Morality is not determined by the church you attend nor the faith you embrace. It is determined by the quality of your character and the positive impact you have on those you meet along your journey
One of my favorite parts is thinking back now to hearing Sarah screeching for weeks "the president is NOT DOING HIS JOB!!...He's campaigning instead of working on important things!!
And then this...
I can imagine President Obama sitting in the Oval Office hearing a report, "Yeah, she's on Faux still screeching about you doing nothing..."
And Obama thinking, she's doing just what we need her to do...No one has a clue about what is happening in Pakistan and we want to keep it that way.
I love thinking that she might be being used in ways she can't even imagine...
WOW what a great day for America and out great President. Sarah, Donald and all other crazy Republicans shut up unless you have something good to say. We love our President.
Ever since the day Obama was sworn in as president the fucked up repugs have been saying they would see America destroyed before they would support a N***** in the WHITEhouse.
So now all you squalling teabaggers, and racist repugs eat crow now and for the next four years! We just won the next election!!!
Another day of being thankful that rational thought was retuned to the White House. He's sitting pretty good right now for 2012 but even more importantly, he's proving every day that he is very dedicated to the American people. There is no one on the 2012 horizon that could compete at his level. He deserves all our gratitude.
eSkaeP brought up a great point. Palin, Trump and a lot of the Republicans were so busy attacking the President - yet he didn't allow himself to get distracted. He was focused on the task he was elected to do and let the carnival barkers distract everyone else.
That's the mark of a good leader. If Palin or Trump or any of the Republicans who have been relentless in their attacks on the President had any sense of decency or shame, they'd be VERY quiet for a while. I'm not holding my breath =D
But the flip side is that because Palin has been SO obnoxious about Obama for SO long, it'll be difficult for people to not recall at least 1 asinine comment she's made about him if not more.
And how delicious that the Half Term Quitter is the one throwing fire bombs about how the President isn't WORKING HARD ENOUGH? Then for President Obama to quietly be doing exactly the work PALIN quit doing? Do you hear that sound? It's the death rattle for Sarah Palin's political career.
Hahahahaha - shut up Sarah, you are a quitter and ALWAYS will be. Go back to bilking your dumb supporters for money and leave the real work to the adults.
So that's what Obama was doing Friday while Sarah was getting her teeth bleached and daydreaming about how she'll be like Cinderella entering the ball at all the elite events she had lined up. She's been to Hollywood, you know.
Too bad she has no speech for today since she had to cross out all her Obama-hate. Now she's an Obama wannabe so much it hurts. Todd's probably glad he's off duty again until the big D rumors swirl again. If only she would remember to put that wedding ring back on for the cameras he wouldn't have to show up at all.
I can't believe this, o.k., I can; the first thing I see this a.m. when I get on line is a messege from a supposedly informed friend that this "Obama killed Osama" story is a hoax. Of course, its from Fox news, so it just HAS to be true. (From a "news" agency that has gone to court to protect its ability to lie to the public.)
Jesus these people!! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html - hedgewytch
Remember when he gave a statement about releasing the birth certificate and he said he didn't have time for this? I guess we know why. Does anyone except the Palin think that our president is not working hard every day?
We don't give the president enough credit for totally and completely ignoring Snookie no matter how hard she tries to provoke him with the mean and nasty drivel comes out of her mouth. He knows that to respond to her would only give her power she otherwise does not have. He is smart enough to know that he does not need to engage in a battle with her. When the time comes, if the time comes, he will only need to give her a tiny push into the hole she has already dug for herself.
Queen Jezebel just threw up bile in her mouth a little bit. I knew she couldn't hold it for long. It's been turning her eyes green for the last 3 years. The Quitter In Chief admitted she had no clue what the V.P. does so of course she has NO IDEA what the Commander In Chief actually does either.
The sound of teabagging birther heads exploding everywhere is more satisfying than bubble wrap. Lots of popping going on over at sea o' pee LOL.
I think the beautiful incongruity of hunting down Al Quaida's most feared and hunted leader while at the same time and in the same moments handing Donald Trump his ass at a Washington press party is an incredible piece of multitasking.
Obama possesses a fearsome level of self-confidence.
Thom Hartman has a representative from the Muslim community on his show right now and he had a really important thing to say, that how horrible it was for bin Laden to be sitting "in a palace with guards" telling young men to go and get themselves killed for his vision...
Anonymous@7.45a - thanks for posting the Obama reaction to Seth Meyers' line about Bin Ladin.
But, if you really dig deeper, you'd probably see that at that point, Saturday night, the raid hadn't even started. For all Obama knew, it could have ended in failure. He was one cool customer.
Now we can get back to trying to get the president to realize his econ policies are unfortunate abominations. I really hope republicans don't feel deterred. We need good debate in the next election. Good debate would show obama is a fraud in all things national. Am I wrong? Nope. There areplenty of gop who could show Os true colors. There are plenty of polticians on left and right who don't live off a script.
