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[mynhair]

(puke)

[Long-John-Silver]

and diarrhea

[bigdumbnugly]

gawd.

this guy is on tv more than reruns of Lucy ever were.

[TwelfthVulture]

Only since his reelection campaign bid kicked in.  He wasn't giving press conferences until recently.  Now, he's as ubiquitious as the Geico gecko.

[flacon]

Can I get my 22 minutes back, please? What a waste of time. Wake me when something actually happens....

[SilverRhino]

With the sheer amount of time that Obama has been spending on this, I wonder if we are a lot closer to the edge of the cliff and the abyss than we think we are and that the TPTB are doing all they can to hold out for just a little more. 

[66Sexy]

tweeeet bitchez!

[TheFourthStooge-ing]

These statements and addresses by Big O, Bhoaner, Hairy Butthole Reid, et al., really should have a laugh track.

[HelluvaEngineer]

Drinking game keyword: Compromise

[mynhair]

For wine drinkers:  peas.

[I Am The Unknow...]

turkey and peas. bitchez.  Gots to pay them bills, bitchez. 

Hey do you think they'll try talking "weasel" this time?  Obviously "talking turkey" didn't work out too good. 

[Calculated_Risk]

Got Peas?

[TruthInSunshine]

Obama sez:    

You must eat The Black Eyed Peas. People are good eats. Really. Try Will.I.am with some BBQ dipping sauce.

Thank you, god bless Amerikraw, and may god bless the central bankters.

[oogs66]

its too early to get that drunk

[Gohn Galt]

Now is as good of time than any.  He's hurting my brain, make him stop.

[JohnG]

You stopped?  I've found it much easier just to stay drunk this entire week.

[Debtless]

Draconian, Full Faith & Credit, Partisan Politics. 

[Feef]

Full Farce & Spend It.

[Silver Dreamer]

If you really want to make things interesting, the trigger should be "uh."  I suspect most viewers would be dead before this puppet shuts up.

[bpj]

play this and evreything will be alright

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEmt1O5r0Os

[the left behinds]

play this WHILE playing obama speech . . . its a hoot

[ElvisDog]

Was it Goebbels who said "tell a lie often enough and people will believe it"? Both sides are making sure that they're giving the same number of speeches so they are telling their lies exactly the same number of times. Call it the Goebbels Index.

[Mercury]

Strange days indeed...

Uber-Tory and official Maggie Thatcher biographer Charles Moore is starting to sound like Tyler Durden

It turns out – as the Left always claims – that a system purporting to advance the many has been perverted in order to enrich the few. The global banking system is an adventure playground for the participants, complete with spongy, health-and-safety approved flooring so that they bounce when they fall off. The role of the rest of us is simply to pay.

I think Moore would have served his readers better by pointing out that things like the free market and capitalism aren’t merely political banners and should have to satisfy some important criteria to be worthy of the name (can we please stop labeling the sub-prime mortgage disaster as a free market folly?).

But whether it’s with the aid of communist apparatchiks or capitalist mega bankers, when the state goes into business for itself, the results and endgame are the same.

[scratch_and_sniff]

Hindsight will never go out of fashion, someone should have presented the ideas to him when maggie was Regans bitch and he was living it large...

[A Man without Q...]

It was a very interesting article, but I think Moore misses the point - it's not about left or right, but rather morality and how the sociopaths have taken over the system...  It was the same in the Soviet Union, before Gorbachev came in and simply behaved like a normal human being..

[HL Shancken]

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal. --Mikhail Gorbachev

Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant internal changes in the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep.--Mikhail Gorbachev

In October 1917, we parted with the old world, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world, a world of Communism. We shall never turn off that road.--Mikhail Gorbachev

http://thefinalphaseforum.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=44

[A Man without Q...]

This is interesting stuff, but my personal experience in the old Soviet Union and in the modern day robber baron land that is Putin's Russia tells me this is not true.  There is a strong element of Russian nationalism, but the country of today is closer to Imperial Russia than any communist model.  Putin himself is more concerned with amassing personal wealth, which is simply massive, and power.  The only crime in modern Russia is to go against Putin and not to give him his cut from any deal.

As for the quotes of Gorbachev, it needs to be considered in the context of who the audience was and how uneasy they were with his reforms.  Gorbachev knew that the Soviet Union was broken, and needed radical restructuring, but the Soviet power elite would not make personal sacrifices necessary.  His concerns proved correct...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_coup_attempt_of_1991

[Mercury]

So,  you can either hope for the good intentions and moral character of future political leaders or arrange things to keep the size and scope of government limited.  Sort of like they did in the 1780's.

