There's a Balrog in the Woodpile.

President Tired of Being Better Than All Of Us says the problem is that we Just Don't Get It.

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/12/21/obama-its-the-medias-fault-that-people-are-worried-about-isis-you-know/

It's not that I'm afraid of ISIS, Mister President, I just don't like to see Orcs ascendant.  Especially Orcs that are coming here and killing Americans, and encouraging other people to join the Orc tribe by way of ISISing by proxy.

And it is entirely your fault and responsibility that Orcs are multiplying in the Misty Mountains.

Market? Shmarket.

A lede from Real Clear Politics today:

STUDENT: Hi, I am Mario. I am a student here at Ivy Tech. My question is if community college becomes free, do you think the value of an associates degree will fall?

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Absolutely not. I have been asked this question before, and I do not know where it is coming from.

For the first time I think our Boy King is telling the truth.

Syria-lessly

I'm a pretty Hawky, World Policeman kind of guy. And I won't cry if Assad the Chinless slips on a bar of "oh shit I'm an evil, murderous dictator and it finally caught up with me" in the shower and snuffs it.

The problem with this Syria thing isn't that they aren't a threat to our national interests, nor is it that someone uncorked some death gel. The problem isn't that we might knock somebody's block off or fire a few Tomahawks at now-abandoned airfields.

The problem, as I see it, is that no matter what we do or don't do, and for whatever reasons really smart guys say we should or should not do it, Obama will still be El Presidente afterwards. So bad idea or good idea, Obama will make it turn out badly for this country and bad for the West. I don't see it as much more complicated than that.

A Small Post for a Small Man

I posted about the pettiness and low character of Obama for 4 years, but not enough folks agreed with me to take away his key card.  This one I can't let go though.

What a douche.

Way to go, President Pindick.

"Great, Kid! Now Don't Get Cocky!"

Okay. We're what, 3 weeks out? I've been a Romney guy since 2007, and certainly I've been pretty bullish about his chances this cycle. He's got a resume Obama can't compete with, we've all known that, and over the last several months he's shown he's got the abilities Obama can't compete with. He's smart enough, successful beyond most people's dreams, hard-working, good at managing and troubleshooting problems, generous, and willing to talk about the hard choices we're facing as a country. He's not perfect, doesn't pretend to be, enjoys politics and its facets, and doesn't let stumbles turn into pratfalls.

(Now, all that being said, assuming he wins, the next thought me and all the other conservatives will have is "alright, R2-Romney2 - prove to us you're not a run of the mill dipshit.")

I said "assuming he wins". Well, I've been assuming he wins for months now and for good reason, and absolutely nothing that's happened over the last few months has moved me one iota off of that position. In fact, the better Romney looks against the increasingly confused and desperate Obama, the more his chances increase. Do they even MAKE 40 state blowouts anymore? I don't know, but I can say safely as of now that Nov 6th 2012 is the best place to look for one.

Now, are there scenarios where Obama can pull out a win? Sure. But none of them are likely. The American people have taken his measure and found him wanting. Some people are disgusted by him, as I am; others simply have seen enough and will be willing to give the RomneyBot a chance or even stay home. And barring one of those weird edge-case scenarios (war, all the money blowing up, Romney pulling off his mask to reveal himself as a pig-nosed death alien from Aldeberan V) Romney's going to win, and most probably win big.

So for me that's a good bottle of bourbon to put in the cabinet and a really nice cigar or two for the humidor. November 6th will see TVs and radios on up and downstairs - TV's muted, radios loud - a fire in the downstairs fireplace, and the home project (I always try and schedule a home project for election night - keeps me from sitting down at my desk drinking and clicking refresh all night. I've done that before. It hurts the next day) will be putting in a new bookshelf.

In the end, predictions, feelings, and bluster all aside, all I can do is what everyone else who follows this crap does: cast my vote (hardly relevant in the presidential sense here in MN), cross my fingers, and hope.

Oh. And smoke cigars and drink bourbon. So the night can't be a complete loss.

Tyrannosaur Bites Ceratopsian

So let me get this straight.  The lefty MSM apparently just found out that the RomneyBot 9000 is running as a conservative and so says (and hopefully believes) conservative things about the Palestinian orcs and the difficulty of convincing people to turn down the spigot on their free money faucets?  And they are somehow surprised by this?

