The Obama Family's Commie Christmas
Fall on your knees
Oh hear the angel's voices
Oh night divine
Oh night when Christ was born
What a disgusting sight on oh-so-holy a night. The Photograph at the top of this piece is from the Obama family's Christmas card. Aren't you positively revolted by this sickening image of Bo the cowardly Kenyan/Communist Canine desecrating the floor of the house where the sainted Ronald Reagan once lived? You're not? That's okay, I didn't think you would be. I wasn't either. I was just pulling your leg!Oh hear the angel's voices
Oh night divine
Oh night when Christ was born
Whatever your political persuasion, it would be kind of hard to find fault with the tranquil scene depicted above. And yet, predictably, the right wing scream machine went into full-tilt, freak out mode the moment they had their first look at it. Sarah Palin was just beside herself on FOX Noise. They all were! No mention of Jesus. No mention of Christmas. Just a picture of their mangy pooch snoozing away by the fireplace. Our gal Sarah called the photo "strange". It's Christmas day. I'll refrain from calling the woman an idiot. T'is the season, you know what I mean?
I don't get it. As
much as I despised the administration of George W. Bush, it never even occurred to be to find a molecule of fault with any of the eight Christmas cards he sent to the American people during the eight Christmases he occupied the Executive Mansion. That would have been quite foolish - not to mention a tad petty on my part. One of the Bush family cards was a sketch of the White House that depicted a bunch of Scotch Terriers frolicking in the snow on the south lawn. There was no mention of Christ or Christmas in that card either. The right wingers didn't make a peep at the time. That was then. This is now.Having gotten that little bit of stupidity off of my chest....
Let me savor this moment to wish all of you - left, right or center - a happy Christmas/Holiday season. Another year over and a new one's just begun. To tell you the truth, I just haven't the "Christmas spirit" this year. There are a number of reasons for this, the most obvious one being the deplorable state of the country I love more than any other on earth. Since I have nothing upbeat and optimistic to leave you with in 2011, I'll close with something I wrote four-years-ago on Christmas Day 2007:
Keep your eyes wide-open for the miracles all around you. And remember the simple truth that there is more music to be found in the laughter of a single child than can be found in all of the symphonies ever composed by all of the composers who ever lived.
Much better. Happy Christmas, one and all!
Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
tomdegan@frontiernet.net
SUGGESTED READING:
The Christmas Box
by Richard Paul Evans
Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy
by Bing Crosby and David Bowie:
posted by Tom Degan @ 7:10 AM
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59 Comments:
Teehee. What beautiful snark. I wrote about "Her Vapidness" in my Christmas message as well and included a few choice cards from Bush and Reagan - all great examples of "family, faith and freedom." Not.
Tom, I hope your Christmas is warm and merry and that 2012 brings you much peace and happiness.
It may be Christmas, but I'm not above calling her an idiot!
Merry Christmas Tom, I always enjoy coming here to read.
Thank you Steve - and Leslie. A happy one to both of you!
Cheers!
Tom
Happy Christmas, Tom!
Too bad they are too cowardly to actually say what they really object to, the fact that the Obama's are black!
Marlena,
I object to them because him he is half white, you racist.
Tom, I can't get over all those overtones of red. Despite the absence of hammer and sickle, that deplorable scene just smacks of communism in every way imaginable!
How dare they desecrate the mansion of fascism?
Jefferson's Guardian....
I think you may be onto something. These Obamas are shameful. Oh, the humanity!!!
Have a great new year, pal!
Tom
Did they break the Mao and Transvestite Christmas tree ornaments. It's hard to see them in that lovely photo.
Lynn Samuels passed away Christmas Eve. She was, from this conservative's view point, one of the few honest, non political talking points liberal talk show and bloggers around.
Lynn was a friend of as well as worked for Matt Drudge as a call screener. She believed that Obama was not telling the truth about his birth certificate.
But her liberal positions were ones that she fought for and never waiver from. She was despised by Ed Schultz for her refusal to tow the DNC's talking point of the day, unless it met her standards and beliefs. Which prevented her a world of embarrassment when those points were found to be wrong.
I trusted Ms. Samuels to tell the truth about her positions without any fear.
RIP Lynn, you will be missed.
I'm a day late, but I hope your Christmas was very happy and that the New Year is joyous and full of topics for one of your rants.
>>Obama was not telling the truth about his birth certificate...
Why do people waste energy on that trivial issue? Think about it, if he was doing a good job, would it matter?
Obama promised to serve ALL the American people - yet he has only delivered to the ultra-wealthy. That is what you should be bitching about!
