Obama Warns Congress "Better Not Mess With Me" "I'll Whoop 'em"
By Bill W. Thursday Jun 05, 2008 11:50am
Obama accepts a gift from a 95 yr old supporter, Charles Edwards, and uses it to put Congress on notice not to get in the way of his healthcare plan. Roanoke's WSLS News caught the video of this lighthearted moment yesterday in front of a packed gym in Bristol VA:
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During the Question and Answer session, Obama met a 95-year-old African American man, whose daughter told Obama that he had waited his whole life for this moment.
The man wobbled slowly to the stage and presented Obama with a maple wood walking stick as a gift.
The presumptive democratic nominee, clearly feeling his oats, took the stick and said, "If members of Congress don't pass my health care bill - I'll whoop 'em, I'll whoop 'em. That's right, you better not mess with me, and I'll have that stick."
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And if he passes health care that I don't qualify for again, I'll whoop him with it!
Ahhahahaha! I can't wait until the righties start wetting their pants over THIS one!
Going to be a fun 6 months.
While I don't condone corporal punishment for children, it seems not a bad idea for ridiculous adults. Especially dumb ass decepticons.
The man LOOKS like a President.
And all you could ask for...REAL sense of humor (not the contrived, precanned BS of the present WH occupant), clear grasp of the issues AND reality, intelligent, personable, good looking...a REAL person.
Do we really want 4 years of some old codger whose out of touch with reality, absentminded, with no real vision of his own?
Obama/Edwards ' 08
That old man is 95? Wow! He looks a lot better than McCain.
Amazing footage. Obama is the man, and that guy looks wonderful for being 95 freaking years old!
Obama Warns Congress “Better Not Mess With Me” “I’ll Whoop ‘em”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcZ9ku_wInw
Barak Obama: Whoopin Dat Azz On Day One!!!
I love it.
GoBAMA!!
The Drudge Report ...
Barack Obama threatening to spear people who do not join his healthcare plan !
...Developing
Walking Tall
this campaign season is going to be awesome
I think this Congress needs more than one stick to listen...let's hope there are more sticks around to be used.
Anyhow Obama looks like he is fresh ready and the country is ready too...
Such an easy, unforced manner about this guy. He is the real deal! Bill Clinton WAS the smartest, most affable politician in the Democratic Party.
Chico Hussein @ 9:
bwahahahaha, and you know sludge would dig up some picture of a mButi, or some other african tribesman, and put it above the caption.
good stuff chico
We'll we're ready to see the fine print and all the "details" of this health care bill.
Give 'em hell, Obama!
Actually what Obama needs to do is get onboard with Conyer's HR676, and Conyers need to take Obama to the woodshed if he doesn't.
"Walk softly and carry a big stick."
"I’ll whoop ‘em, I’ll whoop ‘em. That’s right, you better not mess with me, and I’ll have that stick.”
He has flexible people skills he should start using them.
L.A. Confidential @ 19:
Not quite MLK but he is in poltics.
It's hard not to like the guy. Man, am I looking forward to an Obama presidency. Let's make it happen!
Is he looking for new members to his club...or club the members...or club them all in their members?
I am so disillusion with our present president, that a "Walking Tall" scenario would be a welcome precedent of things to come.
Think of what Jim Belushi did in "The Principle" to the schools of what Obama could do in the whitehouse. LOL Chase out the warmongering racketeering and return the govt to the people.
Paul @ 17:
I don't see much difference in HR676 and what Obama proposes.
If you know of any please outline.
Samson- @ 11:
Not for McSame tho.
Trailer trash, pickup truck with the shotgun in the window, hillbilly hick rednecks can't wait.
Only problem: America is sick of their leadership.
Has anyone presented McCain with a new cane?
Randy @ 12:
We're gonna need a LOT more whoopin sticks!
Remember people for every House and Senate seat in the next two elections vote for the most progressive or liberal candidate running...otherwise we will never see universal health care or an end to this war or Cheney in prison for treason and war crimes or Bush in a mental hospital for being so meglomaniacle.