[Bob]

I see this drama as the only chance for a multi-party system we'll have before TSHTF.  As clear as it is that the existing two party (wink) system WILL NEVER get down to any causitive factors, the only thing that can save us is a multi-party system, imo.  Nader and Paul would both pull back the military, for example.  I wish that could be said for the Tea Party, but Viva Tea Party! nonetheless for going where no man has gone before!  Now stand your ground, mo fo's . . .

[Mercury]

Maybe, but I'd rather see more daylight between the two parties. The problem with a multi-party system (more popular in Europe) is that sometimes you end up electing a nut-job with 10% of the vote.  Not that we're in a clearly superior position now put you can see how that would allienate the vast majority of people.

[Bob]

Call me risk on for a genuinely democratic end, then.  If the two party system is not taken down, we're definitely FUBAR to our end anyway, imo. 

[treemagnet]

Bathroom break time.

[Josh Randall]

I hear the kids on Wall St today say they need to go to the restroom and drop a Geithner

[snowball777]

You mean the ungrateful twerps who are lucky to even have jobs anymore?

Cocaine makes ya stupid, yo.

[Version 7]

Better than mexican novels.

[goldsaver]

No way... have you seen the boobs on those chicks on Mexican Soap Operas? Then again, he is a boob...

[cswjr]

So is this the speech where he announces a grand compromise, or the one where he says we're all going to die?  I need to know how to position my /ES futures.

[Long-John-Silver]

Short everything except Gold and Silver.

[HelluvaEngineer]

With the exception of SLW.  It seems that on even a slight market selloff, half the holders of SLW immediately put in market orders to dump everything.

[GubbermintWorker]

Isn't it about time to short treasurys??

[Spastica Rex]

"We're all gonna die unless we come together as Americans and do the hard work that we always do. I'm not gonna lie; times are tough, but we are Americans and that means we always win."

[Raphio]

But the one with the most toys when they die........dies

[g]

bah

[Calculated_Risk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvc65vC4RMg

[Chief KnocAHoma]

Will a reporter please aks this question -

Mr. Prez, if you wanted to tax the rich is there a better way to do that default on the bonds issued to large investors, the Treasury, the Fed, China and Japan?

[Dr. No]

"Thank for the question Chief. As you know, tax policy can be used to encourage behavior.  We promote green energy by dumping money on ethonol producers and taxing big oil.  Same can be done for buying government debt.  We want to encourage every man, woman, and child to buy govment debt.  Therefore I do not want to default on the debt to push these potential buyers away.  Better tax them on everything else so as they only place they can invest money is gov debt.  Which, uh, is why I will be introducing a rider to the house plan which requires all 401(k) funds to automatically enroll people AND their investments into gov debt.  This will be a new chapter in the SS Trust stability."

[Chief KnocAHoma]

Mr Prez... a follow up...

Where you born a pig headed ass wipe, or is this something you developed in your muslem up bringing?

I am The Chief

[apcnudie]

start the show already...

[derryb]

working on change 36, stand by.

[equity_momo]

FOUR!!

[derryb]

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.” …….. Senator Barack Obama

[magpie]

How many hours late ?

[MiguelitoRaton]

BPT = black people time

[MiguelitoRaton]

Just turn the teleprompter around and we'll read it...except for his base, they can't read.

[GeneMarchbanks]

This is the money shot!

[derryb]

only if barney is there to catch it.

[GeneMarchbanks]

Please Please Please announce Quantitative Pleasing... Yeah... Ooooo... Uhhhhh... mmmmmm...

[MiguelitoRaton]

Drink every time he says "rich" or "wealthy" class warfare Bitchez!

[Calculated_Risk]

or fair share

[knavechild]

I also drink everytime he refers to "Firefighters and teachers".  Its a classic.

[ninja-ish]

here it is: the end of the dollar. good riddance!

[Dr. Engali]

Not yet! I don't have enough gold and silver.

[LaLiLuLeLo]

too many rich people building corporate jets for other rich people. greedy bastards...

[TwelfthVulture]

Is this motherfucker ever on time for anything?

[bob_dabolina]

Put some fried chicken and watermelon with a glass of grape drink on that podium. He'll be out real quick.

[malikai]

What you said was really shitty, but I still had a laugh. Now I feel bad for it.

