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President Obama: Be A Dick About It, Why Don’t You

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Lost in the din surrounding Mark Halperin‘s suspension from MSNBC over his remark that President Obama was “kind of a dick” during his Wednesday press conference is the fact that, Halperin’s intentions aside, the crack was not necessarily an insult. Liberals everywhere will point out that Republicans are the biggest bunch of dicks since the director’s cut of Boogie Nights, and have been waiting for the President to deliver some Dirk Diggler in return.

President Obama has long been known for his York Peppermint Patty-cool temperament, a trait that both sides pretty much agree on. It serves him well at times, like the run-up to the 2008 election, but when it comes to fighting back against Republicans, the President’s supporters are more than a little weary of Professor Highroad McCompromise. Halperin’s remark is just the latest example of how the President’s even keel can sometimes be a liability.

The only thing more comical than the attacks that have been leveled at Barack Obama by Republicans is the way everyone gets the vapors as soon as his heart rate gets above 80. Was it kind of a dick move to compare congressional Republicans (unfavorably) to ‘tweenage girls? Maybe, but it was awesome. After years of Republicans calling him everything from a mau-mau to just plain Mao, and rejecting their own ideas as soon as the President signs on to them, and heckling him during a joint session of Congress, this hardly seems to indicate that Mr. Obama needs to “take a Valium and calm down.”

Every time President Obama displays even the slightest deviation from Vulcan form, the media take their cues from Republicans, and freak out. While candidates like John Kerry were gulled into keeping all of their anger confined to the pillows they shouted into, and all of their messaging “positive” (and ineefectual), President Obama is just naturally calm, reasonable, and not nearly dickish enough.

Unfortunately, the highlights of the Obama presidency, at least for this liberal, all have significant doses of phallitude™ in common. Perhaps the best example of this was President Obama’s visit to the Republican House Issues Conference in 2010.

The thing you have to understand is that these weren’t just any Republicans, they were House Republicans. The House of Representatives, regardless of party, is like that crazy girl you could barely keep up with before you settled down and got married to the Senate. It wasn’t just the lion’s den, it was the lion’s den, living room and kitchen.

For over an hour, the President fielded the very worst the Republicans could muster, and he kicked ass. By the time it was over, he had taken their best talking points and left them shredded on the floor. While it didn’t necessarily convert his detractors, the President’s performance left no doubt as to who was and was not serious about solving the country’s problems. If you were a Republican, this was a dick move that rivaled spring cleaning day at the John Holmes Museum.

Then, there was his complete decimation of the Birthers, and Donald Trump, with the longest rope-a-dope in history. After years of letting the Birthers punch themselves out, and marrying many mainstream Republicans to the cause in the process, years of keeping that long-form birth certificate locked up like the contents of the briefcase in Pulp Fiction, all of a sudden, BAM!

He produces the long-form on the eve of the White House Correspondents Dinner, delivers a withering routine at the dinner that almost made me feel sorry for Trump, all while having just pushed the button on the operation to kill Osama bin Laden. There was only one way Republicans could respond, at least inwardly:


There have been many moments during the Obama presidency that have been more significant than these, of course, but have had their aura of triumph marred in one way or another. The passage of health care reform, for example, was marked by the ditching of the public option, and while the squeaker of a finish was amazing, it was only necessitated by a grisly Democratic failure in the Massachusetts Senate special election.

Whatever you think about deficit reduction, the full faith and credit of the US government shouldn’t be permitted to be held hostage, even to good ideas, let alone bad ones. The American people are fed up with all of this talk about shared sacrifice, because we’ve already eaten more than our fair share of sacrifice. The public is overwhelmingly certain of where that sacrifice should come from. So, Mr. President, please, do be a dick about it.

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  • BatBoy

    For over an hour, the President fielded the very worst the Republicans could muster, and he kicked ass.

    Oh, I am sure the 14,000,000 plus people who are out of work (and growing) are really impressed with the Presidents ability to kick ass.

  • Perdido

    McCain should have been more of a ‘dick’ during the campaign. But nooooo. Be polite and don’t ask anything embarrassing.

  • JoeRemi

    Tommy, this is exactly what I’ve been saying over at http://www.insidecablenews.wordpress.com. Obama was clearly being “kind of a dick” on PURPOSE. I loved it, and see nothing wrong with Halperin pointing it out.

  • Sanders Youth

    Yep, Obama isn’t nearly a dick enough, this asshole Joe Walsh from the district where I have a business got on Eliot Spitzer last night and called the President a 10 year old who is in over his head. I so wish he would call this guy out and shame him on television, but that is too much to ask. Seriously Mr. President I agree with Tommy be a dick more often some of us will love you for it.

  • juan

    What a CROC!

    This is the most divisive President ever!

    His Alinsky/Lucifer actions through Class Warfare, anti-Business, and anti-America is blatant!

    He should RESIGN, immediately!

  • JoeRemi

    - He should RESIGN, immediately! -

    Good luck with that.

  • Tedderman

    Amen, brother Christopher, Amen!

    Even while exerting the degree of “phallitude” necessary to sufficiently rankle Republican feathers in the house, the President still embodied the decorum of the office without stooping to the level of discourse typically aimed at him by those who oppose him. However, I believe it is time for the gloves to come off in a prime time address to the public to show the absurdity of the Republicans arguments. Weather or not he’s able to elicit the desired effect in forcing the recalcitrant republicans to make needed concessions and raise taxes, is unknown. But the American people must have the facts, and if it takes the President becoming John Holmes reincarnate, then so be it.

  • Sanders Youth

    juan said:
    What a CROC!

    This is the most divisive President ever!

    His Alinsky/Lucifer actions through Class Warfare, anti-Business, and anti-America is blatant!

    He should RESIGN, immediately!

    You are a dick.

  • Colorado_Conservative

    Everyone knows Obama is not a dick…he’s a pussy! An incompetent one at that!

  • BatBoy

    BatBoy said:
    Oh, I am sure the 14,000,000 plus people who are out of work (and growing) are really impressed with the Presidents ability to kick ass.

    For you 3 who clicked the thumbs down…I am curious…why would these 14,000,000 + and growing unemployed workers like or better yet, BELIEVE ANYTHING this President says?

  • Sanders Youth

    Tedderman said:
    Amen, brother Christopher, Amen!

    Even while exerting the degree of “phallitude” necessary to sufficiently rankle Republican feathers in the house, the President still embodied the decorum of the office without stooping to the level of discourse typically aimed at him by those who oppose him. However, I believe it is time for the gloves to come off in a prime time address to the public to show the absurdity of the Republicans arguments. Weather or not he’s able to elicit the desired effect in forcing the recalcitrant republicans to make needed concessions and raise taxes, is unknown. But the American people must have the facts, and if it takes the President becoming John Holmes reincarnate, then so be it.

    Absolutely I really hope once he is reelected the gloves come off and he shames these assholes once and for all. One of the President’s best moments of his first term was when he went and destroyed the Republicans as Tommy referenced http://www.asylum.com/2010/02/01/story-of-the-week-obama-is-back/ we need to see a lot more of that stuff from him. Come on Obama punch these assholes like you did back then, it was amazing, you are so good at it when you decide to do it.

  • Sanders Youth

    Perdido said:
    McCain should have been more of a ‘dick’ during the campaign. But nooooo. Be polite and don’t ask anything embarrassing.

    McCain was the one in over his head that is why he got his ass handed to him.

  • jondar2

    Oblamer is a dick everyday. MSNBC will not allow anyone to make negative comments about their idol who causes “chills up my leg”. They must cover up their failure to vett this unknown Chicago organizer-character inexperienced, inept, arrogant , imposter of a POTUS. They will not allow any comments on his numerous fake birth certificates, all proven to be poor quality photo-shop fakes, but don’t ever say so, you will be tagged a racist, birther fool, when in reality they are the ones being fooled.

  • Sanders Youth

    BalloonBoy said:
    For you 3 who clicked the thumbs down…I am curious…why would these 14,000,000 + and growing unemployed workers like or better yet, BELIEVE ANYTHING this President says?

    Make that 4 BalloonBoy.

  • BatBoy

    Colorado_Conservative said:
    Everyone knows Obama is not a dick…he’s a pussy! An incompetent one at that!

    Maybe he is both…remember Maureen Dowd called him “BI” meaning he liked to be on both sides of an issue. Here is her article title, “Why Is He Bi? (Sigh)”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/opinion/sunday/26dowd.html

  • BatBoy

    Sanders Youth said:
    Make that 4 BalloonBoy.

    I will assume, you have no good reason.

  • Sanders Youth

    BatBoy said:
    I will assume, you have no good reason.

    I have a great reason, he gave my small business the biggest tax cut I have had in almost 10 years. I just wish he would fight back against the Republican pricks. I think he will in his second term.

  • juan

    JoeRemi said:
    - He should RESIGN, immediately! -

    Good luck with that.

    Mr. President, For the Sake of the Economy and Our Constitution: Resign!

    …I look back at his first two and a half years in office, and his record of “accomplishments” that would make any Marxist proud. We’ve seen a Stimulus Bill that effectively amounted to a big government hostile takeover of certain private sector industries (auto manufacturing, insurance, banks). He’s had a slew of Czars — unelected bureaucrats — to push corporate-killing regulation by fiat, thereby unconstitutionally circumventing the legislative process. Let’s not forget the Dear Leader’s Health Care (the constitutionality of which is being considered in various courts) and the Wall Street Financial Reform bill.

    These initiatives have had one thing in common: they destroy jobs and devour what little freedoms we still have left, corralling more citizens into the pen of big government dependency. …..

    http://biggovernment.com/mangley/2011/07/01/mr-president-for-the-sake-of-the-economy-and-our-constitution-resign/

  • JoeRemi

    - you will be tagged a racist, birther fool -

    Yes, you are a racist birther fool, dick.

  • juan

    jondar2 said:
    Oblamer is a dick everyday. MSNBC will not allow anyone to make negative comments about their idol who causes “chills up my leg”. They must cover up their failure to vett this unknown Chicago organizer-character inexperienced, inept, arrogant , imposter of a POTUS. They will not allow any comments on his numerous fake birth certificates, all proven to be poor quality photo-shop fakes, but don’t ever say so, you will be tagged a racist, birther fool, when in reality they are the ones being fooled.

    More agree with ya than you think! Count me in!

  • Sanders Youth

    juan said:
    Mr. President, For the Sake of the Economy and Our Constitution: Resign!

