Here is President Barack Obama trying to speak to a couple of dopey Tea Party screechers after a town hall meeting in Iowa, which is notable mostly because Obama’s calm, collected response seems to imply he believes teabagger nitwits can hear sounds that register below 120 decibels. Sorry, Obama, you will need to add a lot more blood-curdling screams if you want to hit wavelengths they can detect. “Calm indoor-voice response” hovers on their scale somewhere between the sound of light traveling through empty space and the dainty fluttering of Marcus Bachmann’s eyelashes. So there’s that. Second, what are they even yelling about? “Joe Biden called us names!” Sorry, Dad, you’ll have to explain this again:
From USA Today:
Ryan Rhodes, a group leader in the Hawkeye State, stood up and shouted a question during a town hall, asking the president how he can call for more civility when “your vice president is calling people like me, a Tea Party member, a ‘terrorist.’”
Obama, who had not called on the man, said the town hall wouldn’t work “if you just stand up when I asked everybody to raise their hand. … I didn’t see you. I wasn’t avoiding you. … Please.”
After calling another person, Obama circled back to address Rhodes’ question: “First of all, in fairness to this gentleman who raised a question, I absolutely agree that everybody needs to try to tone down the rhetoric.
“Now, in fairness, since I’ve been called a socialist who wasn’t born in this country, who is destroying America and taking away its freedoms because I passed a health care bill, I’m all for lowering the rhetoric.”
Come on, Obama, don’t waste your “good points” on these guys. [USA Today]
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TBaggers need thicker skin.
they don't have skin, they're raw
They haz scales, but not ones that are noteworthy.
Their scales are made of santorum. Strong in the ick, weak in the protection.
They don't seem to have a problem, as the Prez pointed out, dishing it out. So while they're telling everyone else to quit whining and get over it, it's OK for them to curl into little fetal balls of pink-ribboned girliness and snivel over a well-earned term? But also OK for them to cut gas lines at the house of a BROTHER of a lawfully elected representative? Or threaten another with death and dismemberment via telephone messages? I'm not getting this "thick skin" business at all.
They need thicker brains.
Rather than the thicker skulls they do have.
I was going to suggest really thick wool blankets, wrapped all around their pointy heads, held in place with a roll of duct tape.
They need
thickerbrains.FIFY, NNTT
Well, they've got the thicker heads, so there's that…
From what I've seen, I sort of thought most of them already had an excess of skin.
Oh, those folds? Those folds are fat-lined skin, you know, like ducks and chickens have. From eating too many meals a day.
I thought they had a porous paper outer layer.
Fiery? Someone needs to get out more.
If the conservatives had skin that was any thinner they'd bruise in a stiff breeze.
It IS thin, due to stretching over all that fat.
nice return volley though.
"Hobbit": entirely acceptable.
Insult to perfectly good Hobbits. Hobbit Anti-Defamation Engagement Squad on line 2!
I see what you did there.
Fucktard and asswipe would also work.
No way!. The hobbits were the heroes in that story.
They wouldn't have talked this way to Ronald Reagan.
Not unless they were trying to impress Jodie Foster, no.
or RANDOLPH SCOTT!
Well natch…it would be hard for anyone to talk with a mouthful of Gipper cock.
There wasn't enough for a mouthful.
because, um yeah, he was white.
Come on! You have to warn us before we play a Greta Van Jawbroken video!
Seriously. I was not at all ready for that either.
yeah what's up with that jaw??
I didn't see a flag pin on the tea bagger. Epic fail.
Not part of the uniform since black Muslims started wearing them.
And it clashes with their red armbands.
Teabaggers don't *need* flag pins. Anaconda being white, and all.
How does this affect Sarah Palin?
Who?
She's last month's Michele Bachmann.
I think that demands an "Oh, snap!"
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kztmz4O7uC1qzea...
BACHMANN LIBEL!
It reminds her that she hasn't called Obama a terrorist recently.
It's all fine and good to be a gentleman and a scholar, but he needs to go Samuel L. Jackson on these humps.
I disagree. I heard part of his remarks during the Town Hall and when he lets that folksy, preacherish tone get into his voice he sounds completely phony. The guy got a law degree from Harvard for christ's sake and he's a certifiable genius. He needs to speak in his natural voice which is, I think, the calm but firm Dad voice. Go with your strengths.
