Wonkette
When Chuck Todd asked President Obama about why he didn’t want Americans to “sacrifice” in the new War on the Economy, maybe he was just subtly hinting that the president himself ought to make some sacrifices, such as not going out and partying like a fool every night of his life. This new president insists on going to basketball events and restaurants and even the occasional fancy dance performance, with his children, no less, which means he should be fired.
Presumably, he takes his beloved teleprompters with him on all his hedonist junkets, otherwise how else could he banter with the rabble he encounters courtside?
Americans love the idea of the common man in a position of political power. (Think Jimmy Stewart in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.”) But they can also lose some respect if a politician seems too familiar. (Think Jimmy Carter in his cardigan.)
“Every once in a while it’s great, but there’s a chance of overexposing yourself socially,” said Bradley A. Blakeman, a former aide to President George W. Bush. “People scratch their heads and say, “Doesn’t the president have other things to do, especially in a crisis?’ ”
Yeah, for serious! At least George Bush had the decency to just quietly clear the shrubbery around his ranch house, alone, in hundred-degree heat, whenever an international crisis arose.
Also this informative article features this hilarious tidbit:
Mrs. Obama and her staff also visited Miriam’s Kitchen, a soup kitchen, where the first lady bumped into Bill Richardson, a 46-year-old homeless man.
Ha ha, it is awesome that a homeless person shares a very common name with this other guy, who was nominated for Commerce Secretary! Or … is it the same man???
Could It Really Be Him? Yeah, Probably [New York Times]
…I “overexposed myself socially” once and I got the restraining order to prove it!
Perhaps Barry should take up golf so that he could give it up for the economy.
OMG, the Prez went to Five Guys? I LOVE Five Guys. This totally seals my vote for him in 2012.
Seriously, when will you silly Americans cotton on to the fact that your real President is Rahm Emanuel?
Ah, Bill Richardson. How the mighty have fallen. But how did Michelle bump into him? Was it a hockey move with those bare arms of hers? Maybe a hip check? We need some serious media to cover this shit.
Crisis? I thought the Depression was over.
…“Mrs. Obama and her staff also visited Miriam’s Kitchen, a soup kitchen, where the first lady bumped into Bill Richardson, a 46-year-old homeless man.”
Those damn New Mexicans are always looking for a handout!
On the one hand, Murricans love a preznident that’s just like them.
But on the other hand, he can be to accessible, and they don’t like that.
So Obama’s fucked no matter what he does, in the opinion of Bradley A Blakeman, a “former aide to President Bush” — surely the saddest claim to expertise ever.
Methinks the media is growing tired of its new black friend.
If only Obama would surround himself with those brilliant Bush aides, he would understand how to achieve that Bush perfection.
That Bill Richardson was not truly homeless. He didn’t have a phone.
WE COULD HAS A BALENSED BUJET IF NOOOOOBAMA AND MISHELL WERNT OUT PARTYNG WIHT OUR MONIES ALL TEH TIME! ITS LIKE ONE BIG EARMARK (!!) FOR THERE FUN GUD-TIMES CONSERTS WITH STEVY WUNDER . . . AND ACORN?!?!
Chuck Todd’s just pissed because nobody gives a flying fuck was Chuck Todd does.
He tweets to no one, and no one cares.
V572625694:
Being a former aide to President Bush is like winning the Special Olympics.
I’m surprised this guy didn’t request, no, DEMAND that Barry take 100 days of vacation a year. That would show the people that he’s SERIOUS about being Preznit.
…“Mrs. Obama and her staff also visited Miriam’s Kitchen, a soup kitchen, where the first lady bumped into Bill Richardson, a 46-year-old homeless man.”
What is it with wingers and all the fisting and bumping, and I’m to assume that by “homeless man” this asshat means “brown skinned”.
shanemacgowan: Maybe, but he did apparently have 25 cents to call his Mom, who seems to have her own phone. Kathryn Jean Lopez isn’t going to like this one bit.
Chuck is just pissy he hasn’t seen him at the Bronski Beat Night at his local gehz nightclub.
We need more republican family values in the white house. I mean meth using, knocked up teenager kind of family values
Internally valid: WHATEVZ EVERBODY NOOS TAT.
jagorev: All Hail the Rahm!!! Truly, he is the SHIT!
Canuckledragger: Chuck Todd is summoning the Fail Whale.
“Doesn’t the president have other things to do, especially in a crisis?’”
Alternate between that and the “Obama is trying to do too much” meme. Don’t worry if this makes no sense whatsoever. Assity’s viewers will not notice.