[bob_dabolina]

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=michelle+obama+eating+fried+chicken&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&tbm=isch&tbnid=JmIg7hwkznfV3M:&imgrefurl=http://slapblog.com/%253Fp%253D11940&docid=IV5e9nFLkGWfhM&w=575&h=369&ei=zcUyTuKyJdCtgQfXtcifDQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=401&vpy=143&dur=1791&hovh=180&hovw=280&tx=158&ty=88&page=1&tbnh=152&tbnw=216&start=0&ndsp=19&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0&biw=1366&bih=667

[Uncle Remus]

caption: Damn O. You must be merciless on a neck bone.

[Uncle Remus]

Pretty sure you'll get over it. Have a cookie, you'll be right as rain.

[I Got Worms]

Go long Purple Drank!

[MiguelitoRaton]

Only for tee times.

[Doubleguns]

Hes pulling his head out of his ass again to catch a breath and see if his shadow shows up on the teleprompter.

[accumbens]

and the DOW is still above 12k!!!!

[CrankItTo11]

Yeah they're really fighting off 12,000. Unbelievable. Will they ever stop propping it up and just let it die?

[accumbens]

GDP under estimations, consumer confidence down, debt ceiling issues, unemployment. and so on but the DOW stil stands up

[BC6]

I'm sure Barry is just as pissed as the rest of us because it takes away his time from the golf course. And furthermore, the more time he has to educate us plebs, the worse his handicap becomes.

[Dr. Engali]

Blah blh blah....... corporate jets ........blah blah blah....... wealthy............. blah bla blah

[TruthInSunshine]

Meanwhile, locust like swarms of private jets are seen heading from the U.S. towards Paraguay.

16º to 32º S latitude, 47º to 56º W longitude

[JSD]

Nothing like being fashionably late to a debt ceiling address.  "The address starts at 10:20?  Okay, I'll be there at 10:35."

[SILVER_GIRL]

I´m siting on my chair... :)

Go Obama go...

[Dr. Impossible]

Does he admit the P.O.T.U.S. is a failed office and then disolve it, and all its compononts,  to the hands of Congress?

[magpie]

He folds himself into Supercongress - Transformers !

[voshnishki]

Drinkin' the koolaid.

[digalert]

Noonan WSJ:

OBAMA IS A LOSER

http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html

[Jeronimo]

Let's wait till it's over to judge; the speech that is....

[Cdad]

Show us your teeth, President Obama.  It is time for the nation to see who you really are.

[g]

He's toothless.

[Cdad]

Toothless?  You have not been paying attention.  The damage he has done and can continue to do to this nation is enormous.  Watch as the divider does his work in the midst of this chaos.

[g]

I will concede that point.

[TheFourthStooge-ing]

He's sackless.

There, I fixed it for you.

[GeneMarchbanks]

.

[GeneMarchbanks]

Brian Sack is plenty busy.  Working his balls off.

[g]

ha!

[buzzsaw99]

how 'bout NO!

[itiswhatitis]

Will POTUS use a last minute 14th Amendment play at this news conference as authority to raise the ceiling on his own?  And what would that do to the markets? Strange times indeed.....

[rsnoble]

I've had enough for one day and will be shutting this "highway to hell" machine off.  LOL, that's what my grandma calls the PC.

[scratch_and_sniff]

ha ha, shes on the money then, but remind her that hell cant hold a candle to the interweb.

[pepperspray]

10 minutes late and counting

[Dr. Engali]

Hey what is with the #666666 margin under the screen? Trying to tell us something Tyler?

[Seasmoke]

always late , taking one more hit off the crack pipe

[slaughterer]

Obama: what can he say?  There is nothing factual to report on the debt ceiling deal.

30% blame

30% "tough for Americans" talk

40% market reassurance on a compromise

[Overpowered By Funk]

10:20am and counting ... wait Sheeple, wait, wait for it ...

[Calculated_Risk]

He's on Mexican time.

[Ben Bermonkey]

DOUBLE DEEP OUT THE SHIT

[I am Jobe]

WTF, how amny more of this crap does the USA needs to take. Shut that guy up and take away the TV privileges and all. Enough already. Stupid President of the USA and the Congress.

[JuicyTheAnimal]

Obama: "I'm a failure in so so, too, so, soo, toooo many ways so I resign effective immediatley.  Me and Michelle's gotz our short bets on like a motha fucka and, well nevermind, fuck all y'all motha fuckaz, that ain't fadin me.... out."

[tamboo]

<----- obongo is a muslim.

<------obongo is a satanic jewgro.

hint: those whitehouse seders dont exactly promote islamic culture.

http://www.henrymakow.com/is_obama_literally_americas_fi.htm

lhttp://www.come-and-hear.com/dilling/chapt08.htmlhttp://www.come-and-hea...

