The Resolute Desk is Not for Sitting, Mr. President. Now Grow the Heck Up!
Excuse me, Mr. President? I’m going to say this as politely as I possibly can. Would you please GET YOUR ASS OFF THE RESOLUTE DESK?
For the Love of Pete, man, didn’t anyone raise you better than that? Surely your Grandmother — you remember, the racist one you threw under the bus — taught you not to sit on desks and tables. I’m pretty sure that even if she didn’t, common sense would tell you that you don’t park your backside on a desk that was a gift from the Queen of England, a desk made from the timbers of a ship that headed off what would have been a disastrous third war between England and the United States. Show some respect for the history and tradition of the thing, would you please?
That aside, what sort of message does it send to the rest of the world when they see our President slouching on a desk, his feet dangling inches off the floor like an ill-mannered schoolboy? Either stand up or sit behind that desk like you are the most powerful man on the planet. You represent the greatest country on Earth, Mr. Obama, and you should remember that every single time a camera is anywhere near you. What you do not only reflects on you but on hundreds of millions of Americans and over two centuries of history. You may think we’re a bunch of ungrateful rubes in need of a good re-education, but you will damned-well represent us like we are the most noble people on the planet of, by God, we will turn you out in 2012 and find someone who will.
Now get a can of Endust, snatch that stupid tie from around Rahm’s neck, wipe your butt prints off that desk and start acting like a grown-up.
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A couple of months ago the picture was the Bamster seated with his feet on the desk. When we say America is a "classless society" we have now demonstrated a slightly different meaning of the words. He is totally without class.
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"He is totally without class."
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Dear Heavens.
Uh huh.
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Did you know that there was yet another terrorist attack in Iraq? Is launching a war based on lies that creates more problems than it solves killing thousands upon thousands better or worse than sitting on desk?
President Obama put his feet up on the Resolute desk a couple times, too. You'll notice I didn't say anything about that. A smarter person might have wondered why, then would have asked me. But I'll help anyhow because I'm a nice guy. I don't have a big problem with feet on a desk because that's one of those things that happens with a desk. Feet end up there. Rear ends, not so much.
Also, we still have troops in Iraq being killed by Islamists. I thought President Obama was supposed to have pulled them all out by now. Didn't he make those vague and gauzy promises when he was running for the office? I won't get into the whole "war based on lies" thing since the evidence is conclusively against you, as was the broad bipartisan vote to use military force in Iraq.
>You’ll notice I didn’t say anything about that.
An even smarter person would notice:
>A couple of months ago the picture was the Bamster seated with his feet on the desk. When we say America is a “classless society” we have now demonstrated a slightly different meaning of the words. He is totally without class.
Actually US casualties have plunged in Iraq, I suspect the standing order is for American troops to stay out of harm's way, it's the Iraqi police, military and civilians that are enjoying the fruits of the Bush Administration's hunt for WMD that never were.
Those are the major lies by the way ("Mission Accomplished" was another) and the fact that enough Americans chose to believe them does not negate the fact that they were lies.
Funny how that works.
But still carry on about how sitting on desk is like the worst thing ever! Doesn't make you look petty and silly in any way.
Ummm…you realize you quoted a comment from someone who wasn't me to prove your point, right? And you missed my reply to that that I wasn't all that torn up about his feet being on the desk? I prefer to think you simply made a mistake rather than accept the evidence that you're disingenuous.
Well of course they've plunged in Iraq because the lion's share of the hard fighting there was done in the years before. The benefits of an increasingly-stable government in Iraq and the severe degradation of Islamist influences there is something else President Obama inherited from his predecessor. Still, weren't we supposed to be out of there by now? Isn't that one of the things he promised?
he didn't say that sitting on the desk was "..the worst thing ever!" He said that it indicates a lack of respect.
And – speaking of petty and silly – what does puling about GWB make you? he's not the president any more, in case you did not notice – hasn't been for almost a year and a half.
>he didn’t say that sitting on the desk was “..the worst thing ever!”
No, he didn't say it but the fact that he was incensed enough about it not only write a post but a relatively long one, complete with ALL CAPS!!!1!! suggests that he lends it a unnecessary gravitas.
And he also seems to think that other world leaders would study the photo and came away with some sort of overall negative opinion about America as a result. I can see them now "What? The President sitting on his desk?!!? The Americans must be weak and cowardly, invade! Invade!"
>what does puling about GWB
Ha! Ha! Yes! I'm whining with a link! You are very perceptive.
The point of that was pointing out that Bush put his feet up on the desk and I don't think it would be shocking to learn that he also, on occasion, sat upon it. The fact that when Bush did these things there was no outrage but when Obama does it's WHOOP! WHOOP! pull out the fainting couches, a level three faux-outrage a storm's a coming!
And the sad thing is Obama has made many mistakes and there is ample room for legitimate critique but the best Jimmie can come up with is "OMG!!! HE SAT ON A DESK!!!! IN HIS OFFICE!!"
