posted May 28, 2011 04:44 PM            

He could hardly be doing a worse job if he were deliberately trying to fail.

Barack Hussein O'Bomber is well on his way to earning the title, "Worst President in American History". As for me, I think he's already blown right by James Earl Carter.

The only reason O'Bomber would be contemplating spending a billion dollars on his re-election is to convince Americans that black is white and night is day.

It's not going to work. O'Bomber now has a record and it's an ugly record he's not going to be able to run away from.

posted May 28, 2011 07:03 PM              

if she ever gets to washington, that place she despises, she will have her hands tied too. of course there is always the possiblity that she will bring her mayoral attitude from wasilla "i can do whatever i like until the courts tell me otherwise.."

posted May 28, 2011 08:55 PM            

His is President
He had a demoscat majority in the House
He had a demoscat majority in the Senate

The problem with O'Bomber isn't that he had his hands tied.

posted May 29, 2011 03:58 PM              

but every president has their hands tied by the numerous deals and partnerships already in place, many of which you and i and your gal sal know nothing about because we haven't been awarded the job. many are common knowledge and SOME can be chipped away at or altered, many cannot, especially in the time period allotted.

but your combo of obama and his overwhelming democrat majority admits that he personally is not really the pivot upon which our govt rests, he is expected to STEER it.

and many americans are more likely to throw up listening to beck, limbaugh and palin than obama. your subjectivity as always gets top marks!

posted May 29, 2011 04:22 PM            

So, no one was tying O'Bomber's hands.

He produced his own Socialist mess and got his Socialist demoscat comrades to go along with him.

As a result, demoscats got kicked out of control of the House and if O'Bomber had been on the ballot in 2010 he wouldn't be president today.

posted May 29, 2011 04:38 PM              

if obama had been on the ballot those "not likely to vote" people rasmussen loves would have been voting. whole new result. as i said at the time, better last year, to give everyone the chance they are getting to see what they voted for - you know, governors posing as kings, attempts at killing medicare, unpassable budgets...

if palin decides to run you better get your fundraising boots on, because the GOP is highly unlikely to back her a second time. she is going to need todd to start the Republican Secession Party for her.

there's an old saying, "be careful who you kick on the way up, you may just meet them again, on the way down!"

you're the poll lover. ONLY one minority sector of the population favours your little miss, that is the neocons. MOST of the country are NOT, you know!

posted June 01, 2011 12:24 PM            

Top of the Ticket
Sarah Palin plays the media like a violin: Her turn now
June 1, 2011

Sarah Palin, with her counterintuitive secret publicity bus tour, is demonstrating one of the most important rules of American politics:

There is nothing the U.S. media wants more than something it thinks it can't have. Hence the power of news leaks that manipulate the thrust of their initial presentation. Hard-to-get is a rigid rule of human behavior. Ask any teenage boy or girl.

And there are few things more sweet to Palin and her fervent supporters cheering their TV sets this week than the image of a hungry know-it-all "lamestream media" caravan of 15 or more vehicles traipsing along behind her red-white-and-blue bus enroute to they-know-not-where to do they-know-not-what.

To make it worse, each one of the frustrated, confused chasers knows that Fox News' Greta Van Susteren is....

...riding along with the not-yet-and-possibly-never Republican presidential candidate, filing exclusive conversations for her audience to gobble up that only enhance Palin's already million-dollar value to FNC. Can you hear the teeth grinding? While Palin smiles and waves away?
The day's best line came from a CBS News producer who tried to claim that the lack of information from Palin's lumbering bus was endangering the dozen competing media vehicles trailing behind, uninvited.

As Michelle Malkin puts it so succinctly here, "The boys behind the bus."

Speaking of CBS, Katie Couric's unemployed now. And forget that front porch in Alaska. Sarah Palin can see revenge from her rear window.

Not that such a thing would ever cross the mind of the 2008 vice presidential candidate whose instant popularity and inexperienced gaffes invited so much media mocking and political hostility back when she needed those people to get out John McCain's campaign message.

Polls schmolls. The tables are turned now. And it's the best political entertainment of the campaign so far.

The media on campaigns is accustomed to being courted, even catered to with assigned airplane seats, meals, transportation to events, seats waiting, transcripts, the upcoming advance schedule, self-serving secrets confided.

But now they want/need Palin more than vice versa. They know the ratings when she's on. And they know bosses love ratings. So, they follow along in the exhaust.

