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Watch Rep. Paul Ryan’s ‘Obama-Cool’ Reaction To President’s Hot Mic Remarks About Him

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On Sunday morning’s Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer seemed to be setting Rep. Paul Ryan up for a sort of political “2 Girls, 1 Cup reaction video,” placing Ryan in splitscreen as he listened to President Obama’s candid “hot mic” remarks at a Chicago fundraiser earlier this week. While the President’s fiery remarks were a departure from his characteristic cool, Ryan’s pulse never got above 85.

The Obama/Paul Ryan dynamic has undergone a shift in the last week or so. Ryan’s budget proposal got heaps of praise from the political media for being “courageous,” even as they were split on the substance, but in the artificial world of media optics, the President seemed to regain some momentum with his speech on the budget, leaving Republicans to lament the President’s tone.

In much the same way, President Obama’s supposed “screwup” this week, the public airing of remarks that were supposed to be closed to the press, has probably helped him, too. Critics on both sides of the aisle have long expressed a wish that the President would get worked up once in awhile.

Ryan’s reaction can best be described as cool, classy, taking the high road, but in the face of a (relatively) blistering attack by President Obama, Ryan runs the risk of coming off as weak. In American politics, for better or worse, victory is often decided based on who looks stronger, not who has the best ideas. As happy as many Democrats are that President Obama is finally hitting back, Republicans ought to take a look at how well complaining about the meanies usually works out.

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  • cjd ohio 1

    victim card only works for democrats

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Paul Ryan is a voice of reason trying to teach an unprincipled , lying empty suit some manners .
    Can’t be done . Barry is a hack and will never be anything but a hack .

    Next time , we;ll elect a man instead of a punk .

  • Barack Must Go

    The whole Obama argument for denouncing Ryan’s plan coming from the pussy in the White House among others is actually a non starter ( lie ).

    Ryan’s plan calls for individual states to craft their own health insurance ( not one size fits all ) plans, within a framework, that suits the citizens of that state. By eliminating ( which Ryan plan does ) the bloated, redundent federal beaurocracy in Washington We the People will save billions upon billions of dollars some of which can be used to offset the cost of coverage to the less fortunate among us.

    Instead of thanking Rep. Ryan and agreeing to sit down together, offer up his own plan or suggestions, the pussy in chief went around talking his big man talk his sycophant followers crave so badly.

    Obama is nothing more than a combination punk, common street criminal, race baiter who has no place in American politics especially the right to occupy our White House.

  • Dem4Ever

    Obama is not the legitimate leader. He is a fake…a fraud. He shall be shunned.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    “President seemed to regain some momentum with his speech on the budget,”
    From who, Maddow?

    “the public airing of remarks that were supposed to be closed to the press, has probably helped him”
    With a base he should already have in his pocket…

    “Ryan runs the risk of coming off as weak”
    ?!?! in what kind of Liberal reality would that be?

  • Bot

    We need more Paul Ryans in Congress, and one as POTUS. He’s the only adult in a candy store filled with kids who want to leave without paying.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Run Ryan, Run!
    2012 is yours for the taking…

  • A.R.

    ryan dodged everything cus he cant justify himself

  • dhg

    Tommy,are you really Ed moonlighting?Rachel in man clothes?Olbermann trying to regain some kind of relevance?

    You got your adjextives backwards,Ryan gained Obama lost.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    skoorbekim said:
    Run Ryan, Run!2012 is yours for the taking…

    Seconded .

  • dhg

    adjectives

  • Davo

    What a class act Ryan is. He takes his responsibility on the finance committee seriously, and deflects the play-acting Hussein with simple maturity and poise. Stay the course, Paul, America needs you.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    dhg said:
    Tommy,are you really Ed moonlighting?Rachel in man clothes?Olbermann trying to regain some kind of relevance? You got your adjextives backwards,Ryan gained Obama lost.

    Tommy has Bill Press edit his stories .

  • Jaurez

    It must be really painful bending over backwards defending the president 24/7. Makes my back hurt just thinking about it…

  • azgrandma

    Good for Ryan – would be wonderful if many more took lessons from him. No put downs, no bullcrap, no oneliners, just address the issue, answer the question in a very professional and decent manner. What a concept!

  • BatBoy

    We need more people like Paul Ryan in Washington, Likewise We need less partisan hacks like the President (however it is all he is good at)

  • Kat

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    victim card only works for democrats

    Works well for Palin. Just look to her followers.

  • Kat

    azgrandma said:
    Good for Ryan – would be wonderful if many more took lessons from him. No put downs, no bullcrap, no oneliners, just address the issue, answer the question in a very professional and decent manner. What a concept!

    Whether I agree with him or not, this is a true statement. And yes I wish more would take the high road.

