The only 100-day retrospective you need to read
The NYPost commemorates Barack Obama’s milestone with 100 days, 100 mistakes.
Seems like it has been a hell of a lot longer than 100 days, hasn’t it?
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worked better for me….
100 days? I coulda sworn it was 100 years! Lemme see here, it took him only 100 days to put about 100 generations of Americans in debt up to their eyeballs. That’s gotta be a record!
D’oh! Fixed.
On 19, he was right do nix it.
Wow. Great summary. Have to continue to wonder if a “R” had won the Whitehouse and made 1% of these errors what we’d be reading in the news?
37. “The Obama administration has directed defense officials to sign a pledge stating they will not share 2010 budget data with individuals outside the federal government.” — Defense News, 2/19
I can see clearly now…such transparency…
Some of these are pretty weak, and involve other people’s acts or responses to D’oh bama.
A fun read, notwithstanding…
We all need to e-mail a copy of, or link to, this article to everyone we know, especially those we know who voted for Obummer.
Pointing out the truth will never work with these people.
When your entire philosophy is based upon lies, you can ignore the truth without consequence.
The first 100 days are nothing compared to the next 100 years of communism we’ll be wallowing in.
“Conservative in Europe?” So, you’re the one, huh?
You have my deepest sympathy!
It’s been 95 days since the current president took office and a month since overseas contingency operations have pseudoofficially commenced, and Osama bin Laden still hasn’t been captured or killed.
I’m CO2 Producer. So long and thanks for all the sea kittens.
Yep, I’m it. This is Techno He11.
Coming to your neighborhood soon.
Depressing.
Eternity.
Isn’t supposed to be “thanks for the fish?”
after 1000 days, are they going to come out with 1000 days, 1000 mistakes column?
WOW, I didn’t know you could destroy a Nation in only 100 days.
Dang, on 1360 days left (is there a leap year in there?). Like Rip Van Winkle, just wake me when it’s over.
“on” s/b only 1360 days left. See, it’s a nightmare and I can’t remember to Preview.
I’ll be attending a “100 Day Tour” on April 30th with Dr. Bennett, Hugh Hewitt & Michael Medved. Should be interesting.
I am still in shock that BO could have damaged our country so much in so little time!
I heard about that, but thought the advertised admission was outrageous.
Yeah, I wish it was more like 1000 days already. This is going to be a really, really Loooooooooooooooooooong 4 years.
You have to PAY to Medved? Are you insane? That’s the same as making a direct contribution to the RNC!
This is a conservative website, not Republican.
Medved, Bennett and Hewitt are pro-open-borders Republican robots.
I pray that because of his foolish naivete, and total disregard of advice vis-à-vis American security, that he never has an “Urkel” moment…
“Did I do tha-a-a-t?”
“Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst”…sage advice, to be heeded.
I don’t care, I need all the positive influence and reinforcement I can get! Our net worth has been diminished by half, and I now understand why. Click on “Obama Deception”….not pleasant, but a must read.
Reserved seating AND dinner at the event is $125. Non-reserved seating is only $20.
The $20 admission isn’t too bad, considering the cost of going to a movie nowadays. I wouldn’t mind reserved seating, but could do without dinner. (I’m not cheap, I just prefer my own cooking!
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Not so much. I don’t listen to Michael or Hugh a lot, but I do listen occasionally. I listen to Dr. Bill nearly daily, and belong to a group of fellow listeners, and do not believe any of them are “open borders”, Phil. Don’t know where you got that idea, but it is totally wrong.
No mention of the “reset” button.
Believe me, YOU are wrong on this. All three get their marching orders from the RNC and if you do a quick search on Townhall, you will find very explicit calls from Medved and Hewitt in the past month for AMNESTY NOW! Medved was one of the many Townhall RINOs calling people like me bigots for calling for secure borders. Hewitt joined Mitt Romney a couple of weeks ago calling for Obama to force an amnesty bill now before it gets into the political cycle for 2010 and 2012. Check you facts friend. I don’t make things up.
