Yeah, he’s so “Presidential”
June 21st, 2009 at 12:41 am by NigelFinally, someone says (better than I can) what I’ve been thinking lately. From Greg Gutfeld:
Am I an old fart or am I right to be pissed that some jackass is skateboarding down the halls of the White House while all this Iranian shit is going down?
Right now, people are risking their lives for the glimmer of freedom, and Tony Hawk is in the White House tweeting about Frosted Flakes.
Someone please dig up Reagan. I’d take a dead leader with balls over a living camp counselor who wants all the cool kids to like him.
Hey, we’ve finally found a President who can turn Washington D.C. into his own private amusement park for his friends and his family. Hell, North Korea is about to fire a rocket towards Hawaii, Iran is in total chaos, and the smuggling of $134 Billion in (maybe) counterfeit Treasury Bonds almost crashed our dollar.
So…let’s go out for ice cream!
Slublog (via Ace) has the classic p-shop that sums it all up:
As I was pondering Obama’s executive leadership skills, I was suddenly reminded of this guy.
Update… Courtesy of Jim Treacher:
It isn’t about the ice cream. People need to start realizing that Obama isn’t the President of the United States; the United States is the throne upon which Obama sits. “Let them eat soft-serve.”
P.S. In honor of Obama’s commanding leadership, Ben & Jerry’s has announced 6 delicious new flavors: Truncheon Crunch, Ayatollhouse Cookie Dough, Lemon Loin-Gird, Ineffectual Fudge, Let Them Eat Cake Batter, and Toffeetalitarianism.
Heh.
June 21st, 2009 at 9:37 am
Obviously, the grown-ups are in charge again.
And don’t forget, the 31 year old political appointee who is in charge of fixing General Motors. Can’t fix a car, can’t design a car, never ran a business but he’s going to save a multi-billion dollar business.
What is going on is sheer insanity.
Me and my father discussed this for Father’s Day yesterday. Evidently, I just need to give everything more time because we have to fix 8 years of Bush’s unilateral, authoritarian cowboy cowboyism.
/No more cowboys!
/Turn off CNN and CBS
June 21st, 2009 at 9:53 am
I remember the looks of scorn I received Election Day 2000 in Northern Virginia when, in line to vote, I blurted out ‘it’s time to get some grown-ups back in the White House’. Those scowls came from 70 something fossilized liberals. I guess those still alive are just overjoyed we have middle aged ADHD-addled punks once again defiling sacred ground. I’m waiting to hear of down-low action from the Blue Room (oh wait, that’s Wednesday!) Stay tuned…
June 21st, 2009 at 10:56 am
[...] in the WH while Iran burns? Yup. Six Meat Buffet is on the [...]
June 21st, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Compare and Contrast Twitter Style.
June 22nd, 2009 at 8:13 am
Slublog does have a nice pshop. But, mine is more…nuanced! (Well, mine assumes you know the WTF of Iran’s infamous Fountain of Blood.)
June 22nd, 2009 at 8:51 am
I like yours better. But it does make me a little ill.
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:59 am
It’s appalling, I tell you. Next thing you know, they’ll be making fart jokes during staff meetings.
June 23rd, 2009 at 2:19 pm
[...] (there were 30 – 40 reported dead in yesterday’s protests alone), Obama has some tool skateboarding in the White House (disrespectful in and of itself, even without the current situation). And all he can summon up in [...]
June 23rd, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Yeah Forked…there’s a slight difference between fart jokes in a private; meeting and inviting someone to skateboard down the halls of the White House while we have serious foreign policy issues to address.
Hey Iran…looking to the US for a little support? Our President will get RIGHT to that…as soon as he’s done learning how to navigate a half-pipe with his skater buddies….
June 23rd, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Am I an old fart
Yes.
June 23rd, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Oh, sorry Nige, I mixed up my wingnut outrage points and thought that presidential dignity was the issue here.
If it’s the Nero-fiddling angle, I’ll have to change my post to “Next thing you know, he’ll be playing guitar in California while an American city drowns,” but I recognize it’s not as punchy.
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:39 pm
If the fiddle fits, fuck-o. I mean fork-o.
Barack “The Rooster” is equally adept at simultaneously crowing that he’s responsible for Iranian protests while pledging that he doesn’t meddle.
He who speaketh with forked tongue, indeed.
In honor of the Iranian delegation that he’s invited to the White House for the 4th of July, to celebrate Ahmadinejad’s most successful re-election campaign, can’t we just as easily photoshop him cooking hot dogs with Mahmoud at the protest.
