Grading the Comedian in Chief
by Jeffrey JenaBarack Obama is getting ready for his next career. The other night in he was the opening act for comedian Wanda Sykes at the White House Correspondents dinner. Soon he could be featuring at Funny Bones across America. It was interesting to watch a room full for allegedly unbiased journalists cheer for the President. It was obvious that their enthusiasm was not for the semi-flat jokes at times but for the underlying left wing politics.
The economy must be worse that the administration is letting on. I saw Warren Buffet and Richard Belzer in the house. Who are they writing for these days? In both the President’s and Wanda’s sets there seemed to be a lack of jokes about the administration. Since I have a few years of experience at stand-up and teaching comedy writing at undisclosed locations I thought might give a review of his work and offer some suggestions.
Tonight I want to speak from the heart. I’m going to speak off the cuff. (Teleprompters rise.) Good evening. Pause for laughter.
I am not a big fan of prop gags but this one worked alright even though he telegraphed the punch line.
I am Barack Obama. Most of you covered me…
It’s always good to introduce yourself. Don’t assume that everybody is informed! If they were you would still be the junior senator from Illinois.
…All of you voted for me…Apologies to the Fox table…
This is a construction I would deem “true story” comedy. No embellishment needed, just the facts as they happened are funny. This was the first point where I noticed the applause was too strong for the joke. Most of them did vote for him.
I would like to welcome you all to the 10-day anniversary of my first 100 days.
Having a healthy ego and a high sense of self worth is important to stand-up.
I do have to say, though, that this is a tough holiday for Rahm Emanuel because he’s not used to saying the word “day” after “mother.” That’s true.
Again just a nice “true story” gag. Then he broke one of the cardinal rules of stand up and politics which is never admit you are just making it up. By saying “That’s true,” it lets the audience know everything else is a lie.
Now Sasha and Malia aren’t here tonight because they’re grounded. You can’t just take Air Force One on a joy ride to Manhattan. I don’t care whose kids you are. We’ve been setting some ground rules here. They’re starting to get a little carried away.
Hey, lay off the kids! If you don’t want right-wing nut jobs like me making fun of them in a few years then don’t use them for public props when it suits your purposes. Besides, making fun of your kids is almost as tricky as props and ethnic jokes. Why not do this as a mother-in-law joke. How about, “Michelle’s mother told us she wanted to take the train up to New York for a day and see the sights. I said, why not just fly? I have to be careful what I say when the Pentagon Liaison is in the room!”
…And he (David Axelrod) said to me the same thing that partners all across America are saying to one another right now: Let’s go to Iowa and make it official.
Gay jokes, really?
Dick Cheney was supposed to be here but he is very busy working on his memoirs, tentatively titled, “How to Shoot Friends and Interrogate People.”
This is a good joke, but he fumbled the delivery!
… whirlwind of activity these first hundred days. We’ve enacted a major economic recovery package, we passed a budget, we forged a new path in Iraq, and no President in history has ever named three Commerce Secretaries this quickly.
Not a bad joke but you should have only used two examples in your set up. Remember, set the pattern, reinforce the pattern, and then break the pattern.
… Which reminds me, if Judd Gregg is here; your business cards are ready now.
Not a bad tag, but you fumbled this delivery too.
…Larry Summers asked if he could chair the White House Council on Women and Girls.
Another risky topic for liberal comics, did you hear the groans and small boos from the feminists in the crowd. Barack needs to remember that radical feminist have had their sense of humor surgically removed.
And I do appreciate that Larry is here tonight because it is seven hours past his bedtime.
Weak tag.
Gibbs liked that one.
Weaker tag.
…You know, we (Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama) had been rivals during the campaign, but these days we could not be closer. In fact, the second she got back from Mexico she pulled into a hug and gave me a big kiss.
Would he be making Swine Flu jokes if he really though it was all that big of a danger?
…So I’d like to talk a little bit about what my administration plans to achieve in the next hundred days.
Hey! Hey! This is my bit from blog I wrote a week ago! Somebody in the White House writer’s room is reading Big Hollywood!
During the second hundred days, we will design, build and open a library dedicated to my first hundred days. It’s going to be big, folks. In the next hundred days, I will learn to go off the prompter and Joe Biden will learn to stay on the prompter.