I certainly respect that viewpoint. However, one cannot help but wonder whether or not those who are put off by the timbre and cadence of Obama's "folksy, preacherish tone" somehow find it to be not so much phony, but not what they want to hear from their Black Harvard grads/Nobel laureates. But it worked for MLK, amirite? These things are by no means mutually exclusive, and one can use a, shall we say, urban dialectic and still be at the head of the class. While we can all agree that Obama is exceptionally eloquent, eloquence is not merely proper diction. But, you are so right and I really was being hyperbolic. Okay, not so much. Just one pointed utterance of "you dumb muthafuckas" and I think I would juice my panties and vote the incumbent ticket in '12.
Well, yes, it worked for MLK Jr., because at the end of the day they could still dismiss him as a "n***** preacher from the South." But their Harvad Law Journal President, they want to hear him speak in the professorial diction of that esteemed institute of higher learning. Can't have no nappy-headed n-words slushin' and slurrin' and whatnotifyin' out there just like them Screaming Black Masses, yaknow.
Even then they just dismiss him as a n***** from Chicago.
Dead Honkey…
//Richard Pryor
Maybe he needs to temper the MLK with a little Malcom X.
We didn't land on the Tea Party. The Tea Party landed on us. Or something.
Are you kidding? We have talked about this before (see Cantor, Eric pussification of. An event wherein during debt ceiling negotiation Bamz got mildly annoyed and Cantor was all like OH MY GOD HE"S GOT A KNIFE WHY ARE YOU THREATENING ME?!?!).
Barry knows they just cannot handle an angry black man. It scares the shit out of them.
Viz, If he lets the tiger out of the cage and goes: "Look muthafuckas, I have been putting up with your cracker-ass bullshit since before I was motherfuckin' elected, and now you bitchin' 'bout respect?" they are going to just stone cold FLIP THE FUCK OUT, and next it will be Krauthammer and Peggington Noonington unctuously groaning about how our uppity negro president doesn't know how to talk to people.
I'm tired of these motherfucking snakes on these motherfucking flags, also.
Nice. Would fist again and again.
Also: this. Love this.
Love this. May bring it on a sign to a teabagger rally near me. (Not really, I'm a wuss.)
This is your universal healthcare plan. When you absolutely positively have to cover every motherfucking person in the country.
You sir, are the embodiment of win. I fist you, sincerely.
That's a huge win.
Jezus god yes.
True dat. Call me twisted, but that's what I'm hoping for. I want to see just how good America is at chasing its tail after somebody just ups and cuts that sucka off. When anyone who has not yet reached the very true conclusion that this man is "damned if he do and damned if he don't" is faced with the reality of his attempting to remain true to his nature/do the right and noble thing, and the repeated, often impertinent attacks that he suffers because of it, then maybe we can see "post-racial America" for what is– same ol' racist America.
Well, seeing as we had black authors saying he was simultaneously not black enough and too black to win in 2008, along with all the crazy ass crackers, I'm just gonna defer to the man's own judgment on what his voice should sound like.
Not that I wouldn't mind him going off once or twice.
Agreed. The fainting couches and pearls will have to be brought out to hold the swooning masses of the not-so-librul meejya.
As Obama said, they already call him every single name in the book, and already see him as an angry black man. The real question is and has always been and will continue to be, what exactly does he have to lose? Obama's not someone that folks take a middle ground on. You have one group where you either love him or at least like him enough to give him the benefit of the doubt, or you hate him. He's not going to push any significant amount of people in the former group to the latter raving lunatic group because he could raise his voice.
The people that would "flip the fuck out" have already flipped the fuck out. When the conventional – not fringe – wisdom concerning you from your opponent is that you weren't born here, your a secret Muslim, and an overt socialist, you're not going to save anyone already believing that from themselves, and you're not going to push anyone else into that crazy camp. So, shore up your own base, already, before it's too late.
"Stay strong Mr. President, stay strong." Oh and some weenie and his nerdy little sister were whining about left-wing terrorists.
