OMG! 'Forward' With Barack

[We note that 'Loyalty Day' is a Communist era relic in an update.]

Was it only a few years ago that conservatives were "frightened bedwetters" and "authoritarian cultists" who wanted a strong father figure to tuck them in safely at night?

OMG! Now libs are rallying behind a deity to save them from the scary Wall Streeters and the scary one percenters and the scary frackers, and, well, the scary world.

His halo has slipped slightly but we get the picture.

And yes, I'm sure I speak for many when I express regret that the team that brought us Joe Biden didn't select this as a campaign poster:

Many more suggestions can be found in the comments to this recent post.

WELL, IT'S ONLY ONE DAY A YEAR... Obama challenges his base to observe "Loyalty Day". Weird that Bush never thought of that [Oops, he did]!  Well, Bush probably had the quaint notion that every day was loyalty day.

THE LIMITS OF REASON: It's a poor workmen who blames his tools - Reason gave me the feeling that this was a new law with this:

Who says House Republicans and President Obama never work together? From Whitehouse.gov:

In fact, the bill was a Communist-era relic, per Wikipedia:

It was made an official holiday by the U.S. Congress on July 18, 1958 (Public Law 85-529).^[4][5] Following the passage of this law, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed May 1, 1959 the first official observance of Loyalty Day. ^[6]

In 2011, and again in 2012^[7] President Barack Obama issued an official proclamation of Loyalty Day on May 1 in accordance with the 1958 Congressional declaration,^[8] as have many of his predecessors:

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  • George W. Bush, proclamation 8137 (April 30, 2007) ^[9]
  • Bill Clinton, proclamation 6556 (May 1, 1993) ^[10]
  • George H. W. Bush, proclamation 5962 (April 28, 1989) ^[11]
  • Ronald Reagan, proclamation 4836 (April 14, 1981) ^[12]
  • Jimmy Carter, proclamation 4493 (March 23, 1977) ^[13]
  • Gerald Ford, proclamation 4354 (March 4, 1975) ^[14]
  • John F. Kennedy, proclamation 3528 (April 18, 1963) ^[15]

LA PLUS CA CHANGE... Oh, dear.

Comments

[Bob]

A guy with a tiny pointed head is not such great optics. If that is their real poster they might want to work on that. Just saying.

[Janet]

Nobody loves Barack Obama more than Barack Obama.

A 14 second video of Obama giving a "shout out" to himself. Pathetic. I'm gonna need **FORBEARANCE**

[myiq2xu]

Don't blame me, I voted for Hillary.

[narciso]

'loyalty day' as Bugs would say 'I'm dying here'

[Rob Crawford]

Was the "loyalty day" a Congressional idea? Or is this the Won's own brilliant idea?

[jimmyk]

I thought it was Law Day. Maybe that would be a bit awkward for this administration.

[narciso]

a victory for negative liberty for a bit;

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Judge-keeps-Planned-Parenthood-out-of-Women-s-3526125.php

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[narciso]

In other news, the Justice Department complied with the subpoena request with
blank pages, very much in the 'spirit of the law'

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This one's not an intentional joke either.

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Looking forward.

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Forward isn't new, btw.

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More diety.

[NK]

Ex@8:24-- there's typo in there, 'Bam wants to spend Trillions more!

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This lightbox art of Obama and the Chinese character for "Forward" is one of many pieces to be featured at the Manifest Hope Art Gallery during the Democratic National Convention.

[William Demot]

So on Obama's "Loyalty Day", 5 members of the (Obama-approved) Occupy movement attempted to blow up a bridge in Cleveland.

[pagar]

Just another Democrat moving forward against Veterans!

http://www.katc.com/news/rep-ortego-responds-to-criticism-over-comments-about-veterans/

""Why do we want to attract veterans to Louisiana?" Ortego asked state Rep. Nick Lorusso, R-New Orleans."

Democrats " come with a lot of issues, too"

[narciso]

'The Canadian Menace,' must be countered on all fronts.

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-a-environment/224811-keystone-xl-against-our-national-security

[hit and run]

William:
So on Obama's "Loyalty Day", 5 members of the (Obama-approved) Occupy movement attempted to blow up a bridge in Cleveland.

Yes. Let's sum up.

Republicans don't want to fix bridges, Obama does.

Obama supports the Occupiers.

Occupy has within its members, those who want to blow up bridges.

Of course, we might be dealing with a Broken Windows situation here. The more bridges Occupy can blow up, the more federal spending we'll need to repair them -- thus the more we will stimulate the economy and put construction workers back to work!!! Aha! I see now why Obama was friends with Bill Ayers. It was macro economic policy.

