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1. #1
   On April 25th, 2009 at 1:05 pm, ajmontana said:

   Ha, not going to read it on a beautiful weekend, back from errands and draft on horizon. I think he’s a putz, no class either he or Michelle O.
   The Bush’s out classed them 100/1

2. #2
   On April 25th, 2009 at 1:10 pm, regularguy said:

   Pulitzer material.

3. #3
   On April 25th, 2009 at 1:12 pm, skysoljr82 said:

   Read about 2 paragraphs and threw up a little in my mouth. Tasted like pickles and milk.

4. #4
   On April 25th, 2009 at 1:16 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

   Pravda

5. #5
   On April 25th, 2009 at 1:19 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

   And his last sentence sums it up best.

   What’s hip today might become passé.

   Exactly.

6. #6
   On April 25th, 2009 at 1:21 pm, gunslingerpatriot said:

   It seems like the average Lgm post.

   GSP
   “This is Sparta!”

7. #7
   On April 25th, 2009 at 1:23 pm, no2pcbs1 said:

   hey sam zero’s body language shows confusion and submission, and there is nothing hip about that. even a guilt driven white like you should be able to see that.

8. #8
   On April 25th, 2009 at 1:29 pm, beenthere said:

   Well, as a typical right-winger, if I were to lose 50 IQ points, I would be cruising in the -25 range, so I just skimmed the article very quickly. It did occur to me, however, that if one were to replace “hip” with “flip” or “dip” or “crip” (for his political thugishness) throughout the article, one might find oneself closer to the truth.

9. #9
   On April 25th, 2009 at 1:31 pm, single stack said:

   May our forefathers forgive us. We need competent, strong, respectable, pro American, not hip.
   If that punk is hip I’m really glad I’m not.

10. #10
    On April 25th, 2009 at 1:33 pm, torabora said:

    The Onion.

11. #11
    On April 25th, 2009 at 1:36 pm, Bruce said:

    He’s not hip. He’s pathetic. He’s incompetent. He’s dishonest. He’s immoral. He’s godless. He’s ineligible to fill the office of President. He’s an enemy of America. He is an embarrassment. He is evil…

    …He’s a lot of things, but he’s NOT hip!

12. #12
    On April 25th, 2009 at 1:40 pm, Ragspierre said:

    It’s so hip that school kids in Albany, N.Y., coined a term for it: “Baracking.”

    Millions of other Americans are on board, coining their own definition…

    Baracking: verb; to get screwed (“Boy, he just gave generations of Americans a good Baraking); to destroy an economy (“He’s Baraking the entire market structure of incentives and disincentives”); to weaken a nation’s security (“Well, he just Baraked our whole intelligence community”).

13. #13
    On April 25th, 2009 at 1:42 pm, ajmontana said:

    Ditto what Bruce said.

14. #14
    On April 25th, 2009 at 1:47 pm, JT said:

    All flash and no substance. We knew that already. Its like Huggybear is POTUS. I’d rather have someone competent that can do the job.

15. #15
    On April 25th, 2009 at 1:50 pm, inspiredhome said:

    Well that’s about all that’s going for him. Nothing but an empty suit.

16. #16
    On April 25th, 2009 at 1:51 pm, kudafa said:

    Let’s take a look at 2 of those “hip: pols named: Adam Clayton Powell spent most/all of his elected time on some island, possibly in the Caribbean. Between visits to the moon, Jerry Brown was shacking up with some 3rd rate singer. Our country does not need a “leader” who lowers himself & the Office of the President to the same pathetic level as some self-worshipping celebrity on Leno. That appeals only to half-wits & children who are easily impressed & manipulated.

17. #17
    On April 25th, 2009 at 1:52 pm, sonofdy said:

    During BNCOC there was open discussion of how hated obama is.

    I never saw that level of ditrust and hate even of clinton.

18. #18
    On April 25th, 2009 at 1:54 pm, Dimsdale said:

    It’s so hip that school kids in Albany, N.Y., coined a term for it: “Baracking.” And it doesn’t stop there. Those in the know at Albany High greet each other by saying: “What’s up, my Obama?”

    Here, we refer to someone “having his/her head up his/her Obama.”

    and they respond to a sneeze with “Barack you.”

