Scarborough to Obama supporter: Name one accomplishment
posted at 4:05 pm on October 29, 2008 by Allahpundit
There was no good answer when Hannity asked this question months ago and there’s no good answer now.
There is an answer, though: He’s brought the country together, the professor assures us. How? Presumably by the fact that he’s reached 50 percent in the polls. Which would be one percentage point less than, er, Bush got in 2004.
Fair warning: You can’t really enjoy this clip until you’ve watched the ones at Jawa Report first. Click the image to watch.
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Echo, echo, echo.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 29, 2008 at 4:07 PM
Memo to Joe and ANYONE else interviewing a prominent Obama supporter: Keep asking this question.
OneGyT on October 29, 2008 at 4:07 PM
You’d think with several months (and even with it having been asked at least once before) they’d come up with at least a decent lie.
Pitiful
kybowexar on October 29, 2008 at 4:07 PM
What exactly is the way out of this mess?
ctmom on October 29, 2008 at 4:08 PM
*crickets*
Tacitus_SGL on October 29, 2008 at 4:09 PM
Hey, let’s call Hussein supporters “Obamunists” from now on. If nothing else, maybe hearing this repeatedly will cause one of their heads to explode or something.
Akzed on October 29, 2008 at 4:09 PM
As long as I’m not required to clean up after it.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 29, 2008 at 4:10 PM
Time to start digging the bunker ya think?
Oy!
HoosierCon on October 29, 2008 at 4:12 PM
I’m in.
Harpoon on October 29, 2008 at 4:12 PM
That’s what they always say.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 29, 2008 at 4:13 PM
These Obama surrogates are pathetic…
Verbal Abuse on October 29, 2008 at 4:13 PM
Again ole Joe trying to win back some audience lost while he has been in the tank. Sorry Joe. Too little too late.
This topic is so timely it should be on the History Channel.
MSM is the cancer. Living with cancer means treating it, shrinking it or cutting it out entirely. I think we have exhausted the possibility of treating the MSM – it cannot be reformed (whining is no use). The MSM is shrinking of its own accord. Still I prefer to treat the cancer of MSM by promoting the growth of healthy tissue (alternative media) and cutting out the MSM entirely from my life.
Angry Dumbo on October 29, 2008 at 4:13 PM
“I like your hair.” heh
/ it looks like a dead racoon
Sefton on October 29, 2008 at 4:13 PM
This is the most smoke and mirrors campaign I have ever seen. Obama is nothing, and I do mean nothing, he says he is. What a scam Obama, with the help of the national press, has pulled.
Biden told several outright lies during the VP debate and there was barely a whisper about his misrepresentation of the facts. McCain has been seriously lacking when it comes to calling out the democratic ticket on its wholesale fakery and phoniness.
titus_pullo on October 29, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Ouch.
Nothing.
NoFanofLibs on October 29, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Here’s the poster.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 29, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Noone wants to hear it, but it involves weapons and patriots
Viper1 on October 29, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Find the best 30 seconds, and make it into a McCain ad.
Obama: all talk, no action.
Steve Z on October 29, 2008 at 4:15 PM
To be fair, I think living with Michelle all these years without throttling her is an accomplishment.
Y-not on October 29, 2008 at 4:15 PM
So, were the directions on a map that was crafted by one of the 300 cartographers on his staff?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 29, 2008 at 4:19 PM
But…Obama has TALKING POINTS, and…and…and HE’S MADE CAMPAIGN PROMISES, and…and…HE MAKES US FEEL GOOD ABOUT OURSELVES (because we’ll be appointed to high-level posts). What else is there?
stonemeister on October 29, 2008 at 4:19 PM
Democrats have a knack for saying the most absurd things and making them sound grand. What a goofy thing to say, and its not even true, the country could not be more divided.
Maxx on October 29, 2008 at 4:20 PM
Hey, let’s call Hussein supporters “Obamunists” from now on. If nothing else, maybe hearing this repeatedly will cause one of their heads to explode or something.
Akzed on October 29, 2008 at 4:09 PM
As long as I’m not required to clean up after it.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 29, 2008 at 4:10 PM
*
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SMALLEST MESS EVAHHHHHH!
marklmail on October 29, 2008 at 4:20 PM
He did give that speech in 2002.
Oh, they are discussing actual accomplishments. Uh…, no, can’t think of any. Nevermind.
Rick on October 29, 2008 at 4:22 PM
Just watched fox did anyone see where Cavuto was saying if the trifecta of evil are in control they plan on banning off shore drilling forever,if so we need to get this out to as many people as possible this will have to hurt the O people want to drill here drill now dangit!!
tee866 on October 29, 2008 at 4:22 PM
http://sarah-palin-2008.blogspot.com/2008/10/obamas-speechwriter-opens-eyes-votes.html
Switched horses in the middle of the stream.
Dr Evil on October 29, 2008 at 4:24 PM
Well, duh!!! Obama’s black! Can’t you see????? ……. racist …….
wise_man on October 29, 2008 at 4:26 PM
Vhat has he done? Der Obama has tolllldd us that HE HAS THE ANSWER!!!!
ANd he vill tell us vhat it ist, right after we elect him…
Romeo13 on October 29, 2008 at 4:26 PM
He co-sponsored some bill to some african country that no one gives a crap about.
lorien1973 on October 29, 2008 at 4:28 PM
Hmmmm… Accomplishment?
Ummmm… He wrote a letter….and sent it!!
coloradoranchhand on October 29, 2008 at 4:29 PM
OT:
Hannity is reporting that a former ACORN employee is implicating BO’s campaign in lots of illegalities & no-nos.
jgapinoy on October 29, 2008 at 4:30 PM
ACORN: Partisan? We’re Nonpartisan, b!tches!!!
So sayeth ACORN Boss (Big) Bertha
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 29, 2008 at 4:32 PM
On Nov. 4th, the world will be shocked.
McCain/Palin will win the election. Calling it.
nickj116 on October 29, 2008 at 4:32 PM
How is he supposed to call it out? The media won’t cover it when he does. They are more interested in Sarah Palin’s wardrobe and her tanning bed. The McCain campaign and the RNC put out pages of documents and held conference calls to point out Biden’s lies in that debate. None of it got into print or in any TV newscasts other than Hannity and Greta on Fox.
This campaign has been like playing a basketball game against Duke where you know the other team is going to get 30 free throws and your best player is going to foul out, no matter what you do.
rockmom on October 29, 2008 at 4:32 PM
RACIST!!
Rick on October 29, 2008 at 4:33 PM
I love the clip of Michelle saying he hasn’t done anything yet.
It’s really short, too. You could stick it in between all the other clips:
1: Voiceover and text: What has Barack Obama done?
2: Clip of Barack Obama saying he won’t run in 2008, not ready yet.
3: Clip of Michelle: “It’s way too soon. He hasn’t done anything yet.”
4: Clip of someone trying ineffectively to defend his accomplishments.
5: Clip of Michelle: “It’s way too soon. He hasn’t done anything yet.”
Repeat 4 & 5 until the end of the ad.
NO final voiceover or text, just let Michelle have the last word.
You-tube gold!
ClintACK on October 29, 2008 at 4:33 PM
Please define the mess and then define one specific item that he has propossed. AssHat.
PappaMac on October 29, 2008 at 4:34 PM
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abinitioadinfinitum on October 29, 2008 at 4:34 PM
You’d think with several months (and even with it having been asked at least once before) they’d come up with at least a decent lie.
Pitiful
kybowexar on October 29, 2008 at 4:07 PM
That is probably the best point made here so far. Obama’s record is so lacking in anything but fluff that they can’t even come up with ONE thing. He has lived in the limelight for 2 years. With all of the message control and identical talking points from every single spokesman, a complicit national media, they cannot fill the biggest void in Obama’s background. Thats scary.
Mord on October 29, 2008 at 4:34 PM
A way to achieve energy? By banning drilling? By telling the country to wait 10 or 15 or 20 years or however long it will take for solar and/or wind energy to be able to be harvested and distributed efficiently? By telling us to check the air in our tires?
These people are such pathetic morons.
AZCoyote on October 29, 2008 at 4:35 PM
Obama has managed to be by far the most unqualified major party Presidential nominee in American History.
Well done sir, well done.
NoDonkey on October 29, 2008 at 4:37 PM
BTW, be sure to watch Jodi Miller’s news-skit on that page. There’s a LOL line there about the LATrines.
jgapinoy on October 29, 2008 at 4:37 PM
In a moment of weakness, at 6:45 this morning I tuned to “Joe in the Morning” (MSNBC???) and saw this fu**ed up mope actually try and convince viewers that one of Obama’s concrete accomplishments was to give people a sense of hope.
All I could say (to myself) was WTF?????????????
alwyr on October 29, 2008 at 4:38 PM
Got this in an e-mail today:
Brat on October 29, 2008 at 4:38 PM
Agreed — and it’s even worse than that.
When McCain does call him out on lies, the Media usually does a blitz of “Liar McCain!” and “McCain goes Negative!” process stories.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, McCain is running an absolutely brilliant campaign. He’s being outspent 3-1, the media is more partisan than ever, the financial crisis has swept his strengths (foreign policy and the war) completely off the table — any lesser candidate (including every single candidate McCain faced in the primary) would be losing this race in a Reagan-Dukakis style landslide.
Thank God we’ve got McCain as our candidate. (And that’s something I thought I’d never write — he was my third or fourth choice in the primaries.)
ClintACK on October 29, 2008 at 4:39 PM
OMG….. OOOOOOMG……
Joe…say it isn’t so….YOU SOUND LIKE A CONSERVATIVE….
Well, at least like a recalcitrant Independent.
***snows on the mountains of Hell***
seejanemom on October 29, 2008 at 4:39 PM
I got one – - he has spent more than any other presidential candidate in the history of this country in his campaign, after promising to take public financing, all during one of our country’s worst economic periods. Only a true Messiah could get away with that kind of spending while banks are collapsing, markets are crashing, and people are going broke.
Rick on October 29, 2008 at 4:40 PM
I’m pretty sure he meant “energy” in the sense of “fire up the base” — the way Palin does for us.
It’s an incredibly lame answer — even worse than “bring us together” or “give us hope”– but there it is.
ClintACK on October 29, 2008 at 4:42 PM
What has Obama done?
ZIP!
The Stakes: LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD!
canopfor on October 29, 2008 at 4:43 PM
I think that says more about Obama than it does about McCain, quite frankly.
NoFanofLibs on October 29, 2008 at 4:46 PM
Don’t worry about Chicago. If Obama wins, I’m sure he’ll be “redistributing” a whole lot of taxpayer dollars back to the old neighborhood.
AZCoyote on October 29, 2008 at 4:47 PM
Love the nice hair comment… It would be a nice toup if it matched his hair color…
Obama supporters drank the Kool Aid. Unless someone can come up with the antidote they will not wake up.
GatewayMac on October 29, 2008 at 4:49 PM
McCain, firing on all cylinders today, notes BHO’s accomplishment.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 29, 2008 at 4:50 PM
Heh
I bet Joe Biden has come up with ten or twenty but they don’t want to use them…
SlimyBill on October 29, 2008 at 4:50 PM
Can you please explain why you sign off each comment with *eats* before I have to kill you?
Lincoln on October 29, 2008 at 4:53 PM
Riiiiick, sugar, please don’t confuse an Obamatard with facts.
seejanemom on October 29, 2008 at 4:54 PM
waitting for the race card to be dropped on joe in 5 …4…3…2…1…
its going to be pretty packed in obamas new re-edjumaction camps
Mojack420 on October 29, 2008 at 4:54 PM
SECOND!
seejanemom on October 29, 2008 at 4:55 PM
I have a friend who has drunk so much of the KoolAid that her skin is purple! She always calls him by his first name – isn’t that cute?
She is impervious to facts.
These syncophants start from the premise that The Obamessiah is the most perfect, wonderful, knowledgeable, incredible person on planet Earth. Throughout all time. Ever.
Everything else is just a distraction.
rockbend on October 29, 2008 at 4:56 PM
Where the hell has that been in the last six month…that exact quote?
NoFanofLibs on October 29, 2008 at 4:56 PM
I think you meant to say “He had a staff member write a letter…and had a staff member send it”
RedinPDRM on October 29, 2008 at 4:57 PM
*eats* can be explained if you click on his name. It’s referring to a “grue” a character from a old school computer game (text, if you can believe it) called “Zork.”
wise_man on October 29, 2008 at 4:57 PM
I wouldn’t go so far as to say it is a brilliant campaign. With the overwhelming firewall created by the press to protect Obama it’s amazing they are within 4 or 5 points. I’d give them a grade of “B” because they should have made a better effort to identify the most legitimate avenues of attacks on Obama much earlier in order to create real doubt about his character and policies. Their are so many!
The L.A. times thing has been around since May or June. These tapes have been around for months and they show Obama to be a hater of this country and a quasi, if not outright, socialist. Everyone of his old friends he networked with is anti-american in the most stereotypical ways. These are all legit avenues of attack yet we only get them in the late stages of this race.
Most of this stuff now seems a little “sour grape-like” when the McCain campaign should have already introduced it into the electorates bloodstream. McCain brought a knife attitude to this gunfight campaign
titus_pullo on October 29, 2008 at 4:59 PM
Accomplishements? Since when does a Messiah needs accomplishments?
Obama does not have to DO anything, he just IS.
Elizabetty on October 29, 2008 at 4:59 PM
Obama can’t wipe his own ass after taking a dump. But he can take credit for the dump.
maverick muse on October 29, 2008 at 5:02 PM
It has something to do with a game, if you click on his link (moniker) I think it goes to a game site or something and “eats” is part of the game.
I don’t know for sure, he explained it, but it wasn’t worth investigating. I like his posts, so I just ignore his “eats”.
right2bright on October 29, 2008 at 5:02 PM
The “sour-grapes” stuff is from the leftist blogs. It is filled with those talking points; sour-grapes, desperation, sinking ship, etc.
The fact is, the swing and the “not so sure of Obama” votes want and need this information.
If it was brought out too early, then Obama would have had time to build his talking points. This way, like Joe the Plumber, he has to either tell the truth, or come up with something fast and hope it is the right lie.
right2bright on October 29, 2008 at 5:06 PM
Obama’s main accomplishments so far:
1. He has spread Chicago-style voter registration fraud across the entire country.
2. He is running the biggest credit card fraud operation in the country.
3. He is responsible for the biggest contribution fraud operation ever, including nationwide contribution limit fraud, international foreign contribution fraud, and corporate contribution fraud!!
4. He has spread Chicago-style thuggery across the nation to stifle anyone who would dare ask him a substantive question, leak his actual citizenship documentation, scholastic history, work history, medical history, or challenge any of his radical ideas. He attacks and intimidates family, friends, employers, and customers of anyone who questions him.
This explains Obama’s visit to Germany: his campaign is modeled after Hitler’s rise to power.
landlines on October 29, 2008 at 5:09 PM
Yes, click on the link. It explains it.
Rick on October 29, 2008 at 5:09 PM
This question has been asked about Obama since he entered the national forum as a Senator rumoring his coming run for POTUS.
If anyone’s suffering sour grapes with this fact that Obama is a straw man without any accomplishment, it’s Obama with the screwed up face.
I shall take pleasure in rubbing Obama’s face in his own fraud ON THE RECORD, not the revision.
maverick muse on October 29, 2008 at 5:09 PM
Too bad talking heads aren’t a little faster on the uptake. That 50% comeback would have stopped him dead in his tracks. Come on Joe and what’s her name! I bet Megyn would have thought of it!
Mr_Magoo on October 29, 2008 at 5:11 PM
Always reminds me of my drive home from work in CA. There was a little town off the freeway with a restaurant sign that said EATS. I’m just saying.
Mr_Magoo on October 29, 2008 at 5:13 PM
It has something to do with a game,
right2bright on Oct 29,2008 at 5:02PM.
right2bright: I’m with you right2bright,I like
Grue in the Attic’s posts!!
We all have our different approaches
to the way we do our posts!
And thats what makes the U.S.S Hot Air
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Grue in the Attic: You Rock,and please
don’t change a thing!!!!:):):)
canopfor on October 29, 2008 at 5:13 PM
Jeezus. 15 years ago, Howard Stern sent people out to interview people on the street in Harlem about David Dinkins, asking them the exact same question: “What has he ever accomplished?” They gave the same answer: “He’s brought a lot of people together.” And look how well that worked out.
Alex_SF on October 29, 2008 at 5:13 PM
The fact that I actually remember that game makes me feel very old and nerdish again.
Lincoln on October 29, 2008 at 5:14 PM
He’s written letters, gave a speech six years ago and wears a bracelet.
Duhbama is unqualified to be President of the PTA.
fogw on October 29, 2008 at 5:16 PM
I totally agree. During Gov. Palin’s debate with lying Joe, there were so many times when I was just screaming at her to respond to some of his deceitful comments. McCain’s staff should have prepared her much better. He got away with the lie about Barack not saying that he would unconditionally meet with the leaders of Iran and North Korea. She should have come back with the exact quote from the debate and the interview the following day. There were many other opportunities that she could have revealed what a liar he is.
RedinPDRM on October 29, 2008 at 5:18 PM
By coincidence I e-mailed my neighbor who’s leaning towards Obama this very question. I told him I would vote for Obama too if he could name one ONE accomplishment of Obama during his public career. He cited:
I mean WTF????? Then I wrote back:
He didn’t respond to that point. He’s a good guy and so we’re having a friendly conservation and all, but really … WTF??? is all I can say at this point.
PackerBronco on October 29, 2008 at 5:23 PM
I’m hoping that Sen. McCain has a large staff reading Hot Air, Free Republic, Michelle, etc. full time. By some of the blunders he’s made in the past month or so, I’m not so sure.
RedinPDRM on October 29, 2008 at 5:25 PM
Accomplishment – He is the One = Fail.
ricor on October 29, 2008 at 5:26 PM
I can’t wait to hear what the answer is in 4 years.
Bet it’ll be freakin’ HILARIOUS.
Jokes on us.
Professor Blather on October 29, 2008 at 5:28 PM
Obama said that this management of his campaign was his major executive experience to be President. Shouldn’t most of those points be a major McCain commercial to close the deal now that the $600 million man is in a statistical dead heat?
econavenger on October 29, 2008 at 5:47 PM
Why aren’t those three in a McCain ad? Esp. #2?
Tzetzes on October 29, 2008 at 5:49 PM
Say that like you’re proud of it :) I can’t sympathize much on the old part but there’s nothing wrong with nerdish :D
Thanks for the explanation guys, I was away from my desk for an hour and would have hated to come back and find myself dead ;)
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 29, 2008 at 6:00 PM
When I was in the military I was required to get a top secret security clearance for my job (which isn’t even near the highest clearance). They went to my hometown and spent 2-3 weeks talking to neighbors, teachers, friends, girlfriends, etc…at a considerable cost to taxpayers.
