President Obama should just join the cast of "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!" It's not that farfetched; he's been on everything else.
I'm still a fan, but there's a fine line between being transparent and being overexposed. Every time you turn on the TV, there's Obama. He's getting a puppy! He's eating a cheeseburger with Joe Biden! He's taking the wife to Broadway and Paris -- this is the best season of "The Bachelor" yet!
I get it: You love being on TV. I love my bong, but I take it out of my mouth every once in a while. The other day, I caught myself saying to a friend, "Don't tell me if he's fixed the economy yet, I'm Tivo-ing it."
Remember during the campaign when John McCain attacked Obama for acting like a celebrity and we all laughed at the grumpy old shellshocked fool? Well, it turns out he was right. Sorry, senator. I'm sending a nice gift basket of high-fiber muffins your way.
It's getting to where you can't turn on your TV without seeing Obama. Who does he think he is, Dick Cheney? Come on, sir, you don't have to be on television every minute of every day. You're the president, not a rerun of "Law and Order." Save some charisma for a rainy day. Taking strangers from a TV show on a tour of your house? We have that show; it's called "Cribs." And letting reporters ask you questions like "You like to be the one who picks out the shaving cream, don't you?" Or as it's called today, "journalism." I was willing to give the guy the benefit of the doubt until I saw him take Brian Williams into his bedroom, and at the end of the bed there was a teleprompter and it said, "Who's your daddy?" :lol
I mean, selling the personal part to stay popular, I'm all for it, but you got us already. We like you, we really like you! You're skinny and in a hurry and in love with a nice lady. But so's Lindsay Lohan. And like Lohan, we see your name in the paper a lot, but we're kind of wondering when you're actually going to do something.
I know that's harsh. But when I read about how you sat on the sidelines while bailed-out banks used the money we gave them to hire lobbyists who got Congress to stop homeowners from getting renegotiated loans, or how Congress is already giving up on healthcare reform, or how scientists say it's essential to reduce CO2 by 40% in 10 years, but your own bill calls for 4%, I say, enough with the character development, let's get on with the plot.
And let's stop worrying so much about doing anything that might tarnish the brand. See, this is why I don't want my president to be a TV star: Because TV stars are too worried about being popular -- and too concerned with getting renewed.
You can relax about that, Mr. President, knowing that there's a large, rich organization doing everything it possibly can to ensure that you'll get reelected: It's called the Republican Party.
Speaking of which, if you can't beat Republicans now, when they're so down they take orders from Rush Limbaugh, then when? The way to get renewed for your reality show that you love so much is to act boldly now.
Obama needs to start putting it on the line in fights against the banks, the energy companies and the healthcare industry. I never thought I'd say this, but he needs to be more like George W. Bush. Bush was all about, "You're with us or against us."
Obama's more like, "You're either with us, or you obviously need to see another picture of this adorable puppy!"
Bush had horrible ideas, like torture and deregulation and preemptive war and tax cuts for the rich, but he pushed them through, in their full measure, never mind Congress or the Constitution or the Geneva Convention or the Magna Carta or the Code of Hammurabi.
The point is, he didn't care if it made him unpopular with every human on the planet not named Cletus or Fred Barnes. Which it did.
And we need to marry the good ideas Obama really believes in with that Bush attitude and Bush certitude. I'd love for Obama to come out one day and say, "Jesus told me to fix healthcare." Or, "History will decide whether stopping the polar ice caps from melting and drowning us all was a good thing."
In conclusion, Bush was a jerk, but he never cared about being seen having a burger with Dick Cheney. He picked up the phone in the White House and said, "I'm the president, bring me a burger." And they'd say, "Sir, this is NORAD. Would you please stop ordering burgers with the red phone?"
I'm glad that Obama is president, but the "Audacity of Hope" part is over. Right now, I'm hoping for a little more audacity.
06-13-2009
boutons_deux
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
It looks like Magik Negro ain't gonna deliver the goods.
If he doesn't get a public health insurance plan, his Presidency is finished.
100s of $Ms of health-profit corps, and their Congressional whores, will kill the it, proving yet again that the USA is now run exclusively for the profits of the corps and not For The People.
06-13-2009
johnsmith
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
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Originally Posted by boutons_deux
It looks like Magik Negro ain't gonna deliver the goods.
Racist.
06-13-2009
DarrinS
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
Maher seems to want Obama to address health care and global warming the most -- two issues that are the least of our problems, IMO.
06-13-2009
jack sommerset
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
That was funny. He has been slowly getting to this the last few weeks. He hits Obama with a jab here and there and last night he gave him a right hook. Give Maher credit. No matter how much Obama fucks up and has lied to our country the Obama supporters back him. I'm glad he brought up "date night" That was so ridiculous. You tell the truth and say spending hundred of thousands of dollars is fucking a waste of money on "date night" some idiots will come back and say "he can't do anything" hahaha People act like Obama is Bill Gates rich. Nope. He thinks he is now because he is President but truth is that is our money not his. Maher called him out on his TV time. I wonder how the left wingers will handle this. Not alot they can do with this guy. 3 1/2 years left of this nonsense.
