Obama: Don’t Drive. Don’t Eat. Freeze Your Butt Off
By Uppity Woman on May 20, 2008 at 12:00 AM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Jimmy Carter
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.”
No Kidding. Barack Obama actually said that today. You can’t make this stuff up. He was talking about America “leading by example”. But it does conjure thoughts of exactly what Barack Obama has in mind.
Talk about an omen of what is to come if this guy, by some freak oddity, became President. I’m just wondering which “other countries” he wants the approval of. I mean, we are talking about the Presidency of the United States here. I wasn’t aware that our food, cars or warmth was subject to another country’s ‘approval’. But that’s just me.
Seeing Obama’s latest remark about his country kind of got me thinking what we would have to do if he were to become President, perish the thought.
Here are some practice tips I would think would work well with an Obama Presidency:
You can start by telling your useless anti-Obama elderly parent or neighbor that it’s just too damned bad if she is cold all the time and needs more heat in her apartment. Tell her old people are useless to Barack Obama anyhow, so turn down that thermostat and Live With It! Those goddamned Old People are a such a burden on society anyhow. Besides, most of them don’t like Barry. So screw ‘em. As one very loving “progressive” Obama supporter so compassionately described it back in January:
So, Barack scored a decisive victory tonight, unless you look exclusively at the old people vote. While he kicked ass in nearly every age group except those over 65, his support goes down progressively as the voters get older and he really, really doesn’t do well with the old people
Pundits are already pundit-ing that he needs to improve among old people because otherwise that whole “breaking down barriers” thing he’s pontificating about doesn’t count if all the old people don’t vote for him because he’s black. Then again, November 2008 is kind of far off. A lot of ‘em will prolly kick the bucket by then.
Bzzzzzzzzz! Time’s almost Up! There are still a lot of old people in the USA and they all still pretty much hate Barry.
You just don’t see too many of them hanging out swooning over his vibrating cell phone do you? Some say that a certain amount of wisdom and discernment comes with age. Translated, this means older people recognize a con when they see it. Just saying.
So bascially, if Barry decides to appoint himself President, he will just have to make all those old people crank down that thermostat to 62, let them freeze, the old farts — so “other countries” will say “Ok”. All 27 million of them! Think of the money the country will save if Obama just gets rid of all those pesky old people he doesn’t have time for. The problem is, he’s going to have to round them all up and make them feel too cold to vote in November or else it’s back to being a Chicago Thug for him. Maybe he can spring Tony Rezko and get him to cut off the heat completely. That’s the Obama-Chicago way.
Here’s considerate Barry smacking down one of those old farts in Iowa, where they simply cannot wait to vote again in November now that they know him better. The guy is just a boatload of compassion isn’t he?
And another thing, America: When Barky Obama is President, you aren’t going to be allowed to eat as much as you want anymore either. So get with the program and stop eating now! That way Barack Obama won’t be sending the Food Police to your house later. They are going to take your food and give it to somebody else who needs it more. You want a big meal? Get an invitation to the White House. Otherwise, no arugula for you!
You also might as well get rid of that damned SUV right now! Of course he can keep his. After all, he is the President! Oh wait, Ok, so he’s not president yet. But he will be just as soon as he figures out a way to cheat again and disenfranchise some more of the 57 states that aren’t going to vote for him. That should fix it. In the meantime, get yourself a subcompact and shove the five kids and the dog in it. If you don’t all fit, leave some kids home or something. And while you’re at it, start biking to work. So what if you commute 30 miles every day.
To be honest with you, hearing Barack Obama make those remarks reminded me of the Jimmy Carter days. Anyone who remembers Jimmy also remembers what a blast it was only being able to get some gasoline on Odd or Even days, depending on the last digit on your license plate. It was also fun to listen to Jimmy give his School Principal lectures to us on TV. I think they called that period in American History the “Carter Malaise”. But at least Jimmy waited till he was actually President to chastise and depress people. Of course, he also got his a$$ handed to him on a plate when he ran for his second term.
