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I dismissed this at first. I could not see how “yes we can” could possibly sound like “thank you satan” when played backward. But after listening to a number of recordings and trying it for myself, I totally believe it. The thing to remember is that “thank you satan” doesn’t have to sound perfect. It just has to be phonetically close. Listen for yourself → Thank-you-Satan
Try it for yourself. If you have Windows OS, go to Sound Recorder and record “yes we can”. Do this a couple of times in a row so that you can get the full effect. Then play it backward (Reverse option under Effects menu). With a little imagination, it will sound like “thank you satan”.
Now do it the other way. Record “thank you satan” a few times in a row, and play it in reverse. This time it will sound like “yes we can”.
There we have it. Our President is thanking Satan. Well isn’t that special?
Where’s the Church Lady when you need her. If you don’t get that reference, you must be very young and I hate you.
We have certainly kicked off the new year with a wave of Op-Ed articles that have completely different tones than in the past 8 years.
On January 4, the New York Times published an Op-Ed article written by John Bolton (former ambassador to the UN) and John Yoo (law professor and former deputy assistant attorney general) titled “Restore the Senate’s Treaty Power”. In it, they argued that the Senate must exercise its constitutional power to prevent the President from taking unilateral international actions. Mr. Bolton and Mr. Yoo are worried that President Obama will push through a Kyoto style treaty agenda.
Like past presidents, Mr. Obama will likely be tempted to avoid the requirement that treaties must be approved by two-thirds of the Senate. The usual methods around this constitutional constraint are executive agreements or a majority vote in the House and Senate to pass a treaty as a simple law (known as a Congressional-executive agreement).
No kidding? How convenient! Now that a Democrat is about to become President, it is apparently of the utmost importance to ensure that Congress’ power is in place. The Constitution has been around for a couple of hundred years. Where the hell were you guys in the past 8 years? Oh, that’s right! With a conservative administration in power, there was no Constitution to worry about, was there?
The article went on:
The framers of the Constitution designed the treaty process with a bias against “entangling alliances,” as Thomas Jefferson described them in his first inaugural address. They designated the Senate as the body responsible to protect the interests of the states from being bargained away by the president in deals with foreign nations. The framers required a supermajority to ensure that treaties would reflect a broad consensus and careful, mature decision-making.
What is truly sad about all this is that I completely agree with the Op-Ed. Senate’s treaty power must be enacted and exercised. But it should have been enacted 8 years ago. I ask again, where the hell were you gentlemen during Bush’s Presidency? Was your computer broken? Could you not have written this Op-Ed 8 years ago?
Even by their own admission, Mr. Bolton and Mr. Yoo conceded that President Bush did not seek a supermajority in the Senate during his years in office.
President George W. Bush resisted many efforts at global governance. But his administration still sometimes fell into the temptation to flout the constitutional requirement of a two-thirds majority in the Senate.
You guys (Bolton & Yoo) are pathetic. You are correct in your view, but pathetic in your timing and execution. Don’t you know that until you demonstrate you are willing to drink your own Kool-aid, no one other than members of your own base will hold you and your opinions in high regard?
I just discovered this story. It’s a bit late, but I like it nevertheless.
You may have noticed that some old pictures of Barack Obama have recently surfaced. These were taken when Barack was a student at Occidental College in California by a friend. Not surprisingly, Fox News could not wait to jump on this story.
On December 19 edition of Fox & Friends, co-host Gretchen Carlson said:
“There are some very intriguing pictures of Barack Obama photos. Look at this one. This one has him smoking a cigarette which we have not seen. Would have served any purpose to release these photos before the election?” → source
Seriously Gretchen? You didn’t know that Obama smoked? Are you truly this uninformed? The rest of us who are not even journalists know that he quit smoking early during his Presidential campaign.
Another notable Fox News personality, Sean Hannity, said during his radio show: “Where were these pictures during the campaign? Just take a look at this. Barack Obama has a hat, you know, pulling a drag on a cigarette.”
