muslim world, to call someone a dog is a pretty serious insult (and no, I’m not suggesting Obama is a Muslim).”

    Read more: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100052622/self-described-mutt-barack-obama-dont-talk-about-me-like-a-dog/

  • Some_Dude

    sarainitaly said:
    Accused of being Kenyan – what is wrong with being Kenyan?

    Oh come one, don’t put inflection in my mouth. We know damned well why Tea Baggers latch onto his Kenyan descent and try to make it an issue.

  • sarainitaly

    When you have the FLOTUS running around calling Obama Kenyan, Obama campaigning in Kenya, and his grandmother saying he was born there, it’s easy to see why people might be confused.

    *Accused of being Kenyan* makes it sound like there is something wrong with being Kenyan, just like when people say *accused of being Muslim*.

    Tea baggers? Seriously, you’re still not over that? It makes you should like a second grader that gets a laugh riot out of saying fart or booger.

  • VRWC Destruction Machine

    the real john t said:
    OH! So now Obama is turning the tables on the RWers and getting aggressive on offense and the RWers don’t like it. Well suck it up little man, I think there’s more to come before Nov.

    Obama would be better at waiting tables, than turning tables. Obama is not on the offense, his trying to portray the President of the United States is offensive.

    Obama is no leader. He looks at Americans as being from the Right and the Left, rich or poor. He cannot dismiss one group and expect to lead the whole group.

  • NORBIT

    The Carnival Barker found a new line to use!

    They should be talking about you like the lying, Grifter-Despot that you are!

  • VRWC Destruction Machine

    Some_Dude said:
    “Keynesian sounds a lot like Kenyan to me!”

    Dude , you’ve got to clean out your ears. Keynesian is pronounced KANZ-sian. Kenyan is pronounced KEN-yan.

  • TfT

    What a switch….to think, just two years ago (and even more recently) the professional left was talking about him like he was a god (the one); indeed he himself was speaking like he was a god and even Newsweak’s Evan Thomas claimed Obama “is like a god”.

    Now, he claims folks are talking about him like a dog…..interesting.

    Poor thing, his skin is too thin to hold this job; he doesn’t do anything but campaign, no leadership skills at all.

    Constantly pointing the finger at Bush and pubbies, when it was he who was part of the democrat controlled congress (held for the past four years, interesting that the economy started tanking when Nancy and Harry took over; a fact that the lamestream media fail to mention).

    Baby Obama.

  • Penguin60

    This guy is such a man-child.

    When did whining about the opposition become a cornerstone of leadership? Grow up.

  • FearMonger

    Every friggin’ discussion about Obowma and some goofy leftwinger throws out the race card. How many of you race-baiters played it on this thread alone?

    You all should be ashamed of yourselves…. and the rest of you libs who sit idly by while it gets tossed around are just as guilty. You all pretend to want to ‘transcend race’ but you ABSOLUTELY REFUSE TO ACTUALLY DO IT! The truth is … race is ALL you want to talk about right now, and Prez Obozo keeps sticking his foot in the door with comments like these.

    Just look at this thread…. the ONLY ones talking about race are leftwingers. You are 100% convinced that “(R)’s think the White House should be just that”. Pathetic idiots. You’re really gonna shit your pants when we elect Colonel Allen West POTUS in 2012.

    WTF will you do then, when your precious RACE CARD is rendered useless forevermore?

  • FearMonger

    FearMonger said:
    You’re really gonna shit your pants when we elect Colonel Allen West POTUS in 2012.
    WTF will you do then, when your precious RACE CARD is rendered useless forevermore?

    I just got a thrill up my leg thinking about how fun it’s gonna be to play my own newly laminated RACE CARD every time some goofy leftwinger opposes one of President West’s proposals. And when VP Condoleeza tells the world the truth about Iran and Palestine and people call her a warmonger/ hatemonger/ fearmonger we’re gonna toss out that RACIST accusation so fast your heads gonna spin.

    Just remember who set the bar. Just like the bitching now about Obama’s ‘treatment’. This is TAME compared to the attacks on Bush. Hell, the attacks on Bush continue today and are STILL worse that what Obama has to endure. Short memories on the left, but this is THE INFORMATION AGE and the venom is well documented. You want to be TREATED better then you can start by BEHAVING better.

    Meanwhile… reap what you have sown…. and stop the whining.

    WEST / RICE 2012!!

