And again! This was not the Jim Johnson I knew…Updated
Okay, he didn’t actually say it that way this time. Yet, anyway. But it’s a new verse of the same old song as James Johnson, the Fannie Mae exec who got the sweetheart loans from a shady subprime lender Barack Obama had railed against on the campaign trail, has become a political liability.
So now he’s off of Barry O’s vice-presidential search team, and he’s occupying a new position:
And yes, I did write this post and do that picture way in advance. I knew this was coming. Updates to follow, I’m sure.
HEH: Jim M. in the comments:
Dang! The road to the White House sure is a bumpy ride!
UPDATE: Let’s not distract from the hope and change, please:
“I would not dream of being a party to distracting attention from that historic effort,” he said in a statement. “I believe Barack Obama’s candidacy for President of the United States is the most exciting and important of my lifetime.”
Johnson, 64, said that he had done nothing wrong, saying “blatantly false statements and misrepresentations” had been written about him.
“Jim did not want to distract in any way from the very important task of gathering information about my vice presidential nominee, so he has made a decision to step aside that I accept,” Obama said in an e-mailed statement.
Question–so if James Johnson didn’t really “work” for Obama, can he resign from a job he never had?
EARLIER TODAY: Barack Obama held a roundtable on “predatory lending”. As Michelle might say, snort. Here’s his speech; this line jumped out at me:
This has to stop. We cannot let the rules of the game continue to be rigged against ordinary Americans. We need a President who will look out for the interests of hardworking families, not just their big campaign donors and corporate allies.
Like Countrywide Lending, you mean?
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The bus is going to need new shocks by the time this is all over.
Actually, the wheels on the bus go bump and thump, bump and thump.
John Cleese:
‘Eees not out. He’s just changing the oil.
Obama’s bus is becoming the equivalent of all those old stories about mob hits that got rid of the bodies in the cement foundations of skyscrapers …
Good thing that monster bus has all that extra clearance underneath it … gonna need it …
Channeling Queen….
“Bump, bump, bump. another one hits the bus…”
I saved a version of that without the caption. I have a feeling I may get to make use of it again.
Dang! The road to the White House sure is a bumpy ride!
ROFLMAO
Good one, see_dubya!
Obamas new campain pin should resemble a bus token.
Dear Senator Obama,
During my playing days, I was used to having people underfoot. Now that I’m retired, it’s getting ridiculous. And, it’s not good for Michelle’s kids ERRRRRR my old knees. So, stop throwing people under me!
Signed,
Jerome Bettis
*out*
Now that is a bus worthy of the Obama campaign.
Bus? He’s going to need a double-bottom tractor-trailer.
lol…that is the stick figure of photoshops!
I’m thinking the skid plate under Obama’s bus is in need of replacement soon.
Wow, this story just keeps getting vetter and vetter!
bloghooligan–it’s actually a powerpoint. I’ve obviously never figured out Photoshop or GIMP, and the Snagit program I do most of my images with doesn’t put text on an angle.
I think it gets the point across, though.
Actually, it doesn’t matter a twit what is uncovered/vetted about those close to Obama. His supportors are glassy eyed zealots, shaking heads in agreement with everything he says, and base their support of him on the empty promises of two words. HOPE. CHANGE. The same folks that criticized the term, “War on Terror.” Irony at it’s finest.
Critics.
I think it does more than “gets the point across”, see_dubya. Good job!
Is it the Changemobile or Hopemobile?
see-dubya, my friend, you’ve got to get that little twuck on a tee-shirt.
That bus is just about high-centered on all of the bodies under it by now, isn’t it?
Hilarious photo! But even with a suspension that high off the ground, I still bet the tires won’t touch payment by the time B. Hussein Obama finishes putting former friends, family and associates underneath that bus.
Larry; “I quit.”
Moe; “You can’t quit.”
Larry; “Why not?”
Moe; “Because you’re fired.”
Curly; “You can’t fire him.”
Moe; “Why not?”
Curly; “Because he quit!”
Mr. Hope-n-Change is already contributing to the unemployment roles. Do you think he will offer him extended unemployment benefits?
Can someone photoshop Obama(pbuh) in the driver’s seat w/ a smoke hanging off his lip? Might as well have some fun while we’re at it…
S/D Again you did good. This under the bus in getting so much fun. At this rate bho won’t have many, who work or do not work for him, who don’t have skid marks on them from bus wheels rolling over them.
L
Is that like the predatory representation we have in D.C.?
Saint Obama (PBUH)
“I am going to need bigger tires to get over that pile of bodies.”
If this is what BHO does to his friends, what does he do to his enemies?
