Metaphor Madness And Profiles In Decisiveness

Barack Obama explains the timing behind his gutsy call on gay marriage:

Obama on Biden: 'Got Out a Little Bit Over His Skis'

Obama skis? I thought he was more of a snowboarder.

And this profile in decisiveness may one day be carved on Mt. Rushmore when it is renamed Mt. Obama:

"I had already made a decision that we were going probably take this position before the election and before the convention..."

Well, I have made a decision that I will probably laugh out loud the next time I read about Obama's bold "leadership".  But maybe not! I'll let you know. Probably.

Comments

[matt]

LUN for the details of the strapped kids to car story...it's a classic.

[narciso]

'appeared to be intoxicated' really what was the first clue?

[MarkO]

Obama is not a skier.

[Ignatz]

--Obama is not a skier.--

No, but he's a lifelong skater.

[bgates]

Obama is not a skier.

He's not that smart, and he's a liar, and he ate a f*cking dog.

[matt]

This has to be one of the most cynical political ploys in a very long time.

Joe Biden's "leak" built the buzz among the Hollywood and Gay communities about a major issue to them.

Then, Obama's announcement with full TV coverage on the day he attended George Clooney's fundraiser made sure that all was forgiven by the Hollywood/Gay community, one of his biggest bases for both propaganda and money.

Now the Hollywood/Gay community is energized and will get out the vote for "their guy". Textbook Chicago style politics.

Obama now is all in on his leftist agenda. This is going to be a very interesting election: The Race baiting crowd; the gays; the NOW and NARAL crowd have all received their due.

Next will be the race baiters and OWS crowds.

Romney has an incredible opportunity to differentiate himself as the reasonable candidate. All he needs to do is to use images of Obama's hard core supporters and his base, sort of like when you go to the optician.

"Is This better, or This?"

[Robert Camp]

Rush Limbaugh is the GOP leader on the sanctity of marriage.

Ex-wives 1-4 were skiing and unavailable for comment.

[DebinNC]

"I had already made a decision that we were going probably take this position before the election and before the convention..."

But strangely not before the NC marriage amendment vote the day before when his support could have helped the cause.

[hit and run]

Maybe got out a little bit over his water skis. Right before the shark.

Or maybe Biden jumped the Yeti?

[narciso]

Yes, that strikes me, Deb, he knew that AA's were for Prop 8, as with his this recent
vote, yet he didn't come out against him.

[MarkO]

"But strangely not before the NC marriage amendment vote the day before when his support could have helped the cause."

Not strange at all. He knew it would not pass and did not want to be seen as losing.

[Clarice]

Hot Air:

If the President expects to get a boost at the ballot box over his flip-flop on same-sex marriage, the composition of North Carolina's vote on Tuesday might indicate a big problem in his strategy. Obama came out publicly against Amendment One, which shifted the state's ban on same-sex marriage from statute to constitutional amendment, and opponents railed against the loss as a victory for bigotry. However, that message might not sell well in the Tarheel State or in other swing states when black voters supported the constitutional ban by a 2-1 margin
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Tough choice--he needs the money to get the votes but the money comes with a price tag that costs him votes.

[Robert Camp]

Money is no problem for Obama. It continues to be a problem for America, because the one who has the most toys, wins.

http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2012/04/20/reports_to_detail_postsuper_tuesday_campaign_cash

[Danube of Thought]

Just another issue on which the left can imagine no other reason than bigotry and meanness for opposition to its view.

[Frau Ich-kenne-die Welt-nicht-mehr]

„Pecunia non olet,“ sez the Über-pander Preezy

[Chris]

It's all about the benjamins. nothing more, nothing less. Truly a profile in courage.

[GMAX]

It appears that Krauthammer has joined me in the irrational optimism ( at least according to some posters here). Here:

Krauthammer writes that "the Democrats are going to get beaten badly in November," and no one will credit him for boldness in that prediction. Some may disagree with his reckoning as to the reason for that likely loss: that "a comeuppance is due the arrogant elites whose undisguised contempt for the great unwashed prevents them from conceding a modicum of serious thought to those who dare oppose them."

Just remember, you heard it here first...

[jimmyk]

So Barry's puppy munching was off limits because he was just a kid, but now Mitt's school pranks are the topic du jour? Not that we have any idea of what Barry was doing between the ages of 12 and 22, as our enterprising MSM has somehow been unable to find anyone who ever knew him.

[GMAX]

For Sue

Perhaps this will be of some use in your deliberations. I dont think Dewhurst is a bad man, but I do think Cruz will be a better Senator and more fully represent me:

In response to a letter from Ted Cruz, Governor Sarah Palin wrote: “We’re proud to join conservatives in Texas and throughout the nation in supporting your campaign to become the next Senator from the Lone Star State.”

