President Obama Wants to Kick Some Ass

“…so I know whose ass to kick.”
Bring ‘em on!…lol

If He knows whose ass to kick, when is he going to start kicking it? Oh, I get it – it’s a joke- he’s going to kick himself in the ass!

How much further can he drag down the stature of presidency of the United States? Is he the leader of the free world, or a foul mouthed teenager? After seeing a photo of one of his speechwriters participating in “beer pong”, I already know the answer to my question. BTW Dotcom: The let’s blame-Bush excuse is getting really old.

class, real class…guess a leopard can’t change it’s spots

Perpetual candidate indeed!
I want to know who picked each of the techniques that were tried to stop the oil flow (BP, POTUS, or USCG Admiral), and when the successful method was initially discussed vs. when it attempted…
I keep hearing that this administration was on this since day one, so that would mean the administration is responsible for the decisions that didn’t work out, right?
USCG Admiral says BP has given him everything he asked for without delay, Gibbs & Co. seem intent on portraying something different… Why?

Alexander Cockburn says Obama is unable to act presidential — on BP, on Israel…when Obama tries to bark, it comes out as a yip, like a Chihuahua yaping a pit bull
Americans don’t care to have a wimp in the White House. They’ll take almost any outlandish vulgarity from their commander-in-chief and give him a positive job-rating. But wimpishness? No.
Until Obama, the last president to earn wimp ranking was Jimmy Carter whose chances of re-election 30 years ago expired when he gave wimpish speeches about America’s “malaise” and was photographed beating off a rabbit that swam up to his canoe and tried to board it.
Obama isn’t in that sort of trouble yet, but he’s drifting close.
The fates soon sniff out wimps and deal them bad cards. Obama was all set to make a big speech in Chicago on Memorial Day, last Monday. Not only was he rained out but he started quavering to the crowd about the danger of lightning before scuttling off with his Secret Service guards and getting bogged down in a traffic jam.
One of America’s greatest heroes is Ben Franklin — featured on that symbol of optimism, the hundred-dollar bill — who made a sporting effort to fry himself, flying a kite into a thunder cloud.
Wimps can’t emote convincingly because they’re worried about going too far. The White House press corps — until recently without a presidential press conference for 10 months — quizzed Obama’s press secretary about Obama’s evident inability to project anger about BP’s oil spill, now bidding to be the greatest environmental disaster in the nation’s history. Obama’s flak claimed his boss was “enraged” at BP. “Can you describe it?” asked Chip Reid of CBS. “Does he yell and scream? What does he do?” The best Gibbs could offer was evocation of Obama’s “clenched jaw”.
At least half of any US president’s job is play-acting, pretending to be in charge, on behalf of We the People. Most of what actually happens in America is beyond any president’s ability or political inclination to control. The banks run the finances. The oil companies and Israel vie for control of US foreign policy. The arms companies arrange the wars. The insurance companies figure out who should live or die.
Bill Clinton was so servile to big business that he took a phone call from a Florida sugar baron, even though Monica Lewinsky was giving him a blow-job when the call came in. He surely shocked the feisty intern with his obsequious manner as the baron issued some crisp commands to knock off all talk about environmental clean-up of the Everglades. But Clinton could still scream and throw his weight around in the manner expected of a president.
The all-time presidential champ at bullying was Lyndon Johnson who once lifted up the Greek ambassador by his lapels and snarled at him, “F— your Parliament and your Constitution. America is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea. Greece is a flea. If those two fleas continue itching the elephant they may just get whacked by the elephant’s trunk. Whacked good…”
Obama isn’t into lifting up anyone by the lapels. It’s the other way round. Week after week he’s being hoist off the floor of the Oval Office and thrown against the wall, by everyone from Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan to Benjamin Netanyahu. When Obama tries to bark, it comes out as a yip, like a Chihuahua yaping a pit bull.

“Americans don’t care to have a wimp in the White House.”
I thought Republicans gave up on that story line when Obama greatly increased Predator drone assassinations, had the Somali pirate hostage takers shot in the head, increased the number of troops in Afghanistan by over 100%, and opened up a new front in the ‘war’ on terror with cruise missile attacks on camps in Yemen. Not to mention the list of legislative acomplishments he’s pushed through Congress over a Republican Senate minority that is on track to filibuster 200% more than any Democratic minority ever in the history of our nation (of course, they already doubled the old record in 2007-2008 protecting Bush’s agenda).
Good luck pushing that tired old wimp storyline.

