President Obama Never Fails To Disappoint

[MineralMan]

Even before President Obama was elected to be President, I invited him, via email, to my home for a simple dinner, on one of his campaign trips to Minneapolis. Sadly, I got an email letter declining my invitation. I don't believe he wrote it, though.

Since then, every time he has come to Minneapolis, I have invited him to my home for the same simple dinner. Sometimes, I get a form email in return, declining my kind invitation. Other times, I get no response at all.

It's always a disappointment, and I'm not going to invite him again. In fact, I refuse to vote for him again in 2016. That should show him the cost of disappointing this voter, I think.

Please DURec this post if you're also disappointed for a similar reason.

Disappointment-Way MineralManny

[ChisolmTrailDem]

1. I am dissapointed in him because he has so far not RSVP'ed your invitation. It's

clear you want to have him over for dinner and yet you can't even so much as expect to receive a written note politely declining your invitation. To do otherwise is somewhat rude in the face of your great effort to feed him a simple meal.

So, yes. For that reason, I am also disappointed in him and shall not expend my very important vote on him in 2016.

[MineralMan]

3. Thank you for your support.

Now, maybe I should have sent him an engraved invitation, which would have required a hand-written response, but I chose the modern way of issuing a dinner invitation.

I recommend that no disappointed DUer vote for him in 2016, in a show of solidarity in protest.

[GOPee]

117. This has opened a real can of worms in our family.

Whether you know it or not, this conundrum has been a thorn in the side of our internal political discussions within our family regarding our Affirmative Action, hospitality policies. Our President can afford us the opportunity of either checking off any number of boxes, or throw our numbers off completely.

We decided long ago, in a brief moment of clarity within the family, that we agreed to reassign the President to a Bi Racial subcategory from African American, which we felt was too divisive, given his questionable Birth thingy. Here is the rub, two of my offspring have married outside the acceptable racial norms, affording our flexibility in assigning our invitations to whichever categorically balance we needed to maintain a politically perfect appearance in our Liberal credentials and still claim our Progressive affiliations.

Collectively, we decided not to extend an invitation to our PODUS, for no other reason than we didn't believe he would accept, but because he might, and we didn't need his Black side, we felt his White heritage was overrepresented in our weekly entertainment allotments. If he accepted, the real divisiveness arises if he brought his First lady, and the Children, we couldn't agree on any of the most desired assignments.

Well I hope I made my point.. what ever.

[JaneyVee]

2. I'm disappointed that he hasn't replaced all

Stairs in America with escalators. ITS FREAKIN 2014, WHY ARE WE STILL CLIMBING STAIRS!!! THANKS OBAMA

[MineralMan]

4. And think of all the jobs that would have created, too!

Clearly, he doesn't care about jobs for escalator installation technicians.

[el_bryanto]

5. Well what were you going to make?

Maybe he's a very picky eater.

Bryant

[MineralMan]

6. I was torn between rack of New Zealand lamb

and New England Pot Roast.

If he can't eat either of those, well, I just don't know...

[jollyreaper2112]

7. har-har

Way to make light of the real betrayals. How about that promise not to appoint lobbyists to run major agencies? Whoops. How about not closing GITMO? Continuing drone strikes? Attacking whistleblowers?

[MineralMan]

8. Yah, well, it was a personal disappointment.

And those are the worst of all. Thank you for your thoughtful reply. Really.

[jollyreaper2112]

14. yeah, right

I hate the fan club mentality. Obama is a winsome guy. He and his family are quite nice to look at. They all photograph well. He'd make a good celebrity endorser for various products. And that sort of star power can be great for pushing an agenda, when sheer force of personality is the only thing that will make things happen. FDR, man.

But he's not really doing that, is he? He's not advocating, he's not pushing, he's not risking. He's negotiating with himself, talking down his own positions to seek a middle ground with Republicans who are always pulling right. It's always the explanation of why change can't happen, why expectations must be lowered, how we must content ourselves with the new normal. The Republicans are never running defense against him, it's always offense.

We don't elect a president to pose for pictures and be winsome. We elect a president to get shit done. And all we've really seen is a continuation of the same corporatist shit that happened under Bush. We nominally changed parties but never changed agendas.

I enthusiastically voted for Obama the first time and did it with resignation the second. I hold no hopes for getting anything better with the next Democrat, whoever gets the nomination. The choice between Democrat and Republican seems to be in how fast you want things to get worse.

