Obamateurism of the Day
posted at 8:05 am on November 2, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Part of the job of a President is to sound, well, presidential. That means being taken seriously. When Barack Obama hit the hustings for Jon Corzine this weekend, he seems to have forgotten that he’s not a comedian:
Obama called on the audience to vote, and to make sure others do.
“You’re going to need to get cousin Pookie off the couch, and say, ‘Pookie, it’s time to go vote,’ ” POTUS said. “You’ve all got a cousin Pookie, you know who I’m talking about.”
Er, Pookie? The only Pookie I know was in Victor/Victoria:
Pookie? (via Geoff A)
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A phony suit walking.
hawkman on November 2, 2009 at 8:08 AM
There is nothing presidential about this guy.
loudmouth883 on November 2, 2009 at 8:10 AM
So, it would follow then that Dear Leader wants us to get Pookie off the couch and vote even if Pookie has no interesting in voting and has no clue as to who is running and the issues? What if Pookie pulls the GOP lever? Would that be ok with Dear Leader?
Dingbat63 on November 2, 2009 at 8:10 AM
Pookie? That’s racist!
rbj on November 2, 2009 at 8:10 AM
Pookie?!
The Sterile Cuckoo?
This guy shouldn’t quit his day job, er, position.
Tho many wish he would.
TimBuk3 on November 2, 2009 at 8:11 AM
I don’t think Pookie is as important as “cousins”. Although I was surprised that cousins were as big in N.J. as they are in the South.
Cindy Munford on November 2, 2009 at 8:11 AM
Pookie is Garfield the cat’s Teddy bear. Come to think of it, Biden remninds me of Odie’ so I guess it all makes sense.
KS Rex on November 2, 2009 at 8:13 AM
Pookie must be crazy Uncle Jeremiah’s younger brother.
Buy Danish on November 2, 2009 at 8:13 AM
I think Urkel was trying to increase his street cred again.
kingsjester on November 2, 2009 at 8:13 AM
He’s especially obnoxious when he speaks to black people with his cutesy, sing-song dialect, dropping the g‘s off all his ing‘s. When it comes to a black dialect, even Hillary Clinton does better.
petefrt on November 2, 2009 at 8:14 AM
Does my cousin Micky Mantle count Mr. President? Isn’t this how you were elected?
Rovin on November 2, 2009 at 8:15 AM
Of course, he doesn’t mention that Pookie is dead.
LibTired on November 2, 2009 at 8:15 AM
Yeah, it’s going to be tough without ACORN and all of those dead people voting!
flytier on November 2, 2009 at 8:17 AM
Oy.
publiuspen on November 2, 2009 at 8:17 AM
Man oh man, if a white guy had said that…
So what we have here is the President of the United States talking directly to black folks and telling them to get their crack smoking, malt liquor drinking, welfare stealing, multiple momma baby making, perpetually unemployed, barely literate cousin “Pookie” up off the couch to go vote for the dem. Un-freaking-believable. I’m surprised he didn’t add “tell him you’ll get him a pack of Newport Lights and 40 ounce if he’ll just go with you to vote!”
I don’t know why it still amazes me what a bunch of racists lefties are, but it does. Man oh man. If a white guy had said that…
Rational Thought on November 2, 2009 at 8:17 AM
No I don’t know who Ogabe is talking about, maybe he should explain what he meant; some lazy family member without a job but the ability to pull a voting lever? What, is that what he meant? Dignity of the office.
Bishop on November 2, 2009 at 8:18 AM
Remember this gem, a few weeks ago in NO-LA
“Aayum jis gettin startay”
That was an idiotism
macncheez on November 2, 2009 at 8:18 AM
OT but incredible — the NEA’s recommended reading list of the day is Saul Alinsky.