Or the lefty MSM is desperate to try and help their Boy King stumble into another four years of kicking this country in the balls.

Which could it be...?

Face It, America

He's just not that into you.

And before anyone starts carping about France's help during our revolution, fuhgeddaboudit - that France died under the guillotine in 1794.

Hate America?  Nahh, I don't think Obama is bold enough to hate anything; but he sure doesn't like America very much.

What a Dick

"...and we've got me in the house."

To quote Kate Bush, Mister President, "Get out of my house!"

Obama... In... SPAAAAAAAACE!

So I'll raise the topic of Obama getting caught with Russia's dangly bits in his mouth.

Obama begs Russia to wait for actual penetration until after the wedding.

"On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this can be solved, but it’s important for him to give me space,” Mr. Obama could be heard saying to Mr. Medvedev, according a reporter from ABC News, who was traveling with the president.

“Yeah, I understand,” Mr. Medvedev, the outgoing Russian president, said. “I understand your message about space. Space for you …”

I'm glad some folks are still saying there's no difference between Obama and Romney, Dems and Repubs. After all, why would anyone want a president who actually pushed for American interests in office, as opposed to the interests of our long-term opposition in the world?

Merry Taxmas?

When I first read this one yesterday, I really thought it was a spoof that had gotten through, like when people get up in arms about an Onion article. But as far as I can tell it's real.

Obama is the Grinch.

The Hot Air article pretty much says it all:

President Obama’s Agriculture Department today announced that it will impose a new 15-cent charge on all fresh Christmas trees—the Christmas Tree Tax—to support a new Federal program to improve the image and marketing of Christmas trees.

... but I just wanted to share it around. Almost makes me want to get fitted for a Wookiee suit.

Uganda Be Kidding Me

No, seriously, Nobel Peace Prize Winner in Chief has sent a few sticks of "advisors" into Uganda. To help our stalwart Ugandan allies do ...

something or other, I'm sure.

UnPrecedented President? Not Really.

Told Ya.

For a success, Barack Obama is a very bad politician, the worst politician to win the presidency by an electoral landslide, to never lose a major election, or to rise to the presidency from a state legislature in little more than four years.

"Hey, Look at Me!"

President BoyChild is at it again.

Via Hot Air:

What. A. Dick.

Dickmove, Mr. President.

When You Don't Gag on Someone's Prez-Pole and No One is Around to Not Hear It, Did You Not Make a Sound?

I kinda thought this was a joke at first (via Hot Air), but I think this Capehart guy is quite serious.

Obama’s fight — for respect

Now overall he seems upset that Obama's so passive in the face of Republican ignominy. Passive, is this instance of course, means not railroading through your every whim with a sniff and a reminder of "I won." Now that there are enough Republicans in the legislature to actually speak for, you know, half the country, Liberals are all sad and crying indignantly for their mommies.

"Yeah, yeah. In the grand scheme of things, the kerfuffle over the timing of President Obama’s jobs speech before a joint session of Congress is the perfect slow-news-day story that has little resonance outside the confines of the Washington Beltway. It’s the kind of thing news and political junkies chew over when there’s nothing else to do during summer’s last gasp.

Still, the hard-core move by Obama to address the nation before a joint session of Congress on Sept. 7 — the same night as a Republican presidential debate — resonated with me and more than a few others around the country because of what it symbolized. A willingness by the president to fight. But when House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) issued his honey-coated push back over the date, I and others said (ok, demanded) the president should deliver his speech on the day of his choosing. For me, this was not a demand rooted in politics. It was rooted in weariness at the ongoing lack of respect for the presidency and this president. "

So let me get this straight. Picking that particular night was a deliberate "fight", but when the other side in the issue actually pushed back, i.e. participated in the fight, they were wrong.

Mr. Capehart, call your dictionary - that word "fight": I do not think it means what you think it means.

So this Capehart is coming out of the gate with a dunce cap on, but let's have some more fun with him.

So first Capehart is glad that the President picked a fight. A "hardcore" fight even. (Note that a consistent comment by me on this blog is that Obama only truly "fights" against Americans and American institutions.)

