Category: President Obama
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Retro
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The largest airplane in the world is Russian. They also have a working space program from which we beg rides, and they just took over the Crimea when we abandoned Eastern Europe. Does it seem to you that the America-Russia pendulum is swinging, and not in a good way? Joe…
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Polling
A recent Quinnipiac poll shows that 33 percent of Americans pick Obama as the worst President since World War 2. Dubya comes in second at 28 percent. So let’s try it this way: Let’s rank the presidents since WW2. In the comments, respond with your rankings of the presidents since WW2, in order from worst…
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Two Patties Of Sizzling Ugh
A friend of mine from South Minneapolis emails. The bad news? : Oh great, my favorite local bar and burger place where I have taken many of you is now world famous. The POTUS just had a “Jucy Lucy” at Matt’s. Crap. We’ve been going to this place for decades and now…the place will be…
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Sort Of Like An “Affordable Traffic Act” Exchange
I was driving north on 35E yesterday afternoon, when I saw there was no traffic on the southbound side coming out of Saint Paul. Then came about 10 cop cars, whoopie lights a-blazin’. Then the Presidential limo. Then about a dozen or two other SUVs, limos, an ambulance, and cop cars. Then I turned up…
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Unexpected
The “Obama Recovery” still isn’t. The U.S. economy shrank at an annual rate of 2.9 percent during the first three months of 2014, government bean counters announced this morning. That matches the worst non-recession contraction of the U.S. economy in over 40 years. Perhaps, taking a cue from minimum wage hike laws, the Administration could…
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Doakes Sunday: Sunset Clause
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: At least one federal government program is shutting down. President Obama is quietly releasing terrorists. First the Taliban Five from Gitmo, now a dozen more in Pakistan. Joe Doakes Maybe there were rehabilitated?
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Doakes Sunday: Reservations
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Remember a couple of months ago, when President Obama was on his Far East World Adulation Tour, he promised Japan and the Philippines that the good old US of A would be their big brother against mean old China? Considering he can’t even manage to abandon Iraq without dithering…
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“The Dog Ate Our Hard Drive”
Now the Administration is claiming that Lois Lerner’s hard drive was lost, destroyed or recycled, so her emails may be lost forever. I’m not a networking guy, but I still call BS. Perhaps if… Lois Lerner’s hard drive Lerner’s work-group’s email server’s hard drive The RAID (large redundant hard-disk) array(s) and/or backup tape(s) to which Lerner’s work group email…
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Fake It ‘Til You Make It
In which we learn from our “President” that gun violence (which has dropped by half in the past twenty years) “has never been worse”, but that the world “has never been less violent” (as the Middle East spirals toward a general conflagration). Even Jimmy Carter knew better than to look at a bowl full of…
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The Right War
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: In 2008, Candidate Obama assured us the war in Iraq was the wrong war. He wanted to fight the right war in Afghanistan, against the Taliban. In 2014, President Obama surrendered the Taliban high leadership back to the enemy and announced American troops will be leaving Afghanistan. He picked…
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Perfectly Clear
Jonathan Turley: Obama has become the president that a Nixon wanted to be – but never had the raw power to actually pull off: What’s troubling is that we have a system that has been stable precisely because these are limited and shared powers. This president has indicated that he’s just not willing to comply…
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Spaced
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: In 2010, President Obama told NASA chief Charles Bolden that his foremost job was to: “ . . . find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering.” But last…
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This Is Your Obama “Recovery”
Real economic growth…didn’t exist in the first quarter: Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — decreased at an annual rate of 1.0 percent in the first quarter according to the “second” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In…
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Two Year Drill
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: This is an interesting set of questions. Too bad there’s not a chance in Hell they’ll ever get straight answers. Joe Doakes We’re close enough to 2016 where I’m sure Obama figures he can run out the clock.
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Obama Scandalrama: Just Part Of The Pack
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: You don’t need to see our appointment logs to check VA wait times; we’ve carefully checked our records and confirmed we were right all along. So that’s settled. This is the level of investigative journalism that meets the standards of the MSM. The VA said they don’t have secret lists,…
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Priorities
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The President campaigned for re-election on the grounds that General Motors was alive but Osama Bin Laden was dead. Except . . . if Global Warming threatens the very existence of human life on this planet, and autos cause Global Warming, shouldn’t he have let General Motors die? And…
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Liquidation For Hire
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Liberals are so convinced that the Personal is Political, and they have had such success using that tactic to damage our constitutional republic from within, that they think the rule is of universal application. It is not. If it were, the most revered man in history would be Pontius…
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“…Other Than That, Mrs. Lincoln…”
The IRS Scandal has been dragging on for a solid year now. Democrats chant in near-unison “It’s just low-level employees! You have no evidence that it’s tied to the White House!” Which brings up two additional questions. Gone Rogue: Let’s say that the Democrats are right – that suppressing conservative activist groups (who, without tax…
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Open Letter To President Obama
To: President Obama From: Mitch Berg Re: The Goal, Here Mr. President, This is a feature. Not a bug. That is all.
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Wild Thing
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Here is a long-lost photo of President George Washington performing his duties under Article 1 of the Constitution, dealing with The Whiskey Rebellion by intimidating rebels with passages from . . . “Where The Wild Things Are.” No? Well, maybe it’s Abraham Lincoln urging his generals to fight The…
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War Equals Peace, Winston
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: President Obama isn’t just the First Black President, he may also be the Most Belligerent. Aside from the ordinary garrison troops at US bases and embassies around the world, and not counting bombing sorties flown by drones, this President has dispatched American troops to put boots on the ground…
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Frog In A Pan
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: US sent 300 paratroopers to Poland to serve as a trip-wire against Russian aggression. Washington Post explains the reasoning. It’s a dumb idea. The trip-wire concept is simple: if the Russians attack and kill our 300 guys, the American public will be so outraged that Congress will Declare War…