President Obama gave a speech Thursday night, because he was awake and there were no breaking world events he was trying to avoid addressing. Our good friends at the New York Times were at his speech commemorating the 100th anniversary of the NAACP:
President Obama delivered a fiery sermon to black America on Thursday night, warning black parents that they must accept their own responsibilities by “putting away the Xbox and putting our kids to bed at a reasonable hour,” and telling black children that growing up poor is no reason to get bad grades.
“No one has written your destiny for you,” he said, directing his remarks to “all the other Barack Obamas out there” who might one day grow up to be president. “Your destiny is in your hands, and don’t you forget that. That’s what we have to teach all of our children! No excuses! No excuses!”
That’s right, put away those video games. No excuses. We don’t want our young people wasting their lives on that junk.
Well, okay, there’s one excuse for video games: When they get Obama some more votes! Remember this from last October?
In their eternal quest to capture the youth vote, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has taken to the streets of Burnout Paradise, filling the game with billboards promoting the presidential hopeful.
“I can confirm that the Obama campaign has paid for in-game advertising in Burnout,” Holly Rockwood, Electronic Arts director of corporate communications told virtual world fixture Wagner James Au.
He went after video games during the campaign, but he got awfully quiet about them once the news broke about his virtual billboards. Guess now he feels like it’s safe again to tell people how to live their lives.
Which he really likes doing, doesn’t he? You know you might have control issues when even The Onion is starting to notice (Note: One bad word at the end):
Update: A protest from the comments…
So, now if he encourages teens to abstain from drinking, yet has wine at a party, are you going to jump all over that too?
A better analogy would be encouraging teens to abstain from drinking, and then promoting his presidential campaign by putting his picture on beer cans.
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Hey kids, President Obama hasn’t released his grades yet, much less any other records that most other politicians release, so if you do become the great one, don’t worry about it.
Hey if all Obama wants is to run other people’s lives can we get him Sims 3 and four tickets to Elba?
Remember when everyone thought John Kerry was a genius before the election and it turned out he was a D student?
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/06/07/yale_grades_portray_kerry_as_a_lackluster_student/
Also, nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says current spending is unsustainable.
http://cboblog.cbo.gov/?p=328
Oh My! Could it be the Anti-christ is residing in the White House?
Whether he’s the antiChrist or not*, he’s definitely a hypocrite, the kind who starts his own brand of hypocrisy and then sells franchises. As Fortunate Son points out, B. Ho has yet to release his transcripts, which leads me to believe he just might have been so “special”, in an Affirmative Action type of way, that his grades weren’t really any great shakes. And wasn’t he the editor of the Harvard Law Review, yet wrote/submitted a grand total of zero articles? To say nothing of the birth certificate controversy, and before anybody goes rolling their eyes at me on THAT one, take note: The one they finally released was the short form, which for all we know could have been filled out the day it was released. It was not the original, IIRC. If there was no problem with either his transcripts OR his birth certificate, why not simply release them? Whatever issues we all have had with John McCain–and chances are, we DO have issues with him–he released his records as soon as it looked as though there might be a problem. Not so with Dear Leader, here. And you never hear anymore about how BO voted “present”, rather than “Aye” or “Nay”, UNLESS he was voting against the lives of the unborn.
Barack Obama is the product of a vile, loathsome political machine noted for its corruption like Angelina Jolie is noted for her big lips and foreign storebought offspring. Except for his own bloviating in his…what? Two? Three? autobiographies, and the ceaselessly-expunged paean to him on Wikipedia, we don’t know much about him. He’s a PRODUCT, and lots of us think he was produced and packaged by Oompa-Loompas in the employ of George Soros. (Well, maybe they weren’t technically Oompa-Loompas.)
*Still not ruling out the antiChrist thing.
…..Aaaaaannnnnd whines of “RACIST!” to start in…8…7…6…5…
Are school children allowed to vote in the US?
Awww. It grew thumbs, y’all!
God I am getting so sick of this. He does plenty of things you could comment on, but you tease out “hypocrisy” from the most ridiculous of places.
You can play an age-appropriate video game and still “put them away” and get to bed/do your homework. Nowhere has he EVER said video games were bad. Only that parents need to be involved, to monitor and set limits.
Besides, the ads were targeted at VOTERS. Which means those of us over the age of 18, y’know ADULTS, past the age of bedtimes and homework.
So, now if he encourages teens to abstain from drinking, yet has wine at a party, are you going to jump all over that too? OMG THE PRESIDENT THINKS ADULTS CAN MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONSSSSSSS!!!
I do agree with him on the fact that we make our own destiny and no excuses in life.
As my father (who is much darker then BO) says, excellence knows no color. He would know since he started as a child of poor immigrants and is now a top exec at a multi-national corporation.
Oh, definitely. That’s why he’s doing all he can to take everyday decisions–like healthcare and what sort of car we drive–out of our hands. Because he believes in freedom, and he trusts us. Yes, I see that now.
