Velociworld

Here, here!

Yeah, I was all peacefully unaware, refraining from any news about the Inaughh!urination until I saw snippets of the fucking racist "pastor" stirring the shit. Now this.

Sowing into the wind, indeed.

Fuck him. For fuck's sake, when oh WHEN has a President of the United States ever sanction ad hominem attacks on a past President, or allowed his toadies to do so?

All boiled down to: the man is a Bag of Douche.

Remember when Willy J. was going on about eliminating the two-terms and done thing? Yeah, well now it really doesn't seem such a bad thing afterall.

Who the hell would have thought that a Clinton...either of them...would be a welcome alternative to this classless, petulant little snit?

Kerrcarto was right. I didn't need to grab the dictionary for this one. What gives?

Well written Velociman!

I to had resolved to give Obama the benefit of the doubt and confine my criticism to that of the loyal opposition...

But now? After Rev Lowery's ranting benediction and the punctuation added to 8 years of BDS?

It's on like Donkey Kong!

Chimperor ObaMussoliniSoros has it coming...

"then-Senator Obama introduced legislation [...]"

Because that's actually *doing* something about the problem.

Jesus.

Welcome back (home), Tuco.

You know, I couldn't restrain myself. I had to hit the "Contact" button and send a piece of my mind. I didn't use any profanity, but it was certainly difficult not to.

A catharsis read. Thanks for this.

Well said, my friend. Well said!

You nailed it brother man.

I also want my money back.

"And his rat shack wife, who was strolling down Pennsylvania Avenue today incomprehensibly dressed like one of the terra cotta soldiers from the Imperial Tombs of China exhibit."

Those, my friend, are the words I was looking for...

UBDAMAN

Perhaps the snarking by the Dim-o-crits will lessen once they actually have to try getting anything constructive done.....they have so much more experience de-constructing any thing good and decent. I suspect they will one day look back and rue the day.......oh wait.....that would require them to actually think rather than emote.

It looks as though you're already working heartily toward next year's Hewitt Award. And good on you, boyo. If we learned anything last month, it is that Victoria Jackson must be taken down early and hard. No mercy, no regret.

Excelsior!

George Soros' shoeshine boy. If you like it, make it your own.

What I want to know is, is where is my freaking unicorn?

It's been a full 24 hours.

The planet ain't healed, neither.

I don't see why this particular blurb is so offensive to you: Bush publicly regretted his handling of Katrina and admitted it was a big mistake/disappointment in his final press conferences and exit interviews. His own aides admitted Katrina marked the point when they lost the confidence of the American people in their government; this paragraph attempts to restore it.

If Obama had slammed Bush's handling of something that was much more open for debate (like Iraq, or terrorism), I could understand the outrage. But Katrina has been acknowledged by all sides to have been a failure in the part of the executive. Have you already forgotten the Arabian Horse Association?

Finally, Joan of Argh!!, there's no "ad hominem" attack that I can see here.

And Clinton screwed the pooch on Waco and a host of other issues. Do you think references to Waco were on the Whitehouse website in 2001?

I suppose that "broken promises" and "unconscionable ineptitude" are diplomatic phrases in the best French tradition? These are not non-emotional observations and by dint of their impact, call the man's core essence into question.

You could google the phrase, ad hominem, I guess but you might learn something. See there? I inferred that you are a moron, even though I didn't say it. ad hominem.

Katrina has been acknowledged by all sides to have been a failure in the part of the executive.

Pretty broad statement there. I know of 30,000 people rescued from rooftops that would disagree with you. And tens of thousands of respondents dismayed by the forest of downed trees and live electric wires. It was a fucking natural disaster, not a "severe weather outbreak" fomented into weathercast froth for ratings.

Classless and vulgar display of bile by the Obama administration. This is the man who is going to bring us all together? Strange way of doing it. I'm not feeling the warmth.

I'm sure he has written a sternly worded letter to those responsible, which will take care of all the problems. Just like that letter he wrote on lending problems...

The address should be changed to epicfail.gov.

Great post, Vman.

