Obama’s Mean Streak
July 30th, 2010
Barack Obama seems to have a pattern of using ceremonial or stately events as opportunities to ambush and humiliate people. This behavior is unpresidential and reveals a vindictive streak that makes Richard Nixon look like Mister Rogers.
A few examples of Obama’s taking pleasure in administering public pain to others:
During the State of the Union Address, he chose to direct his ire at the justices of the Supreme Court, located in the front rows. After the Supreme Court issued a ruling in favor of the First Amendment regarding political speech, Barack Obama famously chose to dress down the black-clad justices before the entire nation — miscomprehending the law and the ruling in a fit of (un)presidential petulance. The embarrassing spectacle was prompted by a view that the court’s ruling may make it easier for opponents of the president and Democrats to make their views known to the public.
Regardless of Obama’s pique, it was wrong on so many levels that it earned a rebuke from the Supreme Court historian, who had enthusiastically voted for him. The noted historian said it “was really unusual in my mind to see the President going after the Supreme Court in such a forum.” That is change for you. He predicted that justices may refuse to attend in the future because “you don’t go to be insulted. I can’t see the Justices wanting to be there and be insulted by the President.”
Their appearance was a mark of respect for the government of the United States, broken into three branches but united in the goal of helping fellow Americans. Barack Obama did not reciprocate the respect — and demeaned himself (though his narcissism and his cheering section entourage would shield him from such self-reflection) and the dignity of the office by needlessly ambushing the most august institution of the land.
He seems to have a penchant for ambushing financial executives, too — or people he calls “fat cats” — after he cashes their campaign checks. But he does like to tag people with labels.
While purportedly holding a meeting to work with financial executives to help stabilize financial markets, Barack Obama could not resist taunting them with the threat that “I’m the only thing standing between you and the pitchforks.” That was not why they came to a meeting supposedly called to work together to resolve problems in the financial sector.
He did the same with doctors, though. He co-opted the American Medical Association to get them on board for ObamaCare and then blasted doctors for, among other sins, taking kids’ tonsils out because doctors are greedy.
While meeting with a Democrat wavering on casting a yes vote on ObamaCare, he chose not to engage him with reasons, but instead belittled him in front of others by telling him, “Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother.” Was this form of public emasculation really necessary? No…but Obama has the itch, and it must be scratched.
He chose to snub a variety of foreign leaders, including then-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, with whom he denied a diplomatic meeting during a visit (a snub that may have hurt Brown politically at home). Also, Obama walked out of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to have dinner with his family — and refused a photo-op, joint news conference, or proper welcome, to boot. Both were democratic leaders, yet Obama bows to dictators such as the Saudi King and has a hug for the thug from Caracas. The ambushing of Netanyahu may have had a goal of also hurting him with voters in Israel, who treasure their relationship with America. The ambush did not work. Israelis don’t like being ambushed — they have had plenty of experience with such treatment. The public rallied to Netanyahu after the disgraceful treatment meted out to him by Barack Obama.
Can we forget the lack of graciousness when Obama told John McCain during the health care summit that he convened, supposedly in the spirit of comity, that “the election is over”?
Was it necessary to allude that racism led Boston policemen to confront Obama’s friend, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, over what appeared to be a breaking and entering? For all the nation to see, he slurred Boston policemen as racists. Why?
In the hands of this president, the bully pulpit is used not to persuade and convince, but to bully into a public pulp those he considers his foes. At a groundbreaking for a car battery plant funded by “stimulus money” that was located in the district of Republican Congressman Peter Hoekstra (who opposed the stimulus), Obama could not resist the urge to try to humiliate Hoekstra, who also was at the opening.
There are some folks who want to go back — who think we should return to the policies that helped to lead to this recession,” Obama said later in his comments honoring a new advanced battery factory being built by the company LG Chem. “Some made the political calculation that it’s better to obstruct than lend a hand. They said no to the tax cuts, they said no to small business loans, they said no to clean energy projects. It doesn’t stop them from coming to ribbon cuttings — but that’s OK.”
This was not the first time he chose to turn a celebration into an ambush, a party into a shooting gallery.
