The Obama narcissism complex running out of control!

[redrumloa]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30434584/

An Air Force One lookalike and F-16 buzzed the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor in the morning, halting work on nearby construction sites, causing residents and office workers to flee their high-rises and giving thousands of people in downtown Manhattan and New Jersey a major fright.

At least two people were treated for minor injuries at Jersey City Medical Center after falling during the rush to exit their buildings.

"Everybody panicked," said Daisy Cooper, a Merrill Lynch worker in Jersey City, who lost a nephew on 9/11. "Everybody was screaming and we all ran downstairs. I'm devastated...Everybody was running, we didn't know why we were running. We just knew it was a plane, there we go, 9/11 again."

Obama's photo op cost tax payers over $300k!

http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/?p=1427

Apparently, the photo-op cost the American taxpayers $328,835.

 

[Wayne]

Obama's photo op cost tax payers over $300k!

I wondered why you hadn't ape-ishly repeated the incorrect dogma and blamed this on Obama sooner...

As has been pointed out in real news articles, the president was unaware of this action and the person responsible was some mid-level bureaucrat in the defense department who's already taken the blame as well as punitive action.

Jim, you really need to either accept that he is the president, aka YOUR president as well as mine, because things aren't going to change and your jumping up and down blaming everything on him only makes you look rather like one of the sheeple.

Yes, for the last four years, you've had to put up with people slamming George W Bush. True, but then again, it's a proven fact that in his 8 years, he damned near destroyed this country, so the question is really, "do you want America to survive or not?" If not, then feel free to babble on and I'll you on the ignore feature. If you do, then step back and give the man a chance to either succeed or fail on his own.

*if* he succeeds, then so be it. *if* he fails, then by all means chime up and chime in after the first four years. Right now though, you just sound like a man who runs an Amiga site who consistently whines about it but can't seem to either sell it, or step away...

 

[Glaucus]

Red, keep this up and no one will take you seriously any more.

 

[Fade]

Wayne said
*if* he fails, then by all means chime up and chime in after the first four years.
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Strange logic. Wait four years, and then pile on.

A ton of people already think he has failed.

 

[Robert]

A ton of people already think he has failed.

And a few on here decided he had failed before he even took office.

 

[redrumloa]

A ton of people already think he has failed.

And a few on here decided he had failed before he even took office.

If you are pointing the finger at me, I DARE YOU TO PROVE YOUR POINT.

 

[faethor]

Obama's photo op cost tax payers over $300k!
http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/?p=1427

Apparently, the photo-op cost the American taxpayers $328,835.

He's certainly not reached the Bush level photo-ops yet. Katrina was falling on the US and Bush decided to go take some pictures by giving McCain a birthday cake and playing guitar.

 

[redrumloa]

He's certainly not reached the Bush level photo-ops yet. Katrina was falling on the US and Bush decided to go take some pictures by giving McCain a birthday cake and playing guitar.

And who exactly applauded Bush's actions during Katrina? I seem to remember outrage from everyone, left and right.

 

[Glaucus]

You just don't get it Red. You blamed Obama for something he had no part of. This makes you look like someone who's just out to bash him at every opportunity. You're turning into the Rush Limbaugh of whyzzat. Sure, you don't like Obama because of his policies. Fine. Stick to that. But this airforce one crap is nonsense.[/url]

ADMIN EDIT - Apologies to Mike. I was attempting to reply to Mike's response to Jim and messed up Mike's original message. I cannot undo what I have changed. It's the first time I have (mistakenly) used the admin buttons when attempting to reply. Wayne gave me admin to help control spam, etc... I'll be more careful next time. Sorry Mike. Regards, Ltstanfo

 

[ltstanfo]

You just don't get it Red. You blamed Obama for something he had no part of. This makes you look like someone who's just out to bash him at every opportunity. You're turning into the Rush Limbaugh of whyzzat. Sure, you don't like Obama because of his policies. Fine. Stick to that. But this airforce one crap is nonsense.

I am certainly not defending Obama, nor necessarily Jim but I have to point out that Obama knows more about this incident than has come out. The 747 used in the photo op *WAS* one of two Air Force one aircraft and as such the White House (including the president.. at some level) had to know where it was. Why? Because it is standard practice to know where your evacuation systems are at all times... be it (one of several) Marine One helicopters or one of the two Air Force One (only called that when the president is actually on board) planes. He may not have been aware of the exact time that the 747 was flying over but he certainly knew the day.

I do give him credit, his PR machine is almost as slick as Clinton's was.. given time, I have no doubt it will be slicker. :wink:

Regards,
Ltstanfo

 

[faethor]

And who exactly applauded Bush's actions during Katrina? I seem to remember outrage from everyone, left and right.

Yup months after John McCain was partying with Bush on his birthday....McCain came back and said oops that was bad idea.

 

[redrumloa]

You just don't get it Red. You blamed Obama for something he had no part of. This makes you look like someone who's just out to bash him at every opportunity. You're turning into the Rush Limbaugh of whyzzat. Sure, you don't like Obama because of his policies. Fine. Stick to that. But this airforce one crap is nonsense.

On the contrary, you (and Wayne) sound like someone who has drank far too much Obama KoolAid and can't stand even the hint of criticism aimed at "teh one". Obama knew damn well, as ltstanfo points out. Do you really think some random mid-level staffer has the power to scramble fighter jets and Air Force One? Do mid-level staffers have the power to spend nearly 400K on a whim?

