Pre-Jan. 19 Obama: Scott Brown is an ogre. Post-Jan. 19 Obama: Hey, Scott Brown’s just like me!
Yep, that was the spin out of White House press secretary Robert Gibbs’ mouth this afternoon.
Just a few short days ago, President Obama was up in Massachusetts mocking Brown’s truck and casting him as a fat-cat crony of Wall Street.
Today? Gibbs asserted with a straight face that the same kind of “anger” that brought Obama into office also buoyed Brown’s candidacy.
See? Brown’s voters are just like Obama’s. Brown’s win is Obama’s win. Black is white. Up is down. Ignorance equals strength.
Oh, yeah: And elections have consequences.
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Video of the spin straight from the horse’s mouth, via Allahpundit.
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Gibbs won’t make it thru the summer.
It amazes me that Gibb’s brain can generate enough electricity, to even move his lips..much less utter some symblance of English..
Errah, just looked up “Stupid” in the ole Funk and Wagnall and there was a picture of Robert Gibbs.
Wow! Guess that means the D’s are loaded with POWER!
Left to right in this photo Reid, Frank, Duh One, Pelosi and Kerry!
http://www.wavplanet.com/power_rangers.jpg
Errah, strike that. Just found out Gibbs just finished his Rosetta Stone Baghdad Bob course.
If I wasn’t a healthcare professional, I would almost miss the possibility that the KBPOTUS is suffering from narcissisitic tendencies.
Quick call in a nurse to give him a shot of 5&2 (Haldol and Thorazine)! STAT!
GSP
There will be plenty of room in the unemployment line for those Congresscritters who don’t get it, along with White House czars and czarinas, their sycophants, media et al.
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/unemployment-line.jpg
I’ll have to agree with this one, although it was done in the spirit of satire.
Have you ever tried to reason with the strongly ignorant? Wow.
Scott Brown is from Kenya?
And the passionately ignorant as well, spacey.
it’s a game! Where’s Rogue?
Roberts Gibbs is one of the most unbelievably stupid people I have ever had the misfortune to have listened to. he wears his Obama grovel proudly. I wonder if he believes all the stuff he says. Yeesh, what a moron!
I am so glad we have someone like Barack Obama to explain this to us. I bet Michelle Obama is sooo proud of her country today…
He is right about one similarity. Obama voters and Brown voters are both angry with Obama.
Flyoverman; my Dad always said ‘it’s too bad ignorance isn’t painful.’
spacey: Your dad would have gotten along well with The Duke:
“People are angry and they are frustrated. Not just because of what’s happened in the last year or two years,but what’s happened over the last eight years.”
Yes, it ‘s all Bush’s fault. He has no shame.
Errah, Thanks Bobby!
After Gibbs declaration, we are all now stupidier for having heard those words!
Obama voters need to wear sack cloth during the next two election cycles and repent of their evil ways. Robert Gibbs is a low end android.
Now every Democrat is going to come out with the line: Don’t do anything until Brown is seated. Real Clear Politics has a video of Obama stating this; oh how the world has turned in a night. Well if the entire American government has become so dependent on Senator Brown, perhaps he should become our senate leader and Reid can retire. Since the president is also stricken with paralysis, maybe he should go back to the Illinois state senate and let someone with actual governing experience become our president. Clearly Obama is not qualified for this job. Nancy’s days are numbered too. She should join Croakley in the land of the forgotten.
We won!
Scott Brown’s college career is questionable?
MM,
First, why do you claim Gibbs said it and then link to a clip of Obama stating that both his voters and Brown’s voters are angry?
Second, it is a very disingenuous of you to claim that Obama was in any way saying that his voters were like Brown’s voters (except in the very narrow sense that they were both motivated by anger, which, lets face it, is not a unique or profound insight) or that a Brown win was an Obama win.
Talk about spin.
Paul Revere, we won a very important battle and it seems to be the turning point….but the war is far from over. The Dermocratic push for health care was never about providing Americans with health care. It was and remains all about a grab of power. They succeeded with GM, and they have a strangle-hold on the banks. They will try again to turn this country into a socialist nightmare. They may lie quiet for a very very brief time, but they will try another power grab soon. This was not a rebuke of health care, this was about Americans telling the government to back off. Now is not the time to back off and let the socialists regroup. KEEP THIS PARTY GOING!!! All the way till we rid ourselves of these would be dictators and usurpers.
I forget, is Oceana still at war with Eastasia?
chap, you can go all teabagger on obama. I offer you my insincere condolences.