IMO, this is WHY he presented his long form birth certificate late last week, intimating that there are much more important things to be done than listen to Sideshow Donald and the other occupants of the GOP clown car. Remember we're dealing with a very smart, canny human being who knew that the raid on OBL was imminent. Both events are making Donald, Scarah, Michelle, et. al. look like carnival freaks as they try to yap their way out of the holes they've dug for themselves. Timing is everything!
PS--I watched the President's speech at the WHC dinner online just yesterday evening, long before the OBL news--I thought something was slightly off in his usually perfect delivery--if you watch closely, you'll see it. He looked preoccupied to me--now we know why!
Gryphen, pl. remind the world what the quitter just posted few days ago: THINGS WE WON’T HEAR THIS WEEK – “I think what is increasingly clear is that we have a spectator in chief instead of a commander in chief” (Newt Gingrich, March 18) … “Mr. President, your hesitation and vacillation in the Middle East breed uncertainty. It’s symptomatic of the puzzling way you govern” (Sarah Palin, April 26) … “Freedom has been our watchword, our anchor and our moral guide for nearly every cause both here and abroad. But today, we have lost this mission because our president doesn't believe in it” (Rick Santorum, April 28)
Our president is a class act!! He kept his cool after being attacked by Scarah and Thumper. All the while doing what he set out to do...Thank you President Obama! Next????
meena - thanks for the reminder. Hope they're all CHOKING on their idiotic words today.
Well done Mr. President and the special ops team and the US intelligence community and everyone else who contributed to this masterful victory - WELL DONE.
"Can the troops who actually deserve credit receive the next Pulitzer. I'd love the award to go to someone who is worthy."
Yeah the troops should get a writing award huh dumbass.
Anon 9:43 Yes you are wrong! President Obama just showed your petty asses how to get shit done as he's been doing since he took office. Ummm...sour grapes...so tasty.
As an example of right wing bitterness, Sarah Palin only managed to eek out congratulations to the military, showing that once again she has no idea what just happened or how it happened and once again, she is too eaten alive by jealousy of the President to bother pretending to be an American even now (yes, dear, that was a dig at your AIP affiliations. You said you wanted to play, no?). But why would we think she would change her tune and suddenly side with her country, when she has spent the last 2 years ginning up hate against her President, often on foreign soil and military bases. Way to go, Sarah. Right behind her is Rush Limbaugh, who is currently chocking on his own hubris and hatred for his country. Who wants Osama if the meanie who won the election gets him?
Republicans Hasten to Construct Post-bin Laden Reality
Today is a new world, and as any Republican recognizes in this post-bin Laden world, there is a need for a new reality to assert itself. Osama bin Laden is dead, and a Republican president is not responsible for it. Instead, a black man did it, a man who many Republicans and Tea Partiers do not even consider a Christian, let alone an American. Here we have a black man – let me reiterate that – a black man, accused of being a jihadist himself, a man said to be a Muslim born in Kenya, an “anti-colonialist” Kenyan according to Newt Gingrich – and he, not President Bush, killed Osama bin Laden.
Let’s say that again: President Barack Obama killed Osama bin Laden.
No, he didn’t go to that compound north of Islamabad and pull the trigger himself, but he’s the guy on whose watch the event took place. He is the one who ordered and gave the final OK to the operation that killed the al Qaeda leader. Just as the leader is ultimately responsible for any failures, so is he ultimately responsible for any successes which take place on his watch.
6 Months After 9/11 Bush Said He Wasn’t Concerned About Bin Laden
Republicans are scrambling to give themselves and George W. Bush credit for the death of Osama Bin Laden, but it was just 6 months after 9/11 when during a press conference Bush declared that he wasn’t concerned about Bin Laden.
It is pathetic to read the comments of those like Boner and Cantor who are trying to downplay Obama's role and inject Bush into this raid. Even Rush Limbaugh understands that it was Obama who shaped this mission:
"Our military wanted to go in there and just scorch the earth...but President Obama single-handedly understood what was at stake here. He alone understood the need to get DNA to prove the death...it was President Obama single-handedly and alone who came up with the strategy that brought about the effective assassination of Osama bin Laden. Thank God for President Obama."
The GOP is simply making themselves look like the miserly fools that they are when they try and salvage Bush's reputation at the expense of Obama's leadership.
No fucking way.
If President Obama gets the blame for anything/everything bad which happens on his watch, then he gets full credit for the successes as well. These GOP cocks take credit for the sunrise and blame cloudy days on Obama.
History has already recorded that bin Laden was absolutely safe as long as Bush was in office. It has also recorded the critical remarks that the GOP has made about President Obama's response to al Qaeda.
There's no way in hell that the GOP can EVER criticize Obama's response to terrorism ever again.
I want (VERY MUCH) for the White House to discredit Palin and put her in her place - even more humiliation than they gave Trump. Palin has LED the divisiveness and hatred against our President - she has caused suffering and death (R.I.P. Christina Taylor Green). She is a national security risk, and she endangers our President nearly every day with her vile, disgusting and ignorant/hateful rhetoric. It will take years to undo the damage she has done. I take some solace in the knowledge that the FBI, IRS and Secret Service MUST be building cases against her. I honestly wish her children all the best - the fact that Bristol is out there and functioning at all is astounding. What a blight she is on our wonderful Country.