"I don’t think I owe anything to the mainstream media," Palin said on Fox. "I think that it would be a mistake for me to become some kind of conventional politician and doing things the way it’s always been done with the media, in terms of relationships with them.”

And if this bus junket sucks some or all of the oxygen out of Mitt Romney's big announcement Thursday, so be it.

It's Joe Biden's turn to be in Europe this week (Italy through Saturday to celebrate 150 years of unification). So President Obama will have to meet with the Republicans on this debt ceiling silliness that they want tied to significant budget cuts.

Forget petty Palin vengeance. This strategy fits the independent woman-of-the-people optics Palin wants now, much as she's relied for months on Facebook and Twitter to spoonfeed the public and media exactly and only what she wants out there. Talk of "true change." Restoring America, not transforming it.

Whether Palin runs for office again or not, she is a brand. If she can help shape the summer's GOP discussion agenda in a so-far bland field of folks simply by being and occasionally speaking out, why bother with the crap that comes with official campaigning?

Who knows what lightning might strike come August? And if not, who will she endorse among Republicans? She could be an influential king -- or queen -- maker. At worst, she's more famous and controversial for TV and the next book.

Tuesday, as our astute buddy Tony Pierce wrote here, Palin announced that she was in favor of ending all energy subsidies, including ethanol. So the afternoon's discussion topic was her, even though Tim Pawlenty said the same thing about ethanol last week to little notice. And Tuesday many who dislike Palin were saying, well, you know, I kinda agree with her there.

This unorthodox, to say the least, strategy also fits Palin's go-with-her-gut political M.O. Who'd have thought going in that a Wasilla city councilwoman would become mayor? Or make such a stir on the oil and gas commission? Or challenge an entrenched aged state Republican establishment and its incumbent governor? And actually win that primary?

And then in the general, defeat a better-known Democrat trying to return to the governor's office? And remember too when Palin's surprise gubernatorial resignation halfway through the first term terminated, according to the media, any chance that she'd have any role in American politics ever again?

posted June 01, 2011 02:24 PM              

interesting that she thinks obama and congress are FOOLS to cut back on oil subsidies, but she thinks SHE should do so, along with other energy subsidies.

she is doing a donald trump IMO. even mike huckabee chose the FOX DOLLARS over actual candidacy.

we will see how popular she and obama are IF she actually goes for it. till then, she is just a FOX employee to me. milking it for all she is worth.

and the mention of TEENAGE PSYCHOLOGY visavis the "hard to get" thing is VERY apt!

posted June 01, 2011 03:22 PM            

But, the lame brained media are following Palin around like little puppy dogs with their tongues out...notice us...notice us!

If Palin chooses to be a presidential candidate and wins the Republican nomination, she'll wipe the debate floor up with...The One...The Messiah, O'Bomber.

posted June 01, 2011 11:51 PM            

You forget yourself katatonic.

It's O'Bomber who can't string together a coherent sentence without his teleprompter...unless you consider uuuhhhs, ahhhhs, uuummmms and hhhmmmms necessary components of coherent sentence structure.

Palin writes four (4) prompts on her hand and the press goes nuts. O'Bomber has his entire speech on a teleprompter and that's swell...according to the press.

That's why I dubbed O'Bomber "President Teleprompter". He never leaves home without it.

But, if Sarah Palin is the Republican nominee, O'Bomber is going to be sans teleprompter in the debates.

posted June 02, 2011 01:40 AM              

i see no earthly reason why palin would want to be president. she might be held accountable for her cross-eyes and indecipherable utterances. she makes WAY more money doing what she does, and doesn't actually have to DO anything except what everyone else does...pretend she knows better than the actual people doing things.

i wonder what wonderful theories she held in 1977? i believe she has changed her tune considerably in the last 2 years let alone 35. but one thing remains the same. the grass is always browner on the other side.

posted June 03, 2011 09:27 AM            

On the other hand, YOU have yet to provide any proof Sarah Palin relies on anything more than outline notes when she delivers most of her speeches.

So katatonic, when are you going to get aroundtoit?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp0hU1THjuc

posted June 03, 2011 03:47 PM            

O'Bomber's problem is that he doesn't know much about anything. That's the reason he stutters, stammers, ummmms and hmmmms when he isn't fed his lines. If you listened to that audio of O'Bomber, you know exactly what I mean. But that wasn't a "speech". That was from a press interview in the middle east.

posted June 03, 2011 04:11 PM              

when you made your sales presentations i'll warrant you had some pictures and figures to refer to...pre-printed or drawn. voila, YOUR teleprompter.

the tape was 7 minutes of stutters and god knows what the actual meat of the conversation/speech was. talk about doctored evidence!

posted June 03, 2011 05:45 PM            

Here's the transcript, from New York magazine, of what she told reporters who were trailing her on her bus tour of historical sites:

He who warned, uh, the … the British that they weren't gonna be takin' away our arms, uh, by ringin' those bells and, um, by makin' sure that as he's ridin' his horse through town to send those warnin' shots and bells that, uh, we were gonna be secure and we were gonna be free … and we were gonna be armed.

