“People don’t say what they mean”
Barack Obama isn’t fit to be president, but you have to admit, it has been rather enjoyable watching him make the Clintons seethe and squirm. Billy Boy can’t keep his “purple fits” in check. And now, Obama is openly mocking the forked tongue of Hillary Clinton. We’ve been saying it for years. Glad to hear a Democrat saying it, no?
Barack Obama has stepped up his campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton, and he’s trying to use humor to bring her down before this weekend’s Democratic presidential caucus.
His argument is starkly different from the “Iowa nice” approach he used in recent weeks when campaigning in the first caucus state. Candidates who go negative there have a history of turning off voters, so Obama rarely criticized Clinton directly in Iowa—instead he made veiled references to “some of my opponents”—and he won the state.
But there’s nothing subtle about Las Vegas. With a high-stakes match on the line Saturday, Obama embraced local traditions by debuting a biting political standup routine Thursday night that mocked his rival.
Obama began by recalling a moment in Tuesday night’s debate when he and his rivals were asked to name their biggest weakness. Obama answered first, saying he has a messy desk and needs help managing paperwork—something his opponents have since used to suggest he’s not up to managing the country. Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards said his biggest weakness is that he has a powerful response to seeing pain in others, and Clinton said she gets impatient to bring change to America.
“Because I’m an ordinary person, I thought that they meant, `What’s your biggest weakness?’” Obama said to laughter from a packed house at Rancho High School. “If I had gone last I would have known what the game was. And then I could have said, `Well, ya know, I like to help old ladies across the street. Sometimes they don’t want to be helped. It’s terrible.’”
Snort.
“Folks, they don’t tell you what they mean!” he said. Obama chuckled at his own joke before riffing on another Clinton answer in the debate, when she said that she is happy that the bankruptcy bill she voted for in 2001 never became law.
“She says, ‘I voted for it but I was glad to see that it didn’t pass.’ What does that mean?” he asked, again drawing laughter from the crowd and himself. “No seriously, what does that mean? If you didn’t want to see it passed, then you can vote against it! People don’t say what they mean.
Welcome to Washington, Obambi.
Before he laughs too hard at his own Hill-bashing humor, though, he shouldn’t forget that he just received the endorsement of John Forked Tongue Kerry–one of the Senate’s biggest “People Don’t Say What They Mean” punchlines.
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PeopleDemocrats don’t say what they mean”Who am I kidding:
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PeopleDemocratsPoliticians don’t say what they mean”They only say what they mean to get elected and then do what ever they damn well please.
So much flip-flopping going on, you would think it’s a “fish out of water” contest.
Don’t Huck me, bro!
Case in Point:
McCain claiming hes against amnesty now (etc).
And just about anything coming out of Huckabee’s mouth. (He’s making the Clintons look like minor leaguers when it comes to pandering).
Romeny’s flip flops look like the rock of Gibraltar compared to those jello giants.
The real problem is not that people don’t say what they mean, but that the MSM and most of the unwashed they’re pandering for, give them a pass. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if SOMEONE would stand up to these crapweasels and pin them down? Unfortunately, I don’t see that happening in my lifetime(sigh).
At least she votes clown. How many times are you a no-show come time to vote tool?
What amazes me is people believe he should be POTUS. My goodness, when will people turn off American Idol and wake the hell up?
I thought the two of them were going to start making out at the last debate, what a joke.
#8 On January 18th, 2008 at 9:59 am, On-my-soap-box said:
“What amazes me is people believe he should be POTUS. My goodness, when will people turn off American Idol and wake the hell up?”
38: This just further illustrates that the fact that everyone’s vote is equal to that of everyone else, is both our greatest strength AND our greatest weakness.
oops…
I meant #8.
Apologies
It’s an election. No one is going to say what he really intends to do. The name of the game is to say whatever you have to say to get elected.
Look at what W did (or, rather, did not do) in securing our border. He sold us out, along with John McCain and Mike Huckabee, et al.
W, who ran as a conservative, tells us Islam is a religion of peace, holds hands with the Saudis, begs them to increase oil production cause we’re in financial trouble - and they spit in his face.
Sorry, I don’t trust any of them, Dem or Repub. Been alive too long and seen too much. The guys who really care about the country have been run out of the race by virtue of the media completely ignoring them - that would be Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo.
Good luck with this election - I’m not too encouraged by any of our prospects. By the way, the World of Islam and the Chi-Coms are now buying our banks and financial institutions, in case you haven’t noticed.
Hillary & her bunch just don’t learn. Obama can counter-punch with the best of them. He has done that to her many times in the campaign & she always ends up with a bloody nose. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving person.
My biggest weakness is I donate 90% of my income to the poor and 40 hours of my time every week to a homeless shelter. Sorry, but I just can’t help myself!
(Top that Edwards!)
But we can look back at past experiences. Let’s take a look see at what Obambi does on the issues.
Practically all our these prigs aren’t fit to serve. It’s all about them and their egos. Their rhetorical whirl consists of empty words while noxious verbal flatulence fills the voids. BO and the Clinton’s are one in the same: opposite ends of a false prophet.
I read a column a little while ago (probably intended to cheer conservatives up) that postulated that we had less to fear from Hillary than Obama because Hillary has no principles she will do whatever is politically expedient and may at times do the right thing for the wrong reasons. Similarly, because she is such a congenital liar, she may not follow through on many of promises and end up with the right result, albeit for the wrong reasons. Still I am pulling for Obama to beat her into the ground like a tent peg so that her ambition will be forever crushed. An ancillary benefit is that Obama should be easily beaten by any of the republican candidates.
#3 Boomer said “They only say what they mean to get elected and then do what ever they damn well please.”
