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Bill O’Reilly Meets Jon Stewart Halfway: President Obama Is ‘Brilliant,’ But Not Effective

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Over the years, Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart have developed a somewhat unexpected respect for what each other does, though they more often than not disagree on their exact political arguments. Last night was somewhat of an anomaly, in that O’Reilly assessed Stewart’s view of President Obama and Mitt Romney and, for the most part, agreed– President Obama, O’Reilly noted, was a “brilliant man,” while Romney had problems “feeling the positions conservatives espouse.”

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O’Reilly began by noting that “there is not one Democratic pundit in America that has much influence,” by way of explaining why it is that Stewart gets to “define how the left sees the political arena.” With that in mind, he turned to Stewart’s appearance on The Late Show, where he described President Obama to David Letterman as a tired president who had no interest in dealing with Americans anymore. “He is the only President I’ve seen that begins every press conference with a heavy sigh,” joked Stewart. O’Reilly understood and agreed with the point. “No question, Mr. Obama is a brilliant man,” O’Reilly ceded, “but being intelligent and being effective are two different things.” He noted that Presidents Truman and Reagan were “not great thinkers” and much better presidents because they were effective, and that those who believed President Obama wanted to “reinvent the economic system” were wrong.

As for Romney, Stewart joked that he was unable to connect with Americans because he tried so hard to be a “regular guy” in inauthentic ways. There, O’Reilly agreed, but he thought it was more endearing than off-putting, calling Romney a “likable guy.” His was not a “bootstraps story,” he admitted, and “what is holding Romney back is his inability to feel the positions conservatives espouse,” but he did not think that this was a fault of him being a “charlatan,” though he left that door open.

O’Reilly’s analysis of Stewart via Fox News below:

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  • Anonymous

    Billo has no clue.  Why isn’t Obama effective in his view, because FoxNews and the GOP has decided he isn’t.  The evidence he presents is the deficit, which is largely the product of Bush & “deficits don’t matter” Cheney.  If he only Obama understood macroeconomics as well as Billo, he could be effective and we would all be in a depresion.  So there it is, the tides come in and the tides go out, how do you explain that?

  • T.Gloves Donahue

    What Bill is missing is that while Romney was instilled with a sense of purpose by a hard driving, successful father that has led to his own high character and success ( which he achieved on his own), Obama is the opposite.
    Obama had nobody to give him values to live by but the Communist Frank Marshall Davis, his grandfather, a fellow traveler of Davis’ and his mother, who abandoned him. The Barry sought meaning in associating himself with various leftists and their causes. To seek out a guy like Jeremiah Wright, and see no harm in exposing his children to Wright’s brand of hate says a lot about Obama’s character.

    There’s really no evidence of Obama’s “brilliance” but his supporters and enablers demanding that the world acknowledge it. And plenty of evidence to the contrary.

  • Anonymous

    I heard Jon Stewart’s comparison of Presidents Bush (43) and Obama regarding a sixth grade book report.  I will agree that Bush got the “C” and Obama the “A”, but not for the reasons Stewart notes.  Bush did read the book, but the night before because he is intelligent enough to have done so.  He slapped a report together the night before it was due and got the grade he deserved.  His parents were not all that happy, but they hoped he would eventually find the right path.  Obama did not read the book as a sixth grader or a first grader.  In fact, he has yet to read the book.  His report was written by his grandparents who were so sad that Obama’s daddy had run off.  The teacher, not wanting to be labelled a racist gave him the A without reading the report.  Thus one sees how Obama has skated through life with enablers all around including gullible American voters.  Let us hope for change in November!  

  • Anonymous

    Oh no his grandfather was a communist that groomed his son to take over this country and turn our democracy into the former U.S.S.R!!!!!  There’s a mole in the White House!!!!! What should we do????  Lets call Jack Bauer to save us!!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Why is Juan Williams at #4?

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    I have yet to see this alleged brilliance. People keep claiming it, but where is it? Brilliant people, in my opinion, are effective, and solve problems. They do more than smile, give speeches, pass off important legislation to people like Pelosi, and blame everyone else from Congress, to the people, to the Constitution, to the prior Administration for their lack of accomplishments. 

  • T.Gloves Donahue

    Think of the country as a baseball team. A team that has been losing, the players are disgruntled and fighting with each other. The manager keeps saying “Wait till next year”,but the years go by and it get worse or stalls out. The manager decides to keep the team divided and at odds with and jealous of each other. His promises just don’t turn into reality.

    Do you fire the manager or sign him to another four year contract ?

  • Anonymous

    Scores of examples of ineffectiveness are documented, I have yet to see one of brillance.

  • 12voltman1

    Are there monsters in your closet?
    I like ya Gloves,(the way Chris Mathews likes Pat Buchanan) but you my friend and the rest of the GOP sell a lot of fear. You sound a lot like Sen. Joe McCarthy

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    You guys dont see it due to your underlying assumptions. You assume because hes presient that what hes trying to do is make America great and solve problems. The fact is, and I can back this up, is that he is a socialist and his goal is to create an economic collapse.

    Now can you see the brilliance?

  • 12voltman1

    Depends on if you had a better manager.
    And you guy’s don’t.
    All of your GOP candidates are flawed and you know it. You just can’t admit it or face it.

  • 12voltman1

    You have issues.

