SARAH PALIN, GLENN BECK AND OTHERS ON OBAMA'S SHORT, ERROR-PRONE TIME IN OFFICE

'nuff said...

The NY Post has a pretty good sports section.

Mordant: The NY Post has a pretty good sports section.

True, but the Daily News also has a pretty good sports section, in addition to a (relatively) wharrgarbl-free rest of the paper. Also, there's none of that nonsense about plagiarizing other local newspapers for the celebrity gossip section called Page Six (which is almost NEVER on page 6).

So I'm gonna have to go with the NYDN.

/did I mention that Fox owns the Post?

Wow. They start scraping the barrel on the first page, and by the end they've gone clear through the floor.

11. The picture of Obama and Hugo Chavez shaking hands.

Which only the most kneejerk right-wingers give a shiat about.

14. Executives at AIG get $165 million in bonuses, despite receiving an $173 billion taxpayer bailout.

Let's see... the bailout began in September, is fueled by a Bush-signed bill (TARP), and the bonuses were contractually obligated (but still total bullshiat).

18. "The willingness of a small percentage of military personnel to join extremist groups during the 1990s because they were disgruntled, disillusioned or suffering from the psychological effects of war is being replicated today." -- Department of Homeland Security intelligence report

DHS intelligence report that was commissioned by Bush and while there has been a farkton of outrage, nobody has actually been able to dispute it. And considering how domestic terrorists from McVeigh to the Pittsburgh shooter were ex-mil, it's not exactly an unreasonable connection to look into.

36. "We have begun to modernize 75% of all federal building space, which has the potential to reduce long-term energy costs by billions of dollars on behalf of taxpayers. We are providing grants to states to help weatherize hundreds of thousands of homes, which will save the families that benefit about $350 each year. That's like a $350 tax cut." -- Obama, describing something that doesn't cut taxes.

But does reduce household costs to the tune of three digits annually, while simultaneously producing demand for manufacturers and installers of insulation and other weather treatments.

40. Obama lifts travel and remittance restrictions on Cuba.

41. Obama considers dropping the embargo on Cuba. farking and? Who gives a shiat besides Miami malcontents? The USSR is gone, Castro has nine toes in the grave, and in decades our embargos on Cuba have accomplished exactly jack and shiat.

70. "By any measure, my administration has inherited a fiscal disaster." -- Obama

Because it farking has, you gormless coonts.

93. Three prime-time briefings in his first 100 days, eating into television revenues and this Wednesday pre-empting "American Idol."

Jesus wept.

That is really not fair.

There have to be many more than 100.

Was it a top 100 mistakes list?


/flame on whackjobs I have to go to a house fire now anyway so it is appropriate
//Red + volunteer covering this weekend.

Bloody William: 93. Three prime-time briefings in his first 100 days, eating into television revenues and this Wednesday pre-empting "American Idol."

Jesus wept.

It is just getting more and more bizarre every day. And the GOP continues to cater to it. I just do not understand what they could possibly be thinking.

When you have to add exponents to the number of Bush the Junior's mistakes, I'll take it.

You'd have to include calculus to explain the FAIL of a McCain/Palin 100 days, and as you can tell, I suck at math.

Oh dear... greenlit....

/this is NOT a shameless bookmark
//ok, you caught me, it is.

feckingmorons: That is really not fair.

There have to be many more than 100.

Was it a top 100 mistakes list?


/flame on whackjobs I have to go to a house fire now anyway so it is appropriate
//Red + volunteer covering this weekend.

Thank you for volunteering, but it doesn't make you immune from criticism when you say things that are farking stupid.

And what you just said was pretty farking stupid.

Bloody William: 93. Three prime-time briefings in his first 100 days, eating into television revenues and this Wednesday pre-empting "American Idol."

Jesus wept.

I would rather see Obama than American Idol. I'd become a Socialist Communist Nazi Atheist if American Idol went away. I don't even watch it and I hate hearing people at the office talk about it as if it were somehow relevant to anything.