    We have something similar, but it isn’t a blessing, LOL!

    Misbehavior is peer-corrected with the admonition, “Barack’s in the White House,” which translates, “Show some respect.”

    We have “are you out of your Baraking mind?!?!?!?!”

19. #19
    On April 25th, 2009 at 1:56 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Oh man, Michelle is still around. That ring should rub right out. Anyone know where she keeps the coasters?

20. #20
    On April 25th, 2009 at 1:56 pm, tre said:

    Is he “hip” or is he a “Dumb Butt” (pun intended).

    I don’t want a President who is “hip”. I want one that is smart, wise, good judgement, and with strong convictions. As far as I can tell, Duh One is smart, and that’s all.

21. #21
    On April 25th, 2009 at 1:56 pm, sonofdy said:

    and they respond to a sneeze with “Barack you.”

    And may biden guide you, amen.

    

22. #22
    On April 25th, 2009 at 1:57 pm, sonofdy said:

    I don’t want a President who is “hip”. I want one that is smart, wise, good judgement, and with strong convictions. As far as I can tell, Duh One is smart, and that’s all.

    Perez Hilton is “hip”.

    Thank God I am not hip.

23. #23
    On April 25th, 2009 at 2:00 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    He’s got … rhythm

    I got that far and stopped.

24. #24
    On April 25th, 2009 at 2:06 pm, teachem2 said:

    “Obama has this awareness that other presidents haven’t had. He’s white, and he’s black. He’s an elitist, and he’s regular folk. He’s not pinned down to a perspective.”

    That is the PC way to say he flip-flops or he’s wishy-washy. I’d really appreciate someone who had some principles, morals, and ethics that they lived by and stuck to regardless of which way the wind is blowing. Not being “pinned down” means he has no core values.

25. #25
    On April 25th, 2009 at 2:08 pm, tre said:

    It’s so hip that school kids in Albany, N.Y., coined a term for it: “Baracking.”

    It’s not a coincidence that it sounds like “Breaking”.

26. #26
    On April 25th, 2009 at 2:18 pm, mjk said:

    HOly crap, is the writer a 12 year old girl with a crush? Grow up, buttercup.

27. #27
    On April 25th, 2009 at 2:29 pm, love2rumba said:

    My brain! My brain!

    What pathetic writing this is….whew my IQ is coming back!

28. #28
    On April 25th, 2009 at 2:33 pm, DavidHughes said:

    mjk

    Seems there are millions of 12 year old girls out there with a crush on BO… and most of them seem to be living within a hundred mile radius of me. The “I am Joe the Plumber” thing didn’t take here, but the “I am hypnotized by The One’s beauty and awesomeness” thing sure seems to have. Gag.

29. #29
    On April 25th, 2009 at 2:56 pm, Ragspierre said:

    The “I am Joe the Plumber” thing didn’t take here, but the “I am hypnotized by The One’s beauty and awesomeness” thing sure seems to have. Gag.

    Condolences.

    Flee. FLEEE!!! while there’s still time…!!!

30. #30
    On April 25th, 2009 at 3:20 pm, JimC214 said:

    There isn’t enough chap stick to cover this writers lips from all all the butt kissing. To quite my son who is in H.S.. If some one said to him What’s up, my Obama?”, his reply would get me banned. He finds his fellow students who worship this clown as quite pathetic.

31. #31
    On April 25th, 2009 at 3:22 pm, RetFireman said:

    Just where are they getting all this? What show, what paper, what? I mean, I have been watching what he has been doing very closely, and I have seen NOTHING of all this “cool”, “hip”, “intelligence”, “great speaker” that everyone has been talking about since he first hit the stage at the DNC back in 2004.

    I can’t help but think this is nothing more than the Left doing what they do best…repeat a lie over and over again until people take it as the God;s honest truth.

    Which means it is all that more important for all of us to continue to expose him for the immense moron who can’t tie two words together by himself that he is.

32. #32
    On April 25th, 2009 at 3:33 pm, FruNobulux said:

    So being a classless, shallow, faux-intellectual is hip. Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess. Incredibly enough, there are also people who think George Clooney is intelligent and erudite.

