Barack Obama – Page 4 – I HATE THE MEDIA ™

Hey, let’s drain the swamp! We need room for our own alligators.

The most transparent President in history told us that they are “taking government back.” Unfortunately he failed to mention that he is giving it to his buddies.

Fox news has the details of a presidential candidate who said of cynics, lobbyists and special interests, “They get the access while you get to write a letter. They think they own this government. But we’re here today to take it back.”

jay-carney — White House Press Secretary and Chief Alligator Wrangler Jay Carney

But then those pesky ugly things called ‘facts’ turned up. As Fox News reports, “A new report by iWatch claims the Obama administration gave 200 of its biggest campaign donors key assignments within the government or granted their business interests with federal contracts.”

Pity the poor, persecuted Obama administration. They constantly have to educate the poor, unwashed masses they represent that they have – in the words of White House Secretary Jay Carney “the highest ethical standards and …bold transparency.”

What about those 200 jobs for donors? A mere coincidence, according to Carney. “[O]ur ethical standards are unmatched by any previous administration,” Carney said at the White House press briefing. “Our efforts at transparency are unprecedented. And that’s not just me saying it, it is outside groups who have said that. So I think that the fact that individuals who have been appointed also supported the President is hardly a story.”

Carney failed to mention what outside groups have been singing the praises of Obama’s transparency, leaving us to guess as to whether this means groups like SEIU, Moveon.org or maybe even the DNC.

The article also says, “The press secretary also stated himself as an example for someone who hadn’t given a lot of money, but still has a job with the administration.”

If we were Carney, we probably wouldn’t brag too loudly about that.

– Written by Patrick Michael

Source: Fox News, iWatchNews

Obama promised woman a better life. Now she’s selling his hand-written letter to avoid eviction.

Destiny Mathis, who dedicated herself to getting this charlatan elected, isn’t getting the kind of help she expected from her President.

Destiny Mathis, one of the gullible ObamaBots who dedicated herself to getting this charlatan elected back in 2008, isn’t getting the kind of help she expected from her President.

The Daily Mail UK explains her heartbreaking situation:

Opening the handwritten letter from President Obama brought a glimmer of hope to her life as he promised her that things would get better for her and her family.

And despite the fact Destiny Mathis, from Hobart, Indiana, treasured the letter, more than two years later she has no choice but to sell it as she and her three children face eviction from their home.

The 26-year-old was an avid campaigner for Mr Obama in 2008, getting T-shirts made and encouraging people in her neighbourhood to vote.

Back then her life was tough but she had hope for her own future and the future of America.

She graduated top of her class in 2005 and was working as a surgical technician while also helping her mother, who was battling cancer at the time.

She said: ‘I campaigned for him hard. I got the shirts made, the Barack the Vote shirts made. We’ve done a lot.’

We initially felt badly for Destiny. Then we noticed something about the photo that came with her story – the one that showed the 26-year old with her three kids, including a baby and another one that’s still young enough to suck on a bottle.

Our questions for Destiny:

Did it ever occur to you to keep your knees together rather than cranking kids out on an assembly line?

If you graduated from school in 2005 and have had at least two kids since then, how much have you actually worked since you got out of school?

If you were unable to work because you were either pregnant or raising your children, have you been on welfare?

Where’s the father or fathers of your children? He or they seem to be conspicuously absent from this story and your personal finances.

And finally, Destiny, how’s that hopey changey thing working out for you?

Source: Daily Mail UK

Obama: You know what this economy needs? More blacksmiths and buggy whip manufacturers.

Those enlightened progressives, they understand and cherish science and the advances it brings us. Right?

Don’t forget. It’s the Republicans who are anti-science. You know, troglodytes who believe in a flat earth and think that Adam and Eve lived with dinosaurs and that the universe was created sometime back in about 1954.

But those enlightened progressives, they understand and cherish science and the advances it brings us.

So how about if you just ignore what President Obama said on Monday.

FOX Nation reports:

President Obama explained to NBC News that the reason companies aren’t hiring is not because of his policies, it’s because the economy is so automated. … “There are some structural issues with our economy where a lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient with a lot fewer workers. You see it when you go to a bank and you use an ATM, you don’t go to a bank teller, or you go to the airport and you’re using a kiosk instead of checking in at the gate.”

