(2008-11-10) — After his first visit to the White House Monday to work on the transition process, President-elect Barack Obama attempted to link First Lady Laura Bush with “the failed policies of George W. Bush.”
“While she may want the American people to see her as an independent thinker, the fact is that she has supported George Bush every step of the way,” said Mr. Obama. “It’s like the two of them have become one.”
Obama transition team leader John Podesta later explained that Mr. Obama “didn’t let John McCain get away from the Bush legacy either. Whether it’s polite to say so or not, for nearly eight years of this administration Laura Bush has been in bed with this president.”
Mr. Obama also accused Barney, the president’s Scottish Terrier, of being “just a partisan lapdog, eating from the hand of George W. Bush, and following him obediently. When George W. Bush gives the command, Barney just rolls over.”
78 responses so far ↓
1 Darthmeister // Nov 10, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Hmmmm, according to his own people, Obama is going “rule” not “lead” America starting Day One. The One on Day One, eh?
Stealing An Election in Minnesota: Part 4
2 onlineanalyst // Nov 10, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Barney should have nipped Obama’s accusatory finger just as he put that Reuter’s reporter in his place.
When Obamao entered the White House, did he announce himself, “Present!”
(I’m rather chafing at this idea of Obamao ruling. Then again, he isn’t quite accustomed to leading or serving. The narcissism of this dope is creepy.)
3 PanamaRed // Nov 11, 2008 at 2:00 am
Well, they couldn’t say that about Clinton now could they?
4 camojack // Nov 11, 2008 at 2:37 am
Obama has a lap dog named Barney (Fwank [sic]), too…
5 gafisher // Nov 11, 2008 at 5:29 am
More insidious, Laura Bush has been proud of her country for more than a year!
6 onlineanalyst // Nov 11, 2008 at 8:01 am
Heh, carbon_footprint over at HA refers to Obama as “fresh prince of Bill Ayers.”
7 Hawkeye // Nov 11, 2008 at 8:44 am
Funny stuff, Scott!
Obama will need to do some remodeling when he gets to the White House… since most of the media is in bed with Barack!
8 Beerme // Nov 11, 2008 at 8:49 am
You can bet there won’t be any trailer trash antics during this changeover at the WH. The Bushes are a class act.
9 BlackLion31U // Nov 11, 2008 at 10:54 am
More political humor-
WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?
SARAH PALIN:*
Well you know, that chicken was crossin’ Main Street because the gosh darn economy is so bad that Joe Six Pack and Hockey Mom were chasin’ it for dinner.
GEORGE W. BUSH*:
We don’t really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.
DICK CHENEY:** *
Where’s my gun?
BILL CLINTON:** *
I did not cross the road with that chicken. What is your definition of chicken?
JERRY FALWELL:** *
Because the chicken was gay! Can’t you people see the plain truth? That’s why they call it the other side. Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay, too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like the other side. That chicken should not be crossing the road. It’s as plain and as simple as that.
COLONEL SANDERS:
Did I miss one ??
10 mig // Nov 11, 2008 at 11:41 am
Let me see if I understand this whole hope and change thing. In roughly 48 hours, we’ve learned that President-elect Obama is going to close Guantanamo Bay, bring terrorists onto United States soil to face trial with whatever trial judge they get, as if they stole a car.
We’ve learned that the favors to the abortion lobby will be paid off first as executive orders banning fetal stem cell research, or in other words, growing babies for the purpose of killing them and harvesting them for possible spare parts, are going to be overturned.
We’ve learned that instead of young, fresh faces surrounding Barack Obama, he’s raiding the Clinton White House team for a reprise in 2009, the same team that collectively brought you the metastasizing of al Qaeda into the global threat it is today.
And all this without even taking the oath yet. Sounds like a fun four years ahead, huh?
Hugh Hewitt
11 mig // Nov 11, 2008 at 11:57 am
If the United States is not worth loving, then no country is.
12 Godfrey // Nov 11, 2008 at 12:13 pm
gafisher: “…a pattern of wisdom which begins at an early age, not proof that lack of age or experience guarantees wisdom.”
