
David Reilly over at Bloomberg tells us that Obama needs to “man up” if he doesn’t want to be handing Sarah Palin the keys to the White House in January 2013. While I think it’s quite presumptuous to assume Palin will be his successor, Reilly’s little rant about Obama needing to be more of a tough guy (even against his own people) made me laugh.
Obama needs to ditch his professorial, community-organizer mien and start cracking some heads. Unless, that is, he is intent on paving the way for a Palin presidency in 2013.
Supporters are crying out for Obama to pull out of his tailspin. In an article in Politico, Douglas Wilder, the nation’s first African-American governor and an early Obama supporter, urged the president to get his act together.
“The need is becoming more obvious by the day,” Wilder wrote. “Getting elected and getting things done for the people are two different jobs.”
I find it fascinating that Democrats want a tough-minded, bull-headed, strong-willed President now, when only 3 short years ago these very same Democrats (confronted with a President exhibiting these very same personality traits) did nothing but belly ache, moan, and complain:
“Americans want compromise, not a cowboy-style showdown,” said House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C.
I’ll take the cowboy approach, thank you very much. Gangstas are too well-known for killing their own…
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The pictures tell the tale....
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 10:54AM EST (link)I certainly do miss the Cowboy and DESPISE the hoodlum!
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I like the cowboy better too
Richard Mullins (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 11:39AM EST (link)Even better Mr Bush has a Truck and Obama doesn’t know how to drive it. I have a truck my self, and I don’t take people with Cigarettes in the mouth. I’ve got a good quote to put in but I’m going to have to wait sometime.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
Agreed Jaded, that pic makes me miss Bush a lot
Doc Holliday (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 4:08PM EST (link)Hi Jaded, Hey Haystack
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Hey Doc....thanks buddy for that wonderful video...
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Monday, February 15th at 12:35PM EST (link)I miss the Statesmen as President as opposed to the 60′s radicals who are now attempting to destroy our beautiful country with the biggest RADICAL of all in the seat of the Presidency.
Hey Momma’s let your boys grow up to be Cowboys
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Looking at that picture again, I realised the contrasts.
gekster (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 4:34PM EST (link)On the left (ironic) you have an America loving, country cowboy Redneck.
On the right (ironic again) you have the America hating, socialist gangsta thug.
One tried to do what was right for the America, no matter what was said of him. With him it was America and Americans first.
The other is doing whats right for him, no matter what they say about him. And with him America doesn’t matter and you better go along.
They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.
We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
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Ok folks, 2012 is here. Get involved
The lefties are just now catching on to what we have known for a long time
RedBeard Saturday, February 13th at 11:36AM EST (link)The fact is that their guy, declared by various star-struck idiots as The One, The Lightworker, The One We’ve Been Waiting For, etc., is a lousy administrator.
How long have we been trying to tell people that Obama has no qualifications as an administrator or manager? Give him a streetcorner, a bullhorn, and some leftie leaflets, and he’s right at home. But give him a real management job, and his complete lack of experience and proper temperment sticks out like a sore thumb.
Sometimes there is no erudite comment any more fitting than a simple “DUH.”
Standard-bearer for grouchy curmudgeonry since, oh, 1975 or so.
Kinda of like the question that dog asks if he actually catches the car. nt
Leopard1996 (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 4:10PM EST (link)“The accumluated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, “Save Us!”….and I’ll look down and whisper, “No”…The Watchmen
Not to mention innocent bystanders
Raven (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 11:37AM EST (link)“Gangstas are too well-known for killing their own…”
And then there’s the gangsta’s desire to make good for himself and screw anyone else.
“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36
GWB warned him, but he didn't listen
archer52 Saturday, February 13th at 11:37AM EST (link)I heard this from both inside the White House and in the media. GWB pulled BO aside when they met and said that all Presidents learn the same lesson, being President ain’t all that much. If you can’t talk people into it, there is a good chance you can’t get it done. Rumor has it that Obama pretty much blew Bush off saying HE was different. He’s Obama after all.
Blowing people off when given good advice is normal for Obama
Richard Mullins (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 11:42AM EST (link)So it wouldn’t go any differently.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
We need more Cowboys and no Gangstas can't shoot strait
Doc Holliday (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 1:56PM EST (link)they can’t even aim their “gats”
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Doc, you're back!
Cheryl (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 2:07PM EST (link)good to see you again.
“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America, than the whole force of the common enemy.” –Samuel Adams
“The administrative state has inserted its big paws into our houses, from the toilet bowl to the light socket. Now if it would just stretch those paws from the one to the other at the same time, we might begin to recapture the spirit of ’76.” –Scott Johnson, Powerlineblog.com
thanks Cheryl, its good to be back
Doc Holliday (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 2:24PM EST (link)hope you have been taking care of the place
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Hey dude...great to see you 'round these parts again.
eburke (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 2:50PM EST (link)Long time…no pithiness.
Missed ya, man!