It’s not like he’s got a soft spot for democracy anyway. It’s no secret. Not like covering up that you’re a smoker or something terribly important like that.
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
“crowing that he’s responsible for Iranian protests”
Citation, please.
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Here ya go fuckface. I mean forkface.
Is the Washington Post too rightwing corporate media for you?
Ah, his speech in Cairo prompted all this. Given the iron curtain of transparency that this administration has exhibited, it’s more than safe to say this “senior administration official” was given the green light to make these fatuous assertions to the WaPo.
Like the rooster taking credit for the dawn, Obama will try to take credit for Iranian protests if they succeed. If they all get gunned down then he’ll meet with their killers with no pre-conditions. Gaia-damn, it’s good to be a liberal with a complicit media.
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Goalposts move in 3, 2, 1……
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Actully, the WaPo is indeed pretty neocon. Looked at their editorial page lately? That said, Obama “crowing that he is responsible” is a creative interpretation of the text you’ve highlighted. Then there would also be the question of whether what the quoted advisors say is accurate, which it actually is.
It’s hard to keep all this straight. First I thought the beef was that Obama was undiginified, then it was that one of his aides’ skateboarding in the WH meant he was insufficiently attentive to Iran, now it’s that he’s too crafty a politician. Oh well. Know what? You’re right. Obama is a craven opportunist. He’s taken advantage of every opportunity there was to make McCain his bitch, slap the Republicans’ dicks into the dirt and own your asses. I think I can understand your apoplexy, even if it does make me feel like skipping down the lane.
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Skip all the way down to Gitmo – it’s still open. Then, feel free to join your fearless leader by hitting up the recruiter station for that tour of duty in Afghanistan and Pakistan that you always wanted. The Fight We Should Have Been In All Along, you neocom chickenhawk.
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Now you’re flailing.
June 23rd, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Yea. When the President’s press secretary says that no one could have imagined all of this stuff in Iran happening even a couple of days ago in response to a question about Obama speeches. When “senior officials” tell the newspaper asking the questions that they are taking credit for Iranian protests – that’s just me swinging wildly.
Unlike you, we’re equal opportunity offenders here. Broad swipes against McCain and Republicans don’t exactly raise the ire as our archives are bruised and bloodied from haymakers against both. That’s what we do.
What we don’t do is suffer a bunch of pie-eyed, Heaven’s Gate escapees with Obamaphilia. At least they had the guts to kill themselves. He’s posing like he’s doing something about Iran when he’s voting present as usual. It’s a shame he didn’t prefer football over basketball as he could challenge Reggie Roby as the greatest punter of all time.
June 23rd, 2009 at 11:01 pm
“What we don’t do is suffer a bunch of pie-eyed, Heaven’s Gate escapees with Obamaphilia. At least they had the guts to kill themselves. He’s posing like he’s doing something about Iran when he’s voting present as usual. It’s a shame he didn’t prefer football over basketball as he could challenge Reggie Roby as the greatest punter of all time.”
GOLD!
June 23rd, 2009 at 11:22 pm
It’s the least I can offer for President Pyrite.
June 23rd, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Holy Crap.
See what happens when you feed the troll.
But I do have something more to say.
Forked Tongue, your original argument is childish…and typical of a liberal. I point out Obama turning the White House into a skate park or dicking around with his skater buddies while neglecting to address our foreign policy concerns…and you go to the “but…but…Bush did it FIRST” argument.
Even if Bush fart jokes were the equivalent to Obama’s House of Fun, it’s still a weak argument. Obama is President NOW…but instead of acting like a President he’s going around the world apologizing for our very existence and using Air Force 1 to rub elbows with the Hollywood elite, or taking his wife to a Broadway show (using taxpayer funds), or shuttling a pizza maker in from St. Louis…
(I could keep going, but I’m tired of typing)
The POINT you couldn’t understand is that Barack Obama is treating this Presidency like a spoiled teenager with an unlimited trust fund and the parents away on a trip. He’s got the perfect party house, a multi-trillion dollar credit line on a credit card he doesn’t have to worry about repaying and access to all of the toys so he can have people do things like buzz lower Manhattan.
He doesn’t have to act with Presidential dignity because Lord knows the press won’t call him on it and libs like you think he’s “cool”.
June 27th, 2009 at 6:59 am
Ooooooo good smack down of an OsamaHusseinIslamObama supporter.
OsamaHusseinIslamObama 2012′
(the terrorist/Uighur/media choice)
-It’s never too early to campaign-