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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: FJB who wrote (131200)	4/25/2012 8:03:48 PM
From: Wayners	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224748

Incredible but not surprising. I dare my Congressman and Senators to sign on to such horseshit! Eric Holder and Timmy Geitner are just propagandist mouthpieces for Obama instead of being the technocrats and authorities on matters of law and finance. If they aren't going to do their technical jobs and just be Obama's Joseph Goebells, then the Democratic Party can pay their salaries rather than me.

To: FJB who wrote (131200)	4/25/2012 8:38:12 PM
From: lorne	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224748

Did Obama 'jump the shark' on Jimmy Fallon? 'Truly nauseating': President's rapping the news gets mixed reaction by Joe Kovacs Wednesday, April 25, 2012 wnd.com Barack Obama’s “slow-jamming the news” last night on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” has some Americans wondering if the president has now “jumped the shark,” that is to say, gone over the top to ensure his demise. A woman from Fortuna, Calif., called Rush Limbaugh’s top-rated radio show today to make the observation. “I don’t watch Jimmy Fallon but I saw excerpts on one of the programs that we do watch, and my skin started to crawl,” said the caller, named Denise. “And all I could equate that with was the Bill Clinton moment when they asked him, ‘Boxers or briefs?’ And I thought, ‘Oh, my God this president has jumped the shark!’ This may very well have been his moment, his low moment.” The phrase “jumping the shark” originated with one of the final episodes of the once hugely popular 1970s show “Happy Days.” The program featured actor Henry Winkler, who portrayed the motorcycle-riding “Fonzie” character, in a water-skiing jump over a shark, all the while clad in his signature leather jacket. Fans of the show were instantly turned off, and it spelled the end of the series. Denise elaborated on her reaction, saying, “When the president did that, the only thing I could think of … the picture that I saw with Fallon in the foreground and the president in the middle, and then I guess the band was behind him and it was all dark and everything, would have been better if there had been a billowing of smoke and a big cigarette hanging out of his mouth. It was truly, truly nauseating.” Limbaugh said it might be too early to say Obama jumped the shark in this case. “I have a lot of e-mails from people who have [Denise's] reaction. But I don’t want to make too much of the e-mails in terms of anecdotal analysis. I never do that, but I would never assume the whole country is having the same reaction that people e-mailing me are having … . On TV, people remember what they see. There’s no question. But again, we have to look at where our culture is, and to a lot of people, Obama is not even ‘the president.’ He just the biggest celebrity in the country, and that’s cool. “I mean, the whole concept of the presidency for a lot of young people is not some august, serious, highly respected, most-respected office. It’s the most powerful, but he’s the biggest celebrity of the United States, even more so than he is president of the United States. I mean, you can go all over Twitter today and read the people out there who thought the slow-jamming was great, because it’s new. ‘We’ve never seen a president do it before! It’s hip. He’s like us! He can relate to us.’ There are people that have that reaction to it, too. I mean that’s where we are culturally.”