Critics have labeled the president’s health reform initiative “Obamacare,” no doubt trying to tie a popular president with a growingly unpopular piece of legislation.
In return, it seems like Mr. Obama is not merely wearing that label as a badge of honor, but as a selling point:
I got a letter — I got a note today from one of my staff — they forwarded it to me — from a woman in St. Louis who had been part of our campaign, very active, who had passed away from breast cancer. She didn’t have insurance. She couldn’t afford it, so she had put off having the kind of exams that she needed. And she had fought a tough battle for four years. All through the campaign she was fighting it, but finally she succumbed to it. And she insisted she’s going to be buried in an Obama t-shirt.
I don’t know that all of us are quite as impressed with him as he is with himself.
I started to watch the video but couldn’t. I’m starting to think his narcissism is beyond what one expects from someone who gets to be President but is bordering on being neurotic. I did see the video of him mis-pronouncing Corpsman as Corpseman. It wasn’t that he got tounge-tied as he gave no indication of struggling to pronounce the word – which he repeated later. Is he really that dis-connected and is his staff that ill-informed as well?
Well hopefully we only have three more years of him and he can go work for the UN basking in his own self-declared adoration. I hope we still have a country when he’s gone.
Mark Twain said man was the only animal in the kingdom that blushes – or needs to. Clearly he never met the likes of our President.
Obama’s mental health may be an issue. The Constitution (remember that, champ?) has Amendment XXV, Section 4. Say hello to President Biden. Yes, he’s a gaffe prone numbskull. But Biden does not want to actively harm America. More acceptable, and especially, more Constitutional.
OldT6Flyer,
Two words about having a country when he is gone –
Jimmy Carter.
If we could survive a Carter when we had a very dangerous enemy (and all the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate malaise) we can survive an Obama while fighting off the (eager and dangerous but still small time) Jihadist enemies as well as the (peaking too soon?) Chicoms. I just hope (but rather doubt that the inevitable backlash brings in someone like a Reagan – but we will see.
He’s the most impressive man he’s ever met. And we’re all ignoramuses who don’t know whats best for us.
You beat me to it, Paul. Quite true, quite true, alas.
To quote RADM Ming Chang, USN: He’s his own best friend.
Ahh, the author of that famous statement — “You better get duck in row.”
Got any others stored up there, shipmate?
Scott, I have a few pages of them in my Facebook notes. Lex can give you the name. If you’re not on Facebook, send an email address through Lex and I’ll forward them to you. Boss
Turns out that the facts aren’t quite as impressive as the fantasy.
Not like that hasn’t happened before.
Scott, Scott, Scott, don’t you know better by now? Never, never, EVER let mere “facts” get in the way of the ultimate “truth.” It’s ALL “relative.” Remember Humpty Dumpty:”When I use a word it means just what I chose it to mean, nothing more or less.” “The question is which is to be master, that is all.” Or, Scott, try the White Queen: “I’ve believed in as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
We are deep in Alice-in-Wonderland “Through the Looking-Glass” territory in the Age of Obama, Scott.
There are times I wish I could be a Cheshire Badger, and slowly disappear from the Progressive’s version of the world, leaving only my smile. Badgers are known for our smiles you know.
Thanks for the research on that, Scott. The truth always seems to get lost in the translation and discombobulated somewhat by TheOne, doesn’t it? She went around telling people she bought a “hit by a bus” policy with a $5,000 deductible and then cries “Foul” when it doesn’t pay at the drop of a hat.
Obama makes it sound as if she was totally bereft of any healthcare whatsoever, when so was “taking a bus” to her chemotherapy treatments… I mean, c’mon! How about telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?! He is the POTUS. If we can’t trust his word on this, it’s like Johnny Carson’s old TV show… “Who Do You Trust?”
Is he the POTUS, or more the DOTUS, the Dissimulator Of The United States?
My understanding is that he didn’t even know the woman’s name. She was just a prop. In the eyes of some we are all just props. Our main purpose being to reflect the heavenly glow back uponst the glowing one, in order that his radiance might become even more brilliant. This pisses me off. A total disconnect with the huddled masses. His glowingonhighness is not the only esteemed leader of ours suffering from a mirrored spherical view of reality. Throw da bums out.
Pretty much all just props, extars and techs in Obama’s theatrical Presidency.
It’s like several levels above Michael Jackson bizzare.