GnuBreed on November 2, 2009 at 8:19 AM
This is almost as hilarious as Frum changing his blog name to “FrumForum”
deidre on November 2, 2009 at 8:19 AM
Now that is just plain scary!!!
deidre on November 2, 2009 at 8:20 AM
+1
cmsinaz on November 2, 2009 at 8:20 AM
was TOTUS on vacation?
cmsinaz on November 2, 2009 at 8:21 AM
Pookie must be some sort of code for Acorn. He was sending them a message.
sherry on November 2, 2009 at 8:22 AM
“Pookie”? Like Garfield’s stuffed bear? No wonder Christie is up in the polls this morning.
varnson on November 2, 2009 at 8:22 AM
I wonder if that is Michelle’s pet name for dear leader…
cmsinaz on November 2, 2009 at 8:23 AM
Is that your real cousin or your “play cousin”?
BTW, Pookie is also slang for a pipe used for smoking crack or crystal meth!!
Trafalgar on November 2, 2009 at 8:23 AM
Cousin Pookie?
He would have been better off with Aunt Bunny.
Oh, wait, Eddie Murphy is funny.
reaganaut on November 2, 2009 at 8:24 AM
gaash..my 4 yr old grandson doesnt even use that word!
becki51758 on November 2, 2009 at 8:24 AM
it would be funny if we had not elected “our” POOKIE President of the United States…..
UGH!!!!
SDarchitect on November 2, 2009 at 8:24 AM
err…that would be geeez!
becki51758 on November 2, 2009 at 8:25 AM
I’m sure the NJ state Dems were begging Obama to come and appeal directly to blacks……..but “cousin Pookie”?
David2.0 on November 2, 2009 at 8:25 AM
Everybody’s got a cousin Pookie, right? It’s funny how they all vote a couple of times with an absentee ballot from ACORN.
Barb Dwyer on November 2, 2009 at 8:26 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGpQej3o9eo
Last time I heard Pookie.
reaganaut on November 2, 2009 at 8:26 AM
I hope Pookie is to wasted to get off the couch
wheels on November 2, 2009 at 8:27 AM
If you’ve got to drag “cousin Pookie” off the couch and to the polling place, “Pookie” probably isn’t registered to vote anyway…oh, never mind!
Trafalgar on November 2, 2009 at 8:27 AM
It was only fairly recently that I learned what “Pookie” means after I heard Van Jones use it in one of his infamous screeds and I had to ask someone about it.
File this one in that ever-growing “What if Bush had done it?” folder.
flipflop on November 2, 2009 at 8:28 AM
The Urban Dictionary may include 65 or so definitions of Pookie but it’s Soupy Sales who owns it for me.
R.I.P. Soupy!
Drained Brain on November 2, 2009 at 8:28 AM
But what if Cousin Pookie can’t get the time off wor— oh, never mind.
Rational Thought on November 2, 2009 at 8:29 AM
varnson on November 2, 2009 at 8:30 AM
Pookie? I’m surprised someone from my state of NJ didn’t throw him a shoe for that asinine failure of a joke.
cubachi on November 2, 2009 at 8:30 AM
Speaking of that, remember the way the press presented Palin’s quotes in ‘dialect’. Why don’t we see that in the reports of Obama’s pronouncements?
Should have been:
“You’re gonna need ta …”
Peri Winkle on November 2, 2009 at 8:32 AM
In Obama’s case “cousin Pookie” probably isnt even a US citizen…
doriangrey on November 2, 2009 at 8:33 AM
POTUS, perhaps the P=Pookie instead.
deidre on November 2, 2009 at 8:34 AM
In 8 years, I don’t think I ever heard Dubya use the word “Pookie”. This guy is fast becoming a joke. Only problem is we’re the punchline.
