You don’t expect modesty from a guy who wrote two autobiographies by the time he was forty. And when that guy is Barack Obama, he delivers on that anticipated lack of modesty.
You don’t expect modesty from a guy who wrote two autobiographies by the time he was forty despite the handicap of having accomplished nothing to that point in his life. And when that guy is Barack Obama, he delivers on that anticipated lack of modesty.
We are lucky to have such a magnificent president, if he does say so himself
AFP reports the President’s glowing opinion of himself:
“I’ve been inspired by you. Wherever I go, traveling across this country, especially when I meet young people, I’m reminded of your energy, and your drive, and your imagination,” Obama told several hundred young people.
“For all the problems we’re going through right now, we still have the best workers on earth, the finest universities on earth, we’ve got the best entrepreneurs on earth, we’ve got the freest, most vibrant economy on earth,” he said.
One female supporter then yelled out “the best president on earth” and Obama replied, “Well, I won’t say that, but we got a pretty good president.”
Right. And when unemployment gets down to 9%, he’ll deserve a spot on Mount Rushmore.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) fired back at his Republican opponent Sharron Angle Thursday for telling him to “man up” when it comes to Social Security reform.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCTkVPbPmV8&feature=relatedRemember that Seinfeld episode where George thought of the perfect comeback to an insult and insisted on making a fool of himself by delivering it long after the appropriate time had passed?
During Reid’s debacle of a debate with Sharron Angle last week, she challenged the Democrat by saying, “Man up, Harry Reid. You need to understand we have a problem with Social Security.”
TheHill.com reports Harry Reid’s George Costanza moment:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) fired back at his Republican opponent Sharron Angle Thursday for telling him to “man up” when it comes to Social Security reform.
Reid, who is in a deadlocked race with the Tea Party-backed GOP nominee, said that people know where he stands on the issues while Angle is a mystery to Nevada voters.
“People in Nevada know me,” he said on the “Ed Show” on MSNBC. “From the street to the ring to the Senate chambers, I’ve never had to prove my manhood to anyone.”
Harry Reid: A week late, a dollar short, and a testosterone injection away from being correct.
Well, Juan Williams had an interesting 24 hours, didn’t he? First he was fired over the phone by NPR for comments he made on O’Reilly’s Fox TV show. Then he was immediately given a new $2 million contract by Fox.
Well, Juan Williams had an interesting 24 hours, didn’t he? First he was fired over the phone by NPR for comments he made on O’Reilly’s Fox TV show. Then he was immediately given a new $2 million contract by Fox.
His new millions not withstanding, Juan is pissed. And you can’t blame the guy.
As O’Reilly says on this clip, “NPR has now devolved into a totalitarian outfit functioning as an arm of the far left. As a corporation, has a right to do what it wants, but it does not have a right to any of our tax dollars. NPR will rue the day. Congress is going to defund NPR. We are not letting it go.“
Harry Reid dementia seems to have taken a sudden turn for the worse. He said with an odd little smile on his face, “we’d be in a worldwide depression.”
Harry Reid’s fumbling, bumbling, mumbling conclusion to his debate with Sharron Angle last week was tough to watch, but now his dementia seems to have taken a sudden turn for the worse.
“But for me,” Reid said with an odd little smile on his face, “we’d be in a worldwide depression.”
No, really, that’s what he said. It’s looped three times on this clip because you won’t believe you heard it correctly the first time nor the second time.
We sincerely hope his family can find a nice retirement home in Searchlight for the kindly old codger.
The lovely and gracious Jan Schakowsky has always been an unabashed socialist. Now we discover that she’s also an unabashed thug.
The lovely and gracious Jan Schakowsky has always been an unabashed socialist. Now we discover that she’s also an unabashed thug.
At a Monday night fundraiser and rally, the Chicago Democrat said, “All around the country, people are trying to replicate what we do in Chicago. They, we have a tradition of knockin’ on doors, of pulling people out. You know, people, they talk about ‘message’ and ‘persuasion.’ Here’s our message: ‘I don’t get off your doorstep until you get out to the polls and vote.’ That’s our message! That’s our message!”
Raise the dead. Threaten the living. That’s how you win elections in Illinois, my friends.
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews is, in horrible jerks and starts, coming to terms with the mortality of the Democratic majority.
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews is, in horrible jerks and starts, coming to terms with the mortality of the Democratic majority.
One day he’s giving the Republicans, conservatives and the Tea Party hell. The next day, he’s realistic about what the political landscape is going to look like on Wednesday, November 3.
This time it was the latter. And we don’t feel at all bad about taking pleasure in his pain.
