2009 American Politics Thread II - My President Has a Goofy Sidekick

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"Because nobody messes with Joe."

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The GOP Comeback Begins Now!

i missed the first half of the speech what the hell was going on at that moment in the OP

obama said "no one messes with joe biden!" or something and biden was like "who? meee? me? biiiiiiden baaaaby"

the quote in the OP, I am pretty sure!
"That is why I have asked Vice President Biden to lead a tough, unprecedented oversight effort," the president continued, "because nobody messes with Joe."

Well done.
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i'm just sad that phil hartman couldn't have lived to get in at least one dead-on biden impression.

obama: "nobody messes with joe."
biden: "awwww yeah. whozyodaddy."

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The internet: shutting down careers before they start since 1990

For those w/o FB:

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I got sent an invite to one of those groups approx 20 minutes after his speech! I don't even watch the show in question..

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just watching this... holy shit

"and on your left you'll see our zoo's flamingos, one of the most beauuuuuutiful species of birds on the planet"

I was blissfully asleep when all of this was on but thanks ILX for making me laugh first thing.

I'd like it if the entire internet would realize that Bobby Jindal may be all kinds of Mayberry exorcist douche, but that doesn't make it okay to let fly with Slumdog Governor namecalls or any of the other oh-haha-Indian-reference racisms that would make us go o_0 if people were sniding Obama's colour or background.

The 'outsourced speech' comments from Chris Matthews were LOLstayclassy too.

i'm just sad that phil hartman couldn't have lived to get in at least one dead-on biden impression.

― the pelvis of a mammoth (get bent)

me too now.

but i always get sad when i think about phil hartman.

While some of the projects in the bill make sense, their legislation is larded with wasteful spending. It includes $300 million to buy new cars for the government, $8 billion for high-speed rail projects, such as a ‘magnetic levitation’ line from Las Vegas to Disneyland, and $140 million for something called ‘volcano monitoring.’ Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, DC.

AMIRITE?? help me somebody!

Billions for RAIL projects?!?!?! How on earth do they figure that's going to create jobs?! Throw the bums out!

I love how "magnetic levitation" goes in scare quotes to make it seem more like some sort of new-agey exercise in faith-based transportation.

hmmm, it appears tabes and suzy can carry the ball well here til day 101. :D

Passive Aggressive 101

Defining a bit broadly, one could argue that for the previous 28 years our President was the goofy sidekick.

Waitwaitwait I think Morbs just made a JOEK.

? no, if you laughed i probably didn't.

I'd like it if the entire internet would realize that Bobby Jindal may be all kinds of Mayberry exorcist douche, but that doesn't make it okay to let fly with Slumdog Governor namecalls or any of the other oh-haha-Indian-reference racisms that would make us go o_0 if people were sniding Obama's colour or background.

i have not read/heard/seen a single person, on the internet or on the television or in my presence, say anything resembling this comment, save for chris matthews's "outsourced speech" comment which i think was more of an unfortunate turn of phrase more than a "lol indian" joke.

i mean why would you even go there when you're talking about someone who gave a speech as laughably incompetent, to the point of shockingly incompetent?

I think Wonkette was making "slumdog millionaire" jokes. But honestly, do you expect more?

people be dbags iirc

me neither, and i would sincerely like to see examples if you've got them, suzy. i'm trying to imagine applying a popular stereotype about indians to that speech and failing, but if anyone did, it's probably lolsy.

if there's anything racially awkward to be said, chris matthews will say it, but it's hard to take that seriously at this point.

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I love how "magnetic levitation" goes in scare quotes to make it seem more like some sort of new-agey exercise in faith-based transportation.

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, February 25, 2009 2:17 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

totally my favorite moment

okay i will go look for this "slumdog jindal" post on wonkette, but it just sounds dumb and nonsensical.

Okay, I just woke up so I am a bit groggy, but for some reason ILX has brought this to the fore of my mind, so I'm just gonna come out and say it, no matter how conservative it might seem:

I wanted to believe in Barack Obama. But first, he surrounded himself with such a hideous number of douchebag, free-market-gospel, wealthy Clintonites, that I sort of sighed and shook my head. Then he said in his inauguration speech that we, as Americans, "are not going to apologize for our way of life," which is a completely fucked statement no matter which way you look at it. Finally, he seems even more intent than he did during the campaign to prop up the military-industrial funtime military mishaps in the middle east, no matter the cost to a country that "is slowly dying beyond our grasp."

