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Mr. President

January 20th, 2009 44 Comments

President Barack Obama

You’re the man now, dog.

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44 Responses to “Mr. President”

  1. Repack Rider says:
    January 20, 2009 at 12:10 pm

    How can he speak to that crowd without crying?

  2. Sean D. Martin says:
    January 20, 2009 at 12:32 pm

    Because he knows what is required of a leader.

  3. White Whale says:
    January 20, 2009 at 1:08 pm

    Best line of the speech (paraphrasing):

    “We will extend our hand if you unclench your fist.” My children at school grabbed onto its multiple meanings with ease.

  4. Duros62 says:
    January 20, 2009 at 1:29 pm

    TFJ’s all around.

    So say we all.

  5. Wilbur says:
    January 20, 2009 at 2:17 pm

    Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty we are free at last!

  6. Jay Tea says:
    January 20, 2009 at 2:40 pm

    And the torch is passed once again.

    By the way, Senator Byrd apparently had a seizure and was taken to the hospital. Less than two hours after the first black president is inaugurated, the former Klansman had a seizure.

    J.

  7. Quaker in a Basement says:
    January 20, 2009 at 2:50 pm

    Less than two hours after the first black president is inaugurated, the former Klansman had a seizure.

    Well, that’s classy.

  8. fafaroo says:
    January 20, 2009 at 2:51 pm

    Less than two hours after the first black president is inaugurated, the former Klansman had a seizure.

    Also, less than two hours after the first black president is inaugurated, you’re still a huge douche.

  9. Jay Tea says:
    January 20, 2009 at 2:52 pm

    Correction: it was Senator Ted Kennedy, not Senator Robert Byrd. The initial reports of it being Byrd were incorrect.

    J.

  10. Jay Tea says:
    January 20, 2009 at 2:53 pm

    There goes the irony…

    J.

  11. anotherbozo says:
    January 20, 2009 at 2:54 pm

    Only blackeyes were the Chief Justice’s fluffed lines and Jay Tea’s (aka Malvolio’s) comment, here.

    from Aretha’s deep-felt phrasing to the benediction, the ceremony was otherwise aces. As expected. Peeps bring their best to this President, and I bet will continue to do that, in all capacities.

  12. fafaroo says:
    January 20, 2009 at 2:56 pm

    There goes the irony…

    Wait, you made a tasteless joke based on an unverified rumor, had to correct your punchline believing it had lost it’s irony?

    Oh no, Jay Tea. The irony is still there.

  13. Duros62 says:
    January 20, 2009 at 3:01 pm

    I for one welcome our new ironic overlords.

  14. Quaker in a Basement says:
    January 20, 2009 at 3:03 pm

    You better watch out, Mr. Tea. Earlier today, there was somebody around here handing out stern lectures about making fun of frail, old people.

    You better hope that guy doesn’t catch up to you.

  15. Nimrod Gently says:
    January 20, 2009 at 3:16 pm

    Apropos of nothing, Jessica Alba just called Billo an asshole.

  16. August J. Pollak says:
    January 20, 2009 at 3:21 pm

    Less than two hours after a smart person became president, a complete fucking idiot made a comment on a website.

    Truly ironic.

  17. Duros62 says:
    January 20, 2009 at 3:34 pm

    Crooks & Liars say it was Kennedy AND Byrd who are ill.

    So… you know… don’t know how ironical that is…

  18. Dennis says:
    January 20, 2009 at 3:36 pm

    Hope and Change Day Number 1….. DOW down 275 points.

  19. Quaker in a Basement says:
    January 20, 2009 at 3:50 pm

    Hope and Change Day Number 1….. DOW down 275 points.

    Shoot. I was so sure that the markets would only go up as soon as Obama was sworn in.

    I guess I learned my lesson. I’m a Republican from here on, boys.

  20. Duros62 says:
    January 20, 2009 at 3:51 pm

    Yes, but President Obama has kept us safe from a terrorist attack on US soil for almost 4 hours.

  21. Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle says:
    January 20, 2009 at 4:06 pm

    Jay Tea:
    In case you forgot, Byrd endorsed Obama before the WV primary(which Clinton trounced him if you remember). It might not be sticking his neck out much, but it was still sticking his neck out.

  22. SaveFarris says:
    January 20, 2009 at 4:07 pm

    4 down, 35,060 to go. Godspeed, Mr. President.

  23. durablend says:
    January 20, 2009 at 4:09 pm

    And they’re now out of the limo and WALKING the route!

    Now if THAT isn’t CHANGE I don’t know what is!

  24. SpiderJ says:
    January 20, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    Strangest thing. I know that the words typed on this site don’t have any vocalization attached to them in my head, since I’ve never heard any of you speak (save Oliver, back when he was doing video posts).

    And yet Jay Tea’s posts keep reading to me as if they’re coming from somebody who is slowly shrinking, their voice hitting increasingly higher and squeakier tones as they attempt to conduct themselves with the same boring childishness they felt entitled to during the last eight years.