Ford anticipates owners of an electric version of its Focus hatchback may have to recharge it up to a whopping 1500 times a year — or up to four times a day
A little advice: If you buy yourself an electric Ford Focus, buy one of those new smart phones, too. Then immediately download the solitaire app, because you’re going to have plenty of time to play the game while your car’s battery is recharging.
The Ford Focus. Fill' er up, up to four times every single day of your miserable electric existence
The Sydney Morning Herald has Ford’s shocking news:
The car maker released details of the car this week that shows it anticipates owners of an electric version of its Focus hatchback may have to recharge it up to a whopping 1500 times a year — or up to four times a day.
The car may need so many recharges that the car maker says it has developed a special ergonomic plug so US customers can use a standard household power point to recharge their car, rather than using a special wall-mounted unit that cuts the amount of time needed to fully charge.
However, the system using the normal powerpoint can take up to 12 hours to fully recharge the Focus, meaning many owners will need to plug the car in several times a day to ensure they have enough reserves of electricity in the car’s batteries to fit in a full day of driving, potentially putting a strain on relationships with friends and employers as they borrow power to keep moving…
Ford says it expects electric car owners to need to plug in at up to 30 times the frequency that petrol-engined Focus owners will need to visit the petrol station.
‘‘Between plugging in and unplugging at home, work or other places, Focus Electric owners are likely to recharge their vehicles two to four times each day (nearly 1500 times a year) compared to once a week for gassing up (52 times a year),’’ the car maker says.
Articles like this usually bring out the eco-wackos who say we’re just making stuff up. But in this case, they’ll have to accuse Ford of making stuff up.
NBC’s Ann Curry was at her goofiest on Wednesday. And we don’t mean good goofy. She wishes all weapons were blowup weapons.
NBC’s Ann Curry was at her goofiest on Wednesday. And we don’t mean good goofy.
Russia has revealed that it has developed a realistic inflatable weapons designed to fool spy satellites. The Today Show news chick concluded the story by saying, “You might say the Russian Army is blowing up its own weapons. Russia’s military is investing in a new breed of inflatable decoy tanks, trucks and missile launchers made to appear real so they can even fool radar installations and spy satellites. Wish all weapons were like that.”
Yes, so do we Ann. Then when the bad guys attack us, we could simply pull out a pin and prick their dreams of world domination.
Anti-war lunatic Cindy Sheehan has escalated her war on Nancy Pelosi by endorsing the House Speaker’s Republican opponent.
As if you needed more evidence that California politics are completely irrational, consider this:
Anti-war lunatic Cindy Sheehan has escalated her war on Nancy Pelosi by endorsing the House Speaker’s Republican opponent.
We're not quite sure what the cop on the left is doing to Cindy Sheehan, but she seems to be enjoying it just a little too much
Here’s part of the editorial Sheehan wrote for OpEdNews.com:
My good friend, SF politico and former VP Candidate [for Ralph Nader, 2008], Matt Gonzalez, has endorsed John Dennis because, as is your custom, you gutlessly refused to debate him. I am also encouraging you (once again, futilely) to not only debate John Dennis, but Gloria La Riva, too.
I like and admire both John and Gloria and support them as human beings who both have the two things that you lack but would have made you a much better person: courage and integrity.
As someone who got a kick in the teeth from the political school of elitism two years ago, I can’t endorse anyone for Federal elections which I believe are only a huge sham and scandal at any rate, but I am convinced that either John or Gloria would represent district 8 in California far better than you have on your best day.
Here are words we never thought we’d say: We agree with Cindy Sheehan.
That’s the most difficult sentence we’ve ever had to type.
Phu Nguyen, a candidate for the California State Assembly, decided that it would be a good idea to record his own hip hop masterpiece called “Phu the Phu the best.”
Wow. Just wow. Phu Nguyen, a candidate for the California State Assembly, decided that it would be a good idea to record his own hip hop masterpiece called “Phu the Phu the best.”
Yes, of course, he’s a Democrat.
Nguyen’s lyrical masterpiece includes this catchy refrain:
I say Phu the Phu the best,
Phu the Phu the best
IHateTheMedia.com’s resident music expert (the Administrator’s 22-year old son) tells us it’s a parody of a hip hop song by Drake called “Best I Ever Had.”
Where’s American Idol’s William Hung when we need him?
Eliot Spitzer, unaccustomed to being in the same room with an attractive woman he’s not paying for that privilege, immediately began spewing liberal talking points.
Big Journalism Editor-in-Chief Dana Loesch guested on CNN’s horrible Parker Spitzer program.