33. #33
    On April 25th, 2009 at 3:36 pm, PKAmmoTroop said:

    On April 25th, 2009 at 1:56 pm, tre said:

    As far as I can tell, Duh One is smart, and that’s all.

    Prove it.

34. #34
    On April 25th, 2009 at 3:39 pm, ajmontana said:

    lol pk. ahahha they can’t.

35. #35
    On April 25th, 2009 at 3:46 pm, RetFireman said:

    Then again, look at how many millions he has convinced of his greatness. Maybe he is smart…diabolically.

36. #36
    On April 25th, 2009 at 3:52 pm, ajmontana said:

    Prove it.

    He is spending millions on lawyers blocking the release of all his transcripts and birth records, they can’t prove it. Crapweasel that he is.

37. #37
    On April 25th, 2009 at 3:59 pm, CO2 Producer said:

    Compare/contrast. Times Union, 3/21/09:

    ALBANY — What up, my Obama?

    In the hallways of Albany High School, that is the new hello.

    If you sneeze, your friends at Albany High might say “Barack you.” Goofing off in the hallway? “Barack’s in the White House now” means cool it.

    Presidents usually don’t earn a blip on the radar of teenage American hipness. But Barack Obama’s rise to the White House already has changed the way young people talk to one another. Creatively riffing on the unusual name — Baracking — is a natural progression of Obama’s prominent spot in pop culture.

    Along with simple phonetics, it’s symbolic of young people’s admiration, said Deborah Tannen, a linguistics professor at Georgetown University.

    “It sounds like they are transferring their positive feelings about the person to new contexts,” she said.

    Politico, 4/24/09:
    

    It’s so hip that school kids in Albany, N.Y., coined a term for it: “Baracking.” And it doesn’t stop there. Those in the know at Albany High greet each other by saying: “What’s up, my Obama?” and they respond to a sneeze with “Barack you.” Misbehavior is peer-corrected with the admonition, “Barack’s in the White House,” which translates, “Show some respect.”

    Deborah Tannen, professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, said it was “just really stunning” that kids were co-opting the president’s name as a term of endearment and identification.

    “This is the most emblematic, positive thing that kids could say,” she said. “It’s connecting them to him, saying that there’s something special in the connection between them.”

    What a barack. (How stunning is it that I creatively riffed on the unusual name?)

38. #38
    On April 25th, 2009 at 4:11 pm, CO2 Producer said:

    Maybe “breathtaking” would be more apropos than “stunning.”

39. #39
    On April 25th, 2009 at 4:18 pm, yohannbiimu said:

    How wonderful. We’ve got a “commander-in-chief” whose one far-reaching characteristic is that he’s “hip.”

    Our nation is being run and operated at all levels by 12 year-old mentalities. We’re doomed. That’s all I can say about it. We’re doomed…

40. #40
    On April 25th, 2009 at 4:22 pm, Dave Turson said:

    The writer of this Obama praising hip-hipster-hip-hop-hippie worship column is obsessed with race issues. Yet, for all his Obama praise/worship, his column falls flat on Obama’s hipness at the end. Reading this was like eating a Twinkie with no cream filling:

    For a brief period in the 1970s and 1980s, one might argue that Washington’s eternal pol Marion Barry was hip; that was before drugs, booze and women brought him low. To be sure, the track record for hip politicians isn’t promising. History suggests that the power of personality has limitations in politics. It sours under public scrutiny. So can it last? Can Obama’s hipness survive the weight and responsibility of the office? Maybe there’s a reason presidents aren’t hip.

41. #41
    On April 25th, 2009 at 4:29 pm, Joy said:

    But watch him walk. (into windows) Listen to him talk. (Uhhh, so uhhhh, and uhhhhh, huh huh…) See the body language, the expressions, (nose in air, ummmm, uhhhh) the clothes. He’s got attitude (ultra snob and thug thizzle), rhythm (not from what I saw in his Ellen dance on YouTube), a sense of humor, (OKAY, this is a challenge… show me ONE evidence of a sense of humor!?) contemporary tastes.(wagyu beef, arugala, partying while rome burns)

42. #42
    On April 25th, 2009 at 4:31 pm, right_on said:

    He is green, open, athletic, tech-savvy, healthy (?). And his hip image certainly isn’t hurt by his wife, who is so obviously cool — setting trends (Sleeveless! Tending her own garden!), confidently mingling with superstars, gracing magazine covers coast to coast.