I think I would rather let my house burn then know that I had to be thankful to feckingmorons.

How the hell is he ever going to top Bush's mistake record at this rate?

11. The picture of Obama and Hugo Chavez shaking hands.

An outrage.



No Republican...



...would ever...



...do such a thing.

Pfft. If I make 100 mistakes a week, things are par and somewhat acceptable. And that's sober.

/which is of course, yet another mistake.
//I'm gonna give the guy a year or so before I start regretting my vote.

100 days 100 mistakes?

Dude, if I can get through 100 hours without 100 mistakes it's a good day.

But that list is comedy gold.

40. Obama lifts travel and remittance restrictions on Cuba.

41. Obama considers dropping the embargo on Cuba.

Because that embargo is juuuuuust about to yield results!!! (Remember, kids: trade with a Communist regime of 1.3 billion = OK; trade with a Communist regime of 12 million = OMFG!!1! Unacceptable!)

Also, "considering" something is a mistake? That says a lot about the GOP right there.

100 days, 100 million tears of impotent rage!

I see the conservatives REEEEEALLY want to sour Obama's first 100 days in office.

Lionel Mandrake: SARAH PALIN, GLENN BECK AND OTHERS ON OBAMA'S SHORT, ERROR-PRONE TIME IN OFFICE

'nuff said...

Thank you for saving me the time of clicking on that link.

100 days 100 mistakes? GOOD! Now go find 100 Post readers that can count to 100.

Goddamn people, it's only been 100 days. You have seven more years. Pace yourselves.

Mentat: Goddamn people, it's only been 100 days. You have seven more years. Pace yourselves.

Let 'em WHARRGARBL. They've already reached the point of outrage fatigue and surpassed it. The longer they go at it, the more they inoculate the average folks against fearmongering.

Occam's Chainsaw: Let 'em WHARRGARBL. They've already reached the point of outrage fatigue and surpassed it. The longer they go at it, the more they inoculate the average folks against fearmongering.

Fark them, I'm worried I'll go mad. I've already spent too much of this weekend watching Zoobilee Zoo videos on YouTube because of the stupid torture debate.

/Unless that's their plan...

Mentat: Zoobilee Zoo videos on YouTube

Oh you rat bastard. That show had all but fallen out of my brain. Now I get to spend the rest of the day watching those.

I have figured out the perfect film allegory for the GOP.
It's Lt. Coffey from The Abyss.

He was the gung-ho military moron suffering from the bends who went all ape-shiat. The last two election cycles were the equivalent the scene where Lt. Coffey, who was convinced the anomaly was a sekrit commie machine, is faced with incontrovertible proof that it's actually an alien entity, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio says "So, raise your hand if you think that was a Russian water tentacle."

Lt. Coffey proceeds to cut himself in impotent rage at having been proved wrong, stupid, and paranoid. He is the GOP.

Bloody William: feckingmorons: That is really not fair.

There have to be many more than 100.

Was it a top 100 mistakes list?


/flame on whackjobs I have to go to a house fire now anyway so it is appropriate
//Red + volunteer covering this weekend.

Thank you for volunteering, but it doesn't make you immune from criticism when you say things that are farking stupid.

And what you just said was pretty farking stupid.

A list of 100 top presidential mistakes is pretty stupid no matter how you look at it. I am more than willing to list Obama's mistakes, or Bush's mistakes for that matter, but when their terms are over and when we have had a few years for the dust to settle. Start looking for Obama's mistakes in 2022, ten years after his term of office has eneded and we have had some time to see what became of the things he did.

The 100 days crap was made up decades ago to sell newspapers, JFK even said in his inaguration that stuff would not get done in 100 days, and not everything would get done in 1000 days.

My original comment was supposed to be silly, to show just how silly the whole thing is. Obama is the president, stop sweating the small stuff. I don't like it, but I lived through Clinton and can put up with four years of the current bozo.

