Change We Can Believe In!

Yes, The Annointed One is going to improve America’s reputation in the rest of the world! He’ll start by prostrating himself, and us, while making His first press interview to our enemies, and then later insult our allies by insisting they take back a bust of Winston Churchill!

Back during the campaign a coworker pointedly informed me that because Obama had edited the Harvard Law Review (where he authored exactly zero articles) He was “fucking brilliant”.

Yeah, right. He’s an arrogant, incompetent little man, no matter how tall He is. “Jimmy Carter on speed.”

But don’t worry. It’s not like He will get us involved in racist, anti-semitic foreign conferences or anything.

Cabinet Comedy

The Obamedy continues! At least this time it wasn’t because of tax fraud.

We’re now looking for Obama’s third secretary of Commerce.

It is really quite astonishing. “I screwed up” may become a bi-weekly confession.

At some point, things like this can begin to cement a (negative) image in the public imagination. Discrete issues converge and form a single, harmful impression. Obama & Company were looking increasingly amateurish before today; this is now bordering on incompetence…

Less than a month ago, Barack Obama was seemingly sitting atop the world. We all knew reality would set in soon enough; what we didn’t know was how quickly the magic would fade, and give way to what we are now witnessing. It’s still early, of course, and presidents can recover from their initial missteps. But Obama and his team have dug themselves a fairly deep early hole.

The narrative ain’t what it once was.

No, it sure isn’t. Just ask the CEO of Caterpillar.

You Have to Laugh at These People

Because if you stopped and thought what these littlebrains really mean for the country you’d cry a river.

Update:

You vote for a Wizard, but you get a man behind a curtain.

Con Artist

During the campaign I blogged about those Stalinist-style Obama posters. Now it turns out that the artist not only lifted the visual style from the Soviet Union, but stole the base image from the Associated (with terrorists) Press.

Shepard Fairey last week was sued for copyright infringement by the Associated Press, which claims he stole photographer Manny Garcia’s work and made it the basis of the iconic off-red, white and blue posters whose signed editions are being sold on eBay for thousands of dollars.

If found guilty — a liberal application of “fair use” law could protect Mr. Fairey — we have a case of the white man stealing from an ethnic minority in order to turn a quick profit. (I thought an Obama presidency would automatically end such practices.)

Chinese, Latin American and former Soviet Communist artists may also have a claim against Mr. Fairey, whose style is brazenly ripped off from the propaganda campaigns of totalitarian states. If regimes that murdered tens of millions of innocent human beings can be so revered and redeemed, can the swastika be reappropriated, too?

Update:

The hack (I won’t call him an artist) in question turns out to also be a common vandal. You can try to dress it up with names like “tagging”, but vandalism is vandalism.

Think you’re having a bad week?

Pity the poor Messiah.

I think I’ve figured out the Obama Leadership Style

Rule #1: The bus only gets traction if you have people to throw under it. Washington’s got an endless supply, so everything should be smooth sailing.

But, should he run out of people to throw under there, he can always toss in a few more campaign promises.

Update:

Byron York nails it with this headline:

We Plan To Live Up To Our Ethical Standards Very, Very Soon

Change!

In past administrations the State Department undercut the President. But now it’s the President who gets undercut by the State Department!

Change!

Update:

I keep telling you: Funniest administration ever!

“The president called and congratulated me,” Zinni said.

Then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked for a meeting last Monday night, Zinni said. He said he went to the meeting in her office at the State Department, where Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg and Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Williams Burns were also in attendance.

“She thanks me, asked me my views on Iraq,” Zinni recalled. “She said to Burns and Steinberg, ‘We’ve got to move quickly, Crocker is leaving, we’ve got to get someone in there and get the paperwork done and hearings… Lots to do to get ready to go.”

Zinni said he expected a call from Burns the next day. Not hearing from him, he called him.

“To make a long story short, I kept getting blown off all week,” Zinni said. “Meantime, I was rushing to put my personal things in order,” to get ready to go.

“Finally, nobody was telling me anything,” Zinni said. “I called Jones Monday several times. I finally got through late in evening. I asked Jones, ‘What’s going on?’ And Jones said, ‘We decided on Chris Hill.'”

“I said, ‘Really,'” Zinni recalled. “That was news to me.”

Jones asked him if he would like to be ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Zinni said. “I said, ‘You can stick that with whatever other offers,'” Zinni recalled, saying he had used more colorful language with Jones. Asked Jones’s response and if he was apologetic, Zinni said, “Jones was not too concerned. He laughed about it.” (emphasis added)

Math is hard

Ever wonder why Congress is so bad at it?

Update:

Relax! The MSM is on it.

Har:

The Annointed One seems just as math-challeged as Pelosi.

Empty Suit Watch

Two whole weeks, and He is tired of being in the White House.

Love the brave spin His press people at the Associated (with terrorists) Press try:

The stop at the school underscored a promise that the Obamas made and insist they will keep: to avoid getting caught up in a White House bubble. They say they will be visible parts of the Washington community—even in the midst of a hectic day. Or a difficult one.

It’s going to be a long, long four years.

Does Obama Mean It?

He said:

I am not in favor of concealed weapons. There has not been any evidence that allowing people to carry a concealed weapon is going to make anybody safer.

So let’s have him order the Secret Service to stop carrying concealed weapons. Clearly they don’t make anybody safer.

Obamabots may be parody-proof

but that doesn’t keep them  from trying.

Jonah Goldberg calles it “borderline grotesque“. I don’t know where he got the “borderline” part. Again, can you imagine Bush supporters or even Reagan supporters doing something like this?

These people are a laugh riot!

What if the Bush White House had tried this?

The Change will not be commercialized?