Got that? Unemployment is caused by ATMs and ticket kiosks at airports. If technology is the problem, won’t more technology only make things worse?

Why if we could just go back to the horse and buggy days, everyone would have a job. Unfortunately, most of those jobs would be street cleaners responsible for sweeping up the vast quantities of horse manure in the streets, but what the hell, a job is a job.

This does demonstrate, however, how far we’ve come. Back before the invention of the internal combustion engine, all the horse manure was in the streets. Now it’s in the Washington, DC.

Obama has the greatest memory in the history of mankind. And don’t you forget it.

Remembering a jazz concert and receiving a basketball before the age of two is nothing for a man of Barack Obama’s talents.

Barack Obama reveals to People magazine that he has a remarkable memory. A really remarkable memory. While talking to the puff piece publisher about parenting, the President told how his relationship with his birth father influenced his relationship with his daughters.

Mr Obama said he regretted not being present because of his own experiences in his troubled childhood.

‘I grew up without a father around I have certain memories of him taking me to my first jazz concert and giving me my first basketball as a Christmas present. But he left when I was two years old,’ he wrote.

A normal person might think that remembering a jazz concert and receiving a basketball before the age of two is a remarkable accomplishment. But it’s nothing for a man of Barack Obama’s talents. After all, he already told us that he remembers his own birth.

He also seems to have memorized Karl Marx’ Das Kapital and Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals verbatim.

But even this remarkable man’s memory isn’t perfect. No matter how hard he tries, he seems to have a little trouble remembering the United States Constitution.

Source: Daily Mail UK

Archie Bunker versus Jimmy Carter Barack Obama

As you can see in this clip, all the things Archie Bunker said about the Georgia peanut farmer back in the ‘70s apply to Barack Obama today.

Need proof that Barack Obama is simply Jimmy Carter 2.0? Well, here you go.

As you can see in this clip, all the things Archie Bunker said about the Georgia peanut farmer back in the ‘70s apply to Barack Obama today.

Damn, we miss Archie and Edith.

http://youtu.be/BtRbIz-GHo8

Blind sow of the day: Al Franken realizes that Barack Obama might not be president in 2013

Even Democrat Senator Al Franken (Ugh. Just typing those words still makes our skin crawl) occasionally stumbles on an unavoidable truth.

Fox News reveals Franken’s revelation:

Things might not be looking so good for President Obama in 2012, according to one of Washington’s most liberal lawmakers. Senator Al Franken D-Minn., forecast a potentially gloomy outcome for his party’s first-term president during a hearing about FBI director Robert Mueller, and the former comedian wasn’t kidding.

“I should note, President Obama could nominate a new director that would be there for ten years,” Franken explained. “In two years, he may not be the President. So I think that bears just a mention.”

While you’re at it, Al, it also bears a mention that you might not be a senator in four years.

But don’t give it another thought. We wouldn’t want too much reality to intrude on your socialist fantasies.

Source: Fox News

Obamanomics on trial: Dick Durbin admits that this is now Barack Obama’s economy

Dick Durbin, the number two Democrat in the Senate, appeared on MSNBC and spoke that which has so far been unspeakable for Democrats.

With friends like this, who needs enemies?

Dick Durbin, the number two Democrat in the Senate, appeared on MSNBC and spoke that which has so far been unspeakable for Democrats. He admitted that this is now Barack Obama’s economy and the voters will rightfully hold him accountable for it.

Spoken like a man who doesn’t face reelection until 2014 and won’t have to worry about getting swept away in the coming 2012 landslide.

That gives him two years to make a comeback. And with the Republicans propensity to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, Durbin’s probably pretty safe.

Obama welcomes African dictator who’s plundered billions from his poverty-stricken country

Ali Bongo is the corrupt dictator of Gabon and, apparently, someone who finds the welcome mat out when he drops in at the White House.

Ali Bongo sounds like some kind of intestinal disorder: “Oh, my god. I came down with a bad case of Ali Bongo last night and I thought I was going to die.”

But it is, in reality, a man’s name. A very bad man. He’s the corrupt dictator of Gabon and, apparently, someone who finds the welcome mat out when he drops in at the White House.

Naturally, we have to depend on the Daily Mail UK to report the story the American media has chosen to ignore:

The U.S. President will today have a coveted private meeting with President Ali Bongo of Gabon in the Oval Office despite his appalling track record.