“Your conservative principles, passionate defense of our Constitution and our free market system come at a time when these cornerstones of our freedom and prosperity are under attack,” Governor Palin added. “Our shared goal isn’t just to change the majority in control of the Senate, but to assure principled conservatives like you are there to fight for us.”

[GMAX]

Robert Camp

Do you have the internals of the poll? A topline of a poll, without pollster, demographics and sample size, margin of error and the type of poll ( internet, phone, adult, registered voter or likely voter ) is to put it bluntly, not worth a damn thing.

A Raleigh tv station paid for a poll, that is about all we know.

[narciso]

They are such an easy mark at my fishwrap,

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/09/2791283_p2/president-obama-endorses-gay-marriage.html

[Sue]

Thanks, GMax. Not sure that advances me one way or the other, but I appreciate it. It means as much, if not more, to me that Perry has endorsed Dewhurst. I'm still up in the air.

[Thomas Collins]

In other decisive action by the Obama Administration, see LUN (via Instapundit) for an article on how Obama's leading from behind in Libya helped destroy a democratic government in Africa.

[AliceH]

... North Carolina's primary next week...

"Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so."

[Ignatz]

--Posted by: Robert Camp | May 10, 2012 at 12:16 PM--

Surely your name along with the pom poms is intended as irony on the topic of this thread, right?

[GMAX]

Dont ever forget Dewhurst thought a State income tax was a terrifically wonderful idea once upon a time. He is not Olympia Snowe or even Dick Lugar, but he is quite moderate compared to the choice of Ted Cruz. I wont say another thing about it, unless asked. My mind is made up though...

[jimmyk]

I suspect a governor will tend to endorse his lieutenant governor out of loyalty. Not saying that's the only factor, but I wouldn't put so much weight on it.

[narciso]

They follow the Levick group template assidously

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/09/2791668/justice-and-the-guantanamo-trial.html

[AliceH]

Ah - google reveals that Robert Camp just cut/pasted the first paragraph of this news article from May 1.

[sailor]

Well, I do hope the Repubs will not fall for this and allow the conversation to be completely about gay marriage. Romney is trying, but he is quoted as saying "he has believed that marriage is between a man and a woman since the beginning of his running for the office of president." Woe is me!

[Danube of Thought]

"Republicans seem to prefer the Parliamentary system, where the PM is mostly a figurehead."

The day is still young, but at this point that's the dumbest thing that's been said here today.

[Janet]

So Barry's puppy munching was off limits because he was just a kid, but now Mitt's school pranks are the topic du jour?

Exactly, jimmyk! Biden was from Scranton because he lived there as a little boy....but Barry wasn't considered from Indonesia....he was somehow tied to Kansas even though he didn't live there.
Bush drank when he was younger & it really mattered...while it does not matter that Barry did pot & blow. See...

[Rob Crawford]

The day is still young, but at this point that's the dumbest thing that's been said here today.

You realize they'll take that as a challenge, right?

[AliceH]

Stuff from that WRAL poll from 5/1 cited by today's leading contender in the "dumbest thing said here today" contest:

Survey of 451 LV between 4/26 and 4/30, MOE +/- 4.7%:
Romney - 55% (actual 66%)
Santorum - 15% (actual 10%)
Paul - 12% (actual 11%)
Gingrich - 11% (actual 8%)

Survey of 1636 RV, MOE +/- 2.5%
Obama 47%, Romney 43%

[narciso]

So they were off by 11 points, that's twice the MOE, Lol.

[myiq2xu]

He was saving the announcement for the day Romney accepts the nomination at the GOP Convention.

[daddy]

Uh Oh---when good Mormons go bad!

Mitt Romney engaged in pranks in High School:

WaPo: Mitt Romney’s prep school classmates recall pranks, but also troubling incidents

Washington Examiner: Romney apologizes for High School Behavior

Rachel Maddow is on the case. As is the HuffPo, Vanity Fair, CNN, Weekly Standard, etc.

Can Mitt survive his inner Trayvon Martin? Stay tuned.

[Rocco]

Show me a poll that questions registered voters most likely to vote and I'll put a little stock in that WRAL poll. This CBS poll only questions registered voters so it's suspect IMO

http://www.wral.com/news/local/politics/story/11048655/

[Gus]

Let me see if I understand the lying bag of shit. (Obama that is).

Joe Biden was a "little over his ski's" for saying something that Obama agrees with????