Obama Prosperity: It’s just around the corner. His. Not yours.
This is just great. Now I`m going to be an old skinny old fart, freezing my ass off, polishing my scooter while I cling to my gun and dust off my bible. WONDERFUL… Thanks pod people.
HARP
You will not be alone! Do not fear! The Podless Wonders are with you!
Thank God for normal people.
Exactly!
Gas guzzling, face stuffing, sweat staining normal people.
May God bless us all.
And, if not, let’s invade some country for their oil.
That was his memo to his constituents who were complaining about Rezko’s slums.
This comment missed the conclusion:
Stop complaining you low class losers, not everyone should have heating and transport!
Yours Faithfully
Barack Obama
Try living in Castle Grande!
Oy!
WELL –SORRY TO BE MEAN ===
BUT MAY BE OBAMA SHOULD TRY CLOSING THOSE FRIED CHICKEN PLACES FIRST ——
Doesn’t this grinning retard understand the Constitution says we have the right - nay, duty! - to loot the world to be fat sweaty pigs in limos?
Fuck the world if they don’t like it.
You’re not fooling anyone. Hillary’s supporters don’t think like this.
And we don’t call people retards.
Why don’t you, with your “sweaty limo pig” bullshit, join that “grinning retard” who used the word “prolly” in their pathetic little dissertation on the alleged and plainly unsupported superiority of your candidate?
By their own words we shall know them. Team Obama has nothing but idiots who demean and insult. And apparently, four hundred of them are being PAID. Talk about a waste of money!
If that’s how you make your case, clown, you don’t have a fucking argument. Go back down in your mother’s basement and pick your zits.
Hello? Do you think he’s talking to us? Hell no. He’s talking to AL GORE … he’s going to take a world class whopping today in Kentucky and he wants to roll you can call me, Al, out on center stage.
But he has a huge problem. His vote in favor of the Bush/Cheney Energy Bill … that’s right. He’s the only candidate left who supported it. Oh. He regrets it now, dammit, but he certainly didn’t then. When Shumer was screaming for transparency in those closed Cheney meetings, what was Barry doing? Looking for a way to make this work for Illinois … I am pulling the following paragraphs from MSNBC (back when reporting was their stock in trade versus opinion ….):
But even though Obama takes broad swipes at Washington with a special-interest tar brush, even he gets somewhat spattered when it comes to the energy industry. Obama is a strong supporter of the Illinois coal industry, and has received thousands of dollars from lobbyists for the energy industry and employees of energy companies, according to the FEC.
In 2005, he voted for the Bush energy bill, which he vigorously criticizes on the stump, accusing the administration of meeting with conservation and environmental groups only once but meeting with the oil industry 40 times.
Obama’s support for the Bush energy bill brought $40 million to Illinois to help its burgeoning ethanol industry, $1 billion to allow diesel engines to be retrofitted to reduce air pollution and another $85 million for Illinois universities to research how to turn Illinois basin coal into transportation fuels, according to an article in the Peoria Star Journal at the time.
I hope that Al Gore gives more than lip service to his environmental stand. But maybe he’s just one more old tired Democrat with his hand out ….
I guess we’ll see.
i thought so too
but I also think he really is this naive and arrogant as well, what a combo, Dubyah redux with an added flave of cultlike following….
here in AZ where it was 110 degrees yesterday, many elderly people would die without their a/c
perhaps Uhhbama plans to relocate all of us out of these areas, where have I heard that kind of reasoning before..oh yeah the maroons who said the Hurricane Katrina victims should have known better than to live in a flood plain, maybe if Uhhhbama gets his way we will return to what he may consider halcyon days of yore pre-SS when the NYC dept of sanitation had to pick up deceased elderly people off the streets, every day this joker says something else to make me shudder and pray harder for Hillary (or McCain if all else fails)
after he is whomped tonight in KY who do you think they will roll out tomorrow to preempt the victory rounds on TV, Gore or Biden? I hope neither, I respect them both and hope they see Obama is unfit for POTUS….