Maybe the Coast Guard for not getting more skimmers in after 45 days!
Noz | Jun 7, 2010 9:42:21 PM
Meanwhile, back in reality:
“All skimming equipment we have in the entire Gulf Coast is deployed right now,” Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen,…
“We’ve actually brought in skimmers from outside the country, from Canada and the Netherlands and other places,” Allen said.
That is in addition to the over 500 private vessels (mostly fishing boats) that have been hired and deployed. So are you saying the Coast Guard is lying? Or is it just that for the sake of partisan point scoring you’ll disparage the Coast Guard, and the 40 year veteran in charge (the guy who Bush tapped to clean up after Heckuva Job Brownie) regardless of the extent of their efforts.

Keep at it Mr. President. We’re with you through this crisis. This oil gusher is of course upsetting to us all, but we understand it is not your doing and that you and Admiral Thad Allen have been onto this from day one.
Pay no attention to the blowhards calling you names. Their type of behavior has never done our society any good.

Well, he’s kicking the crap out of the stock market!

Well, he’s kicking the crap out of the stock market!
MM | Jun 7, 2010 10:05:56 PM
Close of DOW today: 9,816
Close of DOW Jan 20, 2009: 7,949
Total INCREASE in DOW since Obama took office: 23.3%
For comparison, under the Republican administration the DOW DROPPED 25% over 8 years (10,600 down to 7,949 when Bush finally left office).
But that’s just documented reality.

Posted by: jhw539 | Jun 7, 2010 10:14:24 PM
Thin skinned.
So he’s not kicking the crap out of the market? Or is this another Bush was worse defense?

So he’s not kicking the crap out of the market? Or is this another Bush was worse defense?
MM | Jun 7, 2010 10:17:08 PM
Seriously, how can you call a 23% INCREASE in the DOW over 18 months anything other than outstanding market performance? If you want to make the DOW Jones a metric of Obama’s performance, fine, but then implying that he’s doing poorly steps over the line from Big Lie to flat out insulting our intelligence.

He’s tough……he’s certainly kicking ass when it comes to ruining this country. Now, he shuts down offshore drilling…that should kick some ass on about 30,000 jobs…..he’s kicking ass on the stock market too….next thing he’ll go for is our retirement…what a guy….and plenty of you fools voted him in…..don’t you see what he is…..if he ran again tomorrow a lot of ya’ll would vote for him again…

Posted by: Skip | Jun 7, 2010 10:25:51 PM
Ah, the other half of the dynamic duo…

Mario, at least the current President can eat an pretzel without passing out-only to awakened by Barney’s face licking. Maybe you should stick to video game plumbing.

Ok someone was talking about the dow being up 10k from 8k if i remember right about 2 years ago the dow was 14k and also take into account inflation which is like 100% every 10 years. so basically in real terms compared to it being 14k 2 years ago compared to that including inflation its about 5k. Our economy is a joke END THE FED!

Ok someone was talking about the dow being up 10k from 8k if i remember right about 2 years ago the dow was 14k and also take into account inflation which is like 100% every 10 years.
Sideeous | Jun 7, 2010 10:46:16 PM
So if you cherry pick the highest point of the DOW ever, it is lower now? Really? Wow, what a stunning grasp of the obvious.
The DOW has performed very well under the Obama administration, far better than historical returns (almost tripling the typical annual return).

The stock market is a casino, and the only real winners are the people who run the casino. Even if you double your money over ten years gambling in it you are basically where you started because our rate of inflation over 10 years time is like 100%, Yes you heard me a 12 pack of pop that costs 4 dollars now was 2 dollars or less 10 years ago, And watch 10 years from now that 4 dollar 12 pack will be 8 dollars, its an example yes but you can apply it to anything, why? Becuase our monetary system is a joke, before 1913 inflation hardly existed because you couldn’t make money out of thin air when you needed a little extra to bomb the crap out of a third world country! Put that into your pipe and smoke away.

“…about 2 years ago the dow was 14k”
That was a big huge bubble, remember? The market was overvalued.

“Still living of that one?”
Well it works well to deflate your now 2 year old meme.

