Some fun examples of this were on display recently on a Facebook post that I commented on which included mention of the downturn in the overall economy under Obama’s tenure. One of these things is the fact that when Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, the unemployment rate was 7.8% and today it is 8.5%. I didn’t say he is callously and purposefully acting as a crazed arsonist, destroying the American job market just so he can watch the world burn. I didn’t say he went around chainsaw-massacring small businesses in service to his Kenyan Keynesian Communist (the KKC?) masters as part of a plot to ruin all our lives. I just pointed out a fact and did so in the most reasonable sense possible: by comparing Obama’s start on the job to now – because a scammy way to do this would be to go back 2 months to election day in November of 2008. scammy because even though he was elected president in Nov 08, the dude didnt start the job until January 20th 2009, so that is the REAL start of his tenure. The unemployment rate was shooting upward in the last months of Bush’s term – conservatives say, because businesses were preparing to have the less-business friendly occupant in the Whitehouse as all the polls started trending toward an Obama win, but whatever – none of that matters because I cited inauguration day.

Anyway – long story short – a couple Obama-cultists couldn’t handle the implication of imperfection in their hero and flipped balls. Here are some highlights of the thread…

Most of the fire came from this Ziad fellow who insisted that I was making shit up to smear his Dear Leader.

Ziad
Your chart is BULLSHIT!! When Obama started in office, the unemployment rate was at 10.5% not 7.8%. It is currently at 8.5%..An improvement don’t you think? To make the long story short, most white folks do not want to see a black president in office any longer. I’ve known Romney since i was a kid. He was over at my parents place all the time, the man is a crooked person.

Richard
make some money, Ziad. i’ll match whatever you want (in real amounts. not zillionbillion). i’ll pay through paypal. or are you already googling AFTER you ran your mouth to find out that youre dead wrong?

Ziad
No one is spreading lies. Can’t handle the truth, huh? Btw, i don’t need to make any extra cash, i’m doing well financially unlike yourself:)

Ziad
Obama will rout Romney by a huge margin, getting large votes from sections of the United States where working class people are tired of the do-nothing Congress, controlled by do-nothing Republicans. How about the auto industry? If not for Obama and his auto clunker program, the Republicans would have allowed the auto industry to die a terrible death. The auto industry has made a dramatic recovery. Anything else, Richard? Class dismissed!

Richard
who said you needed to keep it? you dont know any charities that could use the money?

Ziad
Richard Bushnell is a racist!

Classy. I like the part where he says “no one is spreading lies” when he actually means to argue that HE is not spreading lies. The next part is too funny to copy&paste though. Only a screenshot will do it justice:

Clearly I lost that exchange… Although he deleted the comment that called me racist so it shows even he was ashamed of the stupidity of the accusation even though he wasn’t man enough to say it publicly.

I tried to get him to put up some money OR just admit that he Googled the January 09 unemployment rate and found out he was wrong, but alas, he would do neither. While using the “I don’t want to waste my time” excuse for why he wouldn’t bet me (ie: something that takes zero time), He kept commenting that I’m a loser and fool and that i’m just “too stupid to understand”. Ya… that was probably it.

He wasn’t ALL negative though: He said the following about why Obama is an awesome asset to this country:

Ya…about that… the bank bailout, also known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)… was done by Bush. It’s one of the big things the Tea Party was against and it’s true that Obama (and McCain) supported it, but it was still a Bush policy.

I’m posting all this to remind you that these people exist… They know nothing of what they passionately argue and bully others into agreeing with and facts cannot penetrate their steel bubble of faith. And it is “faith”, not only because the stuff he believes about the unemployment rate or who did the bank bailout is factually wrong, but because facts aren’t even a concern to people like this. Look at that comment saying “help is on the way” – completely ignoring that Obama has been president for 3 years, 2 of which he got EVERYTHING he wanted because his party controlled both houses of Congress (currently they control the Senate but the Republicans won back the House in 2010).

I was also really interested in this alleged inside-scoop he had about Mitt Romneys dirty dealings in addition to Googles false unemployment stat-records that they worked with the Bureau of Labor to fabricate just to deceive the American people about poor Barack Obama but Ziad wouldn’t divulge any such top secret info he wouldn’t stop insisting he has.

Then there’s this Lana person…

I’m 60% sure it’s a fake account but whomever is behind it, i’ll use the name and gender assigned to it anyway. Every time Ziad would call me a name instead of making an actual argument, she’d “like” the comment until finally breaking her silence by posting 3 comments defending Obama.