Barky says you can have a basket on your bike to hold your Bible.
Is Barack Hussein Obama going to be the Pol Pot of the Democratic Party? Kos, Pelosi, Dean, Kerry et. al. couldn’t care less.
Obama’s Wondering Zero.
He’s very off target when he speaks inne?
If we ask those other countries nicely, do you think that they might let us continue to say our Pledge of Allegiance and listen to our National Anthem? Pretty please?
No doubt about it, though, when it comes to who can kiss global butt the best, Obama has it hands down over Clinton, and even McCain. He’s had plenty of practice bowing and scraping in his early years, ingratiating himself to the Combine in Illinois.
Now, as Michelle would say, it’s time that her behind is kissed. Give her something!
As long as millions of us out here stand against this anti-American, wave of insanity there might be a chance that our country survives. This is why I will vote for McCain if Hillary does not get the nom.
We must vote for a patriot. We must vote for someone who has truly served our country.
And I thought Bush was the limit. It appears his other half is on the way up the totem pole.
Thank you.
No, really.
Thank you.
Please direct your thanks to those who deserve it most — Howard Dean and Donna Brazile. Without their swift and unflagging efforts to promote an unqualified conman and kneecap the qualified woman in the race, the Democratic Party might actually have broken its long losing string.
Barack Obama — making Dan Quayle and George W. Bush look competent.
Donna is a *colleague* of Karl Rove’s. He must be thanking her indeed.
“Few would suspect that Rove regularly trades tips with Donna Brazile, Al Gore’s 2000 campaign manager; she tells Rove how Bush’s proposals are faring among Democrats, while Rove makes sure her clients are included in White House events.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A2674-2003Mar9
Democrats unite! It’s time we took our country back - away from the DNC and the mainstream media who decided long ago who the nominee would be. Obama is totally lacking in judgment and experience, and if you want to send a message to the DNC, vote for McCain if Obama is the nominee. Sitting at home or writing in Hillary’s name will not accomplish anything. We must either convince Hillary to run as an independent or vote for McCain. And don’t let the Obama supporters fool you. McCain is NOT another George Bush - they don’t call him the maverick for nothing! Let’s show the DNC that all of our votes count, yes, even Florida and Michigan! WE get to choose the president - not the DNC and the media!!! Remember democracy? Remember one person, one vote? What a concept! It’s a pity the DNC has forgotten it!! Here’s a quote from Obama’s book, Audacity of Hope: “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” Does this convince you to vote for Clinton or McCain? It should.
McCain is no Patriot he is a corporate shill no better than Cheney or Bush
And yet … here you are …. not saying one word about the mighty Obama … how nice to see that the trolls have given up extolling his virtues and are resorting to the politics as usual they decry in others … pot, meet kettle.
Obama is a shill for the Middle East.
No air conditions for summer we have to suffer in the heat and show the world that we are leaders, this is what leaders do according to Obama, then the world will love us as we bury our dead from sun stroke.
Except for Obama, of course. He’ll be buring up fuel in private jets and air-conditioned SUVs and hotel rooms because that’s what the Kwisatz Haderach does. The sacrifices are for us, not for Him. He is The One.
yes. those noi shirts of his might get stained if he had to live without optimal air conditioning. the one can’t be seen with armpit stains, now can he?
Ah, just let him finish his waffles.
Rezko will get you a nice third floor apartment with the windows nailed shut.