Next Capehart whines about

"the ongoing lack of respect for the presidency and this president."

I quoted that for posterity, because it's beautiful. After about a 10 minute search I was able to find the following examples of Democratic legislators showing their respect for the presidency and another president:

• April 30, 2007
  Washington, D.C. - John Murtha suggested on Sunday that impeachment is a means of forcing President Bush to accept the will of Democrats on Iraq.



• Video Flashback: Dems Shout And Boo At Bush During 2005 SOTU [Video]



• Senator Webb



• Rep. Stark

Obviously, if I went wider than the legislature, I could fill Google's servers with examples of far worse behavior and accusations.

So we must begin to wonder - is Capehart ignorant of the events of the last decade or so? Is he intentionally dissembling?

"As Jim Downie pointed out in his excellent post last night, Boehner’s rejection of Obama’s joint-session request is unprecedented. Mind you, this isn’t the first time this speaker thumbed his nose at this president. During one of the most dramatic moments of the debt-ceiling talks, Obama called Boehner twice to follow up on a conversation about additional revenue in the grand bargain they’d been negotiating in secret. He was told the speaker was unavailable."

This President is a pushy punk and treats Republicans like shit in public - why would anyone with an R next to their name want to take his calls?

"
And then there was Boehner’s offensive response on “Meet The Press” to questions about the persistent lie that Obama was a closet Muslim who wasn’t born in the United States. “As the speaker of the House, as the leader,” he was asked by moderator David Gregory, “Do you not think it’s your responsibility to stand up to that kind of ignorance?”

"It’s not my job to tell the American people what to think. Our job in Washington is to listen to the American people. Having said that, the state of Hawaii has said that he was born there. That’s good enough for me. The president says he’s a Christian. I accept him at his word."

"

I've read it a few times and I simply can't find anything offensive in that exchange except for Gregory's lable of "ignorance" applied to folks wanting to be sure of where their president was born.

"When George W. Bush was president, harsh things were said all the time by congressional Democrats and their leaders. Some even crossed the line. Yet, while there was disdain for the man in the Oval Office, respect for the office itself was never in doubt. I seriously worry that it’s in doubt now among some Republicans. Each petty slight by Boehner is one more chip away at respect for the presidency."

"...crossed the line." (See above)

So when Bush was president, "disdain" for the man did NOT reflect on the office (not that a little disdain for ANY aspect of government is necessarily a bad thing IMO), but with Obama, disagreement with the man DOES equate to disdain for the office. This Capehart guy must have been busy practicing on his carrots and cucumbers the day they taught logic in school.

"In Obama, we have a president more grounded and comfortable in his own skin than many of the people he has to work with to govern this country."

Oh.

" He’s bigger than most of us."

My.

"So the petty slights that get a lot of us riled up probably don’t register to him."

God.

I didn't make those preceding 3 sentences up. This WAPO guy actually wrote them.

Let's see them again:

"In Obama, we have a president more grounded and comfortable in his own skin than many of the people he has to work with to govern this country."

So comfortable that he bullies and pouts and brags like a 14 year old?

" He’s bigger than most of us."

A bigger asshole, sure. I can see that. A bigger ignoramous. A bigger socialist, even.

"So the petty slights that get a lot of us riled up probably don’t register to him."

So now the slights against your robot-god-king are petty? I thought they were bad enough to harm the very office he holds?

"He’s a thinker and plotter with his eyes on the prize down the road, not the daily hysteria taking place on the road to get there."

Hmm.

" That’s why I’m praying that when the real fight comes, the president will show Republicans — and the American people — that he’s not the pushover they believe him to be.

By Jonathan Capehart | 10:08 AM ET, 09/01/2011 "

Yeah, the "pushover" that gave us the Stimulus, Obamacare, an unauthorized war in Libya, a takeover of GM, persecution of Gibson, a Gulf permitorium, and a cockblocking of Boeing.

You know, I worry about some of these fervent Obama disciples. Because let's face it - either Obama is the first non-crooked pol to come out of the Chicago machine in 100 years or he's just been getting superb blocking from the press during his run. When he's done fucking this country like his personal two-dollar whore, hopefully in 2012, someone's going to actually start shining light on whatever skeletons are in his closets (Rezko, anyone?), and if any of them are remotely serious, jokers like this Capehart idiot are going to go cata-fucking-tonic.