Perhaps I would if I had any clue as to what you were talking about.
I am doing quite fine, thank you.
Let’s count the ways in which Brown differs from Obama:
1. He’s Republican
2. He served in the US Military
3. His college transcripts are unsealed and available
4. His Selective Service records are available
5. His birth certificate is (probably) available, but not in doubt
6. He owns a truck
7. He owns a house he didn’t have to buy with aid from Dem bundlers and shady real estate developers under investigation
8. He received campaign donations from within the United States
9. He did not campaign on vague platitudes, nor race, nor religion, but rather a very specific promise to solidly defeat one of the worst bills to ever be brought forth from the US Congress
10. He did not campaign in “all 57 states”
11. He demonstrates humility and servitude to the people of his State
12. His State Congress records are available
13. He’s voted more than just “Present”
14. He believes that terrorists are evil, and not merely “misunderstood devout Muslims
15. He has not written two autobiographical books nor alluded to past drug use as a means of connecting to “the People”
I’m sure you fine folks can come up with a few more great differences too. Why should I have all the fun? LOL
To be fair… he’s right. In an exact opposite kind of way.
Chap,
Although not linked, Gibbs did say almost the same thing. I saw it on TV though I don’t recall if it was this morning or last night. Something like “clearly the voters are angry just like they were when they elected Barack Obama”.
Then my second point still stands. It is stupid to take that, frankly, trifle and noncontroversial statement and try to make political hay out of it.
First, Gibbs did say it. I saw the presser.
Secons, Interesting that you are more able to discern Dear Leader’s intent than MM. He never uses false analogies?
Tough day for librocrats, but keep the rhetoric semi real. Still spinning.
Errah Mr. Mixelplix better read the writing on the walls and get a better comeback. The press may have bought this BS today but I would say its safe to say they won’t lap this up tomorrow.
Um…I am not interpreting anything more than the actual words coming out of his mouth. It it Malkin that is stretching them thinner than salt water taffy to infer some other (and conveniently, politically advantageous) meaning.
Gibbs is the mirror of his overlord. Incompetent, treasonous, bankrupt, fascist, immoral and suicidal.
I will forever embrace Joe Wilson’s infamous shout-out to home boy Obama, “You Lie!”
chap – Where’s the stretch here?
I don’t see the disjunction here. Follows quite well. Seems to me to be setting up a false equivalence.
OK, Chappie, suffice it to say that the O-man is trying to:
1) Back pedal on statements he made prior to last night in order to make political hay and to stop the bleeding. Apparently now it’s OK to own a truck.
2) Blame Bush for 8/9 of the current problems we are experiencing.
I’m sure you’ll find something wrong with those two statements, you always find a way to back your dude.
Finally, Gibbs has to be more stupid/ignorant/clueless than his boss. You wouldn’t want an underling making the boss look bad would you? You do the math.
Saying that two sets of voters were angry is very different from saying:
1. Obama is like Brown;
2. Obama voters are like Brown voters (except in the very narrow and very uncontroversial sense that voters are often angry);
3. Brown’s win is Obama’s win.
All of which MM claims to have extrapolated from Obama’s (or Gibbs’) statement. It is silly and transparent.
Errah didn’t O outlaw trucks after the end of Cash 4 Clunkers and the motor laws??!!
A friend of mine has come up with one theory of what Obama and Brown have in common. For what it’s worth, he believes that women, except those with Michelle’s finely tuned b.s. detector, tend to vote for the candidate they most fantasize about sleeping with. Thus, Obama is sexier than 70-something McCain, and Brown is certainly sexier than Coakley, who projects the image of clipped-hair feminism.
Errah I think Rush wrote a song about this, The Red Baranco . . .
Obama: “They’re not just mad about the last few years, they’re mad about the last 8 years.”
Yeah, sure Barry. Massachusetts told Coakley to take a hike because Bush made them mad.
Obama:”Don’t jam through health care before Brown is seated.”
Uh huh…. THEN jam it through.
Vote buying. It’s what Democrats do with your tax dollars.
And boy, (no racism intended) have the Dems really been eating their Wheaties this year!
Actually, there is an element of truth to that. Quite of few of Brown’s voters were in fact Obama voters just 14 months prior.
Many of those voters are angry with “business as usual” in Washington, D.C., and they voted for “CHANGE” both in Nov 2008 and Jan 2010.
Those voters want open, transparent, and accountable government.
The problem isn’t with the voters. The problem is with Obama’s broken promises.
