Mere Rhetoric
When Krauthammer muses that Obama shows disdain both grandiose and petty for the history of the office he inhabits, this is the kind of sensibility that he’s talking about. Although I’m not sure that “history” is the right word since apparently the ascent of Dear Leader is Year Zero…
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Best way to win an argument ever!
BadgerHawk on May 4, 2009 at 4:48 PM
F*ck you moderation!
BadgerHawk on May 4, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Not surprised. Pass the popcorn.
txag92 on May 4, 2009 at 4:49 PM
lest some lefty nutroot would dare consider life pre-Obama
gatorboy on May 4, 2009 at 4:49 PM
Not to worry, comrades; it’s just those hard working folks at the Ministry of Truth doin’ their job..
apostic on May 4, 2009 at 4:49 PM
Barack Obama is a very arrogant
dickman.carbon_footprint on May 4, 2009 at 4:50 PM
Why is it that its leftists who usually try to ‘erase’ and revise history? Remember this, folks?
Richard Romano on May 4, 2009 at 4:51 PM
Is that legal? I thought all WH communications were archived forever?
lorien1973 on May 4, 2009 at 4:51 PM
Can anyone see my blockquote from the article or is it still blocked?
BadgerHawk on May 4, 2009 at 4:51 PM
Didn’t the Nazis try to write themselves into history?
And don’t socialist and communist dictators, totalitarians, and all the other bad forms of government censor reading material? Like the Nazis?
Anyone who can’t see the parallels here is a total dink.
madmonkphotog on May 4, 2009 at 4:51 PM
I thought this as well.
Obama and his administration are apparently above any law though.
carbon_footprint on May 4, 2009 at 4:53 PM
From Wikipedia:
The idea behind Year Zero is that all culture and traditions within a society must be completely destroyed or discarded and a new revolutionary culture must replace it, starting from scratch. All history of a nation or people before Year Zero is largely irrelevant, as it will (as an ideal) be purged and replaced from the ground up.
Realist on May 4, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Modern Book burning.
the_nile on May 4, 2009 at 4:53 PM
That’s about the size of it. Nobody did anything with technology before Giggles. That’s the storyline, and they dare you to go find any evidence to the contrary.
BTW, wasnt’ Nixon strung up by his suspenders for erasing some White House tapes?
crazy_legs on May 4, 2009 at 4:57 PM
They’ll be erasing the laws next, and say “it’s time for a new era of laws!”
hawksruleva on May 4, 2009 at 4:59 PM
Horrific.
Something has to be done.
Mommypundit on May 4, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Who is this Bush you speak of? /Obamatons
baldilocks on May 4, 2009 at 5:00 PM
So vast a chasm, in fact, that I was didn’t even know the Bush-era White House had Twitter posts.
cadetwithchips2 on May 4, 2009 at 5:01 PM
Well alrighty then. So he can cut the “inherited from Bush” crap now too.
Brat on May 4, 2009 at 5:01 PM
NOTUS’s legacy:
Seven Percent Solution on May 4, 2009 at 5:02 PM
What do you mean? How does somebody write themselves into history?
aengus on May 4, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Does the TOTUS twitter?
Brat on May 4, 2009 at 5:05 PM
The adults are in charge. (of the delete button)
/getalife
omnipotent on May 4, 2009 at 5:06 PM
TWITUS?
faraway on May 4, 2009 at 5:07 PM
obooba wants to abort American history b.c he HATES this country and its denizens. I am ready to take this fight to the streets; how can we sit idly by typing on blogs while our motherland is being disrespected??? UGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG – i hate him so much!!
Ris4victory on May 4, 2009 at 5:07 PM
No seriously…how is this legal?
Sarjex on May 4, 2009 at 5:10 PM
I love how we were all told that the new administration was super tech savvy and that the Bush administration was a bunch of luddites. Never mind the fact that the old administrtaion had been doing podcasts of speeches for the past six-seven years and used Twitter, amongst other things.
strictnein on May 4, 2009 at 5:10 PM
Long term, I’d probably be more concerned about the Obama-era digital documents the Obama Administration wipes out. Any Perella Weinberg-related topics over the past two weeks are probably a good place to start.
jon1979 on May 4, 2009 at 5:11 PM
OT Outrage of the day:
Obama’s new tax plan for business:
faraway on May 4, 2009 at 5:12 PM
You know … Like Algore inventing the internet or Kim Jong Ill’s invention of the lightbulb (according to the finest textbooks in the DPKR).