Obama secretly wants the Occupiers to succeed in blowing up bridges. He's pissed the FBI foiled the plot.

[iqvoice]

As long it's only "occupiers" trying to plant bombs, us Clevelanders don't have anything to worry about. When you aren't qualified enough to get a job at McDonalds, the only "bomb" you'll have is your resume.

[narciso]

I've pointed out how the Baader, the Brigate Rosse, and the Weatherman all stem, came from the left wing of academia,

[narciso]

As Glenn Reynolds has long said, they are 'on the other side' in the LUN

[RichatUF]

Good morning all. NFP 119K. I suppose "Recovery Summer III" won't be in the SCOAMF's slogans bag.

[sbwaters]

One’s first loyalty is to oneself. Well understood, that leads to society with others.

When one’s first loyalty is to society, one’s self gets lost, and society soon follows.

[narciso]

Then again, Hit, Ayers fils, had a distinctly Wile E coyote nature to his efforts, his best
bomb, took out his girlfriend, and his other pal, had he been successful, some cop would have 'capped' him, right quick.

[NK]

ClevelandOWS?-- I just read the news story-- those luvers thought they had bought, planted AND detonated C4 at the bridge column. This wasn't some plot- this was an attack. Is that carpet muncher Napolitano still looking for 'Teaparty/Rightwing' terrorists?

[narciso]

And this goes in the previous thread but it fits, the theatre is very big, for the projector

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2012/05/01/rewind-network-tv-uproar-2004-poor-taste-brief-9-11-images-bush-re-elect

[Ignatz]

Is that first picture from Barry's campaign?

If so can the impossible to ignore 'rising sun' optics and their connection to a land with a still existing emperor possibly be accidental?

[DebinNC]

Speaking of bridges, WaPo factchecker awards Obama 4 Pinocchios for repeating an earlier "whopper" about an Ohio River bridge. Even if Obama's lies don't make national news, hopefully local voters who know truth from fiction are paying attention.

[narciso]

now mind you this is 'tree falling in a forest' but it's seriously insane;

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2012/05/01/dr-drew-jon-lovitz-obama-tax-fairness-death-threat

[Bruce]

# Republicans don't want to fix bridges, Obama does.

# Obama supports the Occupiers.

# Occupy has within its members, those who want to blow up bridges.

I am a bit worried here, now that I think about it. One of the purposes of Occupy is to get noticed, therefore apparently getting attention to the current cause - e.g. maybe, the plight of the 99%, how the banks (but, apparently not the government) are oppressing us, etc.

This year, it seems that many of the rest of us are saying to them, "go away", and if you don't let's have the cops do their job, and arrest you (OWS). You had your protest last year, and now it is time to be serious again.

I don't think that sort of attitude is going to sit well with the self-indulgent occupiers. And, that is why I would not be surprised if they attempted to up the ante this year, to increase their visibility. And, the way to do that would likely seem to be with increased level of violence. If shitting on a car doesn't get enough attention, try blowing it up, etc.

Hope that I am wrong about this.

[Captain Hate]

Speaking of bridges, WaPo factchecker awards Obama 4 Pinocchios for repeating an earlier "whopper" about an Ohio River bridge. Even if Obama's lies don't make national news, hopefully local voters who know truth from fiction are paying attention.

It was pretty much reported around here as a load of garbage with no relation to the truth when it happened, even in the local fishwrap.

O/T. Including "and" and "the": http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304050304577375861475185678.html?mod=WSJ_Books_LS_Books_8

[hit and run]

"You go into these towns in Ohio like Cleveland and, like a lot of towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for my 3 1/2 years and promises of magic green jobs have proven to be a lie. And they fell through in 2009, and 2010 and 2011 and with my policies there really is no hope for 2012 or beyond and yet I keep saying that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

"And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to bombs designed to blow up bridges ... as a way to explain their frustrations.

"The most important thing we can do right now is those of us in leadership letting people know that we understand their struggles and we are on their side."
--stuff Obama (almost in paragraphs 1 and 2; and exactly in paragraph 3) said

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Many blacks beat white couple, media bury attack

"Do it for Trayvon"

[narciso]

Remember what we said about Martin's tweets,'these are the droids you are looking for'

http://twitchy.com/2012/05/02/george-zimmerman-guilty-by-reason-of-2005-myspace-profile/

[henry]

Fun campaign fact total recall spending to be in the $60-80 million range. All of the candidates hoping to challenge Gov. Scott Walker in the upcoming recall election raised a combined total of about $2 million, less than one-sixth of the $13.2 million that flowed into Walker's campaign war chest during the most recent reporting period.

