Poor Obama: Being president is exhausting

By Michelle Malkin  •  December 29, 2009 01:41 PM

Jetting off for Broadway dates, undeserved Peace Prizes, botched Crony-lympics bids, and world apology tours is hard work, don’t you know?

Cue the world’s smallest violin:

After a sleepless, overnight flight to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month, President Barack Obama made a not altogether surprising admission. He was tired.

Who could blame him? The president was on his ninth foreign trip to his 21st country; he added a 10th trip the following week. The year had been bookended by the two most intense periods of his young presidency — the early decisions to bail out the nation’s banks and automobile industry, steps the president deemed unpopular but necessary, and his December orders to deploy 30,000 additional U.S. troops to fight the war in Afghanistan.

Throw in an unemployment rate in the double-digits, a health care bill still stuck on Capitol Hill, and last-minute negotiations on a global climate change agreement, and aides say it’s no secret that the president is tired, and looking forward to recharging during his year-end family vacation in Hawaii.

Not that the commander in chief really thinks he can escape his duties, even on an island. Amid golf, tennis, gym workouts and dinner, Obama has been called on to monitor the airliner attack in Detroit last Friday and what appeared to be another attack on Sunday — that incident turned out to be a false alarm. On Monday, Obama worked out in the morning and played tennis before making his first public remarks on airline security, then hit the golf course.

So much for putting aside the stress of work. Obama himself has been candid about the pressures of being president during what he has called an “extraordinary year.”

“You have a convergence of factors that have made this a difficult year not so much for me but for the American people,” he said in an interview with CBS News last month. “Absolutely that weighs on me.”

Via AP.

All together now: Boo-freaking-hoo.

The piece certainly helps explain President McCrankyPants’ hasty, bloodless, perfunctory statement yesterday on the Christmas Day jihad attack and the Iranian crackdown.

But what else did you expect from a man who has been phoning it in from the beginning of his brief political career as the Illinois state senator who voted “present” nearly 130 times?

Americans can help alleviate the exhausted commander-in-chief’s discomfort by ensuring his retirement in 2012.

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You know what else saps Obama’s energy? Passing the buck.

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  1. #1
    On December 29th, 2009 at 1:48 pm, Milwaukee Mike said:

    Poor Obama: Playing Being president is exhausting

    Fixed

  2. #2
    On December 29th, 2009 at 1:49 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    He said he’d be tired and make mistakes. Back when he thought 10,000 people had died in a Tornado in the midwest. Poor thing – he can sleep in today, too cloudy for golf. Maybe they’ll take over the Imax theater to see Avatar.

  3. #3
    On December 29th, 2009 at 1:49 pm, behiker said:

    On the other hand, the media and the left went ballistic when George Bush was taking vacations. So are what they trying to say is that they know Obama is such a lightweight and in over his head that they expect and understand why he has to take vacations where Bush was so much better prepared to be president that he should be able to perform his duties without breaks?

  4. #4
    On December 29th, 2009 at 1:50 pm, Dimsdale said:

    I’m tired just looking at him. Or is it tired of looking at him (and his teleprompter brain feed)?

    Reid and Pelosi are doing all the socialist heavy lifting, and he is simply a rubberstamping mouthpiece for them.

    What’s to be tired from?

  5. #5
    On December 29th, 2009 at 1:51 pm, NC BLUE said:

    President Bush was never exhausted after 911. The press always said he was vacationing in Crawford Texas—lot like Hawaii ya know. Poor lil Presbo. Carrying around that teleprompter is hard work and also hard on the eyes. The press must be full of Kool aid by now-Not.

  6. #6
    On December 29th, 2009 at 1:52 pm, carole said:

    SEIU members who attended the SEIU Senate Forum last fall endorsed Attorney General Martha Coakley in her bid for the US Senate seat that was left open by the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy. With our help, manning the phones and working the polls, Coakley overwhelmingly won the Democratic Primary on Tuesday.

    Now, as she prepares to take on her challenger in the January 19th Special Election for the US Senate, SEIU Local 888 is pulling out all the stops to get Martha elected.

    Members interested in helping Martha Coakley become the next US Senator from Massachusetts, please call. We have Coakley lawn signs, t-shirt, bumper stickers available free for members.

    http://www.seiu888.org WHERE IS GOP????WHERE IS STEELE?????WHERE IS CORNYN?????? Is the GOP cashing checks from Soros too??????????????????

  7. #7
    On December 29th, 2009 at 1:53 pm, denver republican said:

    Do we have to wait until 2012 to retire him? Can’t we interpret “high crimes and misdemeanors” to include jack-assery and nincompoopery and impeach him?

  8. #8
    On December 29th, 2009 at 1:55 pm, J S Ragman said:

    Poor Obama: Watching him stumble through being president is exhausting.

    Alternate fix.

  9. #9
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:00 pm, nbarry said:

    Oh, for the halcyon days of Millard Fillmore!