    Healthy…he’s cut back on that smoking, so let that be a lesson to are youngsters…if you only smoke a little, you too can be healthy!

    Um, anyone that actually gardens, and who watched that little clip of MO supposedly gardening, can be confident she didn’t have a clue. She appeared uncomfortable, and clumsy. Pretty pathetic attempt a being “common” if you ask me.

    Barack “Cool Breeze”, and Michelle “Green Thumbs” Obama exude confidence…as long as you don’t make comments about his ears, or her under bite.

43. #43
    On April 25th, 2009 at 4:41 pm, sdillard said:

    I don’t WANT a president that is “hip”. I want a president that has no IDEA what “hip” is.

44. #44
    On April 25th, 2009 at 4:59 pm, MarcoPolo said:

    I actually wish I could lose IQ points. It would dull the constant pain of being intelligent in America.

45. #45
    On April 25th, 2009 at 5:34 pm, yohannbiimu said:

    On April 25th, 2009 at 4:41 pm, sdillard said:

    I don’t WANT a president that is “hip”. I want a president that has no IDEA what “hip” is.

    Exactly. I could care less if my president was on top of the mindless pop culture trends and whether the Hollyweird bunch like him or not. The fact that he’s such a darling to these nincompoops tells me that we’ve got the absolute WORST person in the White House possible.

46. #46
    On April 25th, 2009 at 6:03 pm, fuseman said:

    I actually wish I could lose IQ points. It would dull the constant pain of being intelligent in America.

    people here in mexifornia,notice i dont say residents,smoke something-i forget what it’s called-to deal with that. i think it’s working because a weightlifter is the governor.

47. #47
    On April 25th, 2009 at 6:36 pm, graysonret said:

    That appeals only to half-wits & children who are easily impressed & manipulated.

    That, unfortunately, is what the president and congress are banking on. There were enough of them to vote Obama in, and re-elect Murtha. Maybe they hope to sway more to “join the hope and change cause”.

48. #48
    On April 25th, 2009 at 6:38 pm, TanyaB said:

    It would be nice to have a president that worried about being attacked by terrorists, illegals coming across our borders by the thousands a week,, and bringing God knows what diseases, Iran nuking Israel, and the taliban taking control in the largest owner of Nukes in the middle east.
    One that didn’t run all over the world telling everyone how awful America is.
    Then run all over the U.S. pushing for more money, and GLOBUL warming, using 9,000 gallons of fuel on one trip in the US. to preach to us about how WE have to save fuel.
    A president with dignity, and look like it, not try and look like some teeny bopper “cool prez.” He’s a weasel!!!

49. #49
    On April 25th, 2009 at 7:40 pm, Jvette said:

    If by hip she means an arrogant, lying, condescending snob with thin skin and a childish need to lash out at detractors, then, yes, Obama is hip.

50. #50
    On April 25th, 2009 at 7:41 pm, simcoe said:

    Obama strutted onto Jay Leno’s stage and plopped down on the couch, making him the first sitting president to do that. He unveiled his March Madness basketball bracket from the Oval Office. And speaking of basketball, who missed the sight of POTUS dressed in all black, sitting courtside at a Bulls-Wizards game with a cup of beer and high-fiving a trash-talking fan? How hip was that?!

    Who knew someone could make being the chief executive of a world leading country a 9 – 5 job. Feet up on the coffee table or playing with the dog on weekends. I feel so much safer now.

    And healthier too, with all the un-inoculated illegals bringing their pandemic into my town. Internet news is making the connection from Mexico City but their all dancing around actually saying it’s only the beginning of the infectious and unclean illegals bringing their diseases along with them.

51. #51
    On April 25th, 2009 at 8:07 pm, Marie said:

    I once lamented not having kids….

    Now I am happy I don’t have kids or grandkids.

    I think there will be some big time gnashing of teeth soon….

52. #52
    On April 25th, 2009 at 9:22 pm, feebiebabe said:

    Abraham Lincoln – (not hip), Ronald Reagan (not hip)…George Washington (not hip).

