2nd Term, Part VI: Burnin' down the House

[Old Pio]

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In what has to be a public relations gaffe of biblical proportions, the President will skip the Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Gettysburg Address this month. He's sending the Secretary of the Interior instead.

By July 4, 1863 the Civil War was effectively over. The Union preserved. On Saturday the 4th, Vickburg fell. And the day before, Lee retreated from his disastrous defeat at Gettysburg. Sometime later, President Lincoln gave the most important, most eloquent most quoted speech in the history of the country on the occasion of the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg. But our president has something more important to do than honor that speech. A president, BTW, who announced his candidacy in Springfield and took the oath of office on the Lincoln Bible!

I'm reminded of the scene in Guarding Tess where Shirley MacLaine is preparing for a presidential visit to commemorate the opening of her late husband's library. At the last moment she's informed Secretary of Agriculture "Kika de La Garza" will be visiting instead. I think we can all sympathize with how she must have felt.

Thank God Reagan didn't send Earl Butz to Normandy when he spoke so movingly about the "boys of Pointe du Hoc."

The incredible lightness and smallness of this president is astonishing and is rapidly pushing him into Carter territory.

 

[SteveP]

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You know you're having a bad week when.....

It’s been a disastrous couple of weeks for President Barack Obama. His signature legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, is a slow-motion train wreck. His poll numbers have tanked.

Now, things have gotten so bad for Obama that former president Jimmy Carter has called President Obama incompetent in the family-friendly pages of Parade magazine.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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Oh snap. Carter is calling Obama an "incompetent loser"?

Even I'm not willing to go that far. That's bad. Really bad. If anything, shame on Jimmy Carter.

 

[Proud2baLaker]

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Oh snap. Carter is calling Obama an "incompetent loser"?

Even I'm not willing to go that far. That's bad. Really bad. If anything, shame on Jimmy Carter.

Well, Carter didn't go that far. He never said the words "incompetent loser" in the interview. He said that the "implementation (of Obamacare) has been questionable at best." Which can really be taken a number of ways from "I would never have tried to pass it" to "they needed to implement it in an entirely different way."

Here is the actual quote from Jimmy Carter in the Parade magazine interview (the question being "how would you evaluate the Obama presidency so far?" :

“He’s done the best he could under the circumstances. His major accomplishment was Obamacare, and the implementation of it now is questionable at best.”

 

[dxmnkd316]

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Well. That shows me for not looking past the URL.

 

[Slap Shot]

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Well. That shows me for not looking past the URL.

Or considering the source of the post.

 

[St. Clown]

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Well, Carter didn't go that far. He never said the words "incompetent loser" in the interview. He said that the "implementation (of Obamacare) has been questionable at best." Which can really be taken a number of ways from "I would never have tried to pass it" to "they needed to implement it in an entirely different way."

Here is the actual quote from Jimmy Carter in the Parade magazine interview (the question being "how would you evaluate the Obama presidency so far?" :

It used to be that former presidents just kept their yaps shut after leaving office, except maybe for some charitable foundation they're helping. I'd like to see a return to that. I don't like much of what Obama has done, but at least have the class to refrain from comment.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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It used to be that former presidents just kept their yaps shut after leaving office, except maybe for some charitable foundation they're helping. I'd like to see a return to that. I don't like much of what Obama has done, but at least have the class to refrain from comment.

Bingo

 

[SteveP]

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It used to be that former presidents just kept their yaps shut after leaving office, except maybe for some charitable foundation they're helping. I'd like to see a return to that. I don't like much of what Obama has done, but at least have the class to refrain from comment.

Oh, you mean like 43?

 

[Priceless]

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Republican presidents tend to retire and live off their largesse. Democratic presidents tend to remain active in politics.

Republicans didn't always do this. Taft, for instance, went on to become a member of the Supreme Court after being president.

 

[Old Pio]

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It used to be that former presidents just kept their yaps shut after leaving office, except maybe for some charitable foundation they're helping. I'd like to see a return to that. I don't like much of what Obama has done, but at least have the class to refrain from comment.

Based on the available (extensive) data, Jimmy Carter, apart from his personal religious views, is a pompous, self-righteous, mean spirited, tyrant loving putz.

 

[burd]

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Based on the available (extensive) data, Jimmy Carter, apart from his personal religious views, is a pompous, self-righteous, mean spirited, tyrant loving putz.

God save us from the mean spirited among us.

 

[Rover]

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Based on the available (extensive) data, Jimmy Carter, apart from his personal religious views, is a pompous, self-righteous, mean spirited, tyrant loving putz.

And based on more extensive available data, Opie is a bitter old coot frustrated with life and seeking to take it out via Talibaneque right wing politics!

 

[ScoobyDoo]

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And based on more extensive available data, Opie is a bitter old coot frustrated with life and seeking to take it out via Talibaneque right wing politics!

And his buddy Rand Paul apparently can pass of other's work product as his own.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/paul-if-dueling-were-legal-kentucky

1. Rand Paul presented others’ work as his own several times.

2. Rand Paul got caught.

3. Rand Paul has not yet explained why how or why he presented others’ work as his own.

He got caught by Politico, Rachel Maddow Show, and Buzz Feed.

Rand Paul wants to duel.

“nder thousands of things I’ve written, yeah, there are times when they’ve been sloppy or not correct or we’ve made an error. But the difference is I take it as an insult, and I will not lie down and say people can call me dishonest, misleading or misrepresenting. I have never intentionally done so.

“And like I say, if – you know, if dueling were legal in Kentucky, if they keep it up, you know, it’d be a duel challenge. But I can’t do that because I can’t hold office in Kentucky then.”

 

[Rover]

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Which is funny because when I see Rand "Aqua Buddha" Paul, I don't exactly see a hotshot pistol toting tough guy. I see a pampered wuss.

 

[5mn_Major]

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Oh, you mean like 43?

Who is living in the ultimate glass house.

 

[5mn_Major]

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God save us from the mean spirited among us.

Its why He owns all the shares in the internet.

 

[geezer]

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Guys. Again. Party affiliation isn't the primary determinant of virtue. Jimmy Carter has shown himself for years to be a worthless pile of self-righteous, hateful, ignorant pond scum that has done far more harm than good for the country. Bill Clinton has done a lot of really good things for all humanity post-presidency in spite of his character flaws. Why can't we admit that someone from our own "party loyalty" is simply a *******? If all we have to do is tack on a letter to make us virtuous in spite of any action taken or not taken, what hope do we have? Look beyond the letter.

 

[Rover]

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Guys. Again. Party affiliation isn't the primary determinant of virtue. Jimmy Carter has shown himself for years to be a worthless pile of self-righteous, hateful, ignorant pond scum that has done far more harm than good for the country. Bill Clinton has done a lot of really good things for all humanity post-presidency in spite of his character flaws. Why can't we admit that someone from our own "party loyalty" is simply a *******? If all we have to do is tack on a letter to make us virtuous in spite of any action taken or not taken, what hope do we have? Look beyond the letter.

Jimmy Carter was a failed President because he was in way over his head. That is pretty plain for all to see. Beyond that anything else is a cheap attack on a man who's done more in one day with his charitable work post Presidency than the people who are attacking him have done in their entire miserable lives. If that's upsetting to people, then too bad I guess, but that's the facts Jack.

 

[Handyman]

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I gotta think geezer is joking...because no one can actually be that wrong can they? I mean really, if he was being serious that is a level of stupid even Sarah Palin would bow too