Oh, yes, that’s right! Only if America knew about these pictures earlier . . . only if the American people knew that Obama used to smoke and that, at one point in his life, he owned a hat . . . only if we knew! We would have united as a nation in our opposition to “hat wearing smokers from Hawaii running for President” and had voted for the other guy. Only if we knew this prior to the election! That darn media kept these picture from the public until after the election. Gee, if this isn’t a media conspiracy, I don’t know what is.
According to the photographer, Lisa Jack, she had placed these photos in a safe deposit box until after the election. She was concerned that they may be used for “gotcha” purposes.
Grow up Sean. Grow up Gretchen. Move on Fox News. Give me news, not childish garbage. I turn on Fox News to learn, not to see you folks dwell over how the media might have won the election for Obama.
Oh, and apparently Obama’s past smoking (and hat wearing) is a much bigger sin than President Bush’s past drinking. Very fair and balanced, Fox News!
By the way, that thing Obama is smoking looks like a joint to me.
Wow, talk about a lame duck President. He is now officially the Rodney Dangerfield of the White House.
President Bush made a fare well visit to Iraq today. He held a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki in Baghdad. Everything was going well until an Iraqi television reporter threw his shows at Bush while shouting in Arabic:
This is a gift from the Iraqis. This is a fare well kiss you dog. This is from the widows, the orphans, and those who were killed in Iraq.”
It is reported that this journalist’s family was killed in Sadr city. The sole of a shoe and likening a human to a dog are great insults in the Middle Eastern culture.
On the positive side, give Bush 10 points for doing a great job of ducking. It was as though he expected it! I’d like to suggest a new bumper sticker: eight years of ducking issues and all I have to show for it are these size 10 shoes.
Give Bush another 10 points for a classy comeback by saying “all I can report is it is a size 10 shoe he threw.” Irrespective of my view of Bush (which has always been even less than low), I will always be on the side of respect for our country and our President. I was surprised and horribly disappointed that the secret service did not restrain the reporter faster. They reacted very slow as though they didn’t really care that much. What’s up with that? Aren’t they supposed to take a bullet for him? Doesn’t a shoe count?
By the way, please allow me to translate all the Arabic shouting you heard from the reporter while he was being restrained: Ahhhh, don’t taze me bro!
Remember when Sarah Palin became the victim of a radio show prank? She thought France’s President Sarkozy called to talk to her. Please! It’s nice to think that you’re that important, but come on Sarah! Sarkozy doesn’t give a darn about you. There is absolutely no reason for Sarkozy to be talking to you.
Well, politicians were apparently paying close attention. No one wants to become the victim of a prank, including Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. It is reported that President-elect Obama called to, among other things, congratulate Ms. Lehtinen on her re-election. The Congresswoman, remembering Palin’s mishap, promptly hung up.
Shocked at this unexpected event, Obama asked Rahm Emanuel to call her. Guess what happened! Same result!
Finally, Representative Howard Berman called her. Ms. Lehtinen, still wary, asked Berman to recite a private joke they once shared. Now convinced and somewhat embarrassed, Ms. Lehtinen told Berman to ask Obama to try to call her again, saying “I know this sounds very presumptuous, but please tell President-elect Obama he can call me now and I will take his call”.
Obama called and they had a good laugh. “You will always be remembered by me, because I have made many of these calls and never once has anyone ever hung up on me. And never once has anyone hung up on me twice,” Obama said.
Good for Ms. Lehtine. I love her skepticism. I wonder how many Republican Congressmen will now try to avoid Obama using the same technique just to avoid talking to Obama.
Here’s Palin’s prank call. I feel bad for her. I really do. It’s a tough prank to foresee but, as I said earlier, the first clue should have been Sarkozy’s interest in talking with her.
OK readers, I hope you’re depressed today. I truly hope that you’re in desperate need of a good laugh because I’m about to cheer you up. Get ready to laugh.
John H. Hinderaker is a lawyer and a conservative blogger at the Power Line weblog. In a recent post titled “The Importance of Being Careful“, Mr. Hinderaker felt compelled to provide President Elect Obama some free advice. Read the following excerpt for yourself and enjoy the irony.