I'm so sorry dear HOMOSEXUALS, but you are being used. Feels nice doesn't it. Obama loves you so much that he is using you.

[Captain Hate]

Tammy Bruce is blasting the "objectivity" of why Robin Roberts was chosen to cover the "Evolution" story and how the lefty homos have battered wife syndrome.

[rse]

Speaking of constituencies, today's posting explains why higher ed has become a classic case of dirigiste/mercantile "you must buy this product". LUN

I don't think giving that special group cartel powers at such a high cost to so many is going to play well.

We will see.

[Gus]

Well Cap'n only a REAL LIVE LEZBOT can understand the complexities of pandering to HOMOS.

[lyle]

Rush Limbaugh is the GOP leader on the sanctity of marriage.

Ex-wives 1-4 were skiing and unavailable for comment.

What a horrible man that Rush fellow is! Divorced so many times!

Hell, that's nearly as bad as leaving a woman to drown. Or banging some skank, knocking her up, covering up the whole sordid mess while his wife was dying from cancer. Or tweeting pictures of your "tweeter" to underage girls. Or getting a BJ from some zaftig intern in the oval office and never really knowing her name. Or bringing young women into the WH so you can watch some other dude bang her.

Oh, sorry. You're right, nothing is as bad as multiple divorces from a guy who has not and never will held public office.

[centralcal]

Excellent, lyle!!!

[Dave (in MA)]

I guess Slow Joe doesn't punch above his weight.

[Captain Hate]

Gus, Tammy is an open lezzo who is extremely conservative and hates how the left has co-opted the dimwits that share her sexual orientation into making asses out of themselves.

[Ignatz]

Or after raping the lucky gal telling her to put some ice on it.

[Rocco]

Sorry AliceH, I should have refreshed before I hit the Post button.

I wonder why that poll lists every race as likely to vote EXCEPT the Democrat race for President?

http://www.wral.com/asset/news/local/politics/2012/05/01/11049014/NC_primary_poll.pdf

[Gus]

Capn' Tammy Bruce is honest.

[Porchlight]

but a new WRAL News poll shows that President Barack Obama would carry the state if the general election were held now.

Poll or no poll, Obama carried NC by 14K votes in 2008. No way is he going to do it again.

Hence the SSM announcement. It doesn't matter what NC blacks think of it, because he's already written off NC.

[GMAX]

Alice that is a start. Now we know its a RV poll not a Likely voter poll and its done by Survey USA, who is not a very accurate pollster. Not only that, but they blew the results pretty badly on the Republican primary with only a week's timeframe.

The real critical piece of information, is the split between D R and I. IF THAT IS WAY OFF, ( and I suspect it is ) then the poll is trash. But note that Zero is only getting 47% in a RV voter poll with an unknown demographic, in a State he carried last go round.

I think you can look at the NO PREFERENCE line in the primary and see that either a lot of Democrats in NC are going to stay home, leave the presidential boxes unchecked or even cross over and vote Republican. It will not likely be close in NC.

[lyle]

They choked on a McCain coctail because he's a loose cannon in their estimation.

Metaphors aren't your strong suit, huh, champ?

[Gus]

If Rush Limbaugh was married 50 times to 50 different women, it wouldn't change the definition of marriage.
The LIBTARD LEFT continues to talk of Obama "evolving". Gays are the end of the evolutionary chain. Homosexuals do not survive as a group if their actions were the norm.

[Jane]

since the beginning of his running for the office of president.

Actually I'm pretty sure he said "since running for office". Remember he was a MA gov from 2003 - 2007. Gay marriage was implemented by the court in a decision which was argued in March and decided in Nov. 2003. I have no recollection of Romney saying anything about it. I doubt it was much of an issue when he was elected.

[narciso]

Tammy doesn't suffer fools of any stripe, ultimately that's why she couldn't stay with the likes of NOW,

[rse]

Oh frau and dot-

LUn says that Angela Davis is the commencement speaker at Pitzer on Saturday.

Pictures?

[Ignatz]

--Metaphors aren't your strong suit, huh, champ?--

He says his name is Camp. He plays the cheerleader. He waxes poetic about cocktails and loose cannons.
Sully, is that you?

[GMAX]

Resurgent Republic has a new poll out, and Geraghty has it with more but here is a key graf for ya:

Mitt Romney's favorable/unfavorable rating among Independents is 43/42 percent, compared to 44/50 percent for Barack Obama. Based on their current perceptions, Obama faces more of an uphill climb than Romney among Independent voters.

