July 22, 2008

Obama: Surge Was a "Bad Strategy," I Have No Idea What Would Have Happened if We'd Followed My Strategy (and I Don't Really Care to Think About It), and Oh, By the Way, It Was Really My Call for Political Reconciliation That Reduced Violence
— Ace

Whew!

Whoops: I shouldn't have said Obama said it was his call for political reconciliation that reduced violence. He actually said that the "political dynamic" coincidentally changed at about the same time. Democrats have previously attempted to claim it was their "pressuring" of the Iraqi government, by threatening to cut funds and impose timetables, which occasioned this happy (?) accident.

So Obama didn't really say that... but, you know, that's the sort of claim Democrats have made before.

...


I used to think he was Captain Bullshit.

Now I think he is so dangerously narcissistic his ego just warps the world around him, like gravity, so that everything really does wind up revolving around him.

Thanks to CJ.

UPDATE [Dave in Texas]: former Marine Steve Schippert at Threatswatch.org points out the Anbar Awakening started with one sheik and seventy other men, simply fighting Al-Qaeda for survival and to protect their families. They didn't have a political bone to pick with anybody. It's laughable to claim political pressure, from either Democrats or the Iraqi government had any influence on the Anbar Salvation Council whatsoever. Of course, it does make Obama's claim that he couldn't have anticipated it more believable; he didn't even know what the hell it was.

via Andrew McCarthy at The Corner

Posted by: Ace at 01:22 PM | Comments (116)
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1 To paraphrase a certain Judge's holding, <i> The Presidential election is not a suicide pact</i>.  What a scary person.


Posted by: ParisParamus at July 22, 2008 01:31 PM (ETj1R)

2

Obama was wrong, and is wrong.  Does he know this?  I think he must.  Scary individual to keep up this act.  I'm tellin you man Obama gives me the shivers. 

Posted by: Dr. Chopper at July 22, 2008 01:35 PM (vjl9g)

3

What's really cool is that we have a planeload of big-time reporters hanging on the Obambi's every word.  Not one of these geniuses can figure out this clown is full of more shit than a Christmas goose? 

Just how much college does it take to get as retarded as your average newscaster? 

Posted by: KingShamus at July 22, 2008 01:35 PM (rSqDf)

4 Just how much college does it take to get as retarded as your average newscaster?

No college, just a lobotomy with a rusty steak knife.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at July 22, 2008 01:37 PM (loWAm)

5 From Gore to Kerry to Obama- I wonder if the democrats can get Robert Mugabe to run in 2012 because I think I see a crazy trend here.

Posted by: jjshaka at July 22, 2008 01:40 PM (9B/k0)

6 Captain Bullshit?  The man is 4-star General Bullshit.

I know people have asked before, but what the fuck happened?  How did we end up with these two losers as our presidential candidates?  The whole thing is seriously depressing if one dwells on it too much.

I think I'll buy some more guns to cling to.  It might make me feel better.


Posted by: cranky-d at July 22, 2008 01:40 PM (eG0z7)

7

Couric: … after Jordan. And according to a recent poll out of Jerusalem, Israeli Jews favor John McCain for President 43 to 20 percent, with one-third undecided. Why do you think that's the case?

Obama: Well, I think it … I'm not as well known as John McCain. I think that's obviously a factor.

From their interview tonight on CBS.  Captain Bullshit strikes again with an assertion so laughably retarded that I personally find it semi-endearing.  I'd link but I don't know how.  It's on their homepage right now.

Posted by: Big E at July 22, 2008 01:51 PM (RWzXM)

8 >>How did we end up with these two losers as our presidential candidates?

You know how stupid the average person is? Well, by definition half of them are dumber than that.

Posted by: Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight at July 22, 2008 01:52 PM (gIga4)

9 Hmmmm.

"I think I'll buy some more guns to cling to.  It might make me feel better."

Bad fucking time to give up heroin I can tell you that fucking much.

I'm pretty damn speechless.  How can anybody say something like this and not get called on it?

There is being in the tank and having two half-moon shaped calluses on your face from having your head shoved up Obama's ass.

Posted by: memomachine at July 22, 2008 01:52 PM (3PLow)

10 Ahhh... "To know me is to love me", right Big E?

Posted by: Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight at July 22, 2008 01:53 PM (gIga4)

11 The man is 4-star General Bullshit.

That's Supreme Grand Admiral of the Intergalactic Fleet to you bub!