  • FearMonger

    Anyway, THIS is what all the race-baiting is REALLY about anyway. You leftwingers aren’t fooling anybody. But you ARE draining all the power out of that race card so keep up the good work!

    The rest of this BS is just smoke and mirrors to distract from this administrations failure. Period.

    http://www.politico.com/arena/perm/Mary_Frances_Berry_91E3D9D5-C40D-440C-9D48-1C50CBC60C87.html

    “Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.”

  • FearMonger
  • notsofast

    They are treating you like a “dog”? Really? Who is? How many “dogs” go to Martha’s Vineyard for vacation?Trying to play a race-card again?

    Tsk, tsk! Bring it on. It’s the only thing you libs have left.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Left-Coast-Rebel/100000811020974 Left Coast Rebel

    Pretty funny that this revelation from The One reminded me of “Vacation” with Chevy Chase.

    Watch the clip, it’s quite funny and relates to the Obama/dog comment:

    http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/2010/09/obama-implicates-majority-of-america-of.html

  • MoistTrout

    Some_Dude said:
    Caricatures and the attraction of conspiracy theorists – yes, those are things all presidents experience. Much of the heat Obama has come under is directly related to his race. Accused of being Kenyan and portrayed as an African witch doctor because you’re black? Having elected officials question your place of birth because you’re black, and further your legitimacy? Would a white president ever be asked to produce a birth certificate? Was it an issue that McCain was born outside of the US? Being called “a welfare thug” – thug is the new word for “black male” amongst closeted racists, by the way. People literally rising to arms and making veiled threats to his life? I could go on, but it’s obvious and really needs no elaboration. This is isn’t a Republican/Democrat or Right/Left issue. Is has to do with existing racial tensions our country still has, and that should concern all of us.

    That’s the way you want to make it seem. The fact of the matter is Obama has been treated with kid gloves compared to Bush, and Sarah Palin has been roasted compared to Obama. The only reference to race has been by liberals who desperately want that card to remain active. If Obama wants to avoid criticism, I would recommend he find something other than politics to get into.

  • MoistTrout

    Some_Dude said:
    Caricatures and the attraction of conspiracy theorists – yes, those are things all presidents experience. Much of the heat Obama has come under is directly related to his race. Accused of being Kenyan and portrayed as an African witch doctor because you’re black? Having elected officials question your place of birth because you’re black, and further your legitimacy? Would a white president ever be asked to produce a birth certificate? Was it an issue that McCain was born outside of the US? Being called “a welfare thug” – thug is the new word for “black male” amongst closeted racists, by the way. People literally rising to arms and making veiled threats to his life? I could go on, but it’s obvious and really needs no elaboration. This is isn’t a Republican/Democrat or Right/Left issue. Is has to do with existing racial tensions our country still has, and that should concern all of us.

    And by the way. yes McCain’s birthplace was an issue. Did congress have to approve Obama and clarify that he was eligible to run for president? They did with McCain.

  • MoistTrout

    Some_Dude said:
    Oh come one, don’t put inflection in my mouth. We know damned well why Tea Baggers latch onto his Kenyan descent and try to make it an issue.

    Kind of like douchbaggers latching onto McCain’s age or Bush’s National Guard service or Palin’s kids. Welcome to modern politics. Just for future reference, it doesn’t always go your way, so quit whining.

  • notsofast

    Barry, a dog is man’s best friend, so be happy!

  • notsofast

    Somedude, child, your race-card has been played out! Get a new shtick!

  • Phocus2

    …“powerful interests” who “talk about me like a dog.”

    Would that be like a mongrel? What a schmuck.

  • J Baustian

    Barack Obama, President of the United States — an office once held by George Washington.

    Who incidentally warned us about the dangers of rabid partisans like Obama.

    How low this Republic has fallen.

  • RTB

    Well bow wow wow yippee yo yippee eh there barrack…
    Maybe if you did set the bar so ridiculously sky high by promissing America everything you can’t give us during that stellar 08 campaign run maybe people wouldn’t give you so much shit all the time ….just a thought

  • Some_Dude

    MoistTrout said:
    And by the way. yes McCain’s birthplace was an issue. Did congress have to approve Obama and clarify that he was eligible to run for president? They did with McCain.

    It was a non-issue, really. Someone brought it up for debate and Hillary and Obama both cast it aside as the trivial made up issue it was.

  • StewartIII
  • loupgarous

    Conservatives would never insult dogs that way.

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