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By the time you read this, President Obama will be taking a well-deserved break from the 54th hole of today's scheduled golf game and the grueling responsibility of picking out his Final Four priority high-speed rail projects on ESPN by relaxing on a beach in ... Libya? Japan? No, Brazil. Oh, here he is now:
"Tall and tan and young and lovely
The boy from Spendaholica goes walking
And when he passes
Each one he passes
Goes 'Aiiieeeeee ...'"
Hey, it worked in 2008, and who's to say the same old song won't exercise its seductive charm all over again in 2012? That's the way the president's betting.
As he told high-rolling Democratic donors in Washington last week: "As time passes, you start taking it for granted that a guy named Barack Hussein Obama is president of the United States. But we should never take it for granted. I hope that all of you still feel that sense of excitement and that sense of possibility."
Well, no, I couldn't honestly say that I do. I mean, I always like the bit in the movie where 007 says, "The name's Bond. James Bond," but generally he follows it by rappelling into a hollowed out volcano and taking out the evil mastermind while disabling the nuclear launch codes with three seconds to spare.
I'm not sure I get quite the same "sense of excitement" from the Obama version: "The name's Bond. James Hussein Bond."
"I'm afraid you're growing rather tedious, Mr. Bond."
Speaking of names, the new stimulus-funded Amtrak station in Wilmington, Del., is to be named after Vice President Biden. Say what you like about Obama, but he made the naming of train stations run on time.
We should never take it for granted that a guy named Joseph Robinette Biden is a railroad halt in the Northeast corridor. I hope that all of you still feel that sense of excitement and that sense of possibility. I couldn't be more excited if Robinette Hussein Robinette were president.
In 2008, Obama offered Hope and Change. This time he's offering the Hope of No Change. Life goes on. When your president's middle name is Hussein, trust me, that's all the change you guys need.
Harry Reid says he doesn't even want to talk about the possibility of opening discussions to consider raising the possibility of contemplating the thought of the merest smidgeonette of changes to Social Security for another 20 years. Sen. Reid, 71, told MSNBC last week, "Two decades from now, I'm willing to take a look at it." Big of you. No-Change You Can Believe In! The Audacity of Torpor.
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By any rational standard, Barack Obama gets an F for job performance and should — on that basis alone — either resign or be voted out ASAP before he does further harm. Obama is a strange man who often seems not to be paying attention. Does he have a second job and work for America only ...
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Posted By: investorLooniesdad(95) on 3/18/2011 | 10:05 PM ET
You guys might find it interesting that the little loonie always dressed like a girl on Halloween, then it was any and all holidays. We gave up on him years ago, and I apologize for that...
Posted By: investorLoonie1(1730) on 3/18/2011 | 8:33 PM ET
Ah, Girly Boy Stein must really desire a train station or maybe a nuclear power plant named in his honor. How about the Girly Boy Stein Nuclear Processing plant or the GBS express to nowhere. The Girly Boy Stein coal mine really doesn't have the same ring to it.
Posted By: NobleOne(25) on 3/18/2011 | 8:16 PM ET
Mark is funny but also accurate. Seriously, Obama is a fool and incompetent. And, that is giving him the benefit of the doubt. Moron pure and simple.
Posted By: czarrboro(3545) on 3/18/2011 | 6:47 PM ET
And this is how the world ends, and this is how the world ends, not with a bang or a wimper, but a laugh 'cause that's all we have the energy left to do. Apoligies to T.S.
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