Story- Obama takes wife to date he promised her during the campaign.

GOP- He's whipped! Appeaser!

you know how the GOP has got nothing? because this is what they have been reduced to. a bunch of whiny,whimpering brats.

GOP, a little advice, not everything Obama does is the end of the world. Once in awhile, read a story about Obama and go "ya, we don't need to comment on that".

jevman: GOP, a little advice, not everything Obama does is the end of the world. Once in awhile, read a story about Obama and go "ya, we don't need to comment on that".

Seriously. If you could go six months... hell, six weeks without gibbering madly every time he so much as coughs, it'd go a long way toward people being able to take you semi-seriously again.

Nobody cares.

MorrisBird: Nobody cares.

But this is SO IMPORTANT!

Dems: Bush is horrible for taking all this vacation at Crawford while our country is in crisis!
Repubs: Oh look at you playing politics over trivial matters.

Repubs: Obama is horrible for eating a cheeseburger and going to a show while our country is in crisis!
Dems: Oh look at you playing politics over trivial matters.

Do we see how this works yet people? Christ if they recycled scripts like this on Lost people would be marching on Hollywood with torches and pitchforks.

What bugs me is that so many pay attention to either political side instead of the real two sides - the people vs. politicians.

Doesn't matter what Obama does for relaxation - it's what he and most of the other politicians are doing to the country that's the crime.

jayhawk88: Dems: Bush is horrible for taking all this vacation at Crawford while our country is in crisis!
Repubs: Oh look at you playing politics over trivial matters.

Repubs: Obama is horrible for eating a cheeseburger and going to a show while our country is in crisis!
Dems: Oh look at you playing politics over trivial matters.

Do we see how this works yet people? Christ if they recycled scripts like this on Lost people would be marching on Hollywood with torches and pitchforks.

Just as a note, Democrats didn't object to Bush taking an occasional vacation. They objected to him spending a full third of his presidency either at Camp David or at Crawford.

It's not quite the same thing, ya know?

jayhawk88: Dems: Bush is horrible for taking all this vacation at Crawford while our country is in crisis!
Repubs: Oh look at you playing politics over trivial matters.

Repubs: Obama is horrible for eating a cheeseburger and going to a show while our country is in crisis!
Dems: Oh look at you playing politics over trivial matters.

Do we see how this works yet people? Christ if they recycled scripts like this on Lost people would be marching on Hollywood with torches and pitchforks.

A month off every 3 months = 3 minutes to eat a cheeseburger? Or one night with the wife? Do you not see a difference?

jayhawk88: Dems: Bush is horrible for taking all this vacation at Crawford while our country is in crisis!
Repubs: Oh look at you playing politics over trivial matters.

Repubs: Obama is horrible for eating a cheeseburger and going to a show while our country is in crisis!
Dems: Oh look at you playing politics over trivial matters.

Do we see how this works yet people? Christ if they recycled scripts like this on Lost people would be marching on Hollywood with torches and pitchforks.

The fundamental difference here: Obama went out for a couple hours to grab a burger, and for the evening to see a play. Bush spent A QUARTER OF HIS F*CKING PRESIDENCY clearing brush, a record for any sitting president. Ever. Including the guy that did four terms.

I love false equivalencies.

And if he didn't:

EL_FABREZ: Story- Obama doesn't take wife to date he promised her during the campaign.

GOP- He's a liar! He broke a promise! He doesn't believe in the sanctity of marriage!

They would be pissed off at him no matter what he did.

Can't you just picture the GOP as a group of catty high school cheerleaders poping their gum and saying "oh... my...god" because the lower class girl who wears glasses got asked out by the captain of the football team?

I can remember a time when I thought the GOP were evil geniuses. Even if you hated them, you at least had to respect the fact that they could win an election by hook or crook.

It's difficult to reconcile that with the way they behave now. It's as if someone had given Satan, Prince of Darkness, a lobotomy and then got him shiat-faced and sent him off to write talking points.

"What am I going to tell the president when I tell him his teleprompter is broken? What will he do then?" -- Vice President Joe Biden

Even old Joe is getting into the act.

ghare: A month off every 3 months = 3 minutes to eat a cheeseburger? Or one night with the wife? Do you not see a difference?