@9:43 "Now we can get back to trying to get the president to realize his econ policies are unfortunate abominations. I really hope republicans don't feel deterred. We need good debate in the next election. Good debate would show obama is a fraud in all things national. Am I wrong? Nope. There areplenty of gop who could show Os true colors. There are plenty of polticians on left and right who don't live off a script."
Are you an idiot? PRESIDENT Obama has already debated people last go round. Since he is the PRESIDENT I guess the rest of us saw that he was a leader. A quality that not many people have.
P.S. - I will bet you dollars to donuts that he can at least spell correctly (which you clearly can't) and write coherently.
PRESIDENT Obama - 1 Bots - 0 Palin - O Mitt - 0 Trump - 0
Too bad you can't see a good leader when they are right in front of you. I see NO candidate for the republicans that are even half the person that PRESIDENT Obama is.
"What I'm imagining is Obama and his supporters offering voters a list of accomplishments from his first term, and it's going to be a doozy: ended the Great Recession, health care reform, Wall Street reform, student loan reform, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal, New START, the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the biggest overhaul of our food-safety laws in 70 years, new regulation of the credit card industry, new regulation of the tobacco industry, a national service bill, expanded stem-cell research, the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, net neutrality, the most sweeping land-protection act in 15 years, health care for 9/11 rescue workers, and the confirmation of two Supreme Court justices."
Oh, and he killed Osama bin Laden. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/20...
9:39. yea I think it's that Sarah that quit her job, you know the one whose husband, I think his name is Toad, was getting happy ending while she was pretending to be pregnant. The one who hates Obama because she think he's living in her house. The Sarah who speaks word salad and all her flying moneys send in all their money and live on rice because they think she is their savior..I think that is the Sarah everyone's talking about.
Holy shit! This is utterly astonishing...a full throated response from Rush that I never would have imagined happening! Sarah is such a loser, she can't even fathom behaving responsibly and maturely to the point that Rush-friggin-Limbaugh shows her up?
Rush Limbaugh: 'Thank God For President Obama' (VIDEO)
Rush Limbaugh said President Obama deserved "congratulation" for the death of Osama bin Laden.
"We need to open the program today by congratulating President Obama," he said on his Monday show. "President Obama has done something extremely effective, and when he does, this needs to be pointed out."
The effectiveness, he said, came from President Obama's decision to send a Special Forces team to kill bin Laden--something he said, citing news reports, that none of the president's military advisers had thought of doing.
"Our military wanted to go in there and just scorch the earth...but President Obama single-handedly understood what was at stake here. He alone understood the need to get DNA to prove the death...it was President Obama single-handedly and alone who came up with the strategy that brought about the effective assassination of Osama bin Laden," he said, adding, "thank God for President Obama."
He got bin Laden. Period stop. An utterly un-rebuttable statement of strength.
And I think we will see as more details come out, indeed as we have already seen, that a big part of this operation's success had to do with Obama himself. The national-security meetings he ran, the questions he asked, the decisions he made. I don't want bombs, he said; I don't want to kill children while we do this, and I don't want a leg there and a hand there. I want a body, and I want proof, before America and (more importantly) a possibly doubting world.
"Victoria Paige Even Rush Limbaugh - LIMBAUGH - praised the President today. (....) See for yourselves! 9:48 AM"
You probably should have said 'listen' for yourselves. If you hear him saying it, you learn that he is being his usual snarky self. As I said in an earlier HP post, he would sooner choose to have his genitals reassigned on national TV than praise or agree with President Obama.
$carah has her 'lamestream' media, Rush will always have his 'hatestream' media.
What I’m imagining is Obama and his supporters offering voters a list of accomplishments from his first term, and it’s going to be a doozy:
Ended the Great Recession, health care reform, Wall Street reform, student loan reform, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal, New START, the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the biggest overhaul of our food-safety laws in 70 years, new regulation of the credit card industry, new regulation of the tobacco industry, a national service bill, expanded stem-cell research, the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, net neutrality, the most sweeping land-protection act in 15 years, health care for 9/11 rescue workers, and the confirmation of two Supreme Court justices.
I find it illuminating to compare the responses by the different GOP hopefuls for 2012 which basically fall into two categories: those who congratulated Obama and those who did not.
It strikes me that this difference in how they responded is indicative of something deeper; that their ability or inability to praise Obama reflects important personal traits. For the members of the first group — Romney and Pawlenty — who immediately and easily congratulated Obama, their responses demonstrated presidential-like qualities. Giving credit where credit is due does not make them appear weaker; to the contrary, it makes them appear stronger and demonstrates a necessary self-confidence and maturity to be considered for the job of president.
