Because the 2010 elections are over, and the only part of politics that exists is campaigning, we have all moved our attention to the presidential election of 2012. Yes, being president is mostly a ceremonial position, and those who hold that job do not do any silly things like “institute and enforce policies” or “sign laws;” the whole point of being president is the getting-elected part. We already have some exciting contenders like Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney and the entire Republican Party. But many observers have overlooked another individual who seems to be very interested in being president of the United States: a fellow named Barack Obama. Is it possible this man will soon announce his candidacy for the job?
But somebody at the Washington Post noticed this too!
President Obama and Vice President Biden will visit a Chrysler transmission plant here Tuesday afternoon, a trip that the administration is billing as part of its “White House to Main Street” effort to highlight economic progress and tout the back-from-the-brink success of the automobile industry.
But with Republicans flexing their newfound power in Washington and gaming out their 2012 prospects, and the White House ready to put top political players back in campaign mode, it is hard not to see this visit as an opening argument for 2012.
Let’s look at the facts:
- This man is already referring to himself as “President Obama.” That may seem a bit presumptuous, but it helps voters envision him in the role.
- It appears, from hints in various press releases, that Obama will tap a man known as “Biden” as his vice-presidential nominee. We don’t know who this man is, if “Biden” is his first or last name or just a codeword, or why Obama would feel the need to appoint him to the role so early in the race. Would “Biden” help Obama shore up the base in the primaries?
- Obama acquired a private 747 less than two years ago, and has been crossing the country in mock campaign stops ever since in what looks like a dry run for 2012. The name of the plane? “Air Force One” — the same name as the plane used by other United States presidents.
- Sources say Obama has already assembled a team of military, economic, and diplomatic advisors to prepare him for a run and potentially serve in similar roles in a future administration. Obama is also said to have chosen a number of key allies to serve in a presidential cabinet.
- According to government sources, Obama commands a paramilitary group of almost 1.5 million members that is known to possess advanced weapons technologies capable of mass destruction. If he is not elected in 2012, or if the election results in a drawn-out recount, he could conceivably attempt the nation’s first coup d’etat.
Yep, that guy is probably running for president. You probably heard it here first! But will he or won’t he? Will he or won’t he?! WILL HE OR WON’T HE?!?!?!?! [WP]
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That's ridiculous. America would never vote for a black man to be President.
I would hope not. That would change everything.
The second term would be the white half.
You win the day with that one.
He ran as Barack, and will now run as Barry. The first guy was the good cop, this next guy'll be the bad one. In my dream the second term will be one of his eternal foot wedged in the collective, overweight ass of the GOP.
Thanks,
Exactly, since day one I've always wanted him to get past the OTP thing and put some style and substance into the American Presidency. Without being obseqious, I truly believe this guy can redirect the whole political climate. I already like the fact that they can't stand the thought of him being in the WH. Imagine their level of stupidity if he gets that 2nd term.
Does he have a long form birth certificate?
Will they still call it the "White House"?
…and will they grow watermelons on the front lawn?
It's a temporary condition. Can you dig it?
The only way you can become Preznit in the new 21st century is work for Faux News, have entitlement issues, get fat, act stupid, have your own "reality" show and let your own kids run wild and free… and be white.
Otherwise, forget it.
Heavy emphasis on the "White" part.
So pretty much the same things that keep you out of prison?
Si, senor. Si. Tambien.
Grifting to the White House.
…one media appearance at a time. Grifting is a hard-ass job, dontcha' know.
Fact: Barack Obama has served less than 2 years of his presidency.
Fact: Sarah Palin served 2 1/2 years as Governor of Alaska.
Ergo: Sarah Palin is more qualified to be president than Barack Obama.*
*Note: this assesment is subject to change if Sasha or Malia become contestants on on American Idol, or if Barack Obama records a reality TV Show called Barack Obama's Kenya.
You'll think it silly, but I think a Bill Wyman type situation, one of the Jonas Brothers shacking up with Malia, would goose the President's appeal with blue-collar voters.
Actually, get Malia on Glee and have her sing a jaunty tune, and this thing is in the bag.
Or, "Dancing with the Africans", formerly known as "Soul Train".
Wasn't that one of Bristol's routines???
Don't know, I only watch for the sexual content, which is absent with Bristol for me….Jiggly fat thighs are a turn-off in my twisted little world.