Doughboy on November 2, 2009 at 8:35 AM
Come on guys, those should not be disqualifiers in today’s all inclusive America.
thomasaur on November 2, 2009 at 8:35 AM
..and Pookie is probably on parole for a felony conviction…oh never mind.
thomasaur on November 2, 2009 at 8:37 AM
Hey, Obi-Won! Who’s your Cousin Pookie? (Or were you referring to the legions of fraudulent voters your pals at ACORN and SEIU run through the voting booths repeatedly on Election Day?)
ya2daup on November 2, 2009 at 8:37 AM
I love when he tries to “act black”. It’s so painful to watch.
mizflame98 on November 2, 2009 at 8:37 AM
I think “cousin Pookie” is an Acorn code word.
ctmom on November 2, 2009 at 8:38 AM
I think we all agree that Obama is an illegal alien… The only question left is… What Planet is he from??? /rimshot…
doriangrey on November 2, 2009 at 8:38 AM
And in deep, deep blue NJ they probably aren’t. My bet is that Corzine wins in a Minnesota style recount.
jwolf on November 2, 2009 at 8:39 AM
So if Corzine wins, does “Pookie” get the credit…or Obama?
ted c on November 2, 2009 at 8:40 AM
I’m sorry, the racism on the left? Did you read your own post?
Bleeds Blue on November 2, 2009 at 8:42 AM
How many Pookies does Zeus have to convince to get Corzine’s carcass over the finish line?
ted c on November 2, 2009 at 8:42 AM
That’s straight up racism, says Janeane.
No, wait……I guess I won’t be hearing that from her, will I ???
Jerome Horwitz on November 2, 2009 at 8:42 AM
If Corzine loses, does Pookie get it in the neck by the SEIU thugs?
ted c on November 2, 2009 at 8:43 AM
This is the inevitable consequence of over exposure—he’s run out of things to say. At some point he’ll need to stay in Washington and actually be a president.
President Skippy, formerly smooth, now extra crunchy!
mossberg500 on November 2, 2009 at 8:44 AM
So the Precedent is campaigning for “change” in Virginia and New Jersey. Does he take credit as well as blame for any win or loss? Will the results be a referendum on his policies/agenda?
antisocial on November 2, 2009 at 8:44 AM
Just who do you think Obama was referring to? Whitey? And why isn’t that racist? Rational Thought is right. It’s marxist racism that spews forth from Obama’s sewer hole he calls a mouth.
csdeven on November 2, 2009 at 8:45 AM
Is Pookie a registered voter?
coldwarrior on November 2, 2009 at 8:45 AM
Not gonna happen, he doesn’t know how.
Trafalgar on November 2, 2009 at 8:45 AM
Oh look, you guys do it too, so what Urkel said wasn’t straight up racist.
Jerome Horwitz on November 2, 2009 at 8:45 AM
I can’t even imagine how many ballots are sitting in democrat poll workers’ cars right now waiting to be run through the machines after the vote counts start coming in. I am really — really — hoping the PPP poll is right and the margin will be too big to overcome with the usual democrat cheating. Imagine the conversation at dem polling places:
“But boss, I got 2,000 ballots right out there in my car! My buddy’s got another thousand in his. We can do this!”
“Sorry, fella. It’s just not enough. We can’t steal it this time.”
“What! Can’t steal it! We always steal it. What are you talking about. My God! Oh, the humanity! The humanity.”
Rational Thought on November 2, 2009 at 8:45 AM
Yes We Can!!!!
Trafalgar on November 2, 2009 at 8:47 AM
Will we have a “net Pookie” loss margin posted tomorrow night?
Is “Pookie” a new voting bloc to be captured by the Dems now? Like indies?
ted c on November 2, 2009 at 8:47 AM
Shut yo’ mouf. Ain’t no Pookies in mah famly, Yo.
TXUS on November 2, 2009 at 8:47 AM
How many pookies does it take to get a Dem win in a blue state?
