What do you want to do to Obama?

[Fang]

What do you want to do to Obama?

Let him go golfing everyday for the remainder of his term and let people who actually have experience leading and managing handle everything.

 

[NLT]

maybe they know what happened to all the hash????

Bush definitely knows what happened to all the hash. Reagan only knows who made it.

So that's why he sent Marines to Beirut......

 

[Wildman]

Send him home.

Walking home.

Hey, He DO walk on water 'don He?

Kenya or Indonesia ??

he sure as hell ain't no American citizen, plus he is a self admitted muslime, and we all know muslimes HATE America

 

[007]

More like, what should be done to obama...

 

[Wildman]

some of the OLIARbama posts here are truly disgusting, anti-America and sitting astraddle the boarder line of tratiorism.

i truly pity you lowlife liberscum. ...... ... ...... ... ...... ... ...... ... .

 

[Katzndogz]

I want him to live a long healthy life in prison, so he can watch as everything he did is dismantled. I want him to make frequent public appearances in a prison jumpsuit, handcuffs and leg shackles.

What, you don't want to shoot him in the face?

Having a sudden attack of mercy are we?

Mercy? No he should witness all that he has done undone. To be a public spectacle for his life.

Or, President Putin could tie him up behind a pick up truck and drag him around the white house three times, like Hector at the fall of Troy.

 

[dr.d]

U r disgusting and ignorant..Mr. KGB Putin would have u cut to pieces if u spoke of him this way...subhumans like u do not deserve or value the freedoms u have as Americans...
GO TO RUSSIA...u sure don't belong here.


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[boedicca]

What do I want to do to Obama?

Absolutely nothing except to be able to ignore him.

The real question is "what do I want him to stop doing to me?": destroying my liberty to live my life the way I choose.

 

[Pogo]

maybe they know what happened to all the hash????

Bush definitely knows what happened to all the hash. Reagan only knows who made it.

The hash disappeared during the Nixon administration.

Did not.

 

[Pogo]

For your own well being as well as USMB's, no physical threats, please.

Or, President Putin could tie him up behind a pick up truck and drag him around the white house three times, like Hector at the fall of Troy.

Well, so much for that. Thanks for peeking out from under the hood. Asshole.

 

[jillian]

Make him live with my income, then tell me to my face, i feel your pain. That wouldn't never happen.

did you make the same demand of baby bush... who has far more wealth than this president...

or of Darrel issa who is the richest member of congress....

or paul ryan....


didn't think so.

and just so you know, it was Clinton who said "I feel your pain"... to a woman at a townhall meeting... after daddy bush didn't know what a supermarket scanner was.

 

[Iceweasel]

...and just so you know, it was Clinton who said "I feel your pain"... to a woman at a townhall meeting... after daddy bush didn't know what a supermarket scanner was.

...And he sexually abused women and used an intern's **** for a humidor and led her on to believe she had a relationship so he could get a blowjob. Your political blinders work very well.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Yup. I understand...it's probably the toughest job in the land. So u just keep hauling ur ass for a living....


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I could not do many things I enjoy if I were the President. Not worth the tradeoff.

 

[Mojo2]

I would thank him for the good job he has done, considering the shit storm that he inherited. We done Mister President.

Not to mention the obstructionists that he has had to work around who have been more committed to orchestrating him failing than improving the country.

Whenever your brain is capable and ready to entertain factual evidence about Obama's background pointing to his having a radical agenda designed to bring America down so he can rebuild it according to Terrorist Bill Ayers' diabolical, tyrannical vison, you let me know and I will serve you up some information that will make you cease your support for him.

Until then, just remember, if you stay ignorant you will remain blissful.

Just don't ever open your eyes or your mind and you will be okay.

 

[PredFan]

Throw his criminal ass in jail.

 

[Mojo2]

after daddy bush didn't know what a supermarket scanner was.

Wanna bet you will prefer to remain stupid, er, uh, ignorant even after being informed of the truth of this myth?

Maybe I'm Amazed

Claim: During a photo opportunity at a 1992 grocers' convention, President George Bush was "amazed" at encountering supermarket scanners for the first time.

Status: False.

Origins: The ability of a single image to influence and shape history has long been a part of American politics. Even before there was a United States of America, Paul Revere's masterful — and grossly inaccurate — engraving of the Boston Massacre helped solidify colonial support for a break with Great Britain. In more recent times, specific images from presidential campaigns have been deemed instrumental in deciding the outcomes of elections. Lyndon Johnson's infamous 1964 "daisy" commercial, although aired only once, helped crystallize the image of Republican opponent Barry Goldwater as a dangerous, hot-headed militant. The sight of Edmund Muskie's breaking down as he defended his wife's honor outside the offices of Manchester Union Leader almost certainly cost him the 1972 Democratic nomination for president. And video footage of 1988 Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis' attempting to show his support for the military by riding around in a tank while popping his head up and down in a "Snoopy-like" manner was the object of so much derision that opponent George Bush's campaign incorporated it into an anti-Dukakis commercial.

