91 Replies to “Is There Nothing That Dear Leader Can’t Do?”

  1. Kathy, didn’t Ralph Nader die about three years ago, and they’ve been running an animatronic puppet of him for president?
    I loved Shepard Smith’s face in that clip, he’s just shaking his head and thinking “WTF?!”
    I see today some interesting signs and portents.
    First, the stock market has tanked hard two days in a row. If The One puts his foot in it tomorrow at his press conference, starts talking spread the wealth and universal health care, we could be seeing the dow under 8000 by 4pm.
    Second, NYC and California are talking tax hikes. Mayor Bloomberg wants 7.5% to 15% increase in city income tax. The Governator is talking budget cuts and sales tax for the Peoples Republic of Kali.
    Obama wants to raise taxes he better hurry the hell up or the states are going to beat him to it and the cupboard will be bare.
    Third, the CEOs of the Big Three car makes are in Washington tonight begging Nancy Pelosi for money. Coul;d happen that they go under. Should that happen, ain’t nobody going to be raising taxes because nobody will be working.
    Bread lines, anyone?

  4. The last line in the video is the best,”prepare for an onslaught of obnoxious kids name Barrack”. Priceless,unfortunately true.

  5. The new boy is going to be facing issues – big international issues – that all his years of training and indoctrination within the comforts of domestic socialism, hope and change, ain’t going to be worth shite!
    Prediction: with the world’s realpolitik changing as fast as it is, this boy’s facing the prospects of having to outBush Bush just to stay even.
    I wonder who will be the first to Photoshop a chimp’s (chump’s?) face on him.
    http://tinyurl.com/5kkjnc

  6. Hollywood and pop culture now run the US, this will prove out to be disaterous, but the giddy ones that buy and read the checkout counter rags will no doubt not notice the econmy tanking since their world is how big some trash bags hooters are or who jennifer aniston is boinking. Operah might be able to run a tv show but running the US is much harder I am sure. Get your jollies now you Obamamommas, reality is, no free mortgages and free gas for four years.

  7. The only solution to all of this is a WAR. A war, dear friends, that improves morale and doesn’t cost too much. And gets us some important resources, too. Let’s attack Canada – we can invent an excuse later. Yes we can, my people, yes we can.

  8. Obama should be given a chance. He is smart and educated and won an election campaign that no one thought he’d have a chance to win. He overcame all the racial biases. He did run a brilliant campaign. McCain had a lot going against him. His support for GWB. His privileged upbringing while claiming Obamo was an elitist. Picking Sarah Palin as his running mate ( who we now know couldn’t name one country that is in the North American Free Trade Agreement ). It showed McCains lack of judgement.
    Obama isn’t stupid. In fact, there’s already an agreement with Canada on how we can still provide the U.S. with dirty oil. It protects us and them.
    Don’t be so partisan that you can’t see the good in this. Obama isn’t stupid. He’s already proved that.
    The U.S. elected the best man for the job under their current situation. The people have spoken. Respect it.

  9. Les, wait two years and we’ll see how good he is then. Until then, he’s a pig in the poke.

  10. Chris Matthews Just wants some Man Meat from Obama. Seen swine with more class. These folks have no shame. When Reagan was President . I was happy as a dog in a grave yard. But who thinks with a sound mind that some man could deliver them to a materialistic Nirvana.
    Obama I understand, but his followers are nuts. I mean instead of being happy, there as bitter as always. The media is dead . Its only destination is the pit of bad ideas. Where all failed experiments go, that have gone wrong.
    Its just not me talking either. The dying Nuevo-press collage Marxist culture, speaks for itself. You can only hide truths for so long before exposure. How many more papers or magazines expire a day, or as people stop watching TV from the sheer propaganda . It never worked in the Soviet Union & it will not here.
    North America has a free Press & media in name only. The have caged themselves in lies.
    If it where not for the none collaged writers, we would all be in darkness. The educated ones seem the most stuck in a fantasy of a mirage chasing.

  11. Les, wait two years and we’ll see how good he is then. Until then, he’s a pig in the poke.
    Posted by: Monique at November 6, 2008 9:49 PM
    And I do wish that people would give him that chance. No matter who won, Obama or McCain, they’re inheriting a total mess. To prejudge someone isn’t fair. He’s already exceeded everyone’s expectations and there’s no reason to expect that he won’t do his best to bring the U.S. out of this.

  12. Les, wait two years and we’ll see how good he is then. Until then, he’s a pig in the poke.
    Posted by: Monique at November 6, 2008 9:49 PM
    And I do wish that people would give him that chance. No matter who won, Obama or McCain, they’re inheriting a total mess. To prejudge someone isn’t fair. He’s already exceeded everyone’s expectations and there’s no reason to expect that he won’t do his best to bring the U.S. out of this.

