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1. #704965
   On May 21st, 2009 at 11:55 am, ackvil said:

   I was for it before I was against it. And yet the MSM lets him get away with this. A very sad day for U.S. journalism.

2. #704968
   On May 21st, 2009 at 11:56 am, d1carter said:

   Liberal phyche is a mutlti faceted thing…what ever fits the current audience.

3. #704971
   On May 21st, 2009 at 11:59 am, Jeff said:

   Teleprompter having an off day ?

4. #704975
   On May 21st, 2009 at 11:59 am, Ragspierre said:

   Mr. Obama’s appealing campaign images turned out to have been fleeting. He ran hard to the left on national security to win the nomination, only to discover the campaign commitments he made were shallow and at odds with America’s security interests.

   Mr. Obama ran hard to the center on economic issues to win the general election. He has since discovered his campaign commitments were obstacles to ramming through the most ideologically liberal economic agenda since the Great Society.

   Mr. Obama either had very little grasp of what governing would involve or, if he did, he used words meant to mislead the public. Neither option is particularly encouraging. America now has a president quite different from the person who advertised himself for the job last year. Over time, those things can catch up to a politician

   Karl Rove, WSJ.

   How he won the election…

   He lied. And the MSM was his EAGER megaphone.

5. #704977
   On May 21st, 2009 at 12:01 pm, b-cat said:

   That’s what its like in the Senate. Now the White House. There is a reason we used to elect presidents from the ranks of our governors.

6. #704978
   On May 21st, 2009 at 12:02 pm, pueblo1032 said:

   JOURNALISM??? What JOURNALISM??? There hasn’t been any JOURNALISM in this country for years… WILL THE LAST JOURNALIST OUT OF THE NEWSROOM, PLEASE TURN OFF THE LIGHTS!!!

7. #704980
   On May 21st, 2009 at 12:03 pm, bradley said:

   This is what you get when you have an ideological inexperienced empty suit running for president, and an empty-headed uneducated clueless electorate that elects him. The only thing Obama’s ever run is his mouth, and that’s the ONE thing he won’t quit doing. It’s all he knows.

8. #704996
   On May 21st, 2009 at 12:16 pm, rktkr said:

   i could swear that the lead guy in the white house is looking more and more constipated as time goes on.

   and then there’s this:

   body language and all that….

   the toad won’t look him in the eye &
   bibi looks ready to clock him.

9. #704997
   On May 21st, 2009 at 12:17 pm, John Deaux said:

   “In each of these cases, I had to strike the right balance between transparency and national security,” Obama said.

   More like a balance between reality and placating the nutroots.

10. #705002
    On May 21st, 2009 at 12:21 pm, Mach1Duck said:

    Hark, there go the people, I must hurry and catch up; for I am their leader.

11. #705003
    On May 21st, 2009 at 12:22 pm, tre said:

    Will he walk into a store and ask, “Can I get me a hunting license here?”

    It’s gonna be a LOOOONG 3 1/2 years.

12. #705004
    On May 21st, 2009 at 12:22 pm, 24Klady said:

    I just watched both speeches by Pres. Obama and former V.P. Cheney.

    I heard absolutely nothing about what Obama plans to do other than talk. I gained a whole new admiration for Dick Cheney. What a shameful performance by a sitting president.

    ‘Bambi is the petulant child in the restaurant that interrupts everyone’s dinner and you want to take them out to the parking lot yourself for discipline. Unless he is the center of attention he will manage to somehow grab the spotlight and do his best to divert attention away from the other kids.

    I am more concerned for our safety than I ever have been in my whole adult life.

    MM is correct in her remarks about the close behavior between ‘Bambi and Kerry.

13. #705006
    On May 21st, 2009 at 12:23 pm, tre said:

    On May 21st, 2009 at 12:21 pm, Mach1Duck said:
    Hark, there go the people, I must hurry and catch up; for I am their leader.

    It’s hard to tell. Is he leading a crowd, or being chased by one?

14. #705007
    On May 21st, 2009 at 12:24 pm, b-cat said:

    On May 21st, 2009 at 12:16 pm, rktkr said:

    Netanyahu addresses Obama. Obama addresses the media.

    Israel entering into a treaty with the Arabs is foolhardy. Israel will abide by the agreement. The Arabs will not. Suicide.

15. #705012
    On May 21st, 2009 at 12:29 pm, Truesoldier said:

    Here is Obama’s latest rendition of Gitmo:
    “We are acutely aware that under the last administration, detainees were released only to return to the battlefield. That is why we are doing away with the poorly planned, haphazard approach that let those detainees go in the past,” Obama said.

    He said his decision to close Guantanamo did not create the legal challenges that currently exist; those preceded him. But, he said, “if we refuse to deal with these issues today, then I guarantee you that they will be an albatross around our efforts to combat terrorism in the future.”

    I thought our holding detainees indefinetly was what was causing the upswing in terrorist recruiting, now it is that we are releasing them back to the battlefield?

