Here’s the Kenyan socialist Barack Obama talking about those people with the “I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK!!1!” signs. What is their problem, Barry?
Well, says the Professor, there has always been a strain of wingnuts going back in American history for a long time, like say after the Civil War, in the South. But the people with “legitimate concerns” will probably quit rallying once he gives them some more government benefits, maybe a new flat screen or something. [Talking Points Memo]
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Aw Barry, you’re so polite not calling them racist fucktarded dingleberries.
The primary “legitimate concerns” of the Baggers have to do with the legitimacy of Obama’s birth certificate.
Am I the only one who cannot connect to TPM at all this morning?
The baggers legitimately ask whether Barry is more like Stalin or Hitler.
Hopefully we will not one day be looking back on this video with wistful appreciation.
Oh, well this will definitely quiet them down. Because all they want is acknowledgement, and not to wipe “those types” off the face of the earth.
Oh man…these nutjobs are going to lose what’s left of their minds now.
He can’t win with this angle. The Baggers will see it as condescending and snide; the rest of us find it patronizing and a soft-pedal of the serious fuckin crazy. Obama must have taken the same sensitivity training that the too-cool-with-teh-bigotz C-Span guy did…
I think he means the ostensible concerns about debt and deficit and suchlike, which aren’t totally irrational, but as he and everyone else knows they’re just smokescreens for paranoid racists and corporate overseers. But he can’t say that, so he pretends some of them aren’t crazy racists.
[re=544407]Advocatus_Diaboli[/re]: You know who else had legitimate concerns?!
Using the words “Teabagger” and “legitimate” in the same sentence?
I shudder at the thought…
Amalgam!!!! Rearrange the letters and you get A Gammal! Gamal Nasser. Socialist, Communist, Botulist, Islamo-Fascist, Arab. Get your fuckin’ chalk board out, Beck.
Of course they have legitimate concerns, #1 being better schools that will prepare you to make signs that lack misspellings, random capitalization, poor grammar and inappropriate use of commas, apostrophes, and quote marks.
“condecending black motherfucker! Ahh! Make me look unreasonable!”
Well considering that teabaggers still don’t know that taxes have gone down, troop levels have surged, insurance industries have scored record profits, and healthcare reform will reduce the deficit by billions, there aren’t a lot of “legitimate concerns” I can see. Unless “right to own slaves” is back on the table.
Flyover country is full of Xtian militias squirreling away plastique for use during the END TIMES.
When will Obama listen to their legitimate concerns
Are you trying to tell me my fear of the gubment replacing Grandpappy’s coumadin with some kind of ecstasy-crack-pot-heroin pill is not legitimate?
How’s all that reasonable-y, intelligent-y stuff workin’ out for ya?
[re=544412]ForTheTurnstiles[/re]: And since when does the Today Show interview so many black people? Might as well change it’s name to The Today Black, also.
He’s trying to capture that rapidly narrowing have-yet-to-build-my-underground-bunker-with-food-and-guns demographic.
“I take this position based on my analysis of their signs, a full 42% of which did not contain racist slurs or words written in fake-blood font.”
[re=544427]ArkansasFred[/re]: “Fear?” Considering how long you yourself have been popping some of gramp’s pills on the side, I thought you’d be happy.
Ain’t a person in proud Murrica what doesn’t have a concern about the mounting debts and deficits et al et cetera, which is why Hopey’s talk seems a bit dis-in-gen-yew-us, here. What Hopey Hussein *meant* to say here was “Jesus ratfuck, y’all crazy niccaz been huffin’ RV fumes for so long you forget that we all together up in this shit, now would you KINDLY shut your pale, barely literate pieholes up so we can get around to fixin this shit, seriously go home because that gubmint job you want ain’t gonna create itselfs, okay it probably will but not with all y’all yammerin’, GO KENYA!” And then Rahm Emanuel jew’d and chicago’d up his REAL TALK and the teleprompter spit out the sass-free speech above. Brotha cain’t catch a break.
