Obama names 8 citizens to highlight his successes
President Barack Obama is featuring eight Americans as “citizen co-chairs” of his inauguration, a new role created to highlight his first-term accomplishments with examples of lives that have either been improved by his actions or inspired his presidency.
The honorees announced Thursday include a woman with a brain tumor who no longer is denied health care for a pre-existing condition; an autoworker who got her job back after the General Motors bailout; and a gay pilot-in-training kicked out of the Air Force before the president repealed the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
So Obama picks 8 people to honor himself. Saddest case is the guy who lost all four limbs from a land mine explosion in Afghanistan and was “inspired” when Obama personally pinned a purple heart on him. Those of you with any memory cells left will recall that Obama opposed the lawsuit to strike down DADT and finally agreed to repeal it when the lawsuit was successful.
It’s gonna be a long four years.
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. – Ecclesiastes 1:2
ROTFLMAO !
question: what song does backtrack sing to himself in mirror every morning???
Mac Davis! I remember having a bit of a crush on him when I was probably all of 10 or 11……Baby, baby don’t get hooked on me!!!
Remember his TV show?
Yep remember the segment where he used to make up a song on the spot? Some of those were so funny!
Are you fucking kidding me? Jesus Christ, now I have TWO embarrassing presidents. Where can I get me a third citizenship?
Now?
Obama and Hollande. I was cringing listening to him (Hollande) talk about the hostage situation in Algeria yesterday. But hey, the French are really good at escaping! That would be the French hostages we either didn’t know were in there, or weren’t saying were in there. Plus I am STILL waiting for the socialists to reintroduce the 5-day school week, before I go mad. MAD, I say.
If there have been further developments re Algeria, I don’t know about them. Yesterday I had a grueling all-day French test, my brain is mush, and I haven’t looked at the news or much of anything else other than the bottom of my “special” coffee cup and the inside of my eyelids.
I think I’m in moderation. I used Angie-type language. : (
Hello?
Hello!
Helloooooooo!
🙂
They are counting Obama giving a guy a Purple Heart as an “accomplishment” of his first term?
Actually on second thought, that probably *is* the highlight.
Oh, PS — the lady with brain tumor was NEVER denied HEALTH CARE — she just couldn’t get health INSURANCE to cover the bulk of the cost.
Now the guy plays third base for the Yankees.
Too soon.🙂
Q:What do you call a dog with no legs?
A: It doesn’t matter, he’s not gonna come anyway.
Q: What do you call a guy with no arms & no legs on the wall?
A: Art
Q: What do you call a guy with no arms & no legs on the floor?
A: Matt
Q: What do you call a guy with no arms & no legs in the ocean?
A: Bob
Q: What do you call a woman with one leg?
A: Eileen
Q: What do you call a Chinese woman with one leg?
A: Irene
Q: Where does she work?
A: IHOP
Having been stupid enough to buy a book of “500 kid jokes” for Bruno’s 6th birthday tomorrow, I expect I will be hearing these jokes and 494 others just like them very soon. Over and over and over again.
Yes, I do believe these were jokes *I* heard in the first grade.
A classic is a classic.🙂
Maybe he didn’t talk about himself while he was pinning the purple heart. That would certainly be a major accomplishment.
Of course he did, bet he said “doesn’t my pinning this purple heart inspire you?” 😉
Mo’s new do:
Well first off it’s a wig……but usually when someone changes their hairstyle that drastically it is to distract from some recent work they’ve had done…….just sayin
Maybe her other one went bald. 😆
She prefers silky Asian hair. You know, this is how mentors of young black women roll 😀
Yep silky Asian hair and plastic surgery to morph her facial features into a more caucasian look. A few more nips and she’s going to have Michael Jackson’s nose, lol!
ROFLMAO, foxy and Denise. I saw the pic and yelled, “Tinaaaaaaa!”
Haha……Rollin…….Rollin……Rollin on the River!
Better yet, a more fitting song……Nutbush!!!
Somebody, I could not respond directly to one of your comments below but it made me think she should just go ahead and change her name to Michelle Jackson.
Goodness knows she has had enough photo ops of her dancing about at inopportune times.
Dear lord.
Mo has pulled off quite a trick. Her adorers think her hair is as real as her persona..But then they also believe her husband is straight.
I actually think she looks pretty here. For once she’s smiling.
She looks “pretty” because she doesn’t look “herself”.
“Tinaaaaaaa!” is right on.
Good points in this article
🙂
Those who will not be invited to the swearing in
long termed unemployed
unemployed or those that their hours cut due to obamacare
employed who just had their payroll and other taxes go up
retired who have had their living standard lowered because of high prices of food and gas
feel free to add to the list
Romney supporters 🙂
TCHers
Bitter Clingers
PUMAs, the original ones.
Teaparty hobbits
Economic emigrants. People whose houses have been foreclosed on.
That would be me!