/gave out a hotel voucher and a food voucher.

vartian: I think I would rather let my house burn then know that I had to be thankful to feckingmorons.

House already burned down. I am not a fireman. I am too much of a chicken to go into a burning house, I will say hi as I pass them going out.

feckingmorons: House already burned down. I am not a fireman. I am too much of a chicken to go into a burning house, I will say hi as I pass them going out.

lulz

/just for the laughs, no offense

Bloody William: 93. Three prime-time briefings in his first 100 days, eating into television revenues and this Wednesday pre-empting "American Idol."

ok there is no way they could possibly be stupid enough to say something like...

it actually says that.

Holy shiat it actually says that.

The right wing is whining that the president is taking the tiem to talk to the american people and its interrupting AMERICAN FARKING IDOL?


HAS EVERYONE LOST THEIR FARKING MINDS?
Are they THAT goddamn retarded?!?!

I usually try to read opinions other than my own, even when they're from douche-factory divide-and-profit luminaries such as the Post.

But as soon as I saw the INEXPLICABLY INFAMOUS Obama/Chavez photo leading the story, I didn't even bother. Sadly, I saw it coming when I saw the photo last week or so. It was as though I could hear the cacophony of a thousands of chubby, Cheeto-encrusted digits pounding away at keyboards, equating a simple farking act of diplomacy with whatever whaargarble they're ascribing to it.

Perhaps the article made some fine points (which would be uncharacteristic of the Post). Again, I wouldn't know. There's only so many lies or, at bare minimum, mischaracterizations that I can stomach.

Come on, according to the article, he interrupted American Idol three times! That's thrice!

