How is it abusing power? Did he make a law that now says everyone has to laugh at the joke? Or pass a bill which says that they have to make it happen? Or did he himself try to say that no other joke is legal now?
Obama is an idiot for so many things, this is just ... well ... lame. It's another non-issue. If there was someone bad mouthing you, wouldn't you laugh at a joke at their expense? Obama is still human, and humans are suppose to have emotions and feelings. Now if he had made jokes about him illegal then I would agree, but he didn't, he just had himself a laugh, that's all, and he laughs at jokes at his own expense to. He made guest appearances where he laughed openly about jokes at his own expense. Focusing on non-issues is old, and many people are starting to make fun of those non-issues, but everyone gets all outraged about the jokes all the time. It's just gotten sad now.
Apparently you have not read the thread. Allow me to summarize the key points:
1.) The quote: "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."
2.) The unfortunate timing: Here's the timeline: The announcement of the new aggressive program to catch "tax cheats" and hiring 800 more IRS staffers -- then a week later, the gaffe at the ASU commencement, making gross abuse of power a punchline to a joke. IRS audits as an attack dog.
3.) What if it were Boooosh instead: First, the media would be crucifying Bush over it. Then the puppets such as ravi would be lecturing everyone about how necessary it was for the media to expose Bush like this and that there was nothing partisan about it. Just good journalism. Everyone would laugh at ravi. The headlines would continue another 3 weeks and ravi would be expressing outrage at anyone who thought it was just a funny joke.
(4.) Possible embarrassing consequences: What if the President of ASU, or one or more of the Board of Regents gets audited? After the President used that threat as a punchline? And after he and TurboTax Tim announced a new program to aggressively go after "tax cheats" and hiring 800 additional folks to staff the IRS?
C'mon now.... Can you not see how stupid this is and what a major embarrassment it would be if any of these folks now winds up with an audit? Even though as I said earlier, it would definitely be a random deal, not targeted, but still -- do you not see the problem?
This is the exact kind of group-think stupidity that led to the Scare Force One flyover of Manhattan! Because you know Obama has a team writing his jokes for him, and not one of those geniuses said, "hey, threatening gross abuse of power even in a joking way might not be the best idea."
And these thin-skinned Obamatons just reflexively rush in to defend even the most minor criticism.
Now, make sure we understand -- I DON'T think this is all that big of a deal. But it sure would BE one, had it been Bush who used this joke. And fair-minded, honest folks know that's right. So do the partisan hack liars, but they would never admit it.
^^^This is the stupidity I often allude to when describing Obamaphiles. Their totally mindless, blind cheerleading with no modicum of analytical ability left whatsoever. They're so thin skinned about their messiah, they cannot stand even the most minuscule criticism.