Those of us who saw Obama for what he is – a Marxist revolutionary a la Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers – before the election never expected him to keep those promises. But those voters who innocently believed those promises are now P.O.’d at Obama and are throwing their same innocence into Scott Brown’s promises.
Here’s to hoping Brown keeps his promises.
Agreed. (OK a little out of context)
The “same kind of anger” seems to me implies some kind of equivalence relating to the impetus among voters for Barry’s election and Brown’s. That’s how I took the statement when I heard it as well. If so, it implies some kind of relationship between Brown’s success and Barry’s. No logical stretch here. Sorry.
Semantics is fun, eh counselor?
Perhaps in the same way as saying “We are alike because we both got the most votes” would.
It is a trite and obvious observation that voters against incumbents are angry. If anything criticize Obama for doing that. My goodness, certainly Obama says enough ACTUAL things that you find stupid that you don’t have to try to glean stupidity where none is obvious.
Political spin can be quite comical, especially if you know it’s spin.
MIGHTY DEFENSIVE CHAP. not your usual pithy self, a bad day in the bay state?obie is starting that rotation thing the pundits are speaking of, yesterday a communist with chicago thug and terrorist friends, today a milk toast conservative with slightly lighter complexion. is he more like scott brown, or michael jackson?
Good gracious. Doesn’t Obama get whiplash doing such dramatic 180ºs like that?
The pertinent phrase here is “the same kind of anger”, which if understood as you suggest means Brown’s voters are angry at Obama…which really would be stupid for him to say.
And I don’t believe Barry is stupid. Misguided, deceptive, arrogant, self absorbed, inconsistant, unresponsive & etc. – But not stupid.
Except Obama didn’t say “same kind of.”
I don’t know if Gibbs did. There is no link and it does not appear the transcript is up yet.
Pure delusion!
Wouldn’t know. I am in the Old Line State, Chesapeake State, Free State, Terrapin State…take your pick.
Not as delusional as thinking a 5.4 earthquakes compares in any way to a 7.0.
The entire purpose of the Richter Scale is to compare a 7.0 to a 5.4! You are a true moron.
I guess you’ll need a few more cases of Wild Irish Rose to drown your sorrows tonight…
And how much bigger is a 7.0? Have you figured that out yet? I already gave it to you in kilotons and joules. Do you need a more accessible frame of reference? Maybe if I put it in terms of the force needed to penetrate your thick skull?
For frame of reference for others, WarEagle pooh pooed initial death estimates, because he went through a 5.4 earthquake (in Manila? I don’t recall) and there were only a couple dozen killed.
Which is basically comparing a static shock you get from rubbing your socks on a carpet to sticking your hand in a socket.
So the people that were mad at Republican Bush for 8 years voted in PBO, and stayed mad enough to vote for a Republican for the open senate seat? I thought he was so intellectual…?
Oh, Chappy thinks he is a scientist and mathematician now and understands logarithmic scales! See how all lefties have a hugely inflated sense of self! Chappy is a genius in his own feeble mind.
And there is NO FORCE IN NATURE that can penetrate your bone-headed skull. Go idolize your JFK and Teddy Kennedy pictures. What a putz…
Naaah…I’ll keep the bar low and just say a lot smarter than you.
Yes. Usually ends up with the ignorant getting irrational, sounding like a moron and calling you names.
For those of you with two FUNCTIONAL BRAIN CELLS, take time to read this: http://victorhanson.com/articles/hanson012010.html.
Chappy can just go his Kennedy shrine and do whatever stuff he normally does there…
Actually, I think Chappy is just upset because he was counting on National Health Care to perform his sex reassignment surgery for free.
Scott Brown appears to to have derailed Chappy’s “hope for change.”
What is priceless?
Barack “Messiah” Obama trying to latch onto Scott Brown’s coattails.
That is priceless.
The Old Bay State?
Can hardly believe the denial the dems are in. Obama wants us to think he got swept in for same reasons? Hardly.
Brown is the antidote for Obamunism/communism. Obama is embarrassing himself.
..and over at KOS, they’re saying that “democrats need to act like democrats”, in order to keep their seats.
Actually, no—that’s the PROBLEM. Democrats acted waaay waay too much like democrats. Took their “moderate” masks off and showed America who they really are & now are getting their bee-hinds kicked for it.
Great article. Hadn’t read much of Hansen but will now.
I hate leftist liars like Gibbs so much that I never watch or listen to the cretin, but I had to this morning just to see all the long faces and troubled countenances on all these arrogant statist jerks at the WH. so funny to hear them try to lie their way out of this one. but that’s all they know how to do, is LIE, LIE, LIE. maybe they should take a cue from the voters like Barone said in the Washingto Examiner, and Drop Dead.
