McCartney Concert at White House: Good to Have a President That Knows What a Library Is
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers
I ran across that picture at Free Republic and I really needed the laugh — especially after how last night’s Tigers game ended.
In any case, Paul McCartney played at the White House last night, and what with the oil gusher non-management, economy on the brink of ruin and getting worse by the day, debt continuing to mount, states going to economic war with one another, terror attacks dramatically rising and emboldened tin pot dictators spouting off, it was the perfect time to talk about how stupid George W. Bush is:
They shouldn’t cut a note from McCartney’s closing suite. “I hope the president will forgive me if I sing this song,” he quipped after Obama presented him with the Gershwin, and began crooning “Michelle.” During the I-love-you-I-love-you-I-lovvvve-you, the president leaned over to sing into the first lady’s ear.
When it was over, McCartney joked under his breath, “I’m gonna be the first guy to get punched out by a president.”
Then, “Eleanor Rigby,” “Let It Be” and “Hey Jude” — followed by what felt like endless applause.
A sweet moment, but McCartney topped it off with a bite. After thanking the Library of Congress one last time, he let it rip: “After the last eight years, it’s good to have a president that knows what a library is.”
I’d rather have a president who knows what a terrorist is and seems actively aware that the friggin’ Gulf of Mexico is about to be 10W-30 for the next decade, but hey, that’s just me. If you’re more comfortable with the genius who thinks there are 58 states, tried to enter the White House through a window and can’t go to the john without a teleprompter, that’s your right, Sir Paul.
Here’s Obama’s introduction of McCartney, where he justified having a soirée right now because music “gets us through the tough times.” Unless Sir Paul’s bass guitar can be used to plug the leak, I beg to differ:
As mentioned here, conspicuously absent from McCartney’s setlist were the tunes Taxman and Back in the USSR — and if anything, those should have been the encores.
As of this morning, Robert Gibbs has neither confirmed nor denied that Paul McCartney was ever contacted and offered a gig at the White House.
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GW went to Harvard and Yale. I think he knows what a library is, dolt.
Paul’s education level? High school. You know Britain’s days have hit the end when they hand out knighthoods just for being smug a88h00s.
I’ll ask again, since John’s not here anymore:
Paul, how do you sleep?
And from John’s Playboy interview:
“Go play with the other boys. Don’t bother me. Go play with the Rolling Wings.”
Given that President Bush and Karl Rove had an incredibly competitive book club and read profusely pot head McCartney just proved once again that not only when he married a one legged gold digger was he an idiot, when it comes to American presidents he is even a bigger one.
Music does get us through tough times, Mr. President.
Of course most of us are bright enough to realize that during tough times we listen to music VIA OUR IPODS OR OTHER SUCH ITEMS, SO THAT WE CAN FOCUS ON FIXING THE TOUGH TIMES.
I don’t recall having soirees when I was studying for finals, looking for a job, getting over a breakup, fixing my roof when the tree fell on it, etc.
But that’s just me. I’m not President Wile E. Coyote.
And, Paul? Shut up and sing. It’s not as if you’ve shown amazing judgement these last few years. Why cross the line into full-blown Jack Ass this late in your life?
Um, wasn’t Laura Bush a librarian?
Stupid, Paul…..Stupid.
Weird description of our current president from an aged hippie. It is well documented that President Bush is a much more prolific reader than Obama and Bush is also married to a librarian.
I’m a loser
And I’m not what I appear to be
$crew you, “Sir” Paul.
(Where is that old cents sign – c with a line through it – when you need it?!)
Sorry, folks…can’t help it.
Not just you; me, too!
McCartney should stick to singing; nobody gives a rip about his opinion of our Presidents; former OR current.
However and yet one more time we see a sitting President applauding an outsider ridiculing America/Americans.
And yet in one more way we see how Obama does not conduct himself as the President of a country that is a gathering of united states but instead acts as a President of a select and chosen few. He is guilty of the most divisive and partisan leadership of our entire history. Ah, the great uniter….
He acts like a third world corruptocrat.
Oh, and EXCELLENT POINT, Two Dogs.
Plus, Bush would have read the Arizona immigration law before commenting on it, am I right?
Some would say, it’s really unique to have someone as dumb as this president.
The library…
So is that where our current President hides when it’s time to get out and be a leader?
Hey Paul, how’s that prosthetic fetish working out for you?
Bambi may know what a library is,but does he know how to use those thingies on the shelves with all those pieces of paper in between the colorful covers?You know like that thingy that Bill Ayres made and put Bambi’s name on.
I saw McCartney in Miami about five years ago. $200+ for a decent seat, and the concert was, well, OK I guess. Never again. A fading icon with an opinion. Next.
As is the case with many U.S. households, the library in this case is probably also the bathroom. Isn’t that where Malia found him to ask if he had plugged the @#$% hole?
