Posted on Wednesday, 29th April 2009 by Bruce
Dick Morris, writing at The Hill:
“When the Obama administration crashes and burns, with approval ratings that fall through the floor, political scientists can trace its demise to its first hundred days. While Americans are careful not to consign a presidency they desperately need to succeed to the dustbin of history, the fact is that this president has moved — on issue after issue — in precisely the opposite direction of what the people want him to do……So if voters differ so fundamentally with the president on the very essence of his program, why do they accord him high ratings? They are like the recently married bride who took her vows 100 days ago. It would be a disaster for her life if she decides that she really doesn’t like her husband. But she keeps noticing things about him that she can’t stand. It will be a while before she walks out the door or even comes to terms with her own doubts, but it is probably inevitable that she will.”
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April 29th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
This is why I continue to come here. Where else can I find wild, unfounded conjecture based on polls paid for by the Fox Network from a man who was drummed out of politics after he allowed the prosititue he’d hired to suck on his toes eavesdrop on his conversations with the then President of the United States?
But, now that I think about it, it’s a wonder that Morris isn’t a GOP candidate for the Senate.
April 29th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Where else can you find this, well lets see the Drudge Report and if you bothered to read the article you would notice that there are other polls that aren’t done by fox news. but why expect a liberal to give all the facts on something.
April 29th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
MM - if you got your head out of the CNN/MSNBC orgasm - I mean unbiased coverage of O - you might realize that not a lot of people are happy with him - left, right, and center. Of course that is what happens when you make campaign promises based on your audience and not your beliefs.
April 29th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Hmmm…, if Obama’s the bride, how come we’re getting screwed? And it’s ME who’s noticing things about him I can’t stand.
I’ve come to terms with my doubts, now where’s the door?!
April 29th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Yet another poll that proves Americans are opposed to Obabma’s policies, this time from the Wall Street Journal: Only about 20% of Americans now call themselves Republicans. http://tinyurl.com/c8x7s4
April 29th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Let’s talk about polls:
Annie Woodward 1,186 51.66%
Michael Mathias 1,110 48.34%
April 29th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
And thus ends the discussion, with another ad hominem jab.
I think Obama will prove to be far more centrist than anyone wants him to be.
April 29th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
So it’s OK to rip posters on the blog and criticize a man for his sexual proclivities, but then claim an ad hominem attack when someone points factual election results?
If I were to make an ad hominem attack, I’d tell your wife to quit screwing the UPS guy, Kojack.
April 29th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
A better analogy would be a battered woman still so stupid in love with her abuser she can’t see reality, no matter how much he hurts her. Making excuses, telling herself she’s better off with him than before him, thinking he’ll change…
Lotta people need an intervention.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Paul? Are you Gus/Mickey? Bringing up Mathias’s recent election results has what to do with Obama? Rip posters? Sexual proclivities? What are you talking about?
April 29th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Maybe less time photoshopping kitties on bodies, and a little more time with the reading comprehension, Foust:
Mathias mocked Dick Morris for using prostitutes and for his toe-sucking fetish. I thought sex didn’t matter to Democrats, if August 1998 to February 1999 taught us anything.
Mathias starts quoting polls. I started quoting polls relavent to said poster.
Again, if I were to make an ad hominem attack, I’d tell your wife to quit screwing the UPS guy.
April 29th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Oh Dear?!?! Paul. I sat on the sideline as Forehead Foust, whose chrome dome melts more Polar Ice Caps via…reflected sunlight than Exxon-Mobil, BP, and Hugo Chavez/Citgo combined, AD HOMINEMED YOU, by suggesting that YOU…PAUL were in fact me…..GUS….with the ADDED/AD HOMINEM of…..MICKEY. And I didn’t whine like a “RASCAL” (the Japanese Raccoon sensation) upon becoming ROAD KILL. Liberals try to set the RULES OF ENGAGEMENT. I sincerely doubt that our boy Johnny Foust-Gojefferson has ever been engaged. In fact Pamelyn Ferdin has moved on without Johnny Forehead….like 30 years ago, despite Johnny’s protestations and stalking ventures.
Foust has someting in common with Barry Opie. He thinks he can CON and MANIPULATE his way through life. Foust is a lonely loser. He should try harder I guess.
Paul, your posts cracked me up, because you clearly set BAIT out. And Foust is too stupid not to bite.
April 29th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
If this blog had a search function, I’d be able to show that only Gus/Mickey previously repeatedly made fun of my forehead while suggesting that my wife was screwing the UPS guy. Or are you supporting the use of prostitutes or the toe-sucking fetish? I think it was Kojak - no ‘c’.
Kitties on bodies? That’s a bit out there. I don’t support sex with animals. That would be like hearing what you want to hear on the radio, like misinterpreting “He wore his gun outside his pants for all the honest world to feel” instead of “all the honest world to fear”.
http://activepaper.olivesoftware.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=V0JETi8yMDA5LzA0LzI4I0FyMDA2MDM=
But just to keep it on topic, I think Obama will do a great job of making lots of people think that their side isn’t winning, on both the left and the right.
April 29th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
Paul,
“Jabs” at liberals are mean-spirited, low-brow and nasty.
“Jabs” at conservatives (or anyone liberals don’t like) are high-minded, egg-headed satire…I thought you would have learned of that
hypocrisydifference by now.April 29th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Kitties on bodies???
That would be AD HOMINEM?? N’est ce pas??