In contrast, Bachmann, Huckabee and Palin showed the opposite traits in their responses and refusal to acknowledge Obama’s existence much less his role in the bin Laden operation. Their responses showed pettiness, a lack of personal confidence and a profound immaturity that chooses gamesmanship over governing — traits no one would hope for in a future president.
Is that you Willow, Bristol, Sarah, Bekky Mansewer? Maybe you should look up the definition of that word you are slinging around but know nothing about!
You should have gotten an education instead of a crunch wrap supreme and a baby.
If Palin truly believes President Obama had nothing to do with this operation, she would have a very rude awakening as president.
Yes, Sarah. You would have much more challenging decisions to make than how to wear your hair or how to get revenge on whoever dissed you last. And you WOULD have to blink when making a decision of this magnitude. You don't go with your gut, you consider all the worst-case scenarios.
So just forget about the White House and keep on grifting off your worshipers. Oh, and make sure they blame President Obama when they can't make ends meet.
I never once heard our President "whore out" 9/11. Bush was constantly framing his speeches with "The lessons of 9/11", then he totally blew off the hunt for Bin Laden, saying it didn't matter anymore. But he went after Valerie Plame, WMD that were never found, started an unjust war, condoned torture, concocted stories about Tillman and others to fit his bloodlust for Saddam Hussein, etc. Bush and Cheyney owe President Obama a huge debt of gratitude for not bringing them up on war crimes.
And now the republicans are spinning this great act of courage President Obama demonstrated in surgically removing Bin Laden, without collateral damage and loss of civillian life. They're twisting the truth and fear mongering while this President holds steady.
They ignored the bush years and blamed Obama because he's the president and everything crashed under his watch.
This is President Obama's defining moment. He's led with honor and deserves respect, because he earned it.
LOVE THIS!
ReplyDeleteDone and DONE. Now back to running the country as Commander in Chief and let the circus freaks go back to being clowns. Clowns forever, that is.
ReplyDeleteOh, yeah, President Obama kicked their axe this week!!
ReplyDeleteObama Reaction to Seth Meyers' Osama bin Laden Joke
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/user/patspapers#p/a/u/0/Xun9UYCO7es
FYI Reminder:
ReplyDeletePresident and First Lady Obama appear on Oprah today (Monday)
Remember - The show was taped last Wednesday I believe -- before the Trump Roast and Bin Laden 'taken out'!
One of my favorite parts is thinking back now to hearing Sarah screeching for weeks "the president is NOT DOING HIS JOB!!...He's campaigning instead of working on important things!!
ReplyDeleteAnd then this...
I can imagine President Obama sitting in the Oval Office hearing a report, "Yeah, she's on Faux still screeching about you doing nothing..."
And Obama thinking, she's doing just what we need her to do...No one has a clue about what is happening in Pakistan and we want to keep it that way.
I love thinking that she might be being used in ways she can't even imagine...
WOW what a great day for America and out great President. Sarah, Donald and all other crazy Republicans shut up unless you have something good to say. We love our President.
ReplyDeleteYou left off some items that he has checked off:
ReplyDelete--Keep the Wall street mess from sinking us.
--Get something (vs nothing, as Hillary's huge, intense effort ended up) as a health-care package.
--Do the best possible re the free ride on taxes of the wealthiest of us.
Much more. much more. Imagine if anyone else (who shall remain nameless) had been at the helm!
As Andrew Sullivan would say, "meep, meep."
ReplyDeleteEver since the day Obama was sworn in as president the fucked up repugs have been saying they would see America destroyed before they would support a N***** in the WHITEhouse.
ReplyDeleteSo now all you squalling teabaggers, and racist repugs eat crow now and for the next four years! We just won the next election!!!
Anon 7:45
ReplyDeleteObama Reaction to Seth Meyers' Osama bin Laden Joke
http://www.youtube.com/user/patspapers#p/a/u/0/Xun9UYCO7es
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Thanks for the link.
Keith O. had the screen shot of President O on his site last night.
Behind the laugh, the smile - he was thinking to himself - 'If you only knew!!!!'
8:02 Those were just "small things" that Obama had done in one week in the life of Obama. The 4-26 meant the dates, April 26th, I think.
ReplyDeleteMemo to $arah: Obama will always be six.steps.ahead.of.your.quitting.ass
ReplyDeleteGive it up buttercup. Your 15 minutes are over!
Over at C4P they are spinning and twisting to not only not give Obama any credit, but bashing him for taking so long.
ReplyDeleteBorowitz is on a roll!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.borowitzreport.com/
2012 Election Cancelled
Obama Buoyed by 100 Percent Approval Rating
Here's another sample:
Of all the major news networks, Fox News did not report news of bin Laden’s death, saying that it would air cartoons “until further notice.”
Another day of being thankful that rational thought was retuned to the White House. He's sitting pretty good right now for 2012 but even more importantly, he's proving every day that he is very dedicated to the American people. There is no one on the 2012 horizon that could compete at his level. He deserves all our gratitude.