[MineralMan]

17. I believe you may be misunderestimating the seriesness

of my post.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

37. This ain't time to be...

SERIES!!1!1 Er...I mean this ain't no time to not be misunderestimating...er......

Seriesly. Get yer shite together, MM.

[Jamaal510]

66. .

[IMG][/IMG]

[Raine1967]

47. It's high time someone understood

the seriesness of what you are saying!

this is series business!

[maddiemom]

128. When I agreed to chair one of the local committees in Obama's 2012 campaign,

I agreed but was less than enthusiastic (although once in, I gave it 100%). He
had disappointed me hugely in his first term, but I recognized that he was facing unprecedented opposition. The Republicans had already showed us their current day version of the "loyal opposition" with Bill Clinton, so I could just imagine...I hoped in a second term he was show some backbone and hidden liberal tendencies. Well it turned out as you said, sadly. The only thing worse would have been Romney in the White House. Talk about a rock and a hard place.

[JaneyVee]

15. GITMO failed in senate 96-4, and

Did he really say he wasn't going to use drones? He campaigned on ramping up Afghan war and he signed whistleblower protections.

[MineralMan]

19. Now, don't confuse the poster.

That's not a polite thing to do, you know.

[zeemike]

45. Closing Gitmo did not fail in the senate.

The funding to build a new Gitmo in the US failed.
As CIC he could order it closed today and the Senate or house would have no say in it whatsoever.

But sense the House would not let him build a new one he has an excuse...and some of us are tired of lame excuses.

[Raine1967]

48. No snark: what are you talking about?

The CIC did order it closed. I remember that executive order.

What do you mean about building a new Gitmo?

Do you have links to back this up?

[zeemike]

54. How soon we forgit...

Expansion of prisons to house Gitmo detainees rejected in House

The House on Tuesday evening defeated a Democratic attempt to let the government spend money to expand U.S. prisons so they can house terrorist suspects now held in Guantánamo Bay.

Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) proposed an amendment to the military construction spending bill for 2014 that would kill language prohibiting funds from being used to expand U.S. prisons for this purpose.

Language in the bill, H.R. 2216, holds that "none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Department of Defense in this Act may be used to construct, renovate, or expand any facility in the United States, its territories, or possessions to house any individual detained at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the purposes of detention or imprisonment in the custody or under the control of the Department of Defense."
Moran urged members to support his amendment to strike this language. Aside from arguing that holding terrorist suspects in Cuba does not meet U.S. standards of justice, he said there are other reasons why it is better for the United States to hold them in the country.


Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/303455-house-rejects-expansion-of-us-prisons-to-house-guantanamo-detainees#ixzz314STwmQ8
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[Tarheel_Dem]

69. The article clearly states that this bill was proposed by "Jim Moran".

[zeemike]

74. Well that is normal procedure for introducing a bill in the house.

It is done by a Representative.

[Raine1967]

79. And that is the CIC how?

you put this on the CIC.

you said that -- do please explain to me, what you meant?

[Tarheel_Dem]

144. And in your fevered imagination, that means the president instigated it?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

80. Has he gotten a brain yet?

[riqster]

133. DUzy!

He was a Cards fan, IIRC...

[NYC Liberal]

52. But it cannot be closed without funding to transfer the prisoners.

So yes, it was made impossible by the Senate blocking funding.

[zeemike]

59. The house controls the purse strings not the Senate.

And no they did not have to be transfered until they were found guilty of a crime, and the federal government has a prison at FT. Leavenworth to send them too once convicted of a crime.
There are still people there not even charged with a crime...and have been there for a decade...in complete violation of our constitution.

And Gitmo is a military base and a military operation...the POTUS is CIC and the congress has no authority over the military.

[NYC Liberal]

67. Revenue bills originate in the House, but the Senate still has to pass them.

So of course the Senate can block funding.

And, yes, Congress does have authority over the military. Where do you think the laws governing the military come from? From the Constitution:

The Congress shall have Power...

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;
...
To ... make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
...
To raise and support Armies
...
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces

http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec8.html

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

83. Not true...

There is an empty prison in Carroll County, Illinois that is (and was) prepared to accept Gitmo prisoners on quite short notice. The move was blocked in the House -- which at the time was controlled by the Democrats. There was a prior vote in the Senate to close Gitmo and relocate the detainees. That move failed in the Senate because only six Democratic Senators voted to close Gitmo.