Becuase our monetary system is a joke, before 1913 inflation hardly existed because you couldn’t make money out of thin air when you needed a little extra to bomb the crap out of a third world country! Put that into your pipe and smoke away.
Sideeous | Jun 7, 2010 10:53:32 PM
What a wild coincidence then that since 1913 we’ve seen the fastest increase in humanity’s quality of life in history. It’s almost like modern economic systems have fostered the greatest explosion of creativity, invention, and material wealth (not green bits of paper, but billions of cars, TVs, cell phones, mattresses, sq ft of homes, air plane seats, computers, hours of video entertainment, etc).

Dow:
October 30, 2009 – 9,712
June 7, 2010 – 9,816
Crap(s).

“President Obama Wants to Kick Some Ass”
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President Urkel wanting to act tough…LOL…its NOT WORKING!

Ryan C — yes, but really, you’re ranting and raving about “wing nuts,” talking about some disturbed individual in some woefully inadequate attempt to paint with a broad brush, your “arguments” peppered with a lot of misdirecting transparent BS that you tried to couch with “authoritative language that just don’t make it.
So again — do you actually have a VALID point to make, or is it the usual, no-substance crapola that passes as “highbrow” among you liberal drones?
Because, from where I am standing, your false idol Obama is really, reeaallly making a mess of things — all the rest is smoke-and-mirrors double-talk Newspeak duplicity.

Don’t try to play twilight zone with me, some genius just stated inflation was 89% over 20 years from 1980-1999 so yes i was WRONG let me restate, if you had 1 million in 1980 and left it sitting in the bank the wonderful federal reserve steals 800+k from you and you get to keep 10-20% depending on the scraps of 3% they throw you down from the elite table. WOO no thanks! Give me back the 800k you stole from me and get the hell out of our monetary system fools, we are mad and we have every right to be our government is the biggest thief in the world! “Don’t Steal! The government hates competition”

And that’s your point? Well, glad it’s not all high brow and fact-y.
Posted by: jhw539 | Jun 7, 2010 11:23:22 PM
Maybe Carlo will make his point clearer in November of 2010 and 2012.

I’ve often wondered if FOX wouldn’t make even more money if they canned the news facade and just went all out tabloid like Limbaugh.
Posted by: Skip | Jun 7, 2010 11:18:55 PM
I wonder why Wolf Blitzer felt compelled to fact check Saturday Night Live.

jhw,good advice.The stock market is a long-term investment.Index funds are great-over the long term they have outproduced most managed funds.Also,the expense ratio is better.The problem with inflation is that affects those with the least ability to compensate-those on fixed incomes.And it is coming.

Posted by: jhw539 | Jun 7, 2010 11:37:51 PM
Ah, yes. The Defender of Truth! Always on the job!
Maybe Carlo came here to vent his frustration. That can’t be good for the current administration, can it? After all, wasn’t Obama supposed to heal the waters and lower the… uh, what was it again? Oh yeah, put away childish things and… no that wasn’t it. Be the first post racial, post bipartisan… Close Gitmo… no wait. Hang on… Let me check my notes.

Looks like the Sky Father has sent his warning… I’m out.

“I was down there a month ago, before most of these talking heads were even paying attention to the Gulf,” the president told Matt Lauer
………..
Interesting clip you linked to. Is it just me or is the Day 48, 49, 50 countdown thing getting really old and starting to feel really manufactured and beside the point? I’d personally prefer the news anchors stick to the news with the clips of the President and experts and the guy on site. Forget the countdown drama. The crisis is dramatic on its own terms, as the dramatic scenes from on site demonstrate.
Anyway, I did enjoy brief clip of Matt Lauer’s interview with the President. Good on President Obama for making both points, and good on him and his admin for pressing BP not to limit media access [(AP) - "The federal government generally is not restricting news media access to oil spill disaster areas in the Gulf of Mexico and wants oil giant BP to do likewise, unless there are good security or safety reasons, a Coast Guard admiral said Monday."]
Also, Keith Olbermann and David Corn did a decent fact check on Liz Cheney tonight, for what it’s worth…and please note both the must read at ProPublica: Years of Internal BP Probes Warned That Neglect Could Lead to Accidents, and Lisa Jackson’s piece at HuffPo: “The Murkowski Resolution: A Step Backward for American Clean Energy”

“if you had 1 million in 1980 and left it sitting in the bank the wonderful federal reserve steals 800+k from you and you get to keep 10-20% depending on the scraps of 3% they throw you down from the elite table”
If you had a million dollars in 1980 you are sitting at the elite table.
You had to cherry pick the time frame and even then you got the math wrong because you thought you just had to add the two percentages.
The inflation rate was actually 102% over the years quoted and $108& if you extend it to the year 2000
The rest of your stuff is just sovereign citizen nonsense.