It costs nothing to attend Tea Parties. Why would you throw money away to hear these guys?
Dagney T: you might also want to do a search of “Pasadena Phil amnesty” there and see all of the comments I posted on the subject on those columns and who the which Townhall commentors attacked me.
I don’t have strong opinions about Bennett but he has clearly strayed from the farm on many issues to become a “better Republican”.
bHo is hip. He does not make mistakes.
The prices I’ve heard advertised in this market are around $85, and no dinner.
PP thinks that Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Tom Delay, North and Malkin are RINOs.
You can’t tell him anything he doesn’t already know.
Nor will he allow that good ideas are good ideas, no matter who speaks them.
“Churn the burn”, and burn down the village to save it are his mantra.
Genius. That’s what. Shear genius.
Pasadena Phil, can you show me where in this search is your proof?
Sorry, Son. Just cannot find it.
I’m confused. Huh?
Huh? Please elucidate.
According to our boy PP, Townhall is a nest of RINOs.
I take it he was run off, an got his feelings hurt…
I haven’t listened to Hewitt since he forced the issue on the Governator, (I votede for Tom McLintock myself) and I prefer Hannity over Medved ANY day of the week!
Jimmy Carter and Komrade Klinton are the only one’s celebrating this 100 days. This Chicago Thug is making them look like real statesmen.
On April 25th, 2009 at 5:28 pm, SpeakEasy said:
Like oh. Em. Gee. SO not wif it. Haf 2 spel it out 4 u.
You’re right. Fish. “Sea kittens” is (like so totally) lame now. Like old news…paper format…lame. But I still occasionally use a 2002 PC, a VCR, and *gasp* an original XBox. My street cred is pretty diminutive. My car even has its factory cassette player installed in it, so I beg for pardon if sometimes I can’t discern when a term becomes passé.
Sorry for deviating off the topic. Back to our regularly scheduled Obashing.
zero the lesser accomplishments: community organizer, education: unknown no records, president: decided on a dog. terrorist fighter: white flag and knee cusions at the ready, administration: taking bowing lessons, from zero the master bow specialist himself.
Pasedena Phil said
I’ve searched and cannot find anything about this. Please provide a link. Romney campaigned strongly against amnesty.
Despite what we all may think here, the overall public remains enamored with First Comrade. Denial and wishful thinking will not get us out of this mess:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-04-23-obama-poll_N.htm
CO2 – I prefr teh name Sea Kittehs…
Just makes you want to pull one out and pet it for a while… watch it chase the little luer and then playfully flop around in the boat.
*No sea kittens were harmed in this post. And in real life I can’t stand to watch any critter in pain. I just say these things to push the PETApeople’s buttons, because, well, they’re just so *silly* about this stuff.
Gotta love Obama’s idea to send 60,000 more Armed Service Members to Afghanistan without the slightest clue as to their task and purpose. I guess that figures: in the logic of his kind, all one needs is more programs, more dollars, more Soldiers…
The only place I found the assertion that Romney had flopped on immigration was on cites like “think progress”.
Could it be a-nother leftist lie? Hmmm…
“Contrary to Joan Vennochi’s assertion in her April 9 Op-ed column “GOP cools on a hot-button issue,” my view on immigration reform is exactly as I described in my 2008 campaign,” Romney wrote.
Can’t say with certainty, but our boy PP could be caught slinging the BS.
I’m prepared to apologize if I’m wrong.
Read it? I lived it.
He figured that since he was so amazingly wrong about the Surge, he would try and copy it in Afghanistan. He figured that if Bush can send a bunch more troops into iraq and get it to settle down and bring it to the brink of a win, then all he would have to do is toss some bodies into Afghanistan and all the little Libbies will sing his praises. He didn’t realize that he actually needed to know anything about it.
That’s awful exclusionary of you, RF. We’re all living the dream, y’know. Not our dream necessarily, but somebody’s dream nonetheless.
Thanks for the smile, Joythx 4 teh smilz, joi.We really gotta quit writing like that. It’s like an infection. Like a…swine flu. See? I’m getting better at this hipness thing. I’m so phat.