    …I look back at his first two and a half years in office, and his record of “accomplishments” that would make any Marxist proud. We’ve seen a Stimulus Bill that effectively amounted to a big government hostile takeover of certain private sector industries (auto manufacturing, insurance, banks). He’s had a slew of Czars — unelected bureaucrats — to push corporate-killing regulation by fiat, thereby unconstitutionally circumventing the legislative process. Let’s not forget the Dear Leader’s Health Care (the constitutionality of which is being considered in various courts) and the Wall Street Financial Reform bill.

    These initiatives have had one thing in common: they destroy jobs and devour what little freedoms we still have left, corralling more citizens into the pen of big government dependency. …..

    http://biggovernment.com/mangley/2011/07/01/mr-president-for-the-sake-of-the-economy-and-our-constitution-resign/

    Links to Breitbart. Oh, brother.

  • juan

    Tedderman said:
    But the American people must have the facts, and if it takes the President becoming John Holmes reincarnate, then so be it.

    The American people have the facts and REJECT this Marxist Usurper President!

  • Sanders Youth

    juan said:
    The American people have the facts and REJECT this Marxist Usurper President!

    You are a dick, and a joke.

  • Sanders Youth

    juan said:
    The American people have the facts and REJECT this Marxist Usurper President!

    You’re a dick joke.

  • Jaurez

    Sanders TheSock said:
    Links to Breitbart. Oh, brother.

    Attacking messenger=FAIL!

  • Harry Flashman

    Yeah, being a snide little man-child hurling taunts and insults with the approval of the barking-seal audience that compose the pool of “correspondants” who can’t wait to lick his boots is really kicking ass.

    The tornadoes that just tore up the south and mid-west didn’t have as much spin on them as the media does when it protects this incomptetent fool.

    Sweet Jesyus, would you people in the media wake up before it really, really is too late?

  • Moderate

    Colorado_Conservative said:
    Everyone knows Obama is not a dick…he’s a pussy! An incompetent one at that!

    I think you have him confused with Jimmy Carter.

  • Sanders Youth

    Jaurez said:
    Attacking messenger=FAIL!

    Attacking the cokehead fat guy=WIN!

  • juan

    Sanders Youth said:
    Links to Breitbart. Oh, brother.

    He’s #1 – HehHehHeh

  • jondar2

    I never did understand why McCain did not go after this inexperienced, unknown, but eloquent tele-prompter reader. No one knew him when he allegedly went to Columbia, Stephanopoulis was in the class Obama says he took, but George never saw him nor did anyone else in that class- no year book pictures either. How many presidents have sealed their college records? NONE, except this imposter.
    Sarah Palin’s high school records, her college records, her fishing business records, her councilwoman & mayors records and all her records as the Governor of the largest state in the union, all were dug through looking for some bit of dirt. All the lame-stream media could say about her VP candidacy was that she was too “inexperienced” to be president, all that compared to Barack-aka- Barry Soetoro-Barak Mounir Ubayad-Harrison j. Bournell-Barry Dunham-Hussein Obama-, the “chosen one’s” years of experience of running nothing but his mouth. What fools the voters were to be taken in by the lame-stream media and this rock-star piece of work.

  • BatBoy

    Sanders Youth said:
    gave my small business the biggest tax

    If you really had a small business, you would not be here.

    And the tax break you got was pennies….

    Sorry Sanders, caught you in one of your BS moments, yet again!

  • juan

    Sanders Youth said:
    You are a dick, and a joke.

    Name-calling reveals a very small vocabulary!

  • Greg

    “For over an hour, the President fielded the very worst the Republicans could muster, and he kicked ass. By the time it was over, he had taken their best talking points and left them shredded on the floor.” -Tommy

    Watching his press conference reminded me precisely of this… left me to wonder why he has not replicated the moment. He needs to call out the right on their strategy, explained by McConnell, “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”

    They can drag their feet and lament the fact that Obama’s has not lead (though he has, despite it being strictly speaking the constitutional duty of the Congress) but when he is vocal and engaged he is clearly the leader the majority of the nation expected and that we all need.

  • Jaurez

    juan said:
    Name-calling reveals a very small vocabulary!

    He graduated from the olbermann school of debating. :)

  • Jaurez

    I love it when the far left loons one day claim tc “packs water for Fox News” Or is a “shill for Republicans” and next are on their knees licking his birkenstocks. :)

  • juan

    jondar2 said:
    I never did understand why McCain did not go after this inexperienced, unknown, but eloquent tele-prompter reader. No one knew him when he allegedly went to Columbia, Stephanopoulis was in the class Obama says he took, but George never saw him nor did anyone else in that class- no year book pictures either. How many presidents have sealed their college records? NONE, except this imposter.
    Sarah Palin’s high school records, her college records, her fishing business records, her councilwoman & mayors records and all her records as the Governor of the largest state in the union, all were dug through looking for some bit of dirt. All the lame-stream media could say about her VP candidacy was that she was too “inexperienced” to be president, all that compared to Barack-aka- Barry Soetoro-Barak Mounir Ubayad-Harrison j. Bournell-Barry Dunham-Hussein Obama-, the “chosen one’s” years of experience of running nothing but his mouth. What fools the voters were to be taken in by the lame-stream media and this rock-star piece of work.

    How about this “birther” letter sent to Senator Lindsey Graham today:

    Today, I sent a letter to South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham via gradegov.com. My reason for choosing Graham is apparent in the letter itself. Also, I chose gradegov.com because there is speculation that the members of Congress actually read what is posted there, unlike their regular emails, which are invariably intercepted by staffers, who respond with nothing more than form letters. In this letter, I formally request that Senator Graham host a nationally necessary “Birther Summit.”

    . . . . . . .

    The letter is posted on the gradegov.com website, and I now urge every one of you to contact your members of Congress, and urge them to have a Birther Summit. In your letters, include the URL of my letter, and tell them it is WAY PAST TIME for this to happen!

    http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/38057

  • Greg

    Jaurez said:
    I love it when the far left loons one day claim tc “packs water for Fox News” Or is a “shill for Republicans” and next are on their knees licking his birkenstocks. :)

    I have not seen that happen. I have always had great respect for Tommy… in many ways he reminds me of the President… careful deliberate and fair.

  • juan

    Greg said:
    He needs to call out the right on their strategy, explained by McConnell, “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”

    You couldn’t possibly think that we don’t want to DEFEAT him!

    Get a GRIP!

  • JoeRemi

    juan said:
    You couldn’t possibly think that we don’t want to DEFEAT him! Get a GRIP!

    They’re purposely sinking the economy in order to defeat him. Un-American pricks.

  • Greg

    juan said:
    Get a GRIP!

    My grip is firm.

    juan said:
    You couldn’t possibly think that we don’t want to DEFEAT him!

    McConnell did not say, “We hope to defeat Obama in 2012″. He said “THE SINGLE most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”

    This quote demonstrates an elevation of politics over policy and is supported by his actions as a Congressional “leader”.

    “A good recent illustration is the Troubled Asset Relief Program (aka “the bailout”), which kept the economy from collapse, was supported by both party leaderships and was signed into law by President Bush in October 2008. McConnell called TARP’s passage “one of the finest moments in the history of the Senate.” Obama took over expecting this spirit to endure. But from the outset, McConnell blocked or frustrated just about everything the administration tried to do, including the government’s distribution of TARP funds, in January 2009, just three months after McConnell voted to authorize them.”

    “If you got upset when you heard about the “Cornhusker Kickback” or the “Louisiana Purchase”—or perhaps you were lectured by a Fox News–watching relative who did—that was McConnell. He coined the terms to cast sinister aspersions on what were actually typical instances of political horse-trading, in this case over health care.”

    “The very first bill to be considered on the Senate floor in the 111th Congress, in early January of 2009, before Obama was even inaugurated, was the Public Land Management Act, a sweeping conservation measure with broad bipartisan support that would protect 2 million acres of parks and wilderness in nine states. The Republicans filibustered, forcing a series of votes and requiring a weekend session to finish. The bill eventually passed, 77–20.”

    “The same tactics were deployed against most other initiatives, and expanded into new realms. Traditionally, only votes on the most controversial judicial nominees had been delayed or filibustered, although the number crept upward during Bill Clinton’s and George W. Bush’s presidencies. Under McConnell, Republicans have also filibustered noncontroversial nominees, many later confirmed unanimously. They have filibustered even nominees put forward by Republican senators, and required separate votes for district-court judges, who used to be confirmed in groups as a matter of routine. The resulting increase in vacancies has exacerbated a shortage of judges across the country, leading many districts to declare “judicial emergencies”—vacancy levels so high that they threaten the courts’ ability to function. McConnell bet (correctly) that he would pay no political price for this type of obstruction, because the White House and the media would be preoccupied with other things—things even harder to accomplish as the Senate calendar filled up.”

    “By November 2009, when Republican candidates swept the governors’ races in Virginia and New Jersey, the path back to power was clear: continue delaying, while encouraging the impression that Obama was pushing through an outrageous and objectionable agenda. Whoever was at fault, voters would blame Obama. Health care became the great example. “The fact that Obama’s health-care bill did not pass by the dates he kept putting on it was not an accident,” Senator Bennett told me. “McConnell knew the places to go, around the tank, and loosen a lug bolt here, pour sand in a hydraulic receptacle there, and slow the whole thing down. We finally ran out of options by Christmas Eve. But in the process of that yearlong journey, the Republicans won the public-relations battle.”

    http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/01/strict-obstructionist/8344/1/

  • juan

    JoeRemi said:
    They’re purposely sinking the economy in order to defeat him. Un-American pricks.

    Libs and Obama own that Label

  • Perdido

    Yeah, Sanders. McCain may have lost anyway. But he certainly didn’t help himself by playing nice.

  • The Voice of Reason

    Obama has been making these dishonest partisan remarks for years. That is instead of addressing issues in a matter that will get anything done. There are more important things than campaigning throughout the entirety of your term, and giving the fringe portion of your base boners.

    Not to mention the fact that anyone who took Obama at his word here is an oblivious fool. We need to stop the Repubs because they are being nice to the big bad oil companies? You mean the ones who represent the epitome of government investment? The government funds operational costs, they make higher profits, and 49% of the profits go to the federal government to spend on their special interests. Return on investment is massive. All while Dems are not appealing the ‘evil rich’, General Electric gets more subsidies than the big oil companies combined, and doesn’t pay any taxes. Not to mention their sitting CEO’s spot in the Administration. Are people just blind, or stupid?

    Anywho no one is dumb enough to fall for such hypocritical talking points. Not that the other side isn’t full of them as well. Here he is just trying to win political points by arbitrarily creating bad guys, while not focusing on actually fixing anything.

  • Alice67

    Nice photo of Obama.

  • seek

    Tommy is encouraging the President to be a dick. That’s nice – and then we wonder why the left and right have completely failed to communicate in a meaningful way.