I strongly believe that if a president fails to uphold promises made that won them the election, they should step down, or better yet, be impeached for fraud, because that is exactly what it is - fraud.
I’m afraid Hillary will probably win the nomination…by any means necessary.
I find it amusing to watch two liberals fighting. When ever a conservative would call a Clinton to the carpet the left called us “mean-spirited”. The Clintons have always had other people do their dirty work for them and still do.
If Obama wins Nevada & S.C. the fighting will become even nastier. Billy Bumkin & The Shrill getting skewerd by another lefty is a riot.
They should film it in the trailer park that’s across the street from Silky’s place. Toss in Harry and Nancy and you would have another Jack**S Movie.
That “powerful response” manifests itself in the form of costly litigation resulting in “powerful profits” for Mr.Edwards.
I hope she does…. anything named “Clinton” is unelectable.
Exactly! It has been fun, and it’s high time there was someone on the left who could take the Clinton’s to task without having to simultaneously stave-off the liberal media attack-dogs like the Republicans have had to do since 1992!
“obambi” is the funniest thing I have seen lately. I belly laughed. I can just see him sprawled on the ice.
Reagan promised to balance the budget. Bush promised to balance the budget. Bush was going to be a uniter. However dishonest you think the Clinton’s are, they do not hold a candle to Bush and the Republican candidates. Are they pro or anti amnesty? Are they pro or anti abortion (question for Romney and Giuliani)?
Fred Thompson is the only candidate on either side that tells it like it is and doesn’t pull any punches or sugar coat the bad news. All conservatives should get behind him. Go Fred!
GO FRED!!!!
oooooooohhhh A..Meri..Ca…wake uuUUUUUp!
& to my friend who is voting for Obambi:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/01/obamas-man-in-k.html
I know, I know……so many links….so little time.
P.S. Michelle, I loved the Snow Pic! We got snow-turned-to-rain….not as beautiful….& the Sparrows are soaking wet! Poor babies.
the ForkedTongue Fable:
” Once Upon a Time
a very nice Person (probably American)
was walking through Central Park
& as it became nightfall, & as our person had not yet arrived @ said destination, a little fear & trepidation began to set in….
when who should be there right upfront in the middle of the Path?, but an old snake who said , “I am cold! & in need of assistance. If you will put me in your pocket to warm me up, I promise to always be your friend &! get you the FrK outta here.”
Our person replied,”O my, but aren’t you a Snake?? I mean, you could seriously hurt me!!!” to which snake countered,”look, i’ma ‘victim’ bigotry, profiling, hate crimes you name it…& all because of some small mistake i made….but the ACLU won my case, so now it’s a Hate crime to think like that! about me,… you can trust me & besides, I will be your FRIEND for Life!!”
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No sooner did Person go to reach for the snake then it BIT! her/him…doesn’t matter, & falling backwards in abject horror,Person cried out, ‘YOU SAID YOU WOULD BE MY FRIEND & GET ME OUTTA HERE!! & NOW I WILL DIE!……….
to that,the snake replied,
‘you knew what I was when you picked me up.’ ”
from ‘Captain America’
Love the snake song. Heard it for the first time when I was a kid and keep it in my head, always, because sometimes I get goofy and forget that people lie for
their own reasons and I may not know those reasons even exist. Loved the fact
that the Clintons are SO FOR LABOR and yet, when a union endorses Obama, the
Clintons go to court to keep the members of that union from voting. Then, when
called on it Slick “PMS” Willy throws a ringtailed walleyed fit right in front of the
media and their cameras. Makes me wonder just how ugly he could have become
if he had been impeached. Probably would have taken at least one SWAT team or
the Marines to get them out of the White House, I betcha. We definitely do not want them back in there because this time they’d decide not to leave and we would wind up with squatters.
lgm #25 “However dishonest you think the Clinton’s are, they do not hold a candle to Bush and the Republican candidates”
Gee, thank you so much for that lgm. It is so clear and believable when you say it like that.
Making Hillary squirm is always a good thing. He has enough charm I wouldn’t take him lightly - the public as a whole couldn’t tell you anything substantial about their favorite candidate - but only that they “like” him or her.
Since I remember a lot of women that said they were voting for Reagan,
“because he’s soooo goodlooking,” I am never surprised at what drives people to vote for a candidate. Obama is going to get a lot of voters on his
personality alone and also on the fact that he is a change from Bush/Clinton/
Bush/Clinton.
ROFL
I long for the day of Jimmuh Carter when my CD’s were returning 24%. Oh, wait, I was the only one working too.
Never mind.
And the beat goes on.
The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the - Web Reconnaissance for 01/18/2008 A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often.
If what the MSM pundits and pollsters would have us believe proves true, that the democrats will very likely be selecting the next president in their primaries, then let us all hope they make the right choice with their nominee!
I would much rather risk the physical and economic safety and security of my family and nation with the forty-something who is youthful and idealistic enough to realize the intrinsic value in working with the other side of the isle in achieving goals that work for the greater good of our country and who has a vested interest in seeing that the American future remains viable for everyone, than the sixty-something who is too rigid and self-centered to compromise on anything and can see no farther into the future than the latest poll numbers.
Surely though, by the time all the primary dust has settled and the American people are ready to head into the voting booths this November, they will be over this fit of self-flagellation and, regardless of who the party nominees may be, decide to make the right decision and stick with the GOP!
I won’t be voting for any Democrat any time soon. But you’ve got to give Obama credit for that joke (or if someone else gave it to him, just using it). On the surface, it gently pokes fun at himself and the others. Beneath the surface it’s a stiletto-sharp jab at the others for being pompous AND rigid AND coercive. It’s just perfect.
Out of the public eye, Hillary must be seething. And that’s a good thing.