The president was flying to Peoria to appear with the CEO of Caterpillar at a plant. Obama told reporters that he had spoken to the CEO, who he said assured him that he was going to rehire laid off employees as soon as the stimulus bill was passed. This was a surprise to the CEO, who, after the Obama appearance at the plant was over, was asked by the reporters about this so-called pledge. He stumbled over the issue — who wants to publicly call the president a liar? But the CEO said that Obama’s statement was not true, and there were no plans to rehire people. He was ambushed by Barack Obama.
So was Republican Congressman Aaron Schock, whose district encompassed the plant. Obama invited Schock along on Air Force One for the trip. In his speech, Obama singled out Schock for another Obama ambush, telling his audience to visit with Schock and encourage him “to do the right thing for the people of Illinois.” In this case, Obama’s ambush killed two birds with one stone — a rare sign of efficiency on the part of our competency-challenged President.
The body count of Obama’s ambushes will grow in the years ahead. How does this help to bring about the civility that Obama preaches should be part of our civic discourse? Of course, it doesn’t. Hypocrisy is Obama’s trademark. His style of ambushing and humiliating people is a sign of something deeper and darker in Obama’s psyche, in his emotional makeup. He is vindictive and enjoys the spectacle of belittling people in front of others and in front of cameras.
The milk of human kindness does not flow in this man’s veins, but rather something bitterer — a type of personal poison that he enjoys spraying on others.
This does not dignify the office or the man. But he doesn’t seem to care, and the courtier press that covers him with glory doesn’t, either.
July 30th, 2010 at 9:15 am
Ted Bundy did the same things with his victims. He lured them to his car, wearing a cast on his arm. He asked for their help, and then proceeded to lock them in the car, and later killed them.
They are cut from the same cloth. Psychopaths. Obama is a very dangerous person. He will destroy this country if not removed.
July 30th, 2010 at 9:32 am
I WOULD NOT TRUST THIS man with anything. To kiss this idiot as the ladies on the View did is disgusting to me. How many has he kissed and in turn did something rotten to them. To trash the Supreme Court I hope will make the Court more agreeable to getting rid of him, when I don’t know. But it is a thought. GOD BLESS AMERICA
July 30th, 2010 at 9:59 am
Great article, Bob. The only good thing Obama has done ,so far, is to shake America out of her complacency.
He is the true “Devil in a Blue Dress”. With pink panties on.
I rest my case.
July 30th, 2010 at 10:40 am
He also put an assassination order out on an US citizen, the terrorist Alwaki (sp) who in now in Yemen directing traffic for Al-Qaeda…Not that the terrorist does not deserve his fate, but if the prez can put a hit order out on him, he can do it to anyone…No charges, no trial, no defense, a summary execution…I read where there is a list of American citizens, not in the country on this hit list…How long will it take to be inside the country? I don’t know if anyone noticed, but this is murder coming directly from the desk of the President…
July 30th, 2010 at 10:49 am
One thing we are all missing is if it was not for OBAMA people will all still be sleeping he has woken up many people to the evils within the this CORPORATION called UNITED STATES! He is the head of the snake we must cutoff but thanks to Mr. Barry Soetoro the RATS have been exposed and everyone now knows he is the head RAT!
July 30th, 2010 at 11:23 am
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/25983
By Publius Huldah Thursday, July 29, 2010
ok people start calling Gov Brewer’s office and get this word to her.
Juge Bolton was out of jurisdiction ruling on SB1070.
Steve
Does anyone read the U.S. Constitution these days? American lawyers don’t read it. Federal Judge Susan R. Bolton apparently has never read it. Same goes for our illustrious Attorney General Eric Holder. But this lawyer has read it and she is going to show you something in Our Constitution which is as plain as the nose on your face.
Article III, Sec. 2, clause 2 says:
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction…
“Original” jurisdiction means the power to conduct the “trial” of the case (as opposed to hearing an appeal from the judgment of a lower court). You all know quite well what a “trial” is - you see them all the time on TV shows: Perry Mason, Boston Legal, The Good Wife, etc. Witnesses testify and are cross-examined, etc.
The style of the Arizona case shows quite clearly that the named defendants are:
State of Arizona; and Janice K. Brewer,
Governor of the State of Arizona, in her
Official Capacity, Defendants.