Eliot Spitzer, unaccustomed to being in the same room with an attractive woman he’s not paying for that privilege, immediately began spewing liberal talking points. Loesch, equally unaccustomed to being in the same room with someone who wants to be naked except for his black socks, gives him hell as he spews them.
There’s some other woman there, too. What? That’s Kathleen Parker, the show’s cohost? Really? She made herself so invisible that she should be cohosting with David Copperfield instead of Spitzer.
“I’ll admit that I got swept up by the Obama hysteria last year…and that’s why I got his tattoo on my gut. But I have now seen the light…”
If one were to believe this question in Yahoo! Answers, SaQuinta Bently is a black woman who has seen the light. In her own words:
I have a FILTHY tattoo of Obama’s face on my gut. How can I remove it?
I’ll admit that I got swept up by the Obama hysteria last year…and that’s why I got his tattoo on my gut. But I have now seen the light…and Obama ain’t nuttin but an Uncle Tom. And with all my pregnancy stretch marks, his face sho be looking ugly on my gut. How can I get the tattoo removed?
We don’t know if SaQuinta is for real, but we kind of doubt it. Nevertheless the ad brings up two thoughts:
(1) If SaQuinta is real, we’d really like to see that tattoo. With all those stretch marks, the Obama tattoo on her gut must now look more like Moms Mabley (We guarantee that’s a funny line if you’re old enough to understand the reference. If not, do a Google image search for Moms).
And (2), would anyone actually be dumb enough to get an Obama tattoo? We did our own Google image search and found photographic evidence that America is home to at least 22 morons.
Our advice: If these Obama tattoos are as prevalent as they appear to be, take every cent you can scrounge up and invest it in a company that manufactures laser tattoo removal equipment.
The Democrat machine in Illinois is doing everything it can to deliver solid votes and discourage Republican votes.
The Democrat machine in Illinois is doing everything it can to deliver solid votes and discourage Republican votes.
Hence, this horrible story from BigGovernment.com:
Over 35 counties in Illinois missed the deadline to mail military ballots to our soldiers defending America. But in Chicago, county election officials have taken special steps to ensure that no inmates at the Cook County Jail are unable to cast a ballot.
The Chicago Board of Elections hand delivers ballots to the jail. They don’t even wait for the inmates to apply – they bring the applications with the ballots! Over 2,600 inmates have cast ballots so far – strikingly similiar to the 2,600 soldiers who will likely not recieve a ballot for the Nov 2 election.
We’ve said this before and we’ll undoubtedly say it again: Fred Thompson is one funny man. If he’d been half this funny on the campaign trail, he might be president now.
We’ve said this before and we’ll undoubtedly say it again: Fred Thompson is one funny man. If he’d been half this funny on the campaign trail, he might be president now.
Day in and day out, he posts the best political tweets on the planet. Like these:
Fred 'Tweet' Thompson demonstrates his character in 140-characters or less
Obama fan throws book at President during PA rally. Obama ignored it. Must’ve thought it was copy of the Constitution #ftrs #tcot
Gallup poll: most people describe govt as “too big”. Obama plans to address problem by accusing Gallup of taking foreign money. #ftrs #tcot
Time Mag: WH “in over its head, isolated, insular, arrogant & clueless”. Wow! That’s pretty harsh! Also, forgot “irresponsible”. #ftrs #tcot
Obama to MD supporters: “don’t make me look bad”. Mr. President, you beat them to it. #ftrs #tcot
Administration announces deporting record 392,000 illegals. Sounds impressive, but it was just the same guy 392,000 times. #ftrs #tcot
Woodward: 2012 Obama-Clinton ticket “on the table” Oh come on… does anyone actually believe Obama would make a good VP? #ftrs #tcot
Biden:will “strangle” next Republican to talk about balanced budget. Empty threat. He’d have to stop strangling economy to do it #ftrs #tcot
Fmr President Carter said his approval in 1978 was 66%. Actually 49%. Well, there WAS a lot of inflation while he was in office. #ftrs #tcot
In WI, firemen rescued 17 people trapped on Ferris wheel. Actually not trapped, just hiding until Russ Feingold speech ended. #ftrs #tcot
Longtime Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank has given his re-election campaign $200,000 as he faces his toughest race in years.
Barney Frank owns his Massachusetts district. That is, he’s never really faced a serious challenge, running up huge victory after huge victory, sometimes even running unopposed.
Until this year.
Barney Frank hopes this $200,000 loan will help him land a knockout slap
Politico.com has the surprising story of Frank’s funding problem:
Longtime Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank has given his re-election campaign $200,000 as he faces his toughest race in years.
A campaign finance report filed Tuesday showed that Frank, the chairman of the powerful House Financial Services committee, lent himself the money Tuesday.
