Of all the “this president is like that president” games, the one that Barack Obama’s supporters were very unlikely to come up with was, “Barack Obama is the Black Herbert Hoover.” But, according to this chart showing Barry’s approval ratings for his work destroying the economy by destroying the government’s ability to pull the country out of recession/depression and instead focus all his efforts on coddling billionaires and flattering teabaggers who hate him anyway, Obama is the new Hoover!
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I like to think of Obama as the Hoover from "Animal House".
Does he know Scott Baio?
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!
But Now He’s Herbert Hoover
Hey!
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Who knew giving the Republicans 98% of what they wanted would be so unpopular? Next time Hopey should give them the other 2%.
Huh. Seven-dimensional chess might be a flawed strategy in a culture dish of semi-literate, overheated microbe-brains, eh boss?
No
rich peoplejob creators were hurt in the making of this film.It's hard to play seven-dimensional chess when your opponent periodically gets bored, upends the table, and starts drawing on the walls. Sorry, did I say drawing? I meant peeing.
pssh, whatever. i mean, how many pakistani kids did hoover kill? five, six tops? gotta do better than that, loser.
I'm completely out of snark. I've taken to indulging in a five-vodka lunches and giggling at pictures of cats wanting cheeseburgers.
It's funny because they can't speak English! LOL!
Neither can most of the teabaggers
You haven't lived until you've indulged in a five-vodka breakfast!
It's tempting, grampa, but I do need this job. By 1:00 everyone's too tired to really pay attention to what the front desker does, so by that time I can get away with giggling in my chair and vomiting.
Self-medicating to wellness!
It's the only kind of medication we can afford!
It's a mix of "Oh noes he's a Nearer" and "Barry you fucking wimp. Show some balls and cut the motherfucking Teabaggers."
You know who else was Herbert Hoover?
Olive Hoover?
Well why don't you marry him, then?
Hitler?
But wasn't J. Edgar Hoover gay?
No, no. Herbert. Rick Perry is the new J. Edgar.
So that's why Perry is frequently referred to as a "teabugger"
New Hoover? That sucks.
Ohohoho! I see what you did there!
I never would have gotten that had you not replied
lol
But he might give us a balanced budget! Like Hoover. And that will fix the economy somehow.
Weird…he hasn't gotten any blacker.
Sure he did… at that BBQ/Birthday Bash a couple of weeks ago.
At least Michele Bachmann came out and said that when she is President, she won't be celebrating any birthday when there is 9% unemployment.
Team Bachmann!
His hair is getting whiter, though… which is good news as far as his public opinion polls go. As his hair lightens, white Americans will begin thinking of Obama less as that young, basketball playing gangsta down the street, and more as a lovable, adorable Uncle Remus.
One day his picture will be on a box of rice.
Thank god his parents didn't name him "Thomas."
Have you seen us
Uncle Remus
We look pretty sharp in these clothes
Unless we get sprayed with a hose
President Eldridge Hoover? I'm not sure he could get any blacker.
He's the new Kenyan Herbert Hoover???
How was the original Kenyan Herbert Hoover?
Daniel arap Moi?
Barack Obama Sr.?
You can't be "a" Herbert Hoover unless you have a dam or a vacuum clearner named for you.
This is the danger of trying to navigate a centrist policy when everyone has chosen a side already. I love the guy but it’s past time to advocate for what you actually believe in not what you think you can get past the other party.
Particularly when the other side is determined not to negotiate, and keeps increasing their demands because their real objective is to humiliate Hopey out of office like they did Carter.
Exactly. Given what he's battling, he's doing just fine.
Edit for clarity: No other Democrat could have done what he did. And if a Republican had won the last election, we would already be defending ourselves from roving bands of kray-kray-kray.
Bingo.
Christ Matthews said something rather succinct, recently, which is not exactly something he's known for. To paraphrase only slightly, he said that the Republicans don't want to deal with Obama; the Republicans want him gone. Period. Can't think of a better way to put it, and Mitch McConnell has pretty much said as much.
We're dealing with a Republican Party in the legislature in particular that is essentially engaged in little more political guerrilla warfare, sniping at the president, and continually wounding him to slow him down just enough to eventually render him helpless. They don't have the political firepower to take him out all at once, so they will destroy him one issue at a time.
I'll say it until I'm blue in the face, but not only does he need to go on the offensive, but he needs to do so by proposing so much shit, that they are forced to react every month until the election. I'm talking new sensible initatives and proposals every week. The point is not to get them passed, because they won't, but make the Republicans own the obstruction every time they fail to get a hearing in the halls of Congress. They need to be ground down with their rough edges made smooth. We have to stop playing on their turf. No more using their lexicon. For instance, I don't ever want to hear a Dem say "tax hike" (unless it is), relative to a "tax cut", because It's not the mirror equivalent.