I do wish he'd responded to that "environmental left wing terrorists" remark. That woman actually believes this thing of which she speaks.
"environmental left wing terrorists". For some reason I think of a dreadlocked hacky-sack circle that smells of reefer and patchouli. Not much threat there…except to a bag of Funions.
Usually they spike trees and sabotage logging equipment. The animal rights folks do stupid shit like release caged mink and others into the wild which makes for tasty snacks for the buzzards. They call it "left wing terrorism" because there isn't anyone in the bomb making business left on the left side of the equation. They either got jailed or died. The right had to label *someone* on the left as a domestic terrorist, so the tree spikers, backhoe tire slashers and idiots who release captive mink snacks into the wild, have to serve as some sort of half-assed equivalent to the clinic bombers and doctor shooters on the right. But supposedly there are more "lefty" terrists- I s'pose if you counted every member of PETA and the World Wildlife fund (who don't spike trees or f-up bulldozers) you might reach some sort of numerical equivalence, but out number neonazi racist fascist nutcases? Nope.
See, I do not think there's anything NEAR to numerical equivalence…even if you count annoying people that the right doesn't like. The truth is that righties have a lot of violent rhetoric and people….and lefties tend to read books and get high. F-ing up the occasional bulldozer is not on the same level as bombing abortion clinics, or putting gun sites on a map of democratic representatives.
Hey, I remember when that happened! I think it was by Michael Crichton, or maybe Tom Clancy.
That was Crichton, I've read that book (in my defense it was a long flight)! He even managed to get some ooga-booga cannibals in there for added "I'm not even pretending any more".
Clancy's thing was always "if you smoke weed then you're a terrorist and rape children". That an a coffee fetish, which was odd.
Crichton, Tom Cruise…how does Spielberg let himself get mixed up with crackpots like those guys?
I bet Clancy secretly smokes weed and longs to rape children. Anally. Little ones.
Nope.
it was Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang: The True History of the Environmental Movement
Trying to save the environment=Terrorism
Trying to destroy the economy=Patriotism
Got it.
zactamundo.
Would it have been better if Biden called them teabaggers?
I prefer when Rahm calls them retards.
but that'd be an insult to retards.
Joe must be mellowing as he grows older. A few years ago he would of called them "stupid assholes".
Barack's rubbing off on him. I'm guessing Michelle, like most Black women of her generation, does not care for trash talk in the house or around the children. And what Michelle wants, Barack gives her.
The correct response is: "Shut your little bitch faces and fuck off."
Remember that time a radical environmentalist shot a congresswoman in the head? That Tea Party lady makes valid points about stuff.
Then there was that environmentalist that blew up that environmentally unfriendly building in Oklahoma City.
Or all those abortion doctors and clinic staff who have been shot by radical environmentalists.
or the dirty hippie who flew their private airplane into the IRS building?
yeah, it's more like this (ans I AM an enviro-terrierist!)
Insurrectionism Timeline http://www.csgv.org/issues-and-campaigns/guns-dem...
I do love the Fox news caption. Did you know black people are "fiery" if they even talk back in a whisper to white people? It's true.
I'm looking at the headlyinz on other sites, and my, my, you woulda thought Hopey leapt across the table and strangled each and everyone of those teabaggers with his GIANT BLACK COCK. This is like the last time they talked about Barack being all mad at the Republicans, and I find he frowned. Srsly, I'm not sure whether to be disappointed with Hopey for not having a proper MAD or at the media for these crappy, crappy headlines.
Why not do both?
Fiery / Uppity
Tomato/Tomato
Wah Wah Wah Joe Biden called us names. I will go to my Medicare approved doctor and get some Part D generic Prozac paid for by the Government, and then to home to hug my guns.
I think this qualifies for Wonkette Comment of the Week.
And why the hell aren't we doing Wonkette Comment of the Week anymore, too socialist?!
I think it's cuz there has been such high turnover. Kinda like at my old job when all the managers split and then we didn't have birthday parties for those of us born in november and I got really pissed.
…and then we didn't have birthday parties for those of us born in november and I got really pissed
Yeah, those were good times… Hey, sorry 'bout that champ.
"But I have the conch!"