  13. I’m certainly willing to give Obama a chance, but if you bother to look past the glitz and hype for just a second, several things stand out about this man; one, he is willing to say anything to anyone in order to get what he wants, and (with a tame media behind him that won’t dare say “boo” about it) that doesn’t seem likely to change. Two, he makes things up on the fly, and he hasn’t been held to account for it; that might fly if you’re a Chicago senator who can try to hide in obscurity, but when what you say is parsed through, hashed, and re-hashed by anyone that hears you speak, it probably won’t last long. Three, though he might be able to absolutely count on the 12% of the US that would vote for him for no other reason than he’s a black man, much of the rest of the population won’t be nearly so forgiving, and they will experience severe buyer’s remorse as soon as their pocketbooks start to get plowed for Obama’s grand schemes.

  15. “I’m certainly willing to give Obama a chance, but if you bother to look past the glitz and hype for just a second, several things stand out about this man; one, he is willing to say anything to anyone in order to get what he wants”
    All right. Lets be honest and non-partisan for a moment. Are you saying that McCain was not willing to do anything to get what he wanted? He was completely honest in his election advertising and actually picked Sarah because he thought she would make the best VP?

  18. The election has come and gone with the expected result.
    Now we have to endure the 24 hour BO coverage until the inauguration. The cult personality building continues.
    I am worried.
    It is said that a man’s character is judged by the company he keeps. Say what one may about Bush, but I just cannot understand why the MSM did not delve deeper into Obama’s past, or even his wife’s. Maybe if the Soviet Union was still around as before the fall of the wall, there would of been a different election.
    I was talking to my financial consultant, from what I can glean from her is that not very many people are doing cart wheels over Obama’s win. I don’t think investing into US anything is not a wise move.
    So many suspicions, so many questions, so much uncertainty.
    How extreme he may go it is hard to say. Maybe it is time to brush up on how Lenin, Hitler etc came to power. History is there for a purpose, to learn from it. But I find somewhat perplexing that, that lesson is brushed aside because this is the 21st century and “we” are more enlightened. Funny, same was said at the turn of the 20th and the one before that and the one before that. The only constant thru the ages is man’s nature.
    God Bless America? May God preserve America.

  19. I just read this news item on CNN’s website:
    “AIG announced last week that…. it will sell $20.9 billion of debt to the Fed and use the proceeds to pay back some of the $85 billion government bailout loan. The move allows AIG to pay down about a quarter of the loan – on which it is currently paying about 11% in interest – with money it has borrowed at 4% through the Fed’s commercial paper program.”
    I can only guess that in the “new economic paradigm” progress is measured by paying off a loan from one government agency by taking out a new loan with another government agency.
    I can just see shell games like this being the hallmark of an Obama presidency.

  20. “So many suspicions, so many questions, so much uncertainty.
    How extreme he may go it is hard to say. Maybe it is time to brush up on how Lenin, Hitler etc came to power. History is there for a purpose, to learn from it. But I find somewhat perplexing that, that lesson is brushed aside because this is the 21st century and “we” are more enlightened. Funny, same was said at the turn of the 20th and the one before that and the one before that. The only constant thru the ages is man’s nature.
    God Bless America? May God preserve America.”
    I wish the U.S. the best too. When Bush came to office many people were afraid that the worst would happen. In fact, more people than are worried here. He didn’t win the popular vote, Obama did. And guess what, their fears came true. A country into recession, wars ongoing, heavily into debt, Americans losing their homes and jobs. What kind of fear are you referring to that could be worse than this? Bush enherited a country that was in good shape and left it in shambles. For someone else to pick up the pieces and repair it.
    No President, whether it be Obama or McCain can perform miracles, but for you to assume that a different approach would result in something even worse than what they have is silly. If they had continued on their same approach, it would have been disaster. McCain did represent more of the same. Who in their right mind continues on the same path when they’re headed for disaster and it’s been shown that that course doesn’t work? Is it the hope that somehow doing the same thing over and over will produce a different result?

  21. I haven’t read the previous comments. So you cannot say that I went to bed with the first gal that would. (An Auld Aphorism)
    The “Obama” win has defined a generation in the same way that John F Kennedy did way back in the early sixties. Fight that if you will (or can).
    It took 30 years before Kennedy’s fabled legacy faded into a whole bunch of question marks.
    Obama has and will define our generation and many generations to come. It is up to Canadians to accept and adapt or influence as best we can.
    One can rightly rail against Bush but I challenge you lefties to complain about future Obama decisions because his cause is America’s cause which MAY not be ours.
    Also you Canadian Conservatives need to remember that American Democrats have always been closer to you in philosophy than the Republicans.

