http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/27/obama-muslim-socialist_n_3171902.html
QuotePresident Barack Obama slid in a shoutout during his 2013 White House Correspondents' Dinner speech to conspiracists who wonder about both his religion and economic preferences.
"These days, I look in the mirror and I have to admit," Obama said. "I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist I used to be."
Past polls have seen large chunks of Americans incorrectly identify the Christian Obama as a Muslim. During the heat of the 2012 presidential campaign, a May PPP survey found that 52 percent of 656 likely GOP primary voters classified the president under that religion.
Since his reelection in November 2012, a host of conservative voices have referred to Obama as a socialist. Back in March, GOP strategist Henry Barbour told the hill that "we've got a socialist in office right now." Earlier in December, televangelist Pat Robertson accused Obama of not admitting to his "socialist" ways that is destroying free enterprise in America. Within the same month, Sarah Palin used the same term, warning that America's debt is putting the country on a path to communism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ON2XWvyePH8
QuoteSince his reelection in November 2012, a host of conservative voices have referred to Obama as a socialist.
Since his reelection?
Yeah, I remember McCain and Palin brandishing that term quite a bit.
Quote from: Zanza on April 28, 2013, 08:50:08 AM
QuoteSince his reelection in November 2012, a host of conservative voices have referred to Obama as a socialist.
Since his reelection?
Before that everyone was just joshing.
I liked the crack about the GOP reaching out to minorities.
The one about his presidential library wasn't bad, either. "Some have suggested we put it in my birth place, but I'd rather keep it in the United States."
10 quatloos says at least one commentator complains Obama's comment unfairly demonizes all Muslims in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing.
10 Quatloos that Sarah Palin uses the word "nerdprom".
Quote from: Razgovory on April 28, 2013, 02:02:57 PM
10 Quatloos that Sarah Palin uses the word "nerdprom".
Silly bitch. Nerds don't have proms.
Obama as a socialist is pretty funny stuff. The right hates him because they think he is one, the left hates him because he completely isn't one.
:rolleyes:
The left doesn't hate him; you hate him because he's American.
The president is dark and full of terrors.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 29, 2013, 07:00:03 AM
:rolleyes:
The left doesn't hate him; you hate him because he's American.
Notice his failure to close Gitmo and the even less transparent government that he's overseeing and you'll find plenty on the left that don't like him.
That may be true but I don't think "the left" as a whole hates him.
I hate this tradition <_<
Quote from: Sheilbh on April 29, 2013, 11:01:30 AM
I hate this tradition <_<
I like it. I shows up today's journalists and correspondents for what they really are: spineless sycophants.
Quote from: sbr on April 29, 2013, 11:00:56 AM
That may be true but I don't think "the left" as a whole hates him.
I don't think "the right" as a whole hates him either.
Obama's a natural. Real entertaining.
My Fav was one of Bush's.
"A year ago my approval was in the 30's", my nominee for the supreme court had just withdrawn and my Vice President had just shot someone. Ahhh those were the good ol' days."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH1RfcuNNoI
:D That WAS actually quite funny.
I loved "scrutineered" and his pop-up book memoir.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 29, 2013, 07:00:03 AM
:rolleyes:
The left doesn't hate him; you hate him because he's American.
No, we kinda do. But we have party discipline.