The lady tea partier's argument seems to be that it's wrong to say she's a terrorist when people like her are only responsible for ten percent of domestic terrorism.
Thank you for agreeing with Joe Biden.
Barry don't you know that you can't have a reasonable conversation with a teabagger. Big deal that Joe Bidden called them terrorists. They have called you every vile name under the sun. You should have just bitch slapped him.
Sometimes the only thing a mule will understand is an axe handle.
What does an elephant understand, then? A severed powerline, maybe.
It's miked like a Robert Altman film.
Gruppenfuehrer Rhodes needs to relax his tight sphincter and enjoy a foot-long Iowa corndog.
His ass might be well-trafficked, but surely even HE would have trouble getting that puppy up there.
If the tea bag fits…
Convenient that he forgot to mention he's a Muslim, the only real hanging offense.
Assam alaikum, motherfuckers!
Aleikum sala'am, who you callin' a motherfucker?
Biden should apologize; "terrorists" is far too polite for those cum-drenched shit-brained fat-assed fuck-faced douchenozzles.
no reference to santorum dripping out of them?
Well the santorum goes without saying.
You forgot "ugly, lazy, and disrespectful."
Smelly. Devious. Hentai.
My favorite kind.
Have I mentioned that I really like it when you talk dirty to me?
Good gawd I love you.
Maybe he should just apologize to the terrorists – at least they have an understanding of how the US government functions.
Terrorists? I thought he called them "errorists", which is a pretty accurate description.
I would totally welcome a War on Error. Just tell me where to sign.
you must acquit.
The average terrorist is much smarter than the average teabagger. I'd call them backward, ignorant, dipshit MORANS.
Nice start, but he could've finished up with "Teabaggers threatened to blow up the world economy unless all their demands were met, so, yeah, Biden's only mistake there was in calling you just plain 'terrorists,' not 'shitbreath smegma-brained goatfucking terrorists,' which you, in fact, are."
Maybe next time.
Well, in his polite way, he got quite a dig in with that "You've called me socialist, questioned my birthright," etc. I do believe Barry knows quite well that it's pointless arguing with teabaggers and is aiming his remarks at the few remaining sane Republicans.
I'm beginning to think that woman pulled that stat out of her ass.
left wingers may do some property damage, but the kill rate is not equal.
I'm no math expert, but I don't think "nynee" is a percent.
121% of libtards would agree with you.
It's certainly capacious enough. Although that cunty statement really deserves to have lived in her cunt.
Nothing can live in there.
All the citizens/unicellular microorganisms of Yeastonia would take issue with you.
Let's roll that footage from the other angle!
Does this guy now fancy himself the next "Joe the Plumber?" Is Bachmann going to drag him around now on her tour?
Hopefully, tomorrow we will have his name and the fact that he owes heap big child support and is on the national sex offender registry. (crosses fingers)
Considering how long it took not-Joe the non-plumber to go away, let's hope not.
Not so fast. The word among teatards on the Hill (who name-drop Joe the Plumber, swear to god), is that Joe is getting ready to announce a Congressional run.
Yay! Boo.
WHAT? Shit me not, fella. Is he rly?
Fuck me, the world's gone crazier than even I can handle.
Ask yourself this: Has there ever been a better time (in certain districts) for a complete dipshit to get elected?I say nay nay.
Dreams can come true, Barb.
I've probably already said this but 'I LUVS you Barb!'
Remember how Bush would have the Secret Service only allow conservatives at his speeches, and at rare Q&As would only take pre-screened questions?
It's refreshing to have a President who seems to respect the First Amendment and answer questions from the other side, even the morons and lunatics.
If only Bush had given pre-screened answers too.
If only he'd had pre-screened wars, and intelligence, and vetting.
Oh, he did. The problem is Cheney was the screener.
Just like on his VP search.
I thought he did, and that was the problem. Stovepiping, etc.
Fool me once … shame … shame on you. Fool me twice … can't get fooled again.
What is it with Republican pudthuckers and quoting bad song lyrics? That dumb asshole ruined what little enjoyment I ever got our of the Who, and now that stupid prick Herman Cain is going to cause the entire gay male community to dump Donna Summers.
Aw, "slip kid" is a great song. See quadrophenia, also too.