    And part of his plan to decide what to do with the detainees:

    The president announced five categories of prisoner that the administration will use to evaluate the 240 detainees who are still at Guantanamo:

    – Those who have violated American criminal laws and will be tried in federal courts;

    – Those who violated the laws of war and are best tried through military commissions;

    – Those who have been ordered released by the courts;

    – Those who can be transferred safely to another country;

    – Those who cannot be prosecuted, but pose a clear danger to the American people.

    I wonder if he realizes that detainees picked up on a bettlefield not in the uniform of an established military is in violation of the laws of war; therefore he should be trying ALL the detainees via commission and not in our courts.

16. #705016
    On May 21st, 2009 at 12:32 pm, Tazed and Confused said:

    It is well documented that cocaine abuse leads to bipolar disorder…

    Elect a coke-head, and life becomes a judicious case of striking a balance between truth and deception… between selflessness and selfishness…

    or, in the case of our apprentice president… between myopia and self-delusion.

17. #705024
    On May 21st, 2009 at 12:39 pm, Ragspierre said:

    I’ve heard that the four would-be terrorists picked up yesterday were…

    RECRUITED as Muslims in American prisons.

    Does THAT explain why we don’t want to IMPORT this virus onto our own soil…???

18. #705026
    On May 21st, 2009 at 12:41 pm, Regulus said:

    Hope-a-Dope is the summation of everything that is wrong with modern American liberalism. He’s his own “perfect storm.”

    Start with a man who has limitless ambition and no principles.

    Add in a base of false-God worshipers masquerading as voter support that knows when he’s lying — which is more often than not — and doesn’t care, because they like his dishonesty.

    Top it all off with another group of man-worshiping idolaters masquerading as “objective” media, who also know when he’s lying and also like his dishonesty.

    What you end up with is a man who glibly and breezily lies through his teeth and does instant 180-degree position turns on issue after issue, confident in his knowledge that even though hardly anyone believes him anymore, enough people are comfortable enough with or even applauding his mendacity that he can pretty much say or do anything and get away with it.

    There’s one kind of liar toward whom your policy is, “If he says it’s daylight outside, I’ll have to go look out the window to check.”

    Then there’s the kind of liar that you learn to trust in the exact opposite of whatever he’s claiming. Hope-a-Dope is this kind of liar.

19. #705027
    On May 21st, 2009 at 12:42 pm, BuckeyeSam said:

    Why do we have a crybaby for a president?

    I’ve had it with the whining; it’s undignified.

20. #705032
    On May 21st, 2009 at 12:48 pm, txvet2 said:

    Terrific speech by Cheney. It’s nice to hear a real adult once in a while.

21. #705035
    On May 21st, 2009 at 12:51 pm, flmom said:

    “In each of these cases, I had to strike the right balance between transparency and national security,” Obama said.

    This statement really has me spitting nails. He didn’t have to deal with this choice on 9.12.01, his predecessor did. A true statesman would acknowledge that fact.

22. #705040
    On May 21st, 2009 at 12:52 pm, Truesoldier said:

    “In each of these cases, I had to strike the right balance between transparency and national re-election security,” Obama said.

    There, fixed it.

23. #705047
    On May 21st, 2009 at 12:57 pm, txvet2 said:

    Meanwhile, Rush points out that yesterday Bambi was telling an audience that he was trying to figure out a system of “preventive detention” for people they couldn’t convict under current law. Rush thinks he’s talking about terrorists. I think he’s talking about Rush and other conservatives.

24. #705049
    On May 21st, 2009 at 12:58 pm, granite said:

    On May 21st, 2009 at 12:29 pm, Truesoldier said:

    Good post.

    That’s the main reason I have from time to time stated that trying to have a logical, adult, debate-type argument with a socialist/etc/etc is like trying to defend yourself against a charge of witchcraft in the Middle Ages.

    Just watch Rebecca’s (Elizabeth Taylor’s) trial in “Ivanhoe”, and you’ll see what I mean.
    (I’ve seen the movie relatively recently.
    The book…well, that was about 40 years ago!)

25. #705054
    On May 21st, 2009 at 1:05 pm, Ragspierre said:

    granite said:

    Great movie. Two MAJOR foxes in the leads…

    I wonder if THE ONE would consider “trial by combat” with Cheney…?

26. #705073
    On May 21st, 2009 at 1:24 pm, ThatSamIAm said:

    Obama = dumbass

27. #705086
    On May 21st, 2009 at 1:34 pm, MtsEdge said:

    “A double minded man is unstable in all of his ways.” James 1:8

28. #705142
    On May 21st, 2009 at 2:35 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

    I have to admit; lgm makes Odumbo look like a genius.

29. #705145
    On May 21st, 2009 at 2:37 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

    On May 21st, 2009 at 2:35 pm, On-my-soap-box said:
    I have to admit; lgm Odumbo makes Odumbo lgm look like a genius.

    OOPS

30. #705162
    On May 21st, 2009 at 2:57 pm, MrOlympia said:

    B Hussein Obama, THE Greatest Deceiver of Alltime.

    What a great accomplishment!

    AND more to come………

31. #705164
    On May 21st, 2009 at 3:03 pm, Wildcatter1980 said:

    Methinks the president doth speak with fork-ed tongue.