1000 RV poll. MOE 2.5%

[daddy]

MayBee over on an Althouse thread, about Mitt bullying a High School gay kid:

"MayBee said...
Somebody please please please write up Mitt's incident as if Obama were writing about it in the first person.

"The scissors hummed beneath my fingers."

[lyle]

Good sleuthing, Ig.

[Some guy]

It's all about the benjamins. nothing more, nothing less. Truly a profile in courage.

Gay for Pay

[GMAX]

Angela Davis is an avowed Communist. Not my opinion her stated description.

Pitzer really is a pitiful little wretch of a place, aint it?

[Jane]

Lyle,

You forgot eating puppies.

Isn't Angela Davis about 90?

[GMAX]

In case a certain Lying Liar shows up and denies it:

1979: Angela Davis visits the Soviet Union and is awarded the Lenin Peace Prize. She is also made an honorary professor at Moscow State University.

1980: Davis runs as the Vice-Presidential candidate for the Communist Party. Although the Communist Party does not receive many votes, Davis� candidacy reveals that she is still a prominent public figure and activist.

1984: Davis runs again as the Vice-Presidential candidate for the Communist Party in the United States.

[Captain Hate]

No-fault divorce was a lefty issue, no? There might have been a few Rockefeller Repukes on board but I don't recall it being a conservative initiative; more like part of the "If it feels good, do it" over-extended childhood. That's not to say that all divorces are bad per se; but some that I know of failed because of a lack of commitment of one or both parties. I don't think that Rush's marital record is one of his strong points; but at least they were childless unions (which is not where you find the real wreckage of the broken bond) and there haven't been any horror stories from the exes either about what a monster he was to be married to or how they got jobbed on the settlement (although he could have a gag order like Kucinich's exes do; if he does I don't know that).

Anyway, I'm off my soapbox now. For some reason I just got a letter from Mooch including a family portrait addressed *personally* to me, a list of all the great accomplishments of the JEF and a request for money. Let me get my checkbook now...

[narciso]

Well she fits in well, over there;

Prisoner rights have been among her continuing interests; she is the founder of "Critical Resistance", an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She is a retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is the former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.[2]

[DrJ]

I had forgotten that Davis was a Banana Slug!

[Captain Hate]

Isn't Angela Davis about 90?

Born in 44; it just seems like she's been around for almost a century.

[Jane]

Is eating your dog considered cruel?

[narciso]

This is not terribly surprising, and is in keeping with future behaviour

http://thetalkofthetimes.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/obama-bullied-a-girl/

[Dave (in MA)]

LUn says that Angela Davis is the commencement speaker at Pitzer on Saturday.

Does she have to hold up a feather the entire time?

[jimmyk]

Now we know its a RV poll not a Likely voter poll and its done by Survey USA, who is not a very accurate pollster. Not only that, but they blew the results pretty badly on the Republican primary with only a week's timeframe.

Shh! No, this poll nails it, Barry has NC locked up. In fact, he's doing all the right things, and he should keep tilting further left, with more czars and mandates that violate freedom of religion, more adoptions of teenage thugs, and ignoring the economy, because that's going to seal the election for him, if it isn't already.

[Stephanie]

Biden goes on TV and makes gaffe about gay marriage forcing Obama's hand and the WaPo has a story ready to go on Romney's homo hating activities in high school...

No coordination at all. :eyeroll: and no way in hell was this not scripted to occur in sync whenever it was rolled out.

A rising tide is expected to lift Obama and the rising memes are expected to sink Romney's. It's the replay of 08 with the media attempting to control the tsunami of culture. Glowbull Warming on the political front. With just as much factual nature.

[Sue]

GMax,

I wont say another thing about it, unless asked. My mind is made up though...

I did ask. I wanted your opinion. I am very wishy-washy on this right now. I'll narrow it down the closer we get but I'm going back and forth.

[jimmyk]

Angela Davis is the commencement speaker at Pitzer on Saturday.

Second choice, but Stalin wasn't available.

[narciso]

Van Jones was probably busy this week, as well, he's running the same scam.

[Extraneus]

Are they really worried about losing the gay vote to Romney? I wouldn't be surprised if more people like the haircut story than don't.

[Danube of Thought]

She used to be a big hit at places like Berkeley. Now it's Pitzer College.
'Nuff said.

[fdcol63]

Irony: Liberals who advocate "polyamory" slamming Romney because he's a Mormom and his Mormon grandfather may have been a polygamist.

[Frau Wünschelrute]

Marcuse's marionette...
"LUn says that Angela Davis is the commencement speaker at Pitzer on Saturday."
This is definitely a feather (heh!) in Pitzer's carp cap.