06-13-2009
Wild Cobra
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
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Originally Posted by DarrinS
Maher seems to want Obama to address health care and global warming the most -- two issues that are the least of our problems, IMO.
Think about it. They are the issue that will be the worse of our problems if they succeed in getting them implemented!
Hasn't it been obvious that President Obama is undermining this nation?
06-13-2009
George Gervin's Afro
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
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Originally Posted by jack sommerset
That was funny. He has been slowly getting to this the last few weeks. He hits Obama with a jab here and there and last night he gave him a right hook. Give Maher credit. No matter how much Obama fucks up and has lied to our country the Obama supporters back him. I'm glad he brought up "date night" That was so ridiculous. You tell the truth and say spending hundred of thousands of dollars is fucking a waste of money on "date night" some idiots will come back and say "he can't do anything" hahaha People act like Obama is Bill Gates rich. Nope. He thinks he is now because he is President but truth is that is our money not his. Maher called him out on his TV time. I wonder how the left wingers will handle this. Not alot they can do with this guy. 3 1/2 years left of this nonsense.
:lmao
7 1/2 more years of jack bitching... I love it...
06-13-2009
boutons_deux
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
"undermining this nation"
"obvious" only to an ideological shill like yourself.
You remain vociferously silent about the criminal financial sector and the gouging health profit sector, both of which do perenially more damage than anything Magik Negro does.
06-13-2009
angel_luv
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
That was a well written and humorous article. Kudos to the author. :)
06-13-2009
johnsmith
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
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Originally Posted by boutons_deux
both of which do perenially more damage than anything Magik Negro does.
racist.
06-13-2009
ploto
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
Obama is just a personable guy who spends time with people and it gets on the news because he is the president. He began as a community activist- his community just got larger.
06-13-2009
ploto
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
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Originally Posted by angel_luv
That was a well written and humorous article. Kudos to the author. :)
Do you know anything about Bill Maher? He is about as far from being someone you would admire as possible. Common enemies do indeed make strange bedfellows.
06-13-2009
DarrinS
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
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Originally Posted by George Gervin's Afro
:lmao
7 1/2 more years of jack bitching... I love it...
More like 3½
06-13-2009
FaithInOne
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
Don't agree with what Maher wants for this country but at least he isn't being a pussy about party silent job alliance like weak TingleTingle.
Far left agenda simple does not work in the real world. Especially, ESPECIALLY, on this neocon pile of shit America is already buried under. I hope Obama takes Maher's adivce and gets pwned even faster.
Besides, Obama is already moving pretty damn fast.
U.S. President Barack Obama turned on the charm at an event in Wisconsin when an audience member told the president that his daughter Kennedy was missing school to come hear Obama speak about healthcare reform
06-13-2009
angel_luv
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
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Originally Posted by ploto
Do you know anything about Bill Maher? He is about as far from being someone you would admire as possible. Common enemies do indeed make strange bedfellows.
I do not know anything about Bill Maher other than this particular article of his was well written and humorous, as I said.
06-13-2009
FaithInOne
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
Basically he is a 5 foot tall man who looks like the troll dolls from the early 90s. He hates religious people with a passion. Even more so than Bush.
06-13-2009
Cry Havoc
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
It's amazing how much more obsessed with Obama the right wing is.
06-13-2009
angel_luv
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
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Originally Posted by FaithInOne
who looks like the troll dolls from the early 90s
:lol
Sounds frightening! :)
06-13-2009
sook
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
Darrins probably sneaks a pic of Obama under his pillow everynight and plays hot jerky when no one is looking.
06-13-2009
Viva Las Espuelas
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
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Originally Posted by Cry Havoc
It's amazing how much more obsessed with Obama the right wing is.
yeah. maher is a flaming conservative.
what a dolt.
06-13-2009
jack sommerset
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
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Originally Posted by Cry Havoc
It's amazing how much more obsessed with Obama the right wing is.
It's amazing you have nothing to say, just generalizations and stero-types about people and/or groups. I am starting to think u are someones troll.
Bill Maher is a lefty. This thread is about what he said not about the right wing and Obama. And this is what you bring to the table yet again. Why even bother I say.
06-13-2009
jack sommerset
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
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Originally Posted by FaithInOne
Basically he is a 5 foot tall man who looks like the troll dolls from the early 90s. He hates religious people with a passion. Even more so than Bush.