Per the article:
” ‘I was down there a month ago, before most of these talking heads were even paying attention to the Gulf,’ the president told Matt Lauer in a clip released this evening. ‘A month ago I was meeting with fishermen down there, standing in the rain…’ ”
*******
Ahh, yes, the ever-vigilant prez is retroactively “on the case.”
Obama was just standin’ around, shoulder-to-shoulder with the average joes, hunkered down in the rain. Very workmanlike. Uh-huh.
Sheesh. The cozening crapola you servile Obama-bots will lap up….
And it’s past time the media stopped indulging and enabling and running interference for this spoiled-brat buck-passing crybaby; because, LET’S FACE IT: what’s obvious is obvious. You’re kidding NO ONE. Even the hardcore Obama-zombies are struggling to maintain the “hopey changey” charade.

“what’s obvious is obvious”
…that there’s nothing tangible behind any of this biased diatribe….pure semantics. It’s more like bad right-wing poetry than objective commentary.

If Obama want’s to kick some ass then he should do something about all of our illegal immigrants that are here sucking our system dry. Maybe he don’t understand our citizenship laws.

Well, glad it’s not all high brow and fact-y.
Posted by: jhw539
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Like those Ixtoc figures you qouted me yesterday?
artificially low HWH output figures (bbls per day)
gallons vs barrels
days vs months
160′ vs 1 MILE

sorry mr. president, but i distinctly remember every network covering the spill from about day 2 after it happened. what a liar he is. and what a phony with his “ass kicking” nonsense. every day this guy proves that he’s just more of the same stale old manipulative nonsense politics.

I love barry obama and his down home slang….. now will they post this or delete it?

seriously, if obama really believes what he says, then it proves that average american has paid more attention to the spill than he has. we’ve been inundated with reports for a month and a half now. does he not realize that millions upon millions of americans have been following this story closely since it happened? i’m in disbelief that even a politician would say something as stupid as his most recent comments. as if we’re all going to collectively forget the primacy this issue has had for the last 50 days or whatever it’s been. this is completely absurd.

A major catastrophe occurs in the gulf, killing people and threatening our economy and environment… and our president does not think it necessary to speak directly with the CEO of BP? 50 days have passed…

Jake, could you please ask them why they are still not accepting cleanup assistance from ALL the other countries that have offered?? Obama’s lack of urgency in keeping the oil off shore is disgusting.

How ironic … the American public now wants to kick his arse!!

“kick some ass” – because that’s all ruthless dictators know how to do. They don’t solve problems or overcome challenges – they blame and blame and blame and crucify anybody around them to intimidate and give themselves more power over the world. Tyrants like Obama are little men who want think they’re too big for their britches. They’re the guys with the jacked up pickup trucks who like abusing cats because it makes them feel bigger. Except sometimes they appear in suitcoats and are driven around in limousines.

The thing is that he said he was there a month ago, and yet what has he done since beside letting BP do everything. Where was national guards and government cleanup and disaster response troops then to the gulf of Mexico? Obama doesn’t seem to understand what his role should be in the time of such disaster. It’s not if you’re there, but what effort you show!

First, it’s “he needs to get angry,” then when a comment is taken out of context, it’s “he’s a dictator.” The American public is one “stupid blonde.” A show of hands-who knows how to stop the spill? More research and money has gone into deep drilling technology than into technology to stop a leak if and it occurs as a result of deep drilling. I guess the idiots will be complaining that the guvment is picking on the poor ol’ oil companies if the government requires a basic plan from them. In the meantime, goober, will lose his job and livelyhood and the oil execs will “get their lives back.”

Start with the “Oilmen” that sat there for 8 years. Criminal investigations should be forth coming.

I remember when being a “cowboy” and “macho” was so uncool.

I love how people are so willing to blame President Obama for everything. So the Same people who were chanting Drill baby Drill are now blaming him for the oil spill. God I love irony. Every EXPERT is saying the administration is doing Everything they can. So you all get mad because he doesnt show emotion?????? Get a life. This isnt theater!!!!!!!!!!!

