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3/25/2010

Obama’s Brand of Civility

Filed under: Health Care,Obama — DRJ @ 1:34 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

President Obama has repeatedly said he wants to restore civility to America, especially since his election:

“Speaking at the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. the president said this “erosion of civility” sows division and distrust.

“It poisons the well of public opinion. It leaves each side little room to negotiate with the other. It makes politics an all-or-nothing sport where one side is either always right or always wrong, when, in reality, neither side has a monopoly on truth.”

Before a packed ballroom Obama said that the city needs to find their way back toward civility and he cautioned that this in many cases begins with stepping outside comfort zones to bridge divisions.”

Guess what President “Civility” Obama’s favorite moment was on the day he signed the ObamaCare legislation? Vice President Joe Biden’s “This is a big f***ing deal”:

“According to the vice president, President Obama agreed the cursing was not only funny but was the historic day’s highlight. Biden said the president was even memorializing the moment with a T-shirt bearing the funny F-phrase.

According to the vice president, during Wednesday morning’s presidential briefing, the president said, “You know what the best thing about yesterday was? Joe’s comment.” (Laughter.)

Biden shared the hilarious incident Wednesday night during a $2,500 per plate Democratic fundraising dinner in the home of developer David Cordish near Baltimore. Biden reaped additional laughter about the presidential laughter.

Biden said he told the leader of the free world, “If you thought it was so good, why didn’t you say it?” (Laughter.)”

Biden was probably just kidding. He’s known for his clever ripostes and careful speech, you know.

— DRJ

26 Responses to “Obama’s Brand of Civility”

  1. I thought his favorite moment was when he was giving Hillary the finger during the debate. Civility and this guy never met.

    Mike K (2cf494)

  2. This Obama crew is the most unprofessional crew of thugs to run Washington! They simply have no class. It shows in their international dealings as well with heads of state! Bunch of juvenile amateurs.

    Brett (428937)

  3. President Humility will, of course, prefer to wear a shirt that reads: “I’M A Big F***ing Deal”; while the American people wear shirts that read: “We Got F***ed By This Deal!”

    Icy Texan (909a4a)

  4. Obama was also the one that told his supporters “I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.”

    So I’m guessing that to Mr Civility peace, love and understanding means something a little different than it did to Gandhi. But then Gandhi was never a Chicago politician.

    MU789 (6a1add)

  5. With thanks to MD in Philly’s research on these five bribes (on another thread), how about this for a tee-shirt:

    1. Increase in Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments just for Tennessee (Section 1203, page 71 of H.R. 4872);
    2. Increase in Medicaid DSH payments just for Hawaii (Section 10201, page 2132 of H.R. 3590);
    3. The “Louisiana Purchase” to increase Medicaid funding just for Louisiana (Section 2006, page 428 of H.R. 3590);
    4. Increased Medicare reimbursement just for frontier states (Section 10324, page 2237 of H.R. 3590);
    5. Medicare coverage just for Libby, Montana residents exposed to environmental hazards (Section 10323, page 2222 of H.R. 3590);

    My Senator voted for Obamacare, and all my state got was this lousy tee-shirt.

    Of course, if from one of these states, an alteration would be necessary, for for example:

    My Senator voted for Obamacare, and all my state got was this bogus payoff and this lousy tee-shirt.

    Pons Asinorum (be2d18)

  6. The Democrats continue to take political advantage of reports of Republican vandalism and threats, with the head of the Obama campaign organization, Mitch Stewart, referring to the incident at Tom Perriello’s brother’s house in a fundraising appeal.

    Civility from Team Obama ? The turd

    Neo (7830e6)

  7. As usual, Sloe Joe was about 2/3 right. It was a Big Fu…ing. We are the ones who got fu…ed.

    Phu Bai Phat (7ff971)

  8. And this is the administration that told it’s supporters last summer “If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard.”

    And then Kenneth Gladney got beat up by the SIEU thugs at the Carnahan town hall in St Louis.