Perhaps we should be aggressively searching for alternative energy sources, like Clinton and McCain have made central to their campaigns.
now axt, what do you think you’re doing? suggesting a real solution? the one can’t have us doing that. that’s the type of old politics practiced by those horrible racist ones like hillary and mccain. oh no, we can’t fix the problem. we’ll just tell poor people and old people that they need to suffer in the interests of the obambis and their pals.
my goodness, the nerve of expecting a real solution!!! shame, shame, shame.
can’t think of why, but it has to be racist. after all, it involves disagreeing with obambi, so there’s no doubt that it must be racist. if obambi didn’t think of it, it can’t be good. so you’re racist. and uneducated. and cling to your guns and religion.
oh, and obambi wants your vote.
Politician most likely to admit hemp is essential to any sane notion of biofuels as part of a larger sustainable energy policy:
(a) John McCain
(b) Hillary Clinton
(c) Barack Obama
Comparisons to Carter are important, since he failed to decriminalize hemp.
Barack Obama won’t.
Get ready for the new economy.
Awesome Dude! With fields of hemp, it’ll be like impossible to find all our pot and when we’re all really stoned, we’ll all be like too chilled to be drivin’ around wastin’ energy n’stuff. He is the one!!!
Let alone hemp produces little fuel per weight. Considering soil conservation is a must, producing the junk for such fuel output is a step backwards, not forwards.
Just another slogan for kids, to justify why they lost their brain cells enough to vote for Obama.
Obama waffled on his hemp position
see talkleft columns
He’s going to have Rezko find a way to convert the poor into an alternative energy source.
How? No land nearby to grow the alternatives. I can imagine wind power being an alternative there, but you know how elites complain how their “view” is interrupted by the wind turbines, so doubt wind farms would help on home heating (which is required in Chicago for at least 5 months a year).
The guy stepped into eyebrow level doodoo.
Elites want more soup kitchens, more homeless shelters, more wind farms, more everything, and they want all this stuff put in exactly the same place:
Somewhere Else.
Precisely. Can’t mess up their million dollar “views” with something as unsightly as a 30ft wind turbines marring them.
But it’s perfectly fine to locate them in Barry’s constituent’s backyard instead (who’ll also will have to pay for them, that ships the energy elsewere, even — much like in GA with the nuclear plants. We’re paying for Texas to have energy).
He’s Teddy’s boy.
What did Ted do when they wanted to put a wind farm up near the family “compound?”
In a remarkable turnaround, liberals are now heaping scorn on the 73-year-old senator. Young audiences boo at his name, and the leftish “Daily Show” on Comedy Central makes fun of him.
The source of unhappiness is Kennedy’s efforts to kill an offshore wind farm on Nantucket Sound. Cape Wind was to be the first such project in the United States and a source of pride to environmentally minded New Englanders. Polls show 84 percent of Massachusetts residents in favor. But now it appears that America’s first offshore wind farm will be near Galveston, Texas.
Proposed the month before Sept. 11, 2001, Cape Wind remains in limbo. It’s been frustrated at every turn by a handful of yachtsmen, Kennedy included, who don’t want to see windmills from their verandas. Many millions have been spent spreading disinformation and smearing the wind farm’s supporters.
Hillary is better off without the endorsement of a bunch of two-faced all talk no walk bitter old white men losers ….
How? Soylent Green gasoline.
jwrjr
Just what I was thinking!
soilent green?
soylent green is people
I keep thinking that one day I will wake up and find out that this whole Obama thing has been one very bad dream.
Pinch me, slap me or hit me upside the head–I don’t care what you do, just please wake me up from this nightmare!!
I know exactly what you mean. The whole thing seems surreal. There are people actually chanting ‘yes we can’ and are in some kind of altered state of revelry over a guy in his first term in the senate who has never done a THING for anyone but himself. He has no experience! At all! It’s just the strangest thing I’ve ever seen, and more than a little disappointing.
It’s an American Idol culture, and I hope I AM dead before I hear the suggestions that voting should be done on your cell phone.
It’s just youth and exuberance in large part. And I do agree……that part is good. It comes with a price, however.
