Obamateurism of the Day
posted at 8:05 am on October 29, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
How hard is it for a Democratic President to fill a hall in Massachusetts when campaigning for a Democratic governor? According to the Boston Herald and Jules Crittenden, one does not need to look to Virginia to see a big enthusiasm gap for a Democrat in the first year of Hopeandchange. Barack Obama and Deval Patrick put together couldn’t fill more than half of the Westin Copley. In, as I mentioned earlier, Massachusetts, one of the bluest of the blue states:
Geez. I’m sure Deval is glad to have the $600,000 grand, but maybe Barry should have done him a favor and stayed in D.C. To avoid the Bush-like embarrassment of low turnout and protestors. And we aren’t even a year into the first term yet.
Obama appeared to sense the big mistake made in appearing at the political equivalent of a Mary Richards dinner party, telling the crowd audience:
“There really should be no doubt that this guy gets a second term. But let’s be honest. This is going to be a tough race … ”
That ought to fire them up! Maybe Obama should remind his staff of that … and perhaps ask why a Democrat would have a “tough race” in Massachusetts with Obama in the White House. He could take a peek next door in Virginia and ask himself the same question.
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Hear, hear!
Obama: the one termer.
Lourdes on October 29, 2009 at 8:07 AM
say huh?
cmsinaz on October 29, 2009 at 8:08 AM
Ding!
when you really want to get away….
cmsinaz on October 29, 2009 at 8:10 AM
There must of been snow storm and that’s why people coul’dn’t make it to this venue.
/sarc
Brat4life on October 29, 2009 at 8:10 AM
coul’dn’t = couldn’t
Brat4life on October 29, 2009 at 8:11 AM
Perfect.
OmahaConservative on October 29, 2009 at 8:11 AM
Obama some hope will not finish his one term, impeachment would be the preferred result rather than his being a one termer…
doriangrey on October 29, 2009 at 8:11 AM
Obama appeared to sense the big mistake made in appearing at the political equivalent of a Mary Richards dinner party, telling the
crowdaudiencemob of zombies:FIFY.
Seriously, The Washington Examiner has a headline this morning where they refer to those who still believe the hype of last January. They call these people bitter-enders. It fits anybody who still is offering uncritical loyalty to the filthy lying coward in the White House.
highhopes on October 29, 2009 at 8:11 AM
Massachusetts? Wow.
TimBuk3 on October 29, 2009 at 8:12 AM
Impeachment, resignation in disgrace, election as Pope….
I for one am not picky about the how of this situation if only it would happen.
highhopes on October 29, 2009 at 8:13 AM
Bush had protestors. But “low turnout”? He usually could turn out the GOP contributors.
Wethal on October 29, 2009 at 8:14 AM
You know, running as a good speaker who isn’t George W. Bush might fool the voters one time, but that gets old real quick.
rbj on October 29, 2009 at 8:15 AM
Yup, and the sooner the better…
doriangrey on October 29, 2009 at 8:16 AM
Maybe ACORN and SEIU didn’t get the memo.
Then again, even a prostitute deserves a night off every so often.
TXUS on October 29, 2009 at 8:17 AM
Due, you really need to spend some time in your office. You know the Oval one. The place you got hired to work at. I mean seriously, he must only spend what and hour or two at work every single day?
Johnnyreb on October 29, 2009 at 8:17 AM
Mass isn’t all that enamored with its own mini-hopenchange, Deval Patrick. He basically ran the same campaign as Obama only on a smaller scale, some have even said that his campaign was a dress rehersal. He ran on nothing but vague promises of “Together we can” (sound familiar?), and villifying Mitt Romney. Once he got into office he spent tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars on new curtains for his office, gave his wife an assistant with a rediculously high salary, and even used taxpayer money to buy a new Cadillac for himself (apparently the Ford Crown Vick that Romney and others used had horrors! 80,000 miles and a broken heater! So what’s a purveyor of hopenchange to do? Not repair the heater and change the oil but buy a brand new Caddy with taxpayer money!!)
So Mass isn’t all that thrilled with Barry’s mini-me. Of course the state is so corrupted by unions that it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if Devalue won a second term.
One of the Mass commenters can fill in more details, but that’s it in a nutshell.
crazy_legs on October 29, 2009 at 8:20 AM
I have to admit, I’m impressed that the ONE went to honor the military dead last night. I wish he could have done it without notifying every single news outlet, but whatevs. At least he went.