Yes, there are some major, major policy differences between him and Bush, as well as some major personality and intellectual differences of which we are all aware. That said, I do not trust the man, and I have come to see him as yet another pawn being used to present an illusion to an illusion-eager American public, who don't want to change, who don't want to sacrifice, and who simply want to shovel as much shit into their shopping carts as humanly possible.

The problem here IS free-market capitalism, and along with unsustainable living communities and unrealistic monetary/material expectations, it has brought this country to its knees. Still, we don't want to apologize? Not only to the rest of the world for what we have wrought for the past eight years, but to ourselves, after some self-examination? No, the American public is feeding on delusional hope, and as I've said in other thread, HOPE IS A CHAIN OF SUBMISSION. It is used to keep people ignorant and un-self-conscious.

Now, I eat my store-brand-ghetto Cheerios. Adieu.

fave moment: Obama promising to cure cancer!

wonkette compared jindal to the apple dumpling gang last night but you might note that is a different movie...? if you're going to throw around hateful accusations against people maybe you could do a 30 second search of the site for the word "slumdog" or the words "bobby jindal" and see if you can actually tie these two things together, mordy.

OMG President of the United States hasn't repudiated free-market Capitalism yet?????? xxp

I kinda flinched when I read him being called "Mr. Raj-ers", but it was all joeks, so what the hey.

hey schef:

2009 American Politics Thread I - My President Likes Spiderman

I guess "Mr. wog-ers" is too British.

yeah okay that's dumb

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lolz Mordy otm

(if that takes forever to load, gbx called him "Mr Raj-ers")

are the weird racist comments on, like, some other ilx thread or something?

xpost thankin u morbius for answering this question!

Mocking someone for his or her race or ethnicity is always wrong.
Mocking someone's religion or culture is almost always wrong.
Mocking the public or political manifestations of someone's religion or culture is and should be perfectly acceptable.

so love me, looooooooove me, love me... I'm a liberal

fave moment: Obama promising to cure cancer!

― Comic Book Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:26 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah my man was channeling some serious jed bartlett last night

gbx called him "Mr Raj-ers"

No, get bent = JBR

fave moment: Obama promising to cure cancer!

― Comic Book Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:26 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah my man was channeling some serious jed bartlett last night

― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:32 AM (16 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ha i had the same thought.

apologies, i couldn't load the thread either. it was get bent.

dudes, sorry to gbx or whoever 3 ppl were annoying you guys on the other thread but there's a reason there are moderators on this board and surprisingly it's not just so they can get tipsy and delete 77 threads -- go complain there instead of making sweeping grand generalizations about internet/political discourse! enact the change. because that thread is now literally the only place i've seen shit like that -- even weirdly maligned on this thread wonkette deletes comments tht are just racist bullshit! which is why i haven't seen it about jindal i guess. xpost ok sorry to get bent or whoever 3 ppls

anyway shame on anyone who'd say a thing like that not just because it's unfunny and kinda racist but because bobby jindal is just hilarious in and of himself without having to resort to being like lol he's foreignesque. did you hear the things he said? dude thinks louisiana is a good example of a) economic growth b) education c) private sector success in stabilizing communities! what the hell!

sirota was on the radio today saying that if you are willing to support or give a pass to obama on troop increases, but you wouldn't have given mccain a pass on the same, you are dishonest and probably an obama "cultist." some reductive bs.

not if you trust obama's military leadership more than mccain's!

TROOP INCREASES ARE NOT A STRATEGY. THINK THINK THINK YOU SHITCHEWING CHEERLEADERS. DON'T TALK IN PUBLIC TO ME AGAIN UNTIL YOU KNOW SOMETHING. COME TO ME WITH SOMETHING REAL OR BLOW YOURSELF. FUCK YOU PRESS. THANKS MUCH GOOLE OUT.

oh my!

thats all i meant, you might simply trust obama's judgment on the issue more than mccain's.

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i thought that said "GOOGLE OUT!" and i was, man, googlers are pissed.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22this+is+excellent+news+for+john+mccain%22

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quite a url there

couldn't he have phrased that in the form of a question? of course he could have.