  • 12voltman1

    Is Bill-O and Jon BFFL or what?

  • Anonymous

    I’d love to see the transcripts of this mans “brilliance” from his brilliant college days.
    Its funny how from such a “brilliant” man the main stream media is not curious to do interviews from ex girl friends or college pals or look at what his work was  being the first affirmitive action president.
    Maybe they can have a sitdown with Larry Sinclair.

  • Anonymous

    Give some examples please which are documented as you say

  • 12voltman1

    “But I’m # 6″
     LOL

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, that’s basically why he ran Harvard Law Journal and taught constitutional law at one of the top 5 law schools in the country for something like 14 years–because people in those schools felt sorry him because of his dad. I know Harvard often drives around Cambridge, picking up orphans and giving them high ranking jobs. I’ve seen it, and it’s heart-warming to see those waifs climb in the wagon and be told they’re going to run Harvard’s molecular science program. 

    You guys pretend he can’t talk without a teleprompter, but he crushed McCain in the debates without one and then took on the entire House during a “retreat” in Baltimore where he shot down very specific details of their proposals for an hour, which he had clearly read on his own. People complain that Congress doesn’t read the bills it passes, but Obama had read bills that had no chance of passing and was able to discuss them off the top of his head:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWMgEp4QlvQ&feature=related 

  • Anonymous

    Oh no the secret Muslim Kenyan Marxist Fascist army is amassing!!!! Obama’s mom knew he would be president so she had fake birth announcements made in Hawaii and now the CIA and FBI have colluded with a secret coup!!! Only a private equity guy or religious zealot can save us from the antichrist!!! Hannity says we should be mad!!! 

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, it’s all pretty clear. What sort of evidence do you have by the way? Secret leaked memos? Wire transcripts from the guys in the CIA, FBI and rest of the government who would have to be colluding with such a plan?

    Or did some dude on blog tell you that (not that that’s not evidence, that’s evidence!!!) 

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Willard’s father seems to have seen America’s role and purpose as far grander than Willard does. Willard is very much like the Republicans who have seized on contraception, look to a 1950′s America. But, Willard does them several decades better. He looks to an 1885 America.

    And, I don’t know how much character one who works so hard to tell people what they want to hear, with constant detours and flimsy principles actually has. In Willard, you have a real stinker. I suspect that’s why so few people seem to like the man.

    By the way, good people of Maine, the path ahead has been given you. Walk it with purpose!

  • Anonymous

    Funny how you guys didn’t care about McCain’s transcripts (never released) or Bush’s, which were never officially released but leaked. Funny how you didn’t care to dig up information from Bush’s past drinking buddies or ex girlfriends. Maybe we should’ve looked into whoever Bush allegedly snorted coke with or his pals that filmed him wasted at a party. 

    Oh wait, those guys are GOP. Never mind. Different rules. 

  • T.Gloves Donahue

    If The Barry’s grades were even halfway good, they would have been leaked.
    If they were great, they would be widely circulated as evidence.

    But they are hidden.

  • Anonymous

    The ‘stimulus’, Obamacare, and Obama himself were all sold on fear – and far too many fell for it.

  • Anonymous

    You have not seen his brilliance? HMMM. I assume you missed the headline the Fed needed to pump $7.77 trillion, that is right folks, trillion into our banking system because ol’ Georgie was too stupid to know what a derivative based upon a sub-prime mortgage was. Billy, what you do not realize is where this country would be if this had not occurred. You only complain about the situation we are in now, without offering one sensible alternative.

  • Anonymous

    disqus acting up ?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    More Hillary! sour grapes. You must have a colossal bellyache.

    The fact that President Obama accomplished what 12 predecessors could not do, massive healthcare reform to put us in the good company of other developed nations, that fact that through a coordinated and effective military and judicial strategy significantly weaked the terror threat to America, the fact that he halted in the W and Big D*ck freefall into economic and monetary collapse and has created a growing economy quarter upon quarter, all attest to President Obama’s brilliance. The fact that he is up against regressive knuckle-draggers who seem to believe the greatest testament to America’s greatness is re-arguing the contraception issue does, however, make him look all the more brilliant by comparison. Leaders are judged by what they accomplish not by how effectively they excite the easily excitable.

    Get over 2008. dear.

  • Anonymous

    The ‘stimulus’, Obamacare, and Obama himself were all sold on fear – and far too many fell for it.

  • T.Gloves Donahue

    Sure, but Romney is the best of the bunch to me. Yeah, he’s getting hammered on a daily basis now and until the election. If he wins, it may get worse. He doesn’t need it to be a success, he already is.

    But for the happenstance of his race, Hillary would be President. Well, flukes happen all the time.

    The point is, Obama has proven to be divisive, arrogant and corrupt. Who wants four more years of that ? Not too late for the Dems to run Cuomo or Mark Warner or anybody who can bring the country together. It doesn’t have to be Republican, just someone qualified, optimistic and decent.

  • T.Gloves Donahue

    Robert. You’re using ” Willard” in an attempt to denigrate Mitt some way. He’s named after J.Willard Marriott, a good friend of George Romney’s. J.W. Marriott built a huge business starting with a root beer joint. J.W. and George are the role models who made Romney the super-achiever he is now.

