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Barry O: The Next Lincoln? Or the Next Gerald Ford?
10 February 2009, Cockburn @ 10:26 am

For those of you who don’t know, Gerald Ford was a U.S. President who is mainly remembered for being a clutz. Chevy Chase made a name for himself by mocking him on SNL.

Many think Barry Obama is the next Lincoln. I don’t know how one can say that before a man completes a full year, let alone a term, but I digress. I think, Barry will be remembered more as the new Gerald Ford. He seems to be showing his in experience more and more and reminds me more of a child playing president, rather than being one.  

Watch (before his administration has it removed): http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2009/02/09/vo.obama.bumps.head.cnn

Here’s Gerald Ford: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlz0he9rtKw

Of course, Ford and Barry aren’t the only presidents to have fallen, bumped a head or puked in the lap of the Japanese Prime Minister. It’s just funny. And it’s just one of those things that make me laugh.

4 Commenti a “Barry O: The Next Lincoln? Or the Next Gerald Ford?”

1. admin — March 10, 2009 @ 11:16 pm
   

   This makes me laugh cuz it’s true:

   The LIttle Red Hen - updated

   The little red hen called all of her Democrat neighbors together and said, ‘If we plant this wheat, we shall have bread to eat. Who will help me plant it?’

   ‘Not I,’ said Pelosi the cow.

   ‘Not I,’ said Boxer, the duck.
   ‘Not I,’ said Kennedy, the pig.
   ‘Not I,’ said Jackson, the goose.

   ‘Then I will do it by myself,’ said the little red hen, and so she did. The wheat grew very tall and ripened into golden grain.

   ‘Who will help me reap my wheat?’ asked the little red hen.

   ‘Not I,’ said the duck..
   ‘Out of my classification,’ said the pig.
   ‘I’d lose my seniority,’ said the cow.
   ‘I’d lose my unemployment compensation,’ said the goose.

   ‘Then I will do it by myself,’ said the little red hen, and so she did.

   At last it came time to bake the bread.

   ‘Who will help me bake the bread?’ asked the little red hen.

   ‘That would be overtime for me,’ said the cow.
   ‘I’d lose my welfare benefits,’ said the duck.
   ‘I didn’t do well in school and never learned how,’ said the pig.
   ‘If I’m to be the only helper, that’s discrimination,’ said the goose.

   ‘Then I will do it by myself,’ said the little red hen.

   She baked five loaves and held them up for all of her neighbors to see. They wanted some and, in fact, demanded a share. But the little red hen said, ‘No, I shall eat all five loaves.’

   ‘Excess profits!’ cried the cow.

   ‘Capitalist leech!’ screamed the duck.

   ‘I demand equal rights!’ yelled the goose.

   The pig just grunted in disdain.

   And they all painted ‘Unfair!’ picket signs and marched around and around the little red hen, shouting obscenities.

   Then Barak, the magic farmer came to them. He said to the little red hen, ‘You must not be so greedy.’

   ‘But I earned the bread,’ said the little red hen.

   ‘Exactly,’ said Barack the farmer. ‘That is what makes our free enterprise system so wonderful. Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he wants. But under our modern government regulations, the productive workers must divide the fruits of their labor with those who are lazy and idle.’ So, the little red hen was forced to share.

   And they all lived happily ever after, including the little red hen, who smiled and clucked, ‘I am grateful, for now I truly understand.’

   But her neighbors became quite disappointed in her. She never again baked bread because she joined the ‘party’ and got her bread free. And all the Democrats smiled. ‘Fairness’ had been established.

   Individual initiative had died, but nobody noticed; perhaps no one cared…so long as there was free bread that ‘the rich’ were paying for.

   EPILOGUE

   Bill Clinton is getting $12 million for his memoirs.

   Hillary got $8 million for hers.

   That’s $20 million for the memories from two people, who for eight years, repeatedly testified, under oath, that they couldn’t remember anything.

   IS THIS A GREAT BARNYARD OR WHAT?

2. JOHNSON — March 15, 2009 @ 12:01 am
   

   barry o is the farthest thing from lincoln ever, not that i think that is bad. they are just too different. could you see barry imprisoning the press for speaking put against him, even it it was to save the union? barry is too socialist for that. now i don’t think socialist is the same as communist, so don’t even go there. barry believes in big govt, and i wouldn’t say that about lincoln. he was a true republican in the best sense. but if i were alive in lincoln’s time, i must admit, i would not support his trampling on civil liberties, no matter the price. perhaps context is just too strong, and history really does matter. i think the world has changed SOOO dramatically, that the comparison can’t really be made. if would compare barry to anyone, it would be JFK, god rest his soul!! it will be so interesting to see it all play out over the years. but WE are the government, and We must be the change we want to see in the world. that’s the one thing i know for sure!!

3. Cockburn — March 15, 2009 @ 7:37 am
   

   you would have been like a large chunk of the population that didn’t like Lincoln. i would have too.

   And yes i can see barry imprisoning people wh disagree with him. Look at what he is doing to his critics who are all private citizens from the podium at the White House. What kind of dignified politicans at any level personally goes after provate citizens who are well within their rights to disagree with the politician? And if you don’t think socialism is the same as communism (technically communism is based on socialism) then use a different word. Don’t redefine socialist to take the sting off of it. Once you’ve succeeeded at that, then you’ll try to tell me when I call him a Marxist I am really saying he’s funny like Groucho!

   JFK just stirred in his grave after you compared Barry to him. JFK was the LAST o the American Democrats honorable enough to be called Americans. He believed in the individual, Barry told us we are NOT a nation of individuals; he believed in low taxes to keep the economy going, I think we all know what Barry thinks about taxes; and his calls for volunteerism were for actual volunteers, not compulsory volunteers like Barry plans.

   You’re right on one thing, WE are (almost “were”) the government and WE WILL be the change we want to see, not in the world, but in this country. But I KNOW in my big gut that it is NOT going to be the change you voted for. Rather, back to what we were intended to be. Look at the hidden news articles in the back of the Washington fishwraps and you will find many “tea-parties” forming across the country. These “tea-parties” are tea parties in the sense of the one held at Boston. They are comprised of normal people, not career lobbyists or chronic activists, but actual real people who put their own roof over their head, earn a living by working, and only want to be left alone and free to raise their families, as they see fit, not the government, and to keep a super majority, if not all, of what they earn for themselves. Barry O and the the Soviet majority in Congress are pushing too far, too fast and most senisble people don’t buy the hype that we need to act fast to fix this “crisis”. There’s no crisis yet. We were worse off in 1980. One day, they will over-reach and spark a powder keg. So, I’m just gonna step out of the way, and post things from tim to time just so I can say “I told you so.” And that’s “you” in the general sense.

   But to keep on topic, he’ll prove to be the next Ford. Thanks for commenting.

4. Cockburn — March 15, 2009 @ 7:38 am
   

   … or maybe, with all this fuss over how gray he is going, he will be the next william henry harrison. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison

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