Finally some self-deprecation! Here is my theory on comedy about the Obama administration: Obama, off limits, Biden whipping boy!
I realize that the President didn’t write any of his own material but that is just keeping with his established style.
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Many of the correspondents applauded because the bird cage liners they work for are going to need the President's signature on their bailout checks come this summer.
I realize that it's difficult to hit the right tone in these kinds of events, but Obama struck me as a humorless guy. He reminded me of the Hollywood cliché of the old, white CEO who tells somewhat self-deprecating jokes in an angry, annoyed tone as his employees sit there on pins and needles waiting for the eruption.
Fortunately, Obama brought a laugh track. . . oh wait, that was the media.
What a self absorbed, stuttering, stuffed shirt, surrounded by shallow, suck ass sycophants…
Sufferin' succotash!
You know, I can't say his timing was perfect, or that his comedy writing/reading skills are all that good; but to be fair some of this was funny. Who doesn't love it when anyone makes fun of Hillary Clinton? And it sure beat the pants off Ms. Sykes jokes.
"…and no President in history has ever named three Commerce Secretaries this quickly." This would be comedy gold coming from the mouths of the reporters at Comedy Central, if only he were Republican.
Maybe we'll all luck out, and this will be the watershed moment when comedians finally pull back from Pres. Obama's butt, and realize he can also take a joke, and the American people need that. No matter which side of the aisle he comes from, he's just another stuffed shirt pushing an agenda – and it is the comedy worlds responsibility to bag 'em and tag 'em.
Here's to hoping!
I thought it was terrific. Liberals can laugh. Many conservatives just seem to mash their teeth. Although it was good to see Michael Steele laughing.
he is a glad handing, back slapper with a combination of the down-home Kansas good to know ya type with the smooth south side Chicago-Hyde Park 'limousine fancy restaurant liberal. Quite a dichotomy, and one suspects the basis of his appeal. Funny, however, he isn't…
Too thin skinned. Too aware of his image. Leftist ideology (see dwarf Garofolo for tips) is NOT funny.
Oddly enough, 'W' was hysterical. Made fun of himself constantly. Took a dig as well as any President ever.
And this bunch loathed the man. So, guess being funny isn't all that important. Too bad.
Well, the room was full of people who worshiped the ground he walked on. They would laugh at anything. Why, they would have laughed at jokes about people dying.
Wait, they did.
Well, they would have laughed at jokes about terrorism.
Wait, they did that, too.
Well, they would have laughed at jokes that really weren't funny.
Wait, they did that, too.
tell us what you really feel, amigo- don't hold back so much…
in obama's head while delivery the "jokes": hahahahahaha, these jokes michelle wrote are ok, but i'll let wanda tell all the ones i wrote.
I thought the jokes I saw were pretty funny, but some (most?) of the Sykes stuff was not funny at all. And mean-spirited. I still think he has a problem with self-deprecating humor (something his predecessor never had an issue with) and the NYC flap with the plane sounded tone-deaf to me. You scared the cr@p out of those people and didn't really even apologize. But the rest of it, not bad.
The funniest part of the whole performance is that he is still trying to pretend he is presidential. Where was his teleprompter when he kissed the Saudi king's ring?
W. will make a fortune on the lecture circuit when he's ready. He's funny and time will hurriedly redeem him as correct in his actions as POTUS, particularly in light of the current socialist disaster. Clinton has made himself a rich man peddling influence, I wonder when he was in Arkansas last? Clinton's a cheap, hillbilly pimp.
The room was full of liberals, it was the National Press Club. I bet there were more limos out front than the Oscars. I was probably second only to the "Coronation", I bet it was hell finding parking for all the private jets in D.C. area airports. Funny how the "party of the people" doesn't have a clue how "the people" really live.
I thought he was funny. He did a good enough job. The Boehner and Steele jokes were hilarious
The 100 days jokes were great.
Bush didn't have the greatest delivery either, but at least he was willing to get into the spirit of things and laugh at himself.
I'm not sure humor is necessary in a President. But I will say that, in my experience, humorless people tend to suffer from an inability to examine their own actions critically and thus are incapable of correcting their mistakes or learning from them. That can be a disaster.
I've never thought these events were funny; it doesn't even matter to me who the President was at the time.