  10. #10
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:00 pm, englishqueen01 said:

    Oh, for Pete’s sake. What did he think being president was all about?

    If not lots and lots of work?

    What a whiner.

  11. #11
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:01 pm, Jenn of the Jungle said:

    I’m as tired of him as he is tired.

  12. #12
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:01 pm, babbledabble said:

    Awwwwww, poor Bambi. It has to be hard on even someone as Great as The One to do all that flying around the world, speechifying, throwing WH parties, surfboarding etc. After all playing President on TV is hard work, dontcha know?

  13. #13
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:05 pm, J S Ragman said:

    Obama himself has been candid about the pressures of being president during what he has called an “extraordinary year.”

    Well, at least he didn’t say “unprecedented”.

  14. #14
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:07 pm, ssnark said:

    Poor Obama, my bloody arse! He wanted the job now he’s too tired to do it?

    Many’s the time President Bush did his job from Crawford, Texas and even on vacation took a great deal of work or time from his personal life to do things like see the families of people who died for this country. He and Mrs. Bush were always up and about working for us. Even if I disagreed with what he was doing or why, he did the job and was never too tired at 3:00AM to deal with one crisis or another (Iraq in 2004-2006 comes to mind).
    Mr. Obama is just a lame excuse for a man and not worth spit on President Bush’s shoes, and as I say I tended to disagree with the President more often than not.

  15. #15
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:08 pm, ThunderHawkk said:

    Well, maybe he should resign, then.

  16. #16
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:10 pm, cyrebus said:

    Don’t forget his TV talk show appearances

  17. #17
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:14 pm, theporch said:

    Sen. Dodd, D-Conn., slashed aviation security funding for pet constituency
    By: Mark Hemingway
    Commentary Staff Writer
    12/28/09 12:24 PM EST
    Now that our attention is focused on airline security measures thanks to the failed airline attack on Christmas Day, it’s worth mentioning that one senator took money away from aviation security to line the pockets of a constituency that supported his presidential campaign in a big way.

    Back in July, Senator Chris Dodd, D-Conn., proposed an amendment reducing aviation security appropriations by $4.5 million in favor of firefighter grants — a notoriously inneffective program. In fact, the money was specifically “for screening operations and the amount for explosives detection systems.”

  18. #18
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:15 pm, theporch said:
  19. #19
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:15 pm, tiredofit08 said:

    On December 29th, 2009 at 1:55 pm, J S Ragman said:

    Poor Obama: Watching him stumble through being president is exhausting.

    Alternate fix.

    alternate alternate fix…

    Watching him stumble through playing a president is sickening…

  20. #20
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:16 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Resign. Please.

    A lot more work that getting stoned at Oxy and given passing grades for being an affirmative action admission…

  21. #21
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:18 pm, Last Massachusetts Conservative said:

    On December 29th, 2009 at 1:52 pm, carole said:
    SEIU members who attended the SEIU Senate Forum last fall endorsed Attorney General Martha Coakley in her bid for the US Senate seat that was left open by the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy. With our help, manning the phones and working the polls, Coakley overwhelmingly won the Democratic Primary on Tuesday.

    Now, as she prepares to take on her challenger in the January 19th Special Election for the US Senate, SEIU Local 888 is pulling out all the stops to get Martha elected.

    Members interested in helping Martha Coakley become the next US Senator from Massachusetts, please call. We have Coakley lawn signs, t-shirt, bumper stickers available free for members.

    http://www.seiu888.org WHERE IS GOP????WHERE IS STEELE?????WHERE IS CORNYN?????? Is the GOP cashing checks from Soros too??????????????????

    Hi Carole,

    I am with you. I know this is off topic and my apologies to the posters but WHERE IS THE CONSERVATIVE MEDIA ON THIS???

    PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE MICHELLE, can you use your influence to bring this to national attention? We all ask what we can do to change the horrible situation in DC. This is it. Contribute money or assistance now to help replace Kennedy with a Republican.

    Let’s not just post complaints. Let’s DO something!

  22. #22
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:19 pm, Darwin Akbar said:

    To quote that great philosopher, Super Chicken: You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.

  23. #23
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:21 pm, Hangfire said:

    Cut him some slack!!!

    YOU try being the leader of all 57 states!

  24. #24
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:26 pm, One_American said:

    I’m Tired
    (written by: Mel Brooks)

    Here I stand, the goddess of Desire
    Set men on fire
    I have this power
    Morning noon and night it’s drink and dancing
    Some quick romancing
    And then a shower
    Stage door johnnies always surround me
    They always hound me
    With one request
    Who can satisfy their lustful habits
    I’m not a rabbit
    I need some rest

    I’m tired
    Sick and tired of love
    I’ve had my fill of love
    From below and above
    Tired, tired of being admired
    Tired of love uninspired
    Let’s face it
    I’m tired

    I couldn’t resist – the Obama jokes just write themselves, don’t they?