At least he wasn't born in Panama like that McCain fellow.
Fucking panamanians trying to destroy america from the inside. Tell them all to go back to that protectorate they came from.
Today we are all reggaeton choruses.
What proof do you lieberals have that dear leader was even borned at all, anywhere? True fact: Nobama has spent trillions covering up the truth. No man of woman born, & etc.
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but it totally slays me that if the white Panamanian guy got elected, there would be no birthers.
I hear the '12 campaign staff is batting around campaign slogans, and so far, the leading candidate is, "Yes We Might Be Able To As Long As Republicans Stop Their Campaign of Obstructionism!"
"Don't teabag on me" might work too.
Or "Don't touch my teabag!"
"The rent's STILL too damn high"?
This might have broad appeal:
"Yes We Can Leave A Smoking Hole Where North Korea Used To Be."
"Theoretically, We Could"
"It's still all W's fault…" might do the trick.
"it's never too late to start all over again."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08BjRid6s4U
"…and it's okay with Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman."
"I Liked Ike, But that Obama Fellow Ain't Half Bad, Either."
"Yes…Mr. Boehner/McConnell."
"Eight More Years!"
"Tea Parties are for four-year-old girls, and angry, middle-aged white men."
"Once you go black, you can go back, but I wouldn't recommend it."
I'm bracing myself for twenty-three months of "Brak HOOOOOOSANE Osama" comments from all of my adult male relatives, beginning about thirty-six hours from now.
Your relatives must be a lot like the WaPo commenters on this article. My deepest sympathies.
Hunh, we may be related to the same
pack of retardsextended family. Mine are all but publicly spanking it to Sarah '12.His own 747? That must run like $200M/day…
So I guess that whole "change" meme was just lip serivce! Inform the TEA PARTY!
he's gonna kick meghan mccain's ass.
To be clear, though, this is not the sort of thing that requires precision targeting. Just swing your foot toward the gravitational pull is all.
but be careful the gravitational pull of the upper balcony doesn't interfere.
Ah, right, countervailing forces. But need we also take into account the black hole between the ears?
suck the chrome right off a trailer hitch.
And, what an ample and plush target he'll have. It'll be like kicking a semi-solid cloud.
"It is hard not to see this visit as an opening argument for 2012." Thanks, WaPo, for the editorial commentary masked in a third-person impersonal. I await similarly constructed sentences directed at Republicans:
"It is hard not to see the Tea Party as a bunch of insane racists."
"It is hard not to see Republican talking points as based on lies."
"It is hard not to see Sarah Palin as an ignoramus completely out of her depth."
"It's hard not to see WaPo as a dinosaur constructed of dead trees kept alive on an IV of proprietary school tuition."
Journamalism!
One thing that it is hard to see is Russia from some flim-flam artist's front porch.
"Flim-flam?" Remember Al Greenwood, the Bedspread King from Long Beach CA who used to be on the Daily Show? http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-june-7-1999...
Bring back the out-of-context Reverend Wright loop!
Can't wait for CNN's "Obama's Extremist Ties Touchscreen"
If he wins I hope he doesn't screw himself (& the country) by trying to 'reach across the aisle' to a bunch of assholes who will do everything (including let the country go broke) before being bipartisan.
Good luck, but it's not the time for an educated, calm manager to be in charge. We need the anti-Bush.
<del>Unfortunately, I doubt that the country is ready for an Angry Black Man as president. Maybe if we were attacked. Not that I'm wishing for people to die to satisfy my political hopes, I am not a republikunt.</del>
Screw that. That's what they want you to think. Get a range worked up. Go all Mike Tyson (before he got nice) on 'em. Scare the crap out of them.
Does he carry a billfold that has "BAD MOTHERFUCKER" written on it? Because that would be awesome.
That bad-ass Cadillac that got the euros all whiny is a good start
bite their ears off?
Barry is the anti-Bush. He is intelligent, non-impulsive and aware of the world of poop he has inherited. Unfortunately he is also surrounded by economic advisers that represent the smartest people in the room (full of assholes that sold the whole economic world down the river). If your advisers have a vested interest in letting Uncle Sucker pay for their fuckups and let them skate with the profits without paying taxes (or much in the way of taxes), you probably aren't going to get good advice.
The Washington Post is on top of all the breaking news, AND you get Sally Quinn's DWTS maundering and a diary of Bradlee family calendar disputes for no additional cost — it's a bargain!