Before teaching in CA system, my husband and other colleagues had to take a loyalty oath--to the USA, of course. Angela got a pass. And what the hay-ull is history of consciousness????????

[Captain Hate]

Harry Reid paid tribute to Lugar today on the Senate floor proving that Hoosier voters did the right thing.

[centralcal]

No worries, Extraneus - someone actually read Dreams From My Father - and big bwave Barry shoved some poor little black gal named Coretta, cuz his classmates were taunting that he had a girlfriend.

Mitt bullied a boy.
Barry bullied a girl.

[Captain Hate]

Hypocrisy: Liberals who support a President whose father was a polygamist slamming Romney because he's a Mormom and his Mormon grandfather may have been a polygamist.

[fdcol63]

CH ... even better. LOL

[Captain Hate]

Countdown to Detox Part Infinity http://weaselzippers.us/2012/05/10/tingles-links-gay-marriage-opponents-to-supporters-of-slavery/

[rse]

My alma mater was so pleased to name its first female Pres. She states expressly she is a feminist and the alums seem to think she means she is for equal pay for equal work or something.

When she was at her previous ihe, she chaired a feminist conference and had Davis as the keynote speaker. The good news is that she is a member of the requisite denomination as the bylaws require. I am thinking this is not quite what the founders had in mind.

One of the first changes was to change core requirements to broaden exposure. History became historical thought. Religion=religious perspectives. English to Rhetoric/Literary Studies. Those were substantive changes not announced to the applying students. I read the small print in alum magazine.

For more than $200 K over 4 years, you are to learn to serve others. Except if family makes less than $50K then you get to go for free.

A survey of minority students last year showed they sensed they were not regarded as being as strong academically. School response was to form task force to change how students treat minority students so their feelings are respected.

I told red not to apply. What a tragedy when schools think their mission is to change the mindset of students.

[jimmyk]

working to abolish the prison-industrial complex

and replace it with a Gulag system.

[Clarice]

Not for the first time Krauthammer took the words right out of my mind.

[Captain Hate]

Maybe if they'd just let themselves be driven into the sea http://weaselzippers.us/2012/05/10/dem-house-members-refuse-to-support-bipartisan-bill-reaffirming-u-s-commitment-to-israel/

[centralcal]

When Barack shoved Coretta:

Young Obama Bullies a Girl

[rse]

frau-Consciousness would be the mental and emotional filter that affects how any info future adult comes in contact with is heard or framed.

A/k/a mindset. It is a major target for educators now but not what gets advertised to parents or taxpayers.

She could have looked at the originals of the underlying theories while picking up that Peace Prize.

[fdcol63]

I think the Norwegians should be honest and just rename the Nobel Peace Prize as the "Anti-American Prize".

[daddy]

John Edward Trial update:

If I heard correctly, FOX just reported that John Edward's wanted to be a Supreme Court Justice---even after the love child story came out.

So in addition to wanting to be Senator, Vice President, President and Attorney General, he now tells us he wanted to be a Supreme.

Isn't it wonderful the sort of selfless people so willing to be public servants.

[jimmyk]

From the comments at cc's 2:59,

Obama also sucker-punched a 7th grader and made him cry:

“…the first boy, in seventh grade, who called me a coon; his tears of surprise-”Why’dya do that?”-when I gave him a bloody nose.”

(my emphasis)

No wonder he identified with Trayvon. Or maybe Trayvon with him?

[Clarice]

I just noticed the Krauthammer piece was written just months before the 2010 blow out and yet it is as true of 2012 as it was of 2010.

[Rob Crawford]

Pitzer really is a pitiful little wretch of a place, aint it?

A veritable Mos Eisley.

[Rob Crawford]

Hypocrisy: Liberals who support a President whose father was a polygamist slamming Romney because he's a Mormom and his Mormon grandfather may have been a polygamist.

While celebrating "polyamory".

[Rob Crawford]

Does she have to hold up a feather the entire time?

She's borrowing a head dress from Warren.

[fdcol63]

Obama was in Hawaii during the 7th grade, supposedly. And of this experience, Wikipedia tells us:

Reflecting later on his years in Honolulu, Obama wrote: "The opportunity that Hawaii offered — to experience a variety of cultures in a climate of mutual respect — became an integral part of my world view, and a basis for the values that I hold most dear."

In Hawaii, whites were a minority. I suppose it's possible that some racist white kid called him a "coon" at Punahou School, but I doubt it.

[Frank Reynolds]

"Isn't the serial sociopath usually identified early on, by his cruelty to animals and children?"

I assume you are referring to Obama eating his dogs and discussing gay sex with his daughters.