Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Ohio, Oct.31, 2010;
President Obama wrapped up a weekend of last-minute campaigning in Ohio on Sunday, addressing Democrats in an indoor arena that, in a sign of the “enthusiasm gap” that the president is working so hard to close, was little more than half full. About 8,000 people attended the Democratic National Committee’s Moving America Forward’ rally at Cleveland State University’s Wolstein Center, a hall where the capacity is 13,000. The rafters were largely empty.
Looked for a vid of bambam throwing out the first pitch in Tampa. His throw was about 10 feet high and about 12 feet to the right. Throws like a switch hitter if you know what I mean. Oh and the uniform was divine.
Obama should’ve brought in universal healthcare. He also should’ve brought in a Federal sales tax of 2% to pay for it. America for all tense and purpose is broke.
crass vs. class
Compare and contrast with President Urkel
Compare and contrast with President Urkel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9pDUP8fiac
The SEIU has a tough time recruiting attendees on a Sunday; people can’t be offered a day off from work.
Leadership is about reponsibility, not desperately making friends.
But today is a different world. As an example, bowing as a diplomatic tool, is underestimated,by some.
I miss him.
I miss W too.
Great pitch…he made it look so easy.
Is his book out yet?
After all the crap Obama has dumped on him since he left office, W hasn’t said a word.
Classy guy.
W. was a good president, and mildly pro-Canadian,
which does not always go with the territory.
Sooke @ 12:55, don’t forget Jimah Carter. That moron is constantly crapping on W.
I am truly *amazed* that Obama is still able to get 8000 people to come and hear his empty rhetoric. Are people still that naive?
One of Obama’s biggest mistakes was his willingness, indeed eagerness, to surrounded himself with sleazy, crass, incompetent, low-class people – Biden, Emanuel, etc. etc.
Bush never did such a thing – most if not all of the people he had in his inner circle were top notch.
But then as the old saying goes you can judge a man by the company he keeps…
Who’s more popular?
The survey says:
Dubya 48%
Bambam 41%
Not sure who put it out, but it was out there two days ago.
They pitched this one right off U tube.
The pettiness of the Obama administration is awesome in action. protecting America itself. A disaster. He hides things well though with his little Media helpers.
JMO
The video posted now no longer works. Try this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37NmJjSMZ-E
Posted by: Revnant Dream
As much as I’d like to blame Ogabe it’s MLB. They won’t let anything stay up too long.
RFC
Just having fun.
Thanks Robert from Van
Frankly haven t a clue what MLB is, but man, there worse than Metal Rock stars for yanking songs or other vids.
MLB = Major League Baseball
Here is some interesting stuff. Bush once owned a small part of the Texas Rangers and was in fact the managing director and actually ran the team. He is a huge baseball fan. He is in large part responsible for building that stadium as well. He got Arlington to cough up over $190M to build that stadium. The stadium is still owned by Arlington. When Bush ran for governor of Texas, he sold his stake in the team. Nolan Ryan (the all-time strikeout leader and no-hit leader in MLB, fastest recorded pitch at 107mph, etc) is now the president and CEO of the Rangers. I also think he is the principle owner. Bush has a special relationship with the Rangers and Nolan Ryan and Texas.
Can’t open the vid: “This video contains content from MLB Advanced Media, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.”
W holds the ball properly and throws it like a man. He’s still got that Texas swagger.
I didn’t agree with all his policy decisions, but at least he purveyed masculinity.
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batb: just go to the link and you can play the vid from there.
May be an interesting video but Y’all can’t see it, something to do with “security”…..
Hey ..have you heard about the new McDonalds OBAMA value meal?
It’s order whatever you want and the guy behind you is paying for it!
Thanks for the tip Mark, the link works!
Love the Bush family, they’re so real, nothing phony about them. Hey, they like Country music too!
“Onward, onward, and always twirling, twirling!”
Found it!
In a poll released Oct. 28, 43% of Americans think Obama is doing a better job than Dubya.
48% belleve Dubya did a better job than Bambam.
The ironic fact is the results were revealed by a Democratic Party pollster.
It’s about half-way down.
http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2010/10/28/shock-poll-americans-think-bush-doing-a-better-job-than-obama-and-more/
William in Ajax @ 9:28, you describe the new post 1960s Liberal/NDP coalition policy to a T.
Thanks, Robert.
Compared to the current affirmative action hire I miss W. Both W and his father are class acts – true gentlemen. Their social conservatism and strong defense are sorely missed.
BUT W. and has daddy are the very the epitome of what the tea party is fighting against. W’s compassionate conservatism was just socialism in slow motion. He increased federal government spending and overreach with No Child Left Behind and Pharmacare. He never asked for sacrifice in a time of war and his limp media presence was a joke. He never vetoed any bills that increased the expansion of government. His buddy Rove far from being the evil genius the media portrayed him as was just another country club elitist big-government apologist.
W. lost fiscal conservatives and libertarians which gave us Obama. Obama’s socialism gave us the Tea Party. The Tea Party is against both.
