Obama: Clueless, Classless Clown

Come on, folks. Let's face the facts. The idiot sent some errand boy out to WalMart for a gift for the British PM - read the wrong teleprompter lines when with the Irish PM - and now this. Congressional Democrats are going to start bailing on this guy in droves once they start thinking about having to run in two years. Either that, or a Republican Congress will be writing his teleprompter lines after 2010. He's making Jimmy Carter look good by comparison. Unfortunately we have to wait four years to cough up this electoral fur ball who can't even make his mind up about a dog. Thank you mainstream media. You should be proud - electing this idiot was a wonderful dying act.

The first appearance by a sitting president on "The Tonight Show" may well end up being the last.

 President Obama, in his taping with Jay Leno Thursday afternoon, attempted to yuk it up with the funnyman, and ended up insulting the disabled.

Towards the end of his approximately 40-minute appearance, the president talked about how he's gotten better at bowling and has been practicing in the White House bowling alley.

He bowled a 129, the president said.

"That's very good, Mr. President," Leno said sarcastically.

It's "like the Special Olympics or something," the president said.

When asked about the remark, the White House said the president did not intend to offend.

"The president made an off-hand remark making fun of his own bowling that was in no way intended to disparage the Special Olympics," White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton said. "He thinks the Special Olympics is a wonderful program that gives an opportunity for people with disabilities from around the world."

Comments

[w3bgrrl]

Notice all the drama Obama leaves in his wake? Sure, he doesn't go off into hysterics or anything, but his every word is either rude, beneath his office, or passive aggressive bitch boy stuff.

His wife was right. He hasn't done anything yet to deserve being president.

[Mark Turner]

Biden has been coaching him well in the art of gaffe making.

[mark l.]

actually,
congress is the 'special olympics' of politics.

[JustOneMan]

Wow...Our first Mentally Challenged President...isnt that special!

[mark l.]

"Since 1968, Special Olympics has been bringing one message to the world: people with intellectual disabilities can and will succeed if given the opportunity."

sounds like barry's entire life.

[Palinforpresident]

bad joke vs. disregarding constitution. i ll take the bad jokes. four more years losers, so deal with it.

[Robert Kelly]

simple bad choice of words, I'm sure he'll apologize. We got bigger things to worry about than his poor attempt a humor.

[mark l.]

"disregarding constitution"

good luck with the aig "siezures". This will go down 9-0 at the supreme court. barry is disregarding not only the constitution, but the law he just signed, a month ago.

[WBestPresidentEver]

This excuse for a President does not have a clue about any damn thing.
If it woudl spend more time focusing on the real things that need attention instead of walking around when his head and chin held high like his shit don't stink then he might, just might get a clue. But, I doubt it very seriously. He is not capable. We have no clue about waht kind of grades he made in college as he refuses to release that info.
Guess he knows better. Then it would be uncovered how stupid he really is.
He put all these idiot (uneducated) friends of his in cabinet postions and at other postions to guide him and it's like the blind leading the blind. My dog has more sense than him and all his people.
I can hardly believe what I am seeing and hearing every damn day. It's like a zoo.
These people have lost their minds and don't know where to find them.
We have tax cheats running the country. All of congress are pointing fingers at one another and "that one" continues to blame everything on Bush. It is really getting old now.
It didn't take long for "that one" to screw everything up. And..the thing about it ...he does not care.
The only thing he cares about is appeasing everyone that helped put in him office. He is taking up every cause any group on the democratic side voiced an opinion about.
GLOBAL WARMING, WIND TURBINES, SOLAR PANELS, BATTERY POWERED CARS, ANIMAL RIGHTS, ABORTION RIGHTS, WAR ACTIVISTS, STEM CELLS RESEARCH (AND THE GOVERNEMENT PAYING FOR IT, HEALTHCARE, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, AND I COULD GO ON AND ON AND ON.
America will not be America when these scumbags get done.
We will be told where we can live, how much power we can use, what kind of food we can eat, what kinds of things children can be taught in school, what kind of car you can drive, what kind of water you can drink and what kind of job you can work at and much pay you can make.
If this isn't communism I don't know what the hell it is.
THEY CAN ALL GO TO HELL. We need a revolution in this country and we need it now !

Communism
A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.
The Marxist-Leninist version of Communist doctrine that advocates the overthrow of capitalism by the revolution of the proletariat.

[BrJns]

Obama is as qualified to be President as this disaster Corrine Brown is to be a House member - exhibit A is this gem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N2uQ7Fg_Uk

Get him off the teleprompter and he's and idiot with a tin ear, and an insulting idiot at that.

[mark l.]

the video is beyond any parody.
is that a bathrobe?

[Effra]

I'm shocked that Obama would insult the Kennedys with his Special Olympics comment. (See what they get for endorsing him over Hillary Clinton?)

