Obama has decided to accept an "invitation" to write a cover story about Haiti for the January 25th issue of Newsweek. (That's assuming he actual writes it.)
As has been evident ever since this selfish opportunist has run for the Presidency, he and his capos would not do this unless it was deemed to have a politically beneficial angle to it.
It doesn't matter that no one actually reads Newsweek anymore, let alone takes its content seriously.
But, that is not the point. It doesn't matter how many copies may be sold. The most important aspect is that this provides a platform for Obama to issue a giant press release. One that will seem personal, as opposed to his slick, sterile, robotic, tele-promted infomercials.
The reason for this isn't even to exhibit sincere concern toward Haiti. The goal will be to provide a long talking point for the Sunday talk shows and nightly pundits to discuss and analyze.
There will be a spate of manufactured fawning over this screed. The word "eloquent" will be used countless times by his media lap-dogs to describe his thoughts. "Compassionate, intellectual, and insightful" will all be used in some form or another.
Perhaps Chris Matthews will get a tingle running through his perineum this time.
Ironically, it has taken a disaster of biblical proportions to give this incompetent flop a chance to engage in a matter of foreign importance of which he may be able to contribute successfully, and not embarrass himself or this country.
You would think that if he has the inclination to write a dissertation on a foreign disaster, he would have felt the same desire to write one concerning the continued plight of the victims of Katrina. This, considering he and his party shamelessly politicized the Katrina issue to bludgeon George Bush and the Republican party during the entire time he and his Democratic cohorts campaigned.
Hell, maybe he could have put down his Cheetos and Natural Light for a few seconds during his Super Bowl shin-dig to at least acknowledge the historic ice storm which rendered Kentucky incapacitated. Well, it only resulted in about 40 deaths of some conservative hicks, with others left for weeks freezing, hungry, and destitute. He couldn't even muster up a small note written on the back of a Presidential cocktail napkin.
There is no opportunity that this self-serving, self-aggrandizing narcissist can pass up.
Haiti does not need Obama to showcase his writing talents.
America doesn't need any more evidence that Obama will stop at nothing to cover up the abject incompetence he has exhibited during his first full year in office.
What's needed is for him to exhibit a little humility.
For God's sake, Obama, for once, just stay the hell out of the way.



Comments (30)
As has been observed by oth... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Dr Carlo Lombardi | January 15, 2010 9:15 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
As has been observed by others, Newsweek is simply dropping pretenses and cutting out the middle man for it's 0bama propaganda and PR operation.
It's now the official organ (along with 90% of the other media) of the 0bama Statist regime.
1. Posted by Dr Carlo Lombardi | January 15, 2010 9:15 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on January 15, 2010 21:15
2. Posted by Dave | January 15, 2010 9:19 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Eloquent, smart, witty... And don't forget "unprecedented"! And the pundits are giving Rush Limbaugh a hard time for his comments?! Seems like Rush knows the Won better than anybody else.
2. Posted by Dave | January 15, 2010 9:19 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on January 15, 2010 21:19
3. Posted by CDR M | January 15, 2010 9:21 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
If you read Information Dissemination blog, they have some serious concerns that Haiti will NOT go well based on what may happen in the next 48-72 hours and statements made from the President, Sec State, DOD. Excellent read.
http://www.informationdissemination.net/2010/01/calm-before-storm-in-haiti.html
3. Posted by CDR M | January 15, 2010 9:21 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on January 15, 2010 21:21
4. Posted by GarandFan | January 15, 2010 9:28 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
When the rehabilitation of Haiti flops (as it did for Bubba Clinton), Barry will merely say, "Haiti? Never met him".
As for "Newspeak Magazine", they've already lost $25 million last year. How much lower can they go this year?
The "intellectual elite" of our publishing empires haven't learned yet that exclusive pandering to a liberal political cause can have an impact on their bottom line.
4. Posted by GarandFan | January 15, 2010 9:28 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on January 15, 2010 21:28
5. Posted by WildWillie | January 15, 2010 9:30 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Never let a crisis go without exploiting it. That is what Chief Of Staff Rahm Emmanuel says. Here it is. People died. Obama, take advantage of it. ww
5. Posted by WildWillie | January 15, 2010 9:30 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on January 15, 2010 21:30
6. Posted by bryanD | January 15, 2010 9:55 PM | Score: -10 (12 votes cast)
"Obama has decided to accept an "invitation" to write a cover story about Haiti for the January 25th issue of Newsweek. (That's assuming he actual writes it.)"-sm
Speaking of "actual wrote it", Sarah Palin's Fox News debut has been, at best, a flat-ass dud.
Ex? "Favorite founding father?"
Answer: "All of 'em."...due to their "Diversity" (sic!!!).
Granted: Roger Williams and Jean Cauvin are seperated by 20 or so geometrical degrees, but hardly diverse, viz. transubstantiation.