First the whitehouse states no photos to be released.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009 ... time-soon/

They make an 180% about face 24 hours later and say photos to be released.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... 66494127/1

Obama is like Clinton, he will say anything at any time. Then again some want to compare him to Bush.

Talk show host David Letterman had joked, "is it just me or is Obama 'Bushing' it up a little bit on this one?"

Uh-oh, I guess David Letterman is turning into Rush Limbaugh

 

[Robert]

A ton of people already think he has failed.

And a few on here decided he had failed before he even took office.

If you are pointing the finger at me, I DARE YOU TO PROVE YOUR POINT.

I wasn't speaking about you in particular but now that you mention it, yes, I hereby point the metaphorical finger directly at you, Jim. I don't think you're being honest with yourself if you think you've given him a fair chance. I watched you defend numerous Bush policies over several years before you finally admitted he was a disaster. You *have* been criticising Obama since before he took office. You started several negative threads about him before he took office (and many more since). Maybe you started some negative threads about McCain but I don't recall even one. Your desire to see Obama fail is plastered all over Whyzzat.com. If you're incapable of recognising that, so be it.

Prove my point? In big, scary, capital letters? You prove it yourself almost every, single day.

As Mike already said, you look like someone who's just out to bash him at every opportunity. I'm going to take the occam's razor approach and say it looks like that because that's exactly what it is. If you want to demonstrate otherwise, I'm happy to be corrected.

 

[redrumloa]

I wasn't speaking about you in particular but now that you mention it, yes, I hereby point the metaphorical finger directly at you, Jim. I don't think you're being honest with yourself if you think you've given him a fair chance. I watched you defend numerous Bush policies over several years before you finally admitted he was a disaster. You *have* been criticising Obama since before he took office. You started several negative threads about him before he took office (and many more since). Maybe you started some negative threads about McCain but I don't recall even one. Your desire to see Obama fail is plastered all over Whyzzat.com. If you're incapable of recognising that, so be it.

Prove my point? In big, scary, capital letters? You prove it yourself almost every, single day.

You provided no proof, just your feelings on the matter. Go ahead, Whyzzat has archives!

 

[Robert]

You provided no proof, just your feelings on the matter. Go ahead, Whyzzat has archives!

I know there are archives and am pretty sure there will be more than one negative thread about Obama, started by you, before he even took office. I see no need to dig them up and am quite surprised that you'd actually like me to.

If I thought it would make the slightest difference to your perspective, I'd go find a couple.

But it won't, will it?

 

[redrumloa]

I know there are archives and am pretty sure there will be more than one negative thread about Obama, started by you, before he even took office. I see no need to dig them up and am quite surprised that you'd actually like me to.

If I thought it would make the slightest difference to your perspective, I'd go find a couple.

But it won't, will it?

I don't think you will find many (if any) slams between the time he was elected and when he took office, I made a point to try hold back and wait to see what he did once in office. OTOH I wanted you to take the challenge since you seem to have a very short and selective memory. Here, I have done a little legwork for you.

Bye, bye Republican party! Last straw, I'm out!
http://www.whyzzat.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2812

At Debate, McCain Proposes Buying Up Bad Home Loans

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/08 ... ome-loans/

Quote:
Republican candidate says he wants to bail out Americans on the brink of losing their homes, and he wants to put $300 billion into the effort.

Once again they are going to reward risky and/or illegal behavoir while those of us who are fiscally responsible get the bill. F*** you McCain.

How could that be??

Obama gets something right.
http://www.whyzzat.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2969

Obama Is Right: Wall Street's Big Bonus Pool Is "Shameful"

http://tinyurl.com/bwaoz5

Quote:
Without mincing words, President Obama strongly condemned Wall Street's $18.4 billion bonus pool for 2008, calling it "the height of irresponsibility" and "shameful."

The issue is not that Obama is trying to dictate how financial services companies run their business, or what level of compensation executives make, as his critics claim.

The issue is that Wall Street firms ran themselves into the ground and came to the government hat in hand. Once your firm is on the government dole, it's outrageous for taxpayer money to be used to pay bonuses, which aren't guaranteed annually, contrary to the popular view on Wall Street.


Right on. My company didn't go to the gov asking to be bailed out and my department performed very well, yet I didn't get my measly $3k bonus this year. Why should bank CEOs get millions of taxpayer money in bonuses after running their firm and the US economy itself into the ground :?:

 

[smithy]

What's the difference between Red's regular threads about Obama and the last 4+ years of regular threads about Bush along the same lines? Even popular politicians at the height of their popularity still face heavy criticism. It was the same with Saint Tony in '97.

 

[Robert]

Sheesh! OK, OK, if you insist...

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2923

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2906

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2877

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2874

None of those are positive.

 

[Robert]

What's the difference between Red's regular threads about Obama and the last 4+ years of regular threads about Bush along the same lines?

Bush got pretty easy time until it became obvious he was going to invade Iraq.

 

[redrumloa]

@Robert

Yaa! You did it and found some! Though only 2 of the 4 links are actually negative on Obama. Of the other 2, one is a slam on a city and one is a slam on the media. While you were looking, I'm sure you saw plenty of slams on McCain, no? Me? I'll give you that I didn't remember those 2 negative posts, so I'll give you that. You? You've got to admit it was less than expected and not quiet as lopsided as you remembered?

Obama is the president now and he is stinking up the joint! Why should I ignore it?