You may be “smarter” than everyone here, but all that tells me is that your intelligence is wasted on the dogma that you have chained yourself to. I mean, if you cannot see the insanity within today’s liberal agenda, then no amount of “smart” on your part can save your intellectual integrity.
Einstein said something to the effect that “insanity is repeating the same actions over and over, while expecting different results.” THAT describes liberals in Washington, DC precisely. Everything they have done has made the lives of “common” Americans worse, but they keep exacerbating the problem by doing the same thing over and over again, because they say if they do it enough, it will fix everything.
One of three things drives your favorite politicians’ agendas–insanity, idiocy, or diabolical evil. Either way, your “smart” is wasted in attempting to justifying any of it.
Shrek for President!
This is what Obama said, pardon me for paraphrasing:
Is there no one whose shoes Obama has not walked in? I think not. That man has seen and done it all. He’s an awesome dude who likes his waffles. Hey, I like my waffles, too! I’ve been eating them on and off for not just one or two but for many years. I don’t like people bugging me while I’m eating my waffles, either. He and I share a bond like that.
Now if he posted anonymous comments on blogs, that would be radicaehh…super-awesome.
yohann,
I am cool with you considering me an evil genius.
Well, one out of two ain’t bad. And sorry chap, you ain’t no genius. (Save perhaps re challenging wine pairings)
You mean Blacks anger that whites won’t elect a black man or the anger over white guilt?
Or do you mean the anger over Bush not passing Health Care reform?
Or do you mean the manufactured anger over weapons of mass destruction?
Or the anger of troops in Iraq in 2008 & again in 2009?
Or the anger over financial institutions failure due to Democrats meddlng in those industries?
Or the anger over the incumbent President’s policies (real & perceived)
Only that last one has anything to do with Scott Brown. Hard to tap into the actual anger event. It makes me angry.
Of course, Chappy lies his Marxist butt off again. In fact, I never “pooh pooed” casualty estimates. I stated OVER AND OVER AGAIN that any statistics provided up to that point were pure speculation and that nobody could know the actual casualty figures. But, leave it to a Marxist, lying moron like Chappy to twist everything to his perverted perspective. I have certainly come to expect nothing else from this arrogant, presumptuous, ambulance chaser.
“Chapoutier” is French for “molester of small mammals and legend in his own mind…”
It took a lot more than 8 years and a single party to destroy our economy. This started 50+ years ago and has been a bipartisan effort.
chapoutier, my initial reaction was the same as yours. Overall, I think MM has overstated her case, but I think I understand what’s going on.
I think many conservatives are demanding that a distinction be made between the angry 2008 voters and angry voters yesterday.
Obama clearly attempted to homogenize the two clearly different angers by saying:
Surely you can admit that Obama’s statement is disingenuous, right? He is actually suggesting that anger over the last eight years (which is how many would characterize the anger which got him elected) is partly responsible for Brown’s victory yesterday.
I do think it’s laughable and worthy of a blog post albeit a more tempered one.
Btw, I think it’s Obama’s attempt to homogenize the anger which is what really bothers MM and others.
Well, one end or the other anyway.
No, Obama is right. All conservatives HATE George Bush so they voted for Scott Brown and gave a heretofore reliably LEFTIST Senate seat held by Democrats for nearly 50 years to a Republican who ran as a conservative.
It MUST be that same anger that brought Obama to power. Or Obama is as delusional as Corkie and Chappy.
No WarEagle,
Those estimates were not pure speculation. They were based on people that had half a clue as to what they were talking about, which clearly you did not. It was based on people that probably had some notion of the fact that a 7.0 is 213 times stronger than a 5.4. Which I politely pointed out to you. But, yet again, you were more interested in being e-tough than listening to facts.
And curiously, that “pure speculation” has, sadly, pretty much proven to be true.
Yep, what Gibbs said is true. In fact, people are more likely to vote against someone than they are willing to vote for that person’s opponent.
I mean isn’t that part of the reason for negative campaign ads? To get you to dislike the opponent? Obama railed against Bush feeding the anger in the electorate. And, Brown railed against Coakley (Obama) feeding the anger in the electorate.
If irrational exuberance exists, then irrational dementia must also exist. Each is a reason to vote, . . . both for and against.
Yep, Gibbs is correct.
From The People’s Cube
I know, Let’s Start Calling Them Tea-baggers And They’ll Have No Chance Of Winning.