Talk with them without preconditions…
While we are predicting the future (ok, so we’re not but I’m going to say this anyway), I think Hussein in all his arrogance, will start messing with the ladies before everything is over and done with. He’s just that sorta guy. Take if from a female, we can see it a mile away – he’s a skank.
Jim, we hardly knew thee (well, we did, but apparently Barry didn’t).
I don’t think Obama will be like Bill. I think his wife has his member in a lockbox. She’s that sorta of woman.
*SMACK*
Ouch! But, accurate.
Be careful. The same used to be said of Hillary with Willy.
Nice Photoshop see-dubya! With the large crowd supporting the Obamasiah now gathering underneath the bus even this one is going to need longer extensions for its lifters.
Well, the rumor floating around a few months ago was that Hillary hasn’t touched (a) Willy since Chelsey.
i.e. He had tacit permission to play as long as noone noticed.
Obama gives a new meaning to “thanks to the support of my staff.” I bet they didn’t know tha job description included helping him get traction under the bus wheels, when he got stuck spinning.
thatheWas there also a rumor that Chelsey wasn’t really Willy’s?
Vince Foster unavailable for comment : )
On June 11th, 2008 at 3:39 pm, SPCOlympics said:
While we are predicting the future (ok, so we’re not but I’m going to say this anyway), I think Hussein in all his arrogance, will start messing with the ladies before everything is over and done with. He’s just that sorta guy. Take if from a female, we can see it a mile away – he’s a skank.
interesting… did anybody think it was just a little weird that Mr. busy-with-hope-and-change found the time to answer constant emails from Starlet Johannson EVERY DAY! (Maybe he’s “hoping” for a little “change” from Michelle O. — i can’t say I blame ‘im)
Well, maybe it was suicide, after all. Lying down with Hillary might be enough to drive a guy over the edge.
Did he get this line from his
ex boss’esI mean uh, uh,uh, ex boss’es wife?Will anyone at the NY Times raise the following issue: Barack Obama says the rules are rigged against ordinary Americans. Yet how does he square this with his first appointment as the presumptive nominee being Jim Johnson. Yes the same Jim Johnson who ran FANNIE MAE and used clever techniques to disguise the fact that he mad 21 million dollars in about one year. How does Barack square this with Johnson getting 3 sweetheart loans from Countrywide while he was running FANNIE MAE, which happened to be a business partner of Countrywide? How does Barack square this with his first appointment, being a crony of Angelo Mozillo, the disgraced former CEO of Countrywide?
Sanctimony thy name is Barack. Not that the NY Times will cover the story.
So now we know what he means by change…as in staff, friends, pastors, church, positions. No wonder he wants universal health care.
He’s still not in the Clinton’s league; Better under the bus than six feet under.
He means people that don’t have friends like Rezko, Johnson, ect.
Looks good enough for South Park(tm). Which seems eerily appropriate for the Obamessiah…
Well I certainly did not need that visual. Ew. I need a shower.
or does he mean people with average grades and intelligence that don’t get in ivy league schools?
At least being thrown under the Bus is safe, theres no gas in it to go anywhere so it cant run em over. $4.30 here.
Hey See-Dubya, I see that you have Strathfield Car Radio ad on Obambi’s bus. Shouldn’t Jane Harman’s (D-Ca) Husband have and Ad?
He made millions off car radios and sound systems
I hope some 527 is editing together footage of all the “this isn’t the [fill-in the crook's name] that I knew” episodes for airing at a later date. Will make for a very nice commercial… unless the list gets way too long.
In the future, all Saint Barry references should be changed from:
Saint Barry (PBUH: peace be unto him)
to:
Saint Barry (PBUDB: people be under da bus)
*out*
I hope someone does.
And I also hope that they can weather the “OMFG look at these racists who are attacking Obama!!!” charges from the media if they do.
ROTFLMAO Barry F. #40. Just the thought of it is enough to jump off a tall building.
Kalifornia Kafir #51, McCain should do an ad with him talking to reporters in the Straight talk express and every so often have them act like they keep hitting road bumps. Reporter asks, what the hell is going on?
McCain:Just road kill from Obama’s bus.
Hey Pedro!
Si!
We just hit another bump.
Si!
(bus continues down the road)
Hey, Pedro!
Si!
We just hit another Obama campaign associate!
How come you know he was from Obama?
Cause when we run him over he said, “I hope this isn’t the kind of change we’re all in for!”
D’OHbummer is going to end up throwing himself under the bus.
The bus above looks waaaay too long for Obama’s supporters. This is more plausible. Or this.