Very true, but neither do we have evidence that a lack of age or experience precludes wisdom, at least after some reasonable point. Josiah (I’ll stay away from Jesus on this one) had some favorable press—some scholars say that the Deuteronomistic writer (likely Jeremiah or Baruch) was a contemporary and a subject of his-but no 8-year-old is wise, much less fit to run a country.
Would Obama exemplify Post hoc ergo TelePrompTer hoc?
Ha! Excellent.
13 upnorthlurkin // Nov 11, 2008 at 12:14 pm
May I take this opportunity to thank any and all Veterans in the Scrappleface reading audience for their service to America?! Thank YOU and your families for your sacrifices!!
14 BlackLion31U // Nov 11, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Today, Talk About America’s Future with a Veteran - Lorelei Kelly
Last summer, a friend of mine who is a Marine Corps Reservist shipped out for his second tour in Iraq. He sent a moving email the night he boarded his flight out of the USA-detailing the crowds of well wishers from the community; tearful thank yous and hands clasping his as the Marines walked across the tarmac to their transport. I asked him how that made him feel. Here’s his response…
“It’s a rather humbling sort of thing to experience, and you really have no idea how to react. It is great to know that what you’re doing is so valued. But at the same time, you (or at least I) feel very awkward over the whole thing.”
“I of course reply with a “thank you”. But I also struggle with an appropriate response that conveys that I wish they would do more than just thank me for my service and instead ensure they do service themselves. Do they give money to help wounded vets? Do they deliberately vote and/or take some political action to ensure those who serve are treated appropriately by the government, given all the military (equipment, strategy, leadership) support they need to succeed at their mission, and only sent on missions worthy of the lives they risk in trying to accomplish them?”….
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lorelei-kelly/today-talk-about-americas_b_142881.html
15 mig // Nov 11, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Old news: Biden was booed when he was showed on the video screen at a football game. snicker. Wonder what ole Joe is gonna do in the Obamanation.
16 Some mid-week humor | The Daily Scroll // Nov 11, 2008 at 1:15 pm
[...] From Scrappleface, BREAKING NEWS: “At White House, Obama Links Laura to George W. Bush“. [...]
17 BlackLion31U // Nov 11, 2008 at 1:36 pm
This is Great reading
“The Tactics of Failure: Why The Culture War Makes Sense To Spiritually Empty Evangelicals”
“…My Conclusion
I am suggesting, therefore, that the increasing interest in the culture war among evangelicals is not an example of a reinvigorated evangelicalism remaking its culture. Instead, I believe the intense focus by evangelicals on political and cultural issues is evidence of a spiritually empty and unformed evangelicalism being led by short-sighted leaders toward a mistaken version of the Kingdom of God on earth.
The Culture War makes sense to Christians who have little or no idea how to be Christians in this culture except to oppose liberals and fight for a conservative political and social agenda- an agenda often less than completely examined in the light of scripture, reason, tradition and experience. Those evangelicals- like Greg Boyd- who have challenged or broken the identification with the political right can testify to how they are immediately viewed….”
http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/the-tactics-of-failure-why-the-culture-war-makes-sense-to-spiritually-empty-evangelicals
18 JamesonLewis3rd // Nov 11, 2008 at 1:47 pm
There is no such thing as a “spiritually empty evangelical.”
19 Hawkeye // Nov 11, 2008 at 2:10 pm
BL31U,
an agenda often less than completely examined in the light of scripture…?
Of course the liberals have “thoroughly examined” their agenda “in the light of scripture”… and then done the exact opposite, eh?
20 BlackLion31U // Nov 11, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Hawkeye,
I have read this as a Christian myself and feel the concerns about the church expressed in this article. Your first inclination to point fingers, is, I think the heart of this message.
I didn’t write the article. Instead of considering the possible truth of the authors point, if you must blame someone, please blame him.
21 BlackLion31U // Nov 11, 2008 at 2:25 pm
“no idea how to be Christians in this culture except to oppose liberals and fight for a conservative political and social agenda”
22 Ms RightWing, Ink // Nov 11, 2008 at 2:52 pm
mig re:15
Betchya by golly that Biden gets the boot from OB1 within 3 months. He was a useless idiot in the toolbox of the first black, er, white, ah heck whatever he is, president pretend.
