To expand, I suspect that Barack Obama, child of privilege and born “black” into a left-dominated culture that fetishized him, grew up feeling entitled to his good fortune, regardless of real effort. His whole life he has had people scrambling to do for him, to see him as “the first black [fill in]” so as to be able to say to themselves “see what I did? I helped achieve this so I’m proving I’m not racist.”Abdulmutallab shouldn't have assumed a seat on any commercial flight, especially one bound for Detroit from Amsterdam, given the warning signs he had displayed. We knew this kid was trouble. Wheels didn't turn; people didn't act. Top Management must pay for this.
Obama wanted healthcare “reform” but handed it off to Pelosi and Reid. Indeed, he bristled at any dissent, so much so, he cut off communication with Republicans on the issue last March. “I Won” Obama feels entitled to unquestioned deference — along with media facetime on his terms and whims. Just let him eat his waffle or make his tee time.
Janet Dick Cheney...
"As I’ve watched the events of the last few days it is clear once again that President Obama is trying to pretend we are not at war. He seems to think if he has a low key response to an attempt to blow up an airliner and kill hundreds of people, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if he gives terrorists the rights of Americans, lets them lawyer up and reads them their Miranda rights, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if we bring the mastermind of 9/11 to New York, give him a lawyer and trial in civilian court, we won’t be at war.Good to hear from a real man, one who knows what's needed.
“He seems to think if he closes Guantanamo and releases the hard-core al Qaeda trained terrorists still there, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if he gets rid of the words, ‘war on terror,’ we won’t be at war. But we are at war and when President Obama pretends we aren’t, it makes us less safe. Why doesn’t he want to admit we’re at war? It doesn’t fit with the view of the world he brought with him to the Oval Office. It doesn’t fit with what seems to be the goal of his presidency – social transformation—the restructuring of American society. President Obama’s first object and his highest responsibility must be to defend us against an enemy that knows we are at war." [emboldenings mine]
Listen up, Barry. You're supposed to take charge, make the right decisions, have the buck stop at your desk. A good start would be booting Napolitano.
Or yourself.
Oh, mercy. I love this right-wing meme that "Obama won because he's black! Lib'ruls fetishize blacks!"
ReplyDeleteHow else can you make him out to be a "child of privilege" when he's clearly anything but? He didn't come from money, have family connections, but, he's.... he's black! Lousy privileged negroes! Always getting things for free! No wonder Jesse Jackson was our president... oh, wait.
Let's keep in mind that both North Carolina and Indiana went for Obama. Yes sir, all those white folks looked at the candidates, and even though they really, really wanted McCain and Moosie to win, they said, "W'all, shucks, better vote fer the black fella, else Heifer and Joe Bob'll think i'm a racist."
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Next right-wing meme: "Obama only won because he's smart! Lib'ruls like smart people for some horribly unfair reason! How can an awesome candidate like Sarah-Bear be expected to compete when intelligence is factored in? It ain't right, i tells ya!"
Ummmm, no.
ReplyDeleteBarry isn't smart. He's a fantastic speaker and a sublime community organizer, but any intelligence he has is turned to the dark side; to the side that favors the wrong sort of CHANGE for this country. The mental picture he and others of the far left has of how this country should look is not one that I, or any true Conservative or Classic Liberal can support.
Obama &c. favors a nation that's not possible given our current constitution; since he (and others)are sworn to uphold that constitution, he (and they) must very carefully move forward towards their goals.
We who oppose them will try to stop those supra-constitutional CHANGEs.
Opposing Obama and any - all of the far-left Democrats who forward the non-constitutional meme they secretly harbor has nothing to do with whatever color he or they are, or how many people of color vote for him (for the wrong, raaaaacist reasons, I might add; voting for Obama just BECAUSE he is black is RAAAAACIST).
Using the race card as a shield (the favored tool of the Left) is wearing thin. It's like screaming "the sky is falling!" a few too many times. That meme is failing, Elfie; best you go back to KOS and work on a new one.
Okay, this is where i have to stop and ask, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU BLATHERING ABOUT?
ReplyDeleteWhat world do you live in where the President is anything but a centrist, slightly to the left of Clinton?
Let me guess, the bailouts. The same ones that McCain would have had to have done.
He's appointing czars -- the same ones that Reagan and Bush used extensively.
The only times when Obama ignores the Constitution is when he refuses to strike down the Patriot Act, DOMA, and all the other anti-constitutional measures that Bush Jr. started. You should support him for that.
Oh, i guess it's got to be the push for a public option in health care. That's the one thing that makes him a scary, scary socialist. Sorry, but that's not "the dark side," and neither would it be "socialist dystopia" replete with "death panels." It would be the equivalent of the Post Office. You know, the Post Office that destroys your freedom to mail things?
That's not socialism, it's a common sense measure that EVERY OTHER SUCCESSFUL INDUSTRIALIZED WESTERN NATION HAS EMBRACED.
If you honestly believe that every other western nation suffers under the tyrannical yoke of government healthcare, while the people in America who die because their insurance company denied their claim somehow died "free" and are better for it, then you are an idiot. A fucking idiot.
What is wrong with you people?
You've been listening to Ralph Bristol, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, and other nuts spew and sputter about "destroying the Constitution" and "socialism" for so long that you have completely lost your ability to view things in anything resembling a realistic manner.