Disaffected youth is one of the biggest problems in a lot of countries where radical religions/govts are beginning to take over - inciting violence. They are easy to manipulate and all have the “I’m invincible” complex we all did as teenagers. First thing they always do though is to get rid of all the old people - especially intelligent ones like doctors, teachers, etc. Same pattern every time. Scary stuff.
Pol Pot and the “Killing Fields” anyone?
I remember being a teenager and reading the rise of Nazism and Fascism, or even the Cultural Revolution by Mao and wondering how could people be swept up in this - why didn’t they see through it? At least with Bush, people didn’t brand him a God. An average - “I would like to have a beer with him” type, but not as a Messiah. Really scary stuff.
Never thought I would actually have to consider voting for McCain - putting my country before all else.
That will happen the day after Election Day. Just a bad dream, bye.
Dean scream moment.
There’s more substantive criticisms to levy his way.
Has anyone asked him if there’s any other federally indicted kickback artists he’s borrowed money for a house, or other loan, from?
If he can tamper with a primary, what’s so hard about this?
Even the UN is getting into the act they are sending a delegation to ensure that we nominate this black man for president of the USA, they are coming to make sure that he is not cheated out of this thing by racist white Americans.
What I would really love to know is who invited them and why?
I’m not sure, but the US has been under constant surveillance by this group. Usually it has dealt with our obvious jailing of an inordinately high number of AA men versus white men.
They are going to have a hard time standing in the voting booth with everyone.
I agree with you that he very poor at framing his positions. It’s funny how bad he is at it.
I’ve always thought that one thing he cannot take is Bill Clinton. Bill was and will obviously remain the master of framing his thoughts in a way that hit the sweet spot.
Obama……?
He’s laughably very bad at it. He’s just another ambitious guy with a pony trick up his sleeve. He’s fabulous at working a crowd up to a pitch.
But content?
Here’s my thought. He’ll avoid talking a lot if he were president. Tons of photo ops all around the world.
He’ll do as little as possible.
This is going to come as something of a suprise to the range-rover/Hummer driving Obambi supporters n my affluent neighborhood of 6,000 to 8,000 square foot McMansions.
I kid you not, there are actually vehicles around here that get less than 12 miles to the gallon with “Got Hope” bumper stickers on them.
p.s. I drive a prius and our house is only about 4500sqft, built over 150 years ago-so I can’t be blamed, but nonetheless I am very affluent despite my core working class values and background. Got rich during the 90’s-you know all those terrible years of peace and prosperity
Yeah those Clinton years were just horrible weren’t they? I mean, all that work checking to see how much our portfolios made every month.
i salute you from my little brick 1500 sf house built in the 50s, post war housing boom
we upgraded our a/c, added a tankless water heater, laid down pavers, got on the list for solar panels, but we bought a grand jeep cherokee cause with two kids and two dogs and living in AZ we need it frankly
Uhhbama can pry the keys from my hand as soon as he does what I did and quits smoking….
erm…Jimmah Cartah.
He’s gonna lose anyway. There isn’t much point in this website. The Dems have been given forewarning about this.
If they persist in effing it up with stupid as dirt candidates so be it.
They have to persist now. They are up against the wall …. (I want to add the rest of the lyrics to Jerry Jeff’s hysterical song but I won’t) ….
So much has been said and done that Hillary won’t be able to forget. They screwed themselves and most of them aren’t ready to retire ….
everyday he seems to do a gaff. he really needs some sleep or something, or maybe he is beginning to doubt his inevitability. i have faith in hillary. go hillary tomorrow win them both and shock the world
make the pundits eat cake. hehe
Well it’s got to be rough on the “Presumptive winner” when the “presumptive loser” just keeps whooping his ass. Kind of embarrassing.
I don’t care how tired he is, how could he have said there were 57 states? Even Bush and Quayle never got that far out of reality.
I thought the “not enough Arabic speakers in Afghanistan” remark was pretty fucking stupid, too. I also found the fact that he didn’t realize one of those “Fifty Seven” states, Kentucky, BORDERED his OWN HOME STATE of IL.