Bongo’s family has ruled the impoverished African nation with an iron fist for five decades and have used its oil riches to fund a life of outrageous luxury.

Meanwhile one third of people in Gabon live on less than $2 a day and thousands starve to death each year or are forced to pick through garbage to find food.

Critics have pointed out that Gabon, with a population of 1.5 million, is the third-largest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa.

They claim that the only reason Mr Obama has agreed to the meeting is that he wants to curry favour with an ally to secure America’s fuel supplies – regardless of who it is.

Yeah, that’s one way to go about it. Another way might be to allow American oil companies to drill domestically and to stop throwing roadblocks up in front of American coal miners.

But that’s just crazy talk. What were we thinking? Much easier to kiss the ass of a corrupt, third world, tin horn dictator.

Source: Daily Mail UK

Lines we wish we’d said: “It’s very noble of Obama to stay at the helm and go down with the sinking ship”

What the hell. If President Obama can take credit for the Navy SEAL success, we’ll take credit for Sarah Palin’s line on Sunday’s Fox News Sunday.

What the hell. If President Obama can take credit for the Navy SEAL success, we’ll take credit for Sarah Palin’s line on Fox News Sunday.

Yeah, we said this line. It was ours. It was a gutsy call on our part.

Here’s Sarah Palin on FOX News Sunday using our line about Barack Obama running for reelection:

The point is this administration has got to be honest and candid with the American public. The bottom line is their plans for bigger government, more federal control over our private sector, more regulations, and more burdensome mandates on our businesses and on our people, it’s not working. And we do need to shift gears and change course. It’s very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with the sinking ship but I prefer and many Americans prefer that we start plugging the hole that we start powering up the bilge pump and start getting rid of some of the unsustainable debt that is sinking our ship. We don’t have to go the way of the Titanic.

We also wrote the Gettysburg Address, the Beatles’ song Yesterday, and the play Death of A Salesman. But Barack Obama helped us with the last one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAepgYN4sBE

President Obama offers to bail out the Greeks by digging our own hole a little deeper

Obama just offered to borrow communist money we’re unable to repay to give to socialists who are unwilling to repay it.

While the media has busied itself with a Weiner roast, President Obama has quietly been focusing laser-like on the debt crisis. Not ours, the one in Greece.

While not one of the 57 states Obama needs for re-election in 2012, Greece is a “headwind” making his failing economic policies fail.

next-generation-hole — First official photo of the next generation trying to dig themselves out of the hole we dug for them

CNBC has the story:

President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged European countries and bondholders to prevent a “disastrous” default by Greece and pledged U.S. support to help tackle the country’s debt crisis.

Mr. Obama was quoted, “… we have pledged to cooperate fully in working through these issues, both on a bilateral basis but also through international and financial institutions like the IMF.”

Too many nuances there for our taste. Daniel J. Mitchell translates:

The story doesn’t have much detail, but it appears that Obama is willing to brutalize American taxpayers directly (which is what he means by “on a bilateral basis”) and indirectly (i.e., the reference to “international and financial institutions like the IMF”).

Brutalized by the IMF and we’re not even hotel maids. The 48% of us who pay taxes are used to that by now. And the money’s going for a good cause, right?

Another bailout will be a case of throwing good money after bad. And it will exacerbate the.economic damage by delaying the economic reforms that are needed to put Greece’s economy in better shape.

… the other insolvent European welfare states will look at what’s happening in Greece and conclude that they also can avoid necessary reforms and wait for handouts from American and German taxpayers.

Just as we thought.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: CNBC, Daniel J. Mitchell

President Obama: The dog ate my economy

If the Bump-In-Chief wishes to find the real culprit, he should consider Pogo’s line, “We have met the enemy and he is us!”

Someone once said that success has a thousand fathers while failure is an orphan. But when the prodigy in question is today’s rotten economy, President Obama sees more sperm donors than there were unread pages in his health care bill.

guilty-dog — President Obama should look this guilty every time he appears in public

President Obama is pointing to problems in Japan and Europe as challenges for the U.S. economy, placing some blame on events abroad for a domestic recovery that is showing signs of slowing down.

…U.S. unemployment rose to 9.1 percent, up from 9.0 percent in April.

That bump is a political challenge for the president, whose re-election in 2012 may depend on his ability to convince voters that his economic policies have been successful.