    Hip, eh? Well call me a square if you must, but I’d rather have an ol’fogey who can protect and defend this country rather than someone who runs around apologizing to foreign dictators while looking like a complete and total PantyWaist in the process.

53. #53
    On April 25th, 2009 at 10:19 pm, DavidHughes said:

    I think there will be some big time gnashing of teeth soon….

    The government would have fixed those gnashed teeth for free. Of course, your grandkids would have had to wait until they had grandkids of their own to finally get in to have the work done, but… free! Let us all open our hymnals to page 666 and sing, “Obama, Lift Me Up with Thine Ears.”

54. #54
    On April 26th, 2009 at 12:29 am, ajmontana said:

    “hipness.”

    Yeah he’s “Hip” alright, if you’re into Carnies.

55. #55
    On April 26th, 2009 at 1:16 am, gunslingerpatriot said:

    feebiebabe,
    I agree with you and would go further in wanting a “hardbody” for a president than a “softbody” for a president.

    Reagan, JFK, and Bush 43 (first term) were hardbody Presidents who confronted evil and fought it without regret.

    Carter, Clinton, and Obama are softbody Presidents who would not confront and deal with evil effectively.

    GSP
    “This is Sparta!”

56. #56
    On April 26th, 2009 at 2:21 am, DocattheAutopsy said:

    Michelle used the word “emetic”.

    That nets her a bonus 50 points!

    Our next secret blog word will be worth 75…

57. #57
    On April 26th, 2009 at 8:21 am, gco said:

    He’s a stupid person’s idea of what smart looks like. That doesn’t sound flattering, so they call it “hip.”

58. #58
    On April 26th, 2009 at 9:12 am, John Deaux said:

    On April 25th, 2009 at 1:40 pm, Ragspierre said:
    Baracking: verb; to get screwed (”Boy, he just gave generations of Americans a good Baraking); to destroy an economy (”He’s Baraking the entire market structure of incentives and disincentives”); to weaken a nation’s security (”Well, he just Baraked our whole intelligence community”).

    On April 25th, 2009 at 1:54 pm, Dimsdale said:
    Here, we refer to someone “having his/her head up his/her Obama.”

    So if I get this right, then we could concluded that Congress and the current administration have colluded to Barack us all in the Obama.

59. #59
    On April 26th, 2009 at 9:15 am, b-cat said:

    Anyone who voted for Obama should have the Barack knocked out of him.

60. #60
    On April 26th, 2009 at 9:27 am, Ragspierre said:

    So if I get this right, then we could concluded that Congress and the current administration have colluded to Barack us all in the Obama.

    THAAASSS it….!!!!

    Equal to getting Baracked in the Pelosi…

61. #61
    On April 26th, 2009 at 10:09 am, sbw999 said:

    This guy’s man crush on El Bama is vomit inducing. I guess the
    Prezster’s “hipness” didnt impress Europe. This article is the just the 456,874th item of proof showing America’s decline in almost every area of life, society, media and government.

62. #62
    On April 26th, 2009 at 10:41 am, longbow said:

    That he is “cool” and “hip” to the high-schoolers says it all. That’s why we don’t have people with high school kids’ outlook running things…until now, anyway.

    Funny but my definition of what is cool and hip includes doing my best to live up to the ideals of my religious beliefs and the ideals of my Country and our Constitution, to be responsible, to earn my way in life by working hard and not mooch off others, to value substance over style, and to seek truth and wisdom instead of the fickle approval of the crowd.

    And you all have it right – the coining of the new verb “to barack” someone or something is right on target. I plan to use it as much as I can, which may prove to be all too often in the coming months and years!

63. #63
    On April 26th, 2009 at 11:08 am, renegadeoffunk777 said:

    I teach English. If one of my ESL kids turned in that essay, I’d give them an “F” for horrible rhetoric and logic skills.

64. #64
    On April 26th, 2009 at 11:53 am, pueblo1032 said:

    Lose 50 points??? Hell, I had to stop after the first paragraph, could feel a 60-70 point drop coming on REAL FAST!!!