  • tatboy

    Civility is a street in DC… and it only goes one way.

  • http://PoliticalGlutton.com PoliticalGlutton

    Rep. Ryan was surprisingly bad this morning on Face The Nation. He dodged all the important questions and was completely unable to show how is ideas would work or even make sense. The arguments he did make relied completely on half-truths and, worse of all, Ryan repeated the talking points of his Ayn Rand economic theory like a pre-programmed robot. (Hello! Atlas Shrugged was a novel. Fiction. You know, like L.Ron Hubbard.) He really came across today like an overly enthusiastic Scientologist recruiter.

  • ChrisNH

    Dem4Ever said:
    Obama is not the legitimate leader. He is a fake…a fraud. He shall be shunned.

    This deserves to be said again and again.

    And so I shall make it so.

    Obamo, the little petulant man-child, deserves to be politically bludgeoned. History will show that Obamo is the most-hated president ever.

  • ProObamaAgenda

    Ryan knew not to say a damn thing in his defense…he knows everything Obama said about him was true, he supported the 2 unpaid for wars, the prescription drug plan and the bush tax cuts….all unfunded…..hes willing to attribute the costs of all that crap to Obama…the last thing Ryan wants to talk about is his own record…..Obama simply called Ryan out….what was funny was when Obama said Ryan referred to himself as Americas accountant….hehehehehehehehe….WINGNUTS ARE STUPID

  • ProObamaAgenda

    Barack Must Go said:
    The whole Obama argument for denouncing Ryan’s plan coming from the pussy in the White House among others is actually a non starter ( lie ).

    Ryan’s plan calls for individual states to craft their own health insurance ( not one size fits all ) plans, within a framework, that suits the citizens of that state. By eliminating ( which Ryan plan does ) the bloated, redundent federal beaurocracy in Washington We the People will save billions upon billions of dollars some of which can be used to offset the cost of coverage to the less fortunate among us.

    Instead of thanking Rep. Ryan and agreeing to sit down together, offer up his own plan or suggestions, the pussy in chief went around talking his big man talk his sycophant followers crave so badly.

    Obama is nothing more than a combination punk, common street criminal, race baiter who has no place in American politics especially the right to occupy our White House.

    they dont come much dumber than you do they??.. Ryans plan offers states black grants for medicaide and medicaide only…..ITS OBAMACARE ( current law) THAT ALLOWS STATES TO CRAFT THEIR OWN PLANS TO COVER ALL ITS CITIZENS…In fact Obama just allowed the states to opt out of Obamacare right now and come up with something better….have any republican governors decided to do that???…..HELL NO THEY HAVENT AND THEY WONT…..YOURE TOO STUPID AND DELUSIONAL TO KEEP POSTING ON HERE…..GO THE HELL AWAY

  • Chuck from Tacoma

    Except for POA above and some proud union members, I just can’t see the majority of voting Americans being dumb enough to put Obama back in the White House in 2012. My God, the guy is worse than Jimmah Carter (and Carter doesn’t have the brains to get a head ache).
    Obama is driving our economy in to the ground and is absolutely clueless as to what to do about it.
    I just hope the guy does not muff it up to where the next President can’t help fix it.

  • payneec

    Ryans budget ends the Medicare Program. In future years, seniors will once again be moved into poverty without the ability to pay medical expenses including long term care. Repubs dont care about the deficit and debt. If they did, why did GW Bush and Tom Delay not work to reduce the deficit. They also dont believe that Tax Cuts create jobs. There long term strategy has been since Regan, to cut taxes to starve the government of revenue and then run up deficits when they are in power in an effort to make the goverment unable to sustain programs. This way, they can say that they are doing away with Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, Social Security and Free Lunch Programs to save America from financial colapse. They also know that the threat of finacial colapse is the only way they can get Americans to approve of getting rid of programs that are in there best interest. Can anyone name a program that Repubs have created to help people. They hate government programs especially programs that help poor people.

  • Jaurez

    ProObamaAgenda says:

    Looks to me like 9 people disagree w/you and not a single person agrees w/you. And this is a left wing blog, too. What say you?

  • OxyCon

    Tommy wants the White House Carney’s job. Are you seeing stars yet Tommy from spinning so violently, LMAO?

    The only thing Obama helped by acting like a giant dick is dropping his Gallup poll approval numbers down to 41%.

  • Pablo

    On Sunday morning’s Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer seemed to be setting Rep. Paul Ryan up for a sort of political “2 Girls, 1 Cup reaction video,”

    Really, Tommy? Sure, Obama’s talking shit. but…really?