Are there all kinds of “Waasaassssuuuuuuuuppp” phone calls going out today to guys named pookie, saying “hey, you famous!” Sounding like damon wayans or something?
ted c on November 2, 2009 at 8:48 AM
And Pookie is probably a drug-haze induced imaginary friend… oh nevermind
LibTired on November 2, 2009 at 8:48 AM
Is Pookie code for something?
ted c on November 2, 2009 at 8:49 AM
FIFY
OmahaConservative on November 2, 2009 at 8:49 AM
And if you asked, Pookie is probably for fiscal responsibility, smaller government and individual freedom… oh nevermind
LibTired on November 2, 2009 at 8:50 AM
This is funny. “Pookie” is what my young Black Admin called me at my previous job as a term of endearment. So, being the old cracker that I am, I called her “Boo”. Dignity got thrown out of the White House on Inauguration Day.
kingsjester on November 2, 2009 at 8:51 AM
Bleeds Blue,
Pookie was a character in New Jack City, played by Chris rock. Pookie was best known in that movie for offering favors for crack. When I hear Pookie I immediately think of an inner city crack addict. Don’t blame me blame hollywood.
Howcome on November 2, 2009 at 8:51 AM
What, it’s racist to say that people have a couch potato relative who won’t turn out for an off-year election unless nudged to do so?
I don’t think so.
Bleeds Blue on November 2, 2009 at 8:51 AM
My post was a reference to the racist analogy the President of the United States was employing. “You’ve all got a cousin pookie; you know what I’m talking about”? Are you kidding me? He’s telling black folks that they all have a lazy, unemployed cousin sitting at home on a work day, so they might as well drag his ass to the polls. If a white guy had said that the media would be in an absolute frenzy. The president used a racist stereotype that’s about one step away from a minstrel show. Jeez.
Rational Thought on November 2, 2009 at 8:52 AM
Yeah, one step from the other side of a minstrel show.
LibTired on November 2, 2009 at 8:53 AM
You’ve never worked in, or probably even been near, an inner-city have you?
Trafalgar on November 2, 2009 at 8:55 AM
The black kid across the street from me calls everyone “pookie.” I nearly strangled I was laughing so hard reading this. He cant stand Obama, I cant wait til he gets off the bus this afternoon to tell him O has co-opted him. Hah.
di butler on November 2, 2009 at 8:55 AM
Anybody know what his Aunt Zatooty’s first name is?
Could it be Pookie?
Pookie Zatooty?
TXUS on November 2, 2009 at 8:55 AM
Hey “pal”, read the post right above your last one, he was using a stereotypical analogy.
That’s the same as me saying to a Polish group “Hey, tell your uncle Stan to drop the keilbasa and get his butt out to vote”
Jerome Horwitz on November 2, 2009 at 8:58 AM
Tell your Uncle Saul to release his death grip on the cash register and get out and vote. You know what I’m talkin’ about!
Rational Thought on November 2, 2009 at 8:59 AM
Oh yeah, I’m from Polish heritage, so it’s OK for me to say what I did, and I wasn’t being racist, right ??
Jerome Horwitz on November 2, 2009 at 9:00 AM
I’ve lived in the inner city for 30 years. Serious inner city, like the convenience store owners two doors down shot in a robbery and crack dealers on the corner inner city. Please feel free not to lecture me about urban life.
There is a strong an legitimate fear that black/democratic turnout will be down this election. Telling the kind of activists that show up at rallies to get their less motivated relatives to the polls is perfectly legitimate.
So, he used “Pookie” before a black audience? Big deal. Do we have any record of the people in the audience being offended? Ir are you just being offended for them?
Bleeds Blue on November 2, 2009 at 9:03 AM
Sorry, but the Absolute Moral Authority to be a public bigot doesn’t extend to white guys, no matter their nationality. Just ask Jesse “Hymietown” Jackson or Rev. “White Devils” Wright or Al “Tawana Brawley” Sharpton or…Barack “Pookie” Obama.
Rational Thought on November 2, 2009 at 9:07 AM
We need to ask what’s in it for Pookie? If Pookie votes what does he get? New clunker car? Section 8 housing? Medical marijuana? Obama phone?