No, that would be the Golf Course…
Back when times were good I wouldn’t spend $2.00 to see McCartney.
He still wouldn’t have secured the border, but he would have read the law and probably agreed with it.
McCartney let his wife, who couldn’t carry a tune, sing with his band for decades. A President who knows what a library is? Might be nice to have a millionaire musician who can tell the difference between people who can sing and people who can’t.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
That is SOOOOOOOOOO funny!!!!
Because Bush is dumb…..so he doesn’ know what a library is!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Get it?
Dumb people don’t know what a library is…….and Bush is dumb,, too……so he doesn’t know what a library is!
A-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
……doesn’t know……what a….ha-ha…..library is……ha-ha-ha….sooooo funny……oh, my sides….
Good lord, what a tool.
Who in their right mind GAS what McCartney says?
Not to mention that his one-legged wife beat the crap out of him once.
“After the last eight years, it’s good to have a president
thatwho knows what a library is.”Be nice to have a pandering ex-Beatle who knows what grammar is…
So while the Gulf drowns under a sea of oil, Obama wines and dines celebrities in the WH – a certain Roman emperor was noted for a similar modus operandi.
McCartney is me least favorite Beatle.
McCartney should stick to things he knows something about – sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll.
Actually, as far as I am aware, the relative adjective “that” can correctly be used for “people” antecedents as well as “thing” antecedents.
I’m surprised he didn’t do Ebony and Ivory with Obama.
What an idiot. Go back across the pond and shut up.
Why didn’t Obummer ask Paul for advice on how to “plug the @#$% hole!”
James Cameron could use the input.
Yep, this commander in chief is so smart that he can’t pronounce “corpman.” That’s really all I ever needed to know about him. Maybe he knows what a library is, but I guess he can’t find it.
I don’t have the creativity to develop the parody for it, but I think that a modification of the McCartney song “Live and Let Die” is in order, only in this case it will be “Plug The @#$% Hole”.
Just once I’d like to see this President stand up and tell someone off when they insult this great country.
But all he seems capable of doing is “Vote Present”.
To those who state, “Bush mangled the English language.”
I respond, “At least he didn’t mangle the truth like his predecessor and, now, his successor.”
At which point, Obama leaned to Michelle and said, “This guy is dumb, he doesn’t know it’s pronounced li-berry”, then picked up his copy of Everybody Poops, pop-up edition, politely bowed to Sir Paul and left.
This sort of drivel is to be expected from uneducated pot-heads…
On June 3rd, 2010 at 12:29 pm, granite said
Actually, as far as I am aware, the relative adjective “that” can correctly be used for “people” antecedents as well as “thing” antecedents.
Ok, good grammar then..
I used to think Paul McCartney had a brain. Remember when he wrote the song “Freedom” after 9/11 and sang it at half-time of the Super Bowl? I loved him for that and thought he was an America lover. I am so disillusioned about that creep. After all these years, I no longer have any respect for him. As for our little boy POTUS, I hope he enjoys fiddling in the WH and having his parties while the coastlines of our once great country are turning to crap. He sure is taking advantage of his power, isn’t he? Well mr. president. whoop it up while you can. It won’t be long before no one will want to party with you! Not even “Sir” McCartney. Yeah, and about that bimbo Paul married and who took him to the cleaners…there is no fool like an old fool.
It is my understanding that you use the word “who” when referring to people and the word “that” when referring to objects. Makes sense. Using the word “that” is becoming very common and few people use the right grammar in that instance. It has always been a bit of a peeve of mine, although I catch myself doing it too!!
People who live in glass houses…
Hey, that is no way to talk about your fellow posters!
That or Which or Who?Do not use which to refer to persons. Use who instead. That, though generally used to refer to things, may be used to refer to a group or class of people.[Examples:] The player who [not that or which] made the basket at the buzzer was named MVP.
The team that scores the most points in this game will win the tournament (Hacker, A Writer’s Reference 136).
“Who” refers to people;
“Which” refers to objects;
“That” can refer to either people or objects.
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/adj.htm
Arizona is doing what it can to secure the southern border. Now we need find a way to keep left over old English hippies out of the country. McCartney, as with our trolls, runs his mouth about that which he does not know.
So we have James Cameron and English hippies advising the President; they can’t be any worse than the bunch of nihilist around him now I suppose.
===
When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are undisturbed and his radio is firmly set on El Rushbo.
Only if it refers to the people in a group. I believe that individual people are still “who”. I think there are different viewpoints on this so I am not going to nitpick here.
Bush is soooo stupid, and McCartney and Obiewon are sooo smart, one writes silly love songs and the other doesn’t even do that. Obiewon is sooo smart, he’s a multimillionaire and never held a job. EXCUSE MEE, he was able to lie his way into politics all the way to the top, but being a con man isn’t a job.