  • Barack Must Go

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    they dont come much dumber than you do they??.. Ryans plan offers states black grants for medicaide and medicaide only…..ITS OBAMACARE ( current law) THAT ALLOWS STATES TO CRAFT THEIR OWN PLANS TO COVER ALL ITS CITIZENS…In fact Obama just allowed the states to opt out of Obamacare right now and come up with something better….have any republican governors decided to do that???…..HELL NO THEY HAVENT AND THEY WONT…..YOURE TOO STUPID AND DELUSIONAL TO KEEP POSTING ON HERE…..GO THE HELL AWAY

    I’ll do you one better. The States, from sea to shining sea are going to opt out of OBAMA the sham in the next presidential election, effectively killing ObamaCare in the process. Put that in your bong along with your salvia and SMOKE IT, because We the People are taking our country back, with or without YOU. The choice, for right now anyway, is up to you.

  • Davo

    Barack Must Go said:
    The States, from sea to shining sea are going to opt out of OBAMA the sham in the next presidential election, effectively killing ObamaCare in the process.

    No, no, no, no, BMG. There are lots of DIms out there who want higher unemployment, higher food costs, higher gas prices, and an even bigger deficit. They’ll work hard to keep things going down, even if their families starve and their government has to declare bankruptcy. All that’s OK, as long as they can support their Demon Party..

    Priorities, BMG, priorities.

  • MrTPar_taY

    Obama’s cool upside is offset by his Union/Jimmy Hoffa/The Mob/Richard Trumka/Corruption manifest.

  • notsofast

    Ryan runs the risk of coming off as weak. In American politics, for better or worse, victory is often decided based on who looks stronger, not who has the best ideas.”

    TC, how often do you clean your nose?

  • notsofast

    Two Muslims stop a man walking down the road and ask ” What is your religion?”

    The man says “I’m an Atheist.”

    The Muslims look at each other and then ask the man, “Shia Atheist or Sunni Atheist.”

  • Color Me Badd

    Wow Obama came at him and he ran away. Tee Hee.

    Obama 2012

  • Jaurez

    Color Me Badd said:
    Wow Obama came at him and he ran away. Tee Hee.

    Obama 2012

    “I would NEVER vote for Obama because I’m a Jew and I can’t be a racist!”

    ROFL!

  • Color Me Badd

    Jaurez said:
    “I would NEVER vote for Obama because I’m a Jew and I can’t be a racist!”

    ROFL!

    I will vote for Obama because I am a Jew and can’t be racist. Si’ Senor

  • Garth

    Barack Must Go said:
    I’ll do you one better. The States, from sea to shining sea are going to opt out of OBAMA the sham in the next presidential election, effectively killing ObamaCare in the process. Put that in your bong along with your salvia and SMOKE IT, because We the People are taking our country back, with or without YOU. The choice, for right now anyway, is up to you.

    With the current GOP Freak Show, not so much. Which reminds me, are you and nutsomuch on the same ward and are you getting pudding with your supper?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 Ellen Carey Rowe

    payneec said:
    Ryans budget ends the Medicare Program. In future years, seniors will once again be moved into poverty without the ability to pay medical expenses including long term care. Repubs dont care about the deficit and debt. If they did, why did GW Bush and Tom Delay not work to reduce the deficit. They also dont believe that Tax Cuts create jobs. There long term strategy has been since Regan, to cut taxes to starve the government of revenue and then run up deficits when they are in power in an effort to make the goverment unable to sustain programs. This way, they can say that they are doing away with Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, Social Security and Free Lunch Programs to save America from financial colapse. They also know that the threat of finacial colapse is the only way they can get Americans to approve of getting rid of programs that are in there best interest. Can anyone name a program that Repubs have created to help people. They hate government programs especially programs that help poor people.

    For the most part this will fall on deaf ears … just wanted to say I appreciate it. :)

  • http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-explains-how-the-unions-are-using-teachers-firefighters-and-co ImNotBlue

    @ Badd

    You think because you’re Jewish you can’t be racist? Are kidding me?

    Apparently you haven’t spent a lot of time with the Ultra-Orthadox… people who look down on all Jews who practice in a way other than their’s, and who often have even less respect for minorities.

    Of course, since you said that your avatar was you… and then that turned out to be a lie, who knows? All I know is that THIS Jew doubts all of your stories.

    Tee Hee.

  • http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-explains-how-the-unions-are-using-teachers-firefighters-and-co ImNotBlue

    @ pay

    If what you say is true (it’s not, but we’ll pretend), what is the reason for it? Why do Republicans want to end all government programs? What do you believe is the rationale behind it?

    PS-
    Ellie, you can answer too, since you appreciated it so.

  • Barack Must Go

    Davo said:
    No, no, no, no, BMG. There are lots of DIms out there who want higher unemployment, higher food costs, higher gas prices, and an even bigger deficit. They’ll work hard to keep things going down, even if their families starve and their government has to declare bankruptcy. All that’s OK, as long as they can support their Demon Party..