Yes, I am old.
Obama should have said:
I have to be careful not to preach
I can't pretend that I can teach,
And yet I've lived your future out
By pounding stages like a clown.
also too.
Me too. But I threw The Who over for Frank Zappa and The Mothers, although I still sometimes listen to them occasionally.
I agree. If your brain is your biggest muscle you ought to use it. I'd love for Barry to tell his handlers before these Town Hall things "hey, there are probably some teabaggers in there so I'm gonna need about four hours for this thing. I'm gonna answer every question and accusation they have. I'm gonna talk to them till they curl up in the fetal position. I'm gonna debate them till they give in or their heads explode." Critical thinking and long form political discourse are the baggers' weak suit. Draw them into that fight and then kick their asses.
"…I'm gonna debate them till they give in or their heads explode." Critical thinking and long form political discourse are the baggers' weak suit. "
Yeah, but an uncanny ability to shit and re-shit the same talking points without ever hearing a response is their strong suit. Think of it as the talk-radio version of political discourse. They're unbeatable at it.
It's refreshing to have a President who seems to respect the First Amendment
seems to
In the reality in which we live, Obama has taken G.W. Bush's assault on the First Amendment to places that Dumbya never dared to go.
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I remember Gannon/Guckert all too well.
What's less refreshing is that the "liberal media" will now use said respect to advance the narrative that the teabaggers have a point, and why won't the President concede it already?
I'm terrorized by these wingnuts. It terrorized S&P pretty bad when they acted like if they had their way the US would default on their debt. It terrorizes the poor, old, and infirm when they hear these yokels screaming about destroying the social safety net.
Tuck a Feebagger.
Is our childrens learnin? You bet. They're learning to repeat mindless talking points just like real journalists.
NEEDS MOAR SOUSAPHONE!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTaupbVlRCI
Silly Barry… thinking Teabaggers were mature, intelligent or adult.
Barry works the parental without being pedantic… but Franken, if I recall correctly, was practically a teatard-whisperer while campaigning on the ground and appearing at state fairs and such. The effect on his listeners was leavening (for lack of a word) and while that quality remains impressive, the more soundbites via NPR I hear from Obama's speeches on the road, the more hackneyed-rhetoritician he resembles.
Franken. Now that's an example of a public servant. He responds to his critics similar to Barney Frank, but minus the shoulder chip.
"It doesn't sound like you're interested in listening, it sounds like you're interested in talking"
That's about as bitchslap as Hopey gets.
I like that! Its right up there with "Bless your little heart."
I like it, though.
It's about as close as a President can get to saying "Just sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up"
That would totally be too knee-grow to say in public. Mass teatard faintings would occur.
It is very, very nice. If only he'd said that kinda stuff to the GOP instead of folding…
Left wing enviros putting sugar in bulldozer gas tanks or leaving a note saying they 'spiked' the trees IS EXACTLY LIKE Timothy McVeigh.
And, you know, putting sugar in a bulldozer gas tank – which these people call "terrorism" – sort of pales in comparison to injecting benzene into a whole county's water supply, which these people call "business."
I thought pointing out Andy Breitbart is a serial liar was just like Tim McVeigh judging by the crying jags the retards from his sites have had with me.
Or like getting caught on the way to the Tides Foundation with a car full of guns. Whoops, sorry, that's just another "crazy lone wolf."
True.
But Mr. Rhodes is OK with the fact that the rest of America also call Tea Baggers terrorists?
Maybe when I start seeing people showing up out side of Tea Bagger events waving around weapons, and carrying signs threatening to take Second Amendment remedies, then I may consider that he might have a valid argument.
When Bush addressed crowds they screened out anyone with a gripe. Good for Hopey.
But it sure would have been sweet if he punched one or two them in the mouth.
Yeah lil shrub learned the hard way when he let one slip by. He almost ended up with shoe upside his head.
Obama, these are the people Plouffe wants you to cater to.
Keep giving the finger to the people who actually voted for you, and see how well that works.
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Librulz like you and me don't matter, thunder. He knows (thinks) we'll vote for him as long as he waves pictures of Bachmann and the Texas Talibanista at us. Lesser of two evils, and all that. Do we want the Republidem, or the Republican?
