Video: TOTUS betrays POTUS; Update: Guardian goofs on the “great orator”
posted at 7:44 pm on April 3, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Surely one of the top five dumbest palate cleansers we’ve ever posted, but it’s simply too meme-tastic to leave it buried in Headlines. If he can’t count on TOTUS and he can’t count on his canvassers, surely he can still count on the average American voter, right? Hmmm:
Obama’s lowest approval number comes in response to his federal budget, which includes a substantial deficit. Only 42 percent agree with Obama’s budget while 45 percent disapprove…
In the minds of those surveyed, there’s little distinction between the bank bailouts of the past six months and the aid packages for the auto industry that were granted earlier this year. Only 34 percent of people think the administration is taking the right approach to help an ailing auto industry. A higher number (43 percent) objects to bailouts as an appropriate use of government money.
Newsweek’s naturally downplaying the degree of opposition. Check the crosstabs and you’ll see that there are actually three options on the bailout questions: taking the right approach, inappropriate use of government funds, and “is not doing what is needed to solve the problem.” Support for that last option is in the mid-teens; add it to those who are opposed to bailouts generally and you’re well over 50 percent who think The One’s on the wrong track. Click the image to watch.
Update: Where is the TOTUS here, anyway? I don’t see it at the podium. Is it one of those large-screen deals in the back like he had at the White House presser last week?
Update: A comedy double dip courtesy of, believe it or not, the Guardian. Inside Barry’s mind as the TOTUS goes dark…
pause [I'M IN WAY TOO DEEP HERE] … a regulatory system that was inadequate to the massive changes that have taken place in the global financial system … pause, close eyes [THIS IS GOING TO GO DOWN LIKE A CROCK OF SHIT BACK HOME. HELP]. I think what is also true is that … pause
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This ACTOR is just embarrassing to America … It’s absolutely funny to watch this fool stumble around. How many goes at fooling the idiots to vote for him, before it is obvious their free stuff isn’t coming.
Liberals have got to be brain dead to vote for this …
tarpon on April 3, 2009 at 9:10 PM
Is it possible that getalife is really a good conservative, or at least a person with a real brain, but plays the part of koolaid drinker to try to show how moronic and slobbering some libs can be?
/reaching, I know
bikermailman on April 3, 2009 at 9:12 PM
Four score and seven weeks ago I thumped Hillary in Iowa. Four score and seven days ago I bumped George out of his office. Today you sit on hallowed gound and I say…um…..let you eat cake!
(cue wild French applause)
Limerick on April 3, 2009 at 9:12 PM
Maybe Bush didn’t loose his place on a teleprompter but he has sure said some asinine things, very coherently.
Magnus on April 3, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Nice conspiracytheory there becker but not even close.
Just a proud Independent American winning arguments.
getalife on April 3, 2009 at 9:16 PM
*snort*
You’re a pathetic Ogabe shill who hasn’t waged, much less won, a single argument here.
Jenfidel on April 3, 2009 at 9:21 PM
It would be nice if Bama were just a naif, clumsily stepping on booby traps as he waltzs through the minefield.
I don’t think so. I agree with Krauthammer that Bama knows exactly where he wants to go, and his image as a naif is also true.
Bama seeks to reorder this country to something palatable to Alinsky, Ayres and Marx. That’s the goal. He knows how to do, between taxation and inflation, welfare dependence, blah, blah…the list goes on. Diss me and you are on the pitchforks, little man…I won, you know.
The naif part also rings true because the man is singularly insular. Never been anywhere, never done anything…but run for office…mostly without opposition. So, he is a naif who thinks a video IPod of his speeches is a treasure worthy of Elizabeth II. I fully admit, England is not what it was, and I don’t think there will always be an England, as it descends into terminal dhimmitude.
But, fer Chrissake, an IPod with your speeches on it?
Protocols…Bama thinks that is some kind of doctor. Dumber than a post and proud of it, which is not unusual…when you are so ignorant you don’t know how stupid you really are, you get really arrogant and proud.
Until someone kicks your butt and shows you your folly, that your self-approval rating of 100+% is not just unearned but ludicrous in the scheme of human events. I been there, done that, have the scars. Those, I am proud of.
I voted against the man, so don’t blame me, suckers.
