Character: Twitter 140, Obama 0

Wouldn't it have been nice for Obama to have to answer all the questions tweeted to him, and not just those cherry picked ones he got?

H/T Smitty, The Other McCain

President Obama's Long Form Birth Certificate

President Obama made a curious statement today about the release of his birth certificate:

"We do not have time for this kind of silliness. We’ve got better stuff to do. I’ve got better stuff to do"

-Barack Obama

Doesn't have time for this silliness? So, when the Clinton campaign brought up the question three years ago, you had time for silliness, then? Or in 2009, when you became ostensibly the most powerful man on the planet, you couldn't delegate the job to some one who worked for you? A Birth Certificate Czar, maybe? How long would it have taken, actually?

"Have my press secretary get a copy of my birth certificate and release it to the press." 30 Seconds? Maybe another 30 seconds if he had to sign a form? Less time than a hole of golf, I should imagine. How many holes have you played since you took office, Barry? Thirteen hundred?

I don't have time for silliness. I need to appear on Oprah! And then, I have more fund raisers!

Yeah. Right!

More discussion at Memeorandum

(Video) Boys Scouts Boo Obama at the National Boy Scouts Jamboree

by the Left Coast Rebel

You know, they say --- when you have lost the Boy Scouts, you have lost America:


Gateway Pundit has context:

Barack Obama skipped the 100th Anniversary Boy Scout Jamboree this year. He went on “The View” instead.
But he did send the scouts at the jamboree a video.

They booed him.

Indeed.

And another point too - ponder just how Dear Leader-like the Obama Boy Scout speech on the screen is in the video - it's like something out of a dystopian science fiction film.

(hat tip Leslie Eastman at Temple of Mut) Cross posted to Left Coast Rebel.

Updated: Doug Powers writing at Malkin gives more context:

Every US president since William Howard Taft has served as the honorary president of the Boys Scouts of America. President Obama accepted his role as honorary president in March of last year. So as you know, when the 100th anniversary of the Boys Scouts came along late last month, Obama decided to… go on The View instead. Hey, when you’re down 14 points with women, an American institution like the Boy Scouts will just have to wait.

However, Obama did record a message that was broadcast to the 43,000 Boy Scouts in attendance at the National Jamboree in Virginia.

Editor's Note: Our own modest contribution was here.

Headline du jour

MO Says "No" to O

Obamacare rejected in Missouri 71 to 29.

When Life Hands You Electric Lemons...

...you're in the Age of Obama!


Edward Niedermeyer writing in the NYT: G.M.’s Electric Lemon

GENERAL MOTORS introduced America to the Chevrolet Volt at the 2007 Detroit Auto Show as a low-slung concept car that would someday be the future of motorized transportation. It would go 40 miles on battery power alone, promised G.M., after which it would create its own electricity with a gas engine. Three and a half years — and one government-assisted bankruptcy later — G.M. is bringing a Volt to market that makes good on those two promises. The problem is, well, everything else.

I heard Obama hawking the Volt today:

"This car doesn't use a sip of gas for forty miles and then keeps going after that!"

Nah! That's not misleading at all!

For starters, G.M.’s vision turned into a car that costs $41,000 before relevant tax breaks ... but after billions of dollars of government loans and grants for the Volt’s development and production. And instead of the sleek coupe of 2007, it looks suspiciously similar to a Toyota Prius. It also requires premium gasoline, seats only four people (the battery runs down the center of the car, preventing a rear bench) and has less head and leg room than the $17,000 Chevrolet Cruze, which is more or less the non-electric version of the Volt.

One of the annoying presumptions people make about electric cars is that somehow they don't "pollute". On battery power, it's not that they don't pollute, it's that they shift the pollution somewhere else. It doesn't come out your tailpipe, it comes out of a smokestack at the power station. And unless the electric cars are more efficient than their older gas powered brothers, it will require even more energy to be generated. And lugging that massive battery pack around can hardly be considered "efficient". And if your utility is like mine, the power for your car will be "charged" at the highest possible rate.