Speaking of carrying a big stick...
http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/2008/06/05/D9140SA81_democrats_money/index...
Watch for that video to be in heavy rotation on Hannity and What's-His-Name: "Obama's terrorist threats against the US government!"
An Average Joe @ 18:
That's exactly what I thought too!
Oh yea forgot ....me too I'm really looking forward to what Obama can do for our country! I think we'll be carving his face on Mount Rushmore one day!
You know, the first thing I did when I read that was imagine myself as that 95 y/o. I can't pretend to know what it's like to be him but we know a lot of the stuff that he lived through.
I think handing Obama that stick was probably the, if not among the, proudest moment of his life.
I'm wondering where this country is going now. It's been sliding downhill fast for 8 years. I wondered if the brakes were going to get applied or if I'd hope to be that man some day.
On a more serious note - his plan may be okay but it's just a baby step.
Until we have universal healthcare and a helluva lot more efficiency (i.e. cost reduction) in the system, it's all just a dance. A lot of sh!t's gonna go down in the next 10 years and this country may go bankrupt.
Now back to your regularly schedule program..
Mr. President, better get you another stick made out of tough, old Illinois hickory. I think you're going to need it.
last sentence should end, "hoping that some day I'll be able to do what that man is doing."
birdflewover @ 34:
He made a joke about that a couple of days ago.
I think we can accommodate his ears...A good dude and will due our country proud.
Without even looking at the video, the daughter's remark that this 95-year old man has been waiting his whole life for this day brings tears of gratitude to my eyes. It makes you wonder whether there couuld have been Obama without Bush. Bush has made things so bad that Americans don't care what color a candidate is, what party he's from or anything else. They simply want an intelligent adult who will try to do the right thing and not lie to them about it. We're lucky we're getting so much more.
We'll see. There are a lot of GOP and Bush Dog congress people who really need to get their balls stomped. I hope Obama has the political will to do it.
That would be a sight to see - President Obama walking up to the aisle of Congress with THAT walking stick, and then "quietly and firmly" explain to them how they had damn well f**king better pass universal health care...
THAT would become a moment of legend and glory - one of the few truly positive turning points in American history. I hope the old geezer lives long enough to see it happen.
How Hillary put it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLQ3i_XQXsw
Pretty cool.
I feel like the whole world is watching us and if Americans fuck this historic opportunity away it will be the greatest disaster of the 21st century.
Well I have to say he has let dems know who in charge of the party. He has told the DNC no more pac money, He has read Liebermouth the riot act and is trying to mend fences with the Clintons. Maybe we have the real deal here.
Wow...that was so friggin AWESOME!!!
Obama needs to ring up Pelosi and remind her of her job. Impeaching Bush/Cheney et al.
She has been totally negligent on this most important issue. Obama has the clout now to
shake her and do-nothing Harry Reid out of their stupor and make them work for us !!!!
Obama was just kidding but you just know Fox and it's ilk are going to bastardize his joke.
Underground Pirate @ 47:
Agreed, but lets get him in the whitehouse first, then let him deal with the dregs of congress.
Tweakerbell @ 42:
Personally, I'm somewhat ambivalent about McLame's life expectancy.
diamondmc @ 45:
Could be, I don't expect perfection but so far the guy is batting a thousand.
Even though most pundits are asterisking his no PAC or Lobbyist money mantra there's no doubt that Obama is constricting donations to the DNC and his campaign for the good of the party.
Whens the last time a politician said "...I don't want your money..."?
I'll help you Obama, even if I do have a broken back. Maybe then the insurance I pay for will give me the surgery I need!
Liberal AND Proud @ 27:
Yeah, his wife bought him 8 or 9 of them. They keep one at each of their houses...
I could have a beer with him.
Duly recognizing the refreshing ease of Obama's manner and his apparently genuine charm, I have to ask: Doesn't anyone else here find it just a little unsettling to hear a prospective president (even in jest) talk about Congress as an obstacle to be overcome, rather than a co-equal branch of the federal government? Obama's remark here strikes me as a wittier and less heavy-handed version of Duhbya's "Things would be easier if I were dictator" gibe.