Problem? She plagiarized a Forbes magazine opinion piece i read several days ago so she could SOUND like she was weighing in when in reality she had nothing of substance to add…

I read a ton of news and politics articles every day and recognized the text in the comments from something I read recently… So I checked my history…

All 3 of the comments were pasted from the Forbes blog by Peter Cohen titled “why obama should be re-elected” — meaning that she read this comment thread “liking” the bullshit bullying and slander against me and wanted to join in but isnt informed enough on the issues to do so, so she literally googled “why obama should be re-elected” – clicked one of the results and copy & pasted the stuff that sounded good.

Check out Lana’s contribution to the discussion with the juxtaposition below.

Above are the only 3 comments she left in the entire thread. Below that is the end half of the above article she plagiarized. Ziad is of course the one who “liked” each comment.

The only thing changed was the addition of the substance free line: “Romney is no good for us”.

And this, friends, is what you get when you have people who have pre-determined that they will blindly endorse a Politician 100% in everything they do, no matter how effective they are or not and you are faced with numbers like this…

Mitt Romney = Bane.
The toughest match the Dark Knight has ever had to face.

Barack Obama = the Dark Knight
Once thought of as a hero, now thought to be a monster, he must return to fight for his ideals.

Commissioner Gordon = The Tea Party 
Traditionalist called by a sense of duty to engage in a battle to preserve what is radically decaying before his eyes.

 Catwoman = Occupy Wall Street
An otherwise uninvolved player, motivated by and attracted to chaos whose sense of entitlement brings her/them to class warfare and a life of law breaking they feel is morally justified cuz rich people have stuff and they don’t. She’s angry because she’s ignorant – mainly in her misunderstanding of economics, thinking of it as a pie with a finite amount of slices.

How does it all end?…

Take it either way:

Romney/Bane succeeds in doing what other more experienced contenders previously failed at and breaks the people’s hero?

Or

Obama/Batman gets broken by a strong challenger but ultimately wins in the end?

We’ll find out in about 10 months…

In the midst of the worst economic downturn in U.S. history, President Obama is abolishing the nation’s oldest and most successful program to direct infrastructure spending to minority-owned small businesses, which could cost them between $25 and $50 billion a year. The President has continued to allow billions of dollars a month in federal small business contracts to be diverted into the hands of big businesses. His administration tried to cover up the diversion of federal small business contracts to corporate giants by destroying data in the Federal Procurement Data System such as the “small business flag” and the “parent DUNS number,” that allowed watchdogs like myself, and the media, to monitor the actual recipients of federal small business contracts.

And now, President Obama will reauthorize a Department of Defense program known as the Comprehensive Subcontracting Plan Test Program (CSPTP) that makes it easier for prime contractors to cheat small businesses out of billions. Under the CSPTP, large defense contractors are exempt from reporting their subcontracting actions and also exempt from any penalty of non-compliance with congressionally mandated small business procurement goals.

The idea of the CSPTP is ludicrous.

Small business you say? Why… I have one of those…

But thats not a requirement to see that this is bullshit of the highest order. read the article and weep.

The bottom line here is that in the U.S., small businesses equal jobs. Taxes, on the other hand do not create jobs. But for some reason, the mainstream media seems more concerned with the handful of pennies that the President and Congress are bickering over in payroll tax cuts than the billions of dollars that are diverted away from small businesses by the federal government every month.

cuz why else is he so sycophantly laughed with (at?…nah. he too kool fo that)

I’ve heard several black friends in different areas of the country since 2004 talk about the peer pressure of voting “the right way”. It’s unfortunate that people have bought into this, not because they should all be voting Republican, but because voting in a lock step like that hurts you by making you not matter. Black liberals shouldn’t be voting against their views just to shake things up obviously, but most blacks arent liberals. Most blacks have conservative positions on social issues and are a mixed bag on taxes, immigration and foreign policy – yet they do not vote that way. They vote one way only, every time.

Those are the people who’s ideology makes them a swing voter but since they do not ever swing their vote, it has no bargaining value. Just like if Libertarians never vote Republican, then their votes are already discounted and their ideology not argued by Republicans seeking their vote because they know they can’t get it. If a Libertarian alternates between sitting out/voting 3rd party and voting for the candidate closest to their ideology in the 2 major parties then they have some bargaining power because it shows in the election results.

Black Democrats arent open to this because of the old “Danger on the Right” meme that doesn’t even allow a voter to consider the ideas of the right-of-center side because it is immediately demonized as racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic, islamophobic, xenophobic and in service to corporate greedheads.