So you're pretty much a hundred yards off base on that one.

[zeemike]

86. The congress does not control the military...never has.

Gitmo is 100% military controlled and operated under the defense department on a military base in a foreign country...The CIC has complete control of that not the congress.
What the house vote was about was allocating money for a new prison in the US...they said no, so Obama had an excuse for not dealing with Gitmo as he should have, which was to tell the DOD to try them or let them go...and close down that prison...only HE can do that.
Any vote the Senate would take would be a resolution not a law.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

89. WOW! You sure know a LOT about the Constitution

That whole "allocating money" thing is just a teensy bit important because without the funding to transfer the detainees or the funding to try them as civilians in federal court, the President is pretty much stuck. Without funding approval, he can't even try them in military tribunals if Congress doesn't authorize it -- and then there's the still-sticky problem of where to house those who have been convicted. And, you know, how to pay for it.

The only alternative would be to simply release about 150 suspected terrorists into the wild -- and unless we're just going to walk them through the gates and into Cuba, even THAT would require funding authorization. It's not like Obama can just go out on Travelocity and start buying one-way airline tickets.

And I say again, the House wasn't voting to build a new prison. The prison already already exists - here's a picture of it, for crying out loud:



And the vote by the Senate was a Military Appropriations Bill -- a bill where the funding had already been stripped out in the House version.

[zeemike]

97. Only what I learned in grade school civics.

But they probably don't teach that any more.
Did congress approve and appropriate money to create the prison at Gitmo?...well yes they did it the Defense authoration...but it was left up to the president as how best to spend the money...and he chose to put a prison there and detain them indefinitely even if they had no charges against them.
They could of and should have been tried by military tribunal and dealt with the guilty and released the inocent...but Bush decided not to , and Obama decided not to embarrass Bush by setting the wrong right...and of course sense Obama is doing it now we have to make excuses for it and the best one is "his hands were tied"

And that is bullshit...his hands were not tied at least according to the constitution...as CIC of the military he could have ordered the DOD to deal with it and close the base and stop the torture...and they would have to obey or become another MacArthur and fade away.
All of this just makes him look weak...and makes us embrace the weak to protect him...And that makes the on the fence voter think less of us.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

109. You might want to take a little more in depth course

Because you've missed a few things.

[zeemike]

113. Well you don't need to be a weatherman

To know which way the wind blows.
And I see a white man of a privileged family as president get everything he wanted...then I see a black man as president who can't get shit done, and not once would I think that it was because of some intricate detail of our democracy that caused it.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

115. Yeah....no

That "intricate detail of our democracy" is called the United States Congress. The Bush Klan got away with their crimes largely because Congress let them do it.

[zeemike]

116. It is not the hammer that drives the nail

It's the one who uses it.
The congress is just the tool.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

119. Oh dear god...

You didn't apparently learn much in that 8th grade civics class...

Spoiler Alert: Separation of Powers

[zeemike]

122. And I could say that you did not learn much from history

That same congress existed in the past and presidents dealt with it...FDR is the best example because he had a hostile congress too and he used his mandate to push through things like the CCC within the first year of his first term...and the new deal and SS.
Truman had great opposition in congress but ended segregation in the military to the dismay of southern Democrats...

But to be fair it is a new world today...our president must cow tow to the rich donors who fund politics, and so he is far less powerful on things they don't like.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

131. Holy shit...

You do realize, don't you, that the composition of Congress changes over time, right? We have elections and new people show up and old ones retire or are voted out of office?

Spoiler Alert: Henry T. Rainey is no longer Speaker of the House!

As to Roosevelt's "hostile" Congress, I hardly know where to start. Roosevelt had large Democratic majorities throughout most of his tenure in office, and the opposition to his policies was not even slightly comparable to the visceral response that Obama has faced. Roosevelt faced far more opposition from the Supreme Court than he did from Congress during his first six years in office.

For Roosevelt, it wasn't until the mid-term election of 1938 that Republicans and anti-New Deal Democrats had enough votes to effectively thwart any more New Deal policies. And that's precisely what they did -- the New Deal largely came to an end (to be replaced by World War II). So your thesis (Roosevelt did, so why can't Obama?) is basically refuted by the historical facts.