I’m sure someone will correct me where I’m wrong but I read that many of the people stuck with the ‘predatory loans’ are in the ‘get rich quick’ scheme of flipping houses?
get low loans, flip a house, repeat.. get a loan, get stuck with a house or two, start crapping bricks of gold or work 2-3 jobs so you won’t go under..
Am I missing something? Shouldn’t that bus be leaning to the left?
Why is Obama always talking about a game?
Love the bus. Is the Kool-Aid privatized?
Does this mean Obie gets to keep the Marc Rich pardon guy? One down, one to go?
When its against him, it’s the old school game of dirty politics. When he does it…it’s change!
And the wheels on the bus come off and off….
I found it interesting that when Hussein called a journalist “sweetie,” he was called on it, apologized (in typical Hussein fashion) and it was never mentioned on this blog. No one mentioned it. I saw him refer to this woman as “sweetie” and I threw up in my mouth a little bit.
How about a president who knows how to run a country and let our representatives look out for us!
All the baggage this guy has is turning out to be steamer trunks.I’m voting against his mothers side of the family.Does that make me a racist?
#67 No it doesn’t make you racist, but it does make you a “typical white” person.
I think I can, I think I can……damn! another buddy down…..I think I can, I think I can……damn, it’s only a flag…..I think I can, I think I can……damn, it’s really Michelle that does all the thinking…..I thought I could, I thought I could……damn you average white folk.
See-dubya’s missing the point about Johnson. As far as I can see there’s nothing wrong with getting a great deal on a loan. The problem is Obama lambasting CEO pay when the guy he asked to vet his VP candidates made $21 million in one year from Fannie Mae.
But the best part was watching Sen. Obama sputter and bumble through that press conference yesterday. Get this guy away from his set speech and HE’S a President Bush third term.
Even Ted Kennedy is afraid of Obama’s driving habits. “ERRAH, STAY AWAY FROM THE BRIDGES”
Let’s see….
One candidate is an empty suit who can’t articulate a coherent statement without a teleprompter….
and the other guy is a doddering old opportunist who hopes to ride a war record from almost 40 years ago while catering to the very people who want him defeated…
In the words of Cartman…
“Screw you guys…I’m going home…”
Oh no! Kerry’s running again? Aieeeee!
Comrade Obama is a walking, jive talking, hoodwinking and bamboozling CULTURE OF CORRUPTION all by himself. Time to blow the whistle.
The Democrat Socialists chose poorly.
As BHO gets strafed again & again Hillary is busy raising funds & bootin botox…
she never released her delegates now did she?
Be afraid.
Barack Obama and the “Hate Talk Express.”
Hillary released them. Think up another Clinton conspiracy.
Obama the Wise selected Jim Johnson. Yet it was Johnson who steered John Kerry to select John Edwards in 2004. Bob Shrum said Kerry “wished he’d never picked Edwards, that he should have gone with his gut.” Shrum also said Kerry was planning to make Johnson “treasury secretary or White House chief of staff in a Kerry administration.”
With this in Johnson’s past, Obama said Johnson was a volunteer who was not looking for a job. Sure. I believe it. I also believe Kerry advised Obama on his “throw everyone under the bus” strategy. Johnson saw Kerry reading a road map with Obama at the wheel and he headed for the door. And he blew a kiss as he stepped out–how sweet.
On June 11th, 2008 at 6:28 pm, Sean.Hackbarth said:
Hillary released them. Think up another Clinton conspiracy.
It seems that you are right…my bad.
But she will be back.
Shouldn’t the bus be waving the white flag? Or at least one flag that represents the Black Panthers? How ’bout the upside down version of the American flag for all of Obummer’s anti-American buddies?
The bus should definitely be pink or at least have a rainbow on it to denote that “hope” and “change” will go on without the Jim Johnson’s of the Obummer campaign no longer doing any kind of material damage to the Messiah.
I do like those tires. Very monster truck. I sure hope they’ve been field tested to make sure they don’t run over any other liberals silly enough to say something that won’t benefit Obummer, Michelle, or the kiddies along the way.
Does this help Michelle’s kids?
(Last name omitted on purpose for pun value.
)
Dave T.. # 78
Better that advice than what BHO got from Teddy kennedy.. drive the bus over the bridge.. (cheap shot.. I know )
just realized this was on the wrong thread.. sorry.. too many tabs late last night.
almost barfed when I read about what BO said about those “tricky” credit card companies in that speech- I guess he loves that victimhood….Here is a solution for those people that don’t know what to do with those pesky credit care applications (and when has one been 30 pages?) Tear THEM up- yes thats all you poor victims have to do- Just Tear them up in little strips…problem solved. I must tear up two or three a week…Use your brain poor victims. I am losing my mind and patience with this “everyone a victim” garbage….