Flashback video: Obama tells beloved, not-at-all-corrupt union to “paint the nation purple”
posted at 6:20 pm on October 12, 2009 by Allahpundit
A palate cleanser dedicated to my boss, the biggest SEIU fan of all. Fun stuff, but let’s be fair: This was shot in early 2008, back when he was telling people whatever garbage he had to in order to get them on his side against Hillary. Remember how he was going to end “don’t ask, don’t tell” and win the “necessary war” in Afghanistan and do whatever it takes to stop Iran from getting the bomb? A sloppy kiss for the union thugs he’d eventually be counting on to fill seats at health-care town halls and maybe stomp an occasional conservative or two is a venial sin viewed from that perspective.
Besides, we’ve all seen the video of him from 2003 blowing smoke about single-payer in front of an AFSCME crowd. Telling unions what they want to hear is just sort of what he does.
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Hence….the Nobel Peace Prize….
right2bright on October 12, 2009 at 6:23 PM
This is one promise Obama is working hard to fulfill. The SEIU, and other unions, are being repaid by Obama and are gaining influence to the substantial detriment of our economy.
GaltBlvnAtty on October 12, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Dammit. I look terrible in purple.
BadgerHawk on October 12, 2009 at 6:24 PM
But these are the people he actually associates with. It’s one thing to say he promises stuff to gays to get votes, but what has he really done before public office? He ran around with radical union and community organizing people (not to mention communists, anti-Semites, and anti-American conspiracy theoriests). You’ve really got to stop acting like this guy is just another Bill Clinton type of politician and realize that he wasn’t screwing around when he promised to “fundamentally transform” the country. Radicals who oppose the American way are not the except, but the rule when you consider who he’s spent his entire life around.
RightWinged on October 12, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Funny, Glenn Beck just played that clip tonight and pointed out about twenty of the white coated doctors at the white coat summit were SEIU employees.
fourdeucer on October 12, 2009 at 6:26 PM
From Barry O himself
William Amos on October 12, 2009 at 6:27 PM
+100!!
TugboatPhil on October 12, 2009 at 6:27 PM
BigWyo on October 12, 2009 at 6:29 PM
I think Obama is doing what you would expect Chavez or Castro to do … Did you see the pictures of Odinga and Obama yelling at the natives in Kenya? That’s who he is and what he thinks.
The problem is Americans are talking back, can’t have that, just ask Castro.
tarpon on October 12, 2009 at 6:29 PM
Note that Obama’s administration has announced that tomorrow it will publish a rule rescinding some union reporting requirements.
GaltBlvnAtty on October 12, 2009 at 6:29 PM
I hate eggplant
macncheez on October 12, 2009 at 6:29 PM
I said Mr. Purple People Eater, what’s your line
He said it’s eatin’ purple people and it sure is fine
But that’s not the reason that I came to land
I wanna get a job in a rock and roll band
Well bless my soul, rock and roll, flyin’ purple people eater
Pigeon-toed, undergrowed, flyin’ purple people eater
(We wear short shorts)
Flyin’ purple people eater
Sure looks strange to me
txag92 on October 12, 2009 at 6:30 PM
So, are there any examples of this SEIU “corruption” you could link to? And by “corruption” I mean financial stuff, like bribery and embezzlement. I’ve seen stories about ACORN embezzlement but never the SEIU. Just curious.
AJB on October 12, 2009 at 6:30 PM
As another commenter pointed out today, maybe Obama is not a communist, but a syndicalist.
Christian Conservative on October 12, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Really AP? I didn’t take you for a conservative echo chamber parrot. You take a isolated incident and use it to smear the whole SEIU organization as “union thugs”. This is getting old. This coming from the same people who cry when people make generalizations about the tea-party protestors due to a couple of signs. LAME.
StoneKrab on October 12, 2009 at 6:31 PM
I have no reason to question his sincerity when it comes to supporting goonions. He lies about other stuff, but he’ll always be true to “community organizing”, unions, and other corrupt redistributionist enterprises.
forest on October 12, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Get your purple, grimy hands off me, Barry.
NebCon on October 12, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Only want to see you standing,
In the Purple SEIU!
With apologies to Prince, of course.
pilamaye on October 12, 2009 at 6:35 PM
I also saw this on Beck’s show. (Episode was excellent in the glimpses I caught, but will see in whole later.)
SEIU+ACORN = Obama
Thugs doing the work for Obama.
cubachi on October 12, 2009 at 6:36 PM
Mussolini had black, and Hitler had brown. Purple is the color of Obama’s parasite army.
Cicero43 on October 12, 2009 at 6:36 PM
Purple shirts , the new brown shirts.
the_nile on October 12, 2009 at 6:36 PM
If the unions want it, it’s bad for America, so one assumes Obama wants the same things.
Rational Thought on October 12, 2009 at 6:37 PM
Try this on
http://blog.purpledevices.com/wp-content/woo_custom/6-real_men_wear_purple.jpg
macncheez on October 12, 2009 at 6:41 PM
*Sigh, and to think I used to love the color purple…
lovingmyUSA on October 12, 2009 at 6:42 PM
I’m sure a lot of the rank and file of the SEIU are fine people, but the leadership is pretty thuggish.
BadgerHawk on October 12, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Dude, I’d punch myself in the face if I walked past a mirror and saw that thing on my chest.
BadgerHawk on October 12, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Without ACORN Obama and EIU are nothing.
seven on October 12, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Yeah, the union is doing great things for the post office.
And local/state governments…
and car companies…
etc..
RedbonePro on October 12, 2009 at 6:47 PM
He is being racist toward the other colors in the spectrum. I have a particular affinity to burnt-orange and feel he is not representing me with his insensitive comments.
jbh45 on October 12, 2009 at 6:47 PM
“Isolated incident”? You’re kidding, right??? You must have been on an island during the townhall meetings–or the association with ACORN…
lovingmyUSA on October 12, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Allah’s been doing some bad purple shrooms. Why would Obama not support to the max and want to increase membership in SEIU? They gave his campaign at least $$60 Million, worked closely with Acorn to help fraud the vote and the caucuses. They will gladly be his domestic foot soldiers; they already started pre-training at the town halls. Yes, Obama’s future with them is so bright we will all need to wear shades. Come down off of your bad high, AP; can’t understand a word you are saying.
tigerlily on October 12, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Oh boo freakin’ hoo. The Democrat leadership runs around talking about how worried they are about violence from conservative activists when the only examples of actual violence so far has come from lefties…but we can’t talk about it because “that’s not fair.”
Give. Me. A. Break.
Joe Caps on October 12, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Oh and BTW there are union thugs. The ones that show up to cause trouble and beat people up qualify as thugs. Calling them union thugs is not smearing all union members. Isn’t that obvious?
Joe Caps on October 12, 2009 at 6:51 PM
Maybe you might check a few of AP’s links, or work you way through this. Maybe you’ll see a pattern developing.
2ipa on October 12, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Obama… a whore of whores, the likes of which the world has never seen.
And his Johns ain’t done with him yet.
TXUS on October 12, 2009 at 6:53 PM
Yes! And the payoff is totally worth it.
Buy Danish on October 12, 2009 at 6:56 PM
I find Americas tolerance for corruption mind boggling.
If Australian politicians did the kind of things that happen in the States they would have to leave office.
Crux Australis on October 12, 2009 at 6:57 PM
Google is your friend.
If you are curious..what have you found so far?
Itchee Dryback on October 12, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Next cover of the Newsweek
We are all purple now
Cover picture:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/92/238714064_fe18821c57.jpg?v=0
macncheez on October 12, 2009 at 6:59 PM
The only purple any conservative should be wearing.
/Heh
2ipa on October 12, 2009 at 7:00 PM
So do we. But take a complicit media, and a population that’s painfully uninformed of how their own government works, and this is what you get.
BadgerHawk on October 12, 2009 at 7:05 PM
These union thugs are enemies of the Republic and are as destructive as any hostile force we now face.
rplat on October 12, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Yep, that’s the narrative that Fox is feeding you. Do some research; just because you see it scribbled on a blackboard with circles and squiggly lines, doesn’t mean it makes sense.
Really, Andy Stern is “thuggish”? You guys are reaching.
StoneKrab on October 12, 2009 at 7:10 PM
There you go with the reference to the President smoking again. RACIST.
katablog.com on October 12, 2009 at 7:13 PM
I hate purple. It’s such a sissy color. I don’t want to look like Barney.
Jeff from WI on October 12, 2009 at 7:16 PM
Grammar not your strong suit? Is that you, Barry?
hillbillyjim on October 12, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Crabcakes: “Unions are harmless groups of tens of thousands who have access to hundreds of millions to spend without account and have historically been deeply involved in political graft, bribery, fraud, intimidation, violence and murder. And I am here to say that they need my defense, not to be questioned.”
See crabcakes write. Funny, funny crabcakes.
tigerlily on October 12, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Conservative are OLD SCHOOL. They play football outdoors..LOL
Jeff from WI on October 12, 2009 at 7:22 PM
lol, yeah I guess not when I’m getting lectured about grammar by sentence fragment man, lol. It’s a blog dude chill…
StoneKrab on October 12, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Everybody’s cute
Even me
But in Purple
I’m STUNNING!
(collapse)
Had to bring in an old school Babylon 5 quote
Defector01 on October 12, 2009 at 7:26 PM
lol, you guys are too much, I guess I’ll leave this thread now, seeing as though the maturity level already has.
StoneKrab on October 12, 2009 at 7:27 PM
Allahpunit
I’d agree with you it could be inconsequential, however apparently the guy who runs SEIU has admitted to meeting with Obama in the White House once a week.
According to Glenn Beck.
therightscoop on October 12, 2009 at 7:32 PM
5-0 with your former QB. heh.
2ipa on October 12, 2009 at 7:35 PM
yup..just wait…his tank will run dry soon and he can no longer play outside in December or January.
Jeff from WI on October 12, 2009 at 7:39 PM
How else are the Vikings going to be the Kings of ‘Been There, Got Beat Again’?
They’re in a deadlock with Buffalo right now…0 and 4.
Favre has arrived for Number 5!!!
BigWyo on October 12, 2009 at 7:59 PM
It will make the Chicago win over the undefeated Vikes that much sweeter…
jbh45 on October 12, 2009 at 8:00 PM
hahahahahaha. Vikes are the biggest losers in the NFL. They wont even make the NFC championship.
jbh45 on October 12, 2009 at 8:06 PM
Too bad no one read the fine print on what “change” meant…
Seven Percent Solution on October 12, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Gosh, this SEIU meeting kind of reminds me of Barney and Friends….everybody sing.
yoda on October 12, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Isn’t this an abuse of power?
Key West Reader on October 12, 2009 at 8:37 PM
THIS is the only purple that counts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Op8aoD7Byo#t=1m41s
lovingmyUSA on October 12, 2009 at 8:49 PM
Shoot, wrong link:
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/6_years_of_iraq_war_photos/iraq-purple-fingers/
lovingmyUSA on October 12, 2009 at 8:49 PM
SEIU=ACORN=OBAMA
I love math.
:)
RedNewEnglander on October 12, 2009 at 8:53 PM
I hear you brother, but for some strange reason many here trust the government, the rest see the corruption, and want most in power, in jail. Time will tell, will we wake up? I am glad to say that more are than I thought.
I love my Aussie bothers and sisters, you guys are our best allies, I hope our currently elected don’t try to change our unique bond. IMHO, the people of America, Australia, Israel, and Poland, understand the cost of freedom, we’ve all paid for it in blood, and the lives of our youth. If not for your gun laws, I could happily live in OZ.
M-14 2go on October 12, 2009 at 9:12 PM
That’s Obama’s thugs. The ones he had bused into all the caucus states to help him steal the caucuses from Hillary. She won all the states where it was one vote for one person.
OxyCon on October 12, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Purple and pink look great together. How are those cute pink ladies up there in San Fran?
/S
dragondrop on October 12, 2009 at 9:25 PM
Up the finger quota now that he is POTUS.
Sapwolf on October 12, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Sistahs for sisters..fo for four..
The sick change in accent and dialect to appeal to the peeps. The guy is a sociopath, pure and simple.
Oh, and by the way, it’s purple over my dead white ass.
mr1216 on October 12, 2009 at 10:14 PM
I actually look pretty good in some SFA purple. Axe ‘Em Jacks!
…they can take their SEIU purple and stick it — trying to hijack my colors!
XWing5 on October 12, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Just a note about elections: You don’t have to wait until 2010 to vote. Please vote and make a statement in your November 3, 2009 local or state elections.
We here in Pennsylvania have a Superior Court judge who is running for PA Supreme Court. You should see the LOADS of union endorsements he has gotten. One endorsement that he is particularly proud of is from the Pennsylvania SEIU.
Hell, I’ll make sure to go to the polls just to vote against this guy.
Please take note of your seemingly benign local candidates. There might be a similar SEIU man or woman lurking about!
misslizzi on October 12, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Real union members of days gone by would have laughed at these Commie SEIU punks, if not clobbered them for being the tools of the bosses and the power elite.
Union-lite.
Dr. ZhivBlago on October 13, 2009 at 5:55 AM