Jon Stewart and his “Senior black correspondant” took a look at the economy, its effect on the black community and said voters likely reaction to it.

PS: Even though I have never heard of Godfathers Pizza chai, pizza is pizza and I too will vote for Hermain Cain if he hooks me up with free pizzas

“And who was President at that time?” was a question I got on this observation and the answer is of course Bush Sr, though thats as relevant as who was on the Supreme Court at the time since the bill came from a Democrat controlled Congress, not the Presidents desk (passed 375-5). But it’s also irrelevant because im not actually calling anyone evil – im doing the opposite: illustrating the absurdity of the lengths people go to demonize politicians instead of actually investigating the details of a certain policy.

Instead of openly debating how it may or may not be fair to add a loss limit in a bill containing a ton of other regulations and rules on oil companies to prevent such accidents or acknowledging the fact that Halliburton is the only company that can do certain jobs, we’re given smears of how “eeeevil” Dick & Dubya are because everythings a vile scam in service to their oil baron puppet masters. If we’re to believe those smears then the Dems who signed this bill must be REALLY evil and Obama must reall REALLY be a monster for doing things like awarding Halliburton a no bid contract for half a BILLION dollars. That’s an odd thing to do for someone who campaigned on the promise of not awarding any no-bid contracts over $25,000. Quick – remind me again: is 500 million more than 25 thousand?

President Bush was attacked for playing golf by critics who manufactured as much phony outrage that they could muster. Things got difficult for them when Bush stopped playing golf in 2003 because he agreed that it wasn’t a good image to be seeing the President enjoying a leisure sport while troops were engaged in combat. Since that destroys the entire smear of Bush being a heartless elitist robot that plays all day and cools off with a bottle of his own Blood of American Patriots brand of Gatorade, his haters had to scramble to turn even THAT into a “Bush is evil” meme by claiming he “lied” about not playing golf since he did in fact pick up a club after 2003 *gasp*. Good work, critics! You totally exposed a “lie” that in no way is a desperate attempt to cling on to a phony meme you invented despite being based on nothing but personal hatred!

Except now you’ve made a problem for yourselves. By inventing the ridiculous smear that a President playing golf is a soulless act that spits in the face of Lady Liberty, you fuck yourselves when the guy you like comes in and does that 8 times worse (literally).

President Obama has already played more golf than Bush ever did. 8 times more. Where as Bush canceled golf games as a symbolic gesture, Obama canceled a trip to Poland for the funeral (attendance of which is a symbolic gesture) of the Prime Minister and then played golf instead.

Obama, in his first year has already become the 8th most golf playing President in history. In one year Barack Obama has played 8 times more golf than George Bush did in 8 years.

But its all par for the course for Barry – which doesn’t make him “evil”, it makes him just as bad as any other politician who did similar unethical things. No problem there, UNLESS you call those other politicians evil corrupt manipulators and give a free pass to Obama because you like him better. That’s the definition of a hypocrite.

So here’s an idea: how bout we save the ‘that guy is evil’ stuff for real evil instead of just saying ‘its evil when THAT guy does it, but not MY guy’?”.

This part of the speech is what Hannity was referring to:

The worst part is that he could have actually made a point there if he weren’t such a knee-jerk Republican shill that thought non-hilarious one-liners like that were acceptable retorts to the opposition in power.

He could have, for instance, maybe brought up the fact that Obama is going to triple the national deficit this year and even the Whitehouse’s own estimates show they plan to put Bush’s spending to shame.

And it doesn’t stop there, Woody. This Buzz Lightyear is going to Infinity and Beyond:

Karl Rove gave an ACTUAL response to the Bush stuff (is it too late to give him Hannitys job?):

transcript from Karl Rove’s segment with Greta Van Susteren:

“I can find no administration in which there is such a frequent recourse to blame the previous administration…

They want to blame the Bush Administration for the debt. I happened to be last week in a debate with David Plouffe in which he blamed the Bush Administration for the deficit this year. And I said, “Wait a minute, what about your spending bill? It was your bill, President Obama’s $787 billion Stimulus Bill. What about the $33 billion SCHIP bill that he signed? What about the $410 billion Omnibus Bill?” In reflection didn’t Senator Obama support the rescue package the recovery package last fall, the $750 billion to help rescue the banks? $350 billion dollars of that was spent by the time he got into office. If he didn’t like that spending he could have said, “You know were not going to spend another dime of that $350 billion,” and yet he did…

I think this is wearing thin. This is causing the American people to say, “Wait a minute. This is all your spending. Why do you keep blaming the guy who came before you?”