    MU789 (6a1add)

  9. Obama’s brand of civility is just finding somebody to hate. Just think of the different people or groups he or his minions have serially hated on since taking office. It’s a new era in presidential maturity and dignity!

    daleyrocks (718861)

  10. i’d express myself in the “new civility” but my comment would just get stick in the filter…. 😀

    redc1c4 (fb8750)

  11. “I won…”
    “This is what change looks like…”
    “Go for it…”

    Gracious he is not.

    Come November, someone can remind him…”THIS is what change looks like”.

    Jim (200c53)

  12. He just wants to define civility in a way that allows them to lie, cheat, distort, and obfuscate at will, while not allowing their political foes to call them on it.

    JD (355e34)

  13. “Civility” in this context simply means “Stop opposing the lefts agenda!”

    God only knows how the poor souls would react if we all started calling the President “Chimpy McHitlerAcorn”.

    Subotai (f29fb5)

  14. Obama has repeatedly claimed he wants to raise the level of discourse and reach across the aisle. And then we witness him addressing a group of his drones, where he talks of his opponents, (e.g., those who disagree with him about the appropriate role of government in our health-care) referring to this bill as Armageddon and how he looked around and the birds were still chirping and people still walking hand-in-hand on the Mall… rubbing salt into the wounds, so to speak. There will be hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people who will be losing their jobs behind this poorly thought-out, terribly constructed bill and he’s acting the fool, telling jokes.

    I can’t wait for November and I suspect there are more than a hundred million people who feel the same way.

    GeneralMalaise (20e943)

  15. God only knows how the poor souls would react if we all started calling the President “Chimpy McHitlerAcorn”.

    you mean you haven’t????
    let me send you the talking points memo that authorized it…..

    redc1c4 (fb8750)

  16. “This is a big f***ing deal”

    I propose that conservative-libertarian bloggers across the nation make that their universal headline on the Wednesday in November that follows the first Tuesday.

    Who’s with me?

    IgotBupkis (79d71d)

  17. Where was his civility when he stormed out of the White House meeting with Netanyahu, and left him to stew for an hour while he had dinner with Michelle and the kids?

    David (ffb1f6)

  18. Bring it on, losers.

    larry reilly (fadcab)

  19. “Where was his civility when he stormed out of the White House meeting with Netanyahu, and left him to stew for an hour while he had dinner with Michelle and the kids?”

    Indeed. I read somewhere today that Netanyahu should give some thought to renaming Israel, Iran. That’s how to be treated well by this president… no pressure, no impolite diplomatic language, no pushing it to give up land.

    GeneralMalaise (20e943)

  20. Mawy Reilly emerges from another epic bender.

    Dmac (ca1d8c)

  21. Meanwhile the media flog ridiculous stories of threats and attacks on Democrats while suppressing reports of same against Republicans. Example, a headline on my internet homepage news of “Democrats and some Republicans receive threats …”

    Glenn Reynolds points out that one report of a window broken in a congressman’s office is ridiculous as the office is in an skyscraper on the 30th floor.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  22. Glenn Reynolds points out that one report of a window broken in a congressman’s office is ridiculous as the office is in an skyscraper on the 30th floor.

    To whoever threw that brick: I think the Raiders could use you as a quarterback.

    Some chump (c2555f)

  23. President “Chimpy McHitlerAcorn”.

    Subotai – I like it. I might modify it to Dumbo McHitlerAcorn to pick up the ears and drop the chimp reference. They’ll still call us racist’s.

    daleyrocks (718861)

  24. Or how about Vladimir McHitlerAcorn?

    daleyrocks (718861)

  25. For the record-
    At #5 Pons credited me regarding some facts, my only “research” was to condense some things from PowerLine, and that specific list I believe came originally from John McCain.

    Obama is as serious about civility as Ali was about humility. For a leader of the Dems (“Bushitler lied, people died”) to call for civility is like Ali telling everyone to stop the taunting and trash-talking.

    More on Obama-civility part 2

    [note: released from moderation. –Stashiu]

    MD in Philly (59a3ad)

  26. But remember, folks, it’s the tea partiers who are coarsening public discourse.

    Not Joe “BFD” Biden or Barack Obama and his shirt.

    Or the libs who call the tea partiers “teabaggers” in a juvenile attempt to insult them.

    Steve (182d3d)


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