[zeemike]

139. Obama had the house and senate in his first two years.

If you can't get anything done when your party is in control then you will never do it.
And the excuse then was that he did not have a supper majority in the Senate...and now it is that the house is controlled by the GOP...excuses.
But FDR used the power he had to move things forward...but those things benefited people and so he was unstoppable because of it.
There was none of that in the first two years of the Obama administration...he appointed Wall Street and took the public option off the table, and called his base the "professional left" and dismissed them...and he lost the mid term because of it.
I even made excuses for him for the first term...thinking that once he no longer had to face re election things would change and I voted for him again...well that never happened and the first thing after the election he purposed chained CPI and the TPP...so I no longer feel the need to make excuses for him and I will not.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

141. I give up....

I can tolerate willful ignorance for only so long.

On the Senate vote to close Gitmo, ONLY SIX DEMOCRATIC SENATORS VOTED WITH THE PRESIDENT TO SHUT IT DOWN. On the House vote to close Gitmo, HALF OF THE DEMOCRATS VOTED WITH THE REPUBLICANS TO KEEP IT OPEN.

Jesus Christ on a Cracker, are you really that thick or is this some kind of performance art?

[zeemike]

146. So do I.

I am tired of the personal insults...you would think that would not happen here.

[msanthrope]

110. Right--here's my primer for grade school civics...

And once Congress decided specifically block funding for the transfer of Gitmo detainees, the EO to transfer was effectively overridden. Read the Youngstown decision on that.

You are mistaken if you think that the President can defy a law of Congress, on that specifically states that no money can be used for a specific purpose. Because that's what the Congress passed---a specific resolution blocking Gitmo.

[zeemike]

112. You don't need money to stop doing something

you need it to do things...and that is where the excuses comes in...if you ask for money to do something new the congress can say no and you are off the hook.
The military was already spending money on Gitmo...and to close it would be to stop spending that money.
Never the less it makes Obama look weak...Bush never had that problem with congress...he got anything he wanted including creating Gitmo...and he had the slimiest of a mandate.
It may well be that he is powerless to do things, but it is not because of congress...but it may be because the president is only as powerful as the PTB allow him to be.

[msanthrope]

114. Okay..is it that you do not understand that not only was the money cut off, but specific legislation

barring Gitmo detainees from being placed on US soil was passed???

Even if the president were to defy Congress and scrape up the money for transfer..... he would be disobeying legislation that specifically prevents these detainees from being placed inside the US.

He cannot override that veto-proof provision of the defense authorizarion with either an EO (Youngstown) nor with a line item (Clinton v. NY.)

[zeemike]

118. Well I would tell you what someone like Truman would have done.

He would called in his generals and told them he wanted to close that prison and ordered them to do it...and they would have...
They may have put them on Air force cargo planes and took them beck to where they got them...no need for new expenditures that need congressional approval because they have planes flying all over to bases all over the world...and no need to bring them back to the US...they are not even US citizens.

But I think the reality is different now...What Bush started cannot be stopped...because it would be insulting him and his family and harm their brand, which must be re habilitated...and Obama has to go along to get along.

[msanthrope]

121. You do realize that the Youngstown decision proves you historically inaacurate? nt

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

134. You know that old saying about never argue with a fool?

Yeah. That.

[zeemike]

140. What does that have to do with this?

It was about the president seizing control of the steel industry.
Did the SCOUTS rule that Truman could not de segregate the military?...did they re instate MacArthur when he was fired?

[1StrongBlackMan]

104. He did order it closed via EO ...

In fact, it was his second (I think) act in office.

But the House refused to fund the closure ... including the building of the "new gitmo" AND the transfer of the detainees state-side.

[11 Bravo]

28. The fact that you're unaware that the President can't unilaterally close Gitmo ...

renders your opinion somewhat less than relevant.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

84. Amen

One of the President's first acts was an Executive Order closing Gitmo, but it required funding, which Congress would not provide.

[Quackers]

9. K&R

He didn't show up to my graduation either. I mean, it's not like I graduate everyday.

[MineralMan]

11. Well, I never!

It's no wonder that you are disappointed. The very idea!

[hopemountain]

32. i invited him to sing a duet with me…

got the garage band studio all hooked up, but so far, crickets….

