Obama: Do as I say, not as I smear
Really. How many more selective civility police lectures can we take from this vulgarity-clogged White House?
Via ABC News:
Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with sexual connotations.
In Jonathan Alter’s “The Promise: President Obama, Year One,” President Obama is quoted in an interview saying that the unanimous vote of House Republicans vote against the stimulus bills “set the tenor for the whole year … That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.”
Tea Party activists loath the term “tea baggers,” which has emerged in liberal media outlets and elsewhere as a method of mocking the activists and their concerns.
On Saturday, the president delivered a commencement address at the University of Michigan where he said one way “to keep our democracy healthy is to maintain a basic level of civility in our public debate … But we can’t expect to solve our problems if all we do is tear each other down.”
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Gads, I detest this bho! I would use worse words, but I do not want to get banned.
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The book was edited for brevity.
You say that now, President Thinskin.
Tell that to GW Bush, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Delay, George Allen…
Please, we should all be used to it by now. Why, just this morning, Nanny, I mean, Mayor Bloomberg warned that we shouldn’t blame all Pakistani’s for the failed bombing in Times Square.
It should be clear by now that truth escapes this administration and the majority of the Democrat party, regardless of their profession; journalist, judge or whatever.
And they said Bush was an idiot.
This is the first president I have had so little regard for! He has no idea of what it takes to be a leader. In times past, I might disagree with any given president, but he was still my president. This man, I can hardly acknowledge that he is president of the United States!! What a maroon!!(as Bugs Bunny would say)
Come on November, to stop his agenda!!
Then 2012, to put someone in to try and undo all the damage he has inflicted on this country.
So if the messenger is guilty of that which he pronounces, what does that make him?
And if one does not adhere to ones own admonishments, do we care what “that one” says in the future? NOT!
Its pure and simple; we have criminals running the country. This is proven by their daily actions, which directly contradict their words.
I with the mayor on this, we shouldn’t blame all Pakis for this attempted boming . . . we should blame Islam and anyone who adheres to it’s teachings is complicit.
What were we talking about? Oh yeah civility. I don’t think that’s what’s meant by the term civil war. And we are at war against socialism, we’re just not killing each other . . . yet.
Me thinks he speaketh with forked tongue.
Memo to Tea Party activists: IF YOU DON’T LIKE BEING CALLED TEA BAGGERS, DON’T WAVE AROUND TEA BAGS.
The only time The Left evers plays the civility card is when they are getting their “single points of contact” kicked.
Kick harder.
You have to remember that “civility” for a liberal means that Conservatives aren’t allowed to speak. And when any and all dissenting voices are silenced all that’s left is civility.
I like the Brit term for this clown act – President Jackanapes as in:
1. impudent person, an impudent, self centered person
2. mischievous child, a child who behaves mischievously or impertinently
Surely you understand the difference between you using the term and the President of the United States using the term, right?
From personal experience, I will have to agree. Civility to the left is to not allow you to voice an opposing view, then everything is “civil” (or else they will threaten to kick your #@*#$!).
Red State Skeptic said:
Memo to Socialist Democrats – Your time is fast approaching where you and your ilk and the regime you worship is going to be cast into the ash pit of history.
How profound RSS. Is the corallary, “Hey lady, if you don’t want to be raped, don’t walk down the street wearing women’s clothes?”
RSS, you may have forgotten. It’s called manners. But when your getting yourself owned in the Marketplace of Ideas, using vulgarity is all you may have left.
Let’s be fair. RSS is probably a whole lot more mature than the President.
Are you really that ignorant?
I guess he got his teabagger obsession form Rachael Maddow and the TWO reporters, besides Maddow who mentioned the word teabag just once. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLsKt4O4Yw8
Awww..poor thing, some told the little man-child NO for the first time in his life.
That’s not saying much either way is it?
It’s only been a year? It seems so much longer.
pretty sure we have video during the campaign where he emplores his minions to get in their neighbors faces when discussing politics, his frequent visitor’s enjoinder to use the persuasion of power and of course the famous Rahmuel not wasting a crisis by using it to do what can’t normally be done.
And why isn’t that Bertha Lewis video of her speaking to the Young Socialist Democrats stuck on him like tar? She is the face of ACORN and Obama claimed that as his greatest career achievement.
Wildly off topic, but it looks like my deer herd thinks they’re working for the government. Two are working (cutting grass) and the rest are laying around waiting for a handout.
Was this Barrack the community organizer? Or Barrack the stand-up comedian? Or Barrack the baseball pitcher? Or Barrack the smiling cardboard cutout? Or that other Barrack who flies around in Air Force One acting and talking like Hugo Chavez?
Husein is reveling himself and what he really learned in Rev Wright’s church.
BLT – racist Marxism.