And, prayers for the people in the gun-free zone in Binghamton NY. I was there for a month or so about 1994, a nice town. I used to run across the bridge near where the latest coward shot up a bunch of defenseless people. NY State gets accolades from the anti-self defense groups (Brady Campaign, Eric Holder and Hillary) but why are multiple-victim shootings ALWAYS
Harry Schell on April 3, 2009 at 9:22 PM
He reminds me of a guy on LGF, who likes to act like he sees nothing negative about Obama, and seems addicted to the bltch slapping he gets for every post.
capitalist piglet on April 3, 2009 at 9:23 PM
When you read my arguments, they are not formed from listening to rush, fox news or drudge.
I give you the unvarnished truth, the reality of the situation, a no spin zone, if you will.
Original thinking without blind party partisanship, unclouded by ideology mindset and just an honest American Independent American real opinion.
I hope this puts the becker conspiracy theories to rest.
getalife on April 3, 2009 at 9:24 PM
The Democrats are better at it.
ddrintn on April 3, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Yeah, the LGFer is a self-described “independent” too. Like we believe that. You have your head so far up Obama’s ass, he can taste hairspray.
capitalist piglet on April 3, 2009 at 9:25 PM
ROFL…
ddrintn on April 3, 2009 at 9:25 PM
(cont’d) in places that are GUN-FREE?
I guess they aren’t, since the murderer used a gun(s)…guess he didn’t read the sign at the door.
Disgusting. How many have to die before the Brady Campaign admits they are wrong? Like PETA, they kill and blame someone or something else.
Barnum was right, methinks.
Harry Schell on April 3, 2009 at 9:26 PM
I was banned at the lgf but had fun arguing with Charles.
getalife on April 3, 2009 at 9:28 PM
Wait for the first really solid, total lack of recovery by Barry when TOTUS goes on strike. You know it’s bound to happen… A full 2 minutes of internationally critiqued “live” babbling that causes even the popcorn sales man to think it’s intermission at the movie house and that the cocaine addicted comedian is on stage making fart noises.
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Chrissy Matthews will still get a little thrill no doubt, but the not so impressed foreign press may just pee themselves laughing.
RalphyBoy on April 3, 2009 at 9:28 PM
This is all so outrageously untrue, it’s risible!
We don’t do Orwell speak here.
Your posts are the exact opposite of what you claim!
I’m sure you know you’re not fooling anyone who posts here with your BS, but you must be assuming that lurking readers are dumber than stumps!
Jenfidel on April 3, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Without TOTUS, POTUS is speechless. Somewhere Winston Churchill is laughing his ass off!
GarandFan on April 3, 2009 at 9:48 PM
I usually ignore this troll, but this gave me a hearty laugh.
4shoes on April 3, 2009 at 9:58 PM
ROFLMAO!!
oldleprechaun on April 3, 2009 at 10:03 PM
The more he talks the more people will wake up. Just like Susan Smith.
SouthernGent on April 3, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Newsweek: We polled nearly twice as many Democrats as we did Republicans and can safely report that the whole country loves Obama almost as much as we do.
(page 6 of the poll data)
Party ID
Republican 22
Democrat 41
Independent 32
Other/Don’t know 5
Bruce in NH on April 3, 2009 at 10:20 PM
It was there, both the right hand and left hand.
right2bright on April 3, 2009 at 10:30 PM
It’s now moved from the bazaar to sad.
FireBlogger on April 3, 2009 at 10:31 PM
*shakes head*
Send_Me on April 3, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Wow.
mikeyboss on April 3, 2009 at 11:12 PM
What’s sad here is that it took the Guardian to throw some cold water on this little love-in. Here in the states all we have is the Government-Media Complex….
TheRook on April 3, 2009 at 11:33 PM
That’s hilarious. I like how his lips quiver moments before TOTUS rescues him. Was there ever a president so helpless without TOTUS?
pearson on April 3, 2009 at 11:34 PM
Here in the states, the MSM have invested everything in Obama. The Brits haven’t. They’re more trustworthy and honest in the matter.
ddrintn on April 3, 2009 at 11:50 PM
They have no “dog in the fight” unlike Newsweek, Time the NYt etc etc
TheRook on April 4, 2009 at 12:02 AM
Would you care to say what your screen name was?
capitalist piglet on April 4, 2009 at 12:21 AM
I hope that Obama utterly, completely and devastatingly fails! God save us all…
CCRWM on April 4, 2009 at 1:10 AM
I am pretty sure it was unicorn_farmer.
kahall on April 4, 2009 at 1:34 AM
What an idiot. I want to see his grades at Columbia and Harvard. What we have here is affirmative action come home to roost, and now America has to shoulder the consequences.
Scotsman on April 4, 2009 at 1:56 AM
getalife’s name on LGF was “Donkeyshiteater”
csdeven on April 4, 2009 at 2:49 AM
It is time for spot the TOTUS campaign. Or the Earpiece of the United States.
All those ums and ahs could well be used to offset the delay in the ear being told what to say.
davod on April 4, 2009 at 3:18 AM
That, and the fact that they are in crayon.
trigon on April 4, 2009 at 3:43 AM
Having read a number of your contributions, this comment brings to mind a comment by my father-in-law who, while a very accomplished man, has the least insight and self-awareness of anyone I have ever encountered. After a particularly spectacular display of a complete lack of self-knowledge, he said, “I practice no self-deception whatsoever.”
DrMagnolias on April 4, 2009 at 5:42 AM
About the 100th time he does this during his 1st and only term, we’ll have gotten used to it.
Until then, it’s going to be fun to watch him looking for that teleprompter.
manofaiki on April 4, 2009 at 6:58 AM
“They represented our country proudly.”
Are you kidding me? Please, if this is representation of our country, I want no part of it. I’ll take isolationism over this type of international representation any time of the day. He is truly showing how “Dumbed” down our population has become. Getalife, our of curiousity, how old are you? I’m guessing in your early 20’s as your “American Idol” worship of this clown shows with all your posts.
rayvet on April 4, 2009 at 7:47 AM
Has this guy ever given a speech he practiced beforehand? If you can’t give a speech without ‘technology’, you’re an idiot.
I know Presidents have used teleprompters for years, but this is an embarrasement. If you aren’t smart enough to ad lib/wing it if the ‘technology’ fails, you don’t know enough about what you’re talking about to begin with.
For a supposed university professor to not be able to give an impromtu speech or ‘mow through” when the teleprompter takes a break shows this guy to be, um, somewhat less “educated” than he is touted to be.
Again, simply embarrassing.
catmman on April 4, 2009 at 8:18 AM
Hmm, of course when Obambi is in trouble then he would look backwards to blame everything on Bush. :(
poxoma on April 4, 2009 at 8:33 AM
Oh ye, it Barak’s “Blame America First” foreign policy. Uh, I do think all of Europe would be speaking GERMAN if it weren’t for US.
jbh45 on April 4, 2009 at 9:09 AM
LOL! For my dog it is the car keys.
ctmom on April 4, 2009 at 9:14 AM
Somewhere in Texas, W is watching this, laughing his ass off, and thinking out loud, “they called ME an idiot?”
Meanhile…
Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing it’s idiot.
M-14 2go on April 4, 2009 at 9:31 AM
Sounds like getalife is changing his mind. Looks like he likes what he reads here.
OneConservative on April 4, 2009 at 11:19 AM
You know, now that I think of it, maybe getalife is Allahpundit. And this is how he drives up traffic. Seriously, maybe that would explain why getalife is still around at this point.
LastRick
While AP’s screeds are left-leaning elitist drivel, at least his sentences form coherent paragraphs and he tries to back up his prejudices. He would have to take some serious psychotropic drugs to babble like getalife. Just guessing but I think AP sticks with pot and Stoly.
SKYFOX on April 4, 2009 at 2:47 PM
Europe treated America like heroes that hung around then insisted on coming back to visit. Then they sat around jealous as we built an empire and defended freedom. They were concerned about the Soviets but had the luxury of a strong ally. So they acted independent.
Now they can take their feeling of irritation over our accomplishments and strength and quietly enjoy the mess we are in and the First Family we sent over. And Dear Leader mentions our arrogance.
Can they keep him?
IlikedAUH2O on April 4, 2009 at 3:13 PM
…shares its Halloween candy. It’s old and stale by now, like my damn policies, But I got some! Who Wants Halloween Candy!?
Teddy on April 4, 2009 at 10:59 PM
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