Judge Susan R. Bolton has no more authority to preside over this case than do you
See where it says, “State of Arizona”? And “Janice K. Brewer, Governor of the State of Arizona, in her official Capacity”? THAT (plus Art. III, Sec. 2, clause 2) is what gives the US Supreme Court “original Jurisdiction”, i.e., jurisdiction to conduct the trial of this case. THAT is what strips the federal district court of any jurisdiction whatsoever to hear this case. Judge Susan R. Bolton has no more authority to preside over this case than do you (unless you are a US Supreme Court justice).
In Federalist No. 81 (13th para), Alexander Hamilton commented on this exact provision of Art. III, Sec. 2, clause 2:
…Let us now examine in what manner the judicial authority is to be distributed between the supreme and the inferior courts of the Union. The Supreme Court is to be invested with original jurisdiction, only “in cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls, and those in which A STATE shall be a party.” Public ministers of every class are the immediate representatives of their sovereigns. All questions in which they are concerned are so directly connected with the public peace, that, as well for the preservation of this, as out of respect to the sovereignties they represent, it is both expedient and proper that such questions should be submitted in the first instance to the highest judicatory of the nation. Though consuls have not in strictness a diplomatic character, yet as they are the public agents of the nations to which they belong, the same observation is in a great measure applicable to them. In cases in which a State might happen to be a party, it would ill suit its dignity to be turned over to an inferior tribunal….[boldface added, caps in original]
Yet Attorney General Eric Holder filed the case in a court which is specifically stripped of jurisdiction to hear it!
So! Counsel for the State of Arizona should consider:
1. File a Petition for Removal before federal district court Judge Susan R. Bolton demanding that the case be removed to the Supreme Court on the ground that under Art. III, Sec. 2, clause 2, US Constitution, only the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to conduct the trial of this case.
2. If Judge Bolton denies the Petition for Removal, file a Petition for Writ of Mandamus in the Supreme Court asking that court to order Judge Bolton to transfer the case to the Supreme Court.
A Petition for Writ of Mandamus is an old common-law “extraordinary writ”: It asks a court to ORDER a lower court or other public official to something which it is its duty to do. In Kerr v. US District Court for Northern District of California (1976), the Supreme Court said, respecting the propriety of issuing writs of mandamus:
….the fact still remains that “only exceptional circumstances amounting to a judicial ‘usurpation of power’ will justify the invocation of this extraordinary remedy.”…(para 13)
When a federal district court judge presides over a case which the Constitution specifically prohibits her from hearing, and even issues a ruling enjoining the enforcement of a State Law, then that federal district court judge usurps power. She is specifically stripped - by Art. III, Sec. 2, clause 2 - of jurisdiction to preside over the case against the STATE of Arizona and against THE GOVERNOR of the STATE of Arizona.
For procedures for filing the Petition for Writ of Mandamus, see Supreme Court Rule 20.
Article IV, Sec. 4, requires the federal government to protect each of the States against invasion.Not only is the Obama regime refusing to perform this specific Constitutional duty - it seeks to prohibit the Sovereign STATE of Arizona from defending itself! This lawlessness on the part of the Obama regime is unmatched in the history of Our Country.
OK, counselors - Go for it! PH
July 30th, 2010 at 11:39 am
So worth viewing–and passing along!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R9UoZ440dQ
July 30th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
Even snopes says bo was not a natural born citizen when they were supporting Hillary and before the scrubbing and cover up.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1lGFYYNkw_o/TFHbH-UEKEI/AAAAAAAABeE/J2zFGeC9SGs/s1600/Snopes
July 30th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
Again we keep bringing up all the ills Obummer has and is committed and yet he still laughs in our faces, when are we going to take the bull by the horns and start the velvet resolution?
The velvet revolution is a non violent revolution where millions of Patriots join together to bring government to a halt! Do you believe that 535 Criminals against millions of people would stand a chance? No way! It worked in Honduras, where they threw out the potential dictator…And it surley can work here.
Once DC is brought to a halt then the next step is to drag them out and try them for treason once our interim government is set up…It may take the whole of one month and thereafter we will have our borders secured and our freedoms restored, THE CHOICE IS OURS TO MAKE.
80 MILLION VERSES 535 IS NO CHOICE AT ALL!!!
July 30th, 2010 at 12:40 pm
duh swami, # 4
Daddy Bush had an asassination order on Reagan and Kennedy and only God knows who else. GW had his own asassination list and I don’t know if there were any Americans on it but it wouldn’t surprise me.