    And Robert. Just keep on with the MM talking points. We like Mitt just fine.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    What a convincing argument that is. You’re of the moldy gossip sort who would argue that Estelle wouldn’t make such a show of spreading her perfect meringue to the edge of the pie if she could make a better crust? If got news for you, Big Petty, Estelle makes a great and lovely pie crust and a great meringue, too. Now, you and your go buy some refrigerated crust at the supermarket, and a tub of Cool Whip while you’re at it.

  • Anonymous

    They are actually referring to Obama’s brilliant sidekick “Teleprompter” for his brilliance.
    Take Obama of his dependent Teleprompter and he stutters, and spews nonsense.
    Obama when he stole the election from Clinton was told not to worry, all you have to do is delegate and others will do your work for you and make you shine.  And don’t worry about who you will delegate these portfolios to, we will tell you to whom each shall be given..

    All you have to do is just smile and get your wife to tell people to eat vegetables, while she permits herself eat cake!

    Can November come fast enough?

  • Anonymous

    Yeah,I know giving 1/6th of the American economy over to Nancy Pelosi to carve out a health care plan for 300 million people. Now that f’n brilliant.
    A trillion dollar kiss to unions,political freinds and family and calling it stimulus.Thats f’n brilliant.
    Negotiating with the Taliban but not negotiating with the catholic church. thats f’n brilliant.
    Hiring a tax cheat to head the treasury.Thats f’n brilliant.
    Hiring a Chief of staff who dosen’t know how many votes it takes to pass a budget in the senate.Thats f’n brilliant

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    It’s the man’s name, Big Petty. His baptism name. What do you have against baptism?

  • T.Gloves Donahue

    Just got back from the Pillsbury Bake-Off, huh?

    Did you win, or did one of the other ladies grab the prize?

  • Keane

    I’d think of it this way. The team finished 50-112 in 2008, and part of the reason why they did is that from 05-08, the team’s manager (Bush) let his best players (bankers and traders and corporations) train the way they wanted without intervention. The manager trusted those players to figure it out on their own, and he trusted they would do the right things to get the team going.

    As it turned out, that was a terrible strategy. Those great players realized that they were still going to get paid no matter how well the team did, so who cares if they lost over 100 games? They knew they would still rake in millions, so while the rest of the team’s players (America’s small businesses) struggled to improve themselves, those great players tried to fix the game however they wanted because they knew their manager was giving them a free pass.

    So, tired of three consecutive subpar seasons, the fans revolted and demanded a change in manager. They hired Obama to turn the team around and add accountability. How did those great players who were previously unaccountable to anyone react? They refused to play ball. They took their billions, went home, and refused to actually do what it takes to improve the team (which, according to their contracts, they had a right to do). They didn’t want to play for the new manager because they felt like they were entitled to do whatever they wanted and shouldn’t have to report to anyone.

    Many of the fans thought the manager was being unreasonable and should lay off those players; the manager was creating uncertainty in the team.  Other fans thought it was exactly what those players needed—firm oversight to prevent corruption. After a few years of bickering and fighting—complete and total division—the team slowly started to increase its win totals. Some of the star players started to perform (banks slowly lending money). Some older, expensive players actually produced something on the field (auto-industry). The team started to dig itself out of the hole, albeit slowly and not nearly as quickly as the new manager promised.
     
    Some fans saw this slow recovery as a disaster. They wanted the team to start losing again just so they could fire the new manager and bring someone like the old manager back. The old type of manager would give his star players the freedom to play the game as they saw fit, potentially unlocking even more wins because it would spur their creativity. They had forgotten, though, that the last time that happened, it wasn’t creativity that results. It was corruption, and that corruption caused one of the worst seasons in the team’s history.

    I think that’s way more accurate a metaphor.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

     They will never accept your argument because the current argument against Obama is based upon the demonizing of all things Democrat.  There is a racial component, but it’s more about the team sports mentality that right wingers personify.  You’ve never seen them request the transcripts of Herman Cain, who went to HBCU Morehouse and Purdue, because Cain is a Republican and “on their team.”  Same with Allen West, Tim Scott, J.C. Watts or any other Black Republican or conservative they mention.

      Same with the birther argument.

    –Cobra

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    with comments like that, no wonder you think Obama brilliant.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

     1. You haven’t read his books.
     2. Your definition of “brilliant people” isn’t sufficient for somebody at the head of a three branch governmental system. Totalitarian Dictators would be a better fit. Didn’t Mussolini make the trains run on time in Italy?
    3. Nancy Pelosi was the Speaker of the House, in the (hold for it) LEGISLATIVE BRANCH.
    You’re arguing that the LEGISLATIVE BRANCH of government shouldn’t handle “legislation?”
    4. If you’re arguing that President Obama should’ve been appointed Totalitarian Dictator, and gotten everything he wanted, when he wanted it with no opposition or challenge, then you’d have a point.

    –Cobra

  • david r

    The only advantage you gained over Gloves was in wordiness.  Obama claiming any credit for the economy is like the rooster taking credit for the sunrise.

  • david r

     Add a trillion in debt every year.  Tra la la.

  • david r

    And he is the only head of the Harvard Law Review who never published an article.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    You can the manager, sell the players, unload the franchise, raid the pension funds, and strip all the copper from the stadium.

    Romney’s your guy!   

  • david r

    “Willard” is fair.  After all, everyone sat back passively when “Hussein” was included.