  22. And BTW, I believe in Conservative values and have voted for them. But when a gov’t shows that they just pretend to represent those values, but don’t practice them, they don’t deserve your support. The Bush Administration increased gov’t, dramatically increased gov’t spending, appointed people because of their party affiliation instead of experience, pronounced loudly that deficits didn’t matter and drove their economy into a recession. They lied to get people into a war which resulted in thousands of deaths on both sides, violated the constitution and the laws of the land, instigated torture and tried to explain it away why it was acceptable, started spying on their own people and hid it from them, etc. etc. Sorry, this kind does not deserve respect at all.
    Canada, a country that was run by liberals and a socialized agenda while the U.S. was run by the Republicans at the same time, you think you might notice that we’re doing better than them. Especially economically. How do you explain that?
    Do you think if we were run by a party like the Republicans for the last 10 years we’d be doing as well?
    The hard right doesn’t work. The far left doesn’t work. Every country needs a combination of Conservative and liberal values to work. Every country in the world that works has that. The U.S. goes back and forth between Republicans and Democrats. It provides balance.

  23. You kids seem to be taking this hard…but if it makes you feel better, all this media stuff is set to work in your favor: build him up then tear him down. the really dirty secret of this election is that it’s about the American people waking up. It’s about the complete repudiation of Bush and Cheney and folks like you. That’s the story we can’t talk about. So my friends…cheer at the media circus rather than hate it…it’s all for you. Even if it won’t work, I kind of hate to see ya look a gift horse in the teeth

  24. It’s interesting that people like Les would blame George W Bush for every bird that fell out of the sky.
    After Bill Clinton’s holiday from history that eventually led to 9/11 it became GWB’s mess to clean up, for which he was reviled by Democrats (who conveniently forgot that they had made all the same statements about WMD’s in Iraq when Clinton was in charge). So it will be quite hilarious to hear Obama suddenly seeking bipartisanship now.
    The willful ignorance on who caused of the subprime crisis is quite precious. Frannie Mae and Freddie Mac were Democratic projects (all the way back to the Community Reinvestment Act). There is plenty of You Tube video available on Barnie Frank defending Fran and Fred from new Regulation (proposed by Bush and even McCain).
    Opensecrets.org will show you that Obama took more money per year than any other US Senator. What did Fran and Fred think they were buying?
    So ironically, Obama and the Democrats now get to clean up the Subprime mess they helped defend and enable. And since they have keys to all levels of government, they can’t blame anyone else.
    Pull out the popcorn, this will be quite interesting to watch.

  25. “So it will be quite hilarious to hear Obama suddenly seeking bipartisanship now.”
    Obama has actually asked for bipatisan co-operation. He’s also asked for everyone, black, white, male, female, same sex, opposite sex, etc. to come together. He’s also asked for the countries of the world to come together to solve the economic crisis. He has recieved and talked to many countries in the world. Harper supports him. Iran has congratulated him ( first time in 40 years ). The American jewish population voted over 70% in support of him. Why would you have a problem with that?

  26. Um…dave…bush was warned by several forign govenrments that 9/11 would happen(Israel, France, Egypt, Russia, Jordan to name the more prominant, and by the outgoing clinton admin as well as the FBI, but bush did nothing but go on vacaTION.
    THESE ARE WELL KNOWN FACTS, SO I’M NOT SURE WHY YOU KEEP BLAMING CLINTOON. YOUR ANAALYSIS OF THE SUB PRIME MORTAGE DEAL IS EQUALLY RETARDED. there, I’ve yelled iy so you can’t pretend it’s just a bad hearing aide…
    dave, yer a moron. I mean this stuff just happened a few years ago, the sub prime thing…well, weeks ago. good christ.

  27. Um…dave…bush was warned by several foriegn govenrments that 9/11 would happen(Israel, France, Egypt, Russia, Jordan to name the more prominant, and by the outgoing clinton admin as well as the FBI, but bush did nothing but go on vacaTION.
    THESE ARE WELL KNOWN FACTS, SO I’M NOT SURE WHY YOU KEEP BLAMING CLINTOON. YOUR ANALYSIS OF THE SUB PRIME MORTAGE DEAL IS EQUALLY RETARDED. there, I’ve yelled it so you can’t pretend it’s just a bad hearing aide…
    dave, yer a moron. I mean this stuff just happened a few years ago, the sub prime thing…well, weeks ago. good christ.

  28. The Ten Commandments given to Chris “Tingly Leg” Matthews are these: (abbreviated form)
    1. You shall not worship any other god but Obama.
    2. You shall not make a graven image other than Obama
    3. You shall not take the name of Obama in vain.
    4. You shall not break the Hope and Change.
    5. You shall not dishonor your Obama.
    6. You shall not murder Obama.
    7. You shall not commit adultery except with Obama
    8. You shall not steal from Obama. He shall redistribute your wealth.
    9. You shall not commit perjury unless you are Chris Matthews and protecting Obama.
    10. You shall not have any Inalienable Rights.