    Tommy you should be ashamed of yourself. The President has been acting like a bully from day 1 and even the left who are not loony realize it. This man is supposed to be a peacemaker – he’s supposed to represent all of us – not just your side. He has failed miserably and you’re giving him a thumbs up? Sad – truly sad and about as far from “diplomatic” behaviour as possible.

  • Jaurez

    Alice67 said:
    Nice photo of Obama.

    Are you fantasizing of brown foam and lube, again?

  • Jaurez

    Greg said:
    I have not seen that happen.

    Suuuure, you haven’t.

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    Tommy,
    Your lips have to be chapped after that. I have some carmex if you need it. Good grief!

  • Greg

    Jaurez said:
    Suuuure, you haven’t.

    Have seen a whole lot of this though…

    Liberal Tormentor - tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972 said:
    Tommy,
    Your lips have to be chapped after that. I have some carmex if you need it. Good grief!

  • Jaurez

    Greg said:
    Have seen a whole lot of this though…

    Nice blinders. What’s the temp in the river of denial this time of year?

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    JoeRemi said:
    They’re purposely sinking the economy in order to defeat him. Un-American pricks.

    We see you all got your daily talking point. Funny how Rush always knows what you libs are gonna do before you do it! You are nothing if not predictable!!

  • timzank

    Golly, what a surprise see you jump in and and remind everyone of his awesome awesomeness, Tommy.

  • timzank

    JoeRemi said:
    They’re purposely sinking the economy in order to defeat him. Un-American pricks.

    Jesus, how stupid can you be, I have a newsflash for you Einstein, nobody is sinking this economy, it’s already sunk, what planet do you live on?

    The only way this economy get’s better (ever) is if the government get’s the fu*k out of the way, and stops writing bad checks.

  • Alice67

    BatBoy said:
    For you 3 who clicked the thumbs down…I am curious…why would these 14,000,000 + and growing unemployed workers like or better yet, BELIEVE ANYTHING this President says?

    Because it’s clear to anyone with half a brain that its the Republicans who are doing everything in their power to help only the very wealthy and to hell with the middle and lower classes. They control the House and have not introduced a single jobs bill. In every poll the American people do not blame the President. His ratings are always better than the ratings of Congress and the Democrats in Congress always have better than the Republicans.

  • juan

    Tommy,
    Even Politico differs with ya about Obama and the recent Press Conference:
    (Take your blinders off and open your ears!)

    Obama’s “Leadership”

    The NRSC has a great new web ad out about Barack Obama’s supposed leadership.

    As the Politico reported yesterday:

    …But Democrats who thought Obama was churlish in his Wednesday White House press conference know that criticism is coming. “The president might as well cancel every golf game, Martha’s Vineyard vacation and fundraiser from here until doomsday because he’s living in a glass White House and Republicans are already throwing rocks,” said a senior congressional Democratic source who described watching Obama’s press conference in bewilderment.

    http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/07/01/obamas-leadership/

  • JoeRemi

    timzank said:
    Jesus, how stupid can you be, I have a newsflash for you Einstein, nobody is sinking this economy, it’s already sunk, what planet do you live on? The only way this economy get’s better (ever) is if the government get’s the fu*k out of the way, and stops writing bad checks.

    Thanks for the insight, dumbass.

  • Alice67

    Sanders Youth said:
    McCain was the one in over his head that is why he got his ass handed to him.

    He came across as senile old fool with a nasty pit bull in lipstick for a running mate.

  • Greg

    Jaurez said:
    I love it when the far left loons one day claim tc “packs water for Fox News” Or is a “shill for Republicans” and next are on their knees licking his birkenstocks. :)

    You made an assertion without providing evidence. (If the evidence exists then please provide if your intent is bigger than the most casual expression of opinion).

    Greg said:
    I have not seen that happen. I have always had great respect for Tommy… in many ways he reminds me of the President… careful deliberate and fair.

    As a liberal I expressed doubt about your assertion, opining the opportunity for you to prove your point with evidence.

    You then followed with…

    Jaurez said:
    Are you fantasizing of brown foam and lube, again?

    &

    Jaurez said:
    Suuuure, you haven’t.

    Kindly, LT-tlwlafs1 was able to provide evidence of a Conservative attacking Tommy… a direction of attack that I view as dominant as opposed to your unsupported and undoubtedly rare assertion of political attack…

    Greg said:
    Have seen a whole lot of this though…

    You then returned with this…

    Jaurez said:
    Nice blinders. What’s the temp in the river of denial this time of year?

    This exchange displays a lack of serious attention to argument. I recommend two books…
    A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston
    Being Logical by D.Q. McInerny
    Once you have mastered these, please graduate to…
    Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy by Donald Lazere (one of the finest books on the topic)

    Cheers!

  • timzank

    JoeRemi said:
    Thanks for the insight, dumbass.

    Look around dumbass, unless you work for the government, or the company you work for has government contracts, or you’re one the millions on government assistance, things are in the shitter.

    There is absolutely nothing better that could happen than to NOT raise the debt ceiling and force these pricks on both sides of the aisle to stop spending money we don’t have.

  • timzank

    Greg said:
    You made an assertion without providing evidence. (If the evidence exists then please provide if your intent is bigger than the most casual expression of opinion). As a liberal I expressed doubt about your assertion, opining the opportunity for you to prove your point with evidence. You then followed with… & Kindly, LT-tlwlafs1 was able to provide evidence of a Conservative attacking Tommy… a direction of attack that I view as dominant as opposed to your unsupported and undoubtedly rare assertion of political attack… You then returned with this… This exchange displays a lack of serious attention to argument. I recommend two books…A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony WestonBeing Logical by D.Q. McInernyOnce you have mastered these, please graduate to…Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy by Donald Lazere (one of the finest books on the topic) Cheers!

    Rut Row, another political science major, probably a Junior next semester?

  • juan

    Alice67 said:
    He came across as senile old fool with a nasty pit bull in lipstick for a running mate.

    And the nasty pit bull in lipstick is not done, yet!

    But, Obama is “One and Done!”

  • Alice67

    Sanders Youth said:
    I have a great reason, he gave my small business the biggest tax cut I have had in almost 10 years. I just wish he would fight back against the Republican pricks. I think he will in his second term.

    The big hope is that once he doesn’t have to worry about getting reelected he’ll emerge as a real progressive. But even if he remains Republican lite it will be better than any Republican. As far as I’m concerned the Republicans should never EVAH be allowed to gain control again. Look what they’re doing with that power in the states. They’re greed personified.

  • Greg

    timzank said:
    Rut Row, another political science major, probably a Junior next semester?

    Just an old man convinced of the importance of the emerging digital public sphere but concerned with it’s health. Call me old fashioned, but I believe that we can solve our problems if we think well and communicate effectively.

  • Alice67

    juan said:
    The American people have the facts and REJECT this Marxist Usurper President!

    The majority of Americans laugh at people who think like this.

  • Alice67

    Moderate said:
    I think you have him confused with Jimmy Carter.

    Jimmy Carter is a good man. Most Republicans aren’t worthy to lick his boots.

  • JoeRemi

    timzank said:
    Look around dumbass, unless you work for the government, or the company you work for has government contracts, or you’re one the millions on government assistance, things are in the shitter. There is absolutely nothing better that could happen than to NOT raise the debt ceiling and force these pricks on both sides of the aisle to stop spending money we don’t have.

    Getting the millionaires to pay their taxes would be a start. The top 400 pay an average of 16%, while us little guys take it in the shorts, and the GOP screams SPENDING CUTS! F*ck them.

  • Alice67

    juan said:
    How about this “birther” letter sent to Senator Lindsey Graham today:

    Today, I sent a letter to South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham via gradegov.com. My reason for choosing Graham is apparent in the letter itself. Also, I chose gradegov.com because there is speculation that the members of Congress actually read what is posted there, unlike their regular emails, which are invariably intercepted by staffers, who respond with nothing more than form letters. In this letter, I formally request that Senator Graham host a nationally necessary “Birther Summit.”

    . . . . . . .

    The letter is posted on the gradegov.com website, and I now urge every one of you to contact your members of Congress, and urge them to have a Birther Summit. In your letters, include the URL of my letter, and tell them it is WAY PAST TIME for this to happen!

    http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/38057

    Cuckoo
    Cuckoo

  • jddoubleu

    Alice67 said:
    The majority of Americans laugh at people who think like this.

    you dont represent a majority of anything…

  • Alice67

    Perdido said:
    Yeah, Sanders. McCain may have lost anyway. But he certainly didn’t help himself by playing nice.

    He had his pit bull in lipstick to play dirty.

  • AmericaSucks

    Alice67 said:
    He came across as senile old fool with a nasty pit bull in lipstick for a running mate.

    Look at Alice bringing it!!!

  • juan

    The Majority of Americans agree with this (Mediaite had an article about it):

    GOP Rep. Joe Walsh Compares Obama to ‘10-Year-Old‘ Who’s ‘In Over His Head’

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/gop-rep-joe-walsh-compares-obama-to-10-year-old-whos-in-over-his-head/

  • Alice67

    Jaurez said:
    Are you fantasizing of brown foam and lube, again?

    You’re confused. He’s a Republican.

  • juan

    Alice67 said:
    He had his pit bull in lipstick to play dirty.

    Nah. . .she told the truth and people now realize it! Thus, Obama’s tanking in the polls!

    Oh, Happy Day!

  • juan

    Alice67 said:
    The big hope is

    How’s that “Hope & Change” thingy working out for ya?

  • Alice67

    AmericaSucks said:
    Look at Alice bringing it!!!

    lol Little sleep last night and surprised anyone can even read my comments with all the errors. But, thanks. :)

  • Alice67

    juan said:
    The Majority of Americans agree with this (Mediaite had an article about it):

    Have you got a poll that reflects this assertion?

    Probably not, but I’ll give you the benefit of doubt and wait for it.

  • AmericaSucks

    juan said:
    How’s that “Hope & Change” thingy working out for ya?

    Wow, busting out a Palin quotation. How . . . uneducated.

  • tiredofbs

    juan said:
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    What a CROC!

    This is the most divisive President ever!

    His Alinsky/Lucifer actions through Class Warfare, anti-Business, and anti-America is blatant!

    He should RESIGN, immediately!

    PLEASE Do not turn the lights on these neanderthals!
    That’s the very same harsh rhetoric & “community organizer” attitude
    “sometimes u have to get in their face” BS that Independents hate the most.
    Along with the Anarchist-ic behavior from his fringe followers,
    Obamaos Socialist Policies, will kick their butts back to the bottom of
    that scum pond they crawled out from in 2008

  • Yukon Jack

    Moderate said:
    I think you have him confused with Jimmy Carter.