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thanks Eburke! My comment was too pithy
Doc Holliday (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 3:20PM EST (link)I wasn’t done when it posted lol. Good to see ya buddy :
Molon Labe!
And we all hope you never get pithed on again :-) nt
mbecker908 (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 3:21PM EST (link)lol 'Beck, well I got pithed off so I got pithed on
Doc Holliday (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 3:23PM EST (link)past is prologue.
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Well, we've all been pithed on since Jan 20th of '09
eburke (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 3:48PM EST (link)Ok…I’m done
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Well, I'm relieved to see you haven't lost your soft, sensitive side, Doc :-) -nt-
eburke (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 3:49PM EST (link)“All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
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Welcome back Doc. nt
mbecker908 (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 2:52PM EST (link)cheers Mbeck
Doc Holliday (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 3:21PM EST (link)you know your my boy! Franz, well, it will take time
Molon Labe!
Nice to see you nt
aesthete (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 3:25PM EST (link)The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton
thanks Aesthe, and to you
Doc Holliday (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 3:31PM EST (link)I ventured around, but there is no place like home.
Molon Labe!
sorry, Aesthete, still getting my typing skills bac-ntk
Doc Holliday (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 3:33PM EST (link)nt
Molon Labe!
So, I am watching an old western movie on TV, "Doc"
penguin2 (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 3:37PM EST (link)with Stacey Keach, and then I see your name on screen here. Good to see you back, Doc Holliday. Perfect time for your return, shoot out at the OK corral and all……
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hey Penguin!
Doc Holliday (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 3:40PM EST (link)I have been doing more Western reading lately, Cormac McCarthy stuff, that guy is messing with my mind! What Keach movie? Is it The Long Riders? that is one of my faves.
Molon Labe!
The movie is the one involving the Clanton brothers,
penguin2 (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 3:45PM EST (link)Wyatt Earp and the shoot-out at O.K. Corral, 1971. Has Faye Dunaway in it. It is kind of funny the particular diary you show up in, look at the title…..
I love the old westerns, actually the real old ones.
Anyway, good to see you back, and this is our time for action.
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The diary was not accident, you have to pick your spots :)
Doc Holliday (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 3:51PM EST (link)we don’t get enough Cowboy diaries around here. I love westerns too but for some reason am most drawn to the anti-hero stuff from the 70′s. I love The Long Riders, The Wild Bunch, Leone stuff, but the old ones too.
Molon Labe!
penguin, that is why I came back, it is our time for action!
Doc Holliday (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 3:52PM EST (link)it is our time to take it all the way!
Molon Labe!
Oh, the movie is called "Doc"
Doc Holliday (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 3:45PM EST (link)I did not get the quotes at first. I have not seen that one, is it good? I am pretty hard on Hollywood portrayals of that time in Tombstone, I can be a jerk to watch them with
I couldn’t even enjoy the great film “My Darling Clementine” because it is so inaccurate. I am getting better though….ohm, ohm.
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Doc! We need you guys in the white hats, ok? nt
redneck_hippie (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 4:01PM EST (link)hey redneck, great to see ya!
Doc Holliday (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 4:05PM EST (link)as said by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in the movie Gettysburg: “What we are fighting for, in the end, we are fighting for each other”.
We need the whole team on board and I am ready to pitch in!
Molon Labe!
Obama Pix
conservativegeorgian43 (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 3:59PM EST (link)That pix of Osama really does show his true character. He should be hanging on a wall in the Post Office rather than hanging out in the White House. Creepy.
eooaww!
Doc Holliday (Diary) Saturday, February 13th at 4:02PM EST (link)“said in the voice of the two New Jersey guys on SNL”
Molon Labe!
Also worth noting is the verbal jujitsu being used for that piece.
The_Gadfly (Diary) Sunday, February 14th at 6:50AM EST (link)Although I haven’t read the whole Wilder piece, I have seen a fair number of quotes from it, and heard it characterized by enough people that I believe Wilder was advocating The Big 0 sit down with Republicans and engage in actual compromise as opposed to the gotcha photo-ops which characterize his administration.
About that picture...
zroxx (Diary) Monday, February 15th at 11:17AM EST (link)Of Obama, it’s a photoshopped fake, see here.
Now maybe you didn’t know this, but now you do.
Whether you did or didn’t, I would advise changing it, and not using it in the future, for at least two reasons:
1) To maintain the integrity of RedState.
2) Because it conveys the impression that, where you associate a cowboy hat with being a cowboy in the left picture, you evidently associate a cigarette with being a “gangsta” in the right hand picture. If 44 is a “gangsta”, then that surely has nothing at all to do with whether he smokes a cigarette, and now you’ve implied that cigarette smoking in general is a hallmark of being a “gangsta”, which clearly denigrates honest American citizens who smoke cigarettes.
You could have just run a non-doctored plain old photograph of Obama and made your point without damning cigarette smokers in general.
And if you want to run a story about the apparent hypocrisy of nanny staters who indulge in whatever vice they’re seeking to control, fine, but use a real photo that actually shows Obama smoking.