23 MajorDomo // Nov 11, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Camo, “Fwank” isn’t sic; it’s the way he pronounces it!
24 gafisher // Nov 11, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Pwonounces.
25 gafisher // Nov 11, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Ms RW, Ink Re: “Betchya by golly that Biden gets the boot from OB1 within 3 months.”
I don’t gamble, but I think you’d lose that bet. The last thing Obama wants is someone competent near the throne. “Undisclosed location” has an apartment opening soon.
26 gafisher // Nov 11, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Ms RW, Ink Re: “Betchya by golly that Biden gets the boot from OB1 within 3 months.”
I think you’d lose that bet. Biden’s happy to be along for the ride, and “The One” don’ need no uppity No.2.
27 gafisher // Nov 11, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Oh, great, OB1 redistributes my post; then when I come back to rebuild it he sneaks it back.
Sorry for the semi-double post.
28 upnorthlurkin // Nov 11, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Ms. RW, he’s gray by my calculation…..if I mix black and white here on this palate, I come up with gray….like the sky here today…a winter sky puking out drizzle/sleet that will soon make it your way….sorry…
29 RepublicanAttackMachine // Nov 11, 2008 at 4:47 pm
January 21, 2009:
WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?
Being in front of 1600 Pennsylvania, and knowing it was near dinner time, he decided to “cross the road” to join the other chickens, (Ayers, Rezko, Wright, Farrakhan, and ALL the anti-troop left-wing nuts), so as not to be eaten!
And he also heard O-blah-blah saying something about “a chicken in every pot”.
With Oblahblah, that probably has something to do with “pot” that is smoker along with “a little blow”.
30 RepublicanAttackMachine // Nov 11, 2008 at 5:07 pm
It is true, the lunatics are now running the asylum. Look at this: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081111/ap_on_go_pr_wh/ap_poll_obama. This polll says 7 iun 10 people surveyed think Obama will “fix” the economy.
EVERY economist I have listened to, (BOTH parties), say rasing taxes now would KILL the economy, yet knowing he is going to do just that, 72% still think he will “fix” the economy.
I guess it depends on your interpretation of “fix”!
It is like “FIXING” a broken leg by hitting it repeatedly with a large hammer.
Never fear though, if the economy gets worse under Obama, he can always say it happened because “-Bush didn’t (fill in the blank)”!
Don’t you know that is why he is making these demands of Bush now, (bail out the auto industry, etc)?
If Bush does bail them, and it doesn’t work, then it was BUSH who did it! If Bush doesn’t act on it, then Obama can say, it WOULD have worked if Bush had not waited.
Bottom line is, these 72% are just NUTS!!!
31 Fausta’s Blog » Blog Archive » Obama might involve Iran in Afghanistan plans, and other posts from friends & FIHMY // Nov 11, 2008 at 5:09 pm
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32 boberinyetagain // Nov 11, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Did you know his middle name is Hussein?
How crazy is that?
I’ll be he’s hiding the WMD’s…you’ll see
33 RepublicanAttackMachine // Nov 11, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Just wondering, (because I have not heard any yet), has O’Bama made ANY memorial statements to his Granny like, ‘I want to dedicate this victory to that “typical white woman” who raised me’?
OR, was she just a stepping stone to his rise to power, like so many others that have been thrown under the bus?
Please, no huffington post, or moveon links.
34 BlackLion31U // Nov 11, 2008 at 5:21 pm
“Bottom line is, these 72% are just NUTS!!!”
Ironically President Bush’s job rating is 76% disapprove while only 24% approve. Yep, three quarters of the people are “NUTS!!!” while only one quarter of the people in this country really understand….That makes sense.
35 BlackLion31U // Nov 11, 2008 at 5:37 pm
“Four out of Five dentists recommending using Crest to prevent cavitiesâ€
HECK I’m going with that one dentist!!!
Studies have shown that smokers are 75%(?) more likely to have cancer.