    The similarities are frightful:

    Both are terrified of Iran.
    Both are egomaniacs.
    Both are inexperienced and unqualified.
    Both are unprepared.
    Both got elected following a weakened previous President.
    Both made the already bad economy worse.
    Both presided over extremely high unemployment.

    Both are ONE TERM Presidents.

  • Alice67

    juan said:
    Nah. . .she told the truth and people now realize it! Thus, Obama’s tanking in the polls!

    Oh, Happy Day!

    Have you got any polls that reflect this assertion? From all the polls I’ve seen she ranks as the least popular Republican. Also she did more damage to the McCain campaign than McCain did. Americans will never forgive McCain for forcing this grifter and her grifter family on the American people. And she can’t even draw a crowd anymore. Her 15 minutes of fame that seems to have gone on forever is OVER.

  • Alice67

    juan said:
    How’s that “Hope & Change” thingy working out for ya?

    Way better than anything the Republicans have ever offered, thanks. Would you like a list of everything Obama has accomplished in just 2 years? I’ll be happy to supply it. (but only if you are willing to read it)

  • Yukon Jack

    JoeRemi said:
    Getting the millionaires to pay their taxes would be a start. The top 400 pay an average of 16%, while us little guys take it in the shorts, and the GOP screams SPENDING CUTS! F*ck them.

    Would that include General Electric and MediaMatters/Soros?

  • gar

    Tommy you’re dilusional. He kicked so much ass that the Republican’s ate his lunch during the 2010 elections without doing anything.Kicked some ass closing Gitmo. Kicked some ass with his CORRUPT czars and nominees for his cabinet. Kicked ass with his healthcare bill that now has over 2000 exemptions with Nancy Pelosi leading the way. Kicked some ass with 1 out of every 3 big donors now on the public dole. Kicked unemployment’s ass with stimulus, QE1, and QE2. Kicked the housing problems ass with his loan modification remedies.Kicked some ass with his lack of budgets the last 2 years.Kicked some ass with all the Democrats he backed. Kicked some ass on the national debt. Thanks to people like you kicked some ass on race relations.
    The only time the “Dick” gets hard is when he wants to put it on the throat of the Republicans who had no say in the 1st two years of his presidency. The rest of the time the “Dick” is flaccid and Americans are paying the price for it.

  • OxyCon

    President Obama has long been known for his York Peppermint Patty-cool temperament

    Only by his sycophants in the media, Tommy. The rest of us who weren’t sucked in by his cult of personality charisma have seen him act like a giant dick way too many times, and get away with it.

    Halperin’s honesty is major, major trouble for Obama. It’s a watershed event which will cause everyone to look at Obama through a different lens, and many will say “you know, Obama sure is acting like a dick, Halperin was right”. Emperor/no clothes…Halperin is the honest little boy who points that out.

    Good luck trying not to look like a dick, Obama! We’ll all be here reminding everyone each time you act like one.

  • TfT

    Who said this and when?

    “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”

    Funny….you would have thought that Senator Obama’s words would have meaning….but I guess now that he is President Obama, what he said then doesn’t make a hills of beans difference…so Tommy, based on your closing paragraph above, which reads:

    “Whatever you think about deficit reduction, the full faith and credit of the US government shouldn’t be permitted to be held hostage, even to good ideas, let alone bad ones. The American people are fed up with all of this talk about shared sacrifice, because we’ve already eaten more than our fair share of sacrifice. The public is overwhelmingly certain of where that sacrifice should come from. So, Mr. President, please, do be a dick about it”.

    So…was Obama a dick then or now?

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    Alice67 said:
    lol Little sleep last night and surprised anyone can even read my comments with all the errors. But, thanks. :)

    We’re used to liberals making no sense. Hey, shouldn’t you be making out with your cardboard cutout of Obama?

  • Alice67

    “Whatever you think about deficit reduction, the full faith and credit of the US government shouldn’t be permitted to be held hostage, even to good ideas, let alone bad ones.”

    The problem is Obama and the Democrats have caved to Republican hostage taking in the past. There’s been nothing to discourage them from continuing on that path. Wel,l nothing but a conscious, that is.

  • Alice67

    Liberal Tormentor - tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972 said:
    Hey, shouldn’t you be making out with your cardboard cutout of Obama?

    What is your obsession with who I make out with? Fantasize about someone else please. I find it rather creepy.

  • JoeRemi

    Yukon Jack said:
    Would that include General Electric and MediaMatters/Soros?

    All of ‘em. Pay your damn taxes, THEN come talk to me about dismantling Medicaire, you greedy bastards.

  • cjd ohio 1

    Alice67 said:
    Way better than anything the Republicans have ever offered, thanks. Would you like a list of everything Obama has accomplished in just 2 years? I’ll be happy to supply it. (but only if you are willing to read it)

    ok i will

  • Alice67

    The list is so long it’s waiting for moderation.

    Here’s the site. http://obamaachievements.org/list

  • Sanders Youth

    seek said:
    Tommy is encouraging the President to be a dick. That’s nice – and then we wonder why the left and right have completely failed to communicate in a meaningful way.

    Tommy you should be ashamed of yourself. The President has been acting like a bully from day 1 and even the left who are not loony realize it. This man is supposed to be a peacemaker – he’s supposed to represent all of us – not just your side. He has failed miserably and you’re giving him a thumbs up? Sad – truly sad and about as far from “diplomatic” behaviour as possible.

    Fcuk communication our President has reached out to the Republicans for two years, gave them what they wanted in the stimulus, 1/3 tax cuts, still didn’t vote for it, gave them what they wanted in HCR, still didn’t vote for it, gave them what they wanted in Wall Street reform, still didn’t vote for it, extended the Bush tax cuts and countless other stuff.

    It is high time the President said Fcuk you to the Republicans and started doing some goddamn signing statements and recess appointments, these unamerican pricks who want our economy to tank in order to win elections are disgusting to half the country the other half have their heads so far up their asses they can see what they ate for Thanksgiving. It is high time the gloves came off and our President laid the smackdown on these pricks like he did when he paid the House Republicans a visit in 2010, he is so damn good at it, cause he can run circles around them politically and intellectually. He needs to do it. I have been on the fence with him he should be doing more, but what is my alternative voting for some idiot who thinks John Quincy Adams is a Founding Father and that Jimmy Carter orchestrated the swine flu epidemic, or some milquetoast Mormon with Reagan hair whose claim to fame is buying up zombie businesses and shipping the jobs to India. No fcuking thanks.

  • Sanders Youth

    Liberal Tormentor - tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972 said:
    We’re used to liberals making no sense. Hey, shouldn’t you be making out with your cardboard cutout of Obama?

    Shouldn’t you be calling Michelle Obama a monkey right about now? One of the more shameful things I have seen on Mediaite and one of the things that prompted me to start commenting on here. Disgusting

  • gar

    Sanders Youth said:
    Shouldn’t you be calling Michelle Obama a monkey right about now? One of the more shameful things I have seen on Mediaite and one of the things that prompted me to start commenting on here. Disgusting

    It’s losers like you and Christopher that have to throw in the race card instead of civil debate.Forget color loser.

  • JoeRemi

    Preach it, Sanders.

  • JoeRemi

    gar said:
    It’s losers like you and Christopher that have to throw in the race card instead of civil debate.Forget color loser.

    Screw civil debate. The GOP is trying to destroy The Great Society and pocket the cash. It’s time we fought these greedy bastards head on.

  • gar

    JoeRemi said:
    Screw civil debate. The GOP is trying to destroy The Great Society and pocket the cash. It’s time we fought these greedy bastards head on.

    Fight without the race card and you don’t have much. If you think this greedy administration is different than all the others you’re a misguided fool.

  • juan

    Alice67 said:
    Have you got a poll that reflects this assertion?

    Probably not, but I’ll give you the benefit of doubt and wait for it.

    http://www.gallup.com/Home.aspx

    44% – Approve
    47% – Disapprove

    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

    Overall, 47% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president’s performance. Fifty-two percent (52%) at least somewhat disapprove.

    BTW, FYI: You can always google it!

  • Alice67

    JoeRemi said:
    Screw civil debate. The GOP is trying to destroy The Great Society and pocket the cash. It’s time we fought these greedy bastards head on.

    Amen!

  • mlb

    ” After years of letting the Birthers punch themselves out, and marrying many mainstream Republicans to the cause in the process, years of keeping that long-form birth certificate locked up like the contents of the briefcase in Pulp Fiction, all of a sudden, BAM!”

    -EXACTLY- what a dick, an immature one at that- he could have produced it at anytime but he waited years.
    I wish he would produce any credible work indicating his supposed ‘genius’. Transcripts anyone, legal opines???

    “The American people are fed up with all of this talk about shared sacrifice, because we’ve already eaten more than our fair share of sacrifice. ”

    -EXACTLY- So I wish he WH would stop acting like the Obama’s can empathize while on endless vacation disguised as diplomatic trips with a RIDICULOUS ENTOURAGE, costly WH entertainment, Air Force One as a taxi to criss-cross the country NOT for the good of this nation but to go to $35,000.00 a plate fundraising gala’s. Trust me I get that the Pres. has perks associated with his job, not going to begrudge those- it is the hypocrisy of letting one group sacrifice more than others not because they can afford it but because they support Him (i.e the unions, Dem. Owned car dealerships, GE, Wall Street…..).

    “President Obama has long been known for his York Peppermint Patty-cool temperament, a trait that both sides pretty much agree on.

    Yes- but they view the ‘coolness’ as a result of two different perspectives.
    Democrats- He is sooo highly intelligent he weighs both sides, so pragmatic.
    Republicans- He is so stupid he has no idea what we are talking about but trying hard (cool) to look like he does.

    Dirk Diggler- he wishes! Try Dirk Ditherer.

  • mlb

    JoeRemi said:
    Tommy, this is exactly what I’ve been saying over at http://www.insidecablenews.wordpress.com. Obama was clearly being “kind of a dick” on PURPOSE. I loved it, and see nothing wrong with Halperin pointing it out.

    Except Halperin didn’t mean it as a compliment. I love how liberal redefine words to suit their intentions. Sort of like Joy Behar saying “bitch” is what we call our girlfriends, sure and her and Sarah Palin are going to tea this afternoon. …

  • JoeRemi

    mlb said:
    Except Halperin didn’t mean it as a compliment. I love how liberal redefine words to suit their intentions. Sort of like Joy Behar saying “bitch” is what we call our girlfriends, sure and her and Sarah Palin are going to tea this afternoon. …

    I don’t care what Halperin thought of it. I care that the prez intended to do it, and that Halperin has a right to bitch about it. Grow a pair a piss off the media. I’m all for it.