Posted by: Barry O at July 22, 2008 01:54 PM (loWAm)

12

Sure- the troops helped.  The political reconciliation?  Totally unrelated to the reduction in violence, because everyone knows that sectarian violence in no way has any effect on political stability.  Nope.  None at all.

The only thing that leads to political stability?  A message of Hope and Change, delivered by a certified Lightworker.

The violence in Darfur?  Totally Obama's fault.  Had he used his divine powers to bring reconciliation, it would've ended long ago.  I blame racism.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at July 22, 2008 02:01 PM (plsiE)

13

Now I think he is so dangerously narcissistic his ego just warps the world around him, like gravity, so that everything really does wind up revolving around him.

Does that make him a blackhole, Ace?

Posted by: andycanuck at July 22, 2008 02:01 PM (3EcfL)

14

his ego just warps the world around him

He's definitely a singularity, from which neither light nor hope can escape

Posted by: toby hussein 928 at July 22, 2008 02:03 PM (evdj2)

15 It's gone from funny to outright fucking douchebaggery on Obama's part trying claim ANY credit whatsoever.

Posted by: EC at July 22, 2008 02:10 PM (j2Tjh)

16 one can only hope for more teleprompter-less speeches, stepping on his dick, more public bleating by his bitch of a wife, and McCain to finally realize what the election means to America and finding the gonads to do whatever he has to do to win, like in war, right Johnny? Drop the fucking amnesty shit, hit back, be the man, dammit, you fuck.

Posted by: Frank G at July 22, 2008 02:16 PM (P0rQD)

17

He's definitely a singularity, from which neither light nor hope can escape

You're not fooling anyone; we all know what you're alluding to- a black hole.  Racist.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at July 22, 2008 02:17 PM (plsiE)

18 I'm shocked by the Messiah's bare-assed stupidity, but I'm gobsmacked at how Katie went after him. Good for her.

Posted by: stace at July 22, 2008 02:19 PM (JO0c/)

19 give the man a microphone and train a camera on him 24/7.  you just can't hide an ego like his for long. I'm hoping McCain is pulling a Muhammad Ali rope-a-dope. Let the kid flail and run his jaw until he's out of gas and the media love affair loses air, then move in for the kill. Here's to hoping!

Posted by: mark c at July 22, 2008 02:21 PM (EVmYn)

20

You know, I just do not know how to react anymore to this stuff from him.

It is just so loony/outrageous and he clearly seems to believe his own crud that I just don't seem to be able to get my own mind around the logic.

Oh, eff it.  I will just "Believe" and move on from there. 

Posted by: newguy40 at July 22, 2008 02:22 PM (kduZC)

21 He's a cunt.

Posted by: joe at July 22, 2008 02:32 PM (5zUu/)

22 10 Ahhh... "To know me is to love me", right Big E?

Posted by: Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight at July 22, 2008 06:53 PM (gIga4)

There are layers of bullshit in that statement one of which is his implicit assumption that if only they "knew" him better they would fall in line.  There's also the laughable assertion that he's not as well known in Israel as John McCain.  Certainly his Jerusalem backtrack not to mention anti-semitic preacher and ties with the Chicago Palestinian community couldn't have anything to do with it.  He's Captain Bullshit and the normal rules of saying stupid shit and then getting laughed by the media don't apply. 

Posted by: Big E at July 22, 2008 02:33 PM (RWzXM)

23

Success is a "bad strategy"?

Good God.

 

Posted by: drjohn at July 22, 2008 02:45 PM (VFRay)

24

Barack Obama is a cock smoking douche tool.

To coin a phrase....

;-)

 

Hey Ace, my son has adopted that one too!

Posted by: drjohn at July 22, 2008 02:46 PM (VFRay)

25 As I said earlier today, Obama claimed in his recent NYT op-ed that political reconciliation had NOT, in fact occurred.  And now it has.

Magic.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 22, 2008 02:47 PM (XsrOH)

26 And he WANTS a surge in Afghanistan, where it would, in fact, be a bad strategy.

My mind has quite reeling and now just cowers in the corner muttering about Scoop Jackson.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 22, 2008 02:48 PM (XsrOH)

27 Now I think he is so dangerously narcissistic his ego just warps the world around him, like gravity, so that everything really does wind up revolving around him. Better hope he and Steve Jobs never meet --it'll be worse than the Large Hadron Collider!

