Is there nothing that Obama can't do? (link fixed)
"With all of these efforts underway within the Postal Service community, it was a kick to the chest to have you take a shot at a group of federal employees who are working hard every day to support this country.
"Employees of the Postal Service are largely represented by unions and management associations, all of whom strongly supported your candidacy last year. For our support we do not expect any special consideration. However, we would like to be treated fairly and not have our current situation misrepresented, especially by the Commander-in-Chief."
Bringing America together, one bus wheel treadmark at a time.
Posted by Kate at August 18, 2009 11:17 AMOk, Mr. Postal Supervisor - maybe "take a shot" wasn't the best choice of phrase.
Posted by: mojo at August 18, 2009 11:46 AMThe link is not quite right.
Posted by: Brian Mallard at August 18, 2009 11:46 AMThe funniest thing is that he's a liar. I had thousands parcel delivered via USPS with no problems whatsoever, and it was UPS who more often screwed up than not. Fedex is just way too expensive so no experience with them other than an odd document that they always delivered promptly.
Posted by: Aaron at August 18, 2009 11:55 AMNewman!
Posted by: jerry obama at August 18, 2009 11:55 AMI can't believe that the Commander-in-Chief has turned on us loyal public servants.
Posted by: cliff clavin at August 18, 2009 11:58 AMIn all fairness to the USPS I never had an issue with them in six years of delivery service in Texas. Six days a week to boot! And just try to get a parcel delivered anywhere in Canada without paying more than what the contents are worth.
Having said that, I can see why they are a bit PO'd that the socialist community organizer-in-chief would slam a solid unionized government institution (and Democatic stronghold)while endorsing free enterprize.
Seems there are more seats under the bus than on it.
Posted by: Texas Canuck at August 18, 2009 12:20 PMWonder what he will say when he figures out that under the "Owe's" socialism,the unions and management will be one of the very first to go the way of the dodo?
Posted by: Justthinkin at August 18, 2009 12:21 PMMaybe Barry's administration is the "prequel" of sorts to the movie "The Postman" (A post USA apocalyptic future).
So to recap, Barry's bus treadmark victims so far:
-Policemen: Stupid and racist
-Firemen: Sotomayor
-Doctors: Yank tonsils out for nothing
-Car Salemen: Can't have dealership, you did'nt vote for me
-Taxpaying Americans: Anti-American fascists, evil-mongers
-Grandparents: Soylent Green
-Bush: Scape-goat for everything
-Postmen: Inneficient
I'm sure to have missed some, please feel free to add...
There's a nice, and accurate article by Dan Calabrese on Hot Air, that discusses Obama as a 'talented bullsh*tter'. That is, Obama knows nothing about economics or the war or health care or even, the post office, but for him, such lack is irrelevant. He just talks and talks - and expects adulation and adoration. Just because.
"This is what Obama does all the time. He waxes on about the economy, and about the decisive action that must be taken to address it. But if you actually consider carefully the statements he makes about the economy, you’ll start to figure out that he doesn't really understand economics at all."
"We elected a president who has never worked in the private sector, who has never functioned as an executive at any level, and whose very brief work in the U.S. Senate consisted of no significant accomplishments. He has spent his entire life spouting left-wing inanities with great eloquence, but he has learned very little about how the real world works."
"Turns out Barack Obama doesn’t really know very much about anything, a fact that is troubling enough by itself. But when you combine it with his apparent conviction that he should be put in charge of regulating all these things he knows nothing about, and then you add in his talent as a first-rate bullshitter – you end up with the most ignorant guy in the room making the decisions for the rest of us."
This problem, a profoundly ignorant President who considers that he is The Ruler, is a problem not only for Americans regardless of political filiation but is a serious problem for the Democrats.
How do they deal with a leader who has no capacity to lead, who cannot understand the basics of how an economy and society functions, and yet - who insists on running the show? How do they deal with his constant expressions of ignorance?
And, also, who requires being Present On-Stage at all times, and requires roars of audience approval at all times? How do they keep this narcissistic need 'fed'?
And - who denigrates and insults any and all who don't show such approval? How do they deal with this?
I worked for Purolator,andwould never ship with them. I also loaded trucks at the UPS hub in Toronto, and, at the time, they were fanatics for
quality and customer service. This is why, when I moved to the United States, I asked my mother to start shipping my books to me via UPS.
Now, if you ask my mother to do something, it's a sure bet she will do something else, so several weeks later, my books started arriving via parcel post.