No, Chappy, you abject moron. People were bandying around figures of up to 500,000 people dead just a few days after the quake before any relief teams had arrived on location.
Over the last two days I have seen figures between 40,000 and 200,000.
As of today, nobody knows how many people have died. Last week people were engaging in unfounded speculation. They didn’t know because they couldn’t know.
And if you will notice, even the original estimates of the quake have been revised. It appears now to have been a 7.2 on the Richter scale which is in fact 636.96 times greater than a 5.4 on the Richter scale. Do your math again if you can count that high on your fingers…
And your source indicates that a 5.4 quake is the equivalent of a 150KT bomb in terms of energy released. Which, again as your own source says “can cause major damage to poorly constructed buildings over small regions.” And that surely describes Manila not that you would know. But I am sure you are a highly trained physicist in addition to a “brilliant lawyer” and spend all your days waiting for ambulances to arrive at the ER calculating such things.
I’ll say it again. Last week people were not even certain of the size of the quake, much less the casualty figures. A week later we still have wildly varying estimates on the horrific loss of life there.
You’re a putz and an arrogant, presumptuous one and a lying, Marxist, ambulance chaser who thinks there are too many people in the world to begin with and doesn’t care if a quake takes out a few of them to reduce their carbon footprint. That is the compassion the people of the world have to look forward to if the like of you ever get in power…
This is a conservative blog, not a neutral news site. If you don’t like that , I recommend Shep Smith at 7pm Eastern on FOX.
Mrs. Malkin’s assessment is correct. Obama is flip-flopping.
The defeat of the somnolent Martha Coakley was a sure sign that the voters don’t want a health care plan designed by the same trial lawyers who funneled so much campaign money into the Obama campaign and now are rewarded with one federal judgeship after another. Contrary to the cries of the Boston Globe today, the Obama/Dodd health care plan did not curtail costs in any way. It has provisions that make it even easier to sue doctors. The bill just about ensures that any medical malpractice lawsuit will be decided in favor of the plaintiff and that of course raises the cost of health care exponentially. One of the most disingenous things that Obama has done was to state in his speech to Congress that he has designated Secretary Sebelius to design a pilot program for a malpractice reform plan. That is a pathetic joke and insulting also. He didn’t tell anyone that Sebelius was a career employee of the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association and would never favor any tort reform at all. Chap, I think you would have to admit that if there is medical malpractice reform, the cost of health care will actually go down and the Obama plan can only result in massive increases in medical malpractice insurance premiums. And Coakley thought we are fools who will buy a pig in a poke.
Who bandied about that number?
And in any case, in the original thread, you know…the one you were replying to… no one mentioned anything close to 500,000 (except you).
No, they haven’t. But curious you would admit to being even more wrong than you initially were.
Ummm…they’ve already BURIED more than 70,000. So your soruces obviously suck. Of course the exact count is not known, but the estimates are not THAT wildly varying, at least not official sources.
Tell me where I disputed that major damage to poorly constructed buildings in Manila occurred. But surely you have caught a glimpse or two of the fact that catastrophic damage to even well constructed buildings (like the palace) over a very large area have occurred in Haiti. Again, you show you have zero sense of scale….Or you are trying to downplay what is obvious to even a numbskull like you in order to try to score points against me.
Actually, I am only sure of the fact that there is one too many persons in this world. I will leave you to speculate who that is.
Good night and good luck, Grasshopper.
Okay. I can give you that.
Off topic,
If we only instituted a nickel tax every time WarEagle used the term “putz” or “dissemble”, we could pay for the war in Afghanistan, health care reform and a free range, organic chicken in every pot.
In other words, WE82, fire your writers. Your material is getting stale.
You just gotta love the projection from chapoutier!! It’s clinical!!
Pray tell, what projection? Do me the honor of being clear in your insults.
I need to borrow that line. Thank You
Worst spin by a president evah!!!
Dude, not accurate and not cool.
LMAO. I never insulted chappy. I just gave the definition to his posts.
If he doesn’t like it maybe he should stop doing it.
Take heart, WarEagle!
corkie, deliberately or not, left out the “putz”, “arrogant” and “presumptuous”!
Worry not, corkie. I have spent far more time today worrying about whether or not Kansas and Duke would lose so as to bolster Syracuse’s shot at a #1 seed in the NCAA tourney than I did of any words WarEagle has, or ever will, written.
just asking you to clarify the “it.”
It was deliberate.
I wasn’t trying to white wash his statement. I didn’t want to reiterate it- especially if he really has been using it too much.