Posted by: Schreiber at July 22, 2008 02:54 PM (KmpVZ)

28 I echo the kudos for Katie.  There is only one person who can break the spell Obama has on the MSM.

His name is Barack Obama.

He will destroy his own candidacy.  Maybe he will do it before Denver.


Posted by: eman at July 22, 2008 03:15 PM (bXWSG)

29 So, even last month, no political progress had occurred, and that showed that the surge, while reducing violence, had actually failed, since it was "designed to provide a window of opportunity for political progress." But now the story is, the political progress that hadn't occurred even a month ago, actually took place BEFORE the surge, and so the surge had nothing to do with it, and in fact, it would have happened even faster if we had withdrawn our troops "to put more political pressure on the Iraqis," as per Obama's proposal. Sometimes it's confusing being a Democrat.

Posted by: notropis at July 22, 2008 03:22 PM (93Omb)

30 Let's face facts; Obamessiah proves that BS's mass has greater power to warp space than non-BS material. Also, it should be noted that objects still fall at the same rate in the vacuum of Obama's empty skull case. Infrequently his skull is filled with an interesting mix of Menthol Kools smoke and the lingering stench of a pile of horse crap.
But I digress about the future Pontiff of  Cool Kools (menthol)

Cock smoking douche tool? Is that worse than a mouth breathing, left leaning, arse biting Che Guevara wannabe? Cause he's surely every bit of that.

Just wondering...

Posted by: Avogodro's Numbers Runner at July 22, 2008 03:22 PM (DrUCs)

31 "He will destroy his own candidacy. Maybe he will do it before Denver." This is actually my fear. I'd rather he destroyed it long about September, when it's too late to bring in anyone else.

Posted by: notropis at July 22, 2008 03:24 PM (93Omb)

32

It would be nice, not if the media turned against him, but if they just reported on him factually.  (Of course, then they'd be accused of bias against him...kinda like Foxnews being called a 'right-wing' news outlet because they actually are fair and balanced in their reporting...)

What I want to know is, when the Euroweenies have had enough of obamamania (and it appears a few cracks are starting to show) and start to talk about how they really don't think he's the guy for POTUS, not a world leader, etc, will the left scream at us to listen to our European betters as they did when the Euros endorsed Kerry?

Posted by: Uncle Jefe at July 22, 2008 03:27 PM (p8IOE)

33

Posted by: andycanuck at July 22, 2008 07:01 PM (3EcfL)

 

I think we're supposed to call him an African-American hole now. Either that or a hole of color.

Posted by: Happy Fun Ball at July 22, 2008 03:35 PM (H6nks)

34 Bloody hell, and here I thought I was a Time Lord!

Posted by: Dr Who at July 22, 2008 03:44 PM (FySvp)

35 "I think we're supposed to call him an African-American hole now. " A-hole would probably work just fine.

Posted by: notropis at July 22, 2008 03:49 PM (93Omb)

36 Eh, This is the one of the two main end products of affirmative action. One, if the guy has any self-awareness, he realizes that he's only gotten to where he's gotten because of AA so he's ashamed, angry, depressed cause no one really respects him. That's not Obama. He's number two. The guy who convinces himself that he really is that good, that he really does deserve to be where he is. That everyone treating him like a retard and yessing him isn't because he hasn't got the chops, but because he has them in such abundance he still progresses regardless of grades, etc, etc. Such an ego can't admit he's wrong. It would collapse the world he built in his mind. God help us if he becomes Prez.

Posted by: rinseandspit at July 22, 2008 03:52 PM (FySvp)

37 Maybe Obama's nuclear-level stupidity can be used for good. Maybe we can get a sample of it in his sweat, drop it into Iran.  

Some grainy videos of Iranian nuclear scientists scuba diving in reactor water might leak out.

Posted by: eman at July 22, 2008 03:54 PM (bXWSG)

38

"I did not anticipate, and I think that this is a fair characterization, the convergence of not only the surge but the Sunni awakening in which a whole host of Sunni tribal leaders decided that they had had enough with Al Qaeda, in the Shii’a community the militias standing down to some degrees. So what you had is a combination of political factors inside of Iraq that then came right at the same time as terrific work by our troops. Had those political factors not occurred, I think that my assessment would have been correct."