If Obama were to join the military and have to go through similar vetting there would be no way he would be eligible for top secret clearance based on past associations. I had a buddy who was denied clearance just because he had associated with some kids who were in a gang (motorcycle)
And president has highest security clearance?
Insane!
Ditkaca on October 29, 2008 at 6:10 PM
Every good campaign has an arc to it. The McCain should have been slowly, in a drip drip fashion, building its case. At the same time not overwhelming the public with too much info. Provide just enough info top wet the palate in addition to creating a persona for McCain. They did the persona part ok but the slow tearing down of Obama never really happened.
At this point we should be be at the crescendo of that arc for deconstructing Obama. My point is that, from the start to mid-campaign through to the end, we never got a concerted build-up to that final argument. Now it seems that they are trying to cram all that info in at the last minute
titus_pullo on October 29, 2008 at 6:15 PM
He’s not even qualified to get a security clearance.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 29, 2008 at 6:21 PM
The Clintons said he was “unelectable” for a reason.
Unfortunately, our media started channeling Josef Goebbels.
No let up! Focus! VOTE!
Let’s roll!
ex-Democrat on October 29, 2008 at 6:32 PM
MANAGEMENT OF HIS FRAUDULENT CAMPAIGN
Obama’s only accomplishment to date is in being a FRAUD, representing FRAUDS who wish to defraud our nation into a communist dictatorship.
Claiming to unify, that only applies to Progressives. Obama himself has NOT done the unification, but merely been the figure head for the Progressive movement. They chose him and groomed him with the proper mask and hidden school transcripts and birth documents. He did not groom himself, but allowed others to elevate him beyond his abilities. Obama’s even a fraud according to Marx, “according to their abilities.”
As per the nation, Obama is DIVISIVE!!! He ridicules with pejorative labels any who disagree, and has his club use the government to harass and violate the civil rights of citizens. He represents the worst domestic terrorists and is best friends forever with the worst Palestinian terrorist clan, and is endorsed by Islamofascists (Ahmedinejad, Gadaffi, et. al.) and Der Spiegel Nazi forum editors. THEY CLAMOR FOR OBAMA, AND OBAMA REVELS IN THEIR ADORATION.
Obama aligned himself and his talents with ACORN in order to destroy the American economy and the legitimacy of American elections FOR THE LOVE OF MARX and disdain for our Constitution.
Obamanada:
NO POSITIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
FRAUD!
maverick muse on October 29, 2008 at 6:40 PM
Too effing funny. First the bad toupe. Then the extra credit train wreck.
This is a Harvard educated economist. No wonder everyone laughs at economists – he thinks Obama has “brought the country together” on a “way out of this mess”.
Does anyone have the slightest idea wtf this clown is talking about? Does he?
Jaibones on October 29, 2008 at 6:47 PM
The done nothing candidate from the do nothing congress. Perfect.
Mojave Mark on October 29, 2008 at 7:15 PM
Brought the country together? Oh yeah, I can feel the love. You betcha.
Terrye on October 29, 2008 at 7:16 PM
Well, then Nobama is a failure cause my daughter is drinking the koolaid, and I have tried to help her come back to the light. To say the least, we are not “on the same page”, therefore, have not felt the warm fuzzies for each other as of late. I guess I could do my part and just take a sip of the delicious looking drink in the large bucket……
InTheBellyoftheBeast on October 29, 2008 at 8:08 PM
Okay so people have linked this a lot today, but here you go – Michelle Obama’s official endorsement of her Husband, based on his resume.
wise_man on October 29, 2008 at 9:03 PM
Perfect.
Jaibones on October 29, 2008 at 9:07 PM
LOL!…is he for real? America is more divided now then ever before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8bstg7jl8k
christene on October 30, 2008 at 1:48 AM
I don’t understand why this isn’t in a campaign ad. He is a failure as a senator. He didn’t bring anyone “together” to fix anything. If he couldn’t do it as a senator then why should we expect him to be able to do it as President?
twoarmman on October 30, 2008 at 2:46 AM
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