Barack Obama picks a fight with Rush Limbaugh as bipartisan spirit crumbles

Telegraph, UK ^ | Jan. 24, 2009 | Tim Shipman

[ardara]

It looks like”The Return of David Dinkens”.

[ClearCase_guy]

Obama must believe the hype -- that he won by a landslide, that everyone loves him, that he is a master politician who now dominates everything on the scene.

How else to explain that within his first week as president, he decides to go toe-to-toe with the single most powerful media figure that the opposition has? Obama has everything to lose in this, and not that much to gain. Politically, I think this was beyond stupid of him.

[Cyberrat]

[aruanan]

Obama must believe the hype -- that he won by a landslide, that everyone loves him, that he is a master politician who now dominates everything on the scene.

If both of his parents had been white, with his record and lack of experience he would never have even gotten the nomination.

[BallyBill]

Either Rush paid Obama a ton of money for a PR stunt OR Obama is a complete idiot.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

The Seeker: What if We Just Unleashed A Great Evil On the World?

I thought this was a great way to end the week. The Seeker fought to keep the male confessor alive.

As they pushed off the beach in a row boat to the secret island Kayla says:

“What if we just unleashed a great evil on the world?”

Kind of reminds me of the events in Washington this last week.

[OneWingedShark]

>”You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done,”

Hm, and we can use it to our advantage... Pr. Obama clearly intends it to say one thing, but we can make it ours: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James%201:22;&version=72;

If you get what I mean.

[Red Badger]

It was a rhetorical question. :)

With a realistic answer....;^)

[Mrs. P]

A Post Turtle he is.

[Red Badger]

Rush does not waste money, ergo...........

[Clairity]

Obama’s Executive Orders:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing_room/executive_orders/

EXECUTIVE ORDERS

January 22, 2009

Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Closure of Detention Facilities
Review of Detention Policy Options
Ensuring Lawful Interrogations
January 21, 2009

Presidential Records
Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel
Previous Executive Orders

PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDA

January 23, 2009

Mexico City Policy and Assistance for Voluntary Population Planning
January 22, 2009

Review of the Detention of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri
January 21, 2009

Freedom of Information Act
Pay Freeze
Transparency and Open Government

[mrsmith]

Hail to the Seminar-caller In Chief!

"I've always voted Republican ever since Ronald Rea... Hello? Hello?"

[STE=Q]

“You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done”

You just elevated a talk show host and denigrated the office of the President — not to mention your own status.

Frankly, Mr. President, your statements are an embarrassment!

Your lack of EXPERIENCE at running anything but your mouth is showing, Mr. President.

If you can’t take criticism maybe you’re in the wrong job!

STE=Q

[MrB]

There will be a call to rally behind the president after such an attack.

I’ll just feel like pointing fingers and saying “I told you so” and “YOU voted for this to happen”.

[timestax]

Maybe they don't listen to Limbaugh. I don't. I listened to his show for the first time late in the last election cycle , but now I'm back to listening to FM music. Pop, and oldie goldies and classic rock. SO WHAT'S MY POINT..It was presumptuous for President Hussein Slowbama to imply that Republican politicians all listen to Limbaugh. Just like those Muslims to be presumptuous! Oops, now I'm being presumptuous! Unless a person tells Slowbama what they listen to, he would have no idea what they listen to. Also the point that Slowbama likes to play mindgames / headgames wit da peeple 2.

[Force of Truth]

Puff the Magic Negro, lived by the sea and frolicked in the Autumn mist in a land called Trick or Treat...

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Very badly, putting that skinny little sissy hand on that Politico reporter's shoulder trying to intimidate him...only because he had the secret service there to protect him.

You know the gutless coward wouldn't show that kind of attitude to your average guy in a bar without someone there to back him up.

Obammie the Commie is a skinny, spoiled brat, and a coward.

[airborne]

Mr Obama's presidency is already encountering the very partisan bickering he had pledged to stamp out during his first 100 days.

Just like Pelosi was going to "drain the swamp" of corruption in 100 days.

Seems to me the swamp is bigger and smellier than ever.

[goldstategop]

F*ck bipartisanship! There - it felt good to say it. Sometimes an obscenity captures how we really feel about the other side trying to screw us over. I don't see why we have to be good-natured and cooperative when they didn't extend that courtesy to Bush. We didn't vote for Obama and we don't to owe to him the obligation to commit suicide. His policies mean socialism and to extent they do, we have a higher duty, indeed, a patriotic calling, to oppose them. He can do without us and that's okay. Obama should get the same kind of respect, no more than what the Left extended to President Bush. I'm happy to see the revival of partisanship!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[youngidiot]

Sounds like something you'd expect to hear from DailyKos or some other such site, not from the president of the united states. This guy is a lightweight.