Palin's *Out* regarding the founders' diversity could revolve around the Freemasonry and Trinitarian questions, which, of course, would cause Palin's make-up to peel off and her hair to melt.
6. Posted by bryanD | January 15, 2010 9:55 PM |
Score: -10 (12 votes cast)
Posted on January 15, 2010 21:55
7. Posted by kevino | January 15, 2010 10:00 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
If President Obama has that much free time, I wish he'd "focus like a laser" on the economy. Unemployment is still around 10%, and a lot of families in the US are really hurting. I know that's going to be lower on his priority list: self-promotion will always be job one. Still, it would be nice if the average American could get a little bit of his time.
7. Posted by kevino | January 15, 2010 10:00 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on January 15, 2010 22:00
8. Posted by arcman
| January 15, 2010 10:10 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
The problem with this is that Obama has yet to have ever written anything. He supposedly wrote 2 books (both of which have been proven to be ghost written), didn't write anything as editor of the Harvard Law Review; has yet to release his college thesis; and about the only other thing was a bad poem while at Columbia.
And Bryan, 4 million watching O'Reilly, and over 3 million watching Beck and Hannity, is far from a flop. If you listened to Palin's entire quote, she noted that Washington was her favorite. Not like Mika B. who cited Lincoln. Gee, he wasn't even alive yet when the founders created the Constitution.
8. Posted by arcman
| January 15, 2010 10:10 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on January 15, 2010 22:10
9. Posted by bryanD | January 15, 2010 10:16 PM | Score: -13 (13 votes cast)
"This, considering he and his party shamelessly politicized the Katrina issue to bludgeon George Bush and the Republican party during the entire time he and his Democratic cohorts campaigned."-sm
Booosh deserved it.
Takeaway from the McClellan book "What Happened":
Rove insisted that W overfly New Orleans for photo-op sessions.
Salient, bizarre fact:
Cruising altitude was set at 2000 feet (NOT 20,000 OR 12,000....but TWO thousand feet).
Flight schedule was: encircle area: 45 minutes.
SO! Drowning Negroes buzzed by cross-eyed "cowboy" (and twits) in 747 @ 2000 ft. for nearly an HOUR!
9. Posted by bryanD | January 15, 2010 10:16 PM |
Score: -13 (13 votes cast)
Posted on January 15, 2010 22:16
10. Posted by GarandFan | January 15, 2010 10:34 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
bryanD, right on time. Right off topic...again.
Hey bryanD, tell us again how good Barry's been for the economy. We've forgotten. How many "jobs created or saved" now? Oh, don't ya just hate when those UNEMPLOYMENT figures keep going up? $787 BILLION spent for what byranD?
Come on bryanD, you can tell us. Without bringing Bush or Palin into it. LAST I HEARD, THEY WERE'T RUNNING THE COUNTRY.
10. Posted by GarandFan | January 15, 2010 10:34 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on January 15, 2010 22:34
11. Posted by bryanD | January 15, 2010 11:02 PM | Score: -7 (9 votes cast)
"Come on bryanD, you can tell us. Without bringing Bush or Palin into it."-garandfan
Thanks for the invite!
Bush deserted from service in the Alabama Air Natioanl Guard for a net loss to the US taxpayers in excess of $1,000,000, besides the criminal implications to himself (ameliorated by the actions of US Representive (and future CIA chief GHWBush).
As president-elect, GW Bush appointed as VP employment headhunter, fellow armed service avoider and 5-time draft-deferrer, Dick Cheney, who promptly appointed himself as VP, of which Ricky GW Retardo Bush approved.
Upon assumption of office, and at Cheney request, executive action was bisected with "Boss"(sic) GW assuming a socialist domestic agenda of dumbing-down students and regularizing the illegal Mexican influx, while Dick assumed the money bit controlling intelligence and military spending, projection, and application.
It basically continued in this vein for 8 years; Cheney (a cowardly yet devious admin rat) backed up by fellow career admin-rats Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Libby, and Feith...
VERSUS...Boy George B-b-b-b-booosh, plus Andy Card plus No Mas Gonzales plus Harriet Miers.
In Bush's defense (kinda) the 2001-2009 regime will be recognized as Cheney's Monster Baby.
11. Posted by bryanD | January 15, 2010 11:02 PM |
Score: -7 (9 votes cast)
Posted on January 15, 2010 23:02
12. Posted by iwogisdead | January 15, 2010 11:03 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
bryanDolt wrote:
Or maybe something to do with the conflict among Hamilton, Adams, and Jefferson as to the legislative power versus the executive. I'd like to see how Barry S. would answer this question without Mr. Teleprompter helping out. Hard to see how that relates to this thread, but keep swinging, bryanDolt. Even a blind pig finds an acorn every once in a while.