Obama thinks he is a good talker, but he is often undisciplined when he speaks. He needs to understand that as President, his words will be scrutinized and will have impact whether he intends it or not. In this regard, President Bush is an excellent model; Obama should take a lesson from his example. Bush never gets sloppy when he is speaking publicly. He chooses his words with care and precision, which is why his style sometimes seems halting. In the eight years he has been President, it is remarkable how few gaffes or verbal blunders he has committed. If Obama doesn’t raise his standards, he will exceed Bush’s total before he is inaugurated.
I will now pause for a moment and allow you to pull yourselves together. Wipe those tears of laughter off your face.
You must be joking Mr. Hinderaker. President Bush is neither a skilled speaker nor a thoughtful one. Even many Republicans admit that much. To label George Bush as a dynamic and ‘precision’ speaker instantly reveals your own blind partisan and one-sided views.
Please allow me to assist you, Mr. Hinderaker, with presenting your case. Perhaps the message you really meant to convey was that Obama is a skilled speaker, but his message is void of meaning and substance. I’m positive that is the idea you attempted to communicate. However, you presented this thesis in the context of comparing Obama with Bush. In that regard, all roads lead to failure. President Bush is not only a horrible speaker, he lacks the ability to formulate his thoughts in a coherent manner. And worse, he utterly lacks the ability to connect with his audience. President Bush had 8 years to study President Reagan’s style and to learn from it. Bush failed.
Here’s one small sample in a sea of evidence that proves my point.
Joe “the plumber”. I’m so sick of still hearing about Joe the plumber. He even has a Wiki page now. Stop it people. The election is over already.
I won’t be able to forgive McCain or the Republicans for catapulting this irrelevant person and now immaterial concept into the American day-to-day conversation. The anxious Republicans, grasping at any straw in sight during the election season, latched on to Joe the plumber like stink on a monkey. They didn’t seem to care about Joe or his past. All that mattered was that Joe disagreed with Obama’s tax policy, calling it Marxist. For Joe, spreading the wealth around was not an acceptable plan.
Fair enough! But wait! Here’s some news flash the Republicans should have researched first. Joe ‘the Obama-is-a Marxist plumber’ was on welfare. Twice! How pathetic.
How’s that for spreading the wealth? Joe was and is confused. Accepting welfare from the government is spreading the wealth – my wealth, your wealth, taxpayers’ wealth. Well, I for one don’t want to spread my wealth around to anyone who doesn’t appreciate it. Joe is the first to be blacklisted. In fact, I want my portion of his welfare money back.
Hey Joe! Here’s some sound economic advice for you. If you go on welfare, you should shut the hell up. You have no right to talk about spreading the wealth. And here’s another news flash. Joe still has a tax lien of $1,200 against him in Ohio. → Source
McCain, during a rally, called Joe an American hero and his role model. Seriously? Someone should fire McCain’s campaign aids for not researching this well. Oh, wait, someone did fire his aids – the American people.
Also. Remember when McCain was looking for Joe during one of his rallies but could not find him? Well, that wasn’t Joe’s fault. He had told McCain’s aids that he’d be there between 9:00 am and 3:30 pm.
Finally, how is McCain’s approval of government bailout not wealth distribution? Defend it if you can. I dare you.
As a registered independent, I’m an unwilling recipient of daily assault of calls from both Presidential campaigns. I have a message for both groups:
STOP CALLING ME OR I WILL VOTE FOR RON PAUL.
Democrats call to inform me about Obama’s clean coal technology plan, and that it will create thousands of jobs. BS. Obama stole this clean coal idea from McCain. The only good thing is that they only call me once a week.
Republicans call several times a week to tell me about Bill Ayers. Stop it already! That horse is not only dead, it’s rotting. You’ve milked it for all it was worth. It’s not effective anymore, and no one (other than your own Republican base) cares.
Hasn’t anyone told both of you? Those undecided voters you’re still so fiercely targeting . . . they’ve decided already. The only undecided voters are either in insane asylums or in jail, and they can’t vote.
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