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100 Days of the Poser Presidency

By Michelle Malkin • April 29, 2009 05:13 AM

(Photoshop credit: Nice Deb)

My syndicated column commemorates Barack Obama’s 100 days with the Scare Force One story as a take-off point. Imagine if this fiasco had happened under George Bush’s watch. It would have made the Left’s incessant carping over the “fake plastic turkey,” Mission Accomplished banner, and My Pet Goat incidents look like nothing.

We now know thanks to WCBS in NY that the feds knew the “mission” would cause panic and that they went ahead with the secret plans, anyway. There are still a lot more unanswered questions about what happened in the skies above New York City. I have filed two FOIA requests with the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Joint Staff FOIA Requester Service Center seeking more info, including the flight manifests; communications that would shed light on the origin of the “mission,” and copies of any and all photos taken on the taxpayer-subsidized journey. Let’s have some of that vaunted transparency Barack Obama is always talking about.

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100 days of reckless photo-op hubris
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009

Come on, who’s surprised? The White House-engineered photo-op of low-flying Air Force aircraft that caused terror in New York City this week epitomizes the Age of Obama. What better way to mark 100 days in office than with an appalling exercise in pointless, taxpayer-funded stagecraft.

The superficiality, the unseriousness, the hubris, the obliviousness to post-9/11 realities: They were trademarks of the Obama campaign and they are the tattoos on his governance.

He never leaves home without his teleprompter. All the Obama world’s a stage. Or a world ready to be staged.

So, is it any wonder he would staff his White House Military Office with a clueless paper-pusher who saw nothing wrong with spending inordinate government resources – and recreating 9/11 havoc — to update Air Force One publicity shots? And who planned, believe it or not, to do the same in Washington, D.C., next month, where 53 passengers and 6 crew members on board American Airlines Flight 77, and 125 military and civilian personnel inside the Pentagon were murdered by the 9/11 jihadists?

All for some damned publicity shots.

No one should be shocked. Remember: Barack Obama is the frivolous man who concocted his own presidential-looking Great Seal before he was elected. An ego big enough to publicly display a ridiculous “Vero Possumus” (“Yes, we can” in Latin) motto and a regal eagle with the Obama campaign logo emblazoned on its chest is an ego capable of far more reckless things. Obama orchestrated a grand photo-op in Berlin, Germany, to declare his world citizenship at the Siegessäule Victory Column – a soaring monument of arrogance championed by Adolph Hitler and Third Reich architect Albert Speer. He manufactured his own Open Temple of The One in Denver for the Democratic National Convention last summer, replete with fake Greek columns.

Since taking office, President Obama has remained in perpetual campaign mode, idling in 9/10 gear. The photo album has filled up quickly with megalomaniacal moments. When his massive, pork-filled stimulus package was in trouble, he ran to Ft. Myers, Florida, for a carefully choreographed revival meeting with his most ardent supporters. “It is such a blessing to see you. Oh! Gracious God, thank you so much!” one young booster exclaimed.

The President’s famous embrace with another questioner — homeless woman Henrietta Hughes, a perpetually unemployed drifter looking for a handout — turned up on the White House online retrospective of the stimulus bill victory. (Missing: The photos of hundreds of thousands of Americans who took to the streets in Tea Party protests to oppose this massive act of generational theft and expansion of the entitlement state.)

Another Kodak moment from the stimulus campaign exposed Obama’s hype of the spending boondoggle’s effects. Using a Caterpillar plant and workers as a backdrop, Obama grandly promised that if the stimulus passed, Caterpillar would rehire laid-off workers. It made front-page headlines. After the photo-op: Caterpillar’s own CEO refuted the bogus promise and last week posted its first quarterly net loss in 16 years. After the signing, it finally dawned on pliant media outlets that the stimulus money was stupendously wasteful and the job creation estimates bogus. No pictures of those epiphanies.

President Obama’s photo-ops abroad have been more unsettling: Bowing and scraping before Saudi King Abdullah, trashing America as “arrogant” (talk about a pot and kettle moment) in front of adoring French and German students, chumming it up with Venezuelan thug-in-chief Hugo Chavez. These are the defining images of a stunt(ed) presidency blind to our enemies and in a perpetual state of (re)pose we can’t afford.

Obama appointed Leon Panetta, a chief of intelligence with no intelligence experience. He gave us Hillary Clinton, a secretary of state who cackled about the Somali pirate hijacking and laughed off serious questions about the effectiveness of enhanced interrogation techniques. He installed Rosa Brooks, a radical George Soros-trained ideologue as a top Pentagon adviser. He came close to embracing Charles Freeman as top U.S. intelligence analyst — a jihadi-sympathizing conspiracist who blamed America for 9/11.

And he appointed Janet Napolitano, the homeland security secretary who can’t get her facts straight about the 9/11 terrorists, pooh-poohed our immigration laws, disseminated a hit job on conservatives and veterans as rightwing extremist threats, and redefined acts of terrorism as “man-caused disasters.”

“Man-caused disaster.” That’s a perfect description of the Scare Force One torture photo op that took place this week, and an apt summary of the last 100 days. Say cheese.

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#101

On April 29th, 2009 at 2:42 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

On April 29th, 2009 at 2:23 pm, undresiege said:

Ah, yes he did miss out on the prediction. I’m also sure that he’s more than capable of typing for himself.

Really? No kidding? I think he did and does and thanked he me for the comments.

It will be ashamed if Bear was off by 100 days – right?
#102

On April 29th, 2009 at 2:42 pm, T-Bone said:

I hope there is a smoking gun that BO knew about the Air Farce 1 plane buzzing Manhattan. After all, he claimed he knew nothing about it. That strain credulity.

I thnk he is putting the blame on the other guy to deflect criticism. Now that he is out there saying he didn’t know, I would love to see him caught in a lie.
#103

On April 29th, 2009 at 2:52 pm, T-Bone said:

s i (insert missing letters above.
#104

On April 29th, 2009 at 2:56 pm, Dimsdale said:

Obambi is the culmination of decades of rampant and unrepentant “affirmative action.”

Did anyone ever notice that the end result of “affirmative” action and the Peter Principle are the same?
#105

On April 29th, 2009 at 2:56 pm, joeblough said:

There is something missing inside of Obama.

This turkey is typical of his generation, the worst of his generation. The self-esteem, affirmative-action, credit-for-trying, know-nothing, incompetent generation.

And every indication is that his use of language is dishonest all the way down, deep into his ignorant psyche.

I have not yet decided for myself whether I think the problem is primarily moral or cognitive, or both in equal parts. But something important is missing in that lowlife’s head.

And I think that that is the thru-line that characterizes so many incidents of his “first 100 days”.

Something is missing.
#106

On April 29th, 2009 at 3:03 pm, CO2 Producer said:

Somewhere, some man-caused disasterists watched the YouTube videos of New Yorkers reactions to the fighter-escorted jumbo jet, and they laaaughed and laaauged and laaaughed.

“Success!” they exclaimed. “Our cause is furthered by the Great Satan itself!”
#107

On April 29th, 2009 at 3:12 pm, bear1909 said:

Whatever.

The writing is on the wall. lil bHo is portrayed as a shrewd political genius as he deals from the bottom of the deck.

Road gangs like lil bHo’s end up getting pummeled in the parking lot by the time it is all said and done.

He’ll get his. And Rahm “F$$^#%ck” Emmanuel too.

Wait for it.

Bear1909 out.

PS: is undersiege MistressJustice in drag?
#108

On April 29th, 2009 at 3:15 pm, happyscrapper said:

On April 29th, 2009 at 12:26 pm, Paul-Cincy said:
This afternoon Obama said he’s going to “remake” America. He really said that. We don’t need to hear any more to know he’s a disaster.

He left off five words (per Joe Biden) at the end of that sentence…”We are going about the business of remaking America…in my image.”
#109

On April 29th, 2009 at 3:17 pm, rainbow said:

Wouldn’t it be fun to have someone sabotage TOTUS and his speech?
#110

On April 29th, 2009 at 3:23 pm, undresiege said:

Really? No kidding? I think he did and does and thanked he me for the comments.

It will be ashamed if Bear was off by 100 days – right?

Purposefully or not you missed the next post I made.

He’ll get his. And Rahm “F$$^#%ck” Emmanuel too.

Wait for it.

Bear1909 out.

PS: is undersiege MistressJustice in drag?

Oh joy, more predictions.

Based on MJ’s last thread, I’m quite certain he/she was already in drag, or more likely played by multiple people.
You probably know a lot about drag, considering how you blame so many of your personal and professional failures on some invisible “gay mafia”.

Truth be told I love your posts. They give me giggle fits. Stay gold, bro.

UndyS Out
#111

On April 29th, 2009 at 3:25 pm, spaceycakes said:

wait for it…
#112

On April 29th, 2009 at 3:25 pm, rainbow said:

Maybe not everyone has heard of the teleprompter blog but TOTUS is my hero! http://baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com/
#113

On April 29th, 2009 at 3:26 pm, T-Bone said:

Teleprompter: I intend to change the…

Obama: I intend to change the..

Teleprompter: ..underwear that I just soiled.

Obama: Underwear that I..uh…oh…uh..in my image.
#114

On April 29th, 2009 at 3:29 pm, undresiege said:

In the end, regardless of any predictions, the sun will rise in east and set in the west.

* Unless there’s a polar shift.
* Unless the sun explodes.
* Unless a rogue comet splits the Earth in two.
* Unless the Earth’s core stop spinning, requiring a brave crew to journey down and restart it.
* Unless Venkman and Egon cross streams and every atom explodes at the speed of light.

Contingencies happen, only a lib requires a disclaimer for everything.

Your examples are a little different from Bear’s blanket prediction that since the DNC knew how “in over his head” Obama was, “they” made Biden the veep, since Obama would only last 100 days.

It’s not about contingencies as much as Bear’s keyboard diarriah or masturbation, or incoherent jumble of rambling thoughts. Credit to him, he nipped some of it in the bud with his last ~~post~~ spin, and I can not longer mock him for the next 7 years. Damn.
#115

On April 29th, 2009 at 3:29 pm, happyscrapper said:

Don’t you just love having a POTUS who looks you in the eye and tells a complete, in-your-face lie? And he knows that WE know he is lying. That is what is the most frightening. He thinks he is invulnerable. He can say anything he wants. Just suck.it.up. Pure evil…!
#116

On April 29th, 2009 at 3:31 pm, undresiege said:

Make that:
he nipped it with spin on number 93.

UndyS1999 Out.
#117

On April 29th, 2009 at 3:32 pm, happyscrapper said:

On April 29th, 2009 at 2:42 pm, T-Bone said:
I hope there is a smoking gun that BO knew about the Air Farce 1 plane buzzing Manhattan. After all, he claimed he knew nothing about it. That strain credulity.

I thnk he is putting the blame on the other guy to deflect criticism. Now that he is out there saying he didn’t know, I would love to see him caught in a lie.

I am still having a real hard time with this. WHY did this happen? How completely stupid, idiotic, unbelievably evil do these people have to be to have done this to the citizens of NYC?? This is not forgivable and should not be allowed to pass without some heads rolling and the POTUS taking his lumps. This is incompetence at the highest level.
#118

On April 29th, 2009 at 3:33 pm, Tuesday said:

Scott Ott at Scrappleface’s commentary was so on target! Barry Hussein should have done it Mahmoud’s way:

“Mr. President, the next time you need a photo of your plane near some major metropolitan area,” Mr. Ahmadinejad said, “there’s a way to do it without evoking the nightmare of 9/11 in the streets of New York City — it’s called Photoshop.”
#119

On April 29th, 2009 at 3:34 pm, happyscrapper said:

On April 29th, 2009 at 2:56 pm, joeblough said:
There is something missing inside of Obama.

Your post is very well and powerfully said! I agree completely.
#120

On April 29th, 2009 at 3:37 pm, happyscrapper said:

On April 29th, 2009 at 3:25 pm, spaceycakes said:Wait for it…

This is a really good slogan for us!!
#121

On April 29th, 2009 at 3:38 pm, happyscrapper said:

On April 29th, 2009 at 3:12 pm, bear1909 said:
The writing is on the wall. lil bHo is portrayed as a shrewd political genius as he deals from the bottom of the deck.

Road gangs like lil bHo’s end up getting pummeled in the parking lot by the time it is all said and done.

He’ll get his. And Rahm “F$$^#%ck” Emmanuel too.

Wait for it.
#122

On April 29th, 2009 at 3:42 pm, T-Bone said:

On April 29th, 2009 at 3:29 pm, happyscrapper said:
Don’t you just love having a POTUS who looks you in the eye and tells a complete, in-your-face lie?

You mean like Bill Clinton, the darling of the Democrat party? Apparently, some people do love it. I blame that event for the polarization of the electorate. Those who rationalize lying and those who don’t. I like honesty is the best policy and that ain’t BO.
#123

On April 29th, 2009 at 3:51 pm, mattm said:

His whole presidency has been a huge PR stunt. All spin and no substance or details. He says he will fix something and it will be spun to look like he will then they move on.

As his polices fail sooner or later people will wake up.
#124

On April 29th, 2009 at 3:54 pm, right_on said:

Don’t you just love having a POTUS who looks you in the eye and tells a complete, in-your-face lie?

When have you ever seen him look someone in the eye for more than a glance? He always breaks his gaze and looks down to the left. I have never trusted anyone who can’t look me in the eyes without looking away, touching their face, or gesturing in an offhand way. Obama does all of these…all signs of deception!
#125

On April 29th, 2009 at 3:55 pm, spaceycakes said:

thanks, h-scrapper. But my line was with regard to undresiege’s post…she always says she’s ‘out’, but comes back for ‘and lemme tell you sumthin’ else!’
heh.
#126

On April 29th, 2009 at 4:10 pm, jjmurphy said:

Never mind the first 100 days. The bills will start coming due within the next year for Obama & Co.’s deeds. It will not be a pretty sight. The conservatives know this is coming. (You cannot spend and take over private companies forever.) The lazy looters will be in for a nasty shock when their goodies no longer arrive on time.
#127

On April 29th, 2009 at 4:36 pm, bear1909 said:

You probably know a lot about drag, considering how you blame so many of your personal and professional failures on some invisible “gay mafia”.

That’s me all right.
#128

On April 29th, 2009 at 4:41 pm, bear1909 said:

hey undys…. can u dig up where i have posted about personal and professional failures? curious about your generalizations.

pony up.

oh— u mispelled diarrhea.
#129

On April 29th, 2009 at 4:55 pm, undresiege said:

On April 29th, 2009 at 4:41 pm, bear1909 said:

Google wasn’t my friend. To refresh your memory, you were typing about how far you’ve come, and what a “bigshot” you are in your current field after the “gay mafia” essentially screwed you over in a prior line of work. If I ever find it, I’ll post it here or on another thread. If you remember, you remember. Latah alligatah.
#130

On April 29th, 2009 at 5:05 pm, bear1909 said:

oh ya. it isnt my current field. it was in a past life. ya, it was the white gay mafia’s co-opting the civil rights legacy to further their own agenda….now it’s maturing nationwide…hate crime laws….read it all and weep if u can handle the truth.

Bear1909 out.
#131

On April 29th, 2009 at 5:22 pm, spaceycakes said:

really? promise?
#132

On April 29th, 2009 at 5:29 pm, Misscheryl said:

On April 29th, 2009 at 3:29 pm, happyscrapper said:
Don’t you just love having a POTUS who looks you in the eye and tells a complete, in-your-face lie?

Correction, Obama never looks you in the eye.
#133

On April 29th, 2009 at 5:38 pm, cicerokid said:

Do not look it in the eyes. the Gorgon will turn you to stone.
#134

On April 29th, 2009 at 5:47 pm, undresiege said:

Bear1909:
Google is crazy. This is what I was referencing. I’ll quit obsessing over you now. I think.

On November 18th, 2008 at 7:23 pm, bear1909 said:
ROFLMAO….only a leftarded moon loon would place all of their jolly factor in the US Presidential Elections.

For me, Odinkee’s coronation inspires me to do what I always do when my horse doesnt win. Get another one and live well until the next race.

The leftards are going to wait for some emotional salve to be dispensed by Mr. Ebony Divinitas himself to ease their worried little minds about Global Warming and other Man Bear Pig phobias.

In the meantime they will experience less of their predominantly publically funded salaries, while “just being grateful to have a job”. As for me? Well, i am looking forward to making more money than I have made in my brief private sector history (it was the left that forced me out of the public sector because i wouldnt play ball with the gay mafia’s agenda).

I am going to remodel my home and add a second story.

I am going to pursue my spiritual path without worry over GAY MARRIAGE or any other red herring the secularists would torture others with in the name of equality and fairness.

I am going to raise my last child to be an informed forward thinking patriot with a purpose that doesnt rely on government for his “identity”.

The list goes on and on and on. Mock away. Sooner or later, the farce in the White House will be dismantled as the poser that he is. Too bad too. He gives a good speech ROFLMAO.

Bear1909 out
#135

On April 29th, 2009 at 6:17 pm, Elm Creek Smith said:

On April 29th, 2009 at 7:23 am, scituate_tgr said:
Sorry fluffy, I’m in the McCloud9 camp. This is strategy to kill off any momentum on the right and boost the confidence of our enemies – foreign and domestic.

No one, no one – can be this stupid.

Don’t low rate the MAN in the White House. HE can be anything! I believe him to be so.

Hope is not a plan; not all change is good. WE are the civilian national security force! What will “spinners” look like on the Presidential Lincoln? The resistance is here; the resistance is now. RESIST!!!!

ECS

ECS
#136

On April 29th, 2009 at 6:44 pm, Mike said:

It’s not the One Big Ass Mistake America so much as it’s his handlers and the people behind this abortion.
#137

On April 29th, 2009 at 8:39 pm, rightwingrocker said:

What better way to mark 100 days in office than with an appalling exercise in pointless, taxpayer-funded stagecraft.

Yeah exactly.

A show of military force towards the people who it’s intended to be used against.

Make no mistake about it. This man is evil incarnate. You thought Hitler was bad? Just wait and see what’s in store for us here.

All because of American apathy.

“Wake up everybody no more sleepin’ in bed … ”

RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
#138

On April 29th, 2009 at 9:04 pm, Bruce said:

That flight was Zero’s version of a night in the Lincoln bedroom, plain and simple.

I want to see the flight manifest, I want to see the pax list, I want to see the filed flight plan, I want to know what idiot brass hat approved the use of 2 military jets for this photo op, and I want to see it all NOW – not after a bogus, Dem congress run “investigation.”

These morons want to investigate what lawyers offered as their professional legal opinion to the Chief Executive? (Their JOB, by the way)

Two can play that game.
#139

On April 29th, 2009 at 9:24 pm, dallas7 said:

The Siegessäule Victory Column was built in 1867. But Michelle knows that. (Correct?) Anyhow, a nice example of editorial Reductio ad Hitlerum. Sadly boring, tho.
#140

On April 29th, 2009 at 11:04 pm, thelcabroadside said:

The Great Re-Maker:

http://thelcabroadside.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/barack-obama-the-great-re-maker/
#141

On April 30th, 2009 at 12:37 am, scottthong said:

Amazing: Even the AP takes Obama to task on his shirking of responsibility for the massive debt, point by point!

FACT CHECK: Obama disowns deficit he helped shape

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/286646.php#286646

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090430/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_fact_check_obama
#142

On April 30th, 2009 at 8:53 am, GladzKravtz said:

That flight was Zero’s version of a night in the Lincoln bedroom, plain and simple.

Exactly Bruce!

And where are the leaks when you need them?
#143

On April 30th, 2009 at 9:25 am, Misscheryl said:

I detest this putz and his little wife too!
#144

On April 30th, 2009 at 10:42 am, Politicalguano said:

SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) is now running the US government and BO is #I – look for him to start stroking a white Persian cat.
What would happen if one of us were to buzz Washington DC in a 747 at 1500 ft. for a photo op? We would be shot down – killed. But when BO does it, it really is someone else’s fault. How many people will have recurrence of their PTSD from BO’s stunt? Does he go to NYC to apologize? BO is an evil man, and before he is done with us, Bill Clinton is gonna look like just a good ole’ boy. When BO and the Dems pass the bill giving Washington DC voters their own full power Representative in clear violation of the Constitution and it is narrowly struck down by the Supreme Court (with Stevens & Ginsburg labeling their objecting colleagues racists), look for BO & the Dems to incite violence. If you aren’t armed and ready, get yer azz in gear, and organize with your neighbors to protect your neighborhood.
#145

On April 30th, 2009 at 9:36 pm, mthomps1 said:

When I saw the headline “100 Days of the Poser Presidency” I immediately thought that the article was referring to Barry Soetoro / aka Barack Obama only posing as the POTUS rather than actually being the POTUS. The question of Soetoro’s eligibility to hold the office of POTUS still has NOT been answered. Rather, Soetoro continues to use his lawyers to fight every attempt to establish whether or not he is a natural born citizen. It is time to settle this issue before anymore damage is done. Show us your vault copy birth certificate and college records!
#146

On May 2nd, 2009 at 10:18 am, kurthanson said:

Obama said that, if elected, the sea level would fall. Has anyone checked to see if in fact this has happened? Could someone take a yard stick and go out to the beach and measure the water level and see if “The Messiah” has made good on his promise?
#147

On May 10th, 2009 at 5:48 pm, rightwingrocker said:

In the early days of the RWRepublic, Mr. Bush was called a “jackass joke of a President” by a left-wing commenter who has been very scarce since he was clue-batted over his negativity over things that Bush actually was doing well with.

His words ring so loud with this impostor that it’s hurting my ears.

RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
#148

On May 10th, 2009 at 5:52 pm, rightwingrocker said:

On April 30th, 2009 at 9:36 pm, mthomps1 said:

When I saw the headline “100 Days of the Poser Presidency” I immediately thought that the article was referring to Barry Soetoro / aka Barack Obama only posing as the POTUS rather than actually being the POTUS. The question of Soetoro’s eligibility to hold the office of POTUS still has NOT been answered. Rather, Soetoro continues to use his lawyers to fight every attempt to establish whether or not he is a natural born citizen. It is time to settle this issue before anymore damage is done. Show us your vault copy birth certificate and college records!

With all due honor, love, and respect for our hostess, I must say she does far too little in pursuing this issue.

She has even characterized those of us who are doing her work for her as being akin to “truthers”.

Yet the facts you state are dead-on true. Soetoro/Obama has not submitted the documentation as required by the court. I wonder if we could at least get some support on this front …

Not likely. On this issue, Michelle is wrong.

RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com