After eight years of dealing with presidential dictatorship and congressional impotence, I just can't find the humor in remarks of this kind anymore, even when delivered with a gentle touch.
Chico Hussein @ 9:
Noooo...! No, you didn't! Har!
Oil up 9$ a barrel, stocks crashing, war crimes in Iraq continue.
I doubt there will be money for his health care plan.
Sweet!
I betcha that stick will have a special place in the oval office.
I hate to see how the neocons will spin this one (i.e. scary black man with a stick).
Will Grigg @ 55:
I think maybe tou're reading too much into it...but I can't fault you for it...after this 8 year BushCo nightmare, we're all alot more cynical and jaded.
Obama threatens Congress with violence if rejected!
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Just released by FOX!
Ummm...that should be you're...not tou're...geeesh!
jharp @ 44:
after the last 8 years that is ....
There is such a thing in shamanistic cultures called a "talking stick." The person who holds the stick is the one permitted to speak, and the ritual commands that the person speak with "fire in the belly." Cool symbolism, eh? (:>
I luv this video. I hope Mr Charles Edwards lives to see the that stick leaned up in the oval office. Congress could use a good caning.
pissed off patricia @ 58:
Theres actually a place in the Oval Office to stick it right now ...
If you can watch that video and not find yourself smiling, well, I don't know what's wrong with you.
garcia @ 61:
Figures Fox would try to blow up a light hearted moment into an "Obama Terror!" alert.
Get ready for some of the nastiest, most insane stuff you've ever heard and seen from the Right Wing smear machine it's going to make Kerry look like he had a cakewalk in comparison.
earl @ 66:
Yeah, but then it would be all dirty. ;)
Will Grigg @ 55:
I am not sure you could have found another democratic nominee who fosters more of a sense of shared unity and bipartisanship than this man. And his track record proves it. But in any event, you got to just lighten up a bit, it was a joke.
pissed off patricia @ 58:
Beats the hell out of Bushie's 'ruggie" Can we move the election up and get rid of these guys before they can do anymore damage?
It's nice that Obama follows Bush and has to compete against McSame......the bar really couldn't be any lower.
liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 60:
Yeah, liberal, I also think you are reading too much into it. Besides, one of the things that Obama has run on, and even makes the more Right-shy of the Left nervous, is his purported intent to run a very bipartisan presidency. He is talking about whomping ass on politicians in general and I would like to think he will hold himself to the same standards he will demand of them. (errr, crossing fingers, of course)
But your cynicism? Yeah, again I agree with Will. Been a tough 7 years...
}:|
pissed off patricia @ 69:
Ewww.
"....is that you Karl? ... Jeff ?"
garcia @ 61:
Actually, believe it or not, FOX had a pretty good post about it ...
@72
Oops! I go the names backwards! hahaha...
Will:
You'll be ok.
liberal:
Right there with ya.
hahaha....
I like it. He's invoking Teddy Roosevelt and Joe Clark.
diamondmc @ 49:
Bush can't be impeached then. The time is now, and Obama has a phone nearby and all the power he needs to
get the ball rolling.
"Whatever you can do...or dream you can...begin it.
For boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
Goethe
Single payer health plan, please!
birdflewover @ 34:
I look forward to his face on our currency.
Chico Hussein @ 9:
spot on...next- "Do we really want a man with this kind of predisposition for violence with his finger on the nuclear button??" Has anybody else noticed (Don Henley's poison-pen-note to the media) the song "Dirty Laundry" getting a lot of airplay lately, or is it just me??
I just picked up a copy of "Audacity of Hope"
I have the audacity to hope its a good book.
Underground Pirate @ 77:
Now there's something we CAN agree on.
Bonkers @ 2:
Beware GOP activists, republican cross-overs who might have voted for the person they thought was the weaker of the two democratic candidates...The mask is off; operation chaos didn't deliver so it is time to try the net.