@D—: I’d be right behind him with pompoms and a big grin if I thought Obama MEANT that. My point above was that he, in particular, has had an awful lot of destiny made for him, and that (as we’ve seen here on Deceiver), he’s pretty big on excuses when it comes to his own life.
Really D—? Hey listen I need 25 grand really quick! I’ll explain later. So…can he help a guy out?
WSJ 07/16/09-
One answer — offered by students of talk from Aristotle through Alfred North Whitehead — is obvious: The purpose of the rhetorician’s art is to persuade. John Locke, watching democracy’s advance, had a darker view; rhetoric, said Locke, is an instrument of error and deceit. Or both: talking people into error.
Keep it up Beige. You are spot on.
Even worse Beige, Barack Obama was a legacy student, as his father Barak Obama, Sr. (why do father and son spell their first names differently?) attended Harvard as a Kenyan exchange student.
There is an even greater hypocrisy to the Barack Obama “birth certificate controversy”.
Obama initially ran in 2004 against the hugely popular Jack Ryan who’s supermodel wife Jeri Ryan was a Star Trek actress. Obama’s campaign (along with the Chicago Tribune) pressured the state of Illinois to release their sealed divorce records, which contained tawdry details of a trip to a European strip club made by Jeri Ryan.
Ryan withdrew immediately and Obama destroyed Alan Keyes by a 3 to 1 margin.
Though Obama called for the release of Ryan’s sealed divorce records, he himself has released almost no information, and specifically sought to vote in the Illinois Senate in a manner in which he would leave no trail of his actual positions.
To say many Obama voters have been surprised by his actual positions woudl be an understatement.
That’s probably because the vast majority of them voted for him either because a)He’s black, and while that didn’t/shouldn’t count AGAINST a candidate, it was openly used as a blunt instrument in his favor; or b)Their blind, raging hatred of Bush and/or anything conservative made any other option look preferable.
Well, now we’ve got “anything but Bush”, and the cheering, she ain’t so loud now.
Awww, Beige you made some friends
And if I was a male, I would kiss ya cause you are right on. He is full of hot air and will be only telling people what they want to hear and then does the opposite.
Mwah, baby.
Favorite O tactic: Going to ground to crank up an investigation or smear job on his opponents or potential opponents, then popping up and chirping, “I have nothing to do with this.” Case in point: Claims made in the media that against the wishes of the White House, AG Holder is going to investigate Cheney for “torturing” enemy combatants. Yeah, those wacky, loose-cannon Attorney Generals. Always off pursuing their own thing, with no input or encouragement whatsoever from the guy who hired them. One of these days, an AG is going to order a disastrous armed raid that will kill a bunch of kids, or send armed troops into a home to seize a little kid, or…Oh. Never mind.
I’m just surprised he was in the country long enough to give a speech. I do know that it seems like he’s been spending a large chunk of his time abroad giving speeches that no one in their respective country will actually listen to and making agreements with other international leaders that no one will keep.
The more time he spends in the US, the more he will be tied in the public’s mind to his (increasingly unpopular) plans for us. Hence the traveling.
With the power of water-carrying media unwilling to lift a finger to investigate who Obama is and what he has done (or not done) in his “career”, immense fundraising fraud, brownshirt tactics, and illogical Bush hatred stoked by the MSM, Obama was always guaranteed to win against a pitiful McCain.
Add in the race issue (oh I feel so good about myself voting for a black man!) and it is no surprise we are in the spot that we are in. On the bright side, the Dems are so inept and unable to capitalize on their victories (poll numbers falling to the ground like an Obama pitch) since people are starting to wake up from their race-obsessed slumber and realizing the direction we are being taken in is dangerous and unsustainable.
I would have voted–and campaigned–for a black conservative over a white liberal, and I would have been happy to do so. But we weren’t offered that option.
Are you going to be okay?
A better analogy would be encouraging teens to abstain from drinking, and then promoting his presidential campaign by putting his picture on beer cans.
You should read more.
There’s obviously no IQ requirement for Internet access in the UK.
I would have voted for Condi in a heartbeat over any sort of liberal and she is far from conservative. Would have been fun to watch the heads explode on the Left. Not that I want to see Thomas leave the bench but I’d love to campaign for him and see him in office.
Oh, honey, you and me both (on the Condi thing). I would have voted for her just to see hordes of rabid Democrats having explosive aneurysms. If Thomas Sowell were in politics, I’d wear t-shirts with his big old Orville Redenbacher face on them. Ain’t gonna happen, though.
The smear campaign against Senator Jon Kyl in Arizona was very similar.
Realizing he faced a sterling argument against his policies, Obama had four cabinet ministers write letters to politicians in Arizona asking whether they wanted to return their stimulus money, which Kyl had not suggested.
So to do the right thing for America you have to screw your state? Government is a huge mess of fifty senators (and the house, of course) saying… you can have $10M to do whatever you want with, as long as I get $10M to make a (library/racetrack/monument in my honor).
No one is watching the taxpayer’s wallet.
“OMG THE PRESIDENT THINKS ADULTS CAN MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONSSSSSSS!!!”
