Krauthammer: Obama attacks on Bush “disgusting”
posted at 9:30 am on October 28, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
When does a President stop blaming his predecessor and start taking responsibility for his own actions? To be fair, that has been an eternal question in the American context, but it does seem as though Barack Obama has a crutch that he refuses to put aside. Economy? Blame Bush! Media? Blame Bush! Afghanistan? Especially there, Charles Krauthammer argues, Obama has been “disgusting” in his blameshifting, especially since it has been six months since Obama rolled out his own strategy on the war (via Radio Vice Online):
I want to point out one thing about what Obama had said when he talked about “the long years of drift.” There is something truly disgusting about the way he cannot refrain from attacking Bush when he’s being defensive about himself. I mean, it’s beyond disgraceful here. He won election a year ago. He became the Commander [in] Chief two months later. He announced his own strategy — not the Bush strategy, his strategy — six months ago, and it wasn’t off-handed, it was in a major address, with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense standing with him. And now he’s still talking about “the drift” in the Bush years. What’s happening today is not a result of the drift, so-called, of the Bush years, it’s because of the drift in his years. It’s because of the flaws in his own strategy, which is what he’s actively examining.
Disgusting? At best, one can say that it shows a lack of intestinal fortitude when it comes to taking criticism. No President gets a tabula rasa on entering office, and every president since Washington has had to deal with issues that began during a previous term in office. It comes with the territory, which is why 42 other Presidents dispensed with the whining and took responsibility for their own actions.
Obama may have gotten himself elected by promising to be the not-Bush, and he certainly won his Nobel Peace Prize for being the not-Bush. However, if he wants to be President, he’ll need to start acting like it and quit sniveling about the fact that he won the election after Bush — which he himself chose to do.
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mankai on October 28, 2009 at 10:33 AM
Awesome.
Mord on October 28, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Disgusting? Works for me: Arousing disgust; repugnant.
Buy Danish on October 28, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Gutless & spineless and criminally elected.
royzer on October 28, 2009 at 10:40 AM
Obama is a do-nothing – crybaby – panty-waste.
D2Boston on October 28, 2009 at 10:41 AM
I don’t know why anyone is surprised by this.
Obama was a “pampered” child growing up. He was never held accountable for his failures – he was always allowed to blame others for them – or blame the system.
Prior to being elected President – he had only ONE real accomplishment in his life – he graduated college. And what did he learn there? We know from reading his book that he learned more about how to escape accountability and blame the system.
Apparently he worked at a law firm for a brief time – but we know from his book that he considers that all “fake time” … empty, meaningless time. Perhaps he considers it such because he didn’t accomplish much there and people noticed it?
He only hit his stride when he joined the identity politics movement – as a community organizer – where his astute skills at blaming the system have a lot of value. He’s rocketed to success since then – but only through victim politics and blaming the system.
To borrow a line directly from him – you can put lipstick on a pig – it’s still a pig. He cannot change. He’s NEVER accomplished anything but achieving a college degree – and perhaps he even used a lot of victim politics to achieve that – we don’t know. But it’s not surprising that this pony continues to use the one trick that he knows …
BLAME.
HondaV65 on October 28, 2009 at 10:41 AM
O needs to shut up about his predecessor. He is irritating beyond belief. I actively try to switch channels when he appears and blathers on about Bush and mops on TV and I don’t even care to much about Bush. Irritating narcisstic whiner. As Balloon mom would say “waah waah baby”.
He is making me hate even his cute kids. The Manchurian Candidate needs to stop appearing on his state run media before he drives everyone insane with his vapidity.
nyx on October 28, 2009 at 10:41 AM
What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
- Dan Quayle
MB4 on October 28, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Why does this A** wipe have to insult our Intelligence. For him to stand up there and rattle on cheap rhetoric to us- like the preacher in a pulpit, is just Insulting. Grow some Basketballs and admit that you have no idea how to Govern a Nation.
hawkman on October 28, 2009 at 10:42 AM
/sarc (on my part)
pseudonominus on October 28, 2009 at 10:44 AM
A… ‘community antagonizer’, as it were.
Midas on October 28, 2009 at 10:44 AM
“Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day;
but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (adminstrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.”
Thomas Jefferson
rabidamerican on October 28, 2009 at 10:45 AM
Obfuscate much?
mankai on October 28, 2009 at 10:45 AM
The left claims that Obama inherited the biggest economic mess since Jimmah Carter. Obama promises that he will surpass Carter’s accomplishments to the point that the Great Depression will be the light at the end of the tunnel.
volsense on October 28, 2009 at 10:46 AM
From Wikipedia: Joe Isuzu was a fictional spokesman used in a series of television advertisements for Isuzu. Created by the Madison Avenue ad agency Della Femina, Travisano, and Partners, the segments aired on American television in 1986-90, reaching their zenith in 1987 after the character was featured during Super Bowl XXI. Played by actor David Leisure, Joe Isuzu was a pathological liar who made outrageous and overinflated claims about Isuzu’s cars. (One commercial even cast him as the Boy who Cried Wolf.) The campaign was resurrected briefly in 1999 and continued until 2001 to promote several cars such as the Isuzu Axiom. Famous quotes:
* “You have my word on it.”
* “If I’m lying, may lightning hit my mother.” (“Good luck, Mom!” appears on screen.)
* “It has more seats than the Astrodome!”
* “Hi, I’m Joe Isuzu and I used my new Isuzu pickup truck to carry a 2,000 pound cheeseburger.”
* “The Isuzu Impulse: faster than a speeding—[catches a bullet in his teeth]—well, you know.”
The character became a fixture in American popular culture.
Barack Obama is the Joe Isuzu of American politics.
MB4 on October 28, 2009 at 10:46 AM
I have a new slogan for Obama:
The buck passes here.
xrayiiis on October 28, 2009 at 10:49 AM
He’s(Obama)skinny but he’s tough!
He’s got his mop!
He ain’t tired, he’s just getting started!
He’s taking his time on Afghanistan just as he would standing over a 20ft putt at Andrew’s AFB!
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Ditherer-In-Chief!
Coming to a theatre of the absurd near you!
David2.0 on October 28, 2009 at 10:51 AM
I am ashamed of our Pres he is hanging our service Men and Women out to dry. The last thing we need is to be seen as weak to our enemys.
LSUMama on October 28, 2009 at 10:51 AM
And, remember, he’s not just blaming Bush. He’s blaming conservatives and Republicans for “the mess”.
LibTired on October 28, 2009 at 10:51 AM
If you think Obama blaming Bush for his own incompetence is bad now, just wait until his second term. It will get worse.
volsense on October 28, 2009 at 10:51 AM
President Doug Whiner.
Lightswitch on October 28, 2009 at 10:52 AM
Barry just got Krauthammered!
Dork B. on October 28, 2009 at 10:53 AM
…but who killed vince foster?
sesquipedalian on October 28, 2009 at 10:37 AM
what’s it like being an incredibly disturbed individual
blatantblue on October 28, 2009 at 10:53 AM
Obama is a wimp. This is one of the dangers of electing a gender confused sociopath with daddy issues.
Jerricho68 on October 28, 2009 at 10:53 AM
Obama’s a turd.
justltl on October 28, 2009 at 10:53 AM
There’s real fire in Krauthammer’s belly these days – he has made several SCATHING attacks on President Pantyhose this past week.
Great stuff, hit The One straight and hard. Attack all his whining, troops are dying out there while he shilly-shallies and tries to blame Bush.
JohninLondon on October 28, 2009 at 10:55 AM
just wait until his second term. It will get worse.
volsense on October 28, 2009 at 10:51 AM
Ha! Wishful thinking on your part I believe.
Mord on October 28, 2009 at 10:56 AM
Or how about- I inherited this buck.
highhopes on October 28, 2009 at 10:57 AM
You mean Carter’s third term right? Because right now, it feels an awful lot like some alternative universe where the 1980 election came out differently.
highhopes on October 28, 2009 at 10:58 AM
No – what Obama inherited was a full-scale review of policy options for Afghanistan conducted in the closing weeks of the Bush administration. In effect, he adopted that plan, claiming it as his own with no credit to Bush.
That Obama lie needs nailing again and again – and Cheney and Krauthammer are nailing it well.
JohninLondon on October 28, 2009 at 11:00 AM
Obama’s just upset that the country wasn’t in perfect shape before he started f’ing it up.
Less fun that way.
NoDonkey on October 28, 2009 at 11:08 AM
Bravo! Well said, Charles!
mozalf on October 28, 2009 at 11:10 AM
whiner-in-chief
let me get your binky dear leader…
—-
Spot on Dr. K!
cmsinaz on October 28, 2009 at 11:12 AM
I have come to beleive the dem way to attract voters is to blame others for their lot in life. Apparently, this must be supported by some sort of polling data, since a vast majority of liberal politicians use it to their advantage.
Jennifer Granholm, take a bow. The President of the United States is following your lead.
booter on October 28, 2009 at 11:17 AM
If the job of POTUS was so difficult, if Pres Bush had ruined things so badly – why did Obama campaign so hard to get the job? Didn’t he understand the world situation? He must have thought the sun would rise and all problems fall away at his touch.
katiejane on October 28, 2009 at 11:21 AM
BS. He didn’t inherit anything. He ran for the damn job. Now he’s running from it.
He is a coward.
rockmom on October 28, 2009 at 11:30 AM
C’mon, Ed, give the poor guy a break. The previous 42 weren’t elected to hold back the waters of the oceans, heal the sick, lame environment or establish hope through change.
Expecting a basic everyday competence is kinda beneath him, donch’a think?
Bruno Strozek on October 28, 2009 at 11:31 AM
Blame Bush is all the democrats have.
Their economic and international policies are blowing up in their faces.
Democrats need a bogyman to demonize because it is the only way to get their party energized.
The hate for W brought out liberals in droves.
Now Obama’s failures in keeping promises and bringing “change” have put his left wing base adrift and disgruntled.
There is worse news on the horizen economic wise and the Obama White House know it.
They will not get any major foreign policy breakthroughs(not stopping Iran from building a bomb,no peace between Israel/Palistine,Russia continues to Bit#h slap Obama) to brag about so all they have left is to demonize the competition and hope that independents will still blame Bush for the state that the country is in.
Closing in on 11 months into Obama’s Presidency,it is obvious that he should not have run on “Hope and Change”,but instead on “Whine and blame Bush”.
Baxter Greene on October 28, 2009 at 11:36 AM
What is truly disgusting has to do with a Democrat sitting in the Oval Office while American military are killed based on his inefficiency and that of a Democratic congress.
Somebody want a parallel in the war on Islamic fascism to Vietnam? How about quagmire?
We’re not seeing combat boots with fake tags for the fallen over this as art happenings. I wonder why? Ignoring heroes in the field racked up 50K graves during Vietnam, and it’s the same Democratic politicizing of this war that will run up the numbers before they abandon the mission.
If you voted these people in, you’re just as guilty.
Hening on October 28, 2009 at 11:42 AM
Just as quick as Bildo Clinton stopped talking about those disastrous Reagan economic policies…oh, wait!
Knott Buyinit on October 28, 2009 at 12:02 PM
But you went out and mowed your lawn. That calls for a Nobel Peace Prize!
mizflame98 on October 28, 2009 at 12:04 PM
It’s absolutely disgusting. The so-called “most powerful man in the world” is an indecisive, whining, teleprompter-dependent moron whose answer to every responsibility of his office is to blame everyone else.
Oh, yeah. That’s change, all right.
n0doz on October 28, 2009 at 12:09 PM
Oh cry me a river Nile Jimbo!!!
=> Unemployment was low 8% under Bush and it’s now fully 10% and as high as 15% nationally…
=> Deficit was just under 1 trillion under Bush and it is now three or four times that…
=> Iraq and Afghanistan were on track for wins under Bush and now both are in chaos….
=> Iran was kept in check under Bush and now they are rogue nuke power…
=> North Korea was kept in check under Bush and now they are rogue nuke power…
=> Our health care system under Bush was best in the world and now it is poised to be decimated…
etc… etc… etc….
IntheNet on October 28, 2009 at 12:11 PM
He could never do that. That could jeapordize his chances for a second term.
No second term, no more Kobe Beef dinners, Nobel Peace Prizes, and all the other trappings that come with his celebrity status.
UltimateBob on October 28, 2009 at 12:14 PM
This all makes me wonder if Obama has a mental illness. Seriously, it’s called a Character Logical Disorder. For someone with this disorder, their own confidence in their “right-ness” is literally hard wired so deeply to their core that they are incapable of recognizing any of their own flaws or faults. They blame everyone around them because, to them, it is always someone else’s fault.
I know about this because my mother has it. These people also don’t respond to any kind of psycho-therapy because it’s never their fault or their problem.
Does this make me pity him, feel sorry for him or give him a pass?
Hell. No.
KrisinNE on October 28, 2009 at 12:14 PM
Krauthammer isn’t saying that it is never appropriate to criticize the policies of a previous administration. He’s saying that it’s disgusting that Obama does it every single time the subject comes up, including when Obama’s own policies are being very specifically criticized and he is on the defense.
At some point, hopefully early in his/her tenure, a responsible leader – hell, a mature *person* – drops this kind of stuff and owns his own policies and agenda. Obama can’t/won’t do this and it appears to be a character issue.
Missy on October 28, 2009 at 12:15 PM
FIFY
UltimateBob on October 28, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Specific question… what specific policies led to the economic situation? He never names them. The 2001 tax cuts? If so, explain the post 911 boom… the 6 years of expansion… and if the tax cuts are the problem… just raise them back to Carter levels.
Reagan was up against a Democratic House and was VERY SPECIFIC as to the causes of the bad economy he inherited. Obama just references some vague “policies of the past” line with no specifics.
mankai on October 28, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Del Dolemonte on October 28, 2009 at 12:23 PM
You’d think that a guy who explicitly applied for the job, then spent more money than any other presidential candidate in American history to win the job, would at some point stop griping about the problems that come with the job. You’d think this, that is, if we hadn’t already come to realize that this Obama fellow is temperamentally a child, and not somebody who says “It’s my job,” rolls up his sleeve, and gets things done.
Last I checked, no matter how mad the country was at Bush at the end of his second term, Americans still wanted a doer for President, not a whiner.
Aitch748 on October 28, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Since the 9/11 attacks were planned to happen on Clinton’s watch, he was right.
getalife.
Del Dolemonte on October 28, 2009 at 12:25 PM
He should be THANKING Bush.
Where would he be WITHOUT Bush????
bridgetown on October 28, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Please go to American Thinker and read James Lewis piece: Narcissistic Rage in the White House. It will help the fence-sitters among you to understand Obama’s peculiar actions and words. That Obama is a narcissist is not new but it really helps to clarify why so many of us believe it.
SKYFOX on October 28, 2009 at 12:29 PM
Awfully close to Nostradamus’ Mobius
JonPrichard on October 28, 2009 at 12:29 PM
As you note, Obama won the election by running as not Bush. The irony is that opportunity only existed because of the irrational demonization of Bush the media spent eight years promulgating. The problem is that Obama’s chosen policies are not only unpopular, but less popular then Bush’s were.
So the only avenue Obama has is to argue is that as much as his policies are unpopular (and for good reason), they are what make him non-Bush, which is what people voted for.
On one level is makes perfect, twisted, sense, and on another level indicates how insane the political culture of the last few years has become.
18-1 on October 28, 2009 at 12:33 PM
I’m amused that Bush was personally to blame for what any NCO in the American military did during his time in office, but Clinton is blameless for repeatedly turning down offers by the Sudanese to hand over Osama Bin Laden.
18-1 on October 28, 2009 at 12:44 PM
Arrogance, naivity, thin-skinned, and an unquenchable desire to be universally loved…..we’ve hit the superfecta with this one
stldave on October 28, 2009 at 12:45 PM
Wow, Charles’s views on Chairman Maobama have come a long way in a year, haven’t they? Little more than a year ago, when the election hung in the balance, he could only marvel. Welcome to the club, Chas, better late than never I guess.
james23 on October 28, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Well, I blame EVERYTHING wrong with the country today on Big Brother Barack. I don’t think I’m alone in thinking this.
adamsmith on October 28, 2009 at 12:59 PM
Look at it this way–think of all the complaining, finger-pointing and blame laying that is coming up for Maobama and the socialist boobs who elected him. I have made it my mission to torture those folks with their folly; and have already started. Anyone who voted for this prick should be ripped for it repeatedly over the next few years.
So instead of whining about the blame game, how ’bout we just return fire? Maobama is responsible for the worst economy in 50 years. He is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory oversears. He is the butt of jokes world wide…etc etc
james23 on October 28, 2009 at 1:01 PM
The Wall Street Journal has an excellent op-ed about Obama using Bush as an excuse for anything that is going wrong in his administration.
Conservative Samizdat on October 28, 2009 at 1:02 PM
That’s an example of his narcissistic projection. Obama does quite a lot of it.
Saltyron on October 28, 2009 at 1:07 PM
You are describing narcissism. Look it up, it’ll open your eyes.
Saltyron on October 28, 2009 at 1:08 PM
Did Bush ever, ever, ever blame Clinton for 9/11?
29Victor on October 28, 2009 at 1:16 PM
It is the Lefty way to blame others for their problems and silence dissent. This enables one to cling to bad policies and ideologies because when they fail it’s not the because they are wrong, but because of what someone else did.
see: Mao, Stalin etc…
29Victor on October 28, 2009 at 1:20 PM
I know it’s rhetorical, but I sure do miss him…He stood on conviction and integrity
cmsinaz on October 28, 2009 at 1:26 PM
I agree that Barry should be thankful for the very EXISTENCE of Bush. It gave him a campaign platform.
An interesting line from a piece I read recently really captured the essence of Obambi’s being,
“…his only qualification for the throne is his deisre for the throne…”.
In the absence of ANY experience, which is now showing, I can only guess his willful desire and feeling of have a “right” to the throne, drove him to make any promise, breach any contract in order to get where he is. I also believe he wakes up pissed off every day that there is no higher office to run for.
redneckjoe on October 28, 2009 at 1:28 PM
Gee Mr. Krauthammer where were you during the election? You’d have more credibility to me if you had done your homework before Obama was elected. If you had, you would know that nothing Obama is doing should be surprising. Obama’s “disgusting” behavior and beliefs were on full display and easy to research if you had chosen to do so. All I heard from you before he was elected were accolades for his brilliant campaign.
Hobbes on October 28, 2009 at 1:34 PM
Obama also fails to recognize that the Dems held Congress since 2006, so the economy can not be solely blamed on Bush. He didn’t have the “friendlies” in Congress since 2006 to pass his agenda.
And because of jumping Jim Jeffords, he didn’t have the Senate from 2000 to 2002 election cycle.
So Bush really only had Congress from 2003 and 2004, all inclusive, and that was at the height of the Iraq War debate and beginning of that war. So Bush didn’t have the political capital left over to put out anything domestically, anyway.
Fate made Bush a foreign policy president because of 9/11. Prior to 9/11, he got the dubious no child left behind passed. But anything else on his agenda was changed on 9/11.
I don’t remember if his tax cuts were passed before or after 9/11, but 9/11 caused a huge shock to the economy, that we did manage to recover from.
Congress has not helped anything by spendingn like drunken sailors, no offense to drunken sailors. Then this Congress since 2009 has quadrupled down on that spending craze.
karenhasfreedom on October 28, 2009 at 1:54 PM
I still believe Bush’s largest failure was failing to define and sell his policies, ramming them home so they resonate with the public and countering the largest propaganda effort by the leftist media ever.
Even Bush was hating Bush, before it was over. Obama was elected because of that as well as McAmnisty with his “say no evil about the evil on the other side” mentality as well as his being about the worse candidate the GOP has forced upon us (those open primaries etc.) spliting the base.
Don L on October 28, 2009 at 1:55 PM
Charles – too bad you weren’t this open and honest last October!
lonestar1 on October 28, 2009 at 1:57 PM
So where is Obama et al when we have a coup in slow motion ?
J_Crater on October 28, 2009 at 2:03 PM
I think Bush failed to recognize that civility left politics because of the FL debacle in 2000. Bush respected the office of the President very much and failed to recognize the vitriolic hatred that was heaped his way from the far left loons as well as many parts of the main stream press. So because of his failure to recognize just how disgustingly deep this irrational hatred those people had for him personally, which then bled over to them dis-respecting the office, too, Bush failed to really sell himself to the American public.
My really good friend happens to be close personal friends of George and Laura Bush. She has been to the White HOuse many times and when he was governor in Texas, their kids hung out with each other. I never got to meet Bush personally through this connection, but she told me things about him that we never read about or hear about in the press. He really is a really nice, kind, respectful person.
He took 9/11 seriously and to his very core. He felt it was his responsibility to never allow an attack like this on Americans on his watch. It shook him to the core, how very evil that 9/11 plot was. No one saw it coming, mostly thanks to the Jamie Gorelick wall that was put up between the CIA and the FBI. Because of that wall, they could not search that computer that was found with that so called 20th hijacker. There were other signals that were just not picked up on. This plot was underway for years. It changed America, but unfortunately, the left was still in the middle of their FL 2000 election cycle temper tantrum. Sad, very sad. Bush put country ahead of politics, to the detriment of his popularity. History will be kinder to him than our current popular culture press.
karenhasfreedom on October 28, 2009 at 2:05 PM
Similar yes, but not exact. A narcissist can be treated for their narcissism. Someone with a Character Logical Disorder is something beyond a classic narcissist.
Trust me, I don’t need my eyes opened. My mother has CLD and believe me – I’d rather she was a classic narcissist.
KrisinNE on October 28, 2009 at 2:09 PM
Actually, Krauthammer is pretty hot.
LASue on October 28, 2009 at 2:20 PM
The entire point of this post is avoiding responsibility, and like a good little liberal, you promptly…avoid responsibility.
uknowmorethanme on October 28, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Obama is borderline narcissistic personality disorder.
NPD’s don’t usually accomplish much, but their talk is grandiose.
Obama doesn’t listen to the people because they get in his way.
He doesn’t want to make a move that threatens to end his adoring fans.
His ideas are empty, and all he knows is Bush, so thats what he uses.
NPD’s cannot stand criticism and handle it childishly.
Krauthammer called him average, NPD’s hate being average, they feel they’re above the rest.
SWChance on October 28, 2009 at 2:25 PM
Thanks for sharing this. I also believe that history will clear things up. No help to us now, but I pray it will help our great-grandchildren understand that we never intended to turn America over to Marxism.
I believe that Team Obama successfully organized the collective temper-tantrum into his presidency. By blaming and attacking George Bush, Obama is simply following Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. #11 – Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it – seems to be a favorite of theirs.
redwhiteblue on October 28, 2009 at 2:36 PM
Community organizer indeed. Monster!
redwhiteblue on October 28, 2009 at 2:38 PM
So, in other words, he’s a liberal.
mr.blacksheep on October 28, 2009 at 2:48 PM
Krauthammer has been a man on fire lately. Has everyone read that Der Speiegel interview? He torches Obama, I’m sure much to the chagrin of the Euro-weenie interviewing him.
He is taking up the mantle of the Conservative intellectual resistance to Obama’s leftist assault. I can see him as an adviser to an incoming Republican administration.
EMD on October 28, 2009 at 2:49 PM
Fair enough, but I found Krauthammer’s ridiculous posturing last Fall to be equally disgusting. He knew damn well he was going to end up endorsing McCain, but not until he did some serious damage with his grandstanding.
BlueStateBilly on October 28, 2009 at 2:50 PM
Here’s the link to that American Thinker story that SKYFOX on October 28, 2009 at 12:29 PM referenced:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/narcissistic_rage_in_the_white_1.html
It’s a good piece, although I have heard it all before, it got me thinking: is that the way to bring The Won down? Push him over the edge? Just keep pointing out his flaws until he cracks and EVERYONE can see what a crazy, evil person he is?
SouperConservative on October 28, 2009 at 2:54 PM
And Chas. is a psychiatrist, so he knows what he’s doing.
/ouch!
Akzed on October 28, 2009 at 2:56 PM
I think the mid-stream media foresees that, and is why they are protecting him. The trend, however, is starting, and it won’t be long until he folds like a cheap lawn chair.
mr.blacksheep on October 28, 2009 at 2:57 PM
Check out Krauthammer’s latest interview with Der Spiegel…a great read.
The Ugly American on October 28, 2009 at 3:00 PM
A funny thing happened to me the other night at a party. A friend of mine, a Boomer liberal, said to me, “We liberals treated Bush unforgivably.” I was too astounded to reply, so just nodded my head.
This is the same man who at his own Passover dinner party last year said to laughter from most of the guests, “God bless and keep President Bush – far away from us!” [context here]
I think that my friend, a very intelligent and cultivated man, is not alone in coming to the realization that eight years of brainless shrieking from the Loud Left has done severe damage, perhaps irreparable (though I hope not), to the way we debate in this country.
Mary in LA on October 28, 2009 at 3:02 PM
Hey, its’ not too late you can still go here:
http://promo.espn.go.com/espn/contests/theheismanvote/2009/
and Vote for Pinnochio for the Heisman Trophy. You have to write him in, and you can win free stuff for not doing much of anything just like Barrack (Pinnochio)!
If Pinnochio doesn’t win just remember “It’s Bushes Fault”
dhunter on October 28, 2009 at 3:02 PM
Obumbo has a mental character flaw that doesn’t permit him to admit failure, accept criticism, or tolerate dissent. This really should have disqualified him from the Office of Pres. but people didn’t seem to care.
rjoco1 on October 28, 2009 at 3:03 PM
Is that anything like a mid-stream sample? :-P
Mary in LA on October 28, 2009 at 3:05 PM
Americans have a choice as voters, keep being crybabies or find conservative people to replace these monsters in washington. Make certain that they know who voted for them and what they are expected to do. Then make certain they throw all the special interest groups into a pile of unemployed people, just as they have to former working americans.
workingforpigs on October 28, 2009 at 3:39 PM
I thought the analogy was apt.
mr.blacksheep on October 28, 2009 at 3:51 PM
“The term narcissism refers to the personality trait of self-esteem, which includes the set of character traits concerned with self-image or ego. The terms narcissism, narcissistic, and narcissist are often used as pejoratives, denoting vanity, conceit, egotism or simple selfishness. Applied to a social group, it is sometimes used to denote elitism or an indifference to the plight of others.
Freud believed that some narcissism is an essential part of all of us from birth.[1] Andrew P. Morrison claims that, in adults, a reasonable amount of healthy narcissism allows the individual’s perception of his needs to be balanced in relation to others.[2]
While most people possess some degree of narcissistic traits, higher levels of narcissism can be dysfunctional, and may be classified as pathologies such as narcissistic personality disorder and malignant narcissism. Psychopathy, as defined by the PCL-R, also contains a narcissistic factor.[3]” —-Wiki
Yep, sounds about right.
Alibali on October 28, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Sure he did, at least according to the getalifes on the Left:
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/08/30/bush-blames/
Pretty funny stuff.
And here Keef goes off on the same looney claim for 11 minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0slXx9RA7g
Del Dolemonte on October 28, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Uber Fail.
ronsfi on October 28, 2009 at 4:19 PM
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