WARNING: LONG POST INCOMING! WARNING: LONG POST INCOMING!
1) Complete elimination of "earmarks" was McCain's stance. Obama's stance on them was to reduce them, but not worry too much about them because they are such a small amount of government spending.
2) An absolutely true statment about personal debt by Obama.
3) War on two fronts. Massive recession. Of course, we should STOP spending money when the economy suffers from nobody spending money!
4) Cuts have to start somewhere. He never said that they'd stop looking for them when they reach the $100M mark.
5) The most powerful man in the world doesn't take note of a small minority of people holding disorganized circle-jerks where they cover themselves in Lipton and protest... well, they can't even decide what they're protesting against! How dare he?
6) Blah blah irrelevant non-issue blah blah
7) He changed who had the authority to... count people...
8) First legitimate mistake on the list. 12.5% accuracy does not a sharpshooter make.
9) Turkey wharrgarbled, Obama didn't comment on said wharrgarbl
10) IT WAS 90 YEARS AGO
11) Heaven knows he should comment on everything that everyone gives him.
12) Nixon and Mao. Bush and Karimov. Bush and Abdullah. Nobody cared then, nobody cares now.
13) He didn't storm out of the room like a cheerleader being scalded for wearing white after Labor Day.
14) Bush structured the bailouts.
15) Bush structured the bailouts.
16) 3 days out of 100 = 3%. Bush's 977 days out of 2,922 = 33%. Manufactured outrage.
17) Republicans are purposely rejecting proposed legislation because they know it will pass anyway and feel it will get them political bonus points. That is why there is such low support by Congressional Republicans.
18) Key term "small percentage." Within any sufficiently large group, you can always find a couple of crazies. Acknowledging this fact doesn't mean he hates America.
19) Other countries were threatening to STOP buying American if that provision was allowed to stay.
20) Nobody said the 9/11 Hijackers DID come across the Canadian border, just that some suspected/known terrorists HAVE. There are terrorists who weren't a part of 9/11.
21) Let's get up in arms about somebody saying that somebody else MIGHT do something at some point in the future! Howie Mandel MIGHT rape and kill a 9 year old Tibetan boy... GO GO GADGET OUTRAGE!
22) Acknowledging the realities of a crisis != fearmongering. Besides, you can't cry about his "unicorns and rainbows" and his "doom and gloom" at the same time. Pick one!
23) He briefly considered somebody for a position. At least he wasn't picked!
24) He promised more transparency. People biatched when it wasn't happening enough. Now they're biatching that there's too much of it. See 22.
25) According to whom?
26) Nothing Obama has done has been classified. Therefore, there's nothing he can declassify to expose his past mistakes.
27) They violated a treaty signed by the Government of the United States. Why shouldn't they be held accountable for this?
28) I'm willing to bet that in the entire British government, SOMEBODY can dig up a DVD player with the right region code.
29) See #8. You're down to 6.8% now.
30) He picked a guy who he thought was in a position to do well in that job. His scandalous previous actions didn't change his view that he would do well in that job. Where's the problem?
31) Somebody declined a job offer. This looks bad for the would-be employer?
32) See #31
33) See #21
34) Right, because the President's comments have such an effect on the market that he's single-handedly destroying it. Nevermind the 6,000 points it dropped in the last year and a half of Bush's presidency, let's freak out about the... uhh... 5 points it's gone up since Obama's taken office. HE'S MAKING IT COLLAPSE! (citation: http://www.nyse.tv/dow-jones-industrial-average-history-djia.htm)
35) This was before his presidency began. It was also a baited question posed by somebody else, the context of which was not provided. He was laughing about how a year ago he wouldn't have believed that Iraq wouldn't be priority #1.
36) It does save people money, and it stimulates the economy, especially in a "green sector"
37) You're back up to 8% on the "real issues" meter!
38) Different times allow for different spending. We weren't in such a hard economic position when he was a US Senator.
39) He made a joke on a comedy show. Get over it. Also, it was before his presidency started, thus not in the "first 100 days"
40) This is a good thing.
41) See #40
42) The former leader of Cuba is trying to alter what his brother said. How is this a mistake by Obama?
43) That demand was made by Bush. Bush said "Close your plant, and we'll negotiate how we're going to get you to close your plant." Isn't that like saying "Pay me in full, then we'll haggle over the price?"