This one, however, looked to me like 'fiddling while Rome burned'. The Obama administration is way too serious to make jokes about.
Nice alliteration.
well, he wears nice suits…they're totally empty, but nice.
Some was humorous. But some was lame.
The old recycled Oxycontin and Cheney shooting jokes are sad. I thought all the talented people are on the left. it seems they have been out of practice, since Presto-Chango has done nothing mock worthy.
feisty this morning, aren't we? You are indeed correct. W is a genuine guy, perhaps the last we will ever see as POTUS. It is that genuineness that drives his enemies nuts. He is comfortable in his own skin
(driving F-102A's at 1700 mph can do that to a man) and confident inhis faith. Resolute, as well.
We see these things as good and noble. So do millions of others. His library is receiving massive donations, far more that Billy C could extort from his Arab pals. The more he is demonized the less demon-like he seems… as all leftist attacks do.
History will be kind to this man.
ya, it's said that aliteration is a cheap trick of the weak writer….I say so sorry suckers!
"I realize that the President didn’t write any of his own material but that is just keeping with his established style."
So did any of the previous Presidents write their own jokes to Jeff? Geez. Standards for some but not for others.
Just to let you know, Obama writes all of his major speeches either himself or with help with his chief speech writer. His 2004 DNC speech that basically blasted him into the public eye is one of his best speeches. Or rather the 40 minute speech he wrote on race relations in America. Or how about his two bestsellers?
If you're going to criticize him for not doing something, at least get your facts in order and have the same standards for all Presidents. But that's too much to ask for someone infected with Obama Derangement Syndrome. Lying to yourself doesn't change the reality. Barack Obama is praised for his communication skills for a reason. The guy can write and deliver a pretty damn good speech. To pretend that he isn't a good communicator is just delusional. It was his way with words what basically helped him win the Presidency.
The first 100 days have been a BAD joke.
Wow, another conservative blog complaining that Obama didn't make fun of himself enough. Don't you have more important scandals to write about? What happened to mustard-gate?
antifascists.
They have nothing on the President so they get angry about what Dog he gets, what kind of mustard he likes, obsess and hate on his wife and generally make up lies to themselves in order to keep themselves warm at night. Its full on Obama Derangement Syndrome. Barack Obama seems like someone who could really care less about it and it drives them nuts.
now, auntie, this is pie we're speaking here. you know, four and twenty blackbirds? Baked in a pie? no scandal, just yummy slices of baked goodness…
yes, and Hart- Schaffner-Marx (his so-called 'off the rack' suit that is mysteriously unavailable) is having a sit down strike today to protest being closed down… Bailouts anyone?
These "salad days" of the "Messiah Hussein" will seem alot less funny as this Kenyan impostor is finely caught doing something illegal, he has all the necessary character flaws essential for a monumental fall from grace. Nixonian thin skin, Chicago training in graft and corruption, a lawyers ability to rationalize and an ego that needs a room the size of a Zepplin hanger to fit inside. Ya, he'll screw it up, it's karma and destiny holding hands, skipping down the yellow brick road. Then I'll get a good laugh out of Barry, doing the perp walk, suit coat over handcuffs, smiling and laughing…
Obama is a bad joke. Do you bake gerbils in a pie? I know you have "other" uses for them, just wondering….
Like that time I pretended to be checking under the couch for those weapons of mass destruction I knew weren't there. I got a lot of letter from Gold Star Moms who really liked that one.
That's a hoot. This moron is spending the country into oblivion, weaking our defenses, and apologizing to people that don't deserve to be apologized to, and you think it's only the small stuff? Where were you the last 8 years, spring break? What, Bush CAN take it, Obama-long-a-ding-dong (original African spelling)CAN'T? I plan to criticize this Kenyan fraudulant fool every single day until he is forced from office by impeachment of defeat. Millions of people voted AGAINST him, it wasn't unamimous, remember?
I don't think anybody is going to mistake me for an Obama supporter. I thought his performance was par for the course, for almost anybody in that office. He is humorless, but no less a comedian than others before him. I don't want a comedian-in-chief anyway. I thought his jab at the Fox News table honored those at at table, albeit unintentionally. I was far more irritated by the crowd reactions than I was by Obama's less than stellar performance. There was only one Ronald Reagan, and we're unlikely to see another like him who can maintain an easy-going humor while dealing seriously with the difficulties of the most important single office on earth. That crowd the other night would have laughed and applauded if Obama had yelled "fire."