  • Keane

    So, when the economy is awful, it’s Obama’s fault. But, during a slow recovery, he had nothing to do with it. Got it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Lame. First you blame Bush then you say oreilly hasnt proposed an alternative, what only about 5 times a week for almost 3 years now. Why not just call him a racist already.

  • david r

     Clinton got the Republicans to cooperate.  And the health care bill– with no public option and mandatory insurance requirements– is a Republican’s delight.  The only Republicans harping about it are the poor ones Bob Dylan sang about (“Only a Pawn in Their Game”).

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Wellll, he didnt quite get gitmo closed his first day… Hasnt quite cut the deficit in half his first year… He umm also didnt get the unemplyment down to 6%….Ive been up all night ill let the others finish for me…

  • Anonymous

    Zzzzzzzz

  • david r

     So what is the LEGISLATIVE BRANCH doing giving broad waiver powers to the EXECUTIVE BRANCH ?  Sounds like Hugo Chavez strong-arming the Venezuelan parliament.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Well, I havent got any healthcare yet, also when I saw his speech on healthcare and heard the wordds from his own mouth, it was going to be totally taxpayer neutral. Im really glad to hear that we are winning the war against terrorism, if you dont count Iran I guess. 1% quarterly growth rally isnt much to brag about in some parts of the world..

  • david r

    No public option in the health care plan because he did not get behind it.  Too chicken to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire when he had majorities in both houses.

  • Anonymous

    Absolutely spot-on!!!

  • Anonymous

    I see. So what is the alternative BillyO is proposing? I will wait patiently.

  • david r

    He’s been Prez three years, dude. He is slow balling the permit process for Gulf drilling.  He has refused to obey court orders from Louisiana judges.  No pipeline.  No Boeing plant in S.C. Half a billion to Solyndra and god knows who else in exchange for political support.  Downgrading of our bonds.  Extra $ trillion in deficit per year. He has done more harm than good.  Get past the fact that you “like” him.  If he was a young doctor with this kind of results, would you want him operating on your child?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fopinion%2F2011%2F10%2F25%2Fred-army-behind-occupy-wall-street%2F&h=RAQEz_Oo-AQF_msy9ZJPg41dc8-jEcRksUZkUTqqVdpZ76g,
    Ill start there.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky

    Youll have to do a little of your own reading there, but take note of some of the tenets of his philosophy, especially the ones about breeding dependance, and engineering economic collapse.

    The trail is pretty obvious and when you get to the part about the Congressional Progressive Caucus, go check out there membership, lots of his congress buddies like Pelosi and Maxine Waters.

    Thengo ahead and read there posted goals, thats pretty hilarious.

    The paper trail is starting to look pretty clear. OWS, Media Matters, some george soros, some good old fashioned comm un ist labor unions, straight to Obama and the congressional progressive caucus.

  • david r

     Wake and bake, apparently.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Yes they are all conspiracy theorys, but they are pretty good ones. I actually can find video for you where he admits his mu slim faith(slip of the toungue im sure) would you like it posted here? Most of the other stuff has some pretty good circumstantial evidence too, I just dont bother with it because its to me totally irrelevant…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    We would have gotten around to asking for Cains credentials but unfortunately Obams dogs at media matter sand the thu gs in chicago got their shots in first, effectively smearing him. He got “palin”d so to speak. He wasnt a very strong candidate anyway.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Back to Bush? I will say you libtard trolls are trying pretty hard.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    All part of his plan to bankrupt the economy, I tell you he IS brilliant. It really is not easy to shovel that much money.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Using the term think loosely. Not even going to argue the stupid basball analogy, nor read it.

  • Anonymous

    House Republican Retreat, Baltimore, Friday January 29 2010.

    Explain or drop the teleprompter façade.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    That is one thing he excels at, taking credit. Lets give them a few free points:

    Osama Bin Laden.(cant believe that hasnt been mentioned yet)

  • Anonymous

    I blame it all on religeon

  • Far-Left Troll

     Obama is a cunning manipulator with a silver tongue. That is what the left consider brilliance.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Thatsnot going to happen, Obama will NEVER cede power. Expect the GOP nominee to be indefinately detained at Gitmo on suspicion of terrorism.

    Oh see, and there you go more free points for you guys, he gave himself the power to make anyone disappear forever legally.

    Im telling you guys Brilliant.

  • Keane

    He’s been president for three years and has seen an unprecedented level of obstructionism from the right. He’s clearly made mistakes (Solyndra being one), but blaming the downgrading of our bonds on Obama? When S&P was roundly decried by both conservatives and liberals for that decision? And considering how S&P claimed the reason for the downgrade was the poisonous atmosphere in Washington? And that’s Obama’s fault?

    For the last year, high ranking Republicans have declared that there will be “no compromise” with the President. McConnell said he wouldn’t compromise. Cantor said he wouldn’t compromise. DeMint recently said he wouldn’t compromise. And you’re blaming Obama for that? I admit Obama’s not perfect, but the failure to see how difficult it is to lead while the opposition has repeatedly said it will not compromise is amazing.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Its the spending stupid?

  • Keane

    Pretty standard response.