  29. harumph.
    I do blame Bush for ignoring all the warnings on 9/11 but the mortgage crisis was a combination of Republican and Democrats. The safeguards against that happening were put in after the great depression and they were taken off in 1999. The republicans ( because of lobbying efforts by the insurance companies and banks ) wanted to allow them to combine mortgages and high risk investments. Initially the democrats were opposed but after several readings they supported it. Clinton signed it. I remember reading a speech given by a Dem at the time that actually predicted that it would take 10 years and the market would collaspe. He was off by 1 year but he basically had it pegged.
    The gov’t is there to regulate. They failed in this job. What is totally disgusting is that they gave a 700 billion bail out package to the banks ( which included 70 billion in severance packages for those responsible ) and call themselves a free market society. That was one of the biggest socialist packages in history.

  30. Are there certain words that will be blocked on here? I posted and it’s not going thru. I don’t recall posting anything that should be blocked.

  31. So harumph, that explains why there were no Isralies in the WTC. Nor French, Egyptians, Russians, Jordanians, the Clintons, the FBI…

  32. “Obama has actually asked for bipatisan co-operation.”
    Of course he will. The precious part is that Obama has never been bi-partisan in his political career. Ever. Now that he has the top job and his own image is on the line, now he suddenly wants cooperation.
    If he thinks that bi-partisanship is having people just do what he tells them to do, then I’d say Good Luck with that.
    “The American jewish population voted over 70% in support of him.”
    So why do you believe that number is significant? It’s around the same number that vote for Democrats in every election.
    From Wikipedia (American_Jews – Politics):
    “Since 1968, American Jews have voted about 70%-80% Democratic, increasing to 87% for Democratic House candidates during the 2006 elections.[2] Jimmy Carter (1976) is the only Democrat after Roosevelt to be elected president with less than 78% of the Jewish vote.[3][4] In 1992, 1996, and 2000, Bill Clinton and later, Al Gore each won 79% of the Jewish vote, and in 2004, John Kerry, a Catholic, received 74%.”
    “Why would you have a problem with that?”
    I’ve got no problem with that at all. But Obama will rapidly discover that running for the Presidency was the easy part, actually being President will be much much harder.
    The reality of Leadership means making decisions (no more voting “present”), that will not make everyone happy. Clinton had to move to the center to get things done. Will Obama compromise? Can Obama compromise? Will his most fervent supporters be happy with him when he does?
    We’ll have this conversation again in 2 years. As I said before, this will be very interesting to watch.

  34. I’m not sure what the excitement is over these speeches, to be honest, the content seems to reduce to this:
    “I will change. Help me change. You can help me change. I will help you change. We can help each other change.”
    Shit, when I was fifteen, we called that gym class.

  35. Les,
    Speaking for myself, I will not be joining you in singing praises for Obama on his win. I’d rather wait until he is actually doing the job before I make my assessment about his performance, his achievements, and his failures.
    None of the fluff that you’ve continued to post is going to change my mind about Obama at the moment. And I tend to avoid worshiping an idol solely because everyone else is doing it. He doesn’t start the job for two months, so while you are suggesting that some of the posters here not pre-judge him, I’d suggest you do the same. It sounds like you’re giving the guy a lot of credit when the only time the public has seen him was during his campaign and whatever the MSM has fed you. I’d rather wait to see what he puts into action.

  36. [quote]Did everyone else see Ralph Nader calling Obama an “Uncle Tom” on Fox News? No, I’m serious![/quote]
    Kathy,
    Nader is caught between a rock & a hard place…MSNBC Chris M was a Nader boy, now a Obama boy, Nader has been rejected. Man Meat can be tough

  37. >So harumph, that explains why there were no Isralies in the WTC. Nor French, Egyptians, Russians, Jordanians, the Clintons, the FBI…
    Posted by: Boots at November 7, 2008 12:30 AM

  38. >So harumph, that explains why there were no Isralies in the WTC. Nor French, Egyptians, Russians, Jordanians, the Clintons, the FBI…
    Posted by: Boots at November 7, 2008 12:30 AM

  39. “YOUR ANALYSIS OF THE SUB PRIME MORTAGE DEAL IS EQUALLY RETARDED.”
    You mean the “Community Development Initiative” that was greatly expanded under Clinton? Yes, why don’t you give us your analysis of that fiasco?

  41. All those pictures of Obama on the street remind me of the Governments of Saddam’s Iraq or Mao’s China.

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