44) So... it's better to have an expensive and ineffective reactionary measure than to stop Iran from getting nukes in the first place... gotcha, makes perfect sense. Besides, it was an offer... that's how you get what you want, you offer compromises.
45) Sometimes people don't take you up on your offer. It's better than not even trying.
46) He promised to cut the cost of military operations in the long run. Taking 90,000 troops out of Iraq and adding 17,000 in Afghanistan means reducing the cost by whatever it costs to deploy 73,000 troops.
47) We had strong international support for the war in Afghanistan. Iraq was unilateral.
48) Staying steady at 8%. You're an overacheiver!
49) Bush bowed to him, too!
50) Somebody else's comments do not constitute a mistake by Obama.
51) Touting his lack of accomplishment when he's already passed massive legislation and made substantial gains in international good will... it makes sense.
52) This quote is completely unintelligible out of context.
53) The Vatican didn't like his picks for Ambassador? Uhh... isn't it the job of an Ambassador to speak for our positions? No, they're supposed to tell the other nation what they want to hear all the time... right...
54) You're up to 9.3% Keep it up and you might just hit 12.5% again!
55) 10.9%... keep it up.
56) The letters in question would have protruded above the backdrop for the President's podium and been unsightly. Non-issue.
57) Her comments about Clinton are taken out of context. She said that as a way of reflecting on Clinton's "say anything to get elected" mentality. Also, her position in the NSC is minor.
58) This money has since been paid. Next!
59) A man who failed to turn a profit as president of a company is fired by its new primary investor. It happens all the time.
60) See #59
61) See #59
62) WHAT? You're upset because of how they bought their DOG? A specific breed was recommended because of allergy issues. They went with that breed. Could YOU find a Portuguese water dog at the local shelter?
63) 11.1% Keep that number up and you might go from "troll" to "wharrgarrbler"
64) He's getting an award. How is that a mistake?
65) Comments of others != mistake by Obama
66) Nancy Reagan was not offended by the comment. Why are you?
67) 11.9% You're closing in that all-time high you set earlier!
68) The states have governments too... and those governments are charged with deciding how best to spend their money. If they mismanage it, it's THEIR fault.
69) He's asking them to allow the police to ask questions. He's not asking them to force the defendant to answer them.
70) Statement of fact by Obama.
71) He made a joke to lighten the mood when talking to the Press Corps. How is this a mistake?
72) How else would he get to Iowa? By solar-powered Segway?
73) He's mandating that private insurance companies pay for care IF THEY ALREADY COVER THE PATIENT. It's the government's responsibility to cover the shortfall.
74) Historical inaccuracy in a single comment. This anger is about the words, not the message.
75) Imagine that, trying to get us out of Afghanistan by improving conditions in Afghanistan.
76) Author didn't feel the number 76 was important enough for inclusion. Obviously, this means Obama hates Philadelphia, since it's home to the 76ers.
77) Ooh, back down to 11.6% You're slipping, Author, you're slipping!
78) 12.8%! Holy dogshiat, you've set a new personal best!
79) See previous statements about comments of others. Also, it was commentary on Rush's apparent leadership.
80) Citation needed.
81) He relied on numbers given to him by his staff. These numbers turned out to be true in technicality only. It happens.
82) The President never said WHEN Caterpillar would rehire. Jim Owens said that Caterpillar would not IMMEDIATELY rehire, but that they would eventually. Next question.
83) True statement by Obama.
84) See #65
85) See #84
86) See #85
87) Congress terminated a program. Not Obama.
88) The President doesn't need to argue with Congress when they're already on the same page.
89) See #86
90) See #81 regarding technicalities.
91) Let's not mention Bush's $42M second inauguration. Besides, it was PRIVATE FUNDS, not taxpayer money.
92) So he's a tacky gift-giver. It's the thought that counts.
93) Oh dear God, NOT AMERICAN IDOL!
94) Another true statement by Obama.
95) Yes, 15.4 billion in LOANS. These loans will be repaid when GM becomes viable again. The $700 billion that Bush GRANTED to the banks is nothing compared to this $15.4 billion LOAN!
96) Did Mahmoud Ahmadinejad actually take those hostages? Probably not. NEXT!
97) The thing about predicting the future is that the future isn't set in stone. Predictions will be wrong more often than not. Stop crying.
98) Increasing private school vouchers was never a tenet of Obama's campaign. You're confusing him with an elderly white man named John McCain. Common mistake.
99) The last President to send his child to public school was JIMMY CARTER. Where was the outrage for the last 30 years?
100) How is this offensive?