Speak softly and carry a big taser.
Terrible Teddy Roosevolt
Can we please turn down the ugly political rhetoric, America, and go back to just outright racist attacks????
I'm with you. Maybe if they just get to call him a nigger to his face they can somehow work it out of their system.
Probably not, though.
Nah, once they get to do that, they'll just want to lynch him for an encore.
If you actually read some of the stuff these teatards say when they think no one's watching or listening — it wasn't too long ago that I surprised a nest of them exulting on ways that they could torture his children to death before him and his wife, if they could only kidnap them for long enough. It went into a level of detail that I found it hard to stomach. I wish I'd turned them over to the secret service. When people invest that much energy in their ugly fantasies, there's a slightly higher likelihood of them actually enacting such.
Remember when Dubya used to tour the country having town halls to promote his idea to take your social security money and put it in the stock market? Well no liberals ever got up and yelled stuff at him during those. Of course they weren't allowed in to Dubya's town halls, either — probably because everyone knew how mouthy and uncivil they were.
Dubya's attack on Social Security was shot down by Democrats.
I'll bet you that Obama's attack will be much more successful.
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Like when Code Pink shows up at Karl Rove's book signing and he's all:
"See! This is the hateful mindset of the left!"
Paul Ryan learned his lesson — now if you want to go to one of his town halls, you have to pay admission.
It should've been an Ezekiel 25:17 moment.
is that the one where the she-bears come in and tear apart all the kids who were making fun of an old bald prophet? I just love the heartwarming family-values of the scripture….
"Thank you sir… I didn't see your hand, and your head is so far up your ass I couldn't see that either"
Hopey should have broken it down for him…..
"Let me dumb it down just for you, you corn syrup chugging inbred racist honkey. Do I look like a gynocologist to you? ANSWER THE QUESTION ELMER?? Do I look like a gynocologist to you? NO?? Then why are you whining to me like you got kicked in the cunt?? Now, why don't you take your uneducated mildly r3tarded ass and your twelve-sandwich-eatin wildebeest lookin wife and go on to Golden Corral or something. I got shit to do."
Peering inside the prez's thoughts eh?
How he keeps his cool , .i will never know.
Me either. You know, at least one time out of ten, he's gotta be thinking exactly what you wrote. Probly with a little "lemme come over there and kick yo' head right back up yo' ass for a minute" thrown in.
Triple-snap worthy rant, sir or madam.
I was thinking more like 'that debt ceiling deal beats a kick in the cunt, doesn't it?" – in Gilbert Gottfried's voice. But you totally win
fuck do I luv yer way wit werds, massive WIN!
Most politicians have learned not to talk to people who aren't going to vote for them.
"Hmmmmm. Here's an idea. If we bum-rush the president we'll look LESS insane"
Cunts.
That's an insult to cunts. I prefer to call them turd sandwiches.
Normally I would go along with this hateful name calling, but you should have heard the way this chick used 'cunt' during sexytime recently. It was a thing of beauty!
How dare the President actually point out the obvious to a Teatard.
Scandalous!
"Well, that's better than "hysterical fuckwhistles" which is what I call you."
OT But it's been almost a day since the story broke, and Wonkette still has not reported on Herman Cain's Pokemon plagiarism scandal. For shame.
Time for Donna Summer to dedicate a song to Cain:
Enough Is Enough http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4By5LOrRI9M
Pikachu libel!
In fairness to Ryan Rhodes (porn name much) Obama is a Muslin socialist with an Xtian hating agenda. So there is that.
You do realize that 90% of the Tea Party are nuts. The other 10% are pure assholes.
That guy in the hat who goaded Mittens into saying corporations are people should be at every political event/rally/town hall forever from now on. He's right up there on the Hero List next to the Iraqi reporter who winged both loafers at Chimpy.
One eloquently chucked spear from the Kenyan King would have shut those terrorists* up nicely.
*for proof, roll that fabulous footage of the mob in front of Congress being whipped up by Bachmann and King from the balcony
gee, when I wanted to confront Bush/Cheney at the RNC in Philly, me and other peaceful protestors were herded off into an Orwellian "Free Speech Zone" five miles away!