We concur. For some reason, convincing folks policies are successful is much harder when those policies are failures. Go figure. Since the “Bush’s fault” meme is getting old, Obama has turned to “Casablanca’s” Captain Renault: “Round up some NEW usual suspects”…

“Lately, it’s high gas prices, the earthquake in Japan, and unease about the European fiscal situation. That will happen from time to time. There will be bumps on the road to recovery.”

The bumps he alluded to are called “Obamacare”, “stimulus” and “excessive regulations” to name a few. And those high gas prices are partially because he feels about the domestic oil industry the way Khruschchev felt about capitalism: “We will bury you.”

If the Bump-In-Chief wishes to find the real culprit, he should consider Pogo’s line, “We have met the enemy and he is us!”

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: CNBC

Symbolism 101: Obama is in the dark

This official White House photo says it all. President Obama’s in the dark when it comes to economics. He’s in the dark when it comes to domestic policy. He’s in the dark when it comes to foreign policy. He’s in the dark when it comes to the Second Amendment. He’s in the dark when it comes to fuel prices. He’s in the dark when it comes to … well, it might be easier to tell you what he’s not in the dark about.

(pause)

There. That was it.

Obama & Geithner, the funniest comedy team since Abbott & Costello

We hate bad-news good-news jokes, especially when the punch line is “there is no good news.” This is one of those occasions.

We fondly remember the old Abbott and Costello routine “Two Tens For A Five.” Fondly, because the routine was funny, but also because fifty years ago it was just a comedy routine and not government policy. Two tens for a five would be a huge improvement over what’s actually happened:

The Federal government borrowed and spent $5.1 trillion over the past four years to generate a cumulative $700 billion increase in the nation’s GDP. That means we’ve borrowed and spent $7.28 for every $1 of nominal “growth” in GDP.

We hate bad-news good-news jokes, especially when the punch line is “there is no good news.” This is one of those occasions:

In constant dollars, GDP is flat: we got no growth at all for our $5.1 trillion: zip, zero, nada. In constant dollars, the GDP in 2011 might return to the 2007 level, if the economy continues “growing” at the same pace reached in the first three months of 2011. If not, then the GDP will actually be lower than pre-recession levels.

We’re glad to find out it wasn’t just our imagination that last year’s vaunted “Recovery Summer” seemed like a typical summer in Anchorage – both lasted about a day. And we have noticed the “unexpected” change in the Democrat and media (yes, still the same thing) rhetoric from “good times are a’ comin” to “things could be worse.”

Unfortunately, we are compelled to add “and thanks to that mountain of useless debt, they will be.”

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Charles Hugh Smith

Google Maps: Obscene anti-Obama crop circle crops up in Louisiana

Down in St. Landers Parish, just outside Lafayette, Louisiana, someone has carved a “crop circle” that is not complementary to President Obama. Not favorable at all.

Down in St. Landers Parish, just outside Lafayette, Louisiana, someone has carved a “crop circle” with two not so kind words for President Obama. We say “someone” but who knows? It may just as well be “something” because we’re pretty sure Obama’s pissed off the entire universe at this point.

No one’s stepping forward to take blame (nor credit) for the horrible descecration, this thoughtless crime, this farmland folly.

But we do know one thing: If it had said the same thing about Bush instead of Obama, the artist would undoubtedly be eligible for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Here’s how you can see the artwork yourself, right from Google Maps: Just start clicking on the zoom button (the + sign, and only the plus sign) in the upper left corner of the embedded map below, until you close in on the crop circle.

Better look quickly, before the Google Maps department pulls out their Photoshop expert.

If you’re interested in Google Maps discoveries, you will love our story of a structure discovered on Google Mars. You have to see this one.

Obama bombs: Autoworkers boo when he makes a joke about the car they make

Obama told the automakers “that the recovering U.S. economy took a hit that even a Jeep Wrangler couldn’t rebound from quickly.” Didn’t go over well.

Know your audience. That’s the basic rule of public speaking that President Obama violated in Toledo on Friday.

He told a audience of autoworkers who build the Jeep Wrangler “…that the recovering U.S. economy took a hit that even a Jeep Wrangler couldn’t rebound from quickly.”

He hasn’t dropped a bomb this big in Libya.