Agreed, but as Tweetie also pointed out to someone or other, Obama can propose all the stuff he wants but can’t make Boehner bring it up for a vote, let alone a debate. But there are still ways: Hopey can just talk and talk about how Congress is obstructing things; Dems in the Senate can block Republican stuff until their stuff gets a hearing, etc. Dems’d all have to work together. If only there were a leader among them….
Barry is doing exactly what he intended to do when in office – he is a moderate Republican. There is nothing left about him. His goal is to whittle away SS, Medicare/aid, and channel federal $$$ to the financial sector as fast as he can.
Don't believe everything you read in the "Obama blanket".
Obama has made a lot of mistakes but the most egregious one is underestimating the
the depth of racial animosity toward him as president and power of the racist hate machine the right wing can deploy. Combine that with his very real policy/political errors and you get Herbert Hoover popularity.
Hell, Donner, it's ALL about the color of the president's skin.
They don't call it the White House for nothing.
Exactly. I think a lot of people, without believing that "racism is dead", thought the mere fact of Obama getting elected was evidence of a marginal enough volume of racism that racism would not play a role in the opposition. &, to give those idealists credit, having thought "I'll never see this (electing a black Pres) in my lifetime", actually to see it, it had to be blinding for them.
True, but they also hate Dems to death, just remember Clinton, Repubs had the same death-hatred. Remember Jesse Helms saying Clinton better not go down South? The fact that Obama's black does seem to have pushed a lot of the already unbalanced ones over the edge though.
Needs more Hobo Beans and squirrel stew.
Yeah, but everyone needs more squirrel stew, wouldn't you agree?
And Hobo Beans!
Bammerz is still going to win the election though, because even though he's contemptuous of lefties, and he's easily stampeded by people who will hate him no matter what he does, it's still going to be between him and some insane Teabagger. The bumper sticker should read: "Obama in 2012! He's not crazy!"
That's basically what it comes down to. There is no one on the left who can or will primary him and win the general like he could. And the right wing doesn't have a single worthwhile candidate, they're all fucking crazy. So it's Hopey by default. De fault of dose who haven't been paying attention for the last X decades since Reagan.
Works for Papoon!
I hope you're right, some folks have the notion that Perry and the nutters are being pumped up so that Mittens can appear to be a "centrist" republican and take the general when people are looking for an alternative to Bammerz. I'm wondering if Mittens is going to make it through the primaries. I have a hard time imagining the others including Perry as electable, and even Mittens seems a stretch in the general. I hope the bumper crop of fail for the republicans comes in big, but *if* Mittens survived the primary and ran to center with the usual "compassionate conservatism" horseshit would America fall for it? There's a bumper crop of stupid out there too.
I agree that Romney would be the sensible choice for Republicans looking at the general election – but what we're looking at is the primaries.
Between Romneycare and his Mormonism – he's got a lot of natural, very bigoted opponents. And then when you factor in the usual percentage of voters who just get turned off by his native disingenuousness, his path doesn't look all that clear.
But, on the other hand, the field is so horrible, it's going to be the last whack-job standing – and whoever emerges is going to be bloody and punch-drunk. That's what I hope anyway.
This is interesting, because according to Glenn Beck and Assity yesterday, Hoover and Calvin Coolidge ended the depression that FDR caused. I swear I'm not making this shit up — it's like all their "liberals are nazis" nonsense — after a bit more depth it gets too tangled to make any sense.
Which *really* means they're hoping Hopey will win, since he's the new Herbert Hoover, right? RIGHT?
Just another loop of meta-crazy, you say? Infinite?
the depression was caused by jimmy carter, but teddy roosevelt put an end to it by hunting wild animals! thass the true tale. tell the teapariters.
For an apparent time-traveling robot, one would have assumed FDR would have been able to walk.
So now Teabaggers will want Hoover-rounds?
I know, right? Given how unpopular the teatards are, whoda thunk that letting them run the country would make him unpopular. Weird.
Mister we could use a man like B. Obama again.
Those werrrre the daaaayyyyssss!
Michael Jackson still was black…
Today we are all The New Herbert Hoovers.
Kinda sad when you have to hope that Hopey wins because the alternative is psychocotic-orama.
That's not an apt comparison. For one thing, Hoover didn't follow George Dubya Bush into the White House. For another, Hoover was vacuum.
If you squint, and balance on one foot with your hand on the table, he looks a little like the Kenyan Harry Truman, who got reelected despite (or perhaps because of) a 36% approval rating and an obstructionist Congress.
I hope he names each of his job bills "The Obama Miracle"…
Silly. The Obama Miracle is what happens in the President's bedroom, with Mrs. Obama.
If he does, the teatard population will experience a significant drop in numbers as legions of them choke to death on repeating those words.
Lets see. 60-70% want more progressive policies (single payer, tax the rich, preserve Medicare & Social Security whole). 20% think the President is a Kenyan. What's the middle ground here?