    “I disagree with what you said even though I didn’t read it.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    He won the nobel peace prize

  • sid_id

    Cute analogy–I would ask that your consider the following:

    Although it is a new manager with new players, it is still the SAME GAME.  From my seat in the stadium, it looks like it is the bottom of the ninth with bases loaded and a full count. Will the new manager with his new players be able to hit one out of the park, or will they strike out. Looks like we’ll have to wait till November to see the outcome of this game, huh?

    PS: They could make these stadium seats a little more comfortable and the concession stand is way too far away.

  • Anonymous

    I see. So you really must have been proud when the Party of NO proposed cutting spending on a multi-trillion dollar budget by $100 billion. You are a perfect example of a wingnut. You had better go hang out on one of the Bigs sites. You are out of your league here.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    I really doubt Obama has read Obamas books.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    It is kinda interesting he can negotiate with the taliban with one side of his face and claim victory on the war on terror with the other. We are using stealth drones, million dollar missles and losing thousands of soldiers,they ride camels and cant read, but lets go ahead and call it a draw.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    You would have NEVER gotten around to that, for the same reason you aren’t currently asking for either Romney’s or Santorum’s.

    –Cobra

  • bugspotter24

    I agree that Obama is brilliant in his traitorous double-crossing of our country on behalf of foreign corporate interests that seek to rob and rape every human being on the planet to satisfy their own criminal greed.
    Absolutely brilliant puppet, that Obama is.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Racist!

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

     Wars either end through negotiation, or total annihilation.

     Are you suggesting that the United States Government engage in open genocide in Afghanistan, or that we negotiate as we did ending World War 2?

    –Cobra

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Did you mean how they proposed to offset the payroll tax holiday that feeds into social security? Bhoener gave you guys that one for free out of pity.

    On to social security, which >I< pay into, when the debt ceiling debate hit I heard from the presidents own mouth that the check might not go out if we didnt borrow a trillion dollars from China immediately. I found that odd, since again I pay my money to the feds, but its up to china to give me my check?

    cmon cmon better trolls plz you guys suck. At least call me a racist.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    You still reading?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Yes attack Allen West. Do it. “uncle tom” maybe, “war criminal” , “terrorist” must I do your work for you? The record on West is quite clear, he was faced with a choice and chose the lives of his soldier over a rags rights.

    WHY MUST I DO YOUR OWN TROLLING FOR YOU LIBTARDS?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Well Im not asking for anyones records, not even Obamas. I know all I need to know I would vote for Sandusky before I would vote for Obama, because I know him for   Anti American Socialist Dictator wannabe that he is.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    1. No, he signed the Executive Order to close Gitmo the SECOND DAY.
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ClosureOfGuantanamoDetentionFacilities

    2. Like Sara in Italy, you apparently think the POTUS is a Dictatorship, and doesn’t need congress for FUNDING PRISONER TRANSFERS.
    http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/01/22/107255/how-congress-helped-thwart-obamas.html

    3. Your arguments on deficits and unemployment are simple, plaintive wails that Obama isn’t cleaning up Bush and the Republicans’ mess fast enough.

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

     Today, unlike in the glory days of 19th Century White Conservative America, it is no longer a felony for Black people to be caught reading.

    –Cobra

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Weak. What >I< propose is we Napalm every Opium plant in the country. Kill anyone one who doesnt like it  and come home. In ten years I havent seen one single thing in Afghanistan worth one soldiers life.

    Although the way we finished in WWII would work for me. Those atomic bombs made the world a better place, Im sure a couple more in Afghanistan would have the same effect.

    You seem off your game today, not feeling well?

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    You sat through post 9/11 Bush Homeland Security Policy and GOP Congress controlled Patriot Acts, and NOW you’re chirping?

    Really, esquire?

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

     You act like the Affordable Care Act vote was a foregone conclusion.  The Bush Tax Cuts affected ALL tax brackets, including the working poor.

    –Cobra

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Its going to take more than this guy to keep our economy down forever. We have the greatest nation in the world and it will not easily be broken.

  • Anonymous

    “His books” ?… which books would those be ?  Doubtful that he made much of a contribution to either of the books which you think he wrote.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    And you guys act like OBAMACARE was worth passing in the first place and you will keep saying that right up until it goes into effect which will be hmmm.. AFTER the election.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Was that a race card? I only doubted Obama took the time to read them. Aaannnd I think the claim is the actually wrote them. I admit I cant provide video to the contrary.

    Are you done with the rest of this then, I was really waiting for some better comebacks before I have to go?

  • Anonymous

    Exactly,you’re not playing by TEA-BILLY rules.TEA-BILLIES run you over the cliff while shouting NO when you have the audacity to ask for braking,and then piss and whine about how hard the ground was when they landed!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    No most of us had a fit over the patriot act, I know I sure did. Not sure how that makes Obamas patriot act better.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Right, I guess if we want to get back to work we will have to give him four more years?

  • david r

     Who says I “sat through” anything?  I voted against Bush more than you, unless you live in W. Texas where he lost his first race.  Every time on the state level, every time on the national level.  And I carped about the deficit back then. 

  • david r

     Oh, we are being pompous now, aren’t we?

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

     Graduating Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School = “halfway good grades?”

     Again, is Breitbart’s goal with your presence here to look intentionally moronic, or has this all been some running inside joke using undetectable sarcasm?

    –Cobra

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    You weenies. Owned all of you top to bottom.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

     What law school did you graduate from again, barrister?

    –Cobra

  • david r

     You are being evasive.  He had the votes, if he had pushed it.