  • juan

    OxyCon said:
    Halperin’s honesty is major, major trouble for Obama. It’s a watershed event which will cause everyone to look at Obama through a different lens, and many will say “you know, Obama sure is acting like a dick, Halperin was right”. Emperor/no clothes…Halperin is the honest little boy who points that out.

    Especially, since Halperin wrote the book “Game-Changer” which had information that Halperin withheld that could have caused Obama to lose the election! Now, they have thrown him under the bus!

    What a Hoot!

  • Powerslave

    Every once in a while Tommy has to remind everyone how objective journalism waved bye-bye to him long ago.

  • juan

    Alice67 said:
    The list is so long it’s waiting for moderation.

    Here’s the site. http://obamaachievements.org/list

    That list is why he will be a One-Termer!

  • juan

    gar said:
    Tommy you’re dilusional. He kicked so much ass that the Republican’s ate his lunch during the 2010 elections without doing anything.

    Wow! You are correct! Remember, when Obama was elected the Media said the Ronald Reagan Era was dead! Guess we showed them!

  • Alice67

    juan said:
    http://www.gallup.com/Home.aspx

    44% – Approve
    47% – Disapprove

    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

    Overall, 47% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president’s performance. Fifty-two percent (52%) at least somewhat disapprove.

    BTW, FYI: You can always google it!

    You said:
    The Majority of Americans agree with this (Mediaite had an article about it):

    *** GOP Rep. Joe Walsh Compares Obama to ‘10-Year-Old‘ Who’s ‘In Over His Head’ ***

    There is nothing at all in what you presented that supports your statement. NO THING. NADA! ZIP!

    Obama approval rating is still the highest at 2-1/2 times that if Congress. They sit at 18%. Please don’t insult my intelligence with this ridiculous drivel.

  • juan

    Alice67 said:
    Amen!

    Is that some of Van Jones “bottom-up, top-down, inside-out” and Frances Fox Piven talk?

    LoL

  • juan

    Alice67 said:
    You said:
    The Majority of Americans agree with this (Mediaite had an article about it):

    *** GOP Rep. Joe Walsh Compares Obama to ‘10-Year-Old‘ Who’s ‘In Over His Head’ ***

    There is nothing at all in what you presented that supports your statement. NO THING. NADA! ZIP!

    Obama approval rating is still the highest at 2-1/2 times that if Congress. They sit at 18%. Please don’t insult my intelligence with this ridiculous drivel.

    Sure it is!

    And Obama’s approval higher than Congress doesn’t cut it!

  • Alice67

    mlb said:
    -EXACTLY- what a dick, an immature one at that- he could have produced it at anytime but he waited years.

    He didn’t need to produce it at all since the short form was sufficient. But the birther nuts refused to accept it. Shame on them for forcing the POTUS to have to get special dispensation to show the kooks the long form. Shame! Shame! on them! History will not be kind to the Republicans.

  • Alice67

    juan said:
    Sure it is!

    You’re a total waste of time. I’ll not make that mistake again. Simpleton!

  • Alice67

    mlb said:
    Except Halperin didn’t mean it as a compliment. I love how liberal redefine words to suit their intentions.

    Who cares if Halperin didn’t mean it as a compliment. The left would love for Obama to be much more of a dick. Though I doubt he will ever be able to out dick the Republicans.

  • jddoubleu

    Alice67 said:
    You’re a total waste of time. I’ll not make that mistake again. Simpleton!

    says the loser who filed bankruptcy.

    tell us all about your great success in life…

  • The Lantern of Truth

    President Obama: Be A Dick About It, Why Don’t You

    He’s a preening , arrogant , double – talking , demagoguing one .

    You CORPORATE JET OWNING MILLIONAIRE/BILLIONAIRE OIL TYCOONS !

  • juan

    Alice67 said:
    He didn’t need to produce it at all since the short form was sufficient. But the birther nuts refused to accept it. Shame on them for forcing the POTUS to have to get special dispensation to show the kooks the long form. Shame! Shame! on them! History will not be kind to the Republicans.

    He didn’t show the long form birth certificate!

    He presented a layered computerized Fake Certificate of Live Birth! Every computer expert has said it is blatantly a FAKE!

  • juan

    Alice67 said:
    Who cares if Halperin didn’t mean it as a compliment. The left would love for Obama to be much more of a dick. Though I doubt he will ever be able to out dick the Republicans.

    You got that right!

    They are out-smarting and out-Alinskying Obama and the WIMPY Democrats!

  • JoeRemi

    juan said:
    He didn’t show the long form birth certificate! He presented a layered computerized Fake Certificate of Live Birth! Every computer expert has said it is blatantly a FAKE!

    You are a f*cking idiot.

  • Jaurez

    JoeRemi said:
    You are a f*cking idiot.

    I happen to disagree w/you.

  • Jaurez

    jddoubleu said:
    you dont represent a majority of anything…

    Thank God alice69 represents about .1% of America at the most.

  • juan

    Jaurez said:
    I happen to disagree w/you.

    Thank you, very much!

  • Colorado_Conservative

    juan said:
    He didn’t show the long form birth certificate!

    He presented a layered computerized Fake Certificate of Live Birth! Every computer expert has said it is blatantly a FAKE!

    This is a FACT….Not only is it a FAKE……It is a horribly fabricated FAKE. Everything our incompetent community organizer does he fails at miserably!

    If they scanned it on a computer, like they said they did, it would only show one layer instead of multiple layers!

  • BatBoy

    Colorado_Conservative said:
    incompetent community organizer

    Give the guy some credit…he is a damn good Community Organizer….He can “Shakedown” a company and have a check in his pocket before they realize they have been “Had!”

  • Dem4Ever

    …sure sounds lile Tommy insinuated that Obama likes dick.

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    Alice67 said:
    The list is so long it’s waiting for moderation.

    Here’s the site. http://obamaachievements.org/list

    Do you ever have an original thought?

  • Alice67

    Colorado_Conservative said:
    This is a FACT….Not only is it a FAKE……It is a horribly fabricated FAKE. Everything our incompetent community organizer does he fails at miserably!

    If they scanned it on a computer, like they said they did, it would only show one layer instead of multiple layers!

    Cuckoo
    Cuckoo

  • Alice67

    Liberal Tormentor - tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972 said:
    Do you ever have an original thought?

    It’s a factual list of Obama’s accomplishments that I supplied on request, dimwit. Are you ever able to comment on the topic rather than the posters. Grow up.

  • Colorado_Conservative

    Alice67 said:
    Cuckoo
    Cuckoo

    I take this as you cannot debate the facts so you have to resort to name calling….very typical of the Obot’s!
    I do give you credit however, you didn’t call me a racist!!

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    BatBoy said:
    Give the guy some credit…he is a damn good Community Organizer….He can “Shakedown” a company and have a check in his pocket before they realize they have been “Had!”

    And NO ONE read a teleprompter like he does!

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    Alice67 said:
    It’s a factual list of Obama’s accomplishments that I supplied on request, dimwit. Are you ever able to comment on the topic rather than the posters. Grow up.

    Yes, but you couldn’t even come up with the list on your own. Come on, if he’s SO great, you should be able to provide the list without the help of your Obama lovers websites.

  • Worp

    Obama’s polls are tanking, aka people think he’s a dick.

  • Alice67

    Colorado_Conservative said:
    I take this as you cannot debate the facts so you have to resort to name calling….very typical of the Obot’s!

    I can discuss facts. Try supplying some instead of paranoid conspiracy theories.

  • Alice67

    Liberal Tormentor - tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972 said:
    Yes, but you couldn’t even come up with the list on your own.

    Tough. It’s a very, very, VERY long list.

    Liberal Tormentor - tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972 said:
    Come on, if he’s SO great,

    Who said “he’s so great?” Try just a little bit of honesty. I promise it won’t hurt.

    Liberal Tormentor - tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972 said:
    you should be able to provide the list without the help of your Obama lovers websites.

    It’s a simple list. If you can dispute anything on it, by all means let’s hear it. Other than that you’re just a whining for the sake of whining. Show me where it’s wrong.

  • Alice67

    I’ll wait.

  • http://www.facebook.com/miraclelurker Ellen Carey Rowe

    Liberal Tormentor - tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972 said:
    Do you ever have an original thought?

    Nope . Nary a one .

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    Sweetie, you are so drunk on Obamade, you’re slurring your words. The man is a failure and the American people agree, which is why he will be a one term president.

  • NonElite

    “For over an hour, the President fielded the very worst the Republicans could muster, and he kicked ass.”

    That is just about as absurd a description of this press conference as any I’ve heard. I don’t think Obama is as “cool” as he is disconnected. When you’re disconnected, you don’t react appropriately. This is something I’ve seen time and again in Obama’s personality.
    This article is contrary to most I’ve read from the best analyists.

  • Jaurez

    NonElite said:
    That is just about as absurd a description of this press conference as any I’ve heard.

    Totally agree.

  • Worp

    Liberal Tormentor - tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972 said:
    Yes, but you couldn’t even come up with the list on your own. Come on, if he’s SO great, you should be able to provide the list without the help of your Obama lovers websites.

    Alice67 only knows MSM talking points. I started feeling sorry for her while back.

  • Jaurez

    Alice67 says:
    Ellen Carey Rowe says:

    same loser

  • JoeRemi

    Y’all didn’t respond to a single thing Alice said. Bunch of goons.

  • Worp

    JoeRemi said:
    Y’all didn’t respond to a single thing Alice said. Bunch of goons.

    been there done that. Last time she claimed she googled Santorum and discovered “The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex”

    Obviously a Maddow talking point.

    Gave up after that.

  • JoeRemi

    Thanks for reminding me of that tidbit, dumbass.

  • Worp

    JoeRemi said:
    Thanks for reminding me of that tidbit, dumbass.

    Anytime.

  • mlb

    Alice67 said:
    He didn’t need to produce it at all since the short form was sufficient. But the birther nuts refused to accept it. Shame on them for forcing the POTUS to have to get special dispensation to show the kooks the long form. Shame! Shame! on them! History will not be kind to the Republicans.

    Yeah and shame! shame! on all the liberals who demanded the long form from McCain, oh and got it, without the arrogant brushoff!
    Birther or not, when you have a grandmother claiming to be there at his birth in Kenya and a father who was a polygamist it raises legit questions/concerns.

    The short form is NOT enough- It was not good enough for daughter when we went to renew her passport (renew- meaning they already had all the documents on file) Nope, no short form for her, only a certified copy of the long form. We don’t have to worry about that now, because this administration already changed the rules for acceptable ID for getting a US passport.

