Has TOTUS been put on administrative leave?

As far as I know TOTUS doesn’t need Ambien to go into sleep mode:

and he didn’t run into anybody in his car so I’m not sure why he’s been placed on administrative leave.

I’m afraid this can only mean one thing:

“Hello, my name is Barry, and I am an addict.” Addicted since 2007

Uh oh: Teleprompter Rehab? Right before the reelection? What on earth are our puppeteers thinking?

That’s like asking a chocoholic to give up chocolate right before Halloween.

(Is that racist? Because I’ve only seen dark and milk chocolate witches

…butt I see more and more white chocolate hoods every year)

Anyway, apparently it’s true: they’re making BO give up his TOTUS habit:

 President Obama is weaning himself off his teleprompter.

 

“I just can’t quit you.”

At recent campaign events in Pennsylvania, Virginia and again Monday in Ohio, Obama spoke to crowds in high school gymnasiums and at crowded outdoor events without his teleprompter, instead using written notes.

So, brainiacs at Team Obama Central, how’s the plan working out for us so far? Do you really think we need any more slipups when Big Guy goes off prompter?

Doesn’t anybody around here remember how those pesky “middle Americans” react when Big Guy leaves TOTUS behind and inadvertently lets another little truth slip through the normal filters? Is there anyone on staff old enough to remember the bitter clingers? They’re still talking about that little “guns and religion” slip of the tongue in all 57 states!

And have they forgotten the flap Fox and el Rushbo made over Big Guy’s perfectly reasonable unscripted comment to Joe, who apparently thinks he can spread his wealth around all on his own with out aid of the government?

And let’s not forget the push back that happens every time BO makes one of those off-prompter remarks that critics think implies a disdain for that persistent and peculiar strain of American rugged individualism.

So if our puppet masters didn’t think that history began the day they joined the O-team they wouldn’t have been so surprised when BO went cold turkey last Friday and channeled Princess Pocahontas:

“You didn’t get there on your own “Somebody else made that happen.”

Maybe some of your friends with convictions?

“There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.”

Some people think that teacher might have been Frank Marshall Davis

Barry and Frankie: minimally a mentor-mentee relationship 

I don’t know where all this is headed, butt I’m going to try to stand clear. It’s already giving me the vapors and I’m not sure my new Obamacare will let me get a breathalyzer.

There’s already been too much violence.

TOTUS made a leap for freedom. It didn’t end well.

And if Mitt decides to start fighting back, it could start getting pretty ugly around here. Because I think Mitt could team up with any number of somebodies to form a more perfect union than the current dynamic duo playing Batman and Robin around here.

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That game was the pits. Next time we’re getting a real Brazilian.

Youser! That was some game, no? 

The crowd did a bit of trash talking, too, booing the first couple after the first lady playfully rebuffed Obama’s advances when they were featured on the “Kiss Cam” on Verizon Center’s overhead scoreboard.

Oh Noes! Not a rebuff! I wonder if Lady M knows something we don’t?

Hold the phone – incoming from Obama campaign central, calling for an instant replay:

The Obamas did share a couple of public kisses in the second half, the first of which elicited some cheers and chants of “four more years!” (Notably, the White House press pool, which had been moved from the arena to vans before the second kiss, was led back into the arena in time to witness the smooch, according to a pool report.)

Take 2: call back our press corpse!

Everybody was happy before we got that call:

BO and Joe were happy

BO and Reggie were happy

Wee Won 1 was happy

Even Lady M was happy

Then we got the call from Plouffe-Daddy: Lady M’s shyness was making us look bad. Ann never would have rebuffed Mitt like that.

So, back to the arena, hard working press corpse, we called for a replay:

That’s better!

Butt that calls for a beer!

Maybe two.

What the heck, you’ve been working hard, let’s have one more for the road – you’re not driving.

All righty then – everyone’s happy now!

Well, not everyone:

Just every Won who counts:

Oh. My. Dear. Lord. What have I done?

I’m sorry, that’s all I can do for you today. It’s not that I’m hiding in shame, it’s just that Raj is having a little hand surgery today in order to preserve his ability to remain our magic nerd, and he needs a driver. Lady M volunteered, butt she’s still a little hung over so I’m taking him myself.

Till tomorrow…at which time I hope you can forgive me.

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No Apologies, Not Sorry: The New Obama WTF Story

After years of apologizing to everyone for everything we finally ran across something BO is not willing to apologize for: calling Mitt Romney a felon.

“No, we will not apologize,” Obama told WAVY-TV of Portsmouth, Va., vowing to continue attacking Romney on his private equity record.

The specific allegation has something to do with the fact that Romney was off saving the 2002 Olympics from financial scandal and ruin while he was still officially the CEO of Bain Capital. You remember Bain Capital: the evil vulture capitalist company Mitt founded that raised money to try to save troubled companies from bankruptcy? Just like Big Guy tried to do with GM and Solyndra, only Obama used your money.