I may not characterize Michelle Obama as a rat shack wife, but I really can't hold with the ass kissing media that labels her elegant. There are some elegant black women but this one isn't. She is not ugly but in terms of style she is more Eleanor Roosevelt than Jackie Kennedy. I never did get the praise put on Eleanor. To me she would have been more at home in bib overalls than fur coats. She definetly was manly looking on the lines of Barbara Bush. I have trancended both the racial and political lines here so no one can say I am biased. I guess Janet Reno could dress in designer clothes but that would not make her elegant either. This is not to critic these women's character they are all good people I am sure, but they didn't reach their level of importance becasue of physical beauty. As far as Obama. Well he tap danced his way to the presidency. kudos. In the end though I bet that is how history records him, as a tap dancer. If his performance proves me wrong then that is fine. I can handle a little humility. The question is can he.

What's with the whining? For 8 years libs were made to suffer the nerf-arrow accusations of "traitor" "appeaser" "un-patriotic" "un-American". But that was OK, I guess. Well, pay back's coming from the top. Y'all were down on dissent when it was your pez doll in office. Sadly, your pez-doll didn't dispense too well, and the bloated stylings of the media that pretends it isn't part of the media, just went along for the ride using ridicule as a scalpel as if they were perfumed and powdered dick swaggers from King Louis' court. But now, dissent all you want. I'm kicking back giggling at your confused bully boy, this country is mine and mine alone! verbiage with a virtual scotch and a genuine smile. Nice day to you sir.

c'thulu:

Blow it out your ass, pinko.

I don't know what words to use to describe actively subverting the sitting administration during a two-front war while providing aid and comfort to our Islamist enemies other than "traitor", "appeaser", "un-patriotic", and "un-American".

I'd respond to the rest of your comment, however it was unintelligible gibberish.

Nice day to you, ma'am.

Hmmmm, I wonder, as you deride and subvert the sitting administration as it works about cleaning up the messes left behind by the faux-patriots who just giddyapped out, I wonder how one should label that. I'd say an American of a dissenting opinion. But that's just me. And Sam... Pinko? Please. Take a swifter to yourself.

"Okay. I was giving the man his day, his year, his administration. A faint breeze of circumspection had been wafting across his bow for a couple of weeks. I was going to shut the fuck up and exhibit the class the left has been incapable of showing since 1968. No more."

So you're saying you were able to exhibit class for exactly zero days of his Presidency? In that case, you are what you despise.

Note that "Cthulu" isn´t even commenting about the use of the WH website for partisan attacks.

Bush never did anything like this. Bush has shown unbelievable patience and grace towards his political enemies. Politics aside, he behaved like a mature man worthy of the dignity of the office. If you cannot admit as much, you have a very small mind.

I thought Obama was such a great uniter? Actually I never thought that. I thought that he behaved like a jerk.

Ah, I know. Obama isn´t to blame. He cannot be anywhere. "If only the Führer knew..."

It's so ON,now.

tony lavanway
south haven,mi

So you're saying you were able to exhibit class for exactly zero days of his Presidency?

I think the larger point is that Zerobama has exhibited class for exactly Zero days of his Presidency. And the Obamabots defaced a Bush memorial in DC, just y'know, keepin' it real.

El Gordo: "Bush has shown unbelievable patience and grace towards his political enemies."

Just because he smiles at press conferences does not make this true. Ask Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson if they agree. Or any of the DOJ attorneys fired for not following through on politically-motivated investigations of the GOP's political enemies.

A man who exhibits nation wide neglect (can we be surprised considering from whose womb he sprung) and whose administration closed itself to anything and all besides the naked emperor reality it sought to create deserves nothing less than a fuck you.

Oh, yeah, Lowry... Very stupid and embarrassing moment. The great Ali, in his prime, would have 86d it as a child's snot on paper.
My one big no, no from yesterdays event.

"And Sam... Pinko? Please. Take a swifter to yourself."

Treasonous,un-American dirtbag. How's that,then?

I'm rubber, you're glue...

Responding to Joan of Arggh: I suppose that "broken promises" and "unconscionable ineptitude" are diplomatic phrases in the best French tradition? These are not non-emotional observations and by dint of their impact, call the man's core essence into question.

You could google the phrase, ad hominem, I guess but you might learn something. See there? I inferred that you are a moron, even though I didn't say it. ad hominem.

You're still wrong: look it up yourself. There's no ad hominem attack here. Just because their characterization of the Bush Administration's response to Katrina was a bit harsh does not make it an ad hominem attack. My understanding is that "non-emotional" has nothing to do with it -- isn't this correct?

You did get to use the phrases "by dint of" and "call the man's core essence into question" (what exactly does that mean, though?) in your response, though, so good effort there. B+!