James, keep kidding yourself. Want to talk thin-skin. Palin cracked under the pressure after only two months campaigning only after old man McCain decided she could ride his coattails. While Obama continues to keep his cool even after two years of campaigning and delusional fools like you who continue to hold up hope that he'll self-implode. Are you still wishing he wasn't really born in the US, you delusional nutcase.
Could care less? This thin skinned fraud will IMPLODE! Count on it, he's Nixon Jr. He's obsessed with Fox News and Rush, the only measly little media outlets that don't have their nose up his ass, and he mentions one or the other DAILY.
Sounds like AuntieFascist's got a boyfriend.
Ya, I had two cups of coffee and it's finals week. Oh, and our neo African POTUS is trying to bankrupt our country and foes around the world have taken note of this clowns' weakness and are exploiting it. He's our Chamberlain and the wolves of the world are emboldened by him. It's something everyday. I prefer a POTUS the world fears then respects, not loves and doesn't respect. I agree, flying Vietnam era jets is a far cry from community organizing as far as a foundation for leadership. The results are obvious.
Oh look, a troll. . . and an idiot to boot. Go worship your lord Obama.
At least use your own name you coward. Then Google Bill Clinton, John Kerry and the rest of the Democrat glitterati concerning Saddam and WMD's. Then read the names of the 73 Senators that authorized the mission, then go fuque yourself, as usual.
You Obama supporters are all alike.
As I said a couple of posts up, I don't know that you need a sense of humor to be a good President, but the absence of humor always concerns me. It tends to means the person likely is a tightly-wound, unaware, breakdown-waiting-to-happen.
Thus, when I don't see humor, I look for other examples of wisdom or (for lack of a better word) "inner calm." Perhaps even a great sense of earnestness. I see none of that in Obama, and that concerns me.
If Obama was born in the U.S.A., why is his birth certificate classified as Top Secret? Why not defuse the whole topic by releasing it? After all, the MSM believes that military plans are open topics for public viewing.
As it should concern us all. Well said. People too easily mistake ponderousness for gravitas.
I actually felt like he did all right. What was really cool, though, is how his so-so performance really punctuated George W. Bush's comic timing, which was far superior. Now Bush is a guy who didn't shy away from self deprecation.
Maybe it would help the One to become part of a comedy team like Barry & Kerry, you know like Laurel & Hardy, Penn & Teller, except not funny. I laugh every time I see the dumb SOB, and think to myself this clown is the President of the USA. The sad part the world is laughing with me. Kick a$$ in 2010, and we get stupid mumbling to himself locked away in the Whitehouse.
For the record I like grey poupon. I like spicy mustards. That sweet mustard crap is right out.
I like mayo, ketchup and mustard on burgers.
Hot dogs: ketchup, mustard and relish.
ok so now that we have that out of the way. What is the problem? So some radio people had some stupid comments. You keep reminding us about how often they do it. I would have thought you'd be used to it. Why does this bother you? I thought the radio people were unimportant and unpowerful.
what happened? You are making me lose my horny. Get it together.
You act like this must be the first time in recorded history any politicians have had such a party. Come on, that's not really an argument. This is par for the course with every administration. Just so happens the press likes Obama. Big deal. And besides I really don't think a majority of 'the people' care.
both boring and incorrect at the same time. Ho hum. Mondays. Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats we're right after all…
I guess I missed the event where John Kerry and Bill Clinton were pretending to crawl on the floor in search of those WMDs as soldiers were in harm's way.
he lost their wheel and doesn't know just where to put them. Or does he?
Birth Certificate Truthers, lol.
Reality isn't something wingbats can handle. He showed his B.C. End of story. Just because he has a foreign born father must mean Barack Obama isn't an American right? Forget that he was raised by his mother and grandparents in Hawaii.
Its all a big conspiracy! Obama is really the half-brother of Timothy Geithner. His mother was a CIA operative. They're part of the Illuminai New World Order just like Bush. Barack Obama was recruited by Zbigniew Brzezinski back in 1981 in Columbia University to be groomed for the Presidency in 2009. Its all a lie! Bush, Clinton, Obama…. they're all out to destroy America!