    Priorities, BMG, priorities.

    Before the Obama regime and his simpleton reparations manifesto presented as ” leveling the playing field ” created all the chaos and race, class warfare, the liberal losers were more than happy to come out of hiding once every other month to collect their five pounds of free cheese, then slither back from whence they came.

    Obama is the X factor in all of America’s problems today. Once he’s gone things will immediately return to normal.

  • Garth

    Barack Must Go said:
    Before the Obama regime and his simpleton reparations manifesto presented as ” leveling the playing field ” created all the chaos and race, class warfare, the liberal losers were more than happy to come out of hiding once every other month to collect their five pounds of free cheese, then slither back from whence they came.

    Obama is the X factor in all of America’s problems today. Once he’s gone things will immediately return to normal.

    Do you really use “whence?” A word of advice – don’t talk like this on the ward, they’ll never let you out.

  • Davo

    Barack Must Go said:
    Obama is the X factor in all of America’s problems today. Once he’s gone things will immediately return to normal.

    I hope you’re right. Hussein is the embodiment of everything anti-American that’s been going on for the last 45 years. I’m not so confident that his dismissal will make it all go away. Communists are committed to our destruction.

  • Barack Must Go

    Davo said:
    I hope you’re right. Hussein is the embodiment of everything anti-American that’s been going on for the last 45 years. I’m not so confident that his dismissal will make it all go away. Communists are committed to our destruction.

    Oh it will make all the difference in the world. Don’t forget that virtually every politician in Washington no matter their party affiliatin, with the exception of GW Bush and the new Tea Party members of Congress were and still today are guided only by their own political expediency and reelection concerns.

    Only the Republican party has this ” real ” American growing membership that put America and the ” real ” American people, guided only by the Constitution changing the way our government has failed to the government laid out by the framers. The true representative republic form of government has come back into vogue just in time to save America from the un – American elements that wish us harm or death from within our very government.

    They laugh at Donald Trump, but the polls don’t lie. He has struck a chord in the average ” real ” American population that gives them a new found hope for the future, even in the face of all the despare and hate that permiates every aspect of our lives today.

    Trump most likely will not be the Republican candidate to face Obama, but he has, just as Sarah Palin before him, ignited a patriotism and fire that will, just like Sarah did in the mid terms, carry good ( Republicans ) over evil ( democrats ), more importantly though the finish line in the election of 2012.

    So let them laugh ( eat cake ) I say. It’s their heads ( political party’s future existence ) that’s on the block, not ours.

  • ProObamaAgenda

    Barack Must Go said:
    I’ll do you one better. The States, from sea to shining sea are going to opt out of OBAMA the sham in the next presidential election, effectively killing ObamaCare in the process. Put that in your bong along with your salvia and SMOKE IT, because We the People are taking our country back, with or without YOU. The choice, for right now anyway, is up to you.

    Taking your country back????……hahahahahaha…what youre gonna take is a good old fashioned Mau Mau Style ass kickin in 2012…….hey dipshit did you see Palin in Wisconsin yesterday ???…..you wont hear it here but she was booed like a MOFO…i almost felt sorry for the witch…Obamacare will never be repealed…i know it and you do too….sorry i dont own a bong….but if im lucky hot tail miley will let me smoke with her

  • Davo

    Barack Must Go said:
    They laugh at Donald Trump, but the polls don’t lie. He has struck a chord in the average ” real ” American population that gives them a new found hope for the future, even in the face of all the despare and hate that permiates every aspect of our lives today.

    Trump most likely will not be the Republican candidate to face Obama, but he has, just as Sarah Palin before him, ignited a patriotism and fire that will, just like Sarah did in the mid terms, carry good ( Republicans ) over evil ( democrats ), more importantly though the finish line in the election of 2012.

    Great post, BMG! I think you’ve identified the strength of the Tea Party movement that I believe is America’s only hope for survival. I can’t help but contrast your optimism with the following post by an anti-American…………they read like good and evil forces in some horror movie. It really IS that simple…………….right and wrong, good and evil.

  • Barack Must Go

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    Taking your country back????……hahahahahaha…what youre gonna take is a good old fashioned Mau Mau Style ass kickin in 2012…….hey dipshit did you see Palin in Wisconsin yesterday ???…..you wont hear it here but she was booed like a MOFO…i almost felt sorry for the witch…Obamacare will never be repealed…i know it and you do too….sorry i dont own a bong….but if im lucky hot tail miley will let me smoke with her

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD0LcDEPrZE&feature=related

  • ProObamaAgenda

    Barack Must Go said:
    Before the Obama regime and his simpleton reparations manifesto presented as ” leveling the playing field ” created all the chaos and race, class warfare, the liberal losers were more than happy to come out of hiding once every other month to collect their five pounds of free cheese, then slither back from whence they came.