Obama needs to tell Pookie what he’s going to get for his vote. That, plus a free ride to as many voting booths he can do in a day, will do it for him.
Mojave Mark on November 2, 2009 at 9:12 AM
Does the KKK call their pet bogeyman Pookie? Was Philly’s New Black Panther’s nickname Pookie? Was Obama high from Halloween to pull Pookie out of his mind? Obama’s awarded himself his new nickname.
Our military men and women are stuck in Afghanistan waiting for Commander in Chief Pookie’s decision. Whoever said no news is good news didn’t consider Pookie waffling and dithering and refusing to be responsible. Face it, Michelle O.’s made all the decisions to date in his adult life.
Pookie’s waiting for someone to give him the magic beans that will effectively bribe the Taliban into “can’t be we all just get along?” under globalist governance. Ironic, the mountain tribes of Afghanistan are the bane of global marxism. No way do the most remote and “purist” tribes want to meld with the world’s beast. Meanwhile, US Pookie Obama is struggling to figuring how to wipe out polar rebellions from US domestic conservatives and Afghan tribes with a minimized military and maximized domestic international police force. The obvious result of leaving our military in Afghanistan under orders prohibiting a warrior’s full ability to survive, and diminishing the warrior’s fully effective arsenal while leaving the warrior in the open as a clear target is clearly attrition towards loss of force. We’ve already seen the globalists utilize the crushing “too big to fail” syndrome many times over and again to achieve more and more ownership. We know that outcome, and have no right to wash our hands of our military men and women relying on us just as we rely upon them.
Defeat our own corruption. Conserve the Constitution.
VOTE TOMORROW
maverick muse on November 2, 2009 at 9:16 AM
Sorry, the only ones on my couch at this hour are 2 dogs and a cat.
When I leave, they will start their regular jobs selling my reading glasses over the fence.
katy the mean old lady on November 2, 2009 at 9:16 AM
Pookie was the little lion puppet on Soupy Sales. I don’t think he can vote. But that wouldn’t be an obstacle for a Democrat.
cheeflo on November 2, 2009 at 9:16 AM
You take obtuseness to a whole other level.
csdeven on November 2, 2009 at 9:17 AM
So you identify ‘inner-city’ with convenience store robberies and crack dealers on the corner? How racist!
Trafalgar on November 2, 2009 at 9:18 AM
I’m going to go get myself another cup of coffee before I comment on “Pookie”. Everything I can come up with now is just ugly, and likely to get me moderated….
anniekc on November 2, 2009 at 9:19 AM
But are they registered to vote in New Jersey?
Bleeds Blue on November 2, 2009 at 9:19 AM
At least he didn’t say “nukular.”
/sarc
cs89 on November 2, 2009 at 9:19 AM
And with many other, much more uplifting people, as well. You take the bad with the good.
Bleeds Blue on November 2, 2009 at 9:22 AM
Dude, you so lost the argument here…..you’re down to “so what”, and “big deal” ????
Jerome Horwitz on November 2, 2009 at 9:23 AM
Pookie refers to the Chris Rock character in New Jack City, who was a shiftless crackhead.
Obama’s use of this phrase Pookie is incredibly offensive to black people, and if a white politician used it, Jesse and Al would already be holding sit ins protesting the racist stereotype EXPLICITLY IMPLIED by Obama’s use of the phrase.
Anti-Harkonnen Freedom Fighter on November 2, 2009 at 9:23 AM
Because no one really cares about this. Not even you.
Bleeds Blue on November 2, 2009 at 9:24 AM
Cousin “Pookie”? Sounds more like the family pet. But if dead people can vote, then perhaps Democrat dogs and cats can, too.
Really Right on November 2, 2009 at 9:26 AM
I do! Please feel free not to lecture me on what I care about!
Trafalgar on November 2, 2009 at 9:27 AM
katy the mean old lady on November 2, 2009 at 9:29 AM
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