  • mlb

    Alice67 said:
    Who cares if Halperin didn’t mean it as a compliment. The left would love for Obama to be much more of a dick. Though I doubt he will ever be able to out dick the Republicans.

    I love how you liberals get off on the word dick- is it really that empowering for you? Or are you’all having Anthony WEINER withdrawals and need your fix of juvenile analogies.

    This president could not possibly be MORE of dick than he has been for the last 3 years. So if you want to see more of his dickiness knock yourself out.

  • Jaurez

    What happened to “ellen” alice69er?

  • glenn113

    Tommy, you could not have been said it any better.

  • Nature Freak

    glenn113 said:
    Tommy, you could not have been said it any better.

    I agree glenn113. I wish Obama had said while laughing ,”Halperin you said I am ‘kind of a dick’, well Halperin I am a total dick and you are going to find this out soon enough”.

  • JoeRemi

    I’ll explain it again, you racist assholes. The Certificate of Live Birth was the official birth certificate in Hawaii. He waited to release the Long Form because he had no reason to capitulate to you cross-burning morons. And it got the predictable result; You STILL think he’s Kenyan. F*cking dumbass racist Tea Party neanderthals.

  • Pablo

    Tedderman said:
    However, I believe it is time for the gloves to come off in a prime time address to the public to show the absurdity of the Republicans arguments. Weather or not he’s able to elicit the desired effect in forcing the recalcitrant republicans to make needed concessions and raise taxes, is unknown. But the American people must have the facts, and if it takes the President becoming John Holmes reincarnate, then so be it.

    There is nothing I’d like to see more than for Barack Obama go out there and make that argument to the American people. An Oval Office speech would be great. Before he does that, I’d recommend that he make sure they do a better job of factchecking than they did two days ago.

  • Greg

    Pablo said:
    There is nothing I’d like to see more than for Barack Obama go out there and make that argument to the American people.

    Even Republicans are now making the argument…
    “LANGONE: Well I say this as a devout Republican. I think in these negotiations, I think number one guys like me, I’ve said this before, there’s a caveat. I shouldn’t get Social Security. I should pay more taxes.”

    http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/06/30/258559/ken-langone-pay-more-taxes/

    “We’re at 15 percent revenue, and historically it’s been closer to 20 percent.” He added, “We’ve never had a war without a tax, and now we’ve got two. … Absolute bullshit.”

    http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/06/30/258821/fmr-gop-sen-alan-simpson-calls-republican-refusal-to-raise-revenue-absolute-bullshit/

  • JoeRemi

    Simpson knows his shit.

  • Greg

    JoeRemi said:
    Simpson knows his shit.

    Crashing the economy into the ground and watching a Democrat enter with a 70% approval has driven the partisan right to the edge… To continue to push the tax issue will undue their only moderately effective narrative if they take it to serious extremes.

  • JoeRemi

    They’re hellbent on fighting for the rich because “they’re the job creators”. You see any jobs?

  • Greg

    JoeRemi said:
    They’re hellbent on fighting for the rich because “they’re the job creators”. You see any jobs?

    The banks are eager to go through an extended period of capital accumulation and both parties are effectively limited in their policy priorities as a result… Though the right’s only solution is to submit entirely… So not much of limit there… The short time priorities of capital do not currently align well with the national interest in this moment.

  • glenn113

    Greg said:
    The banks are eager to go through an extended period of capital accumulation and both parties are effectively limited in their policy priorities as a result… Though the right’s only solution is to submit entirely… So not much of limit there… The short time priorities of capital do not currently align well with the national interest in this moment.

    That’s an understatement: http://stltoday.mycapture.com/mycapture/enlarge.asp?image=36511925&event=157573&CategoryID=25906

  • glenn113
  • Jaurez

    JoeRemi said:
    You see any jobs?

    I thought the recession was over? LOL!

  • JoeRemi

    Jaurez said:
    I thought the recession was over? LOL!

    I’m glad you find that amusing. Your party sunk this ship, and now all they care about is keeping the rich happy. Laugh it up, asshole.

  • Gorgegirl

    JoeRemi said:
    They’re hellbent on fighting for the rich because “they’re the job creators”. You see any jobs?

    They moved them to China. And what’s even worse, we allowed them a deduction for the cost of making that move and the republicans wouldn’t pass a bill in congress to deny them that deduction. They want the American taxpayers to actually pay for corporations moving the fricking jobs to China.

  • JoeRemi

    Gorgegirl said:
    They moved them to China. And what’s even worse, we allowed them a deduction for the cost of making that move and the republicans wouldn’t pass a bill in congress to deny them that deduction. They want the American taxpayers to actually pay for corporations moving the fricking jobs to China.

    Stunning, isn’t it? If that’s not un-American, I don’t know what is.

  • Sanders Youth

    glenn113 said:
    Tommy, you could not have been said it any better.

    Yeah if Tommy wasn’t around I don’t think I would come around here plus Tommy Christoper vs. Andrew Breitbart is an awesome You Tube clip.

  • Gorgegirl

    Liberal Tormentor - tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972 said:
    And NO ONE read a teleprompter like he does!

    He had a teleprompter only for his remarks the other day. When he takes questions from reporters or the public, he doesn’t use a teleprompter. Even with a teleprompter, Bush was horrible. I think Republicans focus on his use of a teleprompter shows just how shallow they are.

  • Gorgegirl

    Sanders Youth said:
    Yeah if Tommy wasn’t around I don’t think I would come around here plus Tommy Christoper vs. Andrew Breitbart is an awesome You Tube clip.

    Andrew Breitbart does a terrific job in editing tapes and films. Nothing he ever does is trustworthy.

  • JoeRemi

    Gorgegirl said:
    Andrew Breitbart does a terrific job in editing tapes and films. Nothing he ever does is trustworthy.

    Breitbart does a terrific job promoting Breitbart and makin’ stuff up. He’s the Sarah Palin of moron bloggers.

  • mediadoubt

    As I was watching Obama’s press conference, it struck me that the Republicans are severely constrained in that not one of them can get up in front of an audience and talk sense — not because they’re all insane (although the percentages run against them) but because their stupid and extreme positions have left them with nothing sensible to say. All they’ve got is radical misstatements of fact, wacky lies, and appeals to emotion that fall flat and ring false.

    Obama, on the other hand, can say “we will do this, and we will do that, and eventually the nutbags of the right will be forced to behave like adults.”

    And the fact will not be lost on voters.

    If that’s being dickish, more power to him.

  • mediadoubt

    Gorgegirl said:
    He had a teleprompter only for his remarks the other day. When he takes questions from reporters or the public, he doesn’t use a teleprompter. Even with a teleprompter, Bush was horrible. I think Republicans focus on his use of a teleprompter shows just how shallow they are.

    Not to mention that using a teleprompter is a sign of someone who cares about expressing himself with precision. This is not exactly a bad thing.

  • Skippy

    Mr. Tommy Christopher

    Seriously, you should consider running for some type of elected office.

    That article was magnificent!

  • ChrisNH

    I SO want Obamo to ‘Bring a gun to a knife fight.’ I SO want him to lose his cool and get unhinged. We’re getting there, folks. We’re getting there. You can see him cracking.

  • Pablo

    Gorgegirl said:
    He had a teleprompter only for his remarks the other day. When he takes questions from reporters or the public, he doesn’t use a teleprompter. Even with a teleprompter, Bush was horrible. I think Republicans focus on his use of a teleprompter shows just how shallow they are.

    Yeah, that’s what it is! Those damned Republicans!

  • Tommy Christopher

    juan said:
    He didn’t show the long form birth certificate!

    He presented a layered computerized Fake Certificate of Live Birth! Every computer expert has said it is blatantly a FAKE!

    FALSE

    http://nativeborncitizen.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/epectitus-debunking-forgery-claims-of-the-obama-long-form-certificate/

  • Tommy Christopher

    Sanders Youth said:
    Yeah if Tommy wasn’t around I don’t think I would come around here plus Tommy Christoper vs. Andrew Breitbart is an awesome You Tube clip.

    Gorgegirl said:
    Andrew Breitbart does a terrific job in editing tapes and films. Nothing he ever does is trustworthy.

    The TC vs AB tape was mine, and was unedited. What’s great is that, later that same day, I was ambushed by O’Keefe minion Christian Hartsock, and it was a totally different story, editing-wise. Read about it here:

    http://dailydose.us/2010/04/08/on-newsbusters-michelle-malkin-big-journalism-alan-colmes-and-david-shuster-2/

  • Dave Richards

    Sorry Tommy. Obama is still a Marxist.

  • crclarkNY

    You’re talking about the self proclaimed “only adult in the room?” I guess his definition of adult – dismissive, prickly, and finger pointing – doesn’t match mine.

  • Cecelia

    Shouldn’t the headline be:

    ‘Mean Republicans and Fox News Make President and Liberal Journo Act Like Dicks’?

  • Perdido

    Let’s see. Halperin calls Obama a dick. MSNBC suspends him for saying it. And the media is taking cues from Republicans. Not quite following that story arc.

  • BoomShakalaka

    crclarkNY said:
    You’re talking about the self proclaimed “only adult in the room?” I guess his definition of adult – dismissive, prickly, and finger pointing – doesn’t match mine.

    Good thing he didn’t call anybody a dick then huh?That would have been odd….
    Or if he had said The Reps are acting like 10 years old childs,or are diminishing their Office…..man that would have been mean.

    Good thing he didn’t call anybody un-american too huh…or,I don’t know……..fascist,terrorist sympathizer,nazis,kenyan,traitor,imperialist,dictator,incompetent,food stamp President, gangster,a disgrace,
    or my latest favorite by Pizza man Cain,”not a real Black man”…..that’s a good one..

    Good thing that,as the President of the United States,he didn’t disrespect Members of Congress or Senators, himself and the Office by calling them those things,cause then that would make him quite a huge disrespectful dick,and quite frankly, a complete and utter moron…… right?

    Glad we agree then….good talk.

  • mlb

    Alice67 said:
    It’s the topic of the thread, genius.

    It’s the topic of the thread, genius.

    It’s the topic of the thread, genius.