Everyday that passes, this POTUS manages to out do himself at being worse than the day before. He can’t rabble rouse the country into manifesting solutions to problems. He has no ideas; no solutions; no leadership. Blame, projection, deflection or incitement is NOT leadership. Having Bho as POTUS is a clear demonstration that character and integrity does matter. Bho has neither.
According to the BO dictionary:
Civility:
In agreement with the Anointed One …
Lack of Civility:
Not in agreement with the Anointed One …
I guess RSS has no problem with this statement either:
After all, it’s the exact same type of “logic”.
(For more the Muslim “logic” behind this statement, see here.)
Rambler …
I would offer that BHO is the antithesis of the qualities and character that were fought for by Martin Luther King …
Ok, I’ll say it:
This president acts like a contemptible punk. He really does.
I had a shot last September at being involved in a military function where I would have accompanied one of my bosses in a 5 minute meeting with BHO. They came back a week before the event and said “only the bosses” so I never went.
But I honestly have to tell you, I prayed and sweated over what I would say if he asked me ANYTHING beyond “How are you?”
Of course I would have been civil, but if he made the assumption (because I’m black) that I voted for him, I was ready to disabuse him of that notion with a quickness.
As it was, I never was selected to go with, but I have only the bare minimum respect for BHO based solely on the office he is occupying and the fact that he is a fellow human being made in God’s image. The more I see and hear him, the more I can’t stand him as a person.
‘Teabagger’ has two meanings, just like the word ‘gay’ has two meanings. Yep, Pres Obama should take his own advice. Many should take his advice.
Name calling and ridicule only serves to solicit emotions and not to advance the discussion.
‘Teabagger’ has two meanings, just like the word ‘gay’ has two meanings. Yep, Pres Obama should take his own advice. Many should take his advice.
Name calling and ridicule only serves to solicit emotions and not to advance the discussion.
It was Al Franken who wrote “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”.He was sure right about that.That’s all his party from the top down does.
The meaning was obvious to Obama and his staff.
The other side does not want discussion. They want us crushed, silenced, and subjugated. They made the rules. We’ll play the game.
I’m in total agreement!
<blockquote>“set the tenor for the whole year … That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican ….“
Cool. We baggers have our own wing of the Republican Party. What a sophomoric fool this punk is. He’s nothing more than a Sham Wow salesman in a suit.
I’ll bet there is a particularly repulsive gay term for referring to the BHOs of the world too. Obscenity is never in short supply.
This is what I expect from the scum sucking punk.
Or from:
Miss Hillary
Bill Maher
the Senate
the House
Leno
Bill Clinton
—every damn jerk on the Left really.
I THINK our VP is a vulgarity-clogged clown but it is hard to say.
Ahem: none, nada, no more-not that it really matters. Little more can be expect of a Chicago street hustler and three card monte wash out.
Hey, Major O, I think you and I are related…we’re both Americans!
This president’s, and indeed all his administration’s, lack of ability is only exceeded by his hubris. This peon couldn’t handle the crisis of a cleanup of spilt milk on his kitchen floor, much less a real cleanup of spilling oil. They waited 8 days before anyone even bothered to see if there was a problem. We have ten different agencies with 20 million gubmint eunichs and no one can deal with a big problem. They can’t enforce laws, only create more, they can’t deal with economic, banking, environmental, or jobloss problems. ALL THEY EVER DO IS CLAIM IT IS SOMEONE ELSES FAULT AND DON’T BLAME THEM.
Let’s face it, we have a child as president. We remain leaderless.
Yeah, ok…moron.
“Name calling and ridicule only serves to solicit emotions and not to advance the discussion.”
I would just as soon have a discussion with a Jellied Eel rather than a Progressive Libtard, thank you very much.
On May 4th, 2010 at 1:39 pm, zyzzyg said:
‘Teabagger’ has two meanings.
no it does not, not to people who refuse to indulge deviant behavior by acceeding to some perverts idea of an invented word..
i will accept gays, but i will not celebrate their deviancy…
20 years ago, how would you have advised the African-Americans to get the media to stop calling them blacks?
and (IMO) an agenda which intends to fragment the American population.
Gotta agree with you.
That fool would probably advise schoolkids to give the bully their lunch money, so that the bully won’t get angry; and likely would advise us in the West to stop fighting back against muslim barbarians when they attack us, so that they won’t get angry.
What a pathetic, spineless, soulless, dangerous (assuming that he/?she? is eligible to vote) fool.
The next elected President should reside at Blair House, or the Naval Observatory, while the White House is allowed to air out for 4 years. Open up ALL the windows, pull back the curtains……..