BLACK MAN ASSAULTS WHITE WOMAN WITH DEADLY FACTS
Ten bucks says that teabagger fartsack will get his ass eaten out by the Fox and Friends sometime this week.
Oh yeah, he's the new Joe the Plumber having his pipes cleaned.
Ryan the plumber? Appearing on Fox news tonight!
FIERY? I guess that's fiery… if your standards come from a teabaggist flyover state that dips chips not in salsa, but in mayonnaise.
Haha, I remember when the Vice President equated detractors and critics with terrorists, as well! And by "Vice President", I mean Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld, also too.
And by critics and detractors, I mean people who said maybe endless war and turning America into a torture regime was maybe a bad idea, not people who were literally treatening to sabotage the US economy if they didn't get the policy concessions they wanted.
I'd be careful how you talk to the POTUS…there are a lot of Secret Service guys around…
Now, maybe the teabaggers have a point…it's giving them too much credit to call them terrorists. Temper – tantrum throwing twits is closer to the mark…
Oh man, this Ryan Rhodes guy is a classic Joe the Plumber. He calls fucking Rush Limbaugh and says he owned a Chrysler dealership which got "shut down by Obama" then backtracks and says "I was part of one of those". He goes on to claim that he then worked for someone in radio who said that "if cap and trade passes I'll have to fire my employees" – because obviously CO2 emission is a real problem in radio (wtf?). I couldn't listen to any more because, well, you know, Rush.
Then I found this article which is basically a writeup of this Rhodes character and has some choice bits:
Not even three years ago, the chairman of the Iowa Tea Party was a 26-year-old college student studying “turf grass management’’ — as in golf courses. Taking two years off to work odd jobs had left him without enough credits to graduate. He was broke.
…
After he lost the election, “literally penniless and eating eggs,’’ Rhodes honed his chops at retail politics working at a Chrysler dealership and selling ads for a group of radio stations. On the side, he organized tea party rallies and lobbied a key Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, to vote against President Obama’s health care reform. In 2010, he managed the unsuccessful congressional campaign of a retired pilot and gun enthusiast who carries a copy of the Constitution in his coat pocket.
There's your fucking job creator right there. Wanna buy a used Dodge Neon?
Twenty-six minus two years off still leaves two extra years of college. And he still didn't graduate. Quite the scholar!
Hey, tending grass ain't easy!
I think it's safe to say that this shouty fuckblintz is not going to be heading off to Harvard anytime soon.
The Tea Party in a nutshell (and yes, I did use that purposefully).
He has worked toward a Turf Grass Management degree? He will be FEMA director, under President and Mrs. Bachmann.
I'm putting $5 on Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.
Or Secretary of Agriculture, with special portfolio for channeling money to M&M's farm.
Unlikely kingmaker?! You've gotta be kidding me. I'm surprised this guy can make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
"I'm surprised this guy can make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich"
Got proof of that?
I saw what you did there. Good one!
"Penniless and eating eggs" — was he stealing them? And what's wrong with eating eggs? Eggs are good eatin'!
Clearly, he is Not A Nail!
I hate it when Hopey pals around with terrorists.
You know who else expected people to all raise their hands together to be recognized?
my first grade teacher?
Mother Natalia at the parochial school. And she'd whap you across the noggin with a yardstick if you interrupted like this fuckstick did.
Joel Osteen?
(sorry, it's my first time playing this game)
also was the right-wing young woman there trying to look like some intellectual wonkette logo – until you hear her blabbing about '90% of domestic terrorism is from left-wing environmentalists?'
gee, I missed where PETA members were blowing up slaughterhouses and killing veterinarians and shooting people in churches etc…..
i think she means the bare nekked PETA protests.
I gotta say, Kortney lovin' on her veggies is far less offensive to me (and, probably, most other humans) than being shot in the face by some bumwad "savin' teh babbies."
What part of the difference between Biden having a private conversation and teabaggers screeching press releases does this teabagger not grasp? Or are they simply pushing more of that "political correctness" nonsense conservatives always push when their fragile feelings are hurt (usually by directly quoting them or telling the truth)?