That guy, he’s such a kidder. As if there was more than one answer n’ stuff.
Rags – The left fears Romney. They always have. I wouldn’t believe anything they say about him.
The April 9th quote is recent enough and seals it for me. I didn’t think that accusation was correct. I have no idea why PP is saying what he is.
Me, too.
PP has a thing against Townhall.com. I guess they aren’t ideologically pure enough for him. Seems odd to call Sowell, Charen, and Malkin RINOs, though.
I would never preclude the notion that Romney might take a position on immigration adverse to mine. Heck, Bush certainly let me down in that realm…
I just don’t think it right to pass along leftist crapola unless it is fact-checked by me, personally.
CO2 – Having a cat, I like to read the lolcat site… but I only ventured into the comments section once. I was going to say something, but after reading some of the other comments I realized I didn’t have anything to say! lol indeed. Crazy would be more like it.
But I do find myself speaking lolcat to my cat. I always get the feeling that she’s thinking, ‘yeah, go on believing we talk like that… you’ll know better when we take over the world.’ Hmmm… even that would be better than letting the Obamabots take it over.
Obamabotz is in ur countriez, shreddin yur konstitootionz.
Sorry… couldn’t resist.
Malkin? A RINO? Say HUH?
There are a few RINOs at Townhall, but also a lot of good strong conservatives. But Malkin a RINO? How could anyone think that?
Yep, I agree. Like they can be trusted to pass along true information.
Well, when it comes to what “I” read, I can only speak for myself. If you would like for me to speak for you as well, I won’t do it. So yes, “I” do not need to read it, for “I” lived it.
If you missed that and still think it is exclusionary, then I think you are taking it a bit too seriously.
If only we could just “reboot” the government…. Better yet, use “system restore”. The government is so fouled up, even an anti-corruption cleaner won’t fix it. If we just had a “recovery disk” and reinstall the original “factory settings”.
How long would you last at your new job if you made 100 mistakes in 100 days? Don’t you think the MSM would be doing a big story on you? How many doctors, lawyers, police officers, teachers, etc. would last 100 days with that many mistakes? And most of these are not little mistakes. These will keep this country messed up for a lot longer.
You have been tongue-in-cheek in saying that, but that is pretty much what some of us are advocating.
This is worth reading and considering…
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124044199838345461.html
Thanks for the article, Ragspierre. Yes, I was tongue-in-cheek, but it would be nice. Reading the article reminded me of the 14th amendment that the courts, ACLU and others love, but never ratified by the states. I would greatly fear a new Constitutional Convention, based on the lack of values and morals our society has today, plus many “delegates” may be socialist in views. If I recall, there was a movement for a Convention back in the early 70s. It didn’t go anywhere, though I wanted one, being a naive, gullible, young liberal then.
Being in the medical field, I wouldn’t last a week, at the most, before being hauled up before the board for revocation of license.
Eleven plus trillion dollars spent-/committed in less than one hundred days. That’s some record of accomplishment.
and he didn’t even put anything into it, he had his secretary do it.
I bet couldn’t tell you one line item in it. any takers? lol
if ya really want to puke check this one out…absolutely outrageous and sickening in my book…this is a man not a god…
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=96138
just as with kidney stones, it may be painful, but this too shall pass!
And yet most Americans think Obama is doing a fine job. Could it be that the ref is biased?
The mindless masses have embraced this socialist government in a Faustian pact. They have traded their freedoms and liberties for Obama’s hedonistic utopia. Is there really any further need to respect and defend a Constitution that is hollow, empty and rejected?
Google is a great tool DagneyT:
Here’s the latest from “The Hill”.
Here’s a good analysis from “Think Progress”
If you need more, I can provide them to you. You might want to read my own essay “The New “GOP for Liberal Dhimmis” Battle Plan”. My personal troll Raspierre is has an agenda here and elsewhere.