    So the “topic”, is how Democrats are empowered to support and encourage our current president to be more of a divisive, partisan, steamrolling, forget about the Republicans, Independents, the will of the people (obamacare), spend unlimited amounts of $$$, and then not know where it went,(stimulus), refer to shovel ready jobs, support to the tune of millions of US $ for off-shore drilling in Brazil, but won’t support any efforts here, except windmills, sticks his middle figure to our world allies, embracing our enemies, cause it’s all about me me me me me me the big dick. Got it, genius-

  • Jaurez

    “boom” my fav was when the good rev said he wanted to neuter obama. ;)

  • Greg

    Jaurez said:
    “boom” my fav was when the good rev said he wanted to neuter obama. ;)

    Politics create the strangest bedfellows…

    Remember that the good reverend was upset with Obama, in part, because he was tacking toward a very moderate set of positions on racial matters. Additionally, despite the right wing idea that Obama is a product of so called “Chicago Thug Politics” he emerged from outside the system and often ignored the mandates of the existing machine to engineer his political assent.

  • jakester

    Pablo said:
    Yeah, that’s what it is! Those damned Republicans!

    If the best you can do is regurgitate the teleprompter line, then hang it up

  • jakester
  • Alice67

    mlb said:
    So the “topic”, is how Democrats are empowered to support and encourage our current president to be more of a divisive, partisan, steamrolling, forget about the Republicans, Independents, the will of the people (obamacare), spend unlimited amounts of $$$, and then not know where it went,(stimulus), refer to shovel ready jobs, support to the tune of millions of US $ for off-shore drilling in Brazil, but won’t support any efforts here, except windmills, sticks his middle figure to our world allies, embracing our enemies, cause it’s all about me me me me me me the big dick. Got it, genius-

    After all the names the Republicans have called Obama? Cry me a river. You righties sure like to dish it out but start squealing like pigs when it gets dished back.

  • Perdido

    I thought Halperin was a Democrat.

  • mediadoubt

    mlb said:
    So the “topic”, is how Democrats are empowered to support and encourage our current president to be more of a divisive, partisan, steamrolling, forget about the Republicans, Independents, the will of the people (obamacare), spend unlimited amounts of $$$, and then not know where it went,(stimulus), refer to shovel ready jobs, support to the tune of millions of US $ for off-shore drilling in Brazil, but won’t support any efforts here, except windmills, sticks his middle figure to our world allies, embracing our enemies, cause it’s all about me me me me me me the big dick. Got it, genius-

    Let’s deconstruct:

    1) Divisive, partisan, steamrolling = doing what he was elected to do, e.g., fixing what Republicans wrecked.
    2) Forget about the Republicans = Stop trying to compromise with zealots who believe “compromise” is the same as “give me everything I want”
    3) Independents = Check the polls, Chuck, they don’t want Republican solutions that benefit only the rich and cornhole everyone else
    4) The will of the people (Obamacare) = Check the polls, Chuck, the people want health care reform
    5) Spend . . . stimulus = millions of jobs preserved
    6) Refer to shovel . . . me me me . . . = You’ve begun to dribble. Time for a new crying towel

    All of which adds up to: the Republicans had their chance to act like adults and professionals and they decided to play sillybuggers instead. Now they get their asses handed to them. Sounds about right to me.

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  • JoeRemi

    Perdido said:
    I thought Halperin was a Democrat.

    Of course you did. Anyone in the media who isn’t a groveling, bootlicking, right-wing propaganda spewer is automatically assumed to have “liberal bias”. Halperin calls ‘em as he sees ‘em. It’s called JOURNALISM.

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    JoeRemi said:
    Of course you did. Anyone in the media who isn’t a groveling, bootlicking, right-wing propaganda spewer is automatically assumed to have “liberal bias”. Halperin calls ‘em as he sees ‘em. It’s called JOURNALISM.

    lol, like the memos he sent at ABC

  • Perdido

    Joe, Halperin is a Democrat. And MSNBC proved that they can have no one bashing Obama. Fox had nothing to do with that episode.

  • Perdido

    So Joe, you agree with Halperin saying Obama was a dick?

  • JoeRemi

    Perdido said:
    So Joe, you agree with Halperin saying Obama was a dick?

    You haven’t been following this thread. Yes, Obama was doing to the Republicans EXACTLY what they’ve been doing to him. Halperin may not approve, but he was accurate. I most certainly DO approve. A party that walks out on budget negotiations, claiming they’re “willing to compromise”, but won’t raise revenue, is full of shit.

  • Perdido

    And with MSNBC suspending Halperin, that proves they’re unfair.

  • JoeRemi

    Perdido said:
    And with MSNBC suspending Halperin, that proves they’re unfair.

    No it doesn’t. I may get a kick out of Halperin being “real”, but there’s certain phrases you can use on The Daily Show that aren’t appropriate on a morning news show, which is on while children are getting ready for school.

  • Perdido

    I agree with Bill Maher. Besides being a dick, Obama should act like a ‘real’ black man and carry a gun in his pants.

  • JoeRemi

    Perdido said:
    I agree with Bill Maher. Besides being a dick, Obama should act like a ‘real’ black man and carry a gun in his pants.

    And off the rails we go…

  • Perdido

    Maher said it. Not me. That’s okay. I realize Halperin, Maher, and others can say whatever they want about Obama and it’s okay because they’re on the left. If anyone else were to say such things, it would be horrible.

  • JoeRemi

    Perdido said:
    Maher said it. Not me. That’s okay. I realize Halperin, Maher, and others can say whatever they want about Obama and it’s okay because they’re on the left. If anyone else were to say such things, it would be horrible.

    That makes no sense. Halperin was suspended, which clearly qualifies as “not ok”. You’re not following this story very well.

  • LAPhil

    Alice67 said:
    After all the names the Republicans have called Obama? Cry me a river. You righties sure like to dish it out but start squealing like pigs when it gets dished back.

    Oh, really! How about all the names (traitor, dictator, worthy of assassination, etc.) the Dems called Bush and got away with it? If you called Obama some of those things you’d probably be locked up!

  • LAPhil

    JoeRemi said:
    I’ll explain it again, you racist assholes. The Certificate of Live Birth was the official birth certificate in Hawaii. He waited to release the Long Form because he had no reason to capitulate to you cross-burning morons. And it got the predictable result; You STILL think he’s Kenyan. F*cking dumbass racist Tea Party neanderthals.

    Tell us how you really feel, Joe.

  • Alice67

    Perdido said:
    I thought Halperin was a Democrat.

    Nope.

  • cjd ohio 1

    Alice67 said:
    Nope.

    he is a democrat perdido, look at the memos when he was at ABC

  • LAPhil

    JoeRemi said:
    Breitbart does a terrific job promoting Breitbart and makin’ stuff up. He’s the Sarah Palin of moron bloggers.

    You’re the gold standard of moron bloggers.

  • LAPhil

    Is Tommy Christopher Keith Olbermann in disguise?

  • gargoyle

    LAPhil said:
    Oh, really! How about all the names (traitor, dictator, worthy of assassination, etc.) the Dems called Bush and got away with it? If you called Obama some of those things you’d probably be locked up!

    You mean all the times Obama was called Hitler and fascist? How many of those people were locked up?

  • LAPhil

    Sanders Youth said:
    I have a great reason, he gave my small business the biggest tax cut I have had in almost 10 years. I just wish he would fight back against the Republican pricks. I think he will in his second term.

    WHAT second term?

  • LAPhil

    Sanders Youth said:
    Make that 4 BalloonBoy.

    Your numbers aren’t looking too good, Sanders.

  • LAPhil

    Alice67 said:
    Nice photo of Obama.

    Which one, the one in your avatar?

  • LAPhil

    Alice67 said:
    Way better than anything the Republicans have ever offered, thanks. Would you like a list of everything Obama has accomplished in just 2 years? I’ll be happy to supply it. (but only if you are willing to read it)

    We’re still waiting, Alice.

  • JoeRemi

    LAPhil said:
    We’re still waiting, Alice.

    Read the whole thread, idiot.

  • Alice67

    gargoyle said:
    You mean all the times Obama was called Hitler and fascist? How many of those people were locked up?

    How bout the comments about lynching him on the WH lawn.

  • Alice67

    LAPhil said:
    We’re still waiting, Alice.

    It was posted. Go back in this thread.

  • cyberk9sheriff

    We are sick of going with out, cut cost every way we can to run our house and care for our family. In the Army, We were told the best way to be a leader was to set the example, How about the White house on down cut out the high cost of thins they don’t need. Take away the 6 jets they use. Tell Mrs Obama to keep her back side at home and not to be flying off on them $800,000.00 Trips. Obama hits the golf course more than most retired people do. Cut the office budgets, they don’t need millions to run them. Cut out the privet barber the stands around waiting on some congress man needing a hair cut. We can not spend our way out of debt, and I can’t see how the asses in the white house think they can do it…..

  • mlb

    Alice67 said:
    After all the names the Republicans have called Obama? Cry me a river. You righties sure like to dish it out but start squealing like pigs when it gets dished back.

    Are you kidding? Like the Dems had nothing but sweet words for Bush… you are the one’s calling the president a dick. Republican have only returned the favor of using the same analogies and adjectives that you called Bush.

  • Jaurez

    “JoeRemi” said:
    Read the whole thread, idiot.

    How’s the weather under ellens skirt? Wait, don’t tell us..*cringes*

  • shootfromthehip

    “Republicans are the biggest bunch of dicks since the director’s cut of Boogie Nights.”

    Nailed it!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Be/1751243136 Dave Be

    Pablo said:
    There is nothing I’d like to see more than for Barack Obama go out there and make that argument to the American people. An Oval Office speech would be great. Before he does that, I’d recommend that he make sure they do a better job of factchecking than they did two days ago.

    That article you linked is riddled with inaccuracies, logical fallacies, and outright lies. The speech was a little heavy on rhetoric for my tastes, but he had the facts straight. The only legit claim I saw in the whole article was his use of “unprecedented,” which he seems to misuse pretty frequently.

  • LAPhil

    JoeRemi said:
    Read the whole thread, idiot.

    Whoopie! She posted a link to a web site! It seems neither of you have enough intelligence to justify your positions. That site wasn’t a list of accomplishments, it was a list things that Obama’s wasted our tax money on.

  • Pokerdude777

    Quote..”President Obama is just naturally calm, reasonable, and not nearly dickish enough”. Tommy, that is Obama’s problem perfectly written in one short sentence.

  • jim bronson 990cc

    Aren’t these the same guys accusing the POTUS of being “thin-skinned”?

  • mlb

    mediadoubt said:
    Let’s deconstruct:

    1) Divisive, partisan, steamrolling = doing what he was elected to do, e.g., fixing what Republicans wrecked.
    The Dems were in control of everything except the WH for the past 2 years.

    2) Forget about the Republicans = Stop trying to compromise with zealots who believe “compromise” is the same as “give me everything I want”
    Exactly how do you substantiate this statement AT ALL.

    3) Independents = Check the polls, Chuck, they don’t want Republican solutions that benefit only the rich and cornhole everyone else.
    They don’t want Obama either.

