Via email –
“Was I mis-hearing, or did the great orator flub the oath of office?”
(Nonetheless, this will be a designated “good will” thread – an opportunity to extend our best wishes to the new US President for a safe and successful four years, followed by the longest string of paid speaking engagements in American political history.)
I sincerely wish President Obama all the best. May his Presidency be a successful one.
Let’s be fair. Both the Chief Justice and Obama flubbed. It really should be ignored especially since Roberts is clearly Conservative.
Regardless, good luck to Obama and the American people. If he succeeds by being mostly centrist, he will likely secure a second term.
I wonder what type of ‘hysteria’ will occur when he visits Canada.
I sullenly declare that I will racially execute the white conservatives of America, to the best of my ability, and defy the Constitution, so help me Allah.
Sorry about that …
I, Barack Hussein Malcolm X Junior, sullenly declare that I will racially execute the white conservatives of America, and discharge my bitchin wife to get me some crack cocaine, to the best of my ability, and defy the Constitution, so help me Allah.
Good luck with Centrist Obama, Comrades.
Geez, it seems like only yesterday we had Centrist Trudeau running things up here.
Those were the days.
Heard one comment today about what the loony left hates W for most: the fact the war in Iraq was won.
You may want to look up the definitions of both “fact” and “won”.
Wonder how Chris Mathews’ leg is today?
Geez…is it any wonder he flubbed the line….he was dying to have a smoke.
Not a good omen… flubbing so badly right from the first moment of his presidency. How could this happen? He seemed so… perfect… flawless… infallible… until now, now that he’s actually President. What, is the Matrix crashing, allowing us a glimpse of the real world already?
He’s already outdone Dubya on that score. At least Bush got his oath right.
Let’s see what happens tomorrow. From what I know, it’s not gonna be good- closing down Gitmo right in the middle of the trials…
It was like watching the woman you love marrying a guy you know is a complete asshole….
Kevin:
Obama himself said the people of Iraq can now determine their own future.
Elections (sixth, I believe) right around the corner.
Troop levels were coming down even before the election.
Check YOUR facts.
The peaceful transfer of power in the largest most powerful nation in the world is something to stop and think about.
God Bless America. God Bless and guide President Obama.
Yea Kate, I caught it — flubbed!
to all the new posters.
Welcome to the “Best Conservative Blog”
I think we have picked up a significant slate of newcomers. even a few libs and dems amoung them.
A house united speech.
I hope it turns out to be true.
did the great orator flub the oath of office .
yes he can!
I second that motion cal2
“God Bless America. God Bless and guide President Obama.”
For sure!
But, God, one more thing please. Could You get the MSM to tone down the gushing and hype. Soon, please!
It didn’t take long…
On tonight’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart played clips from Obama’s speech, and then repeated them in his best (which is to say, not very good) GW Bush impersonation. He also showed cross-cuts of Bush and Obama saying virtually the same things about America bringing peace to the world, America standing firm against its enemies, Americans not apologizing for their way of life, etc. Kinda reminded me of the Who’s “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”. I give the honeymoon two months, less if a full blown crisis erupts.
And, thinking as a poker player, with a new player in the game, who looks a lot like a fish, I’d be tempted to throw a few big raises at him and see if he folds.
Stock market voted too; down over 300 points in NY.
I wish President Obama the best of luck. He seems like an interesting character, one that any one of us would be pleased to have as a friend or associate, and he has a reputation for unflappability, which is never a bad thing, especially in a President.
Obviously I don’t necessarily agree with his policies. But the juggernaut of Big Government seems to proceed apace under liberal and conservative, Democratic and Republican presidents and congresses, so I don’t think things will change nearly as much as people think they will, because his policies aren’t all that different.
I love all the commenters who never let pesky facts get in the way of a good bashing of their ideological enemies.
Let the ODS (Obama Derangement Syndrome) begin! (Or carry on really… because many of you folks have already been relentlessly at it for the last year.)
Obama himself said the people of Iraq can now determine their own future.
Elections (sixth, I believe) right around the corner.