I'm not saying the "sins" are equivalent, I'm saying the attack playbook is the same. It's all a goddamn puppet show put on for our amusement, so we don't look behind the curtain.

jayhawk88: Do we see how this works yet people? Christ if they recycled scripts like this on Lost people would be marching on Hollywood with torches and pitchforks.

Do you know the definition of "false equivalency"? Because, if not, I feel it is important you learn.

MorrisBird: Nobody cares.

jayhawk88: ghare: A month off every 3 months = 3 minutes to eat a cheeseburger? Or one night with the wife? Do you not see a difference?

I'm not saying the "sins" are equivalent, I'm saying the attack playbook is the same. It's all a goddamn puppet show put on for our amusement, so we don't look behind the curtain.

jayhawk88:
I'm not saying the "sins" are equivalent, I'm saying the attack playbook is the same. It's all a goddamn puppet show put on for our amusement, so we don't look behind the curtain.

Wow, look at all those bites you got. Congratulations:

What was the cheeseburger thing? Is it that Obama used the elitist poupon mustard, or is it something else? Oh, and...

The libs shouldn't be the ones upset about this demonstration of outrage, real conservatives should be pissed that they are once again being made to look like idiots by those who speak loudly on their behalf.

For the libs this is a non issue, people can scream all they want but they can't do anything else. So f*ck em.

"She wore her hair up, heels and a sleeveless black ruffled dress that fell below the knee while he went tieless in a dark suit and white shirt."

It is a little strange how Obama frequently goes without a neck tie. Ahmadinejad also refuses to wear them because they're a symbol of Western culture. I wonder what Obama's reasons are...

jevman: GOP, a little advice, not everything Obama does is the end of the world. Once in awhile, read a story about Obama and go "ya, we don't need to comment on that".

Maybe if he'd take a few days where his administration isn't doing something a) stupid, b) hypocritical, c) corrupt, or d) unconstitutional then, yeah, that could happen.

Hobodeluxe: you know how the GOP has got nothing? because this is what they have been reduced to. a bunch of whiny,whimpering brats.

That's right, they've been reduced to complaining about it. Michael Moore, at least, would've made a movie of it.

Give the dude a chance... it only cost a couple of hundred thousand of American Tax payer dollars for him to fly his wife to Broadway.

He just closed a deal on a killer car company that he is going to turn around and then everyone is going to want a GM.

FarKnight: "She wore her hair up, heels and a sleeveless black ruffled dress that fell below the knee while he went tieless in a dark suit and white shirt."

It is a little strange how Obama frequently goes without a neck tie. Ahmadinejad also refuses to wear them because they're a symbol of Western culture. I wonder what Obama's reasons are...

ugh, sucky troll sucks

TFA: In a posting on its Web site, the Republican National Committee...

Can anyone find this posting on their Web site, GOP.com (new window)? I can't even find a section where stuff like that might be posted.

FarKnight: "She wore her hair up, heels and a sleeveless black ruffled dress that fell below the knee while he went tieless in a dark suit and white shirt."

It is a little strange how Obama frequently goes without a neck tie. Ahmadinejad also refuses to wear them because they're a symbol of Western culture. I wonder what Obama's reasons are...
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They are the same person?


Ties suck. Women have it worse clothing-wise, but ties are the worst invention in male fashion ever. WTF is the point of a tie? To hide buttons? Extra Napkin?

FarKnight: "She wore her hair up, heels and a sleeveless black ruffled dress that fell below the knee while he went tieless in a dark suit and white shirt."

It is a little strange how Obama frequently goes without a neck tie. Ahmadinejad also refuses to wear them because they're a symbol of Western culture. I wonder what Obama's reasons are...

That troll was so bad, I actually laughed.

"As President Obama prepares to wing into Manhattan's theater district on Air Force One to take in a Broadway show, GM is preparing to file bankruptcy and families across America continue to struggle to pay their bills," the GOP said. "Have a great Saturday evening -- even if you're not jetting off somewhere at taxpayer expense."