  25. #25
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:30 pm, graysonret said:

    All those trips and parties can be exhausting. I don’t think he has done a week’s worth of work, since inauguration. Of course, I can understand being tired out from vacations and trips. Sometimes, after vacation, I’m happy to be back at work, just to get some rest. Maybe if he stayed at the WH and did some real work he wouldn’t be so tired out.

  26. #26
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:30 pm, battleaxe said:

    Poor Obama is so tired. Assuming he makes it that far, let’s help him out by making sure his term ends in 2012 so he can get some rest.

  27. #27
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:30 pm, babbledabble said:

    But….but… he didn’t realize how many problems he was going to “inherit”. He thought it was going to be Fun & Glamorous being a Celebrity with lots of benefits. Nobody ever told him it was work! After all, isn’t that what he has Czars for?
    I agree, he should resign & rest up for another 50 years. Catch up on his beauty sleep.

  28. #28
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:32 pm, revolution said:

    I love Michelle (Malkin).

  29. #29
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:41 pm, zyzzyg said:

    Notwithstanding the AP’s take on what is happening in reporting the facts, Pres Obama is not complaining.

    The aides saying the President is tired is not a call for sympathy, but a reality. Who doesn’t need to recharge their batteries? Albeit a cliche.

    Of course, being President takes a toll on the individual. And, saying so is not complaining, no more than saying that being a parent is sometimes difficult. Yep, there is a fine line that can be crossed. And, saying your children can be trying, does not mean you want to put them up for adoption.

    The fact that the success, or health, of your children weighs on you is not a complaint. It is part of the deal in being a parent.

    Pres Obama’s comment is part of the deal in being President. The AP’s recounting of events, is well, recounting events.

  30. #30
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:42 pm, MacEamonn said:

    Barry O will be President until 2012, but will there still be a country for him to be President of?

  31. #31
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:43 pm, tre said:

    His teleprompter does all the work! So, why is he so tired!?!?

    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:32 pm, revolution said:

    She’s taken, and she ain’t Tigress Woods! Sorry!

  32. #32
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:43 pm, travlinman said:

    Let’s start planning the retirement party in 2010. We can order flowers, the cake and a nice parting gift like a watch or a briefcase to send BHO off to his golden years. The best thing we can do is send a nice pre-retirement gift to ourselves in November by turning every traitorous ba$tard out of Congress. That would be most all of them.

  33. #33
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:44 pm, behiker said:

    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:26 pm, One_American said:

    Love it! It’s even better like this. Try not to visual Obama wearing the same thing.

  34. #34
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:45 pm, vcallaway said:

    Perhaps he is stimulating the economy by spending his million dollar payoff prize.

    Ordering POTUS for dummies from Amazon.com would be good start.

  35. #35
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:57 pm, docflash said:

    Hey,lighten up,it’s hard out there for a PIMP.

  36. #36
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:57 pm, Miner51 said:

    In order to achieve the level of total worthlessness Prez Obama has, it takes a huge amount of energy and work just planning and plotting out how to best avoid acomplishing anything important. He must be totally exhausted by now. Poor guy–he needs a vacation.

  37. #37
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:57 pm, ssnark said:

    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:21 pm, Hangfire said:

    Cut him some slack!!!

    YOU try being the leader of all 57 states!

    We did. We’re paying for his annual Hawaiian vacations for the next three years! Including rental on property he doesn’t own. Not since San Clemente and Richard M. Nixon has the country paid for such exorbitant vacation retreats. The Bush’s (both of them) used Camp David or their own properties (Kennebunkport, Crawford), Unca Jimmeh, had his peanut farm and Camp David, Ronald Reagan had his home near Downey California but usually vacationed at Camp David. Gerald Ford likewise vacationed at Camp David except when skiing in Vail or Aspen. LBJ vacationed at his ranch. But for the globe trotting Obama’s (who’d never traveled much out of the US before he came into Federal office) vacations in Hawaii rather than his home of record Illinois.

    All I have to say is, gee Mr. Obama, worst economy since the Great Depression, Health Care in Crisis, and all you can do is spend taxpayer money on gratuitous travel? Thank you oh so very much! May I have another Sir?

  38. #38
    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:59 pm, frontierguy said:

    Tired or not his limp wristed pansy a$$ed response to an attempt to down one of our planes recently shows how dangerous having an anti-America no experience wimp of a POTUS is going to cost us dearly. He and JaNo have to go. Everyone needs to watch their own backs, the people who are supposed to look out for us are more than happy to not do it.

  39. #39
    On December 29th, 2009 at 3:00 pm, ThatSamIAm said:

    Expanding socialism with a bit of communism is hard work.

  40. #40
    On December 29th, 2009 at 3:00 pm, letget said:

    I do not think this bho has worked a solid month since he was elected! How the heck can he be tired? Take some vitamins or better yet, resign if you can not handle this horrible stress job!
    L

  41. #41
    On December 29th, 2009 at 3:18 pm, Hangfire said:

    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:57 pm, ssnark said:

    Sorry, ssnark. Didn’t think I needed the sarc/

  42. #42
    On December 29th, 2009 at 3:20 pm, Truesoldier said:

    To be honest I do not begrudge him a vacation as everyone does need to get some R&R.