Hmm – that scene looks somewhat familiar. Where have I seen that before? Smug self-righteous angry whites confronting a peaceful African-American guy just trying to be on equal terms…? Hmm….
http://www2.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/african/2000...
It is the sign of true photographic genius that a single image can cause so much emotion. I just want to deck every one of those crew-cut a-holes. And it is amazing that a still image with nearly no context can cause that.
There's something about their stance and facial expressions that says "smug little shit" so clearly.
Barack, when are you going to learn that these people don't WANT to have a reasoned, adult discussion, but would rather behave like jackals fighting over a dead impala?
Shit, at least Obama let them get within talking distance.
Remember President Bush's "First Amendment Free Speech Zones", located about 1/4 mile away?
What a pussy Bush was compared to Obama…
Yes. Yes he was.
And Obama's had, what, 100 times more threats against his life and person than Bush ever did? And as a Black man, he has recent history to look back on for an illustration of the practical effects of such rhetoric, too. Also.
There is a reason there was a barn behind the president. It made everything easier to secure. He now knows what he needs to do if he's going to be giving speeches outdoors in rural areas.
what part of being reasonable don't these assholes understand?
All of it, Katie.
I'm sorry, that question was just begging for a meme-flogging.
that's right, be polite and friendly while the confrontational teabagger shouts out of turn, anyone in the crowd see the dichotomy??
Obama is like an A student trying to explain the class lecture to two D (retard) students. Yep, they are still not getting it . . . back to the short bus express kids.
oh no. we're in enough trouble with the 't' word and you went and used the 'r' word.
When did calling someone a "socialist" become defamation of the highest order?
When all the Liberals had been cowed right out of using the "L-word." Remember when "L-word" meant "Liberal"? That was about a decade ago, under Gee, dumb? Yeah, Bush!
Rhodes.
yet another teabagger out of central casting for "awkward best friend who gets drunk, crashes the father of the bride's car, sleeps with the maid of honor and throws up on the dog."
I think you mixed up some of your nouns there. He threw up on the maid of honor. The less said about the dog, the better.
Well, hell.
If he's going to play Ward Cleaver in the debt talks, he might as well go all in when talking with the mentally teatarded. In for a penny, in for a pound.
To give the President a pointer here, if he chooses to use it, the Teabaggers ARE terrorists. Bin Ladin's goal was to bring down the American economy. The Tea Party screechers came close to doing exactly that, and they're going to try again. But we must be politically correct with these tender souls and not call them nasty names, like fucking TERRORISTS.
Yeah, the Rhodes guy is the new Joe the Fuckface Phony, thanks, as always, Fukui_sanYesota.
But how about the bespectacled beatch? "90% of domestic terrorism is environmental extremists." First, what does that even mean? Recyclers? Prius drivers? Light bulb totalitarianism? the EPA??!?
And, and, listen cunt, like all you lemmings: look up the the definition of terrorism. You know who fits that definition more successfully than anyone? As Zinn stated, the US government. From slavery, to Injuns, to Hiroshima, to Islamic fossil fuel sands.
Dammit, if we don't point out and fight these fools…….
You always do so well until the end. The teabaggers would completely agree with you that the US government are terrorists. It's one of the many things they agree with the likes of the Taliban on.
Needz moar Lincoln-Douglas debates.
Remember when our vice presidents had the common decency to tell us to go fuck ourselves? I miss that.
I want Obama to use his daddy voice with me.
Mr. Rhodes REALLY meant to ask: Hey you Kenyan socialist, medrasa attending Negro, why is the White man that is second in line to the Presidency calling us names?
Reason? Really, Barry? We've got a Rabid Fox running loose in our neighborhood, maybe I'll try to reason with it when I see him again. My last attempt at reason missed by about an inch.
The war porn is getting tougher now that reality is more gory and ballsier than Toms books. He has plenty of money to sit back and enjoy the depression with in any case.
here's the difference between 'left-wing environmental terrierists' and the Reich-wing fascist whacko gun nuts…it's pretty clear who the REAL terrorists is (the list grows longer every day…just scroll down to the bottom to see who the latest 'terrorist' is)
Insurrectionism Timeline http://www.csgv.org/issues-and-campaigns/guns-dem...
This was an amazing, frightening link.
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