Get a life. This isnt theater!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: GoObama
No its incompentence

IF ANYONE DESERVES AN ASS-KICKING, IT’S OUR PRESIDENT-IN-TRAINING. I MAY NEVER VOTE FOR ANOTHER DEMOCRAT. WHEN IS OUR CAMPAIGNER-IN-CHIEF GOING TO START WORKING FOR US? HE HAS SPENT 18 MONTHS BASHING THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION, CRAMMING OBAMACARE DOWN OUR THROATS, TRAVELING THE WORLD AT OUR EXPENSE, VACATIONING, GOLFING AND HAVING LAVISH PARTIES WITH CELEBS AND FOREIGN LEADERS. IF ANYONE DESERVES AN ASS-KICKING, IT’S OBAMA. THIS IS THE MOST CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

Little Barry wants to know whose ass to kick? This guy can’t muster the false bravado of tweety bird. Boy, I bet our enemies are shaking in their boots.

“Sarah Palin would have responded.”
By quitting.

“Typical Obama sycophant. You have not heard of the Jindhal barrier reefs or the use of explosives to seal the well?”
The “Jindal” Barrier?
Must be that cult of personality thing that right wingers claim liberals engage in.

Real Clear Politics has a video of Obama responding to the criticism he’s receiving over his handling of The Leak.
In the video, Obama gets tough and growls, “I don’t sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar, we talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.”
Obama is now taking direction from Spike Lee. Obviously, it’s because he hasn’t got a clue about what to do about The Leak himself.
A leader leads. The Leader stands out front, tells us what we need to do and why we need to do it, and then says follow me. If the People believe him or her and the policy, they will freely follow.
Kicking ass is done from the rear. It’s not leadership. It’s intimidation. It’s classic Chicago. That’s not a leader. That’s a gangster.
GTR640 would venture to say that even Ghandi and MLK would be willing to kick Obama’s ass. Because pacifism, at some level, takes courage. But this guy is just a craven politician, and he deserves it!
And, ladyingray says if you were really kickin’ ass, you wouldn’t have to go on morning news shows sayin’ you were!!!
Example: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama yesterday blamed “irresponsible decisions” by the Bush administration and Wall Street for the country’s economic woes as government officials said the budget deficit would soar to record heights next year.
That’s not a leader.
And this: Obama told the graduates at Kalamazoo High School not to make excuses.
“Don’t make excuses. Take responsibility not just for your successes, but for your failures as well. … It’s the easiest thing in the world to start looking around for someone to blame.”
Obviously, his speech writers forgot who they were writing for — oh, and he needed the teleprompters to talk to high school kids (video).
The kid over Obama’s left shoulder, the one who passes out cold, (photo) (video) has become an Internet sensation.
The Republican Senators whipped up this list of Obama’s better-known excuses right after his speech. It’s easy to do. Everybody’s got a list. Google returns 6,680,000 items after a search for — Obama excuse — no quotes.

Oh, brother. Obama, you are embarrassing yourself with each new appearance.

Once again the prez shows that he’s little more than a trash talking punk.

Obama won’t talk to the CEO of BP, but he’d gladly talk to the Iranian thugocracy and Kim Jong Il. President Dialogue/Outstretched Hand suddenly doesn’t want to have “frank conversations”. Oh the irony is so ripe.

“kick some ass”? – can’t imagine our president said sth like this.
Too bad he can’t blame BUSH this time. That is why he is busy finding “some ass to kick”!
It is all about a national joke.

This kick a** comment is getting all the buzz, but Obama’s answer to the question about why he hasn’t talked to the CEO of BP was horrible.
“Here’s the reason. Because my experience is, when you talk to a guy like a BP CEO, he’s gonna say all the right things to me. I’m not interested in words. I’m interested in actions.”

“Because my experience is, when you talk to a guy like a BP CEO, he’s gonna say all the right things to me.”
Why then offer to meet and talk with the likes of Ahmadinejad?

WHAT ABOUT THE NEWS THIS MORNING THAT THE DIRTY OLD BP HAS BEEN PLAYING A MAJOR ROLE IN DRAFTING THE CAP AND TRADE BILL BEING WORK ON IN CONGRESS RIGHT NOW (SEEMS LIKE IT IS BEING DONE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS ACCORDING TO THE NEWS)

There will be a Democrat “ass kicking” of Biblical proportion come Nov.