Plus some national R group is dropping $1 million into each senate recall, where the D's have raised about $100k each, and the R's have raised $250k each separately. Any dollars the unions spend to match this will come from the Once's stash.

[Danube of Thought]

Minus 10 at Raz today.

Leads Romney by 3.

[narciso]

A little more context to yesterday's kerfluffle;

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/curious-resignation-richard-grenell/515226

[Extraneus]

Is that first picture from Barry's campaign?

I think the link at my 8:35 indicates the origin of this pic, which appears to be a copy of the original. They have all kinds of good stuff at the Manifest Hope Art Gallery.

[Bruce]

Then again, Hit, Ayers fils, had a distinctly Wile E coyote nature to his efforts, his best bomb, took out his girlfriend, and his other pal, had he been successful, some cop would have 'capped' him, right quick.

Hope you are correct. Maybe we can be relieved a bit that our own homegrown terrorists seem to come from the ranks of liberal arts grads, while Islamic terrorists seemed to have recruited a lot of STEM grads (maybe because our own STEM grads tend to have good jobs). Think about how much worse it would have been if Ayers and his friends had had the proper training for planning their terrorist attacks and blowing things up. And, maybe we can expect such incompetence to continue, with the general make up of the Occupy movement.

We shall see.

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(Btw, any of these pics that get cut off can be viewed in its majestic entirety by right-clicking and choosing "View Image.")

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[Captain Hate]

A little more context to yesterday's kerfluffle

Gabe Malor + Jennifer Rubin = Completely Idiotic Nontroversy

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[narciso]

Suspending the military commission of Al Nashiri, spoke volumes,

http://dailycaller.com/2012/05/02/commander-of-uss-cole-obamas-bin-laden-ad-was-disgusting/

[NK]

Bruce raises a very good point. When 'Bam loses and there is Repub government, and a Repub budget based on Ryan principles, and Obamacare is repealed by reconciliation, AND the voters LIKE IT, the OWS 'bitter clingers' will be enraged. Why won't the hook up with AQ bombmakers at that point? In fact, I think that's exactly what will happen. That will be the end of the Democrats as a National Party.

[Bruce]

"The most important thing we can do right now is those of us in leadership letting people know that we understand their struggles and we are on their side." (Obama on Occupy Wall Street: 'We Are on Their Side')

I am hopeful that this isn't going to work well for them this year. They had their silly Occupy protests last year. The cops mostly let them do their thing (mostly I think under orders from liberal politicians). But, mostly, the cities that enforced their laws the least, and gave the Occupiers the most slack, are the ones that ultimately had the most problems. I think that some of these cities learned their lessons. And, for those that didn't, I think that the protesters may try to up the ante, to get more shock value out of their protests.

In the end though, I don't think that this is going to help the Dem politicians who have been endorsing the Occupy movement that much when it comes to the November elections. Sure, they may get a little more of the college educated youth vote, but I think will lose more of the middle class adult and less educated votes than they gain.

[Extraneus]

Believe it or not, that's the same gallery that this pic came from. (I'd always thought it was an intentional joke.)

[Clarice]

The pictures of him in Kabul are laugh out loud funny And they are photoshops or satire.

MOTUS gets into the act:http://www.michellesmirror.com/2012/05/hitler-discovers-obama-stole-his-theme.html#comments

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[Sue]

#Obama: Strongly Approve: 29%... Strongly Disapprove: 39%... Approval Index: -10... Total Approval: 49%

We're doomed.

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[Extraneus]

Did you say Michelle?

[narciso]

I'm beginning to think, the portrait of the CIA in Andy Bergman's 'the In Laws' wasn't that far from the truth.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/04/28/2773722_p2/the-cuban-killer-who-fooled-the.html

[Janet]

Thanks for all the pictures, Extraneus. Our President is so creepy.

Many blacks beat white couple, media bury attack

and where are the endless screaming headlines about high gas prices? ...and how April was the bloodiest month for our troops in Afghanistan this year? Is Cindy Sheehan no longer worthy of front page coverage every day? The MFM is broken & corrupt. Just sickening...
From Scott at Powerline - "If you get your info from the MSM most of what you "know" is not true & most of what you do not know is important."

[Jim Ryan]

Has this country always included such a high proportion of fools? Maybe there's no reason to worry. Maybe a good 40% of us have always been fools and another 15% confused enough to give a dufus the election. 150 years ago would they have enthusiastically elected and reelected a man who at 50 had never accomplished anything in his life (including in his first term)?