Kissy-Kissy NYT Obama article …
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/magazine/obamas-first-term-oral-history.html?smid=fb-nytimes&_r=0
But smaller magazines will do the trick. At least until the bad guys form bigger gangs. Look, “squirrel“.
Haha……love it, if only Sarahcuda or somebody would actually make him do that.
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2013/01/17/inaguration-crisis-not-enough-porta-potties/
they must be expecting the owies
I hope one of them shits on his face. Heh.
Now there’s an OWS event I would look forward too. Hypocrites, they should be more disappointed in Obama than the rest of us, those mega-corporate bucks are what’s running the Coronation. Gee, couldn’t that money be better spent on …. oh nevermind, Twinkles Down owies.
OT — Funniest thing I’ve read all day:
Funniest thing I’ve read all week (from the comment section at AoS on this story):
funny
Holy shit, dude must have been some kind of horny.
Yeah, but who gets turned on by a …. couch ?
maybe a couch potato?????
Like grandma used to say, there’s a lid for every pot.
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/01/17/pro-obamacare-group-sponsoring-symposium-to-train-journalists-how-to-report-on-obamacare/
I guess they are not spewing enough backtrack bulls–t now, they need to be carefully taught
What further proof do we need that the media is indeed a “state-run propaganda” machine. They do a pretty good job as a propagandists, but what with the complexity of obamacare, they need a bit of training and brush up of skills.
Too bad nobody trained the congress on how to read and understand it before they voted.
honk
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/01/17/outgoing-labor-secretary-hilda-solis-blames-the-tea-party-for-obamas-economic-failures-hurting-the-future-of-our-country/
it is all the laws that the tea party passed that did it. that’s the ticket
Sadly the obots believe this shit. Pathetic.
The Obots believe the GOP — the party that was formed by abolishonists — wants to re-institute slavery in this country. They *actually* fucking *believe* that — Whoopi Goldberg *actually* says that on The View and NO ONE tells her to STFU.
What’s worse is that they deny the Democrats have resurrected slavery, but they have. Welfare is slavery. It keeps people living a subsistence existence in circumstances every bit as cruel as the worst plantation (ghettos), and gives them no options for getting out of their misery. They only difference is that a frightening number of AAs, Latinos, and poor whites sit on their asses instead of working fields, but their lives are just as miserable, and their options just as limited. There is no escape for the vast majority. And the government keeps people in chains for pittance, thereby affording massive opportunity for upper middle class and wealthy whites.
If someone else is paying for your food, shelter & medical care, you’re a house pet.
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/01/17/unreal-anti-gun-group-releases-ad-tying-gop-congressman-to-newtown-massacre/
so the propaganda begins on guns. smears, start
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/us-software-developer-busted-employer-outsourcing-job-china/story?id=18230346
this guy is not only lazy but he is dangerous
He really is dangerous. Now that the company knows that the “best software development” in the company happened at a fraction of the cost in China, you can bet they will outsource a lot of those jobs. Competence and cost-savings (to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars per developer)? No-brainer.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/world-war-photos-found-inside-antique-camera-203437991.html
thought this was cool
I love this article ….
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/337917/doc-obamas-traveling-medicine-show-kevin-d-williamson#
Now I know I can’t be a racist, Obama really is an insufferable President.
now this is a traveling show more should see
this was what kids were taught before the bomber billy school of teaching
http://www.showbiz411.com/2013/01/17/obama-inauguration-heavy-hitters-awol-no-bruce-aretha-barbra-or-bon-jovi
A listers staying home for inauguration
I need to rant a little bit.
first of all I DO NOT mean poor pitiful me. I have had a pretty good life.
When I hear the people who want to be taken care of from cradle to grave. the Julia types I do not understand them at all.
When I was in foster homes, I was a second class citizen. That is one of the worse feelings of all. Do these fools really understand what it is like to be less then? No freedom at all. I still have a problem when I hear kids talk to adults today. Believe me that did not happen in foster homes. I was one of the lucky ones. I graduated from high school at 17. If my birthday had been before graduation, I could not have graduate. You are on your own at 18. You either make it or you don’t.
Why would someone want to give up freedom to be owned? That I will never understand.
end of rant
HelenK, I hear you loud and clear. My own mother grew up in a foster home. She was one of the lucky ones, too: she stayed with them for 12 years and they treated her as a cherished daughter. She grieved harder when “Mama” died than she did for any of her biological relatives, none of whom I have ever met and none of whom do I even know are alive or dead. We really need to do more for foster kids when they age out of the system.
That doesn’t make sense up there: I DID know one of her bio relatives, her paternal grandmother, who died about the same time as “Mama.” I’ve never met my mom’s parents and don’t know anything about them other than the events that led to her living with the foster family.
Cajun is a special kind of redneck:
Children need to grow up sometime and if someone else is paying for your food, shelter & medical care, And you are over 21 you are still a baby. 🙂