One day, I get a large envelope with some shredded cardboard and my address in it. Apparently, my 5th box had been 'eaten' in the Chicago sort facility.
I was asked to describe the contents, and since my mother had not done any packing slips, I had to describe to the USPS what I thought was in the box, genere etc.
To make a long story shorter, not only did I get EVERY (50+) book back without any major damage, but I also recieved a number of books that fit my
genre, that must have been waiting for a home from the damaged parcel room in Chicago.
My experience with the USPS has been nothing but good. ( don't get me started about Canada Post)
ET:
One word: Czars.
Those 33 of the most wise can direct the Salesman In Chief and pass the wisdom onto the teleprompter.
But, as thepeoplescube points out, the teleprompter has been kidnapped by Al-Quaeda.
Posted by: set you free at August 18, 2009 12:47 PMOh no! It's not wise for Washington to PO the Posties. They're better armed and more vengeful than the CSA.
Posted by: Jim at August 18, 2009 1:04 PMset you free - no, those czars can't deal with the problem of Obama's ignorance, his narcissism and need for the constant public limelight, his insults etc. All of this is revealed away from the teleprompter.
The Democrats can gather an entire fleet of wise and witty czars but these are, in a way, irrelevant. How do they deal with Obama?
When Obama becomes an impediment to the Socialist Agenda - how do the Democrats deal with this?
Posted by: ET at August 18, 2009 1:04 PMThe messiah is willing to throw anyone under the bus so long as he looks good doing so. As some have said he's a narcissist and needs everyone looking, nodding and cheering his preachings from his pulpit. Just kneel and kiss the ring you bunch of pleebs.....
Posted by: daverbonz at August 18, 2009 1:20 PMIs it racist to point out that the postal service is run by the government?
Why does he think he can do any better with health care?
Posted by: robins111 at August 18, 2009 1:31 PMThe U. S. Postal Service is a worldwide phenomenon. The only time they hit the wall is sometimes with the attitudes of the folks working the front desk. Still, when given the opportunity, my stuff moves snail mail. It's cheap and reliable.
On the other hand, unionized government workers is a travesty. The Postal Service got what they paid for. Tough luck.
Posted by: Mazzuchelli at August 18, 2009 1:36 PMWhat?! Obama is throwing his supporters under a bus? I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!
Canada Post? Bpppttthhhh (that's the raspberry sound)
Posted by: Right Honorable Terry Tory
**So to recap, Barry's bus treadmark victims so far:
-Policemen: Stupid and racist
-Firemen: Sotomayor
-Doctors: Yank tonsils out for nothing
-Car Salemen: Can't have dealership, you did'nt vote for me
-Taxpaying Americans: Anti-American fascists, evil-mongers
-Grandparents: Soylent Green
-Bush: Scape-goat for everything
-Postmen: Inneficient
I'm sure to have missed some, please feel free to add...**
Sort of explains his dismal polling lately....21% 'strongly approve"
He is rapidly becoming a liability to the BRG behind the TOTUS.......
When he goes under the bus.....I can see a "grassy knoll" in his future........
As a dead martyr he is more of an asset.....
Hitler came to power through the SA And when Hitler no longer needed the SA he had them all killed in a day as he did with intellectuals and unionists.
Might be lesson there for the posties, socialists don't share power and fear those that brought them to power, they are always the first to fall.
sasquatch - right. Obama insults everyone. What about his 'redneck rurals' who 'cling to guns or religion or anti-immigrant', his defining the insurance companies as nothing but greed, and his doctors took out tonsils - also for greed; his insults to the special olympics, and his utter ignorance of history and foreign affairs.
His insults to foreign leaders including the British, his constant apologizing for the America-Before-Obama, and so on.
The way I see it, Obama is not, himself, an idealogue. His agenda is only: Himself. However, the Democratic Party and in particular, the BRG that are running him, have a very specific ideological agenda: socialism. Really authoritarian, big government socialism. They picked Obama to sell this agenda. The problem is, he's failing to do so. Why?
I'd say that his own narcissism is creating a wedge; he doesn't like having to plead, beg and argue for anything. He expects the masses to adore him - just because. He is not emotionally or intellectually involved in this socialist agenda. So, Obama doesn't like dissent or questions. So, he's not a very good salesman for this agenda.
And, heck, there's the American people, who are rejecting socialism.
Put the two together, and it's trouble.