    Strangest thing.

  25. Nimrod Gently says:
    January 20, 2009 at 4:39 pm

    Eat it, Dennis, eat it hard.

  26. Duros 62 says:
    January 20, 2009 at 4:50 pm

    Strangest thing.

    Kind of like Michael Keaton’s head in the last scene of Beetlejuice?

  27. ed says:
    January 20, 2009 at 6:02 pm

    The e’er classy Jay Tea writes, “the former Klansman had a seizure.”

    As The Editors once observed,

    It’s funny how the only racist Dixiecrat conservatives can’t forgive is the one who repents.

  28. Jaim says:
    January 20, 2009 at 7:24 pm

    God bless America.

  29. Duros62 says:
    January 20, 2009 at 9:49 pm

    70,076. Corrected.

    What?

    Hey, anyone heard from Asshat Observer today? Or is he weeping softly under his mom’s bed?

  30. Quaker in a Basement says:
    January 21, 2009 at 12:11 pm

    anyone heard from Asshat Observer today?

    I think he’s out mining coal or subjugating indigenous people. Something very manly.

  31. Bruce Henry says:
    January 21, 2009 at 1:48 pm

    It takes a while to polish a monocle properly.

  32. SaveFarris says:
    January 21, 2009 at 1:53 pm

    Yes, but President Obama has kept us safe from a terrorist attack on US soil for almost 4 hours.

    Stop the Clock!!!

  33. Duros 62 says:
    January 21, 2009 at 2:54 pm

    Terrorists in Knoxville? C’mon, pull the other one.

  34. Grandjester says:
    January 21, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    America, Fuck Yeah!

  35. Quaker in a Basement says:
    January 21, 2009 at 4:57 pm

    Farris is, of course, performing monkey antics for our amusement. We all know that envelopes filled with white powder–even those containing anthrax spores–count as terrorist attacks.

    Well, at least that’s what everyone who claims there hasn’t been a terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11 seems to believe.

  36. Quaker in a Basement says:
    January 21, 2009 at 5:00 pm

    errr….DON’T count…!

  37. Duros 62 says:
    January 21, 2009 at 5:29 pm

    Oh, sure, NOW it counts.

  38. Enlightened Liberal says:
    January 21, 2009 at 6:30 pm

    Hmmmm. What the assclown didn’t realize in his zeal to play “gotcha” was that if the package was sent from Knoxville to New York, it was sent BEFORE Obama took office, unless it was express mail, and terrorists don’t generally do express mail because then they would have to take the package to a counter. So that can safely be blamed on Bush.

    Good work ferris! Now we don’t have to hear how since the 9/11 attacks, Bush kept us safe! We were being terrorized virtually until Obama took the oath!

  39. Quaker in a Basement says:
    January 21, 2009 at 6:38 pm

    C’mon monkey. Do another trick for us.

  40. Quaker in a Basement says:
    January 21, 2009 at 7:41 pm

    And where’s Dennis with today’s stock market report? He was so eager to give us the Dow figures yesterday.

  41. Duros62 says:
    January 21, 2009 at 8:44 pm

    it was sent BEFORE Obama took office,

    Yeah, I thought that this afternoon.

  42. Duros62 says:
    January 21, 2009 at 8:52 pm

    Oh yeah!

    Executive Order — Presidential Records

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to establish policies and procedures governing the assertion of executive privilege by incumbent and former Presidents in connection with the release of Presidential records by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) pursuant to the Presidential Records Act of 1978, it is hereby ordered as follows:
    —
    Sec. 4. Claim of Executive Privilege by Former President.

    (a) Upon receipt of a claim of executive privilege by a living former President, the Archivist shall consult with the Attorney General (through the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel), the Counsel to the President, and such other executive agencies as the Archivist deems appropriate concerning the Archivist’s determination as to whether to honor the former President’s claim of privilege or instead to disclose the Presidential records notwithstanding the claim of privilege. Any determination under section 3 of this order that executive privilege shall not be invoked by the incumbent President shall not prejudice the Archivist’s determination with respect to the former President’s claim of privilege.

    (b) In making the determination referred to in subsection (a) of this section, the Archivist shall abide by any instructions given him by the incumbent President or his designee unless otherwise directed by a final court order. The Archivist shall notify the incumbent and former Presidents of his determination at least 30 days prior to disclosure of the Presidential records, unless a shorter time period is required in the circumstances set forth in section 1270.44 of the NARA regulations. Copies of the notice for the incumbent President shall be delivered to the President (through the Counsel to the President) and the Attorney General (through the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel). The copy of the notice for the former President shall be delivered to the former President or his designated representative.

    Sec. 5. General Provisions.

    (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

    (i) authority granted by law to a department or agency, or the head thereof; or

    (ii) functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budget, administrative, or legislative proposals.

    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

    Sec. 6. Revocation. Executive Order 13233 of November 1, 2001, is revoked.

    BARACK OBAMA

    THE WHITE HOUSE,
    January 21, 2009