65. #65
    On April 26th, 2009 at 12:57 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    By the way Raggy, I left some good comments for you at the “100-day retrospective” thread. You are one sneaky troll.

66. #66
    On April 26th, 2009 at 1:39 pm, rocketman said:

    ***
    The Left Wing Media (not MSM) and our entertainment industry cram good looking EMPTY SUIT people down our throats constantly as examples of “really bright” people. No real measure of these person’s accomplishments is needed. Don’t confuse us with facts.
    ***
    The LWM put out a lot of stories about the first President Bush being a wimp–despite his having 4 aircraft shot out from underneath him in WW2.
    ***
    This was despite seeing the film shot from the submarine that picked him up out of the water a few hundred yards from the island beach. The water spouts created by Japanese bullets were all around the tall thin skinny pilot as the Navy fished him out of the water.
    ***
    Then compare the LWM treatment of Condi Rice and the brilliant Hillary Clinton. Or the second President Bush and President Obama (PBUH). No facts needed here either.
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

67. #67
    On April 26th, 2009 at 1:44 pm, rightisright said:

    ajmontana, IMHO you nailed it with one word, he is classless.

    “It’s like the new age dude, ya know, he’s like hip dude.” or is that dud?

    The guy is a zero, I’d love to see his school records, his birth certificate, along with anything that show accomplishment based on his very own merits, ANYTHING! And being black doesn’t count.

68. #68
    On April 26th, 2009 at 1:45 pm, rightisright said:

    ooops, 1/2 black

69. #69
    On April 26th, 2009 at 6:21 pm, Ragspierre said:

    You are one sneaky troll.

    I am not a troll at all.

    And I don’t resort to lying or name-calling to try to win a point.

70. #70
    On April 26th, 2009 at 7:43 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On April 26th, 2009 at 12:57 pm, Pasadena Phil said:
    By the way Raggy, I left some good comments for you at the “100-day retrospective” thread. You are one sneaky troll.

    On April 26th, 2009 at 6:21 pm, Ragspierre said:
    You are one sneaky troll.
    I am not a troll at all.

    And I don’t resort to lying or name-calling to try to win a point.

    O.K. I just got back from the hospital visiting our new grandson…Connor, 7 lb. 13 oz. 21 inches long. He is a keeper!!

    I just read all the comments. Also read the comments on the other thread referred to in the above post by Pasadea Phil. I hate to nose in here, but…SURPRISE!…I’m going to anyway. Everyone else is ignoring this, and maybe that is the best tact. But I am really worried about some of us, who basically AGREE with each other, doing some infighting. I have had issues with a couple people here on occasion and I am trying to steer away from commenting to them. We have enough on our plates trying to deal with the libtards without fighting amongst ourselves. All of us will have disagreements at some time or other. We are not all clones of each other…there are a lot of strong opinions and that is a good thing! Why resort to name-calling over inconsequentials like who is a RINO and who isn’t, etc.? Let’s reserve our nasty comments for the REAL trolls and not accuse each other of being those horrible creatures who sleep under rocks. That is just plain mean and the only thing it does is split us up. We can’t let that happen. If someone has a differing opinion, but we KNOW that person is NOT a troll, can we please not resort to that word? PP called me that once a few months ago, for absolutely no reason, and it really hurt. We all know who the trolls are, and they ain’t us! We can argue all we want, but let’s leave the name-calling to the ones who really deserve it, like lgm or ilmc, or huggypoo. Just my opinion.

71. #71
    On April 26th, 2009 at 8:37 pm, Ragspierre said:

    OK, mom…

    Look, it’s just that I find it VERY odd when you have a guy like PP who sounds like he believes the same things I do, has the same insights, and concludes stuff that I think is just delusional.

    I have to call people on that when I see it.

    Like, on the pirate threads, he was talking about how the pirates had been rebuked (?!?!?), and their government would now cooperate in arresting them (!?!?!?) and agree (?!?!?) to allow us to destroy their bases.

    That stuff made me wonder initially if he was not a subtle troll, but I’m convinced he’s not. (Subtle or a troll.) He’s just incredibly inconsistent.

    I’m also convinced he has some screws loose, though. Which is not his fault, and I may be bearing down on him too hard.

