Comments (22) Jump to Comments Form

1. 

   parkersinthehouse said, 5 months ago

   ok oldlego, i need clarification
   it’s pretty cynical but he’s crying
   he’s recognizing one statistic but not the other
   he’s crying; she’s looking impatient
   i still don’t get rall’s point
   maybe just because i’m a newby

2. 

   Adam Sperry said, 5 months ago

   The quote is either in regards to the Iran protests or suicide bombers in Iraq, then Obama turnas around and continues anonymously killing people at the hands of our military.

   Does he care about people dying, or not?

3. 

   motivemagus said, 5 months ago

   It’s a quote from his statement on Iran.

4. 

   fennec said, 5 months ago

   Rall is to the Left what McCoy is to the Right…over the top often. To be honest, I don’t really care for either of them.

5. 

   parkersinthehouse said, 5 months ago

   i got the quote, but the toon seemed pretty disjounted to me. thanks y’all.

   humor is one of my favorite indulgences but admit low tolerance for acerbic sarcasm. rall is pretty sarcastic.

6. 

   Cpt. Jay said, 5 months ago

   I honestly think Obama lacks any emotional intelligence and/or empathy.

7. 

   Cpt. Jay said, 5 months ago

   Like a horse, he’s the Bush of a different color…

8. 

   motivemagus said, 5 months ago

   Cpt., are you saying that Bush lacked emotional intelligence and/or empathy, too? (I agree on the Bush point - not in agreement on Obama based on available evidence.)

9. 

   Cpt. Jay said, 5 months ago

   Only, that as his one-time liberal adherents contended, that he’s continued the Bush policies, despite the rhetoric of closing Gitmo (they’re getting a nice Bermuda vacation anyway), cutting back missile defense when N. Korea is sabre rattling more than they have in the past eight years, and the tears came far too late for Iran’s protesters, it reminded me of Clinton crying over Haiti some years back. Not being a Democrat or Republican myself, Bush was an economic globalist, like H. W. Bush (I would give George Prescott a chance, I admit), and stronger in foreign policy than Obama, but Obama cannot seem to thread the domestic or foreign policy needle, it seems.

10. 

    Cpt. Jay said, 5 months ago

    This sums of the Obama Administration brilliantly:

    http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=90710

11. 

    Cpt. Jay said, 5 months ago

    You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.
    ~ Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s chief of staff

    When I judge the Obama presidency I find it almost impossible to view Obama as a fully developed man. While this statement may be polemical to some, it isn’t an original idea. It has been repeatedly stated by that great conservative intellectual, Dr. Michael Savage, who said regarding Obama, “The most important word a man can tell a boy he is trying to help become a man is, ‘No.’ All of Obama’s life nobody has ever told him no.”

    In a UK Telegraph article by editor, Toby Harnden, titled, “Top 10 anti-Barack Obama conservatives”:

    Savage on Obama: No one has ever said no to Obama. From his childhood, through his early career, until now, no authority figure has said, “Stop, you can’t do that.” So he has developed a sense of self-righteousness and political invincibility … until someone is willing to stand up to him and say, “Stop! Enough! You will not drain the Treasury! You will not socialize this country,” he will continue to steamroll our freedoms.
    We are hearing now from economic experts that President Obama has spent more taxpayer money in just five weeks than George W. Bush did during his entire eight years of freewheeling domestic spending, $2 trillion Wall Street bailout fiasco, as well as the exorbitant costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

    Obama’s actions are not by accident but by systematic design. Not only has Obama waged war on America’s most sacred institutions – Christianity, free market capitalism, federalism and pro-life policies, he has waged war on the conservative movement and intends to make the Republican Party become the Whig Party of the 21st century. As part of his Machiavellian strategy, Obama’s first cabinet pick was Rahm “dead fish” Emanuel as his chief of staff.