ReplyDeleteeSkaeP brought up a great point. Palin, Trump and a lot of the Republicans were so busy attacking the President - yet he didn't allow himself to get distracted. He was focused on the task he was elected to do and let the carnival barkers distract everyone else.
ReplyDeleteThat's the mark of a good leader. If Palin or Trump or any of the Republicans who have been relentless in their attacks on the President had any sense of decency or shame, they'd be VERY quiet for a while. I'm not holding my breath =D
But the flip side is that because Palin has been SO obnoxious about Obama for SO long, it'll be difficult for people to not recall at least 1 asinine comment she's made about him if not more.
And how delicious that the Half Term Quitter is the one throwing fire bombs about how the President isn't WORKING HARD ENOUGH? Then for President Obama to quietly be doing exactly the work PALIN quit doing? Do you hear that sound? It's the death rattle for Sarah Palin's political career.
Hahahahaha - shut up Sarah, you are a quitter and ALWAYS will be. Go back to bilking your dumb supporters for money and leave the real work to the adults.
"He deserves all our gratitude"
ReplyDeleteI meant he deserves gratitude from all. Certainly their are others that deserve our gratitude, as well.
eSkaeP,
ReplyDeleteI love your comment!
"Memo to $arah: Obama will always be six.steps.ahead.of.your.quitting.ass"
ReplyDeleteFor the Win!!!
"Over at C4P they are spinning and twisting to not only not give Obama any credit, but bashing him for taking so long."
Bush Jr. - 8 years, OBL not captured or killed.
Obama - 2.5 years, OBL killed.
C4P for the FAIL.
PERFECT!
ReplyDeleteOh bless you Andy Borowitz!
ReplyDelete"In Libya, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi issued the following official statement: “Uh-oh.”
In North Korea, President Kim Jong-Il said this: “I have lost my last friend on Facebook.”
And in Wasilla, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said this: “We must find and kill Osama bin Laden.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! So many laffs today - we need champagne!
www.borowitzreport.com
So that's what Obama was doing Friday while Sarah was getting her teeth bleached and daydreaming about how she'll be like Cinderella entering the ball at all the elite events she had lined up. She's been to Hollywood, you know.
ReplyDeleteToo bad she has no speech for today since she had to cross out all her Obama-hate. Now she's an Obama wannabe so much it hurts. Todd's probably glad he's off duty again until the big D rumors swirl again. If only she would remember to put that wedding ring back on for the cameras he wouldn't have to show up at all.
I can't believe this, o.k., I can; the first thing I see this a.m. when I get on line is a messege from a supposedly informed friend that this "Obama killed Osama" story is a hoax. Of course, its from Fox news, so it just HAS to be true. (From a "news" agency that has gone to court to protect its ability to lie to the public.)
ReplyDeleteJesus these people!!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html - hedgewytch
Remember when he gave a statement about releasing the birth certificate and he said he didn't have time for this? I guess we know why. Does anyone except the Palin think that our president is not working hard every day?
ReplyDeleteWe don't give the president enough credit for totally and completely ignoring Snookie no matter how hard she tries to provoke him with the mean and nasty drivel comes out of her mouth. He knows that to respond to her would only give her power she otherwise does not have.
He is smart enough to know that he does not need to engage in a battle with her. When the time comes, if the time comes, he will only need to give her a tiny push into the hole she has already dug for herself.
Got to love the fact that it was announced during chumps show!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/
ReplyDeleteGreat article by Sarah Jones over at Politicusa.
Gryphen, yet another example of why you are so loved and appreciated for your words and wisdom. Well done!!!
ReplyDeleteTalk about your multi-tasking! Running the country AND running a campaign.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that Bristol is happy about this. Takes the heat off her face.
ReplyDeleteQueen Jezebel just threw up bile in her mouth a little bit. I knew she couldn't hold it for long. It's been turning her eyes green for the last 3 years. The Quitter In Chief admitted she had no clue what the V.P. does so of course she has NO IDEA what the Commander In Chief actually does either.
ReplyDeleteThe sound of teabagging birther heads exploding everywhere is more satisfying than bubble wrap. Lots of popping going on over at sea o' pee LOL.
I think the beautiful incongruity of hunting down Al Quaida's most feared and hunted leader while at the same time and in the same moments handing Donald Trump his ass at a Washington press party is an incredible piece of multitasking.
ReplyDeleteObama possesses a fearsome level of self-confidence.
Thom Hartman has a representative from the Muslim community on his show right now and he had a really important thing to say, that how horrible it was for bin Laden to be sitting "in a palace with guards" telling young men to go and get themselves killed for his vision...
ReplyDeletePick up Sarah Palin for treason!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous@7.45a - thanks for posting the Obama reaction to Seth Meyers' line about Bin Ladin.
ReplyDeleteBut, if you really dig deeper, you'd probably see that at that point, Saturday night, the raid hadn't even started. For all Obama knew, it could have ended in failure. He was one cool customer.
And I adore that grin!!!
Sarah who? Who are you guys talking about? Are you talking about a tv celebrity wanna-be with the name of Sarah?