He likes black mamas too
06-13-2009
DarrinS
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
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Originally Posted by sook
Darrins probably sneaks a pic of Obama under his pillow everynight and plays hot jerky when no one is looking.
You must have me confused with one of these two guys
However, threads like, "OMG HE BOWED" or "ZOMG AN IPOD" make me violently ill with the stupidity being spewed. It does not exactly paint a picture of a group of people who are actually interested in talking politics.
I mean, an iPod thread goes 8+ pages? How does someone expect to be taken seriously in political discourse when many (not all, some of the rights are pretty awesome here) want to use an iPod as an excuse to bash Obama?
Please, by all means, let's have some serious discussions in here. I'd welcome it. But every time a thread like that is created, it makes me that much less willing to have an actual dialogue with ANYONE in this forum (not just those I disagree with).
I'm a moderate. The only reason I'm leaning left (ONLY in this forum, I should stress) is that the people claiming to be part of the right make comments that have no basis in logic or reality with frightening regularity. Yes, there is hypocrisy from both sides, but man.... I shake my head at the things some of the regular right-wing posters say.
On another forum, I might be split down the middle or even leaning to the right. There is very little chance here for that, from what I've seen.
06-13-2009
DarrinS
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
Keep in mind, the op ed in the OP was written by Bill Maher. As far as I know, he doesn't work for Fox News.
06-13-2009
ChumpDumper
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
So we should like Bill Maher now?
06-13-2009
DarrinS
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
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Originally Posted by ChumpDumper
So we should like Bill Maher now?
Well, you'll know that the shit has really hit the fan if Keith Olbermann wipes the excess Obama juice from his chin and starts to criticize Obama.
06-13-2009
ChumpDumper
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
It never makes any difference.
06-13-2009
DarrinS
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
Hurry up and socialize the country, damn it!
06-13-2009
ChumpDumper
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
You're really into this guy, eh?
06-13-2009
SnakeBoy
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
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Originally Posted by Cry Havoc
On another forum, I might be split down the middle or even leaning to the right. There is very little chance here for that, from what I've seen.
In other words, your deliberately being dishonest about your views but your upset that others aren't being totally honest or serious.
06-13-2009
DarrinS
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
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Originally Posted by ChumpDumper
You're really into this guy, eh?
At least he stands for his principles (that I don't happen to share) over his love for "the one".
06-13-2009
angrydude
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
Bill Maher has been the ugliest man on television for a long time now.
06-14-2009
Viva Las Espuelas
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
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Originally Posted by ChumpDumper
You're really into this guy, eh?
it's what the thread topic is , spoonfed, plus he obviously knows how to use the google.
06-14-2009
Cry Havoc
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
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Originally Posted by SnakeBoy
In other words, your deliberately being dishonest about your views but your upset that others aren't being totally honest or serious.
:lol
Not exactly. It just appears that I lean left on this forum because I get fed up with a lot of the posters from the right side. On a forum with a lot of idiotic left-wing members, I might appear to lean more to the right because I'd be calling them out for their shit. Got it?
And yes, the media's obsession with Obama is stupid, contrived, and completely unnecessary.
06-14-2009
SnakeBoy
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
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Originally Posted by Cry Havoc
Got it?
Yeah I got it the first time. I was just being a smart ass. I got kicked off the Team Sarah forum for fucking with them so I know what you mean. I was too liberal for them.
06-14-2009
Cry Havoc
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
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Originally Posted by SnakeBoy
Yeah I got it the first time. I was just being a smart ass. I got kicked off the Team Sarah forum for fucking with them so I know what you mean. I was too liberal for them.
:lmao
Well said, sir. :lol
06-14-2009
ChumpDumper
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
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Originally Posted by Viva Las Espuelas
it's what the thread topic is , spoonfed, plus he obviously knows how to use the google.
You're really into me, eh?
06-14-2009
boutons_deux
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
"media's obsession with Obama is..."
.. as always, is dicated by the $$$ the media can make selling ads. Obama is their $$$ vehicle.
If Magik Negro weren't bringing in the eyeballs for the advertizers, media wouldn't be showing him.
06-15-2009
johnsmith
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
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Originally Posted by boutons_deux
"media's obsession with Obama is..."
.. as always, is dicated by the $$$ the media can make selling ads. Obama is their $$$ vehicle.
If Magik Negro weren't bringing in the eyeballs for the advertizers, media wouldn't be showing him.
racist.
06-15-2009
LnGrrrR
Re: Enough with the Obamathon
Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
"media's obsession with Obama is..."
.. as always, is dicated by the $$$ the media can make selling ads. Obama is their $$$ vehicle.
If Magik Negro weren't bringing in the eyeballs for the advertizers, media wouldn't be showing him.
True. Most media today are just more-acceptable/respected tabloid. Every once in a while a paper will come out with actual news, but a lot of it is BS.