[Tonya]

All of you people need to get a life! It's amazing how quickly you can all jump on PRESIDENT Obama because of a simple poor choice of words. Your wonderful president Bush used so many horrible words in his 8 years that we still laugh at some of them when they come across email. Regardless, Bush was president for 8 years and although I didn't vote for him, when he was in my presence, I still gave the man respect as the leader of our country and once he took office, we all gave him a chance to prove himself! (HINT: a chance is longer than 100 days) However, we've endured EIGHT YEARS of what I consider the worse turn in history! As a result, thousands of people are out of work, losing houses and living on the street which is a mess PRESIDENT Obama inherited when he took office. With all of your comments I'm sure most of you probably voted Bush in office. Bottom line, get a life people and find something else to talk about rather that watching EVERY SINGLE WORD that comes out of PRESIDENT Obama's mouth. Today is the first day of Spring, this would be a wonderful day for all of you to go out an try to enjoy life or are you in the boat like the rest of us, living paycheck to paycheck after the mess your last wonderful president left for all of us while he's off in his new ranch living high on the hog in Texas??!!

[w3bgrrl]

Right, Tonya. "9/11 was an inside job" is a perfect example of giving Bush a chance. "He did nothing but read for 7 whole minutes" is another perfect example of giving Bush a chance.

If you had one ounce of intellectual honesty, you would place the blame for our current economic mess squarely on the shoulders of the Demonrat Congress who obstructed the Bush administration on every effort to reform and oversee GSEs.

And let me close with this, when this passive-aggressive bitch boy says that words matter, don't whine and cry when his every word is examined. He's the one who told you to pay attention.

You elected him, now deal with it.

[BringBackBush]

whats so funny is I had a job back when Bush was president, I know 1 company in the city I live in that laid-off 40 people the day Obama was elected, cos they knew what was gonna happen....I'll give ya'lls president the same amount of respect as you gave ours, that being said OBAMA can shove his "bowling practice in the white house" up his @**

[Reaganite Republican Resistance]

Obama has something seriously wrong with him- what kind of monster mocks the disabled on network television? I guess whe shouldn't be too surprised by this gauche and downright cruel comment re. the Special Olympics- no different than his classless cheap-shot on 90-yr-old Nancy Reagan in his first presser.

Narcissists like Obama are often callous- and even ruthless. They tend to lack empathy and/or a conscience. This is evident in his lack of interest in his own half-brother who lives in poverty in Kenya, or his aunt found living in public housing in Boston.

Other indicators include control freakery, grandiose self-importance, feeling "above the law", interpersonally exploitive, inability to handle criticism, lack of empathy, arrogant behavior, surrounds himself with sycophants... sound familiar?

Obama is a mess- and his insecurities, bad childhood, and irresponsible, far-left-wierdo mother are now OUR problem, too-

http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/

[Limbaugh's Nightmare]

"I know 1 company in the city I live in that laid-off 40 people the day Obama was elected, cos they knew what was gonna happen"

I've read some dumb stuff, but this is perhaps the stupidest thing I've read in a while. Yeah, your company laid you off on election day because "they knew what was going to happen." They knew WHAT? That the economy was ALREADY in the toilet and they couldn't afford the dimbulbs who worked for them! Why not just admit you know zero about business. You think the economy leading up to that day had anything at all to do with it, dumb ass? And tell me--who held the reins for the last 8 years?

Two recessions under Reagan, one under Bush I, zero under Clinton, two under Bush Jr. including what may be a depression. Figure a way to blame the democrats for that, will you?

I love watching you all make fools of yourselves crying about Obama only 3 months into his preisdency. And to think--I've got 8 more years to look forward to.

[Trevor]

Limbaugh's Nightmare, you have under 4 years to look forward to. Evidently you didn't pay attention in school, or you're too young to have taken US History yet. Either way, anyone with half a brain knows that the recession under Reagon is virtually unanimously attributed to the policies of Paul Volcker's tight money policies as Chairman of the Federal Reserve (before Reagan even entered office). Volcker was a Democrat. Before Reagan, Democrat Jimmy Carter had the economy in shambles. Reagan instituted Reaganomics, which would lead us out of the recession and, as argued by most economics, into the economic boom of the late 1980s through the 1990s. Because of the previous recession, as well as Reagan's success in defeating the Russia in the arms race of the Cold War, George H. W. Bush entered office with a considerable deficit that he naturally wanted to eliminate.

In order to eliminate the deficit, Bush sought to cut wasteful government spending. However, Democrats had the majority in Congress and insisted that the only way of fixing of the deficit was by increasing taxes. Bush had promised "no new taxes" during his campaign and to secure the Reagan tax cuts, which what gave him so much popularity. However, due to the Democrat majority he wouldn't be able to pass a bill to cut spending that didn't involve tax cuts. The Republicans, who remembered his promise of no new taxes, refused to sign a bill he proposed to them that increased taxes and cut spending. After this, the Democrats proposed a bill to him that only increased taxes. Worried for the deficit, he signed it--leading to a 6-month recession due to the tax increases. Bush to this day wishes he didn't sign the Democrats' bill. Bush's ratings subsequently dropped from a high of 89% to an extremely low number due to being completely outcast from the Republican Party. After another bill from the Democrats to increase benefits to the unemployed was signed by Bush, he remained uninvolved with the economy until the 1992 Election.