ReplyDeleteCan the troops who actually deserve credit receive the next Pulitzer. I'd love the award to go to someone who is worthy.
ReplyDeleteNow we can get back to trying to get the president to realize his econ policies are unfortunate abominations. I really hope republicans don't feel deterred. We need good debate in the next election. Good debate would show obama is a fraud in all things national. Am I wrong? Nope. There areplenty of gop who could show Os true colors. There are plenty of polticians on left and right who don't live off a script.
ReplyDeleteEven Rush Limbaugh - LIMBAUGH - praised the President today.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mediaite.com/online/rush-limbaugh-we-need-to-open-the-program-today-by-congratulating-president-obama/
See for yourselves!
So in the grand scheme of things - Limbaugh has a shred of humanity while Palin does not. That pretty much sums it up for me.
Limbaugh praises Obama on his show. Hell has apparently frozen over.
IMO, this is WHY he presented his long form birth certificate late last week, intimating that there are much more important things to be done than listen to Sideshow Donald and the other occupants of the GOP clown car. Remember we're dealing with a very smart, canny human being who knew that the raid on OBL was imminent. Both events are making Donald, Scarah, Michelle, et. al. look like carnival freaks as they try to yap their way out of the holes they've dug for themselves. Timing is everything!
ReplyDeletePS--I watched the President's speech at the WHC dinner online just yesterday evening, long before the OBL news--I thought something was slightly off in his usually perfect delivery--if you watch closely, you'll see it. He looked preoccupied to me--now we know why!
Gryphen, pl. remind the world what the quitter just posted few days ago:
ReplyDeleteTHINGS WE WON’T HEAR THIS WEEK – “I think what is increasingly clear is that we have a spectator in chief instead of a commander in chief” (Newt Gingrich, March 18) … “Mr. President, your hesitation and vacillation in the Middle East breed uncertainty. It’s symptomatic of the puzzling way you govern” (Sarah Palin, April 26) … “Freedom has been our watchword, our anchor and our moral guide for nearly every cause both here and abroad. But today, we have lost this mission because our president doesn't believe in it” (Rick Santorum, April 28)
Victoria 9:48
ReplyDeleteYou should have warned us to sit down before you posted that!!!
Who's taking bets that Sarah takes credit for killing Bin Laden?
ReplyDeleteOur president is a class act!! He kept his cool after being attacked by Scarah and Thumper. All the while doing what he set out to do...Thank you President Obama!
ReplyDeleteNext????
The "Trump" card.
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Morning and night.
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I would like to introduce a bill in Congress that would lift the term limit on President; eliminate the 2 terms, make Barack President for life!!!
ReplyDeletePresident Obama: Winning!
ReplyDeleteQuitter: Whining!
meena - thanks for the reminder. Hope they're all CHOKING on their idiotic words today.
ReplyDeleteWell done Mr. President and the special ops team and the US intelligence community and everyone else who contributed to this masterful victory - WELL DONE.
Anon 9:40 said
ReplyDelete"Can the troops who actually deserve credit receive the next Pulitzer. I'd love the award to go to someone who is worthy."
Yeah the troops should get a writing award huh dumbass.
Anon 9:43 Yes you are wrong! President Obama just showed your petty asses how to get shit done as he's been doing since he took office. Ummm...sour grapes...so tasty.
As an example of right wing bitterness, Sarah Palin only managed to eek out congratulations to the military, showing that once again she has no idea what just happened or how it happened and once again, she is too eaten alive by jealousy of the President to bother pretending to be an American even now (yes, dear, that was a dig at your AIP affiliations. You said you wanted to play, no?). But why would we think she would change her tune and suddenly side with her country, when she has spent the last 2 years ginning up hate against her President, often on foreign soil and military bases. Way to go, Sarah. Right behind her is Rush Limbaugh, who is currently chocking on his own hubris and hatred for his country. Who wants Osama if the meanie who won the election gets him?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/en/5-responses-bin-laden
Republicans Hasten to Construct Post-bin Laden Reality
ReplyDeleteToday is a new world, and as any Republican recognizes in this post-bin Laden world, there is a need for a new reality to assert itself. Osama bin Laden is dead, and a Republican president is not responsible for it. Instead, a black man did it, a man who many Republicans and Tea Partiers do not even consider a Christian, let alone an American. Here we have a black man – let me reiterate that – a black man, accused of being a jihadist himself, a man said to be a Muslim born in Kenya, an “anti-colonialist” Kenyan according to Newt Gingrich – and he, not President Bush, killed Osama bin Laden.
Let’s say that again: President Barack Obama killed Osama bin Laden.
No, he didn’t go to that compound north of Islamabad and pull the trigger himself, but he’s the guy on whose watch the event took place. He is the one who ordered and gave the final OK to the operation that killed the al Qaeda leader. Just as the leader is ultimately responsible for any failures, so is he ultimately responsible for any successes which take place on his watch.