    I do however begrudge the fact that he is doing it on the taxpayer dime while complaining that execs in the free market get bonuses and that we need to be more fiscally conservatvie while spending our great-great-great-great grandchildren into debt.

  43. #43
    On December 29th, 2009 at 3:21 pm, GladzKravtz said:

    So are what they trying to say is that they know Obama is such a lightweight and in over his head that they expect and understand why he has to take vacations ..

    Veiled Discrimination, that’s the Democrat way and since much of the media shares the same brain …

  44. #44
    On December 29th, 2009 at 3:21 pm, gco said:

    On December 29th, 2009 at 1:50 pm, Dimsdale said:

    Reid and Pelosi are doing all the socialist heavy lifting, and he is simply a rubberstamping mouthpiece for them.

    Rubberstamping? I think he’s personally involved in every last bit of it, but when the disasters happen, and socialism can only lead to disaster, he’s setting Congress up to take the blame. It’s why he’s using the fascist approach to running private industry, as in GM and Chrysler, where those companies are government-run, but have nominal private ownership. They’ll become bigger disasters than they already are, and when they do, he’ll blame it on whichever fall guy he’s quietly appointed to be CEO.

  45. #45
    On December 29th, 2009 at 3:25 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    All that Bush blaming, that beer summit, then the “jobs” summit (which created NO jobs), and all of those backroom meetings at midnight with suck-up dems on how to bribe others into voting for that unconstitutional health care bill have really done Obeyme in. He did a p-ss poor job as a Senator and an even worse job as Pres because he’s tired. So are at least 150 million Americans who go to work EVERY day and, yes, we’re tired…tired of him.

  46. #46
    On December 29th, 2009 at 3:31 pm, bradley said:

    Why is Obama tired? According to him, George Bush did everything.

  47. #47
    On December 29th, 2009 at 3:39 pm, alamb said:

    well if he maintains his radical agenda like this unconstitutional healthcare mandate and the like he could possibly will find himself back to the south side of Chicago. Did I say impeachment?

  48. #48
    On December 29th, 2009 at 3:41 pm, bjc said:

    *Go easy on P-BO; Talking out of both sides of your mouth can be exhausting; Other items possibly exhausting P-BO:
    **Living a lie and covering it up 24/7
    **Having your golf game interrupted
    **Constantly having to say “yes dear”
    **Being a Hidden Imam
    **Having to actually work for a country he really hates!

  49. #49
    On December 29th, 2009 at 3:41 pm, rambler said:

    He’s free to resign. Nobody is making him stay. His problem is that with every job he has had, he avoided doing the job by campaigning for the next job. The POTUS of the world doesn’t exist yet so poor BHO has to do this one. None of his ideas have fixed anything and since he’s never been successful at anything beyond getting elected, he doesn’t know why the ideas didn’t work. Believing in his own bull sh!t won’t save him from being a total failure!

  50. #50
    On December 29th, 2009 at 3:52 pm, Wayfaring Stranger said:

    carole & LMC, it’s good to see others rallying to the cause. But I fear that too many conservatives across the country have written off Massachusetts (which I call the Bog State – and not because of the cranberry bogs). :roll:

    And that’s a shame, because this could be the chance to elect someone other than a liberal Democrat (I know that’s generally considered a redundancy) to the Senate. My husband remarked today on a yard that usually sports campaign signs for Democrats; it currently displays a sign supporting Republican candidate Scott Brown – and whether it’s because they know Martha Coakley is about as competent as Janet Napolitano, or they’ve finally come over to the dark side ;-) we don’t care, as long as the end result is that Massachusetts gets its first Republican senator since Ed Brooke.

    We’re doing what we can in our small way, but it would be really encouraging to see Brown garner some support from the RNC and conservatives elsewhere.

  51. #51
    On December 29th, 2009 at 3:53 pm, Paul Revere said:

    Maybe we should mail him some pretzel sticks.

  52. #52
    On December 29th, 2009 at 3:59 pm, Just A Grunt said:

    Since I ain’t the president I didn’t get to take a vacation this year. Part because I couldn’t afford it and mostly because because of after layoffs at work they simply couldn’t afford for me to be off more then a day or two at a time.

    Yeah Barry, I’m tired too, but since I don’t have taxpayers paying my salary or my bills I have no choice.

    I don’t get to go golfing, or play tennis or do much else in the way of relaxation since thanks to the wonders of technology, my company can reach out and touch me whenever they want and unlike you I don’t have the luxury of waiting a couple of days before I address an issue.

    You see here in the real world most of us are glad to have a job, but we wonder how much longer that will be with the policies you and your like minded minions in the congress continue to shove down our throats.

    Take your vacation and shove it Barry.

