Quote of the day
posted at 10:52 pm on June 11, 2009 by Allahpundit
“On January 20, Barack Obama became president of a deranged nation. He did so apparently taking no notice of the fact that a good portion of the country, a country that otherwise repeatedly voiced its support for him in poll after poll after poll, continued to be completely out of its mind. He was calm and reasoned, and he spoke in measured tones about the challenges he and the nation were facing. And then he seemed to go manic on us…
By acting so quickly on so many things, he had forced upon his political opposition a kind of instant obsolescence. He had arranged things so that the country could look at the contortions of the lizard brain in comparison with the frenzy of political activity, and those contortions looked tepid and ineffectual, something out of a different and slower time. Say what you will about the policy implications of seeming to do everything at once. Politically, it came onto his opponents like Stonewall Jackson’s soldiers pouring out of the forest at Chancellorsville. The basic, important subtext to what so bothered Commissioner Kilburn and so convinced me was that, Jesus, this guy’s liable to do anything. In a radically different context, Richard Nixon once called this the ‘madman’ strategy.”
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After the Maliki and Pentagon informed him that he was indeed a nutcase for his plan to photobomb the forces trying to stabilize Iraq. He can’t go off the deep end as much as he’s naturally inclined to. Then again, putting the info out there was a key first step and he knows the pics will eventually leak now.
econavenger on June 12, 2009 at 1:49 AM
The ONION has competition.
One unwittingly echoing their parodies.
Obama is a megalomaniac.
The madness is systemic and functional.
Which means it can accomplish far more damage than a mere kook.
Barry’s over-reaching will be his undoing.
But not before sowing a host of chaos.
profitsbeard on June 12, 2009 at 1:55 AM
*After the Prime Minister… bad edit
econavenger on June 12, 2009 at 1:55 AM
No, moron, Obama is simply making an end-run around the Constitution to get what he wants.
He’s not clever. He’s a goddamned liar and a crook with no compunction against trampling over my, your and anyone else’s rights to get what he wants.
Wake the hell up.
spmat on June 12, 2009 at 2:03 AM
Unfortunately, it’s likely going to include true monetary chaos, which is the worst kind possible and impossible to recover from (not with the size and scope of our monetary system).
progressoverpeace on June 12, 2009 at 2:03 AM
When Bush was president the liberals had this motto about the war in Iraq. “Not in our name”
Well I would like to steal that motto. When Barry Hussein Obama goes around APOLOGIZING on behalf of America. Saying, “We’re sorry” over and over again to the middle east
I have this to say.
Obama “NOT IN MY NAME!”
The middle east OWES US AN APOLOGY FOR LETTING THESE CRAZED TERRORISTS TAKE OVER THEIR REGIONS! Not the other way around.
Quit Apologizing on my behalf Obama not all of us think America sucks.
rednebulastudios32 on June 12, 2009 at 2:24 AM
Isn’t the creation of total chaos in this manner part of the Cloward-Piven Strategy? At first, I thought it was just ACORN who was employing it as a means to overwhelm election boards, but I’m beginning to think that Obama is actually using it to bring the country to its knees. Google Cloward-Piven (they were two professors at Columbia) and you’ll see what I mean. It’s getting kind of creepy.
PoodleSkirt on June 12, 2009 at 2:40 AM
Sorry, it’s a solid bag of crap.
How very disheartening to hear you don’t like the car czar. I imagine you’re AOK with other 7,171 czars huh?
GMAFB. Please.
StockOption on June 12, 2009 at 2:48 AM
It’s a poor analogy, as Jackson was successful in scattering the Federals at Chancellorsville securing the field and winning the battle.
The “battle” is not yet over and it’s possible, even increasingly likely, that, in the end, I believe, it will be more like Krafft von Dellmensinger, fresh from the slaughter of the French at Morhange, in compliance with von Moltke’s directive, “Pursue direction Epinal”, thundering to his own catastrophic defeat in the Grand Courenne.
And after that, all that’s left is stagnation and ultimate defeat “on The Marne”…
SuperCool on June 12, 2009 at 2:52 AM
What a complete pile of hogwash. The writer is an idiot.
unseen on June 12, 2009 at 2:56 AM
No, sorry guys. I knew Bush was lying about WMD. I knew we were going to be dragged into some stupid war.
I still don’t think Bush is evil.
We all played a role in this.
Ditto for O.
I’m just not into making politicians into “evil.”
I agree with some stuff. I disagree with other stuff.
That’s how it’s been my entire life.
I’ve admired, truly, one president. I do know that it was hard for me to criticize him.
But…I got over it. He isn’t/wasn’t perfect either.
But I don’t really view politics/life like most of you guys do.
It’s gray.
AnninCA on June 12, 2009 at 2:59 AM
Huh?
progressoverpeace on June 12, 2009 at 3:05 AM
What frappin rock did you crawl out from under?
csdeven on June 12, 2009 at 3:09 AM
Wow. The whackjobs really do come out at night.
csdeven on June 12, 2009 at 3:10 AM
Did you believe him?
AnninCA on June 12, 2009 at 3:16 AM
If you guys really believed him, I’m sorry.
I never did.
I always knew it was nuts, but I also knew……we were going to war.
That was the deal with that election.
AnninCA on June 12, 2009 at 3:17 AM
Bush didn’t lie about WMD’s. In case you’ve forgotten a very large cache of WMD’s was found hiding in a spider hole. Duh.
StockOption on June 12, 2009 at 3:19 AM
Ohh and that cache of WMD’s was destroyed by hanging in case you were wondering where they went.
Hello. Get it?
StockOption on June 12, 2009 at 3:20 AM
Even Cheney doesn’t back this nonsense.
Anyway, I think, personally, that the real motive was about revenge from the public, combined with Bush’s own personal agenda.
And here we are.
AnninCA on June 12, 2009 at 3:22 AM
If it makes you guys feel better, go ahead and think that there were WMD’s.
Not even Bush agrees.
But whatever floats YOUR boat.
AnninCA on June 12, 2009 at 3:23 AM
Hello….is there anybody out there?
“I’ll take Iraqi History for 1000, Alex”
BING BING BING THE DAILY DOUBLE BING BING BING
“What Iraqi leader was responsible for the slaughter and torture of thousands and thousands of his citizens?”
Try to focus on the bigger picture sometime instead of three insignificant characters like “WMD”. Jeesh….
StockOption on June 12, 2009 at 3:30 AM
Obama is not a smart, nor is he slick. He’s rather stupid really, and to go farther than that article that gives him far too much credit, he’s not using a madman strategy, he’s simply a stupid madman with some luck.
The luck was in the fact that he got the house and senate majority.
He’s stupid and a madman because he truly COULD have been a great president, raising this country from a political quagmire fighting with itself and becoming mired in greedy political, corrupt stupidity, into a nation to be proud of.
He could have brought this nation to further greatness and riches making possible freedom from fossil fuels, a killer healthcare program, fantastically overhauled education system, and a boom in technology like never seen before.
Instead he decided to take the low road to power, alienating everyone, turning everyone against each other in a bad faith effort to ram through his socialist policies before the house and senate collapse from liberal control yet again to undo whatever he will try to accomplish.
Sure, he took some shortcuts, trampled on the constitution, and waded through every gray area he could find to get his crap established, but what has he done? He’s destroyed any possibility of this country having the ability to right itself, to move forward and come out ahead of the game. He stole the future ability for this country to help those that will need help around the world and here at home.
Madman, yes. Stupid, definitely. Criminal, I’d say so. His legacy, if he’s worried about such a thing as narcissistic as he is, will most assuredly be the supreme pudwacker in chief, the traitor that sunk this country in the mud for the next 30 to 50 years.
For that he needs special recognition. I leave it to you to decide what that should be. History will look back on this sonofabitch and vomit, much like we look back in disgust at Hitler. Obama deserves that kind of recognition.
I say we start now.
Spiritk9 on June 12, 2009 at 3:33 AM
Idiot. YOu can’t even comprehend what your liberal buddies in the MSN have already admitted can you?
Even the left have admitted that Bush went after WMDs based on bad intel, not only our intel either. We had intel from at least 3 other allies saying the same thing.
If you want to continue to be an idiot, go right ahead. I’m no Bush fan, but I’m really getting sick of the stench of your liberal lies. They accomplish exactly nothing except paint you for what you really are, a piece of trash not worth fighting for.
Spiritk9 on June 12, 2009 at 3:36 AM
Torture, as in real torture, not like that cushy waterboarding stuff, right?
artchick on June 12, 2009 at 3:36 AM
testing
flashoverride on June 12, 2009 at 3:58 AM
The push against Iraq was in large part not due directly to the WMD, but the fact rmains that it was an additional reason and that we did find WMDs and WMD components in Iraq.
We didn’t find a nuclear warhead, but that’s not what we ever envisaged finding. We knew he had chem/bio stockpiles; we found portions of those. Some we did not find. Just because you don’t find something is not proof that it never existed.
flashoverride on June 12, 2009 at 4:01 AM
with 58 democrats in the senate about 250 in the House why wouldn’t he?
rob verdi on June 12, 2009 at 6:29 AM
We can only pray the “undoing” will be his alone, and not that of us all.
oldleprechaun on June 12, 2009 at 6:49 AM
Conservative Niagra
Using a ‘V’ for an ‘N’ in the name of the waterfall seems to annoy the spam filters.
gh on June 12, 2009 at 6:52 AM
This silly collection of one-liners is little more than upgraded Rosie. And fwiw, I’m sorry Bill was a rapist, trapped in a loveless marriage with a harridan, and compelled to fornicate with the help in the WH. Yeah, he wasn’t perfect either. Only Hillary could be truly perfect.
JiangxiDad on June 12, 2009 at 6:58 AM
Absolutely agree. He is not clever. He is just a madman. He also just happens to have a congress that is just as insane and there are few Republicans to oppose him. He is not governing,,, he is ruling. He is truly acting like the head of some ruling party in a 3rd rate nation in the middle of Africa. Add to that,, he also has the ego of a dictator.
The thing about the madman strategy,, by 2010 and 2012,, the change will be so apparent in this nation,, the thing that he and the Democrats will have torn down will be in such a stark contrast to what remains it will be breathtaking. At some point,,, I believe Obama will need a war. He will need a national emergency that he can use to effect elections. Something to force people to get behind him. He is not building support for himself. He is driving people away from him,,, driving them away with a whip!! He inspires fear and disgust. He does not inspire loyalty.
JellyToast on June 12, 2009 at 7:28 AM
Obama and the Dims – sowing the seeds of non-peaceful revolt every day. Just sayin’.
Sporty1946 on June 12, 2009 at 7:44 AM
He’s not insane. He is, however, committed to an insane ideal- egalitarian outcomeand existence for all.
It’s all very Marxist.
drjohn on June 12, 2009 at 7:47 AM
It’s just his worldview, which is marxist. By his own account, he immersed himself in a marxist educational environment and to him it’s just truth now.
Otherwise you are exactly right. He is committed to the Utopia, which he knows he can achieve. Unfortunately, he has no significant life experience to act as a counterbalance.
gh on June 12, 2009 at 8:21 AM
So Charles Pierce recognizes the vast changes but praises them, and he calls us the lizard brains?
/sigh.
Chuck, you have the wrong half of the country pegged as “mad” (crazy).
eforhan on June 12, 2009 at 8:22 AM
That is an absolutely masterful sentence.
tree hugging sister on June 12, 2009 at 8:25 AM
Obama has a combination of A LOT of psychological issues.
abandonment issues
narcissism
megalomania
anger issues
inadequacy issues
confused religious identity
COMBINED with extremist ideology.
THIS EXPLAINS OBAMA and HIS PLANS
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/obama_black_liberation_theolog.html
marklmail on June 12, 2009 at 8:26 AM
Moreover, he’s smart enough to know that he’s screwy(even if he doesn’t understand himself well enough to know why).
But the fact that in spite of his psychological problems, he has attained greatness, causes and feeds the megalomania. In his mind, he can’t be crazy if he’s achieved so much. The only other explanation is that he’s “special.”
What he doesn’t understand is that average people fall for charlatans every day, and always have. The same people who are in love with Obama today were in love with Princess Diana yesterday, and will be in love with someone else tomorrow. So inevitably, sooner or later, the false prophet crashes and burns. (I have some marshmallows handy, as I never miss an opportunity to use a crisis.)
JiangxiDad on June 12, 2009 at 8:38 AM
Okay… then you thought Clinton lied too?
petefrt on June 12, 2009 at 8:45 AM
AnninCA is a leftist idiot. Who cares if there were no WMD? Except for the occasional Muslim terrorist who shoots up a collage campus or Army recruiting office – we haven’t had an attack here since 9/11. We are keeping them busy and eliminating as many as possible OVER THERE! AnninCA is on the same wavelength as the terrorists. She doesn’t like what this country is or was and her side of the aisle is doing their best to destroy America from within.
Sporty1946 on June 12, 2009 at 9:33 AM
Just think of what could have been avoided had Saddam Hussein actually followed the terms of his surrender following the Gulf War?
eforhan on June 12, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Obama is evil.
Hitler evil? Maybe.
Mussolini evil? At least.
ex-Democrat on June 12, 2009 at 9:37 AM
If it makes you guys feel better, go ahead and think that there were WMD’s.
Not even Bush agrees.
But whatever floats YOUR boat.
AnninCA on June 12, 2009
I don’t know if you’re blindingly stupid or intentionally ignoring the following:
Desert Storm (1991) was paused by a cease-fire. That was a temporary halt to military action and not an end to the war. This was so that Hussein could prove that he was in compliance with UN resolutions and restrictions (most of which he violated). You want to glom onto this “no WMD’s” crap because it’s all you’ve got to invalidate the decision to go back and finish what, arguably, should have been finished in 91.
The WMD issue was a piece of the pie, not the whole pie as you like to suggest. But it’s all you have to hold on to, so cling to it…if it makes you feel better.
SKYFOX on June 12, 2009 at 9:40 AM
Radical.
/notinagoodway
bluelightbrigade on June 12, 2009 at 11:01 AM
I don’t think I can improve on that — it says everything I think about this article.
cheeflo on June 12, 2009 at 1:00 PM
Charlie Pierce has done a lot of writing for The Boston Globe. He’s from
the Barney Frank school of obfuscation and “selected facts”. If you’re depending on him for an explanation of anything you’ll be more screwed up than our country.
The reason that Obama seems to be coming at us from so many different fronts is because he is an american idol-like cult figure that is just the front man for this movement. The cabal running him (Emanual and Axelrod and others) are working the plans and details while O enchants his followers with
speeches and appearances. Emanual & co. feel safe that this egomaniac won’t
go off message because he’s lost without TOTUS.
Obama”s background, as many here have noted, was so instructive if only
enough of it had been exposed in time. The real villains are the MSM and people
of Pierce’s ilk that saw their ideologies reflected our “idol’s constructed persona.
ontherocks on June 12, 2009 at 2:49 PM
A very, very worthwhile question to be asking, but let’s extend it to the electorate.
What kind of country could elect a no-fault, no-blame, no-consequence-for-taking-whatever-we-want, we-can-have-it-ALL-on credit type of president?
Those of us who saw through all this madness did not campaign hard enough last year, but I think we will in 1020 and 2012.
ElRonaldo on June 12, 2009 at 7:04 PM
Of course he’s a madman. I knew this BEFORE the election.Just look at his madmen associations(Wright, Ayers et al)and his policy beliefs and the philisophical under pinnings of such.
paraff on June 12, 2009 at 7:49 PM
Sorry Molly, about the anxiety. However, the Leader has decreed that:
1. Mid-western cities must be destroyed, thus moving more dependents into the cities and the embrace of socialism; and,
2. Having seriously injured the banking and auto industries, and threatened the credit card and health industries, he is now aiming his evil basilisk gaze towards destroying small insurance companies.
RWExtremist on June 12, 2009 at 9:51 PM
I’ve heard something similar
soundingboard on June 13, 2009 at 2:19 AM
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