Frank, a 15-term lawmaker from Newton, Mass., raised $316,644 last quarter and reported more than $1 million on hand with no debts.
His campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The chairman is facing one of his toughest fights in recent memory against Republican Sean Bielat, a 35-year-old Marine veteran with degrees from Georgetown, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania.
Republican Sen. Scott Brown won Frank’s congressional district, which President Barack Obama carried in 2008. Bielat has zeroed in on Frank’s service atop the financial services committee, indicating that the Democrat had a hand in the financial turmoil over the last few years.
He had a hand it in? That’s a delicate way of putting it. If they mean Frank was fisting the economy, well, yes, he had a hand in it.
An indelicate way of putting it, perhaps, but true, nonetheless.
Jim Oberstar collected a contribution from just one resident of the district between June 22 and Sept. 30. The rest from special interests.
Jim Oberstar is a Democrat congressman from Minnesota. One might be tempted to say that after spending 50 years in Washington – 14 years as a congressional staffer and the last 36 years as a congressman – he’s lost touch with his constituents.
This is the face of a man who's lost touch with his own constituents
Politico.com has the exceedingly odd details:
With a potentially competitive race developing back home in Minnesota’s 8th District, Transportation Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar collected a contribution from just one resident of the district between June 22 and Sept. 30, according to a federal election report filed Wednesday.
Jane Robbins of Pine City gave Oberstar $500 on Aug. 22.
Other than that, all of his contributions came from political action committees, Native American tribes or individual donors in other districts and states.
In all, the veteran Iron Range Democrat, first elected in 1974, collected just $233,102 in receipts over the time period. By comparison, fellow Minnesotan Michele Bachmann, a Republican firebrand, pulled in $5.4 million between July 1 and Sept. 30.
Nevertheless, no one can accuse Oberstar of not listening to his constituents as long as they remember that his constituents are PACs, lobbyists, Native American tribes and people from outside his district.
WTF? Here’s the oddest campaign commercial so far this year. We think it’s in English, but for some strange reason, we only understood about 10% of the words.
WTF? Here’s the oddest campaign commercial so far this year. We think it’s in English, but for some strange reason, we only understood about 10% of the words.
Two German entrepreneurs have figured a way to turn liberal stupidity on itself and get around the light bulb ban at the same time.
The eco-wackos have succeeded in banning the standard incandescent light bulb, leaving us with those ugly, mercury-filled, twisty bulbs. But two German entrepreneurs have figured a way to turn liberal stupidity on itself and get around the ban at the same time.
Do not make the mistake of thinking this is a light bulb
Just as acts of terrorism have been renamed “made-made disasters” by the Obama administration, these guys had one of those Eureka! moments when they realized they could get around the light bulb ban simply by renaming them “Heat Balls.”
Ahhh, the genius of German design:
A German entrepreneur is bypassing a European Union ban on light bulbs of more than 60 watts by marketing his own brand as mini heaters.
Siegfried Rotthaeuser and his brother-in-law have come up with a legal way of importing and distributing 75 and 100 watt light bulbs – by producing them in China, importing them as “small heating devices” and selling them as “heatballs” … On their website, the two engineers describe the heatballs as “action art” and as “resistance against legislation which is implemented without recourse to democratic and parliamentary processes.”
The company’s sold out its first 4,000 Heat Balls in just 72 hours.
The first presidential soundbite ever recorded on film — a crystal clear statement of conservative economic values from Silent Cal Coolidge, the nation’s 30th President.
This is a great video. It’s not only the first presidential soundbite ever recorded on film, it’s a crystal clear statement of conservative economic values. All from Silent Cal Coolidge, the nation’s 30th President.
What we wouldn’t give today for a president who doesn’t talk incessantly.
In this cheesy report, NBC’s Lisa Myers attempts to link Florida Republican Allen West to the Outlaws biker gang.
This may be the weakest hit piece the media has trumped up in this election cycle.
In this cheesy report, NBC’s Lisa Myers attempts to link Florida Republican Allen West to the Outlaws biker gang. And just for good measure, she also briefly mentions the old Iraq story – the one that makes West a hero to conservatives – with no context in an attempt to make it sound scandalous.
West is neck and neck with his Democrat opponent and there are just two weeks to go until election day. The media’s read the polls and they’re starting to break out in cold sweats, so it’s time for them to break out whatever sorry crap is left in their Armory of Untruths.
Wow. She’s self-centered, has a remarkable sense of entitlement, blames everyone else for her problems, and talks too much. Who ever would have guessed that those traits were genetic?
Wow. She’s self-centered, has a remarkable sense of entitlement, blames everyone else for her problems, and talks too much. Who ever would have guessed that those traits were genetic?