He reminds me of this chick from my office. Allergic to work so spends most of her time at work kissing the bosses’ arses. Get some frigging work done!
mjk on October 29, 2009 at 8:22 AM
Why do you think Jill Biden and Michelle Obama were at the World Series last night? It was Ho’s night out in the Obama administration.
That probably is harsh and rude but somehow I don’t care. I am so sick of these people. The worst though is the filthy lying coward showing up at Dover AFB for a photo-op last night. Those soldiers and their families deserve better than the filthy lying coward inserting himself in their grief! If the rat bastard traitor were not dithering those troops may have had the resources to do their job.
highhopes on October 29, 2009 at 8:23 AM
Virginia is next door to Maryland not Massachusetts.
Ted Torgerson on October 29, 2009 at 8:24 AM
Oh next door from D.C I get it now. Never mind.
Ted Torgerson on October 29, 2009 at 8:25 AM
Someone told Ed there wasn’t going to be any geography.
BigD on October 29, 2009 at 8:25 AM
Impressed? It was a disgusting PR event. The troops deserve better than having the filthy lying coward show up to insert himself in their grief because the polling shows that the public knows the bastard is dithering and playing golf instead of giving those troops the resources they need to stay alive.
highhopes on October 29, 2009 at 8:25 AM
Soon the administration will be paying for people to come to his speeches…..forgot that they already pay SEIU to show up.
yoda on October 29, 2009 at 8:25 AM
Psssssttt … balloon boy heads to earth.
tarpon on October 29, 2009 at 8:26 AM
<—–needed a good laugh…wiping coffee off the monitor
Jeff from WI on October 29, 2009 at 8:26 AM
Maryland, Massachusetts what’s the difference, same @#!$, different shovel.
Jeff from WI on October 29, 2009 at 8:28 AM
It looks like the folks in TAXachusetts finally woke up!
Barb Dwyer on October 29, 2009 at 8:29 AM
ROTFLMAO…. Dude… Obama has been doing that since he first got elected to the senate, he has us 1.6 TRILLION in debt trying to make the payments on his election bribes, he’s just plain tapped out for the rest of this year… lol…lol…lol… <—– /Starts crying because this is the truth not a joke…
doriangrey on October 29, 2009 at 8:29 AM
Ummm, nope… they have just slipped into a coma… (and they are having the worst nightmare of their lives, so please dont wake them)
doriangrey on October 29, 2009 at 8:30 AM
I am impressed the Boston Herald even spoke of the half empty venue and the fact that both of them have plummeting favorable poll ratings.
Johnnyreb on October 29, 2009 at 8:31 AM
mjk on October 29, 2009 at 8:22 AM
I’m going to have to respectfully disagree with your comment on honoring our fallen troops. I feel as if once again he is using this as a photo-op and a faux “somber” moment. If he really wanted to honor our troops and is truely concerned about the men and women who are in harms way he would get off his ass and send in reinforcements that were asked for 3 months ago. Nothing is more dangerous than CIC who sits on his hands and makes military decisions based on wether or not they are politically advantageous for him.
milwife88 on October 29, 2009 at 8:32 AM
Ed was suggesting that the filthy lying coward in the White House look across the Potomac River. He erroneously assumed that the rat bastard traitor knows something about Virginia other than that’s where some of his favorite golf courses are located.
highhopes on October 29, 2009 at 8:32 AM
Really? President Biden. Really?
ncc770 on October 29, 2009 at 8:33 AM
I got a question guys. Did Bush ever raise less than a million dollars?
I mean 600,000 is nothing. By a supposedly hugely popular Democrat President in a Democrat State for a Democrat Governor?
PS: The Democrat word with emphasis is the key.
antisocial on October 29, 2009 at 8:34 AM
They should of brought a Kennedy along. You know, like maybe, you know, Caroline because, you know, she’s so well, you know, liked there. Or just dig up Ted’s stinking, rotting corpse and lean him against the podium.
Jeff from WI on October 29, 2009 at 8:35 AM
have to agree with you there….W did it without the cameras, going to the hospital quite often and such…he doesn’t need photo ops to honor our troops…
cmsinaz on October 29, 2009 at 8:36 AM
How could President Biden be worse than the filthy lying coward and rat bastard traitor in office now? Really!
highhopes on October 29, 2009 at 8:38 AM
He could hardly be worse…
SDPlissken on October 29, 2009 at 8:38 AM
love it…
:-)
cmsinaz on October 29, 2009 at 8:39 AM
Whaaaa! My coat-tails are melting…melting….melting
Rovin on October 29, 2009 at 8:39 AM
Or “Cardinal” Patrick Kennedy, who could have explained “social justice” to them and how Catholic doctrine does/should mirror the Demcratic national platform.
Wethal on October 29, 2009 at 8:39 AM
Biden may be stupid, but he’s no Marxist wannabe dictator…
doriangrey on October 29, 2009 at 8:43 AM
Me, three!
TXUS on October 29, 2009 at 8:44 AM
Doesn’t that pretty much describe Teddy’s last few years?
highhopes on October 29, 2009 at 8:44 AM
I haevn’t yet read Rules for Radicals, but does anyone know whether Alinsky repeatedly tells members to never, ever admit any mistake, misstep, misjudgment, etc?
j_galt on October 29, 2009 at 8:45 AM
Ted Torgerson on October 29, 2009 at 8:25 AM
I had to read it twice too. Ed’s usually a very clear writer, but I was thinking “MA? VA? Oh, D.C.”
And yeah, $600k is pocket change for a sitting POTUS to help raise. I think the Dem donors might be getting tired of being constantly pumped for $. I suspect they’ll increase donations closer to an election, but at this point they are clutching their checkbooks a little tighter.
cs89 on October 29, 2009 at 8:46 AM
On the positive side, Ted Kennedy is celebrating 62 days of sobriety today… ;)
doriangrey on October 29, 2009 at 8:46 AM
Make it four.
fourdeucer on October 29, 2009 at 8:47 AM
BO: epic failure in Affirmative action.
The citizens who voted for him: naive
jbh45 on October 29, 2009 at 8:48 AM
I beg to differ. I found the Obama appearance as reported there to be entirely ghoulish: here we have this one guy who has devoted his lifetime to working, demanding, insisting upon the entirely opposite ideals, goals and ideas that encourage most in our military, certainly as to the U.S. Defense, and he has this outright, pointed GOAL to go hover over the bodies of deceased military, who lost their lives in service to this country, on deployed missions (as did the DEA agents who were among the military).
Obama is reported to have gone intentionally on this “mission” to go loiter over their dead bodies inside the plane that carried them home, before they were taken off the plane, alone (with only one military attendant present), to more or less “spend time” in their, dwelling.
I find this entirely disgusting. As I also wonder who taught Obama to salute like he’s pictured doing so on FOX this morning, surely that’s yet another pose by the guy who just can’t seem to decide whether to support our military with what they need and when while he runs around playing with balls and eating fancy meals on the taxpayers in the White House.
I’m disgusted by Barack Obama’s theatrical showing and ghoulish loitering over the bodies of the deceased military. Just disgusted by him and his behavior. Disgusted. Disgusted by him.
Lourdes on October 29, 2009 at 8:49 AM
j_galt on October 29, 2009 at 8:45 AM
No, that is just a genetic failure due to Democrat inbreeding.
ZeeMI on October 29, 2009 at 8:49 AM
Chairman Oba-Mao
doriangrey on October 29, 2009 at 8:50 AM
Yeah, but even we knew when to kick a Kennedy to the curb.
Laura in Maryland on October 29, 2009 at 8:50 AM
Photo to which I refer, currently (5:50 AM PST, 10/29/09) on Fox’s main page, link I tried associated with the photo was kaput.
So I don’t know how long this photo will remain up there, but here’s the Obama-Salute pose currently running on FOX’s main page that I find disturbing, like him sticking his “proud” finger in the eye of the honorably deceased.
http://www.foxnews.com/images/root_images/102909_osalute_20091029_061130.jpg
Lourdes on October 29, 2009 at 8:52 AM
Dangit! I was hoping I could help some of my lost lib brethren, but I don’t know how you cure inbreeding.
j_galt on October 29, 2009 at 8:54 AM
Sigh… ya cant cure stupid either…
doriangrey on October 29, 2009 at 8:56 AM
LOL…OK, I’ll give you that/ By the way, my state is no breath of fresh air either.
Jeff from WI on October 29, 2009 at 8:58 AM
I can only imagine how these heroes’ families, which were there, felt.
I know if I had been there watching this traitorous coward and his faux grief and manufactured salute…
Well, let me just leave it at that.
TXUS on October 29, 2009 at 8:58 AM
YES!!…It’ll be like he never left.
Jeff from WI on October 29, 2009 at 8:59 AM
If that was my kid who gave his/her life for his/her country, I’d tell the Secret Service they better get ready to save that Commie Traitor from a beat down if he came near me or the casket.
Jeff from WI on October 29, 2009 at 9:01 AM
As long as no one remembers Carter’s reelection results, I can show my miserable moniker on HA without getting keelhauled.
Now if you need me, I’ll be over in the corner in a fetal position rocking back and forth.
Laura in Maryland on October 29, 2009 at 9:03 AM
Im thinking he only enters the oval office for photo ops.
becki51758 on October 29, 2009 at 9:06 AM
Okay, okay, I get it. I’m trying to give the guy the benefit of the doubt. In my cynical mind, the troop thing was a horrid move. Yet I’m impressed that he did that instead of taking the little woman to the world series or going for another 18 holes with Biden. I just don’t feel the need to think EVERYTHING he does is stupid or mean.
mjk on October 29, 2009 at 9:06 AM
But he couldn’t sense how stupid he looked accepting a Nobel Pizza Prize?
“Stupid” being the operative word here…
tree hugging sister on October 29, 2009 at 9:06 AM
+100.
becki51758 on October 29, 2009 at 9:07 AM
Sometimes elipses are all that can be printed…
Lourdes on October 29, 2009 at 9:09 AM
lololol…Carter??!!…lololol…Don’t mention that traitor
Jeff from WI on October 29, 2009 at 9:10 AM
In life when Obama held rank over over those honorable, brave, and devoted soldiers he failed to give them their due. Now in death those brave, honorable, and devoted soldiers hold rank among the angels and saints and are in no need of Obama’s presence.
fourdeucer on October 29, 2009 at 9:12 AM
I, for one, do not think everything he does is stupid or mean.
And, if he had gone to Dover, sans papparazzi, and treated this moment as something other than a photo-op, I would be praising him to the hilt.
Instead, his mission here leaves me cold and even sadder for those heroes’ loved ones.
TXUS on October 29, 2009 at 9:14 AM
Well said, but you can make book that whenever this bastard gets off his ass and the golf course and finally decides on an AFPAK strategy, we will hear in his telepromptered speech a stirring reference to this trip to Dover and how HE felt for these fallen troops and their families, yada yada yada.
S. O. B.
TXUS on October 29, 2009 at 9:24 AM
Great analogy! Even he is beginning to see the light. We are just not that into him. I never thought I would even see this bit of recognition.
It sickens me that it has taken people this long to get it. This man should never be near any seat of power as he is just plain unqualified. It was on display even during the election, yet people refused to “see”.
BetseyRoss on October 29, 2009 at 9:27 AM
Obama appeared to sense the big mistake made in appearing at the political equivalent of a Mary Richards dinner party
Obama believes Amerika is singing an old England Dan & John Ford Coley hit from the 70′s to him. “Nights Are Forever Without You”
Jeff from WI on October 29, 2009 at 9:31 AM
Many Americans notice this awful display for what it is…
http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/10/obamas-new-photoopheres-a-hint-it-will-disgust-you-.html
Lourdes on October 29, 2009 at 9:32 AM
That probably is harsh and rude but somehow I don’t care. I am so sick of these people. The worst though is the filthy lying coward showing up at Dover AFB for a photo-op last night. Those soldiers and their families deserve better than the filthy lying coward inserting himself in their grief! If the rat bastard traitor were not dithering those troops may have had the resources to do their job.
highhopes on October 29, 2009
It is right and proper for the Commander-In-Chief to show respect for the fallen troops for whom he is ultimately responsible. But if you are suggesting that they deserved a true leader and patriot as a C-In-C rather than the filthy lying (dithering) coward you so rightly called him, I agree wholeheartedly.
SKYFOX on October 29, 2009 at 9:37 AM
OT, but you’ve gotta check out the Chris Muir cartoon about Obamacare & doctors today.
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/
cs89 on October 29, 2009 at 9:38 AM
++++
LibTired on October 29, 2009 at 9:41 AM
In a word, YES, PLEASE. Get the filthy lying rat bastard [that's a technically correct term when applied to L'il Barry Dunham] out of my White House! I’m with HH here. I’m not picky I don’t care if he packs, or slinks away in the night, gone is gone.
Blacksmith8 on October 29, 2009 at 9:43 AM
Another OT, but I love this line by Flake:
Statement about refusing to vote for Confucius’ birthday recognition.
http://flake.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=151869#at
cs89 on October 29, 2009 at 9:44 AM
So, as highhopes would say, the filty lying coward in the whitehouse also has no shame.
fourdeucer on October 29, 2009 at 9:44 AM
I could here the laughter echoing down the hall. Dorian FTW!!!
Blacksmith8 on October 29, 2009 at 9:46 AM
“There really should be no doubt that this guy gets a second term. But let’s be honest. This is going to be a tough race … ”
It would have been more inspiring to say; “Sure Deval Patrick sucks, but he IS a Democrat!”
Star20 on October 29, 2009 at 9:53 AM
I had the same reaction as you did.
It’s the same way I feel when I see the recently first-time -proud Michelle doing the “Support the Troops” PSA that’s been running lately. Kinda like the Pope doing commercials for Planned Parenthood.
VelvetElvis on October 29, 2009 at 9:54 AM
Aw, c’mon, Jeff, we’re getting it slowly but surely. Doyle going, Lawton dropping out, it’s a trend I tell ya.
Now if Feingold and Kohl would just take their cue from those other two….
VelvetElvis on October 29, 2009 at 9:56 AM
Virginia is coming back to its roots. But why is the Democrat having trouble in Joyzy?
Steve Z on October 29, 2009 at 10:01 AM
If Walker wins and becomes Governor, I’ll start to feel a bit better. Let Tommy take on Feingold.
Jeff from WI on October 29, 2009 at 10:03 AM
My feelings exactly. Sorry, but I can’t give him credit for “feeling”, not after the high time he has been acting as a traveling suitcase, or a
goofgolf ball. These soldiers could possibly have died because of the military policies, or lack thereof, of Oditherer.Try as he might, he doesn’t make up for the lack of respect he has for our service-people, and for the lack of respect these same people feel toward him. Highest mortality count in the whole war was in the last two months…funny coincidence that this was the same period in which a plan of strategy sat waiting on his desk.
lovingmyUSA on October 29, 2009 at 10:17 AM
Gives new meaning to the phrase, “If the dead could talk…”
lovingmyUSA on October 29, 2009 at 10:22 AM
We saw with Clinton that impeachment is slow and doesn’t net the desired results, my hopes are rooted in something much quicker…..like Michelle catching him him and that creepy Reggie Love blasting some yayho and re-enacting the Gimp scene from Pulp Fiction.
Alden Pyle on October 29, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Not only that, but even Biden isn’t stupid enough to miss the writing on the wall if his boss got canned. He would have to tack hard to the right to keep his own approval ratings above single digits.
UltimateBob on October 29, 2009 at 10:46 AM
and Delaware, Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, … .
davidk on October 29, 2009 at 10:48 AM
True. Impeachment does not mean removal from office. They are 2 different things.
And, President Kobe Beef isn’t going to resign on his own like Nixon did, no matter how bad things get.
UltimateBob on October 29, 2009 at 10:48 AM
Or just dig up Ted’s stinking, rotting corpse and lean him against the podium.Jeff from WI on October 29, 2009 at 8:35 AM
Heh.
Prop me up by the jukebox
When I’m gone.
davidk on October 29, 2009 at 10:52 AM
Or maybe like Marge Sanger doing PSAs for the Catholic Church.
davidk on October 29, 2009 at 10:53 AM
Hear! Hear!
Is there anyway your words could reach Mr. Obama’s two big ears and really register?
Sir Napsalot on October 29, 2009 at 11:02 AM
Need a moment?
http://fruitfly.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/twix.jpg
mrt721 on October 29, 2009 at 11:02 AM
That sounds a lot better.
mrt721 on October 29, 2009 at 11:04 AM
Someone needs to photoshop the Obama Logo seal on the balloon boy’s silver bubble as the symbol of this folly.
profitsbeard on October 29, 2009 at 11:18 AM
No need, Nancy, Harry and Rahm have it covered. Obama just tells them what he wants the end result to be and they figure out how best to screw the Country.
Susanboo on October 29, 2009 at 3:55 PM
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