20 posts tagged “idiots”

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White House: Obama too overwhelmed to do his job.

Yeah, that should be good for another 200 points on the Dow.

Ed Morrissey is dizzy with trying to figure out which would have been worse: President Obama meaning the snub to Brown and Great Britain, or that it was apparently just a by-product of the administration’s inability to run the country. Me, I’m too busy being appalled that there are supposedly functional adults in the Democratic Party that thought that saying the below would help. Read the whole thing, but only if you think that both your head and the wall will survive the pounding that you’ll be giving the latter with the former:

Barack Obama ‘too tired’ to give proper welcome to Gordon Brown
Barack Obama’s offhand approach to Gordon Brown’s Washington visit last week came about because the president was facing exhaustion over America’s economic crisis and is unable to focus on foreign affairs, the Sunday Telegraph has been told.

Sources close to the White House say Mr Obama and his staff have been “overwhelmed” by the economic meltdown and have voiced concerns that the new president is not getting enough rest.

Mr. President?

Man up.

You see, I don’t give a tinker’s dam if you’re feeling overwhelmed. I could care less if your stress levels are elevated. If I came across you puking in the White House toilet from the nervous tension, my only response would be to flip the switch that turns on the fan before I went to find another bathroom. That’s because you wanted this job that you now have, and if you didn’t know that it was a killing job then you should have asked somebody. 2.5 years apparent aging for every one on it; that’s the cost of being POTUS. A look at before-and-after pictures of Bill Clinton and George W Bush should have driven the message home for you. In short, you have no excuse, and my sympathy is zero.

So, instead of sending out people to whine for you about how you can’t get your head above water, ask yourself: are you prepared to hack it anyway? If you are, then shut up and do it. If you aren’t, do the country a favor and quit. God help me for saying this, but if you can’t do the job give it to Joe Biden; he can’t do the job either, but at least he’s not too proud to beg for help.

Moe Lane

PS: Find the person who made that statement to the Telegraph, thus embarrassing the country, myself, and (least importantly) yourself. If that person works for you, fire that person. Fire that person filthy.

Right after you fire this idiot:

The real views of many in Obama administration were laid bare by a State Department official involved in planning the Brown visit, who reacted with fury when questioned by The Sunday Telegraph about why the event was so low-key.

The official dismissed any notion of the special relationship, saying: “There’s nothing special about Britain. You’re just the same as the other 190 countries in the world. You shouldn’t expect special treatment.” The apparent lack of attention to detail by the Obama administration is indicative of what many believe to be Mr Obama’s determination to do too much too quickly.

Because there’s going to be a post-Obama era someday, and I’d quite like there to be something to work with in it when it comes.

From Michelle Malkin:

Looks like Joe Biden, in his interview with Katie Couric, was copying off the wrong classmate’s exam again. He said (video here):

“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‘look, here’s what happened.’”

My recollection is that the stock market crash was in 1929. Two problems here: Television did not even exist in 1929, and FDR was elected in 1932, so he wasn’t even the leader at the time of the crash. When Joe was in history class, was he cheating by looking over the class dunce’s shoulder, or does he just make this stuff up? Of course, TV celebrity Katie Couric also didn’t note that Biden’s statement was doubly incorrect. Her goal was a softball puff piece.”

AWESOME!  I hope he does something stupid like this at the VP debate:)

Let's play where's the flag.

http://www.redstate.com/diaries/absentee/2008/aug/27/new-game-wheres-the-flag/

PELOSI BOOK BOMB: FIRST FEMALE SPEAKER CHARTS #869 ON AMAZON SALES...

Good laugh to start the day.  Plastic Pelosi wrote a book?!?!  Boo.

From the NY Post:

SUSAN SARANDON, who appeared in three films last year and won kudos for her TV movie "Bernard and Doris," is still not a contented soul. She says if John McCain gets elected, she will move to Italy or Canada. She adds, "It's a critical time, but I have faith in the American people."

Do you, Susan.  Because I think McCain is going to win, so the question really is, can America have faith in you to follow through on your promise?

Super excited!

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Check out this excerpt from a piece by an Obama supporter in the Village Voice:

My lady parts do not ache for Hillary Clinton.

As The First Viable Female Contender’s bid for the Democratic nomination sputters to its inevitable end, everyone and their mother/sister/daughter has something to say about the poisonous misogyny that’s apparently to blame…

…Here’s the thing: There is plenty of sexism—more than enough, thank you very much—in this country. Which is why it’s so sad to see Hillary’s supporters (and lately even her female detractors, and way too many column inches) elevate her to some kind of goddess warrior, symbolizing the decades-long fight for gender equality, absorbing the entirety of history’s catcall in one massive blow, and then standing tall again because that’s what women do. Powerful stuff, except that she’s a lying, race-baiting insult to our collective intelligence. Powerful, if she and her husband hadn’t sold out poor people in the ’90s or if she had stood tall like a woman against the war in Iraq or if she wasn’t right now trying to change the rules of the game and stir up the worst kind of identity politics…

Wow.  I love when the party rips itself apart from the inside.  Sort of a political spontaneous combustion...except longer.

Don't you...

So, I check my news online because well, no TV.  Anyway, I just got home from Jill's house where I can watch TV, and click on my Drudge link.  And I see this bullsh*t quote:

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.

Excuse me.  But, yes, we can.  We are AMERICA.  Land of the FREE and home of the BRAVE.  We don't have to appease anyone.  Certainly not other countries.  I couldn't give a crap what someone in Germany or France thinks of the size of my thighs or the status of my thermostat.  And holy hell, don't tell me your little entourages don't drive around in Suburbans and drink bottled water all day.  SHUT UP.  Please.

**Just an aside: I am probably less "environmentally conscious" than most people, but I drink water out of tap and just for the record, my thermostat is set to 63.  This is mostly for financial reasons, of course.  But still.