“ABC news says Tea Party loath…” I am a member of Tea Party and I didn’t know what “teabagger” meant when I first heard the term. Libs and Obama keep using the term because they hope we loath it. Civility? I don’t think Obummer and company have a clue what civility means.
Went to a gigantic TP April 15th … never saw a one (bag for steeping tea). If the only way the left/progressives can counter the Tea Partiers is using that term, go for it… it only energizes us more.
…seriously? This is the best you can do? Not even worthy of a troll.
First they ignore you..
Then they laugh at you…
Then they fight you…
Then you win.
-M.K. Gandhi
Bring it!
Cheryl, me thinks we are somewhere between laugh and fight…
They have already begun the fight on May 1. When did we start celebrating Mayday in this country?
As a person lies and distorts things, sooner or later, bits of his true person and philosophy come out. It can’t be helped. The more this president talks, the more temptation there is to say what he truly feels. He has to rely on a teleprompter in an attempt to protect himself. Sooner or later, perhaps an emotional moment, he will let the American people know just who they elected to this high office.
To paraphrase an earlier poster:
IF DON’T LIKE BEING CALLED A DOUCHE-BAG, DON’T BE ONE!
(Buuurrrrp!) “More tea Vicar?”
MissCheryl,
When dealing with Obama or any of his ilk, there are a few more phases of how we treat them:
Then we mock them,
Then we hold them in utter contempt,
Then we are disgusted by them,
Then we call them on their lies,
Then we call them again on MORE lies,
Then we speak slowly, but not as slowly as they think,
Then we punish them at the polls,
Then we crush them,
Then we leave their political carcasses to rot in the DC heat.
Those are some pretty powerful assertions. Have you ever tried to discuss the use of language and the characterizations used by the other side, with the other side?
Has the other side said they wanted to crush, silence and subjugate you? I recall Pres Obama saying recently that debate is good.
Nope. The Founders, writers and signatories of the Constitution, made the rules. Do you have a problem with the Constitution . . . specificly, free speech?
Like it or not, ridicule and name calling has been a part of our history since day one.
OK, they do it so you’ll do it. Yes, that is part of the game, but complaining about it is high dungeon and duplicitous. Their doing it is no justification for anyone else doing it, because when they start jumping off of bridges, will you do the same?
I just heard Rush Limbaugh refer to them as “teabaggers”, accidentally of course, because he corrected himself immediately. He didn’t intend to say it, but I imagine that term is out there used so much that people are now thinking it is a legitimate name for the Tea Party. Kinda makes me wish another name had been chosen! Oh, well, too late now.
Apparently it’s also okay to name-call using the epithet “fat cats” but to use fact-based criticism and refer to him as a “Socialist” incites violence. That’s like saying that it’s a seditious smear to call George Bush a “Texan”.
at the risk of sounding racist, I’d also like to say
“Heckuva job Brownie!”
to Barry regarding his oil spill speel!
“Libtard”?
LOL
You are doing the same thing with regard to calling people names to solicit emotions. So be it, but I had greater expectations that slipping to their level is unnecessary.
BTW – Your post viewed beside post number #37 is an interesting contrast in approaching the subject of discussion. You won’t discuss, and the poster in #37 says the other side won’t discuss. The two of you are not a monolith but each position allows for confusion from someone from the otherside. How would they view the approach or non-approach to discussion?
- Me thinks you are correct. What I would give to get that piece out of our White House and our country back. I’m ready to get this over with, one way or the other.
The people I know in the Tea Party would be on the giving end of the teabags unlike the lefties who seem to love the recieving end.
Very well, we disagree. Besides, aren’t many words invented and used regularly? Smoke and fog were combined to create the new word ‘smog’. Inventing words is not the issue. And, the meaning of words evolve over time. Ever look at the definition of the word ‘run’? It used to be putting one foot in front of the other in rapid fashion, now it means so much more.
Do you mean that you accept that the word ‘gay’ has more than one meaning?
When you here the Christmas song that includes the words, ‘don your gay apparel’ you know that it means something other than what the Village People wear?
What, you still here? I thought you said something about the left jumping off bridges?
Do you mean that you accept that the word ‘gay’ has more than one meaning?
sure. but not “teabagging.”
perhaps you will never understand why.
I agree. Words have meaning and agendas have meaning, and often times each is used to fragment the American population. Each should be avoided and concensus should be sought.
very well? Who do you think you’re fooling zigzag? Please move to France. They won’t mind your pretense near as much as real Americans do.
oooopsss – nearly..
So I guess I am not a homophobe when I see being gay is a sin
Exactly.
Not necessarily referring to just the words under discussion….
He/?she? will never understand.
Sums it all up in a nutshell.
Yep, I am still here.
And, just because someone from the left will jump off of a bridge does not mean that I will. Moreover, just because someone from the left uses ridicule and name calling does not mean I have to.