    In November of last year Emanuel was rather candid in describing Obama’s grandiose designs to remake America in his own Marxist image saying:

    You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before. This is an opportunity. What used to be long-term problems – be they in the health care area, energy area, education area, fiscal area, tax area, regulatory reform area – things that we had postponed for too long that were long-term are now immediate and must be dealt with. And this crisis provides the opportunity for us … the opportunity to do things that you could not do before.
    Emanuel’s ideas above mimic FDR’s utopian pretext of the Great Depression as a means to shove his leviathan government “New Deal” down America’s throat. I have often stated in my own writings on law, politics and philosophy that before theory, before practice, there must be a pretext. Rahm Emanuel has clearly stated this shameless political pretext above. What is the “serious crisis” Emanuel doesn’t want “to go to waste”? Well it’s the downward spiral of economy. To a certified socialist like Obama who is a self-confessed admirer of FDR, a crisis, any crisis is like pure gold: misery = power.

    Listen to Obama’s speeches since he has become president. He is literally talking down the economy at every opportunity as a pretext to launch more government programs. If you doubt me, do a Google search of the phrases: “Obama, crisis” or “Obama, economic crisis” and you will literally get hundreds of thousands of hits: words from his own mouth. If you do a similar search of President Ronald Reagan and economic crisis, you’ll get a lot of hits, but upon closer scrutiny few if any relate to Reagan running down the economy (or the country) from his own mouth. Reagan, unlike Obama, was a man who championed personal responsibility, economic freedom, boundless vision and optimism; not economic Marxism, and policies promoting pessimism, envy and legalized thievery.

    (Column continues below)

    Back to Obama being an undeveloped man. You can see it in the manner he governs. You see this deficiency in his body language when confronted by men that disagree with him. Just beneath that suave, JFK demeanor lies an insecure, selfish, diminutive manchild who was never told “no.” Like a spoiled brat child, Obama takes every policy disagreement as a personal insult.

    Obama loves to give dictates, orders and commands. He doesn’t want to hear the other side of the arguments or roll up his sleeves to do the necessary down and dirty work with his political opponents for real consensus building. No, no, no. Remember Obama’s childish rant a few weeks before GOP leaders to negotiate the passage of his $1 trillion dollar economic stimulus plan, while the cameras were rolling Obama arrogantly shouted: “I won!” In other words negotiations are over. I am the man-child whom everybody loves and voted for. Do what I say, or I’m going to take my basketball and go home.

    While I would expect this attitude from a little 12 or 13-year-old boy raised by a doting single mother in the ghetto or the Upper Eastside of Manhattan, I would not expect this childish view from the leader of the free world, yet the more we see and hear from this president the more we see that Obama is less a developed, secure man and more a manchild; a very myopic, immature little boy who hates to have his ideas challenged by any man.

    In one of my first critiques of Obama, written six months before his inauguration, I expressed the following:

    To me, Obama is intellectually vacuous (despite his Columbia and Harvard pedigree). He seems incapable of putting two sentences together without excessively stuttering or saying “uuuhhh.” Because he is so wedded to radical, racialist, socialist ideas and is so comfortable around people who promote policies that I and most reasonable Americas find contemptible, I cannot in good faith devote an entire column exclusively on this mental midget.
    Like Obama, my father left me when I was very young (18 months), and I only saw him twice during my first 30 years of life. That said, I had read through enough biographies of great men and seen personally what happens to young boys who make the wrong life choices to realize that I had better seek out men in the community that could mentor me and teach me how to become a real man.

    Like millions of young black boys who grew up either without a father, or a father who was there in body, but due to a number of variables, failed to contribute meaningfully in the child’s development, the boy-child is forced to collect de facto (unofficial, substitute) fathers as they grow up. Some of these associations may have been good and nurturing, but in Obama’s case they were one of the following – negative or absent (Barack Obama Sr., grandfather Stanley Dunham), communist (Frank Marshall Davis), radical or anarchistic (Karl Marx, Saul Alinski, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Bill Ayers, Father Pfleger, Rev. Jeremiah Wright) and humanist academic (Professors Lawrence Tribe and Charles Ogeltree).

    I clearly saw Obama, the candidate as Obama, the man-child in the promise land and wrote:

    His ipso facto acceptance of radical ideas from the law academy (and Pastor Wright) without question thus causes me to view Obama not as a fully developed man, but as a Manchurian Candidate who seems incapable of having an independent thought apart from Marxist, socialist, liberal dogma. Such a person in my opinion is unworthy of the presidency (at least in America).
    In conclusion, I truly believe Obama can become a failed one-term Jimmy Carter-figure only if a strong conservative man of moral, charismatic, intellectual and rhetorical skills can rise up and challenge Obama as a man. If that person can sustain this challenge to reveal Obama’s false messiah façade and expose Obama the Manchild as the political fraud tens of millions of American citizens know him to be, then I believe like David brought down the imposing giant, Goliath, Obama the Manchild, along with his cradle-to-grave government controls over our lives can be exposed and defeated in the arena of ideas.

