No we can’t!
November 5, 2009 6:16 am
The Emo in Chief is still making excuses why the hopey changey American Candyland he promised during the campaign seems a lot more like a jobless, foreclosing, bank failing quagmire.
Obama was elected on a promise of sweeping change after eight years under Bush, but many Americans are increasingly expressing impatience that his pledge has yet to bear fruit.
He used the preamble of his speech to insist his administration had indeed had important successes and also to remind Americans of the litany of daunting challenges he inherited when he took office in January.
“One year ago, Americans all across this country went to the polls and cast ballots for the future they wanted to see,” Obama said.
But he said his administration was also confronted with a “financial crisis that threatened to plunge our economy into a Great Depression, the worst that we’ve seen in generations.
“We had record deficits, two wars, frayed alliances around the world,” Obama added.”
See, I paid very close attention to the campaign and sat through all his “yes we can-this is the moment-we are the people we have been waiting for-fierce urgency of now” rhetoric and I don’t remember the part where he said that if he got elected things would get worse and, a year in, he would still be making excuses and pointing fingers. Do you?
Notamobster :
Date: November 5, 2009
What I don’t get with the blaming and excuse making is, he quadrupled the “record deficit” , continued “the two wars”, and though he has blown every tin-pot dictator on the planet… he has “frayed relations with many of our allies”, in his attempts to appease and apologize for America.
So… it turns out that the old adage is true… when you point your finger at someone else, you’ve got three more pointing right back at you!
AW Mens :
Date: November 5, 2009
That’s the creepiest picture of “the one” that I have seen yet.
Scary.
BarbaCat :
Date: November 5, 2009
That IS a creepy picture, alright! BTW, what does ‘EMO’ mean?
RUDE JUDE :
Date: November 5, 2009
I was going to ask that same question BarbaCat. Thanx!
R.D. Walker :
Date: November 5, 2009
Emo is a music subculture that means a lot of things. It comes from the word “emotional” and when the kids use it, it is associated with a stereotype that includes being emotional, sensitive, angst-ridden and just very emotionally demonstrative. The opposite of John Wayne type stoicism or Truman’s “the buck stops here” attitude. It is the opposite of being tough and saying that you will take care of yourself and anyone else who comes along. It is the opposite of saying, “leave it to me there, hoss, I’ll take care of it.”
Basically it means that Obama is whining that the world is hard, isn’t fair and that he is suffering because of things that, dammit, just aren’t his fault.
RUDE JUDE :
Date: November 5, 2009
Gotcha. Makes sense. Thank you!
R.D. Walker :
Date: November 5, 2009
I learned it from my 17 year old daughter. All the Emo kids wear that goofy, swept over bangs hairstyle.
There is something in these emo types that just brings out my long dormant inner bully and makes me want to bitch slap them.
RUDE JUDE :
Date: November 5, 2009
My Mom hated it when my bangs got too long and started covering my eyes. She’d threaten to put one of those hokey plastic barrettes in my hair. Now, I can’t stand the hair in the eyes look either.
R.D. Walker :
Date: November 5, 2009
Here is Emo according to the Urban Dictionary. Just replace “Emo Guy” with “Obama” and “Emo Girl” with voters.
Notamobster :
Date: November 5, 2009
My daughter (15) does that emo shit… She just asked if she could get her lip pierced. I, being an habitual dumbass said “I don’t care, ask your mom”.
So…. mom comes un-fucking-glued that I told our 15 year old “she could get a hole punched in her face”! I have to note here, that I did tell her to ask her Mom…
I didn’t see the big deal, but I “ALWAYS” defer to the wife on matters of such import.
Anywho… No holes in the face, and finally, after a year of pounding it into her thick skull, she no longer wears her bangs in her face… in front of us.
R.D. Walker :
Date: November 5, 2009
This too shall pass Nota, she will grow out of it. In any case, better to be the father of an emo girl than the father of an emo boy.
Notamobster :
Date: November 5, 2009
HUA!
R.D. Walker :
Date: November 5, 2009
Just by way of credibility and, of course for a father’s bragging rights, here is a photo of my decidedly non-Emo son on patrol in Afghanistan.
RUDE JUDE :
Date: November 5, 2009
HANDSOME!!
BarbaCat :
Date: November 5, 2009
Rd, you’ve got a right to show off your non EMO pearl. He’s wonderful!
~B
R.D. Walker :
Date: November 5, 2009
After a tour in Afghanistan and three in Iraq, the man is home. He and is wife will make me a grandfather some time in the next two weeks.
RUDE JUDE :
Date: November 5, 2009
Congrats to you and your family!! And I’m glad your son is safe.
Tatersalad :
Date: November 8, 2009
Obama staff is just a bunch of Campaign Hacks:
NewsMax.com:
White House Staffers Called ‘Campaign Hacks’
The Barack Obama presidency is foundering because his White House is staffed with “campaign hacks” who are ill-equipped to govern effectively, Forbes magazine columnist Dan Gerstein declares.
Gerstein said he was moved to write about the staffers after Obama’s Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina was quoted as saying about his White House peers: “We are all campaign hacks.”
The comment revealed “the Obama White House’s biggest weakness: The president’s top advisers are not just overly political, they are almost totally political,” writes Gerstein, Sen. Joe Lieberman’s former communications director and senior adviser on his presidential and vice presidential campaigns.
“This West Wing is stacked with ‘hacks’ — campaign professionals who are acculturated to think, act and win in the hothouse environments of elections, not to govern a bitterly divided country in extremely difficult times. . .
“Increasing evidence over the last several months — most notably the dramatic drop the president has suffered among independents — has indicated that this mindset is limiting, diminishing and potentially finishing to the Obama presidency.”
Gerstein cited, among others, senior adviser David Axelrod, a political consultant who never has worked in government; Communications Director Anita Dunn, who has been working on campaigns for three decades; and Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, whose work has been as a “flack” for congressional and presidential campaigns.
Even Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who served in the Clinton White House and six years in Congress, is a “hard-charging politico” who was the chief strategist behind the Democrats’ takeover of the House in 2006.
What the White House needs, Gerstein suggests, is “someone not ingrained or trained to think that the Republicans are the enemy.”