You are welcome to do as the left does. Use ridicule, use name calling, or jump off of bridges. I choose not to be duplicituous or hypocritical, and complain about what others do when they (you) are doing the same thing.
The most divisive president in recent US history IS Obama.
For his entire presidency, Obama has called everyone that does not agree with him various derogatory names.
In fact, Obama called people names in the very speach he bemoans divisive language.
Obama will continue to call people names on a daily basis in order to deflect from his failing policies and mismanagement of federal government resources.
BHO is a playah-hatah
Is that all you got?
How about addressing whether words are invented, or not? That some words have two meanings?
I am not fooling any one, I am asking a question. Why do you go personal vice addressing the issue? You taking a tangent does not advance the discussion.
Real Americans want answers, they do not want tangents.
Correct.
However, should you apply a different meaning to the Christmas song with the words, ‘don your gay apparel’ to what the Village People would wear, then you would need to study the various meanings of the word ‘gay’.
If you disagree with Obama on practically anything at all then no matter how politely you express your opinion you can expect to be called a racist, a nazi, a teabagger, a nut-job and be compared to Timothy McVeigh. If you keep your mouth completely shut then they will lie about you anyway and say you use racial slurs. If you are part of a peaceful assembly you will be called a dangerous ugly mob. I have pretty much developed immunity to their smears. As far as Obama’s call for me to be civil (he means silent) goes, this is still America so far and I’ll say what I please, where I please, when I please and how I please.
zyzzyg,
What does the meanings of the word “gay” have to do with the meanings of “teabagger”?
One meaning for “teabagger” is clear; it’s a vulgar sexual term.
I have not found a second meaning for it. What do you claim it is?
ZigZag – I don’t know why anyone would flatter you by engaging you in anything, let along serious conversation. That said, I’d rather you just move to France.
Oh yes ZigZag – do tell.
I’m sure he meant it much the same way he’d mean it if he said he’d like to give you a ‘pearl necklace’.
Apparently these clowns that use the term also mean it for our forefathers who initiated the revolution that built this country.They forget the original tea party was a revolt against oppressive government. Such disgraceful and unappreciative opinions deem them unworthy to be American citizens.
President Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as the “Evil Empire” and that was outrageous for a president to refer to another country in such terms.
But he never referred to American citizens with anything but respect, even those he disagreed with.
Neither did Carter for that matter.
On May 4th, 2010 at 3:32 pm, spaceycakes said:
I’m sure he meant it much the same way he’d mean it if he said he’d like to give you a ‘pearl necklace’.
zzzz seems more like a Dirty Sanchez kinda guy
Me too but I bet a bunch of us here worry about the enormous responsibility the new crop of conservative ‘leaders’ will have to clean up the mess. Not only will they have the general population of liberal/progressives and left leaning media waiting to pounce, we will have our ‘boots on their necks’ (credit Gibbs) if they try to stray. It’s going to take great strength for the pols and us!
OOPS Misscheryl… I goofed with my copy and paste! You only said the following once:
Yes, I have, which is why I consider it a demonstrable fact that they want us crushed, silenced, and subjugated.
Please understand, I am not referring to your garden variety Democrat. I am discussing the crowd that Obama, Van Jones, Cass Sunstein, Bill Ayers, Valarie Jarrett, Eric Holder, George Soros, etc. belong to. They may live here, but they have no desire to be Americans in the sense you and I do.
That hate the Constitution and everything we who support it stand for. We are not people with differing opinions. We are opponents of the revolution. We are obstacles that need to be removed, through ANY MEANS.. And Z I do mean any.
This is the recognition problem we have had. People like Grassley, Graham, McCain. McConnell think they are talking to Democrats who are like Tip O’Neill, Mike Mansfield, Sam Rayburn, etc. Who they are talking to are people like Che Guevara, Leon Trotsky, and Hugo Chavez.
This is not a debate; its a knife fight.
When did tea party members refer to themselves as teabaggers? When did gays refer to themselves as faggots? Opponents of the tea party movement choose the word teabagger to offend and you join in to defend. Hypocrite.
Gladz – granted – we have a very long road ahead but if we don’t win the day in 2010, it’s curtains for us. No time like the present, the alternative sucks!
That’s because he is not. He was never eligible to be President under Article II sec 1. His father was a foreign national. He was a dual citizen at birth. Many of the people who were involved in getting him sworn in know he is not eligible.
We have been sold out by almost EVERYONE!
YBBI!
Wouldn’t surprise me if he has personal knowledge of teabagging.
Where did zigzag go? Did Mom call “time for dinner?”
Let’s just claim the word “teabagger”. Now that it is continually associated with those in the Tea Party movement, no self-respecting lefty will want to use it to describe their sexual activites anyway.