[malikai]

<--- tamboo is a fucking moron

<--- tamboo is a fucking moron

See what I did thar?

[buzzsaw99]

jewgro, that is omg funny

[HedgeFun]

Maybe one of his budget cuts is the cameraman

[g]

Nah, and he will not cut the teleprompter or the crew of 1000 it takes to manage it, out of the budget either.

[Arch Duke Ferdinand]

When U.S. Government Shuts Down...

http://seenoevilspeaknoevilhearnoevil.blogspot.com/2011/07/when-governme...

OT: 2 Min Hilarious Vid....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Uju3tYS2s

[reefermadness]

Boners bill looks limp. 

[trentusa]

nobody made the joke yet: what's the over/under on how many minutes Obama's gonna be late?

    If he's 15 mins late we can all go home and let him talk to himself rite?

[oogs66]

boehner's plan sucks is all he has come up with so far, needs to delay a bit longer

[JSD]

"Wait...you want me to say what? Okay...if that's what you want"

[TaxSlave]

Watch Obama Debt Ceiling Address Live

Uhh, no.

Lemme guess, though.  He will threaten to starve Grandma before kicking a bunch of tapeworm bureaucrats out on their asses.

This is good, though.  The man is doing more to discredit the parasitic collectivist ruling class than all free-market intellectual writings of the previous half-century.  He will go down in history as the man who brought us the Tea Party, ended the Fed, and crashed the economy of the entire world.  Nothing shakes people out of their apathy like having their employer bankrupted, getting kicked out of their homes, maybe losing a spouse in the bargain, then being taxed to pay the bank's losses on their home!

[Iriestx]

Losing a spouse is a plus, right?

[TaxSlave]

Yep, if it's over mercenary issues.  Definitely.

[HedgeFun]

If he is any later they will have to rename the title 'Obama speaks to the status of breaching the debt ceiling'

[HedgeFun]

If he is any later they will have to rename the title 'Obama speaks to the status of breaching the debt ceiling'

[hunglow]

What color of tie should I wear.

[BurningFuld]

"Ladies and Gentlmen Boys and Girls we have finally figured out we are flat broke. Thank you and have a nice weekend."

[HedgeFun]

check out george washington in the background painting he looks pissed.

[CrankItTo11]

The teleprompter is hungover

[SnobGobbler]

...Seems like the people calling into cspan1 are drunk...
Obama probably ran out of TP; that must be whats holding him up.

[GubbermintWorker]

Did his tears fuck up is makeup or sumpthin'?

[TaxSlave]

Oh, he's on now.  My TV just threw up on the floor.

[trentusa]

I voted for him bc I thought he'd be the next JFK, but turns out Obama's nothin' but a damn Uncle Tom  works for the banks just like Bush & Clinton.

    I wanted a president so black his traffic entourage STILL runs from the cops.

[buzzsaw99]

Uncle Tobama bitchez

[Bastiat]

LOL! 

[caerus]

wtf does "rough agreement" mean

[oogs66]

isn't that DSK's defence?  

[caerus]

lol...nice

[Iriestx]

It's a keyword phrase for the algo-bots to pick up on.  GREEN to the moon on the news that the debt ceiling has been raised and another $9t QE3 is incoming.

[CrankItTo11]

WTF is an enforcement mechanism?

[Dr. Engali]

Aarrhhgggggg my ears and my eyes are bleeding!

[kwality]

Oh come on, you're doing it wrong.  You need to relax and let the hooks do their work for the reneducation to work properly!

[Hondo]

He's full of nonsense again.....to political....has no economic credibility and lying again and again.

[the not so migh...]

VOTE FOR DEBT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[CrankItTo11]

Oh, terrorist attacks are the same as natural disasters. Nice.

[depression]

Hurricanes, Earthquakes, Tornados....

[Iriestx]

What are disasters not caused by incompetent leaders, Alex.

[caerus]

Shit-storms...

[snowball777]

Volcanoes....out of deference to the European readership.

Drought...for our Tejanos.

Floods...for most of the Midwest.

And nuclear radiation for the West Coast.

[CHARLIE.DONT.SERF]

Higher interest rates are unexcusable.

[tip e. canoe]

can't have higher interest rates of course.

we're a nation of DEBTORS dammit, not savers.

[Dr. Engali]

Who gets more air time Obama or Hugo Chavez?

[oogs66]

who deserves more air time?

[ArrestBobRubin]

It's like he's talking to 6 year olds.