Images Barcode are easily manipulated, however, and President George Bush (father of President George W. Bush) found himself the victim of one during his failed re-election bid in 1992. The fun began during a primary season photo opportunity on 5 February, as President Bush dropped by a National Grocers Association convention in Orlando. One of the exhibits Bush visited was a demonstration of NCR's checkout scanning technology, an event New York Times reporter Andrew Rosenthal turned into a chiding front page story about Bush's lack of familiarity with the details of ordinary life in America:
Today, for instance, [Bush] emerged from 11 years in Washington's choicest executive mansions to confront the modern supermarket.

Visiting the exhibition hall of the National Grocers Association convention here, Mr. Bush lingered at the mock-up of a checkout lane. He signed his name on an electronic pad used to detect check forgeries.

"If some guy came in and spelled George Bush differently, could you catch it?" the President asked. "Yes," he was told, and he shook his head in wonder.

Then he grabbed a quart of milk, a light bulb and a bag of candy and ran them over an electronic scanner. The look of wonder flickered across his face again as he saw the item and price registered on the cash register screen.

"This is for checking out?" asked Mr. Bush. "I just took a tour through the exhibits here," he told the grocers later. "Amazed by some of the technology."

Marlin Fitzwater, the White House spokesman, assured reporters that he had seen the President in a grocery store. A year or so ago. In Kennebunkport.

Some grocery stores began using electronic scanners as early as 1976, and the devices have been in general use in American supermarkets for a decade.

Editorial writers were quick to seize on the notion that President Bush's "amazement" demonstrated he had never seen a supermarket scanner before and criticized him for being out of touch with the daily concerns of ordinary Americans:
[The Boston Globe, 1992]

President Bush, according to reporters who followed him around Tuesday at the National Grocers Association convention in Orlando, Fla., had never before seen a supermarket cash register on which the name of the item and its price flashed on a screen when the item was dragged across an electronic scanner.

The scanner was introduced at supermarket checkouts in 1980, the year Bush was elected vice president, and is just one of the many aspects of everyday life from which a president (or vice president) is shielded in the private life of public office.

Like getting money out of a bank with an ATM card. Or going down to a local video store to rent a movie. Even trying to figure out how much four 29-cent stamps cost.

With a Secret Service agent driving the car, there is probably no chance to play around with the station scanner on the car radio. And with a switchboard in the basement, there is certainly no need to figure out which long-distance telephone service to sign up with. And the operators handle any telemarketing calls.

Somebody else handles the recycling - before 1980 that was called "taking out the trash" - and is responsible for separating the plastic bottles from the glass jars and taking the biodegradable grocery bags back to the supermarket.

Maybe there will be time next year to try some of these things. After 12 years' vacation from the real world, there will be a lot of catching up to do.


[Lewis, 1992]

When President Bush expressed amazement last week at a supermarket's electronic checkout scanner, he was ribbed for being so out of touch with American life. Commentators went on to remark that high government officials as a group, with their chauffeured lives, are cushioned from reality.

Fair enough. But the episode of the President and the unfamiliar supermarket suggests a broader point, a much more serious one.

Upper-income Americans generally, whether in public or private employment, live not just a better life but one quite removed from that of ordinary families. They hardly experience the problems that weigh so heavily today on American society. And that fact has dangerous political consequences.

Health care, for example. The possibility of serious illness without insured care is now said to be the number one worry of Americans: not just the 30 million without any health insurance but the many millions more who have inadequate coverage or who are afraid to change jobs lest they lose protection.

President Bush does not have those concerns. He gets socialized medicine: care at public expense. Congressmen and other top officials may also be treated in government hospitals. Nor is health insurance likely to be a concern for private Americans with incomes in the top 20 percent. Comprehensive coverage goes with the territory for them.
Then the details of the story started to dribble out. Andrew Rosenthal of The New York Times hadn't even been present at the grocers' convention. He based his article on a two-paragraph report filed by the lone pool newspaperman allowed to cover the event, Gregg McDonald of the Houston Chronicle, who merely wrote that Bush had a "look of wonder" on his face and didn't find the event significant enough to mention in his own story. Moreover, Bush had good reason to express wonder: He wasn't being shown then-standard scanner technology, but a new type of scanner that could weigh groceries and read mangled and torn bar codes.