Heck with them, hand me another Marlborro!!!
36 mig // Nov 11, 2008 at 5:50 pm
RAM- 45% of McCains 46% were Palins’. Must be something in the political altiode that makes these guys throw white women under the bus!
And Congress (that actually makes the laws) have re-instated the misery index because their numbers are so low.
37 RepublicanAttackMachine // Nov 11, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Now I have the troll proving my point! Not only nuts but “stoopid”!
Over twenty years ago the lib-loons TOLD us they were “Nuts”, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093660/ we should have listened before they took over!
After a year or so of Obama’s REIGN, lets take another poll of how he is doing, IF, Americans are still allowed to voice their feelings under “The One”.
38 RepublicanAttackMachine // Nov 11, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Did you see Obama leaving that wreath in front of the Chicago statue?
Wonder if he got it from Granny’s funeral?
39 egospeak // Nov 11, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Newsman, I’d like to respond to a couple of things you said on the Inauguration Packages thread, your post # 132.
You ask what MKK’s statement has to do with the election, Obama and abortion. The answer is we just elected a proabortion president. The fact that he is proabortion is pretty obvious if you read the latter part of MKK’s post. To argue otherwise, as BL31U does, is pure sophistry. Tossing out whether a judge will overturn California’s ban on gay marriage, is it not spitting in the eye of the creator of life to nationally elect someone as proabortion as Obama?
Your next paragraph is a perfect example of the post modern idea that there are no absolute truths and that morality is a personal choice.
Do you honestly believe that government has no right to be involved in a decision about whether an unborn child lives or dies??? Or in the case of President Elect Obama whether a child that survives a botched abortion lives or dies? Or have you consumed the koolaid that says that it’s just a clump of cells, kind of like a tumor? Have you so quickly forgotten the words of our Founding Fathers? “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness—that to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed.”
Your last three paragraphs are especially troubling. Setting aside the fact that “separation of church and state” is not in the Constitution, the purpose of the 1st Amendment was not to protect the government from input and influence of religion (primarily Christianity in 1787) but to protect the people from the government establishing a state religion. Are not laws against theft, murder, incest, usury and so on religious in nature? Is not some form of morality the basis of all law and is not morality one of the building blocks of religion?
I think that you are correct that you have no right to force your views on all other citizens of our country, but if you can persuade enough and elect enough people that share your point of view your views can become the law of the land. That’s the way our system works and the proabortion lobby has done just that even though their viewpoint is not the majority viewpoint in America.
Regards,
wv - (swimm bricklayer) Kind of tough with a brick in each hand!!
40 BlackLion31U // Nov 11, 2008 at 10:40 pm
RAm,
Don’t be so hard on yourself. You may consider yourself nuts, but you don’t have to consider yourself stupid. I never said that.
41 Ms RightWing, Ink // Nov 12, 2008 at 12:47 am
re:25 gafisher
I still think he will dump him for a more radical poll cat. He will soon run out of posts for all the ruling radicals, so he will need to bump the dude for a crazier 60’s burned out doper head.
42 RepublicanAttackMachine // Nov 12, 2008 at 2:44 am
bL31u: As long as I am on the opposite side of everything you are on, then I KNOW I am on the right path.
Only someone who is nuts, would use your “logic” that because the majority “now” thinks something, that it is right.
I guess the majority was right when they thought slavery was OK? Or when Bush had the majority of Americans for him in BOTH elections? No, you use “the majority” ONLY when it fits your slanted, “NUTTY” views.
O’Bama has not even served a day in the White House yet you, and YOUR KIND, give him a 72% “opinion” in a slanted poll, that he will fix the economy.
If you are going to have real FAITH in someone, why don’t you talk more about GOD and NOT O’bama. I keep hearing you “say” you are a Christian, yet you quote your true god O’bama, and NOT the REAL GOD and HIS Scripture! Pelosi, and O’bama also “claim” to be Christians, but I keep seeing they are for abortions, and almost EVERYTHING GOD is against.
Keep bloviating and swilling your Kool Ade, you look “stoopider” with each post.