    Obama is the X factor in all of America’s problems today. Once he’s gone things will immediately return to normal.

    damn youre a dumbass….when were your born….jan 20, 2009 ????…thats when history started for you stupid ass regressive teabaggin assholes

  • Barack Must Go

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    damn youre a dumbass….when were your born….jan 20, 2009 ????…thats when history started for you stupid ass regressive teabaggin assholes

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWFZLwbxKGI&feature=related

  • labman57

    See no hypocrisy, hear no hypocrisy …

  • The Lantern of Truth

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    hey dipshit

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    stupid ass

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    teabaggin assholes

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    ass kickin

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    dumbass

    The new Chairman of the Democrat Party .

  • TfT

    Oh Tommy you make me laugh.

    Ryan coould be cool, but if he is too cool the lamerstreamers will go after him.

    Ryans reaction is real, Obama’s is not, the mainstreamers play up Obama’s coolness…because Obama pays you idiots to do so, but if Paul stays cool and abo ve it all, you question his motives.

    I just can’t keep up with your style over substance garbage.

    Give it a rest. We know you love hehimself an dhate anyone who would dare questionhim.

    Ryan has substance, Obama has style, and in your world, Obama wins because his is pretty in an empty suite. suite we get it.

  • Ajolily

    Color Me Badd said:
    Wow Obama came at him and he ran away. Tee Hee. Obama 2012

    Didn’t see any running just standing firm. He doesn’t have to say a thing Obama doesn’t need any help looking the fool.

  • donalan

    He is cool because he is well aware his proposed budget is not serious and never was intended to be so. It is intended to be an extreme from which the Repbugs can negotiate from. Likely they will hand the elections over the the dems again – not much difference – tastes like chicken…

  • glenn113

    I must say Paul Ryan showed alot of class in that interview. No matter how much I disagree with him if the rest of the freshmen teabaggers showed that type of integrity this country would be in much better shape.

  • Rusty Shackelford

    Ryan/Rubio 2012

  • WCinWI

    Rusty Shackelford said:
    Ryan/Rubio 2012

    Palin/Ryan
    Palin/West
    West/Ryan
    Ryan/West
    Cain/West
    Cain/Ryan
    Palin/Rand Paul

  • WCinWI

    WCinWI said:
    Palin/Ryan
    Palin/West
    West/Ryan
    Ryan/West
    Cain/West
    Cain/Ryan
    Palin/Rand Paul

    Or Palin/Walker

  • WCinWI

    Kat said:
    Whether I agree with him or not, this is a true statement. And yes I wish more would take the high road.

    So then you’ll vote for the R candidate in 2012? Good to know! :)

    Unless Hillary steps in……….I would LOVE that!

  • WCinWI

    azgrandma said:
    Good for Ryan – would be wonderful if many more took lessons from him. No put downs, no bullcrap, no oneliners, just address the issue, answer the question in a very professional and decent manner. What a concept!

    Please heed your own advice. :)

  • WCinWI

    Kat said:
    Works well for Palin. Just look to her followers.

    Way to work a Palin reference into a comment. She’s really living rent-free!

  • WCinWI

    PoliticalGlutton said:
    Rep. Ryan was surprisingly bad this morning on Face The Nation. He dodged all the important questions and was completely unable to show how is ideas would work or even make sense. The arguments he did make relied completely on half-truths and, worse of all, Ryan repeated the talking points of his Ayn Rand economic theory like a pre-programmed robot. (Hello! Atlas Shrugged was a novel. Fiction. You know, like L.Ron Hubbard.) He really came across today like an overly enthusiastic Scientologist recruiter.

    Actually, it’s not a movie. :) And I thought Ryan spoke quite well on the issues. What do you disagree with him in regards to his proposal?

  • WCinWI

    WCinWI said:
    Actually, it’s not a movie. :) And I thought Ryan spoke quite well on the issues. What do you disagree with him in regards to his proposal?

    *not = now

  • WCinWI

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    Taking your country back????……hahahahahaha…what youre gonna take is a good old fashioned Mau Mau Style ass kickin in 2012…….hey dipshit did you see Palin in Wisconsin yesterday ???…..you wont hear it here but she was booed like a MOFO…i almost felt sorry for the witch…Obamacare will never be repealed…i know it and you do too….sorry i dont own a bong….but if im lucky hot tail miley will let me smoke with her

    I actually did see Palin in WI yesterday and she was fab. Any questions? If not, I’d advise you to get a hobby or at the least, head back to manners school. Take some soap too.