A bit of a belated Happy Christmas greeting to you as well as a bit of an early Happy New Year greeting. Loved this post. Love the card. Love the President and his family. Loved your 2007 Christmas message. Love that you don't compose a phony greeting when you don't have the spirit to do so. Love the image I have in my mind now: a lump of coal in Sarah's stockings.....with her wearing them. :)
And so this is Christmas . . . .
- JL
Thinking of better times and wishing for more of the same.
Love to all,
S
It is only a couple of days till the New Year and the big stories of 2012 probably be about Iran and Fukushima.
The military and Congress are going insane if they think invading Iran is going to be a walk in the park like Iraq was. China has already stated that " An attack on Iran is an attack on China"
Fukushima is starting to make Chernobyl look like a health resort and the radio active fall out is just starting to ramp up. There was only 30 tons of Uranium at Chernobyl but there is 1760 tons of MOX at Fukushima.
I think the 2012 will bring a great change to the U.S. and I do not think it will be for the better.
As the Republicans' mission to disenfranchise Americans of their right to vote seizes its chokehold, 2012 may be our last shot at democracy.
Will we choose wisely?
Will Democrats actually OPPOSE them?
I'm sure the new year will yield interersting developments to keep us from getting too bored.
Dave Dubya, I'm glad you wrote. Check the settings on your comments section of your blog. I've posted (as I'm sure many have), but nothing has appeared.
Happy New Year!
James,
You are not correct on Iran.
1. China will do nothing, at the end of the day we are their top client.
2. The US will not deal with Iran the same way it dealt with Iraq. Imagine shock and awe to a much higher power without boots on the ground and without official regime change. First, the entire Iranian navy will be arrayed at the bottom of the sea. Second all electronic defences will be elimiated. Third sustained bombing until they are nearly defenseless. Fourth, gasoline embargo. The mullahs will be begging for it to stop. When they come to the table, they will be far more amenable to peace in the world.
Fukushima will be non news because it is no governments interest to propagate it. Given that it happened on Obama's watch, it will be black listed material. You may be right in 2013 when a Republican occupies the White House and the remove all the Os from the keyboards.
"As the Republicans' mission to disenfranchise Americans of their right to vote seizes its chokehold, 2012 may be our last shot at democracy."
What a pile of B.S., again. Try getting on an airplane without a photo ID or vote in a Union election without one, or get a library card, or a thousand other things.
Once again the left is preparing the way with excuses why the results of the 2012 elections are corrupt. Why? Because unless the left claims either the voters are stupid or fooled or the other side cheated, they have to face the reality that 99% of Americans reject the failed liberal socialist policy's, election after election.
Same song every election cycle, yawn, come up with something new, just once.
JTF,
You are right as always.
If these people can get their union card or food stamps debit card, they can get a voter card. If you don't have the will to get a voter card then you don't want to vote. Simple.
Boltok, you praised Just the Facts! as being "right as usual", based upon this...
"Try getting on an airplane without a photo ID or vote in a Union election without one, or get a library card, or a thousand other things."
It's estimated that 25% of blacks don't have photo IDs (i.e., driver licenses). Now let's look at his preposterous claims one by one: (1) If 25% of blacks don't drive, is it reasonable to assume they're driving instead?! Gimme a break! Have you flown lately? What percentage of each plane you've been in was comprised of the black population? Maybe 2% to 3%, at most? (2) The percentage of workers with union membership dropped last year from the year previous, and although blacks have a higher percentage of members compared to other groups, it's still a drop in the bucket compared to the total black population at-large. Besides, I'm not even sure union membership cards include photo ID. (3) How many libraries include photo ID? Also, how many libraries are located in poor black neighborhoods these days? My guess, to both questions, is none.
I'd say your simple-minded friend's name should be "Just the Bullshit!" It's more fitting.
JG,
Whenever Just The FOX(R) accuses me of BS, I feel completely vindicated.
Boltok and Just The FOX(R) don't get it. Voting is a right. They and their fellow democracy haters don't want everyone having that right. They want plutocracy or even fascism.
Dave Dubya, I'm sure conservatives such as Boltok and Just the Bulls**t! would rather the 15th Amendment be repealed, but since they can't do that without it appearing as blatantly prejudice, they settle for making it almost impossible to vote by imposing outrageous conditions. It's akin to the poll tax, that was just another mechanism enacted under Jim Crow laws to restrict blacks from participating fully in society.
You're right, it's yet another indicator of their hate for democracy -- and minorities.