So, to recap, it's priced above its value, requiring more cash incentives from the government. It will still pollute the planet, just in a different place. Manufacturing and disposal of the batteries will produce higher levels of pollution. And electricity isn't free. I don't hear anyone talking about what the Volt will do to an average family's utility bill.

Windshield defrosting can be done with wires in the windshields. What is going to defrost your fingers and toes in the winter time...in North Dakota? An electric heater, if available is only going to reduce your "40 mile range" down and start you burning that premium gas that much sooner.

Maybe in another three years they'll have all the bugs worked out?

Cross posted at Left Coast Rebel, Say Anything, Lady Cincinnatus

Ein Volt: The People's Car

Because a leader should take an interest in the transportation of his subjects people!

Inspired in part by LCR's take on Government Motors

Cross posted at Left Coast Rebel

"Barry", Not "Bury"!

"We will bury you!"

With a most unfortunate transliteration of the word, UN translators recognized their mistake a half a century too late!

Editor's note: For the sake of historical accuracy, and no reflection on the number of vacations Obama has taken, we believe the shoe in question to be a "loafer".

Was Obama Lying Then, Or is He Lying Now?

Remember Bill Clinton's linguistic sleight of hand in answering whether or not he was alone with Monica Lewinsky?

"It all depends on what your definition of "is" is."

I think I have discovered Obama's "Is" is moment. On September 20, 2009 Obama was interviewed by George Stephanopoulos:



Obama keeps dancing around the cost of insurance and insurance "affordability", but denies it is a tax. At 3:17, George Stephanopoulos asks him point blank: “How is that not a tax?”

“Absolutely NOT a tax increase.” - BHO

Then, he makes the false analogy with car insurance, though the government compels no one to buy insurance if they elect not to buy a car!

“You can’t just make up that language” -BHO

Then compares increases in private insurance company premiums to taxes mandated by the government and enforced by the I.R.S.

Five minutes in, George gives him the definition of tax increase. Obama says defining it is “proof” somehow that it means something else. (Who writes this guy’s material, anyway?)

"You reject that it is a tax increase?" -GS
“I absolutely reject that notion. “ -BHO

Was he lying then, or is he lying now?

Obama Administration Admits Health Care Initiative is a Tax

After campaigning extensively on no tax increase for anyone making under $250,000 a year, then insisting the money paying for health care wouldn’t be paid for by a tax increase, it seems the president finally admits to lying. This came in the New York Times, on July 18, 2010, buried on page 18 in an article by Robert Pear, “Changing Stance, Administration Now Defends Insurance Mandate as a Tax.”

When Barack Obama was running for president and insisting health care would not be paid for by a tax increase some Republicans, including Senator John McCain, called him on it. It was all denial, denial, denial. In September 2009, when President Obama was interviewed by George Stephanopoulos on the ABC News show “This Week”, Obama said, “for us to say that you’ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase.”

By declaring the insurance mandate a "tax", BHO has guaranteed that he will not raise the taxes of any one who makes less than $250,000 a year, but every one who makes that little.

George Orwell would have been proud!

Cross posted at Left Coast Rebel

Bad Decisions Will Dog Obama

Bo jerks around the President,
the President returns the favor to the rest of the country!

May I ask the President a very simple question? WTF are you doing flying your dog on vacation in his own private jet? A number of people have weighed in on this, most recently, Support Your Local Gunfighter, but, seriously folks...between the budget crisis with millions out of work and crazed, sex poodle Al Gore's scenario of doom and gloom if we don't reduce our carbon footprint (a bit of junk science that our President seems to have bought into), why would any rational man do such a thing?

Arriving in a small jet before the Obamas was the first dog, Bo, a Portuguese water dog given as a present by the late U.S. Sen Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.; and the president's personal aide Reggie Love...