I guess you missed a very simple point. I can explain it TO you but I can't understand it FOR you. When it was politically expediant your heros in the Dem party were hawkish, when the heat got to hot in the kitchen the turned into political cowards.
Oh, Auntie knows all right… he's a Richard Gere fan(ny).
But, what about Global Warming?
"Or rather the 40 minute speech he wrote on race relations in America. Or how about his two bestsellers?"
None of which he actually wrote, troll.
You're a clown. This fraud can't make a speech without cracking. Wait till his failed policies creat some actual media backlash. His shill Gibbs has to wear body armour to press breifings and it's only been 100 plus days. If and when the press starts doing it's job and stop giving this Kenyan b-jobs and swallowing he'll melt like the Wicked Witch of the, the well Wicked Witch of Kenya. He'l be "melting, ahg I'm melting…where is Saul Alinsky my real Daddy?….I'm melting…Stalin, is that you? I see a white light….I'm supposed to see a black light….
Showed it to who, you? Who are you? Why not US? Why not his lackeys at MSNBC? His mother was a blackmeat lovin-slut his granny a atheist fool, his mentors America hating criminals. He'll Peter Principal himself, it's a matter of time.
<Sigh.>
The point of 'dijongate' hatdnothing to do with Obama (save his staging the cynical PR "regular guys" photo-op), and everything to do with journalistic analingus. The Fourth Estate covered this crap instead of Obama's kneecapper Rattner's Luca Brazzi negotiating technique? Yeah, that's "speaking truth to power" all right. MSNBC carefully edited out the Grey Poupon bit which the press would have run with for a week had it been a Republican? Remember Bush I and the checkout scanner? We no longer have a press; we have courtiers.
But then, Obama-worshipping pinheads never do get it. Missing the point is what lefties do.
Y'all remember when G.W. tried to open a locked door, then went over and stood still, like he was trying to hide in the wall paper. Now, that was truly funny and off the cuff.
I see neither in this neophyte. He's ill at ease as a speaker when his remarks are perpared and he's a slow motion train wreck when he tries to speak "off the cuff". Mel Tillus stuttered less than this amature. Is Mel still alive, he seemed like a genuinely nice person when I saw him interviewed, not a bit of pretence. Obama, all pretence.
I see neither in this neophyte. He's ill at ease as a speaker when his remarks are perpared and he's a slow motion train wreck when he tries to speak "off the cuff". Mel Tillus stuttered less than this amature. Is Mel still alive, he seemed like a genuinely nice person when I saw him interviewed, not a bit of pretence. Obama, all pretence.
Hey Hawk, you got Thomas Friedman coming to speak for $75K at the SF Air Board, standing room only for that one huh, brother. Your tax dollars at work.
Right, some Democrats share some of the blame for the Iraq War. Ergo, it's funny to joke about, as the Commander in Chief of troops in the field, the pretext proving false.
I'll speak there for $50K, no $60K and include a juggling act and some (female) strippers to "work" the crowd. Then I'll emplore all the board members to hold their breath in side plastic trash bags for 5 minutes. "Mission Accomplished" indeed.
It's always funny how a guy named AntiFascist always jumps up to defend the head of the government.
I never heard W joke about the deaths or injuries suffered by our troops in harm's way. Many, many Dems were equally hawkish in the wake of 9/11 and only turned and ran when suffient political momentum had built against W. (with lots of M.S.M. help) then when the surge worked Dem politicians that were so invested in a Vietnam style media driven defeat seized the opprotunity and began the "I voted for it, before I voted against it" rhetoic. That one line cost Kerry the W.H. Obama began as a anti war candidate then switched gears to a economy candidate when the surge and Iraq stategy began to win. The MSM abondoned the story when Americans stopped dying with suffient frequency. I find that abhorent and un American. We are in a war not of our choosing, deciding we DON'T want to participate is not an option. Obama's policies will cost innocent American's their lives. I don't think that is funny and I don't find him funny. Count on a non-Muslim friendly POTUS in 2012.
He showed his birth certificate to whom? To you! No one else seems to have seen it. Neither where a president's father was born nor where he was raised is relevant. The Constitution clearly states that the president must be a "native born American'. Of course, the Constitution is merely an impediment to liberals.