I love this story.
But if McCain had said the exact same thing, at least using a stick on Congress, the progressosphere would be all atwitter over his temper issues coming out on the campaign trail.
Can you look me in the eye and tell me this man is an elitist?
I hope he walks up to the first debate with that stick in his hand.
Underground Pirate @ 77:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfVc4azawoo
Stranded @ 79:
I'm looking forward to having some currency again.
jharp @ 44:
Wait a month until there are more recent polls taken in each state to see who has the poll position.
Americans are going to vote in Nov. 08
People in the RED states will vote. A few RED states may turn BLUE.
People in the BLUE states will vote. One or two BLUE states may turn RED.
It should be interesting.
Immeadiately after the 2004 election I ran into a number on non-Americans . They were perplexed to say the least.
SCHRODINGER'S CAT @ 88:
Because they should've turned left at Albuquerque?
Or because you ran into them?
Well, I'll take whacking someone with a stick over using signing statements to abuse laws any day :)
Slats @ 85:
Yes. Without blinking and not even the slightest hesitation.
This is a lousy example to counteract what he proved he was in San Francisco.
dennis @ 84:
It would depend entirely on how he did it. You may have noticed McSame doesn't really do "good natured" very well or convincingly my friend.
dennis @ 91:
Why, d? Just because his father and grandfather were admirals, and he's married to a very wealthy woman who flies him around in her private jet? Because he's had an easy ride his whole life, from cradle to grave, having everything he wants handed to him?
Wait - you are talking about McCain, right?
Maybe McCain's supporters will do as McCain does and NOT EVEN BOTHER TO SHOW UP TO VOTE
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/m000303/votes/
I’m much more cautious in my expectations for Obama, more than anything because I think there will be institutional blocks to what his supporters and the country wants to accomplish and a fight will be needed against embedded interests (including some in his inner circle) who may be against some of the needed changes. However, it’s nice to see the US with an opportunity to move forward in some way instead of back, which is all I’ve seen my whole life. Obama, at the very least, is a vast improvement over Bush (and Kerry for that matter) and can at least be a step or two in the right direction.
I have yet to hear a good reason to vote for McCain, outside of blind partisanship and a bunch of empty platitudes. If Obama doesn’t carry the country by at least 10 points come November then this country is crazier than I thought.
dennis @ 84:
Your tu quoque is worthless.
mccain has a history of anger-management issues circulating within even his own party.
Obama does not.
This reminded me immediately of something I learned about in 7th grade history class. I recall we all thought it was hilarious at the time.
Once upon a time, in 1856, Senator Charles Sumner (R-Mass) gave a rousing, rather inflammatory speech about whether Kansas should be a free state or a slave state; he was anti-slavery. In his speech, he colourfully insulted a pro-slavery senator who was not present at the time. One of the senator's relatives, however, *was* present, and decided after the Senate had adjourned to avenge his relative and beat some sense into the senator. Literally. With a gold-topped cane. He thwacked the senator till his cane broke. (FYI, Kansas was admitted as a Free State in 1861. So at least the beating wasn't for nothing)
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_Caning_of_Senator...
I want to know that man's story. I'm sure he's gone through and seen so much, and now he gets to be here to see the first black man elected president of the United States!
This is awesome.
Rusty Shackleford @ 93:
HA! Good one Mr. Shackleford!
I was waiting for Dennis to to show up and try to piss on the parade. Hi Dennis. How goes Operation Chaos?
dennis @ 91:
You're right Dennis he is an elitist. He's smart, articulate, well read, has a real world view and a sense of humor. Given the number of politicians in this country who have those qualities he is most certainly elite. Does he have the background and life experience to care about the wellbeing of the vast majority of people in this country, YES. so don't go trying to pretend that John "I used my family influence to get me into the academy and then I married an heiress" McSame is just a regular guy and Obama's a nose in the air effete. It just won't fly.
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Aaaah shaddup Marge!