 

So, basically, except for being totally effing wrong, he was right!

 

Judgement! 

 

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2008 04:11 PM (KpEAZ)

39 I'm shocked by the Messiah's bare-assed stupidity, but I'm gobsmacked at how Katie went after him. Good for her.

Didn't you see the story on Drudge where Katie was screeching about how sexism is a much worse problem than racism?  We can only hope there's enough old gals with sand in their vaginas in the press core so that His Holiness gets asked some real questions.

Posted by: nightwitch at July 22, 2008 04:17 PM (dfTf5)

40 Jimmah Carter is loving this.  If Obambastic wins the election, Jimmah will become the second worst president in our history at the instant The MessiahTM says "...do solemnly swear..." on the Capital steps.

Posted by: Reiver at July 22, 2008 04:27 PM (9JXjV)

41 It's like that episode of Futurama with the faster than light drive;" the ship stays still, the universe moves around it" Is there something in the water, that makes even remotely possible for someone this deluded to have any chance at high office?

Posted by: narciso at July 22, 2008 04:30 PM (8nB5X)

42 You had it right the first time - he IS Captain Bullshit.  Narcissism comes with the package.

Posted by: Thea at July 22, 2008 04:38 PM (N0hv7)

43 It isn't a halo. It is the refraction of the light of the sun that shines out the crack in his ass. He's got my vote.

Posted by: Potosi Joel at July 22, 2008 04:43 PM (TPRbZ)

44 I believe Katie had her heart and soul invested in Hillary being the first woman president, and that's why she was willing to go after Obama - mildly - tonight.  But good for her.  If she'd show this much chutzpah against the Democratic Orthodox from time to time, I'd respect her a lot more.

Posted by: Thea at July 22, 2008 04:44 PM (N0hv7)

45 Here's the video of Katie interviewing Obama, and then McCain. She does a pretty decent job, and boyyy, does he sound arrogant.

Posted by: Nice Deb at July 22, 2008 05:08 PM (s5YdS)

46 Dude, Obama vs. Pugsley Addams.

Addams by a landslide!

Obama & Co. are creeping me out like a wriggling plate of spaghetti.

Posted by: Merovign at July 22, 2008 05:11 PM (UXoQt)

47 I'm not looking so bad now am I, you conservative assholes friends? With or without the goddamned fence, at least you won't have to put up with any more of this bullshit with me as president.

There's still time left to get on the Straight Talk Express. Get under Senator Obama's bus or on board mine. The Hobson's choice is yours.

Posted by: Maverick at July 22, 2008 05:12 PM (23Gys)

48

All he is saying........is give peace a chance.

Posted by: pajama momma at July 22, 2008 05:40 PM (f3xJa)

49

I'm watching perky Katy put him back on his heels right now.

Is he still getting high or what?

Posted by: Spartan Fan at July 22, 2008 05:46 PM (7365r)

50 Narcissists are never wrong. Ever. It's everyone else's fault when things go bad. And if they don't get their way...watch out. Superstar tantrums of epic proportions. Won't it be super cool to have a guy with those kind of character issues with his finger on the nuke button?

Posted by: shibumi at July 22, 2008 05:50 PM (tZB/c)

51
...his ego just warps the world around him, like gravity,

He is Large.

Posted by: A. Weasel at July 22, 2008 05:53 PM (bqcfE)

52

C'mon, Mav, do some of that pilot shit!

 

Good Lord, he was the best we've got to run against this fool? 

 

 

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2008 05:57 PM (KpEAZ)

53 Please Lord, let there be just one old Kraut with the stones to have a poster reading "Heil OberGruppenFuhrer Bullshit".  Pleeeease!

Posted by: sherlock at July 22, 2008 05:58 PM (ojW85)

54

...his ego just warps the world around him, like gravity,

The Barak Horizon.

Posted by: Iblis at July 22, 2008 06:04 PM (9221z)

55 On this, Obimbo and the Dems did nil.  Nada.  Nothink.

OTOH, 30 troops pour in, to wage an aggressive strategy.

Then everything changes.

Of COURSE its the doing of the people that did nothing.  What was I thinking?

Surrender is Victory, we have always been at war with Eurasia.

Posted by: Stinky Esposito at July 22, 2008 06:06 PM (XSmBC)

56 If the surge was bad strategy--

and it produced a reduction in violence--

but he wouldn't support it if he knew then what he knows now--

--Isn't Captain Bullshit coming out in favor of violence, saying he wouldn't vote to reduce the violence, and that reducing violence was a bad strategy???