12. Posted by iwogisdead | January 15, 2010 11:03 PM |
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Posted on January 15, 2010 23:03
13. Posted by iwogisdead | January 15, 2010 11:09 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
bryanDolt has a real reading problem. Hey bryanDolt! What does "without bringing Bush . . . into it" mean to you? Have you ever tried one of those reading programs advertised on TV? They seem really good.
13. Posted by iwogisdead | January 15, 2010 11:09 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on January 15, 2010 23:09
14. Posted by bryanD | January 15, 2010 11:26 PM | Score: -6 (8 votes cast)
"Or maybe something to do with the conflict among Hamilton, Adams, and Jefferson as to the legislative power versus the executive."-iwog
Hamilton made some waves in 1779(?) regarding a supra-commonwealth/state tax.
WAAAAY above Palin's head.
Like I said: Palin's answer (post-twisted arm by Beck) was "all of 'em!"....and finally "George Washington"...who even the aborigines of east patagonia know.
As for the Diversity part: ALL Anglo-Saxon/Dutch (HEAVY connection(England-Holland) since 17th century), ALL Protestant and anti-Catholic, ALL amenable (per the Times and situation and Precedent) to slavery (Adams notwithstanding (who made no voice Con)).
14. Posted by bryanD | January 15, 2010 11:26 PM |
Score: -6 (8 votes cast)
Posted on January 15, 2010 23:26
15. Posted by bryanD | January 15, 2010 11:29 PM | Score: -7 (7 votes cast)
bryanDolt has a real reading problem. Hey bryanDolt! What does "without bringing Bush . . . into it" mean to you?-I WOG
It means bringing Bush into It in order to piss you off.
D'uh!
15. Posted by bryanD | January 15, 2010 11:29 PM |
Score: -7 (7 votes cast)
Posted on January 15, 2010 23:29
16. Posted by UncleZeb | January 15, 2010 11:35 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
I spent several weeks last year assisting people in Kentucky that were impacted by the ice storm. Their stories were tragic and it was unbelievable the lack of media attention on the failure of the US govt to provide assistance.
I can not verify the story but one lady told me that one of her elderly neighbors froze to death due to a lack of power and was found hugging his water heater for warmth.
Where was the outrage.
16. Posted by UncleZeb | January 15, 2010 11:35 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on January 15, 2010 23:35
17. Posted by Michael | January 15, 2010 11:37 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
"It means bringing Bush into It in order to piss you off."
It is sad when an "adult" has not grown beyond the emotional age of 15. This is true for most libs.
17. Posted by Michael | January 15, 2010 11:37 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on January 15, 2010 23:37
18. Posted by 914 | January 16, 2010 12:49 AM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Well, Barry must do his part for the people of Haiti and show how compassionate he is about Himself.
18. Posted by 914 | January 16, 2010 12:49 AM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on January 16, 2010 00:49
19. Posted by ryan a | January 16, 2010 12:52 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Uncle Zeb,
"I spent several weeks last year assisting people in Kentucky that were impacted by the ice storm. Their stories were tragic and it was unbelievable the lack of media attention on the failure of the US govt to provide assistance."
What part of KY were you in?
19. Posted by ryan a | January 16, 2010 12:52 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on January 16, 2010 00:52
20. Posted by Marc | January 16, 2010 12:58 AM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
bryanD "Thanks for the invite!"
Sure you were invited, but forgot part of your script... the part about Loose Change and your fervent belief.
".and finally "George Washington"...who even the aborigines of east patagonia know."
Really, know any?
20. Posted by Marc | January 16, 2010 12:58 AM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on January 16, 2010 00:58
21. Posted by UncleZeb | January 16, 2010 1:47 AM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
I am an independent adjuster, I worked the whole state. I usually work in the field but on this one I was working from a central location, reviewing contractor estimates etc. I talked to as many as 30 people a day and all of them said there was little or no help on the federal level. I was working with people that were without power for over 2 weeks. The pain I was hearing was real.
21. Posted by UncleZeb | January 16, 2010 1:47 AM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on January 16, 2010 01:47
22. Posted by Oyster | January 16, 2010 5:36 AM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Subject; Haiti, Obama, self-promotion, Newsweek
BryanD: Booosh! Paaalin! Stupid!
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All that's left to do is to air-drop free copies of Newsweek with Obama's article in it all over Haiti so they too can be made aware of his grand compassion.
22. Posted by Oyster | January 16, 2010 5:36 AM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on January 16, 2010 05:36
23. Posted by Greg | January 16, 2010 7:38 AM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
You sure can tell that bryan wasn't homeschooled! What a maroon.
23. Posted by Greg | January 16, 2010 7:38 AM |
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Posted on January 16, 2010 07:38
24. Posted by Rich Fader | January 16, 2010 8:04 AM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
...and not only that, he's shooting the cover, and touching up Michelle's makeup, and in his spare time redesigning the Newsweek logo.
