Just when you thought all of the fawning, cult like praise of the Obamessiah would never end, our friends on the other side of the pond do a little bit of jabbing.
Here’s the intro. Click the link for the rest!
And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.
The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.
When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: “Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?”
HA!
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22 responses so far ↓
1 Bob Carruth // Jul 25, 2008 at 10:14 am
EXCELLENT!!!!!
Isn’t there always an element of truth in parody?
It is almost spooky about the cult of personality he has unleashed.
2 Steve Smith // Jul 25, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Now thats some funny stuff, right there, I don’t care who you are.
3 Justin Thibault // Jul 26, 2008 at 9:26 am
Any idea who it was who brought the Child into Jerusalem?
Y’all can have some fun with this one.
4 Brad Spry // Jul 29, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Soldiers are dying so you can have fun here. Let’s take a look at how two veterans organizations score McCain and Obama’s congressional record:
IAVA - Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America:
Senator John McCain D
Senator Barack Obama B+
Source: http://www.iava.org/full-ratings-list
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Disabled American Veterans
John McCain 20%
Barack Obama 80%
Source: http://capwiz.com/dav/scorecard.xc
5 Caleb Seamone // Jul 29, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Yes, Barack Obama so loved the troops that he decided to snuff them in his visit overseas. Obama barely has a “Congressional Record”. Don’t lecture anyone about troops dying for us and try to turn it into good news for the Obama Campaign. That’s disgusting. You just said, “Troops are dying, look at the good news for Barack Obama.”
6 Aaron // Jul 29, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Brad–
As a Former Marine, let me say this: If I could buy you for what you know and sell you for what you think you know about anything having to do with the military–I’d be able to retire next week.
Please don’t get too knee jerk on me here but I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that we haven’t had a draft since ‘nam. That being said, I’d say that 99.9999999% of all those folks who’ve fought and died in Iraq and Afghanistan, entered the service just as I did: willingly and with full understanding of the potential hazards of the job.
I know this sounds strange to a civilian but I missed the war by a good few years. I was domestic until I was injured in training and discharged. Myself and a good many of my friends who never saw combat are somewhat disappointed that we couldn’t or didn’t last long enough to do our jobs like we were trained. I’m sure you’ll chime in with some ignorant statement about blood lust or baby killer or some jackassery that futher paints you as a make love, not war hippie like those who spat on my father as he exited the plane in Memphis back in ‘71 but here’s the sad truth:
Those soldiers don’t fight for freedom, justice, the American way, baseball, apple pie or even for sissies like you who opine for them so often whilst belittling them with your subscription to The Onion. They train and fight for the same reason I trained and would fight: For their brothers and sisters standing next to them in the Sh*t. Unless you’ve been in a fight or flight situation and had to rely soley on training and experience to make split second decisions that have life long consequences, you’d never understand what goes on in situations like that.
Don’t mistake this comment as a bash against you. Truthfully, I’m tempted to quote the Bible but I’ll just paraphrase for my own purposes: “I’ll forgive you because you know not of which you speak.”
For all bashing of your ideals, see Caleb’s post above. Talk to me when the Obamessiah’s been in a national political position for a full term…
Your poll numbers, although properly linked don’t do much for me except further reenforce the reason I don’t donate to the DAV anymore and I’ve never heard of the IAVA until now. I wonder if George Soros is involved there?
7 Brad Spry // Jul 29, 2008 at 1:11 pm
No Caleb, I didn’t say that at all. You’re delusional. Your quotation is false garbage.
I’m tired of the “Obama doesn’t care about the troops” lies propagated on this board.
Put his voting record side by side with McCain, listen to what veterans have to say about it, then form your own opinion.
Obama so loved the troops he decided it would be inappropriate to visit troops at a U.S. military facility as part of a trip funded by the campaign, which is forbidden by the Pentagon.
That’s integrity. Get some.
8 Caleb Seamone // Jul 29, 2008 at 1:22 pm
No, you just said in 3 tiny paragraphs, Troops are dying, then immediately gave good news about Barack Obama, thats not delusion, its being able to read. By the way, here is what Chief Pentagon Spokesman Geoff Morrell said of Obama choosing not to go.
“We made it clear to him that campaign staff and press would not be permitted to accompany him,” Morrell said of Obama. “We relayed those ground rules. They made a choice based upon the information we relayed to them. It was their choice. We had nothing to do with it.”
So he had so much integrity overseas that he wasn’t willing to give up his best buds in the media for a little while to go visit them. Just another Campaign stunt, he wanted the spotlight the whole time.
