Category: President Obama
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So Tired Of Winning
“Life is full of ironies – if you’re stupid” — PJ O’Rourke Remember 2010-2012? When Democrats snarled that there was no way, no how that there were “death panels” buried in Obamacare? And those of us with some experience in the healthcare industry responded “of course, there are, and have been ever since government poked its nose…
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No Visible Means Of Support
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: We’re told Lesko Brandon got more votes than Barack Obama. A friend asks where’s the show of support? “We used to see Obama bumper stickers everywhere, that sun rising over the fields symbol. Drive the back roads out-state and you’ll still see Trump signs. I even saw a Wellstone…
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Deplorablx
So why did Latinos vote for Trump in record numbers? Because they’re a bunch of bitter Jesus Freaks, according to the guy who made “bigger Jebus freaks” a political class and social identity group: .@BarackObama: “There’s a lot of evangelical Hispanics who…the fact that Trump says racist things about Mexicans, or puts detainees— undocumented workers—…
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Further Proof…
…not only that Berg’s Seventh Law is universal and immutable, but that Democrat politicians can and do count on their voters being unthinking lemmings who know neither history nor critical thought. Barack Obama: Barack Obama – who won a Nobel Peace Prize before spending eight years making “Hellfire” a more common precipitation in the Middle…
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I’ll Believe It’s A Crisis When The People Who Are Telling Me It’s A Crisis Start Acting Like It’s A Crisis, Part MCLVIII
Barack and Michelle Obama buy a place high up in the Rockies, as a hedge against rising sea levels. Just kidding. They bought a place on Martha’s Vineyard. Apparently he took that whole “We’ll make the ocean level recede” thing pretty seriously.
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Thought Experiment
If I walked into your store with a sawed-off shotgun, demanded you hand over all your money, turned to leave with the loot, slipped on a banana peel, and cracked my head open, gushing blood all over the floor and rating a trip to the ER, would the local newspaper say I’d “donated blood” and…
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Inconvenient Fact
Former President Obama continues his life’s worth – sliming the United States at home and abroad. This time, it’s in Brazil: Barack Obama told an audience in Brazil that “our gun laws in the United States don’t make much sense” and claimed machine guns could be bought legally online.The former president, 57, said the most…
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That’s So 1977…
I’m old enough to remember when the American political and media establishment wracked itself into knots over the fact that the executive branch had been using the CIA and Hoover’s FBI to spy on domestic political opposition. Among my earliest memories of politics and news – after Watergate, naturally – were the Church Commission hearings,…
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Scandal-“Free”
next time a SITD critic claims the Obama administration was extraordinarily clean, not a single conviction, remind them of this:joe doakes Percpetion is reality. If Obama’s cronies in the media and Democrat party messaging (ptr) say his time in office was “scandal free” enough times, people will perceive it that way. Put another way –…
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The Bloom Is Off The Rose
Barack Obama was on the campaign trail in the weeks leading up to mid-terms… …and it’d seem he had the same results at mid-terms that he did as president: TREND: Over the past 5 days, President Obama flew into the states of Georgia, Florida & Indiana to personally campaign for big-name Democrat candidates in those…
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Collateral Damage
How much of our nation’s current political, social and moral impasse traces directly to the changes Barack Obama wrought on both policy and social levels, especially in his effect on the American Left? It’s open to debate (a debate that’ll never happen in our nation’s media or academy), but the answer might appear to be “lots…
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The Delicious Irony…
…with which I love to beat my liberal friends over the head, is that without Barack Obama, there’d have likely been no Donald Trump. Not just in social terms – blue-state coastal elitism has been brewing a backlash since I was a kid (Lori Sturdevant’s mewling notwithstanding). But in terms of presidents acting like kings? …
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The Road To Stockholm. Or Oslo. Or Is It Helsinki?
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: If the Palestinians heed Saudi Arabian advice to cut a deal with Israel, President Obama should get another Nobel Peace Prize. You will recall that Obama and his Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, proclaimed their intention to raise gas prices to European levels to compel Americans to drive less and…
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Isn’t It Interesting…
…how “dropping bombs on countries that didn’t attack us first” is suddenly a bad thing again after all these years?
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We’ve Done So Much Winning, We’re Tired Of It
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The US unemployment rate is the lowest in 45 years. The US Black unemployment rate is the lowest ever. Trump has invigorated the “animal spirits” to turn around the economy. America is headed in the right direction. Therefore . . . Obama is getting back into politics. You didn’t…
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The Sound And Smell Of Popping Popcorn
Donna Brazile blows up Hillary Clinton. Too much stuff to pullquote. How much of it is sour grapes? How much is stage-setting for the next part of Brazile’s career (my guess – lots). Read the whole thing. .Discuss.
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Above It All
Joe Doakes from Como Pak emails: “Many people want to be authors. They crave the adulation of fans, going to cons, signing books, being able to work in their bathrobe and getting checks in the mail. Few people really want to be writers. Writers are miserable people who spend most of their time alone, have…
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Funny Thing Is…
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I astonishes me how much law enforcement has improved during the Trump Administration. He should get more credit for it. No, really: remember last Summer when thousands of people demonstrated against police, insisting that Black Lives Matter? They shut down Snelling for the State Fair, shut down freeways, marched…
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“Wiretapping”
“The press takes [Trump] literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally. ” — Salena Zito When Donald Trump claimed “Trump Tower had been wiretapped”, the media – awash in images of sweaty, donut-dust-stained cops hunched over in a 1974 Ford Econoline amid amplifiers and reel to reel tape decks, concentrating on…
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Paging Alanis Morisette, Part CLXXVII
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I read a good quip the other day: “Obama policies kill Obama values: if you dither and appease while Russia turns Syria into a charnel house, your commitment to humane treatment of refugees will collapse under the human catastrophe resulting from your fecklessness.” Okay, technically it’s not true. Obama’s…
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It Works In So Many Ways
While it’s not statutorily legal, even under the French legal system, I love this idea on so many levels. American liberals would reflexively attack anyone who claimed He wasn’t actually born in France as a racist. And John F. Kerry, stricken with jealousy, would no doubt leave the country to run against him.
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Parting Shot
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Obama promises to send 1,200 Special Forces troops to Lithuania, to counter Russian military aggression. This is a transparently political move directed at low-information domestic audience, the people who get their news from headlines alone. Obama won’t be President this Spring so he won’t be the one keeping the…
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What Might Have Been
Nate Cohn notes why Hillary couldn’t reassemble the Obama Coalition: It is entirely possible, as many have argued, that Hillary Clinton would be the president-elect of the United States if the F.B.I. director, James Comey, had not sent a letter to Congress about her emails in the last weeks of the campaign. But the electoral…
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Misplaced
President Obama unveils an unseemly snobbery: On Sunday’s season premiere of Anthony Bourdain’s “Parts Unknown,” the president discussed food and foreign policy over noodles with the celebrity chef in Vietnam…“Is ketchup on a hot dog ever acceptable?” Bourdain asked the leader of the free world in an episode taped in May. “No,” the president quickly…
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I’ll Swim Against The School
A lot of conservatives bag on the President pretty hard for his dedication to his golf game. Kevin Williamson says it’s a mistake, and I agree. There are two reasons. The first: There are some obvious and practical reasons not to discourage President Obama’s sporting pursuits. The most obvious of them is that every hour…