Can we say it? The President's dog walker!

You would think that a man elected to office based on the careful crafting of images: his speeches at the Brandenburg Gate, at 10 Downing Street (a convenient backdrop when no one was home) and the faux Greek columns of the Democrat's convention, would be more sensitive to the image of utter arrogance and irresponsibility that this projects.

Could someone please tell his majesty Louis XVI Obama that there's a recession on? Is Air Force One so cramped that you couldn't fit a wee little dog and the dog's valet in amongst your entourage??

Of all the things that will dog this presidency, the chutzpah of flying your canine companion in on his own private jet may take the cake...if Michelle hasn't told the peasants to let them eat it, yet!

Update: The paper has since posted a "clarification":

Clarification: Today's story about the arrival of the Obamas said the Obama's dog and one aide arrived on a small jet before the First Family, but there were other occupants on the plane, including several other staffers. The presidential party took two small jets to the Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport in Trenton because the airport was too small to accommodate the president's usual jet.

And I'm sure every one of those staffers was needed, if for nothing else than ballast to keep the motorcade of "at least 16 vehicles...led by two Maine State Police cruisers and included five black Chevrolet Suburbans" from floating off the island!

Update II: For the benefit of all those who were not able to read my entire post before their ADD kicked in, let me point this out to you:

You would think that a man elected to office based on the careful crafting of images: his speeches at the Brandenburg Gate, at 10 Downing Street (a convenient backdrop when no one was home) and the faux Greek columns of the Democrat’s convention, would be more sensitive to the image of utter arrogance and irresponsibility that this projects.

Here is a man flying in on the very type of plane he criticized big business for using to fly to Vegas and spend their own money and reward high achievers in their own companies. It was the same sort of plane that this administration excoriated GM executives for flying into Washington for Senate hearings. and here is the tone deaf Übermensch Obama letting his dog set the image of an out of touch executive flying his pet on vacation in his own private jet.

I did not make this story up, Leftards. This image was already out there. Live by the photo op, die by the photo op*.

*Closed Captioning for the Reality and Humor Impaired: Figuratively speaking.

Cross posted at Lady Cincinnatus, Left Coast Rebel, Say Anything

Palate Cleanser-Comedy: Obama Bumper Sticker Removal Kit

by the Left Coast Rebel

I've noticed dwindling numbers of 'Hope'-stickers here in the coastal southern California area. You have to love this from Newsbusters:



Perhaps I advocate a more simple approach for Obamanation BS removal - pitchforks and torches.

Via Memeorandum, Left Coast Rebel.

Updated: Get your own Obama Bumper Sticker Removal kit (along with other goodies) here.

Look, Ma! I'm Golfing!

They were having fun with this picture over at IMAO.

Columbia University President Lee Bollinger Advocates Taxpayer Support for Press

by the Left Coast Rebel

Today I found Columbia University President Lee Bollinger breaking new ground in several key areas of echo-chamber liberal-statist (over) educated fool credo.

Strike one - he advocates government sponsorship of the press and argues that doing so won't necessarily compromise the press. Fail - our nation has a free press precisely for protecting us from the government. How could a president of an elite university so lack reasoning skills as to even consider this?

Strike two - he advocates taxpayer sponsorhip of the press by comparing it to public funding for education. Fail - many universities across the nation feature absolutely no diversity of philosophy. Our public schools rank low versus other developed nations and the precipitous drop started with government bureaucratization. Is Columbia's Lee Bollinger advocating even further decline in the press? Only an entrenched, elitist-leftist would use America's public education system as a model for anything other than what shouldn't be.

Strike three - he waxes fondly over the BBC, China's state-sponsored press arms CCTV and Xinhua news and Qatar's Al Jazeera as fulfilling this new press 'third way.' Fail - why do elitist progressive-collectivists loathe free and open markets (like the press) and lust after communist or neo-communist regimes? Do you really think that Al Jazeera and Chinese media, along with the BBC are to be emulated?