Srsly, if I had just bitch-slapped Ed Henry that good, I would give myself the next day off.
magic titty: Wow, that’s like, a year or something! A new record!
America: ’tis a silly place.
prizepig: Or worse yet, losing the Special Olympics.
prizepig: Try winning the bronze at the special olympics.
THIS IZ PRUF THAT NOBAMA IZ A SOCSHULIST!
Canuckledragger: He tweets to no one, and no one cares. Poetry.
“I was expecting some lunch, but this is the president’s wife; this is her right here,” said Mr. Richardson, who said he planned to get to a phone as soon as he could. “I’m going to be like, ‘Mom, you’re never going to guess who I’ve seen.’ ”
What no cell phone, Richie Rich?
Is it wrong for me to say that I am glad that we once again have a President who can drink a beer? In public?
“Mr. Fenty said it was the president who suggested lunching at Ben’s Chili Bowl, a well-known black-owned restaurant. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington’s delegate to Congress, said Mrs. Obama suggested lunch at B. Smith’s, also black-owned, a Southern-style restaurant near the Capitol.”
it seems wonkette has missed the real story here; the obamas are obvious racists! as evidenced by this especially damning tidbit, the obamas have apparently been frequenting establishments owned by other negroes, and only socializing with other negroes. do they crave special negro foods? nah, they obviously just want to make other black muslin communists rich. methinks black people’s secret plot to take over the world has been revealed. uh oh.
Canuckledragger: and that Obama is also youngish and handsome and could pull more tail than Tuck Chodd has brain-cells to employ in his thrice-daily masturbatory fantasy life…
sarcasticusername: “Lord Obama, it seems that the pasty pink devils have stumbled across our plan to liberate the Black Muslin Socialists of the World. I suggest we move ahead with ‘Operation Kill Whitey’”…
Formerly Preferred: Was it Muslin European beer, Meshican brew or tastes-like-shit ‘Merican stuff. That’s the real question.
Ever see Ben and B. Smith together? No, because it takes a shitload of WELFARE checks to own 2 black-owned restaurants. MARK MY WORDS! ACORN EATS THERE 4 FREE.
Hey, I’m just thrilled we have an honest-to-goodness boozer in the White House! Yes! Ever since Inauguration Night when he was stumbling on Michelle’s high heels during their 47th “first dance of the evening”, I’ve been waiting for the television ads selling the Official United States Barack Obama Commemorative Beer Bong (made in the Marshall Islands.) It’s too bad he’s probably swilling something all elitist like Bell’s Two-Hearted Ale instead of hobo favorite Steel Reserve High Gravity Malt Liquor!
Beer, chili, burgers - The prez is gonna be a big fat fucker soon.
arclight: It sounds like you missed out on the special edition “44″ bottle of Hennesey to commemorate Obama’s inaugural. Or maybe it was only for us Negroes.
randomsausage: There mothers are hampsters and their fathers stink of elderberries! I fart in their general direction!
randomsausage: C’mon, we now make the best beer in the world - Belgians come here to drink. But I would worry about B Smith’s influence - I used to work on her website and she crazy!
W was pilloried for not asking Americans to sacrifice something. I never understood why that was such a sin. As if we’d do what he asked anyhow. Is this going to be the new “what did you know and when did you know it” question? I’d like to make a sacrifice — I’ll sacrifice some media types over a hot fire.
superfecta: all the big US-brands are run by wing-nuts and their beer is shit! I remember my friend (now reformed) worked for The Heritage Institute back in the 80s and he came home with a T-shirt: “Coors: They didn’t name him Adolph for nothing”.
Yeah, probably some good local brews out there but national beer brands in USA smell like ass. Belgian beer is for alcoholic monks. Germany is beer heaven - I hope Barry goes there soon and drops a couple of Bitburgers with Angela.
V572625694: Which is why no one pays attention to the papers anymore. Brad Blakeman is a rightwing hack, on MSNBC all summer as a republican “strategist” saying the stupidest, most dishonest poop. WaPo, for shame.
TexasCowGirl: It probably was! That’s too bad, too, because I would’ve been all up in that! Invite me to the next party! I swear I will make for good entertainment! PRETTY PLEASE?
you mean Brad Blakeman-the same repuke who complained about hopey going to see his gramma
on a plane that burned too much gas and was paid for wit contribution dough-and then gramma dies a week later? Fuck off son! If this isnt the biggest crumsnatcha and ballhuffer I dont know who is.