43 RepublicanAttackMachine // Nov 12, 2008 at 2:48 am
To Fred: If you have Internet access, know that we are praying for your FULL recovery! If not, please give him the message Maggie.
Romans 8:18 KJV
44 camojack // Nov 12, 2008 at 4:36 am
MajorDomo // Nov 11, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Camo, “Fwank†isn’t sic; it’s the way he pronounces it!
True enough…but that’s not how it’s spelt.
45 onlineanalyst // Nov 12, 2008 at 6:40 am
Boberin: There is a good piece in the WSJ re the Volt, green technology, Detroit’s woes, and Washington’s interference today. Check it out.
46 gafisher // Nov 12, 2008 at 8:57 am
Friends of veteran (and Veteran) Scrappler “Waxless Fred” can wish him a Happy Birthday today through the gracious efforts of volunteers at the hospital where he’s being treated. Messages left for him here will be printed and hand-delivered to Fred’s room. Don’t forget to tell him to “get well soon.”
Wireless internet is available throughout the Hospital but Fred doesn’t have a laptop; if anyone’s got one he could use you can find the appropriate shipping address at the same site.
47 BlackLion31U // Nov 12, 2008 at 9:35 am
Republican Attack Machine,
“..Or when Bush had the majority of Americans for him in BOTH elections? ”
Really now?
2000 Presidential Election Popular vote: George Bush - 50,456,002
Al Gore - 50,999,897
“no idea how to be Christians in this culture except to oppose liberals and fight for a conservative political and social agendaâ€
48 gafisher // Nov 12, 2008 at 9:40 am
OLA Re# 45: Thanks for posting that link! Excellent analysis and, as the writer suggests, a perfect symbol for Obamalot.
It’s rumored that tireless efforts in the Office of the President-Elect have led to the realization our nation’s needs are too great to wait until late January. In response, a series of Executive-Elect Orders is to be issued, approved by the large majority in Congress (its ranks currently swollen by an army of Senators-Elect and Representatives-Elect) and put quickly into effect by the large and loyal Domestic Security Force-Elect.
49 boberinyetagain // Nov 12, 2008 at 10:10 am
OLA, thanks for the link, good article
50 gafisher // Nov 12, 2008 at 10:16 am
2004 Presidential Election Popular vote: George Bush - 62,028,285 50.7
John Kerry - 59,028,109
Those numbers, as in 2000, give Bush a much higher advantage if illegal and stolen votes are removed, making the final figures tough to pin down precisely.
51 J. Cougar Melancholy // Nov 12, 2008 at 10:18 am
Happy Birthday Fred!
Hope everyone had a nice Veterinarian’s Day. Have your pet spayed or neutered, unless you have a California Condor. We need more of those.
Change is in the air!
52 BlackLion31U // Nov 12, 2008 at 10:31 am
Oh, heck we can go on all day on “what might have been”. I’m just so thankful for George W. If it wasn’t for the absolutely stellar job he has done in every area for the last 7+ years, this country might not have witnessed a landslide victory on Nov. 4th. We might not have seen the democrats taking over Congress or the White House.
So..This one’s to you George! Or maybe I should be thanking Dick Cheney.
53 onlineanalyst // Nov 12, 2008 at 11:35 am
The ill winds of Chicago change are polluting the air. They are, indeed, chilling in their implications.
“Landslide”? Do you speak in hyperbole much? In their cool, objective analyses of the post-election results, most political experts saw fewer numbers of voters at the polls than had been projected and a less-than-dazzling win by Eight-ball and the Dems.
54 Maggie // Nov 12, 2008 at 11:47 am
Happy Birthday Fred.
We miss you here on SF….it just ain’t the same without the Ranger’s commentary.
Get well soon.
55 BlackLion31U // Nov 12, 2008 at 11:49 am
OLA,
LOL, Wow, spin that one whatever way you want.
56 mindknumbed kid // Nov 12, 2008 at 12:19 pm
gafisher
Thanks for the link to send Fred a note. Hope everyone takes time to drop him a line today, it is his 71st birthday in case you didn’t know.