C'thulu: The duster is called a "Swiffer". But then, liberals are not known for cleaning their own house.

Or any of the DOJ attorneys fired for not following through on politically-motivated investigations of the GOP's political enemies.

Chris, you can be forgiven for having an opinion, or even a disagreement about style or substance or execution of details, but on this you have swallowed a lie and regurgitated intact, like some indigestible gack. Do you even know what part of that statement is so laughable? Do you even know why it belies a yawning gap of gullibility?

If you care about the truth at all, educate yourself just the slightest bit. You don't seem a bad person, just ignorant.

Now ya'll don't help Chris out. Let's see if he can spot what's wrong with that all by himself.

Baby steps...

Boring! Any doofus who is still repeating the old manufactured Wilson/Plame "scandal" and does not realize that Wilson is a proven liar is not worth my time.

Sure, here are some good starting points on the DOJ scandal.

DOJ Inspector General report, Oct 2008. Pretty critical of Gonzales and McNulty.
www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/s0809a/final.pdf

Wikipedia entry. Editable by anyone, but provides a very detailed summary:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismissal_of_U.S._attorneys_controversy

Joan, you didn't respond to the other example I gave: so do you believe the Plame leak was made up too?

What's an indigestible gack?

Also, you used the word "belie" incorrectly here, with your nonsensical "it belies a yawning gap of gullibility". Conservative bloggers often make this mistake: that big words make them sound smart and right-thinking. But really, just keep it concise, let your ideas speak for themselves, and stop it with the fancy words! (Seriously: everyone else just gets the impression that you're trying too hard.)

El Gordo: But that's ridiculous: there was a special prosecutor, an investigation, a grand jury, and a trial for one of the conspirators. He was found guilty by a jury of his peers and sentenced by a judge!

Were all these people part of some conspiracy run by Joe Wilson and his wife?

Yes, yes, point taken on belies due to poor editing on my part. Don't jerk it off the base in your excitement there, Chris.

But the rest of ya'll, shhhh! Please don't let him know what he has yet to discover about DOJ firings. Or Plame either.

He is simply incurious about anything that hasn't been placed in front of him, pre-packaged. Kinda like the AP and CNN.

Plame was not a covert agent any more, so there was no leak. Fitzgerald knew this but went after Libby anyway.

Libby didn't "leak" Plame's name, NTTAWWT. Armitage at State did. A Bush enemy. Fitzgerald knew this, too.

Fitzgerald prosecuted a man for an act the prosecutor knew he didn't commit, and an act that wasn't illegal in the first place.

Libby was convicted for not recalling details of a year old conversation, said details not being tied to any illegal activity, but he lied, you see. He could've been convicted for lying about his dog's weight at that point.

If anyone belongs in prison it is Patrick Fitzgerald for malicious prosecution.

Thank you Pamela for pointing out my typo. While I find many of the pov's on this blog amusingly wrongheaded, the creator of it is impressively erudite and eloquent and sets a fine, if way-hard to match, example. I really enjoy his stuff. Don't agree, but enjoy.

Interesting, that a movement that has always been about "class," economically speking, has been thoroughly unable to demonstrate any of the "etiquette" type. I'm thinking that there is some sort of genetic defect that links indescribably bad manners with a preference for equally bad economic/political systems. That, or they drank too much cheap liquor while studying for their remedial English classes in college.

Either way, I have determined that they are immune to reasoned argument, and incapable of responding with same. Thus, there will be no further interaction with wretched, ignorant filth like chris and c'thulu (whatever that is). They will be Trollhammered where available, and ignored elsewhere. I strongly suggest you all do the same, lest it be an impossibly long two years.

Lovecraft. Bad author, interesting concepts. May the old God's bless you all.

May the old God's bless you all.

Why are you using the possessive or a contraction there? Please explain. This is obviously a rule of English grammar I don't understand. As long as we're having grammar and vocabulary lessons, I may as well learn something!

Mark me down in the affirmative for class war. That means I get to shank anyone, perhaps even everyone. And I so look forward to that. Simplistic, yet so utterly satisfying.

Hey Chris? C'thulu? Why don't you come on over to my house? My beer is cheap, but I'm generous about sharing it. Plus, I live in Cleveland, so at least the suds are real cold on account of I keep 'em in the garage.

Everyone else is welcome as well, but please try to play nice.

I refer to her as the Hulking Goblin. But it's nice to have a fall-back phrase like the Rat Shack Wife.