But putting his lousy joke aside, does it not appear that his Teleprompter isn’t working? He’s delivering his remarks with the same hesitance and awkwardness that are usually the hallmarks of a recalcitrant TOTUS.

http://youtu.be/Px20jWN4ifQ

How’s that Muslim outreach going? Al Jazeera headlines article “Emperor Obama vs the Arab people”

According to Al Jazeera, President Obama’s even less popular in the Arab world than he is in the United States.

President Obama made his Cairo speech soon after taking office. Then he used his unparalleled powers of persuasion again a couple weeks ago to speak out to the Muslim world once again.

According to Al Jazeera, President Obama’s even less popular in the Arab world than he is in the United States:

angry-muslim — Anyone know how to say "Hope and change" in Arabic?

While dubbing his speech Winds of Change, in reference to the uprisings ongoing across the Arab World, his speech made it clear that the same winds were not yet blowing in Washington DC, and perhaps never will. President Obama’s second speech on the Arab world, delivered on 19 May, showed such constancy and lack of change in US policy as his first speech, delivered in Cairo on 4 June 2009. This is not to say that the two speeches lacked flair and imperial hubris in the delivery, but rather that their characteristic lack of substance or novelty, let alone their decorative and gratuitous verbosity, demonstrate that imperial climate control in Washington can never be “changed”, not even by the wind of the Arab uprisings.

The problem with US policy in the Arab world is not only its insistence on broadcasting credulous US propaganda – easily fed to Americans, yet with few takers elsewhere in the world – but also that it continues to show a complete lack of familiarity with Arab political culture and insists on insulting the intelligence of most Arabs, whom it claims to address directly with speeches such as Mr Obama’s.

… When Obama speaks of how America’s “short-term interests” in the region, at times, “don’t align perfectly with our long-term vision for the region”, he is peddling the biggest imperial lie of all. America’s short- and long-term interests in the region have always been control of oil resources, securing US profits, and defending Israel. Until “winds of change” blow on these interests, the position of the United States as the most powerful anti-democratic force in the Arab World will remain the same, Emperor Obama’s speeches notwithstanding.

Uh-oh. Looks like the Muslim world has figured out the same thing American voters have figured out:

Hope and change is really smoke and mirrors.

Source: Al Jazeera

With Patriot Act extension Obama proves that the autopen is mightier than his word

There was a time when a President broke his campaign promises he had the decency to do it in person. That time honored tradition, it seems, is just the latest casualty in the “hope and change” era of this White House. But not everyone is so quick to accept the legitimacy of President phone-in’s latest stunt.

autopen-obama — Hail to the Chief: President Autopen

The Hill gives us a quick sneak and peek at this story:

Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.) is questioning President Obama’s use of an autopen in signing an extension of the Patriot Act.

In a letter Friday, Graves asks Obama to confirm that he saw the law prior to its autopen signing.

“Mr. President, I write to request your confirmation that S. 990, as passed by Congress, was presented to you prior to the autopen signing, as well as a detailed, written explanation of your Constitutional authority to assign a surrogate the responsibility of signing bills passed into law,” Graves wrote.

Obama signed the bill into law late Thursday night. The autopen was used because the president was in France, meeting with G8 leaders, and the bill’s provisions expired at midnight.

Graves cited Article 1 Section 7 of the Constitution, which says that the president must sign a bill to approve it into law.

Our personal advice would be for Mr. Graves to try a different tact. It’s no good threatening the man with The Constitution. He has no respect for it. It would be far better to enlist the help of Michelle and Teleprompter. Obama is mortified of those two. And we seriously doubt either of them is very happy about giving up any of their control to Autopen.

– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: The Hill

Obama motorcade stops at a gas station in London. A BP gas station.

Obama’s entire motorcade in London had to pull into a BP gas station and fill ‘er up. And from what we hear, they didn’t spill a drop.

The President of the United States, the most powerful man in the world next to Chinese President Hu Jintao, got a little low on gas Thursday in London. His entire motorcade had to pull into a gas station (excuse us: petrol station) and fill ‘er up.

They stopped at a BP station. And from what we hear, they didn’t spill a drop.

beast-limo-BP-gas — The President's version of the American Dream: Filling your tank with gas that costs $8.40 per gallon

This is London tops off your tank with the details:

Workers at a garage in Pimlico today told of their astonishment after Barack Obama’s car and the presidential entourage pulled up for refuelling.