G String @ 95:
For some people, apparently, eight years isn't enough time to prove that conservatives are incompetent at governance. They whine for "one more chance" - a mulligan, if you will.
Bitter Bud Hussein @ 81:
Have you read "Dreams from my Father"? If you haven't please do. It's great!
princess @ 84:
Except for the fact that McGrampa does have a temper problem, princess.
Another failed analogy for princess.
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We're not gonna feed you troll.
Tell Rush Limpd*ck his plan is failing.
Chicken Hussein Little - NOT!! @ 101:
John McCain TOTALLY cares about the little people, as long as they are multi-millionaire developers from his home state who can afford to buy his votes.
McGrampa is a "working man's elitist". He married into beer money.
getalife @ 57:
Neil Cavuto contributes the price surge to Obama's nomination.
Dr. Hussein Matt @ 108:
You mean he didn't blame the Clenis?
It's a new morning in America.
pissed off patricia @ 103:
I'm reading Capt. Underpants
My new mailed issue of MAD
And The Five Dialogues of Socrates.
Obama is da man
Marge @ 99:
Hey Marge, maybe you can help me with this. I’m interested in seeing how unfairly Senator Clinton was treated. See my problem is I can’t seem to recall Obama exaggerating his level of experience (Bosnia), his record (claiming to be against NAFTA), going for the fear tactic (3AM), supporting McCain over Clinton (qualified to be Commander-in-Chief) or using the race card (working white voters.)
So you can understand my confusion. I figured Senator Clinton lost on the grounds of how she ran her campaign, not because of her gender. You seem to disagree.
Rusty Shackleford @ 109:
He blamed the Clintons for the unemployment rate surge.
Marge:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS0z6mBoZaI
Dr. Hussein Matt @ 113:
Damn - how many people did Hillary lay off?
Marge @ 99:
His head is so damn big now he probably needs someone to prop it up, what’s he gonna try to be more of a KIng than bush. Looks like it…he’s a bum and how he got where he is we all know..
Breathtaking insight.
We all actually do know. He worked his ass off and got an exceptional education. He learned to get his message out without defaming his opponents.
Without a doubt he will do everything better than Bush did. It would be impossible for him to do otherwise.
Rusty Shackleford @ 115:
Apparently her campaign was larger than she let on. Rumor has it you can see her campaign staff and crew on google earth.
Stranded @ 79:
Not so fast... a person has to be dead to be on currency. (:>
115 Rusty Shackleford
Brilliant! :)
Donald Hussein Cormac @ 118:
... here in America, anyway. (:>
I know Obama was having a little fun with the crowd when he received that stick. However, if you add in his taking Lieberman aside a few days ago and then confronting him in an apparent heated exchange along with his indication to meet with rival or even enemy foreign leaders you can see what Obama is about. Obama is no "wishy-washy" or the "no backbone" type of guy that the right wing tries to make him out to be. Obama is the type of guy, at least from my observation, that will have no problem confronting leaders face to face if he needs to. Its the people that have no problems getting in your face that are the toughest. On the other hand, the people that do avoid face to face confrontation with an enemy usually tend to be weak and timid (I.E. Republicans). I think the right wing has Obama all wrong. There is more strength in him than meets the eye.
L.A. Confidential @ 19:
Practice what you preach. Only yesterday you threatened to beat me up with your walker, your cane and you even said you would throw your false teeth at me old guy. LOL!
dennis @ 84:
That's because if McSame said the same thing, it would have been in his usual nasty, angry tone -- as is his history.
Rusty Shackleford @ 115:
It was the rise in the minimum wage. We tried to warn you guys, Russ. The Dems snookered everyone in to believing they'd lower gas prices and raise unemployment- Six for '06, remember? I know you remember, but you never seem to want to acknowledge the promises made.
And damn, it's just so heartwarming how people here get so jacked when bad economic news is reported.
dennis @ 124:
So this has nothing to do with the one million foreclosures? How did the minimum wage increase the price of oil?