  53. #53
    On December 29th, 2009 at 4:04 pm, Wayfaring Stranger said:

    Oh, and back on topic, I saw the AP article earlier today and wanted to vomit; the Poseur-in-chief campaigned for the job, put himself forward as fully qualified and capable of handling the job, yet now we’re supposed to feel sorry for him because he’s tired?

    There isn’t a violin small enough to register the sympathy that article – and its subject – merit. Either suck it up and do the job, or resign and let someone else tackle the difficult task of hauling TOTUS around the globe.

  54. #54
    On December 29th, 2009 at 4:04 pm, txvet2 said:

    If anything, he’s tired from his non-stop all-expense-paid world vacation tour. You can’t get anything like this from AARP or AAA at any price – his own fully equipped 747 plus extra aircraft for staff and his wife’s side trips, armored limousines, instant access to the world’s golf courses and basketball courts, exotic fare from around the world, all paid for by somebody else. No wonder he’s worn out.

  55. #55
    On December 29th, 2009 at 4:06 pm, txvet2 said:

    And of course we shouldn’t forget all of those tedious parties every night at the White House when he’s in-country. What a drag. Getting so he’s even losing his taste for Wagyu beef.

  56. #56
    On December 29th, 2009 at 4:12 pm, Jeff2161 said:

    How many vacations did Lincoln take ?

  57. #57
    On December 29th, 2009 at 4:12 pm, tbear44 said:

    Wonder if he had the pizza guy flown to Hawaii too? :roll:

  58. #58
    On December 29th, 2009 at 4:13 pm, ThunderHawkk said:

    Hey, Odumbo! Why don’t you just QUIT??!?

    Nobody likes you here!

    Why don’t you go back to Europe and study Islam like you know you want to do?

  59. #59
    On December 29th, 2009 at 4:14 pm, Jeddite said:

    Gee, if being President with the media slobbering all over you 24/7 (for one year) is exhausting, I wonder what being President with the media screeching “HITLER!!” at your every move for eight years is like.

    Thankfully, President BroBama need not necessarily ever experience that duress.

  60. #60
    On December 29th, 2009 at 4:14 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    The reason his college records from Occidental, Columbia and Harvard haven’t been released may be because Obama was a major league stoner, dedicated to communism, but willing to put in the bare minimum work to pass his classes.

    He wasn’t a leader in the Senate.

    This might be the closest thing to a real job he has ever had. I mean, as a community organizer, did he have a boss that made sure he did any work?

  61. #61
    On December 29th, 2009 at 4:18 pm, JustAThought said:

    So, now that a vote of “Present” doesn’t get him out a commitment, he stumbles, fumbles and bumbles until pressed into a corner (and of course, the polls are in) then makes a decision/commitment. Witness the surge of 30,000+ troops, waiting for no apparent reason to make any type of comment on the Ft. Hood terror attack and the attempted bombing on Christmas day.

    Do us (that is, the US) a huge favor Mr. Pretender-In-Chief, go away. We’ll stop asking for your birth certificate, you can catch-up on your sleep while Ayers writes you another book.

    Go back to your house in Chicago.

  62. #62
    On December 29th, 2009 at 4:22 pm, John Deaux said:

    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:57 pm, ssnark said:

    All I have to say is, gee Mr. Obama, worst economy since the Great Depression, Health Care in Crisis, and all you can do is spend taxpayer money on gratuitous travel?

    There’s nothing wrong with spending. It’s necessary to avoid bankruptcy according to Biden, but earning money, now that’s evil. Just like those greedy pharmaceutical oil insurance companies!

  63. #63
    On December 29th, 2009 at 4:26 pm, md1964 said:

    Has this man EVER held a real job??? So far his decision making and attitude, reflect an “entitled” mentality where actually working for something is just too difficult.

  64. #64
    On December 29th, 2009 at 4:37 pm, One_American said:

    “All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I’m fine.”

    - Jeff Spicoli, 1982
    - Barack Obama, 2009

  65. #65
    On December 29th, 2009 at 4:40 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    What’s the matter Barack, glistening pecs starting to sag? Better start wearing yorself a bro (aka manzierre), perk you right up!

  66. #66
    On December 29th, 2009 at 4:44 pm, corkie said:

    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:41 pm, zyzzyg said:

    Are you saying that Obama is tired because he’s the parent and we Americans are the children?

  67. #67
    On December 29th, 2009 at 4:45 pm, 24Klady said:

    There was some kind of little blurb the other day on one of the channels about Hawaii being the traditional vacation spot at Christmas for the Obamas. Anyone know if that is true? I’m thinking he only started going back after Granny died and/or someone else paid for it?

    The man has the work ethics of a spoiled child, which also spills over to blaming the other kids in the sandbox when any crisis presents itself.

  68. #68
    On December 29th, 2009 at 4:50 pm, swede said:

    One pooped POTUS. Somebody call this poor guy a waaaambulance pronto.