Lee Bollinger, along with other over-educated fools, aptly call their brilliant new 'plan' for the press the newspeak-sounding 'enhanced public funding for journalism.'

And all of this Bolshevik, Orwellian nonsense is wrapped up in a tidy little Wall Street Journal opinion piece so you can read it, to believe it - for yourself.

Perhaps Lee Bollinger presides over Columbia (and the most presigious journalism school in the U.S.) and just knows what works. After all, his ilk created a marketable-messiah that graced the front pages of every newspaper/magazine in America. To hear his Orwellian-grovelling for taxpayer dough shouldn't surprise:

Cross posted to Left Coast Rebel, Rational Nation.

North Iowa Tea Party, Mason City, Iowa Billboard: "Radical Leaders Prey on the Fearful & Naive"

by the Left Coast Rebel

Radical leaders in world history do prey on the fearful and naive, to institute agendas that squander/squash human freedom, but is this an effective way for the Tea Party (in north Iowa) to express so? It certainly has garnered a lot of attention (unsurprisingly):

The Associated Press has this:

(AP) —A billboard created by an Iowa tea party group comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin is being condemned by other tea party activists.

The North Iowa Tea Party began displaying the sign in Mason City last week.

The sign includes photos of Obama, Nazi leader Hitler and communist leader Lenin with the statement: “Radical leaders prey on the fearful & naive.”

North Iowa Tea Party co-founder Bob Johnson says the sign highlights what the group argues is Obama’s support for socialism. He says the pictures might be overwhelming the intended message.

Shelby Blakely, a spokeswoman for the national Tea Party Patriots, says the sign isn’t appropriate. She says her group opposes any comparisons of Obama to Hitler or Lenin.

The White House declined to comment.

I'd like to know what my readers think of this. Another Black Conservative points out that a full 55% of Americans believe Obama and that the billboard isn't all that shocking.

Mason City, Iowa residents - have you seen this billboard and what do you think?

UPDATED: I hate linking HuffPo but they have this:

The co-founder of the roughly 200-person group said the billboard was intended to send an anti-socialist message. But Bob Johnson admitted Tuesday that the message may have gotten lost amid the images of fascist and communist leaders.

"The purpose of the billboard was to draw attention to the socialism. It seems to have been lost in the visuals," Johnson said. "The pictures overwhelmed the message. The message is socialism." He said he didn't know of any plans to remove the sign.

But others in the tea party movement criticized the sign.

"That's just a waste of money, time, resources and it's not going to further our cause," said Shelby Blakely, a leaders of the Tea Party Patriots, a national group. "It's not going to help our cause. It's going to make people think that the tea party is full of a bunch of right-wing fringe people, and that's not true."

Update II: (by Proof) Smitty over at The Other McCain posted an update that the billboard has been removed.

Damning Implication for Obama/Incumbents in Washington Post/ABC Poll

Obama - the biggest lie told to the American public, will we
have the last laugh?

by the Left Coast Rebel

A new WaPo/ABC poll just came out and it shows the Obamanation experiencing an unmitigated disaster on every front of perception in the American public. Of course the talking heads are chalking it up to 'incumbent anger fever' sweeping the nation (and there is some truth to this). But being that Democrats are the majority of incumbents in Congress (by a large margin) even the generic 'anti-incumbent' mood spells doom for them and the Obamanation agenda.

I scanned the raw data from the poll and found this to be the most interesting:

908a. Would you say your views on most political matters are liberal, moderate, or conservative?

                                                     Don't think in      No
      Liberal    Moderate    Conservative    those terms (vol.)    op.
7/11/10        22         35            39                  2             1

And that is why there is such a massive public backlash to the Democrats (and anger at the GOP too). America is a center-right nation. Go here to read the raw data, read the Washington Post article here.