  • Anonymous

    ZZZZZ…..ZZZZZZ….Barry’s grades…ZZZZZZZZ…..main stream media………ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ……………..

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

     Why stop at registered Republican Jerry Sandusky?  Go the full monty with Hitler, Stalin, Ghengis Khan, Pol Pot, Judas Iscariot…hell summon up Lucifer for a write in.

    –Cobra

  • OSTL

     racist much? rhetorical question don’t bother

  • Anonymous

    ZZZZ…..Willard…….ZZZZZZZZ…..root beer joint……….ZZZZZZZZZZZ…….MM talking points………ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ………………………

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    So, in other words, you have no substantive response? Again.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    “a rags rights”

    Right winger, conscious Black folks like me know we’re on your “list” somewhere, too.  No matter which tokens you like to hold up as a merkin to cover hate.

    Allen West
    http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/420958_10150552218718589_6277368588_9196038_764761777_n.jpg

    –Cobra

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Of course, you may have just ceded David’s point that the Congress has long stopped governing.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Sounds like I voted against W as often as you did.

    I voted against Poppy twice. Would have more if I had lived in his Houston Congressional district.

    Actually like both men. Terrible governance, however.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    He was making an historically accurate statement.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    On balance, I agree with President Obama slightly more often than not, and I respect him. He has endearing moments, but he has times inducing great frustration, too. I fault him on both of these matters.

    Great rain, huh?

  • Anonymous

    Strong enough to deal you dolts out $9.99 pizzas,but a bit weak on the personal morality part of the test.Alaskan Snooki would have been better off staying on her porch eyeballing Russia,instead of attempting to answer “trick” questions like what type of literature you like to read.The rest of the Clowncar- “not” so strong.

  • Anonymous

    ZZZZZ….socialist dictator…..ZZZZZZZZZ……………uncle tom…………ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ……..rags………………..ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ………………………………..

  • Anonymous

    I knew there was something fishy about that Socialist,Marxist,Communist Dictator guy.Can’t trust them colluding FBI/CIA types who stick up for “THEM” type of people,either!!! YEA,YEA,THAT’S IT,a private vulture capitalist or a religious zealot, see I’m not skaaaared anymore.Thank you Jesus!!!!!!

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    ” What >I< propose is we Napalm every Opium plant in the country. Kill anyone one who doesnt like it  and come home.

     Well, I congratulate you on your honesty concerning your lust for genocide.  Try reading a little more history, though. We DID negotiate with Japan before and after dropping those bombs.
    http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/japan/japanworkbook/modernhist/atomicbomb.html#document%203

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Links, bruh. Show me links of your anti-Bush rants from back in the day or else it rings hollow.  All these conservatives “didn’t like” Bush now that he’s OUT of office, huh? LOL!  And show the links of WHERE and WHEN you carped about deficits when the REAL President Dick Cheney was saying “deficits don’t matter.”

    You also would admit that Bush inherited a Budget Surplus” when he came into office.

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Congress is broken, and my disagreement on some points of David’s doesn’t mean he isn’t right on others.

    –Cobra

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Flawed yes. Enemies of the people no.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    This is the single lamest group of liberal trolls Ive ever heard you guys totally suck, not even one person called me a racist.

  • Anonymous

    Obama’s “brilliant”??? really? Based on what?

    Other than finding that phonebooth, changing into SuperSeal, flying into Pakistan and killing Osama Bin Laden, what has Obama done to be considered “brilliant”? I’m curious.

  • 12voltman1

    In your narrow minded conservative way of thinking.

  • 12voltman1

    It is the Partisan bickering that has divided this country. Remember the “great compromise”. It was Bohner (pronounced bone-er). That walked away. Obama has done everything he could reaching out to Republicans but if Obama’s for it. The Republican are against it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7cry-4pyy8
    Yes, I’m a Marxist!

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    What do you mean “he had the votes?”

    “Independent Sen. Joseph Lieberman said Tuesday he would join a
    Republican filibuster to block the final vote on any health care bill
    that has a government-run public health insurance option.”

    http://articles.cnn.com/2009-10-27/politics/health.care_1_public-option-health-care-bill-pensions-committee?_s=PM:POLITICS

    “Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) said Friday that he will oppose legislation
    that would give people the option of a public health insurance plan.”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/01/ben-nelson-plans-to-oppos_n_194907.html

    “U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln said today she opposes a public health insurance option because it would be too expensive.”

    http://arkansasnews.com/2009/09/01/lincoln-public-option-too-expensive/

    Your witness, counselor.

    –Cobra

  • 12voltman1

    Well, it is the weekend after all.

  • 12voltman1

    I miss Bill!

  • 12voltman1

    You’re bitchy this afternoon.
    Did you get up on the wrong side of the bed?

  • http://twitter.com/HOLA_LOVITO OLUMIDE

     Collosal Bellyache,lol.

  • 12voltman1

    magna cum laude from Harvard  is a big OK!

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Clinton didn’t get ONE Republican vote on the budget that raised taxes and helped balance the Budget.

    The same Republicans who “cooperated” tried to impeach him over consensual sex.

    –Cobra

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Wait. Blaming Clinton, umm I dont know what to say now.

  • Anonymous

    Having problems connecting your thoughts? ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
    It is clear by your analyses that you spent most of your middle school education praticing your ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ 
    You must have passed with honors!