It's estimated that 25 Percent of blake don't have photo ID Please, another stupid "guess" to support the continuing of voter fraud.
If a person has the means to get to the poll to vote regardless of their financial condition, why can't they get a photo I'd to vote? The I'd would be free and could picked up at any govt office including post office.
Just a lot of IFs used to support the liberal position supporting voter fraud.
Your liberal claims are bogus.
So what if union membership dropped, you still need photo ID to vote in one of their elections. What kind of argument is that?
You make it sound like it's an unfair burden to get a free photo ID when you Register to vote. Isn't the real problem with a required photo ID, is that ALL illegal voting would be eliminated? Like why would it be a surprise that honest fair elections would be the LAST thing liberals who make up under 30% of the population would want?
Voting is a right for those who are illegally registered to
vote.
Just the Fascist says:
If a person has the means to get to the poll to vote regardless of their financial condition, why can't they get a photo I'd to vote?
The real question is, “Why can’t the person vote?”
Speaking of “ifs”. “If a person has the means to get to the poll”, or even if he does not have the means, his right to vote should not be denied, yet that is the intention of the radical Right.
Denial of voting rights is the real objective behind the radical Right’s trumped up “war on vote fraud”. Lies and propaganda are part of the war. “The liberal position supporting voter fraud” is one such whopper. As a ruse to fix a minuscule problem of a couple dozen vote fraud cases nationwide, they shall strip the rights of hundreds of thousands of Americans.
It is a war on democracy and on our freedom. Freedom cannot thrive without democracy. Make no mistake.
Like why would it be a surprise that honest fair elections would be the LAST thing liberals who make up under 30% of the population would want?
This one is funny, knowing the tea party cult has an approval level even lower. Yet they control Congress.
Let’s look at what the fanatics of the radical Right think are “honest fair elections”. First, they want to see hundreds of thousands of fewer voters in their “honest fair elections”, especially poor, elderly minority type voters who once had the right to vote. They want to suppress the right to vote of any demographic not likely to vote for the radical Right. This is their idea of “honest fair elections”.
College students are about to lose their right to vote in those “honest fair elections” as well. The radical Right has been successful in destroying unions and denying their participation in “honest fair elections”.
They want the well-connected rich and powerful to have a “super right” over most of us, a superior right of free speech by money, to buy “honest fair elections” in order to dominate public policy in the interests of the elites.
Those Americans still clutching to their right to vote will vote on Diebold (R) voting machines in the “honest fair elections”. We all remember the owner of Diebold (R) promised to help Bush win an election.
The radical Right also demands the presence of a law enforcement officer at the polling place of their “honest fair elections”. He will be there to protect us from a non-threat. Your parking tickets are all paid up and all is in order, right?
“You papers, please,” will be the official greeting to the voter as he steps into the place he voted in past elections. But this time he is stripped of the right to vote in the “honest fair elections” of the New Republikan Order.
Suppose a historical fascist group in twentieth century Europe wanted to subvert and destroy democracy. What did they do? They destroyed unions. They rigged elections. They lied; they bullied, and stripped rights from citizens. They concentrated dictatorial ruling power to the elite minority in control of law enforcement and military industrial interests. And they demanded, “Your papers, please!”
How about that? It seems suspiciously like we have a busy Reich Wing here and now in the USA. And democracy is not what they want for us. Well at least they have not come for the Jews...yet. Hey, you don’t suppose liberals will be selected for special treatment in the New Republikan Order?
No, that would be silly paranoia. Republicans would never demonize liberals and call them traitors, right?
Right?
JG
If you told anyone that they had a right to an ipod but it was 26.2 miles away, we would have a citizenry covering territory on foot like the Kenyans. Over the course of a two years, if someone want to vote they can do it by foot or otherwise. If it is too much to register, they dont want to. You just want to load buses with anybody and have them vote without question for democratic bufoons without any control.
No Dave, the real question, can the person legally vote?
Pretty simply.
"College students are about to lose their right to vote in those “honest fair elections” as well."
Document please, this claim. Every college student I know has a photo ID issued by their school. Dave, do you ever read what you post, or just post what the American Workers Party talking point is for the week?
The photo ID's issued by colleges will not allow a person to vote.
They are not recognized by the states as "voter ID's".
Just thought you'd like to know.
Happy new year to one and all!
Tom
Thank you, Tom. Apparently our simple-minded conservative friends don't read (or view) anything beyond the corporate-fascist message of Fox News.
Happy New Year!