And Bain’s success rate was better

Gee, as I understand it, Mitt just took a leave of absence - to do a little community service.  I thought Big Guy approved of that sort of thing.

BO, hanging curtains on our “National Day of Service”  aka “9/11”

You’d think BO would understand leaves of absence; you know, to pad your resume a little in case you decide to run for public office?

“Community Organizer” – a job to fill out your resume where it would otherwise be empty

Anyway, all these sordid facts led Stephanie Cutter to the conclusion that Romney is a felon. And she thinks – along with Rhambo and Big Guy himself – that Mitt should just stop whining about the fact that Obama 2012 has accused him of being a felon.

Stop whining? I really don’t really think Big Guy wants to go there. After he’s spent so much time whining about Fox News,

being “out spent” in the campaign,

and Lady M being “dragged into politics” (!?!).

Despite struggling valiantly to escape, MO got dragged into politics, kicking and careening.

Butt NO! BO will not apologize!

Mr. Romney claims he’s Mr. Fix-It for the economy because of his business experience, so I think voters entirely legitimately want to know what is exactly his business experience.

I’m not perfectly clear on all the nuances in Obama 2012’s allegations, butt you’re all smart; you can judge the Pinocchio ratings for yourself.

I think I’d just drop it if I were Big Guy, before some smart-aleck on Romney’s team decides to counter-attack and ask BO about his suspicious – some say fraudulently obtained - Social Security number. Because I’m pretty sure that would be a felony too. Maybe Sheriff Arpaio will have more information for us tomorrow that the OMG (Obama Media Group) will ignore.

And while I’m giving Big Guy advice, I think I’d stand clear of that outsourcing allegation against Romney too, as a lot of our “green energy dollars” went to companies who immediately sent it off shore. Also because everyone knows that a lot of that outsourcing would disappear in a nano-second with the implementation of tariffs, quotas and enforcement of anti-dumping laws and other unfair trade practices – normally all things that liberals love.

I can understand why Big Guy would rather talk about Mr. Fix-it’s record than his own. Butt I’m afraid that if Big Guy insists on calling Mitt “Mr. Fix-it” Mitt’s going to insist on calling BO “Mr. HOPE and CHANGE.” And that doesn’t work so well anymore.  Hope? Nope. Not so much, 23 million people are out of work, some so hopeless they’ve stopped looking  altogether. Change? We assumed he meant for the better, butt since median income has dropped 10% in the last 4 years, some critics are wondering...maybe “Mr. Break-it” would fit better because Big Guy sure has made most Americans broke.

So, I guess we’re testing another new campaign slogan this week: “No Apologies” – It’s like “No Excuses” only with excuses and no apologies. Don’t like the sucky economy? It’s George W. Bush’s fault and I’m not sorry. Can’t find a job? Not sorry, it’s Bush’s fault. Gas prices doubled? Bush again, and I’m really not sorry about that, “butt you’ll be sorry if you don’t give me at least 4 more years.”

I think you get the point. We’re trying it out today as this week’s “No Apologies” tour hits the road for battleground state Ohio.

Lady M unofficially kicked it off yesterday at a fund raiser in New York (no battle there).

She was dragged into the political fundraiser before taking the Wee Wons to see the new Spiderman movie and hitting Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill joint for a healthy T-Bone snack (h/t: Marty Davis aka Chickaboomer):

Of course, we had to be inconvenienced by an idiot making another stupid bomb threat. The heat is starting to get to everyone, it’s just been one meltdown after another around here. Fall can’t get here soon enough.

 What fresh hell is this?

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Channeling our inner Cherokee: a social contract story

“You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for...

“Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”

Elizabeth Warren September, 2011

Here’s the hunk you can keep, bupkis

"Look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own"

Barack Hussein Obama, Roanoke,Virginia July 2012

 

“I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart.”

“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help”

“You didn’t get there on your own “Somebody else made that happen.”

“There are a lot of smart people out there.”

“It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.”

“Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.”

 

“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.”

“There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.”

“Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive.”

 

“Somebody invested in roads and bridges.”

“If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that.”

 

“Somebody else made that happen.”

 

                    

[ed. in this case, a whole lot of “somebodies”]

Somebody’s ideas (and money)

 Somebody’s organizations (and money)

Somebody’s influence (and money)

“There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me — because they want to give something back.” 

 

 

Warren, bupkis, please spare us any more of you guilt. We can’t afford it. And that goes for that other Warren too.

 

…and the Grand Cherokee headed off into the sunset. I wonder how that got out of the ditch? Oh, that’s right, four-wheel drive, a hemi-engine and a full tank of gas. And a new driver.

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