OBAMA ON LETTERMAN
09.22.09Here are the highlights from Barack Obama’s appearance on “The Late Show” last night. I much prefer this condensed version to the full interview, as I’m a busy man with lots of cat videos to watch. The president discusses his daughters’ summer, his busy schedule, and Jimmy Carter’s allegations that the vitriol at town hall discussions on health care was rooted in racism. Pretty entertaining stuff, and delightfully devoid of Paul Shaffer, who I’ve still yet to gut with a Ka-Bar fighting knife, although it’s on my to-do list. You hear me, Shaffer? You’re a dead man. I’m gonna make a necklace out of your fingers.
I’m kidding, of course. In the event of Paul Shaffer’s grisly death, this blog post should be considered facetious. And I’ll have you know this finger necklace was a gift.
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well otto man here comes another 3-1 fastball. i think your missing the point just a bit. yes jeremiah wright was his paster. this was a guy who was shaping his views for nearly 20 years. wright is a crazy crazy racist. and i dont know how you can say that in that time obama just left with only the good words that wright said and none of the bad. i once left a church just cause i was told it was a sin not to testify in front of the congrigation. what this guy said on a regular basis was a bit worse. have you done any research on black liberation theology… it doesnt look to favorably on white people.
van jones is yet another crazy racist that HAS happened to be involved in government. this guy blames white people for every thing. and he wants to use the green movement for social justice.
look im not saying obama is a secret Muslim. im not saying he’s not american. im just saying that there are a lot of dubious people in his life and his administration. i really wish we could do this face to face. i debate much better that way.
Yes, I’m serious.
Jeremiah Wright was Obama’s pastor. He held no official role in the campaign or in the government.
Bill Ayers and Obama sat on a community organization board of directors. If you’ve ever done that yourself, you’ll know it’s about as close a relationship as you have with the people whose names are next to yours in the phone book.
Van Jones was hired to work in environmentally friendly job creation, a field in which he’s an expert. Once it was revealed that he’d signed up with that 9/11 Truther nonsense, he was immediately shown the door.
It’s all meaningless. And just because Glenn Beck keeps pissing his pants in fear and you morons keep lapping it up like retarded monkeys, that doesn’t mean it has any meaning.
Promise me you’ll come back here in 2012 when the Republicans fail to retake either house of Congress, OK? I want to savor your sweet, sweet tears.
“ACORN, which is totally meaningless but still getting nonstop coverage on Faux News.”
You can’t be serious? Meaningless?!?! Why am I shocked. Jeremiah Wright was meaningless too. Same with Bill Ayers. Same with Van Jones. Just keep calling it meaningless because you can’t defend it any other way. 2012 can’t come fast enough.
…..But I will admit he is the funniest President we’ve had since Clinton, and maybe the funniest ever. The man can really tell a one-liner (seriously, he’s the most “normal” seeming President I can remember).
Um, DiBE….Obama voted FOR the bank bailout while in the Senate and campaigning for President (then upped it with hundreds of billions more in bailouts as President). To the other half-wit trying to discuss politics, Obama not only continued the wire-tapping program (how do you think the three Muslim terrorist-suspects were busted in NY?), Holder asked for it to be EXPANDED.
I didn’t like Bush, but Obama is a complete nightmare. Then again, as a Chicagoan I could have told you that before the election.
Wow. The racism is flowing no matter how Obama tries to let you rednecks off the hook. They didn’t care when Bush sent their children off to die, spent billions on a war based on lies and billions more to bail out banks, but now that Obama wants to keep regular people in their homes and make sure they have health care, these wackos have a problem? These losers would rather die and let their children die from inadequate health care than admit that a black president might be doing something good for this country. And I’m starting to think we should just go ahead and let them. Die racist losers, don’t let the black guy protect the health of you, your children and your parents. Idiots, man. It’s scary.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned at Warming Glow, it’s that posting a narrow-minded neo-conservative argument aimed at Otto is like grooving a 3-1 fastball to Pujols.
ET, I have plenty of smart conservative friends and family members whom I respect and with whom I love discussing politics.
But these tea-party, birth-certificate, OMG! ACORN! people are nutters, and there’s no use arguing with them. They not only deserve ridicule, they need it — and so does democracy.
I believe in the marketplace of ideas, and part of that marketplace includes my right to mock people who are trying to peddle bullshit like it’s 24 carat gold.
