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POTUS Ain’t Naked:
He’s Channeling Rick James

Posted on | March 4, 2010 | 19 Comments

by Smitty

Kenneth G. Davenport is all exercised about the WSJ editorial that prints Paul Ryan’s devastating review of the Senate healthcare legislation. Trifecta also covered Ryan here. But this is by no means an “emperor’s new clothes” moment. Heck, no. This is a Rick James moment, beeotch.

You might have seen this [NSFW] Dave Chapelle clip of the “Unity” incident:

The song mentioned in the Chapelle clip is exactly what’s missing in the Democratic Party to pass ObamaCare. Imagine Barack crooning this over the phone to recalcitrant Democratic Party representatives:

Unity:
Brother, sister,
There’s got to be,
Uuuuuuniiiiiity.
Yeeeeeeahhh.
Unity.
Unity’s what missing in our
Liiiiiiiiiives.
Can’t you see?
Wee need looooooove.
A little word of confidence.
Every now and then.
A little hoooonesty,
And trust among us.
A little love and harmony,
And there’ll surely be,
Some unity,
Unity,
Unity.
(Unity)

Just keep croonin’, Barack: you’ll get there.

Update: much affection to No Sheeples Here for the ‘shop. But how does Carol mention Malignant Narcissism without playing the Rush card?

Update II: The plot thickens, getting close to pea soup consistency, over at the PuffHo:

President Obama began his meeting with leading House progressives by bringing in a letter from an Ohio woman who wrote him to say that her skyrocketing premiums will soon cause her to lose her health insurance.

“It was a very serious, low-key discussion. If this was a piano, you’re hearing very deep chords here,” said one member who asked for anonymity.

Obama argued to the group of progressive members that his health care reform bill should be looked at as the foundation of reform, that can be built on in the future. He asked them to help gather votes for the final health care battle and promised that as soon as the bill was signed into law, he’d continue to push to make it stronger. But in a matter of weeks, he stressed, he could sign into law legislation that would lead to 31 million new people being insured, including the woman who wrote him.

It has been surprising to some people that he is still fighting for health care reform, Obama told the group. “He said, and I think he’s absolutely right, that a lot of people, I think, are surprised at his persistence that in some ways this health care reform has been lifted from the near dead to becoming a reality in the next couple of weeks,” said Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.). “He said, quite specifically, that what we could say to people was that once the bill passes the president made a commitment to work to make improvements down the road.”

Shag me gently with a chainsaw. Who’s down with OTP?

Category: Barack Obama, Health Car, humor

Comments

19 Responses to “POTUS Ain’t Naked:
He’s Channeling Rick James”

  1. richard mcenroe
    March 4th, 2010 @ 7:40 pm

    Remind me again how long Rick James spent in jail, Uncle Stacy…

  2. richard mcenroe
    March 5th, 2010 @ 12:40 am

    Remind me again how long Rick James spent in jail, Uncle Stacy…

  3. Robert Stacy McCain
    March 5th, 2010 @ 1:27 am

    Smitty, I find myself in the weird position of concern troll here. Isn’t it a fairly reliable meme of the Left that any unflattering reference is Barack Obama racist? And obviously this Rick James reference was not meant to praise Obama.

    Well, maybe they’ll give you a pass here, whereas I would be crucified for anything like this. On the other hand, if you end up as Olbermann’s Worst Person in the World . . .

  4. Robert Stacy McCain
    March 4th, 2010 @ 8:27 pm

    Smitty, I find myself in the weird position of concern troll here. Isn’t it a fairly reliable meme of the Left that any unflattering reference is Barack Obama racist? And obviously this Rick James reference was not meant to praise Obama.

    Well, maybe they’ll give you a pass here, whereas I would be crucified for anything like this. On the other hand, if you end up as Olbermann’s Worst Person in the World . . .

  5. smitty
    March 5th, 2010 @ 1:37 am

    @RSM,
    Didn’t you look at the picture, Stacy? We’re obviously going for attention from Rachel Maddow now. I don’t mean to call you an old fart or anything, but Kieth Olbermann is a passé. Progress!

  6. smitty
    March 4th, 2010 @ 8:37 pm

    @RSM,
    Didn’t you look at the picture, Stacy? We’re obviously going for attention from Rachel Maddow now. I don’t mean to call you an old fart or anything, but Kieth Olbermann is a passé. Progress!

  7. Dell
    March 5th, 2010 @ 2:32 am

    Keith who?

    Olbermann. Is that a breed of dog?

  8. Dell
    March 4th, 2010 @ 9:32 pm

    Keith who?

    Olbermann. Is that a breed of dog?

  9. M.Joseph Sheppard
    March 5th, 2010 @ 2:34 am

    fyi (not for ketters but possible comment)

    http://recovering-liberal.blogspot.com/2010/03/letterman-and-palin-dave-still-doesnt.html

    regards,
    MJS

  10. M.Joseph Sheppard
    March 5th, 2010 @ 2:34 am

    letters !!!

  11. M.Joseph Sheppard
    March 4th, 2010 @ 9:34 pm

    fyi (not for ketters but possible comment)

    http://recovering-liberal.blogspot.com/2010/03/letterman-and-palin-dave-still-doesnt.html

    regards,
    MJS

  12. M.Joseph Sheppard
    March 4th, 2010 @ 9:34 pm

    letters !!!

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  14. Thrasymachus
    March 5th, 2010 @ 2:51 am

    I saw Paul Ryan being interviewed by Chris Matthews last night on MSNBC (I’m visiting my elderly father, a yellow dog Democrat) and Matthews didn’t call him a racist. Reality may be slowly sinking in.

  15. Thrasymachus
    March 4th, 2010 @ 9:51 pm

    I saw Paul Ryan being interviewed by Chris Matthews last night on MSNBC (I’m visiting my elderly father, a yellow dog Democrat) and Matthews didn’t call him a racist. Reality may be slowly sinking in.

  16. Charles Johnson
    March 5th, 2010 @ 5:01 am

    He looks a little bit like James Earl Jones, who plays the leader of the lizard snake cult in Conan the Barbarian, but without as much of the menance.

  17. Charles Johnson
    March 5th, 2010 @ 12:01 am

    He looks a little bit like James Earl Jones, who plays the leader of the lizard snake cult in Conan the Barbarian, but without as much of the menance.

  18. RebeccaH
    March 6th, 2010 @ 3:12 am

    Olbermann. Is that a breed of dog?

    Yes. The Frison Bitch.

  19. RebeccaH
    March 5th, 2010 @ 10:12 pm

    Olbermann. Is that a breed of dog?

    Yes. The Frison Bitch.