If you need more proof, google Raspierre. Study his commentary on many sites including Townhall. Do you get the idea that he might be an RNC plant. He infiltrates sites by “being a pal” then without fail, derails the discussion. Here, at Michelle Malkin, he is pitching a taxpayer strike in lieu of the Tea Parties.
How close am I Raggy?
Joy, puhleaze! Are you new here? Just because my personal troll Raggy says something doesn’t make it so. If Malkin was a RINO, I wouldn’t be wasting my time posting here. Do you see what Raggy does? He is a RNC plant! He adds NOTHING to discussions. He is here to derail and confuse.
Last comment, if anyone here suspects for even one second that I consider Michelle a RINO, go to Michelle’s columns at Townhall and do a search for my comments there.
The beauty of having one’s one blog is that it puts your positions permanently on record for everyone to study and their own leisure. If anyone has a problem with anything I say, make sure I said it. Don’t take the word of a troll.
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My first 2 weeks in U.S. Army Basic Training seemed like 100 years to me. The 45 years since have gone by very quickly–time flies when you are having fun.
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The President Obama (PBUH) first 100 days reminds me of Basic Training again. A lot of stuff taking place that I don’t like that doesn’t seem likely to help the U.S.A. and future generations.
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However, the Messiah is right on track to set up the new U.S.S.A. for his democrat / liberal / socialist / marxist / communist buddies. ILLEGAL ALIEN (not “undocumented immigrant”) AMNESTY, SOCIALIZED MEDICINE (not “universal healthcare”), taking away our SECOND AMENDMENT rights will be coming soon.
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I feel like I did when I was a private in the Army. The two tier society is back–a much better one for our dishonest President, Congress, and their internationalist buddies. A much worse one for the rest of us dumb taxpayers. This 100 days seems like 100 months to me.
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John Bibb
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Seems like it has been a hell of a lot longer than 100 days, hasn’t it?
No. It is exactly what it is, however many days it is.
As for the linked list. It is more about opinion than anything else, to wit – Lifting travel restrictions to Cuba is not a mistake if you want to visit your family. That critique is an opinion. How can an opinion be a mistake?
The list references what he said during the campaign, and hence does not fall within the 100 days of his presidency. Maybe within 400 days since he has been on the national stage has he made mistakes. That would make the list, and that paricular notation applicable.
Yes, let’s take Pres obama to task, but not over opinions, feelings and poorly cited facts.
I am not defending Pres Obama, just saying that we should be more honest about what we say is a mistake, and is not a mistake, vice talking to our opinions, feelings, mischaracterizations, and speculations.
That is another of Philly’s lies.
I am not doing anything of the kind. I love the TEA Parties, while recognizing their limitations. They are wonderful expressions of unrest and appreciation for the fact our government is completely out of bounds and control.
That isn’t enough. It is not an expression, or application, of power. Power is what DC understands and respects.
So, as before when Philly lies about what I have and have not said, I will call him on it.
Re: what RetFireman said on April 26th, 2009 at 1:53 am—
No, no, I don’t want you speaking for me. I didn’t live through Obama’s first 100 days, and neither did (almost) the rest of us. (Really, none of us have lived it yet, since it hasn’t been 100 days.) I got a chuckle from your original comment and decided to butt in with a comment of my own regarding your comment, then you commented on my comment about your comment, and now I’m commenting on your comment which was a comment about your comment. Forgive me. I tend to take things too seriously sometimes.
So the NY Post gaffed? I thought that quote sounded unusual coming from Palin. I also agree with zyzzyg in that a lot of the things on the list weren’t mistakes per se. Many of them were more like various people’s interpretations of Obamateurisms.
I do have to give Obama credit for one thing. His actions motivate me to learn more about our Constitution. I like to know what the heck I’m talking about if I ever feel compelled to refer to it.
And Philly was, and is, using THINK PROGRESS as his source authority for this lie.
But anyone on Townhall.com is a RINO…???
The boy has a problem. I didn’t do it to him, I’m just noting it.
