68 Replies to ““This is not about me””

  1. I was shocked, shocked I tell ya when I watched the CBC last night.
    Before the One’s speech, Neil MacDonald spoke about the state of the US economy and quoted somebody (?)
    “A politician can no more take credit for creating jobs than a rooster can take credit for the sunrise.”
    That was a couple of hours before the crowing started.

  2. “It’s been said that he uses a teleprompter to call his dog, BO.
    (Even the dog’s name is all about him)”
    fwiw:
    3w.people.com/people/article/0,,20271921,00.html
    I heard of people *looking* like their dog, but named after them? shee-it.
    my dog’s name is Juno. look it up in any WW II history book.

  3. Lyle:
    :”The big ‘O’ reminds me of an old Carly Simon tune…”
    Did you catch the post heading?
    Jim

  5. For those of us who have begun to talk in terms of freedom v. tyranny (individual v. collective, reaching for the top v. settling to be part of the lowest common denominator) instead of a left v. right political spectrum (which the MSM uses to suggest that somewhere in the middle is OK), this was the best speech Barry could have ever given!
    For a little while, I was getting worried that the self proclaimed, politically savvy pundits might be right in terms of expecting him to “pivot” towards the middle (a la Bill Clinton) as this is what a normal politician would do in the face of the “Vote Heard Around the World” in Massachusetts last week and, thereby, give his party’s candidates at least a chance of getting elected in November.
    Thankfully, he did nothing of the sort. Basically seemed to be saying that his agenda is still great and it’s only a matter of educating Americans to get them smart enough to see His light. (How long before people realize his spending “freeze” basically just “locks-in” the massive increases he’s just made to program spending, 35% in the case of the EPA).
    Shows how truly ideologically driven he is (even down to the policy minutia of giving a bigger tax break to university grads who ultimately choose a career in public service, i.e. join a union).
    The American public is starting to truly understand the threat that his “modern-day” Progressive (thanks, Hillary) agenda (Liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Communist all variations on the same theme) represents to the continued erosion of their freedom. With Barry’s apparent determination to continue to move in that direction, the outlook for the Dems to lose big-time in November looks brighter than ever.
    Let’s hope the Repubs understand that they don’t need to get any more complex than focusing on the short list of issues that succeeded for Scott Brown; jobs, lower taxes, smaller government, no gov’t health care, and no civilian trials for enemy combatants.

  6. Little of substance, probably less action, unfortunately on the mounting deficit/debt of the U.S.
    For those so inclined. The U.S. G.D.P. in 2008 was 60%, who was the Pres. that year?
    It is forecast to be 108% by 2014.
    At that level the economy will be lucky to achieve over 1.0% growth. This bodes ill for Canada and our linked economy.

  8. President Obama ended his SotU speech with this phrase: “We don’t quit. I don’t quit.”
    a) That is four negative words out of six. 66% negative.
    b) Of the two remaining words one was “I” and the other was a royal “We” which implies “I”. Remaining words are 75% “I”.
    c) He started the phrase with “We” referring to the entire American people, 300+ million strong, most powerful country on earth, speaking as its leader. He ended, in the more important spot, with a echoed reference to himself. 100% redundant.
    That speech was very revealing. It revealed a strongly negative and deeply self-obsessed man.

  9. Guffaw of the night:
    We are here to serve the American people, not our own ambitions.
    Ya right.

  12. O’nan said:
    “This thread is filled with cynicism and hatred.”
    More here: “the Obama thrill is gone.”
    …-
    “Internet Buzz on Obama Drops After State of the Union
    The blog reviews of President Obama’s first State of the Union speech are in, and they’re not good. The president’s speech drove his online buzz down 2 percentage points, with bloggers especially harsh on his approach to unemployment and terrorism.
    “Heading into yesterday’s State of the Union address, President Obama’s online buzz was 52 percent positive, which was 32 percent lower than it was on Jan. 27, 2009, when it peaked at 84 percent positive. Since giving his State of the Union speech last night, President Obama’s overall online buzz reputation continued to drop and is currently registering at 50 percent positive overall—a 2 percent total reduction in less than a 24-hour period,” says a spokesman for Zeta Interactive, a digital marketing agency that mines millions of blogs to judge the buzz on a subject for Washington Whispers.
    Below is its post-speech memo to us, but the highlights seem to show that for many, the Obama thrill is gone. For example, the negative buzz on blogs increased when he talked about his new signature issue, unemployment. It also dropped on his approach to the wars.
    But Obama scored on his threats to banks, his education promises, and his push for an energy plan.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2439461/posts

