Obama’s Fundraiser Stand-In: Joe Biden
**Written by Doug Powers
According to some, the country is teetering on the brink of an epic financial disaster, the severity of which could fall somewhere in between the stimulus and the Gingrich campaign. But just because economic Armageddon is knocking on the door is no reason to cancel fundraisers.
Citing debt negotiations as the reason, President Obama will not make two fundraising appearances today. The fundraisers themselves will go on, but they’ll feature a different headliner:
Meanwhile, the president has canceled his appearance at two fundraising events Monday night in Washington because of the debt-ceiling situation, an Obama campaign official told CNN.
Vice President Joe Biden will attend the events instead, the official said.
As has been the case with other Biden-led fundraisers, there will be plenty of closet space for reporters. How will potential donors react to Biden showing up instead of Obama? Worst case scenario, at least Sheriff Joe would put the “f-u-n” in “refund.”
I don’t know why Obama would have to cancel his appearances. If Congress were to agree on a deal couldn’t the president just use Autopen to sign it from afar?
At least the insistence upon going ahead with fundraisers carries with it an implied optimism. Those who would have us believe that on or about August 2nd the world as we know it could cease to be nevertheless appear fairly certain either way that the Republic will still exist on November 6, 2012.
Update: Though one fundraiser today will go on with Biden filling in for Obama, many others are being outright cancelled or postponed.
**Written by Doug Powers
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and don’t forget the dinner with Rashidi.
Thank you, Happy. I am inspired by your posts and the the other posters here.
I recently upgraded from my old plain cell phone to a Samsung Galaxy Fascinate. It was a free upgrade at Best Buy. Good phone, nice amoled screen. The monthly fee is another matter. At least I got in under the Verizon data cap for two years. The Malkin app works great except it’s even easier to repeat posts when their server is acting up. Also the Malkin app seems to filter out some of the comments if they contain bad woids. I haven’t found a setting for that yet.
That’s the only alternative to inability to dazzle with brilliance!
“Record Heat”
Like many of us, been perhaps a bit busy to challenge everything that comes out of the LSM but it looked fishy from the git go.
Sure, we’ve got this debt ceiling and about a million other things but wouldn’t a reasonable person concluded had that been accurate, there’d have been a ‘record’ number of heat-related fatalities to go hand in hand with those [cooked] numbers?
Thanks for your ‘Rogue Review’. My current Verizon bill is in the $50 range. I have seen ‘data paks’ are required with ‘smartphones’ and from what I understand that’s $35/mo more than the basic charge.
I just need a phone with a bigger screen so I can read the incoming call numbers. We screen our business calls with voicemails as there are some ‘spam’ calls wanting us to sign on to Google with a ‘top of the first page’ position. That’s stupid as we don’t have a website and no intention of starting one. This is the bottom line.
I don’t need all the bells and whistles, just something I can read and punch telephone numbers into without hitting the wrong keys. Seen those GIANT novelty calculators? That’s what I need in a phone. Sad to say, but true!
The people know the attention span of the useful idiots so periodically they have to stir the pot to shock them out of the medicinal maryHUANA stupor! Seenyor Meester.
They don’t want to fund failure. They’re buying their exceptions and exemptions.
This is the ‘Mussolini chin jut‘ I was referring to earlier! (H/T Drudge)
Sometimes I think he does it better than Mussolini and that was his trademark!
Holy Jesus – that child Doug Powers is writing something really simple minded again.
Jesus loves you, and the rest of us are trying really hard.
Whirled Peas said:
It would be a jut if employed only when making key Socialist points more forcefully. For bammie this is becoming his default setting and preferred method of expression.
Seperated at birth?
Well, it’s backkkk! Please don’t feed, starve the critter!
L
Well, it’s backkkk! Please don’t feed, starve the critter!
L
The song, “Send In The Clowns”, comes to mind whenever I see Biden in front of a crowd.
Try this: Sit back, take a deep bong hit, SLOWLY exhale to retain as much smoke as possible and let the rush speed up your spine to the base of your skull and explode in a huge cascade of colors. The colors will fall like rain drops, saturating your brain cells (what little you have). Enjoy the show while it lasts, then try to get your head around this thought:
Reflect on your recent comment and all your previous comments and seriously ask yourself “Why am I Sofa King stupid?”
Contrary to Hangfire’s comment, I’m not trying really hard. I’m not trying at all. If the truth were known, I couldn’t give a f*ck less about you if I tried.