The simple fact is that every President can be, in some convoluted fashion, be accusing of going against the Constitution, because it is a very general document that does not address every issue in the 21st century. There's nothing in there about stem cells, abortion, Star Wars, multinational banking, Muslim terrorists, or many of the other realities we have today.
Every great President, from Washington to Lincoln to Teddy Roosevelt was accused of being a traitor and a tyrant by a certain reactionary portion of the population, because they did what was necessary in their time, and ignored the whining naysayers who wanted them to fail at any cost. I'm not saying that Obama is in their league yet, of course, but the fact that the stupidest, most ill-educated, and backwards 25% of our nation hates him with fanatic vitriol is a sign that he's off to a fine start.
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And for the last time, Obama did not win because he was black. He won DESPITE the fact that he is black, because, yes, America is still plagued by racism. That's the simple fact that your skull is somehow able to shield you from -- that America voted for an intelligent black guy because the other candidates were a spastic geezer and an idiotic backwoods fundie laughingstock.
That's the truth, sir. I wish we were a "post-racial" society where race no longer mattered, but i'm not that naive -- not when i work with committed racists five days a week. McCain and Palin were so obviously dangerous that the average American recoiled and said "oh, fuck, better vote for the smart guy then, even if he is black. But hey, he's only half-black, so i guess it ain't that bad."
BHO is damned by his choice of word(s)...
ReplyDeleteA man who shoots abortion doctors is an extremist. An eco-fanatic who torches logging sites is an extremist. Abdulmutallab is not one of these. He is a jihadist. And unlike the guys who shoot abortion doctors, jihadists have cells all over the world; they blow up trains in London, nightclubs in Bali and airplanes over Detroit (if they can); and are openly pledged to war on America.
"Any government can through laxity let someone slip through the cracks. But a government that refuses to admit that we are at war, indeed, refuses even to name the enemy — jihadist is a word banished from the Obama lexicon — turns laxity into a governing philosophy."
BHO really is a terrorist sympathizer. And he's a far-left ideologue who only 'pretends' to be near the center; if he could, he would slip left off the reservation. But an undisguised leftward movement like that, now, would betray his true agenda. So he's doing everything he can to move us in that direction he prefers, but has to work all stealthily for the moment. I don't trust him, period. Consider me as an asbestos brake pad for BHO's ambitions.
You've been slurping at the MSNBC trough again, elfie.
Between Chris Matthews and Markos Moulitas, elfie, it's a wonder your chin ever dries.
Krauthammer? Please.
ReplyDeleteSo, let me get this straight... Obama is a "terrorist sympathizer" because he didn't use the Frank Luntz-approved code word. That's the only reason. Actions are irrelevant, it's just the right words that make you happy?
I'm sorry. I think my brain just ground to a halt. The stupid.... it.... it burns. I can no longer think... good... now...
Okay, sir, i will attempt to rejoinder using language befittting your argument.
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DURR DURR DUUH HURRRR DERRR DUURRRR!!!! DURKA DUARKA LOL DERR HURR DERPA SHURRR! HUR HUR HURR!!!!
Sigh.
I won't even bother reminding you that we were talking about racism, and that i was refuting your ridiculous claim that Obama won "because he is black."
I mean, i was thrashing you soundly on that point, and so you just veer off into some random bullshit about how "jihadist" is the right word, and "extremist" isn't the right word.
This is ridiculous. Whenever i try to argue with conservatives, i feel like i'm beating a stupid kid at chess... and just before i checkmate him, he knocks the board to the ground, scattering the pieces, and throws up his arms and bellows "I WIN!" to the adjulation of his fellow retards.
Ummm, numbnuts, I didn't say "that Obama won "because he is black."" I said "voting for Obama just BECAUSE he is black is RAAAAACIST). " Referring, of course, to the 96% vote given to Obama by blacks just because, you know, he's black (helps also he's of the Lootist Party).
ReplyDeleteWords and their intent are terribly important. If you don't understand that, you should read up on language and intentionalism.
Every word out of Obama's mouth is coded, spoken with nuance to satisfy his base. He doesn't use 'jihadist' or 'terrorist' anymore. Instead, in his speech, he speaks of 'alleged', 'extremist'. Therefore, he must have sympathy for this jihad-sworn terrorist. That's why the terrorist is quietly sitting lawyered-up in a Detroit city jail instead of answering questions in a military detention center.
So much for winning the War on Terror.
BLAH BLAH BLAH, HE USED THE WRONG CODE WORD, BLAH BLAH BLAH.
ReplyDeleteYour arguments are pathetic.
You guys seem really disappointed that Abdulmutallab didn't succeed. Oh, if only that little Nigerian prick had studied his explosives training a bit more diligently!
Can you imagine? A whole plane of people blown up on Christmas. That would have pleased you to no end. Finally, a solid body count to justify your irrational hatred of the President! Free Republic would be on fire with more petitions for impeachment and wild conspiracy theories. The teabaggers would be fiercely teabagging one another. It would have been 9-11 Part II: Revenge of Al-Quida. Enough fear and panic to whip the sheeple back in line...
....sigh. I guess you can only dream. Hopefully, the next extremist will do better, and cause some real damage. That would make you guys so happy.
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I think you're becoming more and more wildly delusional. And annoying.
ReplyDeleteDon't you think it's time you get laid? Before you get flushed out of here?
Jill just isn't working out for you I don't think. Spend your usual $25 bucks, and buy yourself an attitude change.