I have my own opinion, thank you. I’m the first male in my family to go the college route instead of going to the military. I have 7 veterans in my family, so I get an idea of how they feel. 2 are currently fighting overseas, so I don’t need a lecture on integrity from you.
9 Brad Spry // Jul 29, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Aaron, it may come as a big surprise to you that I support the draft. It would wake our apathetic citizens up.
I guess most National Guard members fully understood their deployment overseas for extended tours?
You ask me not to take your reply personally, then accuse me of spitting on soldiers. You can’t have it both ways.
I am the son of an Army soldier and a VA nurse. You don’t know me. I am thankful for your service.
I will concede that “make love, not war” makes more sense to me than Iraq.
10 Brad Spry // Jul 29, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Caleb, you might be able to read, but your reading comprehension needs improvement. You should read “The Pet Goat”, a story of a girl’s pet goat which eats everything in its path.
11 Caleb Seamone // Jul 29, 2008 at 2:36 pm
I’ll put it on my summer reading list, next to Green Eggs and Ham and How to Read for Dummies. You can’t deny that you in one sentence said Troops are dying and in the next few described good campaign numbers for Barack Obama.
Also can’t deny that Obama decided not to leave his best friends behind for a couple of hours to spend time with the troops. Thats all the Pentagon requested of him, or was my comprehension of that statement wrong also?
12 Brad Spry // Jul 29, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Caleb, the numbers I posted have absolutely nothing to do with the presidential campaign. Imagine the presidential campaign doesn’t exist for a moment. How do veterans organizations feel about each senator’s congressional performance on veterans affairs?
Your comprehension of the troop visit issue is lacking in every way. Obama’s trip was funded by the campaign, so he couldn’t take his campaign hat off honestly. He absolutely did the right thing considering the nature of his trip. You WOULD have a valid reason to attack him if he disingenuously switched hats, and believe it or not, I would have joined you.
Do you think he’s perfect? I don’t. Obama is no messiah. He’s got of answering to do on telecom immunity…
13 Justin Thibault // Jul 29, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Brad -
First, while I’ve not been as attentive to the site due to some professional obligations - I’m shocked to find out that I’m running a “board”.
Second, I don’t remember a thread where Obama’s treatment of veterans or soldiers came up until you started this one. Does the “he who must not be criticized” attitude of Obama extend to those who comment on his behalf on blogs?
14 Aaron // Jul 29, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Brad-
It’s no wonder you support the draft- It’s just the socialist platform manifested to it’s ultimate end: “No Self, only service.”
I’d like to tell you thanks for telling me thanks for my service. That being said, it’s a statement that’s full of apathy in it’s own right. As I said, I’m not a combat vet. Policing is about as close as you can get to being in combat but it’s still a good ways off. That guy who shoved a 12 guage in my face on a warrant attempt is a far cry from an AK-47 wielding Jihadist pent on getting his 70 virgins.
You’ll not find someone who thinks more cautiously about where we send our troops. I was against Iraq in the beginning as it wasn’t our first priority in my personal opinion. Our “entangling alliances” are a sore spot for me politically but I’m not one to lecture on such things.
The crux of my issue with your comment is this: You’re taking the war as a political issue. It was my intent to educate you on where your comments fall when heard by someone whose walked a mile in the other guy’s ICB boots and sent rounds down range at 0200hrs in the pouring rain.
I don’t care about you or your beliefs when I’m patrolling a hot zone. I don’t care about what the gas price is or whether or not we have universal healthcare. I only care about whether I get shot, fragged or blown up by and IED. That’s what our neighbors are living in and when they hear their dead brothers and sisters being used as a wedge issue to win a political campaign, it’s not something they’ll react positively towards it. The short, one day at a time view, is what is prevalent in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s not one that folks in the Democrat party have ever understood and it’s why our military is overwhelmingly Republican and as such, why folks at the Onion and other idiot liberals like to talk about how stupid the military is.
15 Brad Spry // Jul 29, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Aaron - I am most certainly the very first person to politicize the war on this bulletin board system. Pot meet kettle.
16 JustThrewUpaLittle // Jul 29, 2008 at 10:16 pm
One of the best articles about Reagan I’ve ever read.
Oh…
17 JustThrewUpaLittle // Jul 29, 2008 at 10:39 pm
And it came to pass, in the fourth year of the reign of the righteous man that redeemed America after the odious villain Nixon and his henchman Ford, when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren by rising gas prices, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.