Jeff: I knew you in grade and high school. I'm glad M-town produces something more than steel. Keep it up, brother!.
President Obama's arrogance, ignorance, & narcissism prevent him from telling any good, substantive–funny–jokes; the man is too full of himself that he is a distorted mirror one finds at a carnival or circus. He just does not get it. In the meantime, to help distort himself further, the MSM is helping Obama self-destruct. I would love Obama to do a 10 minute stand-up routine with a live audience. They would eat him alive when most would not laugh at his condescendingly sneering "jokes."
In reality I think the birth cert. secrecy is because Mommy and Mandingo didn't bother to get married. I don't care personally, I think Obama doesn't want to be the first bastard POTUS. He's in, I worried about substantive issues, which he is creating plenty of mistakes with. Funny you bring up Tiny Tim G. How do you nominate a tax criminal to head the Treasury then joke about the ridiculous amount of tax cheats he's hired to important jobs. People working pay check to pay check CAN'T find that funny, but then Joe Sixpack pays NO attention to the N. Press club dinner.
Par for the course? What happened to Change We Can Believe In?
Concerning Palin; the Dems had lawyers on the ground in Alaska within 24 hours of her emergence as a candidate for V.P. That's fine. this is hardball. (not having a "thrill run his leg")She learned under fire, her apperances with an obviously hostile press were carefully edited. She has the intellect (come on, Dodd, Kennedy, Waters, Boxer, BIDEN!, etc. etc.) and an every person appeal that scares the crap out of Democrats. She's not completely ready for a national run. The fact that SNL and all the accomplises have hung her in effigy in the press PROVES there is palable FEAR of her as a candidate.
Thats because Kerry and Clinton didn't have the balls to stand up to the current President and oppose them when it might of cost them an election.
Hey, he is changing things – only they are not things conservatives and some rich folks like. He is cracking down on tax havens and beefing up anti-trust laws, strengthening regulation, rejigging environmental standards, making it easier for employees to unionize and proposing a universal healthcare program.
As a progressive this is change I can believe in. I can understand some would not be pleased with this. But you cannot say he isn't attempting to follow out his promises.
Palin was subjected to the most vicious attacks I have ever seen in my life. Granted, I have only been following politics for 15 years. If Obama had to endure 1/100th of this, he would have cracked and lost his cool long ago. It is obvious that the attempts to destroy / discredit Palin are a liberal strategy to marginalize true conservatives. Liberals want to encourage progressives like McCain who can't win. Obama is a thin-skinned, humorless automaton. I can't wait for 2012
Obviously, you missed the event where Monica was under the desk as Bubba Clinton was deciding to send soldiers in harm's way.
There's a good reason he doesn't provide 100% conclusive proof he was born in the States–because he knows the damage that people on the Right kvetching about this does to the Right. It's really quite clever. In his shoes, I would do the same thing.
This is not a winning issue. It's quite the opposite.
And the review is… negative. I'm so shocked.
Wish you were right, StanH, but do you really think the GOP in 2010 can overcome a) the media bias
b) 49% of voters who don't pay taxes and c) ACORN's fraud?
I think you're right about the live audience, unless he was performing his routine on Bill Maher's show. Then he would get a standing ovation. A teleprompter wouldn't be needed for those lapdogs.
Absolutely awesome alliteration applied accurately and with assiduous acrimony!
Jeff
You need to add "simpering" , "smarmy", "superficial", "smug". "spiteful" and "sorry-assed" to that list of adjectives…; – )
Funnier still is that when BO did exactly the same thing it was not reported by a single media outlet or comedian. I guess Democrats are not funny.
Outstanding! Simply spectacular, sublime, surely superfragalisticexpealidous.
Chris
The POTUS is not the real BHO. The real BHO has been kidnapped by George Soros and replaced with an actor. Please try to keep up on my latest conspiracy theories.
PS Bush wrote all of his own jokes. He is now working at the new Jimmy Fallon show.
Oh wait it just occured to me you were serious when you were saying BHO writes all his own stuff! Drink the kool aid and find a comfortable place to lie down
Mike
My most humble apologies for my typos.
In my defense I was writing this after flights to and from LA within a thirty six hour period with about three house sleep.