John Deaux, I wouldn’t have your gleeful little story changed except I would substitute ‘Heather Has Two Daddies’ for your book.
Exactly.
The point of following grammar rules as much as possible is so that communication can be effective and unambiguous; i.e., so that people can clearly know what the hell other people are saying.
Grammar/language/word meanings/spelling/etc. appropriately/naturally change ssslllooowwwlllyyy over time.
Hence, today we have English, German, Spanish, modern Greek, Italian, Dutch, Danish, etc.; not Anglo-Saxon, old German, classical Greek, Latin, etc.
Back to the topic:
Agreed.
As I said above:
The problem is not the definition or meaning or understanding of a “library.”
The problem is what is in the library. Obama’s “library” is certainly well stocked with his own speeches and Marxist tomes and such. It is apparently lacking in recent Arizona laws and the US Constitution…
Sir Paul, go home and give it a rest. “You say hello, and I say goodbye”
Damn!!!
Good one!!!
It would be one thing if let’s say John Melloncamp said something like that, or even, if alive today, John Lennon, but McCartney is a BRIT (although he married into a wealthy American family that, through their advice, he reaped multi-millions investing his money, becoming one of the wealthiest men in England). McCartney doesn’t live here, doesn’t want to. He does, on the otherhand, make enourmous amounts of $$$$ from us stupid Americans. When you are not from this country, then keep your damn mouth shut! At least Lennon had gotten his Green Card and was on his way to citizenship having left his homeland for this great country. Do American acts, when touring England say to the audience, “Boy those Royals are stupid”?
Several years ago at the Beacon Theater on Broadway/75th in Manhattan when Elvis Costello mocked Bush during a show, I BOOOED loudly but was drowned out by the ingorant, cheering Upper Left Siders. Neither of these two ungrateful clowns will ever get another dime from me.
In the words of Frank Zappa, “Shut up and play your guitar”.
Paul is Dead (to me)
Worse, GWB’s “crime” was NOT on purpose, unlike those of the other two!
Makes me glad I never spent a dime on beatles music. One reason I could never date a liberal, at some point I’d always hear the same thing, that I needed to be open-minded. Then they’d start bashing everything “I” believe in! They can say what they want about Bush, but can you ever imagine him or any conservative going to another country and start bashing someone/anyone while on foreign soil? Sir Paul, you are no gentleman.
And stop refering to him as SIR Paul. It is Mr. Paul McCartney at most while he is on U.S. soil. We do not recognize royalty or titles. He is just another Vaudville act here, albeit a wealthy one.
Back in the USSR and the Taxman would have been appropriate, but I think Helter Skelter is most in line with this administration.
For Obama, McCartney should have sung “Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away, now it looks as though they’re here to stay….”
“Taxman” was George’s.
Paul lost me with Wings.
McCartney and BHO:
The Fools on the Hill!
Other appropiate songs:
“Fixing A Hole”
“Help”
“I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party”
“Fool on the Hill”
“No Reply”
“What You’re Doing”
“Tell Me Why”
“Nowhere Man”
“Don’t Let Me Down”
“Get Back”
“Revolution” (read the lyrics)
“I’m Looking Through You”
O.K., many of those were John’s but they’ll do.
Another winner!!!
How ’bout
“Fixing the Hole in the Ocean”
From “Glass Onion”.
Didn’t MCCartney’s ex claim he kicked or threw her prosthetic leg out of her reach one night, during an argument? And weren’t there claims he was an extremely tight-fisted pinch penny with his late wife Linda McCartney?
The library is where I go when I’m feeling nostalgic about old technology. Like I used to feel about the Beatles.
A relevant post I wrote in 2008:
Umm, I’m pretty sure I don’t want to know if there’s a pop-up edition
Aww man, don’t compare barry hussien to Wile E. That cartoon coyote is much smarter and has more class…
I don’t know, John Deaux, but wouldn’t it be totally awesome?
And if anyone had a copy, it would definitely be someone who frequents places like Man’s Country.
Did The WON BOW to him? Just askin’…
I knew there was reason why I never liked the beatles or this tool!
Now, let’s compare George W. Bush’s grades to Obama’s…
… oh, that’s right, Obama won’t release his grades…
… we’re just supposed to trust the media when they tell us he’s really, really smart. Much smarter than you. Or Bush.
For all we know, Obama was a druggged up college drop-out, who spent his mysterious “Columbia years” in other countries working for the Russian FSB/KGB, and his “associates” then helped get him into Harvard Law, financed it, and probably had TOTUS write his papers for him.
It takes an idiot to think that someone who chose to be mentored by self-admitted Communist Revolutionary Bill Ayers is smarter than George W. Bush.