Bull. Shit.
He doesn’t think we can run our own companies
He doesn’t think we can take care of our own health
He doesn’t even think we can buy our own health insurance
He doesn’t think gays can decide to get married
He doesn’t think soldiers can smoke
He doesn’t think people can determine what kind of green actions they want to take
He doesn’t think people can decide if they want to smoke pot or not
He doesn’t think we can manage our own money
He’s a walking case of “do as I say, not as I do, comrade”
And a full-body “AMEN” to that. Every word.
Elle, You just got a standing ovation from me.
On a related note, does anyone else remember the [poo]storm that the media rained down on Bill Cosby for saying pretty much what Fearless Leader just said?
(Yay! The cool kids noticed me!)
What is BO worried about? He’s got the MSM licking his ding dongs 24/7 that he could tell them he was born in another galaxy and they still wouldn’t come up for air.
Elle, the Cosby speech =was the first thing I thought.
I don’t know anything about this website, but here’s the text of his speech:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/billcosbypoundcakespeech.htm
Elle, the Bill Cosby scandal is exactly what I thought of when I was reading this. It’s amazing how much backlash Cosby got from suggesting that more parental involvement would lead to positive effects in their children’s achievements and behavior. Now Obama’s similar words will be praised as a call to empower a community.
Wow Elle, just…wow. If you’re ever in Chicago, me and you-girl’s night out, we’ll tear the lid off the joint! Beige and Angry Army Wife, you can totally come too. We’ll get drunk and give these blue state pussies what-for!
Now I’ve got my Libertarian panties in a bunch. I used to date a very conservative black man who used to go on rants about how Bill Cosby was the best role model the black community could have. Things didn’t work out between us, but his great dream in life was to be Cliff Huxtable, a responsible, hard-working professional with a responsible, hard working, brilliant, gorgeous professional woman by his side-tell me Claire Huxtable is not the ultimate role model. I so want to be her. I couldn’t help but wonder what my ex had to deal with these days and during Obama’s campaign, had to be hard being a Republican black man, even more than usual I mean.
Alas, I’m a teetotaler now, but that only means I have no alcohol to blame for my rampages. Elle–the Bill Cosby thing? Absolutely right. Without a doubt. All of a sudden, right after he made that speech (if memory serves), he started getting accused of the vilest things. Whatever happened to the woman who accused him of attempted roofie-rape? (Not raping a roofie; you know what I mean.)
JGM: I keep checking Joseph C. Phillips’ site, to get his take on things. (He played Denise Huxtable’s Navy-officer husband on The Cosby Show.) He has caught nine kinds of hell over the years for being a conservative black man. His book, “He Talk Like A White Boy”, is effing BRILLIANT. It’s got to take some amazing courage to step off the Democratic plantation and think for yourself, when everyone around you is doing whatever they can to tear you down.
Oh–meant to add that Stonegrigio gets the “MY EYES!” award for providing us with that nightmare fuel. Heh.
Just in case you guys haven’t been scared enough yet today: the new health bill coming down the pike (strongly supported by Fearless Leader) has verbiage to make private health insurance illegal (or at least unfeasible)
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=332548165656854
Now’s the time to start talking to your reps (as if it will do any good – she griped cynically)
We’ve got the change – when do we get hope?
Haha, well then I guess you’ll have to be our DD, Beige. I’ll have to lookup his site now.
A pig in a poke.
That’s what those “yes we can voters” bought for the rest of us.
O-One
B-Big
A-Ass
M-Mistake for
A-America
@#$%. Every time I turn on the TV, his stupid ass face is on, yarping about “making things better for working Americans”. He’s so full of it, he can’t take a corner without falling over. Obama’s plan isn’t to LEVEL the playing field–he wants to CLEAR it.
Fortunate Son
Homer Simson voice/
Jeri Ryan…
Thanks.
I kind of am in awe that he said “all the other Barack Obamas out there”. It strikes me as narcissistic. I can’t even imagine someone like Oprah saying something like that.
Yeah, it does sound rather “Enough about me. Let’s talk about you. What do YOU think about me?”.
babeltek – That was what I was just going to say. Although I can imagine Oprah saying something like that…
“If Thomas Sowell were in politics, I’d wear t-shirts with his big old Orville Redenbacher face on them.”
Yeah, I’ve read one of his books and part of another one, and he strikes me as a very intelligent and sensible person.
I find it rather funny that if a successful black man is a conservative then he is called all kind of hateful things for wanting to be white or turning his back on his fellow blacks. Whatever happened to freedom of choice and maybe that black guy is tired of everyone trying to mooch off of his success, white trash and the like. America is the land of the free to do whatever you want to do. Quit blaming your downfalls on everyone else. Of course, I do blame others for electing this pompass ass into office, but nothing more than that
And get on your phone to your reps about this bill. Not only will it hike up my taxes, but it may also cause millions of us to lose our freedom of choice and healthcare. Hey Obama, I want to keep my change, thank you very much,