The author ended with an astounding 10% accuracy rate. Impressive. I'm being generous there, too, because most of the accurate points were just many facets of the same issue, a poor vetting process.
It seems the world has forgotten what journalistic integrity is.


P.S.: Lajimi was more right than he knew. Apparently, even 100 Post EDITORS couldn't collectively count to 100. They skipped 76.

Bloody William: 93. Three prime-time briefings in his first 100 days, eating into television revenues and this Wednesday pre-empting "American Idol."

Jesus Murdoch wept.

ftfy

I love the smell of butthurt in the morning

Through his veil of tears Glenn Beck pens the great American novel; one about the Manifest Butthurt... the idea that Americans have the right to sob uncontrollably about their butthurt from coast to coast.

/Oh, beautiful for spacious skies

NewportBarGuy: When you have to add exponents to the number of Bush the Junior's mistakes, I'll take it.

You'd have to include calculus to explain the FAIL of a McCain/Palin 100 days, and as you can tell, I suck at math.

Paging abb3w, paging abb3w...

Bloody William: 93. Three prime-time briefings in his first 100 days, eating into television revenues and this Wednesday pre-empting "American Idol."

Jesus wept.

He felt abandoned.

Lionel Mandrake:
An outrage.


You gotta admire how brezhnev's pimp coat matches his eyebrows. You don't see that kind of coordination in leaders these days.

Oh, and the article does a great job of illustrating the perils of trying to hit a nice round number when the odds aren't in your favor.

Stay Cool Babylon: I usually try to read opinions other than my own, even when they're from douche-factory divide-and-profit luminaries such as the Post.

But as soon as I saw the INEXPLICABLY INFAMOUS Obama/Chavez photo leading the story, I didn't even bother. Sadly, I saw it coming when I saw the photo last week or so. It was as though I could hear the cacophony of a thousands of chubby, Cheeto-encrusted digits pounding away at keyboards, equating a simple farking act of diplomacy with whatever whaargarble they're ascribing to it.

Perhaps the article made some fine points (which would be uncharacteristic of the Post). Again, I wouldn't know. There's only so many lies or, at bare minimum, mischaracterizations that I can stomach.

Right there with you. This foolish right v. left crap is something we need to stop paying attention to. Let the griping be about policy, not surface nuisances.

I accuse the pundits in this country of dividing the citizenry in the name of ratings and profit. Not what I'd call a noble profession.

It's pathetic to think how much time was wasted to create that list, when the conservatives who wrote that article could have used that same time and thought of actual solutions to the problems that nation is facing.

Cubansaltyballs: Through his veil of tears Glenn Beck pens the great American novel; one about the Manifest Butthurt... the idea that Americans have the right to sob uncontrollably about their butthurt from coast to coast.

I wish I had the photoshop skillz to make that book cover.

"Manifest Butthurt" by Glenn Beck and have the pic of him crying on it.

Rhino_man must have incredible patience and resiliance to read and address all that Wharrgarble. My hat's off to you.

Sorry, just to help you realize what a one-sided "opinion" (loosely) you have, I looked at the the first questions I saw after going through your interesting, and apparently, drugged induced response to rhe article.
Rhino_man:

13) He didn't storm out of the room like a cheerleader being scalded for wearing white after Labor Day. (Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega went on a 50-minute anti-American rant...)
No, he isn't like the rest of the western leaders who don't stay around for BS from an idiot. Link (new window)
14) Bush structured the bailouts. (Executives at AIG get $165 million in bonuses, despite receiving an $173 billion taxpayer bailout.)
Uhh what? Link (new window)
15) Bush structured the bailouts.
And I'll be redundant also, as its saying the same thing as #14.
16) 3 days out of 100 = 3%. Bush's 977 days out of 2,922 = 33%. Manufactured outrage. (After pushing Congress for weeks to hurry up and pass the massive $787 billion stimulus bill, President Obama promptly took off for a three-day holiday getaway.)
You know, where is your links to this point? All I can remember is Obama being in: England & Europe, Iraq and the Middle East, Mexico and Latin America, and the Caribbean. No wonder the economy is still tanking...

Awwww, that's enough for now, just chew on that cud...

Hobodeluxe: Cubansaltyballs: Through his veil of tears Glenn Beck pens the great American novel; one about the Manifest Butthurt... the idea that Americans have the right to sob uncontrollably about their butthurt from coast to coast.

I wish I had the photoshop skillz to make that book cover.

"Manifest Butthurt" by Glenn Beck and have the pic of him crying on it.

Screw the book, man. It's a great name for a punk band.

Looks like it's amateur hour at the White House. He won't hit his stride until about year two.

steelpeg: You know, where is your links to this point? All I can remember is Obama being in: England & Europe, Iraq and the Middle East, Mexico and Latin America, and the Caribbean. No wonder the economy is still tanking...

Non sequitor is confusing.

Lionel Mandrake: 11. The picture of Obama and Hugo Chavez shaking hands.

An outrage.



No Republican...



...would ever...



...do such a thing.

WE HAVE A WINNER