It's just not the same since Howie Kurtz left.
I'm ordering my head-rag and leather-bound edition of the Koran, RIGHT FUCKING NOW!
If Obama had any ambition at all he would run for governor of Texas.
A Muslin run for President?!?!? Not in MY Amurikkka!
He'd better have a birth certificate. I don't vote for anyone without a long-form birth certificate stapled to their forehead and a second to their nads.
complete with fingerprints, toe prints and nad prints.
Is anything on the forehead the Mark of the Beast?
Only if it contains RFID or a topical fly repellent.
if he plans to run for president, he'd better quit his president job and get a tv show post-haste
But wait, wait. Some Democratic pollsters wrote this very thoughtful piece in the WaPo last week about how that Obama fellow has been nothing but a partisan hack who shouldn't run for a second term.
See all the partisanship and bickering is his fault and his alone! And, according to these wise political observers, because Obama's party lost seats in the midterm, like most presidents, he's lost the consent of the governed!
To do the right thing for AMERICA, these pollsters – Fox News paid commentators believe it or not – say Obama should give up pushing any of his policies. After he promises that, the GOP will compromise on everything, and we'll all live happily ever after.
Makes sense, no?
Did the article say if they slept completely through 2009?
With such a foreign sounding name he doesn't stand a chance of becoming president.
He's going to start spelling his name O'Bama and run as an Irish American.
from the Deep South.
No way! He's far too dark-complected.
What, never heard of the Black Irish?
But just think of how funny it would be if this guy won!
If he's going to run, he should abandon such infantile ideas like hope and change. We need someone with an adult and rational focus on the issues — like attacking Iran, privatizing Social Security and repealing the 17th Amendment.
And mature and time-tested economic ideas such as free markets and cutting taxes.
Don't forget extending tax cuts for the wealthy forever, erecting a 200 foot wall* from Tijuana to the Gulf of Mexico, and rolling back the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments as well.
*with towers and armed sentrymen located every 6 inches or so along the entire length of the border.
As Mrs. Radio always says, the wall would be to keep us inside.
Any chance of dumping Biden and getting Tina Fey? Just wondering.
i'd second that.
i'd hit it.
There's an app for that.
She's smarter and easier on the eyes, that's for sure.
Ha ha: 'In a memo obtained by FishbowlDC, WaPo’s Fred Hiatt said, “[Rubin's] provocative writing has become ‘must read’ material for news and policy makers and avid political watchers.”' Does anybody believe this shit?
And yet, she's kinda hot: http://www.deadlantern.com/2009/06/07/women-of-ho...
I think that photo is from here "labor and employment lawyer" years. These day, no skirt. Either.
As a swing voter who voted for a black man last time, I don't think I could vote for another one with all that FOX News and the radio says about all of the black Presidents we've had.
He looks like the kind of guy that would be putting his feet up on the furniture.
President: STILL available in black.
I think Obama should drop Joe as VP and replace him with his MIL.
Joe can then become the new president of Afghanistan….
Hey Meghan, just jiggle one boob for "you don't know", and jiggle two boobs for "you'll be totally wrong about that".
Does he have Executive Experience???
not much. he can send predator drones to attack muslins, but he can't do much about the predators and drones in congress.
That is most excellent.
Aren't Americans already tired of living under Sharia Law? Yeesh.
Wait till Karl Rove spreads the word around that he has TWO black daughters…
and regularly & unapologetically sleeps with a negress…
These strategies would fail, when pictures of his gorgeous & adorable black ladies surface in the media.
a negress he married in the church of Jeremiah Wright, to boot! Oh, th the scandal!
A negro? Oh, please.
Did he land Air Force One on Evan Bayh's house? If not, he is not running hard enough.
He should at least drop one of those frozen blue ice blocks full of dookie on him.
http://www.poopreport.com/BMnewswire/celestial_bl...
(PS – and please don't ask how I found this website. It was a google search, I swear. Also, I wouldn't navigate away from the linked page either. Just a warning.)
Brilliant. And, a whore-diamond for you.
What makes it even worse is Bayh is going to primary Obama not only for the fact Barry has proven to be "too black" for America but also due sour grapes. Remember the pre-selection Wonkette posts about possible Obama running-mates? Ol' Soft-wood was the favourite, but ended up by-passed for Foot in Mouth Joe.