Toward the end of 1991, the recession was ending and the economy had started to perk up again. Clinton wasn't very involved in the economy, but what he did do hurt it. One wise move that he made, which you may find interesting, was drastically cut regulation and the regulatory staff (as advised by Republican Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who had been the incumbent since the Reagan era). Democrats often misconstrue that Bush was the staunch deregulator and that Clinton's boom was due his Democratic ways of regulation. However, it is quite the other way around. Clinton didn't get very involved in the economy, and his deregulation alongside with the policies of Alan Greenspan, who is widely contributed with the careful economic handling while Clinton was in office, allowed the policies of Reaganomics to flourish in the free market, resulting in Clinton overseeing a huge economic boom. One of the only actual economic initiatives of Clinton himself was the revision of the Community Reinvestment Act. The CRA was signed into law by Jimmy Carter (the last Democrat in office before Clinton), and was a bill that increased the availability of loans to less qualified urban citizens. Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia on how Clinton revised this bill:

"In early 1993 President Clinton ordered new regulations for the CRA which would increase access to mortgage credit for inner city and distressed rural communities. The new rules went into effect on January 31, 1995 and featured: requiring numerical assessments to get a satisfactory CRA rating; using federal home-loan data broken down by neighborhood, income group, and race; encouraging community groups to complain when banks were not loaning enough to specified neighborhood, income group, and race; allowing community groups that marketed loans to targeted groups to collect a fee from the banks."

At the end of his presidency, perhaps too caught up with his sex scandal, Clinton also allowed international trade with other countries to become paralyzed and made no plans or efforts to invest the surplus money gained during his presidency.

With the failure to deal with debate over how to use the new surplus and having paralyzed the international trading system, Bill Clinton left office with the US enterring recession in the year 2000. To combat the recession, George W. Bush took initiative in fixing foreign trade and using the surplus to return tax dollars to the American people (as he put it, the government had more money than it needed and it got that money from the people; therefore the people should get their money back). Subsequently, the economy performed strongly for the most part of Bush's Presidency, including nearly six years of uninterrupted growth and the strongest economy of any developed country (yes, better than Clinton). The Dow Jones, along with the economy, reached its height of 14,000 in December, 2007. As I've already mentioned, and contrary to popular belief as well as the BS Obama puts in his speeches, Bush nearly doubled the regulation from the Clinton era. He largely increased regulation by over 70% in comparison to the Clinton Administration, and increased spending by 62% (from $26.4 billion to $42.7 billion) on regulation programs. In 2003, in fact, Bush called for an agency within the treasury department to oversee Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Bush claimed that Congress had "neither has the tools, nor the stature" for proper oversight of those companies. Democrats of the Financial Services Committee who were lining their pockets with the risky behaviour of the companies voted fiercely against it, however. These Democrats were receiving tens of thousands of dollars of campaign contributions from these companies and as a result were voting in their favor. Barney Frank, for instance, served as an overseer of Fanny and Freddie and has received over $42,350 in campaign contributions from the companies. What was his excuse for opposing the Republican initiative to oversee these companies, you may ask? This is what he said:
"These two entities...are not facing any kind of financial crisis.... The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing."

"... the less we will see in terms of affordable housing."

"...affordable housing."

Yep, 10 years after Clinton revised an already shitty policy from an even shittier president that would make sure that loan companies weren't being biased in who they loaned to, banks are going belly-up for giving loans to people who can't pay them back. As Ann Coulter puts it (I'm paraphrasing), the Republican dream is that you work your way up in the world so that you one day can start a family in a house of your open with a dog and a picket fence. Democrats think the banks should buy you a house and trust that the job will come after. And so, the CRA has both required and encouraged by means of benefits that banks give loans to people who normally wouldn't receive them because they'd be too risky. When our Republican President tried to set up a committee to ensure that they weren't being too risky, Democrats said he was overreacting and that doing so would reduce the number of people who could afford houses. Now Obama tells us it was Republican de-regulation that caused banks to invest in loans that would lose them money.

Yo-bama Go-bama

[Trevor]

Ugh, it's late and I'm tired so fuck off if there are any spelling/grammar errors :P

[Trevor]

Wow, yeah, I should have proofread that before posting... you should be able to understand all the mistakes except the following clause: "the Republican dream is that you work your way up in the world so that you one day can start a family in a house of your open with a dog and a picket fence"

Should be: "the Republican believe the American dream is that you work your way up in the world so that you one day can start a family in a house of your own with a dog and a picket fence"