Posted by: Stinky Esposito at July 22, 2008 06:24 PM (XSmBC)

57 Comparing Barack Hussein Obama's present statements to anything he may have said at any point in his life before noon today, is racist.

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama Campaign Blog Outreach Coordinator at July 22, 2008 06:28 PM (/sBy4)

58

Amazing shit.  McCain looks good! 

The Messiah, like the Rio Grande, mile wide, 2 inches deep.  Why do the democrats keep nominating such bad candidates.  Town hall forums, will kill the magical negro.  His only hope, stay in front of the teleprompter.  BUT he'll have to do some debates, and McRhino will kill him.  The MN actually sounds like a 30 year old nut root. 

I smell BLOOD.

Kemp

 

Posted by: kempermanx at July 22, 2008 06:29 PM (ANRVq)

59 Our long national nightmare has yet to begin.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at July 22, 2008 06:45 PM (loWAm)

60 ( pardon if this is old ) Barack Obama was seated next to a little girl on an airplane. He turned to her and said, 'Let's talk. I've heard that flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.' The little girl, who had just opened her book, closed it slowly and said to Obama, 'What would you like to talk about?' 'Oh, I don't know,' said the Obama. 'How about What Changes I Should Make To America?' and he smiles. 'OK, ' she said. 'That could be an interesting topic. But let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff - grass - . Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, and a horse produces clumps of dried grass. Why do you suppose that is?' Obama, visibly surprised by the little girls' question, thinks about it and says, 'Hmmm, I have no idea.' To which the little girl replies, 'Do you really feel qualified to change America when you don't know shit?'

Posted by: republicangirl at July 22, 2008 06:54 PM (d20qX)

61 Obama is calling for an Aspirational Timeline® for all you racist fuckers to stop calling him Captain Bullshit. 

Posted by: Bart at July 22, 2008 06:54 PM (Tpo7o)

62 He's not Captain Bullshit. He's been promoted to General. Show the proper respect for your superior.

Posted by: torabora at July 22, 2008 07:03 PM (w/bNr)

63

Watching his lick spittles in the press spinning for him is amazing.  I just watched Mattews assert that Obama is being positively Trumanesque by "taking on Petraeus" and making it clear that he would run the policy, not the generals.  He went on to say that Bush has been defering to the generals (or Cheeeeney..he thinks thats cute) for the past 7 1/2 years and this will be quite a change.  This, after 7 1/2 years of saying daily that Bush is clueless and won't listen to anyone.

It would be more appropriate to compare Obama to Carter or LBJ who ran wars and policy based on what they felt in DC rather than letting the facts on the ground get in way.

I'm still waiting for one of these geniuses to point out to Obama that Petraeus is in charge of both the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan and if he thinks that we need to keep troops in Iraq rather than moving them to Afghanistan it's because he knows both situations and the needs of the military a shit load better than a community organizer from Chicago.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2008 07:12 PM (UCM2b)

64 "Trumanesque"--yes, and Bobby Petrino was "Lombadriesque", Tom Cruise is "Wayneesque", creepy Japanese anime is "Chuck Jonesesque", and Matthews himself is "Murrowesque".

If Petraeus is so screwed up, why did Obama VOTE FOR HIS F'IN CONFIRMATION?

Facts are getting the treatment of an assistant crack whore on her first day in this campaign.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 22, 2008 07:20 PM (XsrOH)

65

Wouldn't it be great to be a fly on the wall in Hillary's office right now. She has to be just laughing her ass off. Well, maybe not laughing her ass off, nothing is that funny. Ba da boom, ba da bing.

But seriously, anyone noticed how the Messiah loves to say no one has a crystal ball, hindsight is twenty-twenty. Except, of course, for him.

What a putz. Gore, Kerry, Obama. What a shit list. 

Posted by: mikeyslaw at July 22, 2008 07:42 PM (QMGr1)

66 That's "Trumanesque" as in"The Truman Show."

Notice even our trolls are not showing up to defend Obama now?