That’s one of our favorite stories of the year, because you couldn’t make up something like this if you tried. Not if you tried all day. And half the night. President Barack Obama’s polygamist half brother in Kenya has married a woman who is more than 30 years younger than him.
That’s one of our favorite stories of the year, because you couldn’t make up something like this if you tried. Not if you tried all day. And half the night.
Muslim Malik Obama displays a photo of himself with his 100% completely un-Muslim brother Barack
The Associated Press has the polygamous particulars:
President Barack Obama’s polygamist half brother in Kenya has married a woman who is more than 30 years younger than him.
The 19-year-old’s mother told The Associated Press on Friday she is furious that her daughter quit high school and married the 52-year-old.
Mary Aoko Ouma says her daughter tried to marry Malik Obama two years ago, but the mother says she wouldn’t give permission.
Malik Obama, who is Muslim, has two other wives. Polygamy is legal in Kenya if it falls under religious or cultural traditions.
Seriously, this story has it all. Kooky Obama relatives. Muslims. Polygamy. High school drop-outs. Teenage sex. An angry mother.
This is what life is going to be like in blogger heaven.
The following line that reveals just how out of touch with reality Jerry Brown really is. “Of course,” Brown says, “I’m not going to sign any bills until we get the budget solved and that may take me a couple of months.”
Every other blog that’s run this video clip has focused on the first part, where former and future California Governor Moonbeam pledges to sign a bill entitling every illegal alien in the tarnished Golden State to attend college.
Far as we’re concerned, though, it’s the following line that reveals just how out of touch with reality Brown really is.
“Of course,” Brown says, “I’m not going to sign any bills until we get the budget solved and that may take me a couple of months.”
Governor Moonbeam, indeed. It’s taken the state decades to get $30 billion in debt. It’s reduced two consecutive governors to blithering idiots. The state is controlled by the public employee unions to whom Brown is beholden. The legislature is controlled by lunatic leftists who refuse to cut a penny in spending. And this lying sack of excrement says it may take “a couple of months” to solve the problem. Note that it may take him a couple of months. Why this guy’s such an economic wizard that he may just get the whole thing wrapped up in a couple weeks. With a little luck, maybe just a day or two.
California is about to get what it deserves. Unfortunately, the state’s few remaining conservatives will be taken down along with the liberals who not only caused the problem, but continue to exacerbate it by electing leftist wackos like Brown.
Writing in Time, which used to be a news magazine, Joe Klein hammered away at the old liberal line that average Americans just aren’t smart enough to know what is good for them. He complains that “There is something profoundly diseased about a society that idolizes its ignoramuses and disdains its experts.”
Writing in Time, which used to be a news magazine, Joe Klein hammered away at the old liberal line that average Americans just aren’t smart enough to know what is good for them.
He complains that “There is something profoundly diseased about a society that idolizes its ignoramuses and disdains its experts.”
Time's Joe Klein is your social and intellectual superior. And don't you forget it.
Ignoramuses, apparently, are anyone Joe Klein doesn’t like, including Christine O’Donnell, Sharon Angle, Ron Johnson and, of course, Sarah Palin, who Klein dismisses as “Our leading exemplar of ignorant authenticity.”
What is it about these people that causes Klein to treat them with such disdain? Believe it or not, it’s the fact that have committed the unforgivable liberal sin of being “certifiably non-elite.”
So who does Klein feel represents the elite and the “experts?” Obviously, the people who populate the current administration.
Apparently, the ability to scam a large number of people is a prerequisite to being considered what Klein calls a “card-carrying member of the elites.” Witness Klein’s adoration of former car czar turned financial swindler Steve Rattner, who has been fined $5 million “…and banned him from finance, for a time, because he and his partners apparently attempted to bribe major pension funds in New York to invest with them.”
In waxing eloquent about Rattner, Klein says, “Rattner is a journalist turned investment banker, an Ivy Leaguer, a denizen of Manhattan’s happiest haunts and of summers on Martha’s Vineyard, vacation spot of choice for Democratic Presidents. He did a fine job as Barack Obama’s auto czar; the GM and Chrysler bailouts seem to be working brilliantly, saving thousands upon thousands of good American jobs. I know Steve pretty well; I’ve had dinner at his house; we’ve had good conversations; our kids have played together.”
The left, of course, fails to realize that average Americans correctly consider Klein’s vaunted elites to be snobs who incorrectly consider themselves far better than the unwashed masses.
We would hope that after November 2 articles about elite politicians are of the “Hey, whatever happen to all those elite politicians?” variety.
Hence, this horrible story from BigGovernment.com:
