Shhh, Mr. President: When world already thinks you’re weak, saying as much on live TV is a mistake

National Review ^ | 08/30/2014 | Jonah Goldberg

[SeekAndFind]

SHHH, MR. PRESIDENT

Because I have been on an extended road trip, I haven’t followed the news as closely as I might “They don’t call it a multi-state killing spree for nothing” — The Couch). But from the broad brushstrokes I take it that the president is just crushing it. Everything is falling into place. He had to send Joe Biden off to Office Depot to get more notepads because he’s checking off everything on his to-do lists so quickly. (Biden came back with a ten-gallon jug of Elmer’s glue, some pink-unicorn duct tape, and an office chair he won’t stop spinning around and around and around in. “Wheeeeee!”) By this time next week, expect to have Elvis’s “Taking Care of Business — In a Flash” logo painted on the tail of Air Force One.

Oh wait, that must be the road hypnosis talking (“You’re losing it man, keep it together.” — The Couch). Suddenly Joe Biden stops swiveling in his chair and announces in his most stentorian voice: “Attention White House. Attention White House. The Chess Master has left the building. Wheeeeeeeeee!”

You remember the Chess Master right? Here’s Bob Herbert describing him back in 2009:

Mr. Obama is like a championship chess player, always several moves ahead of friend and foe alike. He’s smart, deft, elegant and subtle. While Lindsey Graham was behaving like a 6-year-old on the Senate floor and Pete Sessions was studying passages in his Taliban handbook, Mr. Obama and his aides were assessing what’s achievable in terms of stimulus legislation and how best to get there.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“While Lindsey Graham was behaving like a 6-year-old on the Senate floor and Pete Sessions was studying passages in his Taliban handbook, Mr. Obama and his aides were assessing what’s achievable in terms of stimulus legislation and how best to get there.”

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.........

AND THEY GOT IT WRONG!

[Liz]

....Obama is like a championship chess player, always several moves ahead of friend and foe alike. While Lindsey Graham was behaving like a 6-year-old on the Senate floor and Pete Sessions was studying passages in his Taliban handbook, Mr. Obama and his aides were assessing what’s achievable in terms of stimulus legislation and how best to get there......

Oops. Bad move.

"Hi there, Americans. Obama put me in charge of the trillion dollar stimulus.
My son and brother are gonna help me disperse the money. "

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Offshore Fraudster had links to offshore fund run by VP Biden's relatives
Reuters on Yahoo | 2/23/09 | BY Ajay Kamalakaran

(Reuters) – A fund of offshore hedge funds run by two members of VP Joe Biden's family was marketed exclusively by offshore firms controlled by Texas financier Allen Stanford, charged by regulators with an $8 billion fraud, the Wall Street Journal said.

The Bidens $50 million fund was jointly branded between the Bidens' Paradigm Global Advisors LLC and the offshore Stanford Financial Group entity headquartered in Antigua, and was known as the Paradigm Stanford Capital Management Core Alternative Fund, the paper said. Stanford-related offshore companies marketed the Biden fund to investors and also invested about $2.7 million of their own money in the fund, the paper said, citing a lawyer for Paradigm.

Paradigm Global Advisors is owned through a holding company by the vice president Biden's son, Hunter, and Joe Biden's brother, James, according to the WSJ. Paradigm's attorney, Marc LoPresti, who represents Hunter Biden and James Biden, as well as Paradigm, told the paper he did not know which Stanford entity invested the roughly $2.7 million. (Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...

NOTE A lawyer for Hunter Biden and James Biden told reporters the Bidens NEVER met or communicated with Stanford. (/snicker)

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STANFORD FUNDS DEMOCRATS BIG-DO Convicted con man R. Allen Stanford used offshore corporate money to buy his way into the Democratic convention in Denver.

A video posted on the firm's web-site shows Stanford, being hugged by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and praised by ex-President Bill Clinton for helping to finance a Democrat convention-related forum and party put on by the National Democratic Institute.

BILL CLINTON: "I would like to thank the Stanford Financial Group for helping to underwrite this," Clinton told the Democratic crowd. (Stanford Financial was listed as the "lead benefactor" for the gathering, and Stanford was permitted to address the audience of several hundred.)

The SEC charged that Stanford was running a fraudulent offshore investment scheme that may have bilked customers out of as much as $8 billion. Over the last decade, Stanford has spent more than $7 million on lobbyists and campaign contributions to Washington politics in both parties, although the vast majority of the money has gone to Democrats.

"We had no reason to believe that a very public company that was also engaged in philanthropic work might be suspect," said a spokesperson for the National Democratic Institute, Amy Dudley. (Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...

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ONE MINUTE QUIZ---WHO OWNS THE VI MANSION?

FREEPER REALTIME REPORT CIRCA 2012---"I just returned from a Caribbean cruise. In St Thomas, US Virgin Islands, the guide pointed out a waterfront mansion and said it belonged to Biden’s (cough) brother. He also said Air Force 2---the VP plane--frequently flies in and out."

[Liz]

After Obama held the presserr to say he had no strategy on ISIS——Susan Rice was seen at Sraples buying a case of white-out to redo her resume.

Samantha Powers was in the UN bar chug-a-lugging straight bourbon.

[bigbob]

Do you guys still think Romney would have been no better?

[The Great RJ]

Obama’s feckless policies in the Middle East will put us into war. This war for the first time in 200 years will be a war where we will be fighting foreign invaders in our homeland. Obama should resign or be impeached for his failures.

[Travis McGee]

[CincyRichieRich]

I think our conservative media and pundits are weak. They know the truth but keep saying pap. The truth is obvious that Jarr3tt needs to be called out as the pr3sident and the fact that they have no plan and are saying to the world -i.e. the enemy - every move our military makes proves it is on purpose...not some bumbling errors.my point is start making the accusations.

[Liz]

LOL----Dave needs this in his collection.

[abclily]

The conservatives who did not vote objected to the way Romney held his mouth when he prayed to Jesus.

[Liz]

[hal ogen]

A Conservative would do better...romney, not so much.

[MeshugeMikey]

Obie is our first Huggy Bear-American President

[Hoodat]

Don’t laugh. Joe Biden will be the Democrat Party nominee in 2016.

[Hoodat]

I would have crawled on my knees through a mile of broken glass to pull the lever for Mitt Romney in order to stop the catastrophe we are now witnessing. It will take 50 years of someone twice as conservative as Ronald Reagan to fix what has been destroyed since 2009.

[Pagey]

Bttt