[NK]

Narc-- An In-laws reference

serpintine shelly-- serpintine!

I give then twenty million, twenty-- banditos!

Vince: please general give the man a blindfold! General Garcia: We have no blindfolds senor, we are a poor country!
Vince: for the love of God... General: Bandanas!

[DebinNC]

FORWARD at twitter. Just tweeted that The One's minions are scrubbing wiki of commie connections to the word.

[Neo]

Forward to Perdition

[DebinNC]

Trying Twitter-FORWARD again

[narciso]

Some more lines, for the win;

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079336/quotes

[Clarice]

**they are NOT photoshops or satire***

[narciso]

That is the scary thing, isn't it,

[DebinNC]

RCP article answers Janet's question above: Obama Slow-Jams and the Media Dance to the Beat.

[NK]

Narc-- thanks for the link-- they don't have my favorite line, when General Garcia shows them the $50/100 plates, and the financial panic it will set off something like:

General Garcia: there will be panic, death, widows - orphans dying in the streets, swiss bankers jumping out of windows.

Shelly: It's a beautiful thing....

[Captain Hate]

Has this country always included such a high proportion of fools?

I wouldn't read too much into polls because Carter was polling pretty well against Reagan at this point in 1980.

[Janet]

A good ad against the MFM would be comparing news headlines (# & longevity) between a Dem. & a Republican administration. Wars, gas prices, sex scandals, gaffes,...

Gas prices W. Gas prices Obama. Show the headlines & state, "It's as if they had an agenda."

[Jim Ryan]

The Democratic Party:

No plan to handle the impending bankruptcy of the Federal Government other than the innumerate ejaculation "Tax the rich!"

Every intention of increasing spending.

No plan to handle the looming insolvency of Social Security and Medicare.

Forward!

[Neo]

While addressing soldiers at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, the president started giving shout outs to different military units “in the house,” each time eliciting cheers from the crowd. But after calling out a couple of those names, he quickly turned to evoking his own: “And we’ve got me in the house.”

And Obama so loved himself that he gave ...

[William Demot]

A more appropriate campaign slogan for Obama would be "ME ME ME".

Showing Obama as a self-obsessed demagogue with a massive ego who continually takes credit for the achievements of others would surely resonate with the voting public.

In the senate, he attached his name to bills proposed by others and took credit for them. He also tried to tell us he planned the whole Bin Laden operation. Navy Seals are complaining in some sections of the media that aren't dominated by Obama.

[narciso]

Btw, the folks from the' West Wing'are getting together, for a PSA about how
President's 'have no control over gas
prices'

[sailor]

Jim Ryan, 50% of Americans pay no income tax, and 7 out of 10 Americans are on food stamps. These are the people--on the dole--who will vote for Obama.

[Ignatz]

--I think the link at my 8:35 indicates the origin of this pic, which appears to be a copy of the original.--

I meant the first pic in Tom's post at the very top of the page, Ex.

[narciso]

Btw, his signature bill, was about IG's autonomy, yet he forced out at least two of them, 'words just words'

[DebinNC]

Jim Pethokoukis tweeted March factory orders fall to lowest point in 3 years.

FORWARD

[narciso]

Some more lines from the Inlaws, that may be topical;

Sheldon: Six thousand a year tuition to listen to this.

Vince Ricardo: Just go with the flow, Shel, just go with the flow.
Sheldon: What flow? There isn't any flow.

Vince Ricardo: Sometimes I'm so smart I scare myself.

[Neo]

THE TRENCHES: Website Offers $10,000 to Anyone Who Provides Obama’s College Transcripts

[NK]

Imbedded in Clarice's link is the You Tube of Hitler Discovers Obama using Forward!Forward!. That is the 2nd best Hitler Discovers video I've ever seen.

[hit and run]

William:
A more appropriate campaign slogan for Obama would be "ME ME ME".

Obama 2012
Because You Can't Spell America Without 'Me' And 'I'

[NK]

Good ad from Romney-- Obama is a failure based on his own standard-- this reminds milions of Indies why they regret voting for Obama. Conservatives voting in 2012 who stayed home in 2008 would make this a 50/50 election-- Indies switching should make it a comfortable ABO win. http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/romneys-latest-web-ad_643076.html

[Jim Eagle]

Obama's first love.

Plus twitter is in a tither over if some of this contracdicts Dreams From My Father. I don't know since I have not read Dreams and have no intention to either.