Clearly he didn’t know her name; in fact it seems he didn’t know the facts at all.
And when has that ever stopped him before?
I would not want anyone more impressive in POTUS’s chair attempting some of the ill-advised schemes Obama has.
I might wretch. Just when I think I can’t take anymore, he makes it worse. What a pinhead.
He’s quite simply pathological.
Narcissistic megalomania must truly be a wonderful disease to have — until the world ultimately (and inevitably) conspires to shatter the patient’s fantasies and illusions. At that point, the patient will strike-out in anger and frustration.
When the patient is a Head of State, this striking-out can get ugly.
HE reminds me of the old hymn, “How Great I Art”.
That there is funny. In tribute, I’m going to shift my locale about 7 ft to the left where my piano resides, and bang out the original classic. But this new interpretation, HOW GREAT I ART is classic in it’s own right. But, if like myself you grew up with your Mom insisting on you watching Billy Graham Crusades, you prefer the original. Written in 1885 by a 25 year old Swedish paster, Carl Boberg, How Great Thou Art was first published with the title of O STORE GUD (O Great God) in 1886. The HOW GREAT I ART VERSION was conceived around Bill Ayers kitchen table in late 2007. With the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s encouragement, the new version became the sacred anthem for O Great God’s 2008 presidential campaign. Finally, Mrs. O Great God had something to awaken her slumbering national pride. Even today, Chris Matthews gets a tingle up his leg every time time it’s majestic opening chords are struck. Rumor is that back in Chicago an updated version of HE’S GOT THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HAND, is being penned as we speak. HE THOUGHT THE WHOLE WORLD WOULD EAT OUT OF HIS HAND. Damn Massachusets anyway.
I understand after his sojourn at Notre Dame and his efforts to co-opt some
Catholics there, some White House staffers had gone to the music industry in Hollywood to pen new lyrics for “Ave Obama” but they couldn’t decide upon Shubert’s or Gounod’s music. Then someone told them none in their base understand latin if they put it on a T-shirt.
Forgive, I just read somewhere the sentence, (and I paraphrase), “His humility could fill a room”.
(I am gonna have to start writing things down.)
Been watching the Tea Party convention most of the day. Breitbart was especially fun. I’m waiting for Sarah Palin and her keynote speech.
I find I have a growing hunger for real people.
WTF.
Pixie, I cut and paste sayings like that that appeal to me. Some are from Lex, and others from commenters here. Others are from other sources. I keep updating their quotes in a MS Word document and post them on my Facebook page. I suppose no one reads them but me but I still am inspired, entertained and enlightened by them.
I’ll offer the similar “I used to be conceited but I overcame that fault and now I’m perfect”. BTW, in watching the video of Obama telling this story about the T-shirt burial, he does not appear at all amused with the ensuing laughter from the audience.
At the risk of punishment under AR 15, let me say this.
Our CiC is only as smart as the guy who runs his teleprompter.
So who’s really in charge here?
Seems to me he met the congressional Republicans last week and answered their pointed questions quite well… thinking on his feet for an hour and in great detail, all without a teleprompter.
Yea, that no teleprompter thing worked well.
But, your mileage may vary.
I dunno. Looks like the prez needed a teleprompter in what should have been a no brainer!. h/t to pinch
Greetings:
Perhaps someone on his staff will give President Obama a note about a grandmother in Hawaii who died while her grandson, whom she helped raise, was off somewhere running for President.
And with whom he spent a grand total of about 4 hours during a 72 hour period, while spending the remainder taking care of an odd number of chores and visiting with the Governor. Odd that the Governor should seal his birth certificate shortly after his departure from Hawai’i.
Her way of saying ‘Mahalo’?
Maybe the woman has a penchant for darkly humorous irony.
Unfortunately EXACTLY the kind of humor totally lost on ego-manical narcissists.
In another thread I got involved in on FB regarding why this White House seems so dysfunctional it was pointed out that Obama only really seems to trust his four horseman – Jarrett, Emmanual, Gibbs, and Axelrod. They are the only people brought in on all major decisions and the Cabinet heads are hardly even aware of what is going on let alone have any input.
A commenter added that, in a conversation with someone high in the Administration, the official said to the effect: “this White House won’t work as long as ‘everyone’ thinks they are President”.
Interesting commentary. Can’t obviously vouch for accuracy but from the outside it appears to fit.