  69. #69
    On December 29th, 2009 at 4:50 pm, emjem24 said:

    Being unemployed and looking for a job is just as exhausting. Where’s my job, Obummer? Where are the millions of jobs you promised? Or, was that an empty promise like the 100′s of thousands of jobs Hillary promised for the state of New York?

    Oh, I forget, those jobs went to your cronies, to that stupid prison in Illinois that is going to “guard” the Guantanamo “refugees.” Or, wait, those “shovel ready” projects that need more construction workers.

    Or, could it be, those jobs are going toward more Federal employees who average 70k a year and think the economy is great (for them) anyway. They, in turn, single-handedly increased the retail sales rate to just 1% this holiday season.

    Oh, boy, oh, boy…. here’s to big hopes that the millions of us without jobs will at least know what “underemployment” feels like this year. :roll:

  70. #70
    On December 29th, 2009 at 4:52 pm, emjem24 said:

    Oh, one more thing, especially for those looking for some humor:

    I guess those pecs aren’t so shiny any more, huh? :-)

  71. #71
    On December 29th, 2009 at 5:04 pm, spaceycakes said:

    The president was on his ninth foreign trip to his 21st country

    not to mention that whirlwind campaign, thrusting his manly self through 57 states…

  72. #72
    On December 29th, 2009 at 5:16 pm, 24Klady said:

    emjem24 – we all pray that those that want to work will have the opportunity sooner rather than later. Just about every family I know has someone out of work. It’s criminal the only job market is taxpayer funded gov’t jobs. All we’re doing is exchanging money to keep what’s left of the economy afloat. There is no real growth. God bless you all.

  73. #73
    On December 29th, 2009 at 5:58 pm, zorro said:

    This Chicago Thug is a feather-weight compared to a real man like G. W. who had the wits and stamina to get us through Sept. 11, 2001, fight the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Saddam and our communist inspired press all at the same time! And now we hear this poor slug is tired? I suggest he resign, and take Plugs Biden with him. Chicago corruption is much less tiring.

  74. #74
    On December 29th, 2009 at 6:01 pm, sbw999 said:

    Redistributing wealth, bowing and evading responsibility is obviously exhausting.

  75. #75
    On December 29th, 2009 at 6:09 pm, Papa Louie said:

    Obama keeps saying “we will not rest” until such and such is accomplished. No wonder he’s tired; he never accomplishes anything.

    I wouldn’t complain if Obama pulled a Rip Van Winkle and went to sleep for 20 years. Oh wait, that means Biden would become acting President…

  76. #76
    On December 29th, 2009 at 6:14 pm, sbw999 said:

    On December 29th, 2009 at 5:58 pm, zorro said:

    This Chicago Thug is a feather-weight compared to a real man like G. W. who had the wits and stamina to get us through Sept. 11, 2001, fight the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Saddam and our communist inspired press all at the same time!

    This is true. Despite GWB’s shortcomings as a conservative, the guy was Presidential, and professional. Can you imagine GWB being asked to grade his performance and then doing so??? Or calling American citizens “fatcats”? Or saying that a police department acted “stupidly”? Or publicly demonizing a major news network? This guy is an arrogant pompous empty suit, who doesn’t have a clue about how to even behave Presidential.

  77. #77
    On December 29th, 2009 at 6:40 pm, beachmom said:

    Somebody call the whaaaambulance.

  78. #78
    On December 29th, 2009 at 6:47 pm, maisy said:

    Trying to be KING of the WORLD is a lot harder than he thought…even though all he has to do is “show up”. He does none of the heavy lifting…someone else calls the shots, Pelosi,Reid, Soros…muslim leaders…..
    He is so far in over his head he thinks he reached Atlantis!

  79. #79
    On December 29th, 2009 at 7:22 pm, prendad said:

    President O’Whineah just cannot seem to get his priorities straight. Obama’s priorities:

    First: ME.
    Second: ME.
    Third: ME.
    Fourth: ME.
    and the pattern continues.

  80. #80
    On December 29th, 2009 at 7:27 pm, Gothguy said:

    Cry me a river, you POS!

  81. #81
    On December 29th, 2009 at 7:30 pm, prendad said:

    Riddle:
    What is the difference between a stuck-up, vain, snobby, holier-than-thou, conceited, ineffectual, inept, clownish, foppish, stooge. . .
    and Obama?
    Answer: Nothing.

  82. #82
    On December 29th, 2009 at 7:33 pm, luckydogg said:

    My kids did not get squat for Christmas…And this POS is tired!!!!!
    Because of him no drilling in Texas!!!!
    No work here Thanks…………..

  83. #83
    On December 29th, 2009 at 7:35 pm, swede said:

    Answer: Nothing.

    Not true. The stuck-up, vain, snobby, holier-than-thou, conceited, ineffectual, inept, clownish, foppish stooge was actually born here.