[Extraneus]

I meant the first pic in Tom's post at the very top of the page, Ex.

So did I. Check the link at my 8:35. This looks like it might be the original that spawned the newer version up top, and included bonus Chinese characters for Forward! It will be featured at the Manifest Hope art gallery in DC during the DNC convention, where many of the ridiculous idol pics I linked are apparently displayed.

[rse]

Wow. If you haven't read BO's loyalty proclamation it is all about the communitarian vision for America where the individual is just raw material to meet the needs of others and especially the State.

Was going through my notes from yesterday this morning in light of what I know and can prove and feeling quite ill. Then that loyalty proclamation as the proverbial cherry on top. OMG. I am in the twilight zone with a roadmap out that will require more than a flak jacket for successful journeying.

I was thinking about this yesterday and today and it also pertains to the fools comment above. So many never learned the pertinent history in their own course of study or were deliberately taught things that are not so and have a tragic history they are unaware of. They are now the policy makers and they push ideas they do not really understand and all parrot the same mindless talking points. Most people become persuaded of the need for change by the sheer ubiquity of the common assault.

jib-Cambridge

[Janet]

So the girl in Dreams is identified?
from JiB's link -

"Obama was the central character in his letters, in a self-conscious way, with variations on the theme of his search for purpose and self-identity."

[Davod]

Loyalty to country or person.

[Jim Eagle]

rse,

Cambridge Education, right?

Not much to do with them since we didn't do schools or campuses but we did advise governments on infrastructure, regional planning, etc. and Cambridge came up a few times. Mostly 3rd world - Africa, S. E. Asia IIRC.

[rse]

Wouldn't it be accurate to describe MM as a preferred vendor to statists?

[NK]

JiB-- I thought I'd never say the words thanks for the link to Vanity Fair (ugh!), but thanks. I had a shock reading that this 'Bam girl moved to Park Slope in the 1983 or so time frame, and then moved to Warren Street in 1985. I lived one block from Warren Street 1984-1990-- in Cobble Hill-- so 'Bam was in my 'hood!! But the more interesting point is, in 1983-1985 the main cultural group in the heart of the Slope where this girl lived was Lesbian country. The more militant types in the Lesbian community did not want to hang with the gay guys in the Village, they wanted their own place-- Park Slope. It was a veritable alumnae association of the single sex girls colleges like Smith College. THIS GIRL went to Emma Willard prep school? did she go to Barnard? THIS GIRL lived in the Slope at THAT time? Oh please. The 'Bam mosaic is coming together-- those ChiTown rumors about 'Bam are looking more and more true.

[Ranger]

Vince: You know, I'm such a good driver, it amazes me that they took away my license.

(Sorry if the exact wording is wrong, just doing it from memory.)

[AliceH]

When I refresh this page, a horizontal white line runs top to bottom of the first rising-sun image, a la Max Headroom. Anyone else see that? Is that a sign I need to upgrade my hardware, or something more sinister?

[Jane (Better a crate than a plate)]

I don't think that sort of attitude is going to sit well with the self-indulgent occupiers. And, that is why I would not be surprised if they attempted to up the ante this year, to increase their visibility. And, the way to do that would likely seem to be with increased level of violence. If shitting on a car doesn't get enough attention, try blowing it up, etc.

I think that plan has been in place for quite a while. As has the race riot plan, and the rise of women plan.

My assumption is there will be lots of rumbling, and bad acts until late summer when everyone is scared to death and Obama will then heal the occupyers, and the race rioters, and the women. In October he will bring all the troops home from Afghanistan and declare the war over.

I believe that is his plan for re-election.

[pagar]

"March factory orders fall to lowest point in 3 years. "

But it was unexpected

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/adp-misses-big-prints-lowest-increase-september-manufacturing-jobs-post-shocking-decline

[Enlightened]

Hi JOMer's - For any of you computer pro's -
Besides Carbonite (wink) which online computer back-up Co. is the best?

Thanks!

[Captain Hate]

When I refresh this page, a horizontal white line runs top to bottom of the first rising-sun image, a la Max Headroom. Anyone else see that?

Yes

Is that a sign I need to upgrade my hardware, or something more sinister?

No, I think it's one of the irritating loveable bugs features of this POS fine software.

[Janet]

THIS GIRL went to Emma Willard prep school? did she go to Barnard? THIS GIRL lived in the Slope at THAT time? Oh please.

NK, she is probably a friend who agreed to be the mysterious girl in the book.
I wish some reporter had asked Obama about "the girl" before this story.