Maybe he was called a bigot by someone on Townhall for statements like this one…
See, that is a totally racist statement. But it also incorporates classist rhetoric that a Liberal professor would employ. Not to mention that it has ALL the scientific validity of the claim that AIDS was targeted by its creators to kill black people.
As I’ve said elsewhere, does this guy use a Ouija Board, or a key-board in composing his posts?
Philly’s words, not mine.
Now, see, I think it important to remember that not everyone feels about issues as do I. They can still have great insights that I will benefit by, and they are often my allies, in an ideological sense.
So, I don’t think it wise to paint with too broad a brush, or eat my friends.
Apparently, Philly has no such scruples, and can be much more ideologically pure than, say, Townhall.com…
or
what you are reading and seeing from Philly is bitterness about being booted off the Townhall site, which I think he said happened to him.
Absolutely correct. Neal Boortz is mulling this concept over, as have I for about two decades now. Everyone, including Randy Bennett, the author of the Wall Steet Journal piece, recognizes the potential for mischief in a Constitutional Convention.
I have two observations…
1) what Bennett is suggesting is that Congress would short-circuit a Convention by providing what it would demand before a Convention could be convened. He has historical precedent for that idea.
2) in my own thinking on this, I take a more global approach. The Constitution “belongs” to those generations of Americans who make up conscious people at any given time in our country.
Freedom, among other things, means the ability to do even wrong or stupid things…and face the consequences.
The Constitution was designed to be changed in a careful, deliberate manner, by the people to whom it belongs.
If we are so far gone as a nation, and a people, that fundamental constitutional principles are considered passe, than it would be better for the Constitution to be amended to reflect that new reality, as much as I would hate that. Because, as things now stand, we are simply ignoring the fundamental charter of our government, and that is more dangerous and more damaging to the entire concept of a rule of law.
It would also tell those of us who love the first principles on which our nation was founded that it was time to leave, and establish them elsewhere.
Unless King Abdullah is a “little person” there was no need to bend over that far to “grasp his hand with two hands,…” I’ve got a clue for the “Obama aide:” if you are taller and your head drops well below the face of the person you’re greeting, it’s a bow. The President of the United States bows to no one…ever!
Hope is not a plan; not all change is good. WE are the civilian national security force. “Reach out and touch someone” is the sentiment I had engraved on my Dragunov. The resistance is here; the resistance is now. RESIST!!!!!
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We have runaway legislative and executive branches of the federal government. Can’t we challenge the constitutionality of the bailouts, the mandatory volunteer programs etc in the Supreme Court?
Sadly, no. Individual citizens are not held by the courts of have “standing” to bring suit against political leaders.
There are other ways…
Right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances—Amendment #1
Our runaway judicial branch and its interpretation of the Constitution has made it difficult to go beyond just complaining about the abuse of power.
As we say in Texas, That’s a true fact.
This is one of the several structural reasons why Civics 101 will not work any longer.
It’s like he is an elementary student with the media as his teacher;
-he’s trying hard,
-his self-esteem is good,
-he uses his imagination,
-he does his work (even if incorrect)
-we don’t want to hurt his feelings
-can’t we all just get along
The article is weak. It misses so many mistakes that will effect us for the rest of our lives, but … Honestly, how do those compare to the mistake that America made by electing this highly inexperienced guy?
Any voter with a 6th grade education should have known that DaBama was not ready to run any high security position let alone lead this nation, yet they voted overwhelmingly to elect this baffoon. Leftists voted for him because he was black [and all whites are racist!] and people on the right were too busy to be bothered with working to get a better person elected, or they stayed at home because they were too complacent or upset that their preferred candidate wasn’t on the ticket. Whatever the reason, Obama is who you selected.
Obama is too inexperienced to accept the responsibility, thus Americans own every one of DaBamas mistakes.
In other words, they are all Your Fault!
Barry Obama has me thinking of Barry McGuire’s Eve of Destruction.
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/pub/s?f=PRN/prnpub&page=1&xtag=PRN-prnphotos-80981&redir=detail&TAG_ID=prnphotos080981
I think this is all that needs to be said: Heaven Help Us!