The armoured limousine, nicknamed “The Beast”, arrived with six other vehicles and police escort at a BP petrol station on Vauxhall Bridge Road during the president’s state visit to London.

Onlookers said the cars took up the entire forecourt when they arrived yesterday at around 3pm.

They also told how the Cadillac – which is fitted with bullet-proof glass and has an armoured body, its own oxygen supply and even samples of the President’s blood – took up a bay and a half while Mr Obama’s driver filled it up with £50 worth of unleaded.

Workers at the station, who at first did not realise who the car belonged to, said the presidential entourage spent £350 in total between seven cars at the station, where a litre of unleaded costs 136.9p.

Look for President Obama to use this event to claim he’s now an expert on the oil industry.

Source: This Is London

Unprecedented: Barack Obama turns down undeserved award

Barack Obama has refused to attend a Royal Society banquet in his honor at which he was to be awarded with a prestigious medal.

This news just in from the Telegraph UK’s “Man Bites Dog” Department:

Barack Obama has snubbed Britain’s most eminent scientists by refusing to attend a Royal Society banquet in his honour at which he was to be awarded with a prestigious medal.

"I'm honored to give you this award naming you the bestest president ever."

The US President was offered the chance to receive the King Charles II medal, which is awarded in “exceptional circumstances” to heads of state who have “made an outstanding contribution to furthering scientific research in their country”.

We admit to doing a double take. Not to be cynical, but our president turns down an award about as frequently as Dominique Strauss Kahn refuses a free hotel room. We wondered if due to the language barrier, Obama’s team mistakenly thought he was being offered a bust of Churchill.

The Royal Society seemed to have its own explanation:

A British government source close to the Obama visit said: “The Royal Society was really keen to do something with Obama and they expected him to be very honoured by the medal.

“Instead they received a very short response from his people saying that it would be better for him to visit a state school.

“The inference they took from that was that he was more interested in cultivating his street cred than in building links with British scientists.”

We understand perfectly. Obama has received all the undeserved adulation one man can stand in a lifetime. Pity their response was tinged with a bit of racism, as perhaps was their original offer.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Telegraph UK

Gutsy move: Lech Walesa shuns Obama

Poland’s Solidarity-era legend Lech Walesa said he would not accept an invitation to meet with fellow Nobel winner US President Barack Obama.

The Democrats have put their propaganda machine into overdrive recently in an attempt to convince us that giving the order to kill Osama Bin Laden was a “gutsy move” by President Obama.

They could learn a few things from Lech Walesa, the gutsy Polish labor leader who stood up to the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Looks like he’s not done being gutsy yet.

Breitbart.com has the details:

Lech Walesa, Poland’s Solidarity-era legend, ex-president and 1983 Nobel Peace Prize winner said Friday he would not accept an invitation to meet with fellow Nobel winner US President Barack Obama.

“It’s difficult to tell journalists what you’d like to say to the president of a superpower. This time I won’t tell him, I won’t meet him, it doesn’t suit me,” Walesa told Poland’s public broadcaster TVP.

Obama is due to arrive in Poland later Friday after the G8 summit in France.

Walesa was originally scheduled to meet Obama Saturday along with other key figures in Poland’s post-1989 transition from communism to democracy.

Walesa stood up to the brutal communists of the Soviet Union. He shouldn’t have any trouble handling an effete socialist from the United States.

Source: Breitbart.com

You are getting sleepy. Very, very, sleepy: British politician dozes during Obama speech

Obama’s speech was so boring, in fact, that British Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke appeared to take a little catnap as the President spoke.

Barack Obama, the greatest orator of all time, spoke at Westminster Hall on Wednesday. It was a rousing, inspirational speech. A barnburner. A classic.

Who do we think we’re kidding? It was boring as hell. So boring, in fact, that British Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke appeared to take a little catnap as the President spoke.

We say “appeared” because we’re confident that Clarke was merely closing his eyes in order to concentrate more fully on every word Obama said.

Yeah, right.

For god’s sake, it’s no wonder the sun has set on the British Empire. Here in America we have to listen to this guy drone on damn near every day and we don’t fall asleep.

Man up, you limey bastards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KMXd_yz3a4

LA Times: Obama is so smart that his mouth can’t keep up with his brain

You cannot make this stuff up. Well, we can’t make it up, but Los Angeles Times columnist Meghan Daum can. She can even, we assume, make herself believe it.