72. #72
    On April 26th, 2009 at 8:53 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On April 26th, 2009 at 8:37 pm, Ragspierre said:
    OK, mom…

    Rags…I have enjoyed most of PP’s posts. He does have some very good points, and I have complimented him when he is spot on. But I have also seen the other side of him and I don’t know what to make of it. I said a very mild, innocent thing about Michael Steele…way back when he was first selected as GOP Chair. I always liked Michael Steele. And when PP criticized him as a RINO, I just asked, in all honesty, what was RINO about Steele? Well, I got an earful, not about Michael Steele, but about how I was a troll and should go back to Kos where I belonged. Others on the thread defended me and told PP he was out of ine. Then, I later referred to it and PP had no idea what I was talking about. Kind of like Pelosi…selective amnesia. Since then, I have tried to forget it. But it was very troubling at the time!

73. #73
    On April 26th, 2009 at 9:15 pm, Ragspierre said:

    I understand. I’ve wondered if he was a bright kid, given some of the gaping holes in his understanding and knowledge.

    I think it was him who was asserting the other day that the Constitution explicitly stated it was an act of war to secede. Of course, that wouldn’t have flown past first base with the Founders, who were all there representing sovereign states, and didn’t have any assurance that the Constitution was going to work any better than the Articles of Confederation had.

    On the other hand, he said something the other day about holding a license…trade or professional, don’t know…which would mean he could never join a tax boycott. So, if true, he’s an adult.

    What he said today about the flu being clustered in Mexicans of European blood was just racist…and bizarre. I know Mexico a bit, and you won’t find many people who aren’t hybridized pretty completely. I know some red-headed, blue-eyed Mexicans…descended from Irish-American soldiers, but they are damn few and far between.

    Wealth in Mexico is hardly centered in one ethnic group, either, and I’ve had workers from Mexico who were very Spanish. I’ve had others who were Chino, or looked like Chinese. I mean, damn…

74. #74
    On April 26th, 2009 at 9:37 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On April 26th, 2009 at 9:15 pm, Ragspierre said:

    Well, I guess we just need to accept each other as we are…some are perfect (like us) and others, not so much! Ha! It is important to have differing opinions. That is why I really hate it when someone goes off on one of us who is of like-mind, but just disagrees here and there. It is o.k. to disagree! I was wrong about Michael Steele. I thought he was a conservative and it turns out, he is a RINO. But at the time I asked PP the question, I didn’t know enough about Steele to make that assessment. I just asked the question and got blasted. We all need to take a step back and respect each other’s opinions. And we also need to feel free to express ours…as I do frequently. Hard to shut me up sometimes, but anyone who wants to skip over my posts is welcome to do so.

75. #75
    On April 26th, 2009 at 11:51 pm, Ragspierre said:

    You are a sweet lady, and I wish you a good night.

76. #76
    On April 27th, 2009 at 7:29 am, beachmom said:

    I couldn’t make it past the first paragraph before I felt my gag reflex acting up.

77. #77
    On April 27th, 2009 at 7:43 am, rainbow said:

    Bruce, I agree with you. No one really knows how smart he is; he has never released his grades. How could he afford Harvard being raised by a single mom. . .he admits to taking drugs so where did the money come from? Maybe all he had to say was ‘present’ and leave for the day. Where is the birth certificate? The only good thing he has done so far is going after the banks and the credit card fees they charge!

78. #78
    On April 27th, 2009 at 1:25 pm, 3Angela said:

    A link to the libtard who wrote this: http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=about.viewcontributors&bioid=259

79. #79
    On April 27th, 2009 at 1:52 pm, RogersUmp said:

    Spicoli was hip in Fast Times but geez what does that have to do with being president??? It’s like he’s lacking in qualifications so he makes up for it on the hip-meter.

80. #80
    On April 27th, 2009 at 7:28 pm, Marie said:

    Hip? Hippie…. that’s so 1960 to me!

81. #81
    On April 27th, 2009 at 7:29 pm, Marie said:

    Oh…wait…. isn’t that when Alinsky took hold?

82. #82
    On April 28th, 2009 at 6:21 pm, wckelly60 said:

    That’s ten seconds I won’t get back.

    When has Urkel been cool or hip?