Kevin Connolly had a wonderful piece of veiled Obama worship here at 7.49am. Poor Obama – all that spending and it still isn’t enough. Don’t think Irwin Stelzer’s suggestion that the US needs to take the path to austerity went down too well!
Archives
- May 2013 (76)
- April 2013 (90)
- March 2013 (106)
- February 2013 (83)
- January 2013 (86)
- December 2012 (66)
- November 2012 (127)
- October 2012 (98)
- September 2012 (110)
- August 2012 (107)
- July 2012 (151)
- June 2012 (122)
- May 2012 (151)
- April 2012 (105)
- March 2012 (111)
- February 2012 (102)
- January 2012 (110)
- December 2011 (106)
- November 2011 (131)
- October 2011 (131)
- September 2011 (121)
- August 2011 (140)
- July 2011 (138)
- June 2011 (105)
- May 2011 (100)
- April 2011 (77)
- March 2011 (124)
- February 2011 (85)
- January 2011 (117)
- December 2010 (94)
- November 2010 (105)
- October 2010 (144)
- September 2010 (147)
- August 2010 (153)
- July 2010 (128)
- June 2010 (105)
- May 2010 (100)
- April 2010 (83)
- March 2010 (103)
- February 2010 (103)
- January 2010 (116)
- December 2009 (118)
- November 2009 (123)
- October 2009 (131)
- September 2009 (154)
- August 2009 (135)
- July 2009 (111)
- June 2009 (97)
- May 2009 (114)
- April 2009 (101)
- March 2009 (110)
- February 2009 (107)
- January 2009 (116)
- December 2008 (75)
- November 2008 (85)
- October 2008 (131)
- September 2008 (112)
- August 2008 (70)
- July 2008 (74)
- June 2008 (95)
- May 2008 (60)
- April 2008 (55)
- March 2008 (54)
- February 2008 (61)
- January 2008 (31)
- December 2007 (18)
- November 2007 (32)
- October 2007 (60)
- September 2007 (74)
- August 2007 (61)
- July 2007 (51)
- June 2007 (21)
- May 2007 (20)
- April 2007 (24)
- March 2007 (15)
- February 2007 (24)
- January 2007 (53)
- December 2006 (20)
- November 2006 (38)
- October 2006 (47)
- September 2006 (35)
- August 2006 (44)
- July 2006 (36)
- June 2006 (41)
- May 2006 (28)
- April 2006 (18)
- March 2006 (25)
- February 2006 (35)
- January 2006 (28)
- December 2005 (66)
- November 2005 (28)
- October 2005 (39)
- September 2005 (36)
- August 2005 (19)
- July 2005 (23)
- June 2005 (21)
- May 2005 (30)
- April 2005 (35)
- March 2005 (36)
- February 2005 (36)
- January 2005 (42)
- December 2004 (14)
- November 2004 (33)
- October 2004 (21)
- September 2004 (39)
- August 2004 (24)
- July 2004 (32)
- June 2004 (27)
- May 2004 (15)
- April 2004 (30)
- March 2004 (39)
- February 2004 (32)
- January 2004 (51)
- December 2003 (49)
- November 2003 (43)
- October 2003 (34)
- September 2003 (38)
Search B-BBC
Aaaah but you see…its all the fault of the nasty republicans who are blocking every Obama policy for petty selfish reasons, if only the nasty republicans would stop selfishly thinking about themselves and did what the dimocrats ordered them to do then everything would be wonderful, people would sing and dance flowers would bloom and the recovery would surge ahead like a runaway pony!
Hmmmm! uhm I think the toady muppet forgot to mantion a salient point about the fact that the dimocrats control BOTH houses, the congress and the house of representatives are both democrat controlled so the dimocrats could push through ANY legislation they like.
The problem of course is not the republican minority, its the dimocrat dissenters looking toward the election horizon with real fear, the BBC somehow forgot to mention that nearly all the failed Obama socialist medicine that failed to get enacted got busted by democrat dissenters.
Obama started his presidency with overwhelming senate and congressional power, he could have rammed through anything he wanted yet now the BBC are blaming the republican minority(soon to be majority). Come November Obama is going to be looking at being a lame duck one term turkey, his socialist dream shattered and his anti American crusade brought to a shuddering halt, he will stumble on from November to his defeat at the next election looking like a sad Jimmy(peanuts)Carter.
Could he do a Falklands style rescue war to boost his standing? The only thing that will save him is a big quick successful war, dont rule it out folks.