57 Ms RightWing, Ink // Nov 12, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Does anyone know Fred’s last name. I can’t recall it at this moment and if I send him an e-card it may not get to the right Fred
58 mindknumbed kid // Nov 12, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Sinclair, Fred
59 mindknumbed kid // Nov 12, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Media lies and lack of seeking the truth is why we are where we are today. Throw in a population that is addicted to feeding from the teats of government. To look to government for your needs is an indication that a nation has no use for God, and does not see him as the one that sustains our lives. Governments tend to think they are in charge of things and seek to control their subjects. The need for someone to care for our needs ought to cause us to seek God, but when he is rejected we think that some great political leader will suffice in God’s stead.
60 boberinyetagain // Nov 12, 2008 at 1:08 pm
gafisher, thanks for the Fred link, well wishes sent!
61 mig // Nov 12, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Yeah, right: “There are many who won’t agree with every decision or policy I make as president, and we know that government can’t solve every problem.
But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you [unless you are a conservative], especially when we disagree.” -Barack
Obama, with a little Patriot clarification
Marxism 101: “For the last seven years we have had the highest corporate profit ever in American history…. But it hasn’t been shared, and that’s the problem, because we have been guided by a Republican administration who believes in the simplistic notion that people who have wealth are entitled to keep it. They have an antipathy toward the means of redistributing wealth. And they may be able to sustain that for a while, but it doesn’t work in the long run.”
-Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA)
62 onlineanalyst // Nov 12, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Try this very objective post-election analysis: http://www.pollster.com/blogs/why_obama_won.php. It has loads of detail and explanations.
I will tell you that a number of conservatives who could not support McCain stayed home or voted third party. These were foolish choices in that they skewed the results.
McCain deserved to lose but not because Palin was on his ticket. She actually boosted his numbers and energized the base.
Given all of the money Obama raised and expended, the massive efforts of ACORN registrations (legal and questionable), and the amount of positive media hype for Obama (admitted now by media figures and objective studies), and the increase in population, Obama’s win should have been measured in much higher margins.
We are still a divided nation. Obama has done much to be a divisive and a still-mysterious figure.
For all of his campaign talk about change, he is still surrounding (and protecting) himself with figures from the Chicago machine, who may know how to win elections but who maintain more than a whiff of corruption. His selection of cronies and Clinton retreads does not inspire confidence.
63 onlineanalyst // Nov 12, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Just remember that Joe Biden, who couldn’t pull a credible percentage of support in the presidential primaries, is one heartbeat away from the prize. That thought and this little humor piece are sufficient to make one laugh.
Mr. Silver-tongue and the Gaffemaster will make quite and impressive team. Not.
Now that this dynamic duo are becoming more familiar with details of threat assessments, perhaps they will begin their path to sobriety. Let’s hope that their supporters allow them to demonstrate some responsibility and accountability.
64 onlineanalyst // Nov 12, 2008 at 3:04 pm
The incomparable VDH puts the post-election Obama win into perspective. Hanson’s dispassionate rendering of a number of facts and a keen sense of history provide a balance to the giddy euphoria of the American Idol crowd.
65 boberinyetagain // Nov 12, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Never discount “giddy euphoria”
66 JamesonLewis3rd // Nov 12, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Always discount “giddy euphoria.”
67 gafisher // Nov 12, 2008 at 5:22 pm
“Giddy Euphoria” replaces “Change” as the slogan for the Dem’s ‘08 Candidate.
68 gafisher // Nov 12, 2008 at 5:46 pm
OLA Re#63: “America — what a country!â€
Indeed. When the BO & Joe Show gets out of rehearsal and into actual production they’ll have a miles-long line of people demanding theirs to be among the 20% or so of campaign promises the team will actually have any hope of keeping. Foreign “dignitaries” being ushered to the front of the line for their foreign aid payoffs will undoubtedly find humor in Obama’s restoration of the ages-old office of Court Jester.
Alas, poor Joe-rik, I knew him well.
69 mig // Nov 12, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Go to http://change.gov/page/s/yourvision …it’s the website for Obama as President elect and it takes you right to a page that you can write your vision as to what you want out of this next presidency. Be apart of Change and Hope.