Posted by: richard mcenroe at July 22, 2008 07:45 PM (vLgS3)

67 Obama rocks!

Posted by: I'm a troll, and I approved this comment at July 22, 2008 07:51 PM (BOyTY)

68

pray that this campaign is Dewey  vs Truman all over again.  the elite snob vs the man of the people.   Dewey had the press in his pocket too.   But a funny thing happend on election day.  The people voted and showed the press they where full of shit and Truman won.

 

 

Posted by: unseen at July 22, 2008 07:58 PM (aVGmX)

69 "Narcissists are never wrong. Ever. It's everyone else's fault when things go bad. And if they don't get their way...watch out. Superstar tantrums of epic proportions."

I see you've met my sisters.

Posted by: me at July 22, 2008 08:06 PM (c3H+i)

70

I see you've met my sisters the Clintons.

Fixed that for you.

Posted by: I'm a troll, and I approved this comment at July 22, 2008 08:13 PM (BOyTY)

71 This is not the sock puppet I knew.

Posted by: Obama at July 22, 2008 08:14 PM (BOyTY)

72 If more domestic oil-drilling would lower energy costs and make us less dependent on foreign sources of oil Obama would say that is also "bad strategy."

Obama, the Leftist stooge, is a narrow minded one-trick pony. The Surge was bad strategy and more drilling is bad strategy. Everything but his stupid, failed ideas for social justice is bad strategy.

Posted by: Bart at July 22, 2008 08:26 PM (Tpo7o)

73 times 22.7.08 bho speech malreported iraq rectify forecasts surge troops misprints verify current issue times malquoted iraq strategy rectify times 3.12.07 reporting bho dayorder doubleplusungood refs unpersons rewrite fullwise upsub antefiling

Posted by: Winston Smith at July 22, 2008 08:31 PM (rf5CF)

74 So when do we start using the "M" word about Obama...?

"Mugabe."

Posted by: richard mcenroe at July 22, 2008 08:31 PM (vLgS3)

75

times 22.7.08 bho speech malreported iraq rectify forecasts surge troops misprints verify current issue times malquoted iraq strategy rectify times 3.12.07 reporting bho dayorder doubleplusungood refs unpersons rewrite fullwise upsub antefiling

Wow. That there is industrial-strength weaponized WTF. Almost like WickedPinto and Spurwing Plover mated to form a drunken, drugged, deranged Winston Smith.

Posted by: Paulitics at July 22, 2008 08:53 PM (BOyTY)

76

Hey Bart,

What do you think of the Redskins' getting Jason Taylor?

Posted by: Paulitics at July 22, 2008 08:54 PM (BOyTY)

77 Wow. That there is industrial-strength weaponized WTF.

Ministry of TruthSpeak.

Posted by: Stinky Esposito at July 22, 2008 08:58 PM (XSmBC)

78 ...the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality... The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies -- all this is indispensably necessary.

From "The Audacity of Hope," B. Hussein Obama

Oh, sorry, that was from "1984," George Orwell. Anyone could make that mistake.

Posted by: Winston Smith at July 22, 2008 08:59 PM (rf5CF)

79 I think Jason Taylor has a couple of good seasons left in him and the Redskins's D will improve greatly with him. I'm just a little disappointed that they didn't hire Greg Williams as Head Coach. They'll go 10-6, this year, I think.

Also, Shockey will have another under-achieving season in New Orleans.


Posted by: Bart at July 22, 2008 09:01 PM (Tpo7o)

80 The media/democrats used to rail against Bush for not admitting mistakes.  When will they start to rail against Hopenchange himself?

Posted by: Obamastan Moron at July 22, 2008 09:03 PM (e4p4t)

81

I, too, was very, very disappointed they didn't hire Williams. Great defensive head coach, quality guy in the mold of Gibbs. Looked not only for talent, but for character as well. I smell the hand of Cerrato in the not-hiring.

Still, the addition of Taylor completes a great off-season. Now let's watch how the injuries/murders* decimate a season of promise.

9-7, maybe 10-6. Playoffs -- lose in first round. This from a lifelong 'Skins fan.

* I can say that because the day we buried my brother in Arlington, VA, Sean Taylor died.  Local privilege and all that.

Posted by: Paulitics at July 22, 2008 09:19 PM (BOyTY)

82 He's not Captain Bullshit. He's Hercules.

Posted by: David Ross at July 22, 2008 09:53 PM (AvUHE)

83 The matthews thing is so horrible I can't stop watching it. I started to take a second look at Obama when andrew sullivan was on the Colbert Report and offered a terrible argument on his behalf. If people tune in to hardball they will either already be Obama fans or people looking for news. The people looking for news will find it creepy.