And as amusing as that will be, I worry that, in his stumbling, he might accidentally impale someone with his giant dunce cap.

Liberalism and its Discontents

Never thought I'd be telling my reader to go read a Ted Rall piece.

But this description of how his criticism of Obama from the left is being kept out of the press by editors who don't want to see criticism of The One is fascinating. You should read it, but here are some quotes from people who refused to run Rall's work:

"I am familiar with and enjoy your cartoons. However the readers of our site would not be comfortable with your (admittedly on point) criticism of Obama."

· "Don't be such a hater on O and we could use your stuff. Can't you focus more on the GOP?"

· "Our first African-American president deserves a chance to clean up Bush's mess without being attacked by us."

And there's one guy quoted in here that made me gape with disbelief:

"So what should I think about [the war in Libya]?," asks Kevin Drum in Mother Jones. "If it had been my call, I wouldn't have gone into Libya. But the reason I voted for Obama in 2008 is because I trust his judgment. And not in any merely abstract way, either: I mean that if he and I were in a room and disagreed about some issue on which I had any doubt at all, I'd literally trust his judgment over my own. I think he's smarter than me, better informed, better able to understand the consequences of his actions, and more farsighted."

BHO vs. OBL - the Fawning

(Triggered by a conversation on a political forum I frequent.)

I am so tired of this Boy President and his coterie of high-priced handjobbers.

"But Smasher," they say, "you have to credit President Obama for making the tough decision to take out OBL in Pakistan - if it'd gone wrong he'd take all the blame, so since it went right he gets a bunch of credit."

I just don't see it that way. Every other foreign policy decision by Obama has either been of the "America sucks" type or the "whatever, stop bothering me" type. Why anyone would imagine this one was the one time where he sweated and worried is beyond me.

And the whole "he took the risk" line is silly too. Every president takes risks with every decision he makes. It's part of the job. Giving the President of the United States credit for allowing the assassination of the man responsible for something like 9/11 is like giving me credit for going to work every day.

The only thing that impresses me (other than the sheer awesomeness of the teams that pinned OBL and shined him) is the fact that Obama took the smart route of dumping the body at sea. My hat is off to him for that, although I rather suspect that the ocean might have some objections on that point.

The Stench of Hypocricy Rises Into My Nostrils...

President Obama is congratulating Brazil on its plans to drill for oil offshore.

“By some estimates, the oil you recently discovered off the shores of Brazil could amount to twice the reserves we have in the United States.  We want to work with you.  We want to help with technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely, and when you’re ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers.  At a time when we’ve been reminded how easily instability in other parts of the world can affect the price of oil, the United States could not be happier with the potential for a new, stable source of energy.”

  Just so we're clear, this is the same guy  who called a moratorium on drilling last summer and refuses to issue new drilling permits, causing the loss of about 20,000 jobs -- if the administration's own figures are to be believed. US domestic oil production is expected to drop by 220,000 barrels per day in 2011.

BOHICA

I read in the NYT that President Obama is preparing to make a speech about gun control in the next few weeks.  With all respect to a sitting president, I need to hear a leftist Chicago politician jack his jaws about gun control like I need an asshole on my forehead.

Are We Still Talking About This?

I was struck over the last couple of days by a few things I saw linked over at Big Hollywood - Michael Moore doing his racism projection dance about Obama onto conservatives, John Stewart and his Obama = Luke Skywalker thing.

My reaction was "who cares?" Sure, I still think the President is a creature of low character and high dudgeon, but after the midterm blowout, what does it matter anymore? A few more executive orders to strangle the economy, a few more foreign policy moves designed to weaken the nation, sure; he'll do that. But without the House his ability to hurt this country in substantial ways is incredibly diminished.

So, is he a completely lame duck yet? Nahh, not really, but he was pretty lame to start with, and he's limping pretty badly at this point. I'm in favor of letting him waddle to a corner and quack to himself for his remaining term, and after that we can clean up and forget about him.

Tag Team WTF?

No, seriously, I have nothing more complex to say:

Tagging out.

Obama's not a president, he's a gimmick.

Which I pointed out 3 years ago.