[CaliforniaPeggy]

34. DUzy!

Welcome to DU, Quackers!

[Bobbie Jo]

77. Bet he didn't even send a card.

[sunnystarr]

120. Bo and Sunny

didn't show up for the play date we invited them to. We even had special doggie treats and toys for them and my Toby cried for 2 days. He. hates. rejection. I mean, after all I let them name Sunny after me and get this snub in return. Oh the humanity!

[okaawhatever]

10. Maybe you should offer more dessert. That always works on me. nt

[MineralMan]

12. Perhaps you're right.

I did have dessert planned, but didn't mention it in my invitation. I would have served freshly picked mulberries from the tree in my backyard, over freshly-baked crumpets, with honey-sweetened cream.

[SomeGuyInEagan]

129. Yes, with a photo.

Aim for the weak spot!

- from another in the 'Cities (if you will allow the 'burbs)

[BlancheSplanchnik]

130. Yeah, but you KNOW he likes pie.

Sorry, but this one's on you MM.


I, on the other hand, have an order of business with him, and being the dedicated worker that he is, I expect to get results. I've formally asked for a meeting to discuss having my Shrimpy officially recognized as the Universal Singularity of Cuteness in the Universe--research proves this.

So, because of this Scientifically True Fact, she should be declared the official global standard of cuteness in the entire global World!

He supports Science, so I totally expect a favorable outcome.

[Whisp]

13. Ha! You just don't know if you don't try/ask.

Love that kind of attitude.

I think I am missing what other post/s this is in reference to, but nonetheless:

[MineralMan]

16. That is true. However, as a long-time

active DUer, I expected him to come and enjoy a meal with my wife and me.

As for the reference, there's isn't one. I'm just disappointed, and wanted to make it clear that Obama doesn't have my vote in 2016. I'll just have to vote for someone else...someone who will come to my house for dinner. I'll start sending the invitations right after the November 2014 election, when candidates are beginning to announce.

I expect better from my candidates for office, I do.

[sharp_stick]

18. You've converted me

I'm off the bandwagon and will not vote for him again.

[MineralMan]

20. Between you and me, that'll show him, for sure.

I just hope I don't get a visit from the NSA guys in suits, if you know what I mean...

[sharp_stick]

21. It's an outrage

and I promise to keep your memory alive well after you've been Femacamped.

[lpbk2713]

22. "All depends. Whatcha got in the oven?"

[LanternWaste]

23. I used to trivialize and minimize the valid concerns of others too.

I used to trivialize and minimize the valid concerns of others too; I never tried it as a profession though, as it would advertise too extreme a lack of character.

Now, let's get those tar sands out of the oven and eat some tasty dinner!

[OilemFirchen]

39. So you're back to it, huh?

MineralMan has feelings, and your flippant reply to his disappointment likely cuts him deeply.

FTR, the President and his family have never refused a dinner invitation from me. I, however, am able to swallow my pride and express my solitude with brother Mineral.

[LadyHawkAZ]

24. This was alerted on. 7-0 leave. n/t

[MineralMan]

63. LOL! nt

[AAO]

68. If it goes 7-0 you should get to know their username

Then they could be "virtually tarred and feathered". A higher honor on the internet comes infrequently.

[iandhr]

94. I am surprised

I thought it would have gone 7-0 the other way.

Defending the President makes you a right wing troll here.

[iandhr]

95. Where you on the jury?

I am guessing it was Manny or Pitt who alerted on it.

[MannyGoldstein]

98. LOL. Certainly wasn't me.

I think it's cute.

[LadyHawkAZ]

101. Yes, I was n/t

[IronLionZion]

25. I saw him in Minneapolis

at the Target center with thousands of my nearest and dearest. I even met a pretty cute girl that day. The energy in that venue was amazing. Keith Ellison was high fiving people. The Timberwolves could not get that big an audience.

Just like with children and pets, if a politician disappoints you even once, you have to put him down. Punishment should be permanent, and some people just live to punish someone for something, always.

[elleng]

26. Yup, that's about the nature of the 'disappointments' around here, Man.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

27. Like Cornel West, I am disappointed that I didn't get front row seats to his inaugural

He should be ashamed of himself. How dare he call himself "president" of anything! The nerve!

