Obama re-brands himself as a Tea Partier
People, I’m scrambling this week to get the site for a new feminist group launched — no, it’s not in competition with the Justice Party; this is a different thing — which is why I must continue to toil today in my little javascript dungeon of hell. But it’ll be totally worth it.
So instead of a proper post, here’s an open thread on the Presidential Disaster Train Coming To A Theater Near You. From Memeorandum:
- Paul Krugman: Obama Liquidates Himself
- Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight: The White House’s Brain Freeze
- Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Opposable Thumbs: Barack Herbert Hoover Obama?
- Paul Rosenberg / Open Left: It’s Official: Obama is an idiot
- Jonathan Zasloff / The Reality-Based Community: Obama’s Self-Inflicted Lobotomy Proceeds Apace
- Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel: Obama’s Three-Year Freeze; Democrats’ Brain Freeze
And my favorite:
I think we can help him with at least one part of that equation.
18 Responses to “Obama re-brands himself as a Tea Partier”
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jumpjet says:
Sometimes I wonder if Obama might just be kind of stupid after all.
January 26th, 2010 at 12:53 pm EST -
Kookaburra says:
Javascript?!
Tut, tut, tut, Vi. CSS is where it’s at.
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willyjsimmons says:
I dibble and dabble in conspiracy theories now and again…and I must say:
Electing Obama to undo the past 50 years of relative “liberal” successes is the most brilliant thing ever.
Steven Spielberg and James Cameron COMBINED couldn’t cook up a wilder script. Hollywood would find it impossible to film. (were the special cameras used in Avatar actually created to help Obama!?!?!)
It’s C.R.A.Z.Y.
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pdgrey says:
willyjsimmons, It’s not a conspiracy.
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georgesays says:
It has been as meteoric a fall as it was a rise. Painful, but strangely gratifying to watch as well. I just hope people are smart enough to figure out what a big eff-you this is to them. The reasoning is crystal clear: Progressive Dude Nation leaders think, \Fine. You’re gonna vote for Republicans, you dumbasses, you can suffer too. We already paid off the banks and Wall Street anyway.
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georgesays says:
Oops. I cussed, leading to comment moderation. Sorry!
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Violet Socks says:
willyjsimmons, funny you should mention that. I feel like I’m living in a disaster movie.
But I’m also laughing because it’s just so fucking bad. We’re into the level of sheer absurdity now.
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Dongi says:
Did Obama really flunk lunch? That video you had up, Violet, was hilarious. I can’t figure out if BHO is really that stupid or is he some alien being that has snuck into the American Empire to accelerate its demise. His decisions on foreign affairs, finance, public health, bipartisanship, closing Guantanamo, increasing the military’s budget are breathtakingly inept. And, this guy was the editor of the Harvard Law Review? Mirabile dictu.
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Patti says:
It’s not really that shocking if you think about it. The man WAS NOT QUALIFIED in any way, shape or form. It’s not funny to me anymore, it’s downright sickening. Can we PLEASE have Hillary now?!
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Jeff says:
I respectfully repeat, if Chaos is their goal, these folks are as good as their resume.
Give them three options, five appointees, twenty cronies, do SOMEthing, do nothing, go bold, back off, compromise, stall, pander, don’t pander, sell out. Each one they make the worst possible move, regardless of party, ideology, or cost.
Nobody bats zero for a whole season without a plan. Burn down the house and get the land cheap.
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madamab says:
To me. Obama is nothing more than a Chicago machine politician who has bought his way into the Presidency.
Ideology, the good of the country, the liberal base, Kos, Bowers et al…these are all not even pings in his consciousness. He does not reside in our world - he resides in the land of big deals, big money, and one hand washing the other.
Stupid he is not. He is simply corrupt beyond the capacity of normal human beings to imagine.
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Topper Harley says:
@8: You mean like the Simpson’s “Citizen Kang” vignette in Treehouse of Horror 7? All I can say is, “Don’t blame me! I voted for Kodos.”
Back on topic, once you’ve been President, you’re set for life*. Presidential libraries, honoraria, jetting all over the world to lend weight to worthy causes, Secret Service details, book deals, etc. I remember Hillary mentioning that when they first went to DC, they had one car between them: a 1988 Olds Cutlass. Now? I don’t think they have to worry about the car breaking down…
I don’t really see Obama as a two-term President. The job is too hard, and that’s before a year-long campaign. Why bother when the sweet life is just around the corner? He’s even got an easy way out: Convince Hillary to challenge him in the primary and then throw the contest. If he can steal a win, he can steal a loss.
*Unless you screw it up like Carter.
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Briar says:
This is a global as much as an american catastrophe. Over here in the UK only one “solution” is permitted by media commentators, industry and business leaders and the three main party’s politicians - not a freeze, but cuts. Cuts, cuts, cuts. With an approaching election the Tories and NuLabor are competing with one another with how much more savage their cuts will be. The electorate seem mesmerised by this and seem to be demanding cuts. Cut off my hands! Cut off my tongue! Main me! Maim my parents’ elder care! Maim my kids’ education! It’s the only game in town and it is plain Chicago economics. It certainly proves who really runs the world and it isn’t the voters, who are now clamoring for their own sacrifice.
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Gayle says:
Could be easier than that, Topper. He could simply announce he’s not going to run again.
And I think he’d actually like to do that. I think he wanted to be President to be President. His past history shows he likes getting jobs but not staying in them very long. Now that he’s reached the pinnacle– why would he want the drag of governing? He could be going on speaking tours and making millions on books, etc. Living like a King.
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alwaysfiredup says:
Prescription for Democrats to keep the presidency in 2012:
Step 1: Biden
is firedresigns.Step 2: Hillary is appointed VP.
Step 3: Obama resigns.
It could work. Really.
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monchichipox says:
This video speaks volumes about Obama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9UIpW_3P5s
In his last town meeting he speaks about himself: 132 times. Who can do that? True narcissist disorder. Like I’ve said before when the subject comes up I knew from the get go he wasn’t running again. He looks tired and worn out and most of all bored. I hate to say it but the reason I can tell this and know the pattern? I’m exactly like that. It’s the getting not the keeping. The challenge. I’ve been a what’s next person my whole life and I see it in him.
If I were in his place I know I would be sitting there thinking “how do I get out of this one without hurting anyone’s feelings?”
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quixote says:
Re Dongi, #8: And, this guy was the editor of the Harvard Law Review? Mirabile dictu.
He was mainly famous for not being in the office except for showing up now and again to bestow his presence on the workers. He also, I gather, was unique in getting the position but never writing a single article for the Review.
I also remember reading that one of the law profs expressed surprise when 0 ran as a Democrat. “I always thought he was a Republican,” said the prof.
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