“Our lawyers are working on developing a policy that will protect the presidential image while being careful not to squelch the overwhelming enthusiasm that the public has for the president,” White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.

Go ahead.

Write your own punch line.

Too Perfect

Looks like I won’t have much Obamedy competition from the late-night shows.

On Sunday night, while doing my cardio, I caught what appeared to be rebroadcast of an episode of Larry King LIve.  King asked The View’s Joy Behar why comedians didn’t make fun of the new president.  The comedienne replied that this prez was just too perfect.*

It is. It’s all just too perfect.

W Obamedy

Apparently Bush also thinks the Obama administration is funny.

White House of the Gifted

I keep telling you, this is going to be the funniest administration ever. To help keep track, I’m adding a new tag to the blog: Obamedy. It’s the first item in the new “Tag Faves” box over there on the right, so you’ll always be up to date on the latest D.C. Knee Slapper.

Did I say parody-proof?

I have to admit that so far the Obama presidency is working out better than I hoped: I’m spending a lot of time in hysterics. If you can listen to this “poetry” without laughing out loud, check your pulse.

This morning on KSFO Officer Vic had a version of the poem read by the Text To Speech robots he sometimes uses in commercials. I was laughing so hard it was difficult to drive. If he posts it on line I will link it here.

Update:

She’s in danger of being replaced by software.

More Update, and bumped:

It’s a rare poem that can be improved so much by rearranging the words. “Someone is trying to make noise, somewhere.”

Piling On:

Maybe she’s competing with the Vogons.

The Thin-Skinned Messiah

He hasn’t even had to change bedsheets and towels at the White House yet and He’s already called the tiger by name.

Beyond the absurdity of a Democrat barking orders at his political opposition, he’s especially foolish to air his fear of Limbaugh and talk radio in a public setting. Now, what was long suspected by conservatives has been verified by the man himself.

I like Ann Althouse’s take:

I’m picturing Rush delirious with glee, pacing the cavernous rooms of his mansion, booming out monologues to his kitty cat Pumpkin, as he waits for Monday noon to finally roll around. This will be good.

These next four years are going to be disastrous for our country, but man are they going to be funny.

Update:

Rush didn’t wait for Monday to respond.

One more thing, Byron. Your publication and website have documented Obama’s ties to the teachings of Saul Alinksy while he was community organizing in Chicago. Here is Rule 13 of Alinksy’s Rules for Radicals:

“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

LEPERS: OBAMA DRAGGING HIS HEELS – AND OURS

This just in:

Washington (BWN) — Walking on water and changing water into wine just “isn’t enough”, the U.S.’s largest leper organization claimed. “Look, it’s been, like, days since He descended into Washington and we want our miracle,” NAALP spokesman Tzaraath Hansen said at a recent press conference called to raise consciousness about a large constituency waiting for a cure.

“Our Obama worship is just as worthy as anybody from Hollywood or MSNBC. Nobody is more prostrate than we are. But we can’t even get a foot in the door of the Oval Office.”

President Obama’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, called on lepers to be patient. “Changing the levels of the oceans, raising America’s reputation from the dead, and keeping Biden’s foot out of his mouth are time-consuming miracles. President Obama will get to the lepers in their turn. Now is no time to go to pieces.”

All of this fell on deaf ears at the protest outside the White House gates where lepers carried signs such as “I Voted for Change and Got the Finger”, “I’m Not Shuffling Off Without A Cure” and “Barry: You Want a Piece of Me?”

Well, I thought that walking across the reflection pool to the inauguration stand was a nice touch.

The Obama Presidency Comedy Watch

continues.

President Obama made a surprise visit to the White House press corps Thursday night, but got agitated when he was faced with a substantive question.

I mean, just who do these reporters think they are?

Update:

As much as I admire Ma and Perlman, this is funny. Why? Because of the Marines!

Inaugural musical performances are routinely recorded ahead of time for just such an eventuality, Ms. Florman said. The Marine Band and choruses, which performed throughout the ceremony, did not use a recording, she said.

Another Update:

JOTD via Bernard Goldberg:

Did you hear the one about how after Barack Obama became president this week he found out the economy was worse than he thought—so he had to lay off 17 journalists.

Still Piling On:

Hope, Change and Transparency!

It’s going to be a parody-proof four years

I thought the Stalinist-style posters of Obama were anti-Obama parody. I thought that about that commercial with the little kids singing a hymn to Him. Now it seems I’m to be surrounded by people so treacly smitten with The One that I’ll never know when they’re joking.

On the morning after the election, Kristin Rothballer, 36, who lives in San Francisco, kissed her female partner goodbye on the train while commuting to work. A black woman who sat down next to her turned and said she was sorry that Proposition 8, the amendment to ban gay marriage in the state, looked like it was going to pass.

“We grabbed hands,” Ms. Rothballer recalled. “And I said, ‘Well, I really want to congratulate you because we have a black president and that’s amazing.’ ”

“Our conversation then almost became about the fact that we were having the conversation,” she said.

Something moved her to apologize to the black woman for slavery.

“For two strangers riding a train to Oakland to have that conversation about race, it wouldn’t have been possible if Obama hadn’t been elected,” she said. “I always felt open with my colleagues, but to say to a stranger on the train, ‘Hey, I’m sorry about slavery,’ that just doesn’t happen.”

Update:

See what I mean?

Hey, if they can print paper

why can’t we?

InstaPundit says

Why wait until the government gets around to issuing them in 2011, when they’ll buy a single measly gallon of gas? They’re also amusing at parties.

I’m back to not being able to discern between an Obama Salute and an Obama Parody. I know to which use I’d put it.

Obama Rolled