:kick:

[mopinko]

29. i am very disappointed that, although he himself did autograph it,

he has refused to get michelle to autograph my copy of her book "american grown".
even my congresswoman, his good buddy, jan schakowsky cant get him off the dime on this.

just wait till that sucker gets back here to chicago. i'll fix him. i'll raise money for his library. then he will really owe me.

[DonCoquixote]

30. Hey

If you are going to attempt the Manny Goldstein school of satire, be careful, as one can look very silly.

[MineralMan]

75. I'll certainly keep that in mind.

I will, indeed.

[randome]

85. Yeah, for a brief time, Third-Way Manny became Mirror-Manny.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024747008#post129
Be careful that doesn't happen to you!
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[MannyGoldstein]

99. When does your biography of me go on sale?

I'm so blessed.

[RufusTFirefly]

31. I've posted with Third-Way Manny...

I know Third-Way Manny. Third-Way Manny is a friend of mine. MineralMan, you're no Third-Way Manny.

[tridim]

123. Thank Jeebus. nt

[Prophet 451]

33. And he didn't get me a pony either!

Granted, I'm British but think of teh international good will he could have created!

[Chuuku Davis]

35. not enough

corporate donors eh?

[No Vested Interest]

36. When he was elected POTUS, did you include or excluse his entourage-

Secret Service?
Would that make a difference?
Would tasters have to come first?

Sounds too complicated for me.

[MannyGoldstein]

38. I know! Obama didn't sign my basketball!

Or end two-thirds of the temporary Bush tax cuts, now made permanent! Well, he did end them for most ot the non-wealthy, so that's something.

Regards,

Flattered Manny

[MineralMan]

62. Thaks, Manny!

Nice response to a poke.

[Rex]

103. Somebody adores you.

I bet you had no idea!

[davidpdx]

111. I'm disappointed

Obama didn't sign my balls either. Oophs that came out the wrong way.

[vi5]

40. That's the way to get people to come around.

Trivialize people's real issues and valid concerns simply because they don't buy into your cult of personality approach to politics. Good one. That should work well.

[kardonb]

41. rsvp

mineralman , unfortunately , you'll have to eat your sour grapes by yourself .

[Martin Eden]

42. Believe me, you don't want him at your dinner table.

The best kept White House secret is his horrible flatulence. Michelle doesn't want to admit it's the "healthy" diet she has him on, but allegedly it's too heavy on the legumes.

[greatauntoftriplets]

43. I keep waiting for him to stop by on his way to O'Hare sometime...

I'm pretty much on the way, after all! But NOOOOOOOOOOO, he always has to fly over or take that other, more direct route to the airport.

[struggle4progress]

44. Is he that guy who goes everywhere Michelle goes?

I thought about inviting Michelle over for dinner but then I realized I'd have to vacuum up a bit

[treestar]

46. lol

I'm disappointed he did not hire me to run the SEC. I would go after the corporations like you won't believe!

[Raine1967]

49. You know, Obama likes Pie…

I like Pie.

I offered to share pie with him.

He has ignored me, and I live in the DC region. He's here all the damn time.

I feel so betrayed. I make a really good vanilla cream pie. I am disappointed.

[Historic NY]

50. Did you give him a menu?

[Maven]

51. Oh aren't you clever!

GOOD FOR YOU!

[Fearless]

53. You know what they say about imitation...

[DCBob]

55. Yeah, Im not going to vote for him either.

[sheshe2]

56. I am flat our disappointed that he flat out refuses to run again in 2016.

so you are right, I absolutely refuse to vote for him again! Wait What??!?

You should have offered him pie MM~








Thanks MM

[aikoaiko]

58. I'm disappointed because he gave me a painted pony and I wanted a black one with white socks.

But I kept her anyway.

[IMG][/IMG]

[maddiemom]

132. I did't get a pony, either...but I got a horse a little later on. Maybe there's a lesson of

sorts there.

[totodeinhere]

60. Are you a good cook. Then invite me over instead. n/t

[randome]

61. You should have invited Joe instead.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[Hekate]

105. Joe would totally come. nt

[Hassin Bin Sober]

108. Getting him to leave is the hard part.

Love Joe!