  • mediadoubt

    Obama dismissed Ryan and his plan because the plan 1) Doesn’t fix the problem; 2) Makes things worse; and 3) Represents Republican cynicism at its most extreme. For Obama to pretend that Ryan’s plan is a reasonable starting point is to fall into the ‘Licans’ standard negotiating ploy: stake out a position so far to the right that no one in their senses will support it, so that when a compromise is finally reached, the “center” of the issue has been shifted to the right.

    It’s how you win tug-of-war, and center-left people are tired of it. Ryan is just the latest hack to come up with some preposterous scheme to destroy the legitimate relationship between the government and its citizens and has adopted a cloak of reasonableness to conceal his efforts.

    Sure he needs to be slapped down. Regularly and consistently.

  • mediadoubt

    WCinWI said:
    I actually did see Palin in WI yesterday and she was fab. Any questions? If not, I’d advise you to get a hobby or at the least, head back to manners school. Take some soap too.

    Happy to hear you think Palin is fab. Keep that thought going. My dream team for 2012: Palin/Bachmann. Then Obama won’t even have to campaign.

  • Laddy Go-Rod

    Only Republicans get asked hard questions on the Sundays shows.

    “Ms Pelosi, you look wonderful today. How do you stay so young looking?”

  • Yoda002

    WCinWI said:
    Palin/Ryan
    Palin/West
    West/Ryan
    Ryan/West
    Cain/West
    Cain/Ryan
    Palin/Rand Paul

    You should choose people who are actually going to run. I know you live in a fantasy world, but Palin isn’t going to run. Rand Paul, Ryan and Walker will also not be running.

  • Barack Must Go

    mediadoubt said:
    Obama dismissed Ryan and his plan because the plan 1) Doesn’t fix the problem; 2) Makes things worse; and 3) Represents Republican cynicism at its most extreme. For Obama to pretend that Ryan’s plan is a reasonable starting point is to fall into the ‘Licans’ standard negotiating ploy: stake out a position so far to the right that no one in their senses will support it, so that when a compromise is finally reached, the “center” of the issue has been shifted to the right.

    It’s how you win tug-of-war, and center-left people are tired of it. Ryan is just the latest hack to come up with some preposterous scheme to destroy the legitimate relationship between the government and its citizens and has adopted a cloak of reasonableness to conceal his efforts.

    Sure he needs to be slapped down. Regularly and consistently.

    This pouring out of your heart concerning the latest ‘ pussy ‘ play by Barack in his game he is playing ( and losing by the way ) of pretending he accidentally left the mike on is comical.

    I always wonderd, just who is it that this jackass hopes to impress by pretending to be a man. Now I know and it’s so very sad.

    I guess I can also thank you for ‘ no more ‘ kick ball in school too and ‘ everybody gets a trophy ‘, ‘ there are no losers ‘, everybody’s a winner ‘. Sheesh.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 ellie

    WCinWI said:
    So then you’ll vote for the R candidate in 2012? Good to know! :)

    If you can get a Palin/Walker ticket I’ll vote for it. I don’t mind sacrificing my vote for a good cause.

  • Barack Must Go

    Color Me Badd said:
    Wow Obama came at him and he ran away. Tee Hee.

    Obama 2012

    You’d just stand there and let him ruin that pretty blue dress. Tee Hee Hee.

  • Hugo Daun

    Barack Must Go said:
    The States, from sea to shining sea are going to opt out of OBAMA the sham in the next presidential election, effectively killing ObamaCare in the process. Put that in your bong along with your salvia and SMOKE IT, because We the People are taking our country back, with or without YOU.

    I just love this kinda shit.

  • mediadoubt

    Barack Must Go said:
    This pouring out of your heart concerning the latest ‘ pussy ‘ play by Barack in his game he is playing ( and losing by the way ) of pretending he accidentally left the mike on is comical.

    I always wonderd, just who is it that this jackass hopes to impress by pretending to be a man. Now I know and it’s so very sad.

    I guess I can also thank you for ‘ no more ‘ kick ball in school too and ‘ everybody gets a trophy ‘, ‘ there are no losers ‘, everybody’s a winner ‘. Sheesh.

    Your comments have about as much to do with the post you’re commenting as a Chatty Cathy doll when you pull the string. I’m going to try a string of nonsense just to see what happens:

    Volkswagen anarchist pomegranate luverly doggo matrix fifi presumption.

    Eh? What do you have to say to *that?*

  • The Lantern of Truth

    mediadoubt said:
    Volkswagen anarchist pomegranate luverly doggo matrix fifi presumption.

    Obnoxious serial killer- looking boob finally makes sense .