DJ Rick on May 4, 2009 at 5:13 PM
Awesome.
lorien1973 on May 4, 2009 at 5:13 PM
There’s a part of me that wants to chalk this up solely to insecurity on Bambi’s part like everything else – the faux seal, the Greek columns, the “office of the president elect” on every podium in the run-up to the inauguration, going after Hannity and Rush by name… It all just screams insecurity, as does this. That’s not to say there isn’t some dastardly plot a foot, it just seems like insecurity is the easier answer. Who knows? Maybe I should stop shaving with Occam’s razor…
HadithHarry on May 4, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Hey, you guys remember when our country was awesome and we had a great president that all the MSM hated? Those were good times.
carbon_footprint on May 4, 2009 at 5:27 PM
Wow. They aren’t even pretending not to be strong-armed fascists. No doubt Tax Cheat Geither will enjoy having his own personal army at his disposal.
Buy Danish on May 4, 2009 at 5:32 PM
I really can t fckin stand prince obama
obarfy
and his little lapdancer keif olber jerk off
blatantblue on May 4, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Do you have a link for that?
jdkchem on May 4, 2009 at 5:35 PM
copy past the quote. it’s on the news.
it’s the logical outgrowth of what i posted about during the g20 meetings.
lorien1973 on May 4, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Petty little bastards aren’t they?
Obammunism is in full swing.
Grayson on May 4, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Hmm. Kinda like the Taliban blowing up the ancient Buddhist statues. “We wont be needing THESE anymore…”
Tuning Spork on May 4, 2009 at 5:47 PM
He is such a small child-like person.
ctmom on May 4, 2009 at 5:52 PM
It is time for all concerned Americans to go to the local hardware and buy a pitchfork, then march on Washington.
Of course everyone would have to do that before Obama outlaws pitchforks. That will be done just after he outlaws teabags, sometime prior to July 4th.
Yoop on May 4, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Ok, it’s twitter. It’s not memos, it’s not white house records, it’s twitter.
I’m not sure if there is more fluff in this article or the one about the actually bunny rabbit.
therightscoop on May 4, 2009 at 5:59 PM
What a douche.
Seriously. He’s the f’ing president. If he wanted to start fresh, any peon on his staff could have dropped an email to twitter asking them to save the earlier tweets off to a different ID — whitehouse43 or something — and they would have scattered to have it done in .23 seconds.
What a shallow, nasty little tool.
Tanya on May 4, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Wanted to re-highlight this:
He won. He won at life, everyone else must obey!
Abby Adams on May 4, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Twitter today. Constitution tomorrow.
Ronnie on May 4, 2009 at 6:07 PM
It’s some of the earliest online writing from the White House. Lincoln’s personal letters weren’t official White House records either. Ok to torch ‘em?
I have no idea why this makes me so mad. It’s just so disgustingly petty.
Tanya on May 4, 2009 at 6:08 PM
“He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.”
– George Orwell
cthulhu on May 4, 2009 at 6:14 PM
“I won.”
– Barack Obama
cthulhu on May 4, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Me, too. Petty and obscenely arrogant.
califcon on May 4, 2009 at 6:15 PM
You don’t know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the US
Back in the US
Back in the USSR
TheBigOldDog on May 4, 2009 at 6:23 PM
The koolaid drinkers will just say it’s petty to complain about this. :/
aikidoka on May 4, 2009 at 6:32 PM
another 800 jobs created or saved!
agmartin on May 4, 2009 at 7:03 PM
I can’t speak to their specific legal requirements, but generally speaking, all of this has to be archived. I work with ORR (open record requests) all day long.
And anyone can do an ORR. It’s a piece of paper and some postage.
Asher on May 4, 2009 at 7:11 PM
I’m glad someone understands this.
madmonkphotog on May 4, 2009 at 7:29 PM
They did that to prove that they were the Superior throughout history. And they themselves are the fulfillment of prophecy which they added to history.
tjexcite on May 4, 2009 at 8:17 PM