[AAO]

64. Yeah, fuck the bastard. I'm voting Sanders in16

[MineralMan]

65. You go, AAO!

[malaise]

70. Choking with laughter - a freaking DUzy

and I am not joking

[Aldo Leopold]

71. Damn, that's good!

[Jamaal510]

72. I'm planning on voting

for Ronald Reagan in 2016 instead of Obama, just because O never gave me any free stuff like people said he would. O has disappointed me for the last time--I want my free Lambo' and my free swimming pool NOW!

[ananda]

73. Just think, what would Jesus have done?

[MineralMan]

76. Even Jesus got no respect in his home town.

That's what I heard.

[thelordofhell]

78. Still waiting for my Anti-Gravity Boots and Free Government Blow Job Robot

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

81. He turned me into a Newt!

....I got better.

[iandhr]

92. If he turned you into a Newt...

… that must mean he weighs the same as a duck.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

93. Let's just watch the whole thing, shall we?

[iandhr]

96. Thank you

Python is the best.

[think]

82. In ways I'm disappointed and in other ways

I'm amazed.

The man is talented at walking a very fine line.....

[rug]

87. He is a wise man.

[uppityperson]

88. Too funny, thank you

[dionysus]

90. you never really loved him!!111!!1!!

[iandhr]

91. I am disappointed….

…. because I asked really really nicely for a pony and never got one.

[Hekate]

100. I saw what you did there, and I'm so disappointed. >sigh< KnR

Mineral Manny .

[Union Scribe]

102. Maybe he declined

because you sent the invites from your FR account and he was confused why you'd want him over.

[bravenak]

106. I just wanted a little time with him Jay, Bey, Michelle, and Joe.

Did i ever get a call back?!? No.
I'm never going to get over it. Ever!!!!

[undeterred]

107. I thought he'd teach my dog to do tricks.

I thought Obama would make me taller.

I thought Obama would help me pick out a prom dress.

See: http://ithoughtobamawouldgetmelaid.com/

[Divernan]

124. URinvited:Dinner in Minneapolis/June 26/$32,400 per couple/$20,000 4 photo op with Obama

His exalted company is not for the likes of just plain folks like you. Is it his fault you are not such a fatcat donor that he appointed you as ambassador to Morocco for 4 years, and will now graciously allow you to host him for a major fundraiser? Just get out that checkbook, babe, and bob's your uncle, you'll get an invite!

http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/257537931.html

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will headline a Democratic fundraiser in June at a private Minneapolis home, Democratic officials confirmed Thursday.

Obama will attend a party at the home of Sylvia and Samuel Kaplan on June 26 to raise cash for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Minnesota's Congressional Democrats will be there, along with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and DCCC Chairman Steve Israel, sources said.

The Kaplans are big Democratic donors involved in state and federal politics. Sam Kaplan is a lawyer and served as ambassador to Morocco from 2009 to 2013 under Obama's first term.

The fundraiser asks for $32,400 per couple for a VIP reception, dinner and a photo opp or $20,000 per couple -- or $10,000 per person -- for just dinner and a photo opp, according to an invite obtained by the Star Tribune.

[berni_mccoy]

125. Have you invited Elizabeth Warren yet? I bet she doesn't disappoint!

[liberal N proud]

126. I too am disappointed that he has not had a beer with me

[Lint Head]

127. I have invited him to every one of my birthday parties since he was elected.

You think he would at least come to "one"!

[rhett o rick]

135. I share your disappointment. He clearly is not interested in doing anything about

the widening gap of inequality that he spoke about. Well, except for promoting international trade agreements that will worsen the problem of wealth inequality.

If we dont have a significant tax on inheritance, our children will live in an aristocracy.

[Blanks]

136. I'm disappointed in him too...

He was just across town the other day, and though I didn't invite him - he didn't drop by.

I ain't voting for him again.

[DinahMoeHum]

137. Nice satire.

[ronnie624]

138. Partisans and their obsession with personality;

blinded to the history of US policies and the damage they do in the world regardless of which 'party' dominates the political landscape.

Oh well, maybe one day they will wake up and pull their heads from that dark place that prevents them from seeing things more clearly.

But I doubt it.

[onethatcares]

142. I know how you feel.

My wife invited Neil Young to my 50th birthday party and he didn't show up. Must be his being Canadian or sumpin.

[MineralMan]

143. Hmph! I can't believe he didn't come.

Maybe you didn't have an open bar or something.

[onethatcares]

145. nah, something about him

havi some kind of surgery or the like. sheeeesh. a guy just can't get a break anywhere.