Posted on 11/25/2009 5:58:59 PM PST by Kaslin
It's now official: So in vogue are attacks on President Obama that even his proclamation calling the nation to a day of Thanksgiving has become the focus of criticism.
Presidential Thanksgiving messages are a routine bit of executive prose that most attentive citizens happily ignore in this moment of national gratitude.
But the sky-is-falling mood that now pervades Obama commentary couldn't let this 435-word document pass without a few sniffs of disapproval.
The Gawker Web site called it an "uninspiring first effort from our most literary president" and expressed hope that he would spend "a little more time on it next year."
Politico damned it with faint analysis — it was "basic" and "brief" and "tread lightly" to avoid controversy.
Mostly, the message reiterated familiar Obama themes of diversity, community and service.
The opening line referred to Thanksgiving as "a harvest celebration between European settlers and indigenous communities," and Obama called attention to "the contributions of Native Americans, who helped the early colonists survive their first harsh winter and continue to strengthen our Nation."
The holiday was also "a time for us to renew our bonds with one another, and we can fulfill that commitment by serving our communities and our Nation throughout the year."
Shout-Out To Socialism?
Maybe they'll surprise me, but I'm willing to bet that a right-wing talk jock near you will soon be declaring the "indigenous communities" reference as "un-American," and the call to service as yet another shout-out to "socialism."
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Obama is a wuss and a weakling. There is nothing he can do to rise to the level of Commander-in-Chief. NOTHING
What "fighting spirit" would that be?
Obama has become the turkey, only unlike the Butterball variety, inedible and with only a left wing.
There is NO ORCHIDOPEXY that could POSSIBLY help this clown.
What a woman he is!
beat me
I think the right should turn up the fire and demonstrate to the dems that we learned well from watching them.
I did not believe that we could have a worse president than Carter. I was very wrong.
Obambat has put my great grandchildren in debt and the idiot still hasn't stopped spending.
My children, grandchildren, and great grand children do not deserve to have to pay for his arrogance.
The latest figures show that each household in our nation now has over a half million dollar debt.
Someone please unplug his spending machine!!!!!!!
They poisoned the well and salted the earth. For 8 years they told lies and attacked at every turn. And they are still doing it to any Republican, any conservative.
Yes they have debased our culture, political and otherwise. We cannot fix it for them. We have to fight in the world that exists, that they have created.
A Commander in Chief who leaves the White House in November,
in sandals exposing his filthy bare feet ,
while holding a copy of GQ with his photo on the cover, instead of some deep military reading,
while stalling on Afghanistan ..is hopelessly devoid of any fighting spirit.
Elementary school pep squads-the girls-have more fighting spirit.
This frail cretin is just trying to stay on the good side of Michelle,
so he can have ice cream for dessert.
From right to left.
he doesn’t have any.
Was this the 'unusual characteristic' that Larry was going to report?
I think #1 is Mayor Richard M. “King Richard” Daley - the bubble over his head “At least they’re not playing with handguns!”.
YES! PLEASE! MORE OBAMA ON TV!
He could single-handedly boost the American economy by causing hundreds of thousands of Americans to place bullet holes in their television sets, then give them "cash for clunker" vouchers for new flat screens and expanded cable!
II’m sorry, I think the taxpayers have been beat-up enough by this fighter.
I’d like to see somebody take out a billboard with nothing on it except this picture. No commentary is necessary. Put in an Obama friendly place. Anybody that sees it automatically knows that he’s being mocked as a sissy because anybody viewing the picture can plainly see the obvious; When it comes to manliness, Dirty Harry he aint (Emily Hartley he aint). They’d run to the press to complain and organize protests. A whole national news cycle would be taken up discussing just how big of sissy the president is or isn’t.
Hahahahaa! The *instant* I saw the title of this post I thought about that exact pic!
Good. We can watch him get all wee-weed up, acting stupidly, and then being a jackass. A non-compassionate, cold bully who gets even madder simply diminishes himself that much further. Go for it!
That he had ‘undescended testicles’? Probably. Either THAT....or he was abnormally ‘SMALL’. LOL!
He was towed in by his masters, “flying” like superman.
That image has been punctured and the balloon superman has largely deflated.
There is no getting that initial bamboozle back — ever.
Maybe E J Dionne will surprise me, but I'm willing to bet that he will never extricate his nose from Obama's ass-crack.
Post of the day!
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