Posted by: ET at August 18, 2009 2:54 PMET:
Trouble?
I would say hope for the future of Americans, who would like to keep their change in their own pockets.
Posted by: set you free at August 18, 2009 4:10 PMWe told them he was just like Trudeau, but did they listen?
Posted by: NIcola Timmerman at August 18, 2009 4:39 PMObama's poll numbers are sinking faster than Teddy Kennedy's car.
Posted by: Stan at August 18, 2009 5:47 PMGood one, Stan. It's no wonder his poll numbers are sinking, too. The guy regularly moves the goalposts in front of wherever his rhetorical toe is pointing, to the point where it's no longer tangible what the rules are, or even what game is being played. All that matters to him is that he's captain of the team, and that he gets to set the rules.
When he pointed out that at that rigged town-hall that private delivery services outperform the government-run Post Office, he was trying to make the point, in specific context of defending Obamacare, that a government-run health-care service would neither outperform nor force out of business private enterprises. The audience laughed and applauded because they thought he'd delivered a coup de grace against the argument that Obamacare would harm private insurance companies; it never occurred to them or to *him*, evidently, that, first of all, he was making his opponents' main argument -- that the government can't do things as well as private enterprise -- and second, that any comparison between mail/package delivery and Obamacare is moot anyway in light of the fact that, unlike with the Obamacare proposals, the government isn't telling UPS or FedEx who they are and aren't allowed to provide service to, nor attempting to limit the number of packages, etc etc etc.
Obama's a class "A" sophist in love with the sound of his own voice. Woe unto America if he gets his way with *any* of his big ideas -- he just doesn't have a clue.
What's that line, "anything is possible for the man who doesn't actually have to do it"? Something like that.
Posted by: EBD at August 18, 2009 7:12 PMI think the post office comment was to rein in Pelosi and the wingnuts and as a balm to the Blue Dogs and the Republicans. He isn't going to get either with the plan as is and he really, really wants something. To a degree I agree with him, the system could use improvments but it is what type of improvements and who pays. I beleive he should do a little tort reform as a starter but that is nowhere to be seen.
Posted by: speedy at August 18, 2009 7:35 PMO'Doomster: What price the O'narcissist*?
*"The "small people", the "rank and file", the "loyal soldiers" of the narcissist - his flock, his nation, his employees - they pay the price."
HOpe has died.
Fear, the ugly sister of Hope, has overcome Hope.
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"Democrat rift threatens to doom Barack Obama's healthcare reforms
Times Online - Tim Reid - 2 hours ago
After weeks of fierce protests against his plans to reform the US healthcare system, President Obama faced revolt inside his own party yesterday amid accusations that he was surrendering to its vociferous opponents"
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"Barack Obama - Narcissist or Merely Narcissistic?"
*"The "small people", the "rank and file", the "loyal soldiers" of the narcissist - his flock, his nation, his employees - they pay the price.
The disillusionment and disenchantment are agonizing.
The process of reconstruction, of rising from the ashes, of overcoming the trauma of having been deceived, exploited and manipulated - is drawn-out.
It is difficult to trust again, to have faith, to love, to be led, to collaborate. Feelings of shame and guilt engulf the erstwhile followers of the narcissist.
This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder."
http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections
He insulted the drs twice.
Cut your leg off rather then treat diabetes.
Posted by: Pandora at August 18, 2009 10:49 PMHe seems to be having some fun with the birthers now. He has listed his age as 52 years old on his myspace page. Has not changed it yet...it has said 52 years since August 16th. WND World net daily has some screen shots. Took a look earlier today and it still said 52 yrs old.
Posted by: Winston Smith at August 18, 2009 11:25 PMLike the caption inferred:
To his distain Obamba is definitely uniting the country!
It brings new meaning to the term “going postal”, how sweet.
ET>
"How do they deal with a leader who has no capacity to lead, who cannot understand the basics of how an economy and society functions, and yet - who insists on running the show?"
In the army they let it go with grumbling during peacetime. During conflict when the chips are down and life and death is on the line, their term for self preservation is pronounced "fragging".
Posted by: Knight 99 at August 19, 2009 3:48 AMtesting
Posted by: ∞ at August 20, 2009 3:00 AM
I thought the money quote was " he didnt know what kind of medical coverage he was gonna get after he was done being prez."
How degrading to think WE would believe that.
HE KNOWS!!
2010/2012/2013
choose your revolution
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