The New York Times then defended Rosenthal's original article by reviewing videotape of the event and proclaiming that both ordinary and newfangled scanners had been demonstrated for President Bush, and that he was clearly "unfamiliar with" and "impressed" by the former:

But a videotape of the encounter last Tuesday shows that Mr. Bush seemed unfamiliar with even basic scanner technology. Shown an ordinary scanner, he was clearly impressed.

The incident occurred on a visit to the National Grocers Association conference in Orlando, Fla., last Tuesday. Robert Graham, an executive with the NCR Corporation, showed Mr. Bush a scanner and said: "Of course, this looks like a typical scanner you'd see in a grocery store."

"Yeah," the President responded.

"There's one big difference," Mr. Graham added, and lifted the plastic screen over the glass through which the codes are scanned to show that a grocery scale was built into the device.

But Mr. Bush seemed more interested in the scanner. Pointing to the scanning window, he asked, "You cross this, this open place?"

Mr. Graham nodded, so Mr. Bush passed a drink carton over the window and looked up when the price showed up on the cash register display.

After that, Mr. Graham tried to show Mr. Bush the new scanner that can read mangled bar codes, but he had to wait because Mr. Bush was still trying the basic model. The President passed a bag of candy over the window and then pointed at the register, shaking his head with wonder when the price appeared with a beep.

After that, Mr. Graham showed Mr. Bush the new scanner, and the President was also impressed with that. Later, Mr. Bush said he had been "amazed by some of the technology."

The New York Times seemed to be one the only major print medium to take this view of the event, however. Newsweek screened the same tape and reported: "Bush acts curious and polite, but hardly amazed." Michael Duffy of Time magazine called the whole thing "completely insignificant as a news event. It was prosaic, polite talk, and Bush is expert at that. If anything, he was bored." And Bob Graham of NCR, who demonstrated the scanner technology for President Bush, said, ''It's foolish to think the president doesn't know anything about grocery stores. He knew exactly what I was talking about.''

(I myself would point out that even technology we've encountered many times before takes on a whole new fascination when we actually get to try it "hands-on" and see how it works. I may have ridden Disneyland's "Pirates of the Caribbean" attraction so many times that I have every detail of it memorized, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't find going behind-the-scenes for a glimpse of the underlying technology a fascinating experience. Certainly my fascination would not be an valid indication that I had never been to Disneyland before.)

What it all came down to was that President Bush (whose popularity rating had been at a record high just a year earlier) became the scapegoat for an economic recession. Once the hoopla over the Persian Gulf War receded into the past and Americans once again turned their attention to more mundane matters (i.e., money), Bush's public image shifted from "conquering hero" to "politician befuddled by economic matters." He had told us that a recession wouldn't happen, and now that it was here, all he had to say about it was that it would end soon. Even if Bush had been in a grocery store or two since the advent of scanners, everybody knew he had "people" to do his shopping for him, and therefore it was easy to paint a picture of him as someone who no more knew how to handle the economy than he knew the price of a carton of milk or a loaf of bread. All that was needed was a hook to hang the picture on, and Bush's encounter with a scanner at the National Grocers' Convention provided it.

Last updated: 27 September 2007

snopes.com: President Bush and the Grocery Scanner

 

[Mojo2]

Yup. I understand...it's probably the toughest job in the land. So u just keep hauling ur ass for a living....


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I believe in giving the devil his due.

Obama is brilliant at what he has done.

Managing to execute his nefarious agenda to screw up America and lead us to the brink of societal collapse, and do it right before our eyes and still maintain ANY public support by doing a fair job of actually conducting the business of leading the country?

Brilliant.

 

[Mojo2]

What do you want to do to Obama?

Let him go golfing everyday for the remainder of his term and let people who actually have experience leading and managing handle everything.

He would never go for that.

Not until he'd accomplished his goal of bringing America to collapse and then rebuilding it in his radical vision.

That's his plan.

Tell me if you need substantiation for this.

 

[PredFan]

...but Obama does not. He's a decent talking head, a fair rabble-rouser...but if he had to make a living in the private sector, he'd starve.

You really think someone that has the skill set to become the POTUS would starve in the private sector? You must be high

You must be high if you think that a skill set consisting of self-promotion, contempt for those he considers not equal to himself, and being a pathological liar is in high demand for anything other than a politician.

 

[PredFan]

I'm sure he wouldn't...we both know he's never actually WORKED a day in his life!

Ur an idiot...The prez came from a working class family...and after his dad left and his mom died of cancer...he was raised by his grandpa who was a marine...U becha he worked.
...And after getting his law degree from Harvard, did he take a 6 figure job w a fancy law firm? No - he chose to live and work among the poor and disadvantaged as a community organizer. Ur more of an elitist than Obama ever was.


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This is hysterical, I mean beside the fact that you are a dumbass, that anyone would be so to such a degree that they would write this stupidity, is indeed hysterical.