I swear that's the reason Bayh was about an half-step behind Wario & Jowly Joe Liebermann in obstructing the health-care bill, stimulus, etc. Sure, he's also (quite) a bit right of Obama, but he's moreso a venal son of a bitch, & getting bumped from the ticket cut deep to Softy's pride.
In conclusion, sit & twirl, Soft-wood Bayh.
What a fucking jerk. I saw a clip of him on Hannity, totally stipulating to the Democratic Party's irrelevance as anything other than the moderate wing of the Tea Party, and stabbing the President/Leader of his own party in the back.
Indeed. & the canard of leaving the Senate for being "dissatisfied by being one of 100 voices, & not being heard" & returning to Indiana to "run for governor" is laughable on its face. Why would an egotist like Soft-wood go back to what he's already done?
As well, has no one considered it would be hard to primary somebody while an active Senator? I mean, Bobby Kennedy — somebody to whom Chris Matthews & the like still jack-off — didn't stay Attorney General when he decided to primary LBJ. (& you knew that shit was in the offing well before RFK went proto-Hillary & ran for NY Senate.)
It's coming, & it's going to be brutal. Remember the PUMAE & various other low-information, blue-collar, salt-of-the-earth whities, "the 19 million cracks in the glass ceiling"? Well, they have a new champion. But where Hillary at least had a modicum of seriousness, if not decency (I respect her, even more than Bill, but she's a conniver, sometimes), the only thing Soft-wood has in common with HRC is that she has a vagina & he is a vagina.
But, oh, ho, ho, we might still get a brokered convention out of Obama v. Soft-wood. (In which case, I hope neither gets nominated & the party moves to a compromise candidate, with name-recognition & a shit-kicking attitude (one that would have done Barry well, during the health-care debate) — Richard Daley.)
You have some vivid dreams there, horsey! Rich Daley has zero national footprint, is inarticulate, exhausted, and looked the other way while corruption happened on his watch. Wouldn't Hillary be more likely as a disaster-convention player?
Wait, before we start talking 2012, is he even qualifed to be Preznit? Doesn't it seem a little strange that nobody has looked into his background? If there's nothing to hid, then why are so many asking questions in all caps? Is he behind a liberal conspiracy to glue our caps lock keys down? WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!1!
Does this mean Barry wasn't a stalking horse for Rahm's White House run in 2012?
This Barack fellow ought to consider priming his run with a reality teevee series; hopefully one that's interesting enough that it doesn't lose half its viewers after the first week.
The rats are out of the bag. In fact it might be the return of Ben and I don't refer to Franklin.
1,000 Rescued Rats Up for Adoption in California
About 1,000 rats are awaiting adoption in California after being rescued from a house featured on the A&E reality TV show "Hoarders .http://www.newslook.com/videos/268710-1-000-rescued-rats-up-for-adoption-in-california?autoplay=true.
someone say cheese.
Jeb/Palin! I can almost smell the stupid.
And, after the third war, you get the fourth one free, I hear.
You elect a negro president and he's just gonna go and get hit by a train. And he'll take the poor cow and dog with him too.
Looks like it'll be a tough race for Hillary, but I think she can pull through – especially against a guy named Barack HUSSEIN Obama – geesh who came up with that tongue twister!
In the spirit of bipartisanship and compromise, in 2012 Barry will become a moderate Republican. No, wait. He’s already tried that.
Prediction for 2012: Mitt Romney/Chris Christie, one a son of a Mexican immigrant and the other a son of a bitch.
You heard it hear first. Thank you, thank you.
In 2007, I said, "No way America will elect a black man president."
In 2010-11, I'm saying, "No way America will elect a soulless, spiritually ugly harridan president."
Sincerely,
A soon-to-be expatriate
Hillary is too tied-up in the current administration. Plus, hers would be a definite victory for the PUMAE. & I say, "Fuck the PUMAE!"
I was thinking Daley for Prexy & Jim Webb for VP. Though, if I actually thought America would be willing to elect (another) articulate Yank, I'd say Sherrod Brown, with the Dem mayor of Salt Lake City (yes, they exist) as running-mate. (Bring the battle to the west, where elections will be won & lost, at least until the Boomers in the South, the last direct tether to Jim Crow, with at least residual race-mongering in all of them, start dying, regularly. Not that the Northeast is a picnic for the GOP, either.)
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