We all need to wake up not only our eyes but our brains and minds too. It is not only the democraps or obo that is evil everyone in the NWO are corrupt, vile people and that includes a whole mess of repuglicans too. Like Gingrich, McCain, Graham, Cheney, and on and on and on. We live in a very evil world.
July 30th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
Steve in Texas, #6
Thanks for the info that was great post.
I thought it was a good article and painted a true picture of the liar in chief. But didn’t you know all that before and during the campaign didn’t you notice that mean streak everytime someone didn’t fall into step? Like Joe the Plummer.
We saw it over and over again if you were watching and discerning. They bused in union thugs to clap and yell and sing his praises and they hand picked all the people that would ask questions and if someone happened to deviate from the program you could see the sneers and the slitted eyes.
Just in case you thought it was the people that surronded obo, and that they were protecting their prize it wasn’t them at all it was the jackal himself. Michelle makes Hillary look like a girl scout and Barack is the guy that sat in Revrend Wrights church for twenty years listening to the hate and lies and perversion that came out of that man’s mouth. He wasn’t just warming the pew he was filling up his tank.
Remember that article Robin wrote awhile back when she was psychoanalyzing him? He is so warped and demented he couldn’t be humanly respectable even if he tried, once again I will say it he is the epitome of evil.
July 30th, 2010 at 4:58 pm
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July 30th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
Mr. Obama, You are the most disgusting, evil, vile, despicable, contemptous piece of humanity that I have ever know of. You are hated, loathed and despised by the majority of this country. I cannot wait until the day YOU fall. And YOU will fall hard. When the American People get ahold of YOU, as WE WILL, I hope that such immeasureble amount of torment is inflicted upon YOUR wretched person. And to any PROGESSIVE that might read these pages, let me say now, regardless of whether you were born in this country or not, YOU are of the same as Mr. Obama. YOU are not welcome in this country, YOUR only goal is to see this country destroyed. Leave, GET THE HELL OUT NOW WHILE YOU CAN DO SO PEACEFULLY. We are coming for YOU.
July 30th, 2010 at 6:33 pm
Not only does Obama have a mean streak.
He is also arrogant. Remember the Air Force one flyover in New York,burning 10,000 galons of jet fuel to deliver an Earthday speech,3 aircraft at an estimated cost of $24,000 each for a dinner date and a Broadway Show.
Now…
A seperate jet to fly a damned dog to yet another of their vacations!
I realize that the airport could not handle a 747,so the Obamas had to “slum it” in a measly G-3 but hell, we’re only talking about making enough room for one dog.
http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/white-house-wanderers-tour-acadia_2010-07-16.html
“Arriving in a small jet before the Obamas was the first dog, Bo, a Portuguese water dog given as a present by the late U.S. Sen Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.; and the president’s personal aide Reggie Love, who chatted with Baldacci.”
How’s that hopey-changey thing working out for you?
Notice how The Morning Sentinel printed a clarification on the story.
Cosidering the Obama’s past extragances with taxpayer money.
I would not be surprised if the dog was really the only passenger on the aircraft.
Steve
July 30th, 2010 at 6:54 pm
Sorry about the spelling errors..
In this 8 minute video Bill Whittle nails things right on the head.
PJTV: The Power & Danger of Iconography
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdtqtfXdR-c&feature=youtu.be
Pay close attention and enjoy.
Steve
July 30th, 2010 at 9:13 pm
Heather #3
That was a great video you posted. Will be passing it on.
July 31st, 2010 at 10:22 am
duh swami, #4
I don’t know how I could have forgotten it but sometimes my 75year old brain has lapses. We were talking about asassinations and who ordered them.
FDR— 228 died 113 seriously wounded military personnell—
57 civilians killed and as many wounded—Pearl Harbor.
GW Bush— 3,000+ World Trade Buildings, 125 civilians and military personell died at the Pentagon and 40 passengers and crew members died at a field in Shanksville,Pa. 9/11
There are many more but not necessary to recall the point being that when we are speaking of corrupt murderers we don’t have to look far for those that killed Americans, they mostly hang out in DC. They don’t have to pull the triggers, some place the orders and others are complicit in many other ways like: looking in the other direction, making excuses, telling lies and aiding and abetting.
They are not in just one party. We have to carve that syndrome out of our brains. If we don’t we are going to repeat history for another 160 years or more.