The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. A Hollywood icon that who more than once had graced the presence of a monkey on stage, but who in NO WAY shared his ancestry, offspring of a miraculous union between two rich white people, with only the occasional detour into the odd divorce and astrologer.
When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple of Hollywood, arguing the finer points of unionizing, being a Democrat, then…not. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: “Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hating hypothetical black women with Cadillacs on welfare that don’t exist?”
Background
* Reagan was not smart
* Reagan was an actor
* Reagan had Alzheimers and Bush 41 ran the country, trained Bin Laden and Armed Saddam Hussein
* Voodoo Economics don’t even work on paper, and then………….
In the great Battles of Caucus and Primary he smote the conniving Bush 41, who told the truth about raising taxes.
And so it was, in the fullness of time, before the harvest month of the appointed year, the Child ventured forth - for the first time - to bring the light unto all the world.
He traveled fleet of foot and light of camel, with a small retinue that consisted only of his loyal disciples from the tribe of the Holywood. He ventured first to the land of the Heartland, where if only they had known his wife was really in charge and employed Jeanne Dixon he would have been admonished for all eternity.
And the Child spake and the tribes of Dixie immediately loosed the Caveats that had previously bound them. And in the great battle that ensued the forces of the light were triumphant. For as long as the Child stood with his arms raised aloft, the enemy suffered great blows and the threat of high gas prices was no more.
A triumphant, “NO, We Can’t.” was the charge. And lo, they could not. The South…finally won. The price? A simple nose.
Take that imaginary welfare queen!
Indeed. Take that.
18 Aaron // Jul 29, 2008 at 11:06 pm
JTUaL: Good to see you lifted the Tinfoil hat just long enough to read the article AND to gerrymander and plagerize it to fit your needs. You’re exactly right, there are no welfare queens… Only welfare princesses. No Cadillac’s- It’s Lexus now… Perhaps you should venture out the shining city of liberal fantasy and into the real world. Don’t worry, the sun won’t hurt and the evil Cheny Satellites only pass over 4 times per day so you can leave the tinfoil hat at home. I’d caution against bringing the Bong. There are police here in the real world and for some stupid reason, the democrat controlled government hasn’t seen fit to legalize weed. I’d also suggest a large supply of Obama-Koolaid: It get’s pretty dry out here in the land of the commoners. Regular hydration with empty rhetoric and double talk is essential to a long and healthy life of delusion…
19 Aaron // Jul 30, 2008 at 7:43 am
Brad-
I’m guessing that in your last response to me, you meant to say ” I’m most certainly NOT the first person.” You’d be right to say that, it’s seen it’s fair share of political rhetoric but here’s the difference: You brought the fighting men and women into it on a personal level. I take issue with using our soldiers as a political ploy to win ignorant voters over to the idea that we can use the Rodney King mentality with places like Iran and Afghanistan.
We can banter back and forth about the stupidity of Iraq and our various blunders there and in Afghanistan but I’d prefer to keep the issue seperate from those we’ve placed there. They volunteered to join knowing that they could be sent places like that and while they’re there, it’s not proper to use THEM as the issue in and of itself. Politics may have placed them there but it’s not why their fighting there. That’s the inference you made and it’s vital that you understand why those troops aren’t lining up to claim C.O. status or faking injuries to come home.
The political implications of Iraq are, and should stay seperate from the troops. Using their deaths as a method to get a candidate elected is smarmy at best and down right vile at worst.
20 Brad Spry // Jul 30, 2008 at 11:07 am
Aaron - First of all, the numbers I originally quoted were veterans, not active soldiers. I care about what veterans think, their voice is lost in the noise. You have chosen to equate veterans with active soldiers and that’s your spin, your snowball, not mine. I understand completely soldiers are following orders and I’m really proud of that.
I am not politicizing the death of troops. The content of my original post was veteran satisfaction with congressional performance. Read that again. My original post was about veterans, not active troops. Veterans, not active troops. Veteran satisfaction with congressional performance. Get it yet? Veterans, not active troops. How about now? Veteran satisfaction with congressional performance.
21 Brad Spry // Jul 30, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Well, I did say something about solders dying… I’m a walking contradiction sometimes. I mean no harm. You can take me home to mama
22 Aaron // Jul 30, 2008 at 3:37 pm
I’m both quick to forgive and have an insanely short memory so no blood, no foul.
I was addressing your primary point about the deaths of soldiers. Veterans are another matter.
Caleb’s point to sheer size of the difference in timespan between their service in the senate is enough of a case in and of itself to negate any such polling.
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