12. 

    M Kitt said, 5 months ago

    Ted, you’re on the way to becoming a mouthpiece for the right wingers, (fundie fringers, see above) if that’s the objective then keep going with the progressive attacks on Obama. The Libs and Dems will discount you summarily but I guess you’ll have proven that your’ loyalty isn’t to either party (behaving as corporatists, I suppose). Then those of us that have paid you several years of readership will eventually wear thin and drop off the rosters. Yes, you’ll have proven independence and intolerance of “more of the same” but you’ll lose all but the extreme FRINGE. Sorry, I call ‘em like I see ‘em.

    Shock value is only caustic to the STATUS QUO if people are paying attention to the message, otherwise you may as well just get a radio show and shriek into the mike like putz Limbaugh or “Dr.” of ignorance Savage and try to attract an audience by sheer volume and ranted insults rather than reasoned content.

13. 

    Ripit said, 5 months ago

    Right on, Ted.

14. 

    mattro53 said, 5 months ago

    Hey, Cpt., kindly restrict your right wing propaganda to right wing web sites. I, and most likely almost all users of this site, are not interested in your regurgitated tripe.

15. 

    Bill_Clay said, 5 months ago

    Reposting articles is abusive, IMHO. It’s a digital filibuster. A link to the original article should suffice.

16. 

    M Kitt said, 4 months ago

    Think that was the intention, BC. That particular person is being an obnoxious a$$ to demonstrate his disagreement with consensus opinion of the Libs, if he is actually active duty military as his posting a$$erts he’s asking for trouble, it’s against the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice Article 88) for him to post his rank in conjunction with his opinions since he’s a representative of the U.S. government, this is the same reason you don’t see protest marchers in uniform, it’s an obvious conflict of interest. If he’s active he could be subjected to military discipline for those actions up to and including courts martial.
    If he’s not active duty then he’s misrepresenting himself as such and shouldn’t be doing so, under either of those conditions he’s also smearing the honor of active duty military members by leading readers to believe he represents the broad opinion of the U.S. military. If he’s retired he should state such (IE RETIRED after his rank) but I highly doubt that he’s either active duty or of the rank he portends himself to be since I’ve never seen any military member on any site including this one making such obvious mistakes in terms of conduct (See also DOD Directive 1344.10 Political Activities by Members of the Armed Forces on Active Duty).
    What about it, JL, want to answer up for these questions?

17. 

    ooivaa said, 4 months ago

    Are those beads of sweat about someone with a different opinion, ayhatolla M Kitt?

18. 

    Adora68 said, 4 months ago

    The point is that Obama claims to care, makes a big public display of being distraught, and yet continues the policies that caused the situation in the first place. People elected him to stop the wars and he hasn’t done it. Not at all. The fact that he claims to understand how wrong it is makes it even worse in the eyes of those who believe it’s wrong – being knowingly wrong (like Obama) is worse than being stupidly wrong (like W).

    PS. The above is my interpretation of Rall’s thinking, not my opinion.

19. 

    M Kitt said, 4 months ago

    OO, you have no legitimate disagreement with my opinion. If you know anything about military law then there’s really no question about it, UCMJ article 88 specifically addresses JL’s behavior regardless of what opinion he’s holding up for public inspection. As I stated I think this person is misrepresenting their identity/rank since that’s a breach of very basic military protocol. Additionally, anyone who cuts/pastes several paragraphs worth of garbage is doing so to be what I described above, an A$$.

20. 

    Cpt. Jay said, 4 months ago

    That’s right, Adora68! Being likeable isn’t the same as being competent.

21. 

    Cpt. Jay said, 4 months ago

    You should check out my Myspace then, too, lol.

22. 

    Cpt. Jay said, 4 months ago

    And regarding the fact of name-calling, the adjective becomes you and your 230 lb. dimpled (expletive deleted).