  • Anonymous

    You trade the manager to the Taliban team, they will follow his directives.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     Still Laughing.

  • Anonymous

    Be very, very careful what you say, Neil, or we’ll come for you, too.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    If I ever receive a substantive response from you, sans insults and bullsh*t, you will get one back. 

  • Anonymous

    No, back to hypocrisy.

  • Anonymous

    You never did, you just didn’t realize it until now.

  • Anonymous

    this looks like excessive trolling again

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    Brilliant?
    He’s a sensational orator, in the Preacher mode of Evangelical churches, but
    brilliant?
    The teleprompter speeches are well-prepared and he delivers them with passion
    (whether genuine or contrived), but brilliant?

    I’ve seen nothing of his brilliance.

    I’ve seen his calculated deception, his crony-capitalism, his clandestine
    governance.
    I’ve seen a petulant, self-righteous ideologue who bristle at the very thought
    his policies are wrong.
    I haven’t seen brilliant.

    In fact, any time he’s had to venture beyond his prepared narrative, either
    when the prompter went down, or in those rare moments he received
    extemporaneous questions, he’s shown himself quite inept in providing
    reasonable responses.

    Barack Obama is still somewhat of an enigma to many as to his true beliefs and
    worldviews, but however that enigma unfolds, his actions have shown that it
    won’t be good for our country, and it certainly won’t be brilliant.!

     

     

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     Bush did it!

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    So when will Brock be putting the Bullseye on Stewart?
    lol

  • Anonymous

     At last you get it.

  • Anonymous

     Good pioint!

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

     Transfer prisoners from Gitmo to where?

    “Congress on Wednesday passed legislation that would effectively bar the
    transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the U.S. for trial, rejecting pleas
    from Obama administration officials who called the move unwise.”

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704774604576036520690885858.html

     If you weren’t aware of this, you’re either ill-informed or intentionally ignorant.

     And how’s that Operation Wide Receiver working for you?

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    You’re lying worse than a roadkill throw rug on clearance at a Kmart sidewalk sale.

    Republican Retreat Q & A—no teleprompter
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5vOMIN673A

    –Cobra

  • Anonymous

    1. And it is still open as of the 1,124th day. So how is that fact working for you?

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

     It tells me there are some gutless weasels in both parties in Congress. Talk to your congressmen about it.  And please link to your anti-Gitmo posts before January 2009.

    –Cobra

  • Anonymous

    Seeing as how I made none prior to or after 2009 there is no way to link to them. (Disqus also only goes back on year genius.) I have no issue with the detention center at Gitmo as it is LEGAL under international law. Thanks for proving how stupid you really are.

  • Anonymous

    WHAT GOOD IS BRILLIANCE IF JESUS HATES YOU?  JESUS LOVES FROTH NOT OBAMA. FROTH JUST LIKE TEBOW.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     It’s still his hackneyed talking-point narrative, whether delivered to an audience crowd or cowering GOP questioners!

     

  • http://www.facebook.com/jas7751 Jay Aubrey

     Well, you have demonstrated the complete ignorance of liberals in one short paragraph.  Your Precious has added over $5T to our national debt in record time  while bloating the Govt by 23% and adding suffocating regulations.  There are more in poverty, on food stamps and on long time unemployment in our history.  More college grads returning to live with their parents than at any time. Barry is a failure.  Big Govt Keynesian economics is a bust, as always.  The economic “recovery” has proven to be the longest and most costly in our history.  And your hero has no intention of reducing the deficit, none.  He has ignored any recommendations to do so from his own commissions. He is a leaderless Street Agitator Hack who is intent on bringing America down.  The glaring stupidity of liberals and any that support Barry and his gaggle of fellow Marxists is breathtaking.

  • Anonymous

    Brialliant in the faculty lounge and behind the teleprompter, maybe.  Brillinant as a manager and leader, never.

    He’s NEO-No Experience Obama.  The One who knows not how businesses work and run because he has never had a real job.  This problem is typical with Liberals, they hate business because of their internal jealousy of those who are successful businessmen.  Liberals are lazy and take the easy way out by trying to convince themselves and other of their brillance because they read a lot of books.

  • Anonymous

    And, you have demonstrated a complete ignorance of logic and facts.  You can’t just count $ added from inauguration day, but look at the policies that added to the deficits, e.g. drug benefit, wars, tax cuts, TARP, recession under Bush/Cheney vs. Stimulus under Obama 
    http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3036.  And, in the final analysis, the proof is in the results, worst recession in 50 years under Bush and 23 months of job growth under Obama. Or you can look at deficits and job growth over the last century under republican and democratic administrations and again the facts are pretty clear.  But if its easier to cling to a failed narrative than to reorient your ideology based on facts, you just keep clinging to your failed belief system.  I’m sure its quite reassuring…to you.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

     Right, because Disqus is the ONLY posting platform ever created to post messages on the internet.

    And this International Law thing….really?


    The United States’ continued operation of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba is a “clear breach of international law,”
    United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay said today, Reuters
    reports. Only six trials have been completed in 10 years, while eight
    detainees have died at the prison. “While fully recognizing the right
    and duty of states to protect their people and territory from terrorist
    acts, I remind all branches of the U.S. government of their obligation
    under international human rights law to ensure that individuals deprived
    of their liberty can have the lawfulness of their detention reviewed
    before a court,” Pillay said. “Where credible evidence exists against
    Guantanamo detainees, they should be charged and prosecuted. Otherwise,
    they must be released.”

    http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/01/23/409541/united-nations-us-operation-of-gitmo-is-clear-breach-of-international-law/

     Besides stalking me online, you don’t read much else, do you Todd?

    –Cobra

  • Anonymous

    To turn a phrase, What have ya done for me lately?  nothing since he’s been in office.

  • Anonymous

    You are a victim of spin and Fox News brainwashing.  You have no idea of what his intentions are because you don’t want to, you want the righties like Hannity to tell you so that you can spew crap on websites.  Your own ”glaring stupidity” is apparent when you infer that he is a Marxist, and a street agitator, you couldn’t be more wrong.  Furthermore, his record points to the opposite assessment.  You are another voice for the mean spirited, rich boy right wing crazies.

  • Anonymous

    Graduating Magna Cum Laude from Harvard does NOT make one “brilliant”. Definitely not a brilliant politician. So, again, what has Obama done to be cited as brilliant.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jas7751 Jay Aubrey

     President Bush gave us full employment and growth.  All after 9/11.  The Bush economy was fine until the Socialist led ’06 Congress slithered into office.  The ’06 Congress (Dodd, Fwank, Waters, Pelosi, Reid, Schumer et al) that blocked any attempts by the Bush administration to reign in Fanny/Freddie.  Your Precious today is leading America into ruin and libs sit on their butts unaware or unable to comprehend his unwillingness to prevent that from happening.  What has Barry done, anything, to reign in the debt?  Nothing that’s what.  He is intent on on transforming this nation into a full and complete entitlement society.  Libs really are so glaringly ignorant.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jas7751 Jay Aubrey

    You a are victim of self inflicted ignorance.   FOX News…the Libs Boogeyman.  What a joke.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jas7751 Jay Aubrey

    The Worst Economic Recovery Since The Great Depression:

    The record of President Obama’s first three years in office is in, and
    nothing that happens now can go back and change that.  What that record shows is that President Obama, with his throwback, old-fashioned, 1970s Keynesian economics, has put America through the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression.

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2012/01/12/the-worst-economic-recovery-since-the-great-depression/

  • Anonymous

    FROTH HATE TELEPROMPTER! MAKES FROTH VERY ANGRY!!!

  • Anonymous

    HARVARD AND MAGNA CUM LAUDE OVERRATED! FROTH GO TO PENN STATE WHERE THEY COVER UP FOR SANDUSKY SCANDAL. NOW THAT BRILLIANT!

  • Anonymous

    FROTH LOVE RACISTS!

  • Anonymous

    FROTH HATES SPENDING!!! UNLESS FROTH DOING THE SPENDING.

  • Anonymous

    FROTH IS #6!!!

  • Anonymous

    FROTH HATE POMPOUS! WHAT POMPOUS MEAN AGAIN? FROTH HATE BIG WORDS! FROTH ANGRY!!!

  • 12voltman1

    Did you even go to college yourself?
    Such an ignorant statement.

  • Anonymous

    FROTH HATE HUGO CHAVEZ!

  • Anonymous

    FROTH LOVE GENOCIDE OF MUSLIMS AS LONG AS THEY NOT UNBORN BABIES!

  • Anonymous

    FROTH HATE SOCIALISM!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    if sandusky is the nominee he gets my vote

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    lol, fox news brainwashing.. not buying that for one thing YOU COULDNT MAKE THIS SHIT UP

  • Anonymous

    FROTH LIKE SANDUSKY FOR WORK WITH CHILDREN!

  • Anonymous

    Generalize much, Pappy?

  • Anonymous

    Obama is doing quite well with the economic hand he was dealt and will in all likelihood win a second term. Accept it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/aunt.e.cotton Aunt Eloise Louise Cotton

    thats the thinking that says..Bush got us in this debt so if Obama spends billion,s more its still Bush,s fault..GROW UP..

  • http://www.facebook.com/aunt.e.cotton Aunt Eloise Louise Cotton

    Next the lib,s will won,t the taxpayer to wipe there butts but only if we buy there toilet paper…GESSS

  • Anonymous

    if as many people focused on being kind to each other as they do on political crap, voting and all the other shenanigans the world would be a better place. at least eventually. voting is a JOKE.

  • Anonymous

    Why are you recycling your excellent condemnation of the two terms of George W. Bush?

    All of a sudden, “conservatives” are concerned about budget deficits?

    Clinton left Bush with budget surpluses as tar as the eye could see and a Dow at 12,000.  Bush left with unfunded wars, huge deficits, Bin Laden alive, the Dow at 8,000 (and the country on the brink of another Great Depression).

    One term of Obama:  Dow is now over 12,000.  Bin Laden is dead. Another dictator was eradicated with no loss of American lives and a minuscule cost.  True, the financial sector is still able to gamble recklessly — because they remain unregulated.  But, O is at least trying to get us out of the foreign war morass.

    When the patient is healthy (the country is doing well), you bank blood (tax enough to have surpluses).  When the patient is sick (the country ill), you inject that blood back (stimulus).  Unfortunately, both parties have no will to save (tax) during good times — now you want to bleed the patient while its sick?  

    See how well that’s working in Europe.

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