  • Barack Must Go

    mediadoubt said:
    Your comments have about as much to do with the post you’re commenting as a Chatty Cathy doll when you pull the string. I’m going to try a string of nonsense just to see what happens:

    Volkswagen anarchist pomegranate luverly doggo matrix fifi presumption.

    Eh? What do you have to say to *that?*

    Libs like YOU always seem to get things backwards….ALWAYS. I come to a place like this to blow off a little steam and reasure my fellow ” real ” Americans that as bleek as things look all around us today better days ( Obama free ) are coming.

    You on the other hand come here ( trusty Thesaurus in hand ) and drone on and on about how intellegent YOU truly believe YOU are and why we should think so too. How retarded is that? You haven’t a clue, that’s the problem with know nothing about family, friends, God or what it actually means to be a ” real ” American with a ” real ” life that WE / I just wan’t to return to, but unfortunately cannot as long as Barack Obama is living in our White House.

    Somehow that is lost on YOU and YOUR ilk because YOU hate America and ” real ” Americans so very much you’ll gamble away my children and future grandchildren’s lives believing in some jackass they may or may not even be an American

    Obama, for all intents and purposes is OVER. He is the worse thing to happen to this country in 50 years. He has caused nothing but chaos, race and class warfare setting us back to the 60′s, yet YOU and YOUR kind protect him like he were your brother. It makes no sense…….no common or otherwise sense.

    I sort of get it. Obama strikes a chord in a guy like you. He makes you feel much bigger than you really are in real life, by lying to you about getting us ” real ” Americans to stop our lives, sit up and take notice of you and the others.

    He truly has convinced you, that if you just stick with him, he’s going to level the playing field and soon, very soon now, you will be the same as me.

    He lied and continues to lie directly to YOUR face, so please stop following. You are you and I’m me, nobody no how much they lead you on to the contrary will ever change us.

    We ( ourselves ) are the only ones that can do it ( change ourselves ) if we really want to and are willing to do what it takes. Voting for the loser in our White House again, I can assure you, will not change a thing……unless maybe for the worse.

  • Enoughisenough

    This article points out the weakness of our electoral system: I have seen the enemy and it is us.

    If voters are so stupid that they want to see political theatrics instead of policy, so that candidates have to APPEAR STRONG through gamesmanship, then what is the point, after all? I’ll take Ryan’s “weak” response anyday; I have learned over a lifetime that if I let politicians sell me ‘bread and circuses’ they steal my money while I’m being distracted. Republicans should read Walter Williams’ column titled “No Matter What.” Democrats may celebrate when Obama wins re-election in 2012–and he will–but they will be sealing their fate, too, when they win.

  • notsofast

    Color Me Badd said:
    I will vote for Obama because I am a Jew and can’t be racist. Si’ Senor

    Son, that explains everything!

  • HostileLogic

    THE MARX STREAM MEDIA

    Imagine for a moment…

    The year is 1999 and George W. Bush has announced his candidacy for the Presidency of the United States of America. But the press, ever vigilant in its pursuit of truth, justice and the American way, drops a political bombshell. The newspaper headlines and lead stories of every news organization across the nation and around the world are emblazoned with this explosive revelation…

    “George W. Bush was mentored from the age of 11 to 18 by a self-professed Nazi who was also a self-professed sexual pervert and a pedophile.”

    Of course, Bush’s candidacy became a short-lived fantasy. Disgraced, he withdrew his candidacy for the office of the presidency and retreated in shame from the public eye.

    Of course, this never happened. It’s just a fantasy. But allow me to tell you a very true story, one that really did happen…

    The year is 2007 (Feb. 10th, to be exact), and Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the Presidency of the United States of America. The press is exhilarated. They proudly brandish his messianic message of “Hope & Change.” The messenger of peace and the provider of the answers to humanity’s ills has arrived,” say they.

    But there’s an enormous problem (just one of many) with all of this that the press has conveniently (and deliberately) overlooked…

    Barack Hussein Obama was mentored from the age of 11 to 18 by a self-professed communist who was also a self-professed sexual pervert and pedophile. His name was Frank Marshall Davis.

    The press in America, the Marx Stream Media, was once known as the 4th Estate, a beacon of truth and a bulwark against the threat of tyranny. Now, this anally-retarded, Marxist-loving excuse for journalism has descended into the 5th Column, as was clearly demonstrated by their shameless promotion of Obama’s Soviet-style agitprop candidacy.

    Accusing the Marx Stream Media of prostitution would be a grave, wholly undeserved insult against prostitutes. The fact is, prostitutes have far greater integrity.

  • Penguin60

    Kat said:
    And yes I wish more would take the high road.

    Kat said:
    Works well for Palin. Just look to her followers.

    That means them, not you?

  • CAconservative

    Is Obimbo turning into a sniveling little weasel, or has he always been one?