Posted by: bleh at July 22, 2008 10:02 PM (GNCy6)

84 Sorry for the loss of your brother, Paulitics. Was he a war veteran?

I have mixed feelings about the whole Sean Taylor thing, so I kinda avoided getting into a debates about it on the internet. Sounds like Taylor was a decent man, or tried to be decent, but suffice it to say: He was no Pat Tillman. Taylor was murdered for no good reason. Tillman died a hero...under awful circumstances. Both senseless tragedies, but only one was in a war zone.

Posted by: Bart at July 22, 2008 10:13 PM (Tpo7o)

85

jason taylor. jeremy shockey. won't matter. cowboys rock this year, kids. get used to it.

we're baaaaaack! until december, anyway.

Posted by: mikeyslaw at July 22, 2008 10:17 PM (MBSrQ)

86
" until december, anyway."

You mean until the Steelers beat the crap out of Tony Homo.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz at July 22, 2008 10:26 PM (vFeQi)

87 Uh, uh, uh, you know, uh, uh, uh, uhh, is...? Uh, is of -- of their work, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, we, uh, uh, I called, uh, uh, and I'm -- I'm -- Uh, with, uh, uh, as, uh, that, uh, and uh, uh, um, uh -- And we have to do this, uh, uh. As -- as well as, eh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh. Well, uh. I, uh, uh, uh, um. We, uh, and, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh. Uh, now, uh, right now and then identify if -- if, uh, you want to, uh, uh, uhhhh. Ummmm. That's -- that's a bunch. Umm, so let me tick these off. Um, it is true that, uh, uh, uh, uhhh, uh, uh. What, uh, uhhh, uh, and, uh, uh, in I-iraq, uh, uh, are seen as, uh -- and so, uh, uh, uhhh, uh, uh, and if I was -- i-if I were in his shoes, uh, uh, uhh, and so, uh, a, uh, um, uh, from some -- someplace else, uh, theeee, uh -- and, uh, t'see, uhhh, that, uhhh

Posted by: Barry Hussein Obama at July 22, 2008 10:33 PM (+cFcP)

88

Bart, many genuine thanks for your kindness about my brother. No, he wasn't a veteran (our dad was), but he lived most of his adult life in Arlington, so that's why we buried him there (not in THE Arlington Cemetery). His resting place is beautiful, but it provides no solace. Lung cancer metastisized into brain cancer, which caused a fatal stroke. Too young, too young, no chance to say goodbye. Ten days from first diagnosis to death.

Regarding Taylor v. Tillman, here's what I think... Taylor was, during his time at U of Miami and first year or so with the Redskins, a typical punk of the Miami mold. But his girlfriend-cum-fiance and their child turned his heart toward goodness, responsibility, and leadership. His teammates noticed the difference in his attitude and actions. When confronted with imminent danger within his home, he purposely chose to confront it in order to protect his wife-to-be and child. It was a split-second decision that caused him his life.

Tillman is a hero of the greatest order -- a man who had everything and an unlimited horizon of even grander rewards -- who consciously, deliberately, and studiously gave up everything to serve his country. At any time he could have changed his mind, but he chose not to do so.

There is no comparison here, I think, no better hero. Both, when faced with life's ultimate choice, chose the higher, nobler path.

Pat Tillman was a national hero. Sean Taylor was a personal, family hero.  Both are great and good callings, and the path to eternal salvation.

I admire Pat Tillman for his patriotism, loyalty, devotion to duty, and putting country above self. I admire Sean Taylor for putting his family above his own safety above self.

Posted by: Paulitics at July 22, 2008 11:01 PM (BOyTY)

89 Oops... strike the last two words.

Posted by: Paulitics at July 22, 2008 11:03 PM (BOyTY)

90 Actually Obama did say at a debate during the primaries that it was his calls to pull out of Iraq that caused the gains that occurred in 2007.

On no evidence whatsoever except his own narcissistic wishful thinking. Which is exactly what might get him elected. Scary, no?

Posted by: CornFedBeauty at July 22, 2008 11:38 PM (Z07/i)

91 "Now I think he is so dangerously narcissistic his ego just warps the world around him, like gravity, so that everything really does wind up revolving around him." I came to that conclusion a few months ago when I sat down and really thought about how someone who has no real experience - and I would include non political experience like running a company valid - but he has none, could think he could handle being POTUS. I think he is one of the most dangerous people to run for office ever, he really is deranged.