And you, Bob, are absolutely correct! I assure you, I intended “no respect” for such a boorish fellow. Rest assured, that will be one evening at the WH I will be certain to miss when it makes it to TV. I’m probably going to be busy washing my hair that night.
On June 3rd, 2010 at 2:28 pm, granite said:
Nice! And a quick search finds this…
Fixing the hole in the ocean
WarEagle…your comment was a HIT!
Now we know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
Oh, yeah…I care what McCartney says or thinks….anybody that’s a citizen of a country that still has a Monarch….bwahaaa. Maybe he can get on Oprah and tell everybody how he’s got a pot or alcohol problem and is willing to sell “access” to other British knights and royals. Puhleeze, Europeans, stop comin’ over here and giving us a lecture on who you think the smart guy is!
or how about ” I’m a Loser…and I’m not what I’m supposed to be” could apply to Soetoro as well.
FirstSkirt–his & Linda’s run-in with the Tokyo authorities over hash is old news. I feel he did it simply to get ‘cred’.
Yo, Spacey – so it a HASH problem, is it? Bwahaaa, he is so last year, and both he and Obeyme have just got to get over themselves. Love all you posters…what’s life with laughter?
McCartney hasn’t been relevant since 1968 – if he ever was. If not for Lennon he’d have been nothing – all his songs since have been vapid nonsense.
Those who say he should “shut up and sing” should rethink that – I’d prefer he just SHUT UP and mind his own damned business. Ever notice how Brits think they have the right to involve themselves in US affairs, when an American who comments on British affairs is told to just shut up? I thought we settled the issue of British involvement in our affairs some 234 years ago.
I say we use this idiotic “Sir Paul” reposte as a call for
“Dueling transcripts! ”
You up to it Jug Ears?
You against Georgie boy… It’s on
you racist moron.
Put up or tell Polly to shut up!
Vickie, you must have forgotten he is a celeb, like all celebs when they make it to the top they immediately become enlighten dolts. Celebs do have the right to spout off as they do, naturally, the problem is a large number of fans actually believe these political fools.
I’ve had problem with the Beatles since say, oh, the mid 60′s, I enjoyed most of their music and did not care for any of them as individuals. I wonder about that drummer Peter Best, dumped for the numb nut Ringo…I personally think the boys were jealous of Mr. Best’s looks and Ringo was no challenge to them.
Somethings are just hard to do…like accepting you got your butt whipped by a bunch of cretin, militiamen, who were out armed and out manned but not out dedicated to winning freedom. Don’t forget they tried it again in 1812, sore losers I guess.
I’ll never buy another thing he has ever done… Just like the Dixie Chicks he gets no more money of mine
Yep, because being worth several hundred million and not signing a prenup is the sign of a genius.
This old fool has all the class of a lice infestation.
Yeah and the IMPOTUS’s library has plenty of fiction in it. Including two books with Barack Obama listed as the author, but he really didn’t write.
Right William Ayers?
Wasn’t he the “cute” Beatle?
Shut up and sing…
To: McCartney, Obama, MSMBC and all libs
From: Reality
Re: Current POTUS
The Current President is NOT Bush. Get over it.
Paul HIPPIE does not seem like a bright guy.
The other day, all the DemocRATs bailed out on Obama in Pittsburgh. No DemocRAT wants to be seen with Obama. Obama has become that much contagious.
And this Paul HIPPIE is getting in bed with Obama!
Paul HIPPIE should stick to the trade of entertaining.
All I can say at this point is, “Hey McCartney, you don’t have to live under this j@ack@$$’s infantile and tyrannical authority so shut the F#(K UP!!!”
Another big name celebrity, another big waste of time.
What a loser.
When did “Sir” Paul become a US citizen?
Sing and shut up.
No, Wanker Paul is still singing. Stuff a sock in it.
I won’t say, “Shut up and sing” because Paul McCartney does not have a pleasant, beautiful singing voice. McCartney’s voice is rather bland and unpleasant, and he does not have a very good ear for pitch.
So, shut up and don’t sing, would fit nicely.
Give me Placido Domingo, Lea Salonga, Peabo Bryson, just as a few examples, rather than that vocally challenged, and mentally unstable McCartney.
Contact the Library of Congress and tell them to stop handing out this idiotic prize to millionaire entertainers. how much taxpayer money went into funding this crap only to have sand kicked in our faces by a wanker like MaCartney?
Contact the LOC here: http://www.loc.gov/help/contact-general.html
My message to the LOC:
What the heck are you doing wasting taxpayer money on some stupid prize – Gershwin Prize for Popular Song?!!!!!! While millions are out of work you saw fit to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars of OUR damn money handing a idiotic prize to a billionaire – MaCartney – who then shows his appreciation by insulting a former president in OUR White House. I want this nonsense to stop! I will ask my congressman to de-fund your stupid award.