Let’s look at this again:
http://www.politicususa.com/en/republicans-hasten-to-construct-post-bin-laden-reality
6 Months After 9/11 Bush Said He Wasn’t Concerned About Bin Laden
ReplyDeleteRepublicans are scrambling to give themselves and George W. Bush credit for the death of Osama Bin Laden, but it was just 6 months after 9/11 when during a press conference Bush declared that he wasn’t concerned about Bin Laden.
http://www.politicususa.com/en/bush-bin-laden
bagger heads can be heard popping all through the red states!
ReplyDeleteIt is pathetic to read the comments of those like Boner and Cantor who are trying to downplay Obama's role and inject Bush into this raid. Even Rush Limbaugh understands that it was Obama who shaped this mission:
ReplyDelete"Our military wanted to go in there and just scorch the earth...but President Obama single-handedly understood what was at stake here. He alone understood the need to get DNA to prove the death...it was President Obama single-handedly and alone who came up with the strategy that brought about the effective assassination of Osama bin Laden. Thank God for President Obama."
- Rush Limbaugh
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/02/limbaugh-thank-god-obama-bin-laden_n_856425.html
The GOP is simply making themselves look like the miserly fools that they are when they try and salvage Bush's reputation at the expense of Obama's leadership.
No fucking way.
If President Obama gets the blame for anything/everything bad which happens on his watch, then he gets full credit for the successes as well. These GOP cocks take credit for the sunrise and blame cloudy days on Obama.
History has already recorded that bin Laden was absolutely safe as long as Bush was in office. It has also recorded the critical remarks that the GOP has made about President Obama's response to al Qaeda.
There's no way in hell that the GOP can EVER criticize Obama's response to terrorism ever again.
Thanks for nothing GOP.
I want (VERY MUCH) for the White House to discredit Palin and put her in her place - even more humiliation than they gave Trump.
ReplyDeletePalin has LED the divisiveness and hatred against our President - she has caused suffering and death (R.I.P. Christina Taylor Green).
She is a national security risk, and she endangers our President nearly every day with her vile, disgusting and ignorant/hateful rhetoric.
It will take years to undo the damage she has done. I take some solace in the knowledge that the FBI, IRS and Secret Service MUST be building cases against her.
I honestly wish her children all the best - the fact that Bristol is out there and functioning at all is astounding.
What a blight she is on our wonderful Country.
@9:43
ReplyDelete"Now we can get back to trying to get the president to realize his econ policies are unfortunate abominations. I really hope republicans don't feel deterred. We need good debate in the next election. Good debate would show obama is a fraud in all things national. Am I wrong? Nope. There areplenty of gop who could show Os true colors. There are plenty of polticians on left and right who don't live off a script."
Are you an idiot? PRESIDENT Obama has already debated people last go round. Since he is the PRESIDENT I guess the rest of us saw that he was a leader. A quality that not many people have.
P.S. - I will bet you dollars to donuts that he can at least spell correctly (which you clearly can't) and write coherently.
PRESIDENT Obama - 1
Bots - 0
Palin - O
Mitt - 0
Trump - 0
Too bad you can't see a good leader when they are right in front of you. I see NO candidate for the republicans that are even half the person that PRESIDENT Obama is.
"What I'm imagining is Obama and his supporters offering voters a list of accomplishments from his first term, and it's going to be a doozy: ended the Great Recession, health care reform, Wall Street reform, student loan reform, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal, New START, the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the biggest overhaul of our food-safety laws in 70 years, new regulation of the credit card industry, new regulation of the tobacco industry, a national service bill, expanded stem-cell research, the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, net neutrality, the most sweeping land-protection act in 15 years, health care for 9/11 rescue workers, and the confirmation of two Supreme Court justices."
ReplyDeleteOh, and he killed Osama bin Laden.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/20...
9:39. yea I think it's that Sarah that quit her job, you know the one whose husband, I think his name is Toad, was getting happy ending while she was pretending to be pregnant. The one who hates Obama because she think he's living in her house. The Sarah who speaks word salad and all her flying moneys send in all their money and live on rice because they think she is their savior..I think that is the Sarah everyone's talking about.
ReplyDelete2012 is a lock!
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Holy shit! This is utterly astonishing...a full throated response from Rush that I never would have imagined happening! Sarah is such a loser, she can't even fathom behaving responsibly and maturely to the point that Rush-friggin-Limbaugh shows her up?
ReplyDeleteRush Limbaugh: 'Thank God For President Obama' (VIDEO)
Rush Limbaugh said President Obama deserved "congratulation" for the death of Osama bin Laden.
"We need to open the program today by congratulating President Obama," he said on his Monday show. "President Obama has done something extremely effective, and when he does, this needs to be pointed out."
The effectiveness, he said, came from President Obama's decision to send a Special Forces team to kill bin Laden--something he said, citing news reports, that none of the president's military advisers had thought of doing.
"Our military wanted to go in there and just scorch the earth...but President Obama single-handedly understood what was at stake here. He alone understood the need to get DNA to prove the death...it was President Obama single-handedly and alone who came up with the strategy that brought about the effective assassination of Osama bin Laden," he said, adding, "thank God for President Obama."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/02/limbaugh-thank-god-obama-bin-laden_n_856425.html
He got bin Laden. Period stop. An utterly un-rebuttable statement of strength.