Posted by: Ann NY at July 23, 2008 02:41 AM (SPfHA)

92 Is there anyone who can make up a campaign ad with his before/after comments?  The guy is really fond of speechifying, so hasn't he given himself enough rope?

Posted by: ronnie dobbs at July 23, 2008 02:48 AM (DZmDA)

93 "And he WANTS a surge in Afghanistan, where it would, in fact, be a bad strategy." I haven't been paying as much attention to Afghanistan lately, so I'm curious to know why it would be a bad strategy?

Posted by: Ann NY at July 23, 2008 02:51 AM (SPfHA)

94

Our long national nightmare has yet to begin.
Posted by: Purple Avenger at July 22, 2008

LOL. Starting in January 2009, this bumper sticker should sell well.

America's long national nightmare has begun.

No matter who wins the election.

At least it won't be Ron Paul. Not now and not ever.

Posted by: klrtz1 at July 23, 2008 04:19 AM (PBe/5)

95

Ann,

here's one woman's opinion about an Afghanistan "surge".

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121668659664272147.html

Posted by: mark c at July 23, 2008 04:31 AM (EVmYn)

96 Don't underestimate the power of Obama's speaking ability.  In the moment it seems to make sense - maybe under the guise of anyone that speaks that well must know what they're talking about.  For me, it's only when I read it later that it seems to be that he's winging it.  A true Lightworker can do that, and thereyby pass the teleprompter test when the time comes.

Posted by: Flying Gonads at July 23, 2008 05:34 AM (cd7aj)

97

38 "had these political factors not occurred, I think that my assessment would have been correct"! Wondrous.--Had I not been wrong, I think that I would have been right.

The IPCC, Gore & Co could make great use of that line, too: "had temperatures not stopped rising, our assessment that they would continue rising would have been correct."

 

Posted by: Erwin Hussein O'Barry at July 23, 2008 05:41 AM (P0OUQ)

98

Barack will make you work for your dinner.

Just like he makes all the unemployed work for their dinner in his Chicago home.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz at July 23, 2008 06:00 AM (vFeQi)

99 Not only does Obama think the world revolves around him, he thinks it ought to revolve around him.

Posted by: pigilito at July 23, 2008 06:07 AM (nhBBi)

100

Pigilito, you saying it shouldn't? Ever heard of Einstein's equation?

O = bama see squared?

Posted by: Erwin Hussein O'Barry at July 23, 2008 06:13 AM (P0OUQ)

101 I am enjoying Obama as the Dem candidate.  I share an office with a guy who is a yellow-dog Democrat, but he is also a racist (he would never admit the racist part, but he always speaks of minorities as "them.")  I am sure his head is about to explode since it is battling between "Dems are good" and "Colored people are bad."  By this time is 2004, he already had his Kerry bumper sticker on his truck.  I don't see a new one yet.

Posted by: Steve L. at July 23, 2008 06:41 AM (o0YD+)

102 Flying gonads?  Where?  I want some!

Posted by: Tom at July 23, 2008 07:16 AM (f7A+e)

103

"Now I think he is so dangerously narcissistic his ego just warps the world around him, like gravity, so that everything really does wind up revolving around him."

 

The characteristics of a black hole and very large masses.

 

 

Posted by: drjohn at July 23, 2008 07:45 AM (nGJOR)

104

"Had those political factors not occurred, I think that my assessment would have been correct."

Ergo...

"Had I not been wrong, I might have been right."

  

Posted by: drjohn at July 23, 2008 07:48 AM (nGJOR)

105 I have nothing to add except that " Avogodro's Numbers Runner" is one of the best internet nics I have seen in a long time! 

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at July 23, 2008 09:01 AM (kKgTD)

106

So how long before the moonbats start screaming for Couric's head or was she still basically fawning over him in that article so they will only think she was slightly critical.

LOL. Starting in January 2009, this bumper sticker should sell well.

America's long national nightmare has begun.

No matter who wins the election.

At least it won't be Ron Paul. Not now and not ever

I think you'd need to include that on the sticker to demonstrate you're not loopy.  In smaller lettering beneath the line "And no Ron Paul would not have been better."

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