If Booooosh had joked about using the IRS as an attack dog...

Would we have never heard the end of it? A POTUS making a joke, pretending to threaten anyone with a IRS audit?

Well, it happened and it's all okay, because it was The Obama making the joke. He said, Wednesday at his commencement speech at Arizona State University:

"I learned to never again pick another team over the Sun Devils in my NCAA bracket," he said, referring to the school's basketball team. "It won't happen again. President Crow and the board of regents will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS."

Now, this is wrong on so many levels. The President making such a joke, alluding to the power he has to mess people up, really is unseemly.

Had Boooosh done the same thing, there would have been howls for immediate impeachment. Congressional investigations, late-night incessant jokes, you name it.

But look at this another way -- what if it turns out that ASU President winds up in the dragnet of random IRS audits now? Completely unrelated to the joke you understand, but still getting audited all the same! This gaffe by Obama actually would put him in a bad position were this to happen.

Also, c'mon now Mr. President -- you nominated at least six tax cheats/incompetent tax filers to cabinet positions in your administration! Were you going to order targeted audits, shouldn't you start with those tax-challenged folks first?

You're not some undergrad anymore Mr. President, trying to fit in and be the cool kid, trying not to be a "sellout" as you described in your book.... You really gotta watch what the fuck you say out there now.

A truly idiotic joke that really has no good defense or even a good excuse. We don't even joke about such abuse of power.

every little nasty thing he says will be attributed to being a "joke" by the left.

but he's not joking.. he means it..

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You guys can't handle the truth.
Obama changed the game. And guess what? He's going to kick your ass next year. chris..

Its obviously not his first idiotic response/reply and will not be his last.
Just like his on the 73rd day Ill rest comment ....
Unbelievable

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Obama didnt "inherit" the economy. He asked for it, campaigned for it, spent millions to aquire it and promised to change it.
Times Up ...

I don't go so far as to think he actually would use the IRS against anyone for personal reasons. I am pretty sure however he will use it to go after large groups.

Both his and GW's administration have used the threat of audits against the banks and their boards. What was done regarding GM president and Chrysler bankruptcy were just such abuses. He was not joking.

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Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as “bad luck.” ---ROBERT HEINLEIN

I'd like to see any evidence that Bush's Treasury Dept threatened anyone with an audit.

And c'mon now, Obama WAS joking. He would never go after a University President and its board of regents over a flubbed basketball playoff bracket. He and his team are simply too stupid and insensitive to realize that these type of jokes are inappropriate.

that's supposedly sop,, in attacking your opponents!

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You guys can't handle the truth.
Obama changed the game. And guess what? He's going to kick your ass next year. chris..

Well, the unfortunate timing of this joke -- shortly after he and TurboTax Tim announced a big IRS "crackdown on tax cheats" does make the joke even more unseemly.

People tend to say what is in their hearts. The IRS is the first line of harrassment for many if you piss them off or get in their way. Thankfully many IRS agents are well aware of this ploy another will use to attempt to harrass another.

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Daniel, "Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle."

he just authorized the hiring of 800 additional employees for the IRS and they won't be auditing Democwats!

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You guys can't handle the truth.
Obama changed the game. And guess what? He's going to kick your ass next year. chris..

Sheesh. A joke, even. About a basketball loss. You fellows are really stretching. But, then, you have to. For every time President Barak Hussein Obama speaks, and demonstrates a good sense of humor, he reminds us of someone else that could neither speak well, or had a reasonable sense of humor.

And, yes, that is a partisan statement

Thank you once again for lowering the average IQ of the posters in a thread by at least 50 points.

While you're flailing around, trying to defend this idiot of a POTUS we have, whose verbal slips and gaffes are piling up at a rate much greater than his predecessors, please try to find where I did any stretching here. Or, do you even bother to do any reading in the threads you post your mindless blather in?

Also, please consider the idiocy of defending Obama with Boooosh comparisons. It's the old, infantile one of "Mom, the other kid did it too" and completely belies the "change" mantra, moron. If you have to use Boooosh comparisons to defend Obama, there's really no change! There should BE no comparison.

I wonder why he sets himself up with these dumb comments.

Hey, you other old fool, the shit I post is differant only from the shit that you post in the environmental section. There I back it up with scientists. Here, in the political, it is my own take on the world, from a lifetime in it, same as your take.

I like having a President that is intelligent enough to put two sentences together that make sense, unlike what we have had for the last eight years. And I support most of President Obama's policies. I do think that he should raise taxes on the wealthy, as they had a definate causative role in the economic debacle that is playing out in this nation.

Hell, I have yet to see you make an intelligent comment on any subject.