From the edited version of interview:
President: “Haha Mattie..these white cocknockers hate my black ass but they can suck the stink off of it for all I care cause’ I’ve had butsexx with most of their lardass wives while they were making asses out of themselves on my white fuckin’ house lawn.” “Excuse me, have you seen my prayer rug anywhere? “
This vid prompted a furball of disagreement on the WH strategy of playing nice v. playing mean. I think he’s playing it down the middle, but my mean side thinks, “Man, what a pussy.” Homo conflictus.
[re=544438]Guppy06[/re]: My fear is that he will borrow all of my Boards Of Canada records and never return them.
I remember the days when the word “lunatic” always prefaced the word “fringe.”
[re=544407]Advocatus_Diaboli[/re]: You’re ignoring those with “legitimate concerns” (lyin’ African vs. The Joker).
Did you notice he spoke with a smile on his face?
That would hurt the teabaggins more than the govmint trying to take their guns away.
[re=544443]ArkansasFred[/re]: Aha! According to Wikipedia: “Lunatic fringe is a term used to characterize members of a usually political or social movement espousing extreme, eccentric, or fanatical views. It was coined by the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), to marginalize American anarchists.” Perfect!
[re=544425]Potater[/re]: Their biggest legitimate concern is not with Obama, but Reagan, who shut down the insane asylums, so that the teabaggers are stuck out on the streets where they are a risk to both themselves and others, instead of safely kept away and getting the treatment they so clearly need.
[re=544447]Hutch[/re]: And Teddy was, as we all know, the first Marxist Kenyan Totalitarian president.
Oh, Hopey, no! Do not talk to these people, do not be nice to these people, do NOT even make eye contact with these people. By saying “legitimate concerns,” you might think you are addressing worried citizens but what they are going to hear is “See, he as good as admitted he has a Kenyan birth cert.”
Leave them alone, let them eat themselves…
[re=544443]ArkansasFred[/re]: Meant to reply to myself [blush]. Sorry AR Fred.
Unfortunately he’s wrong about the mix — it’s not some crazy people and some reasonable people, it’s people, each with a mix of crazy shit and reasonable stuff. Unfortunately, once the reasonable stuff gets on track, the same people will still want the crazy shit. They’ll also refuse to believe the reasonable stuff is changing — why? Because it reinforces their need for the crazy shit. Denial is a powerful weapon.
[re=544422]PsycGirl[/re]: don’t you mean schols?
I’m trying to find a word approach that will cause them to turn red for a minute, then fall on the ground and turn blue, kind of like when people experience a vein in their head bursting open and filling their cranium with intense pressure… Like a stroke, kind of.
I know there is an approach that will accomplish this. They’re ready. I can see it.
Just remember Hopey, wingnutz are people too.
Annoying, loud, RV owners, dim, possibly inbred, but none the less, people.
Being still pissed off about losing the Civil War is not a legitimate complaint.
If these people can tie their shoes and zip up their zippers after peeing then they are doing all right.
[re=544418]coolcatdaddy[/re]:
Teabggers cause mainstream legislators legitimate concern for their safety. Fixed.
[re=544462]Jumping Jim[/re]: If they can remember to unzip them zippers first also helps. And not to piss on them shoes, untied or what have you.
[re=544412]ForTheTurnstiles[/re]: The Baggers will see it as condescending and snide
Nah. They’re not that perceptive.
I prefer Wyatt Cenac’s response.
[re=544457]Dolmance[/re]: I think Obama did a pretty good job at prompting bile-filled veins to pop. He maintained a jaunty demeanor even as he talked about a group brimming with good folks who want to lynch him (although he perhaps could have added a tiny bit moar FDR-like enragingly mirthful dismissiveness). Also, he used the word “strain” — which connotes disease and paranoia. Also too, he did all this while providing them with absolutely nothing that they could profitably object to.