We’ve all see numerous cases of the President stuttering and stammering when he attempts to speak without his Teleprompter. Well, you’ll be glad to know it’s not really a stutter. No, it’s merely an “intellectual stammer” caused by the fact that he’s so smart that his big mouth can’t keep up with his giant brain.

It’s not that Obama can’t speak clearly. It’s that he employs the intellectual stammer. Not to be confused with a stutter, which the president decidedly does not have, the intellectual stammer signals a brain that is moving so fast that the mouth can’t keep up. The stammer is commonly found among university professors, characters in Woody Allen movies and public thinkers of the sort that might appear on C-SPAN but not CNN…

Yo, Meghan. Does this explain Joe Biden’, too?

Source: Los Angeles Times via NewsBusters.org

Bombing in Britain: British press rips Obama’s speech

The greatest speechifier in history bombed in Great Britain on Wednesday. Barack Obama may have quoted Winston Churchill, but his stolid speech in Westminster Hall didn’t inspire.

The greatest speechifier in history bombed in Great Britain on Wednesday. Barack Obama may have quoted Winston Churchill, but his stolid speech in Westminster Hall didn’t inspire any comparisons to the great British Prime Minister.

The Telegraph UK tells the tale of Obama without his Teleprompter:

The pictures were better than the words…

…Perhaps Mr Obama was smothered also by his audience, which remained stubbornly unresponsive. For most of the time the President had nothing to bounce off: no applause and certainly no shouts of praise or blame as might be heard in an American church or at an American political rally.

The presidential text sounded as if it had been worked on so hard and conscientiously by a vast team of helpers that it had lost all savour, and been reduced to a series of orotund banalities, of the sort which can be heard at every tedious Anglo-American conference: “Profound challenges stretch out before us…the time for our leadership is now…Our alliance will remain indispensable.”

It did not help to hear Mr Obama assert, after only a minute or two, that “fortunately it’s been smooth sailing” between Britain and the United States “ever since” 1812, when we burned down the White House. Everyone present will have been able to think of occasions when this was not so. Suez did not seem like plain sailing.

We would like to take this opportunity to apologize to our British cousins. We Americans have learned first hand that tales of Barack Obama’s oration skills were greatly exaggerated. We should have warned you.

Our bad.

Perhaps President Obama could pick up a few tips listening to one of history’s greatest speakers.

Source: Telegraph UK

The story that won’t die: Obama’s birth certificate

In this clip, Alex Jones discusses his conversation with author Jerome Corsi, who claims he has incontrovertible evidence that Obama knowingly unveiled a forged birth certificate.

Just in case you’ve never heard of him, Alex Jones is a talk show host. It’s probably safe to say he’s a third tier talk show host. He’s a conspiracy theorist who’s often nuttier than Aunt Dodie’s fruitcake, but occasionally fascinating.

In this clip, Jones discusses his conversation with author Jerome Corsi, who claims he has incontrovertible evidence that Obama knowingly unveiled a forged birth certificate.

We’re not buying it but, damn, wouldn’t it be fun if it were true?

(Note: Mr. Administrator wants me to say he does think there could be something to it.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZQShH3Etss

Former New York Mayor Ed Koch may flip parties because he’s flippin’ pissed about Obama’s Israel policy

Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch has had it with Barack Obama. He’s had it right up to here. You know the lifelong Democrat must be seriously pissed of when he starts talking about becoming a Republican.

NewsMax has the flippin’ details:

… the former New York City mayor said, “Mitt Romney correctly summed it up when he said that President Obama has once again thrown Israel under the bus.”

“I believe this is the most dangerous and critical period that Israel has ever faced and regrettably it does not have the support of the President of the United States, which in past difficult situations it could count on.”

“I’m a Democrat. I support the Democratic domestic philosophy and policies and will always be supportive of them,” said Koch, mayor of America’s largest city from 1978-89. “But I have no hesitation in crossing party lines when I think America’s interests demand that I cross party lines.

“I supported President Obama, believing he would be good on foreign policy, particularly with respect to the support of Israel. It turned out badly.”

Welcome to reality, Ed. Feel free to bring about 3 million other Jewish voters with you.

Source: NewsMax.com

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