Yep...
Thank God we don't have an idiot like George W. Bush as President...
Going around the world saying really stupid stuff...
So that the Europeans...
And the Chinese...
And the Arabs...
And the Meskins...
Think we've elected yet another lightweight dim bulb to lead us for the next four years...
Yep, Thank God for that.
On a completely unrelated note, here's some smart stuff said by the smarty smart smart guy we elected:
“There’s a lot of -- I don’t know what the term is in Austrian -- wheeling and dealing, and people are pursuing their interests, and everybody has their own particular issues and their own particular politics,” he said in response to an Austrian reporter’s question.
Mr. Obama can take comfort in knowing that no one has any idea of what the term is in Austrian, so he's not alone in that respect.
Yeah, I put that on a blog yesterday. I can hardly wait for the next linguistic discovery. Belgian ? Brazilian ? Siberian ? Vatican Cityian ? I can hardly wait.
Posted by: Mike C. | April 06, 2009 at 08:02 PM
Dennis, you clown. After getting the whole TARP meeting thing ass backwards you go in for more. I appreciate that you really want to out-Malkin Malkin, but you just don't have it in you.
Obama deftly negotiates a tricky issue the Turks. The article is basically praising his skill at diplomacy with the one caveat that 5,000 support troops for Afghanistan was a disappointment and you put a clown nose on him. What a turd you are.
"Jones, a retired general who served as NATO commander from 2003 to 2006, said the resolution “bodes well for the future of the alliance,” adding that he had never attended a high-level NATO meeting 'where there’s been as much good feeling and goodwill towards each other around the table.'"
Posted by: elliottg | April 07, 2009 at 12:55 AM
Austrian, as in that odd (to me) variety of language spoken in Austria. Although, to be fair, most Austrians, thankfully, can understand and speak Hoch German just fine.
Posted by: ema | April 07, 2009 at 01:36 AM
I'm getting the sense that elliottg really doesn't like the Obama with a clown nose picture...
And...
I got the TARP meeting wrong? What, with the Big Giant Head telling bankers that the public was going to come after them with "pitchforks"?
Posted by: Dennis The Peasant | April 07, 2009 at 06:30 AM
ema-
Strangely enough, the Austrian language is closely related to the Iowan language. Iowan is the language that folks living in Iowa speak. Not even Noam Chomsky has been able to figure that one out. Fortunately, a large percentage of Iowans speak enough English to get by.
Posted by: Dennis The Peasant | April 07, 2009 at 08:13 AM
Let me spell it out for you. Poking fun at Obama for a slip of the tongue - whatever - you're an Republican asshole and it's kinda funny. Wanting him to fail - your a fat, stupid, un-American asshole. BTW, anyone who read your original clown nose posts about the TARP meeting would know that you have done a 180. He talked tough leading up to the meeting and your thesis was that talking tough wasn't working so he had to call a meeting to reconcile. Now, you've changed your spin entirely without admitting it.
Posted by: elliottg | April 07, 2009 at 10:08 AM
If you're going to spell it out, at least do so correctly!
It's "...you're a fat, stupid, un-American asshole...", not "...your a fat, stupid, un-American asshole...".
Anyway, why does it seem to matter so much to you what I think about Barack Obama and his administration? I get about 250 unique visitors a day here. Why all the drama? It's not like I'm going to create a seismic shift in public opinion doing what I'm doing...
Posted by: Dennis The Peasant | April 07, 2009 at 12:10 PM
I believe the correct Austrian term is 'Kah - lee - forr - nnn - ee - yah', but I could be wrong. And Mike? It's not 'Belgian'. They speak 'Belch'.
Posted by: Tim | April 07, 2009 at 01:07 PM
Dennis, you are obviously pushing elliot's buttons.
Keep pushing.
elliot and his ilk would have been all over President Bush like white on rice if he'd done something similar. In fact they were. There were entire books printed of "Bushisms". Serve as you've been served, I always say. How's it feel now, elliot?
And gee wilikers elliot, for such an accomplished speaker like President Obama, how fucking hard would it have been to say "I don't know what word you use here in Austria" instead of "I don't know what the word is in Austrian"? Of course that actually implies that Obama might have had some idea that "Austrian" isn't a language.
I can't wait till he visits Mexico.
Posted by: Eric Blair | April 07, 2009 at 02:04 PM
elliotg, how about explaining why wiretapping means "bad" in Bushism, and means "holy writ" in Obamaspeak?
elliotg means "hypocrite" in Austrian
Posted by: just passin by | April 07, 2009 at 04:51 PM