Johnny Forehead Foust, could burn ANTS DEAD via his FOREHEAD REFLECTIVE PROPERTIES.
Foust has ATTACKED. Yes ATTACKED..AD HOMINEMED, Owen and his blog venture without any fear of repercussion. That’s what LIBERALS DO.
If Johnny Forehead wants to play HARD BALL.
I’m game.
Heretofore, Johnny loser boy Gojefferson, Pamelyn Ferdin, Kooky Kookie house and all the other sad sad sordid tales that FOUST has willingly put on the WORLD WIDE WEB (AL GORES INVENTION),
Until such time that RULES ARE CREATED or until I am BANNED as bad for business. I’ll smack JOHHNY THE FOREHEAD with impunity.
HE DOES IT TO US.
April 30th, 2009 at 7:22 am
Just had to do it, didn’t you Foust. Couldn’t leave it alone. You have to be one of those people who just isn’t happy unless you have someone beating on you.
April 30th, 2009 at 7:29 am
Sounds like a potential neurological problem. Perhaps he has an oversized, limbic brain. See, it’s pushing against the frontal lobe so their synapses are misfiring.
In all candor, Mr. Faust, it was commenter “Paul” who took a shot at you (and your UPS guy.)
“Paul” and “gus” are posting from different locales. You have my word on it. So much for that theory.
April 30th, 2009 at 7:44 am
You people have problems. You need to get over yourselves. Thanks for the headache.
April 30th, 2009 at 8:33 am
Thanks for the confirmation, Bruce. That theory is busted - for now! I remembered the phrase. Perhaps it was Paul repeating the same joke over and over, as Gus/Mickey does. Gosh, to think there’s more of them out there!
Gus/Mickey, why do you have a problem with BootsAndKittens.com if Owen doesn’t? He said “I thought it was pretty dang funny.” Prominent (and handsome) conservative blogger James Wigderson posted a love poem to BootsAndKittens with headline “I love this web site.” A MJS columnist and even the Marquette Warrior liked my “Coexist” parody. Illusory Tenant said of B&K, “For a long while now, one of the smartest and funniest domains on the entire Quesosphere.” BlueRacine said “I almost laughed myself off my chair.” Even B&K itself calls itself “puerile” and “one of those pathetic blogs that ridicules other bloggers and media folk in an effort to illicit a reaction and draw attention to their cleverness.” Peter DiGaudio of the Underground Conservative wrote an entire post praising http://www.kookycookyhouse.com as a thoughtful recollection of Milwaukee’s history, and the web assisted WKLH’s Christmas fundraiser for kids. I’ve written rich veins of material pressing for government accountability praised by the right and the left and my behind-the-scenes assistance on open-records / open-meetings law knows no political boundaries. Conservatives and liberals alike seem to like what I do. I write. It’s one of the things I do. You think I’m worried about your impression of something I wrote a decade ago? I’ve made dozens and dozens of web sites that have won global awards and private accolades from around the world. You think I’m concerned about jokes about my forehead? Puh-lease. The UPS guy? I pay him to do his job. As any husband knows, if she ain’t happy, you ain’t happy. Ask Owen.
Alas, you’ve forced me to reveal my secret weapon! I can be ten times more civil, reasonable and interesting than you, and it doesn’t strain my forehead to do so.
Back to the topic: Anyone find anything wrong with Mathias’s referenced polls? Were any of them push polls? Was it a trick question?
April 30th, 2009 at 8:57 am
Polls? Okay, how about the most recent results in the Electoral College?
Barack Obama: 365
John McCain: 173
http://www.270towin.com/
As for my own race, since no one I consulted before running figured I would get more than 30%, finishing down a mere 76 is something I’m pretty proud of. Of course, I wanted to win, but I’m relatively certain I did far better than, say, “Paul” would have.
April 30th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Michael, if we had a redo, I am confident the results would be totally different now. I am also confident that if we had a redo of the election, a lot of incuments would also be thrown out from both sides of the aisle.
Dick Morris is a very good pollster and he knows what he is talking about. He said Obama would beat Hillary and McCain early on and was proved correct.
April 30th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
…and like the bride on her wedding…she too got screwed.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
I am also confident that if we had a redo of the election, a lot of incuments would also be thrown out from both sides of the aisle.
That’s why the Republicans had better not presume 2010 automatically blows their way. Those Tea Party rallies brought out a lot of anger at all incumbents, not just Democrats. There were a lot of PO’d Democrats at those rallies and people who feel like I do … namely a pox on both their houses. If the RINOs show up again in 2010, they will get pummeled once again.
May 1st, 2009 at 12:09 am
However, if there were a redo of a certain school board election, I am confident that Mathias would still lose.
Annie Woodward 1,186 51.66%
Michael Mathias 1,110 48.34%
Never forget, jagoff.
May 1st, 2009 at 12:27 am
If this blog had a search function, I’d be able to show that only Gus/Mickey previously repeatedly made fun of my forehead while suggesting that my wife was screwing the UPS guy.
Careful guys. Apparently, Foust is taking notes on who is making fun of his forehead…as well as who is doing his wife.
May 1st, 2009 at 1:10 am
Foust’s post at 8:33 AM reminds me of this quote:
Captain Briggs: Do you know who I am? Do you know my record?
Harry Callahan: Yeah… you’re a legend in your own mind.
And who would bang his wife? Baldness is an STD, boys and girls.
May 1st, 2009 at 3:20 pm
I believe Pamelyn Ferdin would beat Michael Mathias if the race was run today.