Exactly, dont just ignore the nutcases, that is what Chamberlain did, and look what it got him. Rational thinking people need speak up, exactly to show that these people are not the majority.
Dammit, I demand that the President come clean about the Pod People from Jupiter!
@ ET
Normally I’d agree with you, but these teabagging people have gone off the fucking deep end. Its a waste of time trying to reason with them. Plus its so much more enjoyable to call them out as the idiots they are.
Insulting others gets you nowhere…I may support Obama and much of his agenda, but sad is the day that I lash out at someone who has a dissenting opinion. Courteous, civil discourse is vital for a healthy democracy (and if you think the other party is just nuts, fine, ignore them…but tossing names does not help your case).
Otto Man, I haven’t laughed that hard for a while. I like.
Wow, that looks like a lot of fun!
RT
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why didn’t he ask him about the charlie sheen letter all over the net huhh huh??
when i play jenga and the top breaks it doesnt crumble right into its base. its quite messy.
You fucking Yanks. Give your heads a shake.
Bushy wiretapped your phones, blew billions on a useless war, and okays torture, deregulates the financial system, etc, etc, etc…
Obama is trying to ensure you don’t lose your house if you get sick, and HE is the scary government monster???
Ambulance……. okay
Fire Dept……. okay
Police………. okay
Infrastructure.. okay
Healthcare…….SOCIALIST! COMMUNIST! FASCIST!
WTF?!? Government is there to help you when you need it, is it not? If they can drag you though the shit, why can’t they help clean you off?
ps. compare him to Hitler one more time using the word socialist in the same sentence, then go wiki Hitler.
“i do find it funny that every anti obama post was answered with insults…”
Yep. Hilarious.
“…and not corrections.”
Wrong. go back and read them again. This time use your brain.
“way to go you open minded enlightened intellectuals of the left.”
KTHXBY
“i do find it funny that every anti obama post was answered with insults and not corrections.”
What exactly were we supposed to correct?
One guy was bitching that the president was on TV. The other guy was incensed that no one was talking about ACORN, which is totally meaningless but still getting nonstop coverage on Faux News.
I’m not sure what we were supposed to correct there. As far as I know, frontal lobotomies aren’t reversible.
(I know, I know — another mean liberal insult! Try to faint onto the couch, princess.)
And this on the same day that GWB was talking sports on the Ticket in Dallas.
Hans, I’m sure you refused those extra unemployment benefits on general principle.
i do find it funny that every anti obama post was answered with insults and not corrections. way to go you open minded enlightened intellectuals of the left.
Good to see him going on a friendly tv show and being tossed softball questions that he already had the answers to, and not go on a network who hasn’t fallen at his feet.
You’re right, he should go on Fox to discuss rationally whether or not he really is a Kenyan-born baby-killing socialist-communist Antichrist as foretold in Revelations.
Stop huffing glue, dude. You’ve had enough.
Here’s the best quote from the show: “I was actually black before the election.” Haha, damn he’s awesome.
“And yet, still no mention of ACORN.”
Yes, and no mention of the pod people from Jupiter. They’re here! They’re here!
“This idiots has spent more money in 8 months then the last guy did in 8 years.”
It’s hard to cram two grammatical errors and a whopping factual one in just a single sentence, but you did it. Go reward yourself by jerking it to Glen Beck.
Good to see him going on a friendly tv show and being tossed softball questions that he already had the answers to, and not go on a network who hasn’t fallen at his feet. But again, this is the clown who threw three reporters off his plane because their papers endorsed the other guy.
And yet, still no mention of ACORN. This idiots has spent more money in 8 months then the last guy did in 8 years.
I think Obama is great and find all of his policies to be wonderful.
I like that Otto Man now has and Auto Man as his avatar.
Conan still has a show?
This is not nearly as important as Ricky Gervais’ hilarious appearance on Conan last night. Awful Jim-Jam deserves it’s own post!!!
I like your gumption, but get your damn dirty paws off my Carl avatar.
Hey Hans, maybe the reason you can’t find a job is that you’re a sour asshole and a total moron
Did The Rock lose a lot of weight?
It’s good to see Letterman doing Comedy again. Not an increasing amount of political banter and nonsense.
I’m glad the President’s daughters had a fun summer… oh yeah wait… I need a job.
My health care is fine fucko, get to work on something else and stay out of my pocket.
Who’s this guy? Some kind of basketball player or something?