  14. Hey U
    You just make yourself look more pitiful and deranged when you keep asserting something there’s no objective evidence for and with which no-one else believes – except your fellow deluded cult member Oz. Drop it for your own sake, okay?
    Phantom
    I’ve presumed you’re a shut-in, given the copious posts you’ve made here and at other sites. But that’s no excuse for the pitiful lack of intelligence displayed in your attempt to defend a President who was not only unconcerned about the perpetrator of the biggest mass murder in US history but actually used the fear and panic resultant of that attack to attack someone who had NOTHING to do with 9-11.
    Such rabid defense of these actions on the part of you, Oz and U bring to mind the irrational behaviour of cult members. You guys demonstrably and continually make stuff up out of thin air in service to your cult. It’s disturbing, and shows why you’re on the whacked-out fringe.
    You’re either exceedingly dumb and afraid to think for yourselves – or you’re traitors, actually on the side of the enemies of America.
    Or…maybe you’re both!

  16. Chairman O states “I would rather be a great one-term President than be a mediocre two-term President.”
    He will be neither. He will be a “terrible one-term President.” He already is.
    America can survive having him as a one-term President. They don’t want to push their luck in electing him a second time.
    I hope he stays the course and pursues his agenda. Hopefully by then America will come to realize that punting this guy is crucial to their survival.
    Actually, it would be crucial to the free world. In the mean time I pray for another Ronald Reagan to appear.

  17. Hey marquis:
    Let’s look at the last year objectively… the “Big O” has failed miserably at pretty much everything he’s touched. The thing most Americans are really starting to wake up to is that his economic policies are driving their country to ruin… ask anyone who lived in Germany when their currency went bad about how tough things can get. My folks have said that the last time it happened, most Germans worked two years for absolutely NOTHING…

  18. marquis:
    “Bush shrugged off… biggest killer in US history…” *eyes closing*… “happend on Bush’s watch…” *head nodding*… ” “Bush was totally unconcerned… Saddam had nothing to do with 911…” *zzzzzzzzzzz*
    At least marquis is predictable, if nothing else. If he’d only added, “Fire doesn’t melt steel”, why, we all could have rested comfortably.
    That 911 was the reductio of a series of events completely “shrugged off”, to use marquis’ terminology, by the clinton administration, escapes him: the first WTC attack, the US embassy bombings, the attack on the USS Cole, and so forth. The completely ineffective clinton response emboldened al queda to a point where the idea of perpetrating 911 happend on clinton’s watch, marq-troll, not Bush’s. And the intelligence “wall” erected by jamie gorelick, deputy AG on clinton’s watch, helped prevent the US alphabet soup agencies from connecting vital dots that might have provided warning of the attack. She should have been testifying in front of the 911 instead of conducting it; i bet her name rings no bells for you, does it, marquis?
    At any rate, do you think the US is actually safer from attack with Maobama at the helm, rather than Bush? If so, you are more unhinged from reality than your posts indicate. Bush took the fight TO the jihadists; obama made conciliatory speeches to them in his “America Apologises to Islam” tour. A fat lot of good that did, eh, marquis? The islamists thanked obama by staging the Ft. Hood murders and Christmas Day attack. And obama could not even go as far as to acknowledge islamic terrorism or even fundamentalism as an issue; the Christmas day bomber was a “suspect” with “alleged” activities. Pitiful, and disgusting. More Americans will die with this loser at the helm of their nation’s security.
    Personally, I think Scott Brown’s comment on the state of US approach to terrorism was the best (paraphrased): “I think US taxdollars should go towards weapons used to kill terrorists, rather than paying lawyers to represent them”
    Not to worry, though, marquis. Doubtless, after the next major terrorist attack on the US, obama will have a stirring speech ready to go, and likely blaming bush in the process, too.
    mhb23re
    at gmail d0t calm

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