Follow the discussion over at Memeorandum. Cross posted to Rational Nation, Left Coast Rebel.

More Trouble for Obama in 2012

"we went to (the) press, we went to Fox, we went to CNN- nobody wanted to hear the story" - documentary film maker and Democrat, Gigi Gaston.



We posted this video yesterday, but pay particular attention to the pull quote:

"we went to (the) press, we went to Fox, we went to CNN- nobody wanted to hear the story" - documentary film maker and Democrat, Gigi Gaston.

The allegations of voter intimidation that "no one wanted to deal with" in 2008 are now being brought to light. What's the difference between 2008 and 2010? How about eighteen months of the most dismal performance by a modern president?

The documentary which could not get a hearing or see the light of day in 2008, was because the tabula rasa that was Barack Obama was shiny and new and full of promise. Who could know at that time that he was nothing but promises and the promises he neither intended to or was able to keep?

But the novelty of being America's "golden boy", its first black president, has come and gone. The veneer of competence that he projected, despite the thinnest of résumés, has worn through. Other than shaving a few strokes off his golf game and spending our grandchildren's inheritance, can anyone name any substantive accomplishment of Barack Hussein Obama? On the contrary, most people can point to one or more areas where American has gone backwards. The space program is an excellent example of that. From JFK's vision of going to the moon in ten years, Obama has gutted NASA and redirected the shell that remains to tend to the touchy feely religion of global warming and "outreach" to the Muslim community. If we ever needed a source of renewable power, we could hook a generator up to JFK spinning madly in his grave over the lost legacy of space exploration.

The first shot across Obama's bow (bow! How apropos!), was James Carville's criticism over his handling of the BP oil disaster. This is phase two. As they say in the nature documentaries, the wounded Wildebeest has been cut off from the herd, and is surrounded. The meme of Obama's competence and potential lies shattered on the oil soaked beaches on the Gulf Coast, while he shanked a few balls on the eighteenth green.

If Obama stole the election, from whom did he steal it? Hillary. The "so and so stole the election" didn't work out so well for Gore, but then, Hillary is not the same sex crazed poodle as Al is.

This will just be one more weapon in the arsenal of Hillary-2012.

Update: I did a piece awhile back on the subject "Biden is toast". (Look for that to happen between now and the end of 2011.)

Now, perhaps I could start composing the "Obama is toast" companion piece?

UPDATED via LCR (shameless blogwhoring): Leslie Eastman has been busy studying Gigi Gaston's documentary, the Black Panthers and general team-Obama thuggery. She just put up the best post I have seen on the topic so far, along with a 'to-do' list for activists wanting to know how to stop this behavior going forward.

Read it here.



Cross posted at Lady Cincinnatus, Say Anything, Left Coast Rebel

Documentary: Obama Stole the Nomination?

Knowing how Obama got to be state senator and then senator from Illinois, this really doesn't surprise me!

Update: And just so no one of the Left whines about this must be a "hit piece" from the right, the filmmaker is a Democrat.

H/T Wizbang


Cross posted at Left Coast Rebel, Lady Cincinnatus, Say Anything

Getting Close to Day 90 of the Gulf Oil Spill, Obama to Vacation in Maine

by the Left Coast Rebel

This video that I sniped from Gateway Pundit sums it up:



The War Planner offers a theory on the vacationing 'plug the damn hole' Obamanation, hint - it has something to do with the abbreviation of the northern state.

No Sheeples Here offers up some lovely, snarky commentary and provides the icing on the cake with a fitting graphic:



The messiah has no clothes.

That's a shame, because it gets cold in Maine.

Even in the summer of oil spills.

Cross posted to LCR.

The Three Stooges Redux

They say sequels are seldom equals.

Obama: Politician of Our Dreams

The best way to enjoy an Obama speech.

Update: It just occurred to me that maybe all those women who kept "fainting" during candidate Obama's speeches were simply falling asleep? Heh.

H/T Blog Prof