  84. #84
    On December 29th, 2009 at 7:47 pm, Jimmie said:

    I don’t think he EVER put in an 8 hour day before becoming president…community organizer? Pretty flexible hours probably never more than 6 hours. Senate? There is a record, he wasn’t there much missed many votes and most often voted “present” no record of long hours here. No record of long hours at Harvard? And here and now it appears that he is incapable of putting in many long days. That was SO a part of the untested thing that should have kept him out of this job. He has never faced this kind of pressure. God help us all.

  85. #85
    On December 29th, 2009 at 8:18 pm, Republicanvet said:

    A little OT, but thinking how lame Obowmao’s comments were….

    Imagine the rioting in the streets by Muslims if we bombed something on Ramadan.

    Remember when a cluster of jihidiots were gathered for some funeral yet the US held off on dropping a 500 pounder on them?

    Remember the rioting over the cartoons? or the Koran in krapper?

    I haven’t heard of any Christians rioting and killing Muslims because one of them tried killing a plane load of people on Christmas Day.

  86. #86
    On December 29th, 2009 at 8:58 pm, Marc said:

    In his statement today, Obama made sure to call the Nigerian on the airplane “an extremist” but not a terrorist. The Obama administration is always careful never to use the word “terrorist” for any acts by Muslims. Thus Obama would not use the word “terrorist” when Obama went to Fort Hood after the Muslim Hassan murdered 13 US soldiers. Obama call Hassan “a gunman”. You have to wonder how many hours Obama and his speechwriters spent before they came up with the useless word “gunman”. Heck you could call the olympic riflery team “gunmen”. So today Obama eschews the word “terrorist” for the Nigerian guy and instead calls him “an extremist” and then Obama gets even worse. To make sure nobody thinks that there are groups of Muslim fanatics plotting against America, Obama call the Nigerian “an isolated extremist”. So Obama now rules out the possibility that the Nigerian was helped by a network of terrorists. Obama is sure to make the New York Times happy and that is all he cares about.

  87. #87
    On December 29th, 2009 at 9:04 pm, Republicanvet said:

    On December 29th, 2009 at 2:41 pm, zyzzyg said:

    Notwithstanding the AP’s take on what is happening in reporting the facts, Pres Obama is not complaining.

    The aides saying the President is tired is not a call for sympathy, but a reality. Who doesn’t need to recharge their batteries? Albeit a cliche.

    Of course, being President takes a toll on the individual. And, saying so is not complaining, no more than saying that being a parent is sometimes difficult. Yep, there is a fine line that can be crossed. And, saying your children can be trying, does not mean you want to put them up for adoption.

    The fact that the success, or health, of your children weighs on you is not a complaint. It is part of the deal in being a parent.

    Pres Obama’s comment is part of the deal in being President. The AP’s recounting of events, is well, recounting events.

    Awwww. I feel so sorry for the sniveling simpleton.

    You REALLY want to compare your hero to a child?

    Can we put him up for adoption by another country?

  88. #88
    On December 29th, 2009 at 9:05 pm, Flyoverman said:

    Bottom Line:

    He’s a whiner.

  89. #89
    On December 29th, 2009 at 9:23 pm, Republicanvet said:

    On December 29th, 2009 at 4:18 pm, JustAThought said:

    Go back to your Rezko’s house in Chicago.

    I wonder how many deployed soldiers are tired, yet do their duty anyway.

    No access to golf, no date nights, certainly no surfing.

    What a whiny POS.

  90. #90
    On December 29th, 2009 at 9:28 pm, Republicanvet said:

    On December 29th, 2009 at 5:58 pm, zorro said:

    This Chicago Thug is a feather-weight compared to a real man like G. W. who had the wits and stamina to get us through Sept. 11, 2001, fight the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Saddam and our communist inspired press all at the same time! And now we hear this poor slug is tired? I suggest he resign, and take Plugs Biden with him. Chicago corruption is much less tiring.

    Don’t forget the jackals in Congress yapping at his heels at every turn.

  91. #91
    On December 29th, 2009 at 9:40 pm, Republicanvet said:

    On December 29th, 2009 at 8:58 pm, Marc said:

    To make sure nobody thinks that there are groups of Muslim fanatics plotting against America, Obama call the Nigerian “an isolated extremist”. So Obama now rules out the possibility that the Nigerian was helped by a network of terrorists. Obama is sure to make the New York Times happy and that is all he cares about.

    The fool needs to pick up a paper or get a briefing from his military aide since the TERRORIST already said he was trained in Yemen….obviously by someone other than reading a book.

    The TERRORIST already admitted there were more in Yemen ready to conduct attacks.

    The TERRORISTS responsible in Yemen have claimed credit for it.

    What does this nitwit need? A group picture of them on his TOTUS?

    Oh, and all you Hopey/Changey dopes that voted for this raving buffoon….thanks for nothing.

  92. #92
    On December 29th, 2009 at 9:42 pm, jangar said:

    Compare this story to the best they could ever say about President Bush, and there’s really no comparison.

    Obama on a really bad day is still a saint compared to Bush on his best.

    Why do we even bother to read the news anymore?

