# Obama = Benedict Arnold! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 25, 2010, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304 "2010-01-25T02:09:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/1 "2010-01-25T02:09:13Z")
How to Squander the Presidency in One Year by David Michael Green [http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/22-7](http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/22-7) > [@](#): > > There’s only one political party in the entire world that is so inept, cowardly and bungling that it could manage to simultaneously lick the boots of Wall Street bankers and then get blamed by the voters for being flaming revolutionary socialists… > > It’s the same party that stood by silently while two presidential elections in a row were stolen away from them. > > How ‘bout dem Dems, eh? > > …Barack Obama has now, in just a year’s time, become the single most inept president perhaps in all of American history, and certainly in my lifetime. Never has so much political advantage been pissed away so rapidly, and what’s more in the context of so much national urgency and crisis… > > What has Obama - this Conan O’Brien of presidents - done wrong in order to produce this devastating outcome? The short answer is: Just about everything imaginable… > > Of course, I don’t give a shit about Barack Obama anymore, other than my desire that really ugly things happen to him as payment in kind for the grandest act of betrayal we’ve seen since Benedict Arnold did his thing… BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA! ROFLMAO! ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/2 "2010-01-25T02:11:50Z")
He seems somewhat upset. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/3 "2010-01-25T02:16:37Z")
Am I supposed to know who David Michael Green is? Am I supposed to care what he has to say? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/4 "2010-01-25T02:19:48Z")
Maybe the point of this thread is “take a couple of deep breaths before writing a column on the Internet”? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/5 "2010-01-25T02:22:44Z")
I won’t stand for this heinous affront to my dear Coco. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/6 "2010-01-25T02:24:19Z")
David Michael Green, a professor of political Science at Hofstra, is at least consistent in his position. [His blog](http://www.smirkingchimp.com/author/david_michael_green) just goes on and on and on like this. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/7 "2010-01-25T02:28:22Z")
This is in the Pit for what? It looks rather like mundane and pointless material unless you actually have something to post about this in flames of hell fire which it doesn’t seem you do. ---
**Author:** ![Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Long_Time_First_Time)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/8 "2010-01-25T02:34:52Z")
For the first time ever, I understand why GOP politicians play to their base all the time -even if it means saying crazy, unpopular things. Because the base is will go all jilted lover on you if you say anything that they don’t like. I makes me wonder why the Dem.s don’t throw their base a few bones. All they have to do is say publicaly that they’d prefer the public option, or [insert dem favorite here] and all these folks would settle down no matter what the politicians actually do. Look how GOP politicians have been playing their base for fools with the “we hate abortion” shtick for 30 years. IMHO, most of the democrats are corporate whores just like the GOP. Since they are supposed to be on the side of the “little guys” such as union members, workers, etc. they only have two choices when they side with their coporate sponsers over their base, they have to either act like spineless cowards who can’t stand up to any GOP opposition or revel themselves as the bribed crooks that they are. The spineless, inept coward tag isn’t the best, but it beats the alternative. ---
**Author:** ![ivn1188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e480ec/32.png) [@ivn1188](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivn1188)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/9 "2010-01-25T04:50:35Z")
Boring. Yet another inane OP by a yet another simpleton. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/10 "2010-01-25T04:53:03Z")
Fuck that shit, you know? And fuck Sarah Palin and Michelle Malkin, together. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/11 "2010-01-25T05:01:03Z")
Fuck that guy, let him be elected president and then we can mock him for bad decisions and shitty choices. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/12 "2010-01-25T05:03:02Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > And fuck Sarah Palin and Michelle Malkin, together. I could probably bring myself to do so, but only because it has been a long, long time. And only if you duct tape their mouths closed. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/13 "2010-01-25T05:13:00Z")
Who cares what the guy who played David Silver on 90210 thinks about politics? ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/14 "2010-01-25T10:27:31Z")
What the hell was this all about? ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/15 "2010-01-25T10:56:11Z")
> [@](#): > > Never has so much political advantage been pissed away so rapidly, and what’s more in the context of so much national urgency and crisis… Wait… I thought this was about Obama, not Bush. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/16 "2010-01-25T11:15:57Z")
Elected official is the WORST. elected. official. EVER\*. Film at 11. \*Until the next one in line, of course ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/17 "2010-01-25T13:13:47Z")
> [@LouisB](#): > > What the hell was this all about? **Rowrrbazzle** ’s need to publicly show us the money shot from the jerk-off session he had while reading the article he posted. The column does illustrate the reason that I think the Dems tend to seem so ineffective when they’re in office. Unlike the Republican base, which can generally be considered to be buying in to at least the ostensible platform of the party, for whatever personal reasons they have, the Democratic base is, in some large proportion, mostly so because there is no actual leftist party in the US that has any chance of winning anything. There’s a significant percentage of the Democratic base that would gladly vote for a European-style democratic socialist party if there were any chance whatsoever of that party getting seats. That conflicts with the Business Democrats, who are generally bought and paid for before they even get to National Airport. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/18 "2010-01-25T14:23:05Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > I could probably bring myself to do so, but only because it has been a long, long time. And only if you duct tape their mouths closed. It has been a long time. There actually have been some recent sexual developments regarding positions that \*include \*the mouth. You don’t want to miss out on those. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/19 "2010-01-25T14:56:50Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > Fuck that shit, you know? And fuck Sarah Palin and Michelle Malkin, together. Oh, gods no. Not even with _your_ dick. Those two are modern-day Pandoras, and we all know where the world’s troubles came from, don’t we? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304/20 "2010-01-25T15:22:32Z")
[Apparently so…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=548800) [sup]ETA: Not a reply to silenus[/sup] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-benedict-arnold/526304.md?page=2)