Troop levels were coming down even before the election.
Again, where’s the win? And please, don’t tell me it’s the election. Hamas was elected, and so was Hitler…
“And, thinking as a poker player, with a new player in the game, who looks a lot like a fish, I’d be tempted to throw a few big raises at him and see if he folds.”
Poker 101: You can’t bluff a fish! They don’t know when they are beat so they will call any and everything. The trick is to play solid(against a fish) and hope that the oppritunity comes to challenge him/her heads-up.
Fine: If the left is willing to admit that eight years of screaming ‘Village Idiot Chimpy McBusHitler’ (and everything that fell into that category of frothing drool of derangement syndrome) was a mistake, I will toss onto the same pile those who think it vitally important to prove that Obama was born outside the US, and is still a closet Muslim, along with those that think his racial make-up predetermined anything whatsoever about what kind of person he is.
But pointing out that Obama’s political antecedents in that mire of corruption known as Chicago are questionable, that his political bent is towards statism, that his guiding political principle is expediency and that he needs a whole new bus under which to dump his inconvenient past associates, is not derangement. Neither is asking what his continued association with a race-baiting pastor, or why it took a run for the presidency to make him abandon the man, says about his character, any more than pointing out that he openly accepted support from an unrepentant domestic terrorist in the early days of his public career, and like a cat on a marble floor, later tried to pretend that mess hadn’t happened.
It is not derangement to heap scorn on the MSM for treating his election and inauguration as the Second Coming.
But it would be derangement on my part if I expected that all of these valid criticisms – and the above is not an exhaustive list – would now make inevitable his immediate removal from office. They are at best predictors of his future actions as President, and while the picture they suggest is a grim one, the man could surprise us all. It is not derangement to criticize him if he does not, nor to gloomily expect his past behaviour to foreshadow what is to come.
I want the best for him and his country – a quick recovery of the economy, a reduction of terror and wars abroad, a continued lack of new 9/11s in North America – because that would be the best for me and my family. May we all be so fortunate as to look back in four years at the results of his election and say with relief: ‘I didn’t see that coming.’
Hmmm. Dan Quayle made a spelling mistake almost 20 years ago and the media are still reminding us of it. Obama fails to properly rehearse his swearing-in ceremony and has to repeat it in private later on, and the media will bury it. Bias?
Of course not. /s
This has been great reading. My 2 cents (1.6 US) is this:
Sure, let’s wish Obama well, as that’s certainly the Christian thing to do. Let’s not do the left wing thing and hate the man or amplify every immaterial mistake he makes. But what does “well” even mean? To me it’s his good health plus him NOT wrecking the US economy trying to fulfill the wild eyed dreams of the “money grows on trees” left.
All this stuff about giving the Big O respect? Give me a break. As Atric said, respect is EARNED (at least in a democracy), not demanded. Let him earn it by being a President that makes his country more prosperous. All you on the left? You only get to demand respect in grade school and dictatorships, remember?
set you free, I agree. It simply kills the Left that Bush was right about Iraq and they were wrong. Peter, RFC, funny shite.
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On a freedom of speech and thought note:
IMHO the quote below is a perfect example of the biggest danger to society posed by leftist zealots:
Quote “At any rate, without question, and true to form, it was your comment that was the first nasty comment. For the record, you said “Was I mis-hearing, or did the great orator flub the oath of office?”
Posted by: sheldon at January 20, 2009 3:15 PM” /quote
So the Great Sheldon decrees that we serfs must never question his chosen master? Gee, Shel, when did you get elected censor of the world? The word flub isn’t “nasty”, you crybaby. Go back and re-read some of the things you people said about George W. Bush.
And finally: Mr Wolfram, what an excellent post. Thank you.
Ok.
He has stepped up to the plate. Conservatives play fair, no bean balls. Play the game properly.
Whatever happens, I truly hope that when the new President retires he has his good health. This includes his lady. Good health mentally and physically.
Former President Bush has clung on to these two attributes hopefully. Did he not show wear and tear? Not that certain people care one wit- more shame on them.