    4) The will of the people (Obamacare) = Check the polls, Chuck, the people want health care reform

    Yes reform, as in the cost coming down, not up (healthcare providers are dropping Medicaid patients like hot potatoes but that is exactly what Obama promised) not a complete overhaul run by the IRS. Obama compromised with all big pharma, so instead of guaranteeing low drug rates we still have to deal with the jacked up rates through health insurance co.

    5) Spend . . . stimulus = millions of jobs preserved
    Prove it… whose job was saved?

    6) Refer to shovel . . . me me me . . . = You’ve begun to dribble. Time for a new crying towel

    It takes more than a dick to make me cry and I don’t even have a Press Secretary to call out people who hurt my wee little feelings.
    To quote the Dick himself- “I guess we weren’t quite shovel ready” Gee – ya think? They could have look at bit further into that before allocating millions for ???? but in one of his more dicker moments laughed it off. Spend…. stimulus= where did all that money go?

    All of which adds up to: the Republicans had their chance to act like adults and professionals and they decided to play sillybuggers instead. Now they get their asses handed to them. Sounds about right to me.

    As far as asses handed to them, Obama better do more than that boring- as- watching- paint- dry speech(I watched the entire long winded dribble and the press was falling asleep)

    The Dems had their chance with absolutely no interference from Rep. majority to raise the debt ceiling, raise taxes, raise hell, where was Obama forcing them to address this issue?

    I do have a new slogan for you guys for 2012:
    “Talk softly, and carry a big dick”

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  • Cecelia

    “Then, there was his complete decimation of the Birthers, and Donald Trump, with the longest rope-a-dope in history. After years of letting the Birthers punch themselves out, and marrying many mainstream Republicans to the cause in the process, years of keeping that long-form birth certificate locked up like the contents of the briefcase in Pulp Fiction, all of a sudden, BAM!

    He produces the long-form on the eve of the White House Correspondents Dinner, delivers a withering routine at the dinner that almost made me feel sorry for Trump, all while having just pushed the button on the operation to kill Osama bin Laden. There was only one way Republicans could respond, at least inwardly”

    How is it that this idiot can say something like this and none of his peers object?

    Christopher is basically saying that the president had been lying for years about his ability to release his birth certificate. That all that was some sort of game to lead birthers on, which would implicate Hawaiian officials as lying as well.

    Why would he NOW celebrate such a scenario, when he expressly denied it many times in the past.

    When he expressly rung his hands over how it made the president look after it had happened.

    I don’t get this sort of thinking. At all.

  • Jaurez

    Cecelia said:
    Why would he NOW celebrate such a scenario, when he expressly denied it many times in the past.

    Cause he’s a hack. Plain and simple.

  • Cecelia

    Jaurez said:
    Cause he’s a hack. Plain and simple.

    I think you’re right.

    Christopher is crowing that in order to “rope a dope”, the president lied to the public for years about his ability to release his birth certificate, This would mean that Hawaiian officials were in cahoots with the plot.

    THIS is Mediaite’s White House correspondent!

    der to

  • Jaurez

    Cecelia said:
    THIS is Mediaite’s White House correspondent!

    Scary. He’s clearly a product of me serious indoctrination. That he condones in an open forum with his signature the potus lying about the availability of his birth certificate is unbelievable. Would I trust him with my check book? Not a chance.

  • Jaurez

    Jaurez said:
    Scary. He’s clearly a product of me serious indoctrination.

    some serious indoctrination

  • mediadoubt

    Cecelia said:
    I think you’re right.

    Christopher is crowing that in order to “rope a dope”, the president lied to the public for years about his ability to release his birth certificate, This would mean that Hawaiian officials were in cahoots with the plot.

    THIS is Mediaite’s White House correspondent!

    der to

    Actually, what Obama said for years was that the documentation he had already released met all requirements. Which it did.

    Unsaid was the fact that if wingnuts and other loons wanted to make fools of themselves, they were welcome to do so. Which they did.

    Hence “rope-a-dope.”

  • cyberk9sheriff

    Go back to Media Matters…..and fall to sleep..the real world will take care of it’s self..Obama was a evil experiment that has gone so wrong in so many ways….Calling him a dick only hurt man hoods feelings,how rude to lend link Obama to an appendage, how degrading to man…but 2012 is shovel ready….
    You lefties just go back to sleep….you think you cry now…..wait….to the boot to the back side comes …sleep sleep…….Dick,,,,,hahaha, he only wishes he were that good…..

  • ChrisNH

    Dick Obamo and his wife have been desperately trying to shield their daughters from the wreckage that ‘Daddy’ has become, but surely the girls must know what being ‘A Dick’ means.

  • ChrisNH

    mediadoubt said:
    1) Divisive, partisan, steamrolling = doing what he was elected to do, e.g., fixing what Republicans wrecked.

    Fixing? Is that what you call it? Fixing? When everything got WORSE once Obamo came along rather than BETTER?

    What a wee-todd you are.

  • Perdido

    Joe, you said Halperin was suspended for using the term ‘dick’ on a program where kids might be watching. Not because he criticized Obama. So you’re agreeing that people on the left can criticize Obama. Halperin was only suspended for using the word ‘dick’ at that time of morning.

  • mediadoubt

    ChrisNH said:
    Fixing? Is that what you call it? Fixing? When everything got WORSE once Obamo came along rather than BETTER?

    What a wee-todd you are.

    If that were true, which it isn’t it would still be a matter of fixing a wrecked car, which is going to take a while.

    Per the Urban Dictionary: “Wee-todd — This phrase is mostly used by people ages 11-14 but sometimes people as old as 18 may use it.”

    I guess it’s possible you’re 14 chronologically. Mental age? Not so much.

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    mediadoubt said:
    Not to mention that using a teleprompter is a sign of someone who cares about expressing himself with precision. This is not exactly a bad thing.

    Bull, it’s a sign of someone worried he will accidentally tell you what he really thinks and wants.

  • JoeRemi

    Perdido said:
    Joe, you said Halperin was suspended for using the term ‘dick’ on a program where kids might be watching. Not because he criticized Obama. So you’re agreeing that people on the left can criticize Obama. Halperin was only suspended for using the word ‘dick’ at that time of morning.

    Yes..I don’t undferstand the mystery here. Lefties, including myself, criticize the prez all the time. It’s America, for God’s sake.

  • Perdido

    And being on the left means you can criticize him without being called racist.

  • JoeRemi

    Perdido said:
    And being on the left means you can criticize him without being called racist.

    That’s a bullshit complaint.

  • Liberal Tormentor – tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972

    No it’s not Joe. The JounOlist scandal taught us the it was the PLANNED goal of liberals to call anyone who disagrees with Obama a racist. You can deny it if you want, but it’s on tape and in print.

  • Perdido

    Okay, Joe. Halperin is a racist.

  • JoeRemi

    Liberal Tormentor - tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972 said:
    No it’s not Joe. The JounOlist scandal taught us the it was the PLANNED goal of liberals to call anyone who disagrees with Obama a racist. You can deny it if you want, but it’s on tape and in print.

    You need actual evidence of it happening. People get called out for saying racially tinged things. They don’t get called racist simply for disagreeing. “They always call us racist” is a Conservative Victim lie.

  • Perdido

    Didn’t you ever watch Olby? Used to say it all the time. And his buddy, Janeane Garafalo. “This is racism, straight up.”

  • JoeRemi

    Perdido said:
    Didn’t you ever watch Olby? Used to say it all the time. And his buddy, Janeane Garafalo. “This is racism, straight up.”

    Yes, and I don’t agree with much of what they say, but they didn’t call opposition to Obama racism simply because it was opposition. They were referring to crazy Tea Partiers shouting about birth certificates and “wanting my country back”. That shit was racist.

  • Perdido

    But they labeled the entire tea party as being that way. At the same time, they abhor labeling an entire group as all being the same. Guess they didn’t realize it.

  • seek

    JoeRemi said:
    Yes, and I don’t agree with much of what they say, but they didn’t call opposition to Obama racism simply because it was opposition. They were referring to crazy Tea Partiers shouting about birth certificates and “wanting my country back”. That shit was racist.

    It was? Do tell.
    Crazy tea praters shouting about birth certificates? Want to back that up, since I’ve never heard that before.
    You do know what the tea party wants right? I don’t think a birth certificate was on their list of requests.

    See – this is where you lose credibility – when you talk smack and think you’ve hit the jackpot. Absolutely gibberish and you pass it on. Pathetic.

  • seek

    praters= partiers

  • JoeRemi

    Perdido said:
    But they labeled the entire tea party as being that way. At the same time, they abhor labeling an entire group as all being the same. Guess they didn’t realize it.

    I don’t remember it well enough. I don’t have much respect for either one of them, so I’m not going to argue it. What I WILL argue is the “left always calls criticism of Obama racist”. It’s Conservative Victim Pathology hysteria. I’ve never seen such a bunch of whiners in my life.

  • JoeRemi

    seek said:
    It was? Do tell.
    Crazy tea praters shouting about birth certificates? Want to back that up, since I’ve never heard that before.
    You do know what the tea party wants right? I don’t think a birth certificate was on their list of requests.

    See – this is where you lose credibility – when you talk smack and think you’ve hit the jackpot. Absolutely gibberish and you pass it on. Pathetic.

    As I recall, they were showing the crazy lady actually waving a birth certificate and shouting “”I want my country back”. That bitch was racist. The entire birther movement was.

  • mediadoubt

    Liberal Tormentor - tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972 said:
    Bull, it’s a sign of someone worried he will accidentally tell you what he really thinks and wants.

    This is an example of why wingnuts just aren’t very good at governing: rejecting the very idea of thoughtfulness, they spend so much time walking into walls that reasonable people are able to anticipate that they leave themselves very little margin for error.

    That remark typed without type-o-prompter.

  • mediadoubt

    Liberal Tormentor - tormenting liberals with logic and facts since 1972 said:
    No it’s not Joe. The JounOlist scandal taught us the it was the PLANNED goal of liberals to call anyone who disagrees with Obama a racist. You can deny it if you want, but it’s on tape and in print.

    Total fantasy. Unfortunately you don’t seem to be enjoying it very much.

  • JoeRemi

    mediadoubt said:
    Total fantasy. Unfortunately you don’t seem to be enjoying it very much.

    Tormentor needs better fantasies.

  • Heywood Jablowme

    Obama isn’t a dick.

    He is an A$$HOLE.

    Period.

  • JoeRemi

    RickyLeaks. You’re an idiot. Shut up.

  • http://none pyrope

    Language wholly unbecoming of a president. Fits the mold though…definitely fits the mold.

  • Wemission

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