From the few speeches I’ve seen, he does precisely that. But, that could just be me… the arrogance just seems to drip off his chin.
I was never sure what the Musso-jut was attempting to convey?
Go ahead, make my day! I can take the punishment. Give me your best shot, I can take it! ( Mind you this on domestic issues? )
One thing’s for sure, even amidst impeachment hearings he’ll still be trying to pull it off and we’ll be left wondering why a guy that’s about to be out of a JOB is acting so smug?
These fundraising trips were always a ruse and never intended to raise money for the President’s reelection campaign. See the true reason for the President’s many out-of-town excursions on Air Force One.
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The song ‘That Smell”, (Skynyrd) comes to mind whenever I see the ‘Mussolini chin jut‘ Mistake of ’08 Fool!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6q9nBusrq8
So, is that Il Douche’?
You crack me up m’Lady… there are situations where it just BEGS to be injected into the conversation and I can’t help myself. It’s like I’m being the straight man in a comedy routine.
I think I’ve hooked him twice now with no reply. You’d think he would learn, eventually. HAHAHA! What a maroon!
Be my guest and use it as situations arise. I won’t charge royalty fees.
EEWWWWWwww I ain’t touchin that one!
are you praying or kneeling for one of your usual reasons?
Yes, spacey, yes….
Hey Ma, I took the Lord’s name in vain again! Bring the lava soap to wash out my mouth!
Now that I’m up off the floor (ROTFLMAO)… it’s Il Duce but pronounced the way you spelled it and I’m SURE you knew that!
Uhhhh….shining shoes?
Yep, you crack me up too!!
My mouth has tasted soap on a couple of occasions but not Lava™. The pumice is hard on the teeth, I’m told. I KNOW it takes off the top layer of skin(being a former auto/aircraft mech)
Heh-heh. I just mentally pictured ILMC under the desk in the Oval office.
Did he have the kneepads and ehandkerchief to prevent ‘impeachment’ evidence inadvertantly being left behind?
See what happens when one doesn’t clean up after one’s self? You are forced ot commit perjury during impeachment hearings.
Well, if he’s under the desk, presumably he’s admiring the sharp crease in the pants. On the other hand it might just be he’s performing a ‘tingle up the leg’? Shining the shoes just MIGHT be the last thing someone’s mind.
his name is Legion, because there are many (reasons).
or should that be ‘Lesion’? I crack me up.
Retiredtopo has ILMC on speed-dial.
As in syphilitic lesions?
Just in case he needs an extra hand? One has to wonder if they split the profit if that situation arises.
Is that split or spit?
Spacey – you were right both times.
By the way, the President’s job is not to spend his time campaigning. His job is to oversee the good of the country. This is not possible for Obeyme to do. His job is also not to bark at the Republicans like a junyard dog (even if he acts like a junkyard dog). He doesn’t even know what his job is.
BUT But but…. he’s a Constitutional ‘scholar’!
Nawww I can’t get that rude… I have to maintain a little decorum here and I see where this is headed… NOPE NOPE I ain’ta gonna say it… NOPE NOPE I ain’t banning ain’t in my future…. hopefully.
I know. I try not to.
I find I behave differently in a Doug-room than a Michelle-room.
Obama to ILMC: Can I call you Monica?
it doesn’t help that I encourage such behavior. One might think I was born in the year of the Rat…oh wait; I was.
okay on that note… I’m outta here….
stay vigilant (or vigilante, your choice)
I can’t be rude, crude, and totally socially unacceptable here and besides, I can’t multitask in two different threads… trying to educate kentroyal is not going to work and it won’t sink in anyway…
Peas OUT! (of this thread)
Mona Lisa Vito: [Vinny looks at her funny] What?
Vinny Gambini: Nothing. You stick out like a sore thumb around here.
Mona Lisa Vito: Me? What about you?
Vinny Gambini: I fit in better than you. At least I’m wearing cowboy boots.
Mona Lisa Vito: Oh yeah, you blend.
Vinny Gambini: How many fingers am I holding up?
Judge Chamberlain Haller: Let the record show that counselor is holding up two fingers.
Vinny Gambini: Your Honor, please!
…smelling the seat cushion of the chair pushed under it.
Me too.
…just above the number for the free clinic and the welfare office, and right next to the Sean Penn Fan Club.
Speaking of RetardedTwoTeeth and ILoveMySourBreath speed-dials, they both got the new app for the unemployment e-claims office, and all grocery stores offering free samples.