RSSThe Comedian in Chief Obama Yuks it Up at the Gridiron Club Dinner as the World Burns
This is hardly a laughing matter … Nice priorities
Barack Obama, the Comedian in Chief does what he does best, provides us with yet another “Lost in Smallness” moment as he yuks it up and jokes around as the world is literally burning. Is an 8.9 magnitude Japanese earthquake, a subsequent tsunami where 10,000 are presumed dead, Japan’s worst crisis since WWII, 10.1% unemployment & 19.8% underemployment, increasing cost of oil & $4.00 gasoline, chaos in the Middle East, continued foreclosures in the US, states on the verge of bankruptcy, an out of control federal deficit, continued terror threats and Americans still trying to find jobs a laughing matter?
President Obama used his first appearance at the annual Gridiron Club Dinner as POTUS to push home an already labored point — with a little help from The Boss.
Taking the stage to give the evening’s closing remarks, the president looked toward the live band at the back of the room and asked, “Can we go with the song we talked about?”
The band struck up Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.,” drawing big laughs from the some 650 government officials, political figures, news executives and journalists in gathered at the Washington Renaissance hotel for the club’s 126th anniversary. (read the full story at the Politico)
We stated how inappropriate this was yesterday, guess what, it is still inappropriate today. Because it is such a laugh riot that at the Gridiron Club they would play Bruce Springsteen’s ”Born in the USA”as a reference to Obama’s lack of producing a long form birth certificate as the World burns. Hell, this President could not even produce a budget that was worth the paper it was written on, maybe they should have played Pink Floyd’s ‘Money’ instead.
Posted March 13, 2011 by Scared Monkeys Barack Obama, Earthquake, Economy, Japan, Jobs, Lost in Smallness, Middle East, Obamanation, Obamanomics, Oil, Tsunami, Unemployment, War on Terror, WTF | 4 comments |
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This President is a very funny guy. Early on I thought
‘there is something funny about this guy!’. Others find
humor in his hilarious decision making. He has no trouble
at all getting laughs from World Leaders either. Normally
a good laugh is healthy for the body…normally! Now I
question whether it is normal for a guy in his position to
play and joke when he should be attending to critical
decision making tasks.
Pathetic hit at the President for showing up at a previously scheduled event, especially when at the end of it he specifically referred to the events in Japan, as follows:
“We have young men and women who are making extraordinary sacrifices, sometimes the ultimate sacrifice, for us overseas. We’re seeing transformative change all around the world. And yesterday we were reminded how tragedy can strike at any moment. Tonight, of course, our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Japan. And I want to reiterate that the American people will stand with Japan as they recover and they rebuild.”
Also, no one who failed to criticize George Bush’s repellent and grotesque display at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner making fun of the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after American soldiers had already been killed has any right to criticize Obama for “yuking it up.”
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SM: Poor Winston. nice try but you have quite the short memory, dont you. He had no problem missing this Gridiron, did he.
Report: Obama’s skipping Gridiron dinner in 2009
http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0309/Report_Obamas_skipping_Gridiron_dinner_.html
Bill Clinton filled in for Obama in 2010 Gridiron Dinner
http://www.slate.com/id/2248147/
So Obama certainly has no issue missing the dinner which makes one ask, why go to it now?
How they vote in the United Nations:
Below are the actual voting records of various Arabic/Islamic States which are recorded in both the US State Department and United Nations records:
Kuwait votes against the United States 67% of the time
Qatar votes against the United States 67% of the time
Morocco votes against the United States 70% of the time
United Arab Emirates votes against the U. S. 70% of the time.
Jordan votes against the United States 71% of the time.
Tunisia votes against the United States 71% of the time.
Saudi Arabia votes against the United States 73% of the time.
Yemen votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Algeria votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Oman votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Sudan votes against the United States 75% of the time.
Pakistan votes against the United States 75% of the time.
Libya votes against the United States 76% of the time.
Egypt votes against the United States 79% of the time.
Lebanon votes against the United States 80% of the time.
India votes against the United States 81% of the time.
Syria votes against the United States 84% of the time.
Mauritania votes against the United States 87% of the time.
U S Foreign Aid to those that hate us:
Egypt, for example, after voting 79% of the time against the United States, still receives $2 billion annually in US Foreign Aid.
Jordan votes 71% against the United States
And receives $192,814,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.
Pakistan votes 75% against the United States
Receives $6,721,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.
India votes 81% against the United States
Receives $143,699,000 annually.
WHY?
WHO STARTED THIS AND WHY?
THEY ACTUALLY BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS THEM.
Perhaps it is time to get out of the UN and give the tax savings back to the American workers who are having to skimp and sacrifice to pay the taxes.
PS Israel voted against the United States only 11%
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/unvote.asp ;;
SNOPES.COM SAYS IT’S TRUE !
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