The Right Wingers seem to really believe the fiction that efforts to fight (gasp) "voter fraud" are needed. Here in Florida our very Republican County Supervisor of Elections staunchly beats down any suggestion that there is any voter fraud. Yet our veto-proof Republican controlled Legislature imposed such onerous restrictions on voter registration that the League of Women Voters stopped all voter registration efforts in FLorida.
Florida is the poster child for gerrymandering. Statewide 41% of the voters are Democrats, 36% of the voters are Republicans, and 23% of the voters are neither Democrats nor Republicans. Yet the Republicans hold a two to one advantage in the Legislature. And the voter suppression laws coming from the Republican controlled Legislature are aimed at keeping it that way.
You are over looking the ease it is to get a photo ID and how simple it would be to have one made free when one registered to vote. Would eliminate any voter fraud, so why do liberals get their back in the air at the very mention of doing so?
You are missing the point, people are required to have photo ID's for many things, that cause's them no problem to secure. Why is it unreasonable to require the same thing to prove you are the person you say you are to vote? Don't give me that fake B.S. about 25% of of a select group of Americans don't drive. In the first place does that 25% include those under the legal age to drive in their state? How do you reach your numbers? What is the percent of white's who don't drive?
As I said before, the real question is, can the person legally vote.
washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/30/voter-id-terrifies-democrats-will-obama-steal-the-/
The real question is why are people being denied the right to vote. People who "legally" voted before. It has happened to thousands of more people than have been convicted of fraud. It is happening more every year.
can the person legally vote?
Not if he is "legally" denied that right. Jews could legally vote in pre-World War 2 Germany until they were "legally" denied the right.
How many other rights must be "legal" by restrictions? Should one have a state ID to own a firearm, to engage in free speech, to be read one's Miranda rights when arrested, to be allowed a defense attorney, to face one's accusers?
Does our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness depend on having state issued papers? "Your papers please", say the Amerikan fascists, "you are a shade on the brown side".
Do corporations need a photo ID to bribe a politician with "free speech" money? Why not? They have more rights than we do. Just how the radical Right likes it.
Rights are called rights for a reason. Ever hear of Unalienable Rights? Look it up.
Just the Fascist has proven himself to be an ignorant liar promoting the destruction of democracy. We know what his idea of “honest fair elections” is. He will not change. He is a fanatic and true believer.
Why not impose "simple" poll taxes and "free literacy tests" for select groups? That's what Right Wing racists and fascists tried before. Their war on democracy never ends.
The burden of proof for the so-called vote fraud problem has not been met. The Right's cure is to deny people their rights.
Rights.
What don't the radical Righties like about rights? They think they should have more than others. They are like fascists. Let's see how many of them help elderly poor minority people go get those ID's.
Ha. Not part of the agenda. They are enemies of democracy.
They won't admit it because the enemies of democracy are proven liars. See above. Read history.
I can't wait to see them all blow a fuse whem Obama gets reelected. They will scream "liberal vote fraud" as they rig the Diebold machines and purge eligible voters for the next “honest fair elections”.
The war against fascism will never end. It is coming as a cross wrapped in the flag.
Look, an anonymous cultist has left a link to Bush family friend and good Republican Sun Myung Moon's Washington Times. The guy who says he's Jesus has a lot of true believers.
FOX(R) and the Moonie Cult leader are great sources of information.
Dave Dubya, you said...
"FOX(R) and the Moonie Cult leader are great sources of information."
Oh, yes, both form the undisputed pinnacle of upstanding, unbiased, and balanced investigative reporting. ;-)
No surprise here, Dave and his left hand man JG double team to avoid dealing with the reality that voter photo ID would only reduce voter fraud. Never mind the fact that the 25 % of Black Americans who do not have a drivers licenses, are under the legal age to drive to begin with.
Dave, you banned me from your blog for using the term "Libtards", yet you have no problem in calling me Fascist
Care to explain your lack of sensitivity towards others who disagree with you?
reality that voter photo ID would only reduce voter fraud
Not reality. Not even "just a fact".
This, and most other comments, are not "just the facts" at all. I have found a more accurate term.
Banned? No, it doesn't look like that is a fact either, but he was often rude and slimey and required editing.
Here's what Just the Fascist wrote at my blog... after he was "banned".
Dave ole friend, the American Nazi Party is on your side!
I was accused at various times of being in cahoots with both the commies and the nazis.
He likes to dish it out but as a typical authoritarian personality can't take it.
Boo hoo. Poor delicate, little, sensitive, democracy-hating fascistic hypocrite and liar. Lack of sensitivity on my part? Or just lack of tolerance for radical ideology?