I plead guilty due to drowsy writing
I though I gave him a very even review. I didn't say he wasn't funny, I even said some of the jokes were good. I just wish he'd make fun of himself a little more. In fact I think the only jokes I said weren't good were the two tags on the Larry Whatshisface joke. Talk about thin skinned, relax my libby friend!
Yes, he did write that speech. Once again lying to yourself doesn't change that reality fool.
"His mother was a blackmeat lovin slut"
Ahhh…. the racist values of Conservatives.
Wow. You guys are all over the place. I love how you all convince yourselves of lies and half-truths in order to satisfy your conservative echo-chamber wingbat lunacy.
If Obama is sooooo terrible, why is it that so many people like him, respect him, are seriously crazy for him and why did he receive the most votes? With more than 99 percent of the popular vote tallied, President Barack Obama surpassed the record set by President Bush in 2004 for the most votes ever received by a U.S. presidential candidate in a single election. As of Nov. 10, he had exceeded Bush’s '04 vote total by more than 3.3 million votes. You don't realize how out-off-touch you fools look. Whatever.
Jamesb. You're an angry racist fool who needs to get a life. You're insane and unhinged.
BY the way. Just to be clear. I'm not saying you can't not like him or his polices, I don't have a problem with that.
But its funny to see some people trying to convince themselves that Obama is an illiterate goat. That's just funny and crazy. Its not helping you to not live in reality and not be a rational human being. That what Obama Derangement Syndrome is. Jamesb, you need to go outside and take a walk. You sound especially unhinged. I would hate to know what it feels like to hate and obsess about another person to the degree you seem to commit yourself and your sanity so much to Barack Obama. Later.
Jeffrey–
I deleted my first comment because I've decided it was the wrong place for it.
Regards,
Mike
Jeffrey–
I deleted my first comment because I've decided it was the wrong place for it.
Regards,
Mike
No, Jon Favreau wrote it, but of course the Obama spin machine put out a cock-and-bull story about The Great O spending two days and nights writing it. So who's the liar, and who's the fool?
Yeah, just keep trying to pretend 53% is a landslide. Go on! Keep repeating "He's wildly popular" over and over and over again. Pay no attention to the pit filled with spikes….. I love hubris- it makes the schadenfreude so much more delectable, when the bottom falls out.
Jimmy Carter had similar numbers 100 days in. The post-Watergate GOP was supposedly extinct then, too.
The voters, if you actually read poll breakdowns, like Obama personally (for now)- but reject his policies. And when the fiscal time bomb he's planted goes off, the backlash will be truly record-setting.
Oh- and this: the "post-partisan, unifying" guy has the highest Strongly Disapprove numbers in the history of polling." And that number will just grow and grow as the Hopium buzz wears off and the electorate sees him for what he really is.
Jon Favreau is his chief speech writer, as all Presidents have their own. But Barack Obama wrote that race speech. Only he could have written what he knew using his own personal experiences and personal relationships. Its was an amazing speech, good enough to extinguish the Rev. Wright controversy right there and turn the page. It was his Sista Souljah moment.
"When you're working with Senator Obama the main player on a speech is Senator Obama," Axelrod said. "He is the best speechwriter in the group and he knows what he wants to say and he generally says it better than anybody else would."
- David Axelrod, Time magazine. Aug, 28, 2008.
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,...
His speech writing style, is very similar to the writing styles of his books.
I know, I know. Obama Derangement Syndrome doesn't leave much room for proof and common sense to reach your delusional skulls. Cheers!
Highest disapproval ratings by a percentage of insane wingbats. I know. That just means Obama is doing a good job in rejecting the repugnant policies that have proven to be epic failures yet wingbats are married to this, so they're hurting. I laugh.
Just taking a look at these unhinged and creepy posters, its very clear indicator that Barack Obama can very easily get under your thin-skins.
Obama isn't perfect by any means nor is he always right but we might as well call Obama's win a modern day landslide victory. Certainly, if we are to use the results of the last two elections and go by those standards… he killed it.
I really enjoyed seeing all those Red States turn blue!
Gnash… Gnash is the word you're looking for.
He certainly has the ability to make a statement and contadict it in one sentence so as to not be held accountable for most of what he says.
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