  93. #93
    On December 29th, 2009 at 9:51 pm, Republicanvet said:
  94. #94
    On December 29th, 2009 at 10:04 pm, Republicanvet said:

    The CIA said it worked with embassy officials to make sure that Abdulmutallab’s name made it into the government’s database of suspected terrorists and noted his potential extremist connections in Yemen. The CIA also said it forwarded that information to the National Counterterrorism Center.

    “We learned of him in November, when his father came to the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria and sought help in finding him. We did not have his name before then,” CIA spokesman George Little said.

    Somebody pooched this pretty good.

    There are boat loads of watch lists and databases, but somehow somebody missed the one list or database his name was in.

    Why are these not linked? Turf wars?

    Why not whenever someone applies for a visa or other entry, if their name is in ANY terror database or list, they get a big red blinking NO EFING WAY on their screen?

    Then some bureaucrat can still protect his favorite recipes.

  95. #95
    On December 29th, 2009 at 10:15 pm, Republicanvet said:

    “As Secretary Napolitano has said, once the suspect attempted to take down Flight 253, after his attempt, it’s clear that passengers and crew, our homeland security systems, and our aviation security took all appropriate actions,” Obama said.

    However, Obama said: “What’s also clear is this: When our government has information on a known extremist and that information is not shared and acted upon as it should have been … a systemic failure has occurred.

    Janack Obamitano. :sheesh:

  96. #96
    On December 29th, 2009 at 11:18 pm, zyzzyg said:

    On December 29th, 2009 at 9:04 pm, Republicanvet said: #88

    Awwww. I feel so sorry for the sniveling simpleton.

    Ummm, OK. You are entitled to your own opinion and feelings.

    You REALLY want to compare your hero to a child?

    Huh? Who do you think my hero is? And, who is comparing anyone to a child?

    Can we put him up for adoption by another country?

    Whoever you are referring to putting up for adoption the answer is no. Only the parents can surrender their parental rights and place their child up for adoption. “We” have no rights to put anyone up for adoption.

    Do you agree that being President of the US is a difficult job?

    Do you believe that talking about the difficulties of being President, when asked, is complaining, or giving the facts?

    Do you believe that talking about the difficulties of being a parent, when asked, is complaining, or giving the facts?

  97. #97
    On December 30th, 2009 at 12:11 am, ajmontana said:

    wah, and is this a surprise? the guy was late for everything and voted, or non vorted “present” over 140 times. he’s a clusless jacka$$ just as Napolotano…etc etc, etc…. this admin sucks moose richard.

  98. #98
    On December 30th, 2009 at 12:12 am, ajmontana said:

    and how come he’s always uses the tired excuse after being a week in Hawaii? what a putz.

  99. #99
    On December 30th, 2009 at 12:29 am, ssnark said:

    On December 29th, 2009 at 9:40 pm, Republicanvet said:

    The fool needs to pick up a paper or get a briefing from his military aide since the TERRORIST already said he was trained in Yemen….obviously by someone other than reading a book.

    He’d been briefed three times since the incident in what is known as the “daily report” which is a classified Presidential version of the daily news report. So, Mr. Obama had heard that this was not an act of a ‘lone nut case’ three times at the very least.

    The TERRORIST already admitted there were more in Yemen ready to conduct attacks.

    Mr. Obama obviously had heard that too and studiously chose to ignore it either to the public or what may be worse to himself and the public.

    The TERRORISTS responsible in Yemen have claimed credit for it.

    Which again he’d been informed of, at least once and chose to ignore it.

    What does this nitwit need? A group picture of them on his TOTUS?

    For whatever reason Mr. Obama has failed to take notice now whether this is only for public consumption (which would indicate he assumes the public is oblivious to this event even when its plastered on front pages everywhere) or he chooses not to take notice of these facts (more dangerous) is all that remains to be seen.

    In another post you say,

    Somebody pooched this pretty good.

    There are boat loads of watch lists and databases, but somehow somebody missed the one list or database his name was in.

    Why are these not linked? Turf wars?

    The embassy probably put it on the State Department database. The CIA on theirs. State and CIA databases don’t usually talk to one another for reasons of security. Both are supposed to talk to DHS’s database which should have correlated it with the name on the “Watch list” but for some reason didn’t. Why, we’ll never know. I tend to suspect that some of the rules files in those databases have been tampered with recently. But that’s pure conjecture on my part. But, at least this much of Mr. Obama’s statement is true, “a systemic failure has occurred.”

    I’m betting that it will take innocent lives wasted and bits of aluminum, plastics, wire and other odd bits of metal alloys before Mr. Obama and company even begin to notice that they need to fix their systemic failure.

  100. #100
    On December 30th, 2009 at 4:04 am, AlohaGuy said:

    I’m betting that it will take innocent lives wasted and bits of aluminum, plastics, wire and other odd bits of metal alloys before Mr. Obama and company even begin to notice that they need to fix their systemic failure.

    “Can’t I just eat my Onaga in peace?”

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