He may feel free to call me a socialistic liar. I won't cry. And he would be half right.
"....voter photo ID would only reduce voter fraud."
There is no epidemic of voter fraud.
"Dave ole friend, the American Nazi Party is on your side!"
Was a fact based on the the American Nazi Party supporting the Occupy Moment. Don't blame the messenger for giving you facts you aren't comfortable with.
BTW, what are the odds of having this debate on your blog, since you now clear all posts before publication?
ZERO!
If there is voter fraud or voter intimidation wouldn't it make since to have photo ID to vote? Got the ID, come on in and vote once, please!
"There is no epidemic of voter fraud." Really, no exceptions to that claim?
Tom,
Yes, the burden of proof for the so-called vote fraud problem has not been met. Of course,that doesn't matter to the true believers. Everything Rush says is gospel. No one dares to contradict their Oxy-moron Florida Fuhrer.
Just the Fascist has no use for facts in his radical extremist ideology.
Nazis’ hatred of Jewish bankers, which is actually their alleged “support for OWS”, is not “my side”. Fascists dearly love to lie.
Just the Fascist’s dishonesty and hatred for democracy on the other hand, are much closer to Nazi ideology. He and fellow fascists like Nazis want one party rule without compromise. They want unions destroyed. They both suggest, or even accuse, Obama as being a commie.
Just the Fascist’s fanatic desire for absolute non-democratic rule by the elite minority is also similar to fascism. All these common characteristics make it quite clear. I could go on and on with these similarities.
I’m sorry. I am unable to accept Just the Fascist’s deceitful use of the word “facts” in his identity. I suppose we could refer to him as “Just a Fanatic Right Wing Liar”. That way we wouldn’t be participating in his original lie.
Either way, “Just the Fascist” rings more true than anything with “facts” in it.
Feel free to accuse me of being an anti-fascist, pro-democracy, socialist leaning civil libertarian. That would be “commie” to Just the Fascist.
Rampant and widespread voter fraud is a myth propagated by conservatives to keep minorities and others without government-issued photo IDs from participating in their constitutional right to cast a ballot. Even your revered Faux News agrees.
Court adjourned!
JG,
So in fact, "Vote fraud" is actually more like "Vote fraud" fraud...
The "Vote Fraud" Fraud should be the Big Lie of the year. It's certainly up there with "death panels" and "government takeover of health care".
Dave Dubya, you asked...
"So in fact, 'Vote fraud' is actually more like 'Vote fraud' fraud..."
Exactly!
Happy new year,
...your "Left-Hand-Man" ;-)
So if there is so little over fraud, why the hang up over voter ID?
No hang-up...no hang-up at all. Just don't like the conservative idea of denying citizens their constitutional right to vote.
I think I made my reasons clear in comment posted at 12:36 p.m. (above).
Case closed...
Case closed. Just like your libtard mind.
Voter fraud? The real fraud is the slate of candidates we have to pick from and what happens once they take up residence in DC.
Harley A., that's something we wholeheartedly agree upon! Although, I'm sure, we disagree about who the main beneficiaries are.
The whole system's a sham and only posing as democracy at work. It's decidedly and unequivocally designed to foster and advance the agenda of the elitist minority - not only in this country, but around the world.
"The whole system's a sham and only posing as democracy at work. It's decidedly and unequivocally designed to foster and advance the agenda of the elitist minority - not only in this country, but around the world."
JG
So can we take your statement to mean you will NOT be voting in Nov. 2012?
If not, who will you be voting for, even though "the whole system is a sham"?
I'll be voting for the person who represents, and has, the interests of the 99% in mind.
JG sounds great, that person have a name?
Undoubtedly!
JG,
Why don't you share with us that persons name.
Rocky sounds good, but it could be someone else at this point. It's too early to say.
It also could be the Green Party candidate, but again, it's too early to say.
Suffice to say, it won't be anyone from either wing of the Corporatist Party. Both represent the 1%; however pander to the 99% when the chips are down (as Obama's been doing the last few weeks, and as all the Republican candidates are doing). Nothing new, though, it's always been done this way.
JG,,
Thanks, hope your telling us the truth.
Why?
Why do you hope I'm telling the truth? More importantly, why would you even question it? I always speak the truth. That's probably why it sounds so strange to you. You're not used to it.
I can see you're really popular.. Like the last poster was xmas?
Why don't you stop flaming/spaming craigslist politics since you only put your perspective on stuff.
Might design a new blog or web page with pages as this one is just a long run on and who the hell likes to scroll forever?
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