It’s time for your Monday dose of cynicism. Bring it. Today’s target – Obama! *applause*
This story I picked up is kind of long, so, I am just sort of picking at pieces of it – some of my favorite (I use the term loosely) quotes.
"The people who dislike you don't know you. The folks who hate you, they don't know you,"
"What they hate is whatever funhouse mirror image of you that's out there. They don't know you."
Well, see, Mr. President, that’s what happens when you put yourself in the public eye like that, people get to judge you, even though they don’t know you. If you don’t like it, perhaps you should have stuck to flying under the radar.
I will give him (or his PR coach) props for the “funhouse mirror image” bit, that’s actually pretty good.
But, wait, I get the idea that they don’t know you. Is he trying to say people don’t know him, because I’m not really sure.
"By the time you get here, you have to have had a pretty thick skin. If you didn't, then you probably wouldn't have gotten here."
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
I’m not so sure that it’s a thick skin so much as you don’t listen to what other people have to say. If it’s not on your agenda, you don’t want to hear it.
"Do you deny the assessment? Do you deny that you are a man who wants to redistribute wealth?" asked O'Reilly.
"Absolutely," he said. "I didn't raise taxes once. I lowered taxes over the last two years."
Absolutely, I want to deny anything that might make me look bad.
Yeah, you lowered taxes over the last two years, but you also strong-armed your idiot healthcare legislation through which is going to cost billions of dollars to implement. No, you didn’t raise taxes, but you want to make us pay out the nose for our healthcare which negates any taxes you may have lowered. Appreciate it!
Yes, my liberal friends, I love you too, and I know you’re going to come after me for the statement above, but, well, we’re all entitled to our opinion. Yes, Jason, I'm talking to you.
President Obama lamented anew about "being in the bubble." He is followed practically everywhere by staff, Secret Service agents and the media.
"It's very hard to escape," said Mr. Obama, seated in the Blue Room of the White House. "Every move you make. And over time, you know, what happens is that you feel like you're not able to just have a spontaneous conversation with folks. And that's a loss. That's a big loss."
Here’s a news flash for you, Einstein … you did it to yourself. You said, “Hey, I want to be President,” and you went through the dog and pony show to get yourself elected, you had to know this was coming. So don’t whine and bitch about this when you wanted it. Oh, and don’t give me that sob story of “he wanted to be President, he didn’t ask for all the attention.” It comes with the territory, you know what you’re getting into when you place your bid for the job.
A liberal, Mr. Obama denied that he's begun a shift to the political middle following the "shellacking" Democrats suffered in the November elections - the party lost control of the House and has a slimmer majority in the Senate - and as he lays the groundwork for an expected campaign for re-election in 2012.
I still don’t get the term “shellacking.” Isn’t “shellac” the stuff you put over wood to seal it? So, did the Republicans “seal” the Democrats? Hardly. They have a majority. Majority is not the same as covering and giving it a water-tight seal.
"I'm the same guy," President Obama said.
Are you really? Come on, now, let’s be honest, no you’re not. You hang out with celebrities. You’ve written countless books that never would have gotten a second look without your “celebrity” status. You are not the same person. It’s asinine to hold a position of power like this and think you can remain the same person you always were.
O'Reilly asked the president three times whether the job had changed him before he acknowledged that it had. Mr. Obama said his hair is grayer and that "I'm basically the same guy as when I came in" to office. O'Reilly then said that some of Obama's friends have said the president is not as light or spontaneous as he once was, to which Mr. Obama agreed.
"I would say that's probably true. There's no doubt that the weight of this office has an impact," he said.
Wait a second, did he just flip-flop? Whoa, when did John Kerry win the election?
"I think that the thing you understand intellectually but that you don't understand in your gut until you're in the job, is that every decision that comes to my desk is something that nobody else has been able to solve," he said. "The easy stuff gets solved somewhere by somebody else. By the time it gets to me, you don't have easy answers."
President Obama said he has to use his best judgment knowing that "you don't have perfect information and you know that you're not going to have a perfect solution."
Oh, you think your healthcare bill is the perfect solution, just ask you.
On health care, President Obama said a federal judge in Florida who recently struck down the entire law "was wrong."
See what I mean, just ask you. See, here’s the thing Barack, it’s not your job to determine if it’s right or wrong. That’s why those judges have jobs. Look at you, keeping people in work. Who says you’re not doing something to help the economy? (Oh, wait, lifetime appointments, they’d have work regardless. So, you’re not doing much then, are you? Huge shock.)
It's generally accepted that the U.S. Supreme Court will have the final word. Mr. Obama gave an indirect answer to O'Reilly's question about whether he's prepared for the law to "go down." President Obama said only that he doesn't want to spend the next two years "refighting the battles of the last two years."
Seriously, were you that delusional to think that people weren't going to fight this once you back-door politicked your way to get it passed? I mean, you knew it was coming based on the uproar beforehand, so, yeah, you couldn’t really have thought this was going to be passed and done, did you? If so, you are dumber than I thought.
"Here's the thing, once my (Chicago) Bears lost, I don't pick sides," he said. (Green Bay defeated the Bears to get to the Super Bowl.)
Oh, so you’re the fan of a crappy football team. It explains a lot.
"I know football and I will watch the game. What happens is I schmooze with everybody when they come, give them a little bit of time. But once the game starts they can just sit down and watch the game. I'll be sitting there with them but I don't want them coming up and chitting and chatting."
Wait, I thought you didn’t really care about it. So, why not chit-chat during the game. It’s not like your precious Bears were Superbowl Shuffling in the endzone.
The menu featured beer from each state: Hinterland Pale Ale and Amber Ale from Wisconsin, and Yuengling Lager and Light, brewed in Pennsylvania, along with plenty of calorie-laden football fare: bratwurst, kielbasa, cheeseburgers, deep-dish pizza, Buffalo wings, potato salad, chips and dips, salad and ice cream, according to the White House.
Whoa, does anyone else find it ironic they are eating food like that when Michelle has this huge anti-childhood obesity campaign going on? Eat as I say, not what I eat.
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By the way, and this just dawned on me, does anyone realize how egotistical Obama is, insomuch as they got a dog and they named him “Bo.” Uhm, yeah, whose initials are B.O.?
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