When will the demands for impeachment for this grave insult to every living and dead American begin? That's what I want to know.
Yeah, so a commenter thought it was. What the heck does that have to do with me? You were criticizing me, remember. Or maybe you forgot.
And that's far from the best critique I have of the President, but as we've determined that you don't actually read my blog very much, you can be forgiven for your amazing level of ignorance about what I have to say. Heck, you can't even figure out what I did and didn't say in this post!
Salvage, what is it about Obama's butt on a desk that would make you argue about the issue ALL DAY LONG? Are you related to David "I'm-in-love-with-Obama's-perfectly-creased-pant-leg" Brooks?
Seriouly, why do you care if Jimmie writes four paragraphs about Obama sitting on his desk? It's HIS blog. If he wants to do an in-depth expose of people that worship bicycle tires by covering their bodies in bike chain grease and dancing around handlebars, that's his right. His blog, his stories, his rules–see how that works? I know that's an aspect of the blogosphere that truly puts progressive panties in the proverbial wad, but life's tough.
Just for the record, Obama sitting ON the desk doesn't bother most of us nearly as much as the fact that he's allowed NEAR the desk–or, for that matter, IN the Oval Office–at all.
(And yeah, I used all caps on a few words. It's done for EMPHASIS. Sheesh.)
Hi Cat!
Don't spend too much time playing with Salvage. He's a refugee from a left-wing blog who showed up here and stuck like a barnacle. I'm hoping to groom him into a reasonable and intelligent left-winger, but I'm starting to despair.
HA! HA! Yes! My three posts certainly equal "all day" and yes, I'm sitting here telling Jimmie that he can't blog about whatever he wants.
You are very perceptive as well.
And "most of us"? Um, last time I checked most of America voted for Obama, do you understand how democracy works?
Salvage, I know liberals just hate facts–they so screw up your narrative–but here are a few for you to think about during your downtime from performing as yet another troll for us to torture:
You did argue about this issue all day (at least all the work day, for those of us that have jobs), as the time stamps on your posts indicate. Your first post was at 9:47am, your last at 17:36 (5:36pm); so from roughly 9:45 in the morning until 5:30 in the afternoon, you debated on this thread on a blog that you obviously only read so you have some place to be obnoxiously argumentative. What's the problem, don't they have bars in your neighborhood for you to pursue this hobby? Or is it simply easier to do it online where you don't have to be humiliated in person?
Secondly, here are the numbers from the 2008 election which proves that although Obama did win the race with a large margin of electoral votes, the direct popular vote for Obama versus that for McCain was much closer than the electoral ballot shows, proving Obama did not win by a landslide as the Kool-Aid drinkers like you would have us believe:
Obama 69,456,897 votes (52.9%)
McCain 59,934,814 votes (45.7%)
This is a difference of only 7.2%, or 9,522,083 votes. These figures, of course, do not take into account the approximately 1.9 million votes (1.4%) were cast for other candidates. Yet another figure never discussed by the Left is the fact that of the 212,720,027 citizens eligible to vote, only 62.3% of them actually did, showing that approximately 80 million voters didn't like either Obama or McCain enough to bother to vote.
So let's do the rough math:
59.9 million who voted for McCain
1.9 million who voted for other candidates
80 million who didn't vote for either candidate
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141.8 million Americans that DIDN'T vote for Obama
These figures illustrate that your Great Leader did not have the huge following or national mandate those of you on the Left would have us believe. If there were 212,720,027 people eligible to vote and 141.8 million chose not to vote for Obama, then it's easily proven that the majority of Americans DID NOT vote for Obama, even though he did win by a small majority among those who chose to vote.
Or don't you understand how math works?
http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2008/2008presgeresult…
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2008/chrneday08.html
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Oh,I get it. You expect me to forgive President Obama for sitting on the desk because Ronald Reagan did it, too, right? Or, better yet, you expect me to make some lame excuse for why it's okay for Reagan but not Obama? Would that give you a lovely tingle?
Sorry. You mistake me for another blogger. Reagan shouldn't have done it either.
Listen carefully – you are all idiots. Even Presidet Reagan thinks so.
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It's furniture…I don't think people need to lay down and bow to the desk. It made it through an attack, I think it can handle being sat on. Certainly don't care enough to rant about it…although I apparently DO care enough about the blog to respond…huh, how about that.
Of course the desk can handle someone sitting on it. That wasn't my point, though it seems that you're going out of your way to believe it is.
It's his damn desk now!! Let him sit on it if he wants!!!!!
Actually, it's not his desk. It's our desk.
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Don't get sucked in.
George W Bush and Gerald Ford both put ther feet up on the desk. check the web it has all the 'facts'.
And horrors of horrors! Our beloved Ronnie Regan modified it , added 2" to it!
Rossevelt also modified it!
So let the guys get to work and stop being so paranoid.
Can you imagine what it would be like if Bush the 2nd was still here……..