The BBC fell in love with a cardboard cutout president, a socialist and an empty vessel with Chicago morals and a skill at reading an autoque or five!
“What this country needs is a short, victorious war to stem the tide of revolution.”
– Vyacheslav von Plehve
“The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.”
– Robert Wilson Lynd
“Yes we can…, or perhaps not quite, or at all, even….” No second term for YOU, sunshine!
Brilliant post!
Yes we cant and no we can, change you cannot believe in or dont even want to imagine.
America she says no, the cardboard cutout just blew over in a light wind.
BTW Obama has yet to be tackled about his huge errors with regard to the greatest catastrophe ever to hit the US, a disaster of epic proportions that never actually existed at all.
Obama making up his boot on the neck waffle and his shakedown of BP turned out to be his defining moment and will be remembered long after this one term turkey fades away.
<!–[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser /> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]–> <!– /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:”"; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} –>
<!–[if !supportEmptyParas]–> <!–[endif]–>
<!–[if !supportEmptyParas]–> <!–[endif]–>
<!–[if !supportEmptyParas]–> <!–[endif]–>
This item was a near-disaster for Today. Ceri Thomas (Today’s editor) pressed the wrong button on his Blackberry and got Irwin Stelzer instead of Paul Krugman. Then Ceri must have been shattered that the Republican from (in Ceri’s “sophisticated” world-view) the hick state of Wyoming turned out not to be a carpet-chewing Tea Party racist but a rational individual who gave a comprehensible anti-Obama anti-Washington take on the reconvening of Congress while the representative Democrat was unfortunately interviewed before his appointment with his anger management therapist. The item was only partially saved by Connolly’s contribution which was marked by his complete ignorance of US politics and federal-state financial relationships leavened by an unquestioning worship of the Great Redeemer in the White House. Oh dear! If Ceri’s not more careful, listeners in the UK might receive a glimmering of the truth of what is happening in the US
Did they mention that when Barry went to Texas none of the Democrats wanted to meet him? Oh and that only the Republican Governor bothered to turn up at the airport.
Yes, He’s not only the first black President in history, but will also be the first black Albatross.
Yes, the first black albatross, I like it – the first triply under-par president (though Carter of course nearly got there!).
Just heard Naughtie’s interview with Selzer on Today. What a breath of fresh air that was. But first, allow me to point out the blatant lie in the summary accompanying the audio clip.
The US House of Representatives is being called back to Washington to debate a $26bn package of legislation to bail out individual states which need the money to pay the wages of teachers, police officers and fire fighters.
“Wages”, eh? It sound to me like the same line the BBC and Gordon Brown and Ed Balls always give you about boodget coots: it will harm “front line services”, eliminate thousands of teachers and policemen, etc., right? Except this isn’t about wages at all. It’s about saving those gold-plated union public sector pensions in places that have been bled dry by them, like California, Illinois, and New York. These state public sector pensions have been screwed for years, and the cupboards are not only bare, but being broken down for fire wood.
So it’s an outright lie, right there on the Today page. This money is going to the unions, and the only “wages” it’s going to cover are those of union bosses.
Having gotten that out of my system, let me just say how amused I was to hear somebody on the BBC say that The Obamessiah was actually wrong about spending even more money to save the economy, and that we should be imitating the Tories’ plan. Made my day, that did.
DP
” . . somebody on the BBC say that The Obamessiah was actually wrong . . “
Make the most of it – you won’t hear that again for a long time.
‘Make the most of it – you won’t hear that again for a long time.’
Yep. heads will roll!
Yup – I feel a Humphrys-style apology coming on…
Did anyone else hear the seriously annoying astronomer Heather Couper bringing Obamaworship into this seriously irritating item about asteroids? Ha ha not. Verbal diarrhea gone mad. Send her to an asteroid and put John Humphrys on the pillion.
Ever since they found the black woman with dreadlocks and a working-class accent, Dr. Couper has been the BBC’s only contributor in the field. She was on that Dr. Who special as well.
It was a typical Today bit on science – larky and hardly for grown-ups.
John Humphrys adopted that deeply irritating ‘aren’t-I-dumb-about-science-and-aren’t-I-pleased-with-myself-about-it?’ manner that he always puts on when something scientific crops up.
Arty-farties will never admit that they don’t understand science because they are too stupid. So they turn their ignorance into a virtue. Doesn’t stop them having opinions on science , though. They make me sick.