Revere was, in fact, riding from Boston to Lexington to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the approaching British army. And no bells were used -- the mission was a secret. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/06/sarah-palin-paul-revere-midnight-ride-/1

posted June 04, 2011 12:03 AM            

Sarah should take that summer vacation bus of hers to the nearest summer school

posted June 04, 2011 07:44 AM            

find jobs.

posted June 05, 2011 12:27 PM              

everyone knows, don't they, that if you say something with enough conviction it must be true?

[The Paul Revere House's website says that on April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren instructed Revere to ride to Lexington, Mass., to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them.]

posted June 05, 2011 01:21 PM            

This is the case with what the drooling O'Bomber press would like to call Reveregate.

You see, Sarah Palin was right. Paul Revere did warn the British about the defense of Concord...when Revere was captured by the British and told them the truth...under duress.

Now, you don't have to take my word for that.

Would you take the word of Paul Revere on that? Or would you rather wallow in the terminal ignorance of the drooling O'Bomber press?

This from a letter written by Paul Revere in 1789 which is maintained in the archives of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

"I observed a Wood at a Small distance, & made for that. When I got there, out Started Six officers, on Horse back,and orderd me to dismount;-one of them, who appeared to have the command, examined me, where I came from,& what my Name Was? I told him. it was Revere, he asked if it was Paul? I told him yes He asked me if I was an express? I answered in the afirmative. He demanded what time I left Boston? I told him; and aded, that their troops had catched aground in passing the River, and that There would be five hundred Americans there in a short time, for I had alarmed the Country all the way up. He imediately rode towards those who stoppd us, when all five of them came down upon a full gallop; one of them, whom I afterwards found to be Major Mitchel, of the 5th Regiment, Clapped his pistol to my head, called me by name, & told me he was going to ask me some questions, & if I did not give him true answers, he would blow my brains out. He then asked me similar questions to those above. He then orderd me to mount my Horse, after searching me for arms.He then orderd them to advance, & to lead me in front. When we got to the Road, they
turned down towards Lexington. When we had got about one Mile, the Major Rode up to the officer that was leading me, & told him to give me to the Sergeant. As soon as he took me, the Major orderd him, if I attempted to run, or any body insulted them, to blow my brains out. We rode till we got near Lexington Meeting-house, when the Militia fired a Voley of Guns, which appeared to alarm them very much."

So, Revere did warn...tell the British about defenses at Concord.

"The Redcoats had set temporary roadblocks as a security measure and on their way to Concord they encountered British soldiers. Prescott managed to escape; Revere was captured and Dawes tried to run away but was arrested shortly thereafter. The British held Revere and interrogated him with a pistol on his chest. He was asked about the plans of the militia and where they kept their ammunition. When asked where the Patriots were hiding he told them the truth and replied that they had 500 militiamen in Concord protecting them and 1500 coming. As they rode towards Concord he was told that if he tried to escape he would be shot."

Now the droolers would like for everyone to think Palin accused Paul Revere of being a traitor. Such is not the case. Revere was captured and his life threatened by those he had no doubt would carry out the threat.

Neither did Palin attempt to interject any 2nd amendment issues into her answer.

The British wanted to know...with good reason where colonists ammunition...powder and ball... was stored. They already knew where the arms were since virtually every household had at least a musket.

As for me, I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for the brain dead, terminally ignorant press to apologize to Sarah Palin. They have neither the good sense, character or integrity to do the right thing and make a public apology.

posted June 05, 2011 03:16 PM            

well at the very least you are loyal.

Palin doubled down on her gaffe. The woman has a pair.

Revere used the utmost stealth and secrecy. ( that a gallop through the dark of night could enjoy that is) Secrecy remember? When stopped at a check point he gave false info as a ruse.

jeeze

posted June 05, 2011 04:33 PM              

she SAID, he was out there with bells taunting the british that we were prepared and they'd better not take for granted we would be pushovers. she did NOT say he gave info after being captured.

SORREE!