Joe Biden just emailed me:

Matt --
Last night, President Obama laid out his plan to defend our national interest by refocusing our efforts on three clear goals: defeating al Qaeda, stabilizing Pakistan, and breaking the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan.
To achieve these goals, the President has authorized the rapid deployment of 30,000 more troops in Afghanistan, with a firm commitment to begin bringing our troops home in 2011.
It's a clean break from the failed Afghanistan policy of the Bush administration, and a new, focused strategy that can succeed.
Please take a moment to watch the President's address to the nation and read more about his plan.

Our new strategy ends the era of blank checks for Afghanistan's leaders, facilitates a responsible transition to Afghan security forces, and begins bringing our troops home in 2011.
Please take a moment to listen to President Obama outline his plan -- and pass this along to anyone you know who wants to learn more:
http://my.barackobama.com/AfghanistanAddress
Thank you,
Vice President Joe Biden

Misdirected emails

please stop helping

60-40, bitches: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/us/21vote.html?hp

God, reading the Republican quotes in that article makes me want to kill.

"Republicans derided the changes as akin to bribery."
The fact that there are top level politicians who think that compromise=bribery is really just infuriating.

well, i kind of agree, it is bribery. not that this is any difft from how business is ever conducted

lovin the lede on that article

WASHINGTON — After a long day of acid, Senate Democrats held ranks early Monday in a dead-of-night procedural vote that proved they had locked in the decisive margin needed to pass a far-reaching overhaul of the nation’s health care system.

"dead"-of-night

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weird picture of the floor vote. that's olympia snow on the right

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"We ended the filibuster. Play 'New Potato Caboose'!"

death panels gonna steal your face

Dead album titles proving v. hard to work into this subject tbh

aoxomoxhealthcare

dick (durbin)'s pick #5

actually more like shakedown street

Europe '72: they had better health care back then than we do now, in 2009

Caution (Do Not Stop On The Tracks) (Because You Are Uninsured)

death panels don't have no mercy

r.i.p.ple

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30896.html

POLITICO has learned that Rep. Parker Griffith, a freshman Democrat from Alabama, will announce today that he’s switching parties to become a Republican.

According to a senior GOP aide familiar with the decision, the announcement will take place in this afternoon in his home district in northern Alabama.

Griffith’s party switch comes on the eve of a pivotal congressional health care vote and will send a jolt through a Democratic House Caucus that has already been unnerved by the recent retirements of a handful of members who, like Griffith, hail from districts that offer prime pickup opportunities for the GOP in 2010.

The switch represents a coup for House Republican leadership, which had been courting Griffith since he publicly criticized Democratic leadership in the wake of raucous town halls over the summer.

Griffith, who captured the seat in a close 2008 open seat contest, will become the first Republican to hold the historically Democratic, Huntsville-based district. A radiation oncologist who founded a cancer treatment center, Griffith plans to blast the Democratic health care bill as a prime reason for his decision to switch parties—and is expected to cite his medical background as his authority on the subject.

While the timing of his announcement was unexpected, Griffith’s party switch will not come as a surprise to those familiar with his voting record, which is one of the most conservative among all Democrats.

He has bucked Democratic leadership on nearly all of its major domestic initiatives, including the stimulus package, health care legislation, the cap-and trade energy bill and financial regulatory reform.

He was one of only 11 House Democrats to vote against the stimulus.

lol @ politics

IRL trolling at an all-time political high it seems like

i love the 50-state project or whatever its called but if a guy who votes against democrats on every major policy initiative is the best we can do maybe we should just let the gop have that district and put the money elsewhere

sufjan stevens?

sb'd myself

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-22/a-chilly-republican-welcome/

further lols

I for one welcome our new tea party overlords

the solution to most of the country's problems is to put erick erickson (did i spell that right) in charge of the GOP

is expected to cite his medical background as his authority on the subject.

LOL

im hurt by yr sn btw - im butthurt & yelly but reasonably sane

was just going for a peanut butter and jelly angle

you know

Republicans solidify their hold on the backward-looking-majority districts of the South. What a prize!

YEEE HA!

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isn't it time for 2010: My President is Just Another Fucking Pol?

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