Joining the Arab League?
What is this "middle ground" of which you speak, Ducksworthy?
meh. wake me up in october.
seriously, this summer has been worse than PUMAs + death panels + whatever the hell exercised everybody last summer.
and in spite of what seems to be the received wisdom of the moment, this is the fault of republicans. in governance they reduced this country to a burnt out, overextended, indebted, terrified shell and are now intent on making it ungovernable.
that they are proving successful should be enough of a wake up call to anyone thinking of sitting out 2012. they aren't going to get any prettier.
Does this mean we will get Obamavilles instead of Hoovervilles?
Also, what best describes an establishment called Hooverville?
I really think someone needs to sit down with Obama and spell it out:
Mr President, it is one thing to look as if you still want to cooperate with the Reeps: voters, especially those in the mushy middle, like that. But it is quite another thing actually to attempt to *do* so, given that they have made it quite clear that they will never reciprocate. This is the time to go after them with the same boldness by which you went for bin Laden! Promote real economic relief for Main Street and dare the Reeps to say no!
You want a visual with that? OK, here's how LBJ got what he wanted: http://www.correntewire.com/how_its_done_1
Grab them by the cojones, Mr President!
I thought it was Perry who liked getting hoovered.
Bush, on the other hand, hoovered up considerable amounts of cocaine. Or so I'm told.
Oh God, I am fucking sick of this nonsense, I know he has made mistakes, but what the fuck is he supposed to do? The Republicans hold him in such contempt, it's clear that they just don't believe a black man should be President and just want him gone and I don't know how the hell he is supposed to get anything done, I just want him to go fucking insane on their mealy-mouthed, racist, lying, slimy, greedy, hypocritical asses.
I think most people agree with you. The problem is WHEN is he going to do it?
If a white English woman would work as a substitute, I'll fucking do it myself, if that would be more palatable to these raging ,fucking, racist bastards.
Exactly. Does he need street brawler lessons? I'll do what I can to support my country.
Have I told you lately that I love when you talk dirty to me?
Have I told you that you don't know the half of it.
meh. he's got more done than bush and clinton combined (including a baby war). and did it in three years.
oh right!! AND he got bin laden.
you are right. this is – absolutely – nonsense.
America needs you, Harry Truman.
Can't be the new Hoover. Barry went to Harvard not Stanford.
Guys, guys, it's cool. 'Cause when a republican takes office, he's totally gonna coddle democrats and we'll get everything we wanted. Right?
One more time B! Reach out that bi-partisan hand of friendship… it's gotta work this time around, eh. Failing that, let's give it ONE more try. And if that fails,…
Insanity incarnate.
The way things are going, Obama's looking like the new James Buchanan. Unfortunately, there's no Abraham Lincoln waiting in the wings to preserve the Union.
Stupid Lincoln.
Of course we got FDR after the last Hoover. We could come next — based on the clown rodeo going on in Iowa right now — is guranteed to push Hoover, Buchanan and Andrew Johnson all up one notch on the presidental greatness ranking.
That already happened on Dubya's watch, do the assholes need two historically significant awful presidencies to get the point? I keep wondering when the "Joe Lunchbox" and "Archie Bunker" types I am seemingly surrounded with will suddenly have that magical epiphany when it dawns on them that they were had. They were had hard. And it had nothing to do with the race of the fellow in the White House. And they just keep on listening to Fox and Rush and rant about the "near" in the White House.
Mighty damn roundabout way to say he sucks, if you ask me and you didn't but I'm just saying, like, whatever. LOL and ROTFLMAO. Am I hip yet?
Gee, our old LaSalle ran great.
At least they're not comparing him to Hitler by painting a moustache on his mural or anything!
Hoover? Ha! Have you ever met a black dude named Herbert? Or John Edgar, for that matter. Ain't gonna happen. Silly Wonkette!
People forget that Hoover was Commerce Secretary for the 8 years before becoming president, so this idea that he got blamed for a depression he only inherited is a myth.
Barry is the exact type of politician that Gray Davis of California was. Totally ignored his base, couldn't roll over fast enough for the other side and corporate interests. He won re-election by default. Nobody really voted for him as much as they voted against the other guy.
Then when the recall hit the fan, he didn't have a friend in the world. No one had his back and no one gave a rat's patoot if he won or lost.
These guys aren't really "Democrats". They're just "Not Totally Batshit Crazy Republican".
Well said. With the political system bought and paid for, and with a wealthy upper class that has a strong interest in maintaining it and in many cases, taking it up several notches, it is tough to be on either side if your a normal person. I would imagine that there are republicans out there face planting and wondering if things will ever get better too. I don't think they're as large a group as disaffected dems are, but there has to be a few who aren't stupid, and remember non-insane politics. Unfortunately most seem to be easily led around by the nose by Ailes, Murdoch and Limbaugh and just lap the shit up.
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