Good Lord. This is like "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty". If Mitty's fantasies were a collective hallucination.
24. Posted by Rich Fader | January 16, 2010 8:04 AM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on January 16, 2010 08:04
25. Posted by Pretzel Logic | January 16, 2010 9:24 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
I picked it up in my Docs office a few weeks ago, it was like a brochure from the white house. Unreadable.
25. Posted by Pretzel Logic | January 16, 2010 9:24 AM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on January 16, 2010 09:24
26. Posted by ryan a | January 16, 2010 10:42 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
"I am an independent adjuster, I worked the whole state. I usually work in the field but on this one I was working from a central location, reviewing contractor estimates etc. I talked to as many as 30 people a day and all of them said there was little or no help on the federal level. I was working with people that were without power for over 2 weeks. The pain I was hearing was real."
I believe you. I have heard a lot about that storm since moving here last year. I think some people has not power for longer than two weeks. It was really terrible from what people here have told me. Kentucky has been a pretty marginalized state for a long time, and the poorest people are the ones who really pay for it.
I am not sure if I would specifically blame the current administration for how KY is treated, since the state has been a low priority for a long time in the US overall (in both Republican and Democrat controlled admins).
26. Posted by ryan a | January 16, 2010 10:42 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on January 16, 2010 10:42
27. Posted by bobdog | January 16, 2010 11:41 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
If Obama actually has the spine to show up in Massachusettes on Sunday as planned, that will be the second disaster he attended this week.
We who are about to revolt salute you.
27. Posted by bobdog | January 16, 2010 11:41 AM |
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Posted on January 16, 2010 11:41
28. Posted by Flu-Bird | January 16, 2010 11:55 AM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Leave it to a liberal leftists rag like NEWSREEK to have OBAMA write a big puff peice about HATI since he hasnt gone there yet to offer them relief and comfort
28. Posted by Flu-Bird | January 16, 2010 11:55 AM |
Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on January 16, 2010 11:55
29. Posted by Indie | January 16, 2010 9:47 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Obama will probably write something about "nukular" power for Haiti and "is their children learning".
You know, important stuff like that.
29. Posted by Indie | January 16, 2010 9:47 PM |
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Posted on January 16, 2010 21:47
30. Posted by Jack Reylan | January 22, 2010 3:44 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
If securities rules applied to federal research grants, half the professors would be in jail! Obama's constituencies are universities, lawyers and unions. The universities are in it for the grants. Any Republican that votes money for universities is a traitor.
UPI June 6, 1992 Sovern took over at Columbia after student protests of 1968 and New York's fiscal problems in the '70s resulted in less financial support for the school, a situation made more dire by recent federal government budget cuts. . . But Columbia will be looking for a new president in a period troubled by criticism for destroying records that were being reviewed for improprieties. Universities in general have been under greater scrutiny for how they charge the government for federally sponsored research.
They love third world students because they don't expect the professors to work for the tuition! Surely You Are Joking Feynman p 215 "If I ask you a question during the lecture, afterwards everybody will be telling me, 'What are you wasting our time for in the class? We're trying to learn something. And you're stopping him by asking a question'."
When Obama falls in 2010, we should go through the grant-grubbing Ivy Leagues that produce commie-nutty organizers with a flame thrower! Ivy League universities are not good at getting students jobs, only grants to be commie nutty organizers. If you are liberal, anything you do is inherently ethical for the cause, but if you are a conservative, and believe in GOD, family or business, your very moral fiber, even down to trivial autonomic responses, is subject to persecution as either dangerously criminal or the result of clinical illness. Bush 43 had two Ivy degrees and they treated him as stupid because he was conservative even though he had better grades and entrance scores and took a lot tougher courses than Gore. Professors are the ultimate molestor high priests because they extort and control your transcripts and your grants if you turn them in. Like a cult, they will make your children denounce you and everything you stand for as unworthy. The lowest level university bureaucrats actually suffer the worst affectations and are likey to be the most vicious persecutors of your children. No business ever trusts such left wing graduates who don't believe in capitalism and become crooks because they are taught the only way business makes money is crooked so they seek to avenge their unemployability through their own crookedness. The universities consider real jobs and competition beneath them, so they want their little sissies to live off grants, even in the hard sciences or business. How many of their engineering professors have Professional Engineering certification? Almost none! They love foreign students because they slave up and don't expect professors to actually work for the tuition, like American students do. No middle class parent should consider sending their kids there, because these schools will destroy your entire family. The only schools that understand middle-class values are for-profits. Middle class parents foolish enough to buy into the Ivy League dream die way too young.
30. Posted by Jack Reylan | January 22, 2010 3:44 PM |
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Posted on January 22, 2010 15:44