The idiot actually claimed that Clinton would win Kentucky because it was uhhhhhhh….in the same region as…Arkansas. Has this fucking dunce EVER looked at a goddamned MAP?
All I can say is this: Alberto Gonzales went to Harvard Law, too.
Save your money, kids! Go to a regional law school! It’s the same goddamned bar exam, no matter where you go!
So Hillary & her supporters advocate gas guzzlers, obesity & keeping the thermostat at 80 year round?
When does the ad for those positions come out?
Should be a humdinger.
P.S. Whatever brand of glue you are sniffing is working for ya!
I want to see that ad, too.
Karl Rove is working on that ad.
erm…
he’s not dietician in chief.
He’s supposed to help deliver the material comforts that come with the power he borrows from the peopl.
If he can’t see himself being a provider to the people he leads he’ll not win power–if he manages to gain power somehow he won’t reatin it very long unless he delivers material comfort.
Let there be food riots and he’ll be swept away by the sans cullottes himself.
Word.
Where’s my goddamn Escalade, Caviar & Hothouse for my dawg!
You best deliver my nigger!
As the only remaining candidate who suppoted the Bush/Cheney energy bill, I’m not really interested in him telling ME anything about what I should be doing … not to mention that hulk of a home he lives in there in Chicago when he and the Mrs. moved from a downtown more efficient condominium … but hey, what do I know? I just expect my politicians who preach to lead by example.
No. Hillary Clinton has an excellent plan to deal with the problems facing this country. You should be aware of it, since your candidate has stolen most of it.
What we are advocating is a nominee who will actually work to implement those ideas — someone who can stand up to the pressure of running for office and being President without wilting like a delicate flower when the heat is on.
Is it true that “No Quarter” is Latin for Dead Ender?
No stupid. It will end deadly.
Ooh…
Sounds exciting!
What book warehouse are you using?
Ask Ayers or Dohrn — they’re the violent ones.
Hey, speaking of Dohrn, is the rumor true that if he gets to be Prez, Obama is going to appoint her Attorney General?
No it is a universally spoken language when speaking truth to power.
Harvard Law should teach these idiots how to make a winning argument, right?
just blow my brains out.
Gladly.
Harvard is vastly over-rated. Ditto for many of the big-name schools.
I know. Wasn’t Harvard where Dubya got his MBA? Remember when the press was telling us what a great job he would do running the country because he would be the MBA President? Now they’re in love with Obama, who seems to be every bit as competent as Bush has been.
PROTEST OBAMA IN HOLLYWOOD FLORIDA ON THURSDAY
protesting Obama’s event at the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Florida on May 22, 2008 because he will not support counting our votes.
PROTEST OBAMA IN HOLLYWOOD FLORIDA ON THURSDAY
America is with you, Florida! EVERYBODY KNOWS.
I’m a big Hillary fan, but you guys are off base on this one.
What he said is exactly true.
AND, it’s a ploy to get people who believe as I do to vote for him.
Ain’t gonna happen. Sorry Barky.
YOU CAN’T HAVE US.
However, he completely looks and sounds like Carter (who was also right). Terrible framing of this issue - see how Hillary makes the same points for how to do frame it right.
Yup…which is why he needs to avoid debates, press interviews, and town halls. LOL*
Really, to win, he needs to continue to do big rallies only.
Not to mention yelling at the elderly … what a guy, eh?
JF, his Wimmin Speech is next.
What he said is, we should conserve to save face with other countries. Here’s a thought, Americans do things because they are the right things to do for America, not because Obama or any of his chosen countries advocates we do.
Hillary inspires. while Barack belittles.
I don’t understand one thing.
Why didn’t Hillary hire real Opposition researchers ?
I thought Clintons knew how to run a great campiagn?
I GUESS NOT !
Wow, Hillary got defeated by a JUNNIOR Senator from IL.