I think this is a pretty good lesson in, believe it or not, political posturing. Notice how Gail Gitcho mentions only that Obama is taking "Air Force One?" The reason is Gitcho probably already knows that the actual plane they are taking to New York is a G-3, a smallish Cessna-type plane.

However, as the President occupies that plane it's call-sign automatically switches to, that's right, Air Force One.

This way Gitcho still gets to fan the retard neo-con flames while being able to couch her response as the truth, which it is. Obama is taking Air Force One to New York. It's just not the Air Force One that people think.

It's a pretty smart move, actually. It probably gets people off of how the GOP and their Friends at Fox ran with Turdblossom's complete lie about Sotomayor serving on the same court as Alito.

Obama does not wear ties, so's as not to end up guest of honor at a neck tie party.

FarKnight ties

Maybe its because that one same outfit throughout all 3 pictures doesn't go with a tie?

Surely, THIS is Obama's Katrina.

jjorsett: Maybe if he'd take a few days where his administration isn't doing something a) stupid, b) hypocritical, c) corrupt, or d) unconstitutional then, yeah, that could happen.

And maybe if the GOP would focus their criticism of the man to calling him out when he does A-D above, they'd not sound like a bunch of whiney losers. There's a signal to noise ratio with criticism, just ask these two:

FarKnight: I wonder what Obama's reasons are...

We really don't like nooses around our necks
/Black and hates neck ties

jayhawk88: I'm not saying the "sins" are equivalent, I'm saying the attack playbook is the same. It's all a goddamn puppet show put on for our amusement, so we don't look behind the curtain.

Bull f*cking sh*t. This 'attack playbook' idea you have isn't rooted in any sort of reality. There are reasonable criticisms of Presidents, and there are unreasonable criticisms. Each person can decide whether Obama's night out or Bush's months off are bad for their respective Presidencies.

But any kind of 'deeper' insight about 'puppet shows' and 'looking behind a curtain' simply reeks of 3rd party paranoid bullsh*t.

While we're posting cool b/w images:


"I'm shocked, SHOCKED, to find politics being played in this topic area."

jayg22: Give the dude a chance... it only cost a couple of hundred thousand of American Tax payer dollars for him to fly his wife to Broadway.

How much would it have cost not only the federal government, but also state and local governments, had the Obamas made the trip by train or car?

Think, McFly, think.

Does anyone have a nice list of all the incredibly inane, stupid crap the Republicans have attacked Obama for?

Using a teleprompter.
Ordering mustard on his burger.
Taking his wife out on a date.
$2,000 dog.

What am I missing?

Nobodyn0se: Using a teleprompter.
Ordering mustard on his burger.
Taking his wife out on a date.
$2,000 dog.

What am I missing?

iPod for the Queen.

... of course I wouldn't put it past this GREAT AMERICAN PRESIDENT to come back after his trip with all his receipts proving that he did, in fact, pay for all of it out of his own pocket.

That'd be just too funny.

Nobodyn0se: Does anyone have a nice list of all the incredibly inane, stupid crap the Republicans have attacked Obama for?

Using a teleprompter.
Ordering mustard on his burger.
Taking his wife out on a date.
$2,000 dog.

What am I missing?

Getting blowjobs in the Oval Office? Oops, sorry, wrong President.

What does corporate say about that, though . . . does it count as work or vacation?

jjorsett: jevman: GOP, a little advice, not everything Obama does is the end of the world. Once in awhile, read a story about Obama and go "ya, we don't need to comment on that".


Maybe if he'd take a few days where his administration isn't doing something

a) stupid
b) hypocritical
c) corrupt... or
d) unconstitutional.... then, yeah, that could happen.



^^^ THIS ^^^ with emaphsis on hypocrisy and stupid.

Actually this is the first issue the GOP might have a legitimate reason to complain. However if they hadn't wasted their outrage on mustard gate and everything else the last four months I might be more inclined to hear what they had to say.

Using a teleprompter.
Ordering mustard on his burger.
Taking his wife out on a date.
$2,000 dog.
iPod for the Queen.

Won't provide birth certificate.