Bob Cesca: President Obama Is Literally Driving The Republicans Insane!

[Bluebear]

The historical record of far-right ridiculousness has been well-documented here and throughout the blogosphere.

Who can forget Michelle Malkin's inspired cheerleader skit? Or when Rush Limbaugh mocked a guy's Parkinson's Disease tremors. What about John Boehner's public sobbing jags? Pat Robertson insisting he could leg-press 2,000 pounds. Sarah Palin's turkey geeker photo op. George W. Bush telling us that Iraq is a "peeance freeance." Remember when Bill O'Reilly shouted down the son of a 9/11 victim? Already, we're talking about a mélange of weirdness and upside-down logic suitable for the ages, and that's all prior to January 20, 2009.

But I don't think we ever anticipated that the presidency of Barack Obama would, among other things, send the far-right into a freakazoid display of shockingly deranged conniptions and outright crazy talk -- their manic hyperdrive engines, fueled by Rush Limbaugh's gesticulating arm flab, blasting them out of their political Mos Eisley cantina scene and expelling them a thousand parsecs beyond the zero barrier of insanity...

Elsewhere, another far-right blogger is vowing to never again fist-bump with her friends at her tennis club. And when she's at the grocery store and is confronted by magazines with the president's face in the checkout line, she turns the magazines backwards. All of them. I'm not making this up.

They have indeed totally lost their shpadoinkle and despite purely involuntary spikes in my blood pressure, it's so much fun to watch. By successfully debunking their lies, rising above their bait and merely presenting a contrast of character, President Obama is making the Republican A-listers appear small, petty and absolutely befuddled. They're frantically struggling to figure out how to counterpunch, so they're grabbing, borrowing or downright plagiarizing ideas from anywhere, irrespective of the general quality of the idea. And if the Republicans are at all interested in continued survival, someone they respect should probably smack their hands and scold: Drop that filthy Limbaugh quote! You don't know where it's been!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/president-obama-is-litera_b_166152.html

[BlooInBloo]

1. "But I don't think we ever anticipated..."

Speak for yourself, tiger.

[classof56]

2. Love it! K&R 'cause this makes me feel so good! nt

[EmilyAnne]

3. It really seems like it.

[Sequoia]

4. I'm luving it !!!

[madaboutharry]

5. Maybe America needed a President

who was called the "N" word on the basketball court and had all the cards stacked against, but on sheer intellect and a steel spine became the President of the United States. The republicans don't know how to deal with him. It is just a joy to witness.

on edit: I must admit that I pretty much lost my mind during the presidency of George W. Bush. I used to go into Barnes and Noble and rearrange the books in the "Politics" section. I would take all the "Liberal" books and place them on the shelves in front of the "Right Wing" books (like the ones "written" by Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, etc) so that people couldn't see them. In the B and N where I lived in Arizona, the "Politics" section was next to the "Animal" section. I sometimes would put the "Right Wing" books behind titles like "The Loved Dog" or "Poodles for Dummies".

[Catshrink]

8. I organized the book shelves everywhere I went.

I considered it a civic duty.

[Mister Ed]

22. My mother once emailed me to say she'd done that with Ann Coulter's book. I wrote back to scold her:

"Shame on you! Now you march right back to that library and put that book back in the Fiction section, where it belongs!"

:P

[ixion]

6. good. I hope it hurts

because that's what they've been doing to me for decades with their BS.

[Initech]

7. Good! Fuck 'em!

[Catshrink]

9. I'm enjoying watching it!

:popcorn:

[devilgrrl]

10. Love it!

:thumbsup:

[RushIsRot]

11. An intelligent and articulate President is so refreshing!

[malaise]

12. I won't be really happy until they jump

or start shooting each other, but I'm lovin it. :rofl:

[FLyellowdog]

14. I won't even care if I get splattered!

[yodermon]

13. kicking for use of the word "shpadoinkle"

:rofl:

[pacalo]

17. Hahaaa! I kinda liked this...

Drop that filthy Limbaugh quote! You don't know where it's been! :rofl:

[verges]

19. You know that

many people will think that was photoshopped.

[pacalo]

20. And I say to them...

"Prove it was photoshopped!"

I know someone who is a cousin twice removed who has a friend who has a grandfather who knows someone in the Dominican Republic who knows where his birthmark is...(hint: it's somewhere in between the rolls & underneath that fishnet tarp).

:rofl:

[jberryhill]

15. "merely presenting a contrast of character"

Ding!

[eleny]

16. "shpadoinkle"

Rivaled only by "fueled by Rush Limbaugh's gesticulating arm flab".

:kick:

[KamaAina]

18. That's not a drive, that's a putt!

:P

[Bluebear]

24. Now watch this drive!

[RJ Connors]

21. Yeah the Republicans have clearly left the reservation.

My wife works in retail and today she said some of the posters of Obama they sale were defaced. They have such a power lust that they simply can't stand it that their not the big dog anymore.

[Reader Rabbit]

23. No, these people were bugfuck crazy to begin with.

It's just that, before, they were playing against the backdrop of the Bush Administration, which made their insanity seem the norm. With President Obama, who is Spock-like in his rationality, their batshit craziness is just being exposed for what it really is.

Now that people can actually see sanity on a daily basis, they can better identify nutbags when they seem them.