I wonder if Pres Bush would still plan a trip to India, taking 40 planes, numerous armored cars, reserve over 700 hotel rooms, with a terror threat facing the USA.
I would argue that electing Obama was precisely the correct event to have the US move away from its trajectory towards Euro socialism. I would also agree that, as much as W is likable; he was part of the problem with his death by a thousand cuts “compassionate conservative” approach. John McCain, an honorable man, does not possess a perspective that would have reduced the size of government, reduced expenditures and taxes and addressed the entitlement mentality present in the US. His presidency would have been a continuation of the slow walk towards socialism rather than the sprint that has characterized Obama’s presidency. You have to go all the way back to Reagan to find a president that did not believe that government was the answer to every problem. Tomorrow’s election is important in that people are actually choosing what kind of government they want rather than who should represent them. If the polls are any indication, it is a clear and loud repudiation of the soft and hard socialism that has characterized both sides of the aisle in Washington for the past twenty yewars. The real question now is, will those who are elected return to principles or be seduced by the power and prestige that has corrupted so many over in the past?
Nice try mouth. Now go away.
I love liberals/socialists. They continually
make fools of themselves for my amusement. 🙂
I hear ‘bamma couldn’t make it because he had no place to plug in his teleprompter. Seriously, as a former Texan, I can tell you that both these gentlemen have more integrity and class in their little fingers than the last three Dem presidents combined.
Yeah… the rally was three times larger, and took up one third the space.
What great images . . . a father and son who love each other . . . their wives applauding them . . . tens of thousands of cheering fans. Haven’t seen anything this good since W threw out the first pitch at that World Series game in New York in 2001.
Anybody else notice that Obama is dashing around the U.S.A. in Air Force One with his full entourage – campaigning for one party and using the taxpayers’ bankroll to do it. That would be a national scandal in Canada but the American press doesn’t seem to want to lookk too closely.
With all of his faults, GWB was the right POTUS at the right time; and as it’s been alluded to above, BO just might be the right POTUS for this time. Laura Ingram was the first to recognize that a J.McCain Presidency would have been a disaster for America. In 2008 Laura said that “if McCain wins the nomination(GOP) she will work for Hillary Clinton”. With J.McCain as POTUS today, the only opposition would be from the Left, forcing his RINO policy views further to the left. Then, after a disastrous 4 years of McCain, “hello President Hillary”. Today America seems poised to take back their government; lets just see if the GOP has the nadz to get the job done. I said last week, that the GOP needs to be bold, with symbolic cuts that get the ire of the unions and the media, and the support of working Joes. That is the only way1 Anything else will be perceived as the same ol, same ol.
Ever notice that most Republicans have great families and marriages (notice I said “most”, not “all”)? On the other side there’s Clinton, John Edwards, the Kennedy Cassanovas, Hollywood’s bed-hoppers . . .
Bush overcame an addiction to alcohol, unlike most trolls here who probably type while under the influence of some mind-altering substance, judging by the quality of their posting. Like Ralph Klein did, conquering an addiction and going through an incredibly stressful job without falling back on it is admirable.
I miss the man, too. And his swagger and his grin. I miss that inner confidence and decency that drove his detractors nuts.
Whatever one may think of W., he at least has more decency than some I could mention.
The pitch was alright, too.
The Bushes, for whatever faults people choose to assign to them, are good, honorable men who truly love America. Clinton may not be honorable but he also loves America.
Obama is not a good man, he is not honorable, and I believe he despises too much about America to truly love it. Much like Jimmy Carter. May he suffer the same fate Carter ultimately did.
We remember that the embassy hostages were released the day Ronnie took control of things. I also recall Carter complaining that the American people had an inordinate fear of communism; this at a time when several millions were being killed in the rice paddies of Cambodia
The thing that struck me is how frail Bush Sr. looked. Hopefully he had recent surgery and is on the mend.
The thing that stayed with me is the salute Bush Jr. made to the honour gaurd. Don’t know why but it sums up the man. Genuine respect I guess.
Wow, nice throw. A little high and outside, but nothing we don’t see the pro pitchers do all the time. He made it look easy.
You don’t say?! Now this is NEWS! Who would have predicted the Bush’s getting a round of applause at a TEXAS BASEBALL GAME!!
Really, truly shocking…great find…I would have never guessed it possible if it weren’t for the clip.
Obama couldn’t get a round of applause like that in Chicago or Massachusetts, never mind Texas.
Kate, I bet Michael Moore, Rosie O’Donnell, Rosanne Barr, Joy Behar, Oprah on an off-diet month and the ghost of Ted Kennedy made up at least half of the size of the Stewart crowd . . .
“Obama couldn’t get a round of applause like that in Chicago or Massachusetts, never mind Texas.”
Hmmm…not that it really matters a lick…but I’m sure you could find a venue in which Obama would get a standing applause. The US is crazy, you can get a crowd to go crazy for ANYTHING…then you have Texas…the state that puts the rest of the country to shame when it comes to the crazy department.
Once again, a conservative blog highlighting the behaviour of the collective as something to judge worth by.