[re=544457]Dolmance[/re]:
How about:
“Congratulations, you got the job. You start on Monday. And don’t forget to sign those health insurance forms on the way out. We want to make sure you and your family are covered!”
[re=544397]ManchuCandidate[/re]: He doesn’t have to, he’s got us to do it for him.
Seriously, I love how frickin’ reasonable he is. After all the screaming and cursing and bullshit, he’s still sitting there saying well yes, these people have concerns and they are all very legitimate and interesting, I’m hopeful they will see that we are addressing those concerns and working on the problems. He’s like a parent letting a child throw a tantrum for as long as it takes to wear itself out. It will just make them nuttier and more unreasonable that they are not getting anywhere with him. Totally awesome.
Djy’all see those two Randian intellectuals’ “mainstream, legitimate concerns” on that clip from Larry King? It’s so mainstream I think the dems will need to remind the voters of it over & over again this fall….
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/3/30/852351/-Tea-Party-Leaders:-Repeal-social-security!-Larry-King:-Wha!
They agree that there shouldn’t be soc sec & then argue that the main problem w/ HCR is that it will ruin soc sec! classic. That’s what happens when no intellectual curious or honest person wants to be affiliated with you. As Rev. Wright said: “The chickens have come home to roost.”
The NYT made a good point in its story about the ‘baggers all being unemployed losers. Once the economy rebounds, either naturally or in response to a jobs program, the ‘tards will be too busy working at Walmart to attend the death marches. Barry knows this and this is why he will be pushing for a new stimulus package.
That was rather uppity. And articulate. And he looked quite clean.
“Don’t call me ‘stupid!’”
If only Kevin Klein’s charater in A Fish Called Wanda had weighed 400 lbs, they’d have a mascot.
Look, some people have legitimate concerns about whether he puts his feet on the desk.
[re=544513]imissopus[/re]: I’m with you. This is just Hopey patiently reminding all a sundry in the room that he is the intelligent, mature grownup. And by “grownup,” I mean “socialist muslin kenyan.”
C’mon Hopey, fling some of that poo back! It’ll be fun!
Acknowledging the existence of racist teabaggery is such an icky conundrum for this guy. Extraordinary, historic Presidency and yet he is forced to take mental comfort in the fact that he is simply another American President in a long line of American Presidents attempting to maintain some likability while effectively governing a country full of in-bred yokels.
[re=544555]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Yeah, how hard do you think it was for Barry not to end his answer with an “and if they don’t like it, they can suck my big, black dick. The one your daughters call Mr. Hopey when they blow me after a town hall meeting.”
Ok, let me get this straight. Obama went to Afghanistan, he appointed 15 new political appointees (kicking the GOP in the balls), he just signed the biggest Student aid reform in 40 years, and he’s all over the teevee doing interviews. There’s no way a man can do all that in 2 days.
I legitimately concerned that there’s more than one Obama.
WHERE ARE THE OBAMA CLONES?!?!
Dubya spent 487 days of vacation during his terms working on his brush at the ranch like a real American, so we know he was uncloned and human. NOBAMA has clones.
I believe this movie starred Cleavon Little.
the only “legitimate question” for the teabaggers is “do i look fat in these jeans”.
yes, you do.
On the bright side, he did manage to make Bible Spice and her comment to Chris Wallace on Faux Noise Sunday look even more retarded.
“Yes, they have legitimate concerns.” vs. “We’re tired of being told to sit down and shut up.”
I think in a round-a-bout way, he told you to STFU.
Yeah, let’s take these mainstream teabagger concerns like there not being a B-L-A-K phone line for CSPAN real seriously.
What, because “eat a bag of lightly salted rat dicks” isn’t Presidential enough for the ‘baggers?
What Barry doesn’t mention is the proportion of the parts it is divided between….5% legitimate concerns, 95% bat-shit crazy fear of uppity negroes.
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