ReplyDeleteAnd I think we will see as more details come out, indeed as we have already seen, that a big part of this operation's success had to do with Obama himself. The national-security meetings he ran, the questions he asked, the decisions he made. I don't want bombs, he said; I don't want to kill children while we do this, and I don't want a leg there and a hand there. I want a body, and I want proof, before America and (more importantly) a possibly doubting world.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2011/may/02/obama-administration-osamabinladen-political-fallout
"Victoria Paige
ReplyDeleteEven Rush Limbaugh - LIMBAUGH - praised the President today.
(....)
See for yourselves!
9:48 AM"
You probably should have said 'listen' for yourselves. If you hear him saying it, you learn that he is being his usual snarky self. As I said in an earlier HP post, he would sooner choose to have his genitals reassigned on national TV than praise or agree with President Obama.
$carah has her 'lamestream' media, Rush will always have his 'hatestream' media.
Anon@9:40? You have outed your troll self...
ReplyDeleteoops, Anon@9:40, you outed your troll self, but I outed me own dummy what can't read numbers...
ReplyDeleteWhat I’m imagining is Obama and his supporters offering voters a list of accomplishments from his first term, and it’s going to be a doozy:
ReplyDeleteEnded the Great Recession, health care reform, Wall Street reform, student loan reform, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal, New START, the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the biggest overhaul of our food-safety laws in 70 years, new regulation of the credit card industry, new regulation of the tobacco industry, a national service bill, expanded stem-cell research, the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, net neutrality, the most sweeping land-protection act in 15 years, health care for 9/11 rescue workers, and the confirmation of two Supreme Court justices.
Oh, and he killed Osama bin Laden, too.
Is that a winning message?
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2011_05/029237.php
Egg...meet face.
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i like the way he never even acknowledges sarahs existence.
ReplyDeletesarah who? never heard of her.
bill in belize
I find it illuminating to compare the responses by the different GOP hopefuls for 2012 which basically fall into two categories: those who congratulated Obama and those who did not.
ReplyDeleteIt strikes me that this difference in how they responded is indicative of something deeper; that their ability or inability to praise Obama reflects important personal traits. For the members of the first group — Romney and Pawlenty — who immediately and easily congratulated Obama, their responses demonstrated presidential-like qualities. Giving credit where credit is due does not make them appear weaker; to the contrary, it makes them appear stronger and demonstrates a necessary self-confidence and maturity to be considered for the job of president.
In contrast, Bachmann, Huckabee and Palin showed the opposite traits in their responses and refusal to acknowledge Obama’s existence much less his role in the bin Laden operation. Their responses showed pettiness, a lack of personal confidence and a profound immaturity that chooses gamesmanship over governing — traits no one would hope for in a future president.
msmilack // May 2, 2011 at 1:38 pm
http://www.frumforum.com/can-we-stop-questioning-obamas-legitimacy-now
I'm enjoying the comments but are we ever going to know more about this picture? Just wondering.
ReplyDelete9:43 am Bristol
ReplyDeleteBristol, maybe you should be shining your new chin or trying to learn how to read, eh.
9:40 am Can the troops receive a pulitzer?
ReplyDeleteIs that you Willow, Bristol, Sarah, Bekky Mansewer? Maybe you should look up the definition of that word you are slinging around but know nothing about!
You should have gotten an education instead of a crunch wrap supreme and a baby.
To Anon@10:20 a.m., I'd want to be first to sign a petition to get that on a ballot. Great idea!
ReplyDeleteIf Palin truly believes President Obama had nothing to do with this operation, she would have a very rude awakening as president.
ReplyDeleteYes, Sarah. You would have much more challenging decisions to make than how to wear your hair or how to get revenge on whoever dissed you last. And you WOULD have to blink when making a decision of this magnitude. You don't go with your gut, you consider all the worst-case scenarios.
So just forget about the White House and keep on grifting off your worshipers. Oh, and make sure they blame President Obama when they can't make ends meet.
This is THE BEST post ever!
ReplyDeleteI never once heard our President "whore out" 9/11. Bush was constantly framing his speeches with "The lessons of 9/11", then he totally blew off the hunt for Bin Laden, saying it didn't matter anymore. But he went after Valerie Plame, WMD that were never found, started an unjust war, condoned torture, concocted stories about Tillman and others to fit his bloodlust for Saddam Hussein, etc.
Bush and Cheyney owe President Obama a huge debt of gratitude for not bringing them up on war crimes.
And now the republicans are spinning this great act of courage President Obama demonstrated in surgically removing Bin Laden, without collateral damage and loss of civillian life. They're twisting the truth and fear mongering while this President holds steady.
They ignored the bush years and blamed Obama because he's the president and everything crashed under his watch.
This is President Obama's defining moment. He's led with honor and deserves respect, because he earned it.