You ever think things through?
dennis @ 124:
Hey Dennis here's a short quiz for you:
Since '06 how many times have the Repukes threatened to use the filibuster weapon on bills sponsored by the Democrats?
and the follow-up question:
Since '06 how many times has Bushie used his veto weapon on bills that did make it to his desk? (extra credit if you can tell us how many bills Bushie vetoed while the Repukes controlled the House and Senate)
Now about those promises made, explain how the Democrats could have delivered on them given the circumstances. What you're doing sounds a lot like people holding Clinton responsible for not delivering on her jobs promise. Can't have it both ways skippy, which way you want to go with this?
Dr. Hussein Matt @ 104:
"The Princess Snide"
:)
dennis @ 124:
Raise employment, I meant to say.
They actually did raise unemployment, but hey, high school kids working at Starbuck's can now afford iMac's, so it's all good.
Dr. Acula @ 123:
Thank you, Doctor....McPsychotic has a track record that can't be denied or ignored. Obama is as cool as a cucumber, nice personality, etc. Dennis, you're forgetting the script.... act like a progressive and hide your Republican trollness.
dennis @ 128:
Respond to the questions put to you please.
I could sit here and say Bush has a rape room in the basement of the White House, Denis. That does not make it true (doesn't make it false either). Your statements can not be backed up.
dennis @ 124:
The Democrats promised to raise unemployment? I don't remember that particular pledge.
princes @ 124:
Prove it, princess. We know you can't, princess, but stick to the reich-wing talking points for the day. It's no doubt, princess, you heard this factless rant on Drugbaugh today.
BTW, princess, what did you shoot on the front 9 this morning, princess?
Left&Left @ 122:
I could put you out in an instant.
Anyway I think you and I need to now set an example and STOP Fighting and start getting along.
It's up to you now to do it.
dennis @ 124:
I'm always jacking.
dennis @ 128:
I see you backpedaled and corrected your gaffe, d. Good for you. Did Lieberman whisper in your ear?
As for employment, I must say that McCain's plan for addressing the issue seems pretty solid: join the military. 100 years employment in Iraq guaranteed.
Calling all trolls, calling all trolls.
Schools in kids and today's quiz can be found at post 126. Now take your medicine like the nice little flame baits you are or go back to your caves and do not collect your .10 a post from Grandpa McSame. Put up or shut up freaks.
Rusty Shackleford @ 115:
L.A. Confidential @ 134:
No, actually it will take both of you to get along.
princess @ 128:
Apparently, princess, you and your reich-winger lobotomites are forgetting who sits in the White House and his long track record of failed domestic, economic, and foreign policies. Not a big surprise, princess, I would too if he were part of my Party.
Dr. Hussein Matt @ 133:
d is scurrying to provide us a link, I'm sure. Now, what the link will actually link to is anybody's guess.
xoites defends Constitution @ 125:
Goin out on a limb here...but I'm guessin no...
xoites defends Constitution @ 139:
I took the lead and now it's up to him.
Fair Enough? Sure it is.
Case Closed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqg0JA7RR2c
L.A. Confidential @ 134:
LA, I was joking and believe it or not, I have nothing against you or any of the other bloggers I disagree with. I'll stop joking if it'll make things better.
Rusty Shackleford @ 141:
I'm sure she'll find one to newsmax or to anchor baby malkin.
*crosses fingers*
THAT how a president acts. Nice. It's going to be a fun 8 years.
L.A. Confidential @ 134:
R O F L
dennis @ 124:
viewing this thru a partisan-prism, thru party-spectacles, thru aisle-isms is a sure fire way to misunderstand what is going on now.
the economic straight we find ourselves in is due to a bipartisan decision to move to the 'new economy', to embrace an economic ideology that, in a very short period of time, has shown why so many people warned against its adoption.
and to blame the rise of unemployment on the rise of the minimum wage is to showcase an incredible inability to grasp what is transpiring. i bet you think friedman (either thomas or milton) is a wise man.
This guy is the shit.
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