I feel so needed now. Obama makes me feel so important. Like I can make a difference.
70 mig // Nov 12, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Thanks OLA
71 mindknumbed kid // Nov 13, 2008 at 12:04 am
Talk about a crazy idea…
Christians on their knees praying for the salvation of president elect Obama. Imagine the impact of seeing their messiah meeting the Messiah!
I don’t know what the future holds, but as I was praying tonight I became excited about the possibility of seeing God work a miracle in our nation right before our very eyes. It could have more of an impact for the cause of Christ than any conservative that we may have elected.
I am asking that every Christian make this a matter of prayer. Is our God able to work miracles?
Yes, HE can!
Christians in the early church had a profound impact on the world, I pray that we might be able to see great things accomplished in our times to glorify God among the nations. Amen.
72 mindknumbed kid // Nov 13, 2008 at 12:07 am
James 5:16
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
73 Ms RightWing, Ink // Nov 13, 2008 at 12:39 am
MNK re: 58
Thanks, I hada brain burp and couldn’t think this morning
74 RepublicanAttackMachine // Nov 13, 2008 at 3:24 am
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=315364
The “christian” O’Bama, in a “NUT”shell. This is ‘REV’ Wright’s replacement.
Move over Billy Graham, or should I say, “MoveOn”?
75 Fred Sinclair // Nov 13, 2008 at 5:56 am
I wish to thank the many Scrapplers for their prayers on my behalf. (Even an e-mail from one of our favorite trolls.) I got out about 4PM on my B/D after tests eliminated the threat of cancer in my bladder. My other physical challenges have been greatly improved and am now back home. Again my many thanks to our powerful prayer resource we have available thanks to Scot Ott and ScrappleFace - Thanks Scott for your work in making this forum available as a part of your ministry.
btw - Harry Truman’s “Approval Rating” was @ 22% when He lost to DDE. Yet today, when you look at anybody’s list of America’s top ten presidents. Harry is always there!
It probably won’t take another 60 years to find George W. Bush in the top ten. It will take years to unearth many of the great things GWB has done for America, that aren’t currently known to the general public. Likely enough, he well may make the top five.
The “failed” policies of GWB over the last 8 years will pale in significance when finally weighed in balance against his accomplishments.
76 gafisher // Nov 13, 2008 at 11:33 am
“It will take years to unearth many of the great things GWB has done for America, that aren’t currently known to the general public.”
The bulk of his legacy may well remain unknown for decades, and perhaps forever, outside the inner reaches of the security and defense services. Unlike his successor-elect, President George W. Bush lived and served not for himself but for his country and will be numbered, by those who know and care, among the patriots and the great.
77 RepublicanAttackMachine // Nov 13, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Great news about the non-cancer. Glad you are back Fred. God bless you.
Great point gafisher about GWB NOT, being out for himself, and the now holder of, “The Office of Prez-Elect” being just that, (out for himself).
As a former union President, who had to deal with the firing of a steward who was “out for himself” and willing to step over ANYONE to get ahead, I know how Bush must feel.
This guy was in the offices of management all the time, giving them info on the membership, yet they, (the union members), all loved him, so much in fact, I was blindsided at a union meeting with a petitution to re-instate him. When I didn’t, I was the bad guy. Of course, the members did not believe me, that this guy was out for himself, and was selling them down the river.
Long story short, the guy became a foreman, and showed his previous “peers” who he really cared about. More than a few are now not working there anymore because of him!
Most hate him now, and I have been “told” some even admitted I was right about him, although, NONE have ever personally said so much to me.
I predict this will be true with O’Bama too. He already has a gay Priest “spiritual advisor” to replace Wright.
One has to wonder if either daughter gets “punished” with a pregnacy during his term, if his surgeon general will be called over to 1600 Pennsylvania to get rid of the “minor inconvienience”?
78 jamespete // Dec 27, 2008 at 7:00 am
Bush maintains his independence—
When the Obamas were invited to tour the White House, Barack and Michelle went with Laura while George stayed with the kids and watched TV.
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