  • Truth

    Why is it that press is always trying to make something of nothing? Those remarks should come as no surprise to anyone and not a lot different than was said in an open mike. Likewise remarks coming from the right are not a lot diferent from the other side of the issue. The press has alot to do with the political gridlock we have in this country I’m sorry to say.

  • X-3

    BOTH the plans are a joke. Neither pay off the debt, they merely slow down the ultimate economic destruction.

  • X-3

    Rusty Shackelford said:
    Ryan/Rubio 2012

    WCinWI said:
    Or Palin/Walker

    WCinWI said:
    Palin/RyanPalin/WestWest/RyanRyan/WestCain/WestCain/RyanPalin/Rand Paul

    Jon Huntsman Jr. & Allen West…or, vice versa.

  • mediadoubt

    HostileLogic said:
    THE MARX STREAM MEDIA

    Imagine for a moment…

    . . . etc., etc., etc. . . .

    Barack Hussein Obama was mentored from the age of 11 to 18 by a self-professed communist who was also a self-professed sexual pervert and pedophile. His name was Frank Marshall Davis.

    . . . blather, blather, blather . . .

    Well it’s almost a certainty that Barack Obama has lived a richer life than you, up to and including a family friend who was (ohmyfuggingod!) a Communist.

    Big whoop. Standing next to Communists doesn’t give you cooties any more than standing next to Glenn Beck. (At least Mr. Davis was less likely to spray spittle on your shirt.)

    In fact some might say that exposure to different points of view would better prepare a person to understand the world around him. You ought to try it some time.

  • mediadoubt

    Barack Must Go said:
    Libs like YOU always seem to get things backwards….ALWAYS. I come to a place like this to blow off a little steam and reasure my fellow ” real ” Americans that as bleek as things look all around us today better days ( Obama free ) are coming.

    . . . and so on and so forth . . .

    We ( ourselves ) are the only ones that can do it ( change ourselves ) if we really want to and are willing to do what it takes. Voting for the loser in our White House again, I can assure you, will not change a thing……unless maybe for the worse.

    I understand the blowing off steam part. My reasons are not so different — I come here to run a stick along wingnut cages and see if I can make you jump and fling turds. It’s not an especially productive activity, but I see it as my little part in shaming extremists for their antisocial behavior. Maybe I can turn someone away from the darkness, who knows?

    It’s not true that I think I’m smarter than any particular group, but I have ample evidence that I’m smarter than you, so that lets me add one more to the doofus column. It’s really adding up!

    Your problem (more precisely, your rhetorical problem) is that you don’t seem able to resist the urge to project what you dislike (or secretly crave, it’s hard to tell) onto people you don’t agree with. You do this with no evidence — and in fact with evidence to the contrary — and doing so just makes you look foolish and unstable. I do not, in actual fact, hate America. I am, in fact, a real American. Obama has no impact on my impression of my personal size, although I am proud of America for finally overcoming one of the last barriers of institutional racism by having elected him. And if Obama truly levels the playing field for all Americans, I’ll support him in that. But by “level the playing field” I think I mean something entirely different than you.

    With regard to being the same as you — I’ll pass, thank you.

    And you’re probably right that I will never change you. Neither will facts, the opinions of well-meaning people, the evidence of your senses, or hundred-foot letters written in the sky. But I’ll still try.

    Another rhetorical excess you’re consistently guilty of is exaggeration to the point of clownishness: “He is the worst thing to happen to this country . . .” “He has caused nothing but chaos . . .” “He lied and continues to lie directly to your face . . .” etc., etc. That whackadoodle label is hard to shed once it’s been hung around your neck. You might want to consider fact-based complaints going forward.

    PS: I don’t use a thesaurus. I have a couple of degrees from second-rank institutions and that seems to be adequate around here.

  • Barack Must Go

    The only word that you’ve employed that truthfully describes you, according to you in that whole piece of ______ was way at the end, and you used it out of context as usual. That word is ‘ rank ‘.

  • mediadoubt

    Barack Must Go said:
    The only word that you’ve employed that truthfully describes you, according to you in that whole piece of ______ was way at the end, and you used it out of context as usual. That word is ‘ rank ‘.

    Oooh, snap!

    Boy have I been spanked.

    I bet you liked it.

  • Barack Must Go

    mediadoubt said:
    Oooh, snap!

    Boy have I been spanked.

    I bet you liked it.

    Sadly you’ll never get it, not in a million years.

  • mediadoubt

    Barack Must Go said:
    Sadly you’ll never get it, not in a million years.

    You actually make more sense when you’ve run out of (lame, unfunny) things to say. Maybe you could *start* by trying to make sense and then descend into unintelligible gabble later?

    Just sayin’.

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