32. #705185
    On May 21st, 2009 at 3:35 pm, no2pcbs1 said:

    the sheep voted for crap and that’s exactly what they got.

33. #705189
    On May 21st, 2009 at 3:39 pm, Marc said:

    The Obama-Carter administration is already planning to throw Israel under the bus. We have already seen the setup in which Obama treated Chavez and Ortega like blood brothers and he treated Bibi like Bibi was from a leper colony. Biden already gave his first antiIsrael speech and then congratulated himself for his bravery.
    What a fool!

34. #705197
    On May 21st, 2009 at 3:53 pm, Papa Louie said:

    I am for transparency (”torture/”interrogation memos), except when I am against it (”torture/”interrogation photos).

    Yes, he’s for transparency except when it involves his own medical/school records. And except when it might make him look bad, such as releasing the memos that detail the intelligence gained and lives saved by harsh interrogation.

    But, as usual with liberals, it’s their “intentions” that count, not their actual track record.

    “It is certainly the intention of this administration not to play hide and seek, or not to release certain things,”
    – Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.; NY Times; Apr 23, 2009

35. #705215
    On May 21st, 2009 at 4:21 pm, scituate_tgr said:

    On May 21st, 2009 at 12:41 pm, Regulus said: #18 Then there’s the kind of liar that you learn to trust in the exact opposite of whatever he’s claiming. Hope-a-Dope is this kind of liar.

    Spot ON! And it took me, you and likely a lot more who are listening to come to the same conclusion.

36. #705294
    On May 21st, 2009 at 6:07 pm, SpeakEasy said:

    On May 21st, 2009 at 11:55 am, ackvil said: I was for it before I was against it. And yet the MSM lets him get away with this. A very sad day for U.S. journalism.

    Apparently you missed the obituary. US journalism is dead. Pravda on the other hand moved its headquarters to DC.

37. #705333
    On May 21st, 2009 at 6:53 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    of “preventive detention” for people they couldn’t convict under current law. Rush thinks he’s talking about terrorists.

    Bama is terrified of US, Rush and anyone opposed to his agenda. I had the idea Rush knows that-I’ll take Homeland Security’s NAPPY’s (Napolitano) word for it when she refers to her political foes as extremist.

    I’ll take William Ayres’ word for it when he says he wants to build concentration camps in the southwest.

38. #705336
    On May 21st, 2009 at 6:57 pm, tbear44 said:

    On May 21st, 2009 at 1:24 pm, ThatSamIAm said:
    Obama = dumbass

    John (Horse-face) Kerry, (Who served in Vietnam).

39. #705463
    On May 22nd, 2009 at 12:06 am, tbear44 said:

    John Kerry walks into a bar. The bartender says: “Why the long face?”

40. #705629
    On May 22nd, 2009 at 10:09 am, akoypinoy said:

    On May 21st, 2009 at 3:53 pm, Papa Louie said:
    I am for transparency (”torture/”interrogation memos), except when I am against it (”torture/”interrogation photos).
    Yes, he’s for transparency except when it involves his own medical/school records. And except when it might make him look bad, such as releasing the memos that detail the intelligence gained and lives saved by harsh interrogation.

    But, as usual with liberals, it’s their “intentions” that count, not their actual track

    Add to your list ObumA’s original birth certificate.

41. #705657
    On May 22nd, 2009 at 10:38 am, WarTip said:

    This hypocrisy continues in blatant fashion. It was pointed out by a few people last week that lawyers for John Demjanjuk argued that he could not be deported because they would use this “torture” on him … at least what is considered to be torture here in the US of A. However, they refused to allow that defense to hold because it is not considered to be torture anywhere else in the “civilized” world.

    Apples and oranges? How is an apple an apple everywhere else in the world and only an orange when it is here? And does it “becoming” an orange when it is here actually make it one? And if math were a color huh? (I fail to see any logic in this form of education … that was my correlation at least)

    Trying to be logical and reasonable with a person who possesses neither trait will always be an exercise in futility … and they will never even see the flaws in their thinking, much less admit to them.

42. #705663
    On May 22nd, 2009 at 10:41 am, WarTip said:

    On May 22nd, 2009 at 10:09 am, akoypinoy said: Add to your list ObumA’s original birth certificate.

    And if you are going to go down that road, let’s not forget college transcripts that may or may not show foreign aid for his college tuition. Though we will never know because he has spent millions more (of his campaign funds!?) to prevent us from knowing the truth rather than making any effort to be “transparent” about something that any of us would have to disclose simply in order to get a regular job so that we could pay his outrageous taxes!

43. #706790
    On May 25th, 2009 at 10:33 am, Member-VRWC said:

    On May 21st, 2009 at 2:35 pm, On-my-soap-box said:
    I have to admit; lgm Odumbo makes Odumbo lgm look like a genius.

    You forgot about option “B” — they’re both mental midgets.

44. #724731
    